Huntington County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 8 of 15)

the Knights of Columbus, of which Mr. Neuer was a charter member. There were business men employes of big industries, retired citizens of Huntington, and even children who remembered the kindly smile of 'Johnny' Neuer. Business practically came to a standstill in Huntington during the funeral. Lawrence Schmidt and W. Leo Haworka of Fort Wayne's Cathedral choir rendered special music and there were a number of others in attendance from Fort Wayne, as well'as members of the St. Joseph's Society.

''Pall bearers selected from the Knights of Columbus were: Briney O'Connor, Pat Gorman, Thomas Fallon, George Kindler, Peter Martin, Jacob Arnold and John Pfeister. In charge of the numerous floral offerings were Mrs. Charles Wolter, Mrs. Theo. Torborg and Misses Blanche O'Connor, Anna O'Connor, Josephine Engle and Hilda Becker."'

ALBERT Kem. It is difficult for those who know Albert Kem and recognize in him one of the substantial and prosperous farmers of Wayne township to realize that when he arrived in Huntington county, in 1890, he was possessed of but little capital save a generous share of ambition and determination, and that he was obliged to go heavily into debt to secure the piece of property that formed the nucleus for his present handsome farm. A life of consecutive industry has been crowned with well-merited success and his career is an illustration of the fact that honest labor is the best foundation upon which to build a structure of prosperity.

Mr. Kem was born in Wayne county, Indiana, November 26, 1858, and is a son of George and Celia Ann (Wright) Kem, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland. Each came to Wayne county, Indiana, when young and were there married, in 1870 making removal to Grant county, where both passed away. They were the parents of four children, of whom two are living: Daniel W., who is engaged in farming in Sims township; and Albert. Albert Kem was twelve years of age when he accompanied his parents to Grant county, and about that time he became self-supporting. He attended the schools of Wayne and Grant counties for a short period, but his educational advantages were decidedly limited and the knowledge that he has upon a wide range of subjects today has been gained through his own efforts. He arrived at man's estate without capital with which to embark upon a business career, but applied himself earnestly and industriously to whatever employment presented itself and carefully saved his earnings, so that when he came to Huntington county, in 1890, he was able to make a payment upon 100 acres of land in Wayne township, although he was forced to go into debt for a large part of the purchase price. This indebtedness was liquidated in time through steadfast effort and good management, and Mr. Kem began to add to his original purchase, as well as to the improvements upon his property. At this time he has 240 acres of fine land, clear of all indebtedness, well ditched and under cultivation, and with three sets of modern, substantial buildings, in the immediate vicinity of Banquo. He engages in general farming upon an extensive scale and also engages in stock breeding, and in both lines has met with well-deserved success. He is a public-spirited citizen and his abilities have been recognized by his fellow-citizens who have elected him to the offices of supervisor and school director. Politically a democrat, he has taken a leading part in township and county affairs, but is not bigoted in his views and as a result has numerous friends throughout this section in the ranks of all political parties.

Mr. Kem was married to Miss Anna Belle Rude, who was born in Adams county, Indiana, and they have become the parents of six children: Nellie L., a graduate of the common schools and now the wife of Clay Shaw of Henry county, Indiana; George W., who graduated from the common schools and took a short course at Purdue University, married Ada Haines and is a farmer in Wayne township; Ray, a graduate of the high school, who was a student in the State Normal school, subsequently became a teacher and married Jessie Stephens ; Fred, a graduate of the' common and high schools, was for a time a teacher, and is now a student at Purdue University; Elsie, a graduate of the Banquo High school, class of 1914; and Daisy, a student of the public schools. Mrs. Kem and three of the children are members of the Baptist church.

GEORGE W. SEARLES. The utilization of the splendid agricultural resources of Huntington county constitutes the most important industry of this section and among its successful men the greater number are those engaged in farming. To this class belongs George W. Searles, a business man of marked enterprise and keen discernment, who in the careful control of his interests has gained a place among the substantial residents of Wayne township. He comes of an agricultural family, was reared to the pursuits of the farm, and has been a lifelong occupant of the property which he now occupies, so that by practical experience and observation he has gained a thorough knowledge of conditions here, and to this has added a natural ability and an enthusiasm which makes him take pride in his accomplishments.

Mr. Searles was born July 22, 1861, on the farm which he now occupies, and is a son of Alpheus T. and Mary (Rarich) Searles. His father was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and came to Huntington county, Indiana, in 1848, as a young man. Settling in Wayne township, he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and continued to follow the same line of work during the remainder of his active career. On the farm on which George W. Searles is now residing, he settled down to housekeeping with his young bride, who had been born in Warren county, Ohio, and came to Huntington county, Indiana, during the early forties, and she, like her husband, continued to reside here until her death. They were people of sterling traits of character, earnest and conscientious, and had the respect and esteem of all who knew them. They had two children: George W., of this review ; and Luella, who married Alex Herrell, lived in Huntington and Grant counties for some years, and passed away at Van Buren, Indiana.

George W. Searles was reared to manhood in Wayne township, where he received a thorough fraining in agricultural work and at the same time was educated. During the short winter terms he attended district school No. 4, and a great deal of thé rest of the year was passed in assisting his father in the numerous duties and hard work of the homestead. His training was an excellent one, fitting him as it did for the position he was to be called upon to fill in life. At the time he was twenty-one years of age Mr. Searles began receiving wages from his father, and from that time forward until he was twenty-seven years old he worked by the day and the month. He was married June 11, 1887, to Miss Mary A. Beekman, who was born in Wayne township, October 20, 1866, a daughter of Eli H. and Elizabeth (Carter) Beekman. She attended Price schoolhouse No. 6, in Wayne township, and has resided here all of her life. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Searles settled down to farming in their present home, Mr. Searles being the owner of 122 acres of fine land in section 24, Wayne township, nine miles north and four miles east of Marion, fourteen miles southwest of Huntington, and eight miles west of Warren. Mr. Searles is one of the practical and progressive farmers of this part of the county, intelligently directing his operations along modern lines and securing good results from his labors. He keeps fully abreast of the discoveries and inventions of his vocation, and has earned the right to be named as one of his community's helpful men. He has had no desire for a public career and interests himself in public matters only as they affect his immediate community, but at all times has shown that he is ready to assist worthy movements. His political support is given to the democratic party. During a lifetime of residence in Wayne township, he has formed a wide acquaintance, and in it he has a large number of warm and appreciative friends.

Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Searles, of whom one is now living: Dessie E., who is the wife of Ben F. Robbins, an agriculturist of Wayne township, and the mother of one child: Arthur Ray, born December 15, 1912.

FRANK M. STEPHENS. One of the native sons of Wayne township who here holds an assured place in popular confidence and esteem and who is one of the progressive merchants and public-spirited citizens of Huntington county is Frank M. Stephens, who is now serving as assessor of Wayne township. He was born on the parental homestead farm, in this township, on the 25th of November, 1879, and is a son of Andrew J. and Martha A. (Charles) Stephens, who still maintain their home in Wayne township and who are numbered among the well known and highly honored citizens of this part of the county. Of their three children the eldest is he whose name introduces this paragraph; Verne L. is a prosperous farmer of Wayne township; and Iva is the wife of Homer Idle, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Frank M. Stephens was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and after completing the curriculum of the district school he continued his studies in the village schools until his graduation therein.

He has been closely and effectually identified with agricultural pursuits and he continued as an able exponent of this basic line of industrial enterprise until 1912, in October of which year he purchased a stock of general merchandise in the village of Banquo, where he now controls a substantial and constantly expanding business, his distinctive personal popularity having contributed materially to his success as a merchant. He owns the ground and building utilized in his mercantile business, and he is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of his native township, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. In politics Mr. Stephens is a stanch supporter of the cause of the democratic party, and as a candidate on its ticket he was elected township assessor in 1908, his effective service having led to his continuous retention in this office since that year. He and his wife are zealous members of the Christian church in their home village.

On the 24th of December, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stephens to Miss Minnie Bodkin, who was born and reared in Pleasant township, this county, the date of her nativity having been November 17, 1888, and the one child of this union is Charline, a winsome little daughter who was born November 24, 1912.

Jacos L. CHARLES. The Sunnyside Stock Farm, one of the fine landed estates in Wayne township, comprises one hundred and fifty acres and its pervading atmosphere of thrift and prosperity stands to the enduring credit of its popular owner, Jacob L. Charles, who is a native of Huntington county and a representative of an honored pioneer family of this favored section of the old Hoosier commonwealth. The eligible location of his farm, immediately north of the village of Banquo, adds to its general attractiveness and it shows throughout that he has brought to bear progressive policies and scientific methods in his various operations.

Mr. Charles was born in the township that is now his place of residence and the date of his nativity was April 18, 1859. He is a son of David and Sidney (Coon) Charles, the former of whom was born in Henry county, this state, and the latter in Rush county, though their marriage was solemnized in Wayne township, Huntington county, where they continued to reside thereafter until the close of their long and useful lives. They contributed their quota to the social and industrial development and upbuilding of this part of the county and ever held secure place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew them. Of their eight children seven are still living, and of the number Jacob L., of this review, was the fourth in order of birth; Martha is the wife of Andrew J. Stephens; Joseph E. is a prosperous farmer of Wayne township; Frank M. resides at Marion, this state; Nancy A. is the wife of Job Jennings, of Allen county; Emma is the wife of George Miller, of Huntington county; and John J. is another able representative of the agricultural interests of Wayne township.

township he pursued higher studies in Fort Wayne College, at Fort Wayne this state, a Methodist Episcopal institution that was founded in 1846. During his entire active career Mr. Charles has continued his close association with agriculture and stock-growing, and his success has been on a parity with his acknowledged enterprise and progressiveness, which have made him one of the substantial farmers of his native county, where his course has been so ordered as to retain to him the unqualified esteem of all who know him. From his young manhood until the campaign of 1912 Mr. Charles was found aligned as a supporter of the republican party, but his convictions concerning matters of public import then led him to give his allegiance to the Progressive party, the principles of which meet with his earnest approval. The family home is known for its gracious hospitality.

In September, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Charles to Miss Eva J. Sparks, daughter of John J. and Emma E. (Hale) Sparks, the former of whom died in 1912 and the latter of whom still resides in Huntington county. Mr. and Mrs. Charles have but one child, and he is a young man whose talents and character have made him do high honor to the name which he bears. This son, John S. Charles, was born December 11, 1892, and after his graduation in the high school at Banquo he completed a course in the Huntington Business University, in which he was likewise graduated with honors. He also studied in the Marion Conservatory of Music, at Marion, this state, is a talented violinist and formerly gave considerable attention to the teaching of music as applied to this instrument. Before he had attained to his legal majority he was made cashier of the Farmers' State Bank of Mexico, Miami county, Indiana, and of this position he still continues the efficient and popular incumbent, besides being a member of the board of directors of the institution.

Joann W. Manoney. The agricultural interests of Wayne township are ably represented by John W. Mahoney, who is carrying on extensive operations on the ''Nowely Blue Grass Farm," a 200-acre tract in section 26, lying immediately east of Banquo. Born in this township March 6, 1851, he is a son of Hugh and Ruth E. (Johnson) Mahoney.

The Mahoney family was founded in the United States by James Mahoney, the grandfather of John, who was born in Ireland and emigrated to the United States in young manhood. He first settled in Tennessee, but several years after his marriage removed to Rush county, Indiana, and during the thirties took up his residence in Huntington county in the vicinity of Mount Etna, there entering land from the Government and in time becoming one of his locality's sterling and substantial citizens. Through a life of industry and persistent effort he accumulated a goodly tract of land, and his many admirable traits of character won him the esteem and respect of the people in his adopted community. Hugh Mahoney was born in Tennessee, and was a lad when he accompanied his parents to Rush county, Indiana, where he was reared and educated. He came with his father to Huntington county when still a youth and was here married, settling on a farm and continuing to follow the pursuits of the soil until his death in 1861. Like his father, he was a man, of strong character and an industrious workman, and Fite. earnest efforts brought him a competency and the confidence of those among whom he spent his life. He married Ruth E. Johnson, who was a native of Huntington county, and they became the parents of six children, of whom four are now living: Mary A., who is the wife of Frank Ceneweth, a prosperous farmer of Wayne township ; John W., of this review; James F., of Wayne township; and Harriet AC; the wife of Henry Cecil, a resident of Huntington, Indiana.

The boyhood and youth of John W. Mahoney were passed on the home farm and the greater part of his education was secured in the school of experience, as his assistance was constantly needed on the homestead and he was given little opportunity to attend the district school. He has been a close observer all of his life, however, and has gained a thorough knowledge of a wide range of subjects. At the age of eighteen years he started out to make his own way in the world, his father having died when he was but ten years old, and since then he has been self-supporting. He was married April 30, 1881, to Miss Lena Smethers, and at that time they settled on a tract of sixty acres of land, in which he owned a half interest. From time to time he has added to his land, to his buildings and to his improvements, and he now has one of the handsome farms of the township, equipped with the most modern appliances and machinery and stocked with fine cattle. As a business man he has shown his anity and strict integrity, and his standing as a citizen is high.

Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney have two children: James Fremont, a graduate of the public schools, who is assisting his father in operating the homestead; and Florence, who is the wife of Clinton Smelser, who lives on a part of Mr. Mahoney's farm and has one child. Although Mr. Mahoney's is now past sixty years of age he is still active and alert, takes an interest in the matters pertaining to his farm and to his community, and apparently has many years of usefulness before him. He is a member of Mount Etna Lodge No. 304, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is past grand thereof, a member of the Grand Lodge, and popular with his fellow Odd Fellows. In political matters he gives his support to the republican party, but has never had the desire to hold public office.

CHARLES H. Smeuser. The birthplace of Charles H. Smelser was the farm on which he now resides in Wayne township and throughout his entire life he has been connected with the work of tilling the soil and with other agricultural interests. He is a man of business ability, of genuine personal worth, and is well deserving of mention in this work as one of the substantial citizens of Huntington county. Mr. Smelser was born in the residence in which he now makes his home, December 5, 1863, and is a son of Smith and Mary (Sparks) Smelser.

his family on the farm in Wayne township where his son now lives, and here passed the remainingyears of his life, passing away at an advanced age, January 29, 1911. A man of energy and force of character, he succeeded in his farming operations, developing a handsome property from the woods of Wayne township, at all times proved himself a good citizen, and although of a quiet and unassuming manner was an influence for good in his community. He was a lifelong Democrat, although not an office seeker, and a devout member of the Baptist church. He and his wife were the parents of five sons and one daughter, and of these five children are still living: John, who is a resident of Banquo, Indiana; Frank, engaged in operations in Wayne township; Albert, a resident of Michigan, where he has extensive interests; Charles H.; and`Dr. J. S. H., a practicing physician of Oklahoma.

Charles H. Smelser has been a resident of Wayne township all of his life, with the exception of four years which he spent on a farm which he owned in Wabash county. His education was secured in the district schools and as a young man he decided to devote his career to farming, a decision which he has never had cause to regret for in this field of endeavor he has met with a full measure of success. At this time he is the owner of 128 acres of good land, located in section 21, a farm which has been brought to a high and productive state of cultivation. In his work Mr. Smelser has displayed a thorough knowledge of modern methods, and his equipment is of the latest manufacture. Mr. Smelser has always affiliated with the democratic party and has been active in local and county politics. His aid has been an essential factor in the conduct of various interests which have been beneficial to his community, and at all times he has displayed a willingness to co-operate in movements calculated to advance the county's best interests.

On December 26, 1885, Mr. Smelser was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Moore, of Grant county, Indiana, who died July 12, 1889, the mother of two children: Goldie, the wife of James Groff, living with Frank Smelser, her uncle, in Wayne township; and Roger M., born May 29, 1889, a graduate-of the public schools, who married Edna M. Charles, daughter of John and Phronia (Everson) Charles.

_E. M. Bocock has long been connected with the development of the resources which nature has provided in Huntington county, being well ` known as a representative of the agricultural interests of Wayne township. A native son of this locality, he has grown up amid its rural surroundings, and his career has been devoted to the tilling of the soil, in which vocation he has been successful because of his persistent and consecutive efforts. In his life the elements of chance have played little part, for he has been the architect of his own fortunes and has won recognition and position through his own ability to grasp and make the most of opportunities.

Mr. Bocock was born on a farm in section 39, Wayne township, Huntington county, Indiana, June 10, 1868, and is a son of Granville and Mary (Culbertson) Bocock. His father was born in Washington town- ship, Grant county, Indiana, in 1542, and in young manhood came to Huntington county, where he engaged in farming and became one of his community's influential agriculturists. He had the esteem and respect of the people of his section who repeatedly honored him by election to offices of public trust, and on one occasion he was elected coroner of Huntington county but never qualified for the position. He died May 3, 1905, when passed away one of his community's leading men. Mrs. Bocock still survives and is a resident of Wayne township, the mother of three children, namely: E. M.; Maude I., who is the wife of William Martin, of La Fontaine, Indiana; and Silas H., who is successfully engaged in farming in Wayne township.

