Philip V. Lenz Biography


	This biography appears on page 534 in "History of Dakota 
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				PHILIP V. LENZ.  

	Philip V. Lenz, who is successfully engaged in the real-estate 
and insurance business in Kimball and is also serving as police justice 
of that city, is a native of Illinois, born in La Salle county on the 
12th of March, 1877, of the marriage of Philip and Anna Lenz. in 1878 
the family removed to lowa, where the father became known as a well-to-
do farmer. He is now living retired there but the mother has passed 
away.  

	Philip V. Lenz attended the public schools in the acquirement of 
his elementary education and later took a normal course and also a 
commercial course. After his graduation from business college he taught 
school in Iowa for three years. He then entered the auditor's office as 
deputy and made such a good record in that connection that he was later 
elected county auditor, serving a term of four years. At the end of 
that time he turned his attention to merchandising, but in 1909 sold 
out and removed to Kimball, South Dakota. He at once engaged in the 
real-estate and insurance business and in the six years that have 
intervened he has negotiated many important transfers of realty and has 
written a large number of insurance policies. He also makes loans and 
derives a considerable addition to his income from that source.  

	On the 25th of June, 1901, Mr. Lenz was married to Miss Mary 
Meyers, a daughter of John Meyers, a resident of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lenz have three children: Irma, Phyllis and Paul Vincent. Mr. Lenz is a 
democrat in his political views and is a loyal worker in the party 
ranks. He is now serving as police justice of Kimball and is 
discharging his duties in a very creditable manner. He is a devout 
communicant of the Catholic church and is a member of Charles Carroll 
Council, No. 780, K. C., of which he was grand knight for two years. He 
is also connected fraternally with the Woodmen and Catholic Order of 
Foresters. He owns considerable land in the state and can always be 
depended upon to do anything in his power to further the advancement of 
South Dakota, as he has great faith in the prosperous future in store 
for the northwest.