[1] His family settled in Wayne County, New York, where he was raised and educated, and assisted his father in managing their farm.

[2] He was one of the charter members of the Appleton Chamber of Commerce, and was elected as vice president in the first officers of that organization.

[5] That same December, he was drafted for service in the Union Army, in the midst of the American Civil War, but paid for a substitute to go in his stead.

Kreiss ran for the Democratic nomination in the new district, challenging the incumbent George Baldwin, of Calumet County.

[6] Kreiss decided to launch a campaign as an Independent Democrat and went on to defeat both Baldwin and Republican nominee J. W. Hutchinson in the general election.

At the district nominating convention, the vote deadlocked for 28 ballots between Kreiss and his challenger, John E. McMullen.

Finally, both men decided to withdraw from the race, and the convention delegates agreed to nominate instead Reinhard Schlichting.

[8] George Kreiss married Magdelina Weber, another Alsatian American immigrant, in Lyons County, New York, in August 1850.