Huntington County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 3 of 15)

Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has passed all the chairs in his lodge and represented the local order in the grand lodge of the state. He is also a member of the Woodmen of the World. In politics he was a Democrat up to 1898, and has since voted in the Republican interests. He is the president of the city board of health.

Dr. Smith first married Miss Ida M. Zirkle, a daughter of William and Amanda Zirkle, a family of German descent. Mrs. Smith died in December, 1900, the mother of two children. The older of these, India Hazel, graduated from the common schools at the age of twelve, with the highest general average in the county, and has since finished the high school course and graduated from the Marion Normal College. The son, Ivan E., is now a graduate dentist from the Northwestern University of Chicago, has passed the State Board Examinations and is located at Mishawaka, Indiana. In January, 1902, Dr. Smith married Miss Fairy M. Howenstine. One son has been born to this union, Harold G. Smith, now about seven years of age.

Donaup A. Purviance. One of Huntington's progressive and popular citizens, who, by his own unaided efforts and individual worth, has gone forward step by step until he is now at the head of one of the city's most prominent industries, is Donald A. Purviance, president and treasurer of the firm of Weber & Purviance, extensive dealers in grain, hay, flour, feed, wire fence, livestock and wool. Although still a young man, Mr. Purviance's connection with large enterprises has given him a substantial standing among the men who are making Huntington a center of business activity, and his management of large affairs has been

Mr. Purviance has spent his entire life in Huntington, having been born in this city March 21, 1888, the only son of David A. and Elizabeth (McCaughey) Purviance. His father, who is identified with various interests industrial and financial here, is known as a capitalist, and his helpful activities have done and are doing much to promote and build up the city. The early education of Donald A. Purviance was acquired in the public and high schools of his native city, and after his graduation from the latter he went to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he continued to pursue his studies for some time. Returning home, he soon entered the Indiana University, at Bloomington, where he took a two years' course, and then entered the University of Pennsylvania, in which institution of learning he spent one year. His advent in the world of business occurred in 1903, when he became a member of the firm of Weber & Purviance, which was incorporated during that same year with a capital stock of $50,000, Mr. Purviance being elected president and treasurer, offices which he has continued to ably fill to the present time. The building in Huntington in which the business is carried on is a capacious one, being 44x132 feet, is well stocked with a complete line of the company's products, and is well equipped with modern appliances and appurtenances for the successful transaction of business. Three elevators are maintained, one each at Huntington, Mardenis and Simpson, the last-named being managed by Charles Bluffton, although all are under the management of Weber & Purviance. These elevators are admirably and conveniently situated, being located on the lines of the Wabash, Erie and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads.

Mr. Purviance is unmarried. His political support has been given to the republican party, but his great business interests have precluded any idea of his entering actively the field of politics. Beneficial movements in his community always have his hearty support and cooperation, however, for the welfare of his city has ever been near his heart. He has been prominent in fraternal circles, and at this time holds membership in Amity Blue Lodge No. 483, A. F. & A. M., and Huntington Chapter No. 27, R. A. M. He is a general favorite in social circles of the city and the number of his friendships is only limited by the size of his acquaintance.

Lewis C. Srropev. As a meat market supplying all the wants of a large trade and with all the best facilities of the business, the shop of Lewis C. Strodel at 620 N. Jefferson Street in Huntington leaves nothing to be desired, from any point of view from which it may be judged. Mr. Strodel was brought up in the meat business, which has put him in successful position in competition with the other business men of his community.

Born in the city of Huntington, September 11, 1858, he is the second son living of John G. Strodel. The father was born in Germany in September, 1802, emigrated to America in 1854, and after a brief period of entertainment at Castle Garden came to Huntington, where the father set up a small shop for the manufacture of sausage, which he later expanded to a general meat market. That was his business until his death, on May 16, 1876. His wife, who died in 1904, was Miss Anna B. Schalk, also a native of Germany.

Lewis C. Strodel was educated in the German Lutheran school, and had the privileges of school attendance up to his fourteenth year. After that he was in the public schools for a time. After his school days were finished he began learning the butchering trade with Nicholas Bayruther, and under the supervision of that skillful worker completed his practical knowledge of the trade. In 1882 Mr. Strodel started in business on his own account, and is now one of the oldest established men in his line in the city of Huntington. He has a large trade, and it has been his constant study and desire to furnish reliable service in every department of his business.

In 1883 Mr. Strodel married Miss Millie Bullerman. They are the parents of three children: Edward J., Meala and Paula. The family home is at 703 Oak Street. A democrat in politics, Mr. Strodel has never held office, although he has done a good deal in behalf of his friends in politics. He is an intelligent man, a lover of books and of good reading, and has a wide knowledge of politics and current affairs.

THE SAYLER Faminy in Huntington county has borne an important part in the legal profession and in public affairs for more than half a century, and the following interesting sketch prepared by a member of the family is a very appropriate chapter in the biographical annals of the county.

The earliest known ancestor of the Sayler family was Burckhardt Sailer, a wealthy citizen of Nuremberg, Bavaria, who died in 1390 and lies buried in St. Siebald's Church behind the choir. The coat of arms of the Sayler (Sailer) family has on the helm (top) a black eagle, bearing on each of the wings and on the breast a lamp, the whole arranged in the form of a shield. There are still in Switzerland, living in the city of Berne and in official life, descendants of Burckhardt Sailer. The earliest progenitors in this country were Daniel and Jacob Sayler. They came to America in 1730 and first settled in Pennsylvania, but the family afterwards moved to Maryland. Daniel Sayler, the direct progenitor of the branch of the Sayler family who hve in Huntington county, was | born in 1708 in Switzerland. He became a man of wealth and influence, and died in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1778. Ten children were born to Daniel Sayler and his wife, Anna.

Their fourth child, Christian Sayler, was born March 8, 1742, and removed with his father to Frederick county, Maryland.. He erected for himself a stone house and a stone mill and followed his trade, that of a miller. The stone house and the mill are still standing, the mill still grinding wheat and corn for the country round about, telling its story of usefulness and reviving the memories of the days that are gone in the whirr of the millstone and in the rush of the water to its fore-bay. There were born to Christian and his wife ten children, the fourth of whom was Daniel, who was born on the eleventh day of March, 1770, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and who moved to Maryland with his father when he was quite young.

About the year 1800, after the death of his father, he moved with hig mother to Franklin county, Virginia, and in 1807 moved to Preble county, Ohio, where he followed his trade as a miller and a millwright. He was prominent in the early polities of Ohio, being a member of the early legislatures of the state. He was a man of genial disposition and kindly character and was universally beloved. At his death on March 15, 1857, he was-more than eighty-seven years of age. The writer of this sketch was present at his funeral - a babe less than a year old, thus making at this time the span of the two lives more than one hundred and forty-four years.

The seventh child of Hon. Daniel Sayler was Dr. Martin Z. Sayler, the father of Judge Henry B. Sayler. He was born on the thirtieth day of November, 1808, in Preble county, Ohio. On the seventeenth of June, 1835, he was married to Barbara Hipple, a daughter of Judge Henry Hipple. In 1836 he moved to Clinton county, Indiana, and there practiced his profession, that of a physician and surgeon. He was renowned for his learning and skill in his profession, and practiced it for more than thirty years. Always greatly interested in public affairs, he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Indiana General Assembly during the years 1840 and 1841. He was a democrat until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, when he became a republican, and remained in that political faith until his death. In 1865, after retiring from the practice of medicine, he moved to Andrews, in Huntington county, and became engaged in farming. He died on the seventh day of March, 1884.

Judge Henry B. Sayler was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, on the 31st day of March, 1836, and died at Huntington, Indiana, on the 18th day of June, 1900. In 1836 when an infant he was taken with his parents to Clinton county, Indiana, where he spent his early boyhood. Judge Sayler's education was almost entirely that of the common schools. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, part of one year, 1852-53, but was obliged to suspend his studies on account of diseased eyes. Not long afterward he began teaching school in Fulton county, Illinois, and studying law. In 1855 he went to Preble county, Ohio, where he taught school and studied law, and on the 24th day of February, 1859, was admitted to the bar of Ohio by the Supreme Court of that State. Afterward he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana. On the 31st day of March, 1874, on his thirtyeighth birthday, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on motion of the Hon. Luke P. Poland of Vermont. He was a member of the American Bar Association from 1889 until his death and had served on one of its most important committees.

On the 17th day of January, 1856, he was married to Isabella Hart, a daughter of Samuel Hart, late of Preble county, Ohio. In March, Vol. 1I - 5

1859, Judge Sayler with his family, moved to Indiana, first to Delphi, remaining there only a few weeks, and then coming to Huntington on the 12th day of May, where he continued to live until his death, with the exception of one year spent at Indianapolis and at Connersville. In 1872 he was elected to the House of Representatives in Congress from the tenth congressional district of Indiana as a Republican. He became distinguished in Congress in connection with the subject of patents, and was largely instrumental in relieving the country from the onerous exactions of the sewing machine combination, which was a powerful trust for those days.

