Biography

03/04/1842 - 03/18/1905

GANTZ, Frederick U., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, March 4, 1842 in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; private, Company L, 6th United States Cavalry (3 years, Civil War); engaged in milling; school director; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); cashier, Bank of Atlantic City; justice of the peace, York; fireman, York; died, March 18, 1905 in North York, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Heisey Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.