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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JESSE J. TIPPEY, son of Henderson and VASHTI TIPPEY, was born in
       Grant county, Indiana, February 24, 1847. His father died in
       October, 1872, and his mother in May, 1863. Jesse was educated in
       the public schools, and afterwards attended select school, and
       finally, Wabash college.  He was married in his native county,
       November 13, 1872, to ELIZABETH WESTFALL, daughter of JAMES and
       ANGELINE WESTFALL. She was born in the same county, December 12,
       1852.  MR. TIPPEY first visited Cass county in the fall of 1877, and
       again in January, 1880, at which time he purchased of A. O. ROGERS
       his present farm, which contained eighty acres, located on section
       15, Bear Grove township.  Mr. and Mrs. TIPPEY have four children —
       MACAULEY E., born in September, 1873; ANGIE ALMINTA, born in May,
       1875; NELLIE J., born in October, 1877; and FRANK H., born in
       September, 1882.  MR. TIPPEY was elected township clerk in 1872.

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