BIO:  Joseph HOLTZ, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 509

JOSEPH HOLTZ, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. New Chester, was born in Straban 
Township, this county, September 2, 1839, a son of Frederick and Sarah (Snyder) 
Holtz, natives of York and Perry Counties, Penn., respectively.  The family are 
of French-German descent.  The Grandfather Holtz was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war; while crossing the ocean was shipwrecked, but was saved by 
clinging to a mast.  After arriving in America, he worked in the powder-mill at 
Philadelphia, to pay his passage money.  Frederick Holtz was married in York 
County, in 1833, and had a family of seven children, of whom Joseph is the 
sixth.  Our subject was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools 
and Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg.  For three years he was engaged in the 
grocery and produce business in New Oxford, under the firm name of Myers & 
Holtz.  Since then he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits and is the owner 
of 162 acres of land.  The names of his brothers and sisters are as follows:  
Caroline, Sarah (wife of P. C. Harbold), Susan (wife of B. F. Leineberger), 
David (a farmer), Abraham (a physician, who died in Hampton) and G. W. (farmer).