BIO:  Samuel KRISE, Liberty Township, 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, Page 471

SAMUEL KRISE, retired farmer, P. O. Emmitsburg, Md., is a grandson of Henry 
Krise, who came to America in the first half of the last century, and located in 
New Jersey, whence he came to Monocacy, Md., where his wife and he died.  
Abraham Krise the father of Samuel was born in New Jersey September 25, 1771.  
He lived with his father in Maryland until after his marriage December 1, 1799, 
and the following year moved to a large tract in this township of over 750 
acres, which he and his father had bought.  This land was bought by James Agnew 
from the Penns and was sold by him to the Krises, which family has owned it ever 
since.  Abraham lived in a log house which stood on the spot where now stands 
the stone house which he built in 1816, and in which his son Jacob now lives.  
He died April 29, 1846, in his seventy-sixth year.  December 1, 1799, he was 
married to Ann Christina Kitzmiller, born September 14, 1777, in Union Township, 
this county, who died April 3, 1864, in her eighty-seventh year.  Their family 
were William, married to Hannah Ruff, living in Maryland; George H., married to 
Eliza Otta, now deceased (he lives in this township); John, David and Christina, 
who died unmarried; Lydia, likewise unmarried, living in this township; Abraham, 
a twin brother of Christina, married to Annie Zimmerman, and now deceased; 
Jacob, unmarried, living on the homestead.  Samuel, the youngest but one, was 
born March 25, 1814, and lived with his father until he was thirty-three years 
of age, when he married, and shortly after moved to the farm where he has since 
lived on a part of the original tract, on which he built a fine new house in 
1850.  The farm was but little improved when he got it, but hard work and good 
management has brought it to a high state of cultivation.  A man of wonderful 
constitution, he has been a great worker, a careful and successful farmer, and 
in over fifty years has never been kept in-doors on account of ill health for 
three days at a time.  April 20, 1847, he married Elizabeth Clanbaugh, of 
Carroll County, Md., who was born March 11, 1824, and died March 24, 1873.  They 
had three children:  Henry Stern, born January 15, 1850; married to Mary L., 
daughter of Gregory P. Toppers, of this township; Sarah Ann, born July 7, 1851, 
wife of Oliver F. Summers, of Franklin Township, this county, now living with 
her father; and Ella Florence, born August 4, 1853, and died when thirteen 
months old.  Six years ago Mr. Krise gave up active work.  The loss of his wife 
was a severe blow to him.  She was a Christian lady, noted for her charity and 
piety, the poor and needy ever finding a friend in her.  Mr. Krise is much 
respected for his good sense, his straightforward principles and integrity.  He 
is a member of the Lutheran Church, in Emmittsburg, Md.