Elkhart County, Indiana - Tue Churches, 1905 (part 10 of 15)

Daniel Wysong. the eldest, was three years of age when his parents removed to Elkhart county and in a log schoolhouse in Union township he pursued his education. The first school building was constructed of round logs, and pins were driven into the wall on which a board was laid to serve as a writing desk. The benches were without backs and in one end of the room was a huge fireplace. The methods of instruction were also primitive, and the pupils had little opportunity of attending school save in the winter months, for the labors of both sons and daughters were needed upon the home farm in the summer seasons. Elder Wysong assisted in the work of the home farm up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated September 7. 1862, Miss Mary Miller, a daughter of David C. and Rachel (Eigler) Miller, becoming his wife. Her father was born in Darke county, Ohio, and her mother in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of ten children, a son and nine daughters. Mrs. W^ysong being the third child and second daughter. She was born in Darke county. Ohio. September 13, 1S43. ''^"'^1 was seven years of age when she came to Union township. Elkhart county. At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wysong located on the farm where they now reside and where they have since made their home with the exception of four years spent in Xappanee. Seven children came to bless the household, but three died in childhood. The living are: Melvin, who in 1891 married Catherine Smith and is now engaged in the onion business near Wolf lake in Noble count)-, Indiana; Calvin, who was married in 1890 to^ Melinda .Stahly and is engaged in the same line of business near Wolf lake; Clnr.'i Etta, who became the wife of Daniel Stump in 1892 aiKl is now li\ing in Nappanee. where her husband is engaged in the dray business: and Cora, at home.

Elder Wvsong has lix'ed for fifty-nine years in Unirni township and during the greater ]>art of this period has been engaged in general farming and in preaching, still having charge of the Turkey Creek congregation. During the i>ast sixteen or seventeen years he has been engaged in evangelistic work, and in this connection has traveled in twenty-four states preaching the gospel as a member of the German Baptist Brethren church. He is well known among the people of the denomination, and his efiforts have been far-reaching in behalf of the cause of Christianity. He owns in Union townsliip a farm of ?eventvfour acres and is still looking after his interests on this place. He has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellow men in any trade transaction and his efforts have been crowned with success when viewed from a financial standpoint, while his labors in the ministry have also been granted a full harvest.

Levi D. Ulery

Levi D. Ulery, who has long been a resilient of Elkhart cnunty and is now li\ing on section ;^^. Union township, was IjDrn in this township May 30, 1842. His father. Daniel Ulery. was a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and when a iad of ten y-ears accompanied his parents on their removal to Miami county, Ohio, where he spent the days of his boyhood and youth. Later the home property was sold there and the family removed to Elkhart county, Indiana, a1x)ut 1832, living upon a farm that comprised the present site of the city of Goshen. Daniel Ulery was married in this county to Miss Mary Davenport and took up his abode in Union township, in 1841, being one of its first settlers. He entered the land from the government and began the .development of a farm in a locality where the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been commenced. His nearest neighbor was two miles distant. There were no roads to his place and he bad to blaze a trail to his home. At a later date he entered a quarter section of land on which not a tree had been cut or an improvement made. He was closely identified with the work of material progress and u])building in this section of the state and while promoting his individual business interests he at the same time co-operated in many mi)\ements which had for their basic element the general good. He was deeply interested in the cause of education, did what he could to ])romote the welfare of the schools and also was the champion of good roads. He acted as one of the first school trustees of Union township and was known throughout the county as a man whose efforts were far-reaching, effecti\e and beneficial. He held membership in the Dunkard church, in which he long served as deacon and in the work of which he took an active and helpful part. His death occurred in 1891. The mother of our subject was born in Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, and was of French lineage. She was one of the brave pioneer women whose counsel and assistance proved of such value to the husbands and fathers during the days of early settlement Here and she jjassed awav in 1896 respected by all wdio knew her. In the family were eight children, foui' sons and four daughters, all of whom reached adult age and were married, while seven of the number are still living. :\11 were born in Union township, Elkhart county, and the family has from pioneer times down to the present figured in the public life of this section of the state, doing much toward introducing and maintaining the c\i-

Levi D. LTery is the oldest memher of his father's family and the cUiers are as follows: Lydia. the wife of J. S. Wisler; John, who is mentioned on another pag'e of this volume ; Catherine, the wife of Alpheus Wisler of Kansas : Elizaheth, the deceased wife of Emanuel WTiitehead ; Samuel, who married Sarah Martin of Dayton, Ohio, and is living in Kosciusko county, Lidiana ; Sarah, the wife of William Eversole. a resident of Kansas; David, who married Susan Miller of Dayton and now resides at Milford Junction.

The boyhood days of Levi D. Llery were c|uietly passed, hut he early knew the value of unremitting labor in the development of a farm. He attended the public schools as opportunity offered and through the months of vacation assisted his father in clearing and cultivating the land, working upon the old homestead until twenty-six years of age. He has devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits and soon after his marriage he located upon the farm which is yet his home. He has one hundred acres of rich and arable land together with property in Nappanee, and his place on section 33, Union township, constitutes one of the desirable farms of the communitv, for it is equipped with all modern conveniences and in its natural resources presents an excellent opportunity to the agriculturist.

In 1 87 1 Mr. LJlei-y was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Kinsel. Her parents died during her early girlhood and she was reared by Jacob R. Noiifsinger of Dayton, Ohio. Three sons and two daughters have been born of this union. William, who married Chloe Drumbaugh and is living in Nappanee; Jesse, who wedded Emma Ruckman and is also living in Nappanee: Ada. the wife of Virgil Hemes of Kosciusko county. Indiana; Alvin. who married Lucinda Jackson and remains upon the home farm; and ?\Iabel, who is also under the ]iarental roof.

Mr. LTery has spent his entire life in L'ninn ti)\vnshi|5 and has taken an acti\e interest in every progressi\e measure looking to the general good. He is a member of the Dimkard church, has contributed generously to its support, has assisted in its various lines of activitv and is now one of its deacons. His political allegiance has al^avs been given to the Republican party and he has filled a number of local offices, the duties of which he has discharged with promiitness and fidelity.

Harlan A. Stauffer. attorney at law and real estate dealer, a young hut very successful business and professional man of Goshen, has spent all the years of his life since early childhood in Elkhart countv and since his entrance upon his active career some eight years ago has advanced to a ])osition of worth and very high esteem among his fellow citizens.

Born on a farm in LaGrange county, Indiana, January 5, 1876, a 5on of Emanuel G. and Elizabeth (Maunn) Stauft'er, both natives of Pennsylvania and of German lineage, he was brought, in 1881, when five years old, to this county, h.is father locating on a farm in Concord township, where he still engages in agricultural pursuits. There were eight children in the family, and Harlan is the oldest but one.

Reared on a farm, Mr. Stauft'er began the acquiring of an education in the country schools, and later attended the Northern Indiana Normal College, where he pursued his law studies. He received admission to the bai' on March 4. 1897 - the day of McKinley's first inauguration - and in iMav of the same year located at Goshen, where he has attended to a growing law practice and general real estate business. He had just attained his majority when he began practice, so that his excellent record of success beginning with manhood is most creditable to his powers and spirit of enterprise. He is deserving of the more credit since he had been dependent on his own resources since he was sixteen years old. and has therefor entirely achieved his own success.

Mr. Staufifer is a Rqiublican in politics, and afiiliates with the Modern Woodmen of .Vmerica. His office is located at 122 North Main street.

Rev. Peter W. Stuckman

Rev. Peter W. Stuckman, who is a proprietor of a stock farm on section 28, Union township, was born in that township, December 27. 1852. He is of German lineage, his ancestry being traced hack to Gus Stuckman, who was born in Germany and came to Elkhart county from Pennsylvania in 1829, casting in his lot with the early settlers of Union township. He took up land from the go\-ernment and with cfiaracteristic energy began the development of a new farm, performing the arduous labor incident to transforming wild land into richly cultivated fields. His son. Martin Stuckman, father of our subject. w-as born in Peniisylvania and with his parents came to Indiana in early manhood, being at that time about twenty-one years of age. He was the first man married in Union township and he also cast the first vote in that district. He lived to be about ninety-four years of age and was long classed witli the honored pioneer residents of this part of the state, where his labors proved effective and beneficial in promoting general progress and improvement. He shared in the privations and hardships of pioneer life, and noting the opportunities for accomplishment he joined with his fellow men in piximoting- measures that have for their object the welfare and general advancement of the county. He married Martha Elston, a native of Kentucky, who came to Elkhart county when about twelve years of age with her father. Josiah Elston, who was al.so one of the pioneer settlers of this part of the state. He was active and influential in public affairs and for many \ears he served as justice of the ])eace. His daughter. Mrs. Stuck- man. died when only aljuut foi-ty-ti\e years oi age. In the family were nine children, of whom the eldest son died m youth, while the others reached manhood and womanhx.Hxl.

Rev. Peter \V. Stuckman, the youngest member of this family, spent the days of his boyhood and youth in his home localit}- and acquired his education in the public schools of Union township. The little "temple of learning" was a log building, seated with slabs and finished with a puncheon floor. The methods of instruction were also somewhat primitive, but he made the most of his opportunities and has continually liroadened his knowledge by reading and observation in later years. He remained with his parents and assisted in the operation of the home farm up to the time of his marriage.

Alarch 14, 1873, Mr. Stuckman was joined in wedlock to Miss Rebecca b'rederick, who was born in Hardin county, Ohio, and was a daughter of William Frederick, a native of Niantic county, Ohio. At the time of bis marriage Rev. Stuckman located on his present farm and in adilition to the care and cultivation of the land he liecame actively connected with the ministry, doing evangelical work. He traveled a great deal in the interest of the church and was at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the time of the great flood, memorable in the history of the country. He has visited in the work of the ministry various points in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and was very successful in promoting the work of the German Baptist church. He' was also well known as a revivalist but he gave up evangelical work about I goo. He is now engaged in the raising of fine horses and owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section 28. Union township, where he has a well developed propert}'.

