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G. BORTZ, farmer and carpenter, post-office Greenville, was born on the
site of Shenango, August 20, 1850, and is a son of Mandis and Sarah
(Mowry) Bortz, both natives of Lehigh County, Penn. The former came to
West Salem Township with his father, Henry Bortz, in 1828, and here
grew to manhood. He married, November 1, 1849, Sarah, daughter of
George Mowry, of Hempfield Township, who blessed him with ten children:
Levi G., Edward H., Ellen, deceased; Amelia, Martin C., Eliza J., wife
of Philip Snyder, of Pymatuning Township; Emma, wife of Charles
Sponsler, of Delaware Township; Frank, Emanuel and Lydia. The parents
located at Shenango after marriage, and five years afterward settled on
their present homestead in Pymatuning Township. Our subject was reared
in Pymatuning, and learned the carpenter and painter’s trade, at which
he has worked about twenty years. For the past fifteen years he has
followed farming in connection with his trade, purchasing his present
homestead in the spring of 1883. He was married in December, 1873, to
Margaret A., eldest daughter of Charles Benninghoff, of Pymatuning
Township, who has had four children: Harry W., Clarence A., Ellen,
deceased, and Oliver O. Mr. Bortz and wife belong to the Lutheran
Church, and politically he is a stanch Republican, and one of
theprogressive citizens of the township.
Source: History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1169
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