Richard SCHOOLER

   General Notes:

!Richard is a registered voter and member of the Militia in Agency, Wapello, Iowa. William & Richard are in a Tax List of Boise Valley 1866. Richard is taxed $10.00 in Div. 1, Dist. 1, Boise Valley, Id. Harrison and Richard, purchased the "Falils (or Fales) Ranch" at Toponis, Logan Co., (Logan county was made from Alterus Co. but both were discontinued when Lincoln Co. was organized) on the Big Wood River. At one point Richard went into partnership with Hugh Allen, Frank Fulton and Warren Lockman to raise cattle. They decided to buy a herd of Texas long-horns that were to be delivered at or near Salt Lake City, sometime between the middle of September and the first of October. The men, all rigged up for a two week's drive of cattle, started for SLC the last week of Sept. When they arrived, they learned the cattle would not be there for three weeks yet. They had to wait that long for them to arrive. Then it didn't turn out to be a very profitable venture, so they decided they would move to Texas to try their hands at it there. It was 1876 when they left Idaho to try raising cattle in Texas, they encountered some new sights. In southern Kansas, Richard spotted his first cotton field, but didn't realize what it was. Thinking it was cockle-burrs, he supposed the farmer was really shiftless. When Hugh Allen's brother-in-law Doc Callaway explained what it was, he had to stand for some joking about the cockle-burr patch. His nephew Wilbur told the story for many years about the family's first experience of a cotton field. After they crossed the Arkansas River, Richard, his parents, Hugh Allen's family and Doc Callaway's family all went to Arkansas to visit friends and relatives who had left Texas before going on to Texas. William is not mentioned, he and his family went back to Iowa before making the trip to Texas. The Schooler's arrived in Texas 6 weeks after the Fultons and so were not very prepared for the winter which was coming. All in all the move to Texas was not a good one and by 1879 they are back in Idaho to stay. After coming back to Idaho they started freighting again and the story is told about Richard making a bet that he could turn his freight outfit around in the street in Boise. A lot of money was bet on this turn around, for no one believed he could do it. He had 16 head of horses pulling three wagons which could haul 30,000 lbs a trip. Richard did win the bet, for he was able to turn the outfit around right in the middle of the street. At this time, the ranching that they did was to raise horses for the freighting venture. His nephew Wilbur helped raise and break the horses. Later, Richard along with his father Harrison and his brother William purchased an enclosed wagon with fine teams and began the "Schooler's Gramaphone and Sciopticon Company" which had the name decoratively written on the sides of the wagon. It was a something on the order of a mobile movie theatre. About 1885 Richard's wife Mary dies, she is buried on the Ranch near Big Wood River. However, there is not a gravestone or marker. She was born 1 May 1837 in Indiana and surely had a full and eventful life. Richard returned to Eldon, Iowa, with the intent of re-marrying. He and his children require a wife and mother on the Ranch. On the 7th of August 1886 in Bativia, Jefferson county, Iowa, he marries Sarah Cathryn James, widow of Curtis Hill. She has two daughters, Nellie Grace Hill and Mary Ann Hill. One decendant of Richard's recalls her mother saying that Sarah thought Richard was a wealthy cattleman, like the Texas tycoons we hear of today, and was sorely disappointed upon reaching the ranch at Toponis. Richard is mentioned quite often in the story "Tales of the Trail" by Arabella Clemens Fulton. !CENSUS:1856 State Census, Wapello Co., Iowa, Agency it says he had been living in the state 9 years. !CENSUS:1860 Wapello Co., Iowa, Agency !CENSUS:1870 Ada Co., Idaho Territory pg 34, living 4 houses away with a Ligget family is Warren Lockman and 5 houses away is Frank Fulton, partners in the cattle venture with Richard and his brother-in-law Hugh Allen. !CENSUS:1880 Ada Co., Idaho Territory pg 37 !CENSUS:1900 Lincoln Co., Idaho, Malad precinct living with his son. !MARRIAGE:Logan Co., Ohio Marriage records list his first marriage and Wapello Co., Iowa Marriage records list his second marriage. !DEATH:"Shoshone Journal" obituary lists his birth date and death date. It states that he came to Idaho in 1862.

   Marriage Information:

Richard married Mary Elizabeth CARTER on 14 Feb 1856 in , Wapello, Iowa. (Mary Elizabeth CARTER was born on 1 May 1841 in District 7, Boone Co., Indiana, died on 8 Nov 1884 in Gooding, Gooding Co., Idaho and was buried in Nov 1884 in Gooding Cemetery, Gooding, Gooding Co., Idaho.)

   Marriage Information:

Richard also married Sarah Cathyrn JAMES on 1 Aug 1886 in , Wapello, Iowa. (Sarah Cathyrn JAMES was born on 29 Aug 1856 in Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa, died on 7 Feb 1956 in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho and was buried in Feb 1956 in Hagerman Cem., Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho.)