BIOGRAPHY: Of his birth in Sagan, Silesia, we know nothing beyond a few details, because no one can yet find a birth-baptismal record. In the church where he married he gave his father's name as "Friedck Wm. Schulz" and his birthplace as "Sagan Schlesien." He may have lived in another city in Germany and certainly was in Goerlitz, before immigrating to the United States in either April 1882, as he states below, or 1885 as he had stated earlier on 1900 census record.
Record and Index of Persons Registered and of Poll Lists of Voters, City of Chicago, Northern District of Illinois, 1892. Page 551, Congressional District 2, Ward 10, Precinct 17, 573 Ambrose St., Schulz Fredk. Ernst, nativity Germany, Term of Residence: in Precinct 5 yrs., in county 10 yrs., State 10 yrs., Naturalized Dec. 13, 1888 Circuit Court of Cook County, Qualified Voter: Yes. Date of Application to be Registered: October 25, 1892. Voted, Yes.
In 1926 the retired F.E. Schulz and wife Kate sailed to Breman and visited her relatives and their children's in-laws in Hannover (Stuenkels) and Switzerland (Von Arx), as well as other relatives in Himbach, Frankfurt, etc.
US Passport application: Special Series No. 2930, Chicago Illinois, approved May 29, 1926:
I, Ernest Schulz, a citizen of the UNITED STATES, hereby apply to the Department of State, at Washington, for a passport. I solemnly Swear that I was born at Sagan Germany, on December 19, 1854, that I was married on May 21, 1887; that I immigrated to the United States, on or about April 1882; that I resided, continuously, in the United States from 1882 to 1926, at Chicago ILL; that I was naturalized before the Circuit Court of Cook County Ill., on December 13, 1888, as shown by the Certificate of Naturalization presented herewith; that I am the identical person described in said certificate ; that I am domiciled in the United States, my permanent residence being at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, where I follow the profession of retired machinist, and that I have resided outside the United States since my Naturalization Never.
My father, William Schulz, was born in Germany is now dead.
My last passport was obtained from none.
I desire a passport for use in visiting the countries herinafter named for the following purposes:
Germany visit relatives
Switzerland ?
I will be accompanied by my wife Kate Schulz, who was born at Himbach Germany on June 19-1865, and to whom I was married on May 21, 1887."
Kate was not naturalized, as few women then were, being expected to take the nationality of their husband in a time when women couldn't vote anyway.

• Married: 21 May 1887 in Chicago,Il ^{3 4}

1. no name SCHULZ b: 23 Apr 1888 in Chicago,Il
2. Ernst Fred SCHULZ b: 26 Mar 1889 in Chicago, Cook County Il
3. Elsie Marie Elise SCHULZ b: 28 Nov 1890 in Chicago, Cook County Il c: 25 Jan 1891 in Bethel Lutheran Church

1. Title: Passport Application
2. Title: Death Record
   Note: The cause of death was cerebral thrombosis & arteriosclerosis contributed to by pneumonia for 5 days. Date of onset 1931.
   Thrombosis: formation of blood clots: the formation or presence of one or more blood clots that may partially or completely block an artery or vein.
   Atherosclerosis: arterial disease: a common arterial disease in which raised areas of degeneration and cholesterol deposits, plaques form on the inner surfaces of the arteries obstructing blood flow.
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   Text: State of Illinois ORIGINAL
   Department of Public Health-Division of Vital Statistics
   Certificate of death
   1. Place of DEATH County of Cook
   Registration Dist. No. 3104
   Chicago Registered No. 8159 82 B
   Street and Number 4432 Wilcox, 26 Ward
   Length of Residence in city ? 5 yrs.
   How long in US if of foreign birth 50 yrs.
   2. Full Name Ernest Schulz
   a. Residence No. 4432 Wilcox (usual place of abode)
   3. Sex male 4. Color or Race white
   5. Single Married Widowed or Divorced, Married
   5a. If married, husband or wife of Kate
   6. Date of Birth Dec. 19, 1854
   7. Age years 78 Months 3 Days 3
   8. Trade Brass Polisher
   9. Crane Co.
   10. Date Deceased last worked Jan 1927
   11. Total Time (years) spent in this Occupation 40
   12. Birthplace Sagan Germany
   13. Father unknown
   14. Mother unknown ?
   17. Informant Kate Schulz
   PO Address 4432 Wilcox
   18. Place of burial Elmlawn 19. Date 3-25 1933
   County Cook State Ill
   20. Undertaker P J Hursen, Hursen Und. Inc.
   address 2346 Madison.
   21. Date of Death 3 -22- 1933.
   22. I HEREBY CERTIFY, that I attended deceased
   from Dec. 15, 1931 to Mar. 22, 1933. I last saw him
   alive on Mar. 20, 1933; death is said to have occurred
   on the date stated above, at 8:15 pm.
   The principal causes of death and related causes
   of importance were as follows:
   Date of onset
   Cerebral Thrombosis } 1931
   Cerebral arteriosclerosis }
   Other contributory causes of importance:
   ?. Pneumonia 5 da.
   23. Was an operation performed? No.
   was there an autopsy? No.
   what test confirmed diagnosis? Clinical.
   24. If a communicable disease; where contracted?
   Was disease in any way related to occupation of
   deseased? No.
   James ? (illegible) MD
   830 N. Haml? (?)
   Date March 23, 1933 Telephone ? 2251
   25. Filed 1933 MAR 23 PM 2 34
3. Title: Marriage Record
   Page: Marriage License 114444
   Text: State of Illinois }SS
   Cook County}
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
   To any Person Legally Authorized to Solemnize Marriage, Greetings:
   Marriage may be celebrated between Mr. Friderich Ernest Schulz of
   Chicago, in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, of the age of 32 years,
   and Miss Kate Reibert of Chicago, in the county of Cook and state of Illinois,
   of the age of 22 years.
   Witness: Henry Wulff, Clerk of said Cook County and the Seal thereof,
   At my office in Chicago, this 19th day of May A.D. 1887
   Henry Wulff
   State of Illinois }SS
   County of Cook } I, Paul Brauns, Minister of the Gospel,
   hereby certify that Mr. Friederich Ernest Schulz and Miss
   Katherina Reibert were united in marriage by me at Chicago,
   Ill. in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, on the twenty-first
   day of May 1887.
   P. Brauns, second Pastor of the german ev. Luth. St. Mathew Church
4. Title: Church Records
   Page: No. 27 817
   Note: Evangelical Lutheran: St. Mathew?s Church, Hoyne ave. Between Twentieth and Twenty-first. Rev. H. Engelbrecht.
   Text: Trau-Register angefangen den 1 October 1884 vom H. Engelbrecht ... No. 27 817 Aufgebot -- Trauung. 21 Mai 1887 Brautigam. Ernst Schulz aus Sagan, Schlesien geb. 19 Dec. 1854. Friedk. Wm Schulz, Vtr. Braut. Katharina Reibert aus Himbach, Hessien geb. 17 Juni 1865. Joh. Reibert, Vtr. Zeugen. Gust. Deckwirth, Gust. Weise. Pastor. P. Br.