Bio of Lemuel J. WALTZ (b.1872), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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LEMUEL J. WALTZ (1904)

Lemuel J. Waltz lived in many different places and engaged in several 
lines of work before coming to Yellow Medicine county nine years ago and 
engaging in farming.  He  owns and farms 112 acres on section 2, Hammer 
township, and raises Holstein cattle, Poland China hogs, and Barred 
Plymouth Rock chickens.

The parents of Mr. Waltz were born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania.  Jacob
and Angeli (Wagner) Waltz moved from the Keystone State to Iowa in 1871,
bought farm lands there, and engaged in farming many years.  Lemuel was 
born to these parents in Iowa county, Iowa, January 14, 1872.  He 
received his primary education in the district schools and at the Shendoh 
Normal, completing his education with a course at Highland Park Academy 
of Des Moines.

When twenty years old, in 1890, Mr. Waltz went to Gresham, Nebraska, and
began working at the printer's trade, being employed on the Gresham Review
on year.  Then for a year he was bookkeeper for C. F. Bristol, dealer in
implements.  Returning to Iowa, Mr. Waltz took a course in a business
college at Des Moines, and then he farmed a year.

Mr. Waltz took a six months' course in a school of telegraphy at Janesville,
Wisconsin, and then secured the position of station agent at Fulda,
Minnesota, on the Milwaukee road, where he was thirteen months.  For some
time thereafter Mr. Waltz was engaged in telegraph and railroad work--three
months at Elk Point, South Dakota, nine months on the Oregon Short Line at
Salt Lake City.  Thereafter he farmed rented land near New Hampton, Iowa,
four years, and near Earling, Shelby county, Iowa, one year.  Then for some
time Mr. Waltz worked short periods in different states.  He returned to
Shelby county, and from there in 1904 he came to Yellow Medicine county.
The first season he worked in the harvest fields and then bought his farm.

Mr. Waltz has served as justice of the peace, clerk of the school board 
and road overseer.  He is a member of the Catholic church and of Yeoman 
lodge No. 209, New Hampton, Iowa.

The marriage of Mr. Waltz to Mary Michaels occurred at New Hampton, Iowa,
January 17, 1899.  She was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, August 23, 
1874, a daughter of Peter and Gertrude Michaels, now of Panama, Iowa.  
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Waltz are Leo, Gertude, Angela, John, Jacob, 
Andrew and Agnes. 

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914