BIO:  TAPPERT, Rev. William, Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: TAPPERT, Rev. William, Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Kenton Co.

REV. WILLIAM TAPPERT was born in Dueren, Germany, in 1848, and is a son
of Adolph and Catherine (Hahn) Tappert, natives of Germany.  Our 
subject was educated in his native country.  In 1870 he immigrated to 
the United States, and entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary, at Cincinnati,
Ohio.  He was ordained a priest in 1872, and went to Cold Springs and 
Alexandria, Campbell County, for one year.  Then returning to Covington,
he took charge of St. John's Church for six years, and December 12, 
1879, took charge of the Mother of God's Church, with his brother, 
Henry M.  The latter was born in 1855 in Germany, where he was educated,
and immigrated to America in 1875.  He entered St. Mary's Seminary, and 
studied theology four years, when he was ordained May 22, 1879.  He 
took charge of a church at Frankfort, Ky., for six months, when he went 
to Covington to assist his brother.  They are Democrats politically.

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