To Mr. and Mrs. Stuckman have Ijeen born four children: Cal- \in, who was a teacher for a number of years but is no\\- a horse dealer of Philadelphia; Melvin, who was a teacher and is now engaged in shipping horses; Ollie, the wife of Francis Neff of Milford, Indiana, a prominent land owner and real estate dealer ; and Myrtle, who is nowattending De Pauw University, in w-hich institution she expects to graduate. Air. Stuckman has educated his children, providing them with excellent advantages in that direction, and his two sons are graduates of the Northern Ohio University at .\da. His political allegiance is given to the Prohibition party and he is a man of strong tem])erance ])rinci]5les, hax'ing throughout his entire life been an ad\-ocate of abstinence and the opponent of the liquor traffic. His life has been honorable and u]jright, permeated by high principles and characterized liy motives that will hear closest investigation and scrutiny.

A resident of Elkhart county for the greater part of sixty years, a successful man of affairs, eminently ])ublic spirited as a citizen, and unixersalh' honored for his i)robit\- of character and true worth. Mr.

Cornelius Morris needs no introduction to the readers of this \ciliinie. He was lx)rn in this county, Decemher 9, 1845, and with the liasic indttstr}- of agricuUure he has ideutitied his efforts for many \ears, so that few men in Ohve township stand on a higlier jjlanc of general regard and exercise more influence than Mr. Morris.

Mr. Morris was the ninth of ten children. fi\'e sons and li\e daughters, whose parents were Isaac and Elizaheth (Sailor) Morris. There was a unicjue order of succession, in the hirths of these children, the sons and daughters coming by pairs, viz., the first two born were st)ns. then two daughters, two sons, two daughters, and the last two a son and a daughter. The six living children are as follows: Elizabeth, a widow, a resident of Starke county ; Moses, who is married and is a farmer in St. Joseph county ; Eliza Ann, wife of Michael Sn}der, of Marshall county, Indiana; Mary Jane, wife of Jacob F. Ehret, a farmer of Olive tow'nship; Cornelius, who is next; Rachael M., wife of Frederick Coth- 'ron, of Olive township.

Isaac Morris, the father, who was IxM^n in Monroe county. Ohio, in 1803, and died in 1884. was reared and married in his native county. receiving his education in the primitive schools of the time, and after a year spent in eastern Indiana came to Elkhart county in 1833, whei^e he placed his habitation among tlie red men and Ijecame one of the earliest pioneers of the western part of the county. It was in I'aug'i township that he first established his home, at a time when the now prosperous city of Elkhart contained onl}- a few log houses, and when there were very few highways from one part of the count\- t(» another. After living a year on his eighty-acre timber purchase he sold out and came to 01i\'e township, where, in addition to his purchase of fortv acres, he entered one hundred and sixt\- acres from the government, in .sections 13, 14 and J3. receiving parchment deeds that are still in existence. The log cabin that the father built there was some time later the birthplace of Cornelius. Isaac Morris, with five other men, held the first election after the organization of Olive township. The balloting was carried on in the Morris cabin, Isaac's wife holding the ballot Ijox, which was nothing less than an old-fashioned blue ])orcelain sugar bowl, and this vessel is carefully treasured in the home of Cornelius Morris, where the writer has seen and handled it. Isaac Morris was a Democrat in politics, and at that memorable first election in Oh\e township there was only one Whig vote cast. In religion the father was a Dunkard, and the mother a Methodist. The mother was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1805, and died in 1881, and was reared in Ohio. The Morris family is of English and Scotch origin.

Mr. Morris grew up on a farm ni this county and from earh- vouth has known all the practical phases of farm life. He attended school in a log cabin in the southwest corner of section 13. The huilding was sixteen by twenty feet in dimensions, with a clapboard roof, heated by a fireplace, the window sixteen inches higli and eight feet long and made by removing one log from the side of the Ijuilding. He has written with a goosequill pen, made by the master, antl his text liooks were the Elementary spelling book, Ray's arithmetic and McC.iuffey's readers. The school was supported three months each year 1)\- subscription.

IMorris is one of those whose names appear in the nulitary history of Elkhart county. He enlisted Xovember 15, 18O3, m Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment Indiana Infantry, which rendezvoused at Kendallville. His captain was S. B. McGuire. and the regiment was part of the Army of the Cumberland under the command of W. T. Sherman. Mr. Morris took part in the battle of Resaca and was almost constantly under rebel fire from ]\Iay 8 to September I. 1864, during the Atlanta campaign. On August 6. \\hile on the western side of Atlanta, he was struck in the left leg by a spent ball, and still bears the scar of that wound. He was in the Ohio division of the Army of the Cumberland, and at the conclusion of the Atlanta campaign and before the " march to the sea," this division was sent back to engage Hood's army in Tennessee. Under General Thomas it took part in the battle of Franklin and the still more sanguinary two davs' battle at Nashville. ^Ir. Morris's regiment was in the neighborhoofl of Raleigh, Nortli Carolina.' when the news of Lee's surrender came, followed shortly after liy the tidings of Lincoln's assassination. At Charlotte, North Carolina, he received his final discharge on August 29, 1865. and then returned home to resume the more peaceful vocations of life. Havine saved three hundred and forty dollars during his army service, he made this the capital for his start in life. The first few years of his independent career were spent as a renter on his father's farm.

November 19. 1872. Mr. Morris married Miss Sarah E. Smyser, and of the six children that ha^e been born to them three are now living, namely, B. A., who was educated in the common schools of St. Joseph county and is now a barber in Syracuse. Indiana : he married Miss Lola Mishler. by whom he has two children. Berneda and Ford. The son Cornelius, who was educated in the St. Joseph county schools and at a business college in South Bend, is a stenogra]>her in the employ of the Northwestern Nursery at Eau Claire. Michigan. Eddie, the youngest, is in the fifth grade of the public schools. The three deceased children were all girls. Mrs. Morris was born in Ohio, September 5, 1853. but reared in St. Joseph county, this state, being a daughter of Cornelius Smyser. who recently died at the advanced age of over eighty vears. His life is thus commemorated by the press: " Cornelius Smyser. one of the 1:)est known men in St. Joseph county, passed away at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Henry Ernsperger. of near S]>ringbrook park. Had he lived until December he would have been eighty-five years old. Mr. Smyser was a grand old man. and while alive was an exam])le to those about him for goodness, honesty, patience, sobriety and for his religious experience. Since early boyhood he li;ul been a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and tmik a great interest in religious affairs. A great reader of the daily newspapers he kqit in touch with the current affairs of the day and was always willing to be interviewed by representatives of the press and often assisted reporters with data at his command. He told many interesting stories relative to the early political history of this country. He was a lifelong, stai:ch Republican and took great interest in his ]:)arty and always insisted on voting, no matter what state of his health. In the last presidential campaign he was too weak to go alone to the ]iolls in South Bend. J. M. Studebaker. of that city, a great friend of Mr. Smyser since youth. came to Alishawaka and conveyed Mr. Smyser to- the polls in his ])ri\-ate carriage, that he might cast his vote for Theodore Roosevelt. He was born in Adams county, near Pine Town. Pennsylvania, Dec. 20, 1820. In 1839 he went to Ashland county, Ohio. August 21, 1845. h*^ ^^''^^ married to Miss Anna Eliza Davis, in Carthagena. Ohio. Their married life was singularly hajijiy. In 1853 they came to Alishawaka and engaged in farming. For thirty years they resided on the C. G. ToAvle farm, south of this city. Mrs. Smyser died Sept. n. 1891, since which time Mr. Smyser lias lived a retired life, making his home among his children, principally with Mrs. Ernsperger. He leaves five daughters, Mrs. Ern- -sperger. of near Springbrook Park; Airs. Charles Doolittle, Airs. Lawrence Meixel, of Mishawaka : Mrs. Edward Shank, of River Park ; Mrs. Cornelius Morris, of W'akarusa, Indiana ; two sons, Albert Smyser and Alonzo Symser, of Richmond, Indiana : three Ijrothers, Philip Smvser, of Independence. Iowa ; Frank Smyser, Portland, Oregon ; Henry Smyser. of Horton. Kansas; one sister. Mrs. Hanna Davis, of Hart. Michigan: thirteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren."

Mr. and Mrs. Morris lived in St. Joseph county eleven years. The first land he purchased was ten acres, which he paid for with the money he had saved while in the ranks. He then purchased thirty acres in section 13 of Olive township, and shortly afterward forty. acres in section 14, all this land being part of the old Morris homestead. After selling this land he rented five hundred and seventy acres in St. Josqjh county and for nine years carried on stock-raising- on an extensive .scale. He then bought bis present farm of eighty acres and has resided thereon ever since. Fie has made a success of his life work, lives independently, enjoys the freedom of country life, and is a fine specimen of the rugged manhood which characterizes the tndy successful American farmer. A lover of sport, he often participates in hunting excursions that take him to the heart of nature and refresh him in mind and body for the more serious tasks of life.

Since casting his first vote for Grant be has alwavs uiibeld the principles of the Republican party. Fraternally he is a memljer of Custer Post No. 232. G. A. R.. at Wakarusa. and has been commander and adjutant and at the present time is senior vice commander. The old One Huiulretl ami Twenty-ninth In.tliana has the honur of having held the first reunion, and the annual meeting in 1905 will lie the thirty-eighth. He also affiliates with the Knights of Columbia. j\lr. and Mrs. Morris are members of the Methodist church at Wakarusa. Mr. Morris and wife held a family reunion August 3, 1905, at their country Imme and we add a clippmg from the Citizen:

" We went to press too early last week to give particulars of the ;\Iorris family reunion which \\as held at the Cornelius Mnrris home last Thursday. There were 125 members present and the day was passed in visiting, recitations, etc. Rev. Parker, who was present, gave an address. The threatened rain just at noun drove those at the first table into the house, but the weather cleared and the outdoor tables were used for the remainder to eat upon.

