Lieutenant (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat ("a lawyer who advised and represented the government" and who practiced on behalf of same), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
The Local Heritage Book for Werdorf is the source that ranks him as a Lieutenant.
His wife's name is unknown.
His great-great-great-great grandson is one Herr Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, a retired dentist and orthodontist formerly of Dr. Praxis Jürgen Kantz, Silhöfer-Straße 15, 35578 Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Gießen, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. +49 (0)6441 - 459 49.
Dr. Kantz' coat of arms, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Wappenrolle, volume V (1983) plate 291, is:
"Erniedrigt schräggeteilt von Schwarz und Gold, darin oben ein Pfahlfaden, begleitet rechts von einem Äskulapstab und links von einer Statue der gekrönten hl. Appolonia, ihre Marter erduldend (halb entkleidet und von drei Händen bedrängt, rechts oben die Augen ausbohrend, darunter die Zähne ausreißend, links ein Messer zur Schindung neben der Brust ansetzend) und unten ein Malerpinsel schräg-rechts, alles in verwechselten Farben. Auf dem schwarz-golden bewulsteten Helm mit schwarz-goldenen Decken ein wachsender rotbewehrter goldener Löwe."
("In base divided diagonally sable and or, above a pale charged, accompanied by a staff of Aesculapius right and left a statue of St. Appollonia crowned, enduring her martyrdom ('half undressed and beset by three hands, dexter above the eyes drilled out, including the pulled-out teeth, sinister a flaying knife to the chest'*) and down a paintbrush diagonally-right, all in mixed colors. On the black-golden mantled helmet with black-and-gold torse, a rising red-tinted golden lion.")
*quoting from a heraldic description of the martyrdom of St. Appollonia, patroness of dentists.
"Führungsberechtigt sind: Eingereicht bzw. neu angenommen am 30.April 1982 von Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, Zahnarzt, * Bad Nauheim 3.8.1941, für sich und seine ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm sowie zugunsten der übrigen ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm seines obengenannten vierfachen Urgroßvaters Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz)."
("By authority, submitted or newly adopted on 30 April 1982 by Dr. med. Jürgen Kantz, dentist and orthodontist, born 3 August 1941 in Bad Nauheim, Wetterauskreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland for himself and his descendants in the male line and legitimate in favor of the remaining marital descendants in the male line of his above-mentioned four times great-grandfather Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz).")
APPENDIX
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY
LATE 18th CENTURY UP TO c. 2015
One “Lieutenant” (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian Imperial system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat (“a lawyer who advised and represented the government”), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
His wife’s name is unknown.
b) Philipp Jacob had four children:
---Lisetta Friderica Eleonora Wilhelmina Kantz, born 22 January 1758 Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire). She was baptized 29 January 1758 in Aßlar, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
[NOTE]: Werdorf is now now an Ortsteil ("locality") within the small town of Aßlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreise (Kreise = "district"), Hessen, Germany. Werdorf and another small community, Berghausen, are so close to each other that there appears to be no boundary. Nevertheless, they are officially two of Aßlar's Stadtteile (roughly "wards" or perhaps "boroughs").
Date and place of death unknown.
---Susana Helena Friederica Kantz (born 8 February 1759, baptized 18 February 1759, died 25 September 1759) in Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Carolina Johanetta Margaretha Henrietta Kantz Born 27 July 1760, baptized 1 August 1760 in Aßlar, died ?) in Werdorf. When she was born, Werdorf was in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Christian Kantz (1764 - 1840):
Philipp Jacob’s son Christian Kantz, a Wollspinner (lit. „wool spinner“ (born Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 1764 – died Alzey, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein Grand-Duchy of Hessen 24 June 1840). Christian Kantz is identified as the Urvater/pater familias of the Alzey Kantzes.
and
his wife Anna Maria Fischer (born Niederlauken, then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) 1780 – died Alzey 10 August 1836), marriage date unknown, moved to Alzey at an unknown date.
Anna Marie’s father was Simon Fischer, a Jäger. Jäger is ambiguous; it may have meant simply a “huntsman” (as on a royal preserve) or, beginning c. 1750, a soldier skilled in the use of a rifle - a weapon which took longer to load than the smoothbore musket of the line infantry, but which had greater range and accuracy. Drawn from a "well-esteemed class" (per General Martin Ernst von Schlieffen (1732-1825), quoted in Dr. Rodney Atwood's The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1980), the Jägers were primarily used for reconnaissance, skirmishing, or screening bodies of heavier troops. They owned their own weapons and could (in principle) fill a crucial defensive role as militia in case of surprise assaults before any mobilization had been ordered, or as organizers of partisan warfare after an occupation. Jäger were not just skilled riflemen; they were also able to handle and maintain delicate, accurate rifles in an age when very few people had any mechanical skill.
Anna Maria’s mother was named Catharina David.
Both were born c. 1760 in Niederlauken then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) and died c. 1836 by that time Herzogtum („duchy“) Nassau (modern-day Hessen).
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY-1844-1848
On 17 September 1844, Christoph Kantz, a son of the persons described in (2), a Tüncher (“whitewasher”) (born Alzey midnight 6/7 September 1815 – Alzey 13 December 1874) married Sophia Henrietta Schlegelmilch (Alzey 28 May 1816 – Alzey 25 July 1877).
Sophia Henrietta’s parents were Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch, a Maurer („stonemason“) (born Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) 31 August 1785 – died Alzey 26 February 1855) and Sophia Catharina or Katharina Lenz (born Alsenz, then Grafschaft Nassau-Weilburg 'County of Nassau-Weilburg' now Alzenz-Obermoschel in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 26 or 29 March 1774 – died Alzey 10 August 1855); they were married on 13 December 1809 in Alzey.
Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch was the illegitimate son (uneheliches Kind) of Johanna Christina Schlegelmilch, Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) and an unidentified man.
Sophia Katharina Lenz‘ parents were Johann Michael Lenz, a Bergmann („miner“) (date and place of birth unknown – died Alzey 8 May 1795) married on 19 February 1754 in Obermoschel, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) to Maria Catharina Rollar (born Niederhausen an der Appel (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 1 May 1731 – died Alzey 9 July 1798).
Christoph and Sophia Henrietta were the parents of 13 children. They were:
Christine Kantz (Alzey 19 February 1837 – Alzey 1914)*
Johannes Kantz (Alzey 14 March 1839 – date and place of death unknown)*
Michael Kantz (Alzey 9 February 1844 – date and place of death unknown)*
Franz Kantz (Alzey 19 October 1845 – date and place of death unknown)
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz (Alzey 2 May 1848 – Queens, New York 13 December 1939)
Theodor Kantz (Alzey 10 March 1850 – date and place of death unknown)
Jacob Kantz (Alzey 6 June 1851 – date and place of death unknown)
Elisabetha Kantz (Alzey 30 July 1852 – Alzey 1923)
Karl Kantz (Alzey 29 July 1853 – date and place of death unknown)
Wilhelmina Kantz (Alzey 24 November 1855 – date and place of death unknown)
Charlotte Philippine Kantz (Alzey 24 October 1857 – date and place of death unknown)
Peter Kantz (Alzey 21 November 1858 – date and place of death unknown)
Louise Kantz (Alzey 9 April 1861 – Alzey 1922)
*[NOTE: These three children were born before Christoph and Sophia Henrietta married on 17 September 1844. The German word for such a child---born out of wedlock but later legitimized by the marriage of the parents---is voreheliches Kind. An illegitimate child, in the English sense, is uneheliches Kind.]
PHIL KANTZ' GRANDPARENTS:
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz, (born Alzey 2 May 1848 not 5 February 1848 – Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York 13 December 1939). His birth certificate shows the name simply as “Philipp Kantz”.
Two administrative actions and one personal action preceded Philipp’s departure from Germany:
Line 3 of Philipp’s Petition to Emigrate of 21 July 1871 (see below) mentions “an uncle in America has established residency in America” and who invited him leave Hessen.
This uncle is unidentified and unlocated.
One Philipp Kantz (Alzey 28 July 1821-?) is a possible match for this uncle; this Philipp emigrated to America in 1848.
Sometime between 1865 (his seventeenth birthday) and 1870 Philipp was summoned for military physical examination and basic training (Musterung).
On 31 January 1871, a mere thirteen days after Bismarck’s declaration of the German Empire with Wilhelm I King of Prussia as Emperor, Philipp was assigned to the Imperial German Ersatz-Reserve I (“Substitute Reserve List 1”) of the German Army ((Kaiserliches Heer or Kaiserreichsheer or Reichsheer or Deutsches Heer)…
“…which consisted of men who by good fortune or for some slight physical reason escaped their military service, but were liable to be called up in the event of mobilization. About 20,000 or 30,000 a year of these men were thus trained until 1893, when the training of the Ersatz Reserve was almost entirely abolished.”
---The Times History of the War (The Times, London 1914-1921).
The nature of Philipp’s physical/mental disability(-ies) and/or economic/family hardship(s)---if he had one or more of those---is unknown.
Philipp was likely assigned to one of the two infantry brigades (the 49th and the 50th) of the 25th Division (25. Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.) Division), HQs Darmstadt.
The agreement bringing Hessen into the Imperial German Army was signed 13 June 1871 (Militärkonvention zwischen dem Norddeutschen Bunde und Hessen vom 13. Juni 1871 (Ersatz für die vom 7. April 1867) and became effective in 1872. Hessen was subordinated to the Prussian Army.
ANECDOTE: For years, family lore circulated the story that there existed a photo (never seen) of Philipp Kantz in a “Prussian lancer’s (German Ulan) uniform”.
On 21 July 1871, Gregor Mayer, Beigeordneter (“alderman”) for the town of Alzey, forwarded Philipp’s Gesuch des Philipp Kanz zu Alzey um Auswanderung-Erlaubniß nach Amerika (“Request on Behalf of Philipp Kanz (sic) for Permission to Emigrate to America”) to the Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”).
The Request mentions an unidentified uncle of Philipp’s who apparently invited him to America (see ref above).
The Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”) approved the request 24 July 1871:
1871 Dokument-Übersetzung Auswanderung Philipp Kantz
mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Gerd Braun (1937-)
Transcription of “Emigration1”:
Alzey 21 July 1871
Re: Request by Philipp Kantz from Alzey for permission to emigrate to America
That in the above request we have the honor to defer in the following comments to (one word illegible) to the below.
The petitioner was born 2 May 1848 and is as of 31 January of the current year transferred to the substitute reserves.
The same indicates that an uncle in America has established residency in America and he wishes to go there.
Our side raises no objection.
Gregor Mayer, Alderman
Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz (1848-1939) Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”). The formal name of the region then was Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (“the Grand-Duchy of Hessen”); the three words und bei Rhein mean “and by/on the Rhein” and are generally not rendered into English.
The Grand Duchy was part of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (“German Empire” (18 January 1871 - 1918) which was preceded by the Norddeutscher Bund “North German Confederation“ (16 April 1867 – 16 April 1871). Of the entire Grand Duchy, only the province of Oberhessen was part of the Norddeutscher Bund.
The Kantzes were at least nominal members of the Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche (Evangelical Reformed Church) since the 18th Cent. In the US it is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Communicants call themselves Evangelischer, not Lutheraner.
He arrived in the Port of New York, District of the City of New York on 16 September 1871 (age 23 per the ship’s manifest) aboard the S.S. Hermann.
The processing center at that time was Castle Garden (not Ellis Island).
Philipp made a bee-line for the German Methodist Episcopal Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street Methodist Episcopal aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 252 2nd Street (now 252 East 2nd Street) in the Eleventh Ward, where he would spend the next eight years, on and off, in good times and bad (see below).
He signed his intent to become a US citizen on 25 September 1871 and became a US citizen on 22 October 1872 at the Common Pleas Court (abolished 31 December 1895), New York County on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side. He listed his occupation as painter and the witness was one Charles A. Weisser.
PHILIP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH STARTS MOVING AROUND:
1871-1872: German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down). This church had an associated but independent Second Street Methodist Episcopal at 252 Second Street, a parish house at 258 2nd Street, a Children’s Aid Mission at 272 Second Street, and a school at 276 East 3rd Street, now a vacant lot.
