From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 448-449.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


ALBERT STOLZE

Albert Stolze, a well-known young grocer of Wheeling, was born at St. 
Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, February 21, 1857, the son of 
Henry and Dora Stolze, natives of Germany, who were married at St. 
Clairsville.  The father died near that place when Albert was six 
years of age, and immediately afterward the widow and her children 
removed to Wheeling, where she still resides.  The children, of whom 
the subject of this sketch is the oldest, Albert, Henry J., Charles 
F., and John C., are all residents of Wheeling.  Albert Stolze, in 
youth, worked as a machinist, beginning at the age of fifteen years, 
and subsequently he was in the express business for ten years.  In 
September, 1889, he opened his present establishment, as the 
successor of Stolze & Bayha, at 1115 Market street, which ranks among 
the leading retail grocery houses of the city.  He is an energetic 
and enterprising business man, and is popular with all.  He is a 
member of the German Lutheran church. 


(Linda Fluharty)