William H Lape
Kentucky: A
History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Campbell Co.
William H. Lape was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 18th day of December, 1820.
His father, Jacob Lape, was born in Lebanon, Penn., December 12, 1796, and
settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1818; was by trade a tobacconist, politically a
Jacksonian Democrat; he died of that dread disease, cholera, on the 24th day of
July, 1833.
His mother, Catherine
Hacker, was born in Germany on the 7th day of February, 1793. Her parents
immigrated to this county in the year 1799, landing in New York
City, where her parents remained until 1814. They left New York, and went
to Pittsburgh by wagon, thence by flat boat down the Ohio River, and landed at
Cincinnati in the year 1815. The result of the union of Jacob and
Catherine was four children.
William H. was educated,
what little he received, in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. At the
age of fourteen years, seeing provision had to be made for the support
and education of his three sisters, he concluded to apprentice himself to John
G. Woodin, to learn tin, copper, sheet iron and stove business, doing steamboat
work only. The bargain was, board and $40 per year, for clothes. He
served faithfully for five years.
In the year 1847 he
married Miss Martha Ann Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1850 he removed to
Newport, Ky., where he now resides. He continued at his trade for
thirty-five years, in the same house where he started when a boy, carrying on
the business for himself for eighteen years very successfully. The
marriage union has blessed them with four children, viz: Edward W., William R.,
Carrie L. and Sallie C.
William H. and his wife, Martha., were stanch members of the Christian
Church. Mrs. Lape died August 10, 1884.