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JOHN H. KRUGER. The ancestral record of the family of Mr. Kruger is traced back to the grandfather, who with his son, John M. Kruger, was born in Germany. Upon their arrival in this country, they settled in Cumberland county, Pa., above Carlisle, but afterwards moved to Clinton county, Ill. On the maternal side, John H. Kruger is descended from the Leidigh family, one of the oldest settled families of Cumberland county.

John M. Kruger was born in Germany in 1812, and after a life devoted to farming, died Aug. 23, 1897, at the age of eighty-five years. His wife, Sarah Leidigh, was born in 1825, and died at the age of seventy-three years. These parents had the following children: Elizabeth married Jacob Haldeman, and resides in Kansas; Ira married Amanda Baker, and is engaged in a coal and grain business at Carlisle; Emma married Daniel Wagner, and lives at Dayton, Ohio; Calvin married Lavina Herr, and is overseer in the car department at Dayton, Ohio; Margaret married Martin Brubaker, and lives in Kansas; Jacob married Fannie Brenner, and is a contractor at Abilene, Kansas; Clarence F. is deceased; Harvey married Annie Spahr, and resides at Carlisle, Pa., where he is an engineer on the Cumberland Valley Railroad; John H.; and twins died in infancy.

John H. Kruger was born near the Stone Tavern, seven miles from Carlisle, Nov. 12, 1850. He received his education in Monroe township, and after completing his school course, began farming. For seventeen years he operated the Eberly farm on shares, and for three years was connected in the same manner with the Myers farm. In the year of 1873, he went to Clinton, Ill., and farmed for four years. His present farm of thirty acres, he bought in 1900, purchasing it from the estate of Levi Miller, deceased.

In 1872, Mr. Kruger married Anna Keeny, of Cumberland county, who is descended from the Keeny family of Lancaster county, which comes of old English stock, and is numbered among the earliest settlers of Lancaster county. Mr. and Mrs. Kruger have children as follows: Ida, who married Henry Meals, a farmer; Cora, living at home; Mervin, telegraph operator on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad; and Blanche, at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kruger are very well and favorably known in their community, where he is recognized as one of the most prosperous and representative farmers, and a thorough and successful business man. Mrs. Kruger is a member of the German Baptist Church.