History of Bucks
County, Pa Volume 3 by William H. Davis
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HENRY KUNSER, of Forest Grove, was born in Warwick township, Bucks county, December 14, 1844, being a son of Michael and Susan (FLY) KUNSER, and a grandson of Andrew KUNSER, a Pennsylvania German, who resided for many years on the York road between Bridge Valley and Jamison, where he died in 1863, aged eighty-three years. Michael KUNSER was reared in Buckingham, and learned the trade of a weaver, which vocation he followed all his life in connection with the care of his little farm of sixteen acres at Bridge Valley. He was born November 19, 1809, and died December 23, 1891. His two children were Andrew S., deceased and Henry. Henry KUNSER was reared in Warwick township, acquiring his education at the public schools. At the age of sixteen years he left home and lived for two years with his grandfather, Andrew KUNSER, and then went to live with John B. OPDYCKE, of Warwick, which he continued to make his home for over forty years, twenty years of which were employed in working upon the farm, and the last twenty years as superintendent of the Warwick Creamery. On April 1, 1904, he purchased his present home in Forest Grove, where he is living a retired life. Mr. KUNSER was never married. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Presbyterian.
Text taken from page 553
Davis, William W. H., A.M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III Transcribed August 2006 by Joan Lollis as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html Published August 2006 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/
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