Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Valz, Frederick M. July 29, 1889 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.75  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        FREDERICK MILLS VALZ has been established in the practice of law in the
City of Jacksonville since the year 1914, and the scope and character of his
professional work mark him as one of the representative members of the bar of
Duval County.
	Mr. Valz was born in the fair little hill city of Staunton, Virginia, 
July 29, 1889, and is a son of A. M. and JULIA I. (MILLS) VALZ, the former a 
native of Switzerland and the latter of Devonshire, England, their marriage 
having been solemnized at Staunton, Virginia. The father was survived by four 
sons and two daughters, his death having occurred in 1916. The mother survives. 
A. M. VALZ was reared and educated in his native land, and was there graduated 
as a civil engineer. As a young man he came to the United States and in the 
line of his profession became a contractor in the construction of the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad through the Valley of Virginia, work in which he was engaged 
with marked success, his activities in connection with railroad construction 
work having continued until his death. He was a democrat of well-fortified
convictions, he was prominently affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and both he and his wife were earnest
communicants of the Trinity Church, Protestant Episcopal, in their home city of
Staunton.
	The public schools of the Old Dominion State afforded FREDERICK M. VALZ 
his earlier education, and his higher studies were carried forward until he 
matriculated in Woodberry Forest School at Orange, Virginia, and the law 
department of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, in which 
institution he was graduated in 1911, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His 
initial work in his profession was done at Gastonia, North Carolina, where he 
remained about eighteen months. In January, 1914, he established his permanent 
residence at Jacksonville, Florida, where he has since continued in successful 
general practice and has gained reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and 
able counselor. He has been influential in the local councils of the democratic 
party, has served as a member of its executive committee in his home city, and 
in June, 1919, he was elected a member of the City Council, as representative 
from the Sixth Ward. He made a record of loyal and effective service in this 
municipal office, and the popular appreciation of his work was shown in his 
reelection in June, 1921, on the 25th of which month he had the further 
distinction of being chosen president of the council, a position of which he is 
the incumbent at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1922. He is a 
popular member of Jacksonville Lodge No. 221, B. P. O. E., and he and his wife 
are communicants of the parish of St. Mary’s Church, Protestant Episcopal.
	February 9, 1916, recorded the marriage of Mr. Valz and Miss ELEANOR
SALFELDER, who was born in Connecticut and the one child of this union being a
daughter, MARIAN ELIZABETH.
	In his chosen profession and his civic attitude Mr. Valz has shown a
fine sense of personal stewardship, and he is an active member of the
Jacksonville Bar Association, as is he also of the Florida State Bar Association


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