OBIT:  KREBS, David L.; Cambria Cnty., PA; 1911

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 27 Jan 1911
Volume 45, Number 4


Judge Krebs Called Across Dark River

Ex-Judge David L. Krebs of Clearfield, a famous corporation lawyer and 
known to every attorney at the Cambria County bar and hundreds of other 
Cambrians died at a Philadelphia hospital Wednesday evening of uraemic 
poisoning.  Judge Krebs had been in ill health for some time and not long 
ago took a trip to the south in the interest of his health.

Judge Krebs, who was aged about 63 years, was elected president judge of 
the Forty-sixth judicial district, comprising Clearfield County in 1883, 
serving a ten year term.  He was aged only about 35 years at the time of 
his election.  He was a son-in-law of William A. Wallace, formerly United 
States Senator and who served a number of terms in the state senate.  
Judge Krebs after this retirement from the bench in 1893 resumed the 
practice of law, being employed as counsel by coal and other corporations.  
While pursuing the practice of his profession he frequently visited 
Ebensburg where he was popular among lawyers and townspeople.

Judge Krebs pleaded the famous case of W. T. Kerr and the American 
Mechanics against the nuns at Gallitzin teaching in the public schools 
while wearing the garb of their order.  In 1894 he was counsel for the 
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company in its $2,000,000 discrimination suit 
against the PRR and represented Major James H. Alport of Hastings and R. 
B. Wigton & Co. of Philipsburg in similar suits against the PRR.  He was 
chief counsel for the Berwind White Coal Mining Company.  Hard work in 
preparing the defense in the suits for $1,000,000 each brought by land 
owners in Paint Township, Somerset County, against the great coal concern 
for mining the wrong seam of coal is supposed to have contributed to his 
breakdown.  His wife, who was a daughter of ex- Senator W. A. Wallace of 
Clearfield, survives with four children.  One of them is W. A. W. Krebs, 
treasurer of the Cambria Title Savings Trust Company of Ebensburg.