Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [329-330] C. F. LEIPPRANDT, farmer, section 13, Caseville Township, is also a merchant, and the Postmaster of Hayes postoffice, which is located on his farm. He was born May 5, 1835, in Wurtemburg, Germany, and is the son of JOHN F. and DORA (HENNES) LEIPPRANDT. His father was born about the year 1800, and died in his native land, in 1878. His mother is still living on the homestead in the "Faderland," with another son. She was born Jan. 16, 1810. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in his native country, and came to the United States when he was 17 years of age. He proceeded to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he obtained employment in a furniture factory, and continued in that situation three years. He went thence to New Bremen, Ohio, where he was engaged as a mill- wright, his trades of wheelwrignt and cabinet-maker, which he had learned of his father, rendering it easy for him to secure employ- ment. He afterwards bought a flouring mill at La Crescent, Houston Co., Minn., which he managed two years. While there he was convert- ed to Christianity, and after two years he sold his mill and became a circuit-rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the fall of 1870 he came to Caseville and bought the farm on which he has since resided. He was married Aug, 6, 1856, to ENGEL M. D. HOFFSCHMIDT, and they are the parents of six children, born as follows: J. WILLIAM, Sept. 11, 1857; EDWIN C., Sept 14, 1859; CHARLES W., Nov. 1, 1861; LYDIA C. F., April 2, 1864; VIOLET D., Feb. 3, 1879. Their mother was born Dec. 25, 1837, in Hanover, Germany. Her father, HENRY HOFFSCHMIDT, died in Wisconsin; her mother is living in Plymouth, Wis. MR. LEIPPRANDT is a Republican in political affiliation. He has served as Justice of the Peace ever since he has been a resident of Caseville; has been Clerk two terms and filled a vacancy one term as Supervisor. He is one of the substantial and reliable citizens of Huron County. His farm includes 140 acres of land under cultivation, and his residence is one of the finest in the Huron peninsula. It is fitted with steam-heating apparatus, bath-room, with hot and cold water, and various other modern appliances. The farm has four ex- cellent frame barns. On the place is a valuable brick yard, with all necessary fixtures, the machine run by steam. The producing capacity is 10,000 brick daily. One foot below the stratum of clay he is working, lies a bed of material equal to that used in the celebrated Milwaukee brick. The proprietor has been engaged in a mercantile enterprise on his farm since 1874, transacting his busi- ness in that avenue in a store in front of his house. He keeps the assortment of articles suited to his patronage, and expects in the immediate future to transfer his mercantile affairs to Berne, three and a half miles distant, and located on the railroad at a point south of Caseville. He was educated at the College of Leichten- stern, Wurtemburg, Germany. The publishers are happy to place in this volume a portrait of the above-mentioned worthy gentleman. It is given on a preceding page near this sketch. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================