Photo: Unity Township, Riplinger Store
Contact: Dorene Newman

Surnames: Domer, Neuman, Newman, Randall, Riplinger, Roohr, Schwender, Young

----Source: Personal Album

Front row, left to right, Laura Young, Minnie (Domer) Neuman.

Back Row, John Roohr, Jim Randall, and Ben Riplinger.

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Photo: Unity Township, Riplinger Store
Contact:  Kurt Riplinger

Dear Dorene,

My name is Kurt Berry Riplinger. My father is Benjamin Mackenzie Riplinger. His father is Benjamin Franklin Riplinger who you have in this photo of the store they owned in Riplinger, WI.

My father is 80 years old now. We showed him this picture and he said right away, "Oh yes, that's the hardware store where we lived in Riplinger until I was nine years old [about 1932]. In the back left corner there was a stairway upstairs. We lived there in a very nice apartment. It had 4 bedrooms, a dining room and a very large kitchen. The store had a gas powered electric generator to bring running water upstairs to the bath tub. We sold gasoline out front of the store with the old hand pumps. It was 4 gallons for a dollar. Once in while it got to 5 gallons for a dollar on special."

Dad seems familiar with all the names in the photo. He has a sister, Grace, who also lived upstairs from the hardware store. Grace will be very excited to see this photo.

I would love to correspond with you about your family and ours. I would love to share what I can.

Kurt Riplinger 1929 Santa Monica Dr. Rockford, IL 61109 (815) 229-0405

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Photo: Unity Township, Riplinger Store

Contact:  Gregory Edwin Riplinger

Benjamin F. is my First Cousin Twice Removed . . . My side fo the Riplinger Family moved from the Colby, Spencer, Riplinger area of Wisconsin in the late 1800s and settled in the Pacific Northwest.  Thanks for posting the photo.  Greg Tacoma, WA

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Photo: Unity Township, Riplinger Store
Contact: Judy Schwender

I am trying to locate information from Unity, Wisconsin from 1907. A signature quilt dated 1907 that will be on exhibition here at the Museum of the American Quilter's Society has Minnie Domer's name embroidered on it. I would very much like to use this photograph in the exhibition. If anyone knows of any other photos from Unity in 1907, please let me know. Thanks!! Judy Schwender Curator of Collections Museum of the American Quilter's Society P.O. Box 1540 Paducah, KY.