of Westphalia, Germany · documented from the public record
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Henry Riepe
Henry Riepe⚭ Mary Volbrink
childrenHerman H. Riepe
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Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa.
Emigrated from Germany in 1850 by sailing vessel to New York.
Worked as a laborer four years, arrived in Burlington 1854.
Farmed in Benton township, then Franklin township (1865), then Flint River township (1880).
Retired to Sperry, Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1903.
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