Thomas Tripler (about 1766 - 1843) was born in England and moves to New York City. He died age 77.
He had been an auctioneer in the southern part of Manhattan, selling various goods as part of a variety of firms which published frequent advertisements.
Thomas Tripler marries Elizabeth Lowle on October 31, 1790 in St. Mary le Bone, Middlesex. Elizabeth is the daughter of Peter Lowle, a cabinet-maker who by 1795 is living in New York.
A wife of a Thomas Tripler dies in 1803 age 33 which means she was born about 1770. She was buried at St. Paul's church yard in New York City.
Thomas and Elizabeth seem to have three children:
1. William Tripler (1794-1825). William is born in England.
2. Susan P. Tripler Robertson (about 1795 - 1847)
3. John Henry Tripler born about 1799.
In 1808, he is listed in a city directory as at 2 Pine Street. Pine Street parallels Wall Street.
He declares bankruptcy in 18xx
In 1841, his location is 85 Beekman Street.
Thomas is an inspector at the Customs House.
He is also an auctioneer.
There is a curious Albany newspaper article that discusses his appointment.
His second wife is Jane Stuart. With Jane, Thomas has additional children including
4. Charles Stuart Tripler (1806-)
5. Edgar Tripler (1808 - )
6. Henry Tripler
7. Charlotte Matilda, born 1812.
8. Jane Elizabeth Tripler
9. Caroline Augusta Tripler James.
Jane Stuart has several sisters and at least one brother.
Charles Stuart Tripler, was born on January 19, 1806 and baptized on May 4, 1806 at Trinity Church in New York City. On the same day, his half brother who is almost seven, John Henry, is baptized. Since Charles Stuart Tripler is born in 1806 and Elizabeth Tripler dies in 1803, Thomas and Jane must have married at some time in the interval.
Thomas and Jane have a daughter Charlotte Matilda who was born on April 30, 1812 and baptized on August 26th 1812 at St. Paul's Chapel. Jane Stuart has a sister named Charlotte.
Father of Charles Stuart Tripler
One source of information about a New York City Tripler family is a book of reminisences of Eunice Tripler, the wife of Charles Stuart Tripler, an army surgeon.
Charles' wife Eunice Hunt describes her father-in-law as from New York, a merchant, who dies a year after her marriage. She marries on 2 July 1841 in Detroit. Thomas Tripler dies in 1843.
Charles Stuart Tripler is presumably named after a brother of his mother who has the name Charles Stuart. He is known as an abolitionist, an Englishman who also lives in Canada and helps settle former slaves in a community just north of Detroit.
Eunice states that Charles Stuart Tripler has a cousin George Rankin who is a doctor. George is the son of George Rankin and Mary Stuart. They are married in New York in 1795 and live in Canada. Mary Stuart must be a sister of the mother of Charles.
Some of Thomas' children have another mother. Eunice Tripler describes Charles as having step-brothers. According to this statement,
pp. 83-4
"Dr. Tripler had been a successful merchant in New York. As he prospered, he invested in land, then comparatively cheap. He sold his estate on Orchard St. and went further North. At last Dr. Tripler's two half-brothers became involved in business entanglements and got their father to become their security. They failed and he lost his whole fortune, the creditors taking even the family silver with the crest.
The reverse in family affairs was so sudden and complete it caused a revulsion in all plans, and my husband, then only a little boy, but in preparation for college, was apprenticed to an apothecary, a Mr. Stephen Brown."
These step-brothers must be older than Charles.
Eunice also describe the builders of Tripler Hall as step-brothers of Charles. She describes these brothers of going to South America. We know that the builder of Tripler Hall was 25 in about 1850. That means that he was born about 1825 and so is considerably younger than Charles Stuart Tripler who was born in 1806.
It is the brothers Archibald Brown Tripler and William Creighton Tripler who build Tripler Hall.
Charles Stuart
Charles Stuart is the author of the article "The West Indies Question", published in the April 1832 edition of The Quarterly Magazine and Review.
