Kreider, Jacob

Posted By: Wayne Humphrey
Date: 12 December 2001

Pages 766-767 - "History of Whitley County, Indiana" by S.P. Kaler and R.H. Maring (pub. 1907)
Early in the nineteenth century, David and Barbara Kreider migrated from Pennsylvania to Montgomery county, Ohio, where the former ended his days after a residence of some years. His son Jacob, who was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1809, located in Darke county, Ohio, in 1833 and after a residence there of twenty-two years removed to Whitley county, Indiana. He bought land in Cleveland township, which in due time was cleared and developed into a good farm, and continued to live on the same until 1865, when he went to Huntington county, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in 1895, while on a visit to his daughter.
He was a true type of rugged pioneer, took a prominent part in local affairs and is remembered as a man of high moral character, having long been a zealous member of the German Baptist church. He married Elizabeth Brenner, a native of Ohio, who died in 1856, the year following the settlement in Whitley county. They had nine children: Barbara G., George, Sarah A., Joseph, Eliza, David, Paul, John and Elizabeth, all but Paul surviving and well settled in life.

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