William E. Kreider, president and secretary of the W. L. Kreider's Sons Manufacturing company, of Palmyra, Lebanon county, Pa., is one of the prominent and successful men of this community, whose welfare he has done much to promote through the development of an enterprise that enhances the industrial prestige of the Lebanon valley. A native of Palmyra and a son of David A. and Minnie (Erb) Kreider, he was born in 1887 and attended the graded and high schools of this place. After graduating from the latter institution, he studied at the Lebanon Business college to fit himself for a business career, and subsequently joined his father in the shoe manufacturing field, in which he has been engaged for the greater part of his career as an industrial executive. When this concern was sold to the A. S. Kreider Shoe company, William E. Kreider and his father engaged in the manufacture of hosiery until 1907, in which year the plant was re-equipped for the manufacture of shoes. With this concern, he has since continued and now holds the offices of president and secretary, while Harry C. Kreider is vice-president and treasurer, the firm operating under the style of the W. L, Kreider's Sons Manufacturing company. Mr. Kreider is also president of the Kreider-Creveling Shoe company, of Boston, Massachusetts, and a director of the Palmyra Bank & Trust company. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and treasurer of the board of trustees of the First United Brethren church. In 1906, he married Lydia Bertha Kreider, the daughter of Ezra F. Kreider, of Fairland, Pa., his father; William Lester, deceased; Mildred Irene, a student at Juniata college; and Chester W., deceased. Mrs. Kreider is a communicant of the United Brethren church and is president of its Women's Missionary society.
A History of the Lebanon Valley In Pennsylvania, Volume II. By Dr. Hiram H. Shenk. 1930. Page 77.