Kintz, Charles E.

KINTZ, THOMPSON, WALKERBURGER, SIGNS, BUTTINGER, COOL, DOWNS, GINGLES, SHRYOCK, SELBURG, PETERSON, GILES, LARSON, HANSON

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Date: 9/6/2009 at 16:03:48

Kintz, Charles E.

One of the enterprising young farmers and stockmen of Clear Creek Township is Charles E. Kintz, who has been content to spend his life in his native community, rightly deciding that this favored section of the great Hawkeye State held as good if not better opportunities than any other in the Union. He is the representative of one of the old and well known families of Jasper County, members of which have figured more or less prominently in local affairs from the pioneer days and his record shows that he has been careful to keep untarnished the honored family name.

Mr. Kintz was born in the Township and on the farm where he now resides on March 2, 1877, his paternal grandfather, Joseph Kintz, having been the first settler in Clear Creek Township and, as intimated, from that time to this family has been well known here. He is the son of Commodore P. and Mary Ann (Thompson) Kintz, the father born in Summit County, Ohio, December 1, 1841, and the mother's birth occurred in Ohio on April 4, 1844. The father came to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1845 with his parents, Joseph and Mary (Walkerburger) Kintz, both natives of Pennsylvania. This family came to Jasper County, Iowa, before it was surveyed and here began life in true pioneer style, seventeen miles from their nearest neighbor, the grandfather entering one thousand acres near Clyde and there resided until his death. There were five children in his family, John W., Commodore P., Sarah Signs, Rebecca Buttinger and Susan.

The father of the subject was reared on the farm here and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and went to the front in the Western army, from which he was later discharged on account of disability. He was married on October 1863, to Mary Ann Thompson, she being one of a family of eleven children.

Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Commodore P. Kintz, named as follows: Margaret Cool, born July 10, 1864, lives in Baxter; Sallie Downs, born October 10, 1866, of Clear Creek Township; Joseph W., born October 1, 1868, is deceased; Laura D., born October 24, 1870, is deceased; Mary E., born January 10, 1872, is deceased; Alta Gingles, born February 16, 1874, of Collins, Iowa; Charles E., of this review; Pearl M., born July 16, 1879; Mertie M. Shryock, born July 16, 1879, of Baxter; Carl C. and Cloe A., born November 8, 1882, were twins and are both deceased; Oley A., born July 27, 1885, lives in Des Moines.

Commodore P. Kintz became well established here and was the owner of considerable valuable property, including business places in Colfax and Collins and two hundred and seventy acres of choice land in Clear Creek Township. His death occurred in the town of Collins on April 5, 1908, and his widow still lives in Collins.

Charles E. Kintz, of this review, grew upon the home farm and was educated in the local schools, and with the exception of a few years spent in Minnesota and a short time in Dakota he has made the immediate vicinity of his birth his home.

Mr. Kintz was united in marriage on October 20, 1902, to Edith Selburg, who was born in Gibson City, Ford County, Illinois, on June 14, 1885. She is the daughter of August and Annie (Peterson) Selburg, the former dying in Hector, Minnesota, and the latter is living in Minneapolis. Their family consisted of ten children, seven of whom are living, namely: Gena Johnson, Albert, Mrs. Lena Giles, Nellie Larson, Mrs. Kintz, of this review, Herman and Mrs. Laura Hanson. The older members of this family were born in Illinois and the younger in Minnesota.

To Mr. and Mrs. Kintz one son, Commodore Perry Kintz, was born on April 30, 1904. Politically, Mr. Kintz is a Democrat and he has been a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Kintz is a young man of more than ordinary business ability and to him has fallen the burden of administering his father's large estate, which he has done in a very creditable manner to himself and satisfactorily to the other heirs. He has been very successful as a general farmer and stockman. He has a large herd of grade hogs and has the nucleus of an excellent herd of cattle, besides some of the best draft horses to be found in the Township. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1325