On the fifteenth day of July, 1863, Judge Sayler oad the Union army, being mustered into the service as a first lieutenant. He was promoted through the several grades to that of major of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. With his regiment he was mustered out on the third day of March, 1864, having served his country in a campaign of severity and hardships not second to that of Valley Forge. This was the East Tennessee Campaign, around Knoxville. He was in the battles of Tazewell, Blue Springs, Walker's Ford, and was in a number of skirmishes. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Walker's Ford. Later he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was also a companion of the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. `

On the fifteenth day of August, 1881, Governor Albert G. Porter appointed him judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit, composed of Huntington, Grant and Blackford counties. In 1882 he was elected his own successor for a term of six years, running ahead of his ticket. On the expiration of his term of office he declined renomination, and returned to the active practice of the law, forming a partnership with his sons, Samuel M. Sayler and John M. Sayler.

He was a member of the Presbyterian church of the city of Huntington, and from 1868 until his death was an active ruling elder of the church. In 1890 Fort Wayne Presbytery sent him as its lay commission to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., which met at Saratoga Springs, New York. At that meeting of the Assembly he was placed on the judicial committee, and on other special committees. He was selected by the General Assembly as one of the General Assembly's committee on the revision of the Confession of Faith, which was composed of fifteen ministers and ten elders, and he served on this committee for two years until its discharge. Again in 1892 he was sent to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., which met at Portland, Oregon, and was an active member of that body. Wabash College in 1890 conferred on Judge Sayler the honorary degree of LL. D. In 1892, for reasons conclusive to him, he changed his party affiliations and became a prohibitionist, deeming the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors by law to be the greatest question in politics. He continued to act with that party until his death.

fully recovered from the shock and the loss. Their married life was an ideal one. His wife was a woman of delightful presence, rare purity of character, and was always zealously loyal to his interests and to the interest of all good, true and worthy causes. Only two children were the fruit of the marriage of Judge Sayler and his wife - Samuel M. Sayler and John M. Sayler, both of whom survive them. Both are in the active practice of law in the city of Huntington, Indiana.:

Samuel M. Sayler was born in the little town of Winchester, Preble county, Ohio, on the seventh day of November, 1856. His early education was attained in the district schools, located on the site of the present William Street school in the city of Huntington, and in the academy on State Street in the same city, named the Rural Home Institute. This district school was typical of the common schools of that day, and reading, spelling and arithmetic were the principal studies. From 1873 to 1875 he was his father's secretary, while the latter was a member of Congress. This position gave him a wide acquaintance with the public men of that day. He spent part of the year 1875-76 in the high school of Huntington, but largely prepared himself for college. In the fall of 1876 he entered the classical course of: Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, as a freshman, and graduated in June, 1880, with the degree of A. B. While in college Mr. Sayler was a member of the Greek Letter fraternity, the Phi Kappa Psi, and he was also much interested in the literary societies of the college, and in his senior year was one of the Baldwin prize orators. In 1883 Wabash College conferred on him the degree of A. M. The winter of 1880-81 he spent in Texas for his health, and during that time prosecuted the study of law.

On the appointment of Judge Sayler to the bench by Governor Porter in August, 1881, Samuel M. Sayler opened an office in the rooms which had been occupied by his father, and he has been in the active practice of law ever since that time. In 1888, on the retirement of Judge Sayler from the bench, a co-partnership was formed by him with his sons, S. M. Sayler and John M. Sayler, which continued until February 13,1899. Since that time Mr. Sayler has not had any partner in business. In June, 1881, on the motion of his father, Judge James R. Slack admitted Mr. Sayler to the practice of law in the Huntington Circuit Court. On March 11, 1890, he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Indiana, on the motion of Hon. Edward Daniels of Indianapolis, and his name was placed on the roll of attorneys of the court without examination, the committee appointed for that purpose recommending that it be done because of their knowledge of his worth as a lawyer. On the same day he was admitted to the bar of the Circuit Court of the United States at Indianapolis. On the fifteenth day of October, 1901, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on the motion of General W. W. Dudley, of Washington, D. C.

Mr. Sayler has been a member of the Indiana State Bar Association since 1903, and has been a member of the American Bar Association since 1890. At the annual meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association of 1904 he was elected a member of the International Congress of Lawyers and Jurists which met in connection with the World's Fair in St. Louis in September, 1904. In the American Bar Association he has been a member of the executive council, holding that place for four years, and only two other members of the association from Indiana are his seniors in length of membership - Hon. C. W. Fairbanks and Judge Robert S. Taylor. On the unsought recommendation of Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, Mr. Sayler was nominated and elected a member of the International Society of Comparative Law and Political Economy of Berlin. This very distinguished and unsought honor, Mr. Sayler holds in very high esteem. He is also a companion of the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, having been a companion in the inheritance rank until the death of Judge Sayler, when he became a companion of the first rank by succession.

On the fourth day of December, 1884, Mr. Sayler was united in marriage to Miss Luella C. Daily, a daughter of the late Hon. D. O. Daily, and his wife Anna A. Daily. Mr. Daily was a distinguished lawyer and public speaker who died in early manhood on the eighth of May, 1867. He was a graduate, with the highest honors of his class in 1853, from ` Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University). In the year 1860 Mr. Daily was the presidential elector from this district on the republican ticket, and cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln for president of the United States. 5

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Sayler: Oliver M., Isabella and Arthur. Oliver M. Sayler, born on the twenty-third of October, 1887, was educated in the city schools of Huntington and at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. He pursued the classical course and graduated fourth in his class of one hundred and thirty-three in the year 1909. He was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society of Oberlin College, a society composed of the honor students of each class which is graduated from the college. He is now the dramatic editor of the Indianapolis News, and has also been the literary editor of the same newspaper. He was instrumental in the organization of the graduate chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Indianapolis and is secretary of the chapter. Mr. Sayler spent the summer of 1914 in Europe to better equip himself in his profession, and studied the theater in London, Paris, Berlin, Munich and Moscow. While in Europe he made extended excursions into Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. In Ireland he 'studied the Irish Theater and also made an extended study of west Ireland folk. Mr. Sayler ranks among the best dramatic critics of the United States. Isabella Sayler, born January 17, 1890, departed this life on the fourteenth day of November, 1903, just before she would have entered the high school. She was dearly beloved by everybody who knew her. Arthur Sayler, born January 18, 1894, is now a member of the junior class of Beloit College at Beloit, Wisconsin, and is the manager of the Glee and Mandolin clubs of the college. His early education was at the city schools of Huntington. He spent his senior preparatory year at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, graduating at that Academy in the class of 1911. His freshman year was spent at Oberlin College, but he went to

Beloit College for his sophomore year and the remainder of his college course. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in Beloit College. He expects to study law and is interested in debating and public speaking.

Mr. S. M. Sayler has been an elder of the First Presbyterian church of Huntington since 1896. Fort Wayne Presbytery elected him a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., in 1913. As commissioner he attended the sessions of the General Assembly which were held at Atlanta, Georgia, and was a member of the judicial committee of the Assembly. Mr. Sayler is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of Pythias and of the Uniform Rank. He has been a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, the only literary club for men in the city since its organization in 1893. Mr. Sayler's life is an active one, and he has been identified with very many of the movements for the betterment of the city and county.

John M. Sayler, son of Judge Henry B. Sayler, was born at Huntington, Indiana, June 12, 1866. He was educated in the city schools of Huntington, spent one year, 1886-87, at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. While a student at Wabash College he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After graduating at Huntington high school in the year 1855 he taught school in the common schools of the county during 1885-86. He studied law in the office of S. M. Sayler, his brother, and was admitted to the practice of law in June, 1888. Mr. Sayler has been a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of Indiana, and the Circuit Court of the United' States for a number of years. In 1888, on the retirement of Judge Sayler from the bench, he became a member of the law firm of Sayler and Sayler, which continued to exist until February 15, 1899, when the partnership was dissolved. Since that time he has not had any partner in business.

On the second day of October, 1890, he was united in marriage to Jennie Wampler, a daughter. of Samuel Wampler and his wife, Agnes Wampler, of Montgomery county, Ohio. Mr. Wampler is one of the most substantial farmers of that wealthy county. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sayler: Agnes and Henry B. Agnes Sayler received her education in the city schools of Huntington, graduating in the class of 1908, and spent a part of one year at the Indiana State University, Bloomington, Indiana. On the fifteenth day of August, 1912, she was united in marriage to Howard T. Cate of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Mr. Cate is engaged in the selling and distribution of the Children's Cyclopedia, published by the Dickson-Rucker Company of Chicago, with which company Mr. Cate holds a responsible position.

