RICHARD SCHWARTZ
Funeral services for Richard A. Schwarta, 93, of 1034 Main St., Lomira, will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Kietzer Funeral Home in Lomira.
The Rev. Nathan Retzlaff will officiate. Entombment will follow at Shrine of Rest Chapel Mausoleum, Fond du Lac.
Friends may call today from 4 to 7 p.m. and also Monday from 1 p.m. to the time of service at the funeral home.
Mr. Schwartz died Friday, Jan 12, 1990, at St. Agnes Hospital.
He was born May 6, 1896 in Lomira, a son of William and Augusta Friedrich Schwartz. On Sept 22, 1922, he married Inez Waehler in Lomira.
Mr. Schwartz was a lifelong resident of Lomira. He was the owner of Schwartz poultry Farm for 40 years. He began the White Leghorn Hatchery and Poultry business in 1916 on 20 acres adjacent to the present Lomira Library. He retired in 1957. He was active in state and national poultry associations and received recognition for his many contributions to the field of poultry science. Mr. Schwartz served as clerk of the Lomira School District and also on the Lomira Village Board. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, a member of the church council and a member of the choir.
Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Dr. Carole Schwartz of Tampa, Fla. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Memorials may be directed to St. John's Lutheran Church or to the Bethesda Lutheran Home in Watertown.
(text from the library plaque)
LOMIRA LIBRARY BUILT ON SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM PROPERTY
In 1920, Richard Schwartz purchased a house and twenty acres in the Village of Lomira from Ed Ehrhardt to establish a poultry business.
This house became the first home of Mr. Schwartz and Inez Waehler Schwartz following their marriage in 1922. Though they and their young daughter, Carole, moved to the Peter Wolf home directly east across the lawn in 1940, they retained their former residence for employees and their families, later renting it until it was sold to Robert Zimmerman in 1968.
During these years, Schwartz developed one of the largest poultry businesses in the state of Wisconsin. Schwartz Poultry Farm specialized in egg-laying White Leghorn hens and day-old baby chicks. At first, buyers of day-old chicks were loyal, valued customers from the local area and throughout the state. When the Parcel Post service accepted day-old chicks for shipment in the 1930's, production and sales began to increase. Because day-old chicks could survive without nourishment for 36 to 48 hours, orders were then accepted from as far north as Winnipeg, Canada and south to Tennessee and Georgia.
At the height of the poultry business, Schwartz maintained an egg-laying flock of more than 3,000 hens and hatched baby chicks between the months of January and June. Countless numbers of young men in high school and other full-time employees worked for Schwartz over the years. In addition to the help and support of Mrs. Schwartz, Mrs. Betty Brinkman rendered valuable office assistance.
Though Mr. Schwartz had fully retired from the poultry business by 1960, the property including the two homes was not sold until 1968. The site of the present Lomira Public Library was formerly the site of the Schwartz family's first home. Of interest also is that the Colorado blue spruce tree standing on the north side of the library properly was planted at that location by Mr. Schwartz in 1932.
FORMER SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM AT LOMIRA SOLD; TO BE RESIDENTIAL AREA
Forty years in the poultry and hatching business came to an end recently when Schwartz Leghorn Farm was sold to Robert Zimmerman owner and operator of the Lomira Sport Shop, who is developing it as a residential area.
The poultry farm had started as a hobby on a farm east of Lomira and moved to the Village of Lomira in 1920.
Reminiscing in the past, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schwartz commented that there had been rough years as well as good. During the depression years of the 1930's egg prices dropped to 10 cents a dozen. But there was also a time in the early 1920's when few eggs were produced and winter prices rose to $1 per dozen.
In the good old chick hatching days, nearly every farm had a flock of laying hens. Every farm owner was a potential customer for 20 to 300 baby chicks. Now and then there would be orders for 1000 or more.
