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MOMX4Y EVEL, JtHLT NEWS, LEBANON, PAL PAGE FIVE HISTORY OF KREIDER FAMILY FROM PEN OF THE REV. J. G. FRANCIS The Kreider Fanuly By REV. J.

G. FRANCES, B. D. (Continued from Thursday.) The Family of Kev. Martin Rev.

Martin Kreider, we iiave seen, born Feb. 14, 1740; and died Nor. 14, 1826. He married Anna Catharine Sob.mutz, born near the Hebron Moravian church, June 22, 1746: and died Jan. 22, IS21.

They are said to be buried in the private cemetery on their farm, doubtless laid- out by themselves. If we mistake not we were told that it used to be in an orchard, but it is now out in the open field. They had a. large family of children, as follows: Rev. John, b.

Apr. 15, 1766; d. June 17, Barbara, b. Oct. 14, 1767; d.

July 17, Christian, TJ. May 20. 1769; d. 1846. Henry b.

Jan. 28, 1773; d. Feb. 9, 1844. Abraham, b.

Mar. 7, 1775; d. Oct. 14, Elizabeth, b. Jan.

3, 1777; d. Catharine, b. Jan. 19. 1779; d.

Annie, b. Sept. 17, 1781. Mary, b. Feb.

9, 1788. Christiana, b. Sept. 10, 1784. Susanna, b.

Mar. 6, 1786; d. single. Martin, b. Jan.

7, 1788; d. Feb 7, 1850. Tobias, b. Oct. 17, 1793; d.

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Insomnia and other troubles caused Absolutely free of charge or to purchase glasses. I will examine your eyes, and if glasses are needed, I will frankly and truthfully tell ou so and I can fit you to glasses which win relieve and correct your trouble Dr. Louis Dammera MAIN OFFICE Perry Bldg. ifitb and Chestnut Philadelphia, Pa. descendants of all the children of Rev.

Martin Kreider. He bought considerable land in Franklin county, which he sold to more than one of his children.the older members of his family moved thither. Rev. Martin's oldest son, Rev. John, was.

one of the first members of the United Brethren in Franklin county, and doubtless Rev. Martin went out there frequently to preach, likely thus became acquainted and was thus led to buy land. The migration from Lancaster and Lebanon counties to Franklin in the latter part of the 18th century was very considerable, as a few decades later there was a very considerable migration to Center county. There are close ties between Lebanon and Franklin counties. We shall say a little about Rev.

Martin's children who went to Franklin county. REV. SON OF REV. MARTIN Rev. John Kreider m.

about 1787 raised a Mennonite, but early became a member of the United Brethren. He moved to Franklin county about 1796, and there bought a farm from his father in Hamilton township, now St. Thomas township, his father having bought it of one John Meyer in 1787, some thirty years ago the property of Rev. John's grandson, Joseph. Rev.

John was a United Brethren pioneer in Franklin county and with the Huber's effected the first United Brethren organization there, from which they are said to he grown to the leading denomination of the county. He was a very pious man and earnest in his labors for God. Rev Kreider m. about 1787 to Barbara daughter of Christian Smith and Mary Landis, who resided near the Cornwall Hills. She was born June 13, 1772; and died Feb.

27, 1861. The "Religious Telescope" of July 6, 1842, contains the following: "It becomes my duty to announce the death of Rev. John Crider. Father Crider embraced religion about 40 years ago. He preached the Gospel as near as can be ascertained about 30 or 33 years.

It is worthy of remark as showing the zeal of Father Crider in the cause of God that he never left the place where he preached without holding a meeting of social prayer. His remains were interred in the Crider graveyard on his farm by a large concourse of friends and neighbors who assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to one by whom it was richly merited." His remains were later removed by his son Joseph to the United Brethren cemetery near by. He had children: Christina, b. April 17, 1730; d. Aug.

25, 1869; m. Abraham Bowman, b. in Lebanon county, farmer, Massilon, Ohio. Mary, b. Dec.

26, 1791; d. Jan. 24, 1833; m. George Mowers; had children. Martin, b.

April 1893; d. Feb. 26, 1834; m. Anna, daughter of John Troxel, farmer at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county; no children.

