Charles H. Ilgenfritz

ILGENFRITZ, WALRATH

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Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:23:24

The next clerk of courts was Charles H. Ilgenfritz, who was elected in 1878 and re-elected in 1880.
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Charles H. Ilgenfritz, clerk of the courts of Butler county for four years ending December 31, 1882, was born in LaPorte City, Ind., in 1850. He removed with his parents, Henry and Ann Ilgenritz, to Greene county, Wisconsin, in 1852, and to Clarksville, Butler county, in 1863. During the years from 1868 to 1870 he was a student at the Notre Dame College, Indiana, and from that time to his election as clerk of the courts, in 1878, was engaged in the lumber trade and in banking at Clarksville. A democrat politically, Mr. Ilgengritz is not so strongly wedded to party as to be governed by prejudice, but sustains for official positions men whom he believes to be honest and possessors of the best principles. His popularity as an official may be inferred from the fact that at his first election his majority was 160, and the second time was over 500.
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Mrs. Ilgenfritz was, before marriage, Miss Lulu Walrath. They have two sons – Harry L. and Burr.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 297