Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....KRICKBAUM, William 1848 - living in 1899
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  WILLIAM KRICKBAUM, editor and proprietor of The Democratic Sentinel and The
  Bloomsburg Daily, Bloomsburg, Pa., is a native of Catawissa township, Columbia
  County, Pa., and was born September 18, 1835.
  
    The Krickbaums are of German extraction, and the first of the family to settle
  in the United States located in Montgomery County, Pa. The first to settle in
  Catawissa township was Philip Krickbaum who located there in the spring of 1794.
  His wife's maiden name was Susannah Trexler of Hickorytown, near Philadelphia.
  He died in 1822, aged sixty-three years; his wife also died in Catawissa
  township, and both are buried in the Catawissa Cemetery.
  
    Henry Krickbaum, father of our subject, was a farmer owning some two hundred
  acres of land in Catawissa township, and he died when our subject was but a year
  old, and his widow, Susan (Breisch) Krickbaum, married for her second husband
  Benjamin Miller. William remained on the farm with his mother and stepfather
  until he reached his majority, and in the meantime attended the common schools
  of the vicinity several years; also for two terms at Millville, Pa., Seminary;
  and subsequently spent two terms at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., and
  one more term at Millville. Previous to his last school term at Millville, in
  March, 1857, he married Judith Miller, daughter of George Miller of Maine
  township, Columbia County. During his student days he had taught school and he
  followed that vocation, all told, about twelve terms. From his majority he had
  always taken an active part in politics, and worked in the interest of the
  Democratic party, to which he is now and always has been an adherent, and in
  1866, while still teaching, he was appointed clerk to the commissioners of
  Columbia County, a position he filled with rare ability for twelve consecutive
  years; during a greater part of that time he acted as deputy treasurer and as
  sheriff's clerk. In 1878 he resigned the clerkship to accept the office of
  prothonotary and clerk of the courts, to which he had been elected the same
  year. In this office he served two terms and in 1889 was a candidate for a third
  term, but, although having a majority of 175 of the popular vote, under the
  limited system of voting in choosing delegates (which system has since been done
  away with), was defeated.
  
    April 12, 1885, Mr. Krickbaum purchased the office and plant of The Democratic
  Sentinel in Bloomsburg. The paper was then 24 by 36 inches, of seven columns per
  page, had a circulation of 600 and was printed on an old Washington hand press.
  Since then he has enlarged the paper to a nine-column, 28 by 44 inches, and has
  a circulation of 2,500, the edition being printed on a two-revolution,
  four-roller, job and book press. In November, 1888, our subject was elected a
  member of the State Legislature, and was re-elected in November, 1890, serving
  two full terms with credit to himself and constituents. In February, 1892, he
  started The Bloomsburg Daily, an independent journal which, together with the
  Sentinel, he is still publishing, and it is the only daily paper printed in
  Columbia County. In 1896 our subject was prevailed upon to again enter politics,
  and in November of that year was elected one of the board of county
  commissioners, which office he holds at present, the term being for three years.
  In addition to the above responsible positions he has also held township
  offices, served as a delegate in state and national conventions, and in fact for
  upward of thirty-six years Mr. Krickbaum has been officially and otherwise
  prominently and influentially identified with the Democratic politics of
  Columbia County. Probably no man ever held a public position in the county who
  worked with truer regard for the interest of the tax-payers and their public
  welfare than did Mr. Krickbaum through his exceptional long service to the
  county as an official and a newspaper man. It is proverbial that in his taking
  charge of the prothonotary office, and indeed, from the first years of his
  service as county commissioner's clerk, many fees in the sheriff's and
  prothonotary's office and bills in the commissioner's office, which he thought
  exorbitant and an injustice to the tax-payers, were reduced through him to a
  lower and more considerate figure and remained so during his official occupancy.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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