Wenz, Philip P.

PHILIP P. WENZ, Justice of the Peace, Meadville, was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 15, 1845, and is a son of Philip G. and Sarah (Kahler) Wenz, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1858 and raised a family of four children, of whom Philip P. is the youngest. He remained with his parents taking care of them in old age. His mother is still living at the advanced age of seventy-nine; his father passed away in 1884, in his eightieth year. They resided for many years in Meadville. Mr. Wenz was a candidate. for Clerk of the Courts in 1881, and received a flattering vote, though defeated with the rest of the Democratic ticket, but the following spring was elected Justice of the Peace by a large majority. He received his education partly in his native land and partly in Meadville Academy, and Bryant, Stratton & Smith’s Commercial College, where he graduated with honor Mr. Wenz followed the tailoring business in Meadville for many years, until he was elected Justice of the Peace.

Peter Wenz, the eldest son of Philip G. and Sarah (Kahler) Wenz, and brother of the above named, was well known among the Christian people of Meadville about the years 1859 and 1860, as an educated young man, who resigned a lucrative position in the Bavarian Revenue Service, and came to Meadville in the former year and entered Allegheny College to prepare himself for the missionary work. He died in 1860, before he was fully prepared to enter into that field of usefulness, loved and respected by all.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 773-774