Bios: William Lantz, 1835-aft 1888: Greene County

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WILLIAM LANTZ, Dent, Penn., was born April 27, 1835, on the farm where he and 
family reside in Wayne Township.  His parents Jacob and Delilah (Coen) Lantz, 
were natives of Greene County and residents therein through life.  His father 
died in 1858 and his mother in 1866.  They were the parents of five children, 
three living.  William is the youngest, and was united in marriage May 22, 
1856, with Minerva, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Odenbaugh) Kent, the 
latter deceased.  Mrs. Lantz was born in this county November 24, 1837, and 
is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. William Lantz 
and wife are the parents of seven children--Mary, wife of William Wiley; 
William, who married Belle Phillips; Ulysses and Emma; Harriet, Delilah, and 
an infant (deceased).  Mr. Lantz has been eminently successful as a farmer 
and stock-dealer and owns 480 acres of good land in Greene County.

>From "History of Greene County, Pennsylvania"
Nelson, Rishforth, & Co.; Chicago, IL (1888) [1993]
by Samuel P. Bates (Samuel Pennimann) Page 880