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Born 1 January 1817, Germany · in the county from 1839
The tie, exactly: settler and tradesman — born in Germany on 1 January 1817, a son of Charles and Catharine Krupp, whose family came to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1833; Joseph came to this county in 1839 and worked as a blacksmith for several years, here and in Michigan, before turning to the farming and stock business that left him with 440 acres on Section 9.
The course: he married first Sophia Smith in 1842 (she died in October 1851) and second Susan Long in 1853. It is Susan who stands in the 1875 atlas directory — "Susan Krupp, Section 9, produce and stock farm, Montgomery County, Ohio, settled 1853" — a wife holding the farm's directory line in her own name, her settlement year given as her marriage year. Directories of the era rarely print a woman as a patron; the atlas did, and this section follows it: she is named here in her own right, at directory strength, beside her husband's sketch.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches, pp. 715–717 — the Krupp sketch.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas (1875), Harris patrons' directory, p. 103 — Susan Krupp, Section 9, settled 1853.