Tripp, Charles (1830-1914)

TRIPP, FOSTER, BYRNE, KELLEY

Posted By: Linda Linn (email)
Date: 3/15/2011 at 20:20:53

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
2-20-1914

Left to His Own Resources at Tender
Age He Secured Work in the Day
Time and Studied Nights to Obtain
Education.

Charles Tripp, one of the old and well known residents of this city, died at one o'clock on Tuesday morning at the home of his son, Charles Tripp.

Death was due to old age and failing physical powers. He passed away peacefully, suffering no pain, rounding out a long life with quiet slumber.

Charles Tripp had reached the age of eighty-four, having been born at Hubbardsville, Madison county, New York, on June 20, 1830. His mother died when he was three years of age and his father died when he was seven years old and at this tender age he was thrown ton his own resources. When but a mere boy he made his way to Chicago and entered that teeming city without a friend, without a dollar, and without a day’s education in any school. Young Tripp secured employment in the day time and at nights studied and read to get an education. He succeeded in his aim and was a remarkably well read man and had an unusual knowledge of history as a mature man.

After spending some years in Chicago he left that place going fifty miles west, locating on a farm near the town of Little Rock, Ill. Later he moved to Aurora, where he clerked in the first general store established in that town. He returned to Chicago and was a clerk for some time in the Marshall Field store and then secured a position as head bookkeeper with a large lumber concern. From Chicago Mr. Tripp went to Plano, Ill., where he engaged in the lumber business on his own account. After this he turned his attention to farming. In the fall of 1881 he came to Plymouth county and purchased the southeast quarter of section 22 in Stanton township, where he resided until he retired from the farm at the time of the death of his wife on Christmas day, 1890.

Mr. Tripp was united in marriage at Plano, Ill, on November 9, 1857 with Miss Fannie Foster. To this union eight children were born, one child, Edwin, preceding him in death. Those living are Byron Tripp, Sherwood, S. D; S. L. Tripp, Oak Park, Chicago; H. C. Tripp, Los Angeles, Cal; Mrs.
Maude Bryrne, Ravena, S. D; Chas. Tripp, LeMars; Guy A. Tripp, Bailey, S. D.; Mrs. Joe E. Kelley, Wagner, S.D.

Mr. Tripp served in the civil war, enlisting as a private in Company I, Twenty-third Illinois infantry and was clerk of his company.

Mr. Tripp was reserved in his habits, tender in spirit. His nature was unselfish. He liked to do things for others and never figured the sacrifice or accounted the hardship. The sons received a letter of sympathy from a man whose father was tenderly watched and nursed through long illness by Mr. Tripp more than forty-five years ago.

The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon from the home of Charles Tripp. Rev. E.E. Gilbert, of the Methodist church officiating, and was largely attended by old friends and neighbors.

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