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Association and the National Educational Association and of the National Coun- cil of Educators. He was the Philadelphia representative in the National Educa- tional Association in 1880, and served on the various committees on courses of study for the public schools. He was also a member of the Penn Club and the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia. Dr. Singer was prominent in the Masonic fraternity, enjoying the rare distinction of being a thirty-third degree Free Ma- son. He was a member of Phoenix Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Mary Commandery, and of Consistory, Royal Arch Masons. He was for many years a vestryman of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal church, Frankford, Philadelphia, where his funeral services were conducted in January, 1909; interment being made in the ancient church-yard at Trinity church, Oxford, near Fox Chase, Philadelphia, where many generations of his family lie buried. He was a mem- ber of the Pennsylvannia Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and will be long remembered among the members of that society for the loyal and patriotic support he gave to its objects and aims.
Dr. Singer married January 27, 1872, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Ellen (Sheppard) Phillips, and two sons survive, Edgar Arthur, (2) and Walter Tresse Singer. Sarah Elizabeth (Phillips) Singer died September 20, 1908.
EDGAR ARTHUR SINGER, (2) was born in Philadelphia, November 13, 1873. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1892, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution in 1894. He followed courses at Harvard University, 1894-1896, being appointed assistant instructor in psychology at that university in 1895; in 1896 was made senior fellow, and in 1898, instructor. In 1903 he was ap- pointed assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1909, was appointed to the chair of modern philosophy in that university. During the Spanish-American war he served as sergeant in Company E, First regiment, United States Volunteer Engineers. He married, in New York city, July 5, 1905, Helen, daughter of Edward Hamilton and Mary Georgiana (Hinman) Bunker, of Montclair, New Jersey. Edward Hamilton Bunker traces his descent through Thomas Y. and Sykie (Raymond), Richard and Lois (Cartwright). Richard and Eunice (Mitchell), Thomas and Ann (Swain), Benjamin and De- borah (Paddock), William and Mary, to George and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker, of Topsfield, England. Jane (Godfrey) Bunker having married (second) Rich- ard Swain, came with him and the children of her first husband to Nantucket in 1660. Edward A. Singer, (2) and his wife Helen (Bunker) have one child, Edgar Arthur, (3), born March 9, 1907.
WALTER TRESSE SINGER, was born in Philadelphia, December 8, 1879. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in 1902 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the same institution and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and of the Supreme Court of Illinois.
HENRY WILSON RUPP
HENRY WILSON RUPP, of Philadelphia, is a descendant on several lines from ancestors who rendered valuable service to the patriot cause during the Revo- lution.
GEORGE RUPP, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born in the little village of Wimmern, in Lower Alsace, Germany, August II, 1721, and was a son of Ulrich Rupp, of Wimmern, and his wife Margaret Holtz, both of whom died in Lower Alsace. George Rupp, married in Germany, Jan- uary 23, 1750, Ursula Von Peterholtz, who was born August 17, 1722, in the town of Rabschwiern, in the duchy of Zweibrucken, Upper Alsace. In the year of their marriage, George and Ursula Rupp emigrated to Pennsylvania. The name has been frequently spelled on Pennsylvania records Roop, and it is probable that the Johan George Roop, who came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Brothers" Captain Muir, arriving at Philadelphia, August 24, 1750, was the George Rupp above mentioned. George Rupp, soon after his arrival in Penn- sylvania, located in that part of Northampton County, now included in Lehigh county, where he took up a large tract of land, including the present Ruppsville, Lehigh county, the first tract being surveyed to him under warrant dated Decem- ber 25, 1752. George Rupp was a member of one of the Ranging companies of Northampton county during the Revolution, under Lieutenant-colonel Philip Boem. He died at Ruppsville, Macungie township, Northampton, (now Lehigh) county, September 13, 1807; and his wife Ursula, died March 10, 1800. They had eight children, three sons, and five daughters. The three sons, Adam Her- manus, John George and Andrew, were all soldiers in the Northampton county militia throughout the Revolution.
ADAM HERMANUS RUPP, fourth child and eldest son of George and Ursula (Von Peterholtz) Rupp, was born at Ruppsville, Macungie township, North- ampton now Lehigh) county, November 6, 1756, and died there August 30, 1831. He was the owner of 280 acres of land in Macungie township prior to the death of his father, when he inherited the old homestead, where he resided until his death. He served four years as a soldier during the Revolution, and was active in the militia organization later, reaching the rank of brigadier general of militia. He married Barbara Berer, who was born in the same locality, July 2, 1767, and died at Ruppsville, December 7, 1847.
