BIO:  BRETZ, William H., s/o Jacob & Eliza Jane (Shively) Bretz

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

BRETZ   SHIVELY   LEMOND	

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Bainbridge Twp, p. 586

WILLIAM H. BRETZ, treasurer of Dubois County, Ind., and native of the county,
was born May 6, 1843, being one of six children born to Jacob and Eliza
(Shively) Bretz, natives respectively of Prussia and Kentucky.  The father,
who was born in 1817, came to the United States in 1831, a poor boy with only
50 cents in his pocket.  He worked at manual labor two years, making his
way westward.  In 1833 he came to Dubois County and bought a farm of eighty
acres near Huntingburgh, living there about two years; he then bought a farm
southwest of the above place, where he lived until his death, March 21, 1859.
The mother still resides with our subject.  William passed his boyhood days
on the farm, receiving a fair education in the common schools.  At the age
of twenty-four he began working for himself, and four years later engaged in
buying and selling stock, in connection with farming his 320 acres of land.
He is a Democrat in politics and was assessor of Patoka Township two years.
In 1882 he was elected treasurer of the county, and was re-elected in 1884
without opposition.  In 1866 he married Phoebe A. Lemond, by whom he is the
father of eight children:  John M., Leonard, Camden, William C., Applelonia,
Frank (deceased), Bessie B. and Edward E.  Mr. Bretz's wife and family are
members of the Christian Church, and he is recognized throughout the county
as an upright official and citizen.
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