FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: CORZILIUS, Philip William (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

PHILIP WILLIAM CORZILIUS

It is with pleasure that we present to the readers of this volume the
following sketch of the life of one of the self-made men of Franklin
County.  Mr. Corzilius was born in Columbus,  Ohio,  on the first day of
January,  1849.  He is the eldest of a family of four,  the children of
Peter W. and Maria D. Corzilius,  who were natives of Germany,  who
emigrated to America in the year 1841.  They came direct to Columbus, 
and the mother still resides there.  The father died July 10,  1866.

The subject of this sketch owes much of his education to our grand
system of common schools,  so purely American.  The father was in poor
health,  and Philip was obliged,  at an early age,  to aid in his
support.  He first engaged in selling newspapers.  This he prosecuted
some three years.  Next he entered a mercantile establishment,  and from
this he became assistant secretary of the Franklin Insurance company. 
In September,  1868,  he became a clerk in the office of the treasurer
of Franklin county,  and served under the respective administrations of
Messrs. A.C. Headly,  James E. Wright,  and Lorenzo English,  for a
period of nine years,  and rising from assistant to chief clerk of the
treasury.  This brings us forward to the fall of 1876,  when he became a
candidate for the office of treasurer,  and so much confidence was
reposed in his ability and integrity,  that his name was placed upon
both the Democratic and Republican tickets,  and his election was
unanimous.  He is,  however,  a member of the first named party.  He was
re-elected in 1878.

Mr. Corzilius is an eminent member of the order of Free and Accepted
masons,  having attained the thirty-second degree.  He is also a member
of the I.O.O.F.,  and Knights of Honor,  and of the German Lutheran
church,  of Columbus,  Ohio.

On October 10,  1872,  he was married to Miss Catherine E.J.,  daughter
of George and Maria Stelzer,  of Columbus,  and by this union three
children have come to shed sunshine about the cozy home: Alma,  Flora, 
and Leo.
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