BIO:  Alexander C. WENTZ, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hanover Borough and Penn Township, Pg 70

ALEXANDER C. WENTZ, A. M., M. D., now a practicing physician of Hanover, was 
born in Manheim Township on the 14th day of July, 1855.  His father, Edward R. 
Wentz, is a great-great-grandson of Valentine Wentz, who was born in Partenheim, 
Germany, July 10, 1717; was married to Barbara Jenaweln in 1749, soon after 
immigrating to America and located in Manheim Township, York County.  He is the 
ancestor of the Wentz family of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and died in April, 
1788, leaving six sons, five daughters and twenty-nine grandchildren.  The 
mother of Dr. Wentz, Margaret Couldren, is a native of Adams county, and is of 
Scotch-Irish descent.  The Doctor is the elder of two children now living.  His 
sister is married to Dr. Wesley C. Stick, of Glenville.  He spent his youth at 
school and on the farm, and in 1873 entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 
from which institution he graduated in 1879.  In the fall of the same year he 
entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and from that 
institution received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1882.  
Soon after graduating he began the practice of his chosen profession in the 
borough of Hanover, where he has met with encouraging success.  Dr. Wentz was 
married, June 1, 1882, to Clara Bertron Ulp, daughter of the late John J. Ulp, 
wholesale dry goods merchant of Philadelphia.  Her mother, Harriet K. (Porter) 
Ulp, is a descendant of the Annekajan family, originally from Holland.  Dr. 
Wentz is a member of the Lutheran Church and his wife of the Episcopal Church.  
He is a member of the Phi-Kappa-Psi College fraternity of the State and county 
medical societies, and is one of the chiefs of Minnewakaru Tribe No. 250, I. O. 
R. M.