Emil Ganz
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| Born | August 18, 1838 Walldorf, Thuringia |
| Died | August 6, 1922 (aged 83) San Diego, California |
| Nationality | Sachsen-Meiningen, American |
| Occupation | businessman and mayor of Phoenix, Arizona |
Emil Ganz (August 18, 1838 – August 6, 1922) was a businessman and three-time mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.
Ganz was born on August 18, 1838 in the German town of Walldorf, Thuringia in the then Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, to Meyer and Hannah Ganz. He was educated in his home country before being apprenticed to a tailor at age 14. Ganz immigrated to the United States in 1858, working as a journeyman tailor in New York City and Philadelphia before settling in Cedartown, Georgia.
At the beginning of the American Civil War, Ganz enlisted in the Confederate States Army. As a soldier, he saw action at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and well as being assigned to the defense of Richmond, Virginia. Toward the end of the war, he was captured and spent seven months as a prisoner of war at Elmira Prison.
Becoming a naturalized American citizen in 1866, Ganz moved to Kansas City, Missouri. He joined several cousins who operated a clothing and dry goods company and made alterations to ready made clothing. In 1872, Ganz moved to Las Animas, Colorado where he continued to work as a tailor. There he married a non-Jewish woman named Elizabeth. Two years later he relocated to Prescott, Arizona Territory and become manager of a hotel. In May 1876, he was granted a divorce from his wife. Ganz moved to Phoenix in 1879 and became proprietor for the Bank Exchange hotel. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1885, after which Ganz went into the wholesale liquor business. Ganz married Bertha Angleman of Kansas City, Missouri in 1883. The union produced four children: Sylvan C., Julian, Aileen, and Helen.
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