Huntington County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 1 of 15)

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Enos T. Taytor. One of Huntington's most enterprismg business men and prominent citizens was the late Enos T. Taylor. His death, from heart-failure, on March 6, 1908, precipitated a sudden and heavy sorrow upon a community which had known and honored him for half a century. His career, so typical in many ways of American success, has both incentive and inspiration. He did the duties that lay nearest, and lost little time, in dreaming. Of humble and honored toil he was never ashamed, and was for many years the possessor of abundance in the world's goods, and of the esteem which is foremost in human wealth.

Enos T. Taylor was born in New Carlisle, Ohio, January 17, 1840, and was past sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death. His father was William Taylor a shoemaker, long since deceased. Enos was the last survivor of his immediate family. In 1841, William Taylor moved to Huntington, and opened a cobbler shop in a little building on East Market Street, where later stood the Grayston Block. The boyhood of Enos Taylor was spent in humble circumstances. He was energetic as a lad, a good student in the schools, and had ambitions for an education. However, when he was fourteen years of age, his father informed him that the financial affairs of the family were such that the son could no longer continue even an irregular course in school. Though greatly disappointed at this turn in affairs, the boy made no complaint at entering his father's shop, and learning the art of shoe-making. For a number of years he sat daily on his work bench, and in a few years had become an expert shoemaker. It is said that many of the older citizens afterwards recalled wearing wedding boots and old rawhides turned out by the hands of E. T. Taylor during his early career. It was the beginning of a career which eventually brought Mr. Taylor into foremost prominence in banking and business affairs in Huntington. He kept up his work as a maker of shoes, laid aside all his earnings, and in 1860, had accumulated enough capital to buy the stock and the business from his father. From that time forward his prosperity steadily advanced. In 1866 he used his own capital and all that he could borrow in erecting the Taylor block on Jefferson Street. Under his careful management the shoe business became one of the largest boot and shoe stores in the Wabash Valley. Mr. Taylor con- tinued as a shoe merchant until 1888, when he sold out to W. A. Zeller, Sr., who for many years previously had been a clerk in the Taylor store.

Mr. Taylor's introduction to banking was in 1871. The Citizens Bank of Huntington was organized September 1, 1871, with Frederick Dick, as president, Enos T. Taylor as vice president, and John Morgan as cashier. The original capital stock was fifty thousand dollars, and this was largely increased by the addition of surplus earnings. After 1877 the capital stock was all held by Frederick Dick and Mr. Taylor. In 1888, after selling out his shoe business, Mr. Taylor became actively identified with the management of the institution, and on the death of Frederick Dick in 1897, he succeeded as president, an office which he held until his own death more than ten years later. Mr. Taylor was noted as a shrewd, careful and conservative financier, and though he possessed the conservatism so necessary to banking, he was at the same time fair and liberal in all his dealings. It was said that Mr. Taylor probably had a- call on more ready funds at times of emergency than any other business man in Huntington. i

His interests extended far beyond the boundaries of the bank. He was at one time identified with G. V. Griffith, under the firm name of Taylor & Griffith in the manufacture of plow handles. Later Mr. Griffith and his son Edward bought the interest of Mr. Taylor and carried on the business independently. Mr. Taylor was alsò for a number of years business partner with Col. ©. E. Briant in the milling and timber business. He became a heavy stockholder in the Barker Brown & Company shoe factory on its establishment at Huntington, and still held a large amount of its stock at the time of his death. He was, with other Huntington capital, interested as a stockholder and director in the Kokomo Steel & Wire Works.

The Taylor residence at 715 North Jefferson Street, where the death of the banker occurred, has for many years been one of the elegant mansions of Huntington, and during Mr. Taylor's life was a center for hospitality and culture. It was erected in 1898. Mr. Taylor greatly enjoyed his home and family, and outside the boundaries of his business and his home, he seldom strayed into more general social pleasures. In the summer of 1907 he built a beautiful summer home on the shores of Walloon Lake in Michigan, where the family spent a considerable part of the summer months. In September, 1877, Mr. Taylor married Miss Emma T. Moore who, with two children, survives him. The children are: Miss Miriam, who completed her studies at the National Park Seminary in Washington, D. C.; and Paul Taylor, who attended the Northwestern University, also graduated from Dartmouth College, and at the time of his father's death was vice president of the Citizens State Bank of Huntington.

Mr. Taylor was a member of the A. F. & A. M. Amity Lodge, No. 483, and of the I. O. O. F. He was fond of reading and study, was a member of the Methodist church, interested in realty, philanthropic to a great degree, but never liked publicity, was a republican, but never sought office, and was a great leader of men.

Mito N. Frientner. From 1910 to January 1, 1914, Mayor of Huntington, Mr. Feightner is one of the citizens whose long residence, success in profesional affairs and high personal character entitle them to the best distinctions in public life, where their previous record insures faithful and intelligent service in the publie interest. Mr. Feightner is a lawyer, enjoys a high standing in the Huntington county bar, and is a member of the firm of Bowers & Feightner.

Milo N. Feightner was born at Canal Dover, Ohio, March 22, 1873. His parents, Reuben and Mary (Lantz) Feightner, in 1875 moved from Ohio to Huntington county, where the father bought a farm in Union township. He has for nearly forty years been identified with the agricultural interests in that section of Huntington county, and among his relations with the community has served in the office of justice of the peace.

The education of Milo N. Feightner was obtained by attendance at the common schools, and later at the Valparaiso College and the State University at Bloomington, Indiana. His early environment was that of the country, and in 1891 he began an eight years' experience as a school teacher, teaching in the common schools five years and three years in high school. He took up the study of law while teaching school, continuing his reading in the office of Whitelock & Cook and afterwards with Judge James C. Branyan of Huntington. His first association in active practice was with his former preceptor, Judge Branyan, under the firm name of Branyan & Feightner. That partnership was dissolved by mutual consent when Judge James C. Branyan was elected to the Bench in November, 1900. Mr) Feightner then became associated with John Branyan, son of Judge Branyan, a partnership which lasted until May, 1905. At the latter date a partnership was formed with Fred H. Bowers, under the present firm name of Bowers & Feightner. Their general law practice extends to all the courts, and embraces participation in much of the more important litigation in the local profession.

In 1909 Mr. Feightner was elected on the Democratic ticket as mayor of Huntington for the term of four years. His duties began _in January, 1910, and his term expired in January, 1914. He has also been county attorney and is now city attorney. As a leading Democrat he was for two years chairman of the Democratic City Central Committee, and also for two years chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee. Fraternally Mr. Feightner is affiliated with La Fontaine Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks Lodge. He lives on Henry street in Huntington and the family resides in one of the fine homes of the city.

On April 4, 1900, occurred his marriage to Miss Nina McNaughten, a daughter of A. A. McNaughten, one of the old residents of Huntington county.

Lesh of the firm of Lesh & Lesh of Huntington. He has been retained on one side or other in mary of the most important cases tried in the courts of this county for many years. His ability in the law, and his high standing in the profession, and as a citizen, gives him rank as one of the leaders in the modern activities and life of this county. His individual career and family relations furnish some interesting details of biography, and the following sketch, drawn from different sources, will not be inappropriate in this history.

Ulysses S. Lesh is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Rock Creek township, Wells county, August 9, 1868. His father, Joseph Lesh, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1835, and came to Indiana with his parents, John and Elizabeth (Ulrich) Lesh, in 1850. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Lesh, was also a native of Berks county, born November 14, 1843, and came to Indiana with her parents, John and Harriett (McAfee) Lesh, in 1847. Joseph Lesh taught school for many years and for a time, when he called the roll at the close of the school days, Sarah Lesh would meekly answer ''present.'' But as they were second cousins it is probable that the acquaintance which led to their marriage on October 4, 1860, antedated those days of teacher and pupil. For several years after his marriage Joseph Lesh was engaged in the mercantile business at Markle (then ''Tracy''), but when the boy problem began to assert itself in his home he wisely moved to a farm, selecting as a site one situated about three and a half miles southeast of Markle in Wells county, and skirted by the Wabash river, on which farm Joseph Lesh continued to reside until his death on August 14, 1893. Following his death his widow moved to Markle, where she still lives. Both Joseph and Sarah Lesh were good people and devoted members of the Lutheran church. The former was a man of strong convictions. He would not yield his views on vital questions for the sake of harmony, but he held his few faithful and trusted friends ''with hoops of steel.'' Sarah Lesh is said to have furnished the fun, and was more inclined to be indulgent with the faults of her children.