1872-1876: Unknown; possibly staying with the unidentified and unlocated uncle who preceded him to New York
1876-1878: United Hebrew Charities (UHC), 256 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
1878-1880: 266 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
[NOTE: 266 was probably a second lot owned by the UHC]
?-22 October 1879: Return to the German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka “the "little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down)
1880-1885: 523 East 6th Street, New York, New York 10009 (torn down)
1880-1882: 162 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10011-1813
1882-1883: 623 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 (torn down)
1889 1915: 139 (misread as 189) Avenue A, New York, New York 10009-5105
1915-?: unknown house number on 163rd Street, Queens, New York
1925: 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385 (six apartments with four different Zip+4 extensions). His name is listed as Philipp Kantz, while his son Philip Kantz lived at 20-06 Palmetto Street.
?-1939: 59-66 61st Street, Maspeth, Queens, New York 11378-3435
He listed his occupation as “painter” until 1914 when he retired, and his place of birth as “Hessen” until “Germany” became the standard toponym.
When he became a citizen 22 October 1872 he gave his address as the German M.E. Church 254 2nd Street (remapped as 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031---a discrepancy.
Some time prior to 1918, and while resident at 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385, Philipp Kantz had become a registered Democrat, according to the Transcript of the Enrollment Books for the Enrollment of 1918, made in the City of New York, under Provisions of Section 22, Chapter 22, Laws of 1909, Constituting Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws, an Amended by Chapter 244, Laws of 1914, and Chapter 297, Laws of 1918 (“The Election Law”), (Board of Elections of the City of New York, List of Enrolled Voters, First Assembly District District, Borough of the Bronx) page 18. His son, Philip Kantz, a few doors down at 20-06 Palmetto Street, was likewise a Democrat.
He was admitted to Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York (death certificate 8474) 2 December 1939 and died there 12:05am 13 December 1939. The principal cause of death was “Chronic Myocarditis” with “Senile Psychosis, Simple Deterioration” (sic) as contributory (“Chronic myocarditis” is the modern “congestive heart failure”; “senile psychosis” would be later “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia”). Creedmoor had been run since 1912 by the New York State Hospital Commission (subdivision of the New York State Department of Health, called the State Commission in Lunacy from 1895 to 1912).
The attending physician was one Anthony Tagliavia, MD.
Philipp was buried 16 December 1939 at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29. Obsequies were handled by the Peter Blasius Funeral Chapel, 1872 Gates Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385-2940, now a two-story four-unit apartment building.
The Lutheran Cemetery (as it was known in Philipp’s time) was owned by the German M.E. Church, 252 Second Street (now 252 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down) which Philipp called home at various times during the period 1871-1879.
PHILIPP KANTZ aka PHILIPP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH KANTZ
MARRIAGES AND DESCENDENTS
Philipp Kantz was married twice:
1. First to Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse May 1854 – Bellevue Hospital, New York 25 August 1903, death certificate 25164 dated 26 August 1903) in 1875. Her parents were Valentin Amborn and Eva Amborn née Scherer (Großbockenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse 28 September 1830-?). Cause of death was “Malignant (one word illegible) and (one word illegible) carcinoma.” She is buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29.
Philip Valentin Christoph and Margaretha had seven children. They were:
a) Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz, (12 May 1875 – 26 March 1929) burial Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579.
He was married twice:
Caroline Stock Kantz (May 1878 – 29 October 1907) 29 July 1905 (marriage certificate number 16274), Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 20, Map 3A, Row 24, Grave 50. Philip and Caroline had one child:
Unidentified infant (“male Kantz”) (Manhattan 27 January 1906 – Manhattan 3 February 1906 death certificate 3902; buried on Hart Island; most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-);
Second wife:
Blanche Mary Grabowski Kantz (3 February 1879 – 10 April 1962) Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579, buried 13 April 1962. Her mother Emilia was born in the Russian Empire.
They had four children:
Howard M. Kantz (New York 1 September 1909 –Morristown, New Jersey 26 September 1999) burial place unknown;
Clifford C. Kantz (New York 1913 – 1952) burial place unknown;
Blanche L. Kantz Goebel (Brooklyn, New York 17 January 1917 – Toms River, New Jersey 25 July 1999);
Arthur Kantz (24 October 1920 – Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York 11235 1 October 1981) burial place unknown.
And
b) Adolph Kantz (New York, New York 15 September 1876 – 3 February 1937 death certificate number 3553) burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A,
married
Mary Elizabeth Carr Kantz (1877 – 1960) on 9 April 1902 (certificate number 7304), same burial location as Adolph.
Adolph and Mary Elizabeth had one child, Margaret Amanda Kantz (12 July 1903 - ? who “died as a child”) birth certificate 31028, burial location unknown; possibly Hart Island.
c) Louis Kantz (New York, New York 11 February 1878 – New York, New York 12 February 1878 death certificate 283900), buried on Hart Island (most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-).
d) Philipine or Philippine Margaretha Louise Kantz (1 September 1879 – 11 February 1881). Burial - Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, exact location unknown.
e) Margaretha born 19 September 1881 “died in infancy”. Burial place unknown.
f) Paul Hatch Kantz (24 July 1889 certificate number 21342 – 21 September 1971), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
Paul Hatch had two marriages:
Louisa or Louise or Luisa Augusta Abel Kantz (9 July 1892 – 26 February 1960) married 30 March 1914 (marriage certificate number 8257), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A.
Child:
Helen Mae Kantz Grosch (27 July 1915 – 14 December 2000), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Section 5, Map 8, Block 1, Grave 132.
married
Theodore Louis Grosch, Jr. (5 June 1913 - 16 September 1967) same burial location as Helen Mae; daughter Lorraine Grosch (Queens, New York ? - ?) granddaughter C.L. (Bergen County, New Jersey ? - )
And
Maria Kantz née Hutter (Austria 1925 - 1985) who had two unidentified adult children at the time of her marriage to Paul in the early 1960s; burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
BEYOND THIS POINT: PHIL KANTZ' PARENTS
g) Gustav Kantz (New York, New York 14 December 1882 – New York, New York May 1963).
According to the New York State census of 1905, Gustav was living in the household of one Nicholas Schwanermann in Assembly District 14, Election District 22. This A.D. and E.D. delimited East 13th Street, East 14th Street, Avenue B
and Avenue C in the Lower East Side, now the East Village.
Gustav first married Louise F. C. Kahl (1882 – 8 March 1909) on 1 July 1906 (marriage certificate number 16317), at the St. George’s Episcopal Church parish house, 207 East 16th Street New York, New York 10003-3746. Her burial location is Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244 Map 3A.
They had two children:
William Kantz (28 March 1907 died at five hours old, birth certificate number 16400, death certificate 10949), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244, Map 3A,
And
Margaret Anna Green aka Margaret A. Green aka Margaret Green aka Margie Green née Kantz (1908-1959) with husband Fischel Grunbaum aka Fischel Grünbaum mūtātō nōmine Philip Edward Green aka Philip E. Green aka Philip Green aka Phil Green (born town and Duchy of Łowicz ('Lowitz' in German), modern Voivodeship/województwo of Łódź, Republic of Poland/Rzeczpospolita Polska on 15 December 1906, died 4 October 1962).
Margie was buried in Los Angeles, California 27 June 1959, burial location Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 West Centinela Avenue, Culver City (or Los Angeles), California 90045, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-3). She had converted to Judaism.
Phil Green is inhumed adjacent, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-4).
Margaret Anna and Philip Edward had two children:
Louis Robert Green (New York 30 October 1928 – North Carolina 11 August 1983). Louis Robert is buried in New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina 28560, Plot 8, 0, 6233.
and
Lorraine Green (?-?), nothing known.
In 1910, Gustav’s address was on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan Ward 11 (bounded by Rivington Street on the south, East 14th Street on the north, Avenue B on the west, and by the Harlem River on the east).
Then he married Mary M. Buckley Kantz “Nana” (city and county unknown, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 22 March 1888 – St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 February 1968) on 7 April 1912 (marriage certificate number 10210) at Church of the Annunciation, 88 Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10027-7520.
His address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). Her address at that time was 1332 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10075-1902 on the Upper East Side. She worked in a candy store owned by her parents.
By 1920 Gustav and Mary had moved uptown to Assembly District 23, Enumeration District (E.D.) and Tract unknown. A.D. 23 covered a vast area and their residence was probably 509 West 179th Street, New York, New York 10033-5708 (built 1919) in Washington Heights where they lived for decades with their children.
Gustav and Mary had three children:
Florence M. Kantz Leonard (New York, New York 3 April 1916 - May 1972) married John J. Leonard Sr. (? - ?) on 29 August 1937 (marriage certificate number 19754) three children: Florence Leonard Brennan (1949 -), John J. Leonard Jr. (1941 -2015), Philip T. Leonard (New York 2 August 1945 – Los Angeles, California 28 September 1970), in all cases burial locations unknown.
Grace Lillian Kantz O’Connor (New York, New York 1918 – North Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, New Jersey ?) married William O’Connor (? - ?, burial place Las Vegas, Nevada)
[NOTE: Her name is shown as Grace D. Kantz on the 1940 Census.]
And
Matthew Henderson (no further information); no children in either marriage.
Philip Frank Kantz (Harlem Hospital (construction began 1887, now called Harlem Hospital Center), 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, New York 10037 14 July 1922 – Morrisania Hospital (built 1929, closed 1976), 50 East 168th Street, Bronx, New York 10452-7929 4 October 1968)
married
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine (New York, New York 5 April 1921 – St. Louis, Missouri 23 December 2004). They are buried in Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York 11735-1213, Section 2P, Site 1085.
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK née Mundschenk (born Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa 21 August 1951 - ) 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children Noëlle Lucinda (born Guatemala City, Guatemala (formal name La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 4 March 1982 -) with four children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Ingrid (born 16 June 2004) father unknown
---Jeans Brian (30 April 2006-) aka Brian, father is William Cali, born Bolivia
---Violeta (22 February 2008-) father is José Israel Morales, born Puebla (formal name Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza), Puebla, Mexico
---Natalie (15 August 2012-)
and Molly Lucrecia (Guatemala City, Guatemala (La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 20 July 1985 -) with two children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Christina Angel Armendariz (born 12 August 2008)
---Selena Marie Armendariz (born 1 December 2010)
with Daniel Armendariz (born 29 June 1983)
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav and Mary Kantz.
After the death of his first wife, Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein [capital Darmstadt] May 1854 – died New York, New York 25 August 1903), Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz married the mysterious Mary Hilymüller (New York 1891 - ?) on 29 April 1908 (marriage certificate 7943) at the parish house of The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in the City of New York aka The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew aka Trinity Lutheran Church “The Very Old German Meeting-House”, 602 East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009-5239. The parish house is gone, replaced in 1993 by the so-called Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish.
The church itself was located at 323 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003-8401.
The marriage was performed by the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Trinity, whose name is illegible. Witness was one Robert Kröhn.
Philipp’s address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). He was living with his son Gustav then.
Mary’s address at the time was 784 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York 11222 (torn down).
Mary’s parents were John Hilymüller and Mary Hilymüller née Mueller.
Mary Hilymüller disappeared from the scene years before the elderly Philipp moved in with his son, Paul Hatch Kantz.
Her burial location is unknown. There were no children.
NOTE: It is possible that this woman was the “gypsy with raven-black” or “jet-black” or “coal-black” hair associated with Philipp and referenced in the mid-1960s.
Philipp’s 1939 death certificate declared him as a widower (i.e, of Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (1854-1903), his next-of-kin as Paul Hatch Kantz, and makes no mention of Mary Hilymüller.
The Local Heritage Book for Werdorf is the source that ranks him as a Lieutenant.
His wife's name is unknown.
His great-great-great-great grandson is one Herr Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, a retired dentist and orthodontist formerly of Dr. Praxis Jürgen Kantz, Silhöfer-Straße 15, 35578 Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Gießen, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. +49 (0)6441 - 459 49.
