Ernest Adolph Schilling

1872 - 1952  (80 years)

• Name	Ernest Adolph Schilling
  Born	13 Sep 1872	Prussia, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Sep 1952
  Buried	Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States
  Person ID	I5857879159	Master Tree
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2001

  
  

  Family ID

  F5350806796

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  Family 2	Selma Martine Dahl,   b. 23 May 1881, Lucas, Lyon, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 1 Jan 1965, Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States  (Age 83 years)
  Married	19 Sep 1907	St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States
  Children	+ 1. Kenneth Ernest Schilling, (ADPT),   b. 9 Jul 1913, St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States ,   d. 24 Dec 1997, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F5350806551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 13 Sep 1872 - Prussia, Germany Married - 19 Sep 1907 - St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States Buried - - Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  1NOTES: Emigrated to America as a young man. When he met Selma, he was a widower with 3 children: Theodore, James, and Marguerite. (Theodore married Grace Gunlauson and they have a daughter, Grace. Marguerite married a Kane.) Ernest and Selma had one child, Kenneth. Also see notes for wife, Selma. OCCUPATION: Traveling salesman for the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper, then in 1917 succeeded his mother-in-law, Sarah Dahl, as postmaster of Cotton- wood, which position he held and was periodically assisted in by his wife, Selma, for the next two decades. Milton Hackett writes, "the postmaster position was a (political) plumb" and while Ernest had been appointed by a democratic administration 20 years earlier and had served as postmaster through 3 republican administrations, times were tough in the depression and when Franklin D. Roosevelt became president a new postmaster was appointed. There being no other work in cotton- wood, Ernest and Selma left in 1936 for Ohio to work for Ernest's son, Theodore, who was in manufacturing. After Ernest died in 1952, Selma returned to Cottonwood and stayed with her sister, Hilda, until she died in 1965. (ORWOLL DOC 'A')