The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 351

J. REUBEN SCHWARTZE.

J. Reuben Schwartze, a well known orchardist of Yakima county, who in former
years was closely associated with educational interests, was born in Philo,
Champaign county, Illinois, December 2, 1872, a son of John E. and Sarah C.
(Burnette) Schwartze, who came to the Yakima valley in 1888. The father
purchased ten acres of land on south Nob Hill and planted a three-acre orchard.
Later he removed to California but afterward returned to Yakima, where he passed
away in the year 1915. His widow survives.

J. Reuben Schwartze acquired a public school education in his native state and
also attended the North Yakima high school, becoming a member of its first class
-- that of 1890. He subsequently entered the University of Washington, in which
he spent one year in study, and for fifteen years he devoted his life to the
profession of teaching, spending thirteen years of that time in Yakima county.
He was principal of the Prosser school for three years, of the Zillah school for
one year, of the Nob Hill school for five years, of the Columbia school in
Yakima for a year and for two years was superintendent of the Buckley school in
Pierce county. In 1905 he purchased seven and a half acres of land on Nob Hill
and planted it to apples, pears, peaches and cherries, continuing the
cultivation of his orchards until 1907, when he sold that property and bought
thirty-two acres of land three miles southwest of the depot in Yakima. This was
at that time all hay land. He has since planted twenty-two acres to orchards
and now has that entire district in apples, pears and cherries, all in bearing
condition.	

He is a successful orchardist, thoroughly conversant with the latest and most
scientific methods of caring for and developing the trees and in making
shipments of his fruit as well.

On the 25th of November, 1903, Mr. Schwartze was married to Miss Helen M. Druse,
a daughter of D. L. Druse, and they have one child, Lucille A., who is now a
pupil in the high school of Yakima. Mr. Schwartze is a member of the Yakima
County Horticultural Union and is interested in everything that has to do with
the fruit raising interests of this section of the state. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of
the Methodist church. He is a plan of genuine personal worth, public-spirited
and progressive in citizenship, and his loyal support can be counted upon for
any movement or measure that tends to uplift the individual or promote the
welfare of the community at large.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.