Identifier: schuylkillcounty01jhbe (find matches)
Title: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: J.H. Beers & Co
Subjects: Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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years old, when he came to this country,locating at Trevorton, Northumberland Co., Pa., where he married AnnaMaria Schissler, who had been his sweetheart in the old country, and whopreceded him to America by about one year, Mr. and Mrs. Schissler and sevendaughters making the journey together. For two years Mr. Schmidt laboredin the gangways of the mines in the vicinity of Trevorton, and then came toSchuylkill county, Pa., first settling at Ashland. He worked in the localmines for five years, thence moving to Girardville, this county, where he wasa miner for the next three years, at the end of which time he came to Shenan-doah, where he found employment in the Kohinoor and other collieries. Fora time he gave up mining and conducted a hotel, but sold, out and resumedhis old occupation, taking a position in the Plank Ridge colliery, where he hadbe^ working but three days when killed by a fall of rock, on July 16, 1881.He was an expert miner and timberman. Mr. Schmidt was buried at Ash-
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(DfoAAJcMCi/yi 4JcJ!^,i.i4A oVi SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 337 land, in the plot where his mother is interred. He was a member of theGerman Catholic Church, one of the original members of the Church of theHoly Family at Shenandoah, and also belonged to St. Michaels Society. Inpolitics he held to the principles of the Democratic party, and he took a keeninterest in the affairs of his adopted home, and was elected a member of theborough council. Mr. Schmidt married Anna Maria Schissler, who was born in 1835 ^*Seitzou, Nassau, Germany, daughter of George Schissler, who was a farmerwhile in his native land, but after settling in America found employment asstable boss at the collieries at Trevorton. Mrs. Schmidt died in March, iS8g,and is buried at Shenandoah, in the cemetery of the Church of the Annuncia-tion. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt had the following children: One daughter diedin infancy; Christian is the eldest son; Lewis, who is an employe of theGeneral Electric Company, Schenectady,

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