The sale of chicks started every year when mailing of 3,000 to 6,000 catalogs and price lists to rural box holders and the list of regular customers. Many busy hours were spent in preparing the mailing pieces, handling correspondence and filling orders.
As the peak of the chick production season three or four extra workers were employed on the range, in the hatchery and in the office.
What a busy place the post office was, with the stacks of cheeping boxes waiting for the customers to pick them up or be delivered by rural mail carrier or other means. The annual trip to pick up the "Kucklein" was an important part of spring.
Baby chicks, hatching eggs, breeding stock and market eggs provided the income from about 5,000 to 6,000 laying hens. Successful methods to increase production were always looked for and added to poultry management if approved by our Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The introduction of electric light to increase the hen's laying day to 15-16 hours gave a good boost to egg production.
In the early 1930's Schwartz's pioneered in the sale of "sexed" chicks. To the lay man, this meant that a customer had the choice of buying day-old pullets (females), roosters, or mixed. At this time there were only a few large hatcheries in the state and Schwartz was the first in this area to offer this service. Since the procedure required great dexterity and sharp eye sight, two specially trained young Japanese men came from California each summer to do this work.
About 8,000 growing pullets were raised on the range in shelters and brooder houses.
During World War II when there was a crying need for more meat and poultry production, about 20,000 eggs were set, at a time and approximately 16,000 chicks hatched every week during the hatching season.
Schwartz also produced a number of trap-nest record hens with official egg laying contest records from 300 to 323 eggs in a year. Engraved cups and more than 100 blue ribbons were awarded to Schwartz Leghorns for production records in official egg laying contests.
But everything has changed in the last 10 to 12 years. Now it is a rare occasion when one sees a flock of layers on a farm. The laying flock has all but vanished. Once there were approximately 550 hatcheries in the state. Now only about 15 are still in business.
The Schwartz's have fond memories of the many fine farm folks throughout the state and local area who made their chick hatching business possible.
They plan to remain in their home for several months. Their daughter Carole is in the primary instruction department of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Funeral services for Richard A. Schwarta, 93, of 1034 Main St., Lomira, will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Kietzer Funeral Home in Lomira.
The Rev. Nathan Retzlaff will officiate. Entombment will follow at Shrine of Rest Chapel Mausoleum, Fond du Lac.
Friends may call today from 4 to 7 p.m. and also Monday from 1 p.m. to the time of service at the funeral home.
Mr. Schwartz died Friday, Jan 12, 1990, at St. Agnes Hospital.
He was born May 6, 1896 in Lomira, a son of William and Augusta Friedrich Schwartz. On Sept 22, 1922, he married Inez Waehler in Lomira.
Mr. Schwartz was a lifelong resident of Lomira. He was the owner of Schwartz poultry Farm for 40 years. He began the White Leghorn Hatchery and Poultry business in 1916 on 20 acres adjacent to the present Lomira Library. He retired in 1957. He was active in state and national poultry associations and received recognition for his many contributions to the field of poultry science. Mr. Schwartz served as clerk of the Lomira School District and also on the Lomira Village Board. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, a member of the church council and a member of the choir.
Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Dr. Carole Schwartz of Tampa, Fla. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Memorials may be directed to St. John's Lutheran Church or to the Bethesda Lutheran Home in Watertown.
(text from the library plaque)
LOMIRA LIBRARY BUILT ON SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM PROPERTY
In 1920, Richard Schwartz purchased a house and twenty acres in the Village of Lomira from Ed Ehrhardt to establish a poultry business.
This house became the first home of Mr. Schwartz and Inez Waehler Schwartz following their marriage in 1922. Though they and their young daughter, Carole, moved to the Peter Wolf home directly east across the lawn in 1940, they retained their former residence for employees and their families, later renting it until it was sold to Robert Zimmerman in 1968.
