Bio: B.F. KINZER, Lancaster County, PA

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                      BIOGRAPHICAL ANNUALS OF LANCASTER COUNTY

VOL I, PAGE 355

	B. F. KINZER. 
	
Prominent and highly esteemed around the leading citizens of  New Holland is B. F. 
Kinzer, the worthy representative of an old and honored family of Lancaster county, 
which has long been identified with her agricultural interests.

	The Kinzer family originated in Germany, where great-grandfather, Jacob Kinzer 
was born, coming to Lancaster county in 1729, where he found pioneer conditions, being 
one of the early settlers. Here he founded a family, which has done honor to their 
ancestor, and now ranks with the most highly respected in the State. Michael, the son 
of Jacob Kinzer, reared a family of seven children: Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, 
Margaret, William, George and Jacob, all of whom became respected members of society, 
lived agricultural lives, and were connected with the Lutheran church.

	William Kinzer became a prosperous farmer in Earl township, married Katherine 
Weidler, and they reared a family of nine children: Louisa C., who married Amos Lemon; 
Caroline M., who died single; Maria, who married Abraham Smoker; Elizabeth E., single; 
B. F., the subject of this biography, born April 20, 1825; Lucetta A., who married 
Mathias S. Hurst; William W., who died October 1, 1900; Margaret W., who married John 
Wallace; and Lydia A., deceased.

	Born and reared on a farm, B. F. Kinzer has been an enthusiastic farmer all his 
life, passing forty years as one of the successful agriculturists of Lancaster county. 
With a five-dollar bill in his pocket, he started out in youth to earn his own way in 
the world, and has succeeded beyond expectation, being now one of the county's 
substantial men, the owner of four well-improved farms, and identified with much of the 
progress of his township. For a number of years he filled township offices, and is now 
one of the directors in the New Holland and Downingtown Railroad.

	The estimable lady who became the wife of B. F. Kinzer, in 1853, was Miss H. 
Caroline Youndt, born Nov. 15, 1825, a daughter of Henry Youndt, of East Earl township, 
and she still survives, in good health, and it is the wish of the neighborhood that 
both she and husband may be spared many years. The family born to Mr. and Mrs. Kinzer 
consisted of three children, the eldest daughter Maria Magdalena, remaining with her 
parents, both Catherine W. and H.Caroline having died in childhood.

	Mr Kinzer is a consistent member of the Lutheran church, and is a man who has 
lived uprightly, doing his full duty, in every relation of life, thus being one of the 
representative men of a county where the majority are honest, industrious and law 
abiding.