Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Kipple, Andrew June 20, 1830 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

ANDREW KIPPLE,
foreman, at Altoona, of the car shops of the freight department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in whose employ he has seen forty-one years of
active and continuous service, is a son of Jacob Kipple, and was born in
Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1830.
      Andrew Kipple was reared in Dauphin county, received his education in
the common schools, and then learned the trades of carpenter and cabinet
maker, to which he served an apprenticeship of three years under a
first-class workman. On July 14, 1851, he entered the service of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a workman in their car-building shops at
Harrisburg, from which he was transferred, in 1853, to Altoona, where he
first worked in the car and machine shops, and afterward served for two years
as a gang leader in the passenger car shops. On the 28th of September, 1857,
he was appointed by Christian Hostetler as foreman of the shops of the
freight department, which position he has held ever since.
      In 1857 Mr. Kipple married Rachel Sweigart, daughter of Peter Sweigart,
of Dauphin county, and they have four children living: Oliver, William, Andrew
and Charles.
      Andrew Kipple is a republican in politics and has served as a member of
he city council. He is a member of Verandah Lodge, No. 532, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and a member and trustee of Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church of Altoona. He owns some desirable real estate in the city, and is a
director of the Altoona Street Car Company and the Clearfield, Northern &
Altoona Railroad Company. Mr. Kipple is an intelligent and industrious
citizen, and a skilled and efficient workman.

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