Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John H. RAPPLE, dealer in livestock and proprietor of Rapple's meat market, No.3, North Bluff 
street, Joliet; is a native of this county; he was born in Joliet Township, on the 20th of 
January, 1848; he is a son of Simon RAPPLE, who came to Will County from Alsace, in 1845; 
he was educated in the parish schools of Joliet; he followed farming until 1870, when he 
engaged in business for himself in the confectionery trade; in July, 1874, he went to 
Southwestern Kansas and opened a farm and remained there until the summer of 1877, when 
he returned to Joliet and engaged in his present business.