Ashland County OhArchives Biographies.....Henry R. Pippitt December 22 1842 - 
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Author: History of Ashland County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman

Henry R. Pippitt need no introduction to the readers of this volume, for he has been
a 
resident of Loudonville since the close of the Civil War. Various business interests
have 
claimed his attention and he is well known as a traveling salesman representing a 
Philadelphia house. In the years of his connection to the road he has learned to
adapt 
himself readily and easily to all classes of people and is a most genial, courteous

gentleman, to whom good will and friendship are freely accorded.
A native son of Ohio, Mr. Pippitt was born in Salem, Columbiana county, December 22,

1842, a son of Joseph and Susan (Craft) Pippitt, who were natives of New Jersey. The

father was born in 1800 and was a cooper by trade. Removing westward, he settled in

Salem in 1825 and was there married in 1832 to Miss Craft, who was a representative
of 
an old Quaker family and who conducted business as a milliner. Her death occurred 
October 30, 1862, in Salem, while Mr. Pippitt lonf survived and passed away in 
Loudonville on the 26th of February, 1886. They were the parents of three children.
Eliza 
J., the eldest, became the wife of John W. Bull and after his death she was a widow
for 
twenty years. She then married M. S. Adkinson and now resides in Loudonville.
William 
C. Pippitt is a resident of Ashland and Henry R. completes the family
The last named was five years of age when his father purchased a farm three and a
half 
miles southwest of Salem and upon that place Henry R. Pippitt remained until after
the 
outbreak of the Civil war. He was only eighteen years of age when on the 8th of
August, 
1862, he enlisted as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, under the command of Colonel J. W. Riley.  He took part in the campaigns
in 
Kentucky after Morgan in that summer and fall and then crossed the mountains to 
Tennessee. He was also with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign and later under 
command of General Thomas.  Following the battle of Franklin the Union troops
retreated 
to Nashville on the 30th of November, 1864, and on the 15th and 16th of December Mr.

Pippitt participated in the hotly contested battle near that city. He continued at
the front 
until after the close of the war, being mustered out at Greensboro, North Carolina,
June 
17, 1865. HJe received his pay at Cleveland and then returned to his home.
In the meantime, however, his mother had died and his father had removed to 
Loudonville to reside with his daughter, so that Henry R. Pippitt came to this
place. Soon 
afterward he went to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he entered the Eastman Business 
College, pursuing a course in that institution in the winter of 1865-6. He then went
to 
Philadelphia and in 1866 went upon the road as a jobber of notions, continuing in
that 
line of business for ten years. During the past thirty-two years he has been with
Folwell 
Brother & Company, of Philadelphia, as traveling salesman, being upon the road for 
about five months each year as the representative of that house, which is engaged in
the 
manufacture of ladies' dress fabrics. In the meantime, in 1875, he established a 
hardware and tinware business in Loudonville, which he conducted for six years or
until 
1881, although he did not give up his position as traveling salesman. For twenty-one

years he has also looked after his widowed sister's estate, consisting of three
hundred 
and fifity acres of valuable land in this county. He is a man of keen buisiness
discernment 
and winning success in the different fields of labor to which he has directed his
energies.
In 1869 Mr. Pippitt was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth M. Bull, who was born
in 
Loudonville, Ohio, September 14, 1843, and is a daughter of Jefferson and SArha Ann

(Hibbert) Bull, natives of New England. Her uncle, George Bull, had entered one 
hundred and sixty acres of land adjoinging Loudonville on the south at a very early

period in the settlement of Ashland county. Later the parents came to this state,
were 
married here and spent their remianing days in the county. They had four children: 
Quincy, Hezekiah, Elizabeth and Jennie. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pippitt have been born two

daughers and a son: Jennie E., now the wife of James Rollins, a jeweler of
Loudonville;
Sarah H., at home; and Harry J., a jeweler at Port Jervis, New York. The son is a 
graduate of the high school of Loudonville and spent three years in the jewelry
store of 
his brother-in-law at this place, after which he attended the School of Horology in

Philadelphia, completing the course by graduation. At the end of that time he went
to 
New York and became associated with the jewelry business in that state. Mr. and Mrs.

Pippitt are well known in Loudonville and Ashland county, where they have an
extensive 
circle of warm friends who entertain for them the highest regard.

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