Albert, Earnest and George Schori,
all sons of Benjamin SCHORI, mentioned at length elsewhere in
this work, comprise the firm of Schori Brothers, widely known in this section of
the state as stock buyers and all-around stockmen, being among the most
progressive and substantial of Fayette county's representative citizens, for in
their dealing with their fellow men they are honorable, fair, punctual,
possessing a genius for execution and management and of those qualities of
personality which usually win whatever the line of work followed.
Albert
SCHORI was born in Elgin, this county, May 24, 1872, and he received
his education in the public schools of this place, and worked for his father,
who was engaged in the stock business, remaining with him until he became of
legal age, when he became a partner of his father and thus the firm continued
until 1899, when Ernest SCHORI joined the firm; then the business was operated
by these three men until 1907, when George SCHORI purchased his father's
interest, since when the firm has been known as Schori Brothers, who continue
the business started by their father. They are the largest stock dealers in
northeastern Iowa, as already intimated, the name of the firm being familiar not
only throughout this locality, but at the leading markets of the middle West
where they frequently take large numbers of various grades and qualities of
livestock. Together with their father, they operated about one thousand acres
of land in this vicinity, in connection with their livestock.
Albert,
Ernest and Elmer Schori, the last named a younger brother,
together with Elias BENSON, comprised the lumber company of Elgin, known as
Schori & Benson, which carried on an extensive business for some time.
Albert
SCHORI was married December 18, 1895, to Ella NEUENSCHWANDER
and they are the parents of the following children: Clarence Benjamin, Georgie
May, Leo Levern and Gerald. Fraternally, Albert Schori belongs to the Free and
Accepted Masons and the Yeoman lodge.
Ernest SCHORI married
Lily THOMA, of Elgin, in 1896, and they are the parents of two
children, Ernestine Ethel and Jeraldine Elizabeth. Ernest Schori is a member of
the Free and Accepted Masons.
George Edward, the
third member of the firm of Schori Brothers, does the clerical work in
connection with their business.
Such a firm does a community a great
deal of good in furnishing a ready market for its livestock and by giving it a
prestige in other communities and the Schori Brothers are deserving of the high
esteem in which they are held by all who know them."