We are of the opinion that we have seen the statement that this was Rev. John Troxel and that he was the father of the United Brethren cause in northwestern Pennsylvania. Rev. John, went to Montgomery county, Ohio. Catharine, b.

Aug. 10, 1796; d. June 2, 187S, in. Jacob Shively; no children. Abraham.

Samuel. Daniel. Barbara, m. Jacob Shively. Louisa, m.

John Shopp. Elizabeth, m. Leightner. Rev. Christian, b.

Feb. 1, 1811. of whom a sketch follows. Joseph Smith. An Address on Rev.

Christian Smith Kreider obtained through Hon. A. S. Kreide? Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Members of York First Church, United Brethren in am glad to be greeted by you tonight under the circumstances for which you have Invited Fifteenth Anniversary of the organization of this church, and to speak to you of Chris- iaii Smith Kreider, the first pastor and organizer of the church. Had the forefathers of the Church been as careful of the history and the work of the Church as.

you are, and preserved its history it would be an easy task for me to speak of this church's first pastor. But in this they showed no interest, nor kept any record. But it is not too late to begin now and record from the aged of the hurch, who are with us yet, and from misty records, meager as they may be, and by tradition, though faulty as it often is, be able to give you some information of Rev. Chris- Smith Kreider. his Ancestors and their Descendants.

We live largely from the past and our only index for the future is guided entirely by that past history, so is it proper in these exercises to speak of that family who did so much and are doing so much now in the branch of the Christian denomination. Bacon says: 'History makes wise men'; and while it is not our province to say anything tonight that will make you wise, but if in what I do say will please you and your patience will bear with me. then will I be fully repaid for being with you. In the year 1716, long before the hostilities of the red men bore down upon the settlers in this and adjoining counties, or before the thunders of the guae in the American Revolution were heard, there landed upon the shores of the Delaware river, in the province of Pennsylvania, "a goodly number of emigrants of the devoted, sturdy and God-fearing Swiss, German and Huguenot settlers, a nawber ot whow followers of Simon Menno. Amongst these was one Jacob Kreider.

the head of the numerous family of that name in America, a Swiss Mennonite refugee. As he waa a communicant of that denomination commonly called Mennonite, and their creed being adverse to the keeping of records and history, very little is known of him or his descendants, except that which we have by tradition, and that is very meager. Mr. settled In what was (1729) Lancaster township, in what is now Lancaster, Pa. Had he been a follower of Luther or Zwlngli, we surely could have found the accustomed "Tauf Schien," if nothing else, to tell the story of his family, by this accustomed relic record which is missing amongst this people.

He had issue among other children, one son named Martin, who had a son John. This John Kreider resided, prior to the French and Indian War, in what was at that time Donegal Township, Lancaster county, Province of Pennsylvania. He (Jacob) had a brother who had already settled and taken up a large acreage of land in that fertile part of the present territory of Lebanon county, now known as South Lebanon township, which territory was then settled sparsely by the Hebron Moravians. His brother Jphn. who resided across the Cornwall Hills, was a blacksmith by trade, in connection with farming, and it was necessary for the brother residing in Lebanon township to visit him twice a year to secure his smith work, and ag there were no public roads across this mountain, it was necessary for him, on his journey, to mark and blaze the trees, so as to find his way back, which required no small amount of labor.

He eventually proposed to his brother John to take up his residence In his neighborhood, and If he did so, he would at a nominal price, give him a fine farm out of his large plantation. This was accepted and John Kreider became a citizen of Lancaster county, north of the mountain often called the South Mountain, which is now in the present Lebanon county. Here he had born to him a number of children, Michael, whose daughter Rebecca was the daughter In-law of Rev. John Troxel, the founder and pioneer of our Church in Northwestern Pennsylvania, in what was then Westmoreland county, and now within the bounds of Allegheny Conference of our church. Another son was Henry, from whom descends your worthy citizen, David Witmer Crider, of York, wrongly spelled with a for Kreider.

A third son, Jacob, from whom descend the Kreiders of Annville, who are so closely identified with our church, and some of whom are known by many you. And the last, though oldest, son was Martin Kreider, the grandfather of Christian Kreider. Martin Kreider, the last, was born Feb. 14, 1740, and was reared in the faith of his forefathers and became a minister of the Mennonite Church. In the great religious awakening from morality to experimental religion, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, he became a follower of Behm and Otterbein and was a co-laborer with them and as is recorded in our Church History, was "the oldest minister in the Church next to Behm and Otterbein." He married Catharine Schutz, who resided south of "Stitse Stettle," in what is now South Lebanon, and was a neighbor of Abraham Le Roy, whose daughter Susanna was the wife of Rev.

