Berks Co., PA

	Kinser, Kinzer, Kincer, Kinsar, Kinsor Kintzer, Künzer, Kuentzer, Küntzer One Immigrant Family

Berks County, Pennsylvania

From: History of Berks County:

Berks county, Pennsylvania was the initial stopping point for great numbers of immigrants to the American colonies. Among those who settled here in the seventeen hundreds were a number of Küntzer, Kintzer, Kinser families.

John George Kintzer John George Kintzer(#10256) was the emigrant ancestor of one branch of the Kintzer/ Kinser family of Berks County, PA. He first settled along the Potomac river. His estate was long unsettled, and his lands along the river are now occupied by the United States Government.
He was a member of the Reformed Church, and an old line Whig. He had a son, George(10257), who was the father of John Kintzer(10258), and grandfather of Isaac Y. Kintzer (10259). who settled in Marion township, Berks county, and owned several farms there before died aged eighty-six years.

George Kintzer is buried at Host Church. He was married three times, his first wife being a surname was Leiss and they had one son, John. His second marriage was to a Miss Brown, and a second son, Adam, was born. He was married a third time to a Miss Zillars, who also bore him one child,Caroline, who married a Mr. Beidel.

John Kintzer (#10258) was reared on a farm in Marion township, but when a young man moved to Womelsdorf, farming all of his life on the outskirts of that borough, dying in 1886 at the age of ninety.
His wife passed away in 1902, at eighty-four years of age. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Reformed Church where he served many years as a deacon. He and his wife were the parents of four children, viz.: Isaac; John H., Rebecca, who married William Kline, of Reading; and Elizabeth. who married William Reeser, of Reading.
Isaac Y. Kintzer (#10259) was born in Womelsdorf, Berks County PA., Aug. 2, 1837, son of John and Louisa Yeager Kintzer. Educated in the schools of Womelsdorf, he started teaching school when he was just a boy, continuing to teach for twelve terms. He was then elected justice-of-the-peace, where he served for seventeen years, resigning his last commission to accept the position of Deputy Revenue Collector, during Grover Cleveland's first administration. He held this position for four years, and in 1894, was elected warden of the Berks County Prison. Mr. Kintzer was warden for a period of four years, and was most probably one of the most satisfactory wardens the county ever had. During his term as superintendent many improvements were made including the placing of electric lights and a complete change in the sanitary conditions. Both he and his wife took a personal interest in the prisoners under their control, and even so difficult to please a group as prisoners were satisfied with their food. After leaving this position Mr. Kintzer became a grocer for a time doing business at Third and Franklin streets. Before moving to Reading Mr. Kintzer was in the hotel business, for seven years in Womelsdorf, and for one year in Robesonia.

Nicholas Kintzer, the immigrant ancestor of this Berks county Kintzer family was born in Germany Nov.15, 1715. He arrived at Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1730, aboard the Ship "Thistle" before he was fifteen years old and settled in the Tulpehocken township, Berks Co., Pa.
In 1759 he was assessed £16, which, reckoning $2.66 to the Pennsylvania pound, amounted to $42.56. This pioneer settler died Jan. 20, 1794, at seventy-ninth years of age. He is buried at the Host Church, where he was a member.
Jacob Kintzer, son of Nicholas, made his home on his father's plantation in Tulpehocken, and there made his home and became a farmer. He married Elizabeth Unruh, and they had a large family, among their children being: Johan (John), born in 1785, died in 1851; Adam, born July 28, 1788, died Feb. 24, 1860; George, born Oct. 18, 1795.
Adam Kintzer, son of Jacob, born July 28, 1788, was a farmer in western Berks county. He died Feb. 24, 1860, aged seventy-one years, six months, twenty-six days. His wife Anna Maria Leiss was born in 1789, died in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kintzer are both buried at the Host Church. Their children were Jacob; Michael; Isaac; William; Henry; John; Betzy, who married Gabriel Filbert; Mary, who married Andrew Schoener, and later John Leiss; and Amanda, who married Adam Moyer, of West Reading.
Michael Kintzer, a farmer of Lower Heidelberg township, Berks county, born Dec. 26, 1809, on the old Kintzer homestead there, died March 9,1883. Michael Kintzer, son of Adam, was a lifelong farmer, living in Lower Heidelberg township, where he owned the old Kintzer homestead two miles north of Womelsdorf. Here he made his home for many years, and here he died March 9, 1883, at the age of seventy-three.
He and his family were members of St. Daniel's (Corner) Church at the time of his death, but he is buried at the Hain's Church, in the new cemetery, where a number of Kintzers are buried