The career of Ulysses S. Lesh has been spent in Huntington county since childhood. Owing to frail health his schooling did not begin until he was past eight years of age, and after that for similar and other less excusable reasons he missed several terms. His occupation was work, and his recreation fishing and hunting. He never took any part in the social doings of the community. When asked concerning his youthful avocations, Mr. Lesh said: ''I used to sit on the river bank and dream; dream day dreams - those which never come true, and yet are worth while. When my next younger brother and I used to tire out at tugging the crosscut saw we would 'straddle' the log and resolve that we would never be farmers. As our resolutions did not go so far as to declare that we would be anything else, we have both made good these solemn obligations."'

The active career by which he has become known to his county and community began with his matriculation in the law department of the University of Michigan in the fall of 1889, continuing until his gradua- tion in June, 1892. About the first of Augustin the same year he entered the law office of the late James B. Kenner, with whom he continued in practice for ten years. Their personal relations were of a most pleasant character, and the parting did not strain them. Upon his withdrawal from the firm Mr. Lesh formed a partnership with his youngest brother, Eben Lesh, with whom he is still associated.

Outside of his large practice Mr. Lesh has participated only to a limited extent in politics, and then only in line with his profession. For several years he served as city attorney of Huntington. His politics is republican, and he is now the candidate of his party for Judge of the Appellate Court. His good citizenship has always been notable, and his support is readily enlisted in behalf of all movements for community improvement. Fraternally his affiliations are with Huntington Lodge No. 805, B. P. O. E. Mr. Lesh is a member of the Lutheran church, but attends the Presbyterian church, of which his wife is a member. Since coming to Huntington Mr. Lesh has been absorbed in the practice of law, but in literary circles is also known as the author of one story, "'A Knight of the Golden Circle,'' which is a historical novel based on the celebrated treason trials of the Civil war time.

On June 27, 1894, Mr. Lesh was united in marriage to Minnie Ursella Fulton, daughter of Dr. John C. Fulton, who was then and still is engaged in the active practice of medicine at Bluffton, Indiana. Mrs. Lesh was born on October 9, 1872, and when a girl her mother, Jennie Bell (Hanna) Fulton, died, leaving four children, all of whom were daughters, and of whom Mrs. Lesh was the oldest. While Mr. Lesh has pursued his chief interest in the law, Mrs. Lesh, besides looking after her home and children, has proved herself in many ways a valuable citizen of Huntington. It is an inalienable part of her character not to compromise truth or practice so-called diplomacy at the expense of sincerity. She has little patience with social shams, and outside of her home has concerned herself chiefly with those things which will give practical benefit to the community. The public schools of the city largely owe the early installation of the playground of free kindergarten systems to her untiring activities. When opposed on legal grounds she persisted in her campaign for those improvements by taking up the matter with the proper state officers, and with the aid of their official opinion secured the passage of the necessary ordinance.

Into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lesh have been born six children, all boys. Two of them, Joseph Fulton and Robert Dean, died shortly before reaching their second birthday. The memory of these children have always been sacred to both parents. The four sons still living are: John Marshall, born January 24, 1896; Lex, born April 13, 1898; James Egbert, born July 2, 1907, and Samuel Terhune, born April 29, 1912.

IsrarL H. Heaston. With the management of the First National Bank of Huntington, Israel H. Heaston has been identified as president since November 1, 1902. Mr. Heaston, whose home has been in Huntington county for more than sixty-five years was in early life a farmer, belonging to a family which was in pioneer times identified with the agricultural industry of the county. He has for many years been connected with political and civic affairs, and a number of years ago held the office of county auditor.

The First National Bank of Huntington, TE oldest national institution in the county, was organized September 26, 1863, and its charter was dated December 12, of the same year. This was in the first year of the operation of the National Banking Act. It started out with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, and some of the pioneer business men of Huntington were among the incorporators. The first president was Samuel H. Purviance, who held his position until his death in 1873, and from 1873 until 1878 Joseph Purviance was president. The first cashier was William McGrew, who in 1878 became president. The capital stock in 1871 was increased to one hundred thousand dollars, and in 1883 a new charter was taken out. The First National has always been conservatively managed and has been a bulwark to the business community. i

Israel H. Heaston was born near Hagertstown, in Wayne county, Indiana, September 23, 1843, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Goodlander) Heaston. His father was a native of Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. The paternal ancestors were of German stock, the original family seat having been on the Rhine River. Ib was the grandfather who founded the name in America, settling in Rockingham county, Virginia, though he died in old age in Ohio. He was a Major, under General Green in the Revolutionary war. The father of the Huntington banker; Jacob Heaston, was reared in Virginia, and was a young man when he moved with other members of the family to Butler county, Ohio. From there he moved to Montgomery county, near Dayton, then across the line into Indiana, locating not far from Hagerstown. He was a substantial farmer, and in 1847 came to Huntington county. His settlement was in the township of Lancaster, where he acquired two hundred acres of land, and continued as a prosperous farmer and stock raiser until his death. He was not only successful in business, but a man of great influence and highly esteemed for his integrity. For many years he took an active part in the German Baptist Church. In early years a supporter of the democratic party, the Civil war caused him to change his political opinion and he thereafter supported the republican interests. His was a long and useful career, ending with death at the age of eighty-two. His wife reached almost the same age, and died on the old homestead in Lancaster township.

Israel H. Heaston had the wholesome environment of country life during his boyhood and youth, and in the township of Lancaster not only acquired a substantial education in the local schools, but on the home farm learned the lessons of honored toil. He was just at the beginning of manhood when the war of the Rebellion broke out, and he left his books to take up arms in the defense of the Union. On the first of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E of the Seventy-Fifth Tndiana Infantry, and with that command served in the army of the

Cumberland through many of its campaigns. He was with General Sherman through the Tennessee and Georgia campaigns, fought at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, at Dalton, Resaca, and many other battles in the slow advance toward Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta, he followed Sherman in the march to the sea. His record as a soldier was exceptionally creditable. He never missed a battle in which his regiment took part, was never absent from roll call and always ready to accept the duties and obligations of a solider. In June, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Indianapolis.

After the war Mr. Heaston continued on the home farm until 1873. In July of that year he moved to a farm of his own in Rock Creek township, and continued one of the prosperous farmer citizens until he was called into public service, which brought him to the county seat. A republican in politics, and in a strongly democratic county, he was in 1882 a candidate for the office of county auditor, and missed election by only seven votes. In 1886, again on the republican ticket, he was successful in his race for the office, and in August, 1887, moved to Huntington to better discharge the duties of his office. Since that time his home has been continuously in Huntington. Mr. Heaston may be credited with other important public services. He was for two terms a trustee of Lancaster township, and during the Spanish-American war acted as paymaster's clerk for one year, being mustered out in June, 1899. Thus he had service in two wars. In 1890, Mr. Heaston was again a candidate for the office of auditor, but was unable to overcome the democratic opposition, though he ran far ahead of his ticket. He was three times elected alderman in the city council. In 1888 he was the only republican member of the body, and was elected twice thereafter. The republican party of Huntington county has for many years recognized a natural leader in Mr. Heaston. He rendered invaluable services during many campaigns and was instrumental in many of the successes of the

A man of sound business judgment and unimpeachable integrity, possessing a host of friends, irrespective of politics, Mr. Heaston has long occupied a useful position in his community. In addition to his business as president of the First National Bank, his services in late years have been much in demand in the settlement of estates and in the transactions of other business requiring more than ordinary intelligence and forethought. He has been very successful; owns much property and real estate and other investments, and all his prosperity has been worthily won. It has been well said of him that he has discharged every trust reposed in him with commendable fidelity, and whether as a citizen or as a soldier or as a public servant, his career has been above reproach.

On March 8, 1866, Mr. Heaston married Miss Phoebe C. Reed, a daughter of Hosea Reed, of Wabash county. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Heaston, two of them dying in infancy. Myrtle O. and Clarissa W. grew to maturity. Mr. Heaston is a member of the James

Maro N. Knigur. The field of merchandise, as well as that of finance, has been invaded to excellent purpose by Maro N. Knight, prosperous merchant of Bippus and president of the Bippus State Bank. His success has been continuous and far reaching, and today Mr. Knight stands foremost among the leading citizens and men of affairs of the town. Those enterprises with which he has become identified have in various ways reflected the business tact and shrewdness of the man, and his influence in the community has been far reaching and undeniably beneficent. :

Mr. Knight was born in Allen county, Indiana, on May 3, 1867, and he is a son of Conrad and Rebecca (Sink) Knight. The father was born in Germany and he was a lad of eight years when he accompanied his parents to the United States. The family located in Tuscaraswas county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. Rebecca (Sink) Knight was reared in Ohio, her birth state, and came to Indiana with her family as a young girl. Conrad Knight accompanied that family, and settled in the same community with them, near Zanesville, Indiana, being the place they chose.

