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KRABER, WM. A., farmer and fruit grower; Sec. 20; P. O. Quincy. He was born in Quincy, Feb. 13, 1845. His father, Augustus Kraber, came to this county from Pennsylvania in 1837, and took a firm stand in favor of temperance in the early history of the county. He was closely connected with the Sons of Temperance, and held an office in that order for a number of years. He was in early years a Democrat, but after maturing somewhat in years, left that party and became a Whig, of the Henry Clay order, which party he remained with up to the birth of the Republican party which he joined, and advocated those principles until his death, which occurred April 22, 1878. He has always been numbered amongst the old and energetic citizens who have worked so nobly to make the county what it is. Wm. A. Kraber is cultivating the homestead, which contains seventy acres, most of which is highly cultivated and stocked with the different varieties of fruit. He was married to Miss Martha Hunter, in Dec. 1874. They have two children, George L. and Harry A. He is Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church.