Christ Hupp
To furnish bread to the public is the profession of Christ Hupp of Jonesboro. He is a master of an art which is as old as civilization, and in providing wholesome food is performing a service such as makes some more aristocratic pursuits seem petty by comparison. His finely appointed bakery was established at Jonesboro, March 17, 1909. Mr. Hupp is a thorough man in his business, and an excellent executive. His output has a large local sale, and he makes it a strict policy to use only the best grade of material and follow the highest standards of the baking art. His shop is located on Main Street, occupying a frontage of 22 fee by 100 feet depth.
Christ Hupp was born in Logansport, Indiana, December 30, 1870, was reared in that city, and from the public schools at once began an apprenticeship in the baker's trade which has been his steady occupation all his active career. He worked as a journeyman in his native city, and later was for a number of years employed in the National Biscuit Company's plant at Indianapolis, and also with the Alex Taggart Company of the same city, finally leaving Indianapolis, and locating in Jonesboro.
His parents were William and Augusta (Wandry) Huff. His father was born in Hesse Darmstadt, and the mother in Berlin, Germany, grew up in the old country and the father was for three years in the German Army. After that the parents came to America, but were not married when they left the old country, that ceremony being deferred until they reached Logansport. The father during his youth had learned the trade of blacksmith, but after locating at Logansport, became a teamster and engaged in contract teaming, being still more or less active in that business. He and his wife live in Logansport, and are now respectively seventy-one and sixty-nine years of age. Both are members of the Lutheran Church, and in politics he is a Democrat.
Christ Hupp was married in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Miss Christina Ihrig, who was born at Kokomo, reared and educated there. Her parents were both born in Germany but were married in Indiana, and now live in Converse, where the father conducts a bakers. Both are more than seventy years of age, but still active and well preserved, and are members of the Lutheran Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Hupp have one daughter, Nettie, who was well educated in Indianapolis, was born in 1890, and is now the wife of George Burger, of Peru, Indiana. They have no children. Mr. Hupp and wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church, his politics is Independent, and he is affiliated with the Jonesboro Lodge of Masons, No. 109, and since 1898 has belonged to the Improved Order of Red Men at Indianapolis.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner