BIO: George W. Kipp, Jefferson County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens. 
Chicago, Ill.: J. H. Beers, 1898, page 1088.
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GEORGE W. KIPP, one of the leading lumbermen of Jefferson county, a 
resident of Cortez, is well worthy of prominent mention in the pages of 
this work.  
  Born in Pike county, Penn., March 28, 1847, Mr. Kipp is a son of John 
and Hannah (Correll) Kipp, natives, John of Philadelphia, Penn., and 
Hannah of Sterling, Wayne Co., Penn.  They were married at Sterling, 
Penn., and shortly there after moved to Pike county, where they passed 
the rest of their days, the father dying in October, 1892, at the age 
of seventy-five years, the mother in June, 1889, aged sixth-nine, and 
they are laid to rest in Kipp Town cemetery, in Pike county.  They were 
members of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Kip, in his political 
predilections, was a Democrat.  He carried on farming and lumbering, 
also operating a sawmill in connection with the lumber business.  To 
this honored couple were born children as follows:  Isaac, a blacksmith 
by trade in Wayne county, Penn.; Horace, a lumberman in Wayne county; 
Benjamin, who operated the old homestead mill in Pike county until fire 
destroyed the place; George W., our subject; John, an attorney of 
Milford, Penn.; Mary, married to S. Vangorder, of Scranton, Penn.; 
Susan, wife of Thomas Gilpin, a farmer and lumberman of Pike county; 
Margaret, married to Horatio Simons, a merchant of Wayne county, Penn., 
Thomas died when young; Elizabeth, married to George Banks, a farmer of 
Pike county; and Baxter, a farmer and lumberman, also of Pike county.  
Isaac Kipp, great-grandfather of our subject, a farmer by occupation, 
died in Pike county.
  George W. Kipp, whose name opens this sketch, was reared on his 
father's farm, receiving his education in the public schools of his 
native township.  He remained on the farm until he was twenty-one years 
of age.  He then for six years was engaged in lumber business in 
Luzerne county, Penn.; thence, at the end of that time, removing to 
Wayne county, where for three years he conducted a gristmill and 
general merchandise store.  From there he went to Bradford county, in 
the same State, the lumber industry occupying his attention five years; 
thence to Sullivan county, Penn., where he again engaged in the lumber 
business, his residence being part of the time in Monroeton, Bradford 
Co., Penn., and part of the time in Luzerne county.  In April, 1894, 
Mr. Kipp removed from Kingston, Penn., to his present home in Cortez, 
Jefferson county, in which year he built the mill here.  Some idea of 
the magnitude of his business may be gained from the fact that he 
handles about fifteen million feet per annum, and sometimes ships one 
and one-half million feet in a month.  He is also at this time 
extensively engaged in lumbering in other localities.  He owns one-half 
of the stock in, and is the president of, the Towanda Water Works, the 
company being composed of George W. Kipp, of Cortez, and E. F. Kizer, 
of Towanda, Penn.  The timber for the lumber manufactured at the mill 
here is taken from 6,200 acres of woodland in McCalmont and Oliver 
townships, Jefferson county.  The Home Lumber Co., in which our subject 
is active, is composed of D. H. Clark, E. F. Kizer and G. W. Kipp.  
  On July 15, 1872, in Wayne county, Penn., our subject was married to 
Miss Adelaide M. Kizer, of Lackawanna county, Penn., born in Luzerne 
county, Penn., a daughter of Jacob Kizer, a farmer and lumberman of 
Lackawanna county, Penn., and two children have blessed their union:  
Margaret and Beatrice, both at home.  The family are identified with 
the M. E. Church, while in social standing Mr. Kipp is a thirty-second 
degree Free Mason.  He has always been loyally interested in the 
progress of any community wherein he has made his home, and as a stanch 
Democrat has taken an active interest on politics, although his 
influence has been used for his friends rather than for himself.  He 
has served a three-year term as a commissioner of Wayne county.