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 KREBS

KREHBIEL

a leader in the controversy of 1866, which led to the division in the general synod of the Lutheran church, and was president of the general council, 1870-80. He was a member of the American Bible Revision committee of the Old Testament company from its organization in 1871 until his death. He went to Europe in 1880 to visit the scenes of the labors of Luther in order to complete a life of the reformer which he left partly finished in manuscript. He received from Pennsylvania college the degree of D.D. in 1856 and that of LL.D. in 1874. He was twice married: first, Nov. 12, 1844, to Susan, daughter of Isaac Reynolds, and secondly, in May, 1855, to Mary Virginia, daughter of Jacob Baker. He is the author of: Fundamental Principles of Faith and C'hicrch Polity (1866); Tholuck's Commentary on the Gos- pel of John, translated (1859); Christian Liberty in Relation to the Usages of the Evangelical Luth- eran Church, Maintained and Defended (1860); Tlie Augsburg Confession, translated with histor- ical introduction and notes (1868); The Conserva- tive Reformation and its Theology (1872); Infant Baptism and Infant Salvation in the Calvinistic System, a I'evision of Dr. Hodge's Systematic The- ology (1872); UlricVs Revieiv of Strauss (1874); Berkeley's Princixiles, Prolegomena Notes of Ueb- erwegand Original Annotations (1874); Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession (1878). He also edited with intx'oduction and additions: Flem- ing's Vocabidary of Philosopliy (1860); trans- lated hymns from the Latin and German, and contributed to periodicals. See Memoir by his son in-law, the Rev. Adolph Spaeth, D.D. (1898). He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Jan. 2, 1883.

KREBS, John Michael, educator, was born in Hagerstown, Md., May 6, 1804; son of William and Ann (Adanison) Krebs. He was graduated from Dickinson college in 1827; taught at the Dickinson college grammar school, 1827-29, and studied theology under the Rev. George Duflfield, of Carlisle, and at Princeton Theological seminary in 1829. He was licensed by the presbytery of Carlisle in 1829, and ordained and installed i^astor of the Rutgers Street church in New York city in 1830, where he ministered until 1867. He ivas permanent clerk of the general assembly, 1837- 45; clerk of the j)resbytery and synod of New York in 1841, and was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1845. He was a member of the Board of Foreign Missions from its organization and served as its president for several years. He was a dii-ector of the Princeton Tlieological seminary, 1841-67, and pres- ident of the institution, 1865-67. He was married to Sarali Harris, daughter of Andrew Holmes, of Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 7, 1830, and after her death to Ellen Dewitt, daughter of John Chambers, of Newburg, N.Y. He received the degree of D.D.

from Dickinson college in 1841. He is the author of: The Private, Domestic and Social Life of Jesus Christ, a Model for Youth (1840); The Pres- byterian Psalmist (1852), and published sermons. He died in New York city, Sept. 30, 1867.

KREHBIEL, Helen Virginia Osborne, editor, was born at Birmingham, Conn., Jan. 15, 1846; daughter of Jolin White and Susan Hawkins (Durand) Osborne; granddaughter of Capt. Ste- phen and Apama (Gorham) Osborne, of English descent, and of Samuel and Sally (Hawkins) Durand; and greats-granddaughter of Noah Du- rand, of French Huguenot descent. She attended Castleton seminary, Vermont, and was a student at Vassar college, 1866-67, giving special atten- tion to the study of music. She was assistant editor of Wood's Household Magazine, Newburg, N.Y., 1868-74; was editor of Golden Hours, 1875- 79; and edited the " Rockerj' "department in the Cincinnati Weekly Gazette, 1879-83, and in the Cincinnati Tribune from December, 1893, until lier death. She was married in 1877 to Henry Edward Krehbiel (q.v.). She was organist of St. Paul's M.E. church and of the Second Presbyterian church, Cincinnati, 1876-80. and of Washington Square M.E. church, New^ York city, 1893-94. She died in New York city. May 10, 1894.

KREHBIEL, Henry Edward, author, was born in Ann Arbor, Midi., Marcli 10, 1854; son of the Rev. Jacob and Anna Maria (Haake) Krehbiel. The Rev. Jacob Krehbiel came to America from German}' about 1830; received his education in the United States, and devoted his services to the German branch of the Metliodist Episcopal church, and was editor of the Christlidur Apolo- gete from 1875 until his death in 1890. Henry Edward Krelibiel was educated in the public schools of Michigan and Ohio; studied law in Cincinnati, 1872-74; was musical critic of the Cincinnati Gazette, 1874-80; assistant to John R. G. Hassard, musical critic of the New York Tri- bune, 1880-82, and editor of the Musical Review, 1881-82, holding his place at the same time on the Tribune. He received the decoration of cheva- lier of the Legion of Honor from France in 1901. He edited the musical department of the An- notated Bibliography of Fine Arts (1898); Music and Musicians, by Lavignac (1899); translated Carl Courvoisier's The Technics of Violin Play- ing (1880); and is the author of: An Account of the Fourth Musical Festival in Cincinnati (1880); Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music (1884); Revieu) of the New York Musical Season (five annual volumes, 1885-90); Studies in the Wagnerian Drama (1891); The Philharmonic Society of Neio York: A Memorial (1892); Hoio to Listen to Music (1896); Music and Manners in the Classical Period (1899); The Pianoforte and its Music (1901).