John Henry "Hank" Koontz  

John Henry "Hank" Koontz Birth: 1850 / Feb 1858 Bremen, German Twp, Marshall, Indiana Death 12 Aug 1913 in Culver, Marshall, Indiana Burial: Culver Masonic Cemetery Culver Marshall,Indian son of Jacob Kuntz & Salome [-?-]

Former Resident Dies

J. H. (Hank) Koontz, a cousin of WIlliam, Charles E. and Frank Koontz, died at Culver Tuesday night following long invalidism at the age of about 60 years

The funeral will be held tomorrow. Frank Koontz, Edward Marquet, Ernest Mechel, J. B. Snyder and prehaps others from here will attend it

Mr. Koontz was born here and engaged in business in Bremen for many years conducting a grocery store and beinf interested in the pump fatory with Jonathan Weaver, Mr. Ault. and others - Bremen Enquire.

married Margaret Haas BIRTH Feb 1858 DEATH 29 Mar 1931 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana, BURIAL CULVER Masonic Cemetery Culver, Marshall County, Indiana DAUGHTER OF Parents John Johann Adam Haas AND Philippine Hensel/Marquet

Mrs Margaret Koontz
Mrs Margaret Koontz, seventy-three yeard old, died st 8:30 o'clock Sunday evening, at her home at Culver.

Mrs Koontz was a sister to E. W. Marguet of Bremen and was born on a farm south of Bremen.

Other survivig realtives are a son, Ezra Koontz of Lander, N.C. and a daughter, Mrs. Maude Hutchinson of Chicago

Funeral services were held at the the residence in Culver Tuesday afternoon. Rev. I. Willmert of Culver officiating.

Burial was in the Culver Masonic Cemetery - Bremen Enquirer


The Culver Citizen Culver, Indiana Wed, Apr 1, 1931
Margaret Haas Koontz was born February 26, 1858; died at Culver, Ind., March 29, 1931, at the age of 73 years, 1 month, and 3 days.

She was the daughter of Adam and Philopina Haas.

In early childhood she united with the First Evangelical church of Bremen, Ind. She was confirmed on March 29, 1872. Upon removal to Culver she transferred her membership to the Grace Reformed Church and remained an earnest worker as long as her strength permitted.

On February 25, 1877 she was united in marriage to John Henry Koontz in Bremen, Indiana. Residing there until 1884 when they moved to Culver, Ind., then called Marmont.

Her husband preceded her in death on August 12, 1913.

She is survived by one brother, Edward Marquet of Bremen, Ind., one son Erza Willard Koontz of Bat Grove, North Carolina, and a daughter Maude Hutchison of Chicago, Illinois. Five grandchildren, Mrs. John Lough Leonard of Charlott, N. Carolina, and Frances, Genevive, Tom and Ben Koontz, Bat Cave, N. C. and other relatives and many friends.

They had:

Maj Erza Willard Koontz Birth: Jun. 5, 1879 Marshall, Indiana Death: Jul. 21, 1951 Burial: Green Hills Cemetery Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina; married Grace Barber Birth: Jul. 9, 1878 Bremen, Fairfield, Ohio, Death: Aug. 5, 1958 Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina Burial: Green Hills Cemetery Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, the daughter of J. O. Barber and Vienna Cherry Barber. 1910-1914 - Parson, Labette, Kansas, 1920 Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1926 ST. Joseph county Indiana , - 1927-1929 - Charlotte, North Carolina, 1930 - Edneyville, Henderson, North Carolina; 1940 - Atlanta, Georgia, 1942 was residing Chicago, Illinois 1943 1950 Asheville, North Carolina

Margaret Maude Koontz BIRTH 24 Jul 1884 Culver, Marshall County, Indiana DEATH 1957 BURIAL Culver, Masonic Cemetery Culver, Marshall County, Indiana married Rollo Ewing Hutchison BIRTH 1884 DEATH 9 Nov 1973 Cook County, Illinois, BURIAL Masonic Cemetery Culver, Marshall County, Indiana
Daughter Of The Citizen's Founder Dies

Maude Hutchison's Rites Held Here

Mrs. Maude Hutchison, age 73, former local resident and daughter of the late founder of The Culver Citizen, died at her Chicago home last Friday, Oct. 25, after a lengthy illness.

Margaret Maude Hutchison' was born in Culver on July 24, 1884, the daughter of John Henry and Margaret Haas Koontz.

She attended the Culver schools, graduating from Culver High School in 1902 and from the Plymouth High School in 1903.

Maude Koontz was married on Feb. 28, 1906 to Rollo Ewing Hutchison, who at that time was a member of the faculty at Culver Military Academy. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1956.

