Harvey Centennial Book spells it KLATZ and daughter Evelyn's obit spelled it GLOTZ
Baptismal document list name as Joannes. Godparents are Joannes Georg Vogler and Anna Catharina Joschim. Death record in 1784 lists a Joannes as 72, therefore, born in 1711 the same as this Joannes. Birth of children list father as Georg or Joannes Georg. There is another Klotz family line in Undergrombach which does not have Joannes or Georg born in this year. So probability this is the same person.
John Klotz was born in Marienthal Russia in 1877, the son of George and Eva. He immigrated to the USA with his family in 1887. They settled in Ipswitch, SD and later moved to Bowdle and Hosmer in 1890. In 1900 he married Helena Senger. They had three children in the USA one was Andrew (my grandfather). They came to Canada in 1905 to Dundurn, Sask. In 1907 they moved to Allan Sask. John had 120 acres of land but turned it over for a village site, which is now the town Allan. He worked at the lumber yard and implement shop. Sold this a d took over the international harvester Agency and the Red and White Store. He carried on this business until his retirement. He was on the Allan School Board and Fire Department. He played the violin and ran the funeral home. Helena died 1945. Four years later he Married Rosemary Wolf. He Moved to Burnaby, BC where he passed away in 1961. My father, John G. Klotz was the fourth of nine children of George Klotz and Eva Gisi. He was born in Marienthal, South Russia in 1877. With his family he immigrated to the United States in May of 1887 to Ipswich, later to Bowdle and then to Hosmer, all in South Dakota. In October 1900 he married Helena Senger. He came to Canada in March 1905 by train in a freight car with some livestock, machinery and furniture, along with other immigrants, arriving at Dundurn. He came to Allan with a team of horses and wagon to purchase the south half 3-34-1 -W3rd. Lumber was hauled from Dundurn and a barn was built. He went back to Hosmer in the fall of 1906 to get his family, namely my mother, sisters Barbara and Frances and myself (I was five years old). Our family spent the winter of 1906-1907 in the lean-to of the barn which served as residence and where a fourth child, Mary, was born. The Allan district was all prairie. Settlers arrived from Europe and U.S.A. to break land and put in crops. Our land was cultivated and a house built in1907. Dundurn was the closest village until 1907 when the railroad came through and then Allan began to build up. My father turned over approximately one hundred and twenty acres of land for a village site which is now the town of Allan - situated on the north side of the railway. This same fall he started handling lumber for E. J. Meilicke and Sons Ltd., of Dundurn. The lumber was unloaded in his yard and sold from there until a lumberyard was built the following year and where he worked until 1912. A store was also in operation under the name of Klotz and Goetz and at this time, the McCormick Implement Agency was taken over. So as to be able to look after the implement end of the business, my father submitted his resignation to Mr. Meilicke who, however, succeeded in having them form a Limited Company which took over their Lumber and Deering Implement business. The lumber business at Allan and Zeima was purchased and the new company was named The A to Z Lumber and Supply Co. Ltd. In the spring of 1916 my father sold the lumber business and took on the International Harvester Agency along with the general store, which in the course of time, operated under Klotz and Senger, then Klotz's Store and later the Red and White Store. He carried on this business with the assistance of his children until his retirement. This building is at present the Elks Lodge. He was in business in Allan for forty years. He was chairman of the Allan School Board from 1913 to 1920 and over the period of years, also the Justice of Peace and Chief of the Fire Department. As a violinist he contributed to many social activities of his time. He was in charge of funeral arrangements which he took over from Mr. Albert Fraser and personally built many of the coffins and assisted in preparing bodies for burial. The hearse, which he used, is now in the North Battleford Museum. My mother died in Saskatoon in 1945. My father later married Mrs. Rosemary Wolf and in 1949 he retired to South Burnaby, British Columbia. He was a lover of the soil and occasionally returned to Saskatchewan; his last visit being in 1960 arriving at Humboldt on time to accompany some family and friends to the Pilgrimage at Mount Carmel. He passed away in 1961. (From Allan History Book)
JOHN, after completing his education, worked in Eston as an accountant and book-keeper with a law firm. Ill health made it necessary for him to move to Saskatoon. After regaining his health he opened up his business under the name of Allan Agencies. As a point of interest he was agent for Wawanesa Insurance which was in the family for three generations. His office was originally the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Senger. He passed away in 1976
Death Certificate says birth Oct 3 1895 and 1901 Census says Oct 25 1895.