HENRY H. RAPH is a resident of section 10, Grange township, Pipestone county, Minnesota. He was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1837. He was the son of David and Margaret (Ruggles) Raph, natives of Pennsylvania, and who removed from that State to Dane county, Wisconsin, when our subject was about ten years old. Soon after coming to Wisconsin the mother died, and the father returned to Pennsylvania, in which State he died the following year. There were six children in the father's family, but after this double bereavement they became scattered, and our subject has lost all trace of them.
Being left an orphan at an early age, our subject has had to make his own way in the world, with no help whatever from kith or kin. At the age of eleven he was put to work with a farmer in Wisconsin. This man was a disagreeable character, and our subject acquired a bitter dislike for him, and at the age of thirteen years ran away, and for four years worked for another man, but at the end of this time he returned to the home of his first employer and continued with him for five years. Then, at the age of twenty-one years, he was married, purchased a farm and settled down to follow agricultural pursuits. Eight years of a prosperous life were spend in Wisconsin, and at the end of that time he traded his land for a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, to which place he moved and remained until 1878. In that year he lost his land by reason of defective title. He then came to Pipestone county and settled on the land where he now lives, returning to Goodhue county to work during the winter months.
He has been quite successful in bringing his farm to a high state of cultivation, and has built good buildings thereon. He is a man of large energy and perseverance, and despite of the failure and misfortunes which have fallen to his lot, he has risen above them and acquired considerable means.
Mr. Raph was married January 1, 1857, to Miss Adeline Cornwall. This union has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living - Mattie I., Arthur B., Elida M. and John C.
The subject of our sketch, by attending school during the winter months during the early part of his life, acquired a good common-school education, and is today one of the leading and substantial farmers of Grange township. In politics he is a republican.
Harlan's note: Henry's father David died in October 1849, in Norhtamption County, Pennsylvania. Henry writes that there were six orphaned children, however the 1850 US Census reports five RAPE children living with adoptive families (Henry, Samuel, Eliza, Sarah Louise and Sarah) and speculation holds that David's brother Peter, who also lived in Dane Co., Wisconsin, could not take all of the children because he already was the father to about a dozen children. However, speculation on my part is that Peter did accept the sixth child mentioned above as his own. This child probably was the youngest child listed under Peter, who is named Maryetta born about 1847.
Being left an orphan at an early age, our subject has had to make his own way in the world, with no help whatever from kith or kin. At the age of eleven he was put to work with a farmer in Wisconsin. This man was a disagreeable character, and our subject acquired a bitter dislike for him, and at the age of thirteen years ran away, and for four years worked for another man, but at the end of this time he returned to the home of his first employer and continued with him for five years. Then, at the age of twenty-one years, he was married, purchased a farm and settled down to follow agricultural pursuits. Eight years of a prosperous life were spend in Wisconsin, and at the end of that time he traded his land for a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, to which place he moved and remained until 1878. In that year he lost his land by reason of defective title. He then came to Pipestone county and settled on the land where he now lives, returning to Goodhue county to work during the winter months.
He has been quite successful in bringing his farm to a high state of cultivation, and has built good buildings thereon. He is a man of large energy and perseverance, and despite of the failure and misfortunes which have fallen to his lot, he has risen above them and acquired considerable means.
Mr. Raph was married January 1, 1857, to Miss Adeline Cornwall. This union has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living - Mattie I., Arthur B., Elida M. and John C.
The subject of our sketch, by attending school during the winter months during the early part of his life, acquired a good common-school education, and is today one of the leading and substantial farmers of Grange township. In politics he is a republican.
Harlan's note: Henry's father David died in October 1849, in Norhtamption County, Pennsylvania. Henry writes that there were six orphaned children, however the 1850 US Census reports five RAPE children living with adoptive families (Henry, Samuel, Eliza, Sarah Louise and Sarah) and speculation holds that David's brother Peter, who also lived in Dane Co., Wisconsin, could not take all of the children because he already was the father to about a dozen children. However, speculation on my part is that Peter did accept the sixth child mentioned above as his own. This child probably was the youngest child listed under Peter, who is named Maryetta born about 1847.
