Cyrus William Kipp

Brief Life History of Cyrus William

When Cyrus William Kipp was born on 25 September 1869, in Fayette, Howard, Missouri, United States, his father, William Henry Kipp II, was 40 and his mother, Rachel Storey, was 37. He married Carrie Maude Roads on 25 September 1889. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Wenatchee Election Precinct O, Chelan, Washington, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 16 April 1952, in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in East Wenatchee, Douglas, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Cyrus William Kipp
1869–1952
Carrie Maude Roads
1871–1962
Marriage: 25 September 1889
Harrison Roads Kipp
1893–1944
Florence Irene Kipp
1896–1990
Dorothy Kipp
1915–

Sources (23)

  • Cyrus W Kipp, "Missouri State and Territorial Census Records, 1732-1933"
  • Cyrus W Kipp, "Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979"
  • C. W. Kipp in entry for Harry R. Kipp and Lila Angeline Seely, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

1872 · Yellowstone National Park Created

President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law passed by congress on March 1 1872, making Yellowstone a National Park. The park covers parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

North German: from Middle Low German kip ‘bundle (e.g. of hides or flax)’, hence probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fur trader, for example.

North German and Dutch: from a short form of the old personal name Gebolf, composed of the ancient Germanic elements geb ‘gift’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare Kip 1.

German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge, brink’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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