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122	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
the offices to which he has been elected. He never sought political honors, having little inclination for indulgences of that character, yet on one or two occasions yielded to the requests of his fellow townsmen and accepted nominations. He served as school director and also as township supervisor.     Joseph Peter Swope married, May 26, 1861, Louisa (Glasser) Bauman, daughter of Francis and Mary (Ernst) Glasser. Her parents were natives of Bavaria and she was born at Bethlehem, Berks county, Pennsylvania. At the time of marriage they were residents of Chest township, and Mr. Glasser was a farmer. Five sons have been born to Joseph P. and Louisa Swope, namely: Albert J., married Blanche Litzinger, one child, Harold. Peter M., married Mary Durin, and operates a planing mill at Carrollton, Pennsylvania. Joseph R., married Bessie Gill, one child, Cordelia. Ambrose H., married Anna MeCombie. Herman J., married Barbara Rigger. Albert J., Joseph R., Ambrose H., and Herman J. Swope are associated together in a flouring mill in Johnstown, an enterprise started by three of them in September, 1904. Herman Swope became a member of the firm in April, 1905, having then recently returned from an extended stay in the west.     The Swope family are Independent politically. Ambrose H. was a delegate to Democratic state convention before he ever cast a vote. The four brothers purchased the Cresson Record in 1899, which they conducted for seven years. They also owned and operated the Beaver Dam Mill from 1900 to 1904, when they sold and came to Johnstown. That mill property was one of the oldest flouring mills in the northern part of the county, erected by George Walters in 1856.     KREBS FAMILY. The surname Krebs is well represented in Pennsylvania, and during the last half century the family has furnished men of excellent standing in the industrial and professional life of the Commonwealth. Whether all who now bear that family name are descendants of the same European ancestor is uncertain, but that the family originated in Prussia, is a reasonably well settled fact.     Johann Carl Krebs, with whom this narrative begins, was an official of the Prussian government, and his office was that of Oberamtman, or chief magistrate of the county, an office of dignity and responsibility and its incumbent chosen from men of character and intelligence. Of the life and public services of Johann Carl Krebs, other than is here mentioned, little is known except that he married and had several children and that seven of his sons were officers of rank in the Prussian army.     One of his sons was Albert Frederick August Krebs, who was born at Mansfield, Prussia. Like his father he was a man of consequence in his country, his office being that of Oekonom, or proprietor and manager of a large estate in Prussia. He was one of the seven brothers who were officers of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic wars.     Frederick Krebs, Senior, son of the Oekonom and grandson of the Oberamtman, was born in Mansfield, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, December 13, 1822, and was the American ancestor of this particular branch of the Krebs family in Pennsylvania. He came to this country in 1818, settled first in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, where he married, and in 1852 removed to Johnstown. His occupation was that of baker and confectioner, a trade he had learned in Germany. In 1856 he went with his family to La Crosse, Wisconsin, lived there until 1865 and then returned to Johnstown and engaged in the business of his

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