Iva Eone Krause 1875-1958

Her sisters all died in childhood except one who made it to 16.  Her father, Franklin Krause, worked as a plumber in New York City during the Civil War, and later had come to Bethlehem, married, and set up as a plumbing contractor.  His wife and her sister, who lived with them, were tailors, not seamstresses.

Iva became the first graduate of the Bethlehem Business College because she did not like sewing or school teaching.  She took short hand, and typing and bookkeeping, and after a spell as a stenographer in Philipsburg, NJ she got a job at the Bethlehem Foundry and Machine Co. Eventually she became Secretary-Treasurer of the company, with a good salary and lived quite comfortably until the Great Depression.

Portrait/photo - c.1925

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