"Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon." Authors: "a
compilation of this work....by a number of writers".  Chapman Publishing Co;
Chicago, 1903. p. 553.
 
JOSEPH C. SCHULMERICH

     One of the farmers of Washington county, is a native son of the golden
west, and was born near Placerville, Eldorado county, Cal., February 14, 1868.
Conrad Schulmerich, the father of Joseph C., was born in Germany, and reared and
educated in his native land.  He was early in life ambitious of larger
opportunities than seemed to him to exist in the Fatherland, and in 1850 he
boarded a sailing vessel at Hamburg, spent many weeks in the storm and calm of
the ocean, and finally arrived in safety in New York harbor.  For the first six
years in America he worked out on farms in different parts of New York state,
and in 1858 went to California by way of the Isthmus.  Nineteen years did not
seem too long a time to spend in the mines of California, principally around
Placerville, and he made considerable money, experiencing his share also of
losses and disappointments.  After all these years as a miner he decided to
settle down to the more certain, if less exciting, occupation of farming, and in
Washington county, this state, bought three hundred and twenty acres of land
upon which he lived until 1897.  Wearied of farming, and feeling the approach of
failing faculties, he then took up his abode in Hillsboro, in which peaceful
little town his death occurred at the age of seventy-three years.  He married
Margaret Schnetzer, who died in Hillsboro in 1899.
     When eight years of age Joseph C. Schulmerich came with his father to the
farm in Washington county, and it was therefore his lot to be reared to
agricultural enterprises, and to find his chief usefulness in this manner of
livelihood.  As opportunity offered he attended the public schools, securing
there a fair education, and at the same time developed into a model and thrifty
farmer.  At the age of twenty-four he entered his father's store in Hillsboro,
as a clerk, and was connected with this enterprise for about eight years.
Following his mercantile experience he located on the farm which has since been
his home, and which is a part of the Wilkes donation claim.  Mr. Schulmerich has
one hundred and sixty acres of land, all in the bottom, and he is extensively
engaged in general farming, dairying and the raising of high grade Jersey
cattle.  His efforts have met with well merited success, and his stock are among
the best of their kind in the county.
     In 1891 Mr. Schulmerich was united in marriage with Minnie Toelle, of which
union there have been born four children, Elfa May, John B., Eva Belle and
Herman C.  Mr. Schulmerich is independent in politics, and believes that the
best man ought to win out regardless of party affiliation.  Fraternally he is
connected with the Knights of Pythias of Hillsboro, and the Ancient Order of
United Workmen.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2006 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.