Biography of Charles F. Hepp, pages 992.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Charles F. Hepp, blacksmith, in the employ of the Wabash Railroad, at 
Butler, Ind., a son of Charles Hepp, was born in Richmond, Va., Sept. 13, 
1852.  In 1863 his father moved to Baltimore, Md., thence to Dayton, Ohio, 
in 1864, and in 1865 to Richmond, Ind., where he lived till 1875, and is now 
in the employ of the Pan Handle Railroad in their shops at Logansport. 
Charles F. learned the blacksmith’s trade, when a boy, serving an 
apprenticeship in the shops of Gaar, Scott & Co., at Richmond, Ind., 
manufacturers of saw-mills, threshing machines, etc.  He subsequently went 
to Logansport and was employed in the shop with his father till 1881, when 
he came to Butler and entered the employ of the Wabash Railroad Company.  
Mr. Hepp was married May 27, 1878, to Flora E. Cariger, daughter of George 
Cariger, of Logansport, Ind.  They have one child---Pearl, born May 27, 
1879.  Mr. Hepp is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has taken the 
Knight Templar degrees.

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