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ID: I05342 Name: Alva Bennett Fretz 1 Sex: M Birth: 23 JUL 1858 in Hardwick Township, Warren County, New Jersey 1 Religion: Strongly inclined toward the Christian Church Religion: member of the Congregational church at Cedar Grove, New Jersey 2 Event: Picture 3 Event: Picture Note click picture for larger image Residence: Cedar Grove, New Jersey 2 Education: the academy and the Collegiate Institute at Newton, New Jersey, and the Select school and the academy at Stillwater, New Jersey 2 Occupation: In 1876 he began teaching and followed that profession successfully for nineteen years. In the Spring of 1895 he was appointed to a position in the invoice bureau of the United States Custom House, port of New York. 2 Note: His early school days were spent in the Academy and Collegiate Institute, both of Newton, New Jersey. He next attended the Select school of Rev. T. B. Condit, at Stillwater, until the doors of that institution were closed forever. He then attended the Academy in that village until the age of sixteen, when he left school and for a year worked as day laborer, after which he continued his studies under his tutor, Miss Anna M. Condit. During this his last year at home he decided to make teaching his profession, which he followed with but few periods of relaxation. He began his career as a teacher in 1876, was been successful as such, and in 1892 was Principal of a Graded school in Essex County, New Jersey. He was always a profound reader and an indefatigable student. He held positions of trust and honor in various social, Dramatic, Musical and Literary Societies to which he belonged and received many encomiums of merit, ability and talent from his patrons and superiors. He was a member of Arcana Lodge No. 60, F. and A. M. at Boonton, New Jersey. Father: Martin Fretz b: 12 SEP 1808 in Bedminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on the old Fretz homestead Mother: Margaret E. (Wintamute) Hill , widow b: 30 APR 1817 Marriage 1 Lillian Isabel Williams b: 15 JAN 1862 in Hampton, Sussex County, New Jersey Married: 1881 2 Children Harold Norman Fretz b: 30 JAN 1882 Arthur Raymond Fretz b: 25 APR 1885 Ethel May Fretz b: 2 AUG 1888 Leo Fretz b: 11 JUN 1891 Hazel Dorothy Fretz b: 8 MAR 1894 Sources: Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Author: Fretz, A. J. Publication: Harleysville, Pennsylvania: News Printing House. 1896. Note: full title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated with Eighty-seven Portraits and Other Illustrations Repository: Media: Book Page: page 484 Title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Author: Fretz, A. J. Publication: Harleysville, Pennsylvania: News Printing House. 1896. Note: full title: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated with Eighty-seven Portraits and Other Illustrations Repository: Media: Book Page: page 485 Title: A Brief History of John Valentine KRATZ and a Complete Genealogical Family Register with Biographies of his Descendants Author: Fretz, A. J. Publication: Elkhart, Indiana: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1892. Note: full title: A Brief History of John Valentine Kratz, and a complete genealogical register with biographies of his descendants from the earliest available record to the present time. With portraits and other illustrations. Repository: Media: Book

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