Henry B. Sayler, the second child of John M. Sayler and wife, was born at Huntington, Indiana, November 4, 1893, and received his early education in the city schools and the high school of Huntington. In 1910 - he was appointed a cadet to West Point Military Academy by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, United States senator from Indiana, He took his course, preparatory to examination for entrance at West Point, in Captain Braden's school at West Point.

Mr. John M. Sayler is an ardent republican, not the least tinged with what he calls Bull Moosism. ~ In 1910 he was a candidate for the nomination for representative in Congress. The convention lasted for two full days and Huntington county gave to him its full number of votes for one hundred and twenty-six ballots, but the nomination finally went to John L. Thompson of Grant county, and he was defeated in the election. Mr. Sayler is a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Huntington, Indiana. He is engaged in the practice of law, and is particularly strong as an advocate in the examination of witnesses. He is a public-spirited citizen.

Sexton EmLey. In the death of Sexton Emley on Ocotber 30, 1890, there passed away one of the ablest and best known of the old-time Huntington county citizens. He had lived here from the pioneer era, grew to manhood in this county, and for many years was identified with its life and affairs as a farmer and an official.

Sexton Emley was born in Salem county, New Jersey, July 30, 1825, and was past sixty-five years of age at the time of his death. He was the tenth in a family of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters, born to John R. and Mary (Cook) Emley. John R. Emley was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, April 6, 1787, and the latter was born in Burlington county, November 6, 1790. The Emley family was notable for its longevity. Of the fourteen children, nine of them lived beyond middle age at one time, the youngest being about fifty-five and the oldest nearly eighty.

On the first day of October, 1834, when Sexton Emley was nine years old, his parents set out with two wagons to immigrate to the far west. On reaching Warren county, Ohio, they visited relatives for one month. Resuming their journey on January 6, 1835, they arrived in what was then the village of Huntington, containing perhaps a dozen houses. John R. Emley had previously entered a tract of two hundred and forty acres of woodland in section twenty-nine, Clear Creek township. His log cabin home then erected provided the first shelter for the family, who took possession on Washington's birthday in 1835. In that pioneer environment Sexton Emley grew to manhood and had very few advantages of schooling, getting a practical equipment for life from books read in his home, observation of men and affairs, and by the handling of tools and the experience of a pioneer farm. Being the youngest son, he lived with his father and mother until he reached the age of twentynine. On April 30, 1854, he married Lydia Margaret Creager, a native of Whitley county, Indiana, where she was born November 11, 1839. Her parents were Samuel and Mary Leslie Creager, both natives of Montgomery county, Ohio. Samuel Creager and wife were married in Montgomery county in 1837 and settled in the woods of Whitley county, Indiana, where they were living at the time of the birth of their daughter, Lydia Margaret. For two years after his marriage Sexton Emley continued to farm the old home place in Clear Creek township. In 1857 he settled on a farm of his own, which he had bought in section twenty- eight of the same township. That was his home until the fall of 1869, when he moved to Tract thirteen in Huntington township, where the rest of the years of his life were spent. As a farmer and a stock raiser, he was regarded as one of the most successful in Huntington county.

Mrs. Lydia M. Emley died January 13, 1873. On the ninth of J une, 1875, he married Julia A. Campbell. She was born in the city of Huntington, May 12, 1849, the daughter of Joseph Campbell, who settled in this county about 1848. The late Sexton Emley was the father of nine children, the first eight by his first wife and one by his second marriage. These children are: Delano A. V., Henry L., Emma C., Olive A., Mary L., Tilman H., John R., Roscoe and Rudy L. Mr. Emley was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while his second wife belonged to the United Brethren.

The political career of Sexton Emley will be found in the township and county official record. His allegiance was in early life given to the democratic party, but after 1856 he supported with ardor the principles of republicanism. In the spring of 1847, when but twenty-one years of age, he was elected clerk of Clear Creek township, and re-elected so that he served altogether nearly five years. He resigned as clerk to accept the democratic nomination for county commissioner, to which office he was elected as an independent candidate, receiving not only the support of the democrats, but also of the whigs. In the fall of 1858 he was nominated by the republicans for re-election, but was defeated by his brother Samuel, the democratic candidate. Mr. Emley was elected trustee of Clear Creek township in 1860, and for ten successive terms served in that office, each time with increased majority. On moving to Huntington township he resigned the office in September, 1869. His preferment for the larger honors of county politics began in June, 1872, when the republicans nominated him for the office of county treasurer. In the following October, 1875, he received a majority of 130, the largest majority ever given a county officer up to that time. Every township gave him a majority of the votes except one, and that was lost by only one ballot. His old home township, Clear Creek, gave only forty-one votes to the opposition. In 1878 Mr. Emley was the candidate of his party for state representative, but was defeated by the democratic candidate. In all his official capacities he discharged his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constitutents. As a business man Sexton Emley gained many of the satisfying rewards of industry and energetic management. Before his death he owned a handsome farm in Huntington township of five hundred and twenty-six acres, most of it in cultivation. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellow Lodges, and had friends by the hundreds among all parties and all classes.

Henry L. Emutey. The second son of Sexton and Lydia (Creager) Emley, Henry L. Emley, has been for upwards of forty years identified with banking affairs at Huntington, and is now vice president and cashier of the Huntington County Bank. All his life has been spent in this county. He is a product of the public schools and left the farm to take his first position and gain his first experience in a bank at the county seat. To his management and his genial personality is due much of the success of the solid old institution through which he has rendered service to the business community for the past quarter of a century.

Henry L. Emley was born on his father's farm in Clear Creek township, Huntington county, March 4, 1859. Reared as a farmer boy, he attended the country schools and later was educated in the schools of Huntington. On leaving the high school he took a commercial course at Dayton, Ohio, and in 1876, at the age of seventeen found employment in the First National Bank of Huntington as a bookkeeper. His work with the First National continued from 1876 to 1887. In the latter year he was made cashier of the Huntington County Bank, and has since advanced to a place among the stockholders and official and executive directors of the institution.

On October 26, 1881, Mr. Emley married Miss Cassie Brown, of Huntington, a daughter of Henry and Sarah A. (Pomroy) Brown, old residents of this city.

Three children have been born to their marriage: Neil B., now in the employ of the Erie Railroad Company; Don Pomroy, formerly a clerk in the Huntington County Bank, but now with the Erie Railroad Engineering Corps; and Paul Emley, with the Western Electric Company of Chicago. The mother of these children died June 9, 1912. Fraternally Mr. Emley is affiliated with Huntington Lodge, No. 805, B. P. O. E., and with LaFontaine Lodge, No. 42, I. O. O. F. He is recognized as a shrewd and enterprising business man of Huntington, has lived here and enjoyed the confidence of the community through all his active life, and is one of the leaders in affairs. His church where he worships is the Central Christian, and being an amateur in musical matters he is a member of the church orchestra.

Joun R. Emery. Few Huntington county families have been so prominently identified with the agricultural and business interests and civic affairs, since pioneer times, as the Emleys. Mr. John R. Emley is one of the best known bankers in the state, his standing and popularity being shown by his choice as the head of the state association. When a boy he started his career as a clerk in one of the local institutions, and now for a number of years has been cashier and chief executive head of the First National Bank of Huntington. His brother, Henry L. Emley, is cashier of the Huntington County Bank, so that the family is represented in two of the most substantial financial institutions of the county.

John R. Emley was born in Clear Creek township of Huntington county, October 6, 1869. His parents were Sexton and Lydia (Creager) Emley. Sexton Emley, who died a few years ago, was long prominent in Huntington county, not only as a farmer, but as a business man and public official, His career is given appropriate mention and somewhat in detail on other pages of this work. Mrs. Lydia Emley was born in Whitley county, Indiana, a daughter of Samuel M. Creager, 'who later became one of the early settlers in Huntington county.

John R. Emley grew up as farmer boy, had a district school education, and all his early experience was bounded by the horizon of the home farm. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Huntington County Bank as bookkeeper. Two years later he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier, a position in which he gave efficient service for twelve years. In 1902 Mr. Emley was elected cashier of the First National Bank, and has enjoyed the confidence of his associates and by his considerate treatment of patrons and liberal but conservative management of affairs has done much to give the First National Bank its high standing in local banking circles.

In October, 1892, Mr. Emley married Miss Lucy L. Lans, of Huntington, a daughter of H. D. Lans, of La Porte, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Emley are the parents of one daughter, Ruth. She is a graduate of the Huntington high school and is now a student in the La Salle Seminary, an exclusive girls' school near Boston, Massachusetts.

Mr. Emley is one of the directors of the First National Bank, He belongs to the local banking association, and was chosen president of the Indiana State Association for the years 1912-13. Fraternally his associations are with LaFontaine Lodge, No. 42, I. O. O. F. and Encampment, in which he has passed all the chairs, and for a number of years served as treasurer of Huntington Lodge, No. 805, B. P. O. E. In politics he is a Republican. At 336 West Matilda Street he and his family reside in a modern and substantial brick residence, one of the best homes in Huntington. He was a member of the School Board for three years and served several years as treasurer of the Huntington County Republican Central Committee.

