Biography of Andrew Schmid, page 585.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Andrew Schmid, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Stark County, Ohio, 
born June 12, 1830, a son of Frederick and Thorida (Burch) Schmid, natives 
of Germany.  The parents were reared and married in their native country, 
and, with two children, came to the United States and settled in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, removing later to Stark County.  Four of their seven children 
are living.  Andrew was reared on a farm, remaining with his parents till 
manhood.  When seventeen years of age he began to work at the carpenter’s 
trade which he followed till 1854, when he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and 
bought a tract of heavily timbered land which he has cleared and cultivated, 
and now has eighty acres of valuable land under a good state of cultivation.  
He was married Aug. 26, 1852, to Susanna Wolf, a native of Columbiana County, 
Ohio, daughter of William and Catherine Wolf, early settlers of Ohio, from 
Pennsylvania. To them have been born six children---William X., John W., 
Henry B., Catherine Ann, Charles (deceased) and Edward J.  In politics Mr. 
Schmid is a Democrat.  He and his wife are members of the German Reform 
church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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