WI BIO - Waupaca Co - RITZ, C. H.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1103

C. H. RITZ, miller, Lind [Lind Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, was born 
in 1831 near Metz, in France. He learned the milling business, and in 1856 
came to Waupaca County, ran the Lord Mills one year, and for two years ran 
the Scandinavian Mills. In January 1863 he visited France, came home in 
September, and was drafted; he procured a substitute, and escaped without a 
scratch.

In 1865 C. H. RITZ was married, and he has four children. Mr. [C. H.] RITZ, 
with John ENDLING, built the first store in Amherst [in Portage County, 
adjacent to and west of Waupaca County]. From 1859-1866 he was proprietor of 
the City Mills, now the Woolen Mills. He disposed of that property and 
bought the stave factory at Waupaca [in Waupaca Township, north of and 
adjacent to Lind Township], which he still owns.

In 1876 he moved to Suffolk [Nancemond County], Virginia, and bought a mill, 
but finding it not healthy there, he traded it for the old saw mill and water 
power at his present place. In 1877 he built the St. Paul's Mills, in Lind, 
Waupaca County, Wisconsin, having four run of stone, smutter, separator, and 
purifier, and has a saw mill in connection with the same. He [C. H. RITZ] 
ran a mill in Detroit [Wayne County], Michigan, for some time.

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