Background
Eltzholtz, Carl Frederick was born on October 10, 1840 in Brahetrolleborg, Denmark. Son of Johan C. and Tobia M. (Lange) Eltzholtz.
Eltzholtz, Carl Frederick was born on October 10, 1840 in Brahetrolleborg, Denmark. Son of Johan C. and Tobia M. (Lange) Eltzholtz.
Educated Public school, Denmark, and later as a nautical institute, Svendborg, Denmark, from which graduate. Sailor several years. 2d officer; participated in Danish-German war, 1864.
War-medal.
Clergyman Methodist Episcopal Church, since 1867. serving churches at Coon Prairie, Wisconsin, Ashippun. Wisconsin, Racine, Wisconsin, Cambridge, Wisconsin, Chicago, LaCrosse. Wisconsin, Evanston, Illinois, Milwaukee, Oakland, California, Veile, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Horsens, Denmark.
Pastor First Norwegian and Danish Methodist Episcopal Church, Cambridge, Wisconsin, 1906-1912.
District superintendent among the Norwegian and Danish people 6 years. Editor Den Kristelige Talsmand, Norwegian and Danish Methodist paper, 7 years On December 12, 1878, started the Danish Temperance Movement, now having about 200,000 members.
Author: The Child—Its Relation to God and the Church. Home: Los Angeles, California.
Married Isabella Williams, June 15, 1872 (died 1917).