This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi2.2ACIB/6262 Message Board Post: 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’ 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, 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 t! he 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. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor