Friedrich Ernst SCHULZ

BIOGRAPHY: Of his birth in Sagan, Silesia, we know nothing beyond a few details, because no one can yet find a birth-baptismal record. In the church where he married he gave his father's name as "Friedck Wm. Schulz" and his birthplace as "Sagan Schlesien." He may have lived in another city in Germany and certainly was in Gorlitz, before immigrating to the United States in either April 1882, as he states below, or 1885 as he had stated earlier on 1900 census record.

Record and Index of Persons Registered and of Poll Lists of Voters, City of Chicago, Northern District of Illinois, 1892. Page 551, Congressional District 2, Ward 10, Precinct 17, 573 Ambrose St., Schulz Fredk. Ernst, nativity Germany, Term of Residence: in Precinct 5 yrs., in county 10 yrs., State 10 yrs., Naturalized Dec. 13, 1888 Circuit Court of Cook County, Qualified Voter: Yes. Date of Application to be Registered: October 25, 1892. Voted, Yes.

In 1926 the retired F.E. Schulz and wife Kate sailed to Breman and visited her relatives and their children's in-laws in Hannover (Stuenkels) and Switzerland (Von Arx), as well as other relatives in Himbach, Frankfurt, etc.

US Passport application: Special Series No. 2930, Chicago Illinois, approved May 29, 1926:

"I, Ernest Schulz, a citizen of the UNITED STATES, hereby apply to the Department of State, at Washington, for a passport. I solemnly Swear that I was born at Sagan Germany, on December 19, 1854, that I was married on May 21, 1887; that I immigrated to the United States, on or about April 1882; that I resided, continuously, in the United States from 1882 to 1926, at Chicago ILL; that I was naturalized before the Circuit Court of Cook County Ill., on December 13, 1888, as shown by the Certificate of Naturalization presented herewith; that I am the identical person described in said certificate ; that I am domiciled in the United Srtetes, my permanent residence being at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, where I follow the profession of retired machinist, and that I have reside outside the United States since my Naturalization Never.

My father, William Schulz, was born in Germany is now dead.

My last passport was obtained from none.

I desire a passport for use in visiting the countries herinafter named for the following purposes:

Germany visit relatives

Switzerland

I will be accompanied by my wife Kate Schulz, who was born at Himbach Germany on June 19-1865, and to whom I was married on May 21, 1887."

Kate was not naturalized, as few women then were, being expected to take the nationality of their husbands in a time when women couldn't vote anyway. Women had just gotten the vote in 1920 and were already being incorporated into full person-hood, a process that continued.

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