Tobias Bomberger, of Annville, Pa., ranks as one of the foremost business men of Lebanon county, for he has done much to promote the commercial and industrial advancement of his own and other communities. Christian Bomberger, his father, was born in Lebanon county, December 13, 1813, and died November 6, 1858, spending most of his life in Cornwall township, where he was a farmer. He married Mary Kreider, who was born in North Lebanon township, this county, August 18, 1818, and died July 11, 1863. They became the parents of these children: John, deceased; Abraham, deceased; Christian, who is dead; Daniel, deceased; Tobias; Catherine, deceased; Mary, deceased; and Anna, a resident of Dickinson county, Kansas. Tobias Bomberger obtained his education in the public schools of Cornwall township and then engaged in farming with his brother in the same township. When he was eighteen years of age, he apprenticed himself to the trade of carpenter, following this work for two years, after which he again engaged in farming, this time for himself, in South Annville township. In 1905, having farmed for fourteen years, he entered the employ of the A. S. Kreider Shoe Manufacturing company, of Annville, and maintained this connection some seven years. At that time, he founded the Annville & Palmyra Electric Light company, this in the year 1902, and continued as owner and managed of the enterprise until it was sold to the Metropolitan Edison company in 1926. His service to the communities in organizing such an enterprise cannot be underestimated, for it brought a new era of opportunity and advancement to the power users of those sections. Since disposing of his electric power interests, he has confined his attention to the management of his farm properties and to his directorship in the Peoples Trust company of Annville. For twenty-one years, he has been a trustee of the Children's Mennonite Home at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pa. He married Annie S. Kreider, who was born in South Annville township, November 18, 1858, a daughter of David and Magdalena (Shenk) Kreider, natives of Cornwall township, Lebanon county and Dauphin county, respectively. They have four children, as follows: Emma, deceased, who married Amos W. Gibble; Mattie K., who married W. H. Brubaker, physician of Lebanon; David K., a farmer of Annville; and Anna K., the wife of Cameron C. Barr, of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Bomberger is a deacon of the Mennonite church, in the affairs of which he takes a great interest, and is interested in civic affairs.
A History of the Lebanon Valley In Pennsylvania, Volume II. By Dr. Hiram H. Shenk. 1930. Pages 114-115.