Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 629
FRANK L. HUPP

The history of Harrison county, Iowa, is still so new and as agriculture was the first commercial activity evidenced, there are comparatively few mature native sons of the county who have not had at some time in their lives experience on the farm. There is no vocation which renders a man more independent and at the same time gives him training in so many lines of work. To his boyhood days spent on the farm and the insight then gained into the values of land, real estate, etc., Frank L. HUPP, well-known citizen of Woodbine, doubtless owes much of the success of his later years.

Mr. HUPP's entire life has been passed within the borders of this county. He was born in Boyer township on June 13, 1870, a son of John Wesley and Mary Ann (BUTLER) HUPP, being the eldest and sole survivor of their three children, Geniveve, the daughter of the family, and Charles R., the other son, both deceased, the death of the latter occurring February 14, 1915.

John Wesley HUPP was a native of Champaign county, Ohio, who first came to this county in the year 1856 with his mother. They located in Boyer township and there both he and his mother passed the balance of their lives, his death occurring in 1901. All his life he was a farmer and the immediate subject of this sketch was early trained in the work about the farm home. The BUTLERs also were early residents of the county, coming from Kentucky. They reached here in 1854, having made the journey overland, as did all the early pioneers of this section, and located first in Cass township, where they remained only a year, later taking up their residence in Boyer township, where they established their home.

Frank L. HUPP received his school training in the public schools of Woodbine. At that time schools throughout this section were rather few and far between and the school at Woodbine had been opened so short a time that Mr. HUPP was graduated with the second class passing through that institution of learning. Some time after finishing his schooling, he became associated with a mercantile business, in which connection he remained for twenty-one years. For some time past he has been dealing in real estate and investments and has associated with him M. H. BAKER, doing business under the firm name of HUPP & BAKER. These gentlemen are active and well posted in their chosen vocation and do an extensive business throughout this section.

Mr. HUPP is regarded as one of the leading citizens of his town and gives much of his time to promoting the welfare of its various institutions. He is the present president of the Commercial Club of Woodbine, an organization of the city's active business men whose object is to secure all possible advantages for the town. He also is serving his town as councilman.

Mr. HUPP is a member of the church of the Latter Day Saints and is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is Republican and locally wields considerable influence in that party.

Mr. Hupp was married on June 21, 1893, to Pearl Kibler, daughter of Sylvester and Carrie I. (Ellison) Kibler, of this county, the latter of whom died in 1896. To Mr. and Mrs. Hupp one child has been born, a daughter, Gladys, who remains at home.

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