History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . wherehe worked for nearly ten years. In September,1893 he Ijegan working for the D., L. & AV.(ompany in the Hampton Breaker as outsidelaborer. Here he worked about thirteen years,and in December. 190() he changed to the Con-tinental Lumber Yards, which belong to thesame company, where he has since worked. Michael Krauss was married January 24,1891 to Miss Margaret Metzner. She was born Michael, Lawrence, -John and Margaret. ({eorge Krauss died iNov. 22, 1904, and is living in Cedar Ave., Scra


History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . wherehe worked for nearly ten years. In September,1893 he Ijegan working for the D., L. & AV.(ompany in the Hampton Breaker as outsidelaborer. Here he worked about thirteen years,and in December. 190() he changed to the Con-tinental Lumber Yards, which belong to thesame company, where he has since worked. Michael Krauss was married January 24,1891 to Miss Margaret Metzner. She was born Michael, Lawrence, -John and Margaret. ({eorge Krauss died iNov. 22, 1904, and is living in Cedar Ave., Scranton. ALAY KROUSE Air. Krouse is a prosperous farmer and car-penter of Alountain A^dley. He was appren-ticed to the carpenters trade when eighteenyears of age, working the first year for sixt>-cents a day for E. B. Trivley, a car-jienter. Mr. Krouse soon gained a thoroughknowledge of the occupation which he followedfor fiver forty years. Since 1907 he has de-voted his time to farming, and for several yearshas been road supervisor, which has taken muchof his UB-SIUENCE OF ALVY KROUSE July G, 1871 in (Tcrmany, near the birthplace ofher husband, and came to this country in April,, when nearly seventeen years of age. Sheluis one sister living, Catherine, who marriedJohn Krauss, brother of our subject. Her bro-ther, Conrad, died when ten years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Krauss are the parents ofeight children, namelv: (1) John A, born , 1891. He is a cabinet maker. (2) Kath-ervn JI., born Alay 28, 1894. (3) Leonard AA\.born Feb. 2, 1896. He was caught hi the ma-chinery at the Hampton AA^ishery, where hewas eniployed, and fatally injured, Oct. , and died the sameday.(4) Henry J.,born Nov. 18, 1898. (5) George F., born , 1901. (6) Margaret E., born Aug. 27,1906. (7) Louise G., born June 15, 1908.(8) Ruth M., born Oct. 13, 1911. Our .•subject is a son of George and Margaret(Reuther) Krauss. They are the parents ofsix children, four of whom are


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