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Show v Gen. William Tripp. General Wm. Tripp, whose demise at Yankton, D-ifcota, was announced in the Herald, the news having been telegraphed, was a brother to Mr. E. B. Tripp, for many years a resident of Salt Lake city. Deceased wes the on of Rev. William Tripp, forty years ago a well known citizen of New EDgland. He was the oldest of five brothers, one of whom was killed on tha battlefield at Gettysburg. The ether three brothers and four BiaterB are etill living. He was a lawyer. At the beginning of the war, while in Sioui city, he organized a company of Dakota volunteers, and did good service under General Sully in the Indian country. Since the war he continued a reiident of Dakota, and was appointed surveyor sur-veyor general of the territory under President Johnson, and held the office until after the election of General Grant. On retiring from that office he began his profession, which he continual until his death, and was city attorney of Yankton when he died. The Dakota Herald, in : noticing General Tripp's death, says of him: "Probably no man ever died in Dakota who left a greater void or will be more generally missed than General Tripp. He was generous to a fault, Bociable, companionable and courteous, and had resided here so many year? that he was personally known to almost everybody." He was buried from his office in Broadway, Broad-way, Yankton, on Sunday, March 30, in accordance with his request. |