Biography

09/17/1835 - 12/20/1923

KRICKBAUM, William, a Representative from Columbia County; born, September 17, 1835 in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa.; attended, Dickinson Seminary (now Lycoming College); teacher; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Columbia County (1864); appointed, clerk of commissioners, Columbia County (1866-1879); deputy sheriff, Columbia County; deputy treasurer, Columbia County; elected, prothonotary and clerk of courts, Columbia County (1879-1883); proprietor and publisher, Democratic Sentinel, Bloomsburg; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888 and 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); elected, delegate, Democratic National Convention (1892); elected, commissioner, Columbia County (1896-1903); elected, associate judge, Columbia County (1903-1913); elected, auditor, Columbia County (1915-1918); died, December 20, 1923 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.