CREPPS, T. C. - 1914

CREPPS, MANSELMAN, SHAW, WHITE, HOLLADA, ROTTS

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Date: 7/8/2009 at 17:28:05

HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

T. C. CREPPS.

T. C. Crepps is now living in retirement in Aurelia, after having been for many years influentially identified with agricultural and stockraising interests of the county. He was born in Germany in 1848 and is a son of John and Barbara Crepps, who came to America when their son was six years of age and settled in Ohio. The mother died two years later and the father afterward followed railroad contracting until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Union army, dying in 1862 while at the front. He was twice married and had five children by his first union: Jane, the deceased wife of Henry Mansel- man, of Cleveland, Ohio; Fred, of Aurelia; T. C., of this review; Bessie, the wife of James Shaw, of Ohio; and Philip, deceased.

When T. C. Crepps was nine years of age he was adopted by George Fox, of Troy, Ohio, and he remained in the latters home until he was eighteen years of age. He then began his independent career, working at various occupations, engaging principally in farming until he was twentyfour years of age. At that time he came west to Iowa, settling first in Boone county and two years later in Cherokee, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining the corporation limits of Aurelia. For a number of years he engaged in general farming and stockraising upon this property, each year witnessing his increased prosperity until he finally acquired a comfortable fortune upon which he retired from active life in 1906. Since that time he has made his home in Aurelia, where he owns an attractive and comfortable residence. He is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank and in the Peoples Cooperative Telephone Company and has valuable property interests, owning in addition to his home three hundred and twenty acres in North Dakota.

In 1872 Mr. Crepps married Miss Nancy White, who was born in Ohio, a daughter of James and Elizabeth White, also natives of that state, where both passed away. Mrs. Crepps was educated in Ohio and came to Iowa after her marriage. She is one of a family of five children. Mary Jane, who died at the age of two; John, of Ohio; Alvilda, the deceased wife of the late John Hollada, of Ohio; Nancy, wife of the subject of this review; and Henry, of Ohio. Mr., and Mrs. Crepps became the parents of a son, Frank F., who was born in 1875. In 1897 ne married Miss Bena Rotts and to this union were born two children,. Harry and Ray. Frank F. Crepps passed away in 1905 and his widow and her sons reside in North Dakota.

Mr. Crepps has filled all of the chairs in Lodge No. 495, I. O. O. F., and he is a republican in his political views. He is now a member of the town council of Aurelia, having accepted this office following twenty-three years of able service as township trustee. He is well known throughout the county for his many excellent traits of character and commands and holds the respect and confidence- of all with whom he comes in contact.