Dr. Kantz' coat of arms, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Wappenrolle, volume V (1983) plate 291, is:
"Erniedrigt schräggeteilt von Schwarz und Gold, darin oben ein Pfahlfaden, begleitet rechts von einem Äskulapstab und links von einer Statue der gekrönten hl. Appolonia, ihre Marter erduldend (halb entkleidet und von drei Händen bedrängt, rechts oben die Augen ausbohrend, darunter die Zähne ausreißend, links ein Messer zur Schindung neben der Brust ansetzend) und unten ein Malerpinsel schräg-rechts, alles in verwechselten Farben. Auf dem schwarz-golden bewulsteten Helm mit schwarz-goldenen Decken ein wachsender rotbewehrter goldener Löwe."
("In base divided diagonally sable and or, above a pale charged, accompanied by a staff of Aesculapius right and left a statue of St. Appollonia crowned, enduring her martyrdom ('half undressed and beset by three hands, dexter above the eyes drilled out, including the pulled-out teeth, sinister a flaying knife to the chest'*) and down a paintbrush diagonally-right, all in mixed colors. On the black-golden mantled helmet with black-and-gold torse, a rising red-tinted golden lion.")
*quoting from a heraldic description of the martyrdom of St. Appollonia, patroness of dentists.
"Führungsberechtigt sind: Eingereicht bzw. neu angenommen am 30.April 1982 von Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, Zahnarzt, * Bad Nauheim 3.8.1941, für sich und seine ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm sowie zugunsten der übrigen ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm seines obengenannten vierfachen Urgroßvaters Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz)."
("By authority, submitted or newly adopted on 30 April 1982 by Dr. med. Jürgen Kantz, dentist and orthodontist, born 3 August 1941 in Bad Nauheim, Wetterauskreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland for himself and his descendants in the male line and legitimate in favor of the remaining marital descendants in the male line of his above-mentioned four times great-grandfather Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz).")
APPENDIX
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY
LATE 18th CENTURY UP TO c. 2015
One “Lieutenant” (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian Imperial system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat (“a lawyer who advised and represented the government”), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
His wife’s name is unknown.
b) Philipp Jacob had four children:
---Lisetta Friderica Eleonora Wilhelmina Kantz, born 22 January 1758 Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire). She was baptized 29 January 1758 in Aßlar, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
[NOTE]: Werdorf is now now an Ortsteil ("locality") within the small town of Aßlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreise (Kreise = "district"), Hessen, Germany. Werdorf and another small community, Berghausen, are so close to each other that there appears to be no boundary. Nevertheless, they are officially two of Aßlar's Stadtteile (roughly "wards" or perhaps "boroughs").
Date and place of death unknown.
---Susana Helena Friederica Kantz (born 8 February 1759, baptized 18 February 1759, died 25 September 1759) in Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Carolina Johanetta Margaretha Henrietta Kantz Born 27 July 1760, baptized 1 August 1760 in Aßlar, died ?) in Werdorf. When she was born, Werdorf was in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Christian Kantz (1764 - 1840):
Philipp Jacob’s son Christian Kantz, a Wollspinner (lit. „wool spinner“ (born Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 1764 – died Alzey, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein Grand-Duchy of Hessen 24 June 1840). Christian Kantz is identified as the Urvater/pater familias of the Alzey Kantzes.
and
his wife Anna Maria Fischer (born Niederlauken, then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) 1780 – died Alzey 10 August 1836), marriage date unknown, moved to Alzey at an unknown date.
Anna Marie’s father was Simon Fischer, a Jäger. Jäger is ambiguous; it may have meant simply a “huntsman” (as on a royal preserve) or, beginning c. 1750, a soldier skilled in the use of a rifle - a weapon which took longer to load than the smoothbore musket of the line infantry, but which had greater range and accuracy. Drawn from a "well-esteemed class" (per General Martin Ernst von Schlieffen (1732-1825), quoted in Dr. Rodney Atwood's The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1980), the Jägers were primarily used for reconnaissance, skirmishing, or screening bodies of heavier troops. They owned their own weapons and could (in principle) fill a crucial defensive role as militia in case of surprise assaults before any mobilization had been ordered, or as organizers of partisan warfare after an occupation. Jäger were not just skilled riflemen; they were also able to handle and maintain delicate, accurate rifles in an age when very few people had any mechanical skill.
Anna Maria’s mother was named Catharina David.
Both were born c. 1760 in Niederlauken then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) and died c. 1836 by that time Herzogtum („duchy“) Nassau (modern-day Hessen).
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY-1844-1848
On 17 September 1844, Christoph Kantz, a son of the persons described in (2), a Tüncher (“whitewasher”) (born Alzey midnight 6/7 September 1815 – Alzey 13 December 1874) married Sophia Henrietta Schlegelmilch (Alzey 28 May 1816 – Alzey 25 July 1877).
Sophia Henrietta’s parents were Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch, a Maurer („stonemason“) (born Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) 31 August 1785 – died Alzey 26 February 1855) and Sophia Catharina or Katharina Lenz (born Alsenz, then Grafschaft Nassau-Weilburg 'County of Nassau-Weilburg' now Alzenz-Obermoschel in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 26 or 29 March 1774 – died Alzey 10 August 1855); they were married on 13 December 1809 in Alzey.
Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch was the illegitimate son (uneheliches Kind) of Johanna Christina Schlegelmilch, Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) and an unidentified man.
Sophia Katharina Lenz‘ parents were Johann Michael Lenz, a Bergmann („miner“) (date and place of birth unknown – died Alzey 8 May 1795) married on 19 February 1754 in Obermoschel, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) to Maria Catharina Rollar (born Niederhausen an der Appel (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 1 May 1731 – died Alzey 9 July 1798).
Christoph and Sophia Henrietta were the parents of 13 children. They were:
Christine Kantz (Alzey 19 February 1837 – Alzey 1914)*
Johannes Kantz (Alzey 14 March 1839 – date and place of death unknown)*
Michael Kantz (Alzey 9 February 1844 – date and place of death unknown)*
Franz Kantz (Alzey 19 October 1845 – date and place of death unknown)
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz (Alzey 2 May 1848 – Queens, New York 13 December 1939)
Theodor Kantz (Alzey 10 March 1850 – date and place of death unknown)
Jacob Kantz (Alzey 6 June 1851 – date and place of death unknown)
Elisabetha Kantz (Alzey 30 July 1852 – Alzey 1923)
Karl Kantz (Alzey 29 July 1853 – date and place of death unknown)
Wilhelmina Kantz (Alzey 24 November 1855 – date and place of death unknown)
Charlotte Philippine Kantz (Alzey 24 October 1857 – date and place of death unknown)
Peter Kantz (Alzey 21 November 1858 – date and place of death unknown)
Louise Kantz (Alzey 9 April 1861 – Alzey 1922)
*[NOTE: These three children were born before Christoph and Sophia Henrietta married on 17 September 1844. The German word for such a child---born out of wedlock but later legitimized by the marriage of the parents---is voreheliches Kind. An illegitimate child, in the English sense, is uneheliches Kind.]
PHIL KANTZ' GRANDPARENTS:
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz, (born Alzey 2 May 1848 not 5 February 1848 – Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York 13 December 1939). His birth certificate shows the name simply as “Philipp Kantz”.
Two administrative actions and one personal action preceded Philipp’s departure from Germany:
Line 3 of Philipp’s Petition to Emigrate of 21 July 1871 (see below) mentions “an uncle in America has established residency in America” and who invited him leave Hessen.
This uncle is unidentified and unlocated.
One Philipp Kantz (Alzey 28 July 1821-?) is a possible match for this uncle; this Philipp emigrated to America in 1848.
Sometime between 1865 (his seventeenth birthday) and 1870 Philipp was summoned for military physical examination and basic training (Musterung).
On 31 January 1871, a mere thirteen days after Bismarck’s declaration of the German Empire with Wilhelm I King of Prussia as Emperor, Philipp was assigned to the Imperial German Ersatz-Reserve I (“Substitute Reserve List 1”) of the German Army ((Kaiserliches Heer or Kaiserreichsheer or Reichsheer or Deutsches Heer)…
“…which consisted of men who by good fortune or for some slight physical reason escaped their military service, but were liable to be called up in the event of mobilization. About 20,000 or 30,000 a year of these men were thus trained until 1893, when the training of the Ersatz Reserve was almost entirely abolished.”
---The Times History of the War (The Times, London 1914-1921).
The nature of Philipp’s physical/mental disability(-ies) and/or economic/family hardship(s)---if he had one or more of those---is unknown.
Philipp was likely assigned to one of the two infantry brigades (the 49th and the 50th) of the 25th Division (25. Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.) Division), HQs Darmstadt.
The agreement bringing Hessen into the Imperial German Army was signed 13 June 1871 (Militärkonvention zwischen dem Norddeutschen Bunde und Hessen vom 13. Juni 1871 (Ersatz für die vom 7. April 1867) and became effective in 1872. Hessen was subordinated to the Prussian Army.
ANECDOTE: For years, family lore circulated the story that there existed a photo (never seen) of Philipp Kantz in a “Prussian lancer’s (German Ulan) uniform”.
On 21 July 1871, Gregor Mayer, Beigeordneter (“alderman”) for the town of Alzey, forwarded Philipp’s Gesuch des Philipp Kanz zu Alzey um Auswanderung-Erlaubniß nach Amerika (“Request on Behalf of Philipp Kanz (sic) for Permission to Emigrate to America”) to the Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”).
The Request mentions an unidentified uncle of Philipp’s who apparently invited him to America (see ref above).
The Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”) approved the request 24 July 1871:
1871 Dokument-Übersetzung Auswanderung Philipp Kantz
mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Gerd Braun (1937-)
Transcription of “Emigration1”:
Alzey 21 July 1871
Re: Request by Philipp Kantz from Alzey for permission to emigrate to America
That in the above request we have the honor to defer in the following comments to (one word illegible) to the below.
The petitioner was born 2 May 1848 and is as of 31 January of the current year transferred to the substitute reserves.
The same indicates that an uncle in America has established residency in America and he wishes to go there.
Our side raises no objection.
Gregor Mayer, Alderman
Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz (1848-1939) Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”). The formal name of the region then was Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (“the Grand-Duchy of Hessen”); the three words und bei Rhein mean “and by/on the Rhein” and are generally not rendered into English.
The Grand Duchy was part of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (“German Empire” (18 January 1871 - 1918) which was preceded by the Norddeutscher Bund “North German Confederation“ (16 April 1867 – 16 April 1871). Of the entire Grand Duchy, only the province of Oberhessen was part of the Norddeutscher Bund.
The Kantzes were at least nominal members of the Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche (Evangelical Reformed Church) since the 18th Cent. In the US it is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Communicants call themselves Evangelischer, not Lutheraner.
He arrived in the Port of New York, District of the City of New York on 16 September 1871 (age 23 per the ship’s manifest) aboard the S.S. Hermann.
The processing center at that time was Castle Garden (not Ellis Island).
Philipp made a bee-line for the German Methodist Episcopal Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street Methodist Episcopal aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 252 2nd Street (now 252 East 2nd Street) in the Eleventh Ward, where he would spend the next eight years, on and off, in good times and bad (see below).
He signed his intent to become a US citizen on 25 September 1871 and became a US citizen on 22 October 1872 at the Common Pleas Court (abolished 31 December 1895), New York County on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side. He listed his occupation as painter and the witness was one Charles A. Weisser.
PHILIP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH STARTS MOVING AROUND:
1871-1872: German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down). This church had an associated but independent Second Street Methodist Episcopal at 252 Second Street, a parish house at 258 2nd Street, a Children’s Aid Mission at 272 Second Street, and a school at 276 East 3rd Street, now a vacant lot.
1872-1876: Unknown; possibly staying with the unidentified and unlocated uncle who preceded him to New York
1876-1878: United Hebrew Charities (UHC), 256 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
1878-1880: 266 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
[NOTE: 266 was probably a second lot owned by the UHC]
?-22 October 1879: Return to the German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka “the "little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down)
1880-1885: 523 East 6th Street, New York, New York 10009 (torn down)
1880-1882: 162 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10011-1813
1882-1883: 623 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 (torn down)
1889 1915: 139 (misread as 189) Avenue A, New York, New York 10009-5105
1915-?: unknown house number on 163rd Street, Queens, New York
1925: 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385 (six apartments with four different Zip+4 extensions). His name is listed as Philipp Kantz, while his son Philip Kantz lived at 20-06 Palmetto Street.
