P. D. Kribs Biography


	This biography appears on page 1201 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	P. D. KRIBS was born in the city of Elgin, Illinois, on the 5th of 
July, 1846, being a son of Paul and Sarah A. Kribs, who removed thence 
to Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, in 1865, his father there engaging in 
farming, to which he continued to devote his attention until his death. 
The subject was thus reared to manhood in the county noted and there 
received his early educational discipline in the public schools, after 
which he prosecuted a course of study in the Galesville University, at 
Galesville, that county, while it is interesting to recall in the 
connection that among his fellow students was Hon. Charles N. Herreid, 
the present governor of South Dakota. After leaving school Mr. Kribs was 
engaged in teaching until March, 1886, when he came to South Dakota and 
located in the village of Leola, McPherson county, where he engaged in 
the drug business. He also became the publisher of the Northwest Blade, 
which he continued in Leola for three years, then removing the plant and 
business to Eureka, in the same county, where he continued the 
publication until April, 1894, when he sold out to his partner. In July, 
1895, Mr. Kribs came to Columbia, and here established himself in the 
drug business, which he has since continued. 

	Mr. Kribs is a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of 
the Republican party and has taken an active part in political affairs. 
In the autumn of 1902 he was elected to represent Brown county in the 
lower house of the state legislature. He was assigned to the committees 
on education, public health, libraries and printing. Mr. Kribs has ever 
been a staunch friend of the cause of popular education and has rendered 
most effective service along this line since coming to South Dakota. 
Before a meeting of the board of directors of Brown county he read a 
timely and able article touching the matter of centralizing the work of 
rural schools in the interest of effective service, advocating the 
establishing of central high schools in the various townships and thus 
bringing the higher school advantages accessible to a greater number and 
materially improving the system, as a whole. This article was published 
by the state department of education and largely circulated throughout 
the state. 

	In Leola, McPherson county, this state, on the 8th of November, 
1887, Mr. Kribs was united in marriage to Miss Hattie M. Cavanagh, who 
was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, being a daughter of P. and 
Mary A. Cavanagh, who came to South Dakota in 1886 Mr. and Mrs. Kribs 
have three daughters, Edith, Olive and Ruth, who remain at the parental 
home and who are to be afforded the best of educational advantages.