Krieg, Joseph



BORN IN: Germany
DIED: 6/25/1878
AGED: 43
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Tanner

PLOT INFO:
HEADSTONE INFORMATION:
STORIES:
OBITUARYS:
PHOTOS:
FAMILY INFO:
FINDAGRAVE PAGE:

BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT M41:
CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)

OBITUARY ---------------

Joseph Krieg

San Mateo County Times and Gazette

June 29, 1878

Mr. Joseph Krieg died at his residence on Mound Street on June 25th inst., after a long illness of three years, during which he suffered much. He was the pioneer in the tanning business in Redwood City, having purchased the land where the Smith tannery now stands and started that establishment in 1864. Great industry and untiring energy marked his business life, and in ten years of imremitting labor he thrived and prospered and when he sold out partly on account of his fatal disease, of which he then felt the premonitary symptoms, he was the possessor of a moderate competency as the reward of his efforts. He was buried on Wednesday, the Firemen, of which he was a member, taking charge of the funeral.

© 2011 Historic Union Cemetery Association

Send questions, comments, and feedback to ellen[at]HistoricUnionCemetery[dot]com