?-1939: 59-66 61st Street, Maspeth, Queens, New York 11378-3435
He listed his occupation as “painter” until 1914 when he retired, and his place of birth as “Hessen” until “Germany” became the standard toponym.
When he became a citizen 22 October 1872 he gave his address as the German M.E. Church 254 2nd Street (remapped as 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031---a discrepancy.
Some time prior to 1918, and while resident at 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385, Philipp Kantz had become a registered Democrat, according to the Transcript of the Enrollment Books for the Enrollment of 1918, made in the City of New York, under Provisions of Section 22, Chapter 22, Laws of 1909, Constituting Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws, an Amended by Chapter 244, Laws of 1914, and Chapter 297, Laws of 1918 (“The Election Law”), (Board of Elections of the City of New York, List of Enrolled Voters, First Assembly District District, Borough of the Bronx) page 18. His son, Philip Kantz, a few doors down at 20-06 Palmetto Street, was likewise a Democrat.
He was admitted to Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York (death certificate 8474) 2 December 1939 and died there 12:05am 13 December 1939. The principal cause of death was “Chronic Myocarditis” with “Senile Psychosis, Simple Deterioration” (sic) as contributory (“Chronic myocarditis” is the modern “congestive heart failure”; “senile psychosis” would be later “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia”). Creedmoor had been run since 1912 by the New York State Hospital Commission (subdivision of the New York State Department of Health, called the State Commission in Lunacy from 1895 to 1912).
The attending physician was one Anthony Tagliavia, MD.
Philipp was buried 16 December 1939 at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29. Obsequies were handled by the Peter Blasius Funeral Chapel, 1872 Gates Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385-2940, now a two-story four-unit apartment building.
The Lutheran Cemetery (as it was known in Philipp’s time) was owned by the German M.E. Church, 252 Second Street (now 252 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down) which Philipp called home at various times during the period 1871-1879.
PHILIPP KANTZ aka PHILIPP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH KANTZ
MARRIAGES AND DESCENDENTS
Philipp Kantz was married twice:
1. First to Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse May 1854 – Bellevue Hospital, New York 25 August 1903, death certificate 25164 dated 26 August 1903) in 1875. Her parents were Valentin Amborn and Eva Amborn née Scherer (Großbockenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse 28 September 1830-?). Cause of death was “Malignant (one word illegible) and (one word illegible) carcinoma.” She is buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29.
Philip Valentin Christoph and Margaretha had seven children. They were:
a) Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz, (12 May 1875 – 26 March 1929) burial Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579.
He was married twice:
Caroline Stock Kantz (May 1878 – 29 October 1907) 29 July 1905 (marriage certificate number 16274), Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 20, Map 3A, Row 24, Grave 50. Philip and Caroline had one child:
Unidentified infant (“male Kantz”) (Manhattan 27 January 1906 – Manhattan 3 February 1906 death certificate 3902; buried on Hart Island; most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-);
Second wife:
Blanche Mary Grabowski Kantz (3 February 1879 – 10 April 1962) Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579, buried 13 April 1962. Her mother Emilia was born in the Russian Empire.
They had four children:
Howard M. Kantz (New York 1 September 1909 –Morristown, New Jersey 26 September 1999) burial place unknown;
Clifford C. Kantz (New York 1913 – 1952) burial place unknown;
Blanche L. Kantz Goebel (Brooklyn, New York 17 January 1917 – Toms River, New Jersey 25 July 1999);
Arthur Kantz (24 October 1920 – Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York 11235 1 October 1981) burial place unknown.
And
b) Adolph Kantz (New York, New York 15 September 1876 – 3 February 1937 death certificate number 3553) burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A,
married
Mary Elizabeth Carr Kantz (1877 – 1960) on 9 April 1902 (certificate number 7304), same burial location as Adolph.
Adolph and Mary Elizabeth had one child, Margaret Amanda Kantz (12 July 1903 - ? who “died as a child”) birth certificate 31028, burial location unknown; possibly Hart Island.
c) Louis Kantz (New York, New York 11 February 1878 – New York, New York 12 February 1878 death certificate 283900), buried on Hart Island (most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-).
d) Philipine or Philippine Margaretha Louise Kantz (1 September 1879 – 11 February 1881). Burial - Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, exact location unknown.
e) Margaretha born 19 September 1881 “died in infancy”. Burial place unknown.
f) Paul Hatch Kantz (24 July 1889 certificate number 21342 – 21 September 1971), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
Paul Hatch had two marriages:
Louisa or Louise or Luisa Augusta Abel Kantz (9 July 1892 – 26 February 1960) married 30 March 1914 (marriage certificate number 8257), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A.
Child:
Helen Mae Kantz Grosch (27 July 1915 – 14 December 2000), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Section 5, Map 8, Block 1, Grave 132.
married
Theodore Louis Grosch, Jr. (5 June 1913 - 16 September 1967) same burial location as Helen Mae; daughter Lorraine Grosch (Queens, New York ? - ?) granddaughter C.L. (Bergen County, New Jersey ? - )
And
Maria Kantz née Hutter (Austria 1925 - 1985) who had two unidentified adult children at the time of her marriage to Paul in the early 1960s; burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
BEYOND THIS POINT: PHIL KANTZ' PARENTS
g) Gustav Kantz (New York, New York 14 December 1882 – New York, New York May 1963).
According to the New York State census of 1905, Gustav was living in the household of one Nicholas Schwanermann in Assembly District 14, Election District 22. This A.D. and E.D. delimited East 13th Street, East 14th Street, Avenue B
and Avenue C in the Lower East Side, now the East Village.
Gustav first married Louise F. C. Kahl (1882 – 8 March 1909) on 1 July 1906 (marriage certificate number 16317), at the St. George’s Episcopal Church parish house, 207 East 16th Street New York, New York 10003-3746. Her burial location is Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244 Map 3A.
They had two children:
William Kantz (28 March 1907 died at five hours old, birth certificate number 16400, death certificate 10949), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244, Map 3A,
And
Margaret Anna Green aka Margaret A. Green aka Margaret Green aka Margie Green née Kantz (1908-1959) with husband Fischel Grunbaum aka Fischel Grünbaum mūtātō nōmine Philip Edward Green aka Philip E. Green aka Philip Green aka Phil Green (born town and Duchy of Łowicz ('Lowitz' in German), modern Voivodeship/województwo of Łódź, Republic of Poland/Rzeczpospolita Polska on 15 December 1906, died 4 October 1962).
Margie was buried in Los Angeles, California 27 June 1959, burial location Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 West Centinela Avenue, Culver City (or Los Angeles), California 90045, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-3). She had converted to Judaism.
Phil Green is inhumed adjacent, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-4).
Margaret Anna and Philip Edward had two children:
Louis Robert Green (New York 30 October 1928 – North Carolina 11 August 1983). Louis Robert is buried in New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina 28560, Plot 8, 0, 6233.
and
Lorraine Green (?-?), nothing known.
In 1910, Gustav’s address was on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan Ward 11 (bounded by Rivington Street on the south, East 14th Street on the north, Avenue B on the west, and by the Harlem River on the east).
Then he married Mary M. Buckley Kantz “Nana” (city and county unknown, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 22 March 1888 – St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 February 1968) on 7 April 1912 (marriage certificate number 10210) at Church of the Annunciation, 88 Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10027-7520.
His address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). Her address at that time was 1332 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10075-1902 on the Upper East Side. She worked in a candy store owned by her parents.
By 1920 Gustav and Mary had moved uptown to Assembly District 23, Enumeration District (E.D.) and Tract unknown. A.D. 23 covered a vast area and their residence was probably 509 West 179th Street, New York, New York 10033-5708 (built 1919) in Washington Heights where they lived for decades with their children.
Gustav and Mary had three children:
Florence M. Kantz Leonard (New York, New York 3 April 1916 - May 1972) married John J. Leonard Sr. (? - ?) on 29 August 1937 (marriage certificate number 19754) three children: Florence Leonard Brennan (1949 -), John J. Leonard Jr. (1941 -2015), Philip T. Leonard (New York 2 August 1945 – Los Angeles, California 28 September 1970), in all cases burial locations unknown.
Grace Lillian Kantz O’Connor (New York, New York 1918 – North Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, New Jersey ?) married William O’Connor (? - ?, burial place Las Vegas, Nevada)
[NOTE: Her name is shown as Grace D. Kantz on the 1940 Census.]
And
Matthew Henderson (no further information); no children in either marriage.
Philip Frank Kantz (Harlem Hospital (construction began 1887, now called Harlem Hospital Center), 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, New York 10037 14 July 1922 – Morrisania Hospital (built 1929, closed 1976), 50 East 168th Street, Bronx, New York 10452-7929 4 October 1968)
married
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine (New York, New York 5 April 1921 – St. Louis, Missouri 23 December 2004). They are buried in Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York 11735-1213, Section 2P, Site 1085.
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK née Mundschenk (born Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa 21 August 1951 - ) 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children Noëlle Lucinda (born Guatemala City, Guatemala (formal name La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 4 March 1982 -) with four children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Ingrid (born 16 June 2004) father unknown
---Jeans Brian (30 April 2006-) aka Brian, father is William Cali, born Bolivia
---Violeta (22 February 2008-) father is José Israel Morales, born Puebla (formal name Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza), Puebla, Mexico
---Natalie (15 August 2012-)
and Molly Lucrecia (Guatemala City, Guatemala (La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 20 July 1985 -) with two children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Christina Angel Armendariz (born 12 August 2008)
---Selena Marie Armendariz (born 1 December 2010)
with Daniel Armendariz (born 29 June 1983)
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav and Mary Kantz.
After the death of his first wife, Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein [capital Darmstadt] May 1854 – died New York, New York 25 August 1903), Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz married the mysterious Mary Hilymüller (New York 1891 - ?) on 29 April 1908 (marriage certificate 7943) at the parish house of The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in the City of New York aka The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew aka Trinity Lutheran Church “The Very Old German Meeting-House”, 602 East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009-5239. The parish house is gone, replaced in 1993 by the so-called Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish.
The church itself was located at 323 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003-8401.
The marriage was performed by the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Trinity, whose name is illegible. Witness was one Robert Kröhn.
Philipp’s address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). He was living with his son Gustav then.
Mary’s address at the time was 784 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York 11222 (torn down).
Mary’s parents were John Hilymüller and Mary Hilymüller née Mueller.
Mary Hilymüller disappeared from the scene years before the elderly Philipp moved in with his son, Paul Hatch Kantz.
Her burial location is unknown. There were no children.
NOTE: It is possible that this woman was the “gypsy with raven-black” or “jet-black” or “coal-black” hair associated with Philipp and referenced in the mid-1960s.
Philipp’s 1939 death certificate declared him as a widower (i.e, of Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (1854-1903), his next-of-kin as Paul Hatch Kantz, and makes no mention of Mary Hilymüller.
Lieutenant (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat ("a lawyer who advised and represented the government" and who practiced on behalf of same), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
The Local Heritage Book for Werdorf is the source that ranks him as a Lieutenant.
His wife's name is unknown.
His great-great-great-great grandson is one Herr Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, a retired dentist and orthodontist formerly of Dr. Praxis Jürgen Kantz, Silhöfer-Straße 15, 35578 Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Gießen, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. +49 (0)6441 - 459 49.
Dr. Kantz' coat of arms, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Wappenrolle, volume V (1983) plate 291, is:
"Erniedrigt schräggeteilt von Schwarz und Gold, darin oben ein Pfahlfaden, begleitet rechts von einem Äskulapstab und links von einer Statue der gekrönten hl. Appolonia, ihre Marter erduldend (halb entkleidet und von drei Händen bedrängt, rechts oben die Augen ausbohrend, darunter die Zähne ausreißend, links ein Messer zur Schindung neben der Brust ansetzend) und unten ein Malerpinsel schräg-rechts, alles in verwechselten Farben. Auf dem schwarz-golden bewulsteten Helm mit schwarz-goldenen Decken ein wachsender rotbewehrter goldener Löwe."