During these years, Schwartz developed one of the largest poultry businesses in the state of Wisconsin. Schwartz Poultry Farm specialized in egg-laying White Leghorn hens and day-old baby chicks. At first, buyers of day-old chicks were loyal, valued customers from the local area and throughout the state. When the Parcel Post service accepted day-old chicks for shipment in the 1930's, production and sales began to increase. Because day-old chicks could survive without nourishment for 36 to 48 hours, orders were then accepted from as far north as Winnipeg, Canada and south to Tennessee and Georgia.
At the height of the poultry business, Schwartz maintained an egg-laying flock of more than 3,000 hens and hatched baby chicks between the months of January and June. Countless numbers of young men in high school and other full-time employees worked for Schwartz over the years. In addition to the help and support of Mrs. Schwartz, Mrs. Betty Brinkman rendered valuable office assistance.
Though Mr. Schwartz had fully retired from the poultry business by 1960, the property including the two homes was not sold until 1968. The site of the present Lomira Public Library was formerly the site of the Schwartz family's first home. Of interest also is that the Colorado blue spruce tree standing on the north side of the library properly was planted at that location by Mr. Schwartz in 1932.
FORMER SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM AT LOMIRA SOLD; TO BE RESIDENTIAL AREA
Forty years in the poultry and hatching business came to an end recently when Schwartz Leghorn Farm was sold to Robert Zimmerman owner and operator of the Lomira Sport Shop, who is developing it as a residential area.
The poultry farm had started as a hobby on a farm east of Lomira and moved to the Village of Lomira in 1920.
Reminiscing in the past, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schwartz commented that there had been rough years as well as good. During the depression years of the 1930's egg prices dropped to 10 cents a dozen. But there was also a time in the early 1920's when few eggs were produced and winter prices rose to $1 per dozen.
In the good old chick hatching days, nearly every farm had a flock of laying hens. Every farm owner was a potential customer for 20 to 300 baby chicks. Now and then there would be orders for 1000 or more.
The sale of chicks started every year when mailing of 3,000 to 6,000 catalogs and price lists to rural box holders and the list of regular customers. Many busy hours were spent in preparing the mailing pieces, handling correspondence and filling orders.
As the peak of the chick production season three or four extra workers were employed on the range, in the hatchery and in the office.
What a busy place the post office was, with the stacks of cheeping boxes waiting for the customers to pick them up or be delivered by rural mail carrier or other means. The annual trip to pick up the "Kucklein" was an important part of spring.
Baby chicks, hatching eggs, breeding stock and market eggs provided the income from about 5,000 to 6,000 laying hens. Successful methods to increase production were always looked for and added to poultry management if approved by our Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The introduction of electric light to increase the hen's laying day to 15-16 hours gave a good boost to egg production.
In the early 1930's Schwartz's pioneered in the sale of "sexed" chicks. To the lay man, this meant that a customer had the choice of buying day-old pullets (females), roosters, or mixed. At this time there were only a few large hatcheries in the state and Schwartz was the first in this area to offer this service. Since the procedure required great dexterity and sharp eye sight, two specially trained young Japanese men came from California each summer to do this work.
About 8,000 growing pullets were raised on the range in shelters and brooder houses.
During World War II when there was a crying need for more meat and poultry production, about 20,000 eggs were set, at a time and approximately 16,000 chicks hatched every week during the hatching season.
Schwartz also produced a number of trap-nest record hens with official egg laying contest records from 300 to 323 eggs in a year. Engraved cups and more than 100 blue ribbons were awarded to Schwartz Leghorns for production records in official egg laying contests.
But everything has changed in the last 10 to 12 years. Now it is a rare occasion when one sees a flock of layers on a farm. The laying flock has all but vanished. Once there were approximately 550 hatcheries in the state. Now only about 15 are still in business.
The Schwartz's have fond memories of the many fine farm folks throughout the state and local area who made their chick hatching business possible.
