Solon Lutz^[1]

Cal 1876 - 1916  (~ 39 years)

• Name	Solon Lutz
  Born	CALC 9 May 1876	Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/276137865
  Occupation	reporter and editor
  Residence	1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Protestant
  Residence	1891	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00074-4268
  Died	3 Feb 1916	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I13065	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Henry Lutz,   b. 12 May 1828, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 May 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Louisa Gimbel,   b. 8 Sep 1840, , , Germany ,   d. 30 Nov 1920, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F3596	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Solon Lutz, "resides in Hespeler where he is engaged as clerk with Shaw & Co." Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. ________________ Friends Pay Last Respects Funeral of Solon Lutz Largely Attended Saturday Afternoon Many friends and citizens from the community attended the funeral of Mr. Solon Futz, at Freeport on Saturday afternoon. The services at the residence, which were private, were held at 1.30 p.m., Rev. M. H. Sanderson conducting the services. A service was also held at the Congregational Church, where Rev. Mr. Sanderson delivered an appropriate sermon. Interment took place in Hagey's Cemetery, Preston. The pallbearers were Mr. Noah Becker, Mr. Collin Weber. Mr. Elton Martin, Mr. Abram Gimbel. Ald. W. E. Gallagher, and Mr. W. V. Uttley. The floral tributes received were beautiful. They were: Wreath of roses and tulips from the Mayor and City Council; pillow of roses and lilies from News Record staff; spray of carnations from John Forsyth Co.. Ltd.: spray of violets and sweet peas from John Forsyth Employees: spray of carnations from Mr. Allen Eby; spray from Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Janzen; spray of carnations from Miss Emma Philp, of St. Thomas. The Berlin News Record, Kitchener, Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Mon, Feb 7, 1916 Page 7 __________ A THE DEATH OF A COLLEAGUE Death has summoned a valued member of the Record's staff, in the person of Solon G. Lutz. For fifteen years he had filled the positions of reporter and city editor. It was in 1896 that he first joined our staff. Then a boy in his teens, who had been a brilliant public school pupil and the first one in his school section to pass the High School entrance examination. He was not only an intelligent young man, but possessed in a high degree, the faculty of making friends. Probably his genial disposition and reliability enabled him to do this more easily than the majority do. He was known as a first-class newspaper man. One able to get in-formation and place it before his readers in an interesting manner. It would not be beside the mark to say that he never wrote an article containing a designedly unkind sentence. During his many years of residence in Berlin he learned to love it as his home and its people as friends. Nothing in his daily rounds pleased him better than to acquire an item which told of growth and prosperity for the city. Those who were associated with him on the Record mourn the death of a kind-hearted, loyal comrade, who faced the most perplexing things of life with a smile. Now that he has filled his last assignment and his spirit has returned to its Maker, thousands of kindly thoughts will follow him on the Great Journey. God bless Solon! The Berlin News Record, Kitchener, Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Fri, Feb 4, 1916 Page 4

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 885. [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Division 2 Page Number 47 Household Number 223. [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Waterloo S. Twp. 1881 Div 2 Page 47. [S2575] Census - ON, Waterloo Township - 1891, Sect. 3 Page 5.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - CALC 9 May 1876 - Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Protestant - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 3 Feb 1916 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth