Col. William Augustus Kreps and Lucetta Taylor
Husband Col. William Augustus Kreps 1 2 3
Born: 27 Nov 1846 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Jacob Fordney Kreps (1806-1888) 4 Mother: Eliza Turney (1812-1887) 3 5
Marriage: 22 Sep 1875 6
Wife Lucetta Taylor 7
Born: 8 Aug 1848 7 Christened: Died: Aft 1909 Buried:
Father: William G. Taylor (1823-1887) 7 8 Mother: Susan Turney (1821-1887) 7 8
Children
1 M George R. Kreps 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary Dickson ( - ) 7
2 F Corinne Susanna Kreps 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
3 F Ida Bell Kreps 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M William Gregg T. Kreps 6 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Clara Graff ( - ) 7
5 M Thomas A. Kreps 7
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General Notes: Husband - Col. William Augustus Kreps
He was born March 27, 1846. [HMC 1888, 673]
He was a native of Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and at the age of two years was taken by his parents to Westmoreland County, where he received his education in the public schools and a select institution taught by Professor George G. Richey.
He obtained his Civil war experience in connection with Company G, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. In August, 1864, before he had reached the age of eighteen years, he joined this command for a term of one year, being mustered into the service at the old Gerard House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His company was first sent to Camp Wilkins and thence to the regimental headquarters at Lookout Valley, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and participated in all the battles and skirmishes with which it was identified until the capture of Jefferson Davis, near Macon, Georgia. Still a member of it, the young man returned to Atlanta, Georgia; thence to Huntsville, Alabama, and to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was honorably mustered out of the service on the 21st of June, 1865.
At the conclusion of his Civil war service Colonel Kreps returned to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and in the autumn of 1865 associated himself with his father and brother in the buying and shipping of oil, the center of their operations being Oil Creek and the route of their shipments down the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh. This business was continued until 1867, when the plant at Oil Creek was destroyed by fire, and Colonel Kreps himself began drilling for oil on the Ryan farm. Later he formed a partnership with his brother John in the lumber business, their enterprise including the purchase and cutting of logs and the manufacture of the raw material into lumber. This business was continued until 1869, when Colonel Kreps located at Greenville, where for eighteen years he operated a planing mill and a manufactory of sash, doors and blinds. In the spring of 1887 the extensive plant conducted under the firm name of Kreps Brothers was destroyed by fire. In the autumn of that year he was elected sheriff of Mercer county, serving three years or one term, his residence during this official service being Mercer. In 1893 he returned to Greenville, where he engaged in the foundry business until the spring of 1898. In the following year he retired from active business for about two years, when he engaged in the transfer and agricultural implement business, this being followed by his embarkation in the carriage and harness trade and his retirement from this field.
Colonel Kreps' career as a state military character commenced in May, 1875, when he organized a militia company at Greenville, which subsequently became Company K, Fifteenth Regiment of the National Guard. He was captain of the company until 1883; was promoted to be major of the regiment and served until August 7, 1884, when, upon the battlefield of Gettysburg, he was elected to the colonelcy, and every five years thereafter was re-elected until 1899. In 1898, at the time of the Spanish-American war, he entered the United States volunteer service, and was ordered with his regiment to Camp Mead, Pennsylvania, where his command was attached to the Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Army Corps. On November 10th of that year he was ordered to the army winter quarters at Athens, Georgia, at which place he received his honorable discharge, January 31, 1899, and returned to Greenville. His term as colonel of his regiment expired in the autumn of that year, and he was not a candidate for re-election.
Colonel Kreps was a member of John C. Dickey Post, of Greenville, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Spanish-American War Veterans. He also identified with both Masonry and Odd Fellowship, being past noble grand of Alhambra Lodge No. 293, I. O. O. F., and a member of Eureka Lodge No. 290, A. F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 212, R. A. M. He was a firm Republican since the Reconstruction days following the Civil war. [HMC 1909, 393]
1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 666.
2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 673.
3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 393.
4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 664.
5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 665.
6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 674.
7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 395.
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—, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 828.
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