BIO:  Calvin P. KRISE, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 361-362

CALVIN P. KRISE, Gettysburg, was born in Freedom Township, Adams Co., Penn., 
September 1, 1834, a son of Abraham and Jane (Tott) Krise.  The father was a 
native of Maryland, but passed almost his entire life in Adams County, occupied 
as a farmer until late in life when he retired from active work and removed to 
Gettysburg, where his death occurred in 1880 at the advanced age of eighty-two 
years.  Calvin P., the eldest son, was reared on a farm, and there taught to 
work by a good father, who was a regular Jacksonian Democrat, and who was a man 
of influence, but very stern and set in his way, and of whom it was said he was 
seldom on the wrong side.  Our subject attended the district schools in Freedom 
Township, and remained on the farm with his parents, until he enlisted February 
27, 1865, in Company E, under Captain Giller of the Ninety-Ninth Regiment, P. V. 
I.  At the close of the war he went West, and has since passed five summers 
there, yet his home and main business have been at Gettysburg, where he and his 
sister reside in comfortable dwellings located on Carlisle Street.