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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: KREBS, Charles E.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 380
CHARLES E. KREBS, of the well known firm of Clark & Krebs, civil and mining
engineers, at Charleston, W. Va., was born May 19, 1870, in Wetzel County, W.
Va., and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Hubacher) Krebs.
John W. Krebs was born in Monroe County, 0., in 1840, and died in Wetzel
County, W. Va., in 1908. He was a farmer and also followed the carpenter's
trade in Wetzel County, to which he came in 1869. In politics he was a
Republican. He was a member of the Lutheran church. He was a son of Nicholas
Krebs, who was born in Alsace Lorain, then in France, and served as a soldier
under the great Napoleon, taking part in the battle of Waterloo. In 1816
Nicholas Krebs left France for America and after spending eight months on the
journey, settled in Ohio, where he died in 1855, aged seventy years. His
widow survived him many years, dying in Monroe County. They had eight
daughters and one son and four of the daughters still survive. The son, John
W. Krebs, married Elizabeth Hubacher, who still resides in Wetzel County,
being now in her sixty-eighth year. The following children were born to them:
Emma, who was born in August, j868, is the wife of A. L. Sidell and they live
in Wetzel County and have seven children; George R., who was born March 17,
1872, is a graduate of the West Virginia State University and is a member of
the firm of Clark & Krebs, married Lettie Carr and they have five children;
Mary Ella, who was born in 1874, died in April, 1894; Le-ora B., who was born
October 1, 1876, married G. H. Farmer of Wetzel County, and they have five
children; Jesse D., who was born July 7, 1878, is assistant superin-tendent
of a coal company in Raleigh County, married Elizabeth Smith and they have
one son; John A., who was born in 1880, is a farmer in Wetzel County; Leslie
W, who was born March 20, 1883, is a teacher in Wetzel County; and Charles
E., who is the second in order of birth.
Charles E. Krebs taught school for three years after completing his High
School course and in this way provided the capital necessary to carry him
through his course in the West Virginia University, where he studied
engineering and in 1894 he was graduated from the technical department with
his degree of B. S. C. E. He went to work in the engineering department of
what is now the Coal & Coke Railroad and after three years became associated
with his present partners in business, locating as civil and mining engineers
in the New River coal field, with headquarters at Kanawha Falls, in Kanawha
County. The company spent some ten years in Fayette County, in 1908 coming to
Charleston. In 1909 Mr. Krebs was appointed assistant to the West Vir-ginia
State geologist, for the southern section and being a thoroughly competent
man, may naturally look for further honors. The main business of the company
is mining engineering and they are well known in this branch all through West
Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.
Mr. Krebs was married first in 1898, in Clay County, W. Va., to Miss Dornie
Carr; who died in April, 1902, at Hot Springs, Ark., when aged twenty-six
years. Mr. Krebs was married secondly in 1905, to Miss Josephine Stephens, of
Wetzel County, and they have one son, Gregory C., who was born December 12,
1906. Mr. and Mrs. Krebs are members of the Presbyte-rian church. He is
identified politically with the Republican party. His Masonic connections
are with the higher branches of the fraternity and he is a member of Beni
Kedem Temple, Mystic Shrine, at Charleston.
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