He writes "Remarks on the Colony of Liberia and the American Colonization Society" in 1832.
In 1836, he publishes the "Memoir of Granville Sharp, To Which is Added 'Sharp's Law of Passive Obedience', and an Abstract from his 'Law of Retribution'."
"The father of Mrs. Tripler was Hugh Stuart, formerly Governor of Bermuda. This was the royal line of Stuarts. This Governor Stuart was visiting in New York at the outbreak of the war of 1812 and was not suffered to leave. Indeed, he made his home with his daughter until his death. The Uncle of Mrs. Tripler was Sir Archibald Campbell, President of the East India Company."
There are no governors of Bermuda named Hugh Stuart. There is a Hugh Stuart in Bermuda in 17xx who is an army engineer with financial problems.
Possibilities for Sir Archibald Campbell include
Sir Archibald Campbell (1769-1843), wife Helen McDonald, married 1801.
Sir Archibald Campbell (1739-1791), Governor of Jamaica, wife Amelia Ramsay, daughter of Allan Ramsay.
A Lieutenant Hugh Stuart of the Royal Garrison Battalion dies at Mount Pleasant in 1811.
The Garrison Battalion was formed in 1778 in New York City.
Graduated from Columbia University in New York with a degree in medicine.
Eunice describes Charles Stuart Tripler's mother as living with them for a couple of years in Michigan. She also describes her mother-in-law's father as living with her mother-in-law until his death.
Son Edgar
Edgar Tripler is born in 1808 in New York City. The 1880 Federal census describes his father as born in England and his mother as born in the West Indies.
Having a mother born in the West Indies would match the description provided by Eunice Tripler that Charles' mother was born in the West Indies.
In 1853, Edgar marries Gertrude Hardenbrook, the daughter of Samuel Wyvill of New York.
Edgar Tripler is an examiner in the woollens loft in 1841 at the New York City Custom House and is involved in several trials. Jesse Hoyt, the Collector of the Port of New York who is removed from his job in 1841, writes this about Edgar in 1842:
"I have been thus particular in regard to Mr. Tripler, because he is still in public service, and for the purpose of enabling you to enquire other than through present investigating Committee, whether he is a a proper person to remain in such service."
Jesse Hoyt is appointed in 18 when Swartwout leaves office because of an embezzlement scandal. He seems to take particular issue with Edgar Tripler's continued employment.
The interferences of one or more of the Commissioners, in procuring the removal of the particular officers in the Customs, who had been active and successful in the detection of the frauds, and in bringing the perpetrators to justice, and whose testimony was indispensable to the United States in the trials of seizure cases, and the unworthy attempt made, before and after removal, to destroy their characters, so as to render their testimony in Court ineffectual, by procuring false statement, affecting their official conduct, from persons who had been discarded for cause, from the appraiser's stores, and from others who sought to preserve their stations, and who, for such statements, were promised retention therein, or restoration thereto. To state some cases of the kind: Mr. Tripler, who made one of those statements, is still retained, in the face of public charges of misconduct, which came to the knowledge of the Commissioners, without even an investigation into his conduct.
page 6.
Edgar has a story of his own to tell. Below is a summary of the problem from the Congressional Report number 669 entitled "New York Custom-House" dated April 28, 1842:
"In the mean time, Mr. Cairns was introduced into the woollens' loft, and the regular appraisers, who had refused to raise the standard of value, in opposition to the repeated advice and recommendation of Mr. Hoyt, who complained to the Secretary of the Treasury, and requested his interposition in aid of his efforts to bring the appraisers into a co-operation with his views in this respect, were driven from the woollens' loft, and their signatures to appraisements were merely required as a matter of form, and the entire control of that loft was given to Mr. Cairns, whose appraisements on all occasions were adopted by the collector in lieu of those made by the regular appraisers."
Edgar is described as the brother of Charles Stuart Tripler in an 1890 Brooklyn Eagle article.
"To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle:
What has congress done with the French spoilation claim? It is said that a number of Brooklynites are among the heirs: if so, who are they?
