Peter Schlund (1831-1885)

Peter Schlund was born on December 9, 1831, in Immenstadt. He was the fourth child of Fidel Schlund and Maria Josepha Marchkhart Schlund. He had three sons and one daughter with Mary Bauer Schlund. He later married Sarah H. Schlund. He died on September 18, 1885, while traveling in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 53.

b. December 9, 1831 Immenstadt, Schwaben, Bavaria

d. September 18, 1885  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan (was traveling)

m. Mary BAUER Schlund  (b. abt 1830-d. February 21, 1876)

Married on April 14, 1855 Essex Co, Newark, New Jersey

 1. Charles W Schlund

     b. abt.1857 in New Jersey

     m. Lucy K SCHMITT Schlund

     Married on January 19, 1885

 2. Joseph H Schlund 

     b. abt 1858 in Illinois

     m. Ida A KRAEMER Schlund

     Married on November 25, 1884

        a. Marguerite Schlund

        b. 1890

        m. William Little Vance, Jr

        Married on December 31, 1910

 3. Geo A (George)  

     b. abt 1860 in Illinois

     Listed as 3 months old in 1860 census. Possibly died young

 4. Emma Schlund   

     b. abt. 1867

     m. Alfred B. Foster

     Married in 1898

          a. Edith Foster b. 1899

          b. Marguerite Foster b. 1901

          c. Louise B. Foster b. 1902

          d. Charles W. Foster b. 1904

          e. Alfred S. Foster b. 1909

m. Sarah H. Schlund  

     b. abt. 1832  

     d. May 31, 1903

Additional information about Peter Schlund

1860 Census- Ward 1, Chicago, Cook, Illinois (Peter Selund or Schind)

1862 Chicago, Illinois, City Directory

1870 Census- Chicago Ward 20, Cook, Illinois

1880 Census- Braceville, Grundy, Illinois

Sept. 17, 1885 Chicago Daily Tribune Obituary

Peter Schlund Obituary

The Death of Fidel Schlund (1805-1882)

A life of great political and social influence ended in 1882. Fidel Schlund died on April 2nd, 1882 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey USA. He was 78 years old. Fidel was buried on April 4th, 1882 at Woodland Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey. Unfortunately more than 11,000 graves at Woodland Cemetery have been vandalized or desecrated by being buried over with remains unrelated to the family. Many of the first graves are gone, I am unsure of the status of Fidel's grave.

Fidel Schlund Obituary from the New York Times

The book, “Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe“, includes the following biography of Fidel Schlund life. (Translated to English)

“Schlund, Fidel (1808-1882) Bavarian lawyer, businessman and politician, participant in the revolutionary movement in 1848/49, leader of the liberal forces in Bavaria and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, Participant in the survey in the Palatinate in 1849, to 1853 in prison, emigrant in England and the United States, 1857 Member of the New York Communist club, participation in the American Civil War on the side of the northern states.”