When Samuel Stanley Ropp was born on 31 May 1851, in Warsaw, Wayne Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, his father, William Robert Ropp, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Wolford, was 22. He married Mary Alice Fahnestock on 25 June 1887, in Rives, Dunklin, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Deepwater, Henry, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Sheridan Township, Linn, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 24 April 1919, in Pingree, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Springfield, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Linn, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Linn, Kansas, United States
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
German:
see Roppel .
perhaps an altered form of Rupp .
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