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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ZUPP
(CHRISTIAN ZUPP)
C.C. Zupp
As stated in the article by H.P. Lasher, Christopher Columbus
Zupp came
to the Washta vicinity in the fall of 1867. He was born in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania on September 18, 1832, the son of George Peter and Elizabeth
Zender Zupp.
George Zupp and his wife had come from Paris, France where he
was a vet-
erinary surgeon and a soldier in the French army, having served under Napoleon
Bonaparte, He also served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. It
is not
known what year they came to America nor how many of their seven
children were
born in Pennsylvania. When Christopher was two years old the family
moved to
Lansing, Michigan where he grew to manhood. He was first married, at
the age of
nineteen, to Miss Jennie Crofoot, a native of New York and the
daughter of Seth
and Eliza Ann Crofoot.
Mr. and Mrs. Zupp were the parents of two children, Almon D.
and Ida, but
while they were still very young their mother died. Later Mr. Zupp
married his
former wife's sister, Miss Julia Crofoot, and the family moved to Independence,
Iowa. They were the parents of six children. Their names are listed elsewhere.
In September of 1867 Mr. and Mrs. Zupp brought their family to
Douglas Town-
ship, Ida County, making the trip in a covered wagon pulled by oxen.
Jessie (Mrs.
Sherman) had her first birthday during this trip and Blanche (Mrs. Harrington)
was a very small baby.
To a mother of 1968 the hardships of such a trip would be
almost unbearable
but pioneer women were used to such conditions, accepted them, and
did their best.
Not only was the trip difficult but when they arrived in Douglas
Township they had
no home of their own. They moved in with the Samuel Allison family in
their sod
house on the southeastquarter of section two and here the two
families lived that
winter. Mr. Zupp filed a claim on the last forty acres available in
northeast Dougl-
as Township and by spring had a log cabin ready for his family.
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The eight Zupp children all grew to adulthood in the vicinity,
married and raised
their families here, with the exception of Ida who married and lived
at Ponca, Neb-
raska. Thus there are many descendants of George Peter Zupp, French soldier
and adventurer, still living in this area and around the United States.
(The Ida County Book, page 37)
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