Wilhelm Stock

STOCK, RIPPENTROP

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/24/2004 at 22:25:19

Wilhelm Stock, a native of Prussia, was born on the 6th of July, 1833. When seventeen years of age he engaged in a brick yard in Hanover. In 1866 he emigrated to America, and settled in Ogle county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming until 1869, when he moved to Iowa, and bought land on section 19. He has improved the land, and, in 1879, built his present home. He married, in 1860, Miss Franka Rippentrop. They have had three children but all died in infancy. They have an adopted son of Mrs. Stock’s sister, whose mother died when he was two weeks old. His name is Wilhelm. Mr. Stock has filled offices of trust in the town, and was a member of the last board of trustees.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 632