For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 450
WILLIAM BEITZ....William Beitz, who is the owner of a well improved farm in Lake township, started out in life with a laudable ambition and by many years of application his hopes have been realized. He was born in Muscatine county, December 9, 1860, and is a son of Charles and Hannah Beitz, both of whom were born in Germany. The parents came to America in 1835 and located in Muscatine county, Iowa, where the mother departed this life in 1869 and the father in 1901. Of their union seven children were born, three of whom are now living : William, our subject ; Mary, the wife of Charles Wagner of Carroll county, Iowa ; and Anna, now Mrs. Henry Wagner, of Carroll county.William beitz was reared upon the home farm and educated in the district schools. Even as a boy he was ambitious of advancement and on arriving at the age of nineteen years he began renting a farm in Carroll county, Iowa, which belonged to his father. After three years he returned to Muscatine and entered the employ of the Hershey Lumber Company. The occupation not being entirely to his taste, he chopped wood one winter and then worked on a farm for two years, later spending one year in a dairy and one year in the employ of Fred Woods. At the age of twenty-nine he married, and for one year was identified with Hershey's sawmill, after which he became connected with the Musser Lumber Company, continuing with that organization for seventeen years, in the course of which he practiced ecomony and accumulated capital so that he was able to purchase eighty acres of land. After cultivating his farm for three years, he disposed of it and bought the place where he now lives, comprising one hundred and twenty acres, which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and which yields a handsome income.
On April 3, 1889, Mr. Beitz was united in marriage to Miss Anna Geertz, who was born in Muscatine county, August 18, 1868, and is a daughter of Adolph and Sophia Geertz, a record of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Three children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Beitz : Emma, Mabel, and Elmer, all of whom are at home.
Politically Mr. Beitz is identified with the republican party. He has never sought public office as his attention has been mainly taken up with his farm and his family. Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Muscatine and is also a member of the Mechanics Lodge, having many friends in these organizations and in the county of his birth. He is known as an industrious and thoroughly reliable man, whose word is good as his bond and whose assistance may always be depended upon in forwarding any worthy undertaking.
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