JACOB RUPP, eldest son of Adam Hermanus and Barbara (Berer) Rupp, was born at Ruppsville, Northampton (now Lehigh) county, July 13, 1787, and died there, March 9, 1858. He inherited the old homestead and lived thereon his entire life. He married Anna Maria Fogel, who was born at Fogelsville, Macungie township, Lehigh county, March 21, 1788, and died on the old Rupp homestead, in Upper Macungie, December 11, 1866.
John Fogel, the father of Anna Maria (Fogel) Rupp, was born in Lynn township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and died at Fogelsville, Macungie town- ship, April 25, 1849. He was a member of the General Committee of Safety for
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Northampton County in 1776, and later an officer of militia in active service dur- ing the Revolution.
TILGHMAN RUPP, eldest son of Jacob and Anna Maria (Fogel) Rupp, was born at Fogelsville, Macungie township, December 13, 1812, and died in Philadelphia, October 18, 1859, where he was for some years engaged in the wholesale dry goods business. He married, December 17, 1835, Emily Margaret (b. Allentown, Pa., July 24, 1814, d. Phila., Feb. 28, 1886), daughter of John and Catharine (Rhoads) Wilson, of Allentown, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania.
John Wilson, her father and the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born at Allentown, July 9, 1789, and died at Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, March 2, 1864. He was a private in Captain John F. Ruhe's Fifth com- pany, of the Second Regiment, Volunteer Light Infantry, under the command of Colonel Louis Bache, attached to the First Brigade, Second Division, of the Pennsylvania Militia, during the War of 1812-14; which company was stationed at Marcus Hook, from August 27 to November 29, 1814. John Wilson married March 27, 1813, Catharine (b. Allentown, September 28, 1793, d. Bethlehem, April 13, 1883), daughter of
George Rhoads, who was born at Allentown, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1769, and died there, September 12, 1851. He studied law and was in active practice of his profession for many years prior to his death, at Al- lentown, the county seat of Lehigh county. He served as clerk of the County Commissioners of Lehigh county from the organization of the county in 1813 until 1818, and again from 1827 to 1832, was Justice of the Peace 1835-1840; and County Treasurer, 1841-43; after which he resumed the practice of law and continued it until his death in 1851. He married in 1790, Christiana Ealer, by whom he had six children.
Peter Rhoads, the father of George Rhoads and great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Whitehall township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1730, and died in Allentown, December 20, 1814. He was a member of the military company of Volunteers at Allentown, organized for the defense of the town against the Indians in 1763, and from the beginning of the struggle for independence, was one of the foremost in his section in the organiza- tion of the associated companies for service in the field, serving as a member of the Committee of Safety for Northampton county from its organization. He was one of the delegates to the Provincial convention held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1776; and was a member of the State Council of Safety, from July 24, 1776 to March 13, 1777. He was a member of Assembly from 1777 to 1780; was com- missioned President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton coun- ty, June II, 1777, and filled that position until the adoption of the constitution of 1790, under which he was commissioned an Associate Justice, August 17, 1791, which latter position he held until 1809. October 13, 1812, he was ap- pointed senior associate justice of the new county of Lehigh and retained that office until his death. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1789-1790 and was chairman of the county convention which met at Beth- lehem, October 22, 1787, for the adoption of resolutions approving and accepting the federal constitution. He married, in 1768, Sabina Roster, by whom he had four children ; George Rhoads above mentioned being the eldest. Tilghman Rupp, and Emily Margaret Wilson had five children, of whom-
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HENRY WILSON RUPP, the subject of this sketch was the eldest son of Tilgh- man and Emily Margaret (Wilson) Rupp. He was born at Treichlersville, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and came to Philadelphia with his par- ents in 1849. He learned the jewelry business and is still engaged in that business as a member of the well-known firm of Bailey, Banks & Biddle at 1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Mr. Rupp married, in Bethlehem, Penn- sylvania, May 12, 1859, Ellen Maria Guetter, who was born in Bethlehem, June 28, 1836, and died in Philadelphia June 26, 1899. They had three children only one of whom survives, a daughter, Carrie Guetter Rupp, born in Philadel- phia, July 25, 1867, married Herbert G. Leonard, now residing at 5413, Pulaski Avenue, Germantown. The first born, Tilghman Rupp, was born and died at Concord, North Carolina, April 9, 1860. The youngest child, Henry Guetter Rupp, born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1868, died October 17, 1896, un- married. He was a member of the Society of the War of 1812, being the youngest member of that society at his death. From the minutes of the So- ciety meeting succeeding his death we abstract the following :
"Henry G. Rupp, a member elected in 1894, died October 16, 1896. We learn that he was an earnest worker in all pertaining to the interests of the Society, and his loss will be greatly felt. A descendant of a gallant soldier and patriot."
Henry Wilson Rupp, the subject of this sketch was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, February 1I, 1902, as a great-great-grandson of Private George Rupp, (1721-1807), of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, Rangers. He is also a member of the Society of the War of 1812, being admitted in 1893, the Pennsylvania German Society, the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania and the Moravian Historical Society of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM PARTRIDGE GILPIN
The Gilpin family, founded in America by Joseph Gilpin, of Dorchester, County Oxford, England, who came to Pennsylvania and settled in Birmingham township, Chester (now Delaware) county, in 1695, is of Norman origin.
BERT DE GUYLPYN, came to England in the train of William the Conqueror in 1066, and founded the family in that country.
RICHARD DE GUYLPYN, the first representative of the family of whom we have any very definite record, was secretary to the Baron of Kendal, in the reign of King John, and accompanied him to Runnymede. He was known as "Richard the Rider," and, while serving the Baron, performed a signal act of bravery in slaying a fierce wild boar which had long preyed upon the flocks and herds in the valleys of Westmoreland and Cumberland. For this service Baron Kendal in 1206, granted to Richard de Guylpyn, an estate of some 4,000 acres in the English Lake district about ten miles from Lake Windermere, County Westmoreland, which was created into the manor of Kentmere, on which Richard erected "Kentmere Hall" an imposing castle still standing, which was the home of the Gilpin family for five centuries. In honor of his heroic feat the coat of arms of the Guylpyn family was changed from the Norman armorial bearings of his ancestors by having a boar as its central figure. This change is recounted in an ancient poem called the "Minstrels of Wandwemere," as fol- lows :-
"Bert de Gylpn drew of Normandie, From Walshelin his gentle blood, Who haply heard, by Bewley's sea, The Angerins' bugles in the wood. His crest, the rebus of his name, A pineapple-a pine of gold, Was on his Norman shield; and, Sincere in word and deed, his fame extolled.
But Richard, having killed the boar, With crested arm an olive shook, And sable boar on field of or, For impress on his shield he took. And well he won his honest arms, And well he won his Kentmere lands, He won them not in war's alarms, Nor dipt in human blood his hands."
The arms recorded in the College of Arms and thereafter borne by the de- scendants of Richard de Guylpyn, were, "Or. a boar sable, langued and tusked. gules"-Crest, A dexter arm embowed, in armor proper, the naked hand grasp- ing a pine branch fesswise, vert. Motto-Dictis Factisque Simplex.
RICHARD DE GYLPYN, grandson of Richard the grantee of Kentmere, inherited his grandsire's lands and titles, and, in the reign of Henry III, received the grant of the Manor of Ulwithwaite, the original patent for which is still in possession of his descendants. From this Richard de Gylpyn both Kentmere and Ulwith- waite descended to his son of the same name and passed successively from
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father and son for six generations from the latter. The family name became gradually modernized, first by dropping the "u" in the name, then the Norman prefix "de" and finally by substituting "i" for th "y."
RICHARD GILPIN, of the ninth generation from the grantee of Kentmere, was the first of the family to spell the name in its modern form. He inherited the manor of Kentmere, which, because his eldest son William Gilpin was killed at Bosworth Field, August 22, 1485, in the lifetime of his father, passed to the second son.
