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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [320-323]

           CHRISTIAN F. SCHLEGELMILCH, known as the pioneer miller of
        Huron County, proprietor of the Port Crescent flouring mills, was
        born Feb. 20, 1824, in Prussia.  His father and mother, JOHN and
        MARY M. (BROWN) SCHLEGELMILCH, were also natives of Prussia, where
        his father pursued the career of a miller and died in 1836, aged 43
        years.  The mother died at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, aged 72 years.
           Mr. S. was the eldest of his parents children, and, though but
        12 years of age when his father died, was active manager of the
        mill, which remained in his mother's charge.  It was afterwards
        sold. When he was 20 years of age he entered the regular army of
        Germany, the 12th Cav. Reg., where he served three years, receiving
        on his discharge the complimentary commendations of the officers of
        his command.
           He came to America in 1849, landing at Quebec.  He proceeded
        thence up the lakes to Buffalo and to Cleveland, Ohio, going later
        to Rochester, N.Y., where he found his brother. He was informed
        that he could obtain a position in a flouring-mill in the Province
        of Ontario, and accordingly he returned to the Dominion and resumed
        the occupation to which he had been bred, and in which he continued
        five years.
           At the expiration of that time he came to Port Huron, Mich.,
        where he engaged in ship-building, a branch of labor which he had
        before pursued with profit.  He afterwards came to Lexington,
        Sanilac County, where he spent three years in the mills of NICHOLAS
        WOLFEL, his son ALBERT, now deceased, operating as engineer.
           He came to Port Crescent in 1866, then in its extreme infancy,
        there being but a few settlers in the vicinity, and the country
        being chiefly unbroken forest, with wild animals in abundance. He
        took a reflective view of the situation and prospects, and
        determined to build a grist-mill near the mouth of the Pinnebog
        River, which project he carried into execution, and is still
        operating a mill at the same place. It runs by steam power, and
        has a capacity of 100 barrels of flour daily. Three months after
        the first mill was erected it was burned to the ground, but he
        immediately rebuilt the structure. His mill is one of the best in
        the county of its kind. He owns four improved village lots, and
        280 acres of farming land in Hume and Meade Townships. In 1883 he
        sustained a loss of $3,000 through the destruction by fire of a
        barn and its contents; in 1881, he also suffered loss.
           MR. SCHLEGELMILCH is a Democrat, and has held various official
        positions, In the spring of 1884, he was elected Justice of the
        Peace; has also served two years as Highway Commissioner.
           His marriage to ELIZABETH DILLING took place Feb. 27, 1850, in
        Bowmanville, Darlington Township, Durham Co., Ont. Four children
        were born to them, as follows: ALBERT, Jan. 7, 1851; JULIUS, Nov.
        2, 1853; MARY M., Aug. 26, 1860; FREDERICK W., Oct. 26, 1862. The
        eldest daughter was married Aug. 5, 1881, to JOSEPH WEST, book-
        keeper for BENNETT HASKELL, of Port Crescent. FREDERICK is a
        teacher of ability and reputation.  ALBERT was married Jan. 19,
        1873, to NICKOLENA NELSON, and died Nov. 6, 1881, in Meade Town-
        ship, leaving five children.
           MRS. SCHLEGELMILCH is the daughter of ANDREW and ANN (WESTLAKE)
        DILLING. Her parents were of English origin and members of the
        agricultural class, who emigrated to Ontario in 1843. The father
        died in Bowmanville in 1880, aged 82 years. The mother died in
        September, 1862, aged 55 years.  MRS. S. is the second, of a family
        of eight children, and was born May 26, 1833, in Northlew, Devon-
        shire, England. She was 12 years of age when the family removed
        to Ontario, and she received a good education. She is a woman of
        superior character, and has a broad influence in the community
        where she resides. The family attend the Lutheran Church, under
        whose influences MR. S. was brought up. His wife was reared under
        the teachings of the English Church.

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