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Show PRINCESS DIES IN ILLINOIS. Mrs. Schroeder, Wife of a Doctor 1 in Bloomington, Is Dead. Mrs. Herman Schroeder, who died at Bloomington, 111., recently will be remembered re-membered as the only princess of the blood royal of Germany who has ever died in the state. Mrs. Schroeder was the daughter of Prince Baron Von Buchau, adjutant general on the staff of General Blucher of Waterloo fame. Her parents would not consent to her marriage with Dr. Schroeder, a teacher teach-er of natural philosophy and an architect, archi-tect, and when she married him she was banished from the court. Later her husband gave vent to revolutionary ideas and was ordered to be shot. Dr. t Schroeder escaped with his wife to this country, where he settled in Bloomington. Dr. Schroeder laid out the towns of Gilman and El Paso, 111., and built many business blocks1 in this I? 1? MRS HERMANN SCHROEDER. (Princess of the Blood Royal of Germany Ger-many Who Died at Bloomington, Blooming-ton, 111.) city. Mrs. Schroeder was rich in hei own right and her husband's estate i estimated to be worth $500,000. Two children survive her. |