Union Cemetery

Lipp, William H Sr

BORN: 1847
DIED: 19190926
AGED: 72
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City


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WILLIAM H. LIPP

Redwood City Standard

Thursday, October 2, 1919

William H. Lipp, retired business man passes away at hospital after long illness.

William H. Lipp, pioneer retired business man and one of the best known and highly respected residents of this city, passed away at Hulings Hospital Friday evening about 6 o’clock. Death was due to heart trouble from which the deceased had been suffering for nearly a year. The members of the family were at his bed side when the end came.

William Henry Lipp was born in Roxbury, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1847. When he was only two years old his parents came to California, the father engaging in mining in this state and in Nevada. Later the parents returned east and purchased a farm in New Jersey. When the son was five years old, he was brought to California by his mother, by way of the Horn, reaching San Francisco in 1852. Here they were joined by the father.

The son was reared and educated in San Francisco and in 1859, he accompanied his parents to Honduras, where the father was interested in a colonization scheme. The project proved a failure and the parents returned east. The son went back to San Francisco where he engaged in various occupations until 1871, when he became a clerk for the Hanson, Ackerman Lumber Co. remaining with that firm for four years, the last four of which he was in charge of the company’s interests in this city.

After he had severed his connections with the lumber concern, he accepted a position with Duff and Doyle in Menlo Park. While there, Lipp was made deputy clerk in the recorder’s office in this city, a position he held for three years. He then engaged in the meat business in Redwood with Thomas Hind, under the firm name of Hind and Lipp. In 1886, he sold his interests to his partner and purchased the ice business of B. Ramos in this city which he conducted until 1898, when he retired from active life, turning over the control of the business to his son, William H. Lipp Jr.

Lipp is survived by a widow, Mrs. Katherine Lipp, one son and four daughters, Wm. H, Lipp Jr., Mrs. Lillian M. Barton, Mrs. Alice Moosberger, Fannie and Sarah Lipp. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the chapel of the James Crowe Company on Webster Street and was under the auspices of Redwood City Lodge No. 168 F & A.M. of # which the deceased was a member. The impressive ritualistic service of the order was conducted by W. A. Crowell, past master of Redwood City Lodge, assisted by officers of the lodge. The prayer was by Rev. F. A. Brown of St. Peters Episcopal Church. The interment was in Union Cemetery.

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