William W. Hiltz
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William W. Hiltz was Mayor of Toronto in 1924. During his term, he introduced time-clocks for Toronto city workers. Originally from Georgetown, Ontario, he changed the "S" of his name to "Z" for personal reasons before he became Mayor of Toronto.
William W. Hiltz descended from the Hilts family that previously immigrated from Europe -presumably Germany. The Hilts families left the Palatinate part of Germany with the other Palatinates, because of the wars and famine, and came to the New World. The ancestors of Hiltz arrived in America in the early 1700s. They were pushed back into the western part of New York where they farmed in the Mohawk Valley area. During the American Revolution in 1779, Joseph Hilts as a small child was brought by his grandfather Joseph Petrie to the Niagara area of Ontario, Canada. In Ontario, Joseph's sons received land grants in Esquesing and Erin Townships. That is where they homesteaded and is where William W. Hiltz was born.
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| Preceded by: Charles A. Maguire 1922–1923 |
Mayor of Toronto 1924 |
Succeeded by: Thomas Foster 1925–1927 |
