Paul Heintz Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	PAUL HEINTZ, one of the successful farmers and representative 
citizens of Moody county, comes of stanch German lineage and is himself 
a native of the state of Minnesota, having been born in Stearns county, 
on the 15th of October, 1859. He is a son of Peter and Margaret (Till) 
Heintz, the former of whom was born and reared in Luxembourg, Germany, 
and he continued to be there engaged in farming until his emigration to 
America, at the age of twenty-five years. He was for a number of years 
engaged in farming in Minnesota, whence he came to Moody county, South 
Dakota, in 1874, here taking up a half section of government land and 
improving the same, becoming one of the prominent and successful farmers 
of this section, where he passed the remainder of his long and signally 
useful life, being eighty-two years of age at the time of his death, 
which occurred May 16, 1901. He originally gave his allegiance to the 
Democratic party, but in later years supported the principles and 
policies of the Republican party. His religious faith was that of the 
Roman Catholic church, of which his venerable widow is likewise a 
devoted member. She now resides in Flandreau and is eighty-four years of 
age at the time of this writing, in 1903. Of this union were born ten 
children, and six of the number are still living. 

	The subject of this sketch received his early educational training 
in the public schools of his native state and was a lad of fifteen years 
at the time of the family removal to what is now the state of South 
Dakota. He was reared to maturity on the home farm in Moody county and 
eventually engaged in farming on his own account. He now has a finely 
improved and valuable ranch of one hundred and sixty acres in Grovena 
township, his home being located four miles south and one east of the 
thriving village of Flandreau, which is his postoffice address. Nearly 
the entire acreage of his farm is under cultivation and he also devotes 
no little attention to the raising of a fine grade of shorthorn cattle 
and other live stock. In politics he is found prominently arrayed in the 
ranks of the Populist party, and takes a public-spirited interest in the 
issues of the day and particularly in local affairs. He has served as 
director and treasurer of his school district, as a member of the board 
of township trustees and as overseer of roads, these various preferments 
indicating the high esteem in which he is held in the community in which 
he has passed the major portion of his life. He is a communicant of the 
Roman Catholic church, his wife belonging to the Methodist, and 
fraternally he is identified with the lodge of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen at Flandreau. 

	On the 5th of January, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Heintz to Miss Rosa Belle Roberts, daughter of Asahel and (Hawkins) 
Roberts, well-known residents of this county, and they are the 
parents of four children, namely: Beulah, Doris, Wallace and Mary.