Marion Best Stuuts. A lifelong resident of Huntington county is Marion Best Stults, for the past thirty years a builder of individual business success and promoter of everything for the betterment of his community. His record as county school superintendent is remembered to his credit; as a member of the school board he has assisted in the advancement of the Huntington schools, and belongs to the group of local citizens whose influence and activities have done most to keep up the standards of social and civic culture and well being in the county.

Born in Clear Creek township, Huntington county, May 13, 1855, Marion Best Stults is of substantial and thrifty German ancestry. His great-grandfather, George Stults, came from his native fatherland to America some time between the years 1740 and 1750, settling in North Carolina. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died a short time after the winning of independence.

John Harmon Stults, the grandfather, was born in North Carolina, June 10, 1779, while the Revolutionary war was still in progress. From North Carolina he moved into Pennsylvania where in 1806 he married Catherine Smith, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1783, a daughter of George Smith, who was also a soldier of the Revolution, and was taken prisoner by the British during that war. John H. Stults, in 1816, moved to Stark county, Ohio, where he lived until 1848, in which year he moved to Whitley county, Indiana. In 1855 he became a resident of the county of Huntington, where he died ten years later at the good old age of eighty-six. His wife died in Huntington county in 1862.

Next in line of descent comes Jacob Stults, father of the Huntington merchant. The ninth in a family of ten children, Jacob was born in Stark county, Ohio, February 3, 1824. His early boyhood and youth were spent upon a farm. When he was twenty-one years of-age, in 1845, he began teaching school, and was identified with that high and useful calling twenty-one years. In the meantime, about 1850, he moved to Huntington county, Indiana, and while teaching during the winter seasons, also operated eighty acres of land which he had bought in Clear Creek township. That continued to be his home until 1888, when he retired from active life, and thereafter had his home in the city of Huntington until his death, October 10, 1897, at the age of seventy-three. On March 25, 1852, Jacob Stults married Miss Margaret E. Best, a daughter of James C. Best of Huntington county. She was born in Kentucky, but when a child her parents moved to Indiana, the date of their arrival in Huntington county being September 15, 1839. She died in Clear Creek township in 1855, at the early age of twenty-nine years. The only child of Jacob and Margaret Stults with Marion B. On May 18, 1856, Jacob Stults married Miss Harriet Kennedy, of Virginia, a daughter of John and Ann (Lyle) Kennedy. Their union resulted in four children: Maggie E., Sherman P., Addie B. and Howard B. In politics Jacob Stults first voted in behalf of the whig party, and remained a republican from the beginning of that party until his death. He was active in the Methodist church. His record was one of considerable prosperity from a material point of view, and he always possessed and deserved the esteem of his community as an upright and exemplary citizen.

Thus it is seen that the Huntington merchant first named in this article comes of a long line of thrifty and honorable ancestors, and in his own career has lived up to the standards of his forbears. He was two weeks old when his mother died, and he was reared under the care of his step-mother. With a boyhood spent on a farm he learned the lessons of industry, and had a wholesome environment that gave him a physical constitution equal to the exigencies of business life. From the local public schools he afterwards entered the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, where he was a student two years, his purpose then being to take up the profession of teaching. From the fall of 1873 until 1881 he taught in the districts schools, and in 1879 was elected county superintendent of schools of Huntington county. He held that office for one term of two years, and was instrumental in that time in introducing many important reforms in the local system of education. He had and still has high ideals as to the place that public schools should fill in any community, and has contributed more than an average individual share to making the Huntington county schools the best in the state. In November, 1882, on leaving school work, Mr. Stults engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Huntington. Through that line of commercial endeavor he had reached his chief business prosperity and success, and early in his career built up the largest establishment of its kind in the county seat. His has always been a record of business integrity and fair dealing, and his judgment, diligence and promptness in meeting all obligations have been chief causes in his advancement.

On March 1, 1914, Mr. Stults was elected president of the Huntington Trust Company, one of the prosperous banking concerns of Huntington. He is also a director of the Huntington Commercial Club. At the present time he is a member of the Indiana State Board of Embalmers, having been appointed in November, 1908, by Governor Hanley, and reappointed by Governor Marshall, who is now vice president of the United States.

In politics Mr. Stults has long been active in the interests of the Republican party in Huntington county. Besides his service as county school superintendent, thirty years ago, he has served as a member of the city school board, from 1895 to 1898, and in that connection did much important work for the welfare of the school. In 1902 he was elected representative of Huntington county, as a republican, and continued to serve by reelection in the sessions of 1903, 1905 and 1907. He was a member of several important committees, such as insurance and education, and was chairman of the committee on rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the state, and also on banks. Mr. Stults has taken a prominent part in Masonic affairs, and his affiliations are with Amity Lodge No. 483, A. F. & A. M.; Huntington Chapter No. 27, R. A. M.; Huntington Council No. 51, R. & S. M.; Huntington Commandery No. 35, Knights Templar, and he is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Fort Wayne. He has affiliation with Huntington Lodge No. 93, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Stults is also an active and prominent member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huntington, and was elected by the North Indiana Conference as a lay delegate to the General Conference of 1912 held at Minneapolis, Minnesota. In December, 1879, occurred his marriage with Miss Lydia Mishler, of Clear Creek township. Her father was Jacob Mishler, a well known farmer in that section of the county. Two children, Clarence and Mae, were born to their marriage. Both are deceased, Clarence dying in infancy. The daughter, Mae, was married to Field A. Short.

Hon. Harmon Montcomery Purviance. Few men in Huntington county have a better record for all around efficiency in public and private life than Hon. Harmon Montgomery Purviance, a resident of the county and of the City of Huntington all his life. Besides a business activity as a furniture dealer and a funeral director, in both of which fields he has been especially successful, Mr. Purviance has entered largely into political activities, is one of the ablest republicans of his district, and became state senator for Huntington and Whitley counties in 1902, In all his enterprises Mr. Purviance has shown himself to be a man of exceptional character, and is in every way worthy of the position that is so readily accorded him in his native city and county. l

Harmon Montgomery Purviance was born in Huntington, March 30, 1857, and is the second son of Samuel Hilory and Mary E. (Montgomery) Purviance, both of whom were among the earliest settlers of Huntington. His father was long a leading citizen, and for years actively and prominently identified with the banking interests of the city. He was one of the chief organizers of the Purviance: Banking Company, which in later years became known as H. Purviance & Company, and still later was chartered and re-organized as the First National Bank of Huntington. In 1863 Samuel H. Purviance became president of the bank, a position he continued to hold until his death on April 20, 1873. He was one of the strong men financially and civically in his community during his generation, and in all things was reckoned as a successful and progressive man.

Harmon M. Purviance gained his early education in the public schools of Huntington. On finishing the local high school course he attended Franklin College at Franklin, Indiana, finishing his studies there in 1876. After that he became identified with various -business interests in and about Huntington county, and at Huntington and Mitchell was engaged actively in the lime business. On January 13, 1902, Mr. Purviance disposed of his lime business and bought the furniture and undertaking establishment of the A. Q. Kenower estate in Huntington. His store is located at 446 North Jefferson Street, and carries a fine line of furniture together with a thoroughly modern mortuary and a full line of supplies for the undertaking business. At the present writing Mr. Purviance is remodeling his establishment and the improvements classify it as one of the finest of its kind in northern Indiana. The basement of the building occupied will contain the morgue, while other departments will occupy the upper floors. Mr. Purviance is himself a licensed embalmer, having gone into the business with a determination characteristic of his every enterprise, and he has equipped himself in the most thorough manner for the important service he renders the people of Huntington county. His special training in embalming he acquired in the Renouard Training School of New York City, and his work demonstrates his capability as a practical and skillful embalmer.

In addition to his various business interests Mr. Purviance has found time to devote himself to politics and has been an active republican for a number of years. A special paragraph should be devoted to his work as senator, an office to which he was elected in 1902 from Huntington and Whitley counties. The first point to be noted is that he was the first republican elected to the Senate from that district in twenty years. While in the upper house at Indianapolis he was assigned to membership ` with a number of important committees, and in various ways showed his fidelity and his capacity as a legislator. In 1903 he was appointed by Governor Durbin a member of the commission to investigate the care given to epileptics in other states. This commission prepared a report submitted during the session of 1905, recommending the establishment of a special institution for epileptics in Indiana. In line with that report

John Frash

Mr. Purviance introduced the bill during the session of 1905 asking for a specified sum of money to purchase land for an epileptic village. This bill was passed and Governor Hanly appointed a commission, and they purchased 1,240 acres northeast of Neweastle. Since then the Legislature has appropriated specific sums for the erection of buildings, which are constructed on the cottage plan. During the same session Mr. Purviance was active in securing funds for the care of the state insane. He was instrumental in getting the bill through which resulted in the erection of the settlement of cottages for the insane at Madison, Indiana. At the completion of the entire group, one and one-half million dollars had been expended for grounds and construction work, and the creditable phase of this was that the entire outlay had been accomplished without increasing the tax levy. These references are briefly cited out of many evidences of Mr. Purviance's aggressive and disinterested work as a publie official.

