BIOGRAPHIES: Benjamin S. KIPP, Barron, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Transcribed by Peg Lamkin Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 28 March 2002 ==================================================================== Benjamin S. Kipp, veteran of the Civil War, was born in Oswego County, New York, Aug. 18, 1845, son of Reuben and Jane (Stockman) Kipp, the former a native of New York State, and the latter of England. Their children were Esther, Susan, Emma, Ephriam, Lucy, Harriett, Louisa, Peter, Amanda, Benjamin S., Ellen and Ann. Of this large family, the subject of this sketch is the only one living. Benjamin S. was brought to Janesville, Wis., as an infant and to Baraboo, Sauk County, when a youth, and there he was reared and educated. He enlisted in the Civil War late in 1863, and served nearly two years as a private in Company A, 19th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was at the front all this period and saw active service in front of Petersburg and at Richmond. While in the army, although not yet of age, he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Upon his discharge in 1865, he took up his residence at Baraboo, Wis. In 1870 he came to Barron County and homesteaded 160 acres of wild land in Dallas Township. His first home was a small log structure with a "shake" roof, and he started in with some crude furniture, a cow, a yoke of steers, some tools and 50 pounds of flour. By hard work he developed a good farm and added 80 acres to the original tract, making an excellent place of 240 acres, of which 100 acres are under the plow and the remainder in pasture and timberland. The log house was replaced by a frame structure in 1895 and other buildings have been erected as necessity has required. As the years passed, Mr. Kipp achieved success and acquired a competency. In 1909 he retired and purchased a pleasant home on Fifth street in Barron City, still retaining possession of the farm. While living in the township Mr. Kipp served for some time as a member of the school board of his district. His financial interests include stock in the Dallas & Prairie Farm Telephone Co. He has always maintained his interest in patriotic affairs; was a charter member of William Pitt Post, G. A. R., at Dallas, and is now a member of the Martin Watson Post, No. 172, G. A. R., at Barron. He and his family worship at the Methodist Church. Mr. Kipp was married Nov. 26, 1868, to Helen Pitts, daughter of William and Ann (Fisher) Pitts, of Sauk County, Wisconsin, where she was born Aug. 12, 1849. This union has been blessed with seven children: Belle, born March 8, 1870, is the wife of Milton Rogers, of Baraboo, Wis. Reuben, born Aug. 8, 1872, is dead. Clarence J., born July 1, 1874, is living at Barron, Wis. Ralph, born March 13, 1877, is a farmer in Dallas Township, this county. Susan J., born June 8, 1880, is the wife of Edward Golmar, of Baraboo, Wis. Alfred E., born Feb. 16, 1885, lives at home. Mark was born Oct. 26, 1887. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 100-101.