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One of his sons was Albert Frederick August Krebs, who was born at Mansfield, Prussia. Like his father he was a man of consequence in his country, his office being that of Oekonom, or proprietor and man- ager of a large estate in Prussia. He was one of the seven brothers who were officers of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic wars.
Frederick Krebs, Senior, son of the Oekonom and grandson of the Oberamtman, was born in Mansfield, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, December 13, 1822, and was the American ancestor of this particular branch of the Krebs family in Pennsylvania. He came to this country in 1848, settled first in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, where he married, and in 1852 removed to Johnstown. His occupation was that of baker and confectioner, a trade he had learned in Germany. In 1856 he went with his family to La Crosse, Wisconsin, lived there until 1865 and then returned to Johnstown and engaged in the business of his
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trade until a few years previous to his death. He died August 24, 1886. Frederick Krebs, Senior, married Sophia Bergman. They married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1852. She was born in Ehrigs Hagen, Hanover, Germany, October 2, 1834, and died in Johnstown, March 26, 1876. They had children: 1. Louisa, born March 27, 1853, died May 26. 1854. 2. Frederick, born in Johnstown, June 9, 1855. 3. Earnest, born in La Crosse. Wisconsin, January 3, 1858, died September 22, 1862. 4. Albert August, born in La Crosse, April 20, 1860. 5. Emelia, born in La Crosse, June 15, 1862. married George Sheeler and lives in Johnstown. 6. William Henry. born in La Crosse, October 5, 1864, died April 26, 1865. 7. Emma, born in Johnstown, May 2, 1866, mar- ried, December 20, 1888, John W. Walters, a lumber merchant. 8. Charlotte, born in Johnstown, October 20, 1868. 9. Matilda, born in Johnstown, August 28, 1871. teacher in Johnstown high school.
Frederick Krebs, second and eldest surviving child of Frederick and Sophia (Bergman) Krebs, superintendent of the Gautier depart- ment of Cambria Steel Company, and who is known as one of the most public-spirited men of Johnstown, was born June 9, 1855, and was edu- cated in the German Intheran parochial school and also in the public schools of Johnstown. At the age of sixteen years he secured employ- ment as elerk in the office of Wood, Morrell & Co. (now the Penn Traffic Co.), and afterward was advanced to a more important posi- tion in the time office of Cambria Steel Company. In 1878 he entered the service of the Gautier Steel Company, Limited, which afterward became the Gautier department of Cambria Steel Company, and since that time he has been continuously in the same employ, but not in the same position, as in 1878 the faithful, competent service on his part was appreciated and received its deserved reward. In 1882 he was made superintendent of the steel mills of the Gantier department, and in 1890 was appointed superintendent of the entire Gautier department, having supervision of the manufacturing and commercial branches of the department. This position he still holds.
For ten years Mr. Krebs was a member and much of that time president of the board of education of Johnstown, and in various other ways has contributed materially to promote educational interests in the city. Largely through his personal efforts and influence the present high school building was erected, and it was he who introduced and maintained in Johnstown for several years a successful University Ex- tension course of lectures. He is now a member of the board of direc- tors of Cambria Free Library, director of the United States National Bank, president of the board of managers of Conemaugh Valley Me- morial Hospital Association, and a member of the German Lutheran church. Politically Mr. Krebs is a Republican.
Frederick Krebs, Junior, married, March 8, 1888, Margaret Wini- fred Walters, daughter of Dr. W. W. Walters, a prominent physician in Johnstown and in medical circles in Cambria county, and the recog- nized leader of the Welsh population of that locality. Children of Frederick and Margaret ( Walters) Krebs: 1. Frederick Walters, III, born in Johnstown, July 19, 1889. 2. Margaret Eliza, born in Johns- town. January 30, 1891. 3. Walter Winston, born in Johnstown, March 8, 1894. 4. Winifred Louise, born in Johnstown, October 5, 1897.
