JULIUS TRIPLETT
Julius Triplett is a native of Bureau county, Illinois, and was born on the 11th of June, 1844. He was there educated, and in 1865 was engaged in the mercantile business in Illinois. In 1867 he sold out and resumed farming in Bureau county, where he remained until 1874, when he came to Cass county, and settled in Victoria township, where he now owns two hundred and forty acres of improved land and a nice set of buildings. He ws united in marriage in February, 1867, to Miss Ella Codington, a native of New York. They have five children living...Clate, Jennie, Bessie, Julia and Ned. Mr. Triplett is the present township clerk, having held that position seven years. He was elected in the fall of 1881, to represent the fifth district.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 580.
