Herman Schultz
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Herman Schultz was born 1831 in Bernbaome, Prussia.
He became a cobbler by trade.
Along the way . . . .
Schultz’s experiences during the California Gold Rush prepared him for the Fraser River Gold Rush when he arrived in 1858.
He was a licensed trader, not a gold prospector, at Lytton, in 1859.
By 1860, he had opened a store there.
March of 1861, he amalgamated with another trader, forming a lasting partnership as Shultz & Trickey.
They went into mining and organized: “one of the best-known early freight carrying firms operating pack trains in B.C. “
Schultz & Trickey were amongst the first businesses at Quesnel Forks by 1862.
Victoria, BC
The partners settled in Victoria in 1863, where they owned a substantial brick building with tenements on Government Street.
At this address, they opened a Boot and Shoe Store.
Newspaper Adv. for Shultz’ Shoe Store,
Family
Herman Schultz married the daughter of Judah P. Davies, nineteen-yea-old Elizabeth Davies, in 1863.
Their marriage was the first one performed in Congregation Emanu-El’s new synagogue.
Their son, Samuel Davies Schultz, was born in 1865, and became an important judge in British Columbia.
Elizabeth Schultz died in 1866; the first woman to be buried in Victoria’s Jewish cemetery.
Sources
- Cyril Leonoff, editor, “Pioneer Jews of British Columbia,” Western States Jewish History 37/3&4.
- Sarah H. Tobe, “Lured North of the 49th, Jewish Colonial Roots,” Western States Jewish History 46/2&3.
- Archives of Sarah H. Tobe, Cyril E. Leonoff, Christopher J.P. Hanna, and David Rome.
Sarah H. Tobe is curator of this Herman Schultz exhibit.