Peter Schenck and Christina Ripper

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Husband Peter Schenck ¹

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           Born: 1806 - Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany 1
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           Died:  - ? Butler Co, PA
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       Marriage: 1828 - Germany 1

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Wife Christina Ripper ¹

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Children

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1 M Adam Schenck ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Jun 1827 - Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany 1
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           Died: 1881 1
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         Spouse: Catherine Oesterling (      -1866) 2 3
           Marr: 1847 1

         Spouse: Catherine Kreps (      -Aft 1895) 1
           Marr: 1870 1

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General Notes: Husband - Peter Schenck

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He learned the harnessmaker's trade in his native land, and subsequently served in the Prussian army. In 1832 he immigrated to the United States and settled at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, where he worked at his trade for a short time and then came to Butler County and purchased a farm in Summit township. In 1850 he bought a farm of 135 acres in Butler township, upon which he located. He was one of the many who went from Butler County to California during the gold excitement, whence he returned to his son's home in Butler stricken with Panama fever, of which he died the day after his arrival.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 790.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 736.

3 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 790, 844.