Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . aname which all who know him delight to honor owing to his upright life andhabits of thrift and industry. William F. Rippey, one of Jasper countys leading pioneer citizens, livingon his beautiful farmstead near the viallage of Ira, was born in Kosciuskocounty, Indiana, April 9, 1838, and there he grew up and received what edu-cation he could in the schools of the early days. He is the sou of Joseph andElizabeth (Jeffries) Rippey. The father, born in Henry county, Indiana,died in Kosciusko county, that state, at the early age of thirty-four mo
Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . aname which all who know him delight to honor owing to his upright life andhabits of thrift and industry. William F. Rippey, one of Jasper countys leading pioneer citizens, livingon his beautiful farmstead near the viallage of Ira, was born in Kosciuskocounty, Indiana, April 9, 1838, and there he grew up and received what edu-cation he could in the schools of the early days. He is the sou of Joseph andElizabeth (Jeffries) Rippey. The father, born in Henry county, Indiana,died in Kosciusko county, that state, at the early age of thirty-four mother, who was born in Rush county, that state, came to Iowa late inhfe and her death occurred in Independence township, Jasper count\-, at theage of seventy-six years. Their family consisted of five sons, four of whomfought for the preservation of the Union during the Civil war. William F.,of this review, being the eldest; Matthew J. was killed at the battle of Cham-pions Hill; James Allen received wounds at the battle of Jonesboro from. WILLIAM F. RIPPEY JASPER COLNTY, IOWA. I265 which he died a few days later; John was captured during the service, butwas paroled; after the war he came to Iowa and became owner of the landwhere the town of Baxter now stands, and finally died while in Indiana on avisit; Milton D. died when twenty-two years of age. The four step-brothers,Wilson, Charles, Winfield and Allen, were all Union soldiers, and they arenow all deceased but the youngest, who lives at Manchester, Indiana, andWinfield, who lives in Kosciusko county, Indiana. When a young man William !•. Rip])L-y came to Iowa, reaching Jaspercomity in .March, 1854. and he located on a farm of one hundred and twentyacres which he entered from the go\ernment, and established his pennanenthome near the town of Marietta, when this country was all a wild prairie, hisnearest neighbor being four miles distant. InU, lieing a man of excellent fore-sight, he knew that this was to be a rich and populo
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