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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German army. Coming to the United Statesin 1854, at the request of old friends who had preceded him here, he locatedat Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he made his permanent home. Hisgreat and versatile mechanical genius and his skill as a marksman were appre-ciated wherever he was known. His handmade rifles had a national reputa-tion, and his violins, also made entirely by hand, were well known and prizedin advanced musical circles. He won many valuable medals and other rewardsas a sharpshooter at target, in America and abroad, and made the cannon, withcheeks for the gun carriage, and ammunition, for the local 96th PennsylvaniaRegiment, \oIunteers, to take with them to the Civil war in 1861. He wasalso an expert engraver, wood carver and wrought iron worker—in fact, apast master in every conceivable branch of mechanical work._ As a citizenand mechanical genius, he was much esteemed in the place of his adoption. Mr. Schalcks wife, Sophia Windisch, was also born in Wiesbaden in
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SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 529 1820. She was a woman of great mental attainments, particularly well readm Biblical lore, universal history, astronomy and German literature. It washer custom to sit by the hour in her husbands workshop, reading aloud tohim from the newspapers or educational literature or fiction, her fingersmeanwhile busy with her knitting needles, his hands skillfully occupied withhis work while listening to his wifes reading. He died in 1893. She sur-vived him eighteen years, passing away in 1911, when nearly six months overninety years old, in full possession of all her faculties almost to the end, herwonderfully bright mind never failing her. She was a daughter of Davi(;Windisch and his wife Antoinette Thorn. The formers father was Conradvon Windisch, who, while still a university student in Austria, for politicalreasons renounced his rights as heir to his fathers princely title and estatesand, with a younger brother, came to Wiesbaden, where he secured employ-

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