[68-60] ELMER K. SCHULTZ, b Apr. 20, 1867; s Joseph K. and Susan B. (Krauss) Schultz [68-30]; m Aug. 18, 1892, MARY ANN HIRNER, b Nov. 28, 1866; dau Dr. C. G. Hirner.
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Elmer K. Schultz was born in Washington Twp., near Niantic, Pa. He attended the public schools in his section, Perkiomen Seminary, and Treemount Seminary in Norristown, Pa. He learned the milling trade in his father’s mill, after which he attended West Chester (Pa.) State Normal School, where he took a course preparatory to teaching. He taught one term in the Chapel Publie School, Hereford Twp., Berks Co., Pa. Afterwards he prepared for college at Kutztown State Normal School, and entered Princeton University where he was graduated in-1893 with an A. B. degree.
After graduation he was an accountant in an insurance office for several years, whereupon he entered the fire insurance business for himself, and at the present time, besides his local agency at Phila., he is General Agent and Manager for New England and the Middle Atlantic States for several fire insurance companies. Mr. Schultz organized the corporation of E. K. Schultz & Co., General Insurance, Manhattan Bldg., Phila., Pa., of which Company he is President.
As a diversion from his insurance business, Mr. Schultz’s hobby is the growing of flowers and shrubs. On his farm at Langhorne, Pa., he has hundreds of varieties of roses, peonies, and other flowers and shrubs, and is a frequent exhibitor at various flower shows.
Mr. Schultz has always been keenly interested in the various organizations connected with the Schwenkfelder Chureh. For a number of years he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Perkiomen School. He is chairman of the Publishing Committee for the publication of this book, being the first to subscribe as one of the guarantors. Mr. Schultz is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles. Residence of Mr. Schultz (1922), Langhorne, Pa. ,