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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

PHILIP STUPPY.

    German-American citizens have contributed more largely than any-other race
to the material development and progress of Lake county, and the thrift, honest
industry and integrity which are the characteristics of the people as a class
can nowhere be better proved than in this county. Among these practical and
enterprising men in West Creek township should be mentioned Mr. Philip Stuppy,
who has lived in the county for something over a third of a century and from
small beginnings advanced to a place of esteem and affluence among all his
fellow men.

    He was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 20, 1845, being the second child of
Adam and Elizabeth (Lindemer) Stuppy. There were seven children, four sons and
three daughters, and four others are still living and all residents of Germany,
as follows: Mary E., wife of Mr. Kaufman, of Bonn, Germany, a farmer; Magdalene,
wife of a Mr. Guider; Amelia, who is married; and Adam. The father of this
family was also a native of Bavaria, was born in 1819 and died in 1862, and
followed farming most of his life. He was a man of superior education, having
been trained for the priesthood. His wife was also born in the same locality,
and died when her son Philip was an infant.

    Mr. Philip Stuppy was reared to farm life, and received his education in the
German tongue. He is the only one of the family who decided to leave his
fatherland and seek better opportunities in the Occident, and he was twenty-one
when he crossed the ocean. He left the fatherland in company with one of his
comrades, on June 28, 1866, and sailed from Havre, France, and landed in New
York. For the first four years he employed himself at Scranton, Pennsylvania,
accepting any work which would give him an honest dollar. He finally bought a
piece of land in Wyoming county, but after a year sold and came to Lake county,
arriving here in 1871. He purchased forty acres of land with a little house and
stable and with few improvements. He has since added to his possessions till he
is now the owner of one hundred and sixty-eight acres of choice land, and has
one of the model farmsteads of the entire township of West Creek. He came here
early enough that much of the land was unimproved, and has thus witnessed most
of the agricultural development and material progress.

    On February 12, 1867, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Rodel, who became the
mother of two children, a son and a daughter, the latter dying in infancy. The
son, Philip P., is a prosperous farmer in West Creek township. Mr. Stuppy lost
his first wife in Pennsylvania, in September, 1870, and on March 1, 1871,
married Miss Bridget Murphy. Three sons and two daughters came to this second
union, and four are living: John A., a farmer on his father's place, completed
the common schools and took the teacher's course in Valparaiso; Emma L., who
attended high school and was a teacher in her home township six years, is the
wife of Lewis Belshaw, of West Creek township; Frank M. graduated from the
Lowell high school in 1898, attended the University of Indiana and took a
business course at the Valparaiso normal, and is now a practicing attorney at
Crown Point; Edgar T., the youngest, was educated in the Lowell high school and
is now a practical farmer and stockman. Mrs. Stuppy was born in county Mayo,
Ireland.

    Mr. Stuppy is a Democrat, but cast his first presidential vote for Grant,
although he has since upheld the principles of the Democracy. He was selected as
a delegate to the state convention of the party in 1896, and at various times
has been sent to the county conventions. He was once candidate for the office of
county commissioner. He has always performed his share of the civic duties
devolving upon the public-spirited man, and the general welfare of his community
finds in him a loyal advocate. He aided in the erection of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Creston, and has duly proportioned his time and energies
toward all proper enterprises, social, intellectual and personal.


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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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