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Biography of Henry Dapp, pages 878/879/780. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.
Henry Dapp
Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages, and as a usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as of energy and thrift, have been the leading patrons of husbandry. The
farm has been the fruitful soil from which has emanated the moral bone and sinew of the nation, and from the labors of the field have come forth in to the most exalted planes of usefulness the strongest men of the country, while all who have appreciation of true values will regard with admiration the dignity of the farmer and the value of the work he accomplishes. Among enterprising citizens of DeKalb county is the subject of this brief sketch, who is an honored resident of Smithfield township, with whose agricultural development and progress he has been intimately identified, while he has so lived as to merit and receive the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem.
Henry Dapp was born on January 19, 1860, in Alsace, France now belonging to Germany. He is the son of Alois and Elizabeth (Martin) Dapp, both of whom were born, reared and married in Alsace, where the
father followed the pursuit of farming. Henry Dapp was reared in his native locality and in 1880, at the age of twenty years, accompanied his parents on their emigration to America, settling at once in Summit,
DeKalb county, Indiana, where the father bought one hundred and sixty acres of splendid land, comprising the northeast quarter of section 14, where he made his home, given his undivided attention to the cultivation and improvement of his farm as long as he lived. He was a man of sterling qualities of character and enjoyed the respect of the entire community. To him and his wife were born six children, namely: Henry, the immediate subject of this sketch; Stacy, the wife of John Trapp, of Garrett, this county; Caroline was the wife of Joseph Deitch, of Avilla, Indiana, and is now deceased; Clementine is the wife of Anthony Grist and lives at Garrett; Louise and Elizabeth are twins. Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of William Long and lived at Fort Wayne until her death. The father of these children died on January 1, 1899, and the mother on December 1, 1897.
The subject of this sketch lived on the old home place, eventually buying eighty acres from his father and after the latter?s death he bought out the interests of the other heirs in the remaining eighty acres of the estate, thus being now the owner of the entire farm of one hundred and sixty acres. The place is well improved in every respect, the fertility of the soil having been maintained by judicious attention to the rotation of crops and fertilization, and Mr. Dapp has achieved a splendid success in his operations. He carries on a diversified system of farming, raising all the crops common to this locality and gives some attention to the breeding and raising of live stock, in which he has met with success.
In 1884 Mr. Dapp married Magdalene Schiffli, a daughter of Anthony Schiffli, and to this union have been born eight children, namely: Mary is the wife of John May, who lives near her father?s farm in Smithfield; they have two children, Agnes and Esther; Elizabeth is the wife of Matthias Hohl, and they live west of the Catholic church in Smithfield township; they have two boys, Henry and Alvin; Theresa is the wife of John Schlusser, who lives in the western part of Smithfield township, and they have a son, Paul Louis; Anthony lives near his sister in Smithfield township and married Esther Gabe; John is unmarried and is attending St. Meinard College in southern Indiana; Louise, Albert and Katies are at home with their parents. Mr. Dapp and his family are all earnest members of the Catholic church. Their lives have been such as to earn the warm commendation of all who know them, for they have been true to their highest conceptions of right and in civic life of the community. Mr. Dapp has taken an intelligent interest, giving his support at all times to every movement, which has for its object the advancement of his fellow men. Personally, he is genial and companionable and has won a host of warm personal friends.
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1860 - 1932 (71 years)