Kreykenbohn, August
AUGUST KREYKENBOHM.

     August Kreykenbohm, proprietor of the Shelton Avenue bakery of New Haven, was born in Hanover, Germany, November 17, 1874, a son of August and Minnie (Bulka) Kreykenbohm, who were also natives of Hanover. The father was a miller by trade and spent his entire life in his native land, there conducting a successful business until his death, which occurred February 26,1889, when he was fifty-six years of age. His widow still occupies the old homestead in Hanover, Germany.

     August Kreykenbohm was the second in a family of fourteen children. He pursued his education in the public schools of Hanover to the age of fourteen years and then started out to earn his living, being apprenticed to the baker’s trade in Hamburg, where he worked along that line for five years. During the succeeding five years he was employed as a baker on the Hamburg-American steamship lines. In 1896 he abandoned this occupation and spent one year in New York at his trade. In 1897 he came to New Haven and during the following twelve years was employed at different periods in several of the leading bakeries of this city. In 1910 he entered business on his own account, beginning in a small way with little capital and with but one assistant. From this humble start, however, he has built up a business that has steadily developed until it is the third largest in New Haven. He now employs twenty-six men and the shop has an output of from seven to eight thousand loaves of bread per day, with a full line of pastry and other bakery goods. The plant is equipped with the latest improved machinery and most modern ovens and is thoroughly sanitary in every department. The products are sold entirely to the local trade, and there is continuous demand for his goods. He also owns a one hundred acre farm at Mt. Carmel, which furnishes the needed supplies of milk, eggs, fruit, etc., for the bakery.

     In 1897 Mr. Kreykenbohm was married in New Haven to Miss Minnie Schenk, a native of Nordhausen, Germany, and they have become the parents of five children: Minnie, August, Louisa, William and Rudolph. Mr. and Mrs. Kreykenbohm are members of the Taylor Memorial Lutheran church, in the work of which they take an active part and Mr. Kreykenbohm is a trustee and member of its financial board. He belongs to the Germania Lodge, No. 78, I. O. O. F. of which he is a  past grand, and is a member of the Master Bakers Association. He became an American citizen in 1916 and is now a member of the Home Guard. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world for here he found the business opportunities which he sought. He landed in New York with but two cents in his pocket and on the second day after his arrival he secured work and has since been continuously active in connection with the bakery business. He eventually became the proprietor of one of the leading establishments of this character in New Haven, building his business upon the sure foundation of excellence of product and of fair dealing.
 
 

Modern History of New Haven
and 
Eastern New Haven County

Illustrated

Volume II

New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1918

pgs 816 - 818

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