It is noteworthy that many of the sturdy and useful citizens of the United States either came from Germany or are of German extraction. Moritz Schubert, the father of Fred L., was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1824, and about 1845 left the Fatherland to seek his fortune in America. He located in Ohio, where he followed farming until 1880, when he removed with his family to Tennessee. In 1860 he married Miss Bertha Kiefer, a native of Baden-Baden, Germany, where she was born in 1833 and came with her parents to Ohio when she was eleven years of age. Moritz Schubert passed to the life beyond in 1892. His widow is still living. He was a stanch Democrat in his political belief and during President Cleveland’s second administration served for four years as postmaster of Hohenwald, where he located upon coming to the state in 1880, and near which town he owned a fine farm. He also served as justice of the peace for six years and in the latter years of his life was interested in mercantile pursuits as well as other business enterprises. His religious belief was expressed by membership in the German Lutheran Church.
Fred L. Schubert, the fifth in a family of seven children born to Moritz and Bertha (Kiefer) Schubert, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1873. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native state and Tennessee. After completing the course in the public schools he prepared himself for the vocation of teacher and in 1889 began following that profession. While teaching he devoted his spare time to the study of law and in 1894 was admitted to the bar, shortly after he had reached the age of twenty-one years. Upon being admitted to practice he located in Hohenwald, where he has built up a satisfactory clientage and has won recognition as one of the able and successful attorneys of the county. He also owns a large farm in Lewis County, which he manages in connection with—or rather in addition to—his legal business. His agricultural instinct was doubtless inherited from his father, and in the management of his farm he has shown a skill that challenges the admiration of the community.
Mr. Schubert has also found time to devote to the public welfare as a member of the Tennessee legislature. In 1905 he was elected to represent the Twentieth senatorial district in the state senate, and after serving two years in that body was elected to the lower house from the Seventeenth district for a term of two years. He then declined further political honors to attend to his private affairs, though he still takes a keen interest in the fortunes of the Democratic Party, with which he has been identified since he attained to his majority, and which so signally honored him by twice electing him to the general assembly.
In fraternal circles Mr. Schubert is well known, being a member and past master of Hohenwald Lodge No. 607, Free and Accepted Masons, Waynesboro Chapter Royal Arch Masons, and George DeSmith Lodge No. 182, Knights of Pythias, of Hohenwald.
On October 18, 1900, Mr. Schubert married Miss Pearl DeHart, daughter of I. N. and Julia DeHart, of Nashville, Tennessee, and to this union has been born one daughter—Julia Bertha.
