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JOSEPH
KREITLER, father of Mrs. Henry A. Simon, and
long honored as a sturdy and industrious pioneer of Lordstown
township, Trumbull county, was born in Diesen Hohenzollern, Germany,
December 9, 1829. He was the youngest son of John and
Bridget (Rebholtz) Kreitler, both natives of Germany, and there
the mother spent her active years. The father came to America
late in life, spending his later days with his son at Warren Ohio.
Joseph Kreitler received a good common school education in
the fatherland and afterward was apprenticed to learn the trade of a
millwright, which he followed in Switzerland until 1853. He
then came to America, settling in South Dedham, Massachusetts, where
he worked at the cabinet-making trade until 1860, when he settled at
Warren, Ohio. The next year he purchased a small tract of
land, cultivating it and working at his trade until 1876. His
sons were in the meantime doing all they could toward clearing up
the land their father had bought. From that year (1876) he
engaged in farming, although it was a vocation in which he had no
experience, but he made a success of it and remained on the place
until his death, April 25, 1895. He married, July 31, 1855,
Josephine Kaeppler, a native of Baden, Germany, who came to this
country with her widowed mother, brother and sisters, who settled
near Boston, Massachusetts, where some of the descendants still
live. Mrs. Kreitler died June 15, 1903. She had
reared eight children: Joseph, George, Josephine, Louisa,
Charles Franklin, Albert, Reinhart and Walter Edwin.
Mr. and Mrs. Kreitler were devout Christians and reared their
children in habits of morality and industry.
In closing this memoir, it may not be amiss to state by
what process Mr. Kreitler carved out his successful life.
He landed upon our shores, a stranger in a strange land, unable to
speak or read the English language. His earthly possession was
a five-franc piece and at the time of his coming times were very
dull. Had his money been sufficient, he would have returned to
his native land. There was no demand for other than skilled
labor and that at low wages. Fortunately, he secured work in a
wood-working shop, where handles were turned out in large
quantities. He remained there a year, receiving but sixty
dollars for his work. He then found employment in a furniture
factory of Truesdale and Townsend, in which he
continued until he went to Ohio. Before his death he had well
mastered the English language, and was an extensive reader, well
Americanized, loved the Stars and Stripes, and, in view of his early
advantages, reached a plane of life most creditable alike to
himself, his family, and his adopted country.
 Source
#2: History of Trumbull &
Mahoning Counties - Cleveland: H. Z. Williams & Bro. - 1882 |
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