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In my area of the US - the Midwest - I've heard it pronounced as a combination of the two - Kress-ghee. I do not contend that this is an absolute on the pronunciation; just the way it was pronounced where I live.THX1136 (talk) 14:41, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I live in the Northeast. I've heard it pronounced more like "KREZH-ghee." I haven't the faintest idea whether this is how Mr. K pronounced it or not, but I am curious. 73.218.186.141 (talk) 18:17, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
it's likely the name was an Americanized form of German Kreske
going back in the family tree you have
When Conrad Kresge, Jr II was born on 15 September 1772, in Chestnut Hill, Forks Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Conrad Kresge I, was 40 and his mother, Anna Margaret Kohl, was 37. He married Elisabetha Maria Gunkle "Kunkle" in 1793. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 29 August 1815, in Gilbert, Chestnuthill Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Salem Church Cemetery, Gilbert, Chestnuthill Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States.
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When Conrad Kresge I was born about 1733, in See, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria, Germany, his father, John Kresge, was 34 and his mother, Anna Barbara Guller, was 34. He married Anna Margaret Kohl about 1762, in Chestnut Hill, Forks Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He died in May 1805, in Chestnuthill Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salem Church Cemetery, Gilbert, Chestnuthill Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States.
In the 1600s, if the name was Kreske, the family tree would be north of Essen, north of Dusseldorf
between Arnhem, Holland, Munster, Dussseldorf and Essen
If we are going to list what the value was in current dollars, we should use 2023 dollars, not 2009 dollars. The amount of inflation since 2009 makes using that old of a figure just not justified.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:51, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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