Biography

1821 - 01/21/1875


HIPPLE, Samuel, a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, 1821 in Landisburg, Perry County, Pa.; captain, United States Army, Quartermaster Department, Cape Girardeau, Mo. (1862-1865, Civil War); railroad contractor; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 term, reelected to the House for the 1856 term; farmer; proprietor, saw and grist mill; elected, delegate, Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, Kansas (1859; served, 1861); engaged, real estate; owner, Hipple and Larkins Cattle Dealers; elected, Kansas State Senate (1868); died, January 21, 1875 in Monrovia, Atchison County, Kansas; interred, Monrovia Cemetery, Effingham, Atchison County, Kansas.


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