Albert August Krebs, third son and fourth child of Frederick and Sophia (Bergman) Krebs, and whose employment in the service of the Cambria Iron Company, and its successor corporation, the Cambria Steel Company, has covered a period of thirty years, was born at La
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Crosse, Wisconsin, April 2. 1860, and when five years old removed with his parents from that city to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he has since lived. He was educated in the Johnstown public schools, and at the age of sixteen entered the service of the Cambria Iron Company, working in one capacity and another, steadily advancing to his pres- ent position of boss roller in the Gantier department of that company's extensive plant. Mr. Krebs is a Republican, but does not take an ac- tive part in politics other than the public welfare requires of every loyal citizen. He was brought up under the influence of the German Lutheran church, to the support of which he contributes and of which his family are members. He holds membership in Johnstown Lodge, No. 157, Knights of Pythias, and also in Johnstown Turnverein, a Ger- man society of that city.
Albert Angust Krebs married, February 24, 1898, Emelia, sec- ond daughter of August and Louisa (Kress) Lambert, of Johnstown. They have one son-Albert Krebs-born September 16, 1899. and a daughter, Louise, born November 2, 1905. Karl Kress, maternal grand- father of Emelia (Lambert) Krebs, was a native of Germany. On com- ing to America he settled first in Ohio and removed thence to Johns- town, where he was the second minister of the German Lutheran church. When he came to this country he was a widower, and was ac- companied by his two sons and two daughters. August Lambert, father of Emelia Krebs, also was a native of Germany, and previous to his removal to Johnstown was landlord of a hotel in the city of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. In Johnstown he was an ale brewer, in busi- ness partnership with his brother-in-law, C. F. Kress.
JOSEPH KIRK LOVE, president of the wholesale grocery firm of Love. Sunshine & Co., at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was born October 31, 1867, on the farm in Butler county, Pennsylvania.
He obtained his education at the common schools and spent sev- eral years at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
Concerning his ancestry, it may be said that the first of the name to come to America was James Love, the great-grandfather, a native of Ireland, born near Cork, came to America about 1820, was a farmer by occupation, and settled in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he followed farm life. James Love was first a Whig, then a Republican. He was an elder in the Covenanter church for many years. He died about 1853, his wife surviving him some two years. His wife was Nancy Hutchinson, by whom he had the following children : 1. Sam- nel, mentioned hereafter. 2. George, died unmarried. 3. John, mar- ried Annie McCray. 4. Mary Ann, married William Heckert. 5. Will- iam, married Mary May. 6. Robert, married Sarah Ann Love. 7. Sarah, married William Armstrong. She is the only one living-a widow, residing at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The others all remained in Butler county and their descendants still live there.
Samuel Love, son of emigrant James Love, was born, 1817, in But- ler county, Pennsylvania, and remained on the old home farm until his marriage, when he purchased a farm near the homestead and operated the same. He married Helen Kirk, daughter of Arthur and Marian (Smith) Kirk, who came to this country from near Glasgow, Scotland : Arthur Kirk, in Butler county, Pennsylvania, was interested in a woolen mill. Samuel Love was a Republican and served the district in which he lived as one of the directors. He was a member of the United Pres- byterian church. He is deceased and his widow lives with her daugh-
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ter in Sharon. Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Their children were: 1. George H., mentioned hereafter. 2. Nancy Jane, married N. J. Cratty and is deceased. 3. Marian, unmarried, is a school teacher at Sharon, Pennsylvania. 4. Arthur, married, is a musician, living in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. 5. Martha, married George W. Davis, a blacksmith of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. 6. Maggie, married M. K. Ham- ilton. a ranchman of Colorado.
George H. Love, father of Joseph K. Love, was born February 10, 1844, in Butler county, Pennsylvania. He received a good common school education, and farmed with his father until his marriage, Jan- uary 7, 1867, to Annie B. Logan, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (McCandless) Logan, of Butler county, Pennsylvania. After his mar- riage he purchased a farm in Butler county, Pennsylvania, and farmed for himself until about 1870, when he opened a general store at Saxon- burg Station, Butler county. He remained there for six years, when he sold and removed to Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. For twenty-two years he there operated a butter and cheese factory, com- ing to Johnstown in 1905. Here he founded the Union National Bank, of Johnstown, of which he is the president. He is also the vice-presi- dent of the Bessemer Coal and Coke Company, located in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, otherwise devoting his whole time and energy to the banking business at Johnstown. He retains a farm of one hun- dred acres, near Pittsburg, to which his family remove for a summer home. Politically he is a Republican. In church relations he is a Pres- byterian and has been an elder for upwards of thirty years.
