Charles Eastman Tripler is the son of Archibald Brown Tripler and Sophia Jenkins. His middle name may have come from Albert L. Eastman.
His 1872 passport application states his birth date as August 10, 1849.
On July 16, 1853, he is returning on the Kinsman boat from Matanzas, Cuba to New York City age 4 with his mother Mrs. S. L. Tripler.
Several of his siblings died young.
In 1860, he is living in New York City with his grandmother, Sophia Jenkins, and Albert Eastman. His mother had died and his father is abroad. He is ten years old.
In the 1870 federal census...
An 1872 patent application lists him as a resident of Philadelphia. Many Triplers lived in the Philadelphia area. I have not established any connection between the New York City Triplers who emigrated from England and the Philadelphia-area Triplers who emigrated from Germany. From time to time, some of the New York City Triplers take up temporary residence in Philadelphia.
The United States patent is #00131721 entitled "Improvement in Apparatus for Operating Salt-Brines, &c".
He has a son Lorenzo Eastman Tripler born in 1875 who is presumably named after Albert Lorenzo Eastman.
In the 1880 federal census, he is listed as living in New York City at "Boulevard to the Hudson", age 30, with an occupation of scientist. He has a wife Isabella S. who is 28, and his son Lorenzo is four years old. Also living with him is an aunt named Sophia A Dixon who is 60 years old.
A patent application in 1891 in New Zealand lists his address as 40 East 77th Street, New York. The application is for "improvements in the method of and apparatus for amalgamating and separating precious metals from powdered ore or earth".