Big Horn County WY Archives Obituaries.....Gantz, Lewis A October 14, 1905
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The Garland Guard Oct 14, 1905
Lewis A. Gantz, the subject of of this sketch, whose untimely death we 
chronicled a couple of weeks ago, was born near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1860. When 
but as boy he inherited a love for a strenuous western life and was not long 
in choosing an honor able occupation and coming west, he purchased a small 
band of sheep since which time he has been engaged in the sheep business. 
continuously up to the time of his death. Prom a small band his flock rapidly 
increased in numbers and through careful financiering and strict attention
to business his flocks soon numbered many thousands. He was unusually 
successful in this avocation for a number of years and met with few reverses. 
However others that were engaged in the sheep industry soon grew envious of 
Mr. Gantz unprecedented success and soon tried every imaginable scheme to 
check his prosperity. In a measure some of these schemes were successful,
and'yet, though persecuted and prosecuted by his business rivals and 
adversaries for imaginary wrongs, he never complained and when defeated 
apparently alwsys took his defeat phylosophically. and he always looked upon 
the bright side of life. His was a most cheerful and amiable disposition which 
was the chief cause of his genuine popularity. "Lou," as he was called by
everybody, was a most noble, whole-souled and generous hearted man--generous 
even to a fault. He gave away to the poor and needy much of his accumulated 
wealth, and has helped hundreds who were in distress, and though his 
numberless acts of charitable benovolence were not heralded to tho world, but 
were known only to him and to the beneficiary yet many a heart was made glad 
by his charitable acts. "Tho Lord loveth a cheerful giver." This was 
examplifed in him if it ever was in man and this was a beautiful 
characteristic of the departed. These acts of kindness will be recorded In the 
Courts of High, by Him who loveth the cheerful giver. The world has been 
better for having known Lou Gantz. Here in Garland, where he was best known, 
he was beloved a respected by old and young and great was the sorrow of whole 
community when they recieved the news of his sudden and untimely death. In the 
death of Mr Gautz Big Horn  has lost one of her best oitizens He treated 
everybody honest and fair, he has gone to his reward His father early in 
September of th ir, and only two brothers, Ed Leslie, of Casper, now re. Both 
are highly respecteii i well to do businessmen.


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