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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Julius SCHEIBE, dealer in boots and shoes, Lockport. To the handiwork of no one individual is 
Lockport more indebted for her first-class building's than to Mr. SCHEIBE. Under his immediate 
supervision was erected the stone business houses of Messrs. Myers, Col. Martin, Lull & Lynd; 
the M. E. Church, the brick business house of Dr. Bacon; in 1871, he built the Northwestern 
College, at Naperville. He was born in Saxony, Germany, Jan. 20, 1828; immigrated to America 
in 1850, and first settled in Milwaukee, Wis.; in 1851, he came to Lockport, and worked a
short time for Robert Milne in the saw-mill; in the Fall of 1851, engaged at his trade, that 
of stone and brick mason; was engaged on the work of deepening the canal in 1864 and 1865; in 
the winter of 1873, engaged in the sale of boots and shoes, his present occupation. He was 
married in 1854, to Elizabeth FICKENSHER, a native of Germany; has six children. The large 
and commodious stone school-building, an ornament to the city and a monument to the 
liberality and enterprise of its citizens, was erected by Mr. SCHEIBE; this structure cost 
the district the snuG, sum of $40,000.