BIO: Thomas J. C. RIPPLE, Huntingdon County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm 
**********************************************************
__________________________________________________________________  

Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 347.
__________________________________________________________________ 

  T. J. C. RIPPLE, lumberman, Rockhill, Huntingdon county, Pa., was 
born October 20, 1858, in Cromwell township, son of John L. and Eliza 
Jane (Cloyd) Ripple. He received his primary education in the public 
schools of Orbisonia. When nine or ten years old he was employed in 
carrying water for the hands working on the railroad, receiving $1.25 
per day. He was afterwards clerk in the store of Whiteside & Reed for 
one year; then in the employ of the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company, as 
errand boy, afterwards as weighmaster, still later as clerk and 
assistant book-keeper. After being in their employ over nineteen years, 
he embarked in the lumber business with O. W. Moore, and is still so 
engaged. He holds stock in the Union National Bank of Huntingdon, and 
in many other concerns. In 1895 he was defeated for sheriff by but one 
hundred and twenty-eight votes. In 1878 at Curwensville, Clearfield 
county, he married Miss Iris V. Bell, and has two children: Florence 
D.; and George B. Mr. Ripple is a Republican. He has served as 
secretary of the school board since the organization of the borough. He 
was reared a Methodist, is strictly self-made, and highly esteemed by 
all.

Note: First name is Thomas, according to the 1900 census.