Though always a busy man he has found leisure to identify himself with various fraternal orders, among them the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Lafontaine Lodge, with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On October 20, 1892, Mr. Purviance married Miss Belle Brown, daughter of Captain Ashley and Emily (Brice) Brown, both of Dayton, Ohio. To them has been born one son, H. Montgomery Purviance, now a student in the Huntington High School.

JOHN FRAsH. The distinction of being the oldest living merchant in Huntington county is now possessed by Mr. John Frash, who though no longer actively identified with detailed management of his business, still retains full financial control of the large store operated under that name at Huntington. Mr. Frash has been a Huntington business man for over thirty years, and was for a number of years previously in business at Warren.

John Frash was born in the city of Zanesville, Ohio, November 28, 1836, and is now approaching the venerable age of four-score years. His parents were William and Eve (Klein) Frash. William Frash was one of the pioneers of Zanesville, Ohio, was a native of Germany, where he learned the trade of watch and clock making, and on immigrating to the United States came direct from New York City to Zanesville, where for some time he followed his trade. From Zanesville he moved his family out to Marion, Indiana. That was in the early days, and the country was new, and environment was malarial, and on account of the sickness of his wife William Frash soon returned to Ohio. On recovering his health he returned to Indiana, and settled at Hartford City, in Blackford county. There his enterprise was directed to the management of a small store, and with the increase of population his business expanded until he became one of the leading merchants. His death occurred in Hartford City in 1879, where his wife had passed away some years previously.

the details of merchandising, having entered his father's establishment at an early age, and working under his father's direction until he was grown. After his marriage he formed a partnership with his brother George under the name of George Frash and Brother, and together they conducted a flourishing enterprise for ten years. Finally selling out his interests in Hartford City, John Frash moved to Warren in Huntington county, and established a store in that village. His career as a merchant at Warren lasted for six and a half years. In the meantime his son Wilfred had located and engaged in business at Huntington, and his promising career had met with no discouragement until the development of lung trouble, when it became necessary for him to leave his business and spend some months in Colorado. With health apparently restored, he returned to Indiana, but the progress of disease was not to be arrested, and he went out to California, where in spite of all care and the liberal use of means, he died at Pasadena. After the failure of his son's health John sold out his Warren interests and took charge of the store at Huntington. The Frash store at Huntington comprises a large stock of dry goods and ladies' wear, and has been steadily prosperous and popular with the general trade for thirty years. Its active management is now in the hands of two sons, George and Eugene F rash.

Mr. John Frash is a stanch republican, a "'stand patter," but has never shown any interest or desire in practical, politics. For one term he was a member of the city council, and also served on the library board. Fraternally his relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows have been continuous for a period of forty years. As a result of his long activity as a merchant he is the owner of valuable real estate. His own home is at 959 N. Guilford street.

In 1857, at the age of twenty-one and about the time he started his career as a rising young merchant of Hartford City, John Frash married Miss Esther S. Stahl. Their companionship was one of unusual duration, and happiness, and was unbroken and unmarred until the death of Mrs. Frash on February 11, 1910. They had lived together as man and wife for a period of more than fifty-two years, and the influence of the sweet and noble character of Mrs. Frash extended much beyond the limits of her home circle, so that the entire community mourned her loss. Esther S. Stahl was born in Pennsylvania, and was seventy-four years of age at the time of her death. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abram Stahl, also natives of the same state, came to Indiana, when their daughter Esther was a girl, settling near Hartford City. Her father was a blacksmith, a trade he followed for many years, and took a prominent part in the affairs of Blackford county, serving as sheriff and later as treasurer and auditor. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. John Frash were born three sons: Wilfred, whose death has already been mentioned; and George and Hugene, now active managers of their father's business. Mrs. Frash was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, very active in church affairs, especially in the Ladies' Aid Society, and as a wife and mother she wielded an influence for good that made her character known and appreciated in all the better circles of Huntington society.

CHARLES ARNOLD. One of the old and reliable business houses of Huntington, Indiana, which has grown in size and public confidence with the growth of the city, has shared in its prosperity and has aided in the development of this progress, is that of H. H. Arnold & Son, dealers in dry goods, carpets, ladies' ready-made garments, ete. Hor more than thirty-three years this enterprise has catered to the trade of the people of Huntington, the house has come down from the management of the father to that of the son and changes have been made in business methods and ideals, yet through all the vicissitudes of commerce and trade and the varying fortunes of other ventures, this concern has maintained its same rigid policy of giving the people a fair deal and honest goods, and has retained its reputation for its connection only with legitimate transactions. The present head of this house, Charles Arnold, is known as a business man of excellent ability, who has spent his entire life in the line.in which he is now engaged and is intimate with its every particular. He was born at South Whitley, Whitley county, Indiana, December 12, 1866, and is a son of Henry H. and Anna C. (Cleveland) Arnold.

Henry H. Arnold was born at Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, and there received a public school education and passed his youth. He early chose mercantile lines as his field of endeavor, and shortly after attaining his majority moved to South Whitley, Indiana, where he received his introduction to business life as the proprietor of a small but wellmanaged general store. By the year 1880 he felt ready to enlarge the -scope of his operations, and accordingly came to Huntington, where he established what was the nucleus for the present business. He built up a large and prosperous trade, became known as one of the leading merchants of his day and locality, and gained the respect and esteem of his associates for his strict integrity and his many sterling qualities of mind 'and heart. When he died, in 1893, Huntington lost one of its most representative men. Mr. Arnold married Miss Anna C. Cleveland, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe Cleveland, old and honored residents of Whitley county, Mrs. Arnold, a lady of culture and refinement, still survives the father and makes her home in Huntington, where she is widely known for her many acts of charity. She is also an excellent business woman, and still retains her interest in the firm of H. H. Arnold & Son.

Charles Arnold acquired his education in the public and high schools of Huntington, following which he took a commercial course at Eastman's Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, New York, on the Hudson River. This prepared for his entrance into business life, and upon his return home he became connected with the dry goods house of his father in the capacity of clerk. When he had acquired a thorough knowledge of all departments of the business, his father admitted him to partnership, and thus was founded the firm of H. H. Arnold & Son. When his father died, Charles succeeded him as head of the business, but the firm name, known to the people of Huntington for so many years as a synonym for honest and straightforward dealing, has remained unchanged. The son has inherited many of the admirable characteristics of the older man, and his management of the business has been beneficial to it in the same way. At present they are enlarging their business, increasing their selling space 44x110 feet, three stories, which will connect with their present store and give them one of the largest stores in northern Indiana. Modern methods and appliances have been brought into use, and modern stock installed, but the time-honored and practical policies have "remained, and the people of Huntington have shown their appreciation of them by bringing their trade to this establishment.

In addition to his business prominence, Mr. Arnold is widely-known in social and fraternal circles, belonging to the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, as well as to the Huntington Commercial Club. During»Governor Durbin's first term, Mr. Arnold served as a member of his staff.

Moritz EBERHART. Of the many lives which entered into the pioneer history and early development of Huntington county, one of the most honorable and most useful was that of the late Moritz Eberhart, who spent many years on a farm in Warren township, where he died July 3, 1901.

Moritz Eberhart came from staunch German stock, and was himself born at Haigerloch, Hohenzollern, Wuertemberg, Germany, September 22, 1824. He was the oldest in a family of five children whose parents were Michael and Barbara (Henger) Eberhart. The two brothers were Damascus and Linus, and the two sisters were Christina Rigger and Mary Hauenstine. Moritz Eberhart was the last survivor of the family, with the exception of Mrs. Rigger.