EDWIN GILPIN, whose second son, Bernard Gilpin, "The Apostle of the North" was one of the most prominent figures in the ecclesiastic history of England. He was born at Kentmere Hall, in 1517, educated at Queen's College, Oxford, made a Fellow of the college and, taking priest's orders, was made one of the head masters of the college by Cardinal Woolsey, its founder. In the first di- visions arising among the students and faculty, which led up to the English Reformation, he took sides against the "protestants" but having some doubts of the correctness of his views, he gave the subject diligent study and became con- vinced that he and the church were in error and was thereafter one of the most prominent exponents of the Protestant religion of his time. He was many times tried for apostacy, but always escaped conviction by the influence of his uncle, the bishop of Durham. The life of this remarkable man has been written by many prominent religious historians, and Scott's painting of "Gilpin in Rothbury Church" hangs at Wallington Hall, Northumberland. A memorial window in Durham cathedral also commemorates important episodes in his car- eer. He was licensed by King Henry VI, as a general preacher of the Gospel throughout the kingdom, and after serving several years as vicar of Norton in the diocese of Durham, of which his maternal uncle was bishop, resigned his charge and for several years pursued his theological studies on the continent. Return- ing to England toward the close of Queen Mary's reign, he was appointed by his uncle, the bishop, archdeacon of the diocese of Durham, and became resident rec- tor of Essington. As archdeacon he attacked so vigorously the ignorance, su- perstitions and inefficiency of the priests that the bishop was forced to discharge him, and transfer him to the rectorship of Houghton-le-Spring. The priests however carried their case to the bishop of London, Dr. Bonner, and war- rants were issued for his arrest. Without waiting for the execution of these warrants he started to London, expecting to suffer martyrdom, but the death of "Bloody Mary" before his arrival put an end to the persecution of the Protest- ants and he returned to his rectorship, though offered the bishopric of Carlisle, which he declined. His parish in the north included fourteen villages and was one of the richest benefices of the north, the whole income of which he spent in char- ity and beneficence, keeping open house for travellers and furnishing periodical feasts to his poorer parishioners, beside distributing vast amounts of provisions in his parish. He was known all over his parish as "Father of the Poor." He founded a grammar school for boys in his parish, and assisted a great number of the more promising students therein to enter universities, always maintaining at least six scholarships for them in the leading universities. His death occurred March 4, 1583.
WILLIAM GILPIN, eldest brother of the "Apostle of the North," inherited Kentmere Hall, and it passed on his death, January 23, 1577, to his son George,
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and on the death of the latter to his son, Charles Gilpin, but the latter being a captain in the army of Charles I, at the time of the civil war, he lost his in- heritance with the downfall of the House of Stuart. William Gilpin married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Washington, of Hall Head, West Moreland, great grandson of Robert Washington, Lord of Milburne, ancestor of George Washington. This relationship may have accounted for the intimacy between members of the two families in America.
MARTIN GILPIN, one of the younger sons of William, was the ancestor of the American branch of the Gilpin family. He married, in 1580, Catharine Newby and died at Kendal, Dec. 18, 1629. His widow died at Kendal, in 1634. They had eight children, of whom Isaac, one of the younger sons, was the father of Richard Gilpin, D. D. (1625-1699), who first studied medicine and later en- tered the ministry; eminent for his piety and learning, first a rector of Gray- stock, later a staunch Presbyterian divine at New Castle-on-the-Tyne, still later the purchaser of Scaleby Castle, County Cumberland, where he died. Some of his descendants later migrated to America.
BERNARD GILPIN, eldest son of Martin, above mentioned, married Dorothy Ayrey and died April 21, 1636, leaving several sons and daughters.
THOMAS GILPIN, one of the younger sons of Bernard and Dorothy (Ayrey) Gilpin, was the ancestor of the Pennsylvania Gilpins as well as of Benjamin West, the artist, his daughter Ann, having married Thomas West, of Long Grandon, County Bucks, England, grandfather of the painter, whose father John West, came to Pennsylvania some years later than his cousin, Joseph Gil- pin, though William West, another son of Thomas and Ann (Gilpin) West, emigrated about the same date as Gilpin and settled in Chester county, where he has left descendants. Thomas Gilpin resided at Mill Hill, parish of Eaton, Westmoreland, on the borders of Lancashire, and had five sons and five daugh- ters.
THOMAS GILPIN, youngest son of the above named Thomas, was born in Westmoreland, in 1629, and died at Warborough, Oxfordshire, February 3, 1682. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and an eminent preacher of that sect, suffering numerous imprisonments and other persecutions for his religious convictions. He married in 1645, Joan, daughter of Thomas Bartholo- mew, of Shillingford, in Warborough, who was born 1625 and died 1700-1. He had four sons and three daughters, the record of whose births appear on the early Friends' records.
