Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Lutz, John
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JOHN LUTZ, editor of the Bedford Inquirer, published in the 
town of Bedford, was born in Snake Spring township, Bedford 
County, Pa., near Lutzville station, January 6, 1835.  He is 
the eldest son of Michael and Rosanna (Stuckey) Lutz, both 
of whom sprang from early settlers of Bedford County, their 
fathers having come to this county from Virginia between 
1788 and 1800.
  In his boyhood John Lutz learned the trade of a woollen 
manufacturer, his paternal grandfather having built in 1808 
one of the first woollen factories in this section of the 
State.  Desiring a more advanced education than was 
obtainable in the public school, by working at his trade in 
the summer and teaching in the winter he earned the means of 
attending the Bedford Academy and afterward taking a course 
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg.  Too close application 
to study impaired his health, so that from 1858 to 1865 he 
was most of the time obliged to desist from too confining 
physical or intellectual labor.  During this period, 
however, he read law with the late Hon. Alexander King, 
afterward Presiding Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial 
District; and in 1864 he was admitted to the bar.  He came 
to Bedford in May, 1862, and has since resided here.
  In April, 1865, in company with J. R. Durburrow, Esq., and 
at the urgent request of a number of prominent Republicans, 
he purchased the Bedford Inquirer, which he edited with 
marked success for ten years.  He did not dissolve his 
connection with that paper until January, 1881, when he sold 
his remaining interest, but reserved by written agreement 
the right to establish another paper.  On April 14, 1881, in 
connection with W. C. Smith, Esq., he established the 
Bedford Republican, which rapidly grew in favor and 
influence as one of the leading Republican journals of this 
part of the State.  About two years and a half later, on 
January 1, 1884, the two papers, the Bedford Republican and 
Bedford Inquirer, were consolidated, and under the 
management of Lutz, Smith & Jordan were published as the 
Republican and Inquirer until 1888, when the old title of 
the Bedford Inquirer was adopted.  The paper continues to be 
issued under this title, with Mr. Lutz as editor.  While the 
attention of Mr. Lutz has been chiefly devoted to 
journalism, he has never wholly given up the practice of 
law.  He has always been an ardent advocate and participant 
in all public enterprises having for their object the 
promotion of the welfare of the community in which he 
resides.
  On May 19, 1870, Mr. Lutz was married to Emily C. Filler, 
of Bedford.  She died March 3, 1873; and about ten years 
later, on January 3, 1883, Mr. Lutz was united in marriage 
with Miss Hattie E. Way, of Union Springs, N.Y.  Mr. Lutz 
has one child by his first wife - a son, William F., who now 
resides in Philadelphia, Pa.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa