BIO: ALBERT W. SIPE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 267-268
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    ALBERT W. SIPE. The Sipe Family is one of the oldest in Cumberland county,
  Pa., its representatives having lived here for over a century. The
  grandfather of A. W. Sipe, Peter Sipe, was born in 1771 at Lancaster, Pa.,
  came to this county with his parents when a lad, and located with them near
  Mt. Holly Springs. Peter Sipe was a farmer, and a carpenter by trade. He and
  his wife Mary were Dunkards in religious faith. He died of old age when he
  was ninety-one, and his wife was about eighty-six, when she passed away; they
  were buried in the burying-ground of Baker's Church. The following children
  were born to them: Sarah, born in 1816, married William Kinard, of Cumberland
  county, and both are buried at Mechanicsburg; Elizabeth, born in 1806, married
  Levi Howe, of Cumberland county, and both are buried at Moler's Church; Mary,
  born in 1815, married Jacob Shaffer, and died at York Springs, Adams Co.,
  Pa.; Susannah, born in 1807, married Jacob Steinhaur, and they are buried at
  Mechanicsburg, in Chestnut Hill cemetery; John, born in 1809, went to
  Illinois and lived to advanced age upon a farm near Monmouth; Daniel was a
  farmer in Adams county, where he died in early life; Samuel, born in 1813,
  was a tanner, and died in
    
    268  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  Carlisle; David, was the father of Albert W. Sipe.
    
    David Sipe, born in 1818, was reared upon a farm, and he received a very
  limited education, only attending school two terms. When he was a young man
  he learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, which he followed until he retired,
  a few years prior to his death. In conjunction with his business in this
  line, which was a large one, employment being given to fifteen to twenty men,
  Mr. Sipe conducted an undertaking business, and for some years carried on a
  carpet and wallpaper establishment. He also dealt largely in real estate, and
  to-day there are a number of substantial houses standing in Carlisle which he
  erected. In all of his ventures he was eminently successful. Not only was he
  an excellent business man, but he managed the affairs of the town intrusted
  to him in the same successful manner. It was he who advocated and carried
  through the proposition to put in brick walks in Carlisle, and many other
  equally important improvements owed their conception and fulfillment to him.
  In religion he was a consistent Lutheran and for years was a member of the
  advisory board. Generous and charitable to a fault, he not only gave
  liberally, but reared in his own home several destitute children.
    
    David Sipe married Ann Catherine Weibly, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth
  (Bowers) Weibly, and she survived until May, 1888, Mr. Sipe dying in
  December, 1883. Five children were born to them Mary, who died in childhood;
  Robert, a cabinet-maker of Carlisle; Albert W.; Charles H., a conductor on
  the Cumberland Valley railroad; and William, who died in childhood.
    
    Albert W. Sipe was born July 2, 1852, and was educated in the public
  schools of Carlisle. When he was fourteen he began to earn his living at farm
  work, and at seventeen he began to learn the carpenter trade with Samuel and
  Ephraim Wetzel, serving an apprenticeship of three years. Six months
  thereafter he began working with his father, and for five years was engaged
  in cabinet-making, after which he went back to the carpenter's trade. Until
  1901 he was one of the successful carpenters of Carlisle, but since then he
  has lived retired. He has also dealt largely in real estate, and is one of
  the solid, substantial men of the county. Fraternally he is a member of the
  I. O. O. F., Carlisle Lodge, No. 91, and Encampment, No. 256, and is very
  popular in the order.
    
    In 1876 Mr. Sipe was married to Miss Harriet Brenneman, a daughter of Isaac
  and Mary Brenneman, and one child has been horn to then, Harry B., who resides
  in Carlisle. This young man was married to Miss Leo Myers, a most charming
  lady of Carlisle. He is a tailor, conveniently located on West Main street.
  The members of the family are all connected with the Lutheran Church, and
  uphold the customs of the family in taking an active part in its good work.
  Albert W. Sipe is justly numbered as one of the leading men of the community.
  In politics, like his father, he is a Democrat; the father was formerly a
  Whig. The Sipe family is one which stands well in Cumberland county, and its
  representatives have been men of good business ability, integrity of purpose
  and possessed of marked aptitude in some direction or other.