As an evidence of his patriotism, it only needs to be stated that in his eighteenth year, six months after the first call for troops at the outbreak of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a drummer-boy in the Eight- eenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. This was a three months en- listment, during which time the regiment saw no active service. His second enlistment as a drummer was with the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, he being a men- ber of Company D, the term being for nine months service, during which they did mostly picket duty and detail work. Again, in Sep- tember, 1864, Mr. Love enlisted in Company A, Two Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteers for the balance of the war, still serving as a drummer. His regiment was detailed to protect the Orange and Alexandria railroad, running out from Richmond, Vir- ginia. Its service was amost entirely against guerrilla leader Mosby and his band, a warfare bordering at times on the savage, in which no quarters were asked or given. Separated into small detachments and isolated from the main body of the army, they were exposed to an attack at any moment, day or night, and fortified with stockades as best they could provide, even then their post was a very dangerous one. It was a service calling for every spark of courage any man could well possess. It was lacking in brilliant engagements and op- portunities for fame, but none the less of the highest importance in the cause. Mr. Love still retains a memento of his war experience- the drum he used on his last enlistment of service. He is a member of Emory Fisher Post, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 30, at Johns- town, Pennsylvania, in which he has held all the offices, and was the adjutant at Somerset for about ten years.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Love are: 1. Joseph, mentioned hereafter. 2. Edward M., married Flora Heffley; he is engaged in the coal trade at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 3. Frank S.,
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unmarried, a member of the F. S. Love Manufacturing Company of Johnstown. 4. Russell C., at home, unmarried. 5. Myra N., at home, unmarried.
Joseph Kirk Love, born on a farm, October 31, 1867, in Butler county, Pennsylvania, was educated at the public schools and spent several years at Westminster College, taking a scientific course. In 1882, when his father moved to Somerset, Mr. Love engaged in the dairy business with him, for five or six years, then went on the road, as a salesman for Allen, Kirkpatrick & Company, wholesale grocers, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After one year he abandoned the road, by resigning, and in 1901 the present business of Love, Sunshine & Com- pany was incorporated. Mr. Love is the president, F. S. Love, his brother, vice-president. and William H. Sunshine, the present treasurer of Cambria county, the treasurer, with W. H. Sanner as secretary. They carry on a wholesale grocery business, which, while small at first, has developed into one of considerable magnitude. They supply the trade for a radius of about fifty miles around Johnstown, employ eight traveling salesmen, besides a number of special salesmen not con- fined to the territory already named.
Mr. Love is a stockholder in the Union National Bank: former stockholder in the United States National Bank and the Conemaugh Powder Company: a stockholder in the Wilmerding (Pennsylvania) National Bank; the F. S. Love Manufacturing Company of Johnstown : the Bessemer Coal & Coke Co. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; treasurer of the People's Garbage & Fertilizer Co. of Johnstown; president of the Inter-State Fair Association ; and has other business interests. Political- ly he is a staunch Republican. He is a worthy member of the Pres- byterian church, and has been a member of the Brotherhood of Elks ever sinee its organization at Johnstown.
Mr. Love married, April 23, 1895, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Catherine (Evans) Jennings, of Queenstown, Pennsylva- nia. Their children are: 1. Jennings Kirk, born May 2, 1897. 2. George Hutchinson, born September 4, 1900.
JOHN W. TITTLE, chief draughtsman of the Gautier department of Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of some of the oldest families of the state, and among his ancestors were soldiers of the French and Indian wars, the Revolution, Pontiac's war, and of the late Civil war. The daughter of one of his ancestors became the mother of one of the most distinguished men of Pennsylvania- William Freame Johnston, governor of the commonwealth from 1847 to 1853.
In the paternal line Mr. Tittle traces his ancestry back through several generations to Peter Tittle, of Westmoreland county, whose settlement in that part of the state was made about the year 1760. But Peter Tittle's son James married Ann Freame, who was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Johnston) Freame, and Elizabeth Johnston was a daughter of James Johnston, of county Derry, Ireland, who immigrated to America about the year 1750, and with whom, therefore, this narrative properly begins. Previous to about the middle of the eighteenth century James Johnston was a farmer on leased land in county Derry, Ireland, on the river Derg. His lease of the land expired about 1750, and in the same year he left Ireland with his wife and two sons-Edward and Christie-and one daughter, Elizabeth. They landed at Baltimore, and from there are believed to have gone direct to the
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Scotch-Irish settlement on Coneacheagne creek, in what is now Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where James Johnston took up land and began farming.
