). Edward Schreiber, eldest son of Jacob, was born May 6, 1807. He was an ambitious and enterprising man and after his marriage purchased a part of his father's farm, erected the necessary buildings and commenced farming for himself. He later built and operated a distillery in which he was very successful, arid soon purchased a farm and distillery along the Little Lehigh at Allentown, which he conducted until about 1863, when the revenue tax became so high as to make it unprofitable. The distillery was then changed to a flourmill and did a large merchant milling business. In the meantime coal oil was discovered in western Pennsylvania, and he was one of the pioneers in that region and with his son. Peter, exploited several large tracts.

Later, he purchased 5,000 acres of land in Minnesota, now Moorhead, opposite Fargo, at $1.25 per acre, from the national government. In 1869, he travelled in Germany and France, bringing with him on his return, four stallions and one mare of the Percheron breed. This trip and a very stormy homeward voyage broke his heretofore rugged health, cancer of the stomach developed, and he died Sept. 18, 1871.

He married. March 26, 1833, Mary Magdalene, daughter of Peter Laubach. She was born Jan. 9, 1814, and died April 5, 1887. They had six children.