Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Frantz, Charles 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    CHARLES FRANTZ, Postmaster; is a native of Germany; came to Kenosha in 1855;
he was engaged in clerking and in agricultural pursuits until September, 1861,
when he enlisted in Co. C, 9th Wis. V. I.; at first served as recruiting
officer; when he joined his regiment, was promoted to First Lieutenant; he was
afterward promoted to Captain of Co. G, and. as such, was mustered out May 15,
1865; he was eleven months in a rebel prison at Tyler, Tex., and two months at
Princeton, Ark. After his return home, he was, in 1866, elected City Treasurer,
served three years in succession; in the fall of 1868, was elected Register of
Deeds; resigned that position when he was appointed Postmaster, an office to
which he has been re-appointed; Mr. Frantz was Chairman of the Republican County
Committee for several years and has been Alderman one term.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)

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