WYANDOT COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WENTZ, John W. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 271

        JOHN W. WENTZ, M.D., has been established in the successful general
practice of his profession at Pataskala, Licking county, since 1910, and
the scope and representative character of his professional business
indicate alike his ability as a physician and surgeon and his personal hold
upon popular confidence and esteem. Aside from his profession the doctor
has found time to make a record of successful achievement in connection
with the automobile industry. Under the title of the Lambert Trublepruf
Tire Company, he is general agent in the City of Columbus for the Lambert
Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, and his progressive policies have
proved fruitful in the upbuilding of a substantial and important business
in the sale of famous Lambert Trublepruf tires, the headquarters of the
concern in Ohio's capital city being well equipped with attractive sales
and display rooms at 75 East Spring Street. In the work of his profession
Dr. Wentz likewise has an appreciable practice in the City of columbus, He
is actively identified with the Licking County Medical Society, the Ohio
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
        Dr. Wentz was born near Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio, in
the year 1886, and is a son of Byron B. and Elvira (Keyser) Wentz. Byron B.
Wentz was prominent in the political and civic affairs of his community and
served as probate judge of Hardin County from 1900 to 1914. Through the
medium of the public schools and other institutions Doctor Wentz acquired a
thorough education along academic lines, and in 1910 he was graduated in
the medical department of the University of Ohio. After thus receiving his
degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for a time associated with Dr. Barnhill
in Columbus, but since 1910 he has maintained his residence and
professional headquarters at Pataskala. He has insistently kept in touch
with advances made in medical and surgical science and practice, is a close
student and has also taken post-graduate work in the celebrated Mayo
Brothers Hospital and clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, as well as in the
medical department of the great Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland. He is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies of the
Masonic fraternity, and also with Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine at
Columbus. The doctor wedded Miss Margaret DeFugit, of Columbus, and she is
the gracious chatelaine of their home at Pataskala, as well as a popular
participant in the social activities of Columbus.


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