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THEDORE KUEPPERS
THEDORE KUEPPERS, bookseller
and stationer of Stockton, was born in Treves, (in German “Trier”) on
the Moselle, in Prussia, October 13, 1853, a son of Herman Joseph and Katharine
(Ruebhusen) Kueppers. The parents with their only child, the subject of this
sketch, came to America in 1854, and settled for a time in Chicago, afterward
residing in different sections of the Western States of the Union--in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, Sioux City, Iowa, and Atchison, Kansas. The father, a man of
liberal education, was by profession a civil engineer and architect, and found
profitable professional employment in the different cities in which he resided
in the East as well as on this coast. The family came to California in 1875,
remaining in San Diego until 1880, when they removed to San Jose and thence to
this city in the same year. Here the father died, April 23, 1889, in his
sixty-seventh year. The mother, born about 1825, is still living in this city
in 1890.
The subject of this sketch first engaged
in active business on his own account in 1875, in San Diego, California,
forming the partnership of Schneider & Kueppers, booksellers, stationers,
etc., until the fall of 1879, when upon dissolution of said partnership he came
to Stockton about 1st of March, 1880, and has been here engaged on
the same line, and, with the exception of the first six months, at his present
place of business, No. 179 Main street. Mr. Kueppers is a member of the
Eintracht-Verein of this city.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 483. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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