Krug - William Augustus - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Sept 17, 1890 Wednesday p 3

The Anniversary of the Birth of William A. Krug - William Augustus Krug is 100 years old today. He was born on Sept 17, 1790. His birthplace was Lancaster, PA and his parents were of German descent although both of them were born in the quiet little town of Lancaster. Therew ere 5 other children besides William, 3 boys and two girls. One of them still lives, Jacvob age 94 and a resident of Eaton, Ohio. The subject of our sketch having acquired a good English education and a very considerable knowledge of German, apprenticed himself to a saddler to learn the trade, which he followed successfully until his removal to Indian ain 1839. In 1812 he was married to elizabeth Jones who was the mother of all his children and his beloved helpmate until March 17, 1860 when she died. After his marriage, Mr. Krug continued to follow his trade at Lancaster until 1821, when he moved to Paris, Starke Co Ohio and there lived until 1825 when he left for Hamilton, in Butler County, Ohio. In 1839 he purchased an 80 acres section of land 3 miles east of Pleasant Hill (Sec 31 Rg 6 W Coal Creek Twp) in this county, and removed there with his wife and 8 children two others had died as infants. His farm was christened Mount View and here he remaine duntil 1846, when on account of the sickness in his family occasioned by the malarial swamps he ........(same as above article)... Mr. Krug's appearance is almost too familiar to be noted here. Dressed in the old fashions he loves so well, his slender and slightly bent but exceedingly sprightly form is a familiar object on our streets as he daily, in all weather walks aobut carrying, but rarely using a heavy cane. He eats heartily sleeps well and is regular in all his habits. He has always been a strictly temperance man in every particular, and what better demonstration ofthe rewards of a youth well spent can there be than the anniversary he celbrates today? Mr. Krug's mental faculties are splendidly preserved. He talks readily and gives correct and intelligent accounts of incidents that transpired 90 years ago. Within the last two years he has visited his brother in Eaton, Ohio alone and returned as a man of 40 might do. His eyesight is somewhat impaired, but he persists in carrying on all his correspondence which is very considerable. He remembers with pride his intimate acquaintance with the two Thanks to Kim H for the nifty pic of good 'ol William

The following is a list of relatives: Jacob Krug, aged 94 and two sons, Wm. and George; Mrs. WW Jefferson; Mr Longnecker, wife and daughter of Eaton, Ohio; Harvey Caldwell and wife of Rushville; Mrs. Cox of Middletown, Ohio; Mrs. WN Williams, daughter and son-in-law of Ohio; William Younger and wife of Danville; John Krugg of York County, Pa; AM Williams and wife of Rushville; George McKeehan and daughter of Jamestown; William Unger of Danville. Ill; Calvin Krug of Hanover, PA; Gottlob C. Krug, Indianapolis; Jacob Kitzmiller, Canton, O; William G. Kitzmiller and wife of Massolin, Ohio; Mrs. Jacob Bucher, Canton, Ohio; Cornelius Bucher, Canton, Ohio; Mrs Catherine McKinsey, Newtown; Sam Kerr and wife, Newtown; Mrs. Scott, Pleasant Hill, MO; Arch Bailey and wife, Vesley,; Gus Krug, wife and six children and Albert Earl, Hallowell, Kas; Mrs. Col. Searing and son, Harry, Lafayette; Dr. JF Davison, wife and child Yountsville. Note: The only thing to mar the old man's happiness in the least is the fact that the printer put two gg's in his name when printing the cards instead of one. Extra copies of our Grandfather Krug edition can be obtained at this office.