His early life was spent in Germany, where he attained a good education, and served an apprenticeship to the weaver's trade. He was still young when the family left Germany and came to America. After landing in New York City, the father died of cholera. The mother with her sons Moritz and Damascus and the two daughters continued the journey westward as far as Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and a short time later moved to Indiana, locating in Section 17, Chester township, in Wabash county. Moritz Eberhart lived there a number of years, prospered as a farmer and in 1860 moved to Huntington county, and bought a farm two miles east of Bippus. The land when he took possession was a dense forest, and he labored many years to clear off the woods and long before his death had made it a valuable and productive homestead. ;

The late Moritz Eberhart during the Civil war spent six weeks in camp at Indianapolis, but was finally rejected for service because of defective hearing from which he had suffered from young manhood. In addition to his farm work, he and his brother Linus for a number of years were extensive dealers in timber, and also conducted the manufacture of staves, most of their product going over the canal route to Toledo. His name also deserves mention in connection with the founding and growth of the village of Bippus. After the survey of the route of the Erie Railroad, he built the first business structure on the site. In politics Moritz Eberhart was more or less independent in voting. He was the last survivor of the eleven charter members of the St. John's German Evangelical Church, now located at Bippus, and enjoyed the distinction of aiding in the building of three church homes during his membership. He was a profound student of the bible, and in character was a man of quiet disposition, always earnest and honorable, and his business efficiency was that of a leader among men. On January 27, 1858, at the home of her father, John M. Brodbeck, in Warren county, where Bracken (formerly Clayville) is now situated, Moritz Eberhart was united in marriage with Catherine Brodbeck, and her home is now in Bippus. To this union ten children were born: Michael, Jr., and a daughter died in infancy. The living are: Caroline, now Mrs. John F. Young; Minnie Barbara, now Mrs. Alvin I. Ream; Hannah C., now Mrs. Thomas Hopwood; Emma R., now Mrs. George Harter; Ella S., now Mrs. William H. Tillman; Ina R., now Mrs. Charles E. Miller; George M. Eberhart, a prominent Huntington attorney; and Addie L., now Mrs. Howard F. Miller.

Patrick M. McCarry. The career of Patrick M. McCarty, of Huntington, has been marked by constant advancement from earliest boyhood, his energetic and ambitious nature carrying him upward from comparatively humble circumstances and obscurity to the head of a responsible business and recognition among the leading politicians of his city. He was associated with the Huntington Publishing Company, and holds a firmly established position in business circles. His service in public offices of responsibility and trust have gained him the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens in such a degree that in the fall of 1913 he was nominated as the democratic standard-bearer for the office of mayor of Huntington. Mr. McCarty is a native son of this city, having been born in his present home on Jefferson street, July 22, 1862, and is a son of John and Ellen (Brauders) McCarty, natives of County Wexford, Ireland. In May, 1850, the parents emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City, and came thence direct to Huntington, Indiana, where both passed away. The father was a contractor and builder of public works, which he followed during active years of his life, his death occurring in 1891, while the mother died in February, 1896.

Patrick McCarty received his education in the Old Rock schoolhouse and St. Peters parochial school, presided over by the Sisters from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On completing his studies, he associated himself with his father in business in the City of Huntington, thus becoming familiar with contracting on public works, but in 1880 again took up his studies in St. John's College, Lafayette, Indiana, where he was graduated October 24, 1881. At that time he began to learn the trade of horseshoer, and for three years was employed by H. Zell, becoming eventually one of the best workmen in his line, and an expert in all pertaining thereto. On January 1, 1885, he formed a partnership with Mr. Zell under the firm style of Zell & McCarty, in horseshoeing and general Vol. Il - 6 blacksmithing, the old place of business near the old Court House being largely patronized. Mr. McCarty went to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1890, and subsequently moved on to Denver, Colorado, and Colorado Springs, but in 1892 returned to Huntington and formed a partnership with Ed Beaver, under the firm name of McCarty & Beaver, horseshoers, an association which continued until 1898, in which year Mr. McCarty entered actively into political affairs as a democrat. He was elected city marshal, a position in which he served until 1902, at which time he was nominated by the democrats as their candidate for sheriff, and was elected in the fall, serving in this capacity for two years. ` At the expiration of his term he entered the employ of the Erie Railroad Company, as captain of the Erie police, and had charge of the division from Marion, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois. Mr. McCarty continued to act in this capacity for four years, and in 1908 was again nominated and elected sheriff of Huntington county, continuing to serve four years in all. Heeentered the employ of the Huntington Publishing Company as bookkeeper on June 11, 1913, and continued in this capacity until December 1, 1913. Mr. McCarty is widely known among politicians of Huntington county. He is mild and affable in manner, yet behind this exterior there is a courage and doggedness that made him one of the best sheriffs the county has ever had. He is known as a "'good mixer'' and it matters little what a man's station in life may be, he can always be sure of a ''square deal'' at his hands. On September 23, 1913, Mr. McCarty was made the nominee of his party for the office of mayor, in which office he will probably continue his excellent record as a public servant.

On June 26, 1894, Mr. McCarty was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Gorman, of Logansport, Indiana, a daughter of Patrick and Margaret Gorman. Three children have been born to this union: Edwin P., Helen M. and Marie J. Edwin P. is now connected with the United Telephone Company. Mr. McCarty is a popular member of the Knights of Columbus, Elks Lodge No. 805, and the Catholic Benevolent Legion. His pleasant modern residence, is situated at No. 1332 North Jefferson street.

Bert J. BARTLETT. One of Huntington's active and progressive business men is Bert J. Bartlett, proprietor of the Bartlett Trucking Company, since its organization in the early nineties. He has been variously identified with a number of business enterprises in Huntington in the last twenty years, but his principal success has come to him through the channels of his present business, which has in recent years reached generous proportions, making necessary the employment of a good many men and teams. Other activities, it is true, claim a share of his time and attention, but the Bartlett Trucking Company is his principal business interest.

Mr. Bartlett was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in June, 1869, and is a son of William P. Bartlett, a prosperous farmer of New Hampshire, the state of his birth, and where he died in August, 1913.

His wife and the mother of Bert J. Bartlett of this review, was Martha Ladona S. (Flower) Bartlett, also a native of New Tamsin and now deceased.

As boy and youth in the New Hampshire home of his parents, Bert Bartlett attended the public schools, and gained such education as they were fitted to afford in those early days of American education. He remained on the farm until he was twenty, then came west, as Indiana is reckoned in New Hampshire, and settled in Columbia City. There he became interested in the lumber business, remaining at that point for six years, at which time he disposed of his lumber interests and came to Huntington. In this city he formed a business association with a Mr. Perine, and engaged again in the lumber business under the firm name of Perine & Bartlett, and at the end of another six years of lumbering activity, sold out and engaged in the trucking and transfer business. At the same time he began to operate more or less in coal, and a little later entered the storage field, erecting a cement block building with a forty by two hundred foot front, the building being calculated for the storage of all materials requiring a chilled temperature. The transfer and trucking business, however, is the branch of his enterprise to which he has given the closest attention, and he has in that line built up an extensive business, having in his employ a large number of men and teams.

In addition to the interests already named Mr. Bartlett is one of the directors of the Factory Fund Association, organized on February 22, 1907, at a special meeting called for the purpose of interesting a number of the leading citizens of the city, and the purpose of the organization being the raising of a fund to bring to the City of Huntington new manufacturing enterprises. The capital stock of the Association was placed at $50,000, all of which was subscribed by leading citizens. This Association has been the direct means of securing and locating a number of industries of no slight importance, reference to which will be found elsewhere in this work, under the heading ''Huntington's Industries.'' At a special meeting of the Association Mr. Bartlett was chosen president, with C. B. Williams as vice-president, O. W. Whitelock, secretary and Julius Dick as treasurer. The organization has for its support a goodly number of the leading business men of Huntington, and it is not too much to say that it has been the direct cause of the influx of a considerable capital and a number of desirable men who came in the wake of the new enterprises. Mr. Bartlett has shown himself in this work especially to be a man of progress and one who looks beyond the present day and its needs in the administration of any business enterprise. His civic attitude has throughout been most admirable, and places him among the real men of the community.

In 1896 Mr. Bartlett was united in marriage with Miss Frances F. Severance, a daughter of Dr. LaGrange and Henrietta (Drummond) Severance. Two children have been born to them, - Fred L. and Helen E. Bartlett, both of whom are in school.

Oscar E. Braputey. Hand in hand, in public usefulness, is the druggist associated with the.physician and this mutual dependence is universally acknowledged as a condition of public safety. Healing remedies are older than doctors, and as far back as one may delve in ancient lore he may find mention of medicaments for some of the ills that seem to have always afflicted the human race. At times, the discovery of a new drug has wrought wonderful changes and has been even a factor in advancing civilization. Out of the hands of the ignorant and the superstitious, the lawful administration of drugs has long since passed, and the term druggist or pharmacist now means one who has thoroughly satisfied the authorities that he is properly equipped and learned to practice his calling. Into his hands are practically placed life and death, for it is his knowledge of drugs and their effects that must guide him in the handling of the most careful of physicians' prescriptions, for his accuracy of measurement may change a tonic into a death draught. Thus it is no unimportant position that a druggist holds in a community and his personal standing is usually of the highest. In this connection a case in point is found in Oscar E. Bradley, junior member of the drug firm of Bradley Brothers, one of the largest concerns of its line in the Hoosier state, with main store at Huntington, and branches at Marion and Fort Wayne. Mr. Bradley is one of the leading business men of his adopted city, Huntington, and a review of the salient points of his career shows that his business life has been one of steady advancement from early manhood.

