Born in Wittenberg, Germany, November 16, 1848, and in 1853 came with his mother to America, his father having previously died in Germany. He located at Monroe, Jasper county, where he remained until 1861, when he removed to Des Moines. In 1872 he entered the office of Doctor Carter, at Des Moines, and in the fall of that year attended a course of lectures at the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from that institution in the spring of 1874. He came to Norwalk, Monroe county, Iowa, and began the practice of his profession, and afterward removed to Greenfield, Adair county. In 1876 he came to Marne, Casa county, and a year later was appointed postmaster of that place. In the fall of 1879 he came to Griswold, where he has since pursued his present business. In October, 1879, he was joined in wedlock to Ephmira Black, of Norwalk, Warren county, Iowa. The doctor is a master mason, and a member of the Cass Lodge, No. 412. Mr. Pipher was elected to represent Cass county in the Twenty-ninth Iowa General Assembly, 1902.