Conrad Knight was a carpenter by trade, and he did a considerable business in contracting and building, coming to be a progressive and prosperous man. He was a man of many excellent qualities, and a devoted worker in the denomination known as the Church of God, of which he was long a member.

He died at Zanesville, Indiana, and his loss was deeply felt in that community. He was a man of deeds, rather than of words, and in his quiet way wielded an excellent influence in those places where he was found present. Conrad and Rebecca Knight were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom are living at this writing (1914).

Maro N. Knight was the sixth born in this goodly family. He was reared in Zanesville, and as a boy attended the district schools. While his literary education was not extensive, it was well begun, and he had an excellent basis for future learning, so that he has each year added something to his intellectual equipment. As a youth he spent much time in the store of Knight and Bell at Zanesville, and he later learned the carpenter trade, though he did not long devote himself to that line of enterprise. He was for several years employed in the Knight & Bell mercantile establishment, work he finally quitted because of its confining nature, and he again turned his attention to contracting and for some years was thus employed.

In 1900 Mr. Knight came to Bippus. Here he put to excellent use the training he had received in the Zanesville store, for he established a general store in Bippus, which he has since operated with a due measure of success. The business is carried on under the firm name of Knight Brothers, and is one of the progressive and well conducted firms of the county.

In July, 1911, Mr. Knight, with others, ofganized the Bippus State Bank. It opened its doors for business on July 22nd, and has since been doing a thriving business in the community. As a leading spirit in the movement that resulted in organization and a heavy subscriber to the stock, Mr. Knight was elected president of the new concern, the other officers being as follows: S. E. Stults, vice president; James Stephenson, cashier; and on its board of directors are Mr. Knight, Mr. Stults, John Murphy, John Wagner, Peter Dicer, Gottlieb Schroader, Peter Hornaday, John Sell and Andrew Kilty. The bank has a capital stock of $25,000, and the stockholders are all men of Bippus and vicinity. It has made excellent progress since it opened its doors for business, and much of its present prosperity is undeniably due to the activities of Mr. Knight as chief executive.

In 1889 Mr. Knight was married to Miss Ella Lawrence, of Allen county, Indiana. She is a daughter of John Lawrence, who is well known in that county.. To them three children have been born, two of whom are now living. Mary, born December 16, 1898, is a graduate of the Bippus high school, her graduation being consummated prior to her fifteenth birthday. Nenah O. was born on May 29, 1909.

The Knight family have membership in the Church of God of Zanesville, and Mr. Knight is an Odd Fellow, with affiliations in West Point Lodge No. 688, of which lodge he is Noble Grand.

The family enjoy the unqualified esteem and regard of the leading people of their town and have a host of good friends in and about the community, who have known them for their many excellent qualities of heart and mind.

GEORGE HERMAN Favorite. The Favorite farm in Huntington township is one of the oldest estates in this county. It is a fine tribute to the integrity and sterling qualities of the family stock that one name may continue to be associated with a homestead for over seventy years. The Favorite family in Huntington county goes back to the pioneer times, and its record has always been distinguished by honor and prosperity. George H. Favorite is a representative in the younger generation of this family, and is a young man who combines the practical with scientific farming, and has already made for himself a substantial place in the community.

George Herman Favorite was born on the old Favorite homestead in Huntington township, April 21, 1886, a son of George G. and Clara (Cost) Favorite. George G. Favorite was also born on this same farm, on the 28th of February, 1840. He was just at the entrance to young manhood when the Civil war came on, and he saw active service in an Indiana regiment for several years. Nine months of this time were spent as a prisoner of war at Andersonville. Returning to this native county at the close of the war, he followed farming as his vocation, and continued as one of the prominent citizens until his death. He took a very active part in the work of the First Presbyterian church at Huntington, being an elder therein at the time of his death, which occurred on the 16th of June, 1906. He was likewise a local leader in the republican party. There were severchildren in the Favorite family, mentioned as follows: Clara Alice, a graduate of the Huntington high school with the class of 1898, and of the state normal, class of 1905, is now a teacher in the Central school of Huntington; Emma A., a graduate of the Huntington high school, class of 1901, and of the Teachers' Training College at Indianapolis, class of 1908, is now teaching in the State street school at Huntington; John W., a graduate of the Huntington township high school, class of 1902, and who also pursued an electrical engineering course at Purdue University and graduated with the class of 1906, is now employed as a designer with the Fairbanks-Morse Company at Indianapolis; George H. is the next in order of birth; Nellie G., a graduate of the Huntington high school with the class of 1908, and the Michigan Agricultural College in Domestic Science, class of 1913, was a teacher at Bloomingdale, Michigan; Mabel H. is a member of the Huntington high school, class of 1914; and Wallace E. will also have completed the high school course in 1914. The mother of these children is a resident of Huntington, Indiana. She was born in Green county, Ohio, December 11, 1862, and she remained in her native state and county until her marriage. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church and its Missionary Society, also of the Social Club and the Nameless Club. :

George H. Favorite was reared on the old farm, and from the local schools entered the agricultural department of Purdue University. Returning home with a training for his life work such as the older families of Huntington county never received, he applied himself with great energy and good judgment to the cultivation of the old homestead. He controls eighty acres and manages the entire estate of one hundred and sixty acres.

On the 17th of August, 1910, Mr. Favorite was united in marriage to Miss C. Mabel Long, a daughter of Edward and Josephine (Frame) Long, of Huntington township. Edward Long was born in Randolph county, Indiana, January 11, 1843. He is a plasterer by trade and a resident of Huntington township. He was a soldier in the Civil war for two years, serving with the Forty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, from which he received his honorable discharge. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he served as assessor of Polk township for several years, as assessor of Huntington township for fifteen years, and was also at one time the deputy sheriff of the county. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order. Mrs. Long is a native of Polk county, Iowa, born November 22, 1850. To Mr. and Mrs. Long were born three daughters, Lurana M., who received a high school education, is the wife of L. S. Buzzard, employed in the post office at Huntington, and they have four children. Mr. Buzzard is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. The second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Long, Mary G., was educated in the Huntington city schools, and is the wife of William A. LaPointe, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he is in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

They have two sons. Mrs. LaPointe is a member of the Christian church. Mrs. Favorite is the youngest daughter, and her birth occurred on the 17th of November, 1888. After graduating from the Huntington township high school with the class of 1905 she was a student in the state normal during the years 1907 and 1908, and then taught in this county for four years before her marriage. A daughter, Helen Josephine, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Favorite on the 14th of November, 1912. Mr. Favorite has membership in the First Presbyterian church at Huntington, while his wife belongs to the Central Christian church in that city. In politics his support is regularly given to the republican party.

WILLIAM SCHWARTZ. A former county clerk of Huntington county, and now engaged in the general insurance business at Huntington, William Schwartz belongs to one of the old families of this section, is a native of Huntington and has had a varied and active career in steadily progressive activities.

William Schwartz was born in the city of Huntington, September 23,. 1858, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Orff) Schwartz. His father was born in Badén Baden, Germany, was educated in the common schools, learned the trade of shoe maker, and in 1849 emigrated to the United States, coming direct from New York city to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There he established a shoe shop, and followed his trade by work on the bench for a time. Later moving to Huntington, he became one of the early dealers in ready-made shoes, and continued the business both as manufacturer and dealer until his death in January, 1879. His wife survived him several years.

During his boyhood in Huntington William Schwartz attended the public schools, and up to his fourteenth year was a student in the German Reform school. Since boyhood he has been largely dependent on his own efforts and resources. His first acquaintance with practical life was with the cigar maker's trade, a vocation he followed about six years. For some time his services were employed by George Griffith, who at that time was operating a head and hoop factory. He was also employed by William H. Drover and John Young. On leaving employment with those parties Mr. Schwartz from 1882 to 1892 was car inspector for the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, having a number of men under him in that work.

In 1892 came his first important position in public affairs. From May 1, 1892, to September 1 of the same year he filled the unexpired term of Leon T. Bagley as city clerk, Mr. Schwartz having been elected in May of that year for the term of two years, beginning in September, 1892. He gave a capable administration of the duties of that office for two years and four months. For a time Mr. Schwartz was connected with the Huntington Morning Times, and then was in the general insurance business for four years. The insurance field is his chief activity at the present time, and he is the representative of several reliable companies. In 1897 Mr. Schwartz was appointed waterworks superintendent, and managed that municipal institution for six years. In

Mr. Schwartz was an active Democrat, and has taken part in both city, county and state affairs of his party.. His fraternal affiliations are with the Knights of Pythias, in both the Lodge and Uniform degree, and he has filled all the chairs in the subordinate lodge and served some time as recorder in the Uniform rank. In February, 1882, Mr. Schwartz married Miss Beana Zahn of Huntington, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Stauch) Zahn. Their marriage has been blessed with the following children: Carl, a machinist; Anna, now: the wife of Mr. Claud Frary; Elizabeth, wife of Henry J. Scheerer; John, who is employed at the Rubber Works; Hannah, wife of Waldo» Miller; Walter, deceased; Paul; Ruth, a student in the high school; and George, also in sehool.

