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* Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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REV. SEBASTIAN LIPE.
There is probably no history so interesting to the American
people as that which Switzerland furnishes. The love of
liberty has forged many a link in common for the two
republics so widely separated. Many of the sturdy sons of
the mountain republic have sought homes across the sea. and
lent the fruits of their toil to the trade of the New World.
Rev. Sebastian Lipe, whose name opens
this brief sketch, was born April 12, 1829, in Siblingen,
canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, a son of Jacob and
Ann (Keller) Lipe. Jacob Lipe was born in 1782, and for
a long time followed the trade of a mason and stone cutter.
He had his own quarry, and in connection with that he began
contracting, building houses and furnishing stone, his
business increasing until he employed many hands.
Religiously he was a German Baptist, consistently following
the laws of that sect up to his death in 1852. In his family
were the following children: Rachel; Barbara,
wife of John Weber; Conrad, a tailor in
Germany; Henry, who came to America and died two years
later; George, in Switzerland; Jacob, who
emigrated to America, and died in 1850; Sebastian,
our subject; and Margaret and Anna (both
deceased). The mother of this family passed to her last rest
in 1855.
At the age of eighteen years Sebastian Lipe
left the mountains of his native home, to cast his lot with
the workers of the Western hemisphere. He first found a home
in northern Ohio, Toledo, and along the banks of the Maumee,
and here he worked as a carpenter and joiner, finding
employment in the first cabinet shop in Toledo. At this time
Toledo was only a small village, and could boast of but one
brick store. The year 1849, well remembered as the great
cholera year, found Mr. Lipe in the cabinet
and china business in Toledo, Ohio. The prevalence of
cholera had deadened trade for most branches, and Mr.
Lipe did almost nothing but make coffins. He then
bought a farm and gave up trade. In 1854 he sold his first
land and invested the proceeds in seventy acres in Spencer
township, Lucas county, Ohio, but later he sold off a
portion, retaining only fifty acres, and then removed to
Swanton, Fulton county.
In 1852 Mr. Lipe was ordained a minister
of the German Baptist faith, and while he still worked at
his trade, six days in the week, he preached on the seventh,
and for the past thirty years he has given most of his time
to Church work. The results of his good work have proven
that he was wise in listening to the inner voice calling for
his service in the Master's vineyard. In deeds first, and
then in works, he follows the light he has, and quietly and
unostentatiously, like the faith he professes, is building
his house upon the rock.
In 1853 Rev. Sebastian Lipe was married to
Mrs. Elizabeth Berthoud, who passed to the unseen life
in 1880. No children were born of this union, but Mrs. Lipe
had a son by a former marriage, Jacob Berthoud, who now
lives in Spencer township, Lucas county, Ohio. After the
death of his first wife Mr. Lipe was wedded to
Barbara Ciegler. In 1892 they left the farm,
and in 1893 removed to Swanton, where Reverend
Lipe preaches every Sunday, as does he also in Spencer.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern
Ohio, Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1899. - Page
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