Several years before the immigration of the family England and France had been at war both in Europe and their American colonies, but at the time of James Johnston's settlement in Westmoreland county peace prevailed, and pioneers were gradually working their way into the frontier regions of Pennsylvania, where land was cheap, the soil rich, and a comfortable home was assured the industrious settler in return for a few years of patient labor. However, in the course of a few more years England and France were again at war, and their American colonies soon became involved in the struggle, one of the principal objects of which was supremacy in America : and the territory of Westmoreland county was not far from the line between the posses- sions of the French and the territory of the English. In May, 1756, Edward Johnston joined a party of pioneers bound for the country farther west. He never came back, and is believed to have been killed by the Indian allies of France. Christie Johnston joined a company to fight against the Indians during Pontiac's war (1763-1766) and was slain in battle.
Elizabeth Johnston married William Freame, who had been a pri- vate in an Irish regiment raised in Belfast to serve in America during the French and Indian war. He served under Wolfe, and took part in the capture of Quebec, Canada, in 1759. After peace was declared in 1763 he returned with the regiment to Belfast, and afterward came back to America, landed at Baltimore, and went from thenee to the Coneacheague settlement near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, where he
married. After marriage they lived at the Johnston home until after the death of the pioneer and his wife, and afterward until the time of the Revolution, when they took up land on Crabtree creek, in West- moreland county, near the site of the present town of New Alexandria, where they ever afterward lived.
William Freame was a member of the military company under Captain Bruee on the ill-fated Sandusky expedition against the Indians in 1782. His wife outlived him several years and was almost one hun- dred years old when she died. All her life from childhood she was a strict Presbyterian. and entertained strong feelings of antipathy against the Roman Catholic church, her grandmother having been among those in Londonderry who had been persecuted and besieged by the Catholics in 1690. William and Elizabeth (Johnston ) Freame had five daughters. One of them, Elizabeth Freame, married Alexander Johnston, and their son, William Freame Johnston. was governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1853. Another daughter, Ann Freame, married James Tittle, who was a son of Peter Tittle the ancestor of John W. Tittle of Johnstown.
About the year 1760 Peter Tittle settled in the then wilderness region of Westmoreland county, on the banks of a small erecke known as Nine Mile Run, in what is now Unity township. He was one of three brothers who came from England together, the others being George and Henry Tittle. The family name of Peter's wife is unknown, but her christian name was Sarah. They had four sons and one danghter: James, Jonathan, Jeremiah, John and Sarah Tittle. Peter Tittle was a famous Indian fighter, and had reason for his hatred of the savages who devastated the country around his home: and family tradition says he was a good shot with the riffe and was able to count his scalps
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by the dozen. He was a member of Capt. John McClelland's Company of "Rangers on the Frontier" of Westmoreland from 1778 to 1783. His house was an occasional stopping place for soldiers during the latter part of the French and Indian war, and also during the Revolution. in Pennsylvania "Archives" (vol. ii, p. 204), is found the following record : "May 23, 1780, Capt. Isaac Craig, in command of a detachment of Proctor's Artillery, left Carlisle for Ft. Pitt * * On the way they stopped over night at Peter Tittle's on the night of June 10, 1780. ' Both Peter Tittle and his wife lived to ripe old age and both are buried in Unity cemetery in Westmoreland county.
James Tittle, eldest son of Peter and Sarah Tittle, was born in 1775, and died at his farm home in Unity township, September 17, 1843. In 1796 or 1797 he married Ann Freame, as previously mentioned. She was born in 1779 and died October 5, 1850. Both she and her husband are buried in the Presbyterian churchyard near New Alex- andria. They had children, as follows: Elizabeth Tittle, married Will- iam MeKee; they lived at Stockton, California; Jeremiah Tittle, married first, Dorcas Reed; married second, Sarah Ferguson; she died in 1906. Johnston Tittle, married Margaret Montgomery ; he is deceased. Jonathan Tittle, married Mrs. Roberts and lived in California; now dead. James K. Tittle, married Eliza Jackson and lived at Kittanning, Pennsylvania ; now dead. Washington Tittle, married Martha Hudson; deceased. Hamilton Tittle, married Rachel Wibble; deceased. Andrew Jackson little, married Florinda Wallace, deceased. William Freame Tittle, died unmarried, October 18, 1801. John Tittle, married Mary Snod- grass and had eight children; they are deceased.
