Allen County, Indiana - The whole text, 1905 (part 8 of 12)

Thomas Turflinger

The able and popular superintendent of the Allen county poor farm merits consideration in this publication, in order that a record of his official service may be perpetuated and recognition be had of his sterling worth as a citizen. In March, 1901, Mr. Turflinger assumed the superintendency of the farm, to fill the unexpired term of Herman Felts, who resigned six months prior to the close of his term. In June of the same year Mr. Turflinger was appointed to the office for a full term of two years, beginning in September following, and so capable and discriminating was his administration that he was chosen as his own successor in 1903, while there is no reason to doubt that he will again be appointed to the office when his present term expires in September, 1905. There are one hundred and twenty-five inmates in the infirmary as an average, and at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1905, the number is one hundred and forty. The finely equipped county farm comprises two hundred and seven acres of excellent land, in section 15, Wayne township, and the average cost to the county for the maintenance of its indigent poor on the farm is twenty-two cents to each inmate each year, the farm paying the remainder of the expense. On the place are grown all the vegetables, fruits, grain and live stock utilized for the inmates, while the residuum is placed upon the market, the present superintendent having sold as high as one thousand dollars' worth of produce from the farm in one year, while the wards of the county aid materially in the cultivation and general work of the farm. In one year Mr. Turflinger raised five thousand bushels of potatoes on the farm, about three thousand bushels being demanded for the use of the institution itself during the year. In the season of 1904 he set out two acres of cabbage, tomatoes, etc., and on the premises were put up five thousand quarts of canned goods. Two acres are devoted to the propagation of raspberries, most of which are used on the place. The live stock on the county farm is maintained at a high standard, and the cattle are bred from registered short horn stock, so that the grade is kept at a high point. Mr. Turflinger gives his constant and active supervision to the farm and infirmary, commands the respect of the unfortunate wards under his charge and the confidence and esteem of the general public, who recognize the value and fidelity of his services in his exacting office. Mrs. Turflinger is matron of the infirmary, in which there are about fifty women wards as an average, and she proves an effective coadjutor to her husband, having been specially successful in handling the domestic affairs of the institution. On the farm eleven persons are employed, principally in connection with the infirmary building, and including two engineers, night watchmen, a baker, cook, etc.

Thomas Turflinger is a native of the Old Dominion state, having been born in Rockingham county, Virginia, on the 6th of September, 1852. He received a common-school education and as a youth came to Allen county, Indiana, where he worked at the carpenter's trade for two years. He then took charge of the Oscar Symonds stock farm, located south of the city of Fort Wayne, in Wayne township, said farm being devoted to the breeding of Jersey cattle and trotting horses. Of this fine farm he remained superintendent for fourteen years - up to the time of his appointment to his present office. He holds a high reputation as a judge of live stock, especially Jersey cattle, and during his years of management of the Symonds farm he was prominent in stock circles as an authority on matters of care and breeding. In politics the subject is a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, in whose ranks he has been an active worker in a local way, while he has frequently served as delegate to state and county conventions.

In Allen county, on the 3ist of January, 1874, Mr. Turflinger was united in marriage to Miss Lena Ream, who was born in Mercer county, Ohio, and they have five children, all of whom remain at home: Oscar and Orin, twins, are employed as engineers at the county infirmary; Thomas, Jr., assists in the work and management of the county farm, and the two youngest children are Elsie and Burns.

In no profession is there a career more open to talent than is that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and determination fully to utilize the means at hand are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the stern conservator of justice, accomplishment coming only as the result of capability. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the able lawyer, William S. O'Rourke stands today among the leading practitioners of the Allen county bar.

Mr. O'Rourke is a native son of Allen county, Indiana, having been born in Fort Wayne on the 6th day of January, 1858. He is the son of Patrick S. and Eliza (Boulger) O' Rourke, the former of whom was born in New Jersey of Irish ancestry and the latter born in Ireland. (A more detailed personal mention of P. S. O' Rourke may be found elsewhere in this volume.) The subject of this sketch received his elementary education in the public schools of Fort Wayne, after which he attended St. Vincent's College, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, graduating therefrom in 1877. In the fall of that year he began the study of law in the office of Judge Allen Zollars and in 1879 he was admitted to the bar of Allen county. In the same year he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated in April, 1880. In June, 1880, he received the Democratic nominaton for the office of prosecuting attorney of Allen county, and was successful at the polls, serving efficiently for one term. He was then appointed attorney for the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company for Indiana, in which capacity he was engaged for seven and a half years. Because of failing health he then went to the southern states, where he remained for three years, returning to Fort Wayne in 1892. He then formed a law partnership with Col. Robert S. Robertson and has since been continuously engaged in the active practice of his profession. As a lawyer Mr. O'Rourke evinces a familiarity with legal principles and a ready perception of facts, together with the ability to apply the one to the other, which has won him the reputation of a safe and reliable practitioner. In discussions of the principles of law he is noted for clearness of statement and candor; he seeks faithfully for firm ground and having once found it nothing can drive him from his position. His zeal for a client never leads him to urge an argument which in his judgment is not in harmony with the law, and in all the important litigation with which he has been connected no one has ever charged him with anything calculated to bring discredit upon himself or cast a reflection upon his profession.

In 1893 Mr. O'Rourke was elected supreme secretary of the Catholic Knights of America, filling the office two terms. His other fraternal and social relations are with the American Sons of Columbus and the St. Joseph Benevolent Society. In religion he is a consistent member of the Catholic church and lends his support to all movements of a benevolent or charitable nature. In politics he is a stanch Democrat and has for a number of years taken a prominent part in local public affairs, taking a keen interest in campaigns and working earnestly for the success of the party tickets.

On the 11th day of June, 1883, Mr. O'Rourke was united in marriage with Miss Margaret G. Garvey, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and the daughter of P. H. and Mary (Coughlin) Garvey, natives of Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. O'Rourke the following children have been born: Genevieve, Alan G., Donald, William S., Jr., and John Carroll Leo.

One of the representative young members of the medical profession in the city of Fort Wayne is he whose name initiates this paragraph and who has met with excellent success in the establishing of a practice in the Summit City. His office is located at the northwest corner of Gay street and East Creighton avenue.

The Doctor is a native of the old Keystone state, having been born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of September, 1878, and being a son of Alonzo and Mary C. (Otenweller) Bell, both of whom were likewise born and reared in the state of Pennsylvania, the father having for a number of years been engaged in the manufacturing of springs in the city of Philadelphia, where he still resides. His wife also is living. Dr. Bell secured his early educational discipline in the public schools of his native city, having been graduated in the Central high school as a member of the class of 1897. He then took charge of his father's business, continuing in this position about one year, at the expiration of which, in the autumn of 1898, he was matriculated in Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in which celebrated and finely conducted old institution he completed the prescribed courses in medicine and surgery and was graduated in 1902, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was thereafter associated for a short time in practice with his uncle, Dr. Edward H. Bell, of Philadelphia, and in the fall of 1902 he came to Fort Wayne, where he established himself in practice a short time later and where he has built up a representative business in his chosen profession. He is a member of the Fort Wayne

There is no class to whom greater gratitude is due from the world at large than to those self-sacrificing, sympathetic, nobleminded men whose life-work has been the alleviation of suffering that rests upon humanity, thus lengthening the span of human existence. There is no known standard by which their beneficent influence can be measured; their helpfulness is as broad as the universe and their power goes hand in hand with the wonderful laws of nature that come from the very source of life itself. Some one has aptly said, "He serves God best who serves humanity most." Among the physicians and surgeons of Allen county, Indiana, who have risen to eminence within the field of their actual labors is the subject of this brief article, whose career has been that of a true and conscientious worker in the sphere to which he has devoted his life and energy and who possesses a profound knowledge of medicine and surgery.

