BIOGRAPHY: Frederick KREBS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 30-1
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FREDERICK KREBS, superintendent of the Gautier department of the Cambria Iron 
company, was born June 9, 1855, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
     He is a son of Frederick and Sophia (Bergman) Krebs. Frederick Krebs, Sr., 
was born in Germany in 1822, and came to America in 1848, first locating in 
Blairsville, Indiana county, where he remained a short time, then came to 
Johnstown, where he lived until 1855, when he removed to La Crosse, Wisconsin. 
In 1865 he again moved to Johnstown, where he died August 24, 1886. He was a 
baker and confectioner by avocation.
     His family consisted of two sons and four daughters: Albert A., a resident 
of Johnstown, and a roller in the Gautier works; Amelia, wife of George Sheeler, 
of Johnstown, in the employ of the same works; Emma, wife of J. W. Walters, a 
lumber merchant of the city; Charlotte, unmarried, and Matilda, a teacher in the 
public schools of Johnstown.
     The mother of Frederick Krebs, Jr., died March 26, 1876, at the age of 
forty-two years. The character of the parents if not written may be judged by 
that of the children, who are all industrious, highly esteemed citizens. 
Frederick Krebs, Jr., was married March 8, 1888, to Margaret Walters, an amiable 
young lady and a daughter of Dr. W. W. Walters. They have three children: 
Frederick, born July 19, 1889; Margaret, born March 30, 1892, and Walter, born 
January 30, 1894.
     Mr. Krebs, Sr., in common with the people of his nation, believed in the 
worth of a good, solid education; so we find the subject of our sketch carefully 
educated in the public and private schools of the City.
     He began life on his own account at the age of sixteen as a clerk in the 
employ of the Cambria Iron company, and has been with the company ever since. 
His intelligent and faithful service gained for him a promotion from time to 
time, until in 1880 he became assistant superintendent of the Gautier Steel 
mills of the Cambria Iron company. In 1882 he was made superintendent of these 
mills, and in 1890 was made superintendent of the entire Gautier department, 
supervising the manufacturing and commercial affairs of the department.  That 
his position is a responsible one is evidenced by the fact that twelve hundred 
men are employed in it.
     Mr. Krebs is a republican, and is the president of the board of school 
controllers of the city of Johnstown, having been a member of this board since 
1881.  With the natural instinct of an intelligence progressive man, and a 
German, he takes an active interest in the educational affairs of the city.
     Mr. Krebs is a member of the German Lutheran Church.