My Genealogy Hound

HARMAN KRAUSS. Prominent among the leading men of Springfield, may be properly mentioned Mr. Krauss, a public-spirited and liberal-minded citizen, who is at present serving on the Board of Education, and who maintains a warm interest in the public schools. He is a native of this city, and was born June 8, 1848. His education was mainly conducted in its public schools, and he has grown to manhood with a lifelong interest in the enterprises calculated for her growth and prosperity.

The father of our subject was the well-known Henry Krauss, a native of the Kingdom of Saxony, and born September 22, 1800. The paternal grandparents were likewise natives of Saxony, and there spent their entire lives. The father of our subject had three brothers — Godfried, William, and John. The first mentioned spent his entire life in his native Saxony. John and William came to America, and located in Crawford County, this State. After a few years John removed to Salem, Ind., and died there. William settled on a farm in Allen County, this State, near Lima, where he died. Both were married, but neither became parents.

Henry Krauss was reared and educated in his native country, and learned the butcher’s trade. There also he was married, but in 1832, after the birth of one child, set out with his little family for America, and located in Franklin County, this State, at Columbus, which was then a small inland town without either railroad or canal, only enjoying outside intercourse with the world by the stage route. Mr. Krauss worked at his trade for a time, and then removed to Xenia, which he left about 1840, coming to Springfield, where he was for a time in the employ of William Grant & Co. He was frugal and industrious, and finally managed to save enough to go into business for himself, which he continued until his death, in 1878.

Mrs. Rosa (King) Krauss, the mother of our subject. was likewise a native of Saxony, and came with her husband and child to America. She died at Springfield in 1865. The parental family consisted of ten children, all of whom lived to mature years. They were named respectively: Henrietta, Louisa, Philipoena, Minnie, Mary, Harman, Andrew, William, Amelia, and John. Henrietta, the only one born in Germany, died when about five years old, and Minnie died at the age of twenty-four years. The others are living.

Mr. Krauss of whom we write, attended school during his boyhood days and assisted his father, remaining under the home roof until a man of twenty-five years. He then embarked in business for himself in the old market house, continuing there until it was torn down, and then established his present market at No. 76 Taylor Street, near where he now resides. He was married in 1875, to Miss Martha Ellen Young. Mrs. Krauss was born in Clark County, in 1857, and is a daughter of Jacob and Melissa (Hullinger) Young, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. Krauss is a Democrat in politics, and is serving his second term as a member of the School Board. Both he and his estimable wife belong to the Second Lutheran Church. Socially, Mr. Krauss belongs to Springfield Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F., Red Star Lodge, No. 205, K. of P., and the Butcher’s Benevolent Association.