BIO: Henry S. Rupp, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLII.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIREMANSTOWN.

  HENRY S. RUPP, nurseryman, Shiremanstown, was born in Lower Allen 
Township, this county, in 1826, and is the son of George Rupp, a native 
of Lancaster County, Penn., where his father settled about 1790, when 
he emigrated from Germany.  Henry S. lived on his father's farm, in 
Lower Allen Township, until he was twenty-four years old, when he 
removed to where he now lives, buying the farm in 1855.  He married, in 
1852, Nancy, daughter of Joseph Hursh, of York County, Penn.  They have 
a family of four sons and two daughters, one, Lizzie, being married to 
Amos Landis, of Upper Allen Township; the others are unmarried.  Henry 
S. Rupp gave his attention to farming until 1865, when he embarked in 
the nursery and florist business.  He has at present over 5,000 square 
feet under glass, and forty acres of his farm of 100 acres are devoted 
to this business, in which his sales are constantly increasing.  His 
flowers and plants go all over the country; his trees are sold mainly 
in southern Pennsylvania and Maryland.  A special feather of his 
business is the growing of primrose seed for the trade, of which seed 
he is the largest grower in the country, most of the seed hitherto used 
having been imported. 

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He has now many customers for this seed among the florists, and the 
demand for it is rapidly increasing.  Two of his sons are associated 
with him in the nursery business:  John F. and David C.  Mr. Rupp has 
never given much attention to politics, and could hardly be induced to 
hold office of any kind.  His neighbors speak of him as a man of 
strictest probity in all his dealings.