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Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOHN KELLER
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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WILLIAM KENNEDY
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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WASHINGTON G. KISHLER
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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CONRAD KNATZ
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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FRANK KOEHL
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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ANDREW KOHLER
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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HENRY KOOP
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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Planing Mill
of
William Krapf,
Park Street,
Wapakoneta, Auglaize Co., OH |
WILLIAM KRAPF
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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R. I. KREBS, M.D.
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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WILLIAM KRUSE
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and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 -
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HENRY C KUENZEL,
a member of the firm of Bakhaus & Kuenzel proprietors of
the flour and woolen mills of New Bremen, is a practical,
energetic and thorough man of business, and most reliable in all
transactions. He is a native of the Buckeye State, born in
Dayton on the 7th of July, 1852, and his parents, John C. and
Maria (Wunderlick) Kuenzel, were natives of Germany.
The elder Mr. Kuenzel was born at Marklenthen,
Bavaria, on the 5th of September, 1823, and spent fifteen years
of his life in the schoolroom, where he received a thorough
knowledge of those branches necessary as a foundation on which
to build a permanent structure. When not in the
schoolroom, he was engaged in honest, useful labor, and thus in
early life he became possessed of advanced ideas and principles,
which remained with him through life, and which were plainly
observed by all with whom he came in contact throughout the
whole of a successful business career. He was a great
reader, often burning the midnight oil when an interesting book
was before him and he was also a man of untiring and unwearied
industry, which never fagged or faltered.
Mr. Kuenzel emigrated to the United States with
his father and the remainder of the family in 1808 and
landed at New Orleans, but immediately came to New Bremen,
Auglaize County, Ohio, where those sterling traits of character
proved of great value in the wilderness. Learning the
tanner's trade of his father, he engaged in business with a will
that never said "go," but come." Although he started with
but fifty cents, by strict attention to business and by
uprightness and honorable dealing, when he sold the tannery, in
1870, he was one of the wealthiest men in the town. He was
married, in 1817, to Miss Wunderlick and thirteen
children were given them, five of whom survive. Mr.
Kuenzel was ever closely allied with all enterprises for the
improvement of the town and county, and was public-spirited and
enterprising to an unusual degree.
For many years Mr. Kuenzel was a member
of the Board of Education of the town, and with a zeal that knew
no cessation, he, with a few others, was successful in clearing
the way so that all children of the township had the advantage
of a good education. At the time of his death, in
September, 1879, he was engaged in the manufacture of flour and
woolen goods, in which business he has been succeeded by his
sons. Honored and revered by all, in his death the county
lost one of her most valuable citizens. His wife, who came
to this country with her parents at an early date, passed away
in 1870. She was a woman of more than ordinary ability and
well liked for her many womanly virtues.
Henry C. Kuenzel, the second child in order of
birth of the above-mentioned children, attended the district
school and later entered the High School of Dayton, where he
remained two years. There he laid the foundation on which
he builded later at Greer's College, at Dayton. In 1868,
he entered his father's tannery and spent three years in
learning the trade. After this, he worked for W.
Schueltheis, a former partner of his father's, but at that
time the proprietor of a large tannery at Lima, and remained
with him a year. Then he spent two years in Chicago
working at his trade. Returning to New Bremen, he worked
for a short time for his brother-in-law, who in the meantime had
purchased the tannery owned by his father. After this, he
went to Louisville, worked for a year in a tannery there, and
then clerked in a leather store for two years.
In the spring of 1879, after having returned to New
Bremen, he became a partner in the flour and woolen mills at
the time when his father was part owner, and in the fall of that
year, after his father's death, he purchased his father's
interest. The firm then became Bakhaus & Kuenzel,
the individual members of the same being Fred Bakhaus and
Henry and Godfrey Kuenzel. They are doing a
flourishing business. In his political views, Mr.
Kuenzel is an ardent Republican and takes a deep interest in
all political questions. He was a delegate to the State
Convention and had held a number local offices in the township,
such as City Clerk and a member of the City Council. He is
Secretary of the New Bremen Natural Gas Company, is Treasurer of
the Citizens' Building & Loan Association, and is a stockholder
in the Home Oil Company. Socially, he is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Encampment. He is
a thorough, energetic and most competent, painstaking and
reliable business man.
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