BIO:  David C. WENTZ, Mountpleasant 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 491-492

DAVID C. WENTZ, farmer, P. O. Bonneauville, was born November 9, 1832, in 
Carroll County, Md., a grandson of Frederick Wentz, a native of America, but of 
German descent, a farmer by occupation, who died in Carroll County, Md., when 
nearly eighty years old.  David, the son of Frederick Wentz, was born and died 
in Carroll County, aged eighty-two years.  He was well known in the community, 
was a prominent member of the Lutheran Church.  He was married to Catharine 
Crouse, a native of Carroll County, Md., daughter of Michael Crouse, and who is 
yet living in Carroll County, the mother of eleven children, all of whom are 
living but two:  Valentine C., John D., David C., Samuel, William, Noah, Henry, 
Louis and Mrs. Lydia Kemford.  Our subject was educated in his native State, and 
there farmed and worked at carpentering for fifteen years.  In April, 1870, he 
came to Mountpleasant Township, this county, where he has 176 acres of land.  He 
was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Bankert, also a native of Carroll 
County, Md., daughter of Peter Bankert.  Of the twelve children born to this 
union ten are now living:  Mary J., William P., Anna, Emma, Edward, Martin, 
Laura, Clara, Ellen and Alverta.  Mr. and Mrs. David C. Wentz are active members 
of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.  Politically he is identified with the Democratic 
party, and has filled the office of supervisor two terms, being re-elected in 
the spring of 1885.