. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . ristian, Mary. IV. Ralph Stover Fretz, b in Warwick twp Nov 13,1809 ; d in California June 6, 1867. He sailed fromthe Isthmus of Panama in 1849 and landed at SanFrancisco, Cal, where he established • a bank andamassed a fortune of about half a million he bequeathed to relatives except $20,000, whichhe willed to the United States to liquidate the nationaldebt caused by the late war. Single. IV. John Fretz, b October 2, 1811 ; d at the White
. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . ristian, Mary. IV. Ralph Stover Fretz, b in Warwick twp Nov 13,1809 ; d in California June 6, 1867. He sailed fromthe Isthmus of Panama in 1849 and landed at SanFrancisco, Cal, where he established • a bank andamassed a fortune of about half a million he bequeathed to relatives except $20,000, whichhe willed to the United States to liquidate the nationaldebt caused by the late war. Single. IV. John Fretz, b October 2, 1811 ; d at the WhiteSulphur Springs, Cal, June 26, 1863. He owned andoperated a gold quartz mill in Calaveras co, Cal. S. IV. Philip K Fretz, b in Bucks co, Sept 14, 1813 ;d on the steamship Henry Chauncy March 13,1867, while on a voyage to California ; m AnnieStover February 18, 1841. Mr Fretz was one of theprominent men of the county. He inherited from hisforefathers a stern sense of duty, a loving, jovialdisposition, together with a keen appreciation of aharmless joke and an unswerving directness in fol-lowing that which his conscience deemed right. To. Dr. Cornelius Shepherd. (See page 77. DESCENDANTS OF RALPH STOVER 113 write of him as he was known is to write of the dayafter clay life of the earnest loving Christian, who hadat heart first his township, then his county, next hisstate and finally the best country that God Almightyever gave to man. He was a man to feel for hisneighbor in affliction, sickness and death, and torejoice with him in prosperity. He was the one tostand firm when the boys of his neighborhood weredriven to the wall by men who never had been boyswhen young, and now that years had been added totheir existence never would be men. In his earlymarried life, when the older scholars wished to hold adebating society in the schoolhouse and were told that it would be the ruin of the new schoolhouse andthey should and could not use it, he maintained that the schoolhouse had been
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