Alfred Jean Chartz
(1851 - 1943)


was born February 9, 1851 in La Baye du Febvre, Quebec, Canada and became a Nevada journalist,
businessman, and lawyer expert in mining and water litigation. As a boy, he came with his family to
California but ran away and came to Virginia City, Nevada, in 1869. He worked a number of odd jobs
and became a pressman for a paper in Carson City and then in Eureka. He studied law while in Eureka,
was admitted to the bar in 1894, and was a practicing attorney for forty years.

Alfred Chartz also was involved in banking. He was director of the Bullion and Exchange
Bank & Trust in Carson City until 1907, and organized the Farmers Bank in Minden. He held a
number of mining claims and ranches. He married Emma Rader in 1877 and they had two sons, John
MacGregor Chartz and Carl W. Chartz, and two daughters who survived. Alfred Chartz died 1943 in
Carson City, Nevada