b. 1819 d. 1892
Married_____
The Kuntz family came to Waterloo from Wiesbaden Germany in the 1830s. Two brothers, David and Jacob, had been apprenticed as brewers and coopers in their homeland and both continued in the same line of business after emigration. Some time after arriving, Jacob moved up to Karlsruhe in Bruce Co. where he built and operated a brewery. David remained in Waterloo, running a small brewery in 1844 at King N. and Princess Sts. When the Hoffman survey was completed in 1855, he purchased several lots in the vicinity of King S. and William Sts. In 1864 he began construction of a small brewery on one of these lots, Spring Brewery from natural spring water. He did most of the work himself with help from mason Gerhardt and Schwann. The bricks were made from deposits of clay from the Allen St area that later became the Bechtel Brickyard. It is said that he made beer in his brewery during daytime and peddled it to his customers in town during the evening. The brewery grew as his product became more popular and the number of hotels in town increased. His son Louis helped around the brewery when he was old enough. In 1874 he constructed the Alexandra Hotel at the corner of King S and William Sts. directly across from the brewery. He died.
Sources:
1.Kitchener Mt. Hope Cemetery Records
2.Marg Rowell et al, Welcome to Waterloo
3.Ellis Little, Brickmaking in Waterloo Township, Waterloo Historical Society, Vol. 82 , 1994.
4.Kitchener-Waterloo Record, January 2, 1948. March 30, 1984.
5.Ellis Little, The Waterloo Fountain on Brewmeister’s Green, Waterloo Historical Society, Vol. 82, 1994.
6.Ellis Little, Upheaval in Uptown Waterloo, Waterloo Historical Society, Vol 81, 1993.
7.Waterloo Chronicle, April 18, 1901. July 17, 1930. October 2, 1953.
8.The Art and Mystery of Brewing in Ontario, Ian Bowering.
David Kuntz Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of David Kuntz from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the transcribed text. To see the original document, please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Date Of Event
- 1819-1892
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Kuntz, David ; Kuntz, Louis ; Kuntz, Jacob
- Corporate Name(s)
- Spring Brewery ; Kuntz Brewery ; Alexandra Hotel
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.119
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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