Kryder Family Home Page

This website is intended to be a portal with links to other Kryder family resources.

The most authoritative and comprehensive information on the Kryder family that we have found is: HISTORY of the KRYDER FAMILY volumes I and II by Edward Hemington Kryder.

In his introduction, Edward writes that “….John Kryder, founder of the Kryder family in America,…was born in Alsace,” but that he was of Swiss (not German) origin. Edward is also careful to note that the surname “…derives from the agricultural term Gerüter, that is, one who roots out or clears or plows in order to cultivate a piece of land.”
Note that this is in marked contrast to those who relate the name to the German kreide or chalk.

Here are some other web sites that we think might be of interest to members of the Kryder family and our friends:

The Julian and Emilie Freytag Kryder Collection at Northwest State
The George Kryder Papers Part1 and Part2 (letters and diary from the U.S. Civil War)
Swetland Family Association
Greg Kryder and Kris Harvey
Suzanne Kryder

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