Krekel

(Arnold), American judge, b. Lan gen field, Pru ia 14 March, 1815. Went with parents to America in ’32 and settled in Mi ouri. In ’42 he was elected Justice of the Peace and afterwards county attorney. In ’52 he was elected to the Mi ouri State Legislature. He served in the civil war being elected colonel, was president of the constitutional convention of ’65 and signed the ordinance of emancipation by which the slaves of Mi ouri were set free. He was appointed judge by President Lincoln 9 March, ’65. A pronounced Agnostic, when he realized he was about to die he requested his wife not to wear mourning, saying that death was as natural as birth. Died at Kansas 14 July, 1888.