BIO: Harry W. KIPER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 385.
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  HARRY W. KYPER, Shirleysburg, Pa., was born in Mifflin county, Pa., 
October 17, 1865, son of Michael and Margaret (Morrison) Kyper. His 
parents were natives of Huntingdon county.
  Brought up on a farm, and familiar with its work, Mr. Kyper, after 
attending the common school of Huntingdon until he was about seventeen, 
continued to be his father's assistant for about four years. He then 
engaged in threshing, in which he was for three years the partner of 
Mr. A. S. Welch. At the end of that time, they sold out, and Mr. Kyper 
resumed farming. Two years later, he went to Clearfield county, Pa., 
and was engaged in the Clearfield planning mill for three years. In 
1896, he returned to Huntingdon county, and to farming on the old 
homestead. His politics are Republican.
  Harry W. Kyper was married, March 11, 1896, to Myrtle L., daughter of 
Jacob B. and Mary Martha (Runyon) Melott, of Clearfield county. She was 
born October 8, 1869. They have an infant, Edith M., born January 28, 
1897. Mrs. Kyper's parents are natives of Fulton county. Mr. Melott was 
formerly engaged in farming, but for the past eight years has been 
employed in the Novelty Works, Clearfield, Pa. His wife is the daughter 
of Thomas and Lydia Runyon. They are the parents of five children: 
Myrtle L. (Mrs. Kyper); Zada (Mrs. Lloyd Gulick), of Mansfield, Pa.; 
Nettie; Charlie, who died in infancy; and Edith. They reside in 
Clearfield, and are members of the Baptist church.