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HENRY H. LIPPINCOTT, deceased, was a fine type of the man of affairs of his day. His characteristics were careful and scrupulously honest methods in mercantile and financial affairs, and in all things that fine sense of honor which made his simple word as binding upon himself as though it were strengthened by a bond or oath.

He was born in Westfield, New Jersey, June 13, 1832. His youth was passed at the parental home, where he began an education which later was supplemented by a thorough course in Alexandria (Virginia) College, taught by Benjamin Hallowell. He entered upon a mercantile career in the city of Philadelphia, where he was for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery trade. He was known as one of the representative business men of the city, and bore a splendid character for enterprise and probity. Aside from his own large business, he was interested in various other enterprises, and was for several years a stockholder and director in the Girard National Bank. He built a modern residence in Cheltenham township, where he resided with his wife and family until his death, August 25, 1893.

Mr. Lippincott was married October 26, 1858, to Miss Priscilla Parry, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Hallowell) Parry, and they became the parents of four children: Caroline; George H., who died July 8, 1884, at the age of twenty-three years, when he had but fairly set out upon what promised to be an unusually bright and prosperous career; Mary W., and Martha, who became the wife of Wilmer Worthing Hoopes, a member of one of the oldest families of Chester county, Pennsylvania, residing, at West Chester; their child is Priscilla Lippincott Hoopes, born September 25, 1903. The mother of these children makes her residence at Ogontz, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.