Kuntz Family Scrapbook (MS-539)
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook features newspaper clippings from society pages in Dayton-area newspapers from the 1920s to the 1980s. Additionally, several oversize clippings date to Peter Kuntz’s death in 1918. Many are engagement, wedding, and birth announcements documenting, textually and in photographs, the lives of women in the Kuntz family and other prominent twentieth-century Dayton-area families, including the families of Patterson, Talbott, Parott, Rike, Grant, Breen, Focke, Oelman, Mead, Deeds, and Cox, etc. Other clippings document vacations (especially to Sea Island, Georgia), hobbies (such as hunting and skeet-shooting), and parties these families participated in. Clippings from the 1960s and 1970s include articles about changes in the Kuntz business. Several miscellaneous local history articles are scattered throughout. One page includes news clippings about local men’s military service in World War II.
Dates
- Creation: 1918-1981
Creator
- Kuntz, Leona M. Kling, 1899-1982 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Leona “Lee” (Kling) Kuntz was born June 24, 1899, in Dayton, Ohio, to Ida Katherine Philipps Kling and Aloys W. Kling, connected to the Kling Lithographing Company of Dayton. Leona married Edward James Kuntz, Sr. on September 6, 1922, according to The History of the Class of 1923 of Yale University. Edward, born December 1, 1898, was one of six sons and three daughters of son of Mary Higi Kuntz and Peter Kuntz (1838-1918), founder of the Kuntz Lumber company in Dayton. Edward, like his brothers, worked at his father’s company. In the 1920s, he was assistant secretary, and by the time of his retirement in 1968, he was the company’s chairman. Leona and Edward had at least two sons—David and Edward, Jr.
Leona died on September 9, 1982, in Sea Island, Georgia. She is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Kettering, Ohio. Edward died November 28, 1989 in Sea Island, Georgia, and is also buried at Calvary Cemetery.
Extent
2 linear feet (1 scrapbook)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Kuntz Family Scrapbook, assembled by Leona Kling Kuntz, features newspaper clippings documenting the lives and activities of prominent Dayton-area families, especially the Kuntz family, over the course of 60 years.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single scrapbook in original order. Loose and detached newspaper clippings are stored in files.
Custodial History
Leona (Kling) Kuntz began this scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to the Kuntz family and other prominent Dayton-area families in 1922, around the time of her engagement to Edward James Kuntz, Sr. Leona added to the scrapbook until 1981. Leona’s daughter-in-law, Jane Shipman Kuntz, wife of Edward J. Kuntz, Jr., donated the scrapbook.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University, by Jane S. Kuntz, daughter-in-law of Leona Kling Kuntz, in November 2015.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Separated Materials
Oversize and/or loose newspaper clippings were separated to Oversize flat file storage.
General
Loose clippings that had been stored in the back of the scrapbook were separated to folders. Additionally, because some clippings had come detached from scrapbook pages, the scrapbook pages were numbered, and the detached clippings were separated to folders labelled with the number of the page from which they came detached.
donor
- Kuntz, Jane S. (Person)
Subject
- Kuntz, Edward James, Sr., 1898-1989 (Person)
- Kuntz, Leona M. Kling, 1899-1982 (Person)
- Kuntz, Peter, 1838-1918 (Person)
- Kuntz Lumber Company (Organization)
- Kuntz family (Family)
- Title
- Guide to the Kuntz Family Scrapbook (MS-539)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Megan O'Connor, Lisa Rickey
- Date
- 2019 Sept 30
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
