Gottlieb A. Waltz

     Gottlieb A. Waltz was born on 20 October 1847 at Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Wilhelm Waltz and Maria Elizabeth Hurr. Gottlieb A. Waltz married Elsie Carr circa 1868.² Gottlieb A. Waltz married, at age 27, Anna Gertrude Randall, age 18, daughter of Orrin Hubbard Randall and Abigail Case, on Thursday, 10 June 1875 at Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.³ Gottlieb A. Waltz died on 8 March 1933 at age 85 years, 4 months and 16 days.⁴
     He was Carpenter and Builder. He From 'History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania', by John F. Meginness ed., (1990 edition, prepared by Lycoming County Historical Society; Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1892), page 835.

Gottlieb Waltz, contractor and builder, was born in Upper Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1847, son of William and Mary (Hurr) Waltz. He received a common school education, and at the age of sixteen he left home to learn the carpenter's trade, which business he has followed up to the present (1892). He was employed by Peter Herdic for several years, and had charge of much of his work. He was superintendant in the erection of the Weightman Block and of the Trinity Church. After the failure of Mr. Herdic he engaged in contracting on his own account, and has since erected many of the best buildings in the city. He built the First Presbyterian church, St. Paul's Lutheran church, the Wadley Memorial church, the Annunciation Catholic church, remodeled Christ church and the Court House, erected the Hayes Building, and the Young Men's Christian Association building, the Rubber Works building, the Hotel Updegraff, and is now engaged on the chapel of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Waltz and his family are members of the Erie Avenue Baptist church, in which he is on of the trustees. He is a Republican, and is a member of the IOOF. Mr. Waltz went to Denver, Colorado, in 1879, where he remained five months, returning thence to Williamsport. In the fall of the same year he went to Pueblo and brought his brother, William home, he being sick. During the years 1886-87, he was in partnership with A.S. Wagner, doing contracted work under the firm name of G. Waltz & Company.