. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . r o:the Elmira National Bank, and Richard Graj Gale, of this city. Lentz, William Frederick, president of Crystal Hose company and senior memberof the board of fire commissioners, was born in the city of New York, June 10, 1849,and has lived in Binghamton since 1856. He is the son of the late Gottleib andFrederica (Young) Lentz, and the oldest and only survivor of their four children,William F., Charles Otto, Albert Augustus and Theodore Robert Lentz. GottleibLentz and his wife were natives of th
. Binghamton : its settlement, growth and development, and the factors in its history, 1800-1900 . r o:the Elmira National Bank, and Richard Graj Gale, of this city. Lentz, William Frederick, president of Crystal Hose company and senior memberof the board of fire commissioners, was born in the city of New York, June 10, 1849,and has lived in Binghamton since 1856. He is the son of the late Gottleib andFrederica (Young) Lentz, and the oldest and only survivor of their four children,William F., Charles Otto, Albert Augustus and Theodore Robert Lentz. GottleibLentz and his wife were natives of the city of Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of Wurtem-berg, Germany, and both came when young with their parents to America. became a skilled mechanic and was a manufacturer of surgical and dental in-struments. In 1856 he came with his family to Binghamton, and was engaged inbusiness pursuits to the time of his death August 14, 1870. His wife, who was sisterof the late William F. Young, died February 15, 1877. William F. Lentz acquired his early education in our public schools, and chiefly in. WILLIAM F. LENTZ. FACTORS IN BINGHAMTON HISTORY. 855 the old Binghamton academy. Then for a time he held a clerical position in theNew York city post-office, but the death of his father in 1870 necessitated his returnhome. In 1872-74 he was employed in the office of the assistant engineer of the Eriecanal, at Utica, aud while temporarily residing in that city he was a member of thefamous veteran fire organization. Tiger Hose Co. But Mr. Lentzs active connectionwith volunteer iire organizations antedated his membership in Tiger Hose Co. byseveral years. As early as 1860 he was a member of old Engine Co., and inJuly of the following year he transferred his membership to Lawyer Hose Co. No. 1,the latter ultimately developing into Crystal Hose Co. No. 1, of which Mr. Lentz isthe oldest living member, and of which he has been president since that office wasestablished almost thirty y
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