Lorenz Schaadt, son of John and Elizabeth Clader Schadt, was born Dec. 10, 1790, died Oct. 4, 1855. He was a stone mason and farmer, as broad as he was long and a man of prodigious strength. Tradition has it that together with John Snyder of South Whitehall township and kindred spirits, his principal joy was to come to the village called "Ellsdoun" now the city of Allentown, and try conclusions with fists, with the strong men from Salisbury and lower end of the county, their strife for the possession of the town, beginning at the Cross Keys Hotel, at Eighth and Hamilton streets, and extending down the latter street to Fifth street and back again.

He was married to Magdalena Laubach, born in 1795, died March 6, 1854.