" The society decided to hold the next reunion at one of the neigh- T)oring parks and a committee, composed of C. O. Ehret, (ieo. Renner and Ernest Bebee, was apnointed to decide du the location.

Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Philip Bimiller ; Vice President, Mrs. Chas. Miller; Treasurer, Jno. C. Myers; Secretary, L. L. Kilmer; Curresjionding Secretaries, ]\Irs. A. C. Lehman and Mrs. L. L. Kilmer.

" The Moris family is cjue of the oldest in the history of Elkhart county and their ancestors were among the first settlers in Olive township. They take a deep interest in each nther's welfare, and in their annual reunions. They bax'e a right to he ]>roud of their family record."

.-\ stanch and patri(jtic (ierman- American citizen, wdiose compatriots have probably done more for this nation in its development than any other class of population, a man of irreproachable character and whose long career in Elkhart county stands forth as a matter of pride and an object <if emulation to all younger generations, Mr. Christian Hunsljerger is a representative among his fellow citizens of OHve township' of those strong and rugged cjualities of manhood, of that enterprise and ability in the management of the afifairs of the world, and of that sincerity and honesty of purpose in all his relations with family and society wdiich, in their aggregate, form the verv foundation upon which the integrity of nation and ])eople is based.

^Ir. Hunsberger was born in Lancaster cour.ty, Pennsylvania, Xo- \-cmlier ^o. icS^i. being the iifth in a faniih' nf twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, whose parents were Christian and Esther lOverhulzer) Hunsberger. Seven of these children are living, as follows: Peter, married and living in Olive township, a jjrosjierous farmer; Christian: Michael, married and a farmer of Loclce townsbii); Henr\-, married and a farmer of St. Joseph coinitx- : Daniel, a resident of Olive

Christian Hunslierger. the father, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1793. before General Washington died, and who successfully followed the career of farming, came to Elkhart county about 1859. He died at the age of eighty-three, and his wife, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, lived to the three-cjuarter centv.ry mark of life. They were both members of the Mennonite church.

When the son Chri.stian w^as a child of two years the family moved to Canada, wiiere he grew up and li\-ed until he was twenty-six years old. Personal application was the chief factor which gained for him an education, and he can read both the English and German languages. Although at the age of twenty-one he could not produce twenty-five dollars in cash of liis own. his industrious disposition and his hardy honesty have brfjught him through life m.ore successfully than the majorit}' of men. and it has been his good fortune to attain to prosperous circumstances long before the evening of age has begun to cast its shadows about him.

Air. Hunsberger married Miss Margaret Pafif. November 24. 1857. nnd daring the early half century of their wedded life twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, have been born to them. Nine children are living. Adam, who was educated m the common schools and the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and who was a successful teacher for twenty years in St. Joseph and Porter counties, and also followed farming two years, is now serving his second term as treasurer of St. Joseph county, having been fleputy treasurer three years before his election to the office : is a resident of River Park. St. Joseph county, and hv his marriage to Miss Catherine Alliert he has two children, namely : Charlie, aged eigliteen. who is a high school graduate and is his father's deputy in the treasurer's office: and Grace, who is a student in the River Park schools at South Bend, and also a music pupil. Adam Hunsberger is a Republican in politics. Christian, the second son and his father's namesake, is one of the prosperous farmers of 01i\-e township, and is a Republican; Ijy his marriage to Miss Libbie El>erly he has three .sons - George. Henry anrl ]\Ienno. Abram Hunsberger. a farmer in Olive township, is also a Republican in ix)litics. married Miss Mary Enders. Jonathan, who is a successful farmer in St. Joseph county, married Miss Rosa Ann Klein, and they have two children. Nora and Margaret. Daniel, a farmer of Harrison township. v;edded Miss Elora Pletcher. by whom he has two children. .Mva and Maude. George, the youngest son, who was educated in the common schools, lives at home with his father and mother and is a practical farmer. The three living daughters of Air. and Airs. Hunshergei" are as follows ; Mary, who lives at home with her parents, is the widow of Christian Nusbaum and has two children. Dean and Augusta. Anna is the wife of Jacob Klein, a farmer of St. Joseph county, and has one child. Ellis. Lizzie, the wife of \\'illi,am Klein, an agriculturist in St. Joseph county, has one child. Florence.

G40 History Of Elkhart County

Airs. Hnnsberger, the mother of this large and prosperous family of children, was born in the little duchy of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, June 4. 1840. being the eldest of the seven children, four sons and three daughters, born to Ludwig and Christina (Hahn) Paff. She has four brothers living, namely : Henry Paff. a farmer and a resident of Canada, is married and has live children - Henry, Willie, Louis, John, and Mary. Adam Paff, also a Canadian farmer, is married and has two children. Edward and ]\Iillie. Ludwig, who farms in Canada, has six living children - Lizzie, Emma. ^Maggie, Leafy, Clara, And Willie. John, a Canada farmer, has three children - Anna, John, and George.

About 1848. when a little girl of eight years. Mrs. Hunsberger accompanied her parents on a sailing vessel from Bremen to New York city, being forty-eight days on the voyage, which was fraught with so many hardships that the passengers felt that by providence alone did they finally reach this side of the ocean. She was reared and educated in Canada, and remained there until her marriage.

Following that last-mentioned event the young couple decided to come to Lrdiana, where they settled down at the beginning of their wedded career, in 1861 ; their cash accumulation at that time being only three hundred dollars. Coming to Olive township they lived in the old hcjuse on the Enders homestead until the fall, and Mr. Hunsberger worked for day's wages, at seventy-five cents a day, which shows that he and his g'ood wife began at the bottom of the ladder to success and were willing to do any honest work that would afford them access to a higher position in the world's prosperity. Mrs. Hunsberger relates how she executed a whole day's washing for twenty-five cents, this also being one of the necessary means by which they established themselves in Elkhart county. The first land they purchased was eighty acres of their own homestead, and the land was heavily timbered - requiring a great amount of labor to transform it into productive and tillable fields. Their first home was a little log cabin. They paid three hundred dollars for this raw place, going in debt for a large part of that, and it was due to their great thrift and persevering industry that tliey won out in life's battles and finally reached a position of comfort and ease in material surroundings. To the original eighty they have added until they own one hundred and seventy-two acres, conceded on all sides to be one of the choice estates of the township, and besides they have two houses and lot in the City of Elkhart. There is a nice sugar grove on the place, and Mrs. Hunsberger made in the past season seventy-five gallons of maple syrup. From the little log house which constituted their first home they are now residents of a comfortable and ample brick residence, which was erected in 1879, and they have also built as circumstances have ]3erniitted. excellent barn and outbuildings.

A strong Republican, Mr. Hunsberger has always supported the ]}rinciples of the Grand Old Party, and his citizenship is of the same sterling character as his business career. He and his wife are members of the Aieimonite cluirch in Si. J'lseph county, having contrihuted materially in tlie erection and general -support of their church, and seldom has any worthy cause ajjpealed tn them in \-ain.

Peter Hunsberger

For nearly half a century the Flunsherger family has heen jirominent in the affairs of northern Indiana. Their German thrift and honesty, their ability in advancing material prosperity, their worth in all the relations of society have given them an honorable ix>sition among the best citizens of the state. In Mr. Peter Hunsberger is found not only a very interesting personality but a rugged character which has found much to do and has done much in this rough, practical, every-day world, and now at the e\ening of life is secure in the pos.session of friends and lionor and is happy with the consciousness of past duty well performed.

Mr. Hunsberger was born in Bucks county. Pennsylvania, August 2. 1826, and is now the oldest nf the living children, whose names are given in the sketch of Mr. Christian Hunsberger, on another i>age. Thefather was born in the same locality of Pennsylvania. August 10, 1793, and died March 22. 1877, aged eighty-three years, eight months, and twelve days. He was drafted for service in the war of 1812. but did not reach the field of action. A farmer by occupation, he was a \'ery successful man. When the son Peter was eight years old the father tcTok his family to Canada and in the province of Ontario bought one hundred and fifty acres of wild land which he improved into a fine farm and where he made his home until coming to Elkhart county. The father was a Republican, and he and his wife were Mennonites, aiding vevy materially in the supjxirt of their church. Tlie mother was born in Pennsylvania in 1803, and died in September, 1877, when almost three-quarters of a century old. The parents, on coming to this county in 1859. purchased the land which now comprises the Enders farm, and there remained till death took them from their earthly lalx)rs. They now rest in peace in the Olive cemetery, in section 1 of Olive township, and their grateful children have placed beautiful m-onuments to their memory.

In t86i Peter Hunsberger, with his brother Christian, came to Olive township to begin his independent career, at that time being without capital or any means of ad\'ancement other than his sturdy character and physical resourcefulness. In the meantime, in Canada, he had married, in 1854. Miss Frances Heinrich. (^f this marriage six children ha\-e been born, two sons and four daughters, and fi\-e are li\-ing. Mary is the wife of Abraham Seese. of Donaldson, Indiana, and has three living children - John. Ira. and Harvey. John is a St. Joseph county farmer and has seven children - Melvin. William. Rosetta. Jacob. Christina, Calvin, and Ellis. Margaret, wife of Jacob Schenck. of this county, has one child. Clarence. Isabelle is at home with her father, ^^'i^iam. a jiractical farmer and stanch voung l\c])ublican. has charge of the old Imniestead.

where he resides. The mother of this family iHed alwiit 1872, She was a native of Canada. Air. Hunsberg'er in May, 1874, took as his second companion in Hfe Mrs. Barbara (Kihner) Meyers.

