Biographical Sketch of Isaac TRIPP (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, page 562. "ISAAC TRIPP, one of the young and progressive farmers of Schuylkill township, and a descendant of one of the oldest families of the United States, is a son of Isaac, Sr., and Hannah (Rogers) Tripp, and was born in Kingston township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1866. The immigrant ancestor of the Tripp family came over in the Mayflower, and was one of the Pilgrim band that landed on Plymouth rock in 1620, when the snows of winter hung heavy on the ice bound shores of New England. One of his descendants, Isaac Tripp, came from Connecticut to northeastern Pennsylvania, and was one of the ill-fated victims in the 'Massacre of Wyoming,' which Campbell has immortalized in song. His son, Isaac Tripp, was a Friend, and followed farming and distilling. He left a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, among whom were Ben- jamin, Isaac, Sr., Ira, Holden, and Catherine Silkman. Isaac Tripp, Sr., (father), was born in 1817, at Providence, now Scranton, this State, and has always followed farming. After being a resident of one of the agricultural districts of Luzerne county for many years he removed to near Wilkes-Barre, the county seat, where he now owns a fine farm of two hundred acres of land. He is a republican in politics, and married Hannah, daughter of Nelson Rogers. They have six children, two sons and four daughters: Flora, Bronson, Maude Space, Isaac, Edwin, Catherine and Bertha. "Isaac Tripp attended the public schools of Luzerne county until he was ten years of age, when he was sent to Nazareth Military academy, where he remained for some time, and then entered the Factoryville academy, at which he completed the required college preparatory course. Leaving school he chose farming as a life pursuit, and proposing to fully qualify himself for the proper transaction of all the business connected with agriculture, he entered Eastman's Business college of Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he was graduated in 1888. After graduation he came to his present farm near Phoenixville, where he has been engaged in farming and stock-raising up to the present time. His farm is well adapted to grain growing and grazing, and contains ninety acres of land. He is a republican in politics. "On June 27, 1889, Mr. Tripp married Nettie Thomas, a daughter of John and Eliza Thomas, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Tripp have been born two children, a son and a daughter: Helen M., and Isaac, Jr. These children are the seventh generation in unbroken line, from the original founders of the family in America."