M. S. Krepps, of Allen Twp.

M. S. KREPPS, a prosperous blacksmith and wagon maker, was born
        December 13, 1847, in Fayette City, Fayette Co., Penn., the youngest
        in the family of children born to Lewis and Elizabeth (Biland) Krepps.

        Lewis Krepps was born of German ancestry, in 1809 in Harper's
        Ferry, Va., where his boyhood and early youth were passed. In 1828
        he and his brother Christian walked from Harpers Ferry to Brownsville,
        Penn., and there he worked at his trade, that of blacksmith. He was
        married in Brownsville to Miss Elizabeth Biland, of West Pike Run
        township, Washington county. Afterward they settled in Fayette City,
        Fayette Co., Penn. They became the parents of seven children, as
        follows: John W., living at Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jeremiah A., deceased
        in 1860; Lewis Thornton, living in Richland county, Ill.; Sarah, wife of
        Eli Croop, of Ravenna, Ohio; Enos Clark, who died in 1882, at St.
        Louis, Mo.; Mary C. and M. S. (twins), the former of whom married J.
        W. Burton, and they are now living in North Dakota. The mother of this
        family died in Fayette City, in 1865, and in 1867 the father married a
        second time. In 1869 he purchased a farm in Westmoreland county,
        Penn., moved thereon, and there died in 1881, in his seventy-fourth
        year.

        M. S. Krepps received his education in the public schools, and learned
        the trade of blacksmith in his native town. In 1870 he moved to Allen
        township, Washington county, where he continued his trade, and in
        connection carried on agriculture. On July 2, 1872, he was married to
        Josephine, daughter of John Fry, the ceremony taking place in
        California, Penn., and the young couple at once took up their home on
        a farm in Allen township, comprising sixty-eight acres of good land. The
        children born to this union were John F., born December 4, 1878; Joe
        E., born November 3, 1881; Frank G., born December 6, 1883, and
        died of diphtheria July 17, 1892. In politics Mr. Krepps is actively
        interested in the Republican party, and he and his wife are members of
        the Disciple Church. 


        Text taken from page 1157 of:
        Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington
        County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). 

        Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of
        the Beers Project.