Son of Michael & Eve nee Bohn Gruber
and husband of Mary Ann Schaeffer
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Womelsdorf Parish Records
Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society
Richard Michael Gruber, son of Michael & Eva (Bohn) Gruber, was born July 20, 1834, in Heidelberg township, baptized in the year of his birth by Rev. Daniel Ulrich, and confirm at St. Daniel's in 1850. He married Mary Ann Schaeffer in 1854, and died at Reading March 14, 1909, aged 74y7m24d. He is survived by four sons.
Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery
(H. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909)
Richard Michael Gruber (1834-1909), a progressive farmer and school teacher and, for forty-eight years, a resident of North Heidelberg, forty-two years of which he lived on one farm; in education and intelligence he was decidedly in advance of the majority of the people in his township; he believed, with Burke and Horace Mann, that school-houses and education are the chief defense of nations, and personally attended to the instruction and education of his children; he was a farmer for forty-four years, from 1856 to his retirement in 1900, during which time he also taught thirteen consecutive terms of school in North Heidelberg (1862-75), eleven of them being spent in school No. 5, then known at the Forge School ; he had previously (1854-57) taught three successive terms in Penn township; in 1849-50 he learned tailoring with William Kunkelman, but worked at the trade only about three years; he married, in 1854, Mary Ann (1833-1904), daughter of John Schaeffer and wife Susanna (Staudt) and granddaughter of John Schaeffer and wife Magdalene (Richard) and of Daniel Staudt and wife Susanna (Ulrich)
Son of Michael & Eve nee Bohn Gruber
and husband of Mary Ann Schaeffer
∼
Womelsdorf Parish Records
Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society
Richard Michael Gruber, son of Michael & Eva (Bohn) Gruber, was born July 20, 1834, in Heidelberg township, baptized in the year of his birth by Rev. Daniel Ulrich, and confirm at St. Daniel's in 1850. He married Mary Ann Schaeffer in 1854, and died at Reading March 14, 1909, aged 74y7m24d. He is survived by four sons.
Montgomery Bios, Morton L. Montgomery
(H. H. Beers & Company of Chicago, 1909)
Richard Michael Gruber (1834-1909), a progressive farmer and school teacher and, for forty-eight years, a resident of North Heidelberg, forty-two years of which he lived on one farm; in education and intelligence he was decidedly in advance of the majority of the people in his township; he believed, with Burke and Horace Mann, that school-houses and education are the chief defense of nations, and personally attended to the instruction and education of his children; he was a farmer for forty-four years, from 1856 to his retirement in 1900, during which time he also taught thirteen consecutive terms of school in North Heidelberg (1862-75), eleven of them being spent in school No. 5, then known at the Forge School ; he had previously (1854-57) taught three successive terms in Penn township; in 1849-50 he learned tailoring with William Kunkelman, but worked at the trade only about three years; he married, in 1854, Mary Ann (1833-1904), daughter of John Schaeffer and wife Susanna (Staudt) and granddaughter of John Schaeffer and wife Magdalene (Richard) and of Daniel Staudt and wife Susanna (Ulrich)
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