Introduction

Biography

Stanley was the son of Wal­ter Krebs and Isa­bel­la Le­Fevre. He mar­ried twice: to An­na Frick Frantz (1890) and Mar­jor­ie Main (1921).

He stu­died mu­sic and com­po­si­tion at the Bos­ton Con­ser­va­to­ry of Mu­sic in 1883, and was known as an ac­comp­lished vio­lin­ist and com­pos­er. He gra­du­at­ed with hon­ors from Frank­lin and Mars­hall Col­lege, Lan­cas­ter, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1886. He received a Doc­tor of Psy­cho­lo­gy from the Chi­ca­go School of Psy­cho­lo­gy in 1889, and a Ba­che­lor of Di­vi­ni­ty from Lan­cas­ter Se­mi­na­ry in 1890.

He then be­came pas­tor of the new­ly or­ga­nized St. An­drew’s Re­formed (now Unit­ed Church of Christ), Read­ing, Penn­syl­van­ia.

He moved to the First Re­formed Church, Greens­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1901.

During his min­is­try years, Krebs com­posed mu­sic, wrote, and lec­tured on psyc­ho­lo­gi­cal to­pics, in­clud­ing on the Chau­tau­qua cir­cuit.

He left the min­is­try in 1906 to ac­cept a po­si­tion as as­so­ci­ate ed­it­or of the Sci­ence Press in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.

In 1908, he be­came pre­si­dent of the Wa­na­mak­er Uni­ver­si­ty of Com­merce in Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. There he de­vel­oped cur­ri­cu­lum, wrote text­books and lec­tured.

Krebs went on to be­come a well known lec­tur­er, and was fa­mous for ex­pos­ing fraud­u­lent me­di­ums. He was or­dained an Episc­o­pal priest in 1929.

Works

• The Frauds of Spi­ri­tu­al­ism (Sug­ges­tion Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1901)
• A De­scrip­tion of Some Trick Me­thods Used by Miss Bangs of Chi­ca­go (Jour­nal of the So­cie­ty for Psy­chi­cal Re­search, 1901)
• Trick Me­thods of Eu­sa­pia Pal­a­di­no, 1910
• The Law of Sug­ges­tion (Chi­ca­go: Sci­ence Press, 1906). Re­print­ed as The Fun­da­ment­al Prin­ci­ples of Hy­pno­sis, 1957.