Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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(Eutttapafnlla HE name of the year book of Lebanon Valley College has been changed from The Bizarre to The Quittapahilla. The name formerly used has served its day and purpose well. But since condi- tions in college life and circles have changed so ma- terially, and Lebanon Valley has been growing in every department so gratifyingly ; a name has been adopted that has strong local significance, one that can not he applied to any other institution, and one which gives our college an individuality she so well deserves. This change has not been made without due deliberation; nor without the approval of the Faculty, the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association, and friends of the school. Therefore it has been named after a stream which hounds our college town on the west and on the south, with which the alumni, friends and stu- dents are so well acquainted; and which at the same time, calls up many a pleasant memory of the ' past, — The Quittapahilla.

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ARON S. KREIDER was born three miles southwest of Annville on the twenty-sixth of June, 1863. He attended the public schools and later spent a year and a half at Lebanon Valley College. Then he went to Allentown Business College, from which he gradu- ated at the age of sixteen. Shortly after his graduation he went to Missouri, where he worked on a farm for some time. Then he was employed as a clerk in a store. In 1 8S3 he came East and secured a position in Dissinger ' s store at Campbelltown. The following year he worked at what was then called Kelly ' s Corner. Soon after this he became manager of Dissinger ' s store. In 1885 he married Elizabeth B. Horst. The next year he began to farm and he estab- lished Lawn Station on the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad, lie also located a post office, a warehouse, a grist mill and coal and lumber yards at that place. He remained there until 1892, when he moved to Palmyra, where he operated coal yards, a warehouse and a grist mill. In 1893 he rented the old plant of the Palmyra Boot and Shoe Company and started in the shoe business. In [894 he limit a factory in Annville. This factory was enlarged from time to time until it reached its present size. Mr. Kreider now controls four factories, one in each of the following towns: Palmyra, Annville, Elizabethtown and Middletown. These have a daily out- put of 15,000 pairs of shoes, which are delivered to the merchants through four distributing houses, located at Xew York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and St. Louis. Mr. Kreider has developed his business until now his shoes are well known throughout the United States. Mr. Kreider was chairman of the building committee of the United Breth- ren Church at Annville, of which church he is an active and influential mem- ber. He has always taken an interest in Lebanon Valley College, and was elected to the Hoard of Trustees of the institution in 10,11. Two years later he became vice president of the board, and in 1014 he was made president. He is also interested in politics. In November, 1912, he was elected by the people of his district to the House of Representatives of the United States. Two years later he was re-elected by a large majority. He is also one of the directors of the Annville National Bank and vice president of the Farmer ' s Trust Company of Lebanon. As he has many business, social and political in- terests, so he has many interests in his home, for he has seyen sons and three daughters.

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