E. M. Bocock was reared to manhood on the old home place and his education was secured in the district schools in the vicinity thereof, his boyhood and youth being divided between the two. He continued his studies until reaching the age of twenty-two years, and at that time began to concentrate his energies upon his farm work, and this has continued to be his vocation throughout life. On April 9, 1895, he was married to Miss Lena Carl, who was born in Wayne township and was one of Mr. Bocock's classmates at the district school. They have had three children, namely: Granville, who was born June 11, 1903; Carl, born September 20, 1905; and Martha, born August 25, 1910. The occupation to which he was reared Mr. Bocock has made his life work. He has continued the work and developing and improving his present farm since his marriage, until it now yields golden harvests and the property has become a paying one. In addition to tilling the fields he raises considerable stock and his business interests are carefully managed. He has a well equipped place, and neatness and thrift characterize all departments of the farm work. Mr. Bocock is known as a man who carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, forming a definite plan of action and accomplishing results while many others would stop to theorize.

Fraternally Mr. Bocock is prominent in the ranks of the Masonic order, belonging to Mount Etna Lodge No. 333, F. & A. M., and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Landissville, being past grand and a member of the Grand Lodge of the state and the Encampment, and both he and his wife are connected with the Rebekahs at Landissville. In political matters he is a democrat, and has taken some interest in local affairs, although he has not been a seeker after personal preferment.

Davin MARKLEY. So long as the veterans of the great Civil war remain they will be accorded a great volume of gratitude and admiration from the generations who now enjoy the prosperity of a united country. In the fast thinning ranks of the union soldiers, now represented by a mere handful in Huntington county, the name of David Markley is prominent, since for three years he carried a musket in the splendid armies operating in the Mississippi Valley up to the fall of Atlanta, and when his military service was over he returned to the quiet vocation of farm and fireside. Mr. Markley has for thirty years been a resident of Jackson township, and is the owner of a place of eighty acres, located three miles southeast of Roanoke.

David Markley was born in Carroll county, Ohio, January 1, 1838, a son of Robert and Leah (Cogan) Markley. Both parents were born in Pennsylvania, moved from that state to Ohio, and lived there until death. Of the twelve children six are living in 1913, the brothers and sisters of David being named as follows: John, Samuel, Robert, Jess and Margaret J., widow of Isaac Hibbs.

The early life of David Markley was spent on an Ohio farm, and while growing up he received such school advantages as were allowed to Ohio boys during the forties and fifties. On reaching manhood the war of the Rebellion broke out, and in 1862 he went to the front as a private in Company D of the Fifty-Second Ohio regiment of infantry. After a brief experience in the Army of the Potomac, the regiment was sent west to join in the great campaigns then being inaugurated in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. He fought at the battles of Perryville, at Stone River, at Chattanooga and Chickamauga, participated in the tedious hard-fought advance up to Atlanta, and altogether saw three years of active fighting and campaigning. Since the war he has enjoined his associations with old army comrades, and has membership in the McGinnis Post of the Grand Army at Roanoke. Mr. Markley is a pensioner, and receives thirty dollars each month as a slight token of the regard in which our government holds its defenders. After receiving his honorable discharge Mr. Markley returned to Ohio, and in that state on October 18, 1866, married Rachel Simmers, who was born and reared in Ohio.

In 1883 Mr. Markley brought his family to the farm where he now lives in Jackson township. He has been prosperous in his undertakings, and can now enjoy the fruits of a long and well spent life. Mr. Markley has membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, affiliates with Little River Lodge No. 275 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Encampment at Huntington, and in politics he is a democrat.

Mrs. Markley died in August, 1907. The only son and child is Daniel W. Markley, who was born April 5, 1867. He attended school in Ohio until he was sixteen years of age, and finished in Jackson township, where he now lives. On February 3, 1898, Daniel W. Markley married Ida B. Scott, who was born in Wells county, Indiana, July 10, 1873, and grew up and received her training in that county. To their marriage have been born two children, David R., born November 14, 1904; and Mary J., born November 5, 1910.

Jonn A. RinpcHen. A resident of Huntington county for more than thirty years, Mr. Rindchen represents the substantial German element in the citizenship, is a man whose native intelligence and diligence have brought him a generous prosperity as a farmer, and who has in many different ways received tokens of esteem on the part of his neigh-

HISTORY OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY 623 bors and fellow citizens. At the present time he is serving as a member of the county council of Huntington county.

John A. Rindchen was born in Starke county, Ohio, June 19, 1869, a son of Adam and Catherine (Zellers) Rindchen. His father, born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1844, when about two and a half years of age, in 1846, was brought by his parents to the United States, and their settlement was made in Starke county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and married Catherine Zellers. Starke county was her native place, and she grew up in that locality. Her death occurred in Starke county, December 14, 1875, and she was the mother of four children, three daughters and one son John A. The daughters are Julia, wife of Lewis Dillinger, of Jackson township; Cora, wife of Clarence Schlott, of Starke county ; and Katie, unmarried. In 1879 the father married for his second wife Julia Judd. In the year following their marriage they left Stark county and settled in Huntington county on the old farm in Jackson township, where all his subsequent life was passed. He died in Roanoke, February 2, 1913. His second wife died September 10, 1905, and he later married Mary Olmstead, who survived him. Adam Rindchen was a Democrat in politics, and a man specially well known among his fellow countrymen.

John A. Rindchen was eleven years old when he came to Huntington county, grew up at the old homestead in Jackson township, and continued in the local schools the education which had been begun in Ohio. While his advantages were only those possessed in common by most of the boys with whom he grew up, Mr. Rindchen has made the best use of his opportunities, is a man of intelligence and wide observation, and has been able to take a useful partin life in all the responsibilities to which he has been called. After his school days were ended he lived at home, and assisted in the management of the home acres until his marriage.

That event was celebrated January 18, 1894, when Miss Wilhelmina Vollmar became his wife. She is a daughter of Peter and Wilhelmina (Ellow) Vollmar, and was born in Dallas township of this county and reared there and in Jackson township. Mr. and Mrs. Rindchen have three sons: Walter G., born September 10, 1894, graduated from the common schools and is now a student in the Roanoke high school; Melvin, born November 13, 1896, is a graduate of the common schools, and is also in high school; Carl, born January 22, 1899, is now in the eighth grade.

Mr. Rindchen has been an independent farmer now for about twenty years. His neighbors speak of him as one of the most hard working citizens of the community, a man who tends his fields not only with diligence but also with care and regularity, and it is therefore not difficult to understand his present prosperity. He is the owner of a fine place of one hundred and two acres in Reserve Number fifty-two, about three miles southeast of Roanoke. The business carried on at this farm may be briefly described as general farming and stock raising and each year enough stock and other crops go to market to pay a good return on the investment and labor, leaving a surplus for the bank account, and at the same time keeping up the improvements and the fertility of the farm. Mr. Rindchen and family worship in the Methodist Episcopal church at Roanoke, and he has a prominent part in the society being one of the trustees, treasurer, and assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. Fraternally he and his wife belong to the Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees. As to politics, he supports the Democratic cause, and in 1913 the county board of commissioners appointed him a member of the county council.

J. LUTHER ZIRKLE. In Jackson township, the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, comprising the full one hundred and sixty acres, 1s the site of one of the best stock farms in eastern Indiana. Mr. Zirkle is proprietor, while not an old resident of Huntington county is an old hand at farming and stock raising, and has few equals in Huntington county. His special line of industry is the raising and breeding of pure strains of Jersey cattle and Duroc hogs. He also buys stock by the carload and sees them shipped to the market every year, a large number of both cattle and hogs. A fair valuation of his farming estate would be close to twenty-five thousand dollars, and that figure indicates the excellence of its improvements, and the high standards of agricultural enterprise as conducted under the Zirkle management.

J. Luther Zirkle was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, September 6, 1861. A farm was his birthplace, and he comes of substantial German stock, his grandfather Ludwig Zirkle was a native of Germany and emigrated to the United States and located in Virginia early in the nineteenth century. The father of the Jackson township stock raiser was born in Virginia, and lived and died on Smith Creek in that state. On his mother's side, Mrs. Zirkle is descended from the Funkhousers, who came from Switzerland, the family being founded in the United States by two brothers, John and Christopher Funkhouser, who located in 1700 in New Amsterdam (now New York). Mrs. Zirkle's mother was Lydia Tussing, the youngest daughter of Daniel and Dorothy Tussing, and by her marriage to Lewis Zirkle, had two children Luther and Maggie.

J. Luther Zirkle grew up on a Virginia farm, and beginning about his sixth year was allowed to attend the district schools three or four months every year. The other months were set aside for his practical training in farm duties, and the development of his character and muscles by contact with the natural work of a Virginia homestead. He remained at home, and assisted in farm duties until he was twenty-six years of age. On December 22, 1886, he married Miss Clara V. Theis, who was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, February 3, 1864, and was educated in the Virginia common schools. Her parents were Christian and Ellen Grimm Theis, her father a native of Germany, and her mother born in Shenandoah county, Virginia. After their marriage Mr. 'and Mrs. Zirkle lived in Virginia, and rented his father's farm a short while, then bought one hundred and seventy-six acres from his father, and lived on that farm for twelve years. In the meantime a considerable degree of prosperity had blessed their efforts' and Mr. Zirkle finally decided to leave the east. Selling out his Virginia holdings, he moved out to Oklahoma. territory, and bought three hundred and twenty acres in Canadian county. Two years in Oklahoma were not without a material Increase to his fortune, but satisfied him with western experience, and on leaving Oklahoma he came to Indiana. His first purchase here was one hundred and sixty acres in Tippecanoe county, where he lived for five years. From there he came to Huntington county, and bought the quarter section in Jackson township, which has since been the scene of Zirkle farm and stock raising enterprise.

Mr. and Mrs. Zirkle have become the parents of four children. Paul graduated from the Huntington high school in 1907, and now lives in Chillicothe, Ohio; Samuel married Maggie Greer, and is a farmer of Allen county, Indiana; Ellen is a graduate of the Huntington high school, and received training for her profession as a graduate nurse in the Hope Hospital at Fort Wayne; Viola is a graduate of the Roanoke high school, and is now a teacher. The family are members of the Lutheran church, and-Mr. Zirkle is one of the elders in the St. John's church in Union township of Wells county. Since getting the right of preference by reaching 'years of manhood he has voted consistently in support of the _ democratic party, and while a resident of Virginia, served as justice of the peace.

Lewis M. Sovurrs. When Lewis M. Souers was one year old his parents came to Huntington county and settled on a farm here, so that he has spent practically all his life in this section of the state. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on September 17, 1837, barely missing Indiana nativity, but the long residence he has maintained on Indiana soil makes him essentially a native son, though he may not claim that right by reason of his birth. He has all his life been identified with farming activities, and has added something of value to the development of the county, bringing to a fine state of cultivation his own property, one of the best farms in the county, encouraging progress in the lives of his neighbors, and rearing a fine family that has added, in turn, to the best interests of the community.

Mr. Souers is a son of Reason and Hannah (Merriman) Souers, Ohio people by birth and parentage, and they came to this state and county in 1838, locating in Rock Creek township, in Section 32, and here they lived for many a good year. The father died in Lancaster township. To him and his wife were born five children, - Lewis M. of this review being the eldest. Levi Souers, next in order of. birth, is now deceased ; Henry M. served in the Forty-seventh Indiana Regiment during the Civil war, as color bearer of his company, and he passed through from the beginning of the conflict to the end, and is now living, a resident of Maryville, Missouri. Anna M. is the widow of Uriah Herran, of Union township; and Eleanore M. died at the age of eleven years.

and he received a fairly good common school training in that way. He was a studious boy and made the best of such opportunities for education as came his way, and that spirit of self-improvement has been manifested in his entire life. His father was prosperous, and when the boy was twenty-one, he gave him an eighty-acre farm on which to start life independently, and to this he in later years, through his own industry and good management, was able to: add another eighty, so that he has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in the southeast quarter of Section 29, Rock Creek township. Here he has spent his active life in farming and he has enjoyed more than the average measure of success. He has been an industrious and progressive farmer, and in many ways an advanced one, so that His prosperity is well merited, and has been a worthy example to his fellow citizens. His farm, which lies some five miles north of Warren and four miles south of Burrows Corners, is located on the Burrows Corners Road, and «is very conveniently situated in the matter of its location.

It will be seen that Mr. Souers has lived in Rock Creek township since 1838, a period of a little more than seventy-five years, and there is not a man in the township today who has so fine a record for agricultural accomplishment as has he. He bought his second eighty in 1881, and has been busy with his place year'in and out from the beginning of his active farming up to the present time. He has a record among his neighbors as the producer of bumper corn crops, and has on many occasions demonstrated his ability to take from his soil more than a hundred bushels of corn to the acre.

Mr. Souers is a stanch democrat, active for a good many years in the interests of the party, and he has been prominent in local politics for a long period of years. He has served in numerous township offices, among them trustee of Rock Creek township, and assessor of the township.

Mr. Souers married Evaline Johnson and she died in 1898, leaving six children, four of whom*are living at this writing. William B. is a resident of South Dakota; Jefferson M. lives in Oklahoma; Thomas R. is located in Warren, Indiana; and Anna L. is the wife of Clarence E. Hart, the daughter and her husband living with Mr. Souers and caring for him in his advanced years. He is a member of the Baptist church, long active in the work of that organization in his community, and he reared his family in the same faith. He has long been, and still is, one of the solid, steadfast citizens of the town, and no man in the community has a better standing with the people than he, or a wider circle of stanch friends. His life has been a worthy one, and a creditable example to the generations that have come up in his midst during the seventy-five years of his continuous residence in the township, and the value of such a career will not be gainsaid.

and center of residence has been chiefly in Ja¢kson township. It is in Jackson township that John E. Settlemyre, a representative of a younger generation, now lives, as one of the leading farmers and stock raisers.

Mr. Settlemyre occupies a portion of the old homestead on which he was born February 2, 1876. He is a son of John M. Settlemyre, the mother's maiden name having been Margaret Arick. Both those names are well known in this section of Indiana. The father was born in Warren county, Ohio, and the mother in Wayne county of the same state. He was brought when a child to Huntington county, the Settlemyre family having arrived in 1860, and the Aricks in 1859. The father and mother grew up in Jackson township, were married, and continued to live here until their companionship was broken by the death of John M. Settlemyre, on January 29, 1911. His widow is still living in Jackson township. There are only two living children, one of whom is James W. Settlemyre of Huntington.

John E. Settlemyre was reared on the old homestead, attended the district schools, and his education was partly the result of book training and partly from practical experience as a farm boy. At the age of nineteen he took up farming as a practical career, and a year or so later established a home of his own. On April 17, 1897, he was united in marriage with Miss Effie Lawrence. Her parents were John J. and Mary (Shank) Lawrence. Mrs. Settlemyre grew up in Allen county, Indiana, where she got her education in the common and high schools. Mr. and Mrs. Settlemyre are the parents of eight children, mentioned as follows: Agatha, a student in high school; Bayless, a student in the Roanoke high school; and the younger children are Russell, Ervin, Everett, Pearl, Mina, and Mary.

Mr. Settlemyre affiliates with the Knights of the Maccabees, and the L. O. O. N. at Huntington. In local affairs, he has taken quite an active part, and as a party man affiliates with the Republican interests. His farm comprises two hundred and eighteen acres, a portion of Reserve No. 42 and 52. The homestead has many improvements which class it with the best farms of Huntington county, and its situation is two and a half miles south of Roanoke, and nine miles northeast of the county seat of Huntington. Mr. Settlemyre does a good deal of stock breeding and is one of the most successful stockmen in his neighborhood. He buys his feeders by the carload, brings them out to his farm, feeds the grain and other produce of his land, and every year sends away to market several carloads of cattle and hogs.

Joun M. Krieg. Born on the farm adjoining his present home, on May 13, 1862, John M. Kreig has spent his life in the community which he now claims as home. He is a son of George L. and May A. (Wilhelm) Krieg, and it should be said that the father was born in Germany and came to the United States when he was about twenty years old. His wife was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but they were married in Lancaster township, Huntington county, Indiana, and this place continued to be their abiding place to the end of their lives.

To George and May Krieg ten children were born, eight of whom are now living. John M., whdse name introduces this brief review, was born third in line, and he was reared on the home place, attending the Lancaster schools and thus gaining a slender Knowledge of the three R's in his boyhood. He went to school three months in the winter until he reached his early teens, and all his summers were spent at work on the farm. He continued there as his father's assistant until he was twentyone, when he launched out into independent farming. He had no capital, but he rented the place adjoining his father's, and there he applied diligently the principles he had learned and practiced while with his father. The result was a fair measure of prosperity, and in time he was able to buy the place, operating it nine years as a renter, before he felt himself able to buy it. The farm is one of one hundred and sixty acres and is situated about six miles south of Huntington, in Section twentythree. It is a well kept and productive place, reflecting wholesome credit upon its owner.

Mr. Krieg married Mary Batson on February 14, 1884. She was born and reared in Lancaster township, and like her husband, had her education in the common schools of the district. Two children have been born to them. Clyde C., the eldest, a graduate of the Majenica high school, died at the age of nineteen years, and Mamie is the wife of Harmon Hoover. She and her husband make their home with Mr. Hoover's parents. All the family have membership in the Majenica Christian church, and Mr. Krieg is treasurer of the church, and otherwise active in its work.

Mr. Krieg is a Democrat in his politics, and though he has never taken active part in the public life of the community, his influence has been a healthy one, and has stood for progress and development. His progressive ideas have made themselves evident first of all in his home and in the management of his private affairs, and his farm shows some of the finest buildings in the township. As a general farmer and stockman he is regarded as one of the most capable and prosperous men of the community, and rightly so.

