Columbia-Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Kreamer, Conrad 1824 - living in 1899
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CONRAD KREAMER, one of the representative farmers of Madison township, Columbia
County, lives in a beautiful residence near Jerseytown, where he owns a large
tract of 400 acres of land which embodies the fruits of many years of
industrious toil. He is a son of Conrad and Catherine (Bowman) Kreamer, and was
born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 28,1824.

  Conrad Kreamer, Sr., the father of our subject, was born in Wurtemberg,
Germany, and was young when he came to America, locating in Philadelphia. There
he followed the trade of a baker for several years, but finally moved to
Columbia County, near White Hall, Montour County, where he purchased a farm of
130 acres and followed agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred
while he was yet in the prime of life. In religious attachments he was a member
of the Lutheran Church. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Catherine Bowman,
who was also a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, and they became the parents of ten
children, seven sons and three daughters, as follows: Conrad: Catherine; John,
deceased; Margaret, deceased; Charles; Joseph; William; Frederick; Christian,
deceased; and Jacob.

  Conrad Kreamer, the subject of this biographical record and the first child
born to his parents, received a limited school training, but is well-read and
posted on the current topics of the day. He has always been engaged in tilling
the soil, and during his younger days was also engaged in buying and selling
lumber. In 1857 he embarked in the mercantile business in Jerseytown and also in
the lumbering business, which he continued with marked success until 1893, a
period of thirty-six years. He is a man of superior business propensities and
untiring industry, and he has accumulated a handsome competency. In March, 1855,
he moved to his present home, which lies in the outskirts of a beautiful valley
near Jerseytown, and comprises 400 acres of fertile land suitably adapted to
stock raising, of which Mr. Kreamer has always made a specialty. He is a man of
intelligence and high ideas and occupies a prominent place in the estimation of
his fellow-citizens.

  On January 28, 1855, our subject was united in matrimonial bonds to Mary
Hendershot, a daughter of Edwin Hendershot, formerly of Jerseytown, Pa., but now
a resident of Michigan, and this happy union has been blessed by the birth of
the following children: Margaret Jane, deceased; William, a collector and clerk
in Milton, Pa.; Ida, the wife of Charles Carey of Madison township, Columbia
County; George Frederick, a clerk in a wholesale house at Naugatuck, Conn.; John
Jacob, of Jerseytown, Pa.; Charles A., a farmer; Anna, the wife of E. F. Johnson
of Harrisburg, Pa.; Evan H., who follows the occupation of a farmer; Florence
B.; and Lewis. Mr. Kreamer was bereaved of his beloved wife's companionship by
death, March 25, 1898, she being aged sixty-three years three months and eleven
days. She was a loving wife, a kind mother and a true friend. Religiously she
was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically Mr. Kreamer is a
firm Democrat and has served as poor director for several years, and formerly
served as school director.


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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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