JOHN S. GLENN. An old soldier, former postmaster of Huntington, and at one time county clerk of the county, Mr. Glenn has been' prominent in affairs in this county for more than a quarter of a century. For a long period of years he was in the railroad service as engineer, and before his retirement from active affairs was long connected with the business management of the Huntington Herald. Few men are better known or held in higher esteem in Huntingtom county than John S. Glenn.

Born in Morgan county, Ohio, February 29, 1844, he is a son of Robert and Ann (Smith) Glenn, both of whom died at Van Wert, Ohio, where the active years of the father were spent as a farmer.

John Smith Glenn was educated in the common schools and in the high schools at Lima, Ohio. His early life was spent on the farm and at the age of nineteen he left the farm in 1863 and enlisted in Company K of the Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Colonel George W. Neff. His first duty was in garrison at Camp Chase, near Columbus, and his service as a soldier continued from July 11, 1863, to July 3, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. Soon after the war, began his active experience in railroading. For one year he worked as fireman on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, and for four years was fireman on the Pennsylvania. His promotion to locomotive engineer came during his service with the Pennsylvania main line, and later he was with the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad for four years with headquarters at Fort Wayne, Indiana. For fourteen years Mr. Glenn was an engineer on the Wabash. For several years his home was at Andrews, a railroad division point.

In the year 1886 he was elected county clerk of Huntington county and removed to the county seat, taking charge of his office in 1887. His election came on the republican ticket, and his service for four years was marked by exceptional efficiency and careful handling of all duties entrusted to his care. On retiring from the office of county clerk, Mr. Glenn took the business management of the Huntington Herald, and was identified with that leading journal for fourteen years. In 1901 at the beginning of the administration, he was appointed postmaster of Huntington. Mr. Glenn while postmaster had charge of the administrative details in the inauguration of the many of the rural free delivery routes running out of Huntington.

On March 25, 1875, Mr. Glenn married Miss Laura M. Rundel, of Fort Wayne, a daughter of Isaac Rundel, who came from Ohio to Indiana and for many years resided at Fort Wayne. The two children of Mr. Glenn are: Robert R. Glenn, assistant postmaster at Huntington ; and Ann, wife of Sumner Kenner, an attorney. The comfortable family residence is at 1047 Guilford street.

Though now retired from active affairs, Mr. Glenn still retains some interest in property and business matters, and is a director in the First National Bank of Huntington. In fraternal orders he has been prominent, especially in Masonry. His affiliations are with Amity Lodge No. 483, A. F. & A. M.; Huntington Chapter, No. 51, R. A. M.; Huntington Council, No. 35, R. & S. M.; Huntington Commandery, No. 35, K. T.; has taken thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite, and belongs to the Mizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Fort Wayne. As an old soldier, he is a member and.past commander of James R. Slack Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. For forty years his membership has been with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and he is also affiliated with the Order of Elks. In politics he has been a stanch republican since casting his first vote during the sixties. /

GEoRrGE M. EBERHART. For the past ten years one of the leading members of the Huntington county bar has been George M. Eberhart, a son of the pioneer farmer and citizen, the late Moritz Eberhart. His career as a lawyer has been marked by considerable participation in public affairs including two terms as prosecuting attorney, and he was. recently the leading candidate of the republican party for the office of circuit judge.

George M. Eberhart was born two miles east of Bippus in Warren township June 16, 1876. His boyhood was spent on the old farm in that township, and by education in the local schools, he fitted himself for the work of teaching. His first license was obtained when he was nineteen years of age, and the next five years were spent in the school room, the last two in the Bippus schools. As a part of his earlier education, he was a student in the Central Normal College and the State Normal School, and in 1902 was graduated from the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis.

On January 1, 1903, Mr. Eberhart began the practice of law at Huntington. His work has brought him in connection with a large amount of the more important litigation in the local courts, and he has for several years been regarded as one of the ablest among the, junior members. of the local bar. In June, 1906, before the republican county convention he won the nomination by a handsome majority for prosecuting attorney, and in the following November was elected, leading both the county and state tickets in Huntington county. Two years later he was reelected and his two terms were characterized by both efficiency and scrupulous integrity as a prosecutor. In 1912 after four candidates had entered the field Mr. Eberhart became a candidate for the republican nomination for circuit judge of the Fifty-Sixth Judicial circuit. "The nomination was won by him by a large majority over his opponents, C. W. Watkins, John Q. Cline, John M. Sayler, and Clifford F. Jackman. The republican county convention was held on June 12, 1912. On June 18th following the famous national republican convention met in Chicago, and on August 5th, as a result of the.previous republican convention, the progressive party held its national assemblage in Chicago. After that date the National campaign complicated' local conditions, a local county progressive organization was formed, the republitan party became split, and all the republican county candidates nominated in June were defeated in November, owing to the division in the ranks of the old republican party.

Mr. Eberhart is a member of the Presbyterian church, and fraternally is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On March 21, 1905, he was united in marriage with Lulu Graybill of Bippus.

Rev. ELMER Warp Coue. The year 1908 marked the beginning of the ministry of Rev. Cole for the Central Christian church at Huntington, he having at this time been selected to administer the affairs of one of the largest churches of the denomination in Indiana on account of his exceptional record of achievements in organization and in financial affairs and on account of his splendid reputation as a man of rare pulpit ability, of a strong personality and as a lover of his fellow-man. Each of the above characteristics has been developed in a marvelous degree with the succeeding years, until he holds a place in his community and in his denomination of which any man may well feel proud.

Elmer Ward Cole is a native of Iowa, born in Chariton, October 13, 1873. His parents were John C. and Emily A. (Lytton) Cole. His father, John C. Cole, was born in Litchfield, Illinois, and his mother in Fairfield, lowa, where his father was one of the early and time-honored settlers. On locating in Lucas county, John C. Cole purchased a farm, where the best years of his life were devoted to agriculture and the raising of stock. His death occurred in Hutchinson, Kansas, in September, 1907, while visiting at the home of Reverend Cole. The mother now resides at Bellingham, Washington.

From childhood Reverend Cole had an insatiable desire for an education and at an early age chose the ministry as his profession. Through difficulties that to the vast majority would have appeared insurmountable he succeeded in obtaining the education to fit him for his chosen work. From the graded schools his training was continued four years in Tabor College, in Fremont county, Iowa, and two years in the University of Chicago, during all of which time he had no financial assistance from any person save himself. Working day and night to secure a livelihood and at the same time to equip himself for his life mission, he was pre- pared to do some important pulpit supply work previous to accepting his first pastorate with the Central Christian church of La Junta, in the state of Colorado. After two years of most creditable service for this growing western church, Mr. Cole accepted a call to Falls City, N ebraska, where for four years he ministered to a most devoted people. The following five years were spent with one of the best churches of the denomination in Kansas, being located at Hutchinson. Throughout the central west Mr. Cole's name is one of the best known in his religious organization, not only on account of his reputation as a minister, but also by reason of his successful work on the Lyceum platform.

In June, 1908, Rev. Cole came to Huntington as pastor of the Central Christian church. This congregation numbers twelve hundred and the church home is one of the best religious edifices in this part of the state, having been erected at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. Its seating capacity is eighteen hundred and its equipment and furnishings are of the most modern type. Rev. Cole's following of young people is considered a remarkable feature of his work and he has the reputation of having united more young people in marriage during the past five years than any other person in the state.

Rev. Mr. Cole is well known in Masonic circles, holding his membership in the Huntington Blue Lodge, the Huntington Chapter of the Royal Arch and the Council and Commandery of the Knights Templar. He has also taken thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite and has membership in the Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Cole was an ardent promoter of the Commercial Association in Huntington and has served as one of its active directors since its organization.

In May, 1900, Rev. Cole was united in marriage with Alice L. West, daughter of Arthur T. and Sarah (Savage) West, she having been a college classmate of his in Tabor College. Mrs. Cole is a graduate of Tabor College, with the degree of A. B. and is a most cultured woman, presides with dignity over her own household and is an effective aid to her husband in his work.

Mr. and Mrs. Cole have two children - Ianthe Marie and Elmer Ward, Jr. The family residence is on the corner of Tipton and Warren streets, in Huntington.

