Biographical Sketch of Rev. F. J. Biltz, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Rev. F. J. Biltz, pastor of the Lutheran church, postoffice Concordia. 
Is a native of Saxony, Germany, born july 24, 1825.  His early education
was obtained in the place of his birth.  At the age of 13, he and his 
sister, Louisa, came to the United States, stopping one winter at St.
Louis, and in the spring of 1839, moved to Perry county.  At this time a
college was organized at Altenburg, of said county, in which he was 
enrolled as one of the first students.  He spent eight years in this
institution, graduating after taking a complete and thorough course in
theology.  In 1847 he received a call from the congregation of a church
in Appleton, Cape Girardeau county, to which he responded, preaching 
there until 1853.  In 1849, he was married to Miss Mary V. Wurmb, born
at the Cape of Good Hope.  They have had thirteen children, six of whom
are now living: Clara, Bertha, Adolphus, Julius, Mary and Gustave.  In
1863, he moved to Cumberland, Maryland, where he resided until 1860, 
having charge of the Lutheran church at that place.  He then came to
the German settlement, in Lafayette county, where he took charge of the
Lutheran church, of which he has since been pastor, having the care of
this little flock for nearly quarter of a century, ministering to their
temporal as well as spiritual wants.  His worth as a man, needs no other
index than the above.

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