Miles Fuller Porter is a native son of the old Hoosier state, having been born at Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, on the 27th day of September, 1856. His parents, John Pomeroy and Elizabeth Porter, were both natives of the state of Ohio, being descended from Irish and English ancestors respectively. The subject's early education was received in the public schools of Decatur and also for a few months under the direction of a private tutor. On approaching the years of manhood he determined to devote his life to the practice of medicine and surgery and to this end he matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, at which he was graduated in 1878. Immediately afterwards he entered upon the active general practice in Fort Wayne, and has been numbered from the beginning of his active career among the leading and successful practitioners of this section of the state. For some years he gave attention to the general practice of his profession, but eventually decided to confine his at- tention to the field of surgery, in which he has achieved a most pronounced and distinctive success. In order to get in closest touch with late advances in his profession, the Doctor, in 1888, went to England and for three months devoted himeslf to study in some of the best hospitals in the country. In 1882 Franklin College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts. In Dr. Porter are combined two facts which have been the main contributing elements to his success - thorough preparation and a deep interest in the profession, qualities which are absolutely essential to success. His knowledge of the kindred sciences of medicine and surgery is broad and comprehensive, and in his professional labors he has shown that he is well qualified to cope with the intricate problems which continually confront the practitioner in his efforts to prolong life and restore health.

In 1879 occurred the marriage of Dr. Miles F. Porter with Miss Lillie A. Wilding, who was born at Utica, New York, on September 9, 1854, and is the daughter of James and Ann Wilding. This union has been a most felicitous one and has been blessed in the birth of the following children: Lucile Ann, Charles Darwin, Clara Phelps, Miles Fuller, Jr., James Pomeroy and Elizabeth Lane. The Doctor takes a keen interest in public affairs, though his. professional duties prevent an active participation in political matters. He is not a partisan, always maintaining an independent attitude, voting for those men and measures which meet with his approval, regardless of political party lines. His fraternal relations are with the time-honored order of Free and Accepted Masons. Dr. Porter stands admittedly in the front rank of Allen county's distinguished professional men, and has ever maintained his high standing, never descending beneath the dignity of his profession nor compromising his usefulness by countenancing any but noble and legitimate practice. Possessing a genial and friendly temperament, he has won a host of warm and loyal friends and the sincere regard and esteem of all who know of him and his work.

Anton Kalbacher

Among the earnest men whose depth of character and strict adherence to principle gained to him the respect and confidence of his contemporaries in the business and civic circles of the city of Fort Wayne, stood the honored subject of this memoir, whose death here occurred on the 7th of April, 1904. He was in the fullest sense the architect of his own fortunes, and in his independent business career he showed the tenacity of purpose, the indomitable energy and the self-reliant courage whose natural concomitant is success. He was distinctively one of the loyal and public spirited citizens and representative business men of Fort Wayne, and in this historical work it is proper that a tribute be paid to his memory and the record of his career be perpetuated.

Mr. Kalbacher came of stanch German lineage and possessed in a notable degree those sterling attributes which have made the German-American so valuable an element of our national life. He was born in Hohenzollern, Germany, on the 24th of August, 1841, being the fifth in order of birth of the ten children of Marx and Ursula (Dieringer) Kalbacher, who, in the year 1852, severed the ties which bound them to the dear fatherland and immigrated to America. They located in Delphos, Allen county, Ohio, where the devoted mother died in 1854. In the following year the widowed father came with his children to Fort Wayne, in which city he passed the remainder of his long and useful life, having been seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in 1886. Both parents were devoted communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they reared their children, of whom two are living at the time of this writing.

of about eleven years at the time of the family immigration to the United States. Thereafter he did not have much regular schooling, but this handicap was not of great significance to one of so alert mentality and determined spirit as Mr. Kalbacher, who made the most of the lessons learned under the direction of that wisest of all headmasters, experience. Within the few years of the family residence in Delphos, Ohio, he had initiated his business career, though a mere boy at the time, having found employment in a local grocery, and after coming to Fort Wayne he continued to be employed as clerk in local establishments of the same kind for a period of about seven years. He then entered the employ of the firm of Beaver & Dunham, flour and feed merchants, with whom he remained four years, after which he was for two years engaged in the wine and liquor business. At the expiration of this period he embarked in the flour, feed and grain business for himself, his previous experience well fortifying him for the successful management of an enterprise of this nature. With the passing of the years he built up a large and important business in this line, and he continued operations, with headquarters at 296 Calhoun street, until his death, while he incidentally gained a high reputation as a reliable, enterprising and progressive business man. Through this and other enterprises with which he identified himself he accumulated a fortune, and was one of Fort Wayne's solid capitalists when he was summoned from the scene of life's endeavors. In 1878 he erected a fine two-story brick and stone business block at 13-15 Grand street, and in the same was thereafter engaged in the dry-goods and grocery business, in partnership with John Sheffer for a number of years, when he sold his interest in the enterprise and gave his attention to his flour, feed and grain business. In 1882 he purchased the Sedgwick flouring mills, which he operated until 1887, when he sold the property and business to H. W. Bond, the present owner. In 1882 he also became associated with William Potthoff in the flour and feed business, under the title of A. Kalbacher & Company, and this alliance continued for four years.

One of the dominating elements in the makeup of Mr. Kalbacher was his intense loyalty in all the relations of life, and this quality was exemplified in his attitude as a citizen of Fort Wayne, for he was ever ready to lend his aid and influence in support of measures projected for the material and civic advancement of his home city, in which he ever took a deep pride. He was tolerant and kindly in his judgment of his fellow men, and his genial nature won to him inviolate friendships in all circles, while he was ever appreciative of the dignity of honest toil and to extend the hand of fellowship to every honest man, whatever his station in life. In politics Mr. Kalbacher gave an uncompromising allegiance to the Democracy, and he ever took a lively interest in the party cause, as did he also in local affairs of a public nature, though he never sought office of any description. . He was a consistent communicant of St. Mary's church (German Catholic), and was one of the trustees of the same for a number of years, his wife likewise being a devoted communicant of the parish. A strong, true, noble, unassuming man was Mr. Kalbacher, and in his death Fort Wayne lost one of its honored and valued citizens, while to the immediate family the loss is one whose only mitigation is found in the hallowed memories and the hope which breathes through from the life eternal. Our subject's ambitions and affections centered in his home, and in its sacred precincts his noble character shone forth most graciously.

On the 19th of October, 1865, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kalbacher to Miss Jane Schobe, who survives him and who remains in the beautiful home, on East Wayne street. Mrs. Kalbacher was born in Fort Wayne, on the 17th of June, 1845, and is a daughter of Eberhart and Maria Angela (Daman). Schobe, both of whom died in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Kalbacher became the parents of seven children, of whom four are living, namely: Sister Aquineta, of the order of Notre Dame in the Catholic church at Michigan City, Indiana, being sister superior; Katherine M., the wife of Thomas McKiernan, of Fort Wayne, and Theresa U. and Leonora, who remain with their widowed mother.

Henry F. Hilgemann

A compilation of this nature exercises one of its most consistent and worthy functions when it enters memoir concerning such sterling citizens as was the late Henry F. Hilgemann, who was a prominent business man of Fort Wayne for many years and who was also a member of one of the pioneer families of Allen county.

Mr. Hilgemann was born in the city of Fort Wayne, on the 3ist of January, 1851, and was a son of Henry and Fredericka Hilgemann, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, while they settled in Fort Wayne in the pioneer days and passed the remainder of their lives in Allen county. The subject of this memoir received a good common-school education and was reared to manhood in the city of his birth, while he inaugurated his independent career when sixteen years of age, securing employment in the Summit City woolen mills, where he remained engaged for five and one-half years, during which he familiarized himself with the various details of the industry involved. For the ensuing three years he held the position of shipping clerk for A. S. Evans & Company, and from 1875 until 1878 he maintained his home in the city of Huntington, Indiana, where he owned a half interest in a well equipped woolen mill. He disposed of his interests in this property in 1878 and returned to Fort Wayne, where he accepted the position of shipping clerk for the firm of Hanna, Wiler & Company, retaining this incumbency until 1881, while for the following three years he was general agent for the Chicago Installment Book Company, with headquarters in Fort Wayne. In the autumn of 1884 he opened a retail grocery at 121 West Jefferson street, and about eight years later he erected on the site a fine brick and stone business block, in which he continued in the same line of enterprise until the time of his death, since which time the business has been successfully con- tinued by his eldest son, Franklin H. Hilgemann. When Mr. Hilgemann opened his modest little establishment the total receipts from his first day's sales were only four dollars, and within four years he had built up a business whose average annual aggregate was fully thirteen thousand dollars. He was a man of marked business acumen and of unswerving integrity of character, while his genial personality gained to him a host of friends. He commanded uniform confidence and esteem, and his faith and his friendship were alike inviolable. For a number of years before his death Mr. Hilgemann was in very delicate health, having suffered from locomotor ataxia, which resulted in his death, on the 5th of December, 1904. He was a stalwart Democrat in his political proclivities and took a publicspirited interest in local affairs as well as in the general cause of his party, while he served for a time as a member of the city council of Fort Wayne, representing the fourth ward. In the Masonic fraternity he had risen to the sixteenth degree, belonging to the Lodge of Perfection. His widow still resides in the pleasant family home, on 403 West Jefferson street.

