Various members of the
extended Krähenbühl family have left their mark in history, and are continuing to do so.
In this section, we carry brief reports of family members who have attracted attention of
wider society as a result of special accomplishments.
Kreienbuhl is a French artist. Shown at left is a poster showing one of Kreienbuhl's paintings.
Theodore was foreman of the grand jury that indicted Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who assassinated US President William McKinley in 1901. Krehbiel served as supervisor of the Town of Clarence, New York, for approximately 20 years. Theodore's son, Karl Theodore Krehbiel, served in the same position in Clarence for nearly the same period of time. (Contributed by Tom Krehbiel, great-grandson of Theodore.)
Albert H. Krehbiel was a fine impressionist artist who was an art professor at the Art Institute in Chicago. He painted the murals in the Appellate Court in Springfield, Illinois as well as several thousand oils and pastels.
Born in 1873 in Denmark, Iowa, Krehbiel enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1896, and became an instructor there six years later. He began studies at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1903, where he won gold medal awards in 1904, 1905 and 1906. He won the Prix de Rome in 1906, and in 1907, entered a competition for murals and decorative paintings for the Supreme and Appellate court rooms in Illinois. The jury awarded him the commission for the work with a unanimous vote.
He died in 1945 in Evanston, Illinois. (Contributed by Albert's grandson, Courtney Krehbiel, and by Tom Krehbiel.)
Fred Krehbiel, brother of the artist Albert
Krehbiel, founded the publicly-traded billion dollar American company
Molex, which is operated today by his grandsons, Fred and
John Jr. The family has been listed among Fortune Magazine's "richest 400
Americans." (Contributed by Courtney Krehbiel and Tom Krehbiel.)
Henry Edward Krehbiel was an American music critic and musicologist. He wrote two very well-known books on opera: "A Book of Operas" (1909) and "A Second Book of Operas" (1917), published by McMillan (New York). He also wrote what might be the first book on Afro-American folk music: "Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music," published in 1914 by G. Schirmer (New York).
He was born in 1854 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and died in 1923 in New York City. (Contributed by Tom Krehbiel.)
Anton Kreyenbuhl, a surgeon, was elected mayor of Lucerne in 1424. Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, p. 545.
Vincenz Kreyenbuhl became a priest in 1864 and served as editor of the Monats
Rosen, Vaterland, and Lucerner Volksblatt. He is described as a canon of the
"Hof", the Abbey of Lucerne, Switzerland. Historisch-Biographisches
Lexikon der Schweiz, p. 545.
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