Husband Moses Abraham Foltz 1 2
Born: 2 Jul 1837 - Letterkenny Twp, Franklin Co, PA 1 3
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Father: Christian Foltz (1790-1862) 4
Mother: Hannah Keefer (1796-1851) 5
Marriage: 6 Nov 1860 6
Wife Charlotte Sophia Etter 6 7
Born: 18 Nov 1842 3
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Father: Samuel Etter (1803-1871) 8
Mother: Susan Greenawalt (1809-1892) 9
Children
1 F Helen M. Foltz 6 9
Born: 11 Jan 1862 9
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Died: Mar 1862 9
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M William Etter Foltz 6 9
Born: 1 Nov 1863 9
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Spouse: Minnie Scott ( - ) 9
3 F Emma May Foltz 6 9
Born: 26 Dec 1865 9
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Spouse: Charles William Cremer ( - ) 9
Marr: 15 Apr 1891 9
4 M Herbert Christian Foltz 6 10
Born: 1 Jan 1869 10
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5 M Edward Greenawalt Foltz 6 10
Born: 18 Mar 1872 10
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General Notes: Husband - Moses Abraham Foltz
He was educated in the public schools and at Wilkesbarre Academy. In April, 1855, he entered the office of the Transcript at Chambersburg to learn the printing trade. In December of the same year the paper was merged into the Repository, in the office of which he remained until he completed his trade in 1858. He was appointed foreman of the office three months before the expiration of his apprenticeship, and held this position until April, 1859, when he purchased the Times newspaper in partnership with P. Dock Frey. The paper was sold to Sellers & Kennedy during the Presidential campaign of 1860, Mr. Foltz remaining as foreman of the printing office. In 1861, he became superintendent of the printing office in Chambersburg, conducted in behalf of the Reformed Publication Board, and retained this position until the burning of Chambersburg in 1864, when the publications of the Reformed Church were removed to Philadelphia. In 1863, during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, he was compelled to do printing for the Confederate headquarters, and in 1864, he was one of the hostages held by General McCausland for the money demand made upon the borough of Chambersburg, previous to the burning of the town. In the winter of 1864-65, he worked as pressman in the Repository office. In the spring of 1865, he formed a second partnership with P. Dock Frey, engaging in the hat and shoe business. He retired from the firm a year later, and embarked in the job printing business in May, 1866. He published a monthly advertising sheet, The Country Merchant, 1866-69, and in July, 1869, established Public Opinion, a Republican newspaper, of which he was the editor and proprietor for thirty years. This newspaper enterprise proved a great success, and under Mr. Foltz' direction Public Opinion became one of the leading local papers of the State. It was bright, newsy, outspoken in politics, and enterprising in the collection and preparation of matter interesting to its readers. Its pages were especially rich in contributions relating to the history of the town and county. Among its occasional contributors on historical subjects was the late Benjamin Chambers, and among the important series of papers published in its columns were "Chambersburg in the Olden Time," written by Dr. William C. Lane, and "Reminiscences of the War," compiled by Jacob Hoke. Dr. Lane's articles formed the basis of all subsequent researches relating to the early history of Chambersburg. Mr. Hoke's reminiscences were afterward published in pamphlet form, and became part of the permanent literature of the county. The paper was a success from the start. It was a positive influence in politics, its views being copied all over the State. The business and material interests of the county and county-seat found a warm friend in Mr. Foltz and his paper. Public Opinion was the advocate of all the important new railroad enterprises in the county, of the erection of the water works and the electric light plant in Chambersburg, and of the transfer of the Taylor works, later the Engineering Company, and the Wolf & Haymaker establishment, later the Wolf Company, to Chambersburg. Mr. Foltz tried to make his journal a distinctly county paper, and while Republican in politics he never hesitated to assert its independence when the public welfare seemed to require it. He frequently represented his party in county, district and State conventions, but never held public office until 1893-94, when he was a Representative from the county in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He was appointed postmaster at Chambersburg, March 1, 1899. He was one of the original members of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, and was active in promoting historical research in the county. He read a number of valuable papers before the society, those relating to the early German and Scotch-Irish settlers being especially important. All these papers were printed. Upon the organization of the Historical Society he was chosen its second vice-president, and in 1903-04, he was its president as the successor of President Samuel A. Martin, D. D. He was an elder in Zion's Reformed Church.