Manuscripts Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
711.001 |
Title |
THEODORE F. TRIPP FAMILY COLLECTION |
Date |
1844-1982 |
Scope & Content |
THEODORE F. TRIPP FAMILY COLLECTION Records and documents, 1844-1982 The collection consists of a "HISTORY OF THEODORE F. TRIPP and WIFE, LOUISA JOHNSON, Residents of Lane County, OR beginning in 1884" written by D.J. Miles and dated January 2017. With the history is a newspaper clipping from "The Siuslaw Oar" (dated 1941) titled "Mrs. I. M. Anderson, Here 57 Years, Dies." Mrs. Anderson, born Isabell May Tripp, was the second daughter of T.F. and Louisa Tripp. In addition, the collection contains numerous family photographs. Theodore Frelinghuysen Tripp was born July 7, 1944 in Scott Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. He was the tenth child (of 11 children) of James and Melancy May Tripp. He sweved in Company K, 52nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry froom 1861 - 1864. Included in the family history is the transcript of a letter he wrote to his eldest sister Electa, while serving in South Carolina in 1863. He married Louise Johnson on March 6, 1867. The 1870 census shows the family of four (two daughters) living in Gibsonburgh, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where Theodore was a laborer in a powder mill. By the 1880 census, the family of six (four daughters) had resettled in Crawford County, Iowa, on a 50 acre farm. Two more daughters were born there before the family emigrated to Oregon in 1883. Daughter Elizabeth (Lizzie) Tripp Dennis later provided a description of their route after traveling by train from Iowa to Cottage Grove, Oregon. A copy of the sketch is included in the family history, including a boat trip from Scottsburg to Gardiner on the Umpqua River, then a horse-drawn stage ride for 20 miles north on the beach, walking over the dunes to meet the Safley Ferry and crossing the Siuslaw River to Florence, Oregon. Here they settled, first on a renter North Fork ranch for one year and them on a purchased property at the head of South Slough, near Acme, Oregon. T.F. and Louisa's seventh daughter, Nellie, was born on that farm in 1888. They farmed there until the death of Theodore on October 3, 1896 --"HISTORY OF THEODORE F. TRIPP and WIFE, LOUISA JOHNSON, Residents of Lane County, OR beginning in 1884." by D.J. Miles, January, 2017. (Author D.J. Miles is the great-grandaughter of Nellie Tripp Prindel.) Contents include genealogies of T.F. Tripp's grandparents, parents, siblings, and children plus photos, Civil War service records and experiences of T.F and brothers, census information, excerpt from "Siuslaw Pioneer Book" by Mrs. Lizzie Tripp Dennis, Civil War pension record, homestead property records for South Sough farm, death notices and transcripts of Civil War letters by Henry Clay Tripp and T.F. Tripp. --1941 newspaper clipping from "The Siuslaw Oar ' titled "Mrs. I.M. Anderson, Here 57 Years, Dies." |