Reinhold Kunze

Reinhold Kunze was born in Muhldorf, Germany, in 1870, the son of Frank and Brigette (Schulz) Kunze. He was the last of nine children and the last to migrate to the United States, coming in 1893. He worked as a farm hand before homesteading. In 1890 he married Emilie -and this couple had three children: John (1897), who married Marie Fleckenstein; Emma (1898), who married John Langer, and Richard (1900), who married Katherine Koch in 1927.

Reinhold's wife, Emilie passed away after Richard's birth and in 1902 Reinhold married Johanna Fuhs. To this union were born six other children:

  1. Henry,

  2. Paul,

  3. Martha,

  4. Pauline,

  5. Hubert and

  6. Philip.

Henry, born in 1903 married Enger Svenningson in 1905 and farm the home place. Paul was born in 1904. Martha, born in 1906 married Albert Gruman. Pauline, born in 1908, married George Merkes in 1932 and lives in Valley City. Hubert, born in 1909, married Philamine Merkes and farms in the Valley City area. Philip, born in 1912, married Mary Vandrochek in 1940 and they farm in Sibley Trail Township. Johanna died in 1924 and Reinhold in 1928.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 133