John Tittle, second child of James and Ann (Freame) Tittle, was born in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on the 18th day of February, 1801, and was eleven years old when his father's family removed to Salem township. In 1819 he went to Greensburg and served an apprenticeship of three years at the cabinet and chair making trade, and then began business for himself at New Alexandria. He lived in that town until 1826, at Youngstown until 1832, and in the year last mentioned moved to a point four miles east of Johnstown, and lived there during the time the viaduct was being constructed. From 1837 to 1843 he kept a boarding house on the line of the Allegheny Valley railroad, which then was in course of construction. John Snod- grass, a brother of Mrs. Tittle, was superintendent of construction on the road, and through him Mr. Tittle obtained the boarding house privilege. On completion of the railroad Mr. Tittle returned to New Alexandria for a year, then came to Johnstown and worked as pattern- maker in the shops of the old Portage railroad. He was an excellent mechanic, something of a genius in that respect, and at one time con- structed and patented a safety car designed to obviate accidents on the road, and it was first used on the ineline at the west end of the tunnel. Later on the car was adopted by the State on its roads and was used extensively where grades were the heaviest. The invention itself was a success, but Mr. Tittle as patentee realized very little profit from his device. In 1858 he removed with his family to Kittanning, and two years later returned to Johnstown. In that year (1860) he began the manufacture of a patent feed cutter, a device of his own invention, and for some time carried on quite an extensive business in a building formerly occupied by the Johnstown Mechanical Works, on the site where the Gautier Steel Company built its wire mill in 1878. On the erection of the wire mill the feed eutter works were removed to a build-
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ing erected by Mr. Tittle on Portage street, near Broad street, but the business was soon afterward discontinued and the proprietor returned to his old trade of chair and cabinet making. He died in Johnstown, August 19, 1882. On the 16th day of December, 1824, John Tittle married Mary Snodgrass, daughter of William and Eleanor (Beggs) Snodgrass. She was born April 15, 1805, and died January 25, 1875. Both she and her husband were buried in Sandyvale cemetery, and after the flood of 1889 were removed to Grand View cemetery.
John Snodgrass, father of Eleanor Snodgrass, who married John Tittle, was of Scotch deseent, by occupation a farmer, a devout member of the Presbyterian church, and at the time referred to lived in Martic township in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. On the 15th of December, 1774, immediately preceding the Revolutionary war, he was elected a member of the committee of safety for the borough of Lancaster, and inspector for Martic township. He was an active member of the Lan- caster County Associators, a famous military organization of Pennsyl- vania during the war, and served in Captain Brown's company of Colonel Timothy Green's battalion of Lancaster county militia. On August 31, 1776, he marched with the company into New Jersey against the British, and returned in February of the following year.
William Snodgrass, son of John Snodgrass, was born in Martic township in 1758, and was a farmer. He too was an Associator, and a member of Captain James Rogers' company of Colonel Timothy Green's Hanover Rifles. About 1795 he married Eleanor Beggs, dangh- ter of William Beggs, who was born in Ireland. In 1800 Mr. Snodgrass sold his farm in Lancaster county and removed to Westmoreland county, where in 1801 he purchased one hundred and two acres from Samuel Ramsey in Unity township, and at a later date added one hundred and thirty aeres more to his possessions. William and Eleanor Snodgrass had five children : Elizabeth. John, Mary (married John Tittle), Sarah and Margaret Snodgrass.
Children of John and Mary ( Snodgrass) Tittle: Ellen Tittle, born December 10. 1825; died December 2. 1898; married William States, and removed to Missouri. James Tittle, born June 2. 1828; married Mary Ringler Orr; had six children. William Snodgrass Tittle, born March 27, 1831: married Maria Worthington, and lives at San Ber- nardino, California. Alexander Johnston Tittle, born August 20, 1833; died unmarried. November 14, 1903. Sarah Ellen Tittle, born May 7, 1836; married Philip Constable. and lost her life in the Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889. John Snodgrass Tittle, born December 22, 1839; married Jane Maclay, and lives in Johnstown. Cyrus Pershing Tittle, born April 28, 1843; unmarried : drowned in the Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889. Charles Lee Tittle, born October 18. 1845: married Ada Woodruff, and lives at Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
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