Milton History
a pictorial history of Milton, PA
John Henry Kreitzer Wholesale Grocery 195 S. Front Street
This building was the second north of the Mahoning Street intersection. The Keiser building was to the right at 199. John Henry Kreitzer lived at 445 N. Front St. with his wife Mary C., daughter Mary, and mother-in-law Amanda C. Ettla in 1910.
Pictured below in front of the building are, left to right: William DeHart, William Correy Sr., Joseph Straub, John Kreitzer, Pietro Gazaccio, Benjamin Lohman, Benjamin Baumgardner, “Lion” the dog, two unknown boys, Jacob Straub, Brown Gehrig, William Moyer, William Correy Jr., and Thomas Cromley. Zoom in to see their faces more clearly.
Picture courtesy of the Milton Historical Society
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The Charles Cretors Company that made the popcorn and peanut roasting machine shown in the picture above and the ad at left was established in Chicago in 1885.
John H. Kreitzer
From The Miltonian May 15, 1891: Persons are little apt to note the improvements going on about them, unless special attention is called to what was and now is. Tried by this test the jobbing and retail trade of Mr. John Kreitzer, grocery man on South Front street, stands out as a conspicuous example. A few years since Mr. Kreitzer started in trade in a small way with nothing but an excellent credit and a surplus of business energy and tact. Today be is doing a wholesale and retail trade of mammoth proportions in a brick building twenty-five feet front by one hundred and forty feet in depth, three stories high, with an annex twenty-five by seventy feet. North of his place is a roadway owned by him from which goods are received on every floor, the cellar by dump, the stories by an elevator built to carry a ton and a half each trip. On the first floor is carried on the retail department, while the acreage of floors above are used for his jobbing department. On the third floor are eight bins capable of holding five tons of grain and feed which can be tapped from sluices on either floor. He is about introducing a cold storage closet seven by fourteen feet, by twelve feet, and will in a few days commence the erection of an additional building fourteen by seventy feet, for ripening and jobbing fruit. When completed his plant will become one of the most valuable in this county and it is a gratification to Observer to say he is entirely deserving the success he has attained.