Jesse M. SCUDDER. In one of the most exacting of the learned callings, Jesse M. Scudder has rapidly risen to success through the intelligent application of earnest and untiring effort. A product of the farm, he early gave up agricultural pursuits to obey the dictates of inclination, and within a few short years he has risen to the superintendency of the public schools of Huntington, a position which calls for the highest order of executive ability, business acumen far above the ordinary and a keen and thorough knowledge of a wide range of subjects. His administration of the affairs of his responsible office have been satisfactory to teachers, pupils and the public at large and few educators in Huntington county enjoy greater popularity.

April 12, 1874, a son of Hezekiah and Martha (Avey) Scudder, natives of the Buckeye state. Hezekiah Scudder was born in Butler county, Ohio, but in 1860 removed to Shelby county, Indiana, where he purchased land and engaged actively in farming and stock raising. There he continued to follow his chosen vocation successfully, and at the time of his death, November 12, 1912, in his eighty-third year, was not alone in excellent financial circumstances, but possessed the good will and esteem. of the people of his community. Mr. Scudder's mother is still living in Shelby county. l

The early education of Jesse M. Scudder was secured in the district schools in the vicinity of his father's farm in Shelxy county, and he was reared to habits of industry and thrift. His father was willing to give him good advantages, and for eighteen months he was a student in Bartholomew county, Indiana, where he attended Hartsville College. Succeeding this he furthered his studies in Muncie Normal Institute, and after the completion of his course there and his graduation, he entered upon his career as an educator. His early experience was in the country schools of Shelby county, where he spent eight years, but his ability and knowledge did not remain long unrecognized, for in 1905 he was made principal of the ward school in Huntington, a position which he held for some seven years, then coming to his present position as superintendent of the Huntington schools. Here he has jurisdiction over six buildings and a corps of sixty teachers, teaching eighteen hundred children, with three hundred and fifty pupils in the high school according to the figures of the year 1913. A man of indomitable energy, he has labored assiduously in behalf of his community 's welfare, and in return he possesses the community's confidence in a high degree.

Mr. Scudder was married in 1898 to Miss Alice F. Nelson, of Shelbyville, daughter of Leander and Ann (Alter) Nelson. To this union there have been born four bright and interesting children, two pairs of twins: Arthur and Elizabeth, and Martha and Margaret. Mr. Scudder has a pleasant residence at 958 Salamonie avenue, a center of refinement and culture, and the scene of many social gatherings, as both he and his wife are popular in social circles of the city. They are members of the Central Christian Church of Huntington, and have taken an active part in its movements. Mr. Seudder's only fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias.

Rey. Joun F. Nort. The City of Huntington, long prominent as the center of Catholic population and influence, has special reason to be grateful to the present pastor of St. Mary's Church. Father Noll, as a priest, has not only the energy and zeal befitting the incumbent of so important a parish, but is already one of the leading Catholic churchmen of the state and nation. He is the founder of Huntington's largest printing and publishing house, supervises the publication of periodical literature distributed all over the country, and by his breadth of mind and vision is performing a work far wider than the limits of his own Church.

John Francis Noll was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on January 25, 1875. His education was in the Cathedral Brothers' school until he was thirteen years of age, when he went to St. Lawrence College at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, to study for the priesthood. After five the study of philosophy and theology. In the Cathedral at Fort Wayne, on June 4, 1898, Bishop Rademacher ordained him to the priesthood. His first appointment was that of assistant to Rev. Henry Boeckelmann, at Elkhart, from which place he was sent to assist Rev. B. Kroeger, at Logansport, from December, 1898, to February, 1899. From the latter date to June, 1902, he was pastor of Ligonier and missions. In June, 1902, Bishop Alerding transferred him to Besancon, where he continued his labors until July 11, 1906. At that date he went to Hartford City, with Montpelier as a mission. The work of giving missions to non- Catholics was also entrusted to Father Noll, who did that work as time and circumstances permitted.

During his pastorate at Hartford City, Father Noll began the publication of a magazine known as the ''Parish Monthly.'' This supplied a high-class, thirty-two page ''insert,'' to which pastors throughout the United States add parish items and other local information, and distribute as a local production. The ''Parish Monthly'' now has a circulation of 75,000.

On July 6, 1910, Rev. Noll was transferred to St. Mary's Church, Huntington. This parish has church property valued at $150,000, and is entirely free from debt. In December, 1911, Father Noll started a publishing establishment, which within a year grew to be Huntington's largest printing plant. In May, 1912, he began the publication of a National Catholic Weekly, known as ''Our Sunday Visitor,'' and within one year this weekly acquired a circulation of 135,000, and now has a circulation of 370,000 - two years after its first issue. At the present time more than thirty persons are employed in the publication plant of ''Our Sunday Visitor." In this work Father Noll is ably assisted by Rev. George Moorman. Since coming to Huntington Father Noll has made some extensive improvements in the parish property of St. Mary's. He has had a remarkably busy and effective career, and yet with all his labors has found time for individual authorship, and several of his publications have gone through twelve or fifteen editions. Most of his books aim at creating a friendly feeling between Catholics and Protestants. The titles of some are: ''For Our Non-Catholic Friends,'' ''The Fairest Argument,'' ''When Informed Protestants Speak Their Convictions,'' ''Kind Words From Your Pastor,'' ''Your Parish Church,"' "Father Smith Instructs Jackson,'' ''The Parochial School'' and several others.

A school which has a large attendance adjoins St. Mary's Church, the curriculum of which includes a business and commercial course and two years of high school work. This parochial school is a free school.

Heser P. Harter. One of the live young business men of Huntington is Heber P. Harter,*a dealer in real estate, and his active enterprise has come into prominence recently through his subdivision and sale of Hawley Heights, one of the most sightly and desirable suburban locations, overlooking the city of Huntington.

Mr. Harter is a native of the city of Huntington, and a son of Edwin and Lucy (Purviance) Harter. His mother is connected with several of the most prominent families of Huntington county. She is a sister of Harmon Purviance, prominent as a furniture merchant and a former senator. Her father was Samuel Purviance, an old resident and citizen much respected for his many sterling qualities. Mrs. Harter was reared and educated in Huntington, and was married to Edwin Harter in 1872. Her mother was Elizabeth Jane (Montgomery) Purviance. Edwin Harter was for a number of years engaged in merchandising in Huntington, and more recently has carried on an extensive business in bill posting. Their home is on North Jefferson street, one of the best residence thoroughfares in the city. Edwin Harter and wife have four children: Jean Harter, a graduate of the Huntington high school accomplished in music and a teacher in Indianapolis; Lyle H. Harter, who lives with her aunt in Indianapolis; Helen Harter, who is connected with the United Board of Charities of Cleveland, Ohio, and is a graduate of the Huntington high school. N

Heber P. Harter, the only son, received his education in the grade and high schools of Huntington, being graduated from the latter. He early chose a business career and got most of his business experience as a real estate man in Oklahoma, where he was well trained by the vigorous competition existing in that state. Returning to his native city, he opened an office, and has done a big business in subdividing and disposing of the lots on Hawley Heights.

OLIVER C. WuairuinG. It is as an oil producer that Mr. Whitling is best known to the citizenship of Huntington county, and for the past six years has operated in the field in Salamonie township. Like the majority of successful men in his profession, Mr. Whitling has courage and aggressive enterprise, and his judgment has been ripened by practically a lifelong experience in the oil fields of his native state of Pennsylvania and in various states of the middle west. Mr. Whitling considers himself a permanent resident of Huntington county, and outside of his private business is thoroughly interested in all movements concerning the local welfare.

His birth occurred in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1874. His parents, John and Mary (Neely) Whitling, are still residents of the Keystone state. The father was an oil producer in Pennsylvania, having been identified with the business from the early days, and under his tutelage the son was practically educated in the business from early youth. He had a substantial common school education, attending school until he was sixteen, but for several years previously had followed his father and had been variously engaged in the oil fields. There is practically no phase of the oil business from a productive standpoint in which

Mr. Whitling has not a thorough experience. He has done work as a pumper, driller, prospector, and has a wide acquaintance among oil men all over the country. From Pennsylvania he moved into the oil fields of Ohio, and worked as a pumper for several years, and came to Indiana in the same capacity. Subsequently he engaged in drilling new wells in Indiana, and purchasing an outfit of tools did work as a contractor for several years. Three years were also spent in the fields of Illinois.

In 1908 Mr. Whitling bought the lease from the Crude Oil Company in Huntington county, and for the past six years has operated largely in Salamonie township. He also acquired, by purchase, a piece of land a mile and three quarters southwest of Warren, and has his permanent home there, while his operations take him to different sections in the oil fields of this part of the state.

