ZUPP, Christopher C.

ZUPP

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/31/2021 at 17:36:51

Christopher C. Zupp
born Sep 18, 1835

C. C. Zupp, a farmer of section 3, Douglas Township, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1835, a son of George Peter Zupp, a native of Paris, France. The latter was a veterinary surgeon by profession, and was a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte, also in the Mexican war. He married Elizabeth Zeuder, and they afterward came to America, locating in Pennsylvania. When our subject was three years of age they went to Wyandot County, Ohio, and three years later to Hillsdale county, Michigan. The mother died in Ohio, leaving a family of seven children, viz.: George P., who served in an Ohio regiment during the late war; Christiana; Margaret; Caroline; Henry, a resident of Michigan; C. C.; and John, who served in the Eighteenth Michigan Infantry, and is now deceased. The father died in Michigan.
C. C. Zupp, our subject, was reared to farm life, and educated in the district schools. At the opening of the late war he enlisted in The Eighteenth Michigan Infantry, and after its close returned to Michigan, thence to Buchanan County, Iowa, and in 1869 to Douglas township, Ida County. At that time this county cast only thirty-two votes, and only three families resided in Douglas Township, the Moorehead home being the only house besides Mr. Zupp’s farm and Ida Grove. Our subject experienced the hardships common to pioneer life.
He was first married at the age of nineteen years, to Jennie Crawfoot, a native of New York, and a daughter of Seth and Ann Eliza Crawfoot. To this union was born two children: A. D., of Nebraska, and Ida. In 1867 Mr. Zupp was united in marriage with Julia Crawfoot, a sister of his former wife, and they have had the following children: Jennie wife of M. G. Sherman, of Cushing, Iowa; Jessie; Will; Blanche, wife of Charles Herrington; Belle, now Mrs. Mertell; and Pearl, at home. The wife and mother died in 1883, having been a consistent member of the Methodist Church. In his political views, Mr. Zupp votes with the Republican Party, and has served as Constable, Trustee and a member of the School Board. He is one of the early pioneers of Ida County, and is frank and cordial.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.601