On the 4th of September, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hilgemann to Miss Lisette F. Bueker, who was born in Germany, being a daughter of Frederick and Sophia Bueker, and she came to America in 1870, about three years prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Hilgemann became the parents of six children, of whom three survive: Franklin H. has charge of the grocery business so long conducted by his honored father; Charles H. is deceased; Oliver H. and Walter H. are deceased; Harry H. is a rising young lawyer of Fort Wayne and is individually mentioned elsewhere in this work; and Victor H. is a dental student at the time of this writing.

William H. Waltemath

A signally useful and honorable life was that of the subject of this memoir, who was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Allen county and who was a successful business man and loyal citizen of Fort Wayne, where his death occurred on the 12th of December, 1904, at which time he was in the very prime of useful manhood.

William H. Waltemath was born in Fort Wayne, on the 28th of November, 1862, being a son of Charles H. Waltemath, who was for many years engaged in the general merchandise business in this city, where his death occurred in 1904. He was the head of the firm of C. H. Waltemath & Sons, the other interested principals being his sons William H. and Louis F., who continued the enterprise after his death, while the firm name has remained unchanged to the time of this writing.

Our subject was reared to manhood in his native city, where in the Lutheran schools he secured much of his early educational training, while he was also graduated in one of the excellent schools here maintained under the auspices of the German Lutheran church. When but fourteen years of age he began to assist in his father's store, being thus reared to the business and early becoming familiar with all practical details. He was eventually admitted to partnership, under the title designated in the foregoing paragraph, and he continued to be actively identified with this flourishing general merchandise concern until his death, the well equipped establishment of the firm being located at 321-25 Lafayette street. As he was the elder of the sons the responsibilities of the business fell upon his shoulders to a very large extent, and his health finally gave way under the tension, his death resulting from nervous prostration. In both social and business circles his death caused a distinctive loss and deprivation, for he was a man of noble character and earnest devotion to duty, commanding the high regard of all with whom he came in contact. He was a zealous and faithful member of Zion church, German Lutheran, taking part in the various departments of church work and being especially helpful through his interest in young men, both in and out of the church. His home was a sanctuary to him, and within its precincts his character shone forth with its most gentle and gracious light, so that the bereavement is there felt most poignantly now that he has been called forward to life eternal, though his memory must ever rest as a benediction on those who were nearest and dearest to him. In politics he was a Democrat.

On the 24th of January, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waltemath to Miss Katherine M. Klingmann, who likewise was born and reared in Fort Wayne, being a daughter of John and Katherine Klingmann, well known citizens of Allen county. Mr. and Mrs. Waltemath became the parents of two chilren, and both survive their honored father and remain to offer consolation to their mother. Their names are Karl Oscar and Hester Sophia.

Charles H. Waltemath

To have come from a foreign land to America as a poor boy and to have so applied his energies and abilities as to have built up the most extensive retail grocery in the city of Fort Wayne as it stands today, represents no slight or insignificant accomplishment, and the statement involves much more than is superficially evident. Such was the career of the honored subject of this memoir, whose death occurred on the 25th of May, 1904, in his beautiful home in the city of Fort Wayne, with whose business interests he was so long and prominently identified, while he was a citizen of worth and influence, commanding the unqualified esteem of all who knew him and being one of the sterling pioneers of Allen county.

Charles H. Waltemath was born in Westphalen, Germany, on the of June, 1839, and in one of the excellent schools of the Lutheran church in his fatherland he secured his early educational training, which proved adequate as a basis for his active and successful career as a business man, his mental equipment being of that solid order which places true estimates upon all things. Mr. Waltemath came to America as a lad of fifteen years, in company with other members of the family, and he located in Allen county, which ever afterward continued his home. For a time he was employed at farm work and later turned his energies to more profitable fields of endeavor, ever looking to advancement in temporal affairs and directing his energies with that sagacity which proved the main factor in insuring his rise to a position of so unmistakable independence. He finally became associated with his brother in the purchase of a canal boat, which they operated between Fort Wayne and Logansport, with an occasional trip to Toledo, Ohio. He was identified with this line of enterprise, which 'was an important one in the early days, for a number of years, and later he operated a wood-sawing outfit for some time, after which he served a number of years as a member of the police force of the city of Fort Wayne. In 1874 he associated himself with his brother Henry in the retail grocery business, beginning operations on a modest scale and continuing the partnership for a period of five years, after which he conducted the enterprise individually until the formation of the firm of C. H. Waltemath & Sons, in which his associates were his sons William H. and Louis F. The former died only a few months after the demise of his father, and is individually mentioned in a memorial tribute on other pages of this work. The business is still continued under the old and well known firm name, Louis F. being at the head of the concern, in which the interests of his father and brother are still retained. Mr. Waltemath followed a business policy which insured consecutive growth in his enterprise, and he erected the fine business block in which the business is conducted at the present time, at the corner of Lafayette and Wallace streets, as well as the substantial and commodious modern residence at 325 Lafayette street. As before intimated, the enterprise which remains as a monument to the ability and energy of our subject represents the largest retail grocery business in the city of Fort Wayne, and he was regarded as one of our most substantial and loyal citizens during the long years of his residence here. In politics he was a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and he ever showed a deep interest in public affairs of a local nature. He was elected councilman at large of Fort Wayne and served as a member of the council until the present municipal charter was secured. He was a consistent and active member of Zion Lutheran church, contributing liberally to its support and taking part in the church work.

On the 18th of December, 1861, Mr. Waltemath was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Ropa, who was born and reared in Germany, whence she came to America when seventeen years of age. She survives her honored husband and maintains her home in the city where she has lived so many years and with whose upbuilding and progress Mr. Waltemath was so intimately identified. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter, and of these the daughter and one son died in early childhood. William H., who died in December, 1904, is the subject of an individual memoir in this history; and Louis H. has charge of the business established by his father more than a quarter of a century ago. Mrs. Waltemath is a devoted member of Zion church, and she proved a Worthy helpmeet and coadjutor to her husband, with whom she remained in mutual devotion until he was summoned into eternal rest.

Joseph M. Haley

It is the province of the biographical and memorial department of this compilation to enter record concerning those who have been or who are at the present time representative in their respective fields of endeavor, and within these pages will be found mention, therefore, of a due quota of those who' have attained to prestige and success in the legal profession as practitioners within the confines of Allen county. Among the representative lawyers of the younger generation in the city of Fort Wayne stands the subject of this sketch, whose offices are located in the Old National Bank building, corner of Calhoun and Berry streets, and who is building up an excellent practice and proving his strength worthily in the various departments of his professional work.

Mr. Haley is a native of the old Keystone state, having been born in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of September, 1876, and being a son of Joseph A. and Anna C. (Shea) Haley, both of whom were likewise born in Pennsylvania. In 1882 the family removed from Pittsburg to Fort Wayne, and thus the subject of this review has passed practically his entire life thus far in the latter named city. His parents still reside in Fort Wayne, where his father has lived retired for a number of years. Joseph M. Haley secured his early educational discipline in the public and parochial schools of Fort Wayne, having completed a course in the local high school, and having then made ready to take up the exacting study and work which should fit him for the profession which he had determined to adopt as his vocation in life. He was matriculated in the law department of the famous Notre Dame University, in South Bend, this state, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1899. He was graduated in the month of June and soon after his return to his home in

Fort Wayne he was duly admitted.to the bar of the county. For one year he was associated with the law firm of Bell & Daughman, and he then opened an office of his own and has since conducted an individual practice of general order, while his novitiate was of brief duration, as is evidenced in the representative character of his clientele and in the rapid growth of his business. In politics he gives an unqualified allegiance to the Democracy and takes an active interest in the party' work, while his religious faith is that of the Catholic church, in which he was reared and of which he is a communicant.

