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ABRAHAM KRIEBEL, son of Abraham Heydrick and Susanna (Kriebel) Kriebel, was born November 29, 1867, on his father’s farm, in Towamencin township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of his district in the intervals of farm labor until he reached his twenty-first year, after which he studied for three months at the Pierce Business College in the city of Philadelphia. He married, January 12, 1895, Annie, born February 26, 1870, daughter of Samuel Heydrick and his wife, Mary Kriebel Heydrick. Their children: Susanna, born September 27, 1896; Elizabeth, born August 9, 1898; Herbert, born November 9, 1900; Miriam, born October 17, 1903.

For two years after his marriage Mr. Kriebel engaged in farming for Elias Snyder, of Towamencin township, after which he rented from his father in Gwynedd township the farm on which he now lives, containing seventy-six acres of land, of which seventy acres is highly improved farm land, the balance being heavily timbered, principally with oak, the land mostly high and rolling, well-watered and drained, and in a high state of cultivation. On account of the numerous springs found upon the place, the name “Springfield,” has been given to the farm by its present owners. Mr. Kriebel also operates the farm for dairying purposes, having at present over twenty head of cows of mixed stock, and employing four or five horses in the cultivation of the land. The property is an ideal farm and Mr. and Mrs. Kriebel, she having also been reared on a farm, are among the best farmers in Montgomery county. In politics Mr. Kriebel is a Republican, but has never sought or held office, although always taking care to go to the polls on election day. His father was among the first voters in the Republican party in Montgomery county, and cast his ballot for Colonel John C. Fremont for president in 1856. His grandfather was an old-line Whig. In religious faith the Kriebels are members of the Schwenkfelder church in Towamencin township.

Abraham H. Kriebel (father), born August 20, 1833, is the son of Samuel Kriebel, who married a Miss Heydrick. Their children: Nathaniel; Salome, married Reuben Kriebel, of Lansdale; Jeremiah, born February 19, 1865, married Johanna Heckler, daughter of Frank Heckler; Abraham, subject of this sketch; Susanna, born December 27, 1870, married Milton Oberholtzer Landis, son of Isaac Landis, of New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Heydrick (Mrs. Kriebel’s father) was the son of George and Maria Heydrick. Maria was the daughter of Abraham and Annie Bergey (Kriebel) . Samuel and Maria Heydrick were married November 11, 1862. Their children: Daniel, born November 15, 1863, died in 1890, married Sophia, daughter of Abraham and Christiana (Kriebel) Rittenhouse, of Gwynedd township, and had children; George, born January 28, 1865, unmarried and lives in West Virginia, where he is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church; Susanna, married, November 17, 1888, Anthony Heebner, son of William and Edith (Anders) Heebner, of Gwynedd township, their children being: William H., born August 21, 1890, died July 11, 1895, Ivan, born May 12, 1898, Norman B., born May 10, 1902; Mary, born March 23, 1868, married, August 31, 1898, Howard, son of William and Hannah (Schubert) Schultz, and have one child, Robert, born February 22, 1890; Annie, wife of Abraham Kriebel; Regina, born January 12, 1872, died August 21, 1897; Sarah, born in 1874, married, in November, 1893, Howard, son of William and Hannah (Schubert) Schultz, their children being Russell, born December 9, 1894, Annie, born September 16, 1897; Clarence, born December 31, 1898, Catharine, born August 31, 1901.