Mr. Hunsberger's first pinxhase of land in this county was eighty acres of timber in section 15, Olive township, and his first home was a log cabin, twenty-two by twenty-six feet, made cf round logs taken from the virgin forest which surrounded him on all sides. He and his family spent fifteen years in this primitive home, but from the arduous conditions which they passed through then has resulted the gratifying prosperity of later years. In breaking up the soil of his farm he and his brother employed an ox team, and the four-fingered cradle was also a common implement in use during harvest days. The original eighty acres has formed his home farm ever since, and in 1877 he erected his present comfortable lirick residence, and the improvements which may be seen on ever}- side indicate liow well he has cared for the possessions that have come to him. He is the owner of one hundred and thirty-four acres in Olive township, and this represents the reward of persistent toil and diligence and honorable endeavor along the lines which bring success.

The ])resent Mrs. Hunslierger was born in Crawford county. Ohio, March 15. 1835, a daughter of John and Katie (Raymer) Kilmer, her father a native of Pennsylvania. She has three brothers living, two of them residents of Elkhart county and one in Michigan. She has four children by her first marriage, named as follows: Daniel Aleyers. who is a gardener in St. Joseph county and is father of five children, four by his first wife and one by his second: Jonas, a resident of Olive township; Noah and Abraham, of St. Joseph county. Abraham wedded Aliss Esther Brenneman and has two children, Joseph and Lewis.

Mr. Hunsberger belongs among the old settlers of Elkhart county, and to such men as he and his brother Christian the county owes a debt of gratitude for what they have accomiilished during their period of activity. They have witriessed the wonderful growth and development of their part of the county, from a wilderness to a paradise, have seen the little villages of Elkhart and (ioshen grow to cities, have lived in the county from the time of onlv one railroad until there are steel lines crossing in every direction. ha\e beheld beautiful farms carved out of the forest, and schoolhouses and churches dotted all over the landscape.

Mr. Hunsberger is a Republican, and he and his brother had the privilege of casting their first American vote for Abraham Lincoln. He and his wife are members of the Mennonite church, and they aided in the erection of their house of worship in St. Joseph county. Ijoth being true representatives of that simple faith which has so many ailherents in this part of the state. This brief sketch is one of the records of the aged citizens of this county intended to preserve for all time the life and works of a true, honest and sincere man - a record which his descendants will be proud to refer to in future years.

Andrew Jones, an honored \eteran of the Civil war and a resident of New Paris, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1833, and is the youngest in a family of four sons and three daughters born to Evan and Rebecca ( DeMotte) Jones. Only two of the "family are now living, the sister of Mr. Jones being Mrs. Elizabeth Fike, a widow, who is residing in Anderson, Indiana, at the venerable age of eighty years. The father was a native of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and spent his childhood and youth in the state of his nativity, acquiring a common school education. He was trained to the work of the home farm and about 1834 he removed from Pennsylvania to Van Wert countv, Ohio, liecoming a pioneer settler of that locality, where he remained until his death. In ])olitics he was a Democrat, adhering to the principles advocated by Jackson, and he and his wife were members of the Mennonite church.. She was also a native of Pennsylvania, representing one of the old families there, and her death occurred in Ohio. The grandfather of Mr. Jones came from the little rock-ribbed countrv of Wales and settled in .Vnierica at an early day.

Andrew Jones, born in Pennsylvania, was reared in Ohio and Indiana. He \\as about fourteen years of age at the time of his father's death and though he enjoA-ed few- privileges in his youth he made the most of his opportunities and developed a sturdy, honorable manhood. In earlv life he cut cord wood at twenty-five cents per cord, clearing the timber from the land. The first clearing he made was two acres, and around the place he built a fence eight rails high, receiving only forty dollars for all of this labor. Pie began learning the blacksmith's trade under a task ma'ster who was so severe that it led him to seek employment elsewhere. About this time he met with an accident that forced him to relinquish work at the forge, and so the remainder of his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits and to other employment that he could secure that would yield him an honest living. When the war cloud .spread over the land and the storm seemed to threaten the country with disaster lie went to the front in its defense, enlisting on the 6th of -Vugust. 1862, as a memljer of Company E, 74th Indiana \'olunteer Infantry, under Captain William B. Jacolis. The regiment was sent to Louisville, Kentuckv, and was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, so that he served under Colonel Charles E. Chapman and General " Pa]3 " Th.omas. He took part in the famous raid against General Morgan and he endured manv of the hardships, dangers and privations of war. .\s a scout he traveled through Tennessee and Georgia, seeing much ])erilous service. On one occasion the band of scouts got so far away from their command that they were obliged to go to Cumberland (iap and there get ammunition before thev could make their way back. While on scout duty near Carthage, Tennessee, Mr. Jones sustained a slight flesh wound in the riarht leg. He was in Lnuisxille. Kentuckv. the time the news was received cif Lee's surremjer on the 9th of April, 1865, and on tlie 17th of June lie recei\'ed an honorable discharge at Indianapolis after a long service of two years, ten months and eleven days. He then retnrned to Elkhart county and has since made his home in New Paris.

Mr. foncs was married January 24. 1861, in Goshen, Indiana, to ]\Iiss Mary Herriman, and they have four children, all yet living: Adella, who married Thomas Robinson, by whom she had two sons, Ward and Ed, and after the death of her first husband became the wife of Galand Willard, now of Syracuse. Indiana, by whom she has two children, Lula and Harry: Pearl, an agriculturist of Poinsett county, Arkansas, who married Miss Pricella Bullard and has two children living. Mary and an infant. Albert, who is engaged in blacksmithing in New Paris, and married Miss Nettie Hoke, who died several years ago, leaving a little daughter, Nevaatta. who is with her grandparents in New Paris: and Liff R.. a lineman of New Paris, living with his father and miithcr. He was a member of Company E. 157th Indiana Infantry, in the Spanish- American war. after which he received an honorable discharge. Mrs. Jones was born in Jackson townshi]). Elkhart count}'. September 16, 1841, her parents being Frederick and Mary (Wright) Herriman, both now deceased. Pier father was a native of Massachusetts and her mother of Virginia and thev had a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom four are yet living, but only two are residents of Elkhart county, the others being Isaac, who is a farmer living in Marshall county, Indiana : and Washington, who is living retired in Milford, Indiana.

Mr. Jones is an earnest Reiniblican whose first vote was cast for Abraliam Lincoln, and he has been selected as a delegate to count \- conventions. He and his wife are known as upright citizens and in their lives have displayed many sterling traits of character.

Willis A. Layton

Willis A. Layton is one of the earlv .settlers of the county and has watched it emerge from pioneer conditions, putting aside all the e\idences of frontier life and taking on all the improvements of an advanced civilization. He lives on section 23, Cleveland township, and is a nati\c of the neighboring state, Ohio, his birth having occurred in Alianii county. June 15. 1843. His father. Benjamin F. Layton, was born in Ri.'ckbridge county. Virginia, and was of English descent, the grandfather having been born in London, England. The mother of (lur siil>iect I'ore the maiden name of Mary Wilmore and was also a native of Rockbridge county. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. P.eniamin F. Layton located in Ohio about 1840, and in 1848 they came to Cleveland township. Elkhart county, settling on a farm which is now the home of their son Willis A. Here the father directed his energies to the tilling of the soil and continued active in farm work untii iiis death, which occurred when he was in his fifty-fourth year. His wife, siir\-i\iiig- him. ])assed away at the age of sixty-four years. They were the parents of eleven chikh-en, five sons and six daughters. Ijut three of tiie daugliters (hed in childhood and one son died in infancy.

^^'i!Iis A. Layton is the second child and sixth son and was but five years old when he was brought to Cleveland township, so that he has been a resident of the county for more than a half century. The district was then upon the frontier, and the school which he attended was held in a log- building. His youth and early manhood being cast in the pioneer ]>eriod. his experiences have connected him with a strange past as well as the marvelous present. \Vhen the lusty strength of youth Nvas in his veins, he has swung from early to late the old-fashioned " turkey-wing " cradle in cutting wheat. He and his wife, who b}' birth and rearing also belotigs to northern Indiana, have witnessed the principal events that have marked the ]5rogress of this part of the state. Li\'ing near the St. Joseph river at a period when that waterway still furnished an imi^ortant transportation route, they ha\'e seen the steamlioats passing up and dxiwn with freight and passengers, the smokestacks being lowered for ])assage under the bridges. Indians and .deer have alsu been seen by these pioneer people, the former having a trail across the Layton homestead.

'Sir. Layton was only eleven years of age at the time nf his father's death hut he remained upon the old homestead most of the time until after the outbreak of the Ci\'il war. He enlisted in 1861. becoming a member of Company I. Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He joined the army as a private and scr\-ed for four years and four days, never faltering in the performance of any duty that was assigned to him. He was wounded in the knee at Chickamauga by a rebel bullet, and in addition to that hattle he ])articipated in the engagements at Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain. Ringgold and many others of lesser note. He also went with Sherman as far as Atlanta, was in the siege, and was afterw'ard returned to Chattanooga. He received an honorable discharge at Nashville, Tennessee, September 14, 1865. His militar}- experience has embraced all of the duties that fall to the \ot of the soldier, calling him to the lonely picket line and tci the firing line, causing him to take king marches and endure many hardshijis. When he was engaged in the terrible battle of Chickamauga, his cousin. R. M. \\' ilmore. was shot by his side. It was General " Pop " Thomas who saved the day for the Union forces at that memorable battle.

