F. W. SCHRADER

SCHRADER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 19:14:14

F. W. SCHRADER, a farmer of Nodaway township (postoffice Nodaway), was born in Germany, May 10, 1845, a son of Charles and Mary (Traft) Schrader, both natives of Germany. Mr. Schrader, whose name introduces this sketch, came to America in 1858, with two older brothers, the parents having died when F. W. was seven years old. They first settled at Buffalo,
New York, then in the country near by. Young Schrader received a good education, in both the English and the German languages. In 1871 he came to Taylor county, Iowa, and cleared a tract of land from the brush and grubs, making of it a fine farm. In 1882 he sold that place and purchased eighty acres of wild land a mile from Nodaway station, where he now lies, and which
place is now one of the best farms in the vicinity. In 1883 he built a modern resid¬ ence, 24 x 28 feet and two stories high, surrounded with beautiful scenery. All the farm appurtenances are sufficient in number and in good order.

In his views of national policy Mr. Schrader is a Democrat, and, with his wife and three of the children, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

At the age of twenty-one years he married Miss Mary Barron, a native of Pennsylvania, but reared and educated in Erie county, New York, whither her parents had moved during her childhood. Before her marriage she was a school-teacher. Her father was Ray R. Barron, a native of Pennsylvania; her mother’s maiden name was Lucy Knowlton. Mr. and Mrs. Schrader have four children, namely: Arthur A., in a wholesale house at Creston, Iowa; Cora Estella, a successful teacher; Delia Cordelia Cynthia and Herbert.

He was married in 1870, in Ralls county, Missouri, to Miss Mary Pierson, a woman of intelligence and of a good family, born in New Jersey, a daughter of Morris and Mary Ann Pierson. They have three children: Morris A., Alice and Robert S.

Mr. Schrader is a Republican in his political views, and a member of Meyerhoff Post, No.
466, G. A. R.; formerly he was a member of Thomas Lundy Post at Villisca, and he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Nodaway, to which religious body his wife and daughter also belong.