Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....LAUBACH, Isaac Kinney Krickbaum 1849 - living in 1899
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  ISAAC KINNEY KRICKBAUM LAUBACH, who has been engaged extensively in farming and
  lumbering for many years, is one of the progressive business men of Benton
  township, Columbia County. He is a son of Peter and Susan Catherine (Krickbaum)
  Laubach, and was born in Benton township October 28, 1849.
  
    He is a descendant of sturdy Hollanders, whose home was the native country of
  John G. Laubach, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, who immigrated to
  Philadelphia, Pa., as early as 1736 and lived there the remainder of his life.
  He was the progenitor of the following children: Susan; John Michael; John; John
  Christian; Ann Mary; John Conrad, who died in infancy; John Conrad, second of
  that name; Anna Margaret; Catherine; John George; Wilberg; and Elizabeth. John
  Christian Laubach, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born June 30, 1764,
  in the city of Philadelphia, and was the first to locate in Columbia County,
  settling there in 1790. Three years later he moved to Sugarloaf township, took
  up a tract of four hundred acres of land on what is now known as Fritz Hill and
  followed farming until his death, on March 15, 1825. He was united in marriage
  to Mary Frutchy, who was born February 3, 1773, and was called to her final rest
  July 8, 1823. They reared a large family of children, namely: Susan, who married
  John Moore, was the mother of eight children, and withstood the vicissitudes of
  fortune for ninety-one years before succumbing to the inevitable; George, who
  married Elizabeth Coleman, a daughter of Benjamin Coleman, was one of the early
  settlers of Sugarloaf township, but during his later years resided in Michigan;
  Frederick, who took as his wife Mary Larish, by whom he had eight children;
  Peter, who died in childhood; Hannah, who became the wife of Thomas Conner of
  Bloomsburg and had three sons and two daughters; Elizabeth, who was the wife of
  William Cole and bore him nine children; Anna Margaret, who married William
  Ikeler and died in Fishing Creek township; Polly, wife of John Ikeler, moved to
  Michigan; Catherine, who married John R. Davis, was the mother of nine children
  and resided in Benton township, Columbia County; Christian, who was united in
  marriage with Hannah Hefley and lived in Danville, Montour County; and John, the
  grandfather of our subject.
  
    John Laubach followed the calling of a farmer all of his life in Sugarloaf
  township, and was a very prosperous man. In connection with farming he carried
  on a distillery.
  
  He was joined in wedlock to Ann Kline, a daughter of Abraham Kline, Jr., and
  their union resulted in the following issue: Abraham, a consistent member of the
  Methodist Episcopal Church, who died in the state of Washington; Rhoda Ann, who
  married J. H. Harrison and died January 29, 1884, in Union township, Luzerne
  County; Isaac, who married Sarah Ash, a daughter of Christian Ash, was a soldier
  of the Civil War, serving for three years, at the expiration of that time he
  enlisted for three more years, but the war came to a termination shortly after, 
  At present he is conducting a farm and dairy in Southeastern Iowa; Peter, our
  subject's father; George, who married Charlotte McHenry, a daughter of Henry
  McHenry, Jr., and served for one year in the 199th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf.,
  receiving an honorable discharge; Christian, united in marriage to Sally Ann
  Pennington, a daughter of Jonathan C. Pennington; John Frutchy, whose wife was
  Susan Tailor, died October 24, 1863; Daniel S., who married Elizabeth Young
  andjiow resides in Bloomsburg; David Kline, who married Mary Pennington, served
  in the 199th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf.; and Frederick, who married Lucy Harrison, a
  daughter of Rev. M. E. Harrison, enlisted in the army during the Civil War for
  three years' service and again for a similar period, but received his discharge
  before his time expired, his death occurred October 29, 1881.
  
    Peter Laubach was born April 15, 1825, in Sugarloaf township, on the old
  Laubach homestead. At the age of eight years he went with his parents to Benton
  township, where he lived on the old John Laubach property. After attaining his
  majority he conducted a store in Benton for about nine months, and in 1847 he
  purchased 100 acres of land in that township. He improved it greatly and
  cultivated it with good results for many years, buying more land from time to
  time until he had 440 acres in all. He was a good citizen and one of the leading
  farmers in the northern section of Columbia County. Politically he was a
  supporter of the Republican party, whilst in his religious belief he was a
  member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was trustee and elder, and was
  one of the building committee for the erection of the present church edifice.
  Socially he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Laubach lived a long and
  useful life and was called Home May 28, 1890. As a result of his union with
  Susan Catherine Krickbaum, the following children were born: Isaac Kinney
  Krickbaum, the subject of this biographical record; John C., who died in
  childhood; Rhoda Ann, wife of Henry C. Learn of Berwick, and Margaret Ann, wife
  of Frank P. Dikline of Benton, twins; Sarah E. Brown and Freace Brown, also
  twins, the former died in infancy and the latter is married to Alvin W. Dresher
  of Benton township; Winfield Scott, who is farming on the old homestead, and
  married Elizabeth C. Roberts, a daughter of Samuel Roberts; and Susan Matilda,
  who died in 1866.
  
    Isaac Kinney Krickbaum Laubach was reared on the farm and obtained his
  intellectual training in the public schools of his native town and in the New
  Columbia Academy and the Bloomsburg State Normal School. After receiving a good
  English education he left school and turned his attention to lumbering and
  farming, which vocations he has followed since. He is one of the leading and
  progressive business men of his section of the county and stands high in the
  estimation of the public. He is a man of high principles, honest and
  straightforward, and numbers his friends by the score.
  
    July 3, 1875, he married Annie Gibbons, a daughter of the late Thomas Gibbons,
  a farmer of Benton township, and their union resulted in the following
  offspring: Laura L., the wife of P. E. Tubbs, a mason and plasterer of Benton
  township; Susan, who died in infancy; Peter Clyde; Sadie E.; and Letha M. Mrs.
  Laubach was called to her eternal rest May 27, 1897, aged forty-eight years and
  six days. Politically Mr. Laubach is a Republican. He was jury commissioner
  from 1895 to 1898, also school director for a number of years. Socially he is
  past grand and an active member of Benton Lodge, I. O. O. F.; member of the
  Patrons of Husbandry; and secretary of the Grange, which office he has held for
  a number of years. Religiously our subject is allied with the Presbyterian
  Church of Raven Creek, Pa., in which he is trustee and elder, offices he has
  faithfully filled for several years.
  
  
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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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