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. 565-566
HENRY W. SCHREBE, one of the leading grocers of Wheeling, West Virginia, 
whose portrait appears on the opposite page, is a director in the South 
Side Bank of Wheeling, and a member of the board of education.  He was 
born in Wibbeke, near Gottingen, in Hanover, Germany, January 21, 1850, 
and is a son of Henry and Julia (Lindeman) Schrebe.  His father was a 
weaver by trade.  His brother, Charles, is deceased; and his sister, 
Louisa, wife if Henry Yeager, resides on Forty-sixth street in Wheeling.
	Henry W. Schrebe, the subject of this sketch, learned the trade of 
a turner in his native country.  In the fall of 1869, in company with 
his uncle, Fred Lindeman, he located in Wheeling.  Mr. Lindeman was a 
millwright by trade and died about 1890.  Mr. Schrebe was nineteen years 
of age when he settled in Wheeling, and first worked in the old 
Washington Rolling Mill about three months, and when the mill stopped 
running was obliged to look for other employment.  He then began the 
cigar making business and also joined the Wheeling Musik Band, known 
first as the Great Western and later as the Opera House or Kramer's 
Band, in which he played cornet for many years.  After his marriage in 
1875, Mr. Schrebe engaged in the grocery business in old Drover's Home 
in Marshall county, where he conducted a general store seven years, and 
while there was elected a member of the board of education from Union 
district, serving as such two years.  In March, 1882, he removed to his 
present location, the building then being owned by C. T. Cowan.  Mr. 
Schrebe bought this building at auction some time after moving into it 
and has enlarged and remodeled it generally.  Its dimensions are 82 by 
27 feet, and in the rear are flour and feed warehouses.  It is one of 
the largest establishments of the kind in Wheeling, and six people are 
employed in the store.  He lost heavily in the flood of 1884, most of 
his stock of $5,000 being entirely ruined.  His methods of business are 
honest and fair, and customers always receive prompt and courteous 
attention.  He is a man of more than ordinary business ability and has 
met with much success in all his undertakings.
	May 6, 1875, Mr. Schrebe was united in marriage with Caroline 
Meyer, who was born in Wheeling, a daughter of Henry and Louise Meyer.  
Her mother is living at the age of seventy-seven years; her father was a 
farmer and stock raiser.  Mr. and Mrs. Schrebe have the following 
children:  Eleanora, born April 5, 1876, is the wife of Charles F. 
Seidler, of Wheeling; Oscar, born February 8, 1878, assists his father 
in the store; Metha, born April 22, 1880, died July 14, 1881; Henry, 
born April 15, 1882, is an electrician at the car barns; Edward C., born 
September 30, 1884, is in high school; Fred C., born March 9, 1887, died 
October 20, 1888; and Anna Augusta, born June 4, 1889, who is also in 
school.
	Mr. Schrebe is a Republican in politics, and was elected a member 
of the city council in 1885, serving two years in the second branch and 
four years in the first branch.  In 1898 he was elected a member of the 
board of education for a term of six years.  He has been president of 
the Mozart Singing Society for the past two years; is a member of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Zion Benevolent Society.  
Religiously he is a member of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of 
Benwood, West Virginia, and was one of the charter members in 1879.  He 
has been president of the church organization for the past twelve years, 
and has also held the office of secretary of that body.  He is one of 
the most public spirited men of Wheeling, and always gives his 
assistance when any public enterprise is undertaken.