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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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to the Arion, the Liederkranz, and the Manhattan clubs. Mr. Rupperts country place at Rhinebeck is exceedingly com-plete and well fitted out. He has two chief enthusiasms here —his horses and his chickens. There are hundreds of chickens ofall breeds, very many of the finest fowl. These he keeps andraises for pleasure, though he makes the pursuit pay. Mr. Rup-pert bought, about ten years ago, the Hudson River DrivingPark property in Poughkeepsie. This he now uses as a stock-farm, and raises trotting horses. He breeds these in large num-bers, now having over two hundred. Several, a dozen or so, arefamous in speed, but he never races them, and seldom, if ever,drives one. He lives in a handsome house on Fifth Avenue at the cornerof Ninety-second Street. His children are five in number: Colo-nel Ruppert; Frank Ruppert, who has charge of the out-of-town business of the brewery; George Ruppert, who is now inthe Columbia Law School; Mrs. Herman Schalk; and one un-married daughter, Amanda. I
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JACOB RUPPERT, JR. OF the Ruppert stock through and through, cast in a some-what different mold, but nevertheless the son of his father,is Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Jr. He is at his desk as early asare any of his clerks, and long before the first of the invariablynumerous visitors arrive is planning the campaign of the daywith his private secretary, Mr. Maidhof. The finances of theestablishment — a task of the most complicated sort in a mod-ern brewery where advances are made widely — are his especialcharge, and it was his well-known skill in this regard that sug-gested to Tammany Hall, a year or two ago, the advisability ofnominating him as its candidate for president of the Council, anomination that he promptly declined. Fourteen years ago heleft Columbia Grammar School (after passing the entrance exam-inations of the School of Mines) and took the humblest positionin the brewery. The heir of its owner, he went to work as hardas any workman, starting his apprenticeship as a keg-wash

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