New Orleans / Louisiana / United States
In 1859, there arrived in New Orleans from the Rhineland village of Rommersheim two ambitious young German immigrants named Frantz and Schoen. The former became a blacksmith and wheelwright while the latter established a carriage and livery business. On March 4, 1874, Jacob Schoen and Henry Frantz started a family business at 155 N. Peters Street and adopted as their policy the ideal, "The highest standard of funeral service to all, regardless of financial circumstance." Thus recorded the founding of what was to become Jacob Schoen & Son, Inc., a family of Funeral Directors that has served New Orleans area families for five generations and whose facilities have grown to serve the families of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany Parishes. The business soon outgrew the original N. Peters Street funeral parlor, situated between Montegut and Clouet, and in 1879, the firm moved to 527 Elysian Fields. In 1897, Frantz sold Jacob Schoen his interest in Frantz and Schoen. Jacob Schoen took as his new partner his oldest son from his first marriage, Philip J. Schoen, and named the firm Jacob Schoen & Son. In 1915, the Schoen & Molloy Funeral Home was founded in Covington and became Schoen Funeral Home, Inc. in 1955.
