Columbia-Berks County PA Archives Biographies.....KRUG, Charles 1844 -
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  CHARLES KRUG, one of the oldest contractors and builders residing in the town of
  Bloomsburg, by his reliable work and straightforward methods of doing business
  has attracted to him hosts of friends and patrons. He was born in Penn township,
  Berks County, Pa., November 11, 1844, and is a son of Adam and Annie E.
  (Isenhardt) Krug.
  
    Adam Krug, the father of our subject, was a native of Germany, and while in
  that country learned the trade of a tanner. Immigrating to the United States, he
  located in Penn township, Berks County, and again took up his former trade.
  Later he moved to Lycoming County and purchased a tract of land and engaged in
  the cultivation of the soil; he retired to Union County, where he spent his
  remaining days.
  
    Our subject acquired a liberal education in the common schools of his native
  town and during his boyhood days learned the carpenter's trade; at the age of
  twenty years he moved to Bloomsburg and followed his trade as a journeyman until
  1871, when he engaged in building and contracting, which business he has
  continued to the present time. He has erected some of the handsomest dwellings
  and business blocks in Bloomsburg, and the State Normal School and the
  court-house, which were erected by him, demonstrate the excellency of his
  workmanship. He also owned and operated a planing-mill until it was destroyed by
  fire. In 1897 our subject built his present home on East Third street, which is
  a handsome brick. structure. Mr. Krug is an industrious and energetic man, a
  good citizen, and is held in high esteem.
  
    Mr. Krug is the parent of seventeen children, all of whom are living, and bid
  fair to follow in the footsteps of their excellent parents and become important
  members of the communities in which they reside. His first wife was Frances Ann,
  a daughter of John Yeager of Roaring Creek township, and she entered the world
  of rest at the age of thirty-six years. As a result of this union the following
  children were born: Laura A., the wife of Henry C. Jones; Willet, a foreman in
  the lumber mills of Bloomsburg; Elwell, foreman for W. A. Shepard & Sons of
  Wilkestown; Cora, united in marriage to Harry Beishline; Annie; and William,
  Morris, Arthur. John and Paul, all carpenters by trade, who reside in
  Bloomsburg. Our subject's second marriage was to Mary M. Fredrick, a daughter of
  Samuel Fredrick, a resident of Catawissa, and a family of seven children has
  blessed this union: Sarah; Julia; Helen; Charles H.; Margaret; George; and Grace.
  
  
  
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    Extracted from:
      
      Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
      Published by 
      Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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