Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Crome, Fred January 28, 1878 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

FRED CROME.

     Fred Crome, the well-known manager of the elevator at Bremen, Kansas, was
born on the home farm in Logan township, on January 28, 1878, the son of Conrad
and Mary ( Sluter) Crome, natives of Germany, where the father was born in 1828
and the mother in 1838.

    Conrad and Mary Crome were educated in the schools of Germany and there grew
up and were married. Mr. Crome spent five years of his young life in Australia,
where he worked in a gold mine. The rest of his life, until 1871, he lived in
his native land where he was engaged in farming. In 1871 he decided to come to
the United States, where he might better make a home for those dependent upon
him. On his arrival in this country he located for a time in Indiana, where he
worked in a smelter, making railroad rails. The following year he came to Kansas
and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Logan township, Marshall
county. This land he developed and improved and engaged in general farming and
stock raising until the time of his death in 1904. He and his wife always took
an active part in the services of the German Lutheran church, of which they were
members and of which Mr. Crome was a trustee for many years. He was identified
with the Republican party and was prominent in the civic and political life of
the township. For a number of years he served as road boss and was a member of
the local school board.

    Conrad and Mary Crome were the parents of thirteen children, of whom eight
are living, as follow: Conrad F., Herman, Fred, Hermine. William, Anna, John and
Emma. Conrad is a farmer in Marshall county; Herman is engaged in general
farming in Washington county: Hermine Pralle is the wife of a well-known farmer
of Logan township; William is farming the home place; Anna Duever resides on a
farm in Washington county, where her husband is a successful farmer; John is a
rural mail carrier out of Bremen and Emma Lauderbach is living in Logan
township, where Mr. Lauderbach is a successful farmer and stockman. Mr. and Mrs.
Crome were ever prominent in their home community, took much interest in the
social and moral development of the district and were held in the highest esteem
and regard by all who knew them.

    Fred Crome received his education in the local schools and was reared on the
home farm, where as a lad he assisted his father with the farm work. At the age
of sixteen years he was employed as a farm hand and worked by the month for nine
years. He then rented a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 31, Logan
township, and after three years he purchased the place. He made many extensive
improvements and placed the farm under a high state of cultivation. After nine
years he traded it for the elevator at Bremen and a residence property in that
place. In connection with his farm work, Mr. Crome operated a threshing machine
from 1901 to 1906.

    The elevator which Mr. Crome now owns, was established about 1894 by W. H.
Koeneke, who enlarged and improved the property in 1901. Since assuming
possession of the elevator, Mr. Crome has made many valuable improvements and is
now doing about thirty thousand dollars in business each year. He is most
progressive and believes in keeping his elevator up to a high standard of
excellence. He has the confidence of the public and his business shows an
increase from year to year.

    In 1908 Fred Crome was united in marriage to Kate Wassermann, who was born
in Herkimer township, Marshall county, in 1887, the daughter of Chris and Katie
(Germerroth) Wassermann, natives of Germany and now prominent residents of
Herkimer township. Mrs. Crome died at the birth of her child, Katie, who was
born on October 27, 1909. In 1912 Mr. Crome was united in marriage to Lizzie
Wassermann, a sister of his first wife, who was born in Marshall county in 1889
and received her education in the schools of her home township. To this union
three children have been born as follow: Fred, whose birth occurred on January
29, 1913; Munford, on November 19, 1914, died on January 22, 1917, and Edgar, on
April 9, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Crome are members of the German Lutheran church and
are prominent in the social life of the town.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)



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