Clyde M. Gandy

One of the representative law firms of the city of Fort Wayne is that of Gandy & Hilgemann, of which the subject of this sketch is the senior member, both principals being young men of energy and distinctive professional ability, so that they are building up a practice of high grade and one which insures to them cumulative precedence in their chosen profession.

Mr. Gandy was born in Churubusco, Whitley county, this state, on the 6th of November, 1878. He is a son of Rev. Winfield S. and Ellen J. (Matthews) Gandy, the former of whom is a native of West Virginia, the latter having been bom in the city of Fort Wayne. Mr. Gandy's grandfather, Fredrick Matthews, now living at Churubusco, was one of this city's pioneers. The father was engaged in the practice of law at Churubusco until a few years ago, when he retired from the legal profession and has since been an active and successful minister of the gospel of the United Brethren church in northeastern Indiana. The mother died in 1888. leaving the father and two sons, of which this subject is the elder. The other is Harry L. Gandy, now editor and owner of the Lagrange County Democrat of Lagrange, Indiana.

Mr. Gandy secured his early education in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school there in 1896. He then taught one year in the schools of Allen county, and continued his studies at the high school at Delta, Ohio, where he graduated in 1898. Before the school year was ended, however, the Spanish-American war was on and Mr. Gandy enlisted as a private in Company G, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. With his regiment he proceeed to Cuba, where he remained in active service until the command was mustered out in May, 1899. Returning from the army, he again took up his student labors and in 1901 completed the classical course at the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana. He was immediately appointed a teacher in the native schools of the Philippine islands, passing two years in America's new eastern possessions, where he made an excellent record in his pedagogic work. After traveling extensively through China and Japan he returned to this country in the summer of 1903.

Mr. Gandy secured a practical legal training in his father's law office and supplemented this by tireless study of the text books throughout his college and school-room days, completing, in addition to his regular work, a full course of legal technique. Upon his return from the Orient, he passed a short time in review at the Indianapolis College of Law and then came to Fort Wayne, entering the law office of E. V. Emrick, then prosecuting attorney. In October, 1903, he was admitted to the bar of Allen county, and in December of the same year opened an office in the Bass block and began his individual practice. In September, 1904, he entered into his present professional partnership with Harry H. Hilgemann. In politics Mr. Gandy is a conservative Democrat, being a stanch supporter of the principles which represented the party policy in the times of Jefferson and Jackson. In a fraternal way he is identified with the United Spanish War Veterans, and with the Masonic _ order, in which he has advanced through all the York rite degrees, at this time occupying the position of junior warden in Fort Wayne Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar. In addition to his other attainments and education, he is a fluent Spanish scholar.

On the 29th of May, 1901, Mr. Gandy was united in marriage to Miss Amy Gertrude Criswell, who was born in Philadelphia, February 9, 1879, her parents being both natives of Indiana, to which state they returned when she was a child. She is a daughter of Dr. John F. and Ellen (Potter) Criswell, of Churubusco, Indiana, where she was reared. Like Mr. Gandy, she received her early education in the public schools of that place, graduating from the high school there, and from the Tri-State Normal College, of Angola, Indiana. Before her marriage Mrs. Gandy was a teacher in the schools of her home town, and was later principal of a township high school in West Virginia. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gandy are of Scotch descent and number among their ancestors several who were active and prominent in the stirring colonial and Revolutionary days. Mrs. Gandy was with her husband during the entire time of his absence in the Orient, previously spoken of. They have one child, Marcela Ellen, born August 2, 1903.

Albert E. Melching

A representative business man of Fort Wayne is Albert E. Melching, junior member of the firm of Klaehn & Melching, undertakers and embalmers, 205 West Main street. Mr. Melching is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born on a farm near Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, on the 17th of March, 1855, and being a son of Dr. William and Charlotte Melching, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, whence they came to America in 1854, locating in Ohio, where they remained until 1856, when they caine to Allen county, Indiana, and located in the village of Williamsport, where the father of the subject established himseif in the practice of his profession, attaining prestige as one of the able physicians and surgeons of this section of the state. The family removed to the city of Fort Wayne in 1861, where the father died in 1889, the mother being now aged eighty-two years. Both parents were consistent members of the German Lutheran church, ard in his political adherency Dr. Melching was a stanch Democrat.

Albert E. Melching, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was an infant at the time of the family removal to Allen county, and here he has passed practically his entire life thus far. He secured his early educational discipline in the parochial school of St. Paul's Lutheran church, in Fort Wayne, and later he continued his studies in the public schools of the city. At the age of sixteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the trade of harness making, and in due time became a skilled artisan in the line. At the age of twentythree years he opened a shop and engaged in business on his own responsibility, building up a profitable enterprise and continuing the same until 1885, when he sold out and went to California, where he remained one year. At the expiration of this period he returned with his family to Fort Wayne, and shortly afterward he opened a hotel and farmers' feed barn on North Harrison street, where he was suecessful in his efforts and where he formed the acquaintanceship of the representative farmers of the county, his place gaining distinctive popularity. In 1892 Mr. Melching was the Democratic candidate for sheriff of the county, but was defeated for the office, whereupon he received the appointment of deputy sheriff, remaining incumbent of this position four years, and then again becoming candidate for the shrievalty, in 1896. He secured the most flattering support in the nominating convention, and this presaged the noteworthy victory which came to him in the ensuing election, in which he received a gratifying majority, leading the party ticket. He served as sheriff for four years and his administration was one which stands to his credit as an able and faithful executive, while his record is one unexcelled in the history of this important county office.

In 1901 Mr. Melching purchased a half interest in the undertaking business with which he is now identified, and the firm of Klaehn & Melching occupies a leading position in this field of enterprise, having a finely equipped establishment, with the best of accessories in the way of funeral cars, private ambulance, etc. The subject is one of the city's well known and popular citizens, his circle of friends throughout the county being an exceptionally wide one. He is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and has for a number of years past been an active and enthusiastic worker in the party ranks, being one of the Democratic leaders in Allen county. He served as an alternate delegate-at-large to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis, in 1904, and at the time of this writing he is chairman of the city Democratic central committee of Fort Wayne. His religious connection is with St. Paul's Lutheran church.

On November 17, 1878, Mr. Melching married Miss Carrie Engleking, of Fort Wayne, and to them have been born seven children, William, Minnie, August, Anna, Clara, Loretta and Edward.

George W. Stout

Among those who have made unassailable records for fidelity and effective work in the important office of sheriff of Allen county stands the subject of this sketch, who is one of the county's honored and popular citizens.

Sheriff Stout is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in Carroll county, Ohio, on the 19th of April, 1846, and being a son of David and Nancy N. (Newman) Stout, both of whom were likewise born in that county, being representatives of honored pioneer families there, whither the original ancestors in the state removed from Washington county, Pennsylvania, while it may be said that Daniel Stout, paternal grandfather of the subject, was the founder of the family in Ohio. His brother John was a valiant soldier in the war of 1812, in which he was wounded while participating in an engagement, and while convalescing from this serious wound in the shoulder he ran away from the hospital in which he was confined and took part in a battle which was raging in the vicinity, - certainly a mark of insistent patriotism, while by reason of his action he suffered a relapse which nearly caused his death.

