BIO:  John KUNTZ, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 85

JOHN KUNTZ, son of John and Susanah (Harbold) Kuntz, was born in Adams County in 
1835, and is of German descent.  At the age of fifteen he began the carpenter’s 
trade with Jacob Haybarger, serving three years.  He then began business for 
himself and has since followed the trade in connection with farming and lime-
burning, and for twenty-three years he has kept eighteen men in his employ.  His 
farm comprises forty acres under cultivation and ten acres of timber.  He has 
been largely interested in the copper business, and has traveled through New 
Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, inspecting ore.  He was also one of the 
organizers of the Dillsburg Copper, Lead & Iron Company, of which at present he 
is director.  In 1858 he married Anna M., daughter of Barnet M. Myers, of 
Franklin Township, and to this union two children have been born:  Lewis Carroll 
and Susannah E. (deceased).  Mr. and Mrs. Kuntz are members of the Evangelical 
church.  He was one of the principal men connected with the building of the 
church in Beavertown, and in 1881 was elected local minister.