Married 1st - Anna Best in 1842. Married 2nd Catharine Decker in 1880.
Information on George Krape and his family was found online at books.google.com: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1
He was born in Gregg township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his education in the public schools. As a boy he was a natural mechanic, displaying a fondness for tools and an aptness in their use, and in early life worked at various trades, while in later years he did much of his own work along those lines. He invented a corn planter, which proved quite successful, and sold several of them. After reaching man's estate he was mostly employed upon the home farm, much of which he cleared.
For one year after marriage they lived on a rented farm in Gregg township, Centre County, and then located near Salona, Clinton County, where he purchased eighty acres of land from his father-in-law, and there made his home some fifteen years. In 1856, however, he returned to the old homestead in Gregg township, which he purchased a year or two after his father's death, and to which he added thirteen acres, so that he had a valuable and productive tract of 200 acres.
Information on George Krape and his family was found online at books.google.com: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1
He was born in Gregg township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his education in the public schools. As a boy he was a natural mechanic, displaying a fondness for tools and an aptness in their use, and in early life worked at various trades, while in later years he did much of his own work along those lines. He invented a corn planter, which proved quite successful, and sold several of them. After reaching man's estate he was mostly employed upon the home farm, much of which he cleared.
For one year after marriage they lived on a rented farm in Gregg township, Centre County, and then located near Salona, Clinton County, where he purchased eighty acres of land from his father-in-law, and there made his home some fifteen years. In 1856, however, he returned to the old homestead in Gregg township, which he purchased a year or two after his father's death, and to which he added thirteen acres, so that he had a valuable and productive tract of 200 acres.
Married 1st - Anna Best in 1842. Married 2nd Catharine Decker in 1880.
Information on George Krape and his family was found online at books.google.com: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1
He was born in Gregg township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his education in the public schools. As a boy he was a natural mechanic, displaying a fondness for tools and an aptness in their use, and in early life worked at various trades, while in later years he did much of his own work along those lines. He invented a corn planter, which proved quite successful, and sold several of them. After reaching man's estate he was mostly employed upon the home farm, much of which he cleared.
For one year after marriage they lived on a rented farm in Gregg township, Centre County, and then located near Salona, Clinton County, where he purchased eighty acres of land from his father-in-law, and there made his home some fifteen years. In 1856, however, he returned to the old homestead in Gregg township, which he purchased a year or two after his father's death, and to which he added thirteen acres, so that he had a valuable and productive tract of 200 acres.
Information on George Krape and his family was found online at books.google.com: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1
He was born in Gregg township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his education in the public schools. As a boy he was a natural mechanic, displaying a fondness for tools and an aptness in their use, and in early life worked at various trades, while in later years he did much of his own work along those lines. He invented a corn planter, which proved quite successful, and sold several of them. After reaching man's estate he was mostly employed upon the home farm, much of which he cleared.
For one year after marriage they lived on a rented farm in Gregg township, Centre County, and then located near Salona, Clinton County, where he purchased eighty acres of land from his father-in-law, and there made his home some fifteen years. In 1856, however, he returned to the old homestead in Gregg township, which he purchased a year or two after his father's death, and to which he added thirteen acres, so that he had a valuable and productive tract of 200 acres.
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