BIO: LAPE, W. H., Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: LAPE, W. H., Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. ******************************************************************************* Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Campbell Co. W. H. LAPE was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 18th day of December, 1820. His father, Jacob Lape, was born in Lebanon, Penn., December 12, 1796, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1818; was by trade a tobacconist, politically a Jacksonian Democrat; he died of that dread disease, cholera, on the 24th day of July, 1833. His mother, Catherine Hacker, was born in Germany on the 7th day of February, 1793. Her parents immigrated to this county in the year 1799, landing in New York City, where her parents remained until 1814. They left New York, and went to Pittsburgh by wagon, thence by flat boat down the Ohio River, and landed at Cincinnati in the year 1815. The result of the union of Jacob and Catherine was four children. William H. was educated, what little he received, in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of fourteen years, seeing provision had to be made for the support and education of his three sisters, he concluded to apprentice himself to John G. Woodin, to learn tin, copper, sheet iron and stove business, doing steamboat work only. The bargain was, board and $40 per year, for clothes. He served faithfully for five years. In the year 1847 he married Miss Martha Ann Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1850 he removed to Newport, Ky., where he now resides. He continued at his trade for thirty-five years, in the same house where he started when a boy, carrying on the business for himself for eighteen years very successfully. The marriage union has blessed them with four children, viz: Edward W., William R., Carrie L. and Sallie C. William H. and his wife, Martha., were stanch members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Lape died August 10, 1884. *******************************************************************************