The Boltz Family Papers consist of materials including correspondence, memoirs, legal and financial documents, photographs, printed material, and certificates of the period from 1871 to 1981. The Boltz Family Papers were donated to the Center for Archival Collections by Thomas W. Boltz of Vienna, Virginia, in groups, in March 1992, May 1993, and October 1993. No restrictions exist on the use of this collection.
Duplication is permitted for the purposes of preservation and research.
The collection was processed and register prepared by Marilyn Levinson, Curator of Manuscripts, in October 1993. Biographical Sketch Abner Boltz came to North Baltimore, Ohio around 1920 as an employee of the Water Works, working for the utility for twenty years until his health failed. He was married to Tryphena Lyon, daughter of William Lyon, and had two sons, Forrest and Harry Emerson, and a daughter, Marian Boltz Brobst. Harry Emerson Boltz, who generally was known by his middle name, was born in 1909 in North Baltimore. Married in 1938 to Edith Chase, daughter of Thomas Justus Chase and Ruth Perry Chase, the Boltz Family consisted of a daughter, Francia Ann, and a son, Thomas W. Emerson Boltz was the founding editor of the North Baltimore News , which he ran from 1933 to 1955.