HARTZ FOUNDATION

The founder of the Hartz Foundation, Lester B. Hartz, was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1895. L.B. attended elementary and high school in Duluth and after graduating from high school, he served in World War I with the First Army in France as a munitions truck driver. After serving in the Army, Hartz attended the Duluth Business University (DBU) where he studied accounting. For the next four years he worked as a bookkeeper or with credit associations. For one season he taught accounting at DBU. L.B. also did some farming and as a result was soon into a self-started produce and food wholesaling business with a territory across northern Minnesota and North Dakota... Organized in 1957 by L.B. Hartz and his family, the Hartz Foundation provides grant funds to various projects in and around the community of Thief River Falls, Minnesota... To enhance and improve the quality of life for people within the Hartz trade area by helping to fund projects.

Also known as: Hartz