They plan to remain in their home for several months. Their daughter Carole is in the primary instruction department of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
RICHARD SCHWARTZ
Funeral services for Richard A. Schwarta, 93, of 1034 Main St., Lomira, will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Kietzer Funeral Home in Lomira.
The Rev. Nathan Retzlaff will officiate. Entombment will follow at Shrine of Rest Chapel Mausoleum, Fond du Lac.
Friends may call today from 4 to 7 p.m. and also Monday from 1 p.m. to the time of service at the funeral home.
Mr. Schwartz died Friday, Jan 12, 1990, at St. Agnes Hospital.
He was born May 6, 1896 in Lomira, a son of William and Augusta Friedrich Schwartz. On Sept 22, 1922, he married Inez Waehler in Lomira.
Mr. Schwartz was a lifelong resident of Lomira. He was the owner of Schwartz poultry Farm for 40 years. He began the White Leghorn Hatchery and Poultry business in 1916 on 20 acres adjacent to the present Lomira Library. He retired in 1957. He was active in state and national poultry associations and received recognition for his many contributions to the field of poultry science. Mr. Schwartz served as clerk of the Lomira School District and also on the Lomira Village Board. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, a member of the church council and a member of the choir.
Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Dr. Carole Schwartz of Tampa, Fla. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Memorials may be directed to St. John's Lutheran Church or to the Bethesda Lutheran Home in Watertown.
(text from the library plaque)
LOMIRA LIBRARY BUILT ON SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM PROPERTY
In 1920, Richard Schwartz purchased a house and twenty acres in the Village of Lomira from Ed Ehrhardt to establish a poultry business.
This house became the first home of Mr. Schwartz and Inez Waehler Schwartz following their marriage in 1922. Though they and their young daughter, Carole, moved to the Peter Wolf home directly east across the lawn in 1940, they retained their former residence for employees and their families, later renting it until it was sold to Robert Zimmerman in 1968.
During these years, Schwartz developed one of the largest poultry businesses in the state of Wisconsin. Schwartz Poultry Farm specialized in egg-laying White Leghorn hens and day-old baby chicks. At first, buyers of day-old chicks were loyal, valued customers from the local area and throughout the state. When the Parcel Post service accepted day-old chicks for shipment in the 1930's, production and sales began to increase. Because day-old chicks could survive without nourishment for 36 to 48 hours, orders were then accepted from as far north as Winnipeg, Canada and south to Tennessee and Georgia.
At the height of the poultry business, Schwartz maintained an egg-laying flock of more than 3,000 hens and hatched baby chicks between the months of January and June. Countless numbers of young men in high school and other full-time employees worked for Schwartz over the years. In addition to the help and support of Mrs. Schwartz, Mrs. Betty Brinkman rendered valuable office assistance.
Though Mr. Schwartz had fully retired from the poultry business by 1960, the property including the two homes was not sold until 1968. The site of the present Lomira Public Library was formerly the site of the Schwartz family's first home. Of interest also is that the Colorado blue spruce tree standing on the north side of the library properly was planted at that location by Mr. Schwartz in 1932.
FORMER SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM AT LOMIRA SOLD; TO BE RESIDENTIAL AREA
Forty years in the poultry and hatching business came to an end recently when Schwartz Leghorn Farm was sold to Robert Zimmerman owner and operator of the Lomira Sport Shop, who is developing it as a residential area.
The poultry farm had started as a hobby on a farm east of Lomira and moved to the Village of Lomira in 1920.
Reminiscing in the past, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schwartz commented that there had been rough years as well as good. During the depression years of the 1930's egg prices dropped to 10 cents a dozen. But there was also a time in the early 1920's when few eggs were produced and winter prices rose to $1 per dozen.
In the good old chick hatching days, nearly every farm had a flock of laying hens. Every farm owner was a potential customer for 20 to 300 baby chicks. Now and then there would be orders for 1000 or more.
