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CLARENCE P. CIPPERLY, the present popular and efficient cashier of the banking house of Skinner & Minton, was born in Albany, Albany county, New York, November 14, 1862, and is the son and only child of Hiram and Susan L. (Mayer) Cipperly. His paternal ancestors were natives of Holland, but his paternal grandfather Cipperly was born at Sand Lake, Rensselaer county, this State, and was a farmer and manufacturer of woolen goods. His wife was of English descent, by whom he had a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. He was a representative man of his county, His maternal grandfather Mayer, who was a resident of Albany, married a woman of French extraction, named Miss Young and had a family of eight children. Hiram Cipperly (father) was born at Sand Lake, this State, in 1832, and died in Albany, in 1865, at the age of thirty-three years. He was a self-made man, a graduate of the Albany law school and practiced law in Albany until his death. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, in politics was a democrat and married Susan L. Mayer, of Albany, who bore him one child, a son — Clarence P. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Cipperly married Charles A. Kimberly, who had entered the civil war in 1861, and served until the battle of Chapin’s Farm, where he lost his foot. He went out as a sergeant of Co. E., 112th regiment, New York Volunteers, and for meritorious services was steadily promoted until he was brevetted captain. He was wounded several times and was honorably discharged in 1865.

Clarence P. Cipperly was educated in the Union school at Mayville, and in 1879 entered the banking house of Skinner & Minton, in Mayville, as office boy and clerk and has been promoted step by step until in 1884 he was appointed cashier, which position he now occupies. He stands high, not only in the estimation of the business public, but also has the confidence of his employers. In politics he is a republican, is secretary of Peacock Lodge, No. 696, F. and A. M., and is the first charter member of Chautauqua Mutual Life association, of which he is treasurer and a director.

On October 30, 1888, Mr. Cipperly united in marriage with Carrie Juliana Bly, a daughter of J. Frank Bly, a resident of Mayville. To this marriage has been born one child, a daughter: Genevieve.