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JACOB GOTTLIEE REMPP, son of Jacob and Caroline (Bendel) Rempp, the well known carriage and wagon manufacturer of Springhouse, in Lower Gwynedd township, is a native of the city of Philadelphia, where he was born at what is now Tenth and Thompson streets, February 14, 1850.

He attended the public schools of the vicinity until his eleventh year, after which he took it upon himself to earn his own livelihood by doing such work as a boy of his years could find. At the age of eighteen years he went as an apprentice to learn the trade of general blacksmithing with Joseph Henry, of Montgomery Square, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, with whom he served seven years. At the age of twenty-seven years he established himself as a general blacksmith and wheelwright at Springhouse, on the property of the Walters estate. He occupied that place for twenty-six years, until 1901, when he erected and fitted up the large and well quipped establishment in which he has since carried on his large and rapidly increasing business. He is a manufacturer of high class wagons and carriages, and his work has a most excellent reputation wherever it is known. Mr. Rempp purchased the place, and has lived upon it since his marriage, in 1882. The building at present is two stories in height, with a frontage of thirty-two feet and a depth of a hundred feet, and he employs a force of eight men, but contemplates its enlargement to meet the increasing demands of his business. He proposes to build an addition 35 by 40 feet, which is to be operated solely as a blacksmithing department, and will be fitted up with every necessary appliance in the management of the business, particularly for carriage and wagon work. The enterprise and energy displayed by Mr. Rempp in his occupation are greatly to his credit. He is held in the highest esteem by his friends and neighbors generally.

Mr. Rempp married, April 2, 1877, Mary Augusta Louisa, daughter of Julius and Louisa Augusta (Martin) Schlimme. Their children: Julius Henry, born June 10, 1882, attended Cedar Hill public school and the Peirce College of Business, Philadelphia, learned the wheelwright trade, and is associated with his father in business, the firm being J. G. Rempp & Son. He is unmarried and resides with his parents; Florence Gertrude, born November 3, 1888, attended Cedar Hill School, is unmarried, and resides with her parents. She is a graduate of the Dager school.

In politics Mr. Rempp is a Republican. He is much interested in the success of his party, but would prefer that it win success by deserving it rather than by mere force of numbers, right or wrong. The family are members of the Methodist church at Montgomery Square, which they have been attending for many years.

Jacob Rempp (father) was born in Germany, and came to this country when quite young. He located in Philadelphia where he followed the trade of a shoemaker. He married Caroline Bendel, their children being: Caroline, born in 1846, married Philip Bowers, of Philadelphia, who died in Brazil; Jacob G., subject of this sketch; Theodore Robert, born in 1854, married Mary Bitzell.

Julius Schlimme, father of Mrs. Rempp, was the son of Frederic and Augusta (Deitsch) Schlimme. He was born in the province of Hanover, Germany, and arrived in America when twenty-one years old. He married Louisa Augusta Martin, and had the following children: John Martin, born in 1852, married a Mrs. Brunner, and lives at Glenside, where he is the senior member of the firm of John Schlimme & Son, contractors; Mary A. Louisa, wife of Mr. Rempp; Louis Henry, married Lavinia Tyre; William Francis, married Emma Lybreath, of Philadelphia, and (second wife), Mrs. Elizabeth Schlimme, (maiden name Johnson) of York, Pennsylvania; Henry Julius, married Olivia Frazer, of Upper Gwynedd, they residing in Philadelphia; Louisa Hannah, married John Alexander Bell, a farmer of Upper Gwynedd township; Annie, married Edward Dawson, a farmer, of Chester county; Emma, married Rev. Joseph Jeffers, of Camden, New Jersey, they living at Alexandria, Virginia; Benjamin Franklin, married Sadie Kulp, and resides in Upper Gwynedd township. Daniel M., born in 1860, married Elizabeth Johnson. He died at the age of thirty-three years, October 15, 1898, in Elgin, Illinois.