Philip William Otterbein, the founder of our Church. Rev. Martin Kreider died Nov. 14, 1826, and is buried in the Kreider farm. In endeavoring to find his grave a few years ago, in company with his grandson, D.

S. Early, we were unable to find his grave until directed by another grandson, Abraham Miller (an uncle of your former pastor, I. P. Miller), by whom we were Informed that he was buried in Kreider Kirche Hofe, naver die Schnitz and there we found his grave. Over his grave Is erected a very common lime stone, such as is native to the farm and in rude Amentner letters and figures, we found his name and birth and death carved on.

He left issue sixteen children. The first child was Rev. John Kreider, the father of Rev. Christian Smith Kreider, who was born In Lebanon county and died in Franklin county, where he (Rev. John) had, in connection with Rev.

Samuel Iluber, of precious memory, so much to in establishing the Church in that territory. Rev. Martin Kreider's other children were: II. Barbara, who became the wife of "long Christian" Kreider. III.

Christian, m. a Mrs. Bowman, whose son Martin was a prominent minister In the lona Conference until of late IV. Henry V. Abraham.

VI. Elizabeth, who became the wife of George Kreider. VIII. Catharine, vho became the wife of a Mr. Flora.

VIII. Anna, who became the wife of John Miller, and they trere the grandparents of Rev. J. p. Miller.

"4 Christina, who became the wife of Wm. Early, and they wore thie grandparents of Mrs. Partlie'- more. XI. Martin.

XII. Tobias. Christian Smith Kreider was born Feb. 1, 1811, on the Kreider homestead in Hamilton township, near Kreider church, Franklin county, Pa. His advantages were very email, attending the public schools, such as they were, and working on the farm.

He had the special advantage, however, of following precept and example of his grandfather and father, who were bcth consistent nun and ministers of the Gospel, His father's house in winter and barn ic i were preaching points for the brethren people, aad through this Instrumentality he was brought to the loot of the Cross and became a pupil and eventually a "forestayer" or leader in churcU. and by the ho was twenty-two years of age he vas an ejchorter, and at what thuo ho was given an appointment, or where, we know not. A', the conference held in the mouth of February, if 40, he was appointed to the new charge of York Mission, and how well he succeeded is told by the fact that at tho conference held Mar. 1, 3841, in Lancaster county, he was returned and at the conference held Feb. 21.

1S42, at Funk's church, now known as the Stone Church, Powell's Valley, Dauphin county, he was returned for tho third year. During the three years the mission was built up and many members brought into the church. At the Conference of Feb. 22, 1843, at the Fetterholfs Chapel, Franklin county, he was changed and appointed to the York Circuit, which appointment he filled for two years. The second year the conference gave him as his colleague, Rev.

William Wagoner, now a practicing physician of Iowa. Rev. Jacob Rinehart was Mr. Kreider's successor at York Mission station. It was during the session of this conference, 1844.

that the death and memorial service were announced of his father, as having occurred during the year. At the conference held at Highspire. Feb. 12, 1S45, he was sent to Lebanon Circuit, where he preached and served the people and the cause of the Master very acceptably for the years 1845, 6 and 7. He was elected, in the year 1S4S, Presiding Elder of the Lebanon District, East Penn.

Conference, the said confer- havtng been for at the Ani UP Conference held Springville in 1846. of the territrry lying east of the Susquehanna River. In the year 1S45 he built the Salem church of Lebanon, which was razed to the ground the past summer and a new edifice thereon erected. Mr. Kreider always preached in the German and was of a mild disposition and possessed In a remarkable degree an abundance of the milk of human kindness.

He was a deep reasoner and a sound theologian. One of his favorite texts was Ps. 73:24: ''Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory; or in the German: Du litest mich nach Rathe und uiraest mich endUch mit Eb.reu an." He believed strongly In the "mourner's 1 which so many proteas- ing Christians of today dislike, and many "Amens" from the hearers when he expounded the Gospel to them. It is said that when he traveled the York Circuit, he had an appointment some miles from this city, at or near John Kohr's. who owned a watermelon patch.

In the same community lived an ungodly man and Mr. Kohr's patch received frequent nocturnal visits, but no one was sus- Picloued. During the Fall, Rev Christian S. KreJder began a. protracted meeting, and one of the first to appear at the mourner's bench was the ungodly man.

This somewhat nonplussed and annoyed the brethren which the pastor noticed when his inimitable and calm way 6 8ted that lhe "continue tl a Pray a little whll 5-et, as -e, it would not hurt the mourner to contln the seeker would continually pray for more sU-ength. Oh Lord! give me he repeated "me afS Presently he seemed to se- st he as after, when RCross th he claimed not only to Streugth to had strength to confess that it was he who paid the nightlv visits John Kohr's watermelo'n tS that was present backed by the Holy SpS were' such men as Rev. Kreider permuted to do much for fallen humanity After engaging in the work of the Wm'lnlf Ide Ws failed nim and he became quite delicate and gradually declined; and dudng the last part of the year 1749 he was for the most part unable to attend to the duties of his office. During this aflliction he had his home with Daniel Myers, whose ancestor THE BIGGEST VALUES IN MEN'S ffi ffi ifi bfi AND BOYS' CLOTHES ARE TO BE HAD AT Hi Hi Sfi ifi THE ONE PRICE STORE Quality is the predominant characteristic of Mann's Clothes, and it is plain that Quality can be none too good to do justice to our store's repu- tation. is Men's and Young Men's Suits at $20.00, $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00 that can not be bought elsewhere for the ai same money.

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Geo. A. Mark. (To he continued on Thursday.) MILITARY AID TO SUPPRESSRIOTS IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page one.) hurt they werj noc taken to hospitals. It was believed, however.

not more than 100 were really njured, althomgu others received black eyes and 'bruises. One crowd of whites cruised for slocks on Pennsylvania Avenue, at- negroes, hut finally was kept hay by a ma.ss of colored men who assembled In a side street. Colored chauffeurs on police patrols were sent home, the authorities fearing they would be torn from their seats. A'mfbulances were inadequate to care for all the calls, some injured, lying on the sidewalk 20 minutes before surgeons came. Feeling has been running high here during the last two weeks because of attacks on white women by negroo.s.

T.bo first lighting broke out late on Saturday night. One policeman was shot. These, disturbances were confined to the negro quarter, but thoso of last night and this morning raged on streets that have 'become historic through presidential inaugurations and other national events, right in the midst of tho government buildings of the capital. The troublo originated in the ar- reat of a negro. While he was waiting with the policeman at a patrol box, crowd gathered, took him from the officer and beat him over the head.

wa rescued by the police, hut shortly afterwards reports of renewed fishting pejan pouring into polka Want Adg Brine Schaefferstown Schaefferstown, July 21. John H. Thomas and grandson, Euge'ne; Nicholls, of Fort Dodge. Iowa, have been visitors in town and vicinity. The Schaefferstown hand on Thursday evening paid the" usual tribute-of a serenade to William E.

Hain. William Krall, Ray Wallace and Robert W. Beamesderfer, returned soldier, two of Tvhom, Haia and Wallace, saw everseas service. M. L.

Hartman and A. S. Bre-ndle delivered addresses. The Reformed Sunday school -will have its annual cutting in the Fountain. Park this coming Saturday afternoon and evening.

The Schaefferstown band has 'been engaged to furnish the music, and there will be other attractions for pleasure-seeking J. Adam Becker, Mrs- Ce-celia Wolfe, and. Mr. and RiGbert Snyder, all of South Lebanon township, transacted business In to-wn. W.

S. of Reading, -was a Sunday visitor in A community picnic foe lield in the Fountain Park on Saturday. September 2, under the auspices of the local dfire company, and the Schaeffe'rstofwn 'band twSll tfurnish the music for the occasion. The Schaefferstown band hava an outing of its own in the 'Fountain Park on Saturday. September 16, the program of special attractions for which will be announced later.

John Fetter, returned oversea soldier, has secured employment in a Philadelphia 'bank, and has resumed the duties of his position. Despite threatening the colored peoplo conducted services again yesterday (Sunday) In tho park- Mr. and Mrs. H. S.

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