Nicholas Schultz
Nicholas Schultz was born in Leutershausen, Baden, Germany, August 2, 1828, and in 1849 immigrated to America, first locating in East Union Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. He learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth, at which he worked thirty years, and in 1866 bought the farm where he now lives, which contains eighty-two acres of valuable land. Mr. Schultz was married, in 1853, to Miss Catherine Schaffer, a native of Wurtemberg, Heimerdingen, Germany, born March 9, 1831. They have a family of six children: Sarah, wife of George Leiner, of Wooster Township (they have four children, Charles, John, Edward and Anna); George, in Dalton, married to Ella Saurer; Adam, in Apple Creek, married to Mary Boydston (they have one child, Della); John, in Wooster, married to Sarah Johnston (they have one child, Clarence), and Anna and Viola, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are members of the Reformed Church; in politics he is a Democrat.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889