John Graebing    

JOHN GRAEBING, retired, P.O. New Galilee, was born near Frankfort, Germany, in January, 1820, and in 1833 came with his parents, Sigfried and Elizabeth (Haydt) Graebing, to America, landing in Baltimore, Md. Sigfried was a chair-maker, a trade he followed during life. He located permanently in Pittsburgh, and was at one time a captain of militia in that city. He died in 1860, aged eighty-four years. Few citizens of Beaver county are better known than John Graebing. He was educated in the common schools of his native country. In the month of December, 1833, with his parents and two brothers and two sisters he started on foot from Baltimore to Pittsburgh. That winter was remarkable for cold weather and heavy snows. The family suffered much during the journey, being obliged for a time to live on frozen apples. Mr. Graebing has been engaged in various pursuits. He was twelve years on the canal, two years teaming over the Allegheny mountains, three years butchering, and for a number of years a conductor on the P., Ft. W. & C. Ry. In 1857 he purchased the Union Hotel at New Galilee, and until 1882 was its owner and proprietor. He was married in 1841 to Fredericka Hartze, by whom he had the following named children: John, Albert, Christian, William, Henry, Edward and Emma. His wife died in 1881. Mr. Graebing was in 1861 elected to the office of sheriff by the Democratic party.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com