The sale of chicks started every year when mailing of 3,000 to 6,000 catalogs and price lists to rural box holders and the list of regular customers. Many busy hours were spent in preparing the mailing pieces, handling correspondence and filling orders.
As the peak of the chick production season three or four extra workers were employed on the range, in the hatchery and in the office.
What a busy place the post office was, with the stacks of cheeping boxes waiting for the customers to pick them up or be delivered by rural mail carrier or other means. The annual trip to pick up the "Kucklein" was an important part of spring.
Baby chicks, hatching eggs, breeding stock and market eggs provided the income from about 5,000 to 6,000 laying hens. Successful methods to increase production were always looked for and added to poultry management if approved by our Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The introduction of electric light to increase the hen's laying day to 15-16 hours gave a good boost to egg production.
In the early 1930's Schwartz's pioneered in the sale of "sexed" chicks. To the lay man, this meant that a customer had the choice of buying day-old pullets (females), roosters, or mixed. At this time there were only a few large hatcheries in the state and Schwartz was the first in this area to offer this service. Since the procedure required great dexterity and sharp eye sight, two specially trained young Japanese men came from California each summer to do this work.
About 8,000 growing pullets were raised on the range in shelters and brooder houses.
During World War II when there was a crying need for more meat and poultry production, about 20,000 eggs were set, at a time and approximately 16,000 chicks hatched every week during the hatching season.
Schwartz also produced a number of trap-nest record hens with official egg laying contest records from 300 to 323 eggs in a year. Engraved cups and more than 100 blue ribbons were awarded to Schwartz Leghorns for production records in official egg laying contests.
But everything has changed in the last 10 to 12 years. Now it is a rare occasion when one sees a flock of layers on a farm. The laying flock has all but vanished. Once there were approximately 550 hatcheries in the state. Now only about 15 are still in business.
The Schwartz's have fond memories of the many fine farm folks throughout the state and local area who made their chick hatching business possible.
They plan to remain in their home for several months. Their daughter Carole is in the primary instruction department of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Funeral services for Richard A. Schwarta, 93, of 1034 Main St., Lomira, will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Kietzer Funeral Home in Lomira.
The Rev. Nathan Retzlaff will officiate. Entombment will follow at Shrine of Rest Chapel Mausoleum, Fond du Lac.
Friends may call today from 4 to 7 p.m. and also Monday from 1 p.m. to the time of service at the funeral home.
Mr. Schwartz died Friday, Jan 12, 1990, at St. Agnes Hospital.
He was born May 6, 1896 in Lomira, a son of William and Augusta Friedrich Schwartz. On Sept 22, 1922, he married Inez Waehler in Lomira.
Mr. Schwartz was a lifelong resident of Lomira. He was the owner of Schwartz poultry Farm for 40 years. He began the White Leghorn Hatchery and Poultry business in 1916 on 20 acres adjacent to the present Lomira Library. He retired in 1957. He was active in state and national poultry associations and received recognition for his many contributions to the field of poultry science. Mr. Schwartz served as clerk of the Lomira School District and also on the Lomira Village Board. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, a member of the church council and a member of the choir.
Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Dr. Carole Schwartz of Tampa, Fla. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Memorials may be directed to St. John's Lutheran Church or to the Bethesda Lutheran Home in Watertown.
(text from the library plaque)
LOMIRA LIBRARY BUILT ON SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM PROPERTY
In 1920, Richard Schwartz purchased a house and twenty acres in the Village of Lomira from Ed Ehrhardt to establish a poultry business.
This house became the first home of Mr. Schwartz and Inez Waehler Schwartz following their marriage in 1922. Though they and their young daughter, Carole, moved to the Peter Wolf home directly east across the lawn in 1940, they retained their former residence for employees and their families, later renting it until it was sold to Robert Zimmerman in 1968.
During these years, Schwartz developed one of the largest poultry businesses in the state of Wisconsin. Schwartz Poultry Farm specialized in egg-laying White Leghorn hens and day-old baby chicks. At first, buyers of day-old chicks were loyal, valued customers from the local area and throughout the state. When the Parcel Post service accepted day-old chicks for shipment in the 1930's, production and sales began to increase. Because day-old chicks could survive without nourishment for 36 to 48 hours, orders were then accepted from as far north as Winnipeg, Canada and south to Tennessee and Georgia.
At the height of the poultry business, Schwartz maintained an egg-laying flock of more than 3,000 hens and hatched baby chicks between the months of January and June. Countless numbers of young men in high school and other full-time employees worked for Schwartz over the years. In addition to the help and support of Mrs. Schwartz, Mrs. Betty Brinkman rendered valuable office assistance.
Though Mr. Schwartz had fully retired from the poultry business by 1960, the property including the two homes was not sold until 1968. The site of the present Lomira Public Library was formerly the site of the Schwartz family's first home. Of interest also is that the Colorado blue spruce tree standing on the north side of the library properly was planted at that location by Mr. Schwartz in 1932.
FORMER SCHWARTZ POULTRY FARM AT LOMIRA SOLD; TO BE RESIDENTIAL AREA
Forty years in the poultry and hatching business came to an end recently when Schwartz Leghorn Farm was sold to Robert Zimmerman owner and operator of the Lomira Sport Shop, who is developing it as a residential area.
The poultry farm had started as a hobby on a farm east of Lomira and moved to the Village of Lomira in 1920.
Reminiscing in the past, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schwartz commented that there had been rough years as well as good. During the depression years of the 1930's egg prices dropped to 10 cents a dozen. But there was also a time in the early 1920's when few eggs were produced and winter prices rose to $1 per dozen.
In the good old chick hatching days, nearly every farm had a flock of laying hens. Every farm owner was a potential customer for 20 to 300 baby chicks. Now and then there would be orders for 1000 or more.
The sale of chicks started every year when mailing of 3,000 to 6,000 catalogs and price lists to rural box holders and the list of regular customers. Many busy hours were spent in preparing the mailing pieces, handling correspondence and filling orders.
As the peak of the chick production season three or four extra workers were employed on the range, in the hatchery and in the office.
What a busy place the post office was, with the stacks of cheeping boxes waiting for the customers to pick them up or be delivered by rural mail carrier or other means. The annual trip to pick up the "Kucklein" was an important part of spring.
Baby chicks, hatching eggs, breeding stock and market eggs provided the income from about 5,000 to 6,000 laying hens. Successful methods to increase production were always looked for and added to poultry management if approved by our Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The introduction of electric light to increase the hen's laying day to 15-16 hours gave a good boost to egg production.
In the early 1930's Schwartz's pioneered in the sale of "sexed" chicks. To the lay man, this meant that a customer had the choice of buying day-old pullets (females), roosters, or mixed. At this time there were only a few large hatcheries in the state and Schwartz was the first in this area to offer this service. Since the procedure required great dexterity and sharp eye sight, two specially trained young Japanese men came from California each summer to do this work.
About 8,000 growing pullets were raised on the range in shelters and brooder houses.
During World War II when there was a crying need for more meat and poultry production, about 20,000 eggs were set, at a time and approximately 16,000 chicks hatched every week during the hatching season.
Schwartz also produced a number of trap-nest record hens with official egg laying contest records from 300 to 323 eggs in a year. Engraved cups and more than 100 blue ribbons were awarded to Schwartz Leghorns for production records in official egg laying contests.
But everything has changed in the last 10 to 12 years. Now it is a rare occasion when one sees a flock of layers on a farm. The laying flock has all but vanished. Once there were approximately 550 hatcheries in the state. Now only about 15 are still in business.
The Schwartz's have fond memories of the many fine farm folks throughout the state and local area who made their chick hatching business possible.
They plan to remain in their home for several months. Their daughter Carole is in the primary instruction department of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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