Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 537.
 
HENRY SCHADEWITZ

     a prominent and influential business man of Kent, Sherman county, president
of the Eastern Oregon Trading Company, and postmaster, is a native of the Empire
State, having been born at Rochester, New York, September 16, 1856.
     His father, Carl H. Schadewitz, a native of Berlin, Germany, was a
wagonmaker by trade. At the age of eighteen years he came to the United States,
where he completed learning his trade; and then traveled throughout the country,
working in a number of states, and finally reaching California via the Isthmus
of Panama, and was engaged in the business of minning for several years. In 1852
he returned to New York. Later he was married at Rochester, returning to
California shortly after the birth of our subject, and subsequently he was in
the wagonmaking business at Stockton, California. He sold out this business when
our subject was about seven years of age, and purchased a farm in San Joaquin
county, California, where the family remained until they came to Oregon,
overland, in, the fall of 1887. Here he joined his sons, who had preceded him as
early as 1884. He died in Sherman county, near Kent, in December, 1892. The
mother, also a native of Germany, passed away in California in 1874.
     Our subject, accompanied by two brothers, arrived in Sherman county in
1884, and secured land about three miles from the town of Kent. Mr. Schadewitz
owns nearly one thousand acres of excellent farming land. In 1901 he bought out
the business of Benjamin Brown, the pioneer merchant of Kent. Later he was
associated with Milton Bennett, whose biographical sketch appears in another
portion of this work.
     February 13, 1891, at Acampo, San Joaquin county, California, our subject
was married to Emma May Parks, a native of California. Her father, John Parks, a
native of Missouri, came, to California in the days of the early Argonauts,
where he died in 1892. Her mother, Olive H. (Walston) Parks, is a native of
Illinois. At the age of sixteen she came to California with friends, and now
survives her husband at Acampo.
     Our subscriber has two brothers, Charles, engaged in the stock business at
Mitchell, Oregon, and Louis, a farmer living in Kent, where he conducts a meat
market. Mrs. Schadewitz has two brothers and five sisters : John and Adelbert,
farmers, in Sherman county ; Annie, wife of a brother of our subject, Louis
Schadewitz ; Cynthia, wife of Adolph Phrenn, of San Joaquin county, California ;
Mattie, in California ; Louisa, wife of Elmer Needham, a Sherman county farmer ;
Alzada, single, and residing with her mother in California. Mr. and Mrs.
Schadewitz have six children living, Carl H., Olive M., Lola, Melvin, Louis M.,
and Theodore. John, one of the sons, is, dead.
     Our subject is a member of Kent Lodge No. 185, I. O. O. F. Politically, he
is a Republican ; has been a notary public, justice of the peace, school
director, road supervisor, etc. His wife is a devout and consistent member of
the Christian church. Mr. Schadewitz is a man of excellent business judgment and
sagacity, is widely and favorably, known, and an influential and popular
citizen.
 
 
Transcriber's additional notes.
 
Census Indexing:
1880  SCHADEWITZ  HENRY  22     W  NY  CA  SAN JOAQUIN  LIBERTY TWP 
1900  SCHADEWITZ  HENRY  43  M  W  NY  OR  SHERMAN  KENT PCT 
1910  SCHADEWITZ  HENRY  52  M  W  NY  OR  SHERMAN  KENT PCT 
1920  SHADOWITZ  HENRY  62  M  W  NY  OR  WASCO  4-WD; THE DALLES; 10-PCT  1920


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.