History of Sidney, (Shelby County) Ohio United States of America

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Lawrence Butz, Mayor of Dayton, Ohio, was born at Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio, July 26th, 1838, being the son of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Spitznagel) Butz, both of whom were natives of the Grand Duchy of Baden, near Strausburg. He was educated in the common schools of Dayton, to which, when he was quite young, his parents moved. He graduated in Latin, French, German and English, from the College of Nazareth, a Catholic institution near the city, lately transformed into St. Mary's Institute. Having acquired a liberal and substantial education, when sixteen years of age, he was withdrawn from school and employed in his father's grocery store as attendant and bookkeeper. He continued in this capacity until 1861, when his father admitted him to a partnership interest, and the operations of the firm were extended to embrace porkpacking and candle-making. In this line of trade he continued with great success up to the time of his election to the Mayoralty of Dayton, when he disposed of his business in order to give his entire attention to the responsible duties of the office to which he had been called by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens. On April 6th, 1874, he was elected, on the Democratic ticket, as Mayor, receiving a majority of 403 votes over his opponent, David A. Hook; and since his inaugural in that office he has discharged its duties with dignity, with great care and with fidelity, unbiased by any partisan feeling. He has always been an active Democrat, and for a long time was a member of the Central Committee for Montgomery county. He has always taken a deep interest in municipal affairs, supporting all public improvements, and exerting his influence and his energy as a business man to increase the mercantile welfare of the city over which he now presides. For three years he served the Eighth Ward in the City Councils, and also filled a term in the Board of Health. He was married, on November 26th, 1861, to Louisa Schafer, of Dayton, who was born July 10th, 1841.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

History of Sidney, (Shelby County) Ohio

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