NICHOLAS SCHADT 

Nicholas Schadt, one of the early comers to this country, now a resident of Sacramento, is a native of Prussia, born December 16, 1835, his parents being Peter and Susan Schadt, the father a farmer by occupation. Nicholas Schadt was but a year old when the family came to America, choosing the neighborhood of Tiffin, Ohio, for residence. In 1851 they came to California via New York and Panama. The trip across the Isthmus was an eventful one, six days having been spent navigating the Chagres River by means of a slow barge, pushed by poles, while a two days’ journey on foot and by mule-back completed the undertaking. At Aspinwall the family took passage on the steamer Constitution, for San Francisco, the voyage occupying twenty-seven days. A few days later they came to Sacramento, and after three or four weeks in the city they removed to the Yolo side of the Sacramento River. The next year they located on a dairy ranch two miles up the river. In 1853 Peter Schadt lost his wife by death, and in 1855 he sold out his place to his sons, Nicholas and Louis, and his son-in-law, M. Bryte, and went East, where he was again married, and afterward took up his residence in San Francisco. There his death occurred in 1873. Nicholas Schadt received his schooling in Ohio, and grew to manhood on the farm in Yolo County. This farm contained 1,400 acres, and the dairy interest thereon was quite extensive. In 1876 he sold out his interests there and removed to Sacramento. In 1878 he built the large and substantial brick building on K Street, between Seventh and Eighth, which has a frontage of forty feet on K, with a depth of 140 feet, while on L forty feet in width extends to Eighth Street. This building is well adapted to business and residence use, and the family makes their residence on the second floor. Mr. Schadt is a member of Union Lodge, No. 21, A.O.U.W. He is an honored and respected citizen, and withal an eye-witness to much of the change that has taken place in this region, and to many interesting incidents of history. Mr. Schadt was married in New Brunswick, to Miss Georgiana Stewart, granddaughter of General Stewart. They had ten children, eight of whom are living, viz.: Anna Elizabeth May, Frederick William, Edwin Nicholas, Alice Josephine, George Franklin, Della Florence, Norman Stewart, Lillian Viola, James Lester and Edna Alma.

Transcribed by Debbie Gramlick.