BIO:  George E. Wertz, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 184

George E. WERTZ was born in Manheim Township, September 18, 1829.  His parents, Daniel and 
Margaret (Miller) Wertz, were born in York County, and were of German and Swiss descent.  He 
lived on a farm until eighteen years of age; learned the trade of bricklayer, which he flowed 
in connection with teaching, and the management of a small farm in Codorus Township; taught 
twenty-four terms in the public schools of York County up to 1879; was inspector of elections 
in Codorus Township, 1853; school director, 1872-75; auditor, 1876-79; took the enumeration of 
the United States Census of 1880, of Codorus Township and Jefferson Borough; was appointed 
steward of the York County Alms House, and removed to York in 1883; removed to Glen Rock in 
1884, where, at this writing, he is keeping a hotel.  He was married, October 9, 1851, to 
Frances Ann Weaver, born in Maryland, and moved to Pennsylvania at an early age.  They have had 
ten children:  William, Jacob, Franklin (teaching in Kansas, was educated for the ministry); 
Eliza Jane, died at the age of ten years; James, died at the age of two years; Annie, wife of 
Joseph Small; Ammon, Agnes, Alice and Francis.  Mr. and Mrs. Wertz are members of the Reformed 
Church, and he is a member of Friendly Lodge No. 287, K. of P., of Glen Rock.
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