When the war was over Mr. Layton returned to Elkhart county, Indiana, and occupied a position as clerk in a store there for a year. He then went upon the road as a traveling salesman and occupied that position for several years, but soon after his marriage he took up his abode on the old homestead farm where he has since lived. Mr. Layton as a horticulturist has the largest stand of hucklel)erries in northern Indiana, and for this reason deserves a ]:)rominent place in the historv of the fruit-growing interests of the count\-. He has cnyaged in the raising of this particular crop for the i)ast sixteen years, tlie soil and other conditi'ons of northwestern Elkhart county being remarkably favorable for this variety of small fruits, in the present year of 1905 he has disposed of about three hundred crates of huckleberries, the regular price ranging from $2.25 to $2.40 a crate, with a demand that takes all he can raise. Mr. Layton carries on this industrj' on the most extensive and profitaUe scale of any one in this part of the state. He has been engaged in vending small fruit in the city of Elkhart for the past tliirty-eight years.

On the 6th of March, 1870, Mr. Layton was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Sarah L. Xixon, a daughter of John and Jane (Bryson) Nixon. She was born in Kosciusko county, LKliana, September 30, 1845, bein.g the eighth in order of birth in a family of nine children. Her father was born in Ireland and when seventeen years of age came to America. His wife was a native of Center county. Pennsyhania. As already stated, !\Irs. Layton has lived in this part of the state long enough to be familiar with both pioneer and modern conditions. Among the ]X)ssessions she exceedingh" prizes \nr its old-time associations is an old-fashioned coverlet. wo\en when she was a girl. To ^Mr. and -S.Irs. Layton have been born the following named: Etta Lnelln. who is now the wife of Isaac S. Pippenger of Elkhart: Millard \\'.. at home: and Katie ]\lav. the wife of Michael Ruch of Elkhart.

Mr. Layton is one of the representative citizens of Elkhart count}', where he has li\-ed through fifty-seven years. He has been zealously interested in the welfare of his community, and all the qualities of public-spirited and progressive citizenship have been manifest by him. He belongs to Elmer Post, (i. A. R.. at Elkhart, and takes great delight in meeting with his old army comrades and recalling scenes that happened upon the battlefield when he w-as w'earing the blue uniform of the nation. His first presidential ballot was cast for Alirahani Lincoln, and he has been a supporter of each nominee at the liead of the ticket since that time, never missing an election since age gave to him the right of franchise. He served as a trustee of Cleveland township for two terms, while his religions faith is indicated by his membership in the German Baptist church.

D. A. Rheubottom, as editor and proprietnr of the Wakarusa Tribvivc, has advocated and earnestly worked for every enterprise or institution or movement that has been undertaken for the welfare of his town since he identified himself therewith as a resident and jotn-nalist. The power of the press in this country is only beginning to be understood, but it is the newspapers of the land, whether the metropolitan daily or the c(iuntry weekly, that lead the \-anguard of progress and civilization, promote intelligence among the masses, sup- port the schools ami churches, and furnish the best medium through which public o])inion expresses itself. Mr. Rheubottom is a modern newspaper man, enterprising, up-to-date in his manner and methods, and has made both himself and his paper factors of uplifting influence and usefulness in the town of \\'akarusa.

Born in LaGrange county, Indiana, Jtdy 2, 1866, INIr. Rheubottom is the only child of James f'!.. and Mary G. (Gammell) Rheubottom, well known and high!}' esteemed citizens of Wakarusa. Tlie father, who is a genial and well informed gentleman, for a number of vears connected with his son in newspaper enterprises and still occasionally taking a hand in the makeup of the Tribiuic, was liorn near Mayville'. Chautauqua county, New York, February 17,, 1846. Reared there to the age of twelve, his parents then came to LaGrange county, Indiana, where was his home until he located at ]\Iiddlebury, this county, and, with his son. established the ]\Iiddlebury IndcpeiHlent, which was conducted there either by himself or son until 1897. He came to Wakarusa and established the Tribune in 1893. Mr. J. R. Rheubottom is a veteran of the Civil war. having served almost four years. He enlisted in Company A, Twent}--lirst Indiana Heavy Artillery, under Colonel McMillan, liis battalion being assigned first to the Army of the Potomac and later with the western armies in the gulf regions. He was present in the liattle of Baton Rouge and the siege of Port Hudson and in \-ari()us other ,if the important events of the war.. He enlisted just a few days after Fort Sumter was fired ujjon. and received his honoralile discharge July 6. 1865. At the time of Lee's surrender he was with General Banks in the Red River country. A stanch Repu1)lican in politics, he has advocated that party ever since casting his first vote for Lincoln when in the army of the republic. He and his wife are members of the Christian church, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Odd Fellows lodge. No. 46. at LaGrange. with Lodge No. 311. K. of P.. at Middlebury. and widi Kendallville Lodge No. 46. of the uniform rank Knights of Pythias.

Mrs. Mary G. Rheubottom, the mother, who was born in Delaware county. Ohio, in 1852, and A\hen a child came to Indiana, where she was reared, \\as a daughter of one (if the California forty-niners who crossed the plains in search of the golden Eldorado and who met his death while still (>n the coast. ^Irs. Rheubottom graduated from Ontario Collegiate Institute and is now a minister of the go.spel in the Christian church at North Manchester, Indiana. She entered the ministry about 1895. ^\"Hkarusa l;eing her first charge. She w;is the first president of the \\'. C. T. V . in Elkhart county, having organized the first society, and was also an active member of the Shakespearian Club at LaGrange. She holds a high rank as an evangelistic worker, and is often called \\\)on to aid \arious churches regardless of denomination.

the age of twelve years, received his primary training in the common schools, from which, after receiving his diploma, he entered the Kendallville high school in Xoble county, graduating in the class of 1884. Alreadv, at the age of sixteen, he had received his teacher's certificate, and he began teaching in Noble county and followed that line of work for four years. During that time he served as secretary of the Noble County Teachers' Association. In 1886 he left the ranks of educators and identified himself with journalism, which vocation has absorbed his time and energies ever since. As already mentioned, he and his father established a paper in Middlebury in 1886, and this was continued there several years Ijy the son after his father had come to Wakarusa. The history of the Wakarusa Tribune as one of the representativ-e Elkhart cminty j(iurnals will be found in the general history if this viilume.

Mr, Rheubottom married Miss Ida Schwin, February 2. 1887, and two sons have been born to them : Gladstone is in the high school, having completed the first year's work there; Blaine had finished the eighth grade. Mrs. Rheubottom was born and reared in this county, being educated in the Middlebury schools. She is a trained nurse by profession, having prepared herself for that calling in Michigan University, where she took two years' work in the medical department. A woman of versatile mind, she has, Ijesides caring for her household in such an exemplary manner, assisted her husband in the editing of the Wakarusa. Tribune, conducting the Ladies' Department of that pal)er. and has identified herself prominently with \arious other mo\'ements for social and intellectual uplift m her town. She was one of the t)rganizers of the Search Light Club, a society devoted to literary and social culture. One of the young stalwarts of the Republican party in this county. Mr. Rheubottom has been a delegate to state and county conventions, and editorially and [:)ersonally upholds the principles which time and usage have proved sound and good. Fraternally he affiliates with Lodge No. 311, K. of P.. at Middlebury.

Within the 'shadow .if his fnurscure years, dver sevent_\- nf which have licen '^jjcnl in this county, .Mr. Jnbn Rnhrer. of Jackson tiiwu-bi]), conies \ery near to being the oldest resident of Elkhart cnunty, hdtli from the standpoint of the length of his own Hfetime and years of continuous residence. On other ]>aoes we have already spoken of tlie prominence of the Rohrer famih' as ])ioneers of Jackson townshi]). and it is to such devoted men and women as rejiresent this family that the phenomenal advancement of the count}- to a foremost position in all departments of ci\ilization i'; due. The homage paid to pioneers is well deser\e(l, the extent of their ser\ices to mankind can never he overestimated, and the chronicling of their li\-es and deeds is not less ini])or-

Born near Dayton, Ohio, September 3, 1826, he is the only h\-ing representative of the eight chiUh-en, six sons and two daughters, comprised in the family of John and Catherine (Razor) Rohrer. His grandfather was from (German}-, and the family is of Pennsylvania German stock. The father, a farmer and also dealer in real estate, came at an early day on a tri]) to Indiana, seeking a home for his children and for the passing of his own remaining years. He entered government land both in Noljle and Elkhart counties, and in 1833 the Rohrer family came to this county, in covered wagons and in true pioneer style, and of course their first habitation was a log cabin. Mr. Rohrer's present home is part of the old homestead settled over seventy vears ago. At that time a den,se growth of timber covered alf this portion of the country, and before crops could be planted it was the arduous task of the futher and older bovs to cut off tlie brush and trees and make a small clearing on which their next year's means of .subsistence might be raised. The father was a man of inHuence in his community, and gave his ])olitica! support to the Whig and later the Republican party. The motlier, who was born in Pennsylvania. died in this county, and tlie remains of both parents rest in Milford cemetery, where a Ijeantifu.l monument has been erected in their sacred memory.

A bo}- of about six _\e;irs when he came to this county, Mr. Rohrer lias been continuously a resident here for seventy-two years. Xearl}- all his conditions of life and the pioneer surroundings which ha\e l)eeii described at length in otiier ]3ortions of this volume, for the purpose of affording this and future generations a correct knowledge of the jiast. are memory pictures in the mind of Mr. Rohrer, and frcjiii his own long exoerience he culls incidents and scenes almost exactly similar in general and in detail. He is numbered among those who obtained their education in the log schoolhouses, he has often swung the old four-fingered cradle during the harvest days of fifty years ago, he has driven ox teams, and in fact, with his long train of successive years, he bridges over the interval between the dim-remembered ]iast and the glorious tw^entieth century.

