Anthony T. Lenertz Biography


	This biography appears on pages 510-511 in "History of Dakota 
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				ANTHONY T. LENERTZ. 

	As cashier of the State Bank of Waverly, Anthony T. Lenertz is 
one of the men of influence in financial circles of that municipality. 
He was born in Tyler, Minnesota, on the 15th of April, 1884, a son of 
Peter and Catherine (Mahowald) Lenertz. The father was born in the 
grand duchy of Luxembourg, Germany, and the mother in Scott county, 
Minnesota. They were married in Marystown, Minnesota, to which place 
the father had been taken as a child by his parents. He gained a 
competence by farming and was respected in his neighborhood. He passed 
away in 1908, having survived his wife since 1906. 

	Anthony T. Lenertz grew to manhood upon the home farm and the 
greater part of his education was acquired in the district schools. 
However, he spent one year in the high school of Marshall, Minnesota, 
and took a course at the Minneapolis Business College. Subsequently he 
worked for one winter in a store at Princeton, Minnesota, but the 
following summer was spent upon a farm. In the fall of 1905 he went to 
Garrison, North Dakota, where he engaged in the general mercantile 
trade for a year, and later identified himself with the grain business, 
operating an elevator at Coal Harbor, North Dakota. In August, 1908, 
Mr. Lenertz was called home on account of the illness of his father and 
upon the death of the latter, on the 31st of August, assumed charge of 
the farm and operated it for one year. In 1909 he was married and 
immediately afterward went to Kramer, North Dakota, where he accepted 
the position of assistant cashier of the State Bank of that town. He 
remained there for about eighteen months and then went to Gary, South 
Dakota, and engaged in the mercantile business there for about two 
years. After leaving that place he located in Altamont, where he was 
manager of a business house during the summer of 1913. On the 1st of 
December of that year he came to Waverly as cashier of the State Bank, 
of which he was one of the organizers, and has since occupied that 
position to the satisfaction of the board of directors, the 
stockholders and the general public. He is courteous in his dealings 
with all who have business with the bank and is as liberal in the 
extension of credit as is consistent with the security of the funds 
deposited with that institution. 

	Mr. Lenertz was married on the 8th of September, 1909, to Miss 
Anna M. Dartman, of Tyler, Minnesota, daughter of Frank and Anna 
Dartman, who were early settlers of Spink county, South Dakota, and 
Mrs. Lenertz was born at Redfield. The family removed to Tyler, 
Minnesota, in the '90s Mr. and Mrs. Lenertz have a son, Aloysius F. The 
parents are members of the Catholic church and the father belongs to 
the Knights of Columbus. He is in all respects a good citizen and his 
private life conforms to the highest standards of honor. Although he 
has been a resident of Waverly but a comparatively short time, he is 
conceded to be one of the able and upright business men of the town and 
is held in general resect.