Samuel Tupper, a clergyman in Nova Scotia, and his wife, Mary, moved to Massachusett where they had eight children; Ellen, Rachel (born ca. 1845), Sarah, Gordon (born ca. 1847), Willie, Edward Tupper (born ca. 1855), Henry and Frederick. Gordon Tupper left his Massachusetts home after the Civil War and joined the Frontier Army (Company C, 2d Cavalry). He rose to the rank of corporal, was demoted to private, and finally left the army in 1872. For the next several years, he wandered around western states working as a schoolteacher, a sheepherder, a miner and a cowboy. He never married. Edward Tupper came to Kansas in 1879 to homestead. He settled on a farm near Salina, Kansas. There, he built a house and stable, and raised wheat, corn, peaches and livestock. His older sister, Rachel, came to live with him in 1883. At the turn of the century he and his wife, Ella, were living with his son and grandchild, still on a Kansas farm. It is not known when the Tuppers died.
From the description of Papers, 1867-1885. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13871021