Oscar E. Bradley was born in Miami county, Indiana, June 2, 1865, the second son of John and Margaret (Sharp) Bradley. His father, born near Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, was a manufacturer and dealer in hardwood lumber and also dealt extensively in timberlands. In 1867 the family moved from Ohio to Waupecong, Miami county, Indiana, and there the father engaged in farming for a time and also operated a sawmill in the manufacture of hardwood lumber. This latter industry he continued to operate long years after he had given up agricultural pursuits, and subsequently became also the proprietor of a general store. By reason of his strict integrity, honorable dealing and well-directed efforts, he became one of the substantial men of his locality, and at the time of his death, in 1880, left a wide circle of friends to mourn his loss. The mother had passed away some years before.

Oscar E. Bradley received his early education in the publie schools of Miami county, and later he studied for a short time in a select school, but finally laid aside his books to join his father in the sawmill. He was but sixteen years of age when his father died, and he was left in charge of the mill, which he continued to operate for several years. Upon settling up the business, he went to Peru, Indiana, and worked in a basket factory as a shipping clerk, and while residing there, in his twenty-first year, was married to Miss Nettie Jones, of Amboy, Indiana, daughter of John Jones, an active business men of that locality. After his marriage, Mr. Bradley remained in Peru for only one year and then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and secured employment with C. Crane & Company, manu- facturers of and dealers in lumber, but in 1893 returned to Indiana. At that time he formed a partnership with his elder brother, Charles E. Bradley, and under the firm style of Bradley Brothers engaged in the drug business at Wabash. There the firm continued until 1897, when it made its advent in Huntington, this city having since eeritinticd as headquarters. The business proved a success from the start, and in 1899 a branch business was established at Marion, which is still conducted under a manager, and in 1908 a branch was located at Fort Wayne and placed under the management of Mr. Bradley's son, John Hale Bradley. Oscar E. Bradley spends the greater part of his time at the Huntington store, but has various outside interests, being a stockholder in the First National Bank of Huntington, the Majestic Furnace and Foundry Company of this city, and the Auto Transit Company, also of Huntington. He is widely known in business circles and has the utmost confidence of his associates, who look to him for leadership, counsel and advice in all matters of importance. He is prominent in Masonry, belonging to Amity Lodge No. 483, F. & A. M., Huntington Chapter, No. 27, R. A. M.; and also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of .Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, all of Huntington. In his political affiliation Mr. Bradley gives his stalwart support to democratic measures and candidates, although he has not cared for the activities of public life for himself. His residence is located at No. 508 West State street.

CHARLES H. Krracore. Though no longer a resident of Huntington county, the career of Charles H. Kiracofe has a pertinent place in this work for his connection with the educational interests of the county, due especially to his efforts in the establishment and conduct of Central College, located at College Park, north of Huntington. For upwards of forty years he was active in educational and religious affairs, and is still keenly interested in educational matters, though living retired, and having his home at Winona Lake.

Charles H. Kiracofe is a native of the mountainous district fourteen miles north of Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia. His parents were John and Margaret (Showalter) Kiracofe, descendants of Hessian parentage, which was established in America during the Revolutionary times, and after the close of the war located in Virginia. Charles H. Kiracofe had seven brothers and one sister. His early life was spent on a farm, and such schooling as was afforded him made him eager for further learning. During the early part of the Civil war he lived within the Confederate lines, and one year was spent in chopping wood for a Confederate iron works. His drafting for service in the Confederate army was only a question of a few months and to escape such service he and an older brother were among a large party of Virginians, who made their way through the mountains in 1863 to the north. The story of their adventuresome journey made mostly during the night time in order to escape capture by southern soldiers, was told by Mr. Kiracofe in a paper read several years ago before the Cosmopolitan Club of Huntington.

After reaching the homes of some relatives near Lima, Ohio, and after recovering not only from the hardships of travel, but also from the ravages of typhoid fever, had contracted at Parkersburg, West Virginia, as a result of exposure, Mr. Kiracofe worked on a farm, and by attending school during the winter prepared himself for teaching. His wages as teacher of a district school afforded him the means by which, with the closest economy and by work out of school hours, he was enabled to complete his studies and gain the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, in 1871. During his college career he became acquainted with Miss Anvilla Rundles. Miss Rundles was a member of a class one year ahead of Mr. Kiracofe, and after graduating spent a year as principal of the high school at Warsaw, Indiana. As soon as he was graduated Mr. Kiracofe and Miss Rundles were married. She was a daughter of a well-known family living near Huntertown, in Allen county, Indiana. After their marriage they both taught school for one year at Edgerton, Ohio. The following year Mr. Kiracofe, who had also been granted a license as a minister for the United Brethren in Christ, was in charge of a circuit near Waterloo, Indiana. While during his active career he did much work in the active ministry, his heart always lay in the educational side of church affairs, and it is as an educator that his career has been most fruitful.

In 1873 Mr. Kiracofe became professor of languages at Westfield College at Westfield, Illinois. His home and work continued at Westfield until 1879, when he accepted a call to the presidency of Hartsville College in Bartholomew county, Indiana. Hartsville College retained him as its head until 1889. During that time he supervised the work of instruction and also spent much time in the field soliciting funds and working otherwise in behalf of the church's educational interests. These years were probably the most trying of his life, the institution being a struggling one, which, however, turned out men who are found in positions of responsibility in many places.

In 1889 Rev. Kiracofe moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he became secretary of the Board of Missions of the United Brethren church. The next four years he was editor of the Christian Conservator, the organ of the radical branch of the church which had divided in 1889. Once more the educational work made its appeal to him, and in 1897 he was named to take charge of the movement to locate a college in Huntington, Indiana. This new institution was designed to be a successor to Hartsville College, with a site much more accessible than the old school in Bartholomew county had been. Under his direction and personal work plans for the new institution were matured, and his personal efforts brought about the sale of the required number of lots to close the deal with the land company, from which had come a proposition for the location of the institution on a beautiful tract north of Huntington. Central College was dedicated with -proper ceremony in September, 1897. Quickly there sprung up a small town about the college campus, and it prospered in population and improvement from year to year. Many people came here from different places to identify themselves with the college community as permanent residents, or while educating their younger children. . Rev. Kiracofe's work as/president continued until | June, 1903, and at the same time he had entered actively into the work of instruction, having charge of several classes. On retiring from the presidency, Rev. Kiraeofe was succeeded by James H. McMurray. The next few months were spent in editorial duties with the Christian Conservator, the church publishing house having in the meantime been moved from Dayton to Huntington soon after the establishment of Central College. After a year of rest, feeling that he was too young to retire, and being always a believer in the saying that it is ''better to wear out than to rust out," Rev. Kiracofe accepted a pastorate in the Presbyterian church near New Albany, Indiana. During the previous year he had exchanged his membership from the United Brethren to the Presbyterian faith. Since that time he has filled pastorates at Walkerton, Indiana, and in churches near Logansport and Wabash, at the same time having his permanent residence at Winona Lake.

In politics Mr. Kiracofe was a republican for a number of years, later associating himself with the prohibition party, on whose ticket he was at one time candidate for state superintendent of public instruction during the eighties. More recently he has been independent in his political affiliations. Despite his years and retirement from active work, he still retains a keen interest in matters of education.

©. Horace Krracore. Now engaged in the insurance business at Huntington as a member of the firm of Schwartz & Kiracofe, Mr. Horace Kiracofe is most generally known throughout Huntington county on account of his long experience in the Huntington newspaper field. As a publisher and editor he made a record for the energetic handling of what is regarded as one of the most difficult undertakings in business, and in many ways has proved his efficient and public spirited citizenship in behalf of a better and greater city of Huntington.

C. Horace Kiracofe, the older son of Charles H. and Anvilla (Rundles) Kiracofe, the former a well known educator and founder of Central College at Huntington, was born July 25, 1876, at Westfield, Clark county, Illinois. Three years after his birth his parents moved by the overland route to Hartsville in Bartholomew county, Indiana, where his father became president of Hartsville College. Educated by his mother until ten years of age, he entered the Hartsville College and continued preparatory and college studies until the removal of the family to Dayton, Ohio, in 1889. There he became a student in the old Central high school, being graduated in June, 1893. After another year spent at Hartsville College he entered Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, where he was given the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June, 1898.

