BIOGRAPHY: Henry J. KRUMENACKER, 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. 331-2
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HENRY J. KRUMENACKER, a prominent citizen and prosperous farmer and lumber 
merchant of Barr township, this county, is a son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Myers) 
Krumenacker, and was born in Allegheny township, Cambria county, June 27, 1841. 
The Krumenacker family is originally from Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, where Joseph 
Krumenacker, great-grandfather, was born.
     Joseph Krumenacker, father of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, 
was born in Alsace-Lorraine, on June 24, 1794, and in 1834 emigrated to America, 
bringing with him his wife and four children. He located in Allegheny township, 
this county, where he purchased a farm, which at that time had but a few acres 
cleared for cultivation. He had been a farmer in his native country and followed 
that pursuit until his death, September 23, 1877. His wife, who was formerly 
Mary Ann Myers, survived him only nine months, after a wedded life of fifty 
years.
     To their marriage were born seven children, four sons and three daughters : 
Anthony, a carpenter, located in Barr township, this county; Louis, deceased, 
who was a victim of cholera, near Louisville, Kentucky, in 1854; Joseph died in 
Washington township, this county, in 1894; Christina, deceased, who was the wife 
of William Simons; Mary Magdalene, one of the sisters of St. Frances, a convent 
of Glenn Riddle, Delaware county, Pennsylvania; Henry J., and Mary, the wife of 
John Ashton, of Plymouth, Indiana, a retired farmer.
     Henry J. was reared on his father's farm, received his education in the 
common schools of this township, and has made farming his life work. He is a man 
of energy and enterprise, and as a farmer and business man is prominent and 
successful. In 1862 he purchased his present farm of three hundred acres, 
located in Barr township, all underlaid with coal; besides which he has one-half 
interest in forty acres of coal land on Moore's creek, Barr township, and owns a 
house and two lots in Spangler, Pennsylvania. In connection with his other 
enterprises for many years he has successfully conducted a large lumber business 
and has manufactured and shipped large quantities of lumber. He is a prominent 
member of the St. Nicholas Catholic church, of Nicktown, and is one of the 
trustees of the same.