Source: Our County [Oneida, New York] and Its People, Part III: Family Sketches, Daniel E. Wager (editor), Boston: The Boston History Company, 1896.
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Orris B. TRIPP was born in Floyd April 27, 1838, son of Isaac and Mary (Brook) Tripp. Isaac Tripp was born in Steuben, and was a pioneer farmer, active in both town and county affairs; he was assessor in the town of Floyd for many years, and at one time the Democratic candidate for county superintendent of the poor. William Tripp, grandfather of Orris B., was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension for the same. His father, Job Tripp, was a soldier in the French war and also took an active part in the Revolution, being commissary to General Gates, and trained the horse that Arnold road at the battle of Saratoga. Orris B. Tripp was the youngest of ten children, and was educated in the district schools of his town and at the Utica Academy. He married Esther Jones in 1874, daughter of Hugh W. and Sally Smith Jones; they had one son in 1890, now deceased. He engaged in general farming at twenty-one years of age; held the office of justice of the peace three terms (twelve years); represented the town in the Board of Supervisors in 1881; has been active in public affairs and private enterprises. Though not a communicant of any church he is a staunch believer and a liberal supporter of the Christian religion. He is an extensive reader of history an of current events, enjoying fiction as well. He resides in the same house in which he was born, and has never moved but once, and then he took his house with him about a mile to an adjoining farm. He is a reliable, upright citizen, and his standing in his town is evidence that he has not lived in vain.