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

F. W. SCHROEDER, grocery merchant, Joliet; was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, April 30, 1848; 
when but 3 or 4 years of age, he came, with his family, to America, his father first settling 
in Now York, where he engaged in the tannery business; about the year 1854, the family came 
West to Cincinnati, Ohio; here Mr. SCHROEDER attended school a number of years; at the age 
of 14, he went to Toledo, and engaged in learning the drug business; at the age of 20 or 21, 
he went to Kalamazoo, Mich., and took a course in Parsons' Business College; he next located 
in Lemont, Cook Co., and entered the employ of B. Van Buren, having general charge of the 
drug store, post office, etc.; in 1872, he opened a drug establishment in Joliet; in the 
fall of 1873, he bought his present place of business, and, in the fall of 1874, formed a 
copartnership with John KEYES for three years; in 1877, he bought out his partner, and, 
since that time, has conducted the grocery trade alone.  He was married June 1, 1872, to 
Mrs. Alice M. IRESON, a native of England; she has one child by her former husband. Mr. 
SCHROEDER, though comparatively a young man, has gained for himself a fine reputation as 
a thorough business man, and his trade is almost double that of any other business house 
on the East Side;  the stock is full and complete at all times.