Lutz, J. I.

LUTZ

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Date: 1/6/2009 at 16:14:48

J. I. Lutz

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.37, Council Bluffs)
J. I. Lutz, of the first of Lutz & Lange, wholesale cigars and pipes, Council Bluffs, was born in Germany in 1843; came to the United States in 1865, and settled in Burlington, Iowa. From Burlington, he came to Council Bluffs in 1876. In 1877, he, in company with his partner, opened a wholesale cigar and pipe store. They employ three traveling men and have one assistant in the store besides himself and partner. They keep a stock on hand worth about $18,000, and their yearly sales amount to $150,000. Mr. Lutz was married in 1868, in Burlington, Iowa, and has five children, all at home, the three eldest going to school. He is an active Democrat.