Hans kone, Margarethe Schurz, og hendes søster, Bertha von Ronge, var med til at få indført børnehaver i De Forenede Stater.<ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1676&search_term=schurz {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611083242/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1676&search_term=schurz |date=11. juni 2011 }} Schurz, Margarethe [Meyer&#93; (Mrs. Carl Schurz) 1833 – 1876<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> I sine senere år var Schurz måske den mest prominente uafhængige politiker i amerikansk politik, kendt for sin principfasthed, upartiskhed og sin moralske samvittighed.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E5DE1331E733A25751C2A9679D946797D6CF&scp=375&sq=american+academy+of+arts+and+letters&st=p "Nation's Orators Glorify Schurz; Carnegie Hall Memorial a People's Tribute. Country Needs Such Men; Chairman Choate Rebukes New York Senators -- Cleveland, Eliot and Others Speak,"] ''New York Times.'' November 22, 1906.</ref>
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