Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Kenton Co. REV. WILLIAM TAPPERT was born in Dueren, Germany, in 1848, and is a son of Adolph and Catherine (Hahn) Tappert, natives of Germany. Our subject was educated in his native country. In 1870 he immigrated to the United States, and entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary, at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was ordained a priest in 1872, and went to Cold Springs and Alexandria, Campbell County, for one year. Then returning to Covington, he took charge of St. John's Church for six years, and December 12, 1879, took charge of the Mother of God's Church, with his brother, Henry M. The latter was born in 1855 in Germany, where he was educated, and immigrated to America in 1875. He entered St. Mary's Seminary, and studied theology four years, when he was ordained May 22, 1879. He took charge of a church at Frankfort, Ky., for six months, when he went to Covington to assist his brother. They are Democrats politically. Tappert Hahn = Campbell-KY OH Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/tappert.w.txt