New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-28
AMID WREAT TIES OF FLOWERS
Body of Louis Schilling Imposing.
II Laid to Rest.
Died Friday Morning at the Age Of
Seyenty-One Years.
Was Clerk of the City For Nearly
Twenty Consecutive Years.


Sunday afternoon all that was NOR
tai of Louis Schilling was laid to rest
in the city cemetery amid very impress
sive ceremonies, the police force, city
council, 6. A. r., fire department. and
Odd Fellows participating in their
several bodies, and Capt. Albert Stein
hauser ofdci ating. He spoke at the
house and again at the cemetery and
after the conclusion of his address at
the cemetery the services were taken
in charge by Hecker Post, G. A. r.
and as the body was about to be low
cred in the grave salute was fred by
members of the post and by Burgs
battery.
The Second Regiment band furn
ished music for the funeral and
throughout it was an imposing and
impressive occasion. Amidst the pro-
fusion or beautiful flowers that spoke
of the esteem in which the deceased
was held the casket rested until those
who had honored him in life had taken
last view of his remains and then it
was born on its last journey to the
city of the silent majority.
When the history of New Ulm is
written covering the period of time
from it's birth to the present the name
of Louis Schilling must figure in it..
His hand worked in the fashioning of
the timbers that went into the first
houses that sheltered the pioneers of
those early days and his voice lent
cheer to the discouraged settlers, until
the time when the country called for
the best of the youth of the land to en-
list in the army to repel the southern
secessionists, when he joined the First
Minnesota Battery and fought in some
of the leading battles of the war serv-
ing the entire three years of his enlist
ment with honor and credit and return
ing to his home in this county to take
. up the business of farming.
= This occupation he followed until
8 1880 when he moved to this city where
he has lived continuously ever since.
In 1886 he was elected to the Office OF
city clerk, and has filed that Office
continuously ever since with the ex.
ception of about six months of the time
) for which Ed. Bobleter was elected
who failing to discharge the duties o.
the Office as he should was removed
and Mr.. Schilling given the place
His duties in this Office for the entire
period have been such as have rehec
ted credit upon himself.
His long connection with the affairs
of the city made him a valuable per
son to whom the council could lool
for advice, and his word was otter
taken as final in many important mat
tiers, but in all his actions and in tn.
ambition that he had it was ever evi
dent that he sought above his own tn,
betterment of the city as far as it wa.
in his power to do so.
He was a generous friend, a kline
father and a loving husband and hi!
) family has grown to the estate of man
l hood admiring and respecting him ant
honoring him for the example he ha.
: set.
Probably the period of his life wa.
J shortened by an accident which hap
pened to him in 1898 the resultof which
deprived him of the use of his lowel
) limbs and compelled him to use crut
: ches in moving about. This no doub
9 saddened him and in a measure dis