Information about Henry Keppele, 1937.

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Information about Henry Keppele, 1937.

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Typed manuscript conveying biographical information about Henry Keppele (Johann Heinrich Keppele) compiled by Frederic Hetzel (f. 1-4), together with Hetzel's English translation, dated November 1937, of a German-language account of the Keppele family in Treschklingen (f. 4-5), the village where Keppele was born, in the Kraichgau region of today's German state of Baden-Württemberg. (Today Treschklingen is part of the city of Bad Rappenau.) The Treschklingen account was written by Heinrich Billmann, pastor of the village church, probably in the 1930s, not long before Hetzel's translation. Henry Keppele, who emigrated to America in 1738, established himself as a merchant and importer in Philadelphia; he was one of the founders of the German Society of Pennsylvania, and served as its first president from 1765 to 1781. Hetzel's sources include Keppele's will and other documents in the Philadelphia City Archives, and Keppele's memorandum book, or diary. Hetzel quotes at length from a memorial written in the register of St. Michael's Lutheran Church about Keppele's wife, Anna Catharine Barbara (née Bauer), upon her death. Information is included about the Keppeles' 15 children, with details about marriages and children for those who survived to adulthood. The descendants of Keppele's son Henry Keppele, Junior, are followed in the most detail. The narrative also includes reminisces about Henry Keppele, Senior, by one of his granddaughters, Catharine Odenheimer Brinton. The Treschklingen account describes the village of that day (population given as 300), and summarizes its history since the eleventh century. The Keppele family is traced back to two brothers, Hans and Georg Käpler, sons of Michel Käpler, who settled in Treschklingen after the Thirty Years' War. The account mentions members of the family who moved to Karlsruhe, and to Odessa, Russia, in the 19th century, and states that there were descendants through a female line still living in Treschklingen at the time of writing.

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Hetzel, Frederic V., 1870-1946.

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Frederic Valerius Hetzel was born in Philadelphia in 1870; his grandfather had emigrated to the United States from Chemnitz, Saxony. Hetzel was a draftsman and engineer at the Link-Belt Company from 1890 to 1918, working first in Philadelphia and then in Indianapolis. He married Grace Keppele Brinton in 1899. After Hetzel's retirement, in 1918, he moved to West Chester, Pa., where he lived when he wrote the present item. From the description of Information about Henry Keppele, 1937. ...

Billmann, Heinrich.

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Keppele, Henry, 1745-1782

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Keppele, Anna Catharina Barbara, 1725-1774.

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Keppele, Henry, 1716-1797.

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Born Johann Heinrich Keppele in the village of Treschklingen, in what was then the autonomous imperial barony (freie Reichsritterschaft) of Kraichgau, in the northwest of today's German state of Baden-Württemberg, in the county of Heilbronn (Treschklingen today is part of the city of Bad Rappenau). In 1738, at the age of 22, Keppele emigrated to America, arriving in Philadelphia, where he settled, and after beginning as an innkeeper, became a prosperous merchant and importer. In 1741 he married...