[11-443] REV. PAUL HARTZELL KRAUSS, b Nov. 16, 1890; s Rev. Elmer F. and Irene E. (Hartzell) Krauss [11—248a]; m Dec. 31, 1914, HELEN AVERY HITCHCOCK, b Dec. 23, 1888; dau Alvirus and Jeannette (Meigs) Hitchcock. Clergyman; Mt. Zion Lutheran Church; res. 4139 Franklin Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Paul H. "Krauss has a church in Pittsburgh, but is doing camp pastoral work at Camp Lee, Va. (1918.) Of Pennsylvania German Schwenkfelder stock he married the purest New England Puritan strain, daughter of a line of Congregational ministers originating in the 1620-30 New England immigrations.
His uncle, Mr. Charles O. Krauss, of Philadelphia, has the parchment deed of the original Krauss homestead, to Baltzer or Balthazar Krauss signed by the sons of William Penn.
Anthony Krauss, his grandfather, invented a practical wool carding machine, and founded the farm implement manufactory of Krauss & Sons, at Kraussdale, Pa. His father, John, was a surveyor and well educated man.
His surveying instruments and several mathematical and classical treatises are in the Schwenkfelder Historical Library.