George W. Stout was reared to maturity on the homestead farm and early began to assist in its work, while his educational advantages were such as were afforded in the common schools of the locality. Like many another youth of the day, he was roused to patriotic ardor when the war of*the Rebellion was precipitated upon a divided country, and he manifested his loyalty by tendering his services in defense of the Union, enlisting when but sixteen years of age, in 1862, when he became a member of Company F, Thirtysecond Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and proceeding with his command to the front. In the battle of Champion Hills, Mississippi, in 1863, this regiment was instrumental in capturing a six-gun bat- tery from the enemy, and Company F operated this battery against the Confederate forces during the siege of Vicksburg, while the command eventually became known as the Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery and served thereafter as a battery until the close of the war. The officers of Company F of the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry were as follows: T. D. Yost, captain; first lieutenant, Cox, and Homer S. Lee, second lieutenant. After the reorganization as an artillery company Captain Yost was retained as head of the company, Lieutenant Cox as senior first lieutenant; Homer S. Lee as junior second lieutenant; Abel T. Lee became senior second lieutenant; and Abe Kitzmiller, junior first lieutenant. These latter officers remained in command of the company until victory had crowned the Union arms, and the organization thus brought into existence almost by accident rendered valiant and faithful service in an arm of the federal forces with which the members originally had no thought of identifying themselves. Mr. Stout received his honorable discharge, in Columbus, Ohio, on the 5th of September, 1865, and then returned to the old homestead farm, with whose management and work he continued thereafter to be concerned until November 28, 1867, when he came to Allen county, Indiana, and located in Monroeville, where he remained in the home of his uncle, George Stout, until the following autumn, when he assumed connubial responsibilities, being united in marriage to Miss Isabel Murchland, who was summoned to the eternal life six years later, leaving three children, David A., Mary Margaret and Nancy N. David A. is engaged in the wholesale dental-supply business in Fort Wayne, and is one of the city's able young business men; Mary Margaret is the wife of George E. Carvill, a prosperous farmer of this county ; and Nancy N. is the wife of William Biggs, of Decatur, Adams county, this state. In 1876 Mr. Stout consummated a second marriage, being then united to his present wife, maiden name was Catherine Foster and who is a daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Bowers) Foster, who passed the closing years of their lives in Allen county, where both were born and reared, having been members of representative pioneer families of this favored section of the Hoosier state. Concerning the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Stout we record that Pearl May died in infancy; and that the other six are still living, namely: Lida M., wife of Ernest Close, of Hunt-

After his first marriage Mr. Stout located on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Monroeville, Monroe township, securing a tract of wild land and reclaiming about forty acres from the native forest and developing a good farm. Here he continued to reside until 1880, when he disposed of the property and removed to Hoagland, Madison township, where he engaged in lumbering, while he also operated threshing machines during the successive seasons and also devoted much attention to the buying of poultry, which he shipped to New York city in large quantities, meeting with success in his energetic and well directed efforts. In 1892 he accepted the position of deputy sheriff under Sheriff Edward Clauseneger, his initial service being rendered in the capacity of turnkey at the county jail. He was later promoted to an active deputyship and served nearly four years in this position. In 1896 his associate deputy, Albert E. Melching, was elected sheriff, and Mr. Stout was by him continued as deputy, while in March, 1899, a fitting recognition of his faithful service and his executive ability in his being accorded the nomination on the first ballot, in a field of five candidates, for the office of sheriff, as nominee on the Democratic ticket, the distinction being the more pronounced in view of the fact that each of the other four candidates in the nominating convention had previously made a vigorous fight for the goal. At the general election in November following he led the national, state, congressional and county tickets in majorities, a fact which testifies to his personal popularity in his county and a record of which he may justly feel proud. Mr. Stout has ever taken a deep interest in the cause of his party and wields marked influence in its local councils. On March 1, 1905, Mr. Stout formed a partnership with C. M. Gillett and engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, their place of business being at No. 229 East Columbia street, this city. In a fraternal way he is identified with General Lawton Post, Grand Army of the Republic; Fort Wayne Lodge, No. 155, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Court No. 15, Tribe of Ben Hur; and the local organization of the Modern American Fraternal Order. Mr. Stout and his family hold membership in the Evangelical Lutheran church.

At the opening of the year 1905 the subject of this review entered upon the discharge of his duties as sheriff of Allen county, and his choice as incumbent of this important office indicates the estimate placed upon the man by the people of the county, where he has long maintained his home, while in the connection it should be noted also that he has the distinction of being the second Republican candidate ever elected to the shrievalty of the county. His eligibility for the office is unmistakable and this fact has been clearly exemplified in the discrimination and energy which he has brought to bear in initiating his service in the connection.

Mr. Grice was born in Homeworth, Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 26th of November, 1852, and is a son of Anthony and Susanna (Yeager) Grice, the former having been born in Columbiana county and the latter in Henry county, Ohio, in which commonwealth the respective families were represented as pioneers. The father died when our subject was an infant, and the mother later became the wife of Emanuel Detrich, who is now deceased, while she still resides in Homeworth, Columbiana county, Ohio, being one of the well known and highly esteemed pioneer women of that section of the Buckeye state. The future sheriff was the only child of the first marriage, while of the second marriage of his mother were born two daughters, one of whom is living, she being the wife of Albertus McLaughlin, of New Lisbon, Ohio.

The subject of this review is to be considered as essentially and distinctively a self-made man, since he has been dependent almost entirely upon his own resources since he was a child of nine years, when he began to work for his own support. He secured his early educational training in the public schools of the village of Maysville, Allen county, Indiana, and, in cognizance of the statements previously entered, it is scarcely necessary to say that his educational advantages were limited in scope and in time compass, though he was able to lay a firm foundation for that practical working knowledge which he has gained in the great school of experience and through personal application. He worked at various occupations in his youth, having early identified himself with the butchering and live-stock business, with which he was concerned in an active and successful way for many years. He learned the butchering trade in Maysville, where he remained for a number of years, after which he engaged in that line of trade in Hicksville, Ohio, in connection with the handling of live stock, remaining there four years and then coming to Allen county, Indiana, where he followed the same lines of enterprise for the long period of forty-four years, - up to the time of his election to his present office. He has maintained his residence in Fort Wayne since 1892, and his business operations have been marked by energy, good management and utmost reliability, so that he has ever held as his own the unqualified esteem and confidence of those with whom he has been thrown in contact. Mr. Grice has taken a lively and intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour and has been an active and zealous worker in the ranks of the Republican party, of whose principles and policies he is an ardent advocate, while in a local way he has been prominent in connection with the manoeuvering of the party forces in the various campaigns. A fitting recognition of his eligibility and faithful service was that given in his being made the candidate of his party for the office of sheriff, to which he was elected by a gratifying majority, in the general election of November, 1904, while he assumed his official duties on the Ist of the following January. In a fraternal way Sheriff Grice is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is well known throughout the county and is a man who merits the high regard in which he is uniformly heid in the community which has represented his home for so long a term of years.

On September 22, 1871, Mr. Grice was united in marriage to Miss Angelia Stopher, whose death occurred less than a year later, and she left one child, John, who is now engaged in the meatmarket business in Antwerp, Ohio, being successful as a business man and popular as a citizen. On the 25th of November, 1874, Mr. Grice consummated a second marriage, being then united to his present wife, whose maiden name was Miss Dora Hall, and who was born and reared in the state of Indiana. Of the two children of this union we record that Wallace died at the age of eighteen months, and Vernon is a resident of Fort Wayne, being engaged as a clerk with the Rurode Dry Goods Company.

Fortified by most careful and extended technical training and by a natural predilection, the subject of this sketch holds prestige as one of the able and popular members of the medical fraternity in his native city, where he is engaged in general practice as a physician and surgeon, with office headquarters at 828 Calhoun street.

Dr. Kane was born in the city of Fort Wayne on the 23d of June, 1878, and is a son of James M. and Amelia L. (Brooks) Kane, who are still resident of this city, the father being engaged in the mercantile business on Calhoun street. In the public and parochial schools of Fort Wayne Dr. Kane secured his early educational discipline, completing the curriculum of the high school and thereafter continuing his studies under private tutors about one year, within which time he began reading medicine. In 1898 he was matriculated in the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, in which well equipped institution he completed the prescribed course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1902 and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He thereafter did special postgraduate work in the polyclinic hospitals of the cities of Chicago and Philadelphia, while he still further amplified his technical and practical knowledge by a special course in obstetrics in the medical department of Harvard College. In September, 1903, Dr. Kane opened an office in Fort Wayne, where he has since been engaged in general practice and where his ability has so clearly been demonstrated that his professional novitiate was of very brief duration, his practice building up rapidly and satisfactorily and being of a representative character. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana Medical Society, the Fort Wayne

Medical Society, and the Academy of Medicine, of which last he is president. In politics he is a Democrat and his religious faith is that of the Catholic church, of which he is a communicant, while in a fraternal way he is identified with the Knights of Columbus.

Established in the practice of his profession in the city of Fort Wayne for the past thirty years, Dr. Chambers has gained a position of no uncertain precedence as an able physician and surgeon, while as a citizen he is held in unqualified esteem. As a representative member of the medical fraternity in Allen county he is entitled to specific recognition in this work.