("In base divided diagonally sable and or, above a pale charged, accompanied by a staff of Aesculapius right and left a statue of St. Appollonia crowned, enduring her martyrdom ('half undressed and beset by three hands, dexter above the eyes drilled out, including the pulled-out teeth, sinister a flaying knife to the chest'*) and down a paintbrush diagonally-right, all in mixed colors. On the black-golden mantled helmet with black-and-gold torse, a rising red-tinted golden lion.")
*quoting from a heraldic description of the martyrdom of St. Appollonia, patroness of dentists.
"Führungsberechtigt sind: Eingereicht bzw. neu angenommen am 30.April 1982 von Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, Zahnarzt, * Bad Nauheim 3.8.1941, für sich und seine ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm sowie zugunsten der übrigen ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm seines obengenannten vierfachen Urgroßvaters Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz)."
("By authority, submitted or newly adopted on 30 April 1982 by Dr. med. Jürgen Kantz, dentist and orthodontist, born 3 August 1941 in Bad Nauheim, Wetterauskreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland for himself and his descendants in the male line and legitimate in favor of the remaining marital descendants in the male line of his above-mentioned four times great-grandfather Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz).")
APPENDIX
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY
LATE 18th CENTURY UP TO c. 2015
One “Lieutenant” (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian Imperial system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat (“a lawyer who advised and represented the government”), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
His wife’s name is unknown.
b) Philipp Jacob had four children:
---Lisetta Friderica Eleonora Wilhelmina Kantz, born 22 January 1758 Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire). She was baptized 29 January 1758 in Aßlar, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
[NOTE]: Werdorf is now now an Ortsteil ("locality") within the small town of Aßlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreise (Kreise = "district"), Hessen, Germany. Werdorf and another small community, Berghausen, are so close to each other that there appears to be no boundary. Nevertheless, they are officially two of Aßlar's Stadtteile (roughly "wards" or perhaps "boroughs").
Date and place of death unknown.
---Susana Helena Friederica Kantz (born 8 February 1759, baptized 18 February 1759, died 25 September 1759) in Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Carolina Johanetta Margaretha Henrietta Kantz Born 27 July 1760, baptized 1 August 1760 in Aßlar, died ?) in Werdorf. When she was born, Werdorf was in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Christian Kantz (1764 - 1840):
Philipp Jacob’s son Christian Kantz, a Wollspinner (lit. „wool spinner“ (born Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 1764 – died Alzey, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein Grand-Duchy of Hessen 24 June 1840). Christian Kantz is identified as the Urvater/pater familias of the Alzey Kantzes.
and
his wife Anna Maria Fischer (born Niederlauken, then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) 1780 – died Alzey 10 August 1836), marriage date unknown, moved to Alzey at an unknown date.
Anna Marie’s father was Simon Fischer, a Jäger. Jäger is ambiguous; it may have meant simply a “huntsman” (as on a royal preserve) or, beginning c. 1750, a soldier skilled in the use of a rifle - a weapon which took longer to load than the smoothbore musket of the line infantry, but which had greater range and accuracy. Drawn from a "well-esteemed class" (per General Martin Ernst von Schlieffen (1732-1825), quoted in Dr. Rodney Atwood's The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1980), the Jägers were primarily used for reconnaissance, skirmishing, or screening bodies of heavier troops. They owned their own weapons and could (in principle) fill a crucial defensive role as militia in case of surprise assaults before any mobilization had been ordered, or as organizers of partisan warfare after an occupation. Jäger were not just skilled riflemen; they were also able to handle and maintain delicate, accurate rifles in an age when very few people had any mechanical skill.
Anna Maria’s mother was named Catharina David.
Both were born c. 1760 in Niederlauken then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) and died c. 1836 by that time Herzogtum („duchy“) Nassau (modern-day Hessen).
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY-1844-1848
On 17 September 1844, Christoph Kantz, a son of the persons described in (2), a Tüncher (“whitewasher”) (born Alzey midnight 6/7 September 1815 – Alzey 13 December 1874) married Sophia Henrietta Schlegelmilch (Alzey 28 May 1816 – Alzey 25 July 1877).
Sophia Henrietta’s parents were Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch, a Maurer („stonemason“) (born Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) 31 August 1785 – died Alzey 26 February 1855) and Sophia Catharina or Katharina Lenz (born Alsenz, then Grafschaft Nassau-Weilburg 'County of Nassau-Weilburg' now Alzenz-Obermoschel in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 26 or 29 March 1774 – died Alzey 10 August 1855); they were married on 13 December 1809 in Alzey.
Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch was the illegitimate son (uneheliches Kind) of Johanna Christina Schlegelmilch, Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) and an unidentified man.
Sophia Katharina Lenz‘ parents were Johann Michael Lenz, a Bergmann („miner“) (date and place of birth unknown – died Alzey 8 May 1795) married on 19 February 1754 in Obermoschel, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) to Maria Catharina Rollar (born Niederhausen an der Appel (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 1 May 1731 – died Alzey 9 July 1798).
Christoph and Sophia Henrietta were the parents of 13 children. They were:
Christine Kantz (Alzey 19 February 1837 – Alzey 1914)*
Johannes Kantz (Alzey 14 March 1839 – date and place of death unknown)*
Michael Kantz (Alzey 9 February 1844 – date and place of death unknown)*
Franz Kantz (Alzey 19 October 1845 – date and place of death unknown)
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz (Alzey 2 May 1848 – Queens, New York 13 December 1939)
Theodor Kantz (Alzey 10 March 1850 – date and place of death unknown)
Jacob Kantz (Alzey 6 June 1851 – date and place of death unknown)
Elisabetha Kantz (Alzey 30 July 1852 – Alzey 1923)
Karl Kantz (Alzey 29 July 1853 – date and place of death unknown)
Wilhelmina Kantz (Alzey 24 November 1855 – date and place of death unknown)
Charlotte Philippine Kantz (Alzey 24 October 1857 – date and place of death unknown)
Peter Kantz (Alzey 21 November 1858 – date and place of death unknown)
Louise Kantz (Alzey 9 April 1861 – Alzey 1922)
*[NOTE: These three children were born before Christoph and Sophia Henrietta married on 17 September 1844. The German word for such a child---born out of wedlock but later legitimized by the marriage of the parents---is voreheliches Kind. An illegitimate child, in the English sense, is uneheliches Kind.]
PHIL KANTZ' GRANDPARENTS:
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz, (born Alzey 2 May 1848 not 5 February 1848 – Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York 13 December 1939). His birth certificate shows the name simply as “Philipp Kantz”.
Two administrative actions and one personal action preceded Philipp’s departure from Germany:
Line 3 of Philipp’s Petition to Emigrate of 21 July 1871 (see below) mentions “an uncle in America has established residency in America” and who invited him leave Hessen.
This uncle is unidentified and unlocated.
One Philipp Kantz (Alzey 28 July 1821-?) is a possible match for this uncle; this Philipp emigrated to America in 1848.
Sometime between 1865 (his seventeenth birthday) and 1870 Philipp was summoned for military physical examination and basic training (Musterung).
On 31 January 1871, a mere thirteen days after Bismarck’s declaration of the German Empire with Wilhelm I King of Prussia as Emperor, Philipp was assigned to the Imperial German Ersatz-Reserve I (“Substitute Reserve List 1”) of the German Army ((Kaiserliches Heer or Kaiserreichsheer or Reichsheer or Deutsches Heer)…
“…which consisted of men who by good fortune or for some slight physical reason escaped their military service, but were liable to be called up in the event of mobilization. About 20,000 or 30,000 a year of these men were thus trained until 1893, when the training of the Ersatz Reserve was almost entirely abolished.”
---The Times History of the War (The Times, London 1914-1921).
The nature of Philipp’s physical/mental disability(-ies) and/or economic/family hardship(s)---if he had one or more of those---is unknown.
Philipp was likely assigned to one of the two infantry brigades (the 49th and the 50th) of the 25th Division (25. Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.) Division), HQs Darmstadt.
The agreement bringing Hessen into the Imperial German Army was signed 13 June 1871 (Militärkonvention zwischen dem Norddeutschen Bunde und Hessen vom 13. Juni 1871 (Ersatz für die vom 7. April 1867) and became effective in 1872. Hessen was subordinated to the Prussian Army.
ANECDOTE: For years, family lore circulated the story that there existed a photo (never seen) of Philipp Kantz in a “Prussian lancer’s (German Ulan) uniform”.
On 21 July 1871, Gregor Mayer, Beigeordneter (“alderman”) for the town of Alzey, forwarded Philipp’s Gesuch des Philipp Kanz zu Alzey um Auswanderung-Erlaubniß nach Amerika (“Request on Behalf of Philipp Kanz (sic) for Permission to Emigrate to America”) to the Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”).
The Request mentions an unidentified uncle of Philipp’s who apparently invited him to America (see ref above).
The Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”) approved the request 24 July 1871:
1871 Dokument-Übersetzung Auswanderung Philipp Kantz
mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Gerd Braun (1937-)
Transcription of “Emigration1”:
Alzey 21 July 1871
Re: Request by Philipp Kantz from Alzey for permission to emigrate to America
That in the above request we have the honor to defer in the following comments to (one word illegible) to the below.
The petitioner was born 2 May 1848 and is as of 31 January of the current year transferred to the substitute reserves.
The same indicates that an uncle in America has established residency in America and he wishes to go there.
Our side raises no objection.
Gregor Mayer, Alderman
Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz (1848-1939) Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”). The formal name of the region then was Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (“the Grand-Duchy of Hessen”); the three words und bei Rhein mean “and by/on the Rhein” and are generally not rendered into English.
The Grand Duchy was part of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (“German Empire” (18 January 1871 - 1918) which was preceded by the Norddeutscher Bund “North German Confederation“ (16 April 1867 – 16 April 1871). Of the entire Grand Duchy, only the province of Oberhessen was part of the Norddeutscher Bund.
The Kantzes were at least nominal members of the Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche (Evangelical Reformed Church) since the 18th Cent. In the US it is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Communicants call themselves Evangelischer, not Lutheraner.
He arrived in the Port of New York, District of the City of New York on 16 September 1871 (age 23 per the ship’s manifest) aboard the S.S. Hermann.
The processing center at that time was Castle Garden (not Ellis Island).
Philipp made a bee-line for the German Methodist Episcopal Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street Methodist Episcopal aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 252 2nd Street (now 252 East 2nd Street) in the Eleventh Ward, where he would spend the next eight years, on and off, in good times and bad (see below).
He signed his intent to become a US citizen on 25 September 1871 and became a US citizen on 22 October 1872 at the Common Pleas Court (abolished 31 December 1895), New York County on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side. He listed his occupation as painter and the witness was one Charles A. Weisser.
PHILIP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH STARTS MOVING AROUND:
1871-1872: German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down). This church had an associated but independent Second Street Methodist Episcopal at 252 Second Street, a parish house at 258 2nd Street, a Children’s Aid Mission at 272 Second Street, and a school at 276 East 3rd Street, now a vacant lot.
1872-1876: Unknown; possibly staying with the unidentified and unlocated uncle who preceded him to New York
1876-1878: United Hebrew Charities (UHC), 256 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
1878-1880: 266 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
[NOTE: 266 was probably a second lot owned by the UHC]
?-22 October 1879: Return to the German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka “the "little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down)
1880-1885: 523 East 6th Street, New York, New York 10009 (torn down)
1880-1882: 162 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10011-1813
1882-1883: 623 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 (torn down)
1889 1915: 139 (misread as 189) Avenue A, New York, New York 10009-5105
1915-?: unknown house number on 163rd Street, Queens, New York
1925: 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385 (six apartments with four different Zip+4 extensions). His name is listed as Philipp Kantz, while his son Philip Kantz lived at 20-06 Palmetto Street.
?-1939: 59-66 61st Street, Maspeth, Queens, New York 11378-3435
He listed his occupation as “painter” until 1914 when he retired, and his place of birth as “Hessen” until “Germany” became the standard toponym.