Mr. Rohrer lived at home \\itli his parents until his marriage. By his wedding with Miss Catharine A. Unnie ten children were born, six sons and four daughters, eight of wdiom are living. Marion is marriefl and is a carpenter and joiner at Goshen. Wesley, who is married, is a jiainter at New Paris. Rebecca Ann, a resident of Jackson township, is the widow of Daniel Peoples. James and Thomas are tW'ins. the former a resident of Xew Paris and a farmer, and the latter a farmer at Milford ; both are married. Emma is the wife of Melvin Sheliiie. a farmer and salesman. John, a practical farmer having charge of the old homestead and li\-ing with his parents, married Miss Linnic

Harper ami has two cliildren, (ilenwond and Ruth. Ira A. is successfully engaged in the tent and awning l)usiness at Boise City. Idaho, and is married.

;\Irs. Rohrer was liorn in I'reljle county. Ohio. Feljruary i8. 1827, a daughter of Isaac and Eli/.alieth (Hawks) Cnrue. She has heen a resident of Elkhart county and Jackson township since she was a little g'ir! eight years old. so that she too deserves representation among the oldest pioneers of the county. She attended log-cabin school, studied the Elementary speller, the Testament, a United States history, and with a goosequil! pen has written the copy set by the master. She has faithfully performed '.ler part of life's duties, has reared her large family with credit and honor, and in home and community has made herself belo\ed Ij}- her sweet and generous character.

When the young couple began their wedded life their hnme was in the little house which stands just liack (if their beautiful country residence. All their children were born in that modest little house. That little dwelling moved away to make place for a pretentious and moclern home tells in a beautifull}- grajjliic manner the story of pvospevitv which has marked their career: tells of patient and i)ersistent effort b\' which graduallv they got ahead in the world, and besides doing well hv their children, furnishing them a good home, sending" them to school, at the same time they were steadily increasing their store of world's goods - all this and more may we read as we look from the weatherbeaten and well worn old place to the ornate and comfortable residence that has succeeded it. louring her first years of housekeeping Mrs. Rohrer has wo\en the cloth for many of the garments worn by the famil}-. and she still ])ossesses as almost sacred relics her flax wheel, reel aufl other implements, although she has sold the loom. Their beautiful estate comjjrises one hundred and ninetyone acres of land in Jackson townshi]). and their residence was erected in 1876.

Air. Rohrer was first a \Miig and then a Reimblican. being an emphatic advocate of the princii>les of his jiarty. He and his wife were among the organizers of the bAangelical church in this neighborhood, and vears ago they often walked four miles to attend the Solomon's Creek church. Thev contributed generously to the erection of the Evangelical church in Xew I'lU'ls. and also helped in the building of the Methodist church at the same i)lace. their intere.st in religious progress and the moral life of their comnuinitv causing them to lend their aid with discrimination or resard for creeds and sects.

As long as meniorv remains to the .\nierican people they will acknowledge tlieir del)t of gratitude to the men who wore the blue uniform and carried the mu.sket in defense of the Union cause at the time i;f the Civil war. Among the veterans <.f that long and sanguinary struggle now li\ing in Elkhart connty, Benjamin V. Paul is numbered. He comes of German lineage and was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of May, 1842, being the third in a family of six children, two sons and four daughters, whose parents were Abraham and .Sarah (Ahvnie) Paul. Only two of the number are now living, Benjamin F. Paul being the elder, while Levi is a resident of Elkhart township, where he follows the occupation of farming. The father wa.-^ born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and throughout his active business career carried on general farming. His educational privileges were limited but he made the most of his opportunities and from his native state he removed to Elkhart county. Indiana, in 1864, settling in Jackson township. He purchased property in New Paris, and continued in the tilling of the soil up to the time of his death, which occurred when he was sixty-four years of age. His early political sui5])ort was given to the so-called Know-nothing party, and when the Republican party was formed to prevent the further extension of slavery he joined its ranks and continued to follow its banners until called to his final rest. He and his estimable wife were members of the Evangelical church. Airs. Paul was born in Somerset county, Pennsyh-ania. and was aliont se\cnty-two years <.)f age at the time (if her death.

Benjamin F. Paid was reared in the state of his nativity until he had reached manhood and his time and attention were largely given to the farm work. About the time he attained his majority, however, he began learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed for twentyfive or thirty years. In 1864 he decided to seek a home in the middle west and with his brother-in-law came to Indiana. He had desired to enter the service of his country at the time of the Civil war but his parents objected. Following his arrival in Indiana, when there was nc objection to his joining the army, he offered his services to the government, enlisting" in Company H, Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under command of Captain Dawson. This was in the early fall. The regunent was assigned to the Trans-Mississippi department and he joined it in Alabama. .Almost immediately he was under fire and lie participated in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, one of the most Imtl}- contested engagements of the war. the Union troops being niiiwn down like a field of grain. Two nf his comrades standing \erv near him were killed, but Mr. Paul managed to escape death. He was engaged in erecting breast v,-orks and under a hot fire the works had been built to a height of about two feet with rails on top when the enemy made the attack. The commanding" officer told them to pile their knapsacks on iop of the breast works and soon the rebel bullets rained around them like a hail. The next battle in which Mr. Paul participated was at Nashville, Tennessee, twchx or thirteen days later, and this was another hard-fought actinn. a inimber nf the members of .\lr. Paul's compah}' i:>eing killed. Then came the order "on to Richmond" and they started for tliat point, i>roceeding as far as Lookout Mountain when word was received that Lee had surrendered to Grant and the stars and stripes were iioating over the capital of the southern Confederacy. Then a part of the army to which Mr. PauFs regiment belonged was discharged, while the remainder was sent to Texas, Mr. Paul being with the latter section. The troops proceeded to New Orleans and thence across the gulf to San Antonio, Texas. \\ here they remained on duty for some time but no battles occurred. Mr. Paul was honorably discharged September 30, 1865, at Victoria, Texas.

Returning at once to his home m Perinsyh'ania he had to spend some time in recuperating, for his health was impaired by the hardships and rigors of war. After a brief period spent in the Keystone state he again came to Elkhart county, Indiana, where he resumed work at the carpenter's trade. He had no difficulty in obtaining work, there being much building going on at this time so that the services of competent men were always in demand. It was about this time that he choose a companion and helpmate for life's journey, being married ifi 1866 to Miss Elizabeth iTiahn, by whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters. The family circle yet remains unbroken, the record being as follows ; Isadora May, the wife of B. W. Davis, who is a rural route mail agent, residing in New Paris; Charles William, of New Paris, a bai'ber by trade but now working at carpentering and who married Miss Cora Landahl; Franklin, who married Miss Minnie Carrier, and is a painter and paper hanger of New Paris; Ola Bell, the wife of Bert Tarman. a teacher of Jackson township; and Erastus, who is a barber of New Paris, and married Miss Addie Anselman.

Mrs. Paul was bom in Indiana, in 1843. ''"'^ ^'^^ '^^'^^ 1^^'' '^"-'S' band are members of the Evangelical church at New Paris. The attractive house of worship here has lieen erected since they Ijecame residents of New Paris, and Wv. Paul was one (if the building committee. In politics he is a Republican. Alwut 1891 he engaged in the sawmill business, which he continued for ab<iut six years and he conducted a hardware business for four years. He then turned his attention to general merchandising, carrying nr, a store for three years and during the succeeding year as a furniture dealer. He is now. however. a shoe merchant of New Paris, and in this relation is known to the citizens of the enterprising \illage, having a good patronage and carrying a well selected stock. His business integrity stands as an unquestioned fact in his career and the success which he has acJiieved is the merited reward of his own labor.

cei\ed the rewards which his early industry and perseverance through difficulties deserved. A self-made man, his achievements in every line have been the result i.)t his own fntelligent management and earnest labor.

Born in Orange county, Xew York, June 3, 1839, he was only seven years old when the family lost their main support in the death of the father, David C. Swezey, who, also a native of Orange county, New York, had moved out to Marshall county, Indiana, in 1845 ^"^' died there the following year. The widowed mother, with her six young children, then returned to Yates county. New York, and from that time until he was fourteen years old young Swezey lived with his grandfather, David Swezc)-. Then hiring out to a farmer for a year, he thus early began an independent career and with increasing strength and experience came also added ability to cope with life's problems and to pull more than his own weight in the affairs of the world. Recognizing his deficiencies as to education, he set about educating himself while laboring daily for his own support. After clerking in a store at Howells, New York, about two years, he came out to Marshall county, Indiana, and put his self-accjuired education to use by teaching school three years.

In 1861 Mr. Swezey enterei! the Union army as a pri\'ate in Company K, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, became a corporal and then first sergeant, and was in the war until receiving his honorable discharge HI 1865. He was in the western armies, taking part in the battles of Shiloh, Stone Ri\er, Chickamauga, and others, and at Chickamauga received a gunshot wound in his left leg so that he was compelled to lie in the hospital six months, which was the only interruption to his continuous service.

After the war he returned to Indiana. l:>ut soon went back east and engaged in farming in Seneca county. Xew \'ork. three years. Locating in Mishawaka, Indiana, he was in the employ of the Milburn Wagon Works six years as shipping clerk, then conducted a general store in Lakeville, St. Joseph county, and in 1883 identified himself with the growing town of Nai:)panee. In compa.ny with Robert McGomey and DeWitt C. Eggleston, he engaged in the manufacture of furniture, especially tables. The enterprise was later incorporated as a stock company under the name of Xappanee Furniture Comi)an\', of which ]\Ir. Swezey was secretary, and about igoo the interests of the company were reorganized and ha\'e been since carried on by the Coppes, Zook & Mutschler Comi>anTi\ Mr. S\\eze^- retained his share in the business two N'ears longer, and then sold out to Daniel Zook and has since been retired from active participation m business aft'airs. He was appointed to his present position of postmaster in kjoj. and the efficiency with which be has administered the office lias liad a marked effect both in the (piantitv and quality of the ser\-ice.

public life cif Nappanee. He was a member of the town board several terms and was president of the board one term. He has been a lifelong Republican and an active party worker for many years. He is a member of th.e Methodist church and holds the ofilice of steward, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order and with Berlin Post No. 402, G. A. R., in which he has filled all the chairs. Mr. Swezey was married in 1865 to Miss Harriet Lyon.