DauuAs Worster. In Majenica, Huntington county, Indiana, Dallas Worster is prominent as the manufacturer of drain tile, brick and building block, and here he has carried on his manufacturing activities since 1908, when he bought a half interest in the plant and became a member of the firm of Klepser & Worster. For three years the business continued under that firm style, when J. T. Ellis purchased a half interest, and the business was then operated under the name of Worster & Ellis. In 1913 another change was made in the management, when Joseph T. Mills purchased the interest of Mr. Ellis, and Worster & Mills are now in control of the plant. The product of the plant is one that finds a ready market in Huntington county, and Worster & Mills run it at its ` capacity the year around.

Worster, who were among the early settlers of Blackford county. Dallas Worster was reared on a farm in Blackford county and he had his education in the district schools of his native community, spending the winter months in study and the remainder of the year on the home farm. With the death of his father he rented the farm and for a few seasons operated it, but in 1908 was induced to venture in his present enterprise, which has proved a pleasing success. In 1900 Mr. Worster married Nora Tom, a native of this vicinity. : Mr. and Mrs. Worster are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Majenica, and politically, Mr. Worster is a Republican though he has never been one to assume an active part in the politics of the community. He is a quiet man, intent upon his business activities, and by reason of his sterling attributes of character, has the confidence and high regard of the entire community.

ANDREW EMANUEL HEINEY. One of the well known and progressive farming men of Lancaster township is Andrew Emanuel Heiney, proprietor of Locust Grove farm, and a trustee of Lancaster township. Mr. Heiney has long been a resident of Lancaster township, - all his life thus far, in fact, and his acquaintance in the town and throughout the county is a wide one. He was born in the vicinity of his present residence on December 27, 1862, and is a son of Abraham and Catherine E. (Klepser) Heiney, the father being a son of Jacob Heiney, of Wayne county, Indiana.

Abraham Heiney came to Huntington county in early life and settled in Lancaster township, there spending the remainder of his hfe. He was a quiet man, always busy attending to his own affairs, and a citizen whose influence was of the best in his community. He was long a member of the United Brethren church. To him and his wife were born ten children, eight of whom are now living. They are as follows: Jacob W., of Dallas township, this county; Hannah M., the wife of Levi Powell, of Kansas; Andrew E., of this review; George N., of Missouri; Sarah, who married Roscoe Boyd, of Grant county; Samuel L., also a resident of Grant county; Elizabeth, wife of William A. Stephens, of Lancaster township; Susan J., wife of C. Richardson, of Grant county.

Andrew A. Heiney was reared in the neighborhood of his present residence, and had his education in the district schools, attending in the winter months and in the open season spending his time at home on the farm. He lived at home until he was twenty-six years old, working by the month for his father after he had reached his majority, so that when he married Sarah D. Rittenhouse on May 11, 1889, he had a small cash capital at his command. She was born in Rock Creek township, in Huntington county, on June 11, 1868, and is a daughter of Anderson and Mary (Ludwick) Rittenhouse. She had a similar upbringing to that of her husband, and she is the mother of three children. Edna G., born November 8, 1889, a graduate of the common schools, and the wife of Raymond Yates, of Lancaster township ; Orville E., born September 15, 1891, and May E., born in February, 1898, and now a high school

Mr. Heiney is a Democrat in his politics, and in 1908 was elected a trustee of Lancaster township, in which office he is yet serving. He is known for a capable and progressive farmer, and his fine place, lying in sections 28, 29 and 33 and consisting of two hundred and thirty-six acres, about ten miles south of Huntington, is one of the most productive and well conducted places in the township. A comfortable dwelling and appropriate and necessary barns are in evidence on the place, and the proprietor of the Locust Grove farm may be pardoned for a degree of pride in his agricultural achievements.

Joan F. Erus. John F. Ellis, by reason of his accomplishments in the agricultural industry in Lancaster township, takes his rightful place among the foremost men of the community. He is a native of Wayne township, Huntington county, born June 4, 1867, and he is a son of C. ©. Ellis and his wife, Mary E. (McGovney) Ellis. The father was born in Brown county, Ohio, and accompanied his parents, to Adams county, Ohio, when he was a lad of six years. There he grew up and obtained such meagre education as was his portion in life. He married on December 2, 1866, and located in Wayne township, Huntington county, where he lived for a year, and then purchased a drug store in Mount Eaton. He came to Lancaster township and settled on a farm, here continuing in residence until the late years of his life, when he moved to Majenica. He died there on February 18, 1910, and his widow survives him, making her home with her son, Frank.

C. C. Ellis reached a state of financial independence, chiefly through his activities in the drug business, before he turned his attention to farming. To him and his wife were born six children, five of whom are now living. They are as follows: Isabelle C., the wife of Joseph Kitch, of Huntington, Indiana; William I., a farmer on the home place; John F., of this review; Ella M.; George D., of Rock Creek; Jessie O., of Huntington.

John F. Ellis was educated in the district schools and brought up on the Lancaster township farm, of which his brother is now the occupant. He was twenty-one years old when he left home, and set out for himself independently, and after a few years, or in 1893, on the 7th day of September, he married Anna E. Schultz. She was a daughter of John Schultz, and like her husband, was reared to farm life and had a country school training. One daughter has been born to them, - Bertha B., born February 18, 1898.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is one of the stewards of the church. His fraternal affiliations are with the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Ellis is everywhere regarded as a man of sound judgment, and he is known to be an upright, honorable and wide-minded citizen. He is reckoned among the foremost farming men of Huntington county, and his farm of one hundred and sixty acres on the Huntington-Warren Road is finely situated about five miles northwest of Warren and eight miles distant from the town of Huntington.

Joun P. Smurt. The entire life of John P. Shutt thus far has been spent on the farm where he now lives, so that his life is an open book to the people of Lancaster township, where he has a wide circle of good friends among a wider circle of lifelong acquaintances. Mr. Shutt is a son of David and Susan (Marks) Shutt, and concerning the parentage and ancestry of the subject, it would be well to begin with the activities of John Shutt, grandsire of the subject, who came to Lancaster township, Huntington county, from the vicinity of Canal Dover, Ohio, in 1840, bringing his family here in 1849, so that the family has been established in this vicinity in the neighborhood of seventy years.

John Shutt located in Section 33, Lancaster township, and here continued a resident until his death. David Shutt, his son and the father of John P. Shutt, whose name introduces this sketch, was ten years of age when the family came to Indiana, and the bulk of his education, not any too extensive at the best, was gained in the district schools of Lancaster township, where he later reared and educated his own children. He had his practical training on the farm of his father, and in young manhood he married and settled down quietly in the community where he had been reared. He built a wooden sawmill in Laneaster and for several years operated it with fair success. Later he became a contracting carpenter and he was well known in this section for his work along that line. He married Susan Marks and to them were born twelve children, nine of this goodly family being now alive. They are named as follows: John P., of this review; Lewis A.; William T.; Mary, the wife of Joseph Denton; Joseph, a merchant of Lancaster ; Hattie, the wife of Orville Giltner; Emma, who married Samuel Heiney; Elizabeth, the wife of Nathan Hardman; and Fred Shutt, a resident of this place. All were educated in the common schools of Lancaster.

John P. Shutt was born October 25, 1861, and was reared in Lancaster township, attending the same schools that had furnished the educational training of his father before him, though he was favored further in an educational way in that he was able to attend the State Normal School at Valparaiso for a time. He began teaching school when he had concluded his studies and for some years continued in that profession, being for a time principal of the State Street School of Huntington.

In May, 1888, Mr. Shutt married Miss Kate Chamness, who was born in Wabash county, but had her upbringing for the most part in Huntington county. The young couple began housekeeping in Huntington, where Mr. Shutt was then engaged in his pedagogic work, and they lived there for two years. He gave up teaching and purchased a farm in Jefferson township, but in 1908 he sold the place, and bought 140 acres of the old home farm where he has since made his home and carried on active farming activities.

Mr. Shutt is undoubtedly one of the foremost men of his township, and one who has taken an active part in the public life of the community. A public spirited man, his citizenship has been of a high order, and has stood out beyond that of the average man. He has been a Republican always, though never one to inject partisan ideas into local politics, so that his influence has always been of an upward trend, void of personalities and selfish ends and aims. He served four years as a trustee of Jefferson township while a resident there, and during that time was instrumental in securing the building of the present graded school of that township at Pleasant Plain. Being a teacher, he knew the needs of _ the community, and as a man of sound business judgment, his administration as a township officer was above the average, reflecting much credit upon him and the community.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shutt are seven in number, and are here mentioned briefly as follows: Jessie, a graduate of the common schools; Winifred, a teacher in the Lancaster High School, of which she is a graduate, also of the State Normal; Hermia, who attended the State Normal, is the wife of Charles E. Paul; Mildred is now a high school student; Mary is attending the common schools; and the two youngest are David, born in 1903, and Agnes, in 1910.