When he became a citizen 22 October 1872 he gave his address as the German M.E. Church 254 2nd Street (remapped as 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031---a discrepancy.
Some time prior to 1918, and while resident at 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385, Philipp Kantz had become a registered Democrat, according to the Transcript of the Enrollment Books for the Enrollment of 1918, made in the City of New York, under Provisions of Section 22, Chapter 22, Laws of 1909, Constituting Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws, an Amended by Chapter 244, Laws of 1914, and Chapter 297, Laws of 1918 (“The Election Law”), (Board of Elections of the City of New York, List of Enrolled Voters, First Assembly District District, Borough of the Bronx) page 18. His son, Philip Kantz, a few doors down at 20-06 Palmetto Street, was likewise a Democrat.
He was admitted to Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York (death certificate 8474) 2 December 1939 and died there 12:05am 13 December 1939. The principal cause of death was “Chronic Myocarditis” with “Senile Psychosis, Simple Deterioration” (sic) as contributory (“Chronic myocarditis” is the modern “congestive heart failure”; “senile psychosis” would be later “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia”). Creedmoor had been run since 1912 by the New York State Hospital Commission (subdivision of the New York State Department of Health, called the State Commission in Lunacy from 1895 to 1912).
The attending physician was one Anthony Tagliavia, MD.
Philipp was buried 16 December 1939 at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29. Obsequies were handled by the Peter Blasius Funeral Chapel, 1872 Gates Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385-2940, now a two-story four-unit apartment building.
The Lutheran Cemetery (as it was known in Philipp’s time) was owned by the German M.E. Church, 252 Second Street (now 252 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down) which Philipp called home at various times during the period 1871-1879.
PHILIPP KANTZ aka PHILIPP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH KANTZ
MARRIAGES AND DESCENDENTS
Philipp Kantz was married twice:
1. First to Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse May 1854 – Bellevue Hospital, New York 25 August 1903, death certificate 25164 dated 26 August 1903) in 1875. Her parents were Valentin Amborn and Eva Amborn née Scherer (Großbockenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse 28 September 1830-?). Cause of death was “Malignant (one word illegible) and (one word illegible) carcinoma.” She is buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29.
Philip Valentin Christoph and Margaretha had seven children. They were:
a) Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz, (12 May 1875 – 26 March 1929) burial Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579.
He was married twice:
Caroline Stock Kantz (May 1878 – 29 October 1907) 29 July 1905 (marriage certificate number 16274), Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 20, Map 3A, Row 24, Grave 50. Philip and Caroline had one child:
Unidentified infant (“male Kantz”) (Manhattan 27 January 1906 – Manhattan 3 February 1906 death certificate 3902; buried on Hart Island; most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-);
Second wife:
Blanche Mary Grabowski Kantz (3 February 1879 – 10 April 1962) Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579, buried 13 April 1962. Her mother Emilia was born in the Russian Empire.
They had four children:
Howard M. Kantz (New York 1 September 1909 –Morristown, New Jersey 26 September 1999) burial place unknown;
Clifford C. Kantz (New York 1913 – 1952) burial place unknown;
Blanche L. Kantz Goebel (Brooklyn, New York 17 January 1917 – Toms River, New Jersey 25 July 1999);
Arthur Kantz (24 October 1920 – Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York 11235 1 October 1981) burial place unknown.
And
b) Adolph Kantz (New York, New York 15 September 1876 – 3 February 1937 death certificate number 3553) burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A,
married
Mary Elizabeth Carr Kantz (1877 – 1960) on 9 April 1902 (certificate number 7304), same burial location as Adolph.
Adolph and Mary Elizabeth had one child, Margaret Amanda Kantz (12 July 1903 - ? who “died as a child”) birth certificate 31028, burial location unknown; possibly Hart Island.
c) Louis Kantz (New York, New York 11 February 1878 – New York, New York 12 February 1878 death certificate 283900), buried on Hart Island (most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-).
d) Philipine or Philippine Margaretha Louise Kantz (1 September 1879 – 11 February 1881). Burial - Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, exact location unknown.
e) Margaretha born 19 September 1881 “died in infancy”. Burial place unknown.
f) Paul Hatch Kantz (24 July 1889 certificate number 21342 – 21 September 1971), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
Paul Hatch had two marriages:
Louisa or Louise or Luisa Augusta Abel Kantz (9 July 1892 – 26 February 1960) married 30 March 1914 (marriage certificate number 8257), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A.
Child:
Helen Mae Kantz Grosch (27 July 1915 – 14 December 2000), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Section 5, Map 8, Block 1, Grave 132.
married
Theodore Louis Grosch, Jr. (5 June 1913 - 16 September 1967) same burial location as Helen Mae; daughter Lorraine Grosch (Queens, New York ? - ?) granddaughter C.L. (Bergen County, New Jersey ? - )
And
Maria Kantz née Hutter (Austria 1925 - 1985) who had two unidentified adult children at the time of her marriage to Paul in the early 1960s; burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
BEYOND THIS POINT: PHIL KANTZ' PARENTS
g) Gustav Kantz (New York, New York 14 December 1882 – New York, New York May 1963).
According to the New York State census of 1905, Gustav was living in the household of one Nicholas Schwanermann in Assembly District 14, Election District 22. This A.D. and E.D. delimited East 13th Street, East 14th Street, Avenue B
and Avenue C in the Lower East Side, now the East Village.
Gustav first married Louise F. C. Kahl (1882 – 8 March 1909) on 1 July 1906 (marriage certificate number 16317), at the St. George’s Episcopal Church parish house, 207 East 16th Street New York, New York 10003-3746. Her burial location is Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244 Map 3A.
They had two children:
William Kantz (28 March 1907 died at five hours old, birth certificate number 16400, death certificate 10949), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244, Map 3A,
And
Margaret Anna Green aka Margaret A. Green aka Margaret Green aka Margie Green née Kantz (1908-1959) with husband Fischel Grunbaum aka Fischel Grünbaum mūtātō nōmine Philip Edward Green aka Philip E. Green aka Philip Green aka Phil Green (born town and Duchy of Łowicz ('Lowitz' in German), modern Voivodeship/województwo of Łódź, Republic of Poland/Rzeczpospolita Polska on 15 December 1906, died 4 October 1962).
Margie was buried in Los Angeles, California 27 June 1959, burial location Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 West Centinela Avenue, Culver City (or Los Angeles), California 90045, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-3). She had converted to Judaism.
Phil Green is inhumed adjacent, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-4).
Margaret Anna and Philip Edward had two children:
Louis Robert Green (New York 30 October 1928 – North Carolina 11 August 1983). Louis Robert is buried in New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina 28560, Plot 8, 0, 6233.
and
Lorraine Green (?-?), nothing known.
In 1910, Gustav’s address was on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan Ward 11 (bounded by Rivington Street on the south, East 14th Street on the north, Avenue B on the west, and by the Harlem River on the east).
Then he married Mary M. Buckley Kantz “Nana” (city and county unknown, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 22 March 1888 – St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 February 1968) on 7 April 1912 (marriage certificate number 10210) at Church of the Annunciation, 88 Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10027-7520.
His address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). Her address at that time was 1332 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10075-1902 on the Upper East Side. She worked in a candy store owned by her parents.
By 1920 Gustav and Mary had moved uptown to Assembly District 23, Enumeration District (E.D.) and Tract unknown. A.D. 23 covered a vast area and their residence was probably 509 West 179th Street, New York, New York 10033-5708 (built 1919) in Washington Heights where they lived for decades with their children.
Gustav and Mary had three children:
Florence M. Kantz Leonard (New York, New York 3 April 1916 - May 1972) married John J. Leonard Sr. (? - ?) on 29 August 1937 (marriage certificate number 19754) three children: Florence Leonard Brennan (1949 -), John J. Leonard Jr. (1941 -2015), Philip T. Leonard (New York 2 August 1945 – Los Angeles, California 28 September 1970), in all cases burial locations unknown.
Grace Lillian Kantz O’Connor (New York, New York 1918 – North Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, New Jersey ?) married William O’Connor (? - ?, burial place Las Vegas, Nevada)
[NOTE: Her name is shown as Grace D. Kantz on the 1940 Census.]
And
Matthew Henderson (no further information); no children in either marriage.
Philip Frank Kantz (Harlem Hospital (construction began 1887, now called Harlem Hospital Center), 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, New York 10037 14 July 1922 – Morrisania Hospital (built 1929, closed 1976), 50 East 168th Street, Bronx, New York 10452-7929 4 October 1968)
married
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine (New York, New York 5 April 1921 – St. Louis, Missouri 23 December 2004). They are buried in Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York 11735-1213, Section 2P, Site 1085.
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK née Mundschenk (born Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa 21 August 1951 - ) 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children Noëlle Lucinda (born Guatemala City, Guatemala (formal name La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 4 March 1982 -) with four children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Ingrid (born 16 June 2004) father unknown
---Jeans Brian (30 April 2006-) aka Brian, father is William Cali, born Bolivia
---Violeta (22 February 2008-) father is José Israel Morales, born Puebla (formal name Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza), Puebla, Mexico
---Natalie (15 August 2012-)
and Molly Lucrecia (Guatemala City, Guatemala (La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 20 July 1985 -) with two children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Christina Angel Armendariz (born 12 August 2008)
---Selena Marie Armendariz (born 1 December 2010)
with Daniel Armendariz (born 29 June 1983)
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav and Mary Kantz.
After the death of his first wife, Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein [capital Darmstadt] May 1854 – died New York, New York 25 August 1903), Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz married the mysterious Mary Hilymüller (New York 1891 - ?) on 29 April 1908 (marriage certificate 7943) at the parish house of The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in the City of New York aka The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew aka Trinity Lutheran Church “The Very Old German Meeting-House”, 602 East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009-5239. The parish house is gone, replaced in 1993 by the so-called Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish.
The church itself was located at 323 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003-8401.
The marriage was performed by the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Trinity, whose name is illegible. Witness was one Robert Kröhn.
Philipp’s address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). He was living with his son Gustav then.
Mary’s address at the time was 784 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York 11222 (torn down).
Mary’s parents were John Hilymüller and Mary Hilymüller née Mueller.
Mary Hilymüller disappeared from the scene years before the elderly Philipp moved in with his son, Paul Hatch Kantz.
Her burial location is unknown. There were no children.
NOTE: It is possible that this woman was the “gypsy with raven-black” or “jet-black” or “coal-black” hair associated with Philipp and referenced in the mid-1960s.
Philipp’s 1939 death certificate declared him as a widower (i.e, of Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (1854-1903), his next-of-kin as Paul Hatch Kantz, and makes no mention of Mary Hilymüller.
The Local Heritage Book for Werdorf is the source that ranks him as a Lieutenant.
His wife's name is unknown.
His great-great-great-great grandson is one Herr Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, a retired dentist and orthodontist formerly of Dr. Praxis Jürgen Kantz, Silhöfer-Straße 15, 35578 Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Gießen, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland. +49 (0)6441 - 459 49.
Dr. Kantz' coat of arms, according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Wappenrolle, volume V (1983) plate 291, is:
"Erniedrigt schräggeteilt von Schwarz und Gold, darin oben ein Pfahlfaden, begleitet rechts von einem Äskulapstab und links von einer Statue der gekrönten hl. Appolonia, ihre Marter erduldend (halb entkleidet und von drei Händen bedrängt, rechts oben die Augen ausbohrend, darunter die Zähne ausreißend, links ein Messer zur Schindung neben der Brust ansetzend) und unten ein Malerpinsel schräg-rechts, alles in verwechselten Farben. Auf dem schwarz-golden bewulsteten Helm mit schwarz-goldenen Decken ein wachsender rotbewehrter goldener Löwe."
("In base divided diagonally sable and or, above a pale charged, accompanied by a staff of Aesculapius right and left a statue of St. Appollonia crowned, enduring her martyrdom ('half undressed and beset by three hands, dexter above the eyes drilled out, including the pulled-out teeth, sinister a flaying knife to the chest'*) and down a paintbrush diagonally-right, all in mixed colors. On the black-golden mantled helmet with black-and-gold torse, a rising red-tinted golden lion.")