Answer -- Little if anything has been done in the matter for some years. Early in the last session of congress the subject was called up, but nothing was done. Information as to the present status of the question may be obtained by referring to the Congressional Record.
There are a number of Brooklyn claimants. The Tripler family figured most conspicuously as such. The original claimants among them were John H., Henry E. and William Tripler, Dr. Charles S. Tripler and Charles S. Tripler, Susan, Jane and Augusta Tripler. Of these the most prominent were Dr. Tripler and his brother Edgar. The former was medical director of the army of the Potomac under General McClellan. He married an adopted daughter of General Lewis Cass, of Michigan. Edgar Tripler is an ex-deputy sheriff of Kings County. John H., Henry E., William and Susan, Jane and Augusta Tripler are dead. Surviving heirs are John Henry, Thomas E., Augusta Earl and Creighton and Archibald Tripler, who built Tripler hall, New York, in the days of Jenny Lind. They are now putting the claim in shape with the intention of pressing it. They claim that the ancestors, as named, secured $7,000 in 1840. This knowledge is based upon certain information which the present claimants assert was given them by the supposed successful and now deceased members of the family. It is not certain that this is correct, or at least no definite record of such proceedings has yet been found. This last statement must be taken reservedly, as the matter was taken in charge but recently by the surviving heirs, who, through lack of time or some other reasonable cause, are not yet thoroughly informed."
From Hoyt's description, Edgar's father's is Thomas Tripler. Thomas was a merchant, in reduced circumstances and was formerly the partner of Craig.
Edgar goes on to become a sheriff for Brooklyn.
Wikipedia describes Samuel Swartwout, the as having been charged
Francisco del Hoyo
Francisco is born in Spain. The index to naturalization applications [Ancestry link] in New York describes him as 26 years old in 1827 with an occupation of merchant. His date of birth is listed as July 3, 1801.
Francisco is mentioned in The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier: 1828-1845. Whittier was a poet and anti-abolitionist. On page 247, we find this 1837 letter:
"I am now boarding in the family of Don. F. Del Hoyo, a Spanish refugee, whose wife is a sister of Capt. Chas. Stewart. I see all the French and Spanish ladies who are in the city. As a general thing they are not so beautiful as the American ladies. -- There is more dignity and haughtiness in the Spanish ladies, yet on acquaintance they are very agreeable. Del Hoyo is a Catholic."
In the footnote, we read
"Francis Del Hoyo (d. 1862), a commercial merchant in New York, ran a boarding house and apparently worked for the Spanish consul in New York. Francisco Stoughton was the consul in 1837. Del Hoyo's wife was Harriet Stuart (d. 1843)."
Again on page 256, the author describes his stay in New York:
"I am boarding in the family of a Spanish gentleman, F. Del Hoyo, a brother in law of Chas. Stuart. The city is healthy as usual, at this season. Theodore D. Weld and James A. Thome are here with me".
Also in his letters, we find this 1834 description of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston:
"Our hearts were cheered by the presence of our distinguished and beloved brother, Charles Stuart. I can think of him only with admiration and love. His peculiar and solemn eloquence - his fervent zeal - his steadfast faith - his humble reliance upon the Great Pattern of Philanthropy - all unite to render his presence among us the occasion of gratitude to God.
Related foonote: "Charles Stuart (1783-1865), a former captain in the British army, had emigrated to Canada where his abolitionist views influenced Theodore Weld. Hi successfully fought against the influence of the American Colonization Society and by his book, West Indian Question: Immediate Emancipation would be Safe and Profitable (London, 1832), helped spread British abolition to America."
On April 11, 1849 Francisco marries Euphemia Patrullo [Ancestry link] in New York City, described as the sister of Andrew Patrullo who is also a merchant.
A 1857 business directory lists him as a merchant with a business address of and a home address of 20 Lispenard.
At the time of his death in 1862, the New York Times describes him as 67 years old and still residing at 20 Lispenard Street.