Perry L. Turner

Perry L. Turner, who for over twenty years has held a secure position among the principal lawyers of this county, who' has risen to a place of commanding influence and great professional prestige among the members of the bar and the general public, was born on a farm in Osolo township, Elkhart county, October ij. i860. His parents were Lyman Turner, now deceased, and Tamar (Wilkinson) Turner, still living. They took up their residence in this county in 1849. They had fi\'e children, but the onlv two living are Perrv L. and Dr. Px)rter Turner, both of Elkhart.

Like so many men who have risen to prominence in the professions, ]\Ir. Turner sperit his youth on a farm, where he assisted his father during the time he was not in school. Supplementing his common school training by attendance at the Elkhart city high school, where he was graduated in the class of 1879, he taught in the country schools of the county in the winters of 1879-80-81, and during the corresponding summers took a select literary course in the Northern Indiana Normal at Valparaiso, receiving his diploma from that institution in 1 88 1. In May, 1882, he entered the law office of Captain O. T. Chamberlain at Elkhart and took up the study of law under that well known jurist. Obtaining admission to the bar In 1884, he at oiice became the law partner of his preceptor, and the law firm of Chamlierlain and Turner continued with vminterrupted success until 1902, in \\hich year the senior member withdrew to make his home in California. Since then Mr. Turner has ])racticed alone and has maintained the higli reputation for legal skill and ability which has always characterized the firm. In 1885 he was elected city attorney of Elkhart, and the satisfactory record he made in this office is shown in the fact that he was retained in the office for sixteen consecutive years. He has the ablest c|ualificatIons as a lawyer, the keen perception, the analytical mind, the knowledge of law, and as a trial lawyer in particular he has made and well sustained a reputation throughout this section of the state.

Besides attending to a large practice, Mr. Turner has connecticjns with manv other enterprises. He is general counsellor for the Modern Samaritans of the \\'orld, with which order he is affiliated. He is vicepresident of the Elkhart Gas Company and is a director in the First

State Bank of Elkhart. He is a Master and Chapter Mason, and a memljer of the Independent Order of Odd Eellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife are meml>ers of the Episcopal church. Mr. Turner is proprietor of and caused the erection of the Law Exchange building in Elkhart, in which he has his own law offices. His law library is considered one of the largest and best selected in the state, and his private library at home indicates the breadth and scope of his intellectual interests. ' He has ne\-er interested himself to any extent in practical politics, but in

Mr. Turner was married in 1885 to Miss Mamie E. Wright. Her father, the late H. C. Wright, was the first mayor of the city of Elkhart, and for many years a prominent lumber dealer and leading citizen. Mrs. Turner, who was born and reared at Elkhart, is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy of South Bend and of Peekskill Seminary in New York. For years she has been a leading spirit in the social and club life of Elkhart, and is now recording secretary of the Indiana State Federation of \\'omen's Clubs.

Dr. R. S. AlcCurmick. engaged in the practice of medicine and snrgery at Xappanee, is a native of Li\-ing'ston county, Illinois, horn March 12. 1869. liis father. Hunter McCormick, was a native of Pennsylvania and following the period of the Civil war hecame a resilient of Illinois, settling in Odell, Livingston county, where he engaged in hookkeeiMiig and afterward in grain dealing. There he died at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, who liore the maiden name of Mary E. Neyhart, is also deceased.

Dr. McCormick is the second in order of liirth in a fanuly of fi\e sons and was onh' tweh'e \'cars of age at the time nf his mother's death. He afterward went to Pennsylxania. where he remained fur about four years, attending school in that state, and on the expiration <>f that period he rejoined his father in Illinois, remaining in Li\ingstiin cnunty until 1887, when he went to (.'hicagn. He was there engaged m the shoe husiness and also attended school, after which he determined to make the study of medicine his life work. He did his ])reliminary reading under the direction of Dr. Lee and in 11JO3 was graduated from the Chicago Homoeopathic College. In Jul\' of the same year he located foi" ]5ractice in Xappanee. where he has since remained, and here he has worked up a \ery gratifying liusiness. winning a creditable professional and financial success.

Li i8g8 Dr. ]\IcCormick was united in marriage to Miss Mar\' E. Tavl<ir of Rochester. Indiana, a daughter of Israel Ta}-lor. Dr. and Mrs. McCormick are wideK' and faxuralily known socially and he is a wilued member of the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic fraternities, in the line of his jirofession he is connected with the Indiana Homoeopathic Aledical .Association and his wife is an acti\e and helpful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Mcl'orniick has little leisure time, owing to the increased demands for his jjrofessional ser\'- ices, but he finds genuine enjoyment in the calling which he has chosen as a life work and the love of scientific in\-estigation and broad humanitarian principles as v^ell as a hope of gaining a desirable financial return jirompts him to put forth his best efforts ns a practitioner of medicine and siu'gery.

Hon. Charles L. Aiurray

Hon. Charles L. Murray, the pioneer journalist of Elkhart and Kosciusko counties, was Irarn in 1815, in a small town called Murraysfield in Bradford county. Pennsylvania. His parents were Philadelphians. He was paternally Scotch and maternally English. His paternal grandfather was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and his ])rofession (religious) was fir.st a Baptist and then a Universalist minister, and he was one of ei.ght brothers wdio settled in western New ^'ork alter the Revolution. His maternal grandfather was a Ouaker, and lollowecl tlie business of an architect in Philadelphia, where C. L. Murray's parents were born. While the family resided at .Vthens, on the Susquehanna ri\er, his father was appointed justice of the peace for life, by the governor of Pennsylvania, under the old constitution. Mr. Murray begai>, about the year 1828, to learn the printer's trade. The paper was published in Towanda, and supported John 0. Adams for ])resident. His brother-in-law, W. Jenkins, leaving Towanda, Mr. Murray went with the family to Huron county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the rtrst anti-Masonic ]>rinting oftice in the state. In 183 1 Mr. Jenkins moved the office to Columbus. Ohio, where Mr. J^Iurray followed him as an apprentice.

Com])leting his trade in i8_:;:;, he went west to seek his fortune. Having a relative at Jackson\ille, Illinois, on his father's side, Murray McConnel, he worked in that place on a paper published by a Mr. Edwards. Taking the prevailing disease of the country, ague, he returned to Columbus, Ohio, by joining his father's nephew in taking a drove of horses through that were being bought for the Philadelphia market. Mounted on a horse young Murray crossed the state from St. Louis \'ia Vincennes, and in spite of the terrible condition of the roads at that time reached Columbus in safety. Here he again worked t(jr his bi-other-in-law and became foreman of the office of the IJ'rstcni flniiisplu-rc. the Democratic organ of the state. Young Murray was then in his eighteenth )-ear. and he continued in the employ of the jjaper until a difficulty arose between him and one of the proprietors. Soon afterward the ])a])er changed hands, and its name changed to the Ohio Stafcsiiiaii. where Mr. Murray again accepted a position in the office and continued there until 1834. He then went to Picpia. Ohio, on the solicitation of citizens there, and in company with his brother-in-law, D. P. Espy, established the Piqua Cmtricr. The paper was printed ori an :ild wooden press that had been brought from Philadelphia at an early day. The Courier, with Charles L. Murray as editor, was die first paper in the state which run up the name of Ceneral Harrison for ]iresident in 1833. ^I''- Murrav purchased the interest of his brother-in-law in 183(1.

In July of the same }ear Mr. Murray man'ied a Kentucky ladw Ann Maria Si)riggs. A ]iarty nf citi/ens from ( ioshen, Indiana, solicited him to remove to that town, and he accepted the otYer. selling the Conner to a Mr. I'arrington. hi coni]!nn\ with .\ntlionv Defrees, of Goshen, .Mr. Murray went to Cincinnati and l)ought an outfit, shipped it to Dayton by canal and the remainder of the wa\' it was transjjorted to Cioshen in wagons \Va l"(irl Wayne. Tlie first issue of the Goshen ExfTcss. C. L. Mnrra\- as editor. ai)])eared earl\- in 1837. Mr. Defrees soon sold h.is interest to Mr. Murraw who continued as its editor at intervals and under different names until 1840. At that Ijeriod, ;is a Whig candidate, he was defeated for the auditorship of Elkhart county, the Democrats having a large majoritv in the countv.

^Ir. jNlurray was appoiiUe;! pustmaster of (joshen nuclei' President Harrison in 1840, and sold his printing office shortly afterward. He was removed from the office during the administration of John Tyler. Having purchasetl some land north of (lijshen he turned his attention to agricultural ])ursLUts. dexdting his tir.ie during the *\vinter to working at his trade or in reporting the proceedings of the senate for the Indiana Slalr Joiii'iuil. In 184') he printed the Republican Monoqiict, Kosciusko county, for one \ear. under an engagement the land owners rhere who were trying to locate the county seat. This was the first paper ever ]jrinted in the county. From there he mo\ed to Indianapolis and hecame assistant editor of the State Journal.

