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- Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 8/4/1952
A resident of Lockport all his life though his duties with
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service took him to
Niagara Falls as well as many other parts of the country. C.
Austin Foltz. 61. of 245 South Transit St.. died Sunday morning
at 1:45 at Lockport City Hospital shortly after suffering a heart
attack at his home. He had been ill for some time with a heart
condition.
Mr. Foltz, who had been in the
Immigration Service 33 years, had
been officer in charge at the Rainbow,
Whirlpool Rapids and Queenston-
Lewiston bridges and the Niagara
- On - The - Lake - t o - Lewiston
ferry since September, 1637. His
first assignment in June. 1919, was
on a temporary basis as stenographer
at the Niagara Falls office, ad-
Joining the Lower Arch bridge, now
the Whirlpool Rapids bridge. Later
he was a member of the U. S.
Border Patrol before his appointment
as an immigration Inspector.
Following two years' work
at the bridges ta the Falls
district. Mr. Foltz began a long
period of Investigation which
took him to Detroit. New York
City and other sections of the
Metropolitan New York area,
Buffalo and Scranton, P l y -
month and WiIkes-Barre, Pa.
There he worked on cases of
alien-smuggling, white-slave racketeering,
ship-Jumping and count-
less other immigration law viola-
tions. In subsequent years he was
senior officer at the former Falls
View bridge and in September 1931
was placed in charge of warrant
work and prosecutions at the serv-
ice's district headquarters, Buffalo.
A period as assistant officer in
charge at Niagara Falls and of-
ficer in charge of the Peace
Bridge, Black Rock and Ft. Erie-
to-Buffalo ferry followed before his
appointment to his last post.
Born in Lockport March 2, 1891,
Mr. Foltz was the son of the late
William M. and Anna Louise
O'Connell Foltz. His father was a
cigar manufacturer and a former
Lockport alderman.
Mr. Foltz attended the old High
Street and Intermediate Schools
and received his stenography cer-
tificate in 1904 from the former
Ryan Business Institute in Lock-
port. For a number ofo years he
worked as a stenographer at the
office of the Iroquois Gas Corpora-
tion at Buffalo and the Carbor-
undum Commpany, Niagara Falls.
Returning to Lockport, he was in
charge of the payroll department
at the Simonds Saw and Steel Com-
pany plant.
After a year's service during
World War I in the United
states Army at Camp Beaure-
gard, La., he returned to Si-
monds for a short time be-
fore entering the immigration
service.
He was a member of B. Leo
Dolan Post 410, American Legion,
and an honoraary member of the
Niagara Falls and Tonawanda Po-
lice and sheriff's Departments. He
was a member of the North End
Athletic club and during his youth
was a star football and baseball
player as well as a member of a
relay racing team.
Mr. Foltz is survived by his
wife, Mary E. Blackley Foltz; two
sons, Charles A. Jr., and Paul;
five daughters, Mrs. Norman H.
Bradley, Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs.
Harold Mosher, Miss Georgene M.
Foltz, all of Lockport and Mrs.
Walter F. Shulock, Vero Beach,
Fla.; also 11 grandchildren and a
brother, Roger H. Foltz of Lock-
port.
Services will be held Wednesday
at 9 o'clock at Kennedy Funeral
Home, 122 Walnut St., and 9:30
at St. Patrick's Church. Burial
will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Abt 1891 - 1952 (~ 61 years)