*quoting from a heraldic description of the martyrdom of St. Appollonia, patroness of dentists.
"Führungsberechtigt sind: Eingereicht bzw. neu angenommen am 30.April 1982 von Dr. med. dent. Jürgen Kantz, Zahnarzt, * Bad Nauheim 3.8.1941, für sich und seine ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm sowie zugunsten der übrigen ehelichen Nachkommen im Mannesstamm seines obengenannten vierfachen Urgroßvaters Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz)."
("By authority, submitted or newly adopted on 30 April 1982 by Dr. med. Jürgen Kantz, dentist and orthodontist, born 3 August 1941 in Bad Nauheim, Wetterauskreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Bundesrepublik Deutschland for himself and his descendants in the male line and legitimate in favor of the remaining marital descendants in the male line of his above-mentioned four times great-grandfather Philipp Jakob Kantz (Kanz).")
APPENDIX
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY
LATE 18th CENTURY UP TO c. 2015
One “Lieutenant” (sic; probably a Hessian civil service rank similar to the Russian Imperial system) Philipp Jacob or Jakob Kantz, a Regierungsadvokat (“a lawyer who advised and represented the government”), born c. 1735 place unknown, died in Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 24 April 1779.
His wife’s name is unknown.
b) Philipp Jacob had four children:
---Lisetta Friderica Eleonora Wilhelmina Kantz, born 22 January 1758 Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire). She was baptized 29 January 1758 in Aßlar, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
[NOTE]: Werdorf is now now an Ortsteil ("locality") within the small town of Aßlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreise (Kreise = "district"), Hessen, Germany. Werdorf and another small community, Berghausen, are so close to each other that there appears to be no boundary. Nevertheless, they are officially two of Aßlar's Stadtteile (roughly "wards" or perhaps "boroughs").
Date and place of death unknown.
---Susana Helena Friederica Kantz (born 8 February 1759, baptized 18 February 1759, died 25 September 1759) in Werdorf, then in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Carolina Johanetta Margaretha Henrietta Kantz Born 27 July 1760, baptized 1 August 1760 in Aßlar, died ?) in Werdorf. When she was born, Werdorf was in Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, a state in the Holy Roman Empire).
---Christian Kantz (1764 - 1840):
Philipp Jacob’s son Christian Kantz, a Wollspinner (lit. „wool spinner“ (born Leun-bei-Braunfels, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, then a state in the Holy Roman Empire) 1764 – died Alzey, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein Grand-Duchy of Hessen 24 June 1840). Christian Kantz is identified as the Urvater/pater familias of the Alzey Kantzes.
and
his wife Anna Maria Fischer (born Niederlauken, then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) 1780 – died Alzey 10 August 1836), marriage date unknown, moved to Alzey at an unknown date.
Anna Marie’s father was Simon Fischer, a Jäger. Jäger is ambiguous; it may have meant simply a “huntsman” (as on a royal preserve) or, beginning c. 1750, a soldier skilled in the use of a rifle - a weapon which took longer to load than the smoothbore musket of the line infantry, but which had greater range and accuracy. Drawn from a "well-esteemed class" (per General Martin Ernst von Schlieffen (1732-1825), quoted in Dr. Rodney Atwood's The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1980), the Jägers were primarily used for reconnaissance, skirmishing, or screening bodies of heavier troops. They owned their own weapons and could (in principle) fill a crucial defensive role as militia in case of surprise assaults before any mobilization had been ordered, or as organizers of partisan warfare after an occupation. Jäger were not just skilled riflemen; they were also able to handle and maintain delicate, accurate rifles in an age when very few people had any mechanical skill.
Anna Maria’s mother was named Catharina David.
Both were born c. 1760 in Niederlauken then in Fürstentum Nassau-Usingen (Principality of Nassau-Usingen) and died c. 1836 by that time Herzogtum („duchy“) Nassau (modern-day Hessen).
KANTZ FAMILY HISTORY-1844-1848
On 17 September 1844, Christoph Kantz, a son of the persons described in (2), a Tüncher (“whitewasher”) (born Alzey midnight 6/7 September 1815 – Alzey 13 December 1874) married Sophia Henrietta Schlegelmilch (Alzey 28 May 1816 – Alzey 25 July 1877).
Sophia Henrietta’s parents were Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch, a Maurer („stonemason“) (born Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) 31 August 1785 – died Alzey 26 February 1855) and Sophia Catharina or Katharina Lenz (born Alsenz, then Grafschaft Nassau-Weilburg 'County of Nassau-Weilburg' now Alzenz-Obermoschel in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 26 or 29 March 1774 – died Alzey 10 August 1855); they were married on 13 December 1809 in Alzey.
Johann Michael Wilhelm Schlegelmilch was the illegitimate son (uneheliches Kind) of Johanna Christina Schlegelmilch, Fischbach bei Suhl, Landkreis Hildburghausen, Bundesland Thüringen (then Königreich Sachsen) and an unidentified man.
Sophia Katharina Lenz‘ parents were Johann Michael Lenz, a Bergmann („miner“) (date and place of birth unknown – died Alzey 8 May 1795) married on 19 February 1754 in Obermoschel, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) to Maria Catharina Rollar (born Niederhausen an der Appel (in Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz since 1969) 1 May 1731 – died Alzey 9 July 1798).
Christoph and Sophia Henrietta were the parents of 13 children. They were:
Christine Kantz (Alzey 19 February 1837 – Alzey 1914)*
Johannes Kantz (Alzey 14 March 1839 – date and place of death unknown)*
Michael Kantz (Alzey 9 February 1844 – date and place of death unknown)*
Franz Kantz (Alzey 19 October 1845 – date and place of death unknown)
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz (Alzey 2 May 1848 – Queens, New York 13 December 1939)
Theodor Kantz (Alzey 10 March 1850 – date and place of death unknown)
Jacob Kantz (Alzey 6 June 1851 – date and place of death unknown)
Elisabetha Kantz (Alzey 30 July 1852 – Alzey 1923)
Karl Kantz (Alzey 29 July 1853 – date and place of death unknown)
Wilhelmina Kantz (Alzey 24 November 1855 – date and place of death unknown)
Charlotte Philippine Kantz (Alzey 24 October 1857 – date and place of death unknown)
Peter Kantz (Alzey 21 November 1858 – date and place of death unknown)
Louise Kantz (Alzey 9 April 1861 – Alzey 1922)
*[NOTE: These three children were born before Christoph and Sophia Henrietta married on 17 September 1844. The German word for such a child---born out of wedlock but later legitimized by the marriage of the parents---is voreheliches Kind. An illegitimate child, in the English sense, is uneheliches Kind.]
PHIL KANTZ' GRANDPARENTS:
Philipp Kantz aka Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz, (born Alzey 2 May 1848 not 5 February 1848 – Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York 13 December 1939). His birth certificate shows the name simply as “Philipp Kantz”.
Two administrative actions and one personal action preceded Philipp’s departure from Germany:
Line 3 of Philipp’s Petition to Emigrate of 21 July 1871 (see below) mentions “an uncle in America has established residency in America” and who invited him leave Hessen.
This uncle is unidentified and unlocated.
One Philipp Kantz (Alzey 28 July 1821-?) is a possible match for this uncle; this Philipp emigrated to America in 1848.
Sometime between 1865 (his seventeenth birthday) and 1870 Philipp was summoned for military physical examination and basic training (Musterung).
On 31 January 1871, a mere thirteen days after Bismarck’s declaration of the German Empire with Wilhelm I King of Prussia as Emperor, Philipp was assigned to the Imperial German Ersatz-Reserve I (“Substitute Reserve List 1”) of the German Army ((Kaiserliches Heer or Kaiserreichsheer or Reichsheer or Deutsches Heer)…
“…which consisted of men who by good fortune or for some slight physical reason escaped their military service, but were liable to be called up in the event of mobilization. About 20,000 or 30,000 a year of these men were thus trained until 1893, when the training of the Ersatz Reserve was almost entirely abolished.”
---The Times History of the War (The Times, London 1914-1921).
The nature of Philipp’s physical/mental disability(-ies) and/or economic/family hardship(s)---if he had one or more of those---is unknown.
Philipp was likely assigned to one of the two infantry brigades (the 49th and the 50th) of the 25th Division (25. Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.) Division), HQs Darmstadt.
The agreement bringing Hessen into the Imperial German Army was signed 13 June 1871 (Militärkonvention zwischen dem Norddeutschen Bunde und Hessen vom 13. Juni 1871 (Ersatz für die vom 7. April 1867) and became effective in 1872. Hessen was subordinated to the Prussian Army.
ANECDOTE: For years, family lore circulated the story that there existed a photo (never seen) of Philipp Kantz in a “Prussian lancer’s (German Ulan) uniform”.
On 21 July 1871, Gregor Mayer, Beigeordneter (“alderman”) for the town of Alzey, forwarded Philipp’s Gesuch des Philipp Kanz zu Alzey um Auswanderung-Erlaubniß nach Amerika (“Request on Behalf of Philipp Kanz (sic) for Permission to Emigrate to America”) to the Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”).
The Request mentions an unidentified uncle of Philipp’s who apparently invited him to America (see ref above).
The Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”) approved the request 24 July 1871:
1871 Dokument-Übersetzung Auswanderung Philipp Kantz
mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Gerd Braun (1937-)
Transcription of “Emigration1”:
Alzey 21 July 1871
Re: Request by Philipp Kantz from Alzey for permission to emigrate to America
That in the above request we have the honor to defer in the following comments to (one word illegible) to the below.
The petitioner was born 2 May 1848 and is as of 31 January of the current year transferred to the substitute reserves.
The same indicates that an uncle in America has established residency in America and he wishes to go there.
Our side raises no objection.
Gregor Mayer, Alderman
Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz (1848-1939) Großherzoglich Kreisamt Alzey (“Ducal District Administration of Alzey”). The formal name of the region then was Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein (“the Grand-Duchy of Hessen”); the three words und bei Rhein mean “and by/on the Rhein” and are generally not rendered into English.
The Grand Duchy was part of the Deutsches Kaiserreich (“German Empire” (18 January 1871 - 1918) which was preceded by the Norddeutscher Bund “North German Confederation“ (16 April 1867 – 16 April 1871). Of the entire Grand Duchy, only the province of Oberhessen was part of the Norddeutscher Bund.
The Kantzes were at least nominal members of the Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche (Evangelical Reformed Church) since the 18th Cent. In the US it is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Communicants call themselves Evangelischer, not Lutheraner.
He arrived in the Port of New York, District of the City of New York on 16 September 1871 (age 23 per the ship’s manifest) aboard the S.S. Hermann.
The processing center at that time was Castle Garden (not Ellis Island).
Philipp made a bee-line for the German Methodist Episcopal Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street Methodist Episcopal aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 252 2nd Street (now 252 East 2nd Street) in the Eleventh Ward, where he would spend the next eight years, on and off, in good times and bad (see below).
He signed his intent to become a US citizen on 25 September 1871 and became a US citizen on 22 October 1872 at the Common Pleas Court (abolished 31 December 1895), New York County on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side. He listed his occupation as painter and the witness was one Charles A. Weisser.
PHILIP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH STARTS MOVING AROUND:
1871-1872: German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka The First German M.E. Church aka "the little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down). This church had an associated but independent Second Street Methodist Episcopal at 252 Second Street, a parish house at 258 2nd Street, a Children’s Aid Mission at 272 Second Street, and a school at 276 East 3rd Street, now a vacant lot.
1872-1876: Unknown; possibly staying with the unidentified and unlocated uncle who preceded him to New York
1876-1878: United Hebrew Charities (UHC), 256 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
1878-1880: 266 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 (torn down)
[NOTE: 266 was probably a second lot owned by the UHC]
?-22 October 1879: Return to the German M.E. Church aka The Second Street Church aka The Second Street M.E. Church aka “the "little red chapel of the east side", 254 2nd Street (now 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down)
1880-1885: 523 East 6th Street, New York, New York 10009 (torn down)
1880-1882: 162 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10011-1813
1882-1883: 623 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 (torn down)
1889 1915: 139 (misread as 189) Avenue A, New York, New York 10009-5105
1915-?: unknown house number on 163rd Street, Queens, New York
1925: 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385 (six apartments with four different Zip+4 extensions). His name is listed as Philipp Kantz, while his son Philip Kantz lived at 20-06 Palmetto Street.
