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- [s64] California Death Index, 1940-1997.
Name: WILLIAM H LORENZ Birth: 9 Apr 1863 INDIANA Death: 5 May 19 45 SAN JOAQUIN, California
- [S245] Guardian's Docket of Montgomery County, IN, Vol.2, pg.60.
Guardian: Henry Nicholson. - Names of Wards: Adolph F. Lorenz, Mary L . Lorenz, Caroline R. Lorenz, William H. Lorenz, George W. Lorenz. Hei rs of Henry Lorenz.
- [S67] 1880 U.S. Census, Occupation.
- [S198] History of San Joaquin County California with a Biographical Review o f the Leading Men and Women of, pp. 499-500.
San Joaquin County will never forget the important and necessary par t played by the far-sighted, experienced bankers in her development, t hrough which she has come to take a front place among the counties o f California, and prominent among the agencies that has done much fo r the progress in Central California the First National Bank of Lodi m ust be mentioned. Its success is undoubtedly due, to a great extent, t o the personal attention to every detail of William H. Lorenz, the pre sident of this thriving institution. He was born in Crawfordsville, In d., on April 9, 1863, and there was reared and educated. In 1885 he ca me West to Walla Walla, Wash., and engaged in farming pursuits for tw o years at the end of which time he removed to Stockton and was employ ed by P.A. Buell & Company; later he entered the Stockton State Ho spital and soon afterward assumed the supervision of that institution , where he remained for fifteen years. During the year of 1905 he sett led in Lodi and helped to organize the First National Bank and becam e its cashier, which position he held until recently when he was elect ed president. The other officers are as follows: H.C. Beckman, E.E. Mo rse and S.H. Zimmerman, vice-presidents; Lloyd Mazzera, cashier; P.A . Ritchie, H.F. Lightfoot, D.H. Groff and C.D. Tappan, assistant cashi ers. The present board of directors are: George F. McNoble, chairman , and W.H. Lorenz, president; H.C. Beckman, E.E. Morse, and S.H. Zimme rman, vice- presidents; George W. Le Moin, E.A. Covell, John C. Bewley , Otto Spenker and W.G. Micke. The First National Bank was organized w ith a capital of $25,000; and now with the Central Savings Bank, unde r the same management, has a combined capital of $300,000 with a surpl us of $150,000 and resources of over $3,500,000. Mr. Lorenz is th e secretary and treasurer of the Lodi Investment Company which built a nd own the beautiful Lodi Hotel and the Lodi theater. In 1913 he purch ased an eighty-acre vineyard near Youngstown, which he has brought t o a high state of cultivation; an arch at the entrance to the propert y reads “Vista Del Monte Vineyard.” In partnership with John C. Bewley , he recently subdivided a forty-acre tract south of Lodi into one-acr e lots. Mr. Lorenz has been city treasurer of Lodi since its incorpora tion in 1906. Fraternally he is a member of Lodi Lodge No. 256 F. & ; A.M. Masons; and belongs to all branches of that order in Stockton , and to the San Francisco Consistory and Shrine; he has passed throug h all the chairs of the Lodi Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Lorenz' s marriage united him with Hedwig Ruhl, a native daughter of Californi a born in Stockton; she is the daughter of the late Fred Ruhl, a Stock ton pioneer, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mr s. Lorenz are the parents of one daughter, Bernice, a graduate of th e University of California in 1921. She married P.A. Ritchie of Lodi a nd they have a little daughter. A man of fine character, a clear think er, broad-minded and progressive, Mr. Lorenz has a keen desire for th e community's betterment, morally, educationally and commercially .
- [S75] 1910 U.S. Census, Elkhorn, San Joaquin, California; Roll: T624_103; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 173; Image: 110.
Name: William H Lorenz Birth: abt 1863 Illinois Residence: 1910 El khorn, San Joaquin, California Years married: 4
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