Jane Tripler
A Jane Elizabeth Tripler, daughter of Thomas Tripler, is a student of the Moravian in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was born on 9 March 1809. She also studies in Litchfield since she is recorded there in 18xx.
In the 1847 will of Thomas Tripler, she is described as the wife of Brownless.
There is another Jane Tripler who is mentioned as Jane CoXchois in a 18xx newspaper article about the kin of Edgar Tripler. This Jane is younger than the Jane mentioned above. She is found with Max CoXchois in the 18xx census age X and so must have been born about 182x.
She dies in 1877.
Augusta Tripler
In the April 5th 1848 New York Herald is a death notice for Augusta C. James, wife of William C. James and daughter of the late Thomas Tripler. She is 25 and so was born about 1823. She lived at 67 White Street.
The 1847 will of Thomas Tripler describes her as Caroline, married to William E. James of Baltimore.
Henry E. Tripler
Henry was an engraver. He was born in 18 .
He marries
Tripler Hall
In 1850, a musical hall is built in New York. A.B. Tripler is said to be the builder. There is an A.B. Tripler who is born in . He is also said to be someone who sells pills.
From the biography of Jenny Lind by Joan Bulman in 1956, we learn that Tripler was 25.
"A twenty-five year-old speculator, A. B. Tripler, had started to build a special hall for the occasion, to be named the Jenny Lind, but this was not yet finished, as Castle Garden, the largest in the city, was chosen instead."
Where did the money come from to finance Tripler Hall? Perhaps from Francisco del Hoyo?
Sale of the Music Hall
From the New York Daily Times of November 26, 1851:
"SALE OF TRIPLER HALL. At 12 o'clock yesterday, the building known as Tripler Hall, with all its appurtenances, was sold at auction, under a foreclosure of mortgage. The building was erected upon ground leased for the term of twenty-one years, with a right on the part of the lessee to renew his lease at the end of that time for a like period, or if this was declined, he was to receive the appraised value of his improvements. On this lease there was an annual ground rent of $14,000 and taxes, which last year amounted to $1,400, making a yearly rent of $15,400, besides the repairs. The original cost of the building was about $100,000, and the first bid made was for $25,000. From this sum the amount was increased to $47,500, at which sum it was struck off to Mr. John La Farge, the owner of the land."
From the New York Times of December 11, 1868:
"The block of marble-fronted buildings on Broadway, opposite Bond-street, belonging to the estate of the late John Lafarge, was sold yesterday at auction, by E. H. Ludlow & Co. The initiatory building of the present block was a concert-room called Tripler Hall, built by two bold young speculators called Tripler."
From page 133 of the March 1853 Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of New York, volume 9.
"Had they enquired, they would have ascertained that Tripler had withdrawn all his funds from the bank, and was guilty of fraud in attempting to transfer checks which he ought to have returned or destroyed".
Location of music hall.
There is a fire at the business in 18xx.
Archibald Brown Tripler ( -1891)
Archibald Brown Tripler is the younger brother of William Creighton Tripler. Since their father died when they are very young, they were presumably brought up by their mother Harriet and step-father Francisco del Hoyo.
A New York City directory of 18xx lists A.B. Tripler as selling drugs.
In 1850, he is living with the Jenkins family in New York with his wife Sophia. His occupation is listed as "Drug Merchant". The occupation of Sophia's father Shaled is listed as "Broker".
Archibald Tripler marries in Sophia L. Jenkins in 18xx. She dies in 18xx.
A child belonging to Archibald and Sophia L. Tripler named Stuart Del Hoyo Tripler dies on the 8th of July in 1847. Stuart is Archibald's mother's maiden name and Del Hoyo is the surname of his mother's second husband. This suggests that Archibald and Sophia have been married since 1846 or earlier.
A daughter named Mary Josephine dies on the 28th of August in 1848 when a year old. In this case the mother's name is listed as Josephine L. Probably this is still Sophia L.
A daughter, Harriet, one of a twin, and daughter of Archibald B. and Sophia L. Tripler dies on Saturday, September 3rd 1853, age one year, one month and 23 days according to the September 10th 1853 Weekly Herald. That would mean that she had been born in July 1852.
