History of Jackson County Michigan 1881: Abraham H Kipp was
born Nov 12 1829 in Flatbush, Ulster Co, NY. His parents
Abraham & Sally (Turk) Kipp were of Dutch descent. His
mother died when he was nine years old and his father bound
him out for seven years to a man named Andrew Wolven who
lived at the foot of the Catskill mountains. There he
received treatment so abusive that two years after he ran
away, working his passage on a steamboat on the Hudson
river, and went to New York city in search of an uncle, but
his journey was a failure and he returned to Albany. There
he engaged as a driver on the canal but having been worsted
in the fights it was impossible to keep out of and thrown
several times in the canal, he changed his vocation to that
of book agent. In 1849 he went West to take observations and
returned the same year. In 1850 he went to Illinois, worked
out by the month and saved $100, then purchased 80 acres of
land at $1.25 per acre. He sold it and doubled his money. He
traveled through Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Virginia and Kentucky and engaged in speculating. In
1858 he visited friends in Michigan. He decided to return
permanently to Michigan which he did and was married March
10 1858 to Miss Huldah Every. She was born Aug 22 1837. They
have been the parents of 3 children: Flora E born Aug 10
1860 died March 24 1864, Frank W born Feb 12 1865 and
Charlie M born June 28 1871. Mr Kipp lost one eye when a
small boy playing with a gun.