The Hutchisons moved to Philadelphia in 1911 and lived there until 1921 when he was transferred to Chicago, residing there ever since. He is the head of Ewing Hutchison Company, Chicago publishers' representatives for Forbes Magazine and other important national periodicals.

Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison also maintained a home in Culver through the years and always looked forward to spending their vacations here.

Mrs. Hutchison was active and prominent in American Legion Auxiliary work during her long residence in Chicago. She served as president of the North Shore Unit No. 21, as director of the 7th District of Illinois, and as president of the Cook County Council of the Auxiliary.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Hutchison is survived by three nieces: Mrs. Margaret Leonard of Augsburg, Germany; Mrs. Frances Wall of Asheville, N. C.; Mrs. Genevieve McRae of Decatur, Ga.; and a nephew, Lt. Col. Thomas G. Koontz, Madrid, Spain.

Funeral services for Mrs. Hutchison were held Monday afternoon in Chicago with Rev. Adolph Bohn of the Edgewater Presbyterian Church conducting the rites.

Services were also held here at the Easterday Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon with Dr. Meredith J. Sprunger of the Grace Church officiating.

Several representatives of the American Legion 'Auxiliary from Chicago were in attendance. Interment was at the Culver Cemetery.

Mrs. Hutchison: a most charming lady, was most helpful to the staff of The Culver Citizen in connection with the preparation of its 60th anniversary issue on July 14, 1954. At that time she contributed a notable biography of her father, John Henry Koontz, which gave us the first inkling that Culver's now 63-year-old newspaper may not have had an uninterrupted career as was generally supposed.

Biography Of John H. Koontz

John Henry Koontz, founder of The Culver Citizen, was born in Bremen, Indiana, on March 17, 1850.

He received his education in the Bremen schools and at Hillsdale College in Michigan and was a school teacher in his early years.

His business career started with the ownership and operation of a pump factory in Bremen. Mr. Koontz moved with his family to Culver in the spring of 1884, and operated a general store for several years, then engaged in the publication and sale of school maps widely used in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

When George Nearpass discontinued publication of The Marmont Herald and moved away from Culver in 1903, Mr. Koontz established The Culver Citizen, giving the paper its present name and starting out with all new equipment, type, and presses.

The plant was located in a white frame building at the corner of Main and Washington Streets. Johnson's Service Station now occupies

this site. The first Citizen employees were Olin Gandy, widely known as one of the best printers in Indiana; Teresa Rogers and Maude Koontz, typesetters; and Clyde Wiseman, printer's devil, Ezra Willard Koontz, son of the owner, was manager of the paper.

In addition to The Citizen, they printed various Culver Military Academy publications.

The Citizen was sold in 1906 by Mr. Koontz to Arthur B. Holt, of Kankakee, Ill. Publisher Koontz died Aug. 12, 1913 at the age of 63 at the family home, 209 South Main Street, Culver. He was a member of Grace Reformed Church and is buried in the Culver Cemetery. He was survived by his widow, Margaret Haas Koontz, a native of Bremen, now deceased; a son, Erza Willard Koontz, who died July 23, 1951: and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Maude Hutchison of Chicago.

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Name: Margaret Haas
Age in 1870: 12
Birth Year: abt 1858
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1870: Stokes, Madison, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Mount Sterling
Household Members: Name Age
Laurance Haas 36
Catharine Haas 36
1870; Census Place: Stokes, Madison, Ohio; Roll: M593_1238; Page: 750A; Image: 313; Family History Library Film: 552737.

1880; Census Place: Bremen, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: 297; Family History Film: 1254297; Page: 51A; Enumeration District: 101.
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Koontz 30
Margaret Koontz 22
Erza W. Koontz 1
Lizzie Flushing 20 servant

Household Members: Name Age
Henry Koontz 30
Margaret Koontz 22
Erza W. Koontz 1
Lizzie Flushing 20

1900; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: 392; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 1240392.
Household Members: Name Age
John H Koontz 49 Mar 1851 Indiana
Margaret Koontz 42 Feb 1858 Indiana
Erza W Koontz 20 Jun 1879 Indiana
Maud E Koontz 15 Jul 1884 Indiana

Year: 1910; Census Place: Culver Ward 3, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: T624_370; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0113;
Household Members: Name Age
John H Koontz 59
Margaret Koontz 52
Ray E Marshall 22 Roomer

1920; Census Place: Philadelphia Ward 46, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1647; Page: 17A; Enumeration District: 1758;
Name: Margaret Koontz Age: 60
Birth Year: abt 1860
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1920: Philadelphia Ward 46, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law
Marital Status: Widowed [Widow] Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
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Household Members: Name Age
Rolla E Hutchinson 35
Maud E Hutchinson 35
Margaret Koontz 60