Post by TheJohnson on Jun 11, 2014 22:43:11 GMT -5
Name: Alfred Schmidt
DoB: September 14th, 1741
Place of Birth: Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia
Place of Residency: Charleston, South Carolina
Religion: Lutheran
Alma Mater: University of Hale-Wittenberg, College of Charleston
Family:
Wife: Vivian Schmidt B. 1734
Son: Jurgen Schmidt B. 1760
Son: Martin Schmidt B. 1760-1778
Son: Bryant Schmidt B. 1763
Reverend Alfred Schmidt migrated to the 13 Colonies with a small group of merchants from Berlin in the 1760's as there Lutheran minister, when they settled together in South Carolina, several of them purchased land, while others opened up trade commissions and banks in the city itself. This community would support their young minister well, and throughout the years Alfred would become a leader within this group, and the community of Charleston as a whole.
When words of revolution began to spread throughout the colonies, Schmidt was quick to speak up, a strong voice from his pulpit he spoke against the English crown and for self-determination. The English would seize his church for his seditious talk, and Alfred would flee with his family North, where he would serve as a minister for the Continentals, while his children served as regulars. His son Martin, the twin of Jurgen would die in combat at the Battle of Monmouth.
After the British surrender at Yorktown, Alfred would take his family back to Charleston where he would be selected to serve in the South Carolina State Senate under the articles of Confederation. During this time he would be most noted for his loud opposition to the Federalist Papers and the new Constitution, speaking and writing against its ratification, he became a well known anti-federalist, and upon the ratification of the constitution he would be sent to Washington to represent his states interests in the newly created federal Congress.
