Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Lippold, Herman Frederick 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

LIPPOLD, Herman Frederick - Were it not for the intelligent, capable, 
progressive agriculturalists of the rural regions the people of this and other 
countries that look to us as a source of supply, would fare badly.  As the 
farmer prospers, so does the rest of the world.  He feeds the rest of the 
people.  From his acres come the cotton, the flax, the wool and the tobacco.  
His farms once yielded perhaps vast outputs of timber.  Keeping all this in 
view there is every reason why the intelligent men of Grundy County should 
give so much attention to agriculture matters.  This part of the State is 
admirably adapted to farming purposes, particularly is Good Farm Township, and 
one of the men who owns a desirable property here is Herman Frederick 
LIPPOLD.  He is carrying on general farming on Sections 14 and 15 where he has 
eighty-three acres of fertile land, and is enjoying a well earned prosperity.  
Mr. LIPPOLD was born in Germany, September 11, 1859, a son of Christian and 
Minnie (ROSE) LIPPOLD.  The father was a weaver in his native land, but after 
he brought his family to this country in 1870, settling at Aurora, he worked 
in a foundry for two years.  At the expiration of that period he went to 
Kendall County, Ill., and conducted a farm until his death in 1855.  He is 
buried in Kendall County, where the mother, who survived him until 1893, is 
also interred.  They had nine children, six of whom survive.

Herman Frederick LIPPOLD went to school in Germany until he was eleven years 
old, and then worked as a weaver.  After coming to Kendall County, he gave his 
father valuable assistance on the farm, remaining at home until he was twenty-
two years old.  In 1900 he came to Grundy County which has since continued to 
be his home, where he has developed into one of its substantial men.  When he 
was twenty-four years old he married Louise BRETTHAUER of Kendall County, and 
they had three children:  Albert, Fred and Lydia.  The first Mrs. LIPPOLD died 
twenty-five years ago while they were living in Kendall County.  In 1887, Mr. 
LIPPOLD married Catherine KRUG, who was born in Grundy County, Ill., and died 
in September, 1909, and they had four children:  Edna, Alma, Amanda and 
Margaret, the last named dying in infancy.  Mr. LIPPOLD belongs to the German 
Lutheran Church.  Politically he is a Republican and has been road 
commissioner for two years.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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