Through the death of Mr. Schmid, Chicago has lost one of its ablest architects and builders. He was born in the Province of Posen forty eight years ago and educated in Berlin. He came to Chicago in the year 1853 where he resided ever since but for a short time, which he spent in Dubuque and St. Louis. He made a great number of friends.

He was very successful in his line of business, especially as builder of breweries, malt houses and ice houses;taking into consideration this type of buildings, he was thought of as the highest authority in the West. He was the creator of most of Chicago's buildings of that type and drew blue prints for a great number of such buildings to be erected in other cities. He did, also, splendid work in other branches of architecture...