Joannes KUNDT (1788-)

Anna SCHMIED (-)

Josephus KUNDT (1822-1866)

Theresia KESSELBAUER (1821-1910)

Theodor Joseph KUNDT (1852-1937)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children:: 1. Agnes BALLASCH 2. Maria T. BALLASCH Joseph Peter KUNDTZ Theodor KUNDTZ, Jr. Merie Cacelia KUNDTZ William Joseph KUNDTZ Ewald Edmund KUNDTZ+ Joseph Erno KUNDTZ Irene Mignon KUNDTZ Angela Theodora KUNDTZ Leopold Raymond KUNDTZ+ Dorothy Marguerite KUNDTZ Theodor Joseph KUNDT Born: 1 Jul 1852, Unter-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 4 5 Baptized: 1 Jul 1852, Unter-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 4 Marriage: (1): Agnes BALLASCH 8 Oct 1874, Cuyahoga, OH 1 2 Marriage: (2): Maria T. BALLASCH Abt 1885 3 Died: 14 Sep 1937, Lakewood, Cuyahoga, OH 6 7 8 Buried: 17 Sep 1937, Lakewood Park Cemetery, Rocky River, OH 6 9 Theodor Kundt immigrated to America in 1872 at the age of twenty.  He settled in Cleveland, OH and created a manufacturing empire which, at it's peak, was Cleveland's largest employer. The Theodor Kundtz Company made cabinets for sewing machines and employed many people from his home town of Metzenseifen.  In 1904, over 92 percent of his workforce was "Hungarian".  Theodor often paid the moving expenses to bring his workers from Metzenseifen.  Cleveland had the largest concentration of Metzenseifeners in America. Anyone interested in learning more about this amazing man should find the book Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz by Christopher Eiben. • He appeared in the 1880 census on 11 Jun 1880 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH. 10 • He appeared in the 1910 census on 19 Apr 1910 in Rockport, Cuyahoga, OH. 11 • He appeared in the 1920 census on 6 Jan 1920 in Lakewood, Cuyahoga, OH. 12 • He appeared in the 1930 census on 4 Apr 1930 in Lakewood, Cuyahoga, OH. 13 Theodor married Agnes BALLASCH, daughter of George BALLASCH and Anna Maria MULLNER, on 8 Oct 1874 in Cuyahoga, OH.1 2 (Agnes BALLASCH was born on 8 May 1854 in Unter-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary 2 4, died on 24 Mar 1917 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH 6 14 and was buried on 27 Mar 1917 in Monroe Cemetery, Cleveland, OH 6.) Theodor also married Maria T. BALLASCH, daughter of Matthias BALLASCH and Anna STROEMPL, about 1885.3 (Maria T. BALLASCH was born on 21 Nov 1867 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH 3 6 15, died on 1 Sep 1947 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH 6 9 16 and was buried on 4 Sep 1947 in Lakewood Park Cemetery, Rocky River, OH 6.)

1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, FamilySearch® Labs http://search.labs.familysearch.org).

2 Christopher J. Eiben, Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz, (Orange Blossom Press, Cleveland, OH, 1994), Page 11.

3 Ibid, Page 17.

4 St. Mary Queen of Angels Parish Register, Christening Records, 1850-1862, (Unter Metzenseifen, Slovakia (LDS Film 1923139)).

5 Christopher J. Eiben, Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz, (Orange Blossom Press, Cleveland, OH, 1994), Page 4.

6 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ohio Death Certificates 1908-1953, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, FamilySearch® Labs http://search.labs.familysearch.org).

7 Christopher J. Eiben, Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz, (Orange Blossom Press, Cleveland, OH, 1994), Page 73.

8 Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Necrology Database, (Cleveland, OH, http://dxsrv4.cpl.org/), ID#: 0194868.

9 Ibid.

10 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, 1880 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 30, Page 73, Line 16.

11 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, 1910 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 36, Sheet 4, Line 6.

12 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, 1920 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 582, Sheet 6, Line 5.

13 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, 1930 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 18-647, Sheet 3, Line 99.

14 Christopher J. Eiben, Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz, (Orange Blossom Press, Cleveland, OH, 1994), Page 13.

15 Ohio, Cuyahoga County, 1880 U.S. Census, Population Schedule, (Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration), ED 39, Page 2, Line 8.

16 Christopher J. Eiben, Tori in Amerika: The Story of Theodor Kundtz, (Orange Blossom Press, Cleveland, OH, 1994), Page vi.