Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Krug, John H. January 18, 1890 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

JOHN H. KRUG.

    John H. Krug, one of the well-known and successful young men of Marshall
county, was born in Washington county, Kansas, on January 18, 1890, the son of
John and Ida (Kasneck) Krug.

    John Krug was born in 1860 in Pennsylvania, where he was reared on the farm
and educated in the public schools of the district. At the age of seventeen
years he engaged as a farm hand, working by the month for twelve years. He then
purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Washington county, Kansas,
which he developed and improved and where he engaged in general farming and
stock raising for ten years, when he sold the farm and bought one hundred and
sixty acres of land in Phillips county, Kansas, his present home. In addition to
general farming he is an extensive breeder of high-grade draft horses, in which
he has been most successful.

    Ida (Kasneck) Krug was born in Germany in 1853 and was reared in a village
of that country and received her education in the local schools. At the age of
fourteen years, she came to the United States with her parents and located in
Washington county, Kansas, where she grew to womanhood and was married in 1887.
She continued to live in that county until the time of her death in 1895. Mr.
and Mrs. Krug were the parents of three children as follow: Walter, John H. and
Rudolph. Walter is employed by the Standard Oil Company and is stationed at St.
Joe, Missouri, and Rudolph is a brakeman on the Grand Island railroad with
headquarters at Hastings, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Krug were reared in the faith
of the German Lutheran church and Mr. Krug' is now an active member of that
denomination. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party and takes
much interest in local affairs and is at present a member of the school board of
his home district.

  His mother having died when he was but five years of age, John H. Krug was
reared by Margurete Ramar, in whose home he remained until he was sixteen years
of age. His early life was spent on the farm and he received his education in
the local schools. As a lad he learned telegraphy and was later appointed
station agent at Endicott. The first year he was relief man and during that time
he worked at twelve different stations for the Grand Island railroad. For a year
he was at Powells, Nebraska, as agent, when he was transferred to Hanover as
operator, and after a year at that place, he served as agent at Bremen, for five
years before assuming his present position as agent at Herkimer. Here he has a
relief man and devotes much of his time to the automobile business. In 1913 he
erected a building, fourteen by twenty feet, opposite the depot and established
a garage and handled second-hand cars for a year. He then built a brick block,
thirty-two by twenty-two feet, on the same location and handled the Ford and
Dodge cars for Charles Travelute, of Marysville. After two years he took the
agency for the Saxon automobile and discontinued the sale of the Ford and Dodge
cars. In April, 1916, he built a two-story iron-clad garage, thirty-eight by
sixty-four feet, on Main street. The upper part of the building is used as a
public hall and the lower part for the automobile business. His garage is one of
the finest in this section and he has the greatest floor space of any garage in
the town. He has a well-established business and during the first part of 1916
he sold ten carloads of Saxon cars and fifty Chevrolet cars since January 1.

    In addition to his extensive automobile interests, Mr. Krug has much
property in the town, owning four good business places, many vacant lots and a
fine residence. In 1914 he installed an electric light plant and has the
contract for lighting the city, and has lights in nearly all the buildings in
the place. He also owns and conducts a modern and up-to-date pool and billiard
parlor, which is managed in such a manner as to receive the approval of the
greater portion of the resident population.

    On May 10, 1914, John H. Krug was united in marriage to Freda Ida Minder,
the daughter of Adolph and Rosa (Kohler) Minder. The parents were natives of
Switzerland, where the father was born in 1860 and the mother in 1859. Their
early lives were spent in their home village and there they were educated in the
public schools. After reaching their majority they were married in 1888 and
continued to reside in the land of their birth until 1891, when they came to the
United States, locating at Home City, Kansas. As a young man, Mr. Minder learned
the saddlery trade and on coming to Home City he established a harness shop,
which he conducted for twelve years, when he sold the place and moved to
Herkimer, where he built a substantial residence and harness shop and continued
in the business until his death in 1906. Since the death of her husband, Mrs.
Minder has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Krug. Politically, Mr. Minder was
identified with the Democratic party and took much interest in local affairs. He
and his wife were reared in the faith of the German Lutheran church and were
prominent in all church work. They were the parents of two children, Freda Ida,
who was born in Switzerland on September 10, 1890, and Adolph, born at Home
City, Kansas.

    John H. and Freda Ida Krug are the parents of one child, Leman Paul, who was
born on April 3, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Krug are members of the Lutheran church and
are prominent in the social and religious life of the town, where Mr. Krug is
recognized as one of the substantial and most progressive business men, and
where he has taken an active part in promoting its best interests.


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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