Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Piepenbrink, John O 1847 - 
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Author: Portrait & Biographical Album, 1890

JOHN O. PIEPENBRINK. 

Among the prosperous farmers of Crete Township he with whose name we introduce 
this sketch, holds no unimportant position. He has been successful as a tiller 
of the soil and has made a specialty of stock-raising, for which purpose he 
has one of the finest bodies of land within the township, this being located 
near the town limits and comprising seventy-three acres on section 16, and 
thirty-two acres on section 2, adjoining. The land is very fertile and 
improved with good buildings and has been occupied by Mr. Piepenbrink since 
the fall of 1878. With the exception of eighteen months which he spent in the 
city of Joliet, Mr. Piepenbrink has been a resident of Crete Township since a 
child three years of age. He was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, January 5, 
1847, and when three years old accompanied his parents, John and Sophia 
(Willie) Piepenbrink to the United States, they settling in Crete Township, 
where they are still living. The father purchased land, where with the aid of 
his estimable wife, they built up a good homestead which they still own and 
occupy. John O. was reared to habits of industry, becoming fully familiar with 
the various pursuits of farm life and remaining with his parents until setting 
about the establishment of a home of his own. With the above-mentioned object 
in view, Mr. Piepenbrink was married April 5, 1875, at the bride's home in 
Crete Township to Miss Dora Orkenberg. This lady is a native of the same 
province in Germany as her husband and was born January 8,1850. She likewise 
was a child of three years when her parents came to America, and they settled 
in Crete Township, where the father improved a farm and where both parents, 
spent the remainder of their days. Both were past seventy-four years of age, 
the mother surviving her husband but a short time. They were most excellent 
and worthy people and members in good standing of the Lutheran Church. To our 
subject and his estimable wife there have been born four children, viz.: 
William O., Eda D., Albert F. and Martin J. Mr. and Mrs. Piepenbrink belong to 
the Lutheran Church at Crete and hold no secondary position among the leading 
people of their township. Mr. Piepenbrink, politically, affiliates with the 
Republican party and has held the various local offices. He is one of the 
Directors of the Crete Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, a member of the 
Finance Committee and has been no unimportant factor in contributing to its 
success. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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