From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

pp. 480-481

Carl KRONJAEGER, who has been in the employ of the Wheeling Iron & 
Nail company for the past thirty-four years, has been most faithful 
to the interests of that company, and enjoys the confidence and 
respect of its officers to a marked degree.  He was born in Germany, 
March 7, 1849, and is a son of Carl and Fredericka (Denelt) 
Kronjaeger.
	Carl Kronjaeger, Sr., was born in Germany and died there in 
1893, at the age of seventy-two years.  He married Fredericka Denelt, 
who was born in Germany, and died in 1864, at the age of thirty-six 
years.  They had the following children:  William and Theodore, 
deceased; Henry, a barber living in Staunton, Virginia; Johanna, wife 
of Charles A. Geese, a cigarmaker, residing in Wheeling; and Carl, 
the subject of this sketch.
	Carl Kronjaeger, our subject, came to the United States October 
6, 1867, and located in North Wheeling.  He at once went to work as a 
laborer in the nail mills of Atchison, Bell & Company, and continued 
with them until the plant was destroyed by fire in 1871.  While 
waiting for it to be rebuilt, he entered the employ of the La Belle 
Iron Works, but when the new plant was completed, he again entered 
the service of his original employers.  The name of the firm had been 
changed, in 1869, to that of the Wheeling Iron & Nail Company.  He 
has served in various capacities with this company during the past 
thirty-four years, and since 1878 has been shipping clerk.  He has a 
thorough understanding of all the details of his department, and his 
services are highly valued by the company.
	On April 16, 1870, Mr. Kronjaeger was united in marriage with 
Caroline Wolf, who was born in Germany, March 17, 1848, and is a 
daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Suter) Wolf.  They became the parents 
of eight children, as follows:  Oscar, born October 6, 1871, who is 
on the police force and lives in Wheeling; Louisa, born June 23, 
1873, who married Stephen Dawson, a brickmaker of Wheeling; Laura, 
born December 25, 1875, who married George Zimmer, who works in the 
office of the city water board of Wheeling; Lillie, a twin of Laura, 
who lives at home with her parents; Chester R., born October 3, 1877, 
who works in the mill with his father; Frank, born April 30, 1879, 
who also works in the mill of the Wheeling Iron & Nail Company; and 
Carl, born July 25, 1885, and Ferdinand, born February 13, 1888, who 
are in school.  Religiously the family belongs to St. John's German 
Independent Protestant church.  Mr. Kronjaeger is a Democrat in 
politics, and was elected to the second branch of the city council in 
January, 1901, from the first ward, and placed on important 
committees.  He is a member of the P. H. C., and formerly belonged to 
the noted Teutonia Singing Society, of which he was one of the 
presidents.  He also belongs to the German Pioneer Society.