Person ID: I5857879159

Ernest Adolph Schilling

13 Sep 1872 – 19 Sep 1952

Male

Events

Married: 19 Sep 1907 — St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States

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')