Source: Source:                    1881                    Montgomery County, Indiana History. H. W. Beckwith, p 511

                

William                    A. Krug, saddler and farmer, Pleasant Hill, was born September                    17, 1790, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His parents, John V. and                    Eve (Graff) Krug, were natives of the same city and state whither                    their parents had come in an early day from Europe, the Krugs                    from Germany and the Graffs from Holland. John V. Krug died                    in 1817, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and his wife died in                    1801 in Lancaster. William A. Krug early learned the saddler's                    trade, which he followed in Pennsylvania till 1821, in York                    and also in Philadelphia.In York he was married to Elizabeth                    Jones, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Jones, old settlers                    of Pennsylvania. In 1821 Mr. Krug moved to Ohio, where, in Paris,                    he followed his trade for four years, then located in Hamilton                    fourteen years. In                    1839 he emigrated to Montgomery County, Indiana, bringing wife                    and eight children. He had buried two infants, hence is the                    father of ten children, five of whom were born in Pennsylvania                    and five in Ohio. He bought the whole of Sec. 31, R. 6 W., Coal                    Creek township. In 1846 he moved to Pleasant Hill, where he                    opened a hotel. There he became postmaster, which position he                    held for ten years. March 17, 1860, his wife died. This was                    a severe stroke to Mr. Krug, already seventy years of age. He                    quit business, and has since spent the years in Pennsylvania,                    Kansas and Indiana, being much of the time with his children.                    Mr. Krug is a member of the Episcopal church. In politics he                    was federal, and then a whig, and later a stalwart republican.                    He has never been very active in politics, yet was township                    clerk in Paris, Ohio. He still owns eighty acres of land in                    Coal Creek township. The Krugs are noted for longevity; John                    V. Krug's sister was over one hundred years old when she died.                    William A. Krug is now ninety years old, and still active, hale                    and hearty. He is almost as old as the government he loves,                    and has seen it grow from infancy to its present power. In 1876                    he visited the Centennial Exposition and noted the advancement                    in all the avenues of industry since that day of mourning when                    he attended the sham funeral of George Washington at Lancaster.                    - kbz

                

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Old                    citizens of this city will remember William Krug, who was a                    resident of Hamilton fifty year* ago. Yesterday a DEMOCRAT reporter                    had the pleasure of a half hour's conversation with the old                    gentleman who was seated in the Miami Valley bank talking and                    spinning yarns by the dozen with some old cronies. Mr. Krug                    at present lives in Crawfordsville Indiana and has attained                    the age of seventy-six years. His father also named William                    Krug is still living and on this seventeenth of September will                    be 100 years old Many, many, years ago William Krug, Sr., used                    to keep a addlery, on High Street, opposite the court house.                    His son also was a saddler. When young, Krug, Jr., was noted                    as being one of the Wildest youths in Hamilton. He was a dare                    devil; he would do anything an did not know what fear was. He                    was the leader of a crowd of mischievous spirits who were went                    to hold high carnival in this city in the long ago. Mr. Krug                    left this place in 1840. When he, arrived here (he came here                    merely to look up old friends,) he swore by all the saints that                    the only persons he knew were Cyrus Falconer and Peter Murphy.                    After a while George Vinnedge came into the bank, and Krug;                    at once recognized him. Seeing old Uncle Tommy nearby he was                    told that he was seventy six years old. "Why," said Krug, "if                    I thought I looked as old as he I would, go and drown myself."                    This convulsed those present with laughter. His nature is to                    be jolly and he retains all the fire of youth. He is vigorous                    and emphatic in his language, and occasionally will say a bad                    word by way of variety. He at one time lived where the Second                    National bank now stands in the old Crane property. He asked                    after the Symmes family and old Robert Harper. He is as gay                    today as he ever was, and it is a pleasure to sit and listen                    to him talk. Possessed with an inexhaustible fund of reminiscences,                    he is also possessed of the happy faculty of interesting everyone                    in his conversation. He and George Vinnedge poked fun at each                    other persistently. He would say to Peter Murphy, "Now Pete                    vou know I wouldn't tell a lie for a $100 now don't you Pete."                    "Oh, no. you wouldn't," would come from Vinnedge, and then Krug                    would turn round and paralyze Vinnedge with a look and a well                    put remark. Krug is a mason. and a nice old man, full of spirit;                    nothing of the old fogy about him. - thanks to                    Mary Kay G :)

                

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Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 19 September 1890