Samuel Bentz
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Samuel Bentz
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Samuel Bentz (1792–1850) was an American fraktur artist. A native of Cocalico, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Bentz was the son of Reverend Peter Bentz and Anna Maria Caffroth Bentz; his father, an itinerant farmer, joiner, and unordained Lutheran preacher, committed suicide in 1818, and his mother was forced to raise him on her own. He became a schoolmaster in the vicinity of Ephrata. Shortly before his death, Peter had established a school on the family land, and Samuel taught there for much
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American painter
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