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Ira Tripp[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]

Male 1814 - 1891  (77 years)


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  • Name Ira Tripp  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    TRIPP LINEAGE - 7TH GENERATION - John Tripp 1611-1678 1600 
    • GEN7: IRA TRIPP [7], (Isaac6, Isaac5, Isaac4, Job3, Peleg2, John1)
    Birth 6 Jan 1814  Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13] 
    Ira Tripp - Bio    		 Ira Tripp - Bio
    Ira Tripp    		 Ira Tripp
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1850  Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Residence 1860  Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • Residence Post Office: Dunmore
    Military Service 1861  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1870  Scranton Ward 3, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • Residence Post Office: Providence
    Residence 1880  Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Self
    Residence 1890  Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
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    Death 3 Aug 1891  Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 12, 13] 
    Newspapers.com - The Plymouth Tribune - 7 Aug 1891 - Page 5     		Newspapers.com - The Plymouth Tribune - 7 Aug 1891 - Page 5
    Ira Tripp DC    		 Ira Tripp DC
    Burial 6 Aug 1891  Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 12] 
    • Forest Hill Cemetery
      Find a Grave Memorial ID: 16144007
    Ira Tripp GS-PA    		 Ira Tripp GS-PA
    Forest Hill Cemetery    		 Forest Hill Cemetery
    Person ID I342223128247  Tripp Family Genealogical Website | Peleg Tripp 2

    Father Isaac Dow Tripp, Jr,   b. 27 Jan 1779, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1830, Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Catherine LaFrance,   b. 22 Sep 1784   d. 6 Oct 1836, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Family ID F9484  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rosanna Shoemaker,   b. 26 Sep 1817, Wyoming, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1899, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 20 Feb 1838  Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 13, 15] 
    Children 
     1. Isaac C Tripp,   b. 29 Mar 1839, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Oct 1882, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     2. Leander S Tripp,   b. 27 Feb 1841, Providence, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1876, Scranton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
     3. William R Tripp,   b. 26 Jan 1846, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1847, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     4. Gertrude Tripp,   b. 18 Jan 1848, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 1874 (Age 26 years)
    Family ID F9377  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Ira Tripp-Bio    		Ira Tripp-Bio

  • Notes 
    • Ira Tripp, son of Isaac Tripp and Catherine LaFrance, son of Isaac Tripp, son of Isaac Tripp, the Immigrant, son of Job Tripp, Peleg Tripp, son of John Tripp the Founder. Colonel Ira Tripp was the second child in the family. He was born in Province township, was reared on the home farm, and acquired a limited education in the poorly equipped common schools of that day. On reaching manhood he became a merchant at his birthplace, and afterward was similarly engaged in Scranton. He also managed his farm, which he brought to a high state of cultivation and he devoted much of his attention to breeding better grades of horses and cattle than the country had before known. Early in life he had driven horses and cattle to New York City, and marketed them there. On his farm he kept a number of superior standard-bred horses, and in addition he had a large herd of Alderney cattle, and maintained dairies on his homestead farm and on the stock farm at Dalton. At all local affairs where he exhibited, his animals were awarded first premiums. He maintained a fine speedtrack and driving park on his farm, and the state fair was held theron more than once. He stood deservedly high among farmers and stock breeders who recognized in him a public benefactor. In other ways he added to the value of his property and made it an object of beauty in an already beautiful landscape. He remodeled the old family home which was built by his father, and in which he himself was born, and it is now the home of his widow. He opened a coal mine on the place, and operated it until the vein was exhausted. He took an active part in advancing the interests of the community, among other enterprises aiding in the buildiing of the old Peoples Street Railway, in which he was a stockholder. In politics he was a Whig, and on the dissolution of that party he was of the organizing memebers of the new Republican party, voting for its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont in 1856, and ever afterward gave to it a cordial and active support, but without any thought of personal political ambition. A devoted unionist, in 1851 when the rebellion broke out, he enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and during his nine months term of service acquitted himself most creditably in the position of hospital steward. His standing as a man of abilty and character is attested by the fact that Governor Pollock commmissioned him as aid-de--camp on his staff with the rank of Lieutenent-Colonel. Colonel Tripp died August 3, 1891, at the age of seventy seven years. Widely known throughout the state, and widely recognized as a most useful and exemplary citizen, the leading journals of the day paid to his memory glowing tributes, holding him up as a pure type of a race now extinct, and which stood for the best there is in manly character, untainted by the later day commercialism which esteems a grace or virtue or public servvice as valueless unless it can be made a profit earning commodity. February 20, 1838, Colonel Tripp married Miss Rosanna Shoemaker, who was like himself, a descendant of an old Pennsylvania family. Her grandfather, Isaac Shoemaker, was of Germaan extraction and settled in Wyoming. His son Jacob I, was born in Easton, went to Wyoming with his parents and became the proprietor of Shoemaker's hotel, for the remainder of his life. His wife was a native of the state of New York. Colonel Ira Tripp and Rosanna Shoemaker Tripp had four children. From another source, Ira Tripp, Esquire, a gentleman of wealth, entitled to no little consideration for those frank, popular attainments and social qualifications which mark, in the public mind, the rulings of the hour. The Scranton courthouse, standing on the original farm of Ira Tripp, over looks the ancient abode of Capoose, pointed out by a single tree. Isaac Tripp, the grandson of Isaac Tripp, senior, came into the valley in 1774 and chose this inviting spot for his residence. In 1879 Scranton was selected as the County seat. And the courts were held in Tripp's building!

  • Sources 
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