Dr. Chambers claims the old Empire state of the Union as the place of his nativity, having been born in Alabama, Genesee county, New York, on the roth of July, 1844, and being a son of James Boyd and Mahala (Mandeville) Chambers. His paternal grandparents were of stanch Irish stock and from county Monaghan, in the Emerald Isle, they immigrated to America in 1798, settling in the town of Salem, Washington county, New York, where James B. Chambers, father of the subject, was born in the year 1804. Mahala (Mandeville) Chambers was born in Ovid, Seneca county, New York, in 1806, her parents being of English and Welsh extraction, while her paternal grandfather served with distinction as a Continental soldier during the war of the Revolution, in which he was a captain. About 1848 the parents of Dr. Chambers removed from New York to Michigan and settled in Lenawee county, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the father having followed the vocation of farming during the major portion of his active career. The Doctor passed his boyhood days in Macon, Lenawee county, Michigan, in whose common schools he secured his preliminary educational training, while he later fitted himself for college by attending an excellent preparatory school in Tecumseh, that county. He was ambitious in the matter of securing a liberal education, and through his own efforts largely defrayed the expenses of his uni- versity course. He was matriculated in the literary department of the celebrated University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, and was graduated as a member of the class of 1871, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science, and having completed the full four years' course. He then passed two years in the medical department of his alma mater, being graduated in 1874 and receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine.

In 1875 Dr. Chambers came to Fort Wayne, where he initiated the practice of his profession and where he has built up a large and representative business during the long intervening years, being recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the beautiful "Summit City" and being held in the highest esteem by his professional contemporaries and by the general public. He has held membership in the Allen County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In politics he has given support to the Democratic and Prohibition parties. During his college courses Dr. Chambers provided for his own support and for the other expenses involved by teaching in the public schools of Michigan, and for one year he was principal of the high school at Marine City, that state. He keeps in the front rank in the matter of following out the advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery, and is known as a man of exceptionally high professional attainments. During one year he was lecturer on chemistry in the Fort Wayne Medical College. Dr. Chambers is a zealous member of the Third Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, in which he has served as ruling elder for the past score of years,

Frederick W. Stellhorn

It is most fitting that in this publication be incorporated a memorial tribute to Frederick William Stellhorn, who was one of Allen county's leal and loyal citizens, having come here when a youth, and having won success and honor through his earnest efforts and unbending integrity of character. He was a native of Germany and came to America to win a position of independence through his own industry, and that he succeeded is best shown in his record as one of the representative business men and sterling citizens of the county in which he lived and labored for so long a term of years and in which his name merits a place on the roll of the worthy pioneers of this section of the state.

Frederick William Stellhorn was born in Brueninghorsted, kingdom of Hanover, Germany, on the 13th of September, 1818, and his death occurred at his home in Allen county, on the 14th of August, 1897, so that he lacked by a few weeks of being seventy-nine years of age when he was thus summoned from the scene of life's endeavors. Mr. Stellhorn was reared in his native land, in whose schools he secured his early educational training. He found employment principally at farm work during his youth, receiving from twelve to sixteen dollars a year for his services, and finally he was tendered the position of coachman to a clergyman, at a stipend of twenty-five dollars a year, with board and clothing. He held this position about one year and saved his earnings, which he utilized in making his long and perilous voyage to America. In 1844, when twenty-six years of age, Mr. Stellhorn severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in the United States. He made the trip by way of Bremen to New York, the voyage extending over a period of nine weeks and being a tempestuious one, so that the passengers on the little sailing vessel had their full quota of anxiety and discomfort. When the young: immi- grant arrived in the port of New York he was soon made the victim of typical American enterprise, since a sharper sold him a ticket to Toledo, Ohio, for a goodly price. The transportation proved acceptable only as far as the city of Albany, New York, beyond which point it was not honored. His finances had by this time reached so low an ebb that Mr. Stellhorn was compelled to borrow the sum of ten dollars from a friend and companion in order to continue his journey. He was thus in debt to this amount at the time of his arrival in the city of Fort Wayne, which he made his destination. Among others who came over on the same vessel and who became honored citizens of Allen county were Charles Meusing, Frederick Kanne and a man named Brase. While in the connection it is imperative that special mention be made of another and fairer passenger on the same boat, for it was hers to become the devoted and cherished wife of the honored subject of this memoir. This young lady, Miss Fredericka Moellering, in company with her aunt, came to Fort Wayne, being but nineteen years of age at the time. Her aunt continued her journey and located in Lafayette, this state, but Fredericka remained in Fort Wayne, where she secured employment in a domestic way and found her surroundings pleasing. She was from the Prussian village of Heimsen, not far removed from the birthplace of her future husband, but they had not become acquainted until making the trip on the canal boat to Fort Wayne. This acquaintanceship ripened into mutual confidence and affection and eventuated in their marriage about a year after they took up their residence in Fort Wayne, their union having been solemnized on the 19th of June, 1845. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Winniken, who was then a missionary of the Lutheran church, and the event took place in the First Lutheran church, on Barr street, where the present imposing and commodious church edifice of the same denomination stands. In the first few years of his residence in Fort Wayne Mr. Stellhorn worked at whatever occupation he could secure, and he soon took the advice of a good friend, who admonished him to buy a building lot and thus establish a firm foothold in the city. He accordingly purchased a lot on Madison street. In 1847 he was employed as a mason's tender by the father of John C. Peters, a well known citizen of the county at the present time.

About this time Professor Walter brought twelve students from Germany, these being the first students of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church, in which synod Indiana was included, and also the first students of Concordia College. Mrs. Stellhorn was given the initial charge of the domestic economies for these students, being employed as housekeeper in the Peters residence, in which the first college work was done. She did the cooking at this location and later accompanied the students and teachers to the present site of the college, where she remained in the same capacity until the death of Professor Walter, who was one of the victims of the memorable cholera scourge at the time of its first visitation to Fort Wayne, in 1850. Soon after this unfortunate event she left the college, where her husband had also been employed, and he then built a small but comfortable residence on his lot, on Madison street. Later he became associated with seven other German-American citizens in the purchasing of a limestone quarry at Huntington. There they devoted the winter months to getting out the product, which they transported by canal to Fort Wayne in the summer, burning the lime in their kilns, which they erected on Pearl street, about the location of the present feed yards. These were the first and only kilns in Fort Wayne utilizing the old pot system, and after operations had been continued about three years kilns were erected at the quarry, in Huntington, while the finished product was thence transported on the canal. Mr. Stellhorn remained in active charge of the lime house until 1861, when his lungs became so seriously affected from the lime dust that he found it necessary to retire from his executive and active labors in the connection. At this time he purchased one hundred acres of land in Wayne township, four miles south of the city, on the St. Mary's river and on the road of which Fairfield avenue is now a part. For this property he paid four thousand dollars. On the place was a sawmill, operated by water power. Before moving to the farm he had the mill rebuilt and brought up to the highest standard of the time, and he then placed the mill in active operation, hiring men for the purpose and taking up his abode on the farm. When his son John H. attained to the age of fourteen years he was placed in charge of the mill, whose operation he successfully continued until 1871, while in the meantime the father maintained a general supervision of the milling enterprise as well as of the operation of the farm. In 1872 the father and son became associated in the purchasing of a steam sawmilling plant, which they installed forthwith in a new mill, which is still standing and in active service a portion of the time. Six months later the subject of this memoir retired from all active association with the mill business and turned his entire attention to the management of his fine farm. In 1861 his landed estate comprised one hundred acres, as has been noted, and in 1869 he purchased an adjoining thirty acres, and shortly afterward added another tract, of forty acres, while still later he effected the purchase of the old Daniel Lawton farm, of fifty-two acres, lying nearer the city of Fort Wayne, thus making the aggregate area of his estate two hundred and twenty-two acres. This fine property he divided among his children, six of whom survive him. During the last seven years of his life he lived retired from active labor and business, enjoying the well earned rewards of his former toils. He made the best of improvements on his farm property, the original one hundred acres having had thirteen log cabins as its building accessories at the time when he came into possession. He erected large and substantial grain and stock barns and the requisite residence buildings, including the attractive old homestead place, which is still standing. It was originally located near the St. Mary's river, but the prevalence of high water at certain seasons of the year compelled the removal of the house to higher ground, this change being made in 1887. The family continue to occupy the house during the period of removal and it is now one of the commodious and attractive farm residences of the county. The loved and devoted wife of our subject is still living in the old homestead a portion of the time, while she passes the remainder of her time with others of her children, all of whom accord her the deepest filial devotion and solicitude. Mr. and Mrs. Stellhorn were numbered among the original or charter members of the first Lutheran church organized in Fort Wayne, while later they became members of Trinity church, in the vicinity of their home, while in the cemetery of the same the remains of Mr. Stellhorn were laid to rest. He was an uncompromising Democrat in his political adherency, and for a number of years he held the office of road supervisor, while he was frequently urged to become the candidate of his party for the office of county commissioner, but refused to permit his name to be considered in the connection, since he felt that his inability to read and write the English language might militate against his usefulness in the position. He was well versed in his native language, and had no difficulty in properly using the English in conversation, but had never learned the written or printed intricacies of the latter. He took much interest in public affairs of a local nature and was a pillar of his church, in which he long held official position.

