Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Lepsch, J. H. 1870 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       J. H. LEPSCH, superintendent of the Standard Wood Company's plant at Lopez,
  this county, was born in Buffalo, New York, March 21, 1870. He is a son of
  Clemens and Caroline (Eckhart) Lepsch, and a grandson of Clemens Lepsch, a
  native of Wurtemberg, Germany. His grandfather learned the trade of carpenter
  and followed it in the fatherland until his death. He had two sons, Charles and
  Clemens, both of whom came to America to live. Charles was for about thirty
  years a prosperous carpenter of Buffalo, New York, where he died. Clemens
  Lepsch, the father of our subject, was born in Wurtemberg, November 14, 1840,
  and served five years in the German army. He embarked for this country when
  twenty-six years old, locating at Buffalo, New York, where he was engaged as
  lumber inspector for a number of years. While living in Buffalo he was married
  to Caroline Eckhart, also a native of Wurtemberg. After a ten-years residence
  there he moved to Salamanca, New York, and was again engaged in the lumber
  business, till his death, August 8, 1882. He had always affiliated with the
  Republican party. His wife lives at Bradford, Pennsylvania. They were the
  parents of five children, viz.: Clemens, superintendent of the Standard Wood
  Company at White Haven, Pennsylvania; J. H., the subject of this biography;
  Charles, a machinist for the Standard Wood Company at Bradford; Elizabeth,
  living with her mother at the same place; and William, a bookkeeper for the
  Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, at Bradford.
  
      J. H. Lepsch received his educational training at the schools of Carrollton
  and Salamanca, New York. He was but twelve years of age when his father died,
  and he soon afterward obtained employment in a sawmill at Carrollton, New York,
  where he remained five years. The following five years he worked at bundling
  kindling wood for the Standard Wood Company, at the same place. In 1892 he went
  to Bradford and worked in the machine shops until 1896, when he came to Lopez,
  Sullivan county, and took charge of the kindling-wood factory for the Standard
  Wood Company at this point. This firm does an extensive business, having
  seventeen factories in operation.
  
      Mr. Lepsch was united in matrimony to Miss Sadie Torrance, a daughter of
  David Torrance, of Bradford. They have two children - Ada P., born June 6, 1896;
  and Hazel R., born March 21, 1898. Mr. Lepsch was made a Mason February 28,
  1896, at Salamanca, New York, and united with the Knights of the Maccabees at
  Carrollton, that state, April 3, 1888.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
        Extracted from: 
          
        History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
        by Thomas J. Ingham
          
        Compendium of Biography
          
        The Lewis Publishing Company
        Chicago: 1899
  
  
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