Edwin H. Schauer
Edwin H. Schauer, proprietor of a farm in Miami township, a part of the old Confer place on which he was born, has been a resident of this county all his life. He was born on April 3, 1867, son of Isaac and Mary (Confer) Schauer, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Bath township and the latter in Miami township on the farm above referred to.
Isaac Schauer was born on November 1. 1832, a son of Samuel Schauer and wife, early settlers in tlie Byron neighborhood. Samuel Schauer had a brother, Jesse, and a sister, Elizabeth. Isaac Schauer was the sixth in order of birth of the seven children born to his parents, the others having been John, Jacob, George, Sarah, Samuel and Simon, all now deceased. In 1862 Isaac Schauer was married to Mary Confer, daughter of Samuel Confer, of Miami township, who was the father of three children, Mrs. Schauer having had two brothers, Hiram and Henry. After his marriage Isaac Schauer became engaged in farming on his own account and presently took up the cultivation of nursery stock. For a time during the later sixties he conducted a hotel at Yellow Springs, but in 1870 returned to the old Schauer farm in Bath township and there remained for nine years, at the end of which time he moved to a farm in Beavercreek township and there was engaged in farming for thirteen years. About the year 1897 he retired from active labors and moved to Yellow Springs, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there on May 7, 1907. His widow is still living. To Isaac and Mary (Confer) Schauer were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, is now the only survivor, the others having been Lulu, who died in infancy; Ida, wlio married William Beatty and died before she was twenty-three years of age, and Clinton, George and Clifford, who died in infancy.
Edwin H. Schauer received his schooling in the school at Byron and in the Ludlow school in Beavercreek township. In the week following the attainment of his majority he married. For three years thereafter he remained on the home place and then bought his present farm, on which he has ever since been living, a part of the old Confer place, formerly the Walker farm, bought during the '50s by his grandfather, Samuel Confer. Mr. Schauer owns there a farm of one hundred and ten acres and in addition to his general farming gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock. Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs being his specialty. He is a Republican with independent leanings.
On April 10, 1888, Edwin H. Schauer was united in marriage to Elizabeth Morgan, of Xenia township, who was born on March 25, 1869, daughter of David and Rose (Greene) Morgan, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Xenia township and the latter in Beavercreek township, and who were the parents of nine children, those besides Mrs. Schauer being the following: John Morgan, a resident of the city of Xenia; Emma, wife of Richard Bull, a farmer on Clarks run in Xenia township; Joseph, a building contractor at Knoxville, Tennessee; Rose, wife of Wesley Swadener, a farmer of the Oldtown neighborhood in this county; Clinton, who is now the manager of a poultry farm in Indiana, and Margaret, wife of James Shaw, a farmer of the Oldtown neighborhood, and two who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Schauer have nine children, namely: Ethel, born on April 24, 1889, who married Warren Carpenter, a Miami township farmer, and has one child, a daughter, Marjorie; J. Myrtle, January 22, 1892, who married James Hoffman, now living at Yellow Springs, and has one child, a daughter, Marie; Goldie, August 6, 1893, who married Prof. Gilbert Funderberg, now a teacher in the high school at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has one child, a son, Joe; Luther, May 15, 1895, a soldier of the National Army, now (1918) in camp at Camp Custer at Battle Creek, Michigan; Ida, April 14, 1898, at home; Isaac Lester. September 25, 1900, at home, a member of the class of 1918, Yellow Springs high school; Clarence, December 5, 1902, a member of the class of 1920, same school; Fern, February 26, 1905, and Catherine, December 22, 1910. The .Schauers are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Schauer has been a member of the board of trustees of his church for more than twenty years.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918