Bios: RAMP, Philip: from Cumberland County, PA > IN Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Angela Kneller genealogy@kneller.com ************************************************ Surnames: Ramp, Markward, Dennis, North PHILIP RAMP is a wholesale and retail dealer in lumber, and runs a saw-mill and planning mill in Columbia City. His parents, Philip and Elizabeth (Markward) Ramp, were natives of Cumberland County, Penn., and came to Troy (now Richland) Township, this county, and settled on a farm in 1853, where the mother died in 1869. The father died while on a visit to Pennsylvania in 1863. Both were members of the German Reformed Church. They had seven children, as follows : Isaac, now in Southern Indiana; Philip ; Jacob ; William ; Margaret Dennis, of Huntington County; Abram, in Illinois, and Samuel. Our subject was born in 1828, in Cumberland County, Penn.; worked on the farm till 1850, when he started for himself and came to this State, where, for three years, he hired out as a farmer. Then he farmed for himself awhile in Union Township; went to Iowa, remained six years, and then came to Columbia City in 1861. In 1862, he commenced his present, business, and has energetically pursued it, so that he now constantly employs ten or twelve assistants. He does quite a shipping business, and his mills are always busy. In February, 185l, he married Rachel North, a native of Westmoreland, Penn., and of their offspring five are living, viz.: Frank, Elizabeth, Al. H., Edward and George W. He and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and the family are regarded with respect and esteem by their neighbors and the citizens generally. "History of Whitley and Noble Counties, Indiana" Written by Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard, and published in Chicago by F. A. Battey & Co., in 1882; Pages 165-166. Also on GenConnect Bios Board