Pastor Biltz

ID: 462 ~ Source: Baepler, Frederick. Praise for the Past...Faith for the Future: A Centennial History of St. Paul's College in Concordia, MO. 1983. ~ Creator: University of Central Missouri Department of History, C. J. Gifford

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Pastor Biltz

This file appears in: Concordia Missouri Franz J. Biltz

Concordia Missouri Franz J. Biltz

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, C. J. Gifford, Glyne Gee

It is difficult to discuss the history of Concordia without first discussing Franz Julius Biltz. Born in Mittelfrohna, then part of the Kingdom of Saxony now Germany in 1825, Biltz became an orphan at age twelve. His half-sister, Ms. Louise Volker,…