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HENRY FRANZ, superintendent, Homestead, was born in 1849, in Pittsburgh, son of John Franz, a native of Germany, who came to America at the age of eighteen years, and became a well-known contractor in Pittsburgh, where he held several offices and was active in the organization of the republican party. He married Caroline Shram, a native of France, who bore him five children: Henry, William, John, Emma and Eliza. Henry received a common-school education; early in life entered the glasshouse, and later had charge of the moldshop for Canvill, Jones & Co. In Pittsburgh he married Margaret Phlug, a native of Beaver county, Pa. In April, 1887, Mr. Franz came to Homestead, where he is superintendent of the Windsor Glass-works, which was organized in August, 1886, by George Trautman, Robert Brown, William H. Aldred, George Boton and J. W. Doubleday. Of these, George Trautman is president, W. H. Aldred, secretary, and Charles H. Reed, general manager. They employ nearly two hundred hands, and principally manufacture table ware. Mr. Franz is a republican. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., Red Men and other societies.