DANIL L. SHIDELER. A native son of the township in which he now resides, Daniel L. Shideler was born here on January 12, 1856, and has passed his entire life within the confines of Huntington county. He is a son of Jonas and Fannie (Berg) Shideler, the father born in Ohio in 1816 and the mother a woman of Pennsylvania birth, of the year 1821. They were married in Wayne county, Indiana, and came to this county in the same year, settling in Lancaster township, and here they passed the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom. six survive at this writing. They are as follows: Benjamin Shideler, of Montana; A. B. Shideler, of Lancaster; Mary A., the wife of J. B. Harris; Catherine, the wife of J. P. Wire; Daniel L. Shideler, of this review, and Simon A., of Lancaster. The parents were lifelong members of the Church of the Brethren, and were among the stable and reliable citizens of their community. They lived worthily and reared their family in accordance with those precepts of life which they in their turn had absorbed, so that they gave to the county and state citizens who are exerting a beneficent influence in the communities wherein they are found.

Daniel L. Shideler was reared in Lancaster village and attended the common schools of that community. He was employed for three years in the local drug store of D. B. Hoover & Company, at Huntington, and then he turned his attention to farm life, in which he has since continued with a generous measure of success and prosperity. He is the owner of one hundred and eight acres, and two acres in the village of Lancaster. On the farm is a gravel pit that has supplied the gravel roads in this part of the county for years. Mr. Shideler is a stockholder in the Majenica Telephone Company, and is otherwise materially interested in those public enterprises that have added so much to the communal well being of the township.

On January 1, 1882, Mr. Shideler married Emma Heaston, the daughter of John and Angeline (Wire) Heaston, and to them were born three children, two of whom are now living. Grace is the wife of Harry L.

Pence; Faith, a graduate of the Lancaster high school, became the wife of John Barton, and is now deceased; and Eber T., a graduate of the local high school, married Lela Hoover.

The family are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church, and Mr. Shideler is a class leader in the church. Politically he is a prohibitionist, and has had a praiseworthy part in the political activities of the township. He and his family possess many of the solid traits that make for admirable citizenship, and they are well established in the town and county that has so long been the center of their activities.

GarL R. Rupicen, Lancaster has in the person of Garl R. Rudicel an auctioneer and merchant who has been established here in business since 1911, and who has a splendid business standing in the town and in adjoining communities, despite the fact of his brief period of business activity. Mr. Rudicel is a progressive and aggressive young man of business, and it is predicted freely that he will go a long way on the road to success and prosperity. He already owns a nice stock and building in Lancaster, drawing a generous trade from the surrounding communities, and he carries on his auctioneering trade in conjunction with his merchandising. Mr. Rudicel was graduated from the Jones' School of Auctioneering in Chicago in 1911, so that he is well qualified to conduct a public auction in the most satisfactory manner.

Garl R. Rudicel was born in Polk township, Huntington county, Indiana, on May 23, 1886, and he is a son of Solomon and Ella (Bailey) Rudicel, farming people of that community. Mr. Rudicel was educated in the schools of his native community, finishing at the Lancaster Center high school in 1907, and soon thereafter engaging in the mercantile business in Lancaster township, to which enterprise, in 1911, he added his talents as an auctioneer. His success has been a pleasing one thus far, and promises an independent future. He is young and energetic and possesses commendable business enterprise and tact, so that his business venture promises much as to future growth and prosperity. He owns the store building he occupies, with its entire equipment, including fixtures, and is well worthy the title of ''hustler'' that is frequently heard applied to him.

On December 25, 1909, Mr. Rudicel was married to Miss Inez Schultz, a young woman who was born in Lancaster township and is a graduate of the Lancaster Center high school. She was a successful teacher in the Laneaster high school, having finished a course in the Marion Normal in preparation for her teaching work. Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rudicel, - Rexford, aged seventeen months and Max, who at this writing is eight weeks old.

Mrs. Rudicel is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but Mr. Rudicel has no church membership. He is a Republican and manifests the interest of a good citizen in the politics of the community. He enjoys an excellent reputation and standing in the community with which he has been identified practically all his life, and has a wide circle of friends throughout the county.

SAMUEL PAuL. The entire business career of Samuel Paul has been passed in Lancaster townsltip, where he is accounted a reliable and substantial citizen and a farmer who is thoroughly conversant with agricultural conditions. His life story contains no thrilling chapters, but his long and faithful devotion to the highest rules of honest living, his earnest endeavor and constant industry, and his high standing in the community all combine to make his record one worthy of preserving in a history of the representative men of his community. Mr. Paul was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1849, and is a son of Henry and Nancy (Snowberger) Paul. Both were born and reared in Pennsylvania, and after their marriage moved to Indiana in 1850, locating on a tract of 160 acres, located on the southwest one-quarter of section 11, in Lancaster township, Huntington county. For this tract, which was all located in the heavy timber, the father paid $500. Here he erected a cabin of logs, 18x20. feet, in which were reared all of his children, this continuing to be the family home for many years. He was an earnest and industrious workman, attempted faithfully to bring his children up to lead honest and useful lives, and himself rounded out a life of usefulness and helpfulness to his community. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, of whom eight are surviving at this time: Samuel, of this review; David, who is a resident of Lancaster township ; Sarah, who is the wife of Jacob Shideler; Mary, the wife of Joseph Heaston, of Lancaster township; Susanna, the wife of John Adams, of Jefferson township; D. W., a minister of the Church of the Brethren, who has filled various charges in Huntington county; George W., an agriculturist of Rock Creek township ; and Andrew, the owner of a farm in Lancaster township.

Samuel Paul was reared on the old home farm and received his education in the district schools, which he attended in the winter months while assisting his father during the summer seasons. He thus continued until reaching the age of twenty-one years, when, tiring of the duties of the farm, he learned the plasterer's trade, and continued to follow that business for some thirteen years. At the end of that time, however, he returned to the tilling of the soil, which has continued to be his occupation to the present time. Mr. Paul has been successful because of his enterprise, industry and progressive spirit, and for thirty years he has been known as one of his community's most substantial citizens. During this time he has witnessed its development into one of the richest farming communities in the state and has been a potent factor in advancing its interests. Honorable and upright in all his dealings, he has fairly won and retained the respect of his neighbors and associates, and few men are held higher in general public esteem.

Mr. Paul was married in January, 1872, to Miss Mahala Heaston, who was born in 1849, in Lancaster township, daughter of David Heaston, an early settler of Huntington county. Five children have been born to this union: Prof. David H., a graduate of the state normal school and now principal of the Williams Street school, at Huntington; Charles, a graduate of the public schools and now engaged successfully in farm- ing; Emma, who has been given a good education and is now the wife of Pearl Ulrich of Mount Etna, Indiana; Elnora, who has also received good educational advantages and is single and resides with her parents; and J. B., a graduate of Valparaiso University and of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, that state, a bright and progressive young agriculturist who is assisting his father in cultivating the home fields. Mr. Paul and his family are members of the Loon Creek Baptist church. In political matters he is a republican and has been fairly active in public affairs, although not as an office seeker.

ANDERSON Porrs. While not a native of Huntington county, Anderson Potts has resided here since his second year, and the entire period of his business activity has been passed within its borders. At this time he is engaged in agricultural pursuits on a handsome farm of eighty acres, and his operations are being carried on in such an able and welldirected manner as to make him be accounted one of Lancaster township's representative men. Mr. Potts is a native of Henry county, Indiana, and was born June 28, 1856, a son of Jacob and Christina (Hoover) Potts.

Jacob Potts was born in Washington township, Washington county, Maryland, moved to Pennsylvania in young manhood, and in the latter state was married, the mother having been born there. From Pennsylvania they came to Henry county, Indiana, and there made their residence until the year 1858, when they came to Lancaster township, Huntington county. Later Mr. Potts took his family to Noble county, but in 1863 returned to Huntington county and in that same year enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Potts met a soldier's death on a southern battlefield and was laid to rest in the National Cemetery. He was the father of three children, of whom Anderson is the only survivor.

Anderson Potts was two years of age when first brought to Huntington county. He secured his educational training in the public schools, but as he was still a lad when his father met his death, his schooling was cut short in order that he might go to work to aid in the family support. However, he was studious and intelligent, made the most of such opportunities as were granted him, and subsequent study, reading and observation in after life have made him a thoroughly informed man. He was twenty years of age at the time of his marriage, following which event he began agricultural operations on his own account. He has since made a success of his general farming, and is now the owner of a well-developed tract of eighty acres of valuable land located about five miles south of Huntington, on the Salamonie turnpike. He is also well known as a breeder of Belgian horses, and in this connection as in others has been prosperous. His business interests have ever been managed with such discretion, sagacity and sound judgment, have ever been prosecuted with such energy and diligence and characterized by such honesty that he has acquired a handsome competence and gained the respect and confidence of all with whom he has been brought into contact.