The other pair of the twins would appear to be X Tripler who also dies in 1853.
A Sophia L. Tripler is buried in April 1856 in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery. Another Sophia Tripler is buried at the same place in August 1853. One of these is the mother and the other her daughter.
There is a child baptized in England in 1857 to a "Charles Steward Archibald Brown" Tripler and Anne Madeline Tripler. It is a girl named Marrie Eliza Eleanor Tripler. The location is Pentrich, Derbyshire. The birth is recorded as Marie Eliza Eleanor Florence Tripler at the end of 1856 in the Belper district.
Since Anne Madeline is not Sophia, Archibald must have married in 1856 or earlier after Sophia died.
On the 15th of June 1857, he arrives in New York from England on the Southampton.
In January 1858, he arrives in New York from Cuba.
In 1858, with a British address, as Archibald Brown Tripler, he is granted a patent for Cuban asphaltum.
He arrives again in New York on the 28th of July 1859 from Havana, Cuba on the Empire City.
Tripler marries in 1859 in England. There is a marriage on the 2nd of November 1859 at St. Matthew's Church between Archibald Brown Tripler and Mary Annie Eglinton in the Bethnal Green registration district in London. The father of Archibald Brown Tripler is listed as William Walter Tripler.
Since Archibald has married again in 1859, it must be that Anne Madeline Tripler has died between 1857 and 1859. I have not yet located information about this death.
On February 20, 1860, the New York Times lists an A.B. Tripler as having arrived on the steam ship Quaker City from Havana.
In 1860, a Mr. A. B. Tripler, a merchant aged 35, is described as travelling from Liverpool to Boston on the way to Cuba on the steamer Canada. It arrives in Boston on March 26, 1860.
If these records are both correct, then he must have travelled to England between February and March 1860.
By 1862, the Cuban mining company is at bankruptcy court.
In 1864, the London Review contains an article about the Asphaltum Company and its demise. The business was in Cuba and there was a court case in England.
I wonder what takes Archibald to Louisiana. Is it shipping interests and does he attempt to be a blockade runner?
There are some interesting letters from this time which shed light on his activities and the political climate of the time.
There is a letter from General Butler in 1863 which discusses Tripler bringing goods across Lake Pontcharchain.
From a letter dated February 1st, 1865:
"I beg leave to leave to say that there has been considerable destruction of property at the plantation, but not more than is usual, and much less than I would have supposed on the plantation of a man who says Genl Butler is a dam rascal Genl Banks a dam fool and General Camby an old granny, all of which I heard him (Tripler) say. I further declare that I heard General Lawler tell Mr Tripler that at any time he wished a guard to let him know and it would be furnished. I advised Mr Tripler to have guards. He remarked that he would give a damn for a guard and that it all might go to hell together."
It seems that some others were of similar opinion. Here is a modern review of General Butler from the New York Times.
Indeed, we find amongst the papers a letter of loyalty signed by Tripler as well as a list of goods confiscated and sold at auction.
A letter:
"I have read the complaint of Mr. A. B. Tripler and as requested by X Lawler X X the following statement....
Upon the arrival of this brigade on January 5, I was the Senior Officer present and by direction of X Steel assigned teh X to X on the Tripler X. .... to send a sufficient guard to the house and X, not knowing who the occupants X.
X night before tents were erected the command was exposed to a X storm of rain. I directed by
my regiment to use the fence in X X as best they might for their protection, on the following day. I placed guards around the place nigro quarters included, and gave strict orders that no property should be molested. That guard has been kept on the quarters adjacent to my camp ever since and but little destruction has occurred.
The weather has been most of the time very cold and inclement, and until recently the X has had but a meagre supply of wood. What he reports about the destruction of bridges is undoubtedly true, and I made no effort to prevent it.
