Mayor William H. Lutz

1848 - 1936  (87 years)

• Name	William H. Lutz
  Prefix	Mayor
  Born	20 Jun 1848	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1851	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Presbyterian
  Residence	1861	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Free Church
  Elected Office	1879	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Councillor - Galt
  Occupation	1881	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Merchant
  Elected Office	1886	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Councillor - Galt
  Occupation	1886	North Water St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Chemist and Druggist
  Elected Office	1888	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Mayor - Galt
  Elected Office	1889	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	2nd Deputy Reeve - Galt
  Elected Office	1890	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Mayor of Galt
  Endorsement	1890	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	Messer and Ward's Dress Shirt
  		1890 Advertisement
  Interesting	public service, business
  Name	William H. Leitz
  Occupation	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Druggist
  Residence	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Presbyterian
  Occupation	1901	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Druggist
  Residence	92 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-56188
  Died	21 Mar 1936	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 10]
  	Cause: Acute Bronchitis
  Buried	24 Mar 1936	Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  Person ID	I56188	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Mayor Morris Crater Lutz, Esq.,   b. CALC 28 Feb 1806, near, Elizabethtown, , New Jersey ,   d. 20 Aug 1876, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Anna Neff,   b. 1815, Barton Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Mar 1877, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F32883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Jane Stuart,   b. 12 Oct 1852, Onondaga, Brant Co., Ontario ,   d. 1 Jan 1929, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 76 years)
  Married	9 Feb 1876	Burford, Burford Twp., Brant Co., Ontario   [11]
  Children	1. Ethel Lorne Lutz,   b. 6 May 1879, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Sep 1886, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 7 years)
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F15616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lutz, Wm. H. druggist. Is a native of Galt. Born, 1843. Mr. Lutz, whose parents were among the first settlers here, has been member of the Town Council since 1879. Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881 ________________________________________- Mr Lutz death was front-page news in Galt. He passed away quietly seven on 21 March in the hospital. He had lived for fifty years in the house he had built on the brow of the hill on Cambridge street. He was mayor 1890-91 (two terms) after many years as an alderman. He served on the hospital board for many years, helping to start it, and was a founder of the Galt and Preston Railway. He served on many committees. His final years were spent in retirement, a great contrast to his active public life earlier. He was born 87 years earlier, the son of Morris C. Lutz in Galt. Morris had also been mayor of Galt in the 1850s. w.H. was a druggist for many years but ended his career as managing director of the Galt Art Metal Company; he left that position because of ill health. He was a member of Central Presbyterian church and a freemason. He married Mary Jane Stuart, who died in 1929. He was survived by his sister, Mrs Moncur of Peterborough, a brother Peter Lutz of St Paul MN, and two nephews William Moncur of Toronto and Coleman Moncur of Peterborough and a niece, Mrs William Kent of Toronto. Galt Reporter 23 Mar 1936 ________________________ William Lutz was born in Galt on June 20, 1848, the son of Morris C. Lutz and Annie Neff. Mr. Lutz operated a drug store on Main St. and a malt house on Ainslie St. South before serving as the managing director of the Galt Art Metal Co. from 1919 to 1928. He was a member of the Galt Hospital Board from its inception in 1888 to his retirement in 1929, acting as secretary of that board. Mr. Lutz was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Galt Collegiate Institute board for two years and served on the Galt council as a councillor in 1886 and 1887, as second deputy reeve in 1889 and as mayor of Galt in 1890 and 1891.He served on the town Waterworks committee when Galt's municipal water system was being planned and was influential in the committee decision to get the water from artesian wells instead of the river. He was also instrumental in the building of the Galt and Preston Street Railway in 1894 and served, until 1919, as the secretary of that company, later renamed the Grand River Railway. Mr. Lutz died on March 21, 1936 and is buried in Mount View Cemetery. Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge _____________ W.H. Lutz, Chemist and Druggist, North Water Street - The name of Lutz is one that sounds familiar, and is closely interwoven with the early history of Galt, being that of a gentleman who was a prominent member of society in the early settler and alter days. The above named gentleman, Mr. W.H. Lutz is a son of the early settler, and was born and educated in Galt, and started in his present business 13 years ago as a chemist and druggist. The premises occupied for the business are 24x46 feet in dimensions and two stories in height, and substantially built of stone, and eligibly situated on the corner of Main and North Water Streets. Here will be found a full line of fresh and pure drugs, chemicals, toilet and fancy articles, perfumes, imported and domestic soaps, proprietary medicines, etc., and a special branch of the business is the compounding of physicians' prescriptions and difficult formulae, every precaution being taken against mistakes by the use of modern apparatus. Mr. Lutz also manufactures extracts and such articles. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, and is at present a member of the Town Council. Industries of Canada Historical and Commercial Sketches Hamilton and Environs 1886 ______________________ GALT DAILY REPORTER, MON. MAR. 23, 1936: W. H. LUTZ DIED SATURDAY NIGHT Born In Galt, Former Mayor, Sect-Treas. Hospital Trust For 41 Years: A public spirited and prominent citizen of Galt for many years, William H. Lutz, passed away in Galt Hospital Saturday evening at seven o'clock. He had been a patient at the hospital for the past five weeks. Mr. Lutz was in his 88th year and death was attributed to a general breakdown common to advanced years. He was born in Galt and during his life here he was active in the industrial and public life of the city, having been mayor, alderman, member of the G. I. C. board, and charter member of the hospital board. Citizens of Galt are now benefiting from the time he spent and the Keen judgement he used while serving the interests of the city in its early days. For the past 50 years he had resided in the house he built on the brow of Cambridge Street hill, an ideal location from where he could view almost the entire city in which he passed his life of 87 years. Of a quiet personality, Mr. Lutz of late years has lived a retired life almost in direct contrast to the earlier period of his life when he was active in business and organizing public enterprises. A son of Morris C. Lutz, first mayor of Galt who occupied the chair in 1857-58-59, W. H. Lutz followed the precedent set by his father and entered in public life. For a number of years he served as an alderman and then in 1980 became mayor. In 1891 he was elected for a second term. As alderman he served on the now extinct waterworks commission, and it was then that Galt's water system was laid down. Heated controversy arose at the time between proponents of Sudden's Lake and Mill Creek as sources of water supply. Non-partisan and with sound judgement, Mr. Lutz was instrumental in upsetting the apple cart of interested parties and influencing the commission to decide to get water from artesian wells. For 41 years he was active as secretary of the hospital board, retiring from that position in 1929, due to illness. For a number of years he was the only surviving member of the original board which was elected in 1888 when the first meeting of the hospital trust was held in the council chambers. The men elected at the meeting to plan the construction of a hospital and guide it through the difficult early years were: Hon. Jas. Young, Pres., John Goldie, vice-pres., J. M. Lumsden, treas., W. H. Lutz, sect., and Jas. Warnock, Robert Gilholm, J. C. Dietrich, Robert Turnbull, Adam Warnock, trustees. Mr. Lutz was the last of his pioneer group. During his incumbency as secretary he served under seven presidents, namely Hon. James Young, Adam Warnock, Robert Gilholm, David Spiers, G. C. Eastman, W. B. Powell and Jas. Cowan. In private business he was identified as managing director of the Galt Art Metal Co., serving in that capacity from 1919 until the end of 1928, the same illness which forced his retirement from the hospital board demanded cessation of his active business live. Formerly he had operated a drug store at the present site of the Bank of Toronto and had also operated a malt house located on Ainalie street south. Of an enterprising nature, he was one of the organizers of the Galt and Preston railway. The two towns were not then connected by rail, and Mr. Lutz, mayor at the time, gave the local men promoting the enterprise his official encouragement. Until 1919 he served as secretary of the road which became the Grand River and L. E. & N. company before he retired from the position. For two years her served as a member of the G. C. I. board. In religion he had been a life long member of Central Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lutz was also a member of Alma Lodge, A. F. & A. M., joining in 1873 and being master of the lodge in 1877 and '78. Mr. Lutz's wife, Mary Jane Stuart, passed away January, 1929, and he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Moncur, Peterborough, one brother, Peter Lutz, St. Paul, Minn., two nephews, Wm. Moncur, Toronto, Coleman Moncur, Peterborough, and one niece, Mrs. Wm. Kent, Toronto. The funeral service will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2: 30 o'clock from his late residence, 92 Cambridge Street, to Mount View Cemetery for interment.

