E. Louis J. SCHULTZ

 

E. Louis J. SCHULTZ, whose death occurred on the 6^th of November, 1909, was a mere youth when he came to San Francisco in the early ‘60s and depending entirely upon his own ability and efforts, he gained place in the passing years as one of the substantial business men and capitalist of this city, where he contributed much also to civic and material progress, besides having been actively identified with various lines of industrial development.  He commanded at all times the confidence and high regard of the community in which he long lived and worthily wrought, and in this publication a tribute to his memory is consistently entered.

 

Mr. SCHULTZ was born in Hanover, Germany, June 22, 1842, and much of his early education was gained in well ordered private schools in his native land.  He was a son of Peter and Dorothy (BECKERER) SCHULTZ, of whose children he was the second in order of birth.  August, Theodore, and Ernest are deceased.  Frederick is a resident of Fruitvale, California, and Herman, George, William and Elise, are deceased.  These children were by the first marriage of Peter SCHULTZ.  After the death of the mother of these children, the father contracted a second marriage.  The father long held government office in Germany, where he passed his entire life.

 

The subject of this memoir was a lad of sixteen years at the time of his arrival in the port of New York City, and his available capital was summed up in five dollars.  He found employment in a grocery store in the national metropolis, and he continued his residence in the East until the early ‘60s, when he came to California and secured employment in a grocery store in San Francisco.  Later he was for two years engaged in the same line of business in an independent way with J.  SCHMEIDES as a partner, and he then became associated with Henry VOORMAN in the distilling business, under the title of the Pacific Distilling Company.  In 1873, in company with his wife and his business associate, Mr.  VOORMAN, he returned to Europe, his special purpose having been to buy machinery for the manufacturing of alcoholic spirits from potatoes, he having raised the potatoes on his own land, his estate being known as Bouldin Island and being situated in San Joaquin River.  The distilling company developed a large and prosperous business, and in addition to the development of this important industrial enterprise, Mr. SCHULTZ was the first man to raise asparagus on local tide land after the construction of the levee, he having developed this business into one of commercial importance.  He finally sold his asparagus-propagating property and interests to a canning corporation, in 1903, and thereafter he lived virtually retired until his death.  He was one of the original stockholders of the First National Bank of San Francisco and had other important capitalistic investments.  He was a democrat in politics and as a citizen was ever loyal, liberal and progressive.

 

October 26, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. SCHULTZ and Miss Mary SCHIERHOLD, who still maintains her home in San Francisco, a city endeared to her by the memories and associations of many years.  Of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. SCHULTZ the first born, Ernest A., died when about twenty-five years of age; Frederick J. is engaged in the commission business in San Francisco; Edward L. here holds a position in the United States custom house; Louis S. died when about seventeen years of age, and Henrietta is the widow of Commander R. T. KEIRAN, of the United States Navy, whose death occurred October 3, 1918.