Mr. Stellhorn was a man whose integrity of character was manifest in all the relations of life, and he made for himself a place in the confidence and regard of his fellow men and in the ranks of the noble army of the world's workers. Not a pretentious or exalted life was his but one which bears its lesson and incentive and which challenges respect and admiration. Such citizens assuredly merit a tribute of honor in the pages of such historical compilations as the one at hand.

John H. Stellhorn

On other pages of this work appears a comprehensive memorial tribute to Frederick W. Stellhorn, the honored father of him whose name appears above, and by reason of this fact it will not be necessary to advert to the genealogical record or personal characteristics of that late and highly esteemed pioneer citizen.

John Henry Stellhorn was born in the old family homestead, on Madison street, in the city of Fort Wayne, on the 28th of June, 1851, and, as noted in the memoir of his father, he early began his independent career by assisting in the management and practical operation of the sawmill on the home farm, a few miles south of the city. Huis educational advantages were those of the parochial schools, and he was also favored in being well trained in the German language, the vernacular of his parents. He continued to be identified with the sawmilling enterprise on the old home farm for many years, and eventually became the virtual owner of the finely equipped steam mill, which was built to replace the original one, operated by water power and somewhat primitive in equipment. In 1902 Mr. Stellhorn left the farm and removed to the city of Fort Wayne, where he has since maintained his home, and where he is known as a progressive business man and public spirited citizen.

The subject has been a prominent factor in public affairs of a local order, and has long been one of the wheelhorses of the Democracy in Allen county. He served several terms as supervisor of Wayne township, and was township road superintendent for several years prior to the abolishment of the office. In 1890 he was elected to the responsible office of county commissioner on the Democratic ticket, the county at the time having a normal Democratic majority of four thousand. He entered upon the duties of his office in December, 1891, and at the expiration of his three years' term was chosen as his own successor, a fact attesting to the esti- mate placed upon him and his services by the voters of the county. In 1893 Jasper Jones, one of his associates on the board of commissioners, brought forward the imperative demands and needs of the county for a new court house, and the matter was pressed so vigorously that the contracts for the erection of the present magnificent county building were awarded while Mr. Stellhorn was still a member of the board, the second story of the structure having been completed before his retirement. At the practical inauguration of the project his associates on the board were Jasper Jones and Henry F. Bullerman, while it may be stated in the connection that this board had the distinction of being the youngest in the state in matter of the age of its members, none of whom were more than forty-one years of age, while all were farmers. Before contracts for the erection of the new court house were awarded the board of commissioners visited Buffalo, New York, and other cities where modern buildings had been erected for the accommodation of both county and city, as demanded in the building to be erected in Fort 'Wayne. Mr. Stellhorn and Matthew Ferguson, who succeeded Mr. Bullerman on the board, spared no effort in making such investigation as would enable them to avoid mistakes made in the erection of previous structures for like purposes, and fifteen architects entered into competition in making plans and specifications for the new building. Our subject was made superintendent of the buildings of the court house, which is located in his district. The responsibilities and exacting duties which thus devolved upon him were of gigantic order and tinplied a great tension and herculean labor, but he and his co-workers have every reason to be proud of their achievement, for the fine court house will long stand as a testimonial to their earnest devotion and honorable and able efforts in behalf of the county and city. Not even the slightest suspicion of jobbery or unfairness has ever been entertained, and the taxpayers of the county realized that every cent appropriated for the building was utilized for that purpose and in an economical way, while not a single act of litigation ensued in connection with the rearing of the fine structure. The commissioners shirked not even the least of the duties which came to them, even selecting the stone by personal visitation to the quarries at Bedford and Cleve- land. They made this selection from the ledge and the stone was shipped in the rough and all work on the same was done in Fort Wayne, under the-direct supervision of the commissioners and contractors.

Mr. Stellhorn became associated with J. L. Gruber, under the firm name of J. H. Stellhorn & Company, and is engaged in the hardware business and in contracting, with headquarters at 2010 Fairfield avenue. They control a good business and make a specialty of contracting for tin roofing, cornice work, ornamental and architectural iron work, etc. In politics Mr. Stellhorn has never wavered in his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has served as delegate to county, congressional and state conventions and taken an active interest in the promotion of the party cause. His religious connection is with St. John's Lutheran church.

In the year 1876 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stellhorn to Miss Elizabeth Klein, who was born and reared in Adams county, and who died of consumption, only eighteen months after her marriage, while her only child died three months previously. In 1879 Mr. Stellhorn was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Pohler, who died twelve years later, of locomotor ataxia. Two children were born of this union and both died in infancy. In 1892 the subject married Mrs. Minnie (Hobrock) Anweiler, widow of Louis A. Anweiler, of Fort Wayne. No children have been born of this marriage. By her former marriage Mrs. Stellhorn has one daughter, Emma K., who is now the wife of Henry K. Starke, a machinist employed in the Fort Wayne shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mrs. Stellhorn's sister, Mary C., the eldest of the Hobrock family and the widow of Charles Becker, resides in the home of the subject. She has been afflicted with blindness for the past five years, and is accorded the utmost care and solicitude by Mr. and Mrs. Stellhorn. It may be said that the Hobrock family was one of the first German families to settle in Fort Wayne, their location here dating back to 1843.

Charles A. Dunkelberg

On other pages of this compilation appears a review of the career of S. F. Bowser, the founder and head of the well known manufacturing concern of S. F. Bowser & Company, of Fort Wayne, and in view of the details there entered it is not demanded that further description of the business be incorporated, but the reference is made in the present connection by reason of the fact that Mr. Dunkelberg is the secretary and treasurer of the company mentioned, while he is regarded as one of the able business men and popular citizens of the "Summit City."

Mr. Dunkelberg was born in Chemung, New York, on the 4th of April, 1865, and is a son of Charles A. and Eliza (Lassen) Dunkelberg, the former of whom followed the vocation of merchant during the major portion of his active career, while both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives in Seelyville, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of five children, of whom four are living. When the subject was about one year of age his parents removed from the state of New York to Seelyville, Pennsylvania, and there his boyhood days were passed, while he was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the locality. Later he attended the celebrated Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1888. He has ever been ambitious and self-reliant, and has spared no effort in applying himself to those works which would insure success.and advancement. Thus he learned the art of stenography by attending night school, being otherwise employed during the day. In 1886 he left Pennsylvania and went to New York city, where he secured employment in the office of E. C. Benedict & Company, prominent bankers and brokers. About two years later he removed to the city of Chicago, where he became a clerical assist- ant in the offices of the Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, iron merchants, retaining this incumbency until 1890, when he received the appointment of steward at the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Long Cliff, near the city of Logansport, Indiana. He gave most effective service in this office for a period of five years, and then associated himself with John R. Fox, ex-treasurer of Cass county, in the wholesale and retail queensware and crockery business in Logansport, the enterprise being conducted under the firm name of Fox & Dunkelberg. At the expiration of three years the firm disposed of the business, and shortly afterward Mr. Dunkelberg located in Fort Wayne, in the year 1899. Here he became head bookkeeper in the office of S. F. Bowser & Company, was later promoted to the position of superintendent of salesmen, while in 1904 he became secretary and treasurer of the company, of which important dual office he has since remained incumbent. In politics he renders a stanch support to the Democratic party.