To my certain knowledge the negroes on the place have destroyed much of the fencing that has be disturbed since the first night. I have no hesitation in saying that less than one mile of fence has been destroyed. He states that several miles X to him, X in possession of Soldiers of the 29X X Infy. Like the statement about the three miles of fence, this is either a wilful or ignorant falsehood. My Quarter Master states that he has no mules X these X X Governemnt before and since our arrival here. Without explicit orders, I have made every effort in my power to correct promptly every evil that occured X my notice. I have X Lawler offer X Mr. Tripler in the possession of his leased property whenever he (Tripler) ased for it, and from the Generals language I inferred that he would ...
Mr. Tripler makes great claims to loyalty, but X such gross misstatements as he makes, as X, indication of strong rebel sympathy, X .
concerning charges he makes against the X of X Lawler, and Staff - but as ... I will say nothing. Mr. him to face transportation to a more quiet locality.
Respectfully your x x,
X Kent,
Col Cxx R.
An Archibald files patents for methods of preserving wood, important for the railroads.
In 1870, Archibald is living in Louisiana with a wife Marie who was born in England.
The 1870 edition of Scientific American describes his railroad tie design.
In 1871, he is still living in Louisiana based on his patent filings.
By 1872, he starts to describe himself as a resident of Philadelphia.
In 1872, together with his son Charles E. Tripler and business associates, he forms the Pennsylvania Railroad Tie Company.
There is a mill in Florida which goes bankrupt.
In 1875, the Tripler Railroad Cross Tie
His patent in 1878 describes him as a New York resident.
By 1878, he is back in New York and marries again (for the fourth time?). This wife is Mattie Smith who has two children and her mother who are living together. She dies in 1881.
There is another venture, the Standard Fuel Oil Burner company in the 1880's.
In the 1891 British census, he is listed as a married boarder, age 65, at 6 Christopher Street, Shoreditch. He describes his occupation as "Mining Engineer".
The New York Times reports the September 1891 death of a Col Archibald Tripler in upstate New York. No age is given.
There is another Archibald B. Tripler who is born about 1883. His mother appears to be Theresa Zschirner. She marries Patrick Lynch in about 1892. Has Archibald married yet one more time? He is a printer and has a son also named Archibald B. who becomes a chemist.
Charles E. Tripler
Charles E. Tripler is the son of Sophia L. Jenkins. He is recorded in 18xx age x returning from Cuba with his mother. He makes a name for himself as being passionate on the topic of liquid air.
Like his father, he has limited business success.
Charles E. Tripler marries X in 18xx and they have a son Lorenzo E. Tripler.
William Creighton Tripler
In 184x, a William C. Tripler applies for a passport in New York.
William Tripler marries Maria Hall in 1843. Her father is Thomas Hall, an organ builder, born in England. Maria dies in 18xx.
On the 9th of March 1847, a W. C. Tripler arrives in New York from Havana, Cuba on the ship Christoval Colon. He is recorded to be 31 years old which would mean that he is born about 1826 or 1827.
On August 14th 1850, a William C. Tripler is living in the Fifth Ward of New York City, age 29 and is described as a merchant.
William and Maria have several children. After Maria dies, these children remain with the Hall family.
A William C. Tripler of New York, born on the 22nd of July in 1822 applies for a passport on the 28th of January 1851. He is described as six-foot tall with brown hair and blue eyes, age 28.
Elizabeth S. Tripler was baptized at Trinity Church on March 26th 1851.
On the 19th of May 1851, a William C. Tripler returns to New York on the ship Franklin from England or France.
In the diary of Edward Shelley, a Tripler and his wife are his hosts in Mexico between August 22nd and September 3rd, 1858. This is at Huatulco on the western coast, south of Acapulco.
I have not been able to find more information about this additional wife.
In 1863, a William C. Tripler is in Mexico using a ship.
In 1877, a William C. Tripler reports having lived in the area where the steamship went aground for ten years.
In the Congressional Set of 1885, there is a mention of money being repaid to William C. Tripler for a boat taken by the French in 186X. See William C. Tripler v. France.