Though his plan had been to prepare himself as a teacher of languages, his purposes were changed in the junior year at Oberlin and his talents and energies directed to newspaper work. His first regular

'State Journal at Springfield, Illinois, where he lived several months. In July, 1899, Mr. Kiracofe became city editor of the Huntington News- Democrat, the Kiracofe family having located at Huntington in July, 1897. In November, 1905, Mr. Kiracofe bought stock in the Huntington Herald, and he took the chair of city editor for that publication. In 1910 he became manager of the Herald, and in 1911, combined the duties of both manager and editor. That was his work until his financial and business connection with the company terminated in September, 1911, and in the following December he retired from all relations with the Herald. Since January 1, 1912, Mr. Kiracofe has been associated with William Schwartz in the insurance business, and they represent the general field of fire and life insurance. ý

On October 14, 1903, Mr. Kiracofe married Miss Matilda J. Kuhlman, whose father, Frederick Kuhlman, was one of the pioneer plasterers of Huntington county. A son, Melville Kuhlman Kiracofe, was born to their marriage May 24, 1908.

Mr. Kiracofe has never been prominent in politics, though during his newspaper career every matter of public interest received his attention, and through his paper he did much to advance the improvement of the city. He had charge of the contest in which '' Huntington - Opportunity 's Gateway,'' was chosen as the slogan for Huntington. In church affairs he is identified with the Presbyterian denomination, having held the places of elder and Sunday school superintendent in the local congregation since 1908. His home property at Oak and Tipton Streets in Huntington has been regarded as one of the neat places of moderate cost in the city.

CHARLES L. BucHanan. All his life a resident of Huntington, Indiana, Charles L. Buchanan enjoys an enviable position in the citizenship of his native town and county, and as a business man of no small merit he ranks among the foremost. He has long been connected with the enterprise that now holds his attention, or perhaps it might be better to say that he has been identified with his present enterprise since he finished his public school course and entered the business with his father. Following his father's demise in 1907, young Buchanan assumed charge of the plumbing and heating business that had so long been conducted in Huntington by the Buchanans, and he has since continued with the business.

Charles Buchanan was born in Huntington on July 11, 1885, and he is the eldest son of Samuel and Catherine (Ryan) Buchanan. Samuel Buchanan was a native of Perry county, Ohio, born there on March 12, 1833, and he was the sixth son in a family of eight children born to John and Mary A. (Dempsey) Buchanan, natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland, respectively. When he was but a child of three years the parents of Samuel Buchanan came to Indiana and located in a little hamlet which has since developed into the city of Huntington. Here Samuel Buchanan was reared to manhood, and here he passed his long and useful life.

Conditions in the community at that time did not conduce to overmuch learning, and Samuel Buchanan was blessed with a very meagre education as a result. But he was a studious boy, fond of books, and such as came to his hand were devoured with the avidity that is characteristic of the natural book-lover. It was thus that he gained the smattering of learning that aided him in business life.

He was fifteen years old when in the autumn of 1848 he began to learn the trade of a printer under Colonel Milligan, then editor and publisher of the Democratic Age, and when he had completed his apprenticeship he devoted himself for about five years to the trade of a journeyman printer. In later years, when the field for heating and plumbing opened up, Mr. Buchanan diverted his attention from the printing business to the newer enterprise, and he was long a successful operator in the business, continuing therein until death claimed him on March 23, 1907.

Mr. Buchanan was married in 1884 to Catherine Ryan, daughter of Thomas Ryan, well known among the early pioneers of Huntington county, and a man who stood well in the esteem of all who knew him. Mrs. Buchanan still survives her husband and is a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana. i

Charles L. Buchanan as a boy attended a parochial school in Huntington and later was graduated from the Huntington High School. Immediately upon his leaving school he entered the business with his father, and thereafter applied himself with all diligence to the work of mastering the heating and plumbing businesss in all its details. He proved himself quite as capable as his father, and in a few years was equal to taking control of the entire business, though this did not become necessary until the death of the father and founder of the business in 1907. Mr. Buchanan has since then been in entire charge of the business, and he carries on a lively business, employing from ten to twelve persons in the operation thereof. The firm specializes in steam and hot water heating, and enjoys an excellent business in the city, in neighboring towns and also in the country districts where modern residences are being erected by many of the prosperous and progressive farmers of the county.

Mr. Buchanan is a member of the Knights of Columbus, No. 1014; B. P. O. E., No. 805, and the National Union. He is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church.

Jacos QIL. One of the modern and progressive agriculturists of Huntington township is Jacob Gill, whose home has been in this county for upwards of half a century, and who has always had an honorable identification with the community, while his activities as a business man and farmer have brought him the substantial rewards of well conducted

Indiana farm life. Mr. Gill now owns the old homestead, comprising eighty-two acres, and has a very fine fruit orchard of two acres, while the rest of his place is devotéd to general farming and stock raising. Mr. Gill had some years ago built a modern brick home, and everything about the place shows the progressive and capable agriculturist.

Jacob Gill was born in Bavaria, Germany, February 21, 1856, a son of Frederick and Louisa (Holzinger) Gill. Both parents. were also Bavarians by birth, and they grew up and were married there, and after their children were born and partly reared, they emigrated to the United States and found a home in Huntington township, April 28, 1865, the father buying the estate which is now owned by his son Jacob. There Frederick Gill answered the last summons on February 21, 1908, when he had reached a venerable age, and his passing' was an occasion of sincere sorrow throughout the community. There were nine children altogether, and the following are living in Huntington township; Jacob, John, Fred, Elizabeth and Katherine. John Gill is a successful truck farmer. S :

Jacob Gill was nine years of age when the family came to the United States, had previously attended the schools of Germany, and was educated for several years in the public schools and the parochial schools at Huntington. Mr. Gill has never married, and is.an active member of the St. Peter and St. Paul Catholic Church of Huntington, while in politics he votes the democratic ticket, and has always been ready to respond to the calls upon good citizenship in his community.

When the parents of Mr. Gill emigrated to America, they had small cash capital to locate in a strange country, and among a strange people, but by thrift and economy, they made good - and the representative of the family, Mr. Jacob Gill, has added luster to the name as well as success. He holds high prestige as an honorable and upright citizen of Huntington county.

In the spring of 1913, he began the erection of one of the most beautiful and modern brick residences in the township, finished in hardwood and handsomely furnished, and lighted by electricity. This beautiful home is presided over by Mr. Gill's sister, Elizabeth, who is a model housekeeper and a devout member of the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic church of Huntington, Indiana. Mr. Gill is truly an agent and has never allowed any other business to interfere, which has proven a success. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Columbus.

PAuL J. BUCHANAN. One of the large local industries that give character and prosperity to Huntington is the Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Company, a business that employs a large number of skilled workers, puts in circulation a great deal of capital, and is a large contributor to the aggregate business of the city. The manager of this plant is Paul J. Buchanan, a young man in years, but who has satisfied all the rigid requirements of

Paul J. Buchanan was born in the city of Huntington February 21, 1889, being the second son of Samuel and Catharine (Ryan) Buchanan His father. Samuel Buchanan, had long been one of the prominent residents of OAA county, which he served as clerk and was active both in business and in public affairs. He was born in Perry, Ohio, March 12, 1833, being sixth in order of birth in a family of eight children born to John and Mary A. (Dempsey) Buchanan, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland. When Samuel Buchanan was three years old his parents came to Indiana, and located in the little village that has since developed, during a period of eighty years, into the city of Huntington. Samuel Buchanan grew up on the streets of the then village, and played in fields which have since been covered over with factories and residences. His advantages in the way of schooling were limited by the character of the schools then in existence, and was always known as a man of practical and hard sense, and suffered little handicap from the lack of early opportunities. He received a fairly liberal education by serving an apprenticeship at the printer's trade. He began in the fall of 1848 with Colonel Milligan, who at that time was editor and publisher of the Democratic Age. Mr. Buchanan remained with Colonel Milligan about five years. In 1853 he entered the employ of D. L. Shearer, dealer in grain and dry goods, and that work occupied him until January 3, 1856. At that date he became agent for the W. St. L. & P. Railway of Huntington. The company later transferred him to a similar position at Fort Wayne, and in the fall of 1856 he was made freight conductor with the Wabash Company. Leaving railroading in the fall of 1858 he went out to Leavenworth, Kansas, which was then on the frontier, and sold goods in that town for a year or more. Returning to Huntington he began buying grain for George L. Little of Fort Wayne. In 1862 he began selling agricultural implements and in 1864 was again in the grain business associated with Fred Dick. The partners also conducted a grocery store, and in 1871 increased their business with a stock of hardware. The firm continued with considerable degree of prosperity until early in 1880, when the partnership was dissolved. Samuel Buchanan then continued the grain and agricultural implement business alone, until the fall of that year, when with his two sons he once more took up the grocery trade. In the spring of 1882 the grain business was entirely dropped, and the stock of agricultural implements was discontinued in the fall of 1882, and in the following spring they also retired from the grocery line. In the fall of 1882 Samuel Buchanan was elected clerk of Huntington county, and gave one term of proficient service in that capacity. His other public service was as a member of the city council, from September, 1870, to May, 187 6, and he served as chief of the Huntington fire department from 1878 to 1882 and again beginning with the spring of 1886. Mr. Buchanan is a member of the Catholic church and of the democratic party. l l