CHARLES D. HOLTZ, farmer, P. O. Green Spring, was born in Pleasant Township, this county, January 31, 1846, son of Jacob P. and Susannah (Huss) Holtz, early settlers of and still residing in Pleasant Township, this county. Our subject was married, October 9, 1872, to Miss Mary (Lillis) Smith, of Green Spring, Ohio, where she was born June 20, 1854, daughter of Samuel H. and Charlotte (Van Syckel) Smith, natives of New Jersey and who now reside in Green Spring, Ohio. Mr. Holtz is the father of three children: Grace, born March 15, 1874; Nellie, born September 11, 1877; Jessie, born August 24, 1883; all living. Mr. Holtz purchased land in Adams Township, this county, which he has improved in various ways and where he follows general farming. In politics he is Republican.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.704
ADAMS TOWNSHIP