Emanuel Shultz (July 25, 1819 – November 5, 1912) was a

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and a member of the

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from

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for a single term from 1881 to 1883

Early life and career

Emanuel Shultz was born in

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, the son of George and Mary (Vinyard) Shultz. He attended the public schools until he was eleven years old when his father died. He was compelled to leave school and depend on diligent self-study and was soon apprenticed to the trade of shoemaking. In 1838, he moved to

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, where he engaged five to fifteen journeymen to make boots and shoes. Shultz married Sarah Beck, of Miamisburg, on July 23, 1840. They had three daughters. Shultz was initiated a charter member of the Marion Lodge the Masons in 1844, a royal arch Mason and a

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. He was also a member of the

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and

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Banking career

Around 1846, he became a trader in general

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, and became one of the largest and most successful commercial operators in the

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. One success built upon another and he soon was a leader in all the prominent enterprises of Miamisburg. Shultz was also a leading

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leaf dealer since 1853, Montgomery and

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counties being major tobacco producing and manufacturing centers in Ohio and the United States throughout the last half of the 19th century. In 1865, he was one of the founders of the

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of H. Groby & Co., and a principal in the Miami Valley Paper Company, which he organized in 1871.

Political career

Shultz began his political affiliation with the Whigs, but since the formation of the Republican party was a steadfast Republican. He served in most of the local minor offices and then in 1859 as Montgomery

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er until 1862. In 1873, he was a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention that revised the Ohio Constitution. The citizens, however, declined to adopt it in the subsequent

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. In 1875, Shultz was elected to the

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, serving one term but was not a candidate for re-election.

Congress

In 1878, he ran in

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against

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John A. McMahon, but was defeated. In 1880 after redistricting, Shultz again faced McMahon, but was narrowly elected to the

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from

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. In 1882, he was redistricted back into the third district and was narrowly defeated by Democrat Robert Maynard Murray.

Later career

Shultz returned to Miamisburg and again engaged in paper manufacturing. In 1881, he was one of the organizers and stockholders of the Lima Car Works, which built railroad freight cars and was later a part of

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, and also served as vice president of the company until he sold his interest about 1889. He was appointed

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of Miamisburg by President

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in 1889, serving about five years.

Death

Shultz died at the age of 93 in Miamisburg; he was interred in Hill Grove Cemetery.

References

* History of Montgomery County, Ohio. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882. * Conover, Frank, ed. Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of The City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio.

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: A. W. BOWEN & CO. From the Press of Wilson, Humphreys & Co., 1897 * History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Publishing. Co., 1898, 1579 pgs.

External links

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