The following was taken from the Biographical Annals of Lebanon County BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF LEBANON COUNTY Page 330 and 331 DAVID KREIDER, one of the most prominent and public-spirited citizens of Annville, Lebanon county, was born on the old Kreider farm in South Annville township, December 11, 1832, a son of David, Sr., and Sarah (Henry) Kreider. David Kreider, Sr., was twice married, and became the father of ten children, eight of whom are still living in Annville with their families. The other two are deceased, but are represented in Annville by some of their children. The boyhood days of David Kreider, our subject, were spent on his father farm, during which time he attended the common schools of the neighborhood. Later he enjoyed the advantages of a term of six months at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pa. In 1855 he married, and for one year worked the homestead, and he was but twenty-three years of age when he located in Annville and engaged in milling business, along which line he has continued ever since, achieving marked success. The mill he owns is one of the landmarks of Lebanon county, having been built during the latter part of the eighteenth century, in 1793, by Abraham Raiguel, and came into the possession of the father of Mr. Kreider in 1840, and into its present owner's hands in 1856. In addition to his milling interests Mr. Kreider is a director of the Annville National Bank, having held that office since 1894, and is one of the directors of the Annville Water Company, he and his brothers all being interested therein. Mr. Kreider is now, and has been for twelve years, one of the managers of the Berks and Dauphin Turnpike Company. He was a Trustee of the Lebanon Valley College from 1867 to 1887. Mr. Kreider was one of five men, the others being John Bachman, Jacob Shertzer, Joseph Bomberger and George Reigler, who bought the Annville Academy, and who later sold same to Annville village, the village donating it to the United Brethren conference; from that beginning has grown the Lebanon Valley College. Few men are more earnest in their church work than is Mr. Kreider, he being connected with the denomination known as the United Brethren in Christ; he is a trustee of the parsonage. Politically he has always been a Republican. Mr. Kreider was first married to Leah, daughter of Daniel Kreider, and second to Elizabeth, daughter of John B. Graybill. He is the father of the following named children: John G., of Annville; David G., of Annville; Joseph Lehn, a student of Yale University, and Lillian G., at home a teacher of music. Among the representative men of Lebanon county Mr. Kreider takes foremost rank, and he and his family are important factors in the social life of Annville. Nancy Allwein Nebiker