Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hipsley, Reuben 1846 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

REUBEN HIPSLEY.

    Reuben Hipsley, retired farmer and ex-county commissioner, residing at
Palmer, Winfield township, has lived in Lake county for over fifty years, and
most of that time has been spent in farming, He retired a few years ago and
moved into Palmer, but still supervises his farming operations and takes active
part in business affairs. His career throughout has been one of integrity and
upright dealings, and besides being successful in his life work he has found
time to devote to public affairs and has been honored with the most important
county office.

    Mr. Hipsley was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 22, 1846. His grandfather,
Joshua Hipsley, was born in Maryland, of German descent, followed for a life
occupation farming, and was one of the pioneers of Knox county, Ohio. Jonathan
Lewis Hipsley, the father of Reuben, was born twenty miles from Baltimore,
Maryland, March 4, 1820, and died January 2, 1895. At the age of fourteen he
accompanied his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and was reared and lived there
until 1853, when he located in Lake county, Indiana, and bought and improved a
farm of one hundred acres in Winfield township. on which he was living at the
time of his death.. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a
stanch Whig during the existence of that party, and afterward became an equally
ardent Republican. He married Eliza Phillips, who was born in Jefferson county,
Ohio,  was reared in Knox county of the same state, and now makes her home at
Mt. Vernon., Ohio. She is eighty years old, having been born August 1, 1824. Her
father was Reuben Phillips, probably born in Pennsylvania. Jonathan Hipsley and
his wife had five children: John, deceased; Reuben; Charles, of Broken Bow,
Nebraska; Sarah, wife of J. J. Stoffer, of Knox county, Ohio; and Phebe, deceased.

    Mr. Reuben Hipsley was about six years old when he moved with the family
from Knox county, Ohio, to Lake county, so that his schooling was received in
this county. He remained at home and assisted his father until his marriage, in
1870, and he then located in Winfield township on a farm that he still owns. He
was engaged in farming there until 1900, when he built a residence in Palmer and
moved to town. He has one of the nicest residences in this part of the county.
He owns about three hundred acres of land, and still does farming on one hundred
acres comprising the home place.

    Mr. Hipsley has been a life-long Republican and voted for Grant, and has
done much local work for the party. He was elected to the office of county
commissioner in 1894 and was re-elected in 1898, so that he was in office for
six years altogether. All the gravel roads of the county, costing in the
aggregate six hundred thousand dollars, were constructed during his
administration. He is a stockholder in the Commercial Bank of Crown Point. He
affiliates with the Masonic Lodge No. 502 at Hebron.

    Mr. Hipsley married, December 18, 1870, Miss Marilda Dittrick, who was born
in Lapeer county, Michigan, October 12, 1849, a daughter of Walton and Sarah
(Wells) Dittrick. Six children have been born to them: Carrie D., deceased;
Alice A., deceased; Sherman J., deceased; Ida F., at home; and Lucile M. and
Rillia Blanche. Ida was educated in the Conservatory of Music at Valparaiso.
Lucile is in the eighth grade, Blanche in the sixth. Mrs. Hipsley was four years
of age when she came with her parents to Marshall county, Indiana, and was
reared and educated in that county. Her parents are both deceased, and she is
the only survivor. Mr. and Mrs. Hipsley have in their possession an old
parchment deed dated August 1, 1844, and executed under the hand of President
John Tyler. This is the eleventh deed of the kind found in the county of Lake.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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