Biography

08/30/1851 - 08/22/1913

FRITZ, Andrew Lucius, a Representative from Columbia County; born, August 30, 1851 in Sugar Loaf Township, Columbia County, Pa.; attended, Orangeville Academy; attended, New Columbia Academy; attended, Bloomsburg Literary Institute and Normal School (now Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania); farm laborer; teacher; attorney-at-law; elected, deputy sheriff, Columbia County; elected, receiver of taxes, Bloomsburg (1879); elected, auditor, Bloomsburg; council secretary, Bloomsburg; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884, 1886, 1892 and 1894; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888, 1896); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1896, 1898, 1902); legal counsel, The Alta-Idaho Gold & Copper Mining Company; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1910); died, August 22, 1913 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.