Kunkel Scrapbook

Kunkel Family - from Seligenstadt, Germany to the Readville, Massachusetts

The following pictures are of Jacob and Elizabeth Kunkel of Seligenstadt, Germany, and their descendants. These pictures include their sons and daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.

The Kunkel family emmigrated to the United States during the 1870s leaving parents, Jacob and Elizabeth behind in Germany. The Kunkel came to America on the ship Hungaria.

The Kunkels settled in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts upon arrival in the USA, where there was a large population of German emmigrants. The Kunkels next moved to Readville, MA to raise their families in the new country.

With engineering and steel forging backgrounds, Walter and Edward Kunkel volunteered to go to help build the Panama Canal in 1908. Edward remained in Panama with the Dredging Unit, but Walter, the Supervisor of Forging in Panama, returned and built upon his father's blacksmith business, Frank Kunkel & Sons, incorporated in 1883. The Kunkel forging business in Wolcott Square grew in the 1920s and became one of the largest employers in the town of Readville, MA.

Pictures also include Philip Kunkel (German Barvarian Forest Warden), Frank Kunkel (volunteer fireman and blacksmith), Ann Kunkel, Jake Kunkel, Walter Kunkel, Edward Kunkel, Henry Kunkel, Hilda Kunkel, Josephine Kunkel, Charles Kunkel, Dorothea Kunkel, Eileen Kunkel, Helen Kunkel, and spouses: including the Hoeflings, Kivlins, Philips, Wills, Yaceshyns and Cox's.

Please refer to Kunkel family tree chart photo at bottom this page for a better understanding of the family relationships.

If you can add to our family album, please feel free to contact me at macosx@optonline.net.

Webmaster, David L. Kunkel

My email address is macosx@optonline.net