Bartholomew-Shelby County IN Archives Biographies.....Wertz, Charles 1870 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

CHARLES WERTZ.

   Charles Wertz, who occupies the responsible position of foreman in a sawmill
at Grammar, Indiana, was born in Jackson township, Shelby county, this state, on
the 31st of October, 1870. He is a young man imbued with the progressive spirit
which has been the dominant factor in the development and upbuilding of the
middle west. His parents were Mathias and Mary (Maley) Wertz, the former born in
Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1845, while the latter's birth occurred in 1840. With
her parents she came to the United States in her early girlhood days. The
paternal grandfather of the subject was Jacob Wertz, a farmer by occupation, and
the maternal grandfather was John Maley, who became an agriculturist of Shelby
county, Indiana. Mathias Wertz likewise followed the occupation of stock raising
and made a specialty of the raising of hogs. He now owns six hundred acres of
valuable land, including some good timber tracts. His business affairs were
capably conducted and his enterprise, indefatigable energy and unfaltering
purpose have brought to him very creditable success. He gives his political
support to the Democracy and is deeply interested in the welfare of the party
and the adoption of its principles. He is likewise an active advocate of the
cause of Christianity and holds membership in the English Lutheran church. The
community in which he resides numbers him among its leading- and valued citizens
and his life record proves what can be accomplished when one has strong
determination and is industrious as well. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wertz have been born
seven children: Daniel, who married Susan Rand and is now engaged in the
operation of a sawmill at Evansville, Indiana; Henry, who married Lena Law and
carries on agricultural pursuits; Charles; Walter, who married Mary Hilt and is
a farmer; George, Jesse and Frank, all on the old home farm assisting- in its
cultivation and improvement. Like the other members of the family, Charles Wertz
was reared under the parental roof and attended the public schools. He therein
acquired a good education and when not engaged in the duties of the schoolroom
he assisted in the labors and duties of the field and meadow, early becoming
familiar with the task of plowing, planting and harvesting. In 1895 he entered
his brothers sawmill, which is one of the leading lumber manufactories in this
part of the state; in fact, its output is larger than that of any other sawmill
in Bartholomew county. Mr. Wertz worked his way upward and for the past five
years has been foreman of the mill, in which are employed from twenty-eight to
thirty-five men throughout the entire year. He buys lumber throughout the
adjoining counties and has become an excellent judge of this commodity. The mill
is equipped with the latest improved machinery, being a large band sawmill, and
its business by far exceeds that of any other mill in the county, a fact which
is attributable in no small degree to the efforts of Mr. Wertz.

   The subject has followed the political footsteps of his father and votes with
the Democracy. He greatly desires its success and does what he can for the
party, yet has never been active as an office seeker. He belongs to the Lutheran
church and also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Elizabethtown. Mr.
Wertz is yet a young man and has already achieved success that many an older man
might well envy. Brooking no obstacles that can be overcome by determined
purpose, he steadily advanced, nor has he by any means reached the limit of his
possibilities. He is quick to note and improve opportunities and is justly
accounted in the community in which he makes his home as one of its most
progressive and representative citizens.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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