In June, 1899, Mr. Whitling married Ida Maloney. She is a native of Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of two children, Ray W., born in 1900, and Helen G., born in 1903. Ray has already finished the course in the common schools, while Helen is still a student. Mr. Whitling and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Warren, and he is a steward in the society. He takes much interest in Masonry, and is affiliated with the King Lodge No. 246, A. F. & A. M., and is at present Worshipful Master of the Lodge, while his higher degrees are with Bluffton Chapter No. 75, R. A. M., at Bluffton. A democrat in politics, he has never taken any part in practical politics.

D. Yrneuine, M. D. The subject of this memoir presents the traits of two nations, remarkable for strength of character and oppositeness. His German ancestry gives to him the patient plodding feature, his Scottish lineage a studiousness along with vivacity, and a desire ''to prove all things, and hold on to that which is good.'' That these traits are characteristic of the man, even ordinary observation confirms.

Dr. Yingling was born in Maryland, November 27, 1839. He was placed at school at the age of six years, and continued to attend nine months each year until he was seventeen, when he spent one year and a half in the states of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Minnesota was at that time still under a territorial form of government. After returning to his home in Maryland he entered Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, where on account of ill health and limited means he was not able to complete the full course. In the fall of 1859 he became a tutor in the Hagerstown Academy at Maryland, a well known institution, and occupied that position for two years, or until the beginning of the war when the school was closed. Subsequently he entered upon the study of medicine and graduated at a medical college in Cincinnati, Ohio, in April, 1865. Immediately thereafter, he located in Huntington, Indiana, where he has acquired an enviable reputation in his profession. During the winter of 1869-70 the doctor attended a full course of lectures in Bellvue Medical College, New York, and has since attended several courses of post-graduate medical lectures in Chicago. The doctor contends that physicians though advanced in years, while engaged in the practice owe it to their patrons to be studious and keep in close touch with all new discoveries in medicine, or in other words should keep pace with the march of medical science, and we have reason to believe that he ''practices what he preaches," a fact which, coupled with his long experience in the practice, eminently fits him for the business he follows. The doctor is in excellent health, and says he has not yet felt the weight of age, and seems as spry and as active as many men fifteen or twenty years younger. Cold weather and visiting patients at night are the only limitations to his present activities. He has served several times on the Board of Health as secretary and also as president and.is a member of the Board of Public Works of Huntington.

On February 19, 1879, the doctor was married to Corrilla Beistle of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Clara, their only child, was married to Arthur H. Sapp, an attorney, in October, 1909. Mr. Sapp was born and reared in Ravenna, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He is also a graduate of the Indiana Law -` School, and is now practicing law in Huntington, in partnership with Otto H. Krieg. Helen Louise, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Sapp, was born January 19, 1913.

In order to find relaxation from the arduous cares of professional life at different times, Dr. Yingling has made tours to various sections of the country, and as these trips formed important epochs in his life's experience an outline of his travels in what was then known as the wild west before he located in Huntington will not be out of place. One of his tours was across the plains in 1864 to Virginia City, Montana, where gold had been discovered the year before, and was supposed to abound in inexhaustible quantities. He took the familiar ''Salt Lake Route'' as far as the Red Buttes, one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Fort Laramie on the Upper Platte River. From that point he went via ''Bridger's Cut Off,' an entirely new route, which was across Powder River, really as dry as powder when the doctor crossed it, over the Black Hills, through the Big Horn Mountain Country, along the base of the Rocky Mountains and across the mountain branches of the Yellow Stone River. The method of travel was with oxen and the famed prairie schooner. The latter was loaded to the bows with provisions, so all the sleep enjoyed in the trip of fifteen hundred miles, requiring eightyfour days one way, was in a small muslin tent. This route, however, was not a desirable one for pleasure seekers. Water and grass were scarce, in the Powder River country, alarmingly so to the doctor and those with whom he was traveling. Despair was written on the face of every member of the company when in that region, and they were only saved a terrible death by a sagacious dog. The animal's instinct led him to water some ten miles distant, and on his return with wet hair, the party took the direction whence he came, and found water in abundance. The dog was an unusually large one, and very dignified in his bearing and a great favorite with the whole company, which consisted of about one hundred men. After that incident he was a hero and received a pat on the head or back whenever he came in contact with any of the parties rescued. Dire threats made against him by farmers in the neighborhood where he was raised in Ohio because of his fondness for mutton, caused his master, who was very much attached to him, to take him along on the trip, in order to save him an untimely wind-up of an inglorious career at his home, interspersed with escape from flying bullets, curses, etc., when on nightly visits to sheep pastures.

On the way to the much coveted water, as the oxen were known to be very thirsty, it was agreed among the company that just before reaching the water, each man should throw off one or more of the yokes, so as to free the animals from the wagons. When several miles from the streams, the animals showed evidence of scenting water by elevating their heads and quickening their pace. It was realized that unless the beasts were freed from the wagons, no ordinary power could restrain them from plunging headlong into the pool with the wagons. After the doctor had performed that part of the duty assigned to him, the first thing he knew until after a refreshing drink was had by lying on the bank of a nice'stream of water, was to find one very large ox standing in the water quite near him on the left and another on the right, leaving simply space enough to get his head between them to the water. The stream was nearly banked full, but only two or three feet deep. The whole company and oxen drank copiously but none seemed to suffer from the replenishment. f

Another incident was an interview with a grizzly bear. On this journey one of the party, Mr. Popenoe, once rode in advance of the company, and passing through a skirt of woods on a spur of the Rockies into an opening, found an enormous grizzly bear, standing erect, taking a survey of the intruder. The meeting was unexpected. The words of the doctor will best describe the scene. Mr. Popenoe brought his pony to a halt. The interview was conducted in pantomime, and somewhat hurriedly. Bruin finished his performance first and manifested a desire to leave the stage. Mr. Popenoe, who had never attempted such a part before, was somewhat dashed, and fearing a breakdown he acquiesced in Bruin's intimation to postpone the interview, and with becoming speed returned to the party to recount the particulars of the most momentous occasion known to him. In the absence of Bruin he was the hero of the hour.

In a souvenir edition published at the laying of the corner-stone of the Huntington County Courthouse on Wednesday, September 13, 1904, we find the following: ''About 1900 it began to be whispered about that we were nearly out of debt and some general talk was indulged in about a new courthouse, but the politicians of both parties fought shy of the proposition, and it dragged along until in the summer of 1902. A petition was circulated about this time, but less than a hundred freeholders signed it, and the project was dropped. About this time Dr. Yingling's attention was called to the matter and he became interested in it. To him to become interested in anything for the betterment of Huntington was to become an agitator, and to become an agitator meant to become a worker, until the idea crystalized into an accomplished fact. He talked and wrote and planned, until success crowned his efforts and he was able to lay before the board of county commissioners a petition signed by more than five hundred reputable resident freeholders of Huntington county. The law required five hundred. As a result, Huntington county has one of the finest courthouses in the state, at a reasonable cost of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.''

In conclusion it may be stated that few individuals in_this county during the last half century have manifested a more practical public spirit in behalf of all matters of community growth and progress. His three terms on the Huntington school board should not be omitted. No profession than medicine has a more intimate value to mankind, and while his regular work has borne all the fruits of quiet and useful achievements his interests have always been broader than his profession, and his citizenship has been hardly less in importance than his value as a skillful and kindly doctor.

Joun P. KriE@Baum. As business men of Huntington none have been better known or regarded with greater esteem than the members of the Kriegbaum family. In the business district, at one of the eligible sites in Huntington, is now located the large three-story brick block with the name Kriegbaum Brothers engraved on its upper front, and housing the largest stock of its kind in Huntington county. The firm of Kriegbaum Brothers is incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, and it deals in engines, threshing machines, binders, mowers, drills, Star wind pumps, and in wood and coal, doing both a wholesale and retail business in the latter department. This business has been in existence on a progressive scale in Huntington for more than a quarter of a century. The name and house have always represented not only good and profitable business but to a large number of citizens have stood for the sterling character and fine integrity which are intimately associated with the Kriegbaum name.

Mr. John P. Kriegbaum, the Huntington representative of the business, was born in Cedarville, Ohio, August 13, 1863. His parents were Philip and Mary (Huben) Kriegbaum. His father, who was born in Germany in Hesse-Darmstadt, where he received his education, in 1849 emigrated to the United States and after living a time in Oldtown, Ohio, moved to Cedarville, Ohio, at which place he operated a flax mill for a long time. From there he moved to Covington, Ohio, and on January 25, 1586, located in Huntington, Indiana.

