Kreider, David

Posted By: Wayne Humphrey
Date: 12 December 2001

Pages 780-781 - "History of Whitley County, Indiana" by S.P. Kaler and R.H. Maring (pub. 1907).
David, son of Jacob Kreider, was born February 24, 1841, in Darke county, Ohio, and in 1855 accompanied his parents to Whitley county, where he became a large landowner and prominent farmer, in addition to which he has for years been a minister of the German Baptist church. At one period his real estate in Cleveland township amounted to three hundred acres of choice land, but he disposed of this from time to time until his holdings now represent one hundred and four acres, this constituting the home farm on which he at present resides. David Kreider has been a man of wide influence in his community through the medium of his ministerial calling his usefulness has been extended throughout Whitley and other counties in northern Indiana, being a preacher of considerable note, and held in high repute, not only by his friends and neighbors but by all with whom he is brought into contact. He married Nancy Grist and they had nine children: Cinda, Emma, Jacob, Tobias, John, Noah, Harvey, Estie and Malinda.

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