Biography of Allen Shultz, page 632.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Allen Shultz, section 21, Franklin Township, was born in Ashland County, 
Ohio, April 15, 1846.  His father, George Shultz, was a native of Union 
County, Pa., and settled in Ashland County in 1835; thence in the fall of 
1853 to De Kalb County.  Here our subject was reared and educated.  He 
learned the carpenter’s trade in his youth and worked at it several years.  
From 1869 till 1875 he ran a threshing-machine during harvest.  In the 
spring of 1876 he bought a portable steam saw-mill, which he ran three 
years.  He then sold the mill, keeping the boiler and engine, and bought a 
new mill, which her ran, in company with his brother, Franklin, three years, 
when he sold it and bought the Taylor’s Corners’ mill, and moved it to his 
farm.  This mill is of forty-five horse-power, with a capacity of 10,000 
feet in ten hours.  He cuts 250,000 feet of lumber annually.  He owns sixty-
four acres of valuable land and carries on farming in addition to running 
his mill.  He was married Jan. 20, 1867, to Amanda Mann, daughter of 
Philip Mann, Sr., who was a soldier in the war of 1812 under General 
Harrison, and in 1842 settled in De Kalb County.  To Mr. and Mrs. Shultz 
have been born eight children, six of whom are living---Henry, Della, 
Loma, Burton, Rhoba and Junie.  Mr. Shultz has been a member of the 
Knights of Honor at Waterloo three years.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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