In Huntington he became identified with the hardware and implement trade under the firm name of Kriegbaum and Sons. Four of his sons were interested in the business. In 1886 they established a hardware store at Warren, Indiana, under the firm name of Kriegbaum & Sons, and the business was later expanded by the addition of stocks in implements and coal, The Warren establishment is still conducted under the same name. The father, until his death, was interested in both stores. In 1906 was built in Huntington the brick block above mentioned, occupying ground space sixty-seven by one hundred and thirty-three feet. It is a most solid and substantial structure, three floors and a basement, and furnishes room for the large and well selected stock carried by the company, including merchandise of every kind required by the agricultural trade in addition to coal and wood. As already stated the firm conducts the largest business of its kind in Huntington county. John P. Kriegbaum has three brothers: George D. and Albert are at the head of the business in Warren, while Edward W. died in March, 1911.

Mr. John P. Kriegbaum, who stands at the head of the firm in Huntington, is a most active and thorough business man. He has lived in Huntington county since he was twenty-two years of age, having acquired his education and his early business training in Ohio. Due to his careful and honest manner of doing business he has for years enjoyed an unassailable reputation, and what John P. Kriegbaum says has come to: be accepted as reliable and a guaranty to his many customers, a large number of whom have traded with him continuously over a long period of years. Besides his local business Mr. Kriegbaum is owner of a good farm in Huntington township, comprising one hundred and eleven acres. The land is well improved and cultivated and has excellent buildings.

In September, 1891, Mr. Kriegbaum married Miss Anna Smith, a daughter of Albert C. Smith, an old resident of Huntington county. Mr. Smith originally came from Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Kriegbaum have been born seven children, all of them sons, mentioned as follows: James, who is with his father; Albert, Arthur, Walter, Brice, ` Edward and Howard attending school and living at home. Mr. Kriegbaum has a fine residence on North Jefferson street in Huntington.

HAROLD GutTurie. The public business and records of Huntington county has never been entrusted to more efficient hands than to the present county auditor, Harold Guthrie, who entered upon his official duties. in January, 1912, for the regular term of four years. Mr. Guthrie has been a resident of Huntington county almost continuously for nearly fifty years, his family having located here when he was a boy. His active career has been divided between farming and contracting, and as a citizen his popularity has been of that type which is only extended tomen of the highest integrity and public usefulness.

Harold Guthrie was born in Warren county, Ohio, in July, 1855, sothat he was nine years of age when the family moved to Huntington county. His parents were John C. and Martha (Hunter) Guthrie, theformer.a native of Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married. Grandfather William G. Guthrie was born in Virginia, became a pioneer settler in Ohio, and served as a soldier in the war of 1812, taking part in a battle fought on the site of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The maternal grandfather was Thomas Hunter, an old resident of Warren county, Ohio, where the Hunter family of Welsh ancestry were among the pioneers. In 1864, John C. Guthrie and family moved to Huntington county, where he bought a small farm and became a general farmer and stock

Harold Guthrie was educated by attending country schools, and what knowledge was not supplied by books he acquired from practical experience in farm work in which there was never any insufficiency, His early years were thus divided between farm and school, attending the latter chiefly in the winter seasons, and working at the plow and in the harvest during the open months of the year. When he was twenty-one years of age he started farming for himself, and a few years later, in 1880, established his own home when he married Miss Elma Kelsey, of Allen county, Indiana. Her father was -Henry S. Kelsey. After his marriage Mr. Guthrie engaged as a contractor and builder, and spent about seven years in the states of Kansas and Nebraska. Returning to Huntington county, he resumed his career as a farmer, and has also done considerable building contracting in this section of the state.

Early in life Mr. Guthrie made up his mind as to his political principles, and has been a stanch supporter of the democratic party for many years. For some time he has been regarded as a leader in the local offices, and has served as a member of the Democratic County Central Committee, also on the City Central Committee and has attended conventions both county and state. A few years ago Mr. Guthrie was an active candidate for the office of auditor, andsas claimed by his party, was actually elected, but as a result of errors was counted out of the race. In 1910, in the fall of that year he was elected auditor by a sub- ` stantial vote and according to the law now prevailing in Indiana, an entire year elapsed before he took charge of the office, so that his official term began in January, 1912. He is a trusted and efficient county officer and is making an enviable record.

Mr. Guthrie is affiliated with the Huntington Lodge No. 42, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Huntington. Besides other interests, he owns considerable city property.

RUSSELL S. GALBREATH, M. D. One of the younger physicians of Huntington county, Dr. Galbreath has made an excellent record in his profession since opening his office at Huntington in 1911. From the first he was recognized as a young man of high standards, and exceptional equipment, and in the fall of 1912 was honored by the citizens on election to the office of coroner.

Russell S. Galbreath was born in Whitley county, Indiana, December 1, 1887. His parents are Martin L. and Ellen (Puterbaugh) Galbreath, his father being a native of Kosciusko county, Indiana. Martin L. Galbreath has long been one of the prominent men of Whitley county, spending his early career as a farmer and stockman, and later his interests and activities extending to banking. On the organization of the Farmers Trust Company at Columbia City, Indiana, he was made man-

Dr. Russell S. Galbreath spent his boyhood in Whitley county, and most of his education was obtained from the Columbia City high schools, where he was graduated in 1907. He goon afterward entered the medical department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, where 2 completed the prescribed course, and was graduated M. D. with tne class of 1911. Already he had selected his place for practice and at once opened his office in Huntington. The doctor was soon established on a prosperous basis, and now has about all the practice he can attend to. His medical library and equipment of instruments and other facilities for practice will compare with those of many older physicians.

During the first year of his residence in Huntington county, Dr. Galbreath served as deputy coroner, under Dr. Wilking. In November, 1912, he was elected coroner of Huntington county, for the regular term of one year. He was also the first medical inspector of school children, but resigned the office to accept that of coroner, in which he has proved a capable official. Among other professional relations he has membership in the Huntington .County Medical Society, and the State Medical Society. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is medical examiner for all these well known fraternities. On the democratic side he takes an active part in political affairs, and in every way is a most genial gentleman. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Galbreath in 1910 married Miss Flossie Beezley. They are the parents of one son, Robert.

Henry W. Hoc. The Huntington Brewing Company, of which Mr. Hoch is president and treasurer, operates a plant in the city of Huntington which for thirty years or more has been one of the substantial institutions of both city and county. Under the present management the business has been kept up to the very highest standards, its product is regarded as unexcelled among Indiana breweries, and is widely distributed over a large territory. The brewery, which under successive managements and changes, is now known as the Huntington Brewing Company's Plant was established in 1870 by Jacob Boos, and was managed by Mr. Boos very successfully until 1890. His successor was Carl Lang, who continued the business and made a number of improvements. In 1901 Mr. Lang disposed of his interests to the Huntington Brewing Company. The Huntington Brewing Company was incorporated in 1901, with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars. It was at that time that Mr. Hoch became president and treasurer, and has since continued in active direction of the company's local affairs. The brewery is a large structure, in which is installed the latest improved machinery and facilities for the manufacture of high class malt products. The capacity is eighteen thousand barrels a year. A large share of this

Henry W. Hoch is a master of his business, and knows it in every detail from the technical processes to the business end. He is a native of the state of Wisconsin, born in the city of Waukesha, July 23, 1859. His parents, William and Martha (Wiggs) Hoch, were both born in Germany, and came to the United States when very young.. Henry W. Hoch was educated first in the public schools, later in the State University of Wisconsin at Madison, and subsequently took a commercial course in a school at Minneapolis. His regular business career began as a bookkeeper and he served under several different firms. In Chicago he was employed in a wholesale grocery house, and from there went to Marquette, Michigan, where he established a plant for the bottling of soft drinks, and also did business for a local brewing company. His mastery of the brewing business and his general ability gradually enlarged his interests, and for more than ten years he has been at the head of one of Huntington's important establishments.

Mr. Hoch married Miss Ida Thoney, a daughter of John ionsy an old resident of Marquette, Michigan. They are the parents of three children: Edna M., who is a graduate in music from St. Mary's, Notre Dame; Arthur R., a graduate of the Huntington high school and now a student in his father's alma mater, the State University of Wisconsin ; and Mildred L., a student in St. Mary's parochial school at Huntington. Mr. Hoch and family are communicants of the Catholic faith.

Mr. Hoch is a democrat and was alderman in Marquette, Michigan. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, being a trustee in both organizations and is also a member of the Loyal Order of Moose.

Tuomas J. SICKAFOOSE. If success in the world is measured by the attainments of sufficient of the world's goods to satisfy all the needs of a family, and by service in all the posts to which public responsibility calls, then Thomas J. Sickafoose is properly regarded as one of Huntington county's successful men. Forty-five years ago when he married he had nothing except ability of his hands, and a first-class reputation for honesty and industry. Since then he has acquired a fine homestead, has provided liberally for himself and family, and is one of the most substantial citizens in Clear Creek township.. Previous to that he had given loyal service to his country as a soldier of the Union army, and in his subsequent career he has served as township assessor, as justice of the peace and as notary public.

