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Kraitsir, Charles – Kroeger, Adolph Ernst

Kraitsir, Charles

educator, philologist, author, was born Jan. 23, 1804, in Hungary. He was an educator and philologist of New York city, and the author of The Poles in the United States; Significance of the Alphabet; and Glossology. He died May 7, 1860, in Morrisania, N. Y.

Kramer, George R

clergyman, poet, was born May 26, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. He was a successful baptist clergyman, and for many years pastor of the Brooklyn Union Avenue Baptist church. He also was a poet of distinction, and contributed liberally to current literature. He died in 1896.

Krebs, Jacob

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1826 to 1827.

Krebs, John Michael

clergyman, author, was born May 6, 1804, in Hagerstown, Md. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and the author of Righteousness and National Prosperity; The American Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; and The Presbyterian Psalmist. He died Sept. 30, 1867, in New York city.

Krebs, Theodore Luther

musician, composer, was born Aug. 3, 1860, in Brookfield, Ohio. In 1884 he took charge of the music department of the Rome Female college, of Georgia; and subsequently accepted a position at the Noble institute of Anniston, Ala. He is the author of numerous works for piano and voice; a Treatise on Theory; and a Biography of Beethoven.

Krehbiel, Henry Edward

musical critic, author, was born March 10, 1854, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He is a musical critic on the staff of the New York Tribune, and the author of Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons; Studies in the Wagnerian Drama; and How to Listen to Music.

Krekel, Arnold

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born March 12, 1815, in Germany. He was elected to the Missouri state legislature in 1852; and in 1865 was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Missouri, residing in Jefferson City.

Kremer, George

congressman, was born in 1775, in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1829. He died Sept. 11, 1854, in Union county, Pa.

Kreyer, Frederick

musician, composer, was born Feb. 4, 1854, in Germany. He is a successful teacher of piano and band instruments in Maquoketa, Iowa; and the author of the overture Friendship; the waltz Dreams of Home; and various other compositions.

Kriehn, George

educator, author, was born April 19, 1868, in Lexington, Mo. Since 1894 he has been assistant professor of culture and economic history in the Stanford university of California. He is the author of the English Rising in 1850; English Popular Uprisings in the Middle Ages; and other works.

Krimmel, John Lewis

artist, was born in 1787, in Germany. He was president of the Society of American Artists. Among his works are The Pepper-Pot Woman; The Cut Finger; Blindman's Bluff: Election Day; The Fourth of July at Old Centre Square; Going to and refrom boarding-School; turning The Country Wedding; and Perry's Victory.

He died by drowning July 15, 1821, in Germantown, Pa.

Kroeger, Adolph Ernst

author, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Schleswig. He was a writer of St. Louis, and the author of The Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the Problems of the Future; and translations of Fichte's Science of Knowledge and Science of Rights. He died March 8, 1882, in St. Louis, Mo.