Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Krudup, John 1870 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN KRUDUP.

    The Germans form one of the most prosperous elements of state or nation, and
are especially noteworthy for the part they have played in the substantial and
enduring development of Lake county. Mr. Krudup was born in Hanover township,
Lake county, April 19, 1870, and is the youngest of the seven children, four
sons and three daughters, born to Herman H. and Anna Elizabeth (Wilke) Krudup.
There are four of the children still living. The eldest, Johanna, is the widow
of John H. Meyer and a resident of West Creek township. Herman, who is married,
is a salesman in a wholesale grocery house of Chicago. William F., married, is a
dealer in harness and hardware at Gibson City, Illinois. And John is the youngest.

    Herman H. Krudup, the father, was a native of Germany, born in 1828. He was
a farmer by occupation. He was married in Germany and about 1858 he came to
America, arriving at New Orleans and making the trip up the Mississippi and the
Ohio to Cincinnati, being two months and six days on the water. When he came to
Indiana he began as a farmer. He purchased eighty acres of land, going in debt
for part of it, and by diligence he not only paid for it, but added to his
property until he had one hundred and sixty-seven acres, and fifteen acres of
timber-land. This land is now the property of Mr. John Krudup. The father was a
Republican in politics. The mother was a native of Prussia, Germany, born in
1832, and her death occurred in 1892.

    Mr. Krudup was reared to the life of a farmer, and received his education in
the common schools of the county, personal application being a principal factor
in his success from the beginning of his career. At the age of twenty-one he
began without capital, and at the age of twenty-seven he received his share of
the estate. He has been careful and frugal, and has accumulated a good property
and become well known for his effective business management. In March, 1904, he
purchased the stock of merchandise of Hon. John Beckman, at Brunswick. This was
a well established general merchandise business, the stock consisting of
dry-goods, shoes, staple and fancy groceries, queensware and other general
goods. Mr. Krudup is a young and progressive business man, affable and genial,
and his integrity and character and reputation for honesty and fair dealing are
well known throughout his native community, where the people have all confidence
in him, and his business career begun under such favorable auspices is certain
to lead to success.

    March 17, 1898, Mr. Krudup married Miss Carrie Russell, and two daughters
have been born to them, Emma M. and Edna J. Mrs. Krudup was born in Hanover
township, this county, March 17, 1871, and was reared in the county and educated
in the common schools. She is a daughter of Christopher and Johanna Russell, the
former now deceased, and both her parents were born in Germany.

    Mr. Krudup is a stalwart Republican, having cast his first presidential vote
for Benjamin Harrison, and having supported each candidate since. He and his
wife are church members and are young people who stand high in the estimation of
all who know them.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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