Frantz, Ezra A. Papers, 1906-1960

Church of the Brethren

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One of the early churches in Delaware County, the Union Grove Church of the Brethren was once called Mississinewa German Baptist Church. The denomination was known as Dunker, or German Baptist Brethern since earlier leaders were from Dunkard settlements in Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania, and the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. From the description of Records, 1850-1965. (Ball State University Library). WorldCat record id: 34288119 This corporate body was known earl...

Frantz, Joe Bertram, 1917-

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Historian Joe Bertram Frantz spent his childhood in Weatherford, Texas before attending Weatherford College and the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1940). He began his professional career at the San Jacinto Museum before World War II intervened. Frantz served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and fought in the Pacific Theater. After the war he returned to Texas and studied under legendary University of Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb. Frantz's doctoral dissertat...

Frantz, Ezra A.

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Ezra Allen Frantz (1875-1964) was born to Michael and Barbara Brubaker Frantz in Pleasant Hill, Illinois. In 1896, he married Mary Lavanna Buckley, with whom he had five children, including historian Joe B. Frantz. After dissolving his manufacturing partnership with his brother Peter, Frantz and his family moved to Texas in 1900. He soon acquired the Standard Bale Wire Buckle Company, which manufactured cotton-bale wire buckles. Frantz also patented a piston ring, a scra...

Frantz Buckle Company (Weatherford, Tex.)

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Frantz family.

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