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From: "Nancy and Brian" <>
Subject: [PALEBANO] Henry H. Kreider
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:16:12 -0400

The following was taken from the Biographical Annals of Lebanon County

BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LEBANON COUNTY Page 331 and 332

HENRY H. KREIDER, one of the leading citizens of Annville, vice-president of
the Annville National Bank, and head of the firm of Kreider & Company,
dealers in lumber, coal and grain, was born
September 30, 1835, in the old Kreider homestead in South Annville township,
Lebanon county, a son
of David and Sarah (Henry) Kreider.

Henry H. Kreider was educated in the public schools of Annville later
attending school at Mechanicsburg, and still later the Annville Academy.
>From 1855 to 1860 he engaged in teaching school, and from 1860 to 1866 he
was in the mercantile business as a member of the firm of Kimports &
Kreider, disengaging
himself in order to embark in a milling business which he carried on for
some four years. Later
he added coal, in 1872 becoming interested in coal and grain, and adding
lumber in 1891. Mr. Kreider
has been a very successful business man, and is well and widely known
because of his large
interests in Annville and vicinity. For many years he has been one of the
most progressive and
public spirited of the town's citizens, his interest in the growth and
development of her resources being shown in the organizations of the Lebanon
Valley College, in 1867, of which he as been a trustee ever since, and was
also treasurer until 1899. To Mr. Kreider more than to any other man, on
account of his
efforts during his long incumbency of the office of treasurer of the
college, is due its development to its present stage Mr. Kreider was also
one of the organizers of the Annville National Bank, of which he has been a
director since its foundation, and since 1893 has been its very efficient
vice-president. Another large and important business enterprise which owes
much to the energy of Mr. Kreider is the Annville
Water Company, of which he is also president, and he was one of the original
directors of the electric
railroad from Lebanon to Annville, which was subsequently sold to another
company, which extended
the road to Palmyra. In 1876 he was elected to the office of prothonotary
of Lebanon county for a term of
three years, and previous to that he was county auditor for a term of three
years. Mr. Kreider was
originally a Whig, and later a strong Republican in politics, in which he
was taken an active part. His first
vote was cast for John C. Fremont. He was a delegate to the Republican
National Convention from his
native State in 1884, when James G. Blaine was nominated for president.

On September 6, 1859, Mr. Kreider was married to Mary Hoverter, daughter of
Christian Hoverter, of
Annville, and the following named children have been born to this union:
Morris David, who is a
carpenter by trade; William Henry, who graduated from the Lebanon Valley
College in 1894, and
from the Law Department of Yale University in 1896, subsequently took a
special course in law in 1897, the same year was admitted to practice in all
the courts of Connecticut, and in 1898 was admitted to the
Pennsylvania Bar, and is now in successful law practice in Philadelphia,
being a partner of Senator John C. Grady, the leader of the Republican party
in the Pennsylvania Legislature; and Mary E., still at
home, who took a classical course in Lebanon Valley College, graduating in
1899, graduated after a course in instrumental music in 1896, and in vocal
music in 1898, and took a musical course in the London Conservatory of Music
in 1898.


Nancy Allwein Nebiker

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