In the fall of tlie following year he returned to his farm in Elkhart county, where his family resided until 1870, though Mr. Murray was still in the hahit of going to Indianapolis to report in the senate, where he served seven sessions in that capacity. In 1859 he was elected by the Repul>licans joint re]iresentati\e from the counties of Elkhart and LaGrange by a majorit\- of nine hundred. He ser\ed through both extra and regular sessions and took an actixe part in important subjects under consideration. In i860 he was elected to the senate by over twelve hundred majority. He had the advantage of the acquaintance of nearly all tlie pulilic men of Ohio and Indiana. He was purely a self-made man, ne\er Inning attended school a day after he was eleven years of age.

On the first call oi the government for se\'enty-fl\e thousand men to init down the rebellion he wrote out a muster roll, signed it, placed it in the auditor's office of the county, wrote out and had published in both Goshen papers the first call for volunteers in that citv, after which he went out into the townships and made speeches for recruits. .\fter he had raised a suffi-cient number of men for the company through a call in the ])apers he met the men at Goshen and placed in nomination a captain and first lieutenant, and leaving them to complete the organization departed for Indianapolis to attend the extra session of the legislature called by Governor Morton to equip the Indiana troops for the three months' service. The quota of troops being filled when the men arrived they were discharged and returned home. Mr. Murray procured a place as private in Captain Mann's company from the city of Elkhart, and when marching orders came left his seat in the senate and boarded a cattle train with the boys one morning after having lain with them on the ground all night near the Union depot After serving the three months as a private he returned home and completed his term in the senate. On February i, 1862, he left Camp Ellis, near Goshen, with tlie Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as quartermaster, and remained with the regiment about two years, until he received his discliarge by reason of severe illness that incapacitated him from duty.

Goshen, where lie soon bought a half interest in the Democrat, which paper he edited until the fail of 1877. Aljout that time he moved to South Bend and took charge of the Herald, which plant he had owned for several years previous in partnership with his son, Charles T. Murray. He continued to edit the Herald until he sold the oflice in the fall of 1880. In 1882, tlie material of the Herald returning to Mr. Murray under a mortgage and the " good will " of the office having been taken from him through the connivance of the man to whom he had sold the office, whereb) he met the first real financial loss during his entire newspaper career, he in company with his two' sons, Gordon N. and Harris F., opened a job printing ofiice at South Bend. Having reached that age when mechanical work became burdensome to him he was gratuitously employed as editor of the Sua, a Prohibition organ printed at the job office through arrangements with local adherents of that ])arty. Tlie office was sold during the fall of 1884, and was afterward removed to Indianapolis. At this period Mr. ^Murray retired from active business iife, though he continued to contribute to the columns of the New York Voice. Chicago Nezix^ and other journals over his signature up to within a few months of his death. He died at his home in the city of South Bend July 15, 1889.

It will be seen by this sketch that the subject was closely identified with the early history of Elkhart county and later of St. Joseph county. He was a politician from boyhood and was particularlv " at home with his pen " on all political que,stions and political historv nf his time. He was counted as one among the most fluent yet vigorous writers in the field of northern Indiana journalism during his newspaper work therein. Mr. Murray was first a Whig, then a Republican from that party's infancy until the time of the Liberal " mo\-ement that followed Horace Greeley. He affiliated with the Democratic party until the Prohibitionists organized in the state, when he adopted that political faith, to which he strictly and conscientiously adhered, and was prominent in drafting in a measure that party's state platform in 1888.

Gordon Noel Murray

liordon Noel Murray, editor and publisher of the Nappanee News. which is a monument to his ability and enterprise as a journalist, was born July 22. 1852. at the Murray homestead, in Jefferson township, Elkhart county, being one of six brothers and three sisters. The Murray family has furnished a remarkable record in the field of journalism. The father, C. L. Murrav, whose name finds mention repeatedly through the pages of this volume, is the subject of a separate sketch. And of the brothers, Charles T.. Edward and Harris F. are all identified with literary and newspa]3er interests.

(imclun X. accompanied liis parents tci (ioshen, where in 1871 he Ijecame an apprentice in a machine shojj. In iSj-j. he took up his residence 'u Sterhng. lllniois, and during tlie following three years had charge of a factory as foreman and was also a commercial salesman. Moving to South Bend, where he followed the vocation of mechanic until the vviiitcr of 1877-7S, lie then entere<l the mechanical department of the South iJend Herald, winch was then puhlished by his brother, Charles T. Ahirray. The latter returning to Washington, 13. C. in the spring (if 187S, the tion. C. L. Alurra\' then sold his interest in the (ioshen Pciiiocral and took clirirge of the .'^outh Bentl Herald. It was then that \()ung Altn'ra\' was initiated nilo die nn-steries of journalism, continuipg as he did in the cajiacity of business manager and city editor of th.e Herald until the spring of 1881. when his father disposed of the Herald. He again entered u];on the life of commercial traveler, and in June. i88i, married Miss Ellen Xiles 'i'aylor, at Ionia, ^Michigan. Cuder a. mortgage the Heudd plant reverting- to his father, Mr. Murray again returned to the printing business at South Bend in 1882. b'orming a partnership with his younger brother, Harris 1'., and his father, under the firm name of C. L. Murrax' and Sons, job ])rinters, Mr. Murray completed his trade in the '" art |)reser\ative."' in the fall of 1884. the job ])rinting office being disposed of and Soon ''ailing into the hands of the ])rominent Prohibitionists of the state, who had formed a stock com])ahy to est.ablish a state organ for their jiarty, Mr. Murray became a stockholder in the company and was awarded the contract of nio\-ing' the plant to Indianajjolis, where it was consolidated with that of the Monitor Journal, and there he established the mechanical deiiartment of the Indiana Phalanx. The Phalanx company being unable to continue the salary at which Mr. Murray was employed, he came to (ioshen and identified himself with the Daily A't'iaf. first as solicitor on the road, soon afterward as business manager of the office, and later became a member of the News Printing Company. He continued there until Tanuar\-. 1888, \vhen he was enabled, through the assistance of Thomas .\. Starr, senior editor of the Goshen New.'<'. to purchase the Xa])panee .Xe^cs. He has cortinued as jiroprietor and editor of the .\'('7iy since 1888, bringing the jiaper up to its jiresent standard of journalistic excellence. Throughout these years the Xeic.^ iias made a record for leading the \aii of ]niblic opinion in all enterjirises designed foi- the ];ulilic welfare and for coiisistenth' and continually uiiholding the digiiit\- and reputation of the town. The mechanical cai)acit\- of the office is efpial to any in the count)-, and he has also laid the foundation of a profitalile honk-store business iri connection with the nublishiny- and printing business. Through the enterprise of Mr. Murray the town of X'^apjianee has lieen nresented a Souvenir Edition, illustrated and descriptive of the business ;ind iirofessional interests for the \ear i<)o;. This handsome magazine nuiuber. mentioned in connection with the history of the .Vrtr.v

Prominent in social and fraternit}- affairs. Mr. Murray is a member of the Kniglits of Pythias. Knights of the Maccabees. Modern Samaritans and Rathbone Sisters. He has held nearly every office in the subordinate lodge of K. of P.. and was in the office of keeper of records and seal continuously for six years up to Januar_\- i, 1905. He was president of the Modern Samaritans two years. Mr. Murray was a member of St. James church at Goshen, and at Nappanee attends divine worshijj in the Presbvterian church, wliere he teaches the vming people's Sunday-school class.

]\lrs. Murray Avas a daughter of C R. and Martha Jane (Nicar) Taylor, the former of Xew \'ork state. Her mother was a native of LyncJibnrg, N'irgiiiia. lier grandmother being a meml;er of the well known Lewellyn family. Mi's. ^Murray's great-grandmother was Sarah Harrison, cousin of President ^\ illiam Henry Harrison and ;i niece of pjenjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. and Mrs. Murray have two children. John Reed Murray, who was born in Elkhart county Eeliruary 2;^, 1885. is a well educated young man and his father's assistant in the conduct of the Nc-zm. The daughter. Mary Taylor Murra)'. who was Ijorn in Goshen March 9. 1887. was one of the attracti\-e girl graduates of the Nappanee high school in 1905. anfl, like lier brother, is a printer and writer for the .Vctiv. The children are true Murrays in their taste for journalism in its \arious departments, and are both \er}- highh- esteemed in the junior social circles of the town.

George R. McMasters, who for a number of vears has been identified with the Inisiness and manufacturing interests of Cioshen, is treasurer of the Goshen Xovelt_\- and Brush Company, whose works, located along the canal, are one of the important features of industrial Goshen. Erom almost a lifelong experience in various branches of manufacturing Mr. McMasters draws a fund of broad ability and fitness for his present enterjirise, and has been one of the men of force behind the present industrial development of his cit}-.

Mr. McMasters comes 1)\- his career of mechanical and manufacturing ;icti\it_\ naturally, since his father, .\lphonso McMastei's. who was born in Canada, also follcjwed various branches of mechanical engineering and like work. The father spent some years in residence in Michigan, and druing the Civil war was first lieutenant of the Michigjiu Engineers. He was killed while working in a factorv in Lansing'. Michigan, being then sixty-eight years of age. He was of Scotch descent. He married Giarlotte Bunnell, who was born in Xew York state and lived to be aliout sexenty-three years old. and thev were the

The oldest of the family. ]\lr. AIcAlasters was born in 2^ionroe county, New York, Janaury ii, 1849, ^^''s educated in the public schools of that state, and at the age of sixteen accompanied his parents to Michigan. He learned the trade of sash and door making, and going to Ligonier. Indiana, was engaged m manufacturing there until his plant w^as burned out. Mr. McMasters has lived in Goshen since 189J. and on coming here he went into business with Mr. C. L. Lamb. Mr. McMasters was one of the leading promoters and organizers of the Goshen Novelty and Brush Company, and as its treasurer has contributed much of the executix'e ability to its successful management.