On December 21, 1876, Mr. Potts was married to Miss Charlotte A. Fisher, who was born in Lancaster township, and to this union there have been born six children: Jesse L.; Aurelius R.; Ira B.; Christy, the wife of Ozro Shideler, and lives in Canada; one who died in infancy ; and Eva May, at home and unmarried. Mr. and Mrs. Potts are members of the Church of the Brethren at Loon Creek, and Mr. Potts is a member of the board of trustees. In politics a republican, he has served one term as assessor, a period of five years, and in his official capacity showed himself capable, conscientious and progressive. His career from early manhood has been one of constant advancement, ahd the success which has attended his efforts may be traced directly to his own unaided and well-directed efforts. `

Davin BURKET, long a resident of Huntington county and of Lancaster township, has identified himself with farming and carpentering, realizing a generous degree of success in both enterprises, and, in addition to those vocations, has found time to mix somewhat in the political life of the town and county. He has served as county commissioner of the county, giving an excellent account of himself in that capacity, and, as a soldier in the Union army, he also acquitted himself creditably as a member of the Twenty-third Indiana Battery.

Mr. Burket was born in Section 34 of Lancester township, on July 15, 1841, and is a son of Joel and Susanna (Wisler) Burket, both of whom came to this state in 1834, locating straightway on Section 34. They were pioneer settlers of Huntington county, and shared fully in the deprivations and many hardships that marked the lives of those who settled in the wilderness and took their chances with the untamed Indian and the wild beasts that infested the forests in those early days. They were sturdy and admirable citizens, and when their community so far progressed as to afford them neighbors, they proved themselves well worthy of the name of friend, - a trait that was an especially admirable one in those primitive times, if friendship can ever be more a thing to be prized at one time than at another.

Joel Burket and his wife lived quiet and plain country lives, devoting themselves diligently to the business of making their farm home a habitable place and a productive one, and they realized much of their ambition in their life times, for when they died in the late nineties, after more than sixty years of continued residence on their Section 34 farm, it had reached a delightful state of cultivation and was one of the valuable and fertile sources of agricultural profit in the township. The father was past eighty-two years of age, when he died on April 2, 1898, and the mother lived to the venerable age of ninety-two, having passed her ninety-second milestone some time before she died. She was born on November 4, 1818, and died on January 26, 1910. Both were members of the Church of the Brethern at Lancaster, she being a charter member, and they were devoted to the work of the church, and held in the highest esteem by all who knew them. They were the parents of five children. Anna E. is the widow of John F. Schultz; Eli Burket is a resident of Lancaster township ; David is the subject of fhis brief review ; Joseph A. is a carpenter, now residing in Clarendon, Texas; and Eliza J. is the wife of Henry P. Schultz.

David Burket was reared on the home farm in Section 34, this township, and attended the district school at such times as he could be conveniently spared from the work of the farm. He was twenty-one years old when he volunteered for service in the Twenty-third Indiana Battery on October 24, 1862, or it would be more accurately stated to say that he was mustered into the service on that day, and mustered out on July 2, 1865, when the war was over. He was promoted to the rank of corporal and served through much of the war as such. Numerous engagements were participated in by his company, among them being Buzzard's Roost, on May 8 and 9, 1864; Resaca, Georgia, on May 14 and 15, 1864; Dallas and Altoona, Georgia, on June 1 to 14, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 20 to 25, 1864; News Creek, Georgia, June 27, 1864; Siege of Atlanta, in August, 1864; Columbia, Tennessee, November 28 and 29, 1864; Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864; Marshall, Tennessee, in December, 1864. Through all his service, he was not once wounded, and when the war was over and he was mustered out, he returned to his home and gave his attention to farming. He continued so for a time and then began to learn the trade of carpenter, and when he had completed it he began to work by the day for people in the surrounding communities. He was successful in his carpentry work, and mingled that enterprise with his farming activities through all these years of activity. He is now living retired.

As has previously been intimated, Mr. Burket has figured prominently in local and county politics as a Republican for a good many years. He has served as assessor of the township on several occasions, and has also served as a member of the County Board of Commissioners, to which he was elected in 1880 and was a member of the board for three consecutive years. In 1890 he was elected to the office of county assessor of Huntington county, and in that office he served for six years. He has been a member of Central Committee of the Republican party and has served as a delegate to several state conventions. In all these offices and posts he has acquitted himself most creditably, and has manifested a healthy and good citizen-like interest in the affairs of the party.

On March 24, 1867, Mr. Burket was married to Mary A. Ulrich, a daughter of Samuel and Julia A. (Davis) Ulrich. She was born in Wayne county, Indiana, on June 13, 1848, and at the age of nine months came with her parents to Huntington county, where the family has since resided. Of the five children born to them, four are now living. Nancy C. became the wife of Jacob Boehmer and is now deceased; Ada married R. F. Andrews of Lancaster township ; Samantha J. is the wife of Daniel Wintrode, of Wabash county, Indiana; Jesse A. married Laura Kaufman of Huntington, Indiana; and Levi is a resident of Lancaster township.

The family are members of the Church of the Brethern, and Mr. Burket is a deacon in the church and a member of its Board of Trustees. He has long been an enthusiastic worker in the Sunday school and he was chairman of the Lancaster township Sunday school for three terms, having done much te stimulate interest in the work of the branch of the church, and to extend the scope of the helpfulness of the Sunday school, both locally and throughout the county. He helped to organize the first school that had its existence in Lancaster township, and has done much to keep alive the flame of enthusiasm in the organization.

A man of few words, but of the most mature and sound judgment, he is much sought by his many friends and acquaintances in the town and county, where he is widely known as one of the honorable and estimable citizens of the community. f

JosEPH FouLKE. The Foulke family was established in Warren township of Huntington county, more than sixty years ago. The representatives have been chiefly identified with farming, and their names are synonymous with good citizenship and personal integrity. Joseph Foulke was a child when brought to this county, and has long been one of the successful and substantial farmers. He is the owner of two hundred and thirty-three acres, situated in sections thirty-three and thirtyfour in Warren township, and the activities which have brought him the most money have been his crops of grain and his hogs.

Joseph Foulke was born in Wayne county, Indiana, near Richmond, on October 16, 1849, a son of Samuel and Asénnath (Foulke) Foulke. The father was born in Warren county, Ohio, and the mother in Berks county, Pennsylvania. They came to Indiana, locating in Wayne county, where they were married, and in March, 1851, moved to Huntington county, and settled on a farm two miles south, and a half a mile west of the town of Bippus in section thirty-three, of township twenty-nine north, range eight east. It was on that farm that the parents spent the rest of their days, engaged in the quiet pursuits of agriculture, and were always known and respected as people of great industry and honor. The first home they had in Warren township was a log cabin, and that was subsequently replaced by a frame dwelling house that is still standing, having been erected in 1869. There were four children and two died in infancy. Besides Joseph, the only other representative of the family now living is Charles Foulke of Kansas.

Joseph Foulke was sixteen months old when the family came to Huntington county. He grew up here on a farm, and alternated between the public schools and the home place in his activities until he was twentyone years old. He then went west to Kansas, lived there from 1871 to 1873, and returned to Indiana, where he has ever since been well content to pursue his vocation.

In January, 1875, his father died, and in the settlement of the estate he bought the old place, and has since increased its acreage and has made one of the finest farms in the township.

On May 17, 1876, Mr. Foulke married Leah Holloway, who was born in Wabash county, Indiana. Their six living children are as follows: Lewis W., a bookkeeper in Chicago; Charles of Marion, Indiana; Fannie L., wife of Charles B. Culp, of Marion, Indiana; Ethel, wife of D. E.

Myers, of Warren township; Joseph L., a farmer in Warren township ; and Lloyd, a carpenter and unmarried. Mr. Foulke is a birthright Quaker, and represents that fine old Quaker stock that was so prominent in Wayne county, from which center it spread over large areas of eastern Indiana.

ADAM SCHENKEL. One of the most prosperous agricultural men of this county is Adam Schenkel, a pioneer of the county and of Dallas township. He was born in this town and county, in the house where he now lives, and all his life has been spent here. A farmer by birth and inclination, he has prospered beyond the prosperity that is accorded to the average man, and he today owns three valuable and productive farms in Huntington and Wabash counties. The farm on which he resides is Fruit and Grain' Farm, a fine place of 125 acres. His second place, a stock farm, operated by his son, is a place of 120 acres, and the third farm is located,in Wabash county. This place of eighty acres makes up a total acreage to his credit of 325 acres, all of which is profitably and wisely managed by himself and his associates.

