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eratalpUnaimfordauHoKrsixdidtracorcortwlt;apitheIMrcolFeld-chiElkgiorblhaningwaionwhthiDAN KRUIDENIER.Dan Kruidenier, candidate for theoffice of commissioner of publicsafety who has served three yearsas a night patrolman on the CedarRapids police force, has had themost colorful career of all candidates for city office.A citizen of the United States bs virtue of the fact that his father Jeremiah Kruidenier. was an American on foreign missionary dutj Dan Kruidenier was born in Cairo, Egypt, September 11, 1893.His schooling, since he was thirteen years old, was received in theUnited States, and for eleven years, Mr. Kruidenier, who owns his own home at 1841 E avenue northeast, has been a resident of Cedar Rapids. wM lt;His earlier years were scattered over half the globe. Even his courtship of Ethel Mary Rayment ofEssex, England, which culminated intheir marriage cm October 20, 1919, in Winnipeg, Canada, encompassed four continents,—England, Africa, Asia and North America. Thev have two children, Henrietta. 12, and Bastian, 8, both of whom attend Polk school.Educated In V. S.At the age of ten years Dan Kruidenier was able to converse in Arabic, German, French, Italian, Dutch, English, and to some extent in Greek. In Cairo he attended a private school and had military training under a German army officer. When Dan was thirteen years old the Rev. Mr. Kruidenier and hiswife decided the time had come fewtheir three sons to be educated in the United States. They took a furlough and returned to this country. Dan attended the public school at Grand Haven, Mich., and went to apreparatory school at New Wilmington, Pa., before his parents returned to Egypt. For four years he attended Park college at Parkville, Mo., and then he went to the Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass., intending to become a foreign Y. M. C. A. worker.The World war broke out. In 1915 Dan Kruidenier left school to join the Canadian Expeditionary forces. The rlfie regiment with which he enlisted In Quebec, Canada, was assigned to infantry duty, railroad work, and finally to bridge building in Palestine. For two years he was in France, being with the British troops at the Somme, Ypres,
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The Evening Gazette and Republican
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Mar 24, 1932
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