KRIECHBAUM, JNO. P.

KRIECHBAUM, FUNCK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/22/2026 at 07:54:51

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

KRIECHBAUM, JNO. P., owns a fruit farm of nine acres, on Prospect Hill and on Waite St.; he was born March 12, 1819, in Germany ; came to America and to Baltimore 1831, with his parents, thence moved to Carlisle, Penn.; fall of 1832, moved to St. Clair Co., Ill., and, in 1839, to Burlington ; went into the grocery business in 1844 ; closed out the grocery and commenced the coopering business and continued that till 1864, during that time had purchased a sawmill in Henry Co., planted a vineyard on the place he now occupies and built a comfortable house, a two-story brick 32x42 feet, besides an L and a good cellar for the preservation of his wines ; has been elected Alderman two different terms. He married March 28, 1842, Elizabeth Funck; they have seven children — August, Charles, Fred, Edward, Theodore, Emily and Nellie. Members of the Evangelical Church ; Democrat.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879