?-1939: 59-66 61st Street, Maspeth, Queens, New York 11378-3435
He listed his occupation as “painter” until 1914 when he retired, and his place of birth as “Hessen” until “Germany” became the standard toponym.
When he became a citizen 22 October 1872 he gave his address as the German M.E. Church 254 2nd Street (remapped as 254 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031---a discrepancy.
Some time prior to 1918, and while resident at 20-18 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385, Philipp Kantz had become a registered Democrat, according to the Transcript of the Enrollment Books for the Enrollment of 1918, made in the City of New York, under Provisions of Section 22, Chapter 22, Laws of 1909, Constituting Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws, an Amended by Chapter 244, Laws of 1914, and Chapter 297, Laws of 1918 (“The Election Law”), (Board of Elections of the City of New York, List of Enrolled Voters, First Assembly District District, Borough of the Bronx) page 18. His son, Philip Kantz, a few doors down at 20-06 Palmetto Street, was likewise a Democrat.
He was admitted to Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York (death certificate 8474) 2 December 1939 and died there 12:05am 13 December 1939. The principal cause of death was “Chronic Myocarditis” with “Senile Psychosis, Simple Deterioration” (sic) as contributory (“Chronic myocarditis” is the modern “congestive heart failure”; “senile psychosis” would be later “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia”). Creedmoor had been run since 1912 by the New York State Hospital Commission (subdivision of the New York State Department of Health, called the State Commission in Lunacy from 1895 to 1912).
The attending physician was one Anthony Tagliavia, MD.
Philipp was buried 16 December 1939 at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29. Obsequies were handled by the Peter Blasius Funeral Chapel, 1872 Gates Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, New York 11385-2940, now a two-story four-unit apartment building.
The Lutheran Cemetery (as it was known in Philipp’s time) was owned by the German M.E. Church, 252 Second Street (now 252 East 2nd Street), New York, New York 10009-8031 (torn down) which Philipp called home at various times during the period 1871-1879.
PHILIPP KANTZ aka PHILIPP VALENTIN CHRISTOPH KANTZ
MARRIAGES AND DESCENDENTS
Philipp Kantz was married twice:
1. First to Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse May 1854 – Bellevue Hospital, New York 25 August 1903, death certificate 25164 dated 26 August 1903) in 1875. Her parents were Valentin Amborn and Eva Amborn née Scherer (Großbockenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse 28 September 1830-?). Cause of death was “Malignant (one word illegible) and (one word illegible) carcinoma.” She is buried in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 26, Map 3A, Row 11, Grave 29.
Philip Valentin Christoph and Margaretha had seven children. They were:
a) Philip Valentin Christoph Kantz, (12 May 1875 – 26 March 1929) burial Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579.
He was married twice:
Caroline Stock Kantz (May 1878 – 29 October 1907) 29 July 1905 (marriage certificate number 16274), Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Public Lot 20, Map 3A, Row 24, Grave 50. Philip and Caroline had one child:
Unidentified infant (“male Kantz”) (Manhattan 27 January 1906 – Manhattan 3 February 1906 death certificate 3902; buried on Hart Island; most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-);
Second wife:
Blanche Mary Grabowski Kantz (3 February 1879 – 10 April 1962) Cypress Hills National Cemetery, 625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208, Plot 2, 10579, buried 13 April 1962. Her mother Emilia was born in the Russian Empire.
They had four children:
Howard M. Kantz (New York 1 September 1909 –Morristown, New Jersey 26 September 1999) burial place unknown;
Clifford C. Kantz (New York 1913 – 1952) burial place unknown;
Blanche L. Kantz Goebel (Brooklyn, New York 17 January 1917 – Toms River, New Jersey 25 July 1999);
Arthur Kantz (24 October 1920 – Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York 11235 1 October 1981) burial place unknown.
And
b) Adolph Kantz (New York, New York 15 September 1876 – 3 February 1937 death certificate number 3553) burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A,
married
Mary Elizabeth Carr Kantz (1877 – 1960) on 9 April 1902 (certificate number 7304), same burial location as Adolph.
Adolph and Mary Elizabeth had one child, Margaret Amanda Kantz (12 July 1903 - ? who “died as a child”) birth certificate 31028, burial location unknown; possibly Hart Island.
c) Louis Kantz (New York, New York 11 February 1878 – New York, New York 12 February 1878 death certificate 283900), buried on Hart Island (most records of Hart Island burials were destroyed in a fire 1977. Searchable records only exist for the period 1980-).
d) Philipine or Philippine Margaretha Louise Kantz (1 September 1879 – 11 February 1881). Burial - Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, exact location unknown.
e) Margaretha born 19 September 1881 “died in infancy”. Burial place unknown.
f) Paul Hatch Kantz (24 July 1889 certificate number 21342 – 21 September 1971), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
Paul Hatch had two marriages:
Louisa or Louise or Luisa Augusta Abel Kantz (9 July 1892 – 26 February 1960) married 30 March 1914 (marriage certificate number 8257), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303 Map 3A.
Child:
Helen Mae Kantz Grosch (27 July 1915 – 14 December 2000), burial Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Section 5, Map 8, Block 1, Grave 132.
married
Theodore Louis Grosch, Jr. (5 June 1913 - 16 September 1967) same burial location as Helen Mae; daughter Lorraine Grosch (Queens, New York ? - ?) granddaughter C.L. (Bergen County, New Jersey ? - )
And
Maria Kantz née Hutter (Austria 1925 - 1985) who had two unidentified adult children at the time of her marriage to Paul in the early 1960s; burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 15303, Map 3A.
BEYOND THIS POINT: PHIL KANTZ' PARENTS
g) Gustav Kantz (New York, New York 14 December 1882 – New York, New York May 1963).
According to the New York State census of 1905, Gustav was living in the household of one Nicholas Schwanermann in Assembly District 14, Election District 22. This A.D. and E.D. delimited East 13th Street, East 14th Street, Avenue B
and Avenue C in the Lower East Side, now the East Village.
Gustav first married Louise F. C. Kahl (1882 – 8 March 1909) on 1 July 1906 (marriage certificate number 16317), at the St. George’s Episcopal Church parish house, 207 East 16th Street New York, New York 10003-3746. Her burial location is Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244 Map 3A.
They had two children:
William Kantz (28 March 1907 died at five hours old, birth certificate number 16400, death certificate 10949), burial location Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery aka Lutheran Cemetery, 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, New York 11379-1620 USA, Lot 1244, Map 3A,
And
Margaret Anna Green aka Margaret A. Green aka Margaret Green aka Margie Green née Kantz (1908-1959) with husband Fischel Grunbaum aka Fischel Grünbaum mūtātō nōmine Philip Edward Green aka Philip E. Green aka Philip Green aka Phil Green (born town and Duchy of Łowicz ('Lowitz' in German), modern Voivodeship/województwo of Łódź, Republic of Poland/Rzeczpospolita Polska on 15 December 1906, died 4 October 1962).
Margie was buried in Los Angeles, California 27 June 1959, burial location Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 West Centinela Avenue, Culver City (or Los Angeles), California 90045, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-3). She had converted to Judaism.
Phil Green is inhumed adjacent, Valley of Remembrance 16-882-4).
Margaret Anna and Philip Edward had two children:
Louis Robert Green (New York 30 October 1928 – North Carolina 11 August 1983). Louis Robert is buried in New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina 28560, Plot 8, 0, 6233.
and
Lorraine Green (?-?), nothing known.
In 1910, Gustav’s address was on the Lower East Side, in Manhattan Ward 11 (bounded by Rivington Street on the south, East 14th Street on the north, Avenue B on the west, and by the Harlem River on the east).
Then he married Mary M. Buckley Kantz “Nana” (city and county unknown, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 22 March 1888 – St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 February 1968) on 7 April 1912 (marriage certificate number 10210) at Church of the Annunciation, 88 Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10027-7520.
His address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). Her address at that time was 1332 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10075-1902 on the Upper East Side. She worked in a candy store owned by her parents.
By 1920 Gustav and Mary had moved uptown to Assembly District 23, Enumeration District (E.D.) and Tract unknown. A.D. 23 covered a vast area and their residence was probably 509 West 179th Street, New York, New York 10033-5708 (built 1919) in Washington Heights where they lived for decades with their children.
Gustav and Mary had three children:
Florence M. Kantz Leonard (New York, New York 3 April 1916 - May 1972) married John J. Leonard Sr. (? - ?) on 29 August 1937 (marriage certificate number 19754) three children: Florence Leonard Brennan (1949 -), John J. Leonard Jr. (1941 -2015), Philip T. Leonard (New York 2 August 1945 – Los Angeles, California 28 September 1970), in all cases burial locations unknown.
Grace Lillian Kantz O’Connor (New York, New York 1918 – North Washington Avenue, Bergenfield, New Jersey ?) married William O’Connor (? - ?, burial place Las Vegas, Nevada)
[NOTE: Her name is shown as Grace D. Kantz on the 1940 Census.]
And
Matthew Henderson (no further information); no children in either marriage.
Philip Frank Kantz (Harlem Hospital (construction began 1887, now called Harlem Hospital Center), 506 Lenox Avenue, New York, New York 10037 14 July 1922 – Morrisania Hospital (built 1929, closed 1976), 50 East 168th Street, Bronx, New York 10452-7929 4 October 1968)
married
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine (New York, New York 5 April 1921 – St. Louis, Missouri 23 December 2004). They are buried in Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York 11735-1213, Section 2P, Site 1085.
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK née Mundschenk (born Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa 21 August 1951 - ) 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children Noëlle Lucinda (born Guatemala City, Guatemala (formal name La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 4 March 1982 -) with four children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Ingrid (born 16 June 2004) father unknown
---Jeans Brian (30 April 2006-) aka Brian, father is William Cali, born Bolivia
---Violeta (22 February 2008-) father is José Israel Morales, born Puebla (formal name Heróica Puebla de Zaragoza), Puebla, Mexico
---Natalie (15 August 2012-)
and Molly Lucrecia (Guatemala City, Guatemala (La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, República de Guatemala) 20 July 1985 -) with two children born in Arlington, Virginia:
---Christina Angel Armendariz (born 12 August 2008)
---Selena Marie Armendariz (born 1 December 2010)
with Daniel Armendariz (born 29 June 1983)
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav and Mary Kantz.
After the death of his first wife, Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (Wonsheim, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein [capital Darmstadt] May 1854 – died New York, New York 25 August 1903), Philipp Valentin Christoph Kantz married the mysterious Mary Hilymüller (New York 1891 - ?) on 29 April 1908 (marriage certificate 7943) at the parish house of The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in the City of New York aka The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew aka Trinity Lutheran Church “The Very Old German Meeting-House”, 602 East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009-5239. The parish house is gone, replaced in 1993 by the so-called Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish.
The church itself was located at 323 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003-8401.
The marriage was performed by the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Trinity, whose name is illegible. Witness was one Robert Kröhn.
Philipp’s address at the time was 606 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10009-3311, Lower East Side (torn down). He was living with his son Gustav then.
Mary’s address at the time was 784 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York 11222 (torn down).
Mary’s parents were John Hilymüller and Mary Hilymüller née Mueller.
Mary Hilymüller disappeared from the scene years before the elderly Philipp moved in with his son, Paul Hatch Kantz.
Her burial location is unknown. There were no children.
NOTE: It is possible that this woman was the “gypsy with raven-black” or “jet-black” or “coal-black” hair associated with Philipp and referenced in the mid-1960s.
Philipp’s 1939 death certificate declared him as a widower (i.e, of Margaret or Margaretha Amborn Kantz (1854-1903), his next-of-kin as Paul Hatch Kantz, and makes no mention of Mary Hilymüller.
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