Sullivan-Lehigh-Wayne County PA Archives Biographies.....SCHANTZ, Tilghman D. 1852 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      TILGHMAN D. SCHANTZ, a prominent resident of Ricketts, Sullivan county, is a
  descendant of a well known pioneer family of this state, his ancestors having
  come from Posen, Germany, at an early date to settle on the present site of
  Egypt, Lehigh county.
  
      The first of the family of whom we have an extended account was Jacob
  Schantz, the grandfather of our subject, who was born and reared in Lehigh
  county, where he was engaged in business as a miller for many years, his death
  occurring in 1843. He married Miss Sarah Fogle, a member of another pioneer
  family of Lehigh county, and they had the following children: H. J., father of
  our subject; T. P., formerly a physician at Allentown, who died shortly after
  beginning practice of his profession; F. J. F., who has been for many years a
  Lutheran minister and who is now (1898) pastor of the church at Myerstown and a
  trustee of Muhlenburg College; L. J., who was accidentally killed in boyhood;
  Amanda, who married Rev. Aaron L. Leinbach, formerly pastor of the Reformed
  church at Reading, Pennsylvania, and both are now deceased; and C. Eleanor,
  deceased, who married Dr. Thomas B. Cooper, of Coopersburg, Lehigh county, whose
  death occurred while he was in congress.
  
      H. J. Schantz was born on the old homestead at Schantz's Hill, Lehigh
  county, June 27, 1820, and remained on the home place during his entire life. By
  occupation he was a miller, but he retired from active business about ten years
  before his death, which took place at Allentown, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1893.
  He received a good practical education in his youth and was always a leader in
  his community. He was the founder of the Allentown bank, the first in the
  county, and rode on horseback to Harrisburg to get the charter. In his later
  years he took a keen interest in agricultural progress and was the second
  president of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society. He and his wife were
  members of the Lutheran church, in which he held many offices; and politically
  he was a Democrat, as was his father before him. He was married in Lehigh
  county, in January, 1847, to Miss Caroline Schall, daughter of David Schall, her
  grandfather, also named David Schall, being a leading pioneer of Berks county,
  where he was a merchant, farmer and hotel keeper. Her mother, Mary Rupp, was a
  granddaughter of Jacob Rupp, a prosperous farmer of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania,
  where he was probably born. Mrs. Schantz, the mother of our subject, is still
  living at Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Schantz became the parents of
  two sons: C. H., who is unmarried and resides at Ricketts; and T. D., our subject.
  
      T. D. Schantz was born February 4, 1852, at Schantz's Mills, and his
  education was begun in the public schools of that locality. Later he attended
  Wyoming Seminary and Nazareth Hall in North Hampton county, Pennsylvania, where
  he acquired a knowledge of military tactics. In early manhood he became a
  traveling salesman for a Reading firm, remaining with them eleven years, and for
  five years he operated the mill at the old homestead. He then spent two years at
  Newfoundland, Wayne county, as proprietor of a hotel, and in 1893 settled in
  Ricketts, where he opened another hotel, which is largely patronized by
  lumbermen. In politics Mr. Schantz is a stanch Democrat and he and his wife are
  leading members of the Lutheran church at Ricketts. Socially the family is much
  esteemed and Mr. Schantz has been identified with the Masonic fraternity since
  1874.
  
      On February 24, 1888, Mr. Schantz was married in Philadelphia to Miss Alice
  R. Culvertson, daughter of John L. and Rebecca (Huffman) Culvertson, and three
  children have blessed the union: Helen M., born September 3, 1887; Carrie R.,
  May 23, 1892; and Marie I., May 15, 1894.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
              Extracted from: 
                  
                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                Compendium of Biography
                  
                The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
  
  
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