CRIPPEN, T. T. - 1914

CRIPPEN, CONKLIN, BRUCE

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Date: 7/9/2009 at 17:25:22

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

T. T. CRIPPEN.

T. T. Crippen, living retired in Los Angeles, California, after many years of close connection with agricultural interests of Cherokee county, was born in Illinois in 1852. He is a son of Rufus and Persis Crippen, natives of New York, whence the father moved to Illinois in his young manhood, following farming in Carroll county, that state, until his death, which occurred in 1887. He and his wife became the parents of six children, five of whom still survive.

T. T. Crippen acquired his educatian in the public schools of Illinois, remaining at home until he was twentyone years of age. He then moved to Iowa, settling in Pitcher township, Cherokee county, where he purchased eighty acres of land located on section 19. Throughout the years which followed he steadily carried forward the work of improving and developing this property, adding to his holdings from time to time until he became one of the most extensive landowners in the locality. He still has four hundred and eighty acres on sections 19 and 30, Pitcher township, and he has also a half section in South Dakota. In 1911 he gave up the active work of the farm and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he has an attractive and comfortable home.

In 1876 Mr. Crippen married Miss Martha Conklin, a native of Ohio and a daughter of Luther and Harriet Conklin. The former passed away in Ohio and the latter now makes her home in Cherokee. Mr. and Crippen have become the parents of seven children: Rufus L., of South Dakota; Earl R., a farmer of Diamond township, this county; Theo R., engaged in farming in Cherokee county; Hugh E., also a farmer of Cherokee county; Calvin R., of Los Angeles, California; Donald, of the same city; and Harriet F., who married R. W. Bruce, of El Centro, California.

Mr. Crippen is a member of the Masonic lodge of Cherokee and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is well and favorably known throughout this county, to the agricultural advancement of which he made many substantial contributions, and his present period of leisure has been well earned, rewarding many years of earnest and faithful labor.