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

G. SCHULTE, editor and proprietor of the Wockenblatt fur Nord--Illinois, Joliet; was born in 
the Province of Westphalia, Germany, Feb. 25, 1841 ; he was educated as a civil engineer in 
the Academy of Berlin, where be graduated in 1862 ; in 1865, he came to America, and for two 
years was connected with the Abend Zeitung, Chicago; he was then engaged for a year as a 
civil engineer on the Hell Gate excavations in the East River, New York ; he then returned 
to Chicago, and was employed in the preparation of the "Cook County Atlas;" then, after a 
short time on the Illinois Staats Zeitung he came to Joliet and purchased the Wochenblatt, 
a live German newspaper, established in November, 1877, and having a circulation of some 
two thousand copies.