HENRY H. RAPH is a resident of section 10, Grange township, Pipestone county, Minnesota. He was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1837. He was the son of David and Margaret (Ruggles) Raph, natives of Pennsylvania, and who removed from that State to Dane county, Wisconsin, when our subject was about ten years old. Soon after coming to Wisconsin the mother died, and the father returned to Pennsylvania, in which State he died the following year. There were six children in the father's family, but after this double bereavement they became scattered, and our subject has lost all trace of them.
Being left an orphan at an early age, our subject has had to make his own way in the world, with no help whatever from kith or kin. At the age of eleven he was put to work with a farmer in Wisconsin. This man was a disagreeable character, and our subject acquired a bitter dislike for him, and at the age of thirteen years ran away, and for four years worked for another man, but at the end of this time he returned to the home of his first employer and continued with him for five years. Then, at the age of twenty-one years, he was married, purchased a farm and settled down to follow agricultural pursuits. Eight years of a prosperous life were spend in Wisconsin, and at the end of that time he traded his land for a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, to which place he moved and remained until 1878. In that year he lost his land by reason of defective title. He then came to Pipestone county and settled on the land where he now lives, returning to Goodhue county to work during the winter months.
He has been quite successful in bringing his farm to a high state of cultivation, and has built good buildings thereon. He is a man of large energy and perseverance, and despite of the failure and misfortunes which have fallen to his lot, he has risen above them and acquired considerable means.
Mr. Raph was married January 1, 1857, to Miss Adeline Cornwall. This union has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living - Mattie I., Arthur B., Elida M. and John C.
The subject of our sketch, by attending school during the winter months during the early part of his life, acquired a good common-school education, and is today one of the leading and substantial farmers of Grange township. In politics he is a republican.
Harlan's note: Henry's father David died in October 1849, in Norhtamption County, Pennsylvania. Henry writes that there were six orphaned children, however the 1850 US Census reports five RAPE children living with adoptive families (Henry, Samuel, Eliza, Sarah Louise and Sarah) and speculation holds that David's brother Peter, who also lived in Dane Co., Wisconsin, could not take all of the children because he already was the father to about a dozen children. However, speculation on my part is that Peter did accept the sixth child mentioned above as his own. This child probably was the youngest child listed under Peter, who is named Maryetta born about 1847.
Being left an orphan at an early age, our subject has had to make his own way in the world, with no help whatever from kith or kin. At the age of eleven he was put to work with a farmer in Wisconsin. This man was a disagreeable character, and our subject acquired a bitter dislike for him, and at the age of thirteen years ran away, and for four years worked for another man, but at the end of this time he returned to the home of his first employer and continued with him for five years. Then, at the age of twenty-one years, he was married, purchased a farm and settled down to follow agricultural pursuits. Eight years of a prosperous life were spend in Wisconsin, and at the end of that time he traded his land for a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, to which place he moved and remained until 1878. In that year he lost his land by reason of defective title. He then came to Pipestone county and settled on the land where he now lives, returning to Goodhue county to work during the winter months.
He has been quite successful in bringing his farm to a high state of cultivation, and has built good buildings thereon. He is a man of large energy and perseverance, and despite of the failure and misfortunes which have fallen to his lot, he has risen above them and acquired considerable means.
Mr. Raph was married January 1, 1857, to Miss Adeline Cornwall. This union has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living - Mattie I., Arthur B., Elida M. and John C.
The subject of our sketch, by attending school during the winter months during the early part of his life, acquired a good common-school education, and is today one of the leading and substantial farmers of Grange township. In politics he is a republican.
Harlan's note: Henry's father David died in October 1849, in Norhtamption County, Pennsylvania. Henry writes that there were six orphaned children, however the 1850 US Census reports five RAPE children living with adoptive families (Henry, Samuel, Eliza, Sarah Louise and Sarah) and speculation holds that David's brother Peter, who also lived in Dane Co., Wisconsin, could not take all of the children because he already was the father to about a dozen children. However, speculation on my part is that Peter did accept the sixth child mentioned above as his own. This child probably was the youngest child listed under Peter, who is named Maryetta born about 1847.
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