HILPERT, F.

HILPERT, BOGART

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

HILPERT, F., proprietor of cooper-shop, Concert street, between Eleventh and Twelfth ; was born in Germany in 1836; came to Keokuk in 1856; he started in present business in 1858, on a small scale ; now has the largest cooper business in Keokuk ; employs ten hands, and has two branch shops. He married Miss M. Bogart in 1858; she was born in Germany in 1834 ; they have three children-Chris., Jennie and Kate. Mr. Hilpert landed in Keokuk with $1 in his pocket ; he did not do as the average self-made man—build a fortune from it, but spent it the first night ; he now has a fine business, a good home and plenty of this world's goods. Democratic.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879