Adam Schenkel was born on December 30, 1854, and is a son of Adam Schenkel and his wife, Margaret (Christman) Schenkel. The parents were both natives of Germany. They came to the United States in their young days, the wife in 1840 and Mr. Schenkel in 1837, and located in Starke county, Ohio, where they met and married, coming to Dallas township of Huntington county in 1847. They located at that time on the farm that Mr. Schenkel of this review now occupies, and there they spent the remainder of their lives. To them were born seven children: John, a resident of Dallas township; Katie, the wife of Adam Young of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Mary, who married Frederick Gretzinger, of Wabash county, Indiana; Peter, a farmer of Wabash county ; Sarah, the widow of Charles O. Miller, of Wabash county; Elizabeth, the wife of Fred Holbert, also of Wabash county; and Adam Schenkel of this review.

Adam Schenkel has always made his home on the farm where he now lives. As a boy he attended the German Parochial schools and also the public schools of Dallas township. When the parents passed away, he purchased the home place from the heirs, and continued as before. He married Elizabeth Keaffaber on November 20, 1879, she being a native daughter of Wabash county, born there on November 27, 1859, and educated after the same manner as was her husband. They settled quietly down to farm life, and have continued here cheerfully and contentedly in the work for which they felt themselves best fitted by inclination and training, and the results of their labors have fully justified their choice of a calling. Prosperity has waited upon them, and two valuable farms have been added to their holdings with the passing years, each place being well kept and cared for by one of their sons. To them were born nine children, brief mention of whom may be made at this point. ,

Sophia, the eldest, is a graduate of the local schools, and is now the wife of William Defembaugh, 'of Montpelier, Indiana. Joseph, who had a similar educational training, married Lena Gemmer and occupies and operates his father's stock farm in Dallas township. Rose is the wife of Jacob Ankeny of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Mollie is unmarried and lives at home. Emma is the wife of William Bickel of Dallas township. Hattie is the wife of Elmer Stephan; and Lena, Freida and Esther are at home.

The family have membership in the St. Paul's Evangelical church and are leading members therein. For ten years past Mr. Schenkel has been a trustee of the church, and others of the family have active interests in the work of the church. Politically Mr. Schenkel is among the leading Democrats of Dallas township, or this part of Huntington county, and has had a voice in the leading activities of the party in this community for a great many years. Never an office seeker, he has been well content to seë that able and honorable men were placed in the local offices, in so far as his influence could bring about that end. He has manifested a genuine interest in the welfare of the community, and has done all one man could do to promote the best interests of the township at all times.

Mr. Schenkel also owns city property in Montpelier and Marion, Indiana, is a stockholder in the Huntington Trust Company, the Bippus State Bank, and he is president of the Bippus Telephone Company, so that his interests in the county are of a wide and varied nature, not confined alone to agricultural activities, but embracing financial and industrial operations as well.

ADAM E. Marrern. North Dallas Farm is the very appropriate title that Adam E. Mattern gives to his place of eighty acres in Dallas township, lying some two miles north of Andrews and three-quarters of a mile west of that place, on the German Road. Here Mr. Mattern carries on an extensive farming enterprise that has long since placed him in the class of prosperous farmers of the township, and in consideration of his standing in his community. and the nature of his accomplishments in his chosen enterprise, it is fitting and proper that some mention be made of him and his work in a publication of the nature and purpose of this one.

Adam E. Mattern was born in the city of Wabash on August 22, 1864, and is a son of Valentine and Catherine (Schwartz) Mattern, a sketch being dedicated to the father in other pages of this work. Both parents were natives of Germany but in view of the extended consideration that is accorded to them elsewhere in these pages, further details in that regard will not be required at this point. It will suffice to say that they located in Wabash county in 1848, after their marriage, and after some time settled in the city of Wabash, where the father died.

Adam E. Mattern is one of nine children of his parents, eight of whom are now living. The others are Peter, V. A., John, Anna, Eliza- , beth, Helena, and Carolina, concerning whom further mention will be found in the sketch dedicated to the father.

Adam E. Mattern was reared on a farm, for the most part, and had his education, which was somewhat limited in its nature, in the public schools of Wabash county. He remained an inmate of his parents' home until he reached his majority, at which age he rented a farm and began its operation. On December 13, 1888, Mr. Mattern married Elizabeth Fleck, who was born in Dallas township, and who had her education in the schools of her native community. She was a woman of German ancestry, her parents having been born there. In 1894 Mr. and Mrs. Mattern took up their residence in Dallas township, and there Mr. Mattern has a fine farm, with a modern and comfortable dwelling, and suitable buildings to meet the other needs of the place. Besides this place of eighty acres he has another farm of forty acres just south of the original place, and the two yield the family a comfortable income, as a result of the careful and efficient management to which they are subjected.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mattern. Herman, the eldest, was graduated from the Andrews high school and for two years taught the home school. He is now a student in the State Normal. Louis is also a high school graduate and is now attending Purdue University. Clara, the youngest, is attending the Andrews high school, and will doubtless continue with a college training, also.

Mr. Mattern and his family are members of the St. Paul's Evangelical church, and Mr. Mattern is fraternally identified by his membership in the K. O. T. M., Andrews Tent. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes an active part in the politics of the county. He was superintendent of the gravel roads in this section of the county, and has done much to raise the standard of the roads in the district covered by his jurisdiction. At the present time he is a candidate for the office of trustee. Aside from his farming interests, Mr. Mattern is a stockholder in the State Bank of Andrews, and has in other ways identified himself with the leading enterprises of the town.

George W. Swartz. In agricultural communities throughout the country there will be found from time to time men who devote their energies especially to the cultivation of a certain product, and it is a habit that is especially commendable, for many reasons that need not be enumerated here. But it is seldom that one chances upon one of these specialists who gives himself to the production of the horseradish root. This, however, is the especial province of George W. Swartz, and it has remained for him to gain a degree of fame as the cultivator, manufacturer and marketer of that well known and altogether delightful relish. So widely known is Mr. Swartz as the devotee of this particular industry that he is known far and near as ''Horseradish"' Swartz, and it is a title that he is in no wise inclined to refute, or take exceptions to.

George W. Swartz was born in Portage county, Ohio, on November ee 1839, and is a son of George Swartz and the grandson of Mathias Swartz, the latter a native of Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, his . parents having come from Germany. The mother of the subject was _ Mary Pauling, and she was born in Maryland, though her parents were of English birth. The father was a prominent Methodist all his days. He was a member of the church from boyhood and a class leader in the church for thirty years. He was the son of a Methodist preacher, Mathias Swartz having preached for fifty years from the pulpits of that denomination. He died in 1850. In 1856 George Swartz left his native state and came to Indiana, settling in Akron, where he lived until his death in 1869. He was the father of a family of twelve children, of which number only two are living at this writing, - Mathias Swartz of Toledo, Ohio, and George W. of this review. The first mentioned is a veteran of the Civil war, having served three years as a member of an Indiana regiment.

George W. Swartz had his somewhat limited education in the district schools of Ohio and Akron, Indiana, and when he was twenty-one years old he enlisted in the Union army. After a brief service he was mustered out and returned to his home in Akron, where he turned his attention to the carpenter business and worked at the trade for some time. It was some years ago that he settled in Dallas township and began to farm, and he gradually interested himself in the growing of horseradish for the market. His success was so marked, even from his small operations, that the possibilities of the work made a strong appeal to him, and he gradually worked into the business on a larger scale, experiencing a success that has fully justified the close attention he has given to the matter. He has a ready market for his product in Huntington and Andrews, and the fact that the best horseradish on the market in this section of the state is the Swartz product, gave rise to the familiar title '' Horseradish'' Swartz.

In September, 1869, Mr. Swartz married Isadore Bauserman, and to them have been born six children, five of whom are now living. Frank is a resident of Huntington; Lenora; Edna, of Michigan City; Clara, the wife of James Wilson of Seattle, Washington; and Ray, unmarried and living at home.

The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, having adhered through four generations to the faith of the family. Mrs. Swartz, however, has membership in the Holiness Christian church, and she is a class leader and an ardent worker in that church. Mr. Swartz is a member of Andrews Post No. 116, G. A. R., and in his polities he is a republican, alert and active in the interests of the party, in so far as his influence reaches.

The Swartz family is well established in Dallas township, and are held among the best people of the community, wherein they have a wide circle of friends of which they are well worthy.

Wam E. SHarp. In Dallas township, Huntington county, Indiana, there are few among the agricultural men of the community who have fared farther in that domain than has William E. Sharp, proprietor and owner of Fairview Stock and Fruit Farm. The place, which covers one hundred and five acres, is located in the Peter Gour Reserve in Section 24 of Dallas township, less than a mile distant from the town of Andrews, and something like four and a half miles southwest of Huntington. Mr. Sharp is a native of the Hoosier state, born in LaGro township, Wabash county, on January 20, 1867, and he is a son of George G. and Anna (Williamson) Sharp. The father was born in Philadelphia, and the mother was a native of Huntertown, New Jersey.