Carl Schurz
Born: March 2, 1829
Birthplace: Liblar, Rhein – Erft – Kreis, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany
Father: Christian Schurz 1796 – 1876
(Buried: Saint Paul Evangelical Reformed Church, Monee, Illinois)
Mother: Marianne Jussen 1798 – 1877
(Buried: Saint Paulus Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)
1st Wife: Margarethe Meyer 1833 – 1876
(Buried: Ohlsdorfer, Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Germany)
2nd Wife: Frances Chapman 1846 – 1924
(Buried: Doylestown Presbyterian Church, Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
Children:
Agathe Schurz 1852 – 1915
(Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Marianne Schurz 1857 – 1929
(Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Emmy Savannah Schurz 1864 – 1867
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan)
Carl L. Schurz 1871 – 1924
(Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Herbert Schurz 1876 – 1900
(Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York)
Education:
Attended Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne, Germany
Attended University of Bonn, Germany
Occupation before War:
1848: One of the Founders of Bonner Zeitung Newspaper
Member of Prussian Constitutional Convention
1849: Served in military campaign in Palatinate and Baden
1849: Part of the force that surrendered at Fortress of Rastatt
1850: Helped Kinkel escape from prison to Edinburgh, Scotland
1851: Forced to leave France on the eve of the coup d’etat
1851 – 1852: German Language teacher in London, England
1852: Immigrated to the United States from London, England
Member of the Republican Political Party
1857: Unsuccessful Candidate for Lt. Governor of Wisconsin
1858: Speaker on behalf of the Lincoln U.S. Senate Campaign
Attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1859: Made a speech attacking the fugitive slave law
1860: Wisconsin Leader at Republican Party National Convention
Civil War Career:
1861: United States Minister to Spain
1861: Helped to dissuade Spain from supporting the Confederacy
1862 – 1863: Brigadier General, Union Army Volunteers
1862: Served in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
1863 – 1865: Major General Union Army Volunteers
1863: Division Commander at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
1863: Division Commander at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863: Division Commander at the Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Commander of a Union Army Corps of Instruction at Nashville, Tennessee
Chief of Staff to Major General Henry W. Slocum in Georgia
1865: Sent South by President Johnson to study conditions
Occupation after War:
Chief Editor of Detroit Post Newspaper
Editor and Joint Proprietor of Wstilche Post Newspaper
1867 – 1868: Traveled to Germany for interviews Otto Von Bismarck
1869 – 1875: United States Senator from Missouri
1870: Helped form the Liberal Republican Political Party
1872: Chairman of Liberal Republican Party National Convention
1877 – 1881: United States Secretary of Interior Department
1881 – 1883: Editor of New York Evening Post & The Nation
1884: Leader of the Mugwump movement against James G. Blaine
General American Representative of Hamburg American Steamship Co
1892 – 1901: President of National Civil Service Reform League
1892 – 1898: Editorial Writer of Harper’s Weekly Newspaper
1895: Speaker of Fusion anti Tammany Hall Ticket in New York City
1896: Opposed William J. Bryan Speaking out against the Campaign
1900: Supporter of William J. Bryan for his anti-imperialism beliefs
Member of the American Anti – Imperialist League
1904: Supporter of Alton B. Parker’s Presidential Campaign
Died: May 14, 1906
Place of Death: New York City, New York
Cause of Death: Bilateral Septic Pneumonia
Age at time of Death: 77 years old
Burial Place: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York
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