The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-29
HENRY SCHUMACHER DEAD
AN HoNORED CITIZEN OF GRIMES
COUNTY FOR MANY WEARS.
Was One OF the Leaders Of the Business
World in that Section al
the State.

Navasota, Texas May IS, Died at $50
O'Clock sunday morning Henry Schumacher.
aged 6S years months and ] day.
In the death of Mr. Schumacher Nnva.
sofa. Grimes county, and the count es
about suffer distinct loss. hut his career
Is an enduring monument 10 MS memory
and talsman other men may follow t,
greatest commercial success. coupled with
the love, esteem respect and unlimit
confidence 81 his felow-man, y rt.s.,
was man OF humanitarian sympnthles.
incapable Of idly Witnessing others sufi,r.
and unconscious of the dangers that he +, n
in early manhood nursing plague Wet m,
though not immune His nature prompted
and inclinations led him to live CON
Secrated, Christian life, and while a youth
he was an active worker in the Pr. sly,
terrain church, and at death was the Oldest
ruling elder of the local church, having
been elevated to that official congregational
position here.
Commercially, Mr.. Schumacher achieve d
the success which is the portion Of com
paratyely few men. He came. TO this
county in 1893 with lttlo else than bra n
and Drawn, well balanced with clear aud
practical conception OF things materiai and
uuconquulahlc determination and en,Ng
During the war his slender fortunes
-4..-sisr-,!lAu-. .tnE- rest bur al its close lie
seated here and began again bis ndusuldl
pursuits. At tho inception OF tnat I'M
nleuscly important line og manutuctu. ing
he recognized the possibilities OF ana uses
OF cotton seed and erected small oil mil,
the second in the South then aud the pro
duets OF Nhlth today stand among taa
FIRST on the market lot quality ana MOI
last in volume.
lie took an active part in the formation
OF the flrst National bank. was made vice
president aud upon the Leatu vi +. ".
BroS!g was mnue president lost n
held With distinction to his death. lie WAS
the first man 10 discover that cattle wcut
eat cotton seed hulls, ANA tnat Wn II
tprinElcd with a portion OF rlch gOiuen
meal that It was II very valuable iced lie-
Lore this discovery one on the mills great
est problems was how TO dispose of is
otfal some were burned in mill engine .ur
nnces. some went into creeks, gullies and
rivers, some 10 ash piles. Today hulls
are a valuable by.proluct and every pound
Is used 10 mans good.
He was the heaviest taxpayer III Grim .
Despite his wealth he was always on
of the people and in closest touch W III
good Not only did his sound business
philosophy prompt him, hur his tendeiesl
snnpathies lead him, heart and soul, n
public enterprises, and nine times olt OF
Ten 1t was indeed u poorly promising en-
teiDlis. or charity which could not h1Ae
him head the list of Subscribers and TIE
u
his generous purse. In fact, Nnvasot aus
today grant him the enviaDc honor "a u"-
ing more for the town during his life tim
ant other man who ever lived he:e though
one or two others In their timetmes IL
yided honors and we're intimately assn-
, u,cG with nm IN good As mark ~
the respect Navasotians hold for Mr..
Schumacher every store was closed from
1880 10 l1:30 during the hour OF the m
terment in Oaklawn cemetery. Tho at
~ nanhcc was rs great as the transporln-
az f,f xraht
We know that some power beyond m =
carth created It, and all the life therein.
We know the earth must pass away; mat
we must die And we know that tile paw
or which created them and NJ and the
stars above MS. must live ON forever.
Therefore somewhere, beyond this ca tn
there is indefinite power and eternal lif'.
Then let MS hope that the Christ who wills
porcd peace 10 the troubled waters n
sr"l Of the departed citizen AMI that his
tired eyes have opened to the Eight OF u
blissful Immortality.
NJ A. Adams
The following is sketch OF Nj
schumachcr's life, taken from 'rhe In.
dian Wars and Pioneers Of Texas" by
John Henry Brown, published several years
since:
This gentleman. one of the leading citi-
Zens of Nnyasoth' prehheht W TUE FrSt
National bank of tina; place, proprietor OF
the Narasota Cotton OIL works and a resi-
dent Of Grimes county for forty years. is
native of Mecklenburg schwerlin, Ger
many. where he was born Ia 1882. At the
soe Of Il he came to Texas his father hav
Inc died and his mother having come out
Tho wear previous TO find home for herself
and ,our children Mr.. Schumacher reached
Galveston November 30 1877. where ma
.ha,' Rad established herself. and there
ho' -, once went industrlously 20 work 10
n nere his own support He learned the car
nenter's trade and followed 4 as journsy.
n n.ia Ton and devoted his attention to
,r,,rs,ng the sick during the vlsithtious II
the the Yellow fever in, 1888 and 1854 IN
LeJo lea 10 this step nv the condition OF
b ~ yv,fe;s health. she having been SUI
tnrsr from the fever and finally dying at