It appears that William spoke Spanish since he has this government position:
W. C. Tripler appointed January 15, 1872 as translator for the Mexican claims commission, at a salary of $1,500 per annum.
William later mines in South America.
In 1886, the August 20 edition of Iron has this notice:
"SWAN'S CHILEAN MANGANESE COMPANY, LIMITED: Upon terms of an agreement of August 4, this company proposes to purchase from Wm. Creighton Tripler, of New York, and John Cameron Swan, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, certain manganese mines and other property at Coral Qemando, Fraguas, Loma, Negra and Chanaral, in the republic of Chili."
Do these two brothers speak Spanish? If their mother is Harriet Tripler married to Francis del Hoyo, they might have learnt the language at home.
Says Eunice Tripler, page 84:
"These brothers went to South America."
In 1884, Mr. W. C. Tripler discovered mines of this metal [maganese] at Acuba about 30 miles south of Santiago.
In 1892, a William C. Trippler arrives in New York from Liverpool & Queenstown on the Majestic. His age is written as 52. It might be 62.
On September 4, 1893, a W. C. Tripler arrives in New York from Colon, Panama on the Newport. His age is listed as 63.
On October 23, 1894, a W.C. Tripler arrives in New York from Colon, Panama on the Advance. His age is listed as 64.
The obituary for William Tripler says that he was consul for X.
Thomas Tripler and Francis Seagrist
Thomas E. Tripler and Block Island
From the August 29th 1885 New Haven Evening Register:
"To spend Sunday with Chief Nevins of Brooklyn and Thomas E. Tripler of New York, at the latter's cottage, on Block Island, Chief Hendrick went over on the Shore Line road to-day. Chief Carrier of Norwich and Chief Thomas of New London will accompany him."
From the October 2, 1886 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury:
"It is said that Mr. Thomas E. Tripler has bought the land on the South Bluffs, formerly owned by Mr. Wm. L Barker, of New York. Mr. Tripler says he has arranged matters so that parties will give land for a road almost all the way from his cottage to that of Mr. Everett D. Barlow, a mile or more. From this point Mr. Barlow has made arrangements for himself and other parties to give the land neatly fenced with a picket fence, for a thirty foot road extending a thousand feet eastward, and nearly to the ... of the proposed road from the harbor to Mohegan Bluffs. The town is now offered practically, all the land and part of the fencing for a very important road extending nearly six miles. All agree that the road is needed, and must be built soon. It would seem strange if the objection of a few men delay a project now so well advanced."
Bankrupt in 1902.
From the May 23, 1902 New York Times,
"Thomas E. Tripler, a clerk residing at 26 Dykeman Street, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities $79,135 and no assets. He was formerly a dealer in second-hand building materials at 301 Avenue B, one of the oldest dealers in this line in the city, having begun business forty-five years ago, and was formerly wealthy. The debts were contracted principally in 1898 and 1899, and $24,000 of the liabilities were for indorsing notes of F. Baltes. There are ninety creditors, among them being Terence Kiernan, $17,000, money loaned; National Butchers and Drovers' Bank, $5,400; Thomas E. Tripler, Jr., $2,894, money loaned in 1875, and Mrs. Thomas E. Tripler, Jr., $1,207, money loaned in 1874."
Triplers in Japan
Thomas Hall Tripler is a doctor who is the son of William Creighton Tripler. He attends Columbia College and moves to Japan.
From the London and China Telegraph on June 17th 1878.
Births:
On the 29th of April, at Yokohama, the wife of Dr. T.H. Tripler, of a daughter.
The Ithaca Connection and An Attorney General
John Henry Tripler marries Cornelia Ferris Cushing.
Cornelia is the daughter of Leonard Brainard and Mary Cushing.
REFERENCES
Hoyt, Jesse. Letters from J. Hoyt, Late Collector, to the Secretary of the Treasury, (Including Many not bfoer published,) Explanatory of the Action of George Poindexter, and his colleagues, Commissioners for the Investigation of the Affairs of the Custom House of New York. New York: Office of the Evening Post.