MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: SCHANTZ, Adam (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio" by W.H. Beers & Co.  1882


Adam Schantz, butcher, Dayton, was born in Mittilkinsig, Hesse-Darmstadt, 
Germany, September 7, 1839.  He was the second son of Frederick and Marie
Elizabeth (Scheeler) Schantz, who were natives of Germany and parents of eight
children, six boys and two girls.  Adam, our subject, emigrated to America on 
the 11th of April, 1855, and on the 1st of September following came to Dayton,
where he engaged in butchering for Michael Oldt, with whom he worked one year.
He then left Dayton for several years, during which he visited and worked in 
Iowa two years, Chicago six months, St. Louis four months, New Orleans five 
months, across to Germany, where he stayed with his folks four months, then to 
Hamburg and London, and on the 10th of June, 1862, back to Dayton, where he 
has since been in the butchering business.  He was married March 29, 1863, to 
Saloma Latin, daughter of Falteen Latin, of Dayton, by whom he had nine children,
five boys and four girls, of whom three boys and four girls survive.  Mr. 
Schantz was a member of the City Council in 1877-78.  He was President of 
Southern Ohio Fair Association.  He is a memmber of Steuben Lodge, I.O.O.F.,  
and of the German Lutheran Church.

  
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