Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Krug, Christie G 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Krug, Christie G. – Within recent years the young men of the agricultural 
districts have no doubt come to realize more than before, that there is no 
better line of business for them to follow than that of farming.  Various 
successful experiments in adding to the fertility of the soil, the advance in 
prices for farm products, and the invention of labor saving machinery, have 
all tended towards raising agricultural standards, and the farming communities 
are holding their best young men as never before.  One of those who has been 
developing himself to farming in Grundy County is Christie G. Krug, manager of 
his mother’s 160-acre farm in Good Farm Township.

Christie G. Krug was born in Grundy County, in the township now his home, 
March 24, 1883, a son of Leonard and Christianna (Perchincke) Krug, both 
natives of Germany.  The father came to the United States in young manhood, 
and during the Civil War, served as a guard at Morris, Ill., for a period of 
three months.  His death occurred in 1898, on the farm now operated by his 
son, and he is buried in the German Lutheran Church cemetery in the 
neighborhood.  The mother is living at Dwight, Ill.  These parents had 
thirteen children, eleven of whom survive, Christie G. Krug having been one of 
the youngest of the family.  He grew up on the homestead and attended the 
schools of his district.

On December 23, 1903, Mr. Krug married Rica Fillman, the ceremony being 
performed by the Rev. Griefe, of Good Farm Township.  She was born October 20, 
1883, in Good Farm Township.  Mr. Krug belongs to the German Lutheran Church.  
In political faith he is very liberal, believing better ends are attained by 
not holding too close to party lines.  He is now serving in his second term as 
a school director of his township, also tax collector, and during 1913, was 
one of the judges of election.  Fraternally he belongs to the A. O. of 
Gleaners of which he was a charter member, and he has been on the drill team.  
Owning an automobile and having many modern improvements on his farm, Mr. Krug 
not only is making a success of his work, but he is enjoying it, and keeps 
himself thoroughly abreast of the times in every way.  He is one of the best 
examples Grundy County shows of the live, modern agriculturalist of the 
twentieth century.  Mr. Krug raises Holstein cattle, full-blooded Silver Laced 
Wyandotte chickens, Mammoth Bronze turkeys, and massive Toulouse geese, all of 
which he shows at agricultural fairs and has taken many prizes.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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