Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Westfield:

John G. Schaum, farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Loganville; son of Louis and Mary Wolford Schaum; was born in the Province of Rhine, Germany, April 23, 1822; came with his parents to the United States in 1837; located at Pittsburgh, Penn. Was married in Pennsylvania, June 11, 1849, to Margaret Holdenhausen, daughter of Henry Holdenhausen; they have ten children living – Amelca (now Mrs. Fred Oetzman) Louis, Caroline, Lucelia, John G., Henry J., Frederic William, Alfilena, Charles B. and Gertrude. Mr. Schaum, in 1851, came to Westfield, Sauk Co., Wis.; took up 160 acres of land, where he now resides; Mr. S. was obligated to cut out a road to his farm, the country being almost an unbroken wilderness; he was three years without a team, and for a long time had to pack his flour and provisions on his back from Baraboo.

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