Hermann C. Schwab

Herman C. Schwab came of a family distinguished in literature by many of its members in several generations, and represented by others in highly successful mercantile pursuits. He was a descendant of John Christopher Schwab, who was appointed by Frederick the Great to be a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Professor in the Military School at Berlin, and who was for many years Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stuttgart. Following the traditions of his family, Mr. Schwab received a university training at Stuttgart, and subsequently joined the successful and prominent firm of Oelrichs & Company, with which he was connected at the time of his death.

He was an active, enterprising and public-spirited man, an earnest worker in the Reform Club, and a type of the citizenship of which our city is justly proud.

Henry E. Howland
1899 Century Association Yearbook