BIOGRAPHY: Andrew LANTZY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 363-4
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ANDREW LANTZY, one of the substantial business men of Hastings, and a large 
wholesale dealer in wines, liquors and beer at that prosperous place, is a son 
of Squire John and Mary (Whitehead) Lantzy, and was born in that part of Chest, 
now Elder township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1859. The Lantzy 
family is of Swiss descent, and was planted in Pennsylvania by Joseph Lantzy, 
the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Joseph Lantzy was born 
in 1775, in Switzerland, where he owned a farm. He came in 1810 to Pennsylvania, 
married Mary M. Betters, and reared a family of four sons and five daughters.
     Andrew Lantzy was reared on the farm; received a good common-school 
education, and assisted his father in farming, milling and lumbering up to 1888. 
In that year he came to Hastings and built the Hastings Hotel, which he 
conducted for one year, and afterwards sold. Retiring from hotel-keeping he 
sought for a wider field of operations, and established his present wholesale 
liquor-house, at 404 Beaver street, where he handles large quantities of wines, 
liquors and beer, and does an extensive and prosperous business. He handles pure 
and high-grade articles in his line of business, and enjoys a wide reputation as 
a representative wholesale liquor-dealer.
     On August 9, 1881, Mr. Lantzy wedded Martha C. Woodley, who is a daughter 
of Peter Woodley, of Allegheny. To their union has been born one child, a son, 
Thomas Andrew, now deceased.
     In politics Mr. Lantzy supports the Democratic party as being the exponent 
of the people's true rights and best interests. He has served as a member of the 
school board, and while holding that office was a member of the building 
committee that erected the present public school building of Hastings. He is a 
member of the Catholic church of Hastings, and served on the building committee 
which erected the present large frame church edifice in which the congregation 
now worships. Mr. Lantzy has been a prominent and useful factor in the material 
development of Hastings. He is one of the organizers and a present member, and 
the treasurer of the Hastings Building and Loan association. He is a stockholder 
and the treasurer of the Hastings Opera House company, and served as a member of 
the building committee when the opera-house was erected. Indifferent to the 
rewards of party service, Mr. Lantzy has always wielded a political influence, 
but gives most of his time to the management of his own various business 
interests. He owns a valuable farm of eighty acres of land which is underlaid 
with coal, and on which are the Campbell & Patterson Coal mines. Andrew Lantzy 
is by choice, profession and practice a business man, and has the confidence of 
those who know him on account of his superior commercial qualifications and 
correct business methods.