Moritz J. Dobschutz (born Moritz Julius von Dobschütz; March 20, 1831 – June 24, 1913) was a German-American merchant.

Biography

Moritz Dobschutz was born in

Rheine Rheine () is a city in the district of Steinfurt in Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest city in the district and the location of Rheine Air Base. Geography Rheine is on the river Ems, approx. north of Münster, approx. west of Osnabrück a ...

, Germany on March 20, 1831. A member of German nobility, he immigrated into the United States in 1856 and became a very prosperous merchant in

Belleville, Illinois Belleville is a city and the county seat of St. Clair County, Illinois, coterminous with the now defunct Belleville Township. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. The p ...

. He died at his home there on June 24, 1913. His home in Belleville, a Victorian adaptation of a Greek revival house built in 1866, is now used by the Victorian Home Museum and by the St. Clair County Historical Society.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dobschutz, Moritz 1831 births 1913 deaths People from Rheine People from the Province of Westphalia German untitled nobility German emigrants to the United States American merchants 19th-century American businesspeople