Thomas J. Sickafoose was born in Washington township of Whitley county, Indiana, February 17, 1844, a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Becher) Sickafoose. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Ohio. Michael Sickafoose was taken to Stark county, Ohio, when two years of age, and grew up there and was married. The family moved to Indiana, about 1842, locating in Whitley county, where the parents spent the rest of their lives. The father was the owner of

254 acres of land, and by hard work acquired considerable prosperity. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. There were eleven children in the family, two of whom are living at this time. The brother of Thomas Sickafoose is Andrew J., a substantial farmer of Whitley county.

Thomas J. Sickafoose spent his early years on a farm in Whitley county. His education was such as was afforded by the common schools, during his youth, and during the five years of his school age he had the privilege of attending the school about three months each year. However, he managed to acquire a substantial training, and has always been a man interested in affairs, and has done a great deal of reading.

He was about seventeen years old when the war broke out. On September 22, 1862, he enlisted in Company E of the Fifty-fourth Indiana Infantry. This regiment was in the Fourth Army Corps. He went to Indianapolis with his command in December, 1862, going first to Memphis, Tennessee. In the following year he participated in the campaigns and series of engagements which led up to the siege and capture of Vicksburg. At Chickasaw Bluff he was twice wounded. He was in the battle of Arkansas Post, while among the troops under the command of General Grant, and was in many fights, and finally was present at the surrender of Vicksburg in July, 1863. After fourteen months' of active service, he received his honorable discharge and returned home on January 1, 1864. Mr. Sickafoose had a brother, John, who enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Battery of Columbia City, Indiana, in 1861. His battery was in the Army of the Cumberland and served till July, 1864. He was shot through the hips by a sharpshooter and died July 17, 1864.

After several years spent in Whitley county, and in getting his © first experiences as a farmer and business man, Mr. Sickafoose was married in January 28, 1868, to Mary J. Kimmel of Whitley county. Mrs. Sickafoose was born in the state-of Illinois, May 3, 1844. When three years of age was taken by her people to Stark county, Ohio, where she grew to womanhood, and she also spent three years in Virginia. She received her education in the district schools, and in 1863, her family moved to Whitley county.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sickafoose started out on a rented farm and were very poor for several years. By hard work and close economy, they managed to have a little more at the end of the year than they had at the beginning, and prosperity finally began to come in larger measure. Mr. Sickafoose in those early years was employed in a sawmill and at the carpenter's trade. The basis of his present success may be said to have been established about 1878, when he bought twenty acres of land. He has gone on increasing his property until he now owns one hundred and sixty acres, comprising one of the best farms in Clear Creek township. Mr. and Mrs. Sickafoose are the parents of two children: Minor L., born November 7, 1868, married Emma Summers, and is a farmer and operates a threshing outfit; Eva M., born August 4, 1873, is the wife of M. O. Sprinkle, a resident of Clear Creek township. The family are members of the United Brethren church at Goblesville, and Mr. Sickafoose is corresponding secretary of the Young People's Endeavor Society. In politics he is an old-line republican, and has voted for that party since he came out of the army.

Joun F. Maurer, JR. One of the admirably improved landed estates that lend to the attractions and industrial prestige of Huntington county is the fine Greenwood Stock & Poultry Farm, of which the progressive and enterprising proprietor is Mr. Maurer - a citizen of distinctive loyalty and public spirit and one who stands representative of the best element in the community life. He is a substantial and prominent exponent of the live-stock and poultry industries in this part of the state and is well entitled to consideration in this history. His splendid farm is most eligibly situated, as it is but three miles distant from the county court house, in the city of Huntington, and is located on the well improved Mount Etna turnpike road, recognized as one of the model thoroughfares of this section of the state.

Mr. Maurer takes a due measure of pride and satisfaction in reverting to the fine old Hoosier State as the place of his nativity, and here he has found ample opportunity for the achieving of definite independence and prosperity. He was born in Wabash county, Indiana, on the 13th of October, 1863, and is a son of John F. and Mary E. (Clupper) Maurer, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania and both of staunch German lineage. The parents of the subject of this review were young at the time when the respective families were founded in Indiana, and their marriage was solemnized in Wabash county, this state, where they still maintain their home, sterling and honored citizens who are well known throughout the county that has long been their home and in which John F. Maurer, Sr., who is now living virtually retired, is a substantial and influential citizen. Of the four children, John F., Jr., of this sketch, is the eldest; George G. is a prosperous farmer in Wabash county, as is also William L.; and Charles C. is now a resident of Portland, Oregon.

He whose name introduces this article was reared on the old homestead farm of his parents, in Wabash county, and he continued to attend the district schools until he was sixteen years of age, the foundation thus laid having proved an adequate basis for the substantial superstructure of broad information and mature judgment that represent his intellectuality at the present time. He continued to assist his father in the work and management of the home farm until he was twenty-four years of age, but soon after attaining to his legal majority he had initiated independent operations in connection with the important line of industry under the influence of which he had been reared. For several years he farmed on rented land in his native county and finally he became the owner of eighty acres of land in Miami county. Industry and energy brought their rewards, and increasing prosperity attended the well ordered endeavors of Mr. Maurer. He finally disposed of his property in Miami county, and on the 13th of October, 1904, he came to Huntington county, where he purchased his present fine farm, which comprises

120 acres and which was formerly owned by Francis B. Fulton. He has made many improvements on the place, especially in equipping the same with the most modern facilities requisite in connection with the raising of high-grade live stock, to which branch of farm industry he gives special attention, as does he also the raising of fine poultry. He is one of the leading exponents of these important lines of enterprise in Huntington county and as a man and a progressive and public-spirited citizen he has inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem.

The basic principles of the Republican party have always received the stanch support of Mr. Maurer, and while he has not been imbued with any aspiration for official preferment he is distinctively broadminded and progressive in his civic attitude. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church in the Greenwood neighborhood and in the same he is specially active in the work of the Sunday school, of which he is serving as treasurer at the time of this writing, in 19138.

In connection with the activities of his farm it may be stated that Mr. Maurer has been specially prominent and successful in the breeding of registered Chester White swine, and on the place he has at all times specimens of the highest grade. He finds ready demand for his hogs on the part of other breeders, and has conducted a number of public sales of his fine stock in this line. He has been likewise successful in the breeding of fine poultry and is one of the leading exponents of this line of enterprise in his home county, raising Barred Plymouths and Buff Orpingtons:

On March 22, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Maurer to Miss Mary E. McClain, who was born and reared in Miami county, this state, and who is the gracious and popular chatelaine of their attractive and hospitable home. They have three children, all of whom remain at the parental home. Clara and Hazel are graduates of the graded schools, and Floyd, the only son, was born June 9, 1902, and is now in the fifth grade of the public schools. The pretty home of Mr. Maurer is known as ''The Greenwood Stock and Poultry Farm.''

Dennis Summers. After years of earnest and fruitful endeavor Mr. Summers is now living virtually retired in the pleasant little village of Goblesville and is known and honored as one of the sterling citizens of Huntington county, which has represented his home since his boyhood days and in which he was long and successfully identified with the great

'basic industry of agriculture. He is a member of one of the worthy pioneer families of this county, within whose borders his parents established their residence more than sixty years ago, and he has witnessed and assisted in the development of the industrial resources of the county, the while he has stood exponent of loyal and progressive citizenship, with his course so ordered as to win and retain to him the confidence and high regard of all who know him.

leather) Summers. In the paternal line the genealogy is traced back to stanch Switzerland origin and the mother is of Hessian parentage. The progenitors of the American branch of the Summers family came from Germany about the time of the war of the Revolution. James Summers was a son of Andrew Summers and the maiden name of his mother was Sentz. Andrew Summers was a son of Peter and Ella (Estey) Summers, the family name having been long and worthily identified with the annals of American progress. On the 15th of November, 1851, James Summers arrived with his family in Huntington county, whither he came from the old home in Ohio. He first occupied a little stone house that stood on the site of the present Knights of Pythias Home, and in the spring of 1852 he removed to a tract of land which he had purchased in Clear Creek township. There he devoted himself earnestly and indefatigably to the development of his farm and there he continued to reside until his death, which occurred on the 26th of February, 1863. His widow survived him by more than forty years and remained on the old homestead until she too was summoned to the life eternal, on the 12th of February, 1909. She attained to venerable age and was one of the oldest and best loved pioneer women of the county at the time of her demise. Of the ten children only three are living, and of these Dennis, of this review, is the eldest; Sarah is the wife of Reuben Hoops and they reside in the state of California, their home being at Marion, San Bernardino county; and Diana resides in the city of Muncie, Indiana.

Dennis Summers was a lad of six years at the time of the family removal from Ohio to Huntington county, and here he was reared to maturity under the