JOSEPH GILPIN, third son and sixth child of Thomas and Joan (Bartholomew) Gilpin, was born, June 8, 1663, at Warborough, Oxfordshire, and at the date of his marriage, February 23, 1690-1, was a weaver at Dorchester in the same county, as shown by the certificate of his marriage to Hannah Glover, "of Ichingwell in ye parish of Kingsclerc, and County of Southton, spinster, daugh- ter of George Glover of the same place, deceased, and Alice his wife, him sur- viving," at "an Assembly of the People of God called Quakers, in their pub- lick meeting place at Baghurst, County of Southton, aforesaid." Which certifi- cate is entered on the records of Concord Friends Meeting, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where the certificate of Joseph Gilpin and his wife "from Friends in England" was deposited February 10, 1695-6. Alice Glover, the mother mentioned in the above quoted certificate was a sister to William Lam-
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boll, of Reading, Berkshire, England, who by deeds of lease and release dated June 28 and 30, 1683, purchased of William Penn 625 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. George Glover, had beside Hannah Gilpin, another daugh- ter, Alice, who December 19, 1680, married John Brunsden, of Bucklebury, to whom William Lambol, by deed dated August 2, 1684, conveyed 100 acres of his Pennsylvania land. October 12, 1684, he conveyed another 100 acres thereof to his sister Alice Glover, of Dorchester, County Oxford, for her use for life, then to her daughter Hannah Gilpin. John and Alice (Glover) Brunsden came to Pennsylvania to settle on the land conveyed to them by Lamboll, and by vir- tue of warrant of survey, dated November 11, 1684, the whole 625 acres were laid out in Birmingham township, Chester county, to John Brunsden, for the said William Lamboll, who never came to Pennsylvania, dying at Reading, County Berks, England, October 3, 1720, in his eighty-sixth year. By deed, dated December 9, 1704, he conveyed 75 acres to Joseph Gilpin, and by another deed, dated May 18, 1716, 250 acres of the 625 acre purchase, making their holdings on the Brandywine, 425 acres. This tract was nearly a century later the scene of the historic battle of Brandywine. Joseph Gilpin, his wife Hannah and their two eldest children arrived at New Castle in the autumn of 1695, and from thence made their way on foot to their new home in the primitive wilderness, still inhabited by the Indians, with whom he and his family remained on inti- mate terms for many years. Their first residence was in a cave on the bank of the Brandywine, where their first American born child was born. Joseph Gilpin was the patriarch of the early English settlement of that section and for many years acted as the agent of later settlers in securing homes for them in the wil- derness. He died on his Birmingham plantation, November 9, 1739, and his widow and the mother of his fifteen children survived until January 12, 1757, when all of her fifteen children were married, and she had sixty-two grand- children, and several great grand-children.
SAMUEL GILPIN, the eldest and second child of Joseph and Hannah (Glover) Gilpin, was born at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England, June 7, 1694, and ac- companied his parents to the wilderness of southern Pennsylvania when a year old. He married, January 25, 1722-3, Jane Parker, and settled on a farm in Con- cord township, .Chester county ; the old home, in Birmingham, which became the headquarters of General Howe during the battle of Brandywine, in 1777, passing to his younger brothers and their descendants. In 1733, Samuel Gilpin and his family removed to Nottingham township, Cecil county, Maryland, set- tling a tract of 700 acres, previously purchased on the great northeast arm of Chesapeake bay, which was long known as Gilpin's Falls, or Gilpin's Rocks, the site of the present town of North East. A natural water power there, has been converted into a great hydro-electric plant, owned by the Gilpin's Falls Electric Company," which supplies Elkton and the neighboring places with light and power. Here Samuel Gilpin lived until his death, December 7, 1767. He was interred in a family burying ground, at "Gilpin Manor" the estate of his son Joseph, hereafter mentioned. He served as a member of the provincial Assem- bly from Chester county, Pennsylvania for the term of 1729-30.
Jane Parker, the wife of Samuel Gilpin, (b. Mar. 24, 1701) was a daughter of John Parker, of Philadelphia, who had come from Bingley, Yorkeshire, Eng- land, and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Doe, said to have been a Huguenot
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refugee from France. Mrs. Gilpin survived her husband, and resided from his death with her son Joseph at Gilpin Manor, where she died, August 8, 1775. They had four sons, Joseph, Thomas, Samuel, and George, and three daughters, Mary, Hannah and Rachel.
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