Jacob Kuntz, Sr.
Jacob Kuntz, Sr., barber, Dayton, is the son of Phillip and Catherine Margaret (King) Kunz, natives of Bozen Bark, province of Rhine Byrne, Bavaria. They were the parents of six children, three girls and three boys. The father, who was born in 1800, died at the age of sixty-five years, and the mother died in 1863, aged sixty-four years. Jacob, our subject, came to America with one brother, in 1845, and landed in New York, from whence he went to New Orleans, but shortly afterward returned to New York. He soon after located in Sandusky, Ohio, and in 1848 came to Dayton, where he worked in a barber shop for two and a half years, after which he opened a shop of his own. He was married January 18, 1852, to Louisa Catharine Ficht, daughter of Frederick Ficht, of Dayton, by whom he had ten children, six boys and four girls, of whom five boys and three girls now survive. Mr. kunz has been a great traveler in his time, having in his youth traversed the whole of France and Switzerland, and in his riper years a large portion of the United States. He was the Coroner of Montgomery County from 1872-1876 inclusive. He is a member of Schiller Lodge, I.O.O.F., that being the only secret organization to which he now belongs.
From History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1882