On May 1, 1895, Mr. Dunkelberg was united in marriage to Miss Anna Cordelia Crockett, of Lafayette, Indiana, and they have two children living, Charles A. and Ralph C.

One of the excellent and highly reputed educational institutions of Indiana is the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, of which Dr. Barnett is secretary, while in a personal way he holds prestige as one of the able and advanced physicians of the state.

Walter Wynn Barnett is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in Euphemia, Preble county, Ohio, on the 18th of July, 1857, and being a son of William C. and Frances M. (Sullivan) Barnett, both of whom are now dead, the father's active career having been devoted principally to the ministry. When the Doctor was a child his parents removed to Florence, Boone county, Kentucky, in whose public schools he secured his early educational training, being graduated in the high school in Constantine, Michigan, as a member of the class of 1875. He soon afterward entered Wittenberg College, in Springfield, Ohio, where he completed the classical course, and was graduated in 1880, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while later the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by his alma mater. In 1883 the Doctor was matriculated in the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, in which he was graduated in March, 1886, thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the institution with which he is now so prominently identified, being both its secretary and also a member of its technical faculty. He engaged in general practice in Fort Wayne immediately after his graduation, while he was also honored by the Fort Wayne College of Medicine by being called to the chair of anatomy, of which he remained incumbent until 1902, also acting as chief demonstrator. He is now serving the college in the chair of surgery, and is one of the most valued and popular members of the faculty of this excellent institution, of which he has been . secretary since 1889. He is a member of the American Medical As- sociation, the Tri-State Medical Society, the Maumee Valley Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the Fort Wayne Medical Society, while he is known as one of the leading representatives of his profession in the state. In politics Dr. Barnett gives his allegiance to the Democracy, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

On the 19th of July, 1892, Dr. Barnett was united in marriage to Miss Letty A. Van Alstine, of Fort Wayne, and they have four children, Walter C., Otto B., Van A. and Rachel G.

Allen county has its due quota of well trained and distinctively able physicians and surgeons, and among the representative practitioners in the city of Fort Wayne is Dr. Schneider. He is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in the city of Van Wert, Ohio, in the county of the same name, on the 20th of January, 1872, and being a son of John J. and Mary I. (Moore) Schneider, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in Pennsylvania, their marriage having been solemnized in Ohio, where the father passed the remainder of his long, honorable and useful life, his active business career having been principally identified with tinning. He died in 1898, and his widow now resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dr. Schneider duly completed the curriculum of the public schools of his native city, where he was graduated in the high school, after which he was employed for some time in a local furniture manufactory. In 1893 he took a course of study in the International Business College, in Fort Wayne, and in the autumn of the following year he began reading medicine in the office and under the direction of Dr. Charles B. Reid, one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Van Wert, continuing his studies under these favorable auspices for one year. He later was matriculated in the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, in which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1808, receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Shortly afterward he established himself in practice in the village of Maples, this county, where he served his professional novitiate and where he met with excellent success, continuing his residence there until January, 1899, when he came to Fort Wayne, where he has since continued in general practice as a physician and surgeon, and where his labors have been fruitful in good results, giving him a distinctive prestige and causing his practice to expand in scope and importance each successive year. The Doctor is thoroughly en rapport wth his profession, being a close and appreciative student and keeping in touch with the advancement made in the sciences of medicine and surgery. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Fort Wayne Medical Society and the Fort Wayne Academy of Medicine. In his political allegiance the Doctor is found stanchly arrayed as a loyal supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and he is identified with Summit City Lodge, No. 170, Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has been raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.

On the 27th of November, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Schneider to Miss Cora A. Bassett, of Delphos, Ohio, where she was born and reared, and they have one child, Lawrence Bs who was born on the 18th of December, 1808.

William C. Etzold

Incumbent of the office of assessor of Wayne township, the most important and populous district of Allen county, since it contains the major portion of the city of Fort Wayne, the subject of this sketch is well known and highly esteemed in the county, which has been his home from the time of his birth, while he is a scion of one of the honored German-American pioneer families of this favored section of the Hoosier commonwealth.

Mr. Etzold was born in the city of Fort Wayne, on the 24th of January, 1866, and is a son of Henry J. and Marguerite (Wise) Etzold, both of whom were born in the kingdom of Saxony, Germany, whence they came to America in early life, having taken up their residence in Fort Wayne about sixty years ago, when the "Summit City" was but a small town of no metropolitan pretensions. Here Henry J. Etzold passed the remainder of his long and useful life, and here his entire business career, which was one of signal success and honor, was identified with the manufacturing of boots and shoes, in which line of enterprise he conducted an extensive business for many years. He was summoned to his reward in January, 1903, in the fullness of years and weil earned honors, and his cherished and devoted wife preceded him into eternal rest by only a few months, her death having occurred in 1902. Both were consistent members of the German Lutheran church, and in politics the father affiliated himself with the Republican party at the time of its organization, and ever afterward remained an ardent advocate of its principles and policies, while he was a man of fine mental gifts and much pragmatic ability, taking a lively interest in the questions and issues of the hour and being known as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. Of his family of twelve children six are living, and the subject of this review was the seventh in order

William C. Etzold, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was reared to maturity in his native city, and his preliminary educational discipline was here secured in the excellent parochial schools of the Lutheran church and supplemented by study in the public schools and in the Fort Wayne Commercial College. At the age of fifteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the plumbing trade, with which he was thus identified for a period of four years, after which he passed four years in a clerical incumbency in the local offices of the Lake Shore Railroad. Thereafter he held for the long interval of fifteen years a responsible position with the Horton Manufacturing Company, extensive manufacturers of washing machines, in Fort Wayne, having been superintendent, bookkeeper and general office man. After retiring from this incumbency Mr. Etzold was for two years 'engaged in the manufacturing of washing machines on his own responsibility, and he continued to be concerned with local business interests until the general election in November, 1904, when he was elected to his present position as assessor of Wayne township, being the only Republican ever elected to that office in Fort Wayne, a circumstance which shows that he not only profited by the general Republican landslide, but also that his personal popularity in his home city and county is of no uncertain order, and that his eligibility was recognized in the premises. He has entire charge of the assessment work of his important jurisdiction, and during the busy season in the office work employment is afforded to a corps of about twenty assistants. Our subject speaks both the German and English languages with equal facility, having received thorough educational training in both, while it may be said that the former is his ancestral! tongue and the latter his native. He has ever given his unequivocal allegiance to the Republican party and has been an active worker in its cause in a local sense, and his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, in which he was reared, both he and his wife being prominent members of Emanuel church, on Jefferson street, Fort Wayne.

On the 31st of October, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Etzold to Miss Flora F rances Berlin, who was born and reared in Fort Wayne, being a daughter of Henry J. Berlin. Of the four children of this union only one is living, Howard Henry, who was born on March 5, 1897.

August W. Reiling

For more than six years the subject of this sketch has been incumbent of the important office of chief engineer of the Allen county public institutions, including the magnificent court house, the jail, power house, orphans' home and infirmary, while he is most amply qualified for the technical and executive duties which devolve upon him, as he is a thoroughly schooled and practical mechanician and has had a wide experience in connection with business affairs of importance nature.

Mr. Reiling is a native son of Fort Wayne, in which city, which was then scarcely more than a village, he was born on the 15th of August, 1855. While he has traveled extensively and has had temporary abiding place in many different sections of the Union, he has never faltered in his loyalty to his native city, which he has ever called his home. He is a son of August and Lena Reiling, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, whence they came to America after marriage, settling in Fort Wayne in an early day. They made the voyage across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel and from New York made their way westward by way of the Great Lakes to Toledo, and thence by the old canal to Fort Wayne. August Reiling was a skilled mechanic, having a certificate from the German government attesting to his efficiency. After locating in Fort Wayne he followed the blacksmithing business, in connection with the making and repairing of fine machinery, while he gained a reputation as being one of the best mechanics in the city, where he gained a wide circle of friends in both a business and social way, continuing to reside here until his death, which was the result of an accident, as he was killed in December, 1892, by a severe fall, having been about sixty-two years of age at the time of his demise. His loved and devoted wife preceded him into eternal rest by many years, having passed away in 1861, when the subject of this sketch was but six years of age. In the family were five sons and one daughter, and the only survivor is he whose name introduces this article.