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Henry Kieffer Kroh
From the book: History of Monmouth County, New Jersey 1664-1920 Volume II - Published in 1922

One of the prominent businessmen of Brielle, New Jersey, is Mr. Kroh, whose position as a leading real estate man of the community places him much in the public eye. Mr. Kroh is a son of Harry Jeremiah and Florence Catherine (Horner) Kroh. The father was by trade a wheelwright, and a man of high principles and public spirit, whose early death was a loss to his town and state. He served during the Civil War in the employ of the United States Government on the Arlington Flats, Virginia, and there contracted typhoid fever, from which he died.

 Henry Kieffer Kroh and daughter Ananette

 

Henry Kieffer Kroh, only child of the above union, was born in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1860. His education was begun in the public schools of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and continued at the Classical College of the same place. Then entering the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Mr. Kroh was graduated from that institution in the class of 1886. Active in the drug business in Philadelphia for several years, he then came to Spring Lake, New Jersey, and entered the drug business for about thirty-five years, and has won success in this vicinity while taking care of the needs of the people. In 1914, Mr. Kroh was appointed postmaster of Brielle, and still holds this office. In connection with his other activities, Mr. Kroh is largely interested in real estate in this section, and carries on a thriving business in this field of endeavor, holding a position among the leading real estate operators on the Jersey coast.

In political affairs, Mr. Kroh is a noteworthy local figure, although he has never taken any interest in political honors and has never held office. He supports the principles and policies of the Republican party. His religious convictions place his daughter as superintendent of the Junior Department of the Sunday School.

On May 19, 1887, Mr. Kroh married, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Lucinda Horner, of Frederick County, Maryland, daughter of Elija and Sophia Horner. Mr. and Mrs. Kroh are the parents of three children: Hubert, widely known in the newspaper world, president of the Pennsylvania State Editor's Association, and now connected with the New York City News Association; Harry Horner, who established an advertising business in Asbury Park, which has attained national significance and is understood to be one of the largest in the country; and a daughter, Annette Love, a business woman of Brielle and active in church and Sunday school work

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