[25-203] SAMUEL KRIEBEL BRECHT, b Dec. 14, 1869; s John E. and Sarah (Kriebel) Brecht [25-80]; m Aug. 2, 1898, ALBERTA WILLIAMS, d Dec. 5, 1872; dau Eva Augusta Butterfield Williams.
Samuel K. Brecht was born in Worcester Twp., near Cedars, Montg. Co., Pa., on what was formerly the Israel Schultz homestead. He attended the public schools of his native township and was graduated
from the West Chester State Normal School in 1891, and from Haverford College, B. S., in 1896. He has also pursued his studies in the Graduate School of the University of Pa., receiving the degree of M. A. in 1911.
Mr. Brecht started teaching school in his native township in 1887, and has taught for variable periods in the public schools of Worcester, Bryn Mawr, Pottstown, and Norristown, Pa., as well as in a private school in Annapolis and in Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg, Pa., and for two years in Rushford, N. Y.
In 1905 he joined the faculty of the Boys’ Central High School, Phila., where he has held the position of Professor of Mathematics for a number of years. Since 1904, Mr. Brecht has been Editor of ‘The Schwenkfeldian,” and when the Schwenkfelder Churches were consolidated into a corporation in 1911, he was elected secretary of the General Conference of The Schwenkfelder Chureh, which position he has held almost continuously ever since. He is also Editor of this book.
Mr. Brecht served for five years as a member of the Board of Commissioners of Upper Darby Twp., Del. Co., Pa. Address (1922), 11 Eagle Road, Manoa, Del. Co., Pa. Children. (2):
Parents’ family: [25-80] Sarah Kriebel and John Ernst Brecht