BIO: David KRAUSE, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 335.
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  KRAUSE, DAVID, son of David Krause and Regina Orth, was born November 
2, 1800, in Lebanon, Pa.; died June 13, 1871, in Norristown, Pa.  He 
was educated under Rev. Mr. Ernst, of the Lutheran church of Lebanon, 
and subsequently studied law with Hon. Jonathan Walker, of Pittsburgh, 
and there admitted to the bar.  He returned to Lebanon and began 
practice.  He went to Harrisburg as the private secretary of Governor 
Shulze, and was admitted to the Dauphin courts, August 15, 1825.  He 
was appointed deputy attorney general in August, 1826, and re-appointed 
in 1829.  From 1825 to 1826, with Gen. Simon Cameron, he published and 
edited the Pennsylvania Intelligencer.  He was elected a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1835 and 1836.  On the election of Governor 
Porter, in 1839, he took editorial charge of the State Journal, which 
he conducted with much ability.  In January, 1845, a vacancy occurring 
in the Montgomery and Bucks county judicial district, Mr. Krause was 
appointed to the bench.  He filled the position acceptably and 
honorably, but in 1851, when the judiciary became elective, he 
positively declined the office.  He then retired to private life.  In 
1862, and again in 1863, upon the invasion of Pennsylvania by the 
Confederates, he volunteered as a private soldier in the Pennsylvania 
militia, although then in the sixty-third year of his age.  Judge 
Krause married, in September, 1826, Catharine Orr, of Philadelphia, 
born September, 1800; died December 1875, at Norristown, Pa.