From the Koreshan Archives:
— June’s calendar isn’t quite as busy as previous months, however, the major calendar item this month is the birthday of Jesse Sears Teed, father of Cyrus. Jesse has been featured here before, so, instead of highlighting him again, we chose a somewhat obscure Koreshan who, although his time with the Unity was somewhat short, 
had a major impact, at least on the infrastructure of the Unity. His name was Richard Jentsch, born in Germany on the 8th of June, 1883. He came to Estero in 1906. It is unclear how long before that time he had been a member of the Unity.
He was a member of the Unity Orchestra, and this grainy photo is all that we have of him. His claim to fame came in 1906, shortly after his arrival when he took part in the “fight” in Fort Myers when Dr. Teed was struck by Sheriff Sanchez and arrested. That fight was always used as the reason for Dr. Teed’s eventual death. Jentsch was a major player in that fight. According to historian Elliot Mackle, writing in the “Florida Historical Quarterly”:
“A crowd quickly gathered around the four men. The train had by that time arrived, and the Baltimore party, escorted by the mayor of Estero and by a young Koreshan named Richard Jentsch, had begun walking toward a hotel in the center of town. Upon meeting the crowd they recognized Dr. Teed. Jentsch sprang forward to defend his messiah, and was followed almost immediately by the three Koreshan boys in his charge-Claude Rahn, Roland Sander, and George Danner. Jentsch struck Sellers and was then himself struck down by blows from the crowd. Claude Rahn, trying to separate Sellers and Dr. Teed, was hit in the mouth by a stranger. George Danner, seeing this, ran forward, kicked Rahn’s attacker, and then retreated. The man yelled, “Grab the kid.” Someone did, and Danner was knocked into the crowd.”
Jentsch is better known in the Historic Site as a member of the Koreshan Orchestra and an active member of the theater troupe. He eventually left the Koreshan Unity and got married to a fellow Koreshan, Cecile Read Woodruff, who, according to the records we have, was almost forty years his senior. Jentsch died on April 14, 1915, just four months prior to his wife, who died in August of 1915.