PROFILE OF GEORGE SCHOENBERGER PLAQUEMINES PARISH LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Gladys Stovall Armstrong 
From "The Protector 23 June 1900"



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GEORGE SCHOENBERGER
Born in Baden, Germany in 1840. He graduated from Agriculture College of 
Carlsruhe, Baden in 1857. Shortly afterward immigrated to the New World 
and settled at Louisville, Kentucky, where he entered the Fruit Commission
Business, which he followed ineratively until the year of 1867. He then 
left the blue grass state and journeyed southward, finally settling in 
Buras, Plaquemines parish, where he first entered the mercantile business, 
and subsequently the Orange Culture at which he has been engaged for the 
past 30 years with great success...He was among the first to revivify the 
industry after the disastrous freeze of 1895. He has served 4 terms in the 
police Jury, during the 2 latter of which he has been president of that 
honorable body and has been elected again nanimonsly to succeed himself.
He is also the able President of the Buras Levee Board and school trustee 
for his ward.