JOHN B. SCHWENDT dealer in boots and shoes, Green Spring, was born in Germany, July 24, 1851. He received a common school education in his native land, where he also learned the shoe-making trade. He immigrated to America August 23, 1872, locating in Erie, Penn., where he remained until 1874, and in June of that year he came to Green Spring, but a month later moved to Toledo and there remained until March, 1875, when he returned to Green Spring, and soon after entered into partnership in the boot and shoe trade, and in 1877 purchased his partner's' interest in the business. Mr. Schwendt is a self-made man, and owes his present success and acquisition of property to his own natural business qualifications and habits of industry. Socially he ranks high in the community for his many good qualities. He is an active member of the German Reformed Church; in politics .a stanch Republican. He was married, October 29, 1876, to Miss Louisa E. Bates, of Fulton County, Ohio, who has borne him three children: Edna, Cydona and Bernard.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.710
ADAMS TOWNSHIP