Identifier: montanaitsstoryb03stou (find matches)
Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1888, Miss Cora Tash, daughter ofLewis and Elizabeth (Weter) Tash the latter livingwith Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. Her father, deceased,was a farmer in Iowa. Mrs. Jackson was educatedin the Normal School at Afton, Iowa, and was ateacher in that state before her marriage. Theyhave two children: Donald T., born March 28,1903; and Dorothy, born May 28, 1907. William Ruppel. a Montana pioneer, long identi-fied with the practical side of farming and stockraising, is a resident of Twin Bridges and is nowgiving his chief time to the management of theFarmers Elevator of that city. He was born in the Province of Hesse. Germany,February 22, 1856. His parents were Henry andMargaret (Jacob) Ruppel. natives of Hesse, andHenry spent his active life as a farmer. HenryRuppel served with the German army in the waragainst .-Kustria in 1866. He and his wife died atthe same time and were buried together. WilliamRuppel had a good education in the German schools,worked on the farm and on coming to America went
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MR. AND MRS. ROBERT NORDTOME AND SONSMILFORD AND CLIFFORD HISTORY OF MONTANA 841 from New York west to Iowa. He was one of afamily of ten children, most of whom remained inGermany. He was the second in age, Valentine, theoldest, being a resident of Germany and a farmer.The third in the family, Adam, is a merchant atSan Francisco, California. He was named for hisuncle Adam Ruppel, who was one of the pioneersof Minnesota, going there while a member of theUnited States army in 1856. He served during theIndian uprising in Minnesota and was a businessman and school teacher. The other children ofHenry Ruppel and wife were: Margaret, Henry,Peter, all still in Germany, Jacob, a retired farmerat Twin Bridges, Catherine and Mary, both in Ger-many, and Frederick a farmer at Vulcan, Alberta,Canada. After eighteen months working on a farm atMount Pleasant, Iowa, William Ruppel came toMontana and arrived at Twin Bridges in MadisonCounty in December, 1882. For four years he workedon farms and ranche

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