William T. Freehling and Anna E. "Annie" Krause

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Husband William T. Freehling ^{1 2}

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            AKA: William Fruhling 3
           Born: 17 Aug 1866 - Winfield Twp, Butler Co, PA 4
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         Father: John G. Freehling (1840-1919) 2 5
         Mother: Anna Miller (      -1917) 2 4

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       Marriage: 25 Jun 1893 4 6

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Wife Anna E. "Annie" Krause ^{3 7}

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         Father: Robert Krause (1842-1922) 3 6 8
         Mother: Maria Camphire (      -1896) 3 6 8

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Children

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1 F Bessie M. Freehling ⁴

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         Spouse: Harry L. Meyer (      -      ) 6

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2 M R. LeRoy Freehling ⁴

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         Spouse: Bessie Yetter (      -      ) 6

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3 F Florence I. Freehling ⁴

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         Spouse: Norman J. Newbert (      -      ) 6

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4 M J. Roland Freehling ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - William T. Freehling

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He was educated in the common schools of Butler County, Pennsylvania, and in the year 1887 he began industrial life as a clerk in the general store of Louis Weidhas, remaining there until November, 1896. He and his father-in-law, Robert Krause, then purchased the entire busi­ness and goodwill and con­ducted the store under the firm name of Krause & Freehling. They had a large and varied stock of hardware, furniture, wagons, buggies, farming implements, lumber, brick, lime, cement, plaster, sewer pipe, etc., and they enjoyed a large trade among the farmers and other residents of this section.
He was a member of Saxonia Lodge, No. 496, I. O. O. F., and religiously a member of the English Lutheran Church.

He was a Republican, a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, at Saxonburg and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a director of the Butler Savings & Trust Company of Butler and a director of the Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Butler.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 703, 1069, 1216.

2 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1257.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 855.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1216.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 702.

6 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1258.

7 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1069, 1216.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1068.