Identifier: historyofkentuck03john (find matches)
Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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which hasgiven to America one of her most superiorsources of immigration, they,—Frederick W.and Clara (Pieper) Greife,—having beenborn in Germany, in which land they werereared and married, coming soon after thelatter event, in 1845, to America. They sailedvia New Orleans and landed at Cincinnati,after having been nearly three months on theway. They did not remain in the Queen City,but crossed the Ohio to Newport, Kentucky,and they continued to live here for the re-mainder of their lives. They were intelligentand excellent citizens and naturally soon be-came favorably known in the commtmity.The father helped to organize and was a char-ter member of the First German Baptistchurch of Newport, the edifice in which thecongregation worshipped being a small andhumble one erected on the southeast corner ofSixth and Columbia streets. He likewisehelped to organize the German Baptist churchof Cincinnati, the fiftieth anniversary ofwhich was celebrated in 1908. He was the ^L:!^S*^ u ,*•/,
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1215 first pastor of the Newport congregation andwas active in cliurch work for many years,his infiuence as a man of strict integrity andlofty principle being wide and beneficent. Heand his wife were the parents of seven chil-dren, six of whom are living and he whosename initiates this sketch being the sixth inorder of birth. John Greife was reared in Newport and re-ceived his education in the excellent publicschools of the city. After his graduationfrom the high school he took a commercialcourse in the old Queen City Commercial Col-lege, situated on P^ifth and Walnut streets,Cincinnati, his natural tastes and inclinationsfitting him for a career in business. Afterfinishing at this institution he filled severalclerical positions in Cincinnati, bringing animusual amount of faithfulness and efficiencyto all of them. In 1881 he entered the field inwhich his greatest success has lain, forminga partnershij) with George E. Crowhurst inthe coal business in

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