  
  

• Sources

  [S259] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1901, Galt (Town/Ville) C-2 Page 15. [S336] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1881, Galt Division 1 Page 89. [S313] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1851, Pg.42. [S793] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Galt Reporter (1846-1973), "Obituary of W. H. Lutz," 23 Mar 1936. [S1838] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1861, Galt 1861 Div. 1 Page 8. [S1800] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1891, Section 2 Page 140. [S2697] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge, Mount View Cemetery Internet Link. In memory of William H. Lutz/ died Mar. 21, 1936 - aged 87 years/ Mary Jane/ beloved wife of W. H. Lutz/ died Jan. 1, 1929 - aged 77 years/ Ethel Lorne their daughter/ died Sept. 2, 1886 - aged 7 years/ LUTZ/ [S1450] Waterloo County Councillors A Collective Biography. [S2301] Book - Galt Summer Carnival Thursday & Friday June 12th and 13th 1890 [booket]. [S2491] aaa Vit - ON - Death Registration, death certificate 034856 (1936). Name:William H Lutz Gender:Male Age:87 Birth Date:abt 1849 Birth Place:Ontario Death Date:21 Mar 1936 Death Place:Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Father:Morris Lutz Mother:Annie Neff [S2488] aaa Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 001144 (1876). Name:William H Lutz Age:27 Birth Year:abt 1849 Birth Place:Galt Marriage Date:9 Feb 1876 Marriage Place:Brant, Ontario, Canada Father:Morris C Lutz Mother:Anna Lutz Spouse:Mary Jane Stuart

  
  

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  Born - 20 Jun 1848 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Presbyterian - 1851 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Free Church - 1861 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - Councillor - Galt - 1879 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Merchant - 1881 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - Councillor - Galt - 1886 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Chemist and Druggist - 1886 - North Water St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - Mayor - Galt - 1888 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - 2nd Deputy Reeve - Galt - 1889 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - Mayor of Galt - 1890 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Endorsement - Messer and Ward's Dress Shirt - 1890 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Druggist - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Presbyterian - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Druggist - 1901 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - - 92 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: Acute Bronchitis - 21 Mar 1936 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - 24 Mar 1936 - Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth