Ormond Hupp

ORMOND HUPP.

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Ormond Hupp, second of the family, was born at LaPorte, Indiana, September 10, 1840. He received a common school education and spent one year at Notre Dame, the famous Catholic college of that section of Indiana, but had fiardi)- reached his maturity when the terrible tocsin of the Civil war dispelled all peaceful thoughts from the minds of millions while making an urgent and irresistible call to arms. Septemler i, 1861, Mr. Hupp became a soldier of the Union by enlisting in the Fifth Indiana Battery, under Captain Simonson, of Columbia. He saw much hard service with this command, being in the battles of Stone River, Perryville, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and many minor engagements. He was with General Sherman until the Jonesboro fight, and during the campaign was under fire three months on the skirmish line. October 6, 1862. he was seriously wounded in the shoulder by a fragment of a shell in addition to being severely burned about the body from powder at the battle of Perryville and was sent to the hospital at New Albany, Indiana. On recovering from his injuries a year later, he rejoined his regiment and completed his term of enlistment. He was finally discharged from the service in the winter of 1864. He returned to Indiana and farmer one year and came to Saline county in 1867. Securing a farm, he entered actively into the business of cultivating Missouri soil and met with the success that usually accompanies industry and good management. In 1899 he removed to Slater in order to take life more easily after his strenuous labors and he is spending his time most pleasantly in a home whose comforts. conveniences and luxuries are surpassed by none in this region. Mr. Hujjp has always been a hard-working, frugal man. L'ntil his removal to Missouri he gave his father all his earnings, and e\en while in the army sent him ten dollars a month. The competency he enjoys is due entirely to the thrift and industry he has shown in the last forty years and no citizen of Saline county better deserves a rest as well as peace and happiness than Ormond Hupp. His farm, ten miles north of Slater, is hig-hly improved and shows in its every feature the touch of a master hand. Idie tract now C(tains seven hundred acres, but at one time was a thousand acres in extent. Besides his home farm, Mr. Hupp owns a one-sixth interest in three thousand acres of value)le Canadian land, g-ood farminglands in southern Texas and considerable property in Slater..\11 this is the accumulation of little over half an ordinary- lifetime, and may be said to have been created out of nothing-, as Mr. Hupp did not have a dollar when he first faced the world and its responsibilities. Furthermore, the successful record of Mr. Hupp has been attained in the face of circumstances which at times were so discouragingthat the majority of people would have given up in despair. Duringhis infancy and youth he was the victim of a series of misfortunes and accidents which seemed to pursue him relentlessly, although his later years have been rewarded with an excellent constitution, although crippled, and the enjoyment of most excellent health. When only three years of age he suffered a serious attack of fever, culminating in a paralytic stroke which affected the entire left side of his body and while he practically recovered from the paralysis in a comparatively short time, the growth of his left foot was stunted to such an extent that he is still a cripple from its effects. At the age of five years while placing some wood in the fireplace, his apron caught fire and he was so severely burned about the body that he covered between life and death for a period of six months, his sufferings being cf the most extreme nature. While a boy following behind his father and picking up the burdock his father was cutting with a cradle scythe, a misstroke of the blade was imbedded in his shoulder to the bone. He narrowly escaped with his life from this accident. In addition to the above, he underwent a serious operation for the benefit of his crippled foot, later nearly lost his life in a serious runaway and finally off'ered his services and life if need be in the defense of his country, from which he finally emerged after much suff'ering from wounds to take u]) the battle of life and acquire a home.

In 1873 Mr. Hupp married Laura Margaret Campbell, a native of Tennessee, who came to Livingston county, Missouri, as a refugee. To them have been born twelve children, of whom ten are living: Mary, deceased: lessie K., wife of Llovd Kemper, who lives north of Slater, and they have one child: Luella, wife of Otto Ruppert, who resides near Slater and has two children: Gertrude, wife of Elliot Brown, who has three children: Charles Chancev, who resides at Old Monroe, Missouri, and has three children: Montana, wife of Harry Harper, has three children, and is a resident of Van Alstyne. Texas; Elbert A., of I'fayette, Missouri: Oakland, Willie, Ormmid Roy and Vernon, at home. The twelfth child died in infancy and the mother departed this life on April i. 1907. She was a true, loving wife, a woman of great industry and strength of character and invaluable as an aid and encourage of her husband during his many trials. She was of a decidedly religious turn of mind and for years a consistent member of the Baptist church. Mr. Hupp is a Republican and has served as alderman of Slater, but the great bulk of his time as well as his affections has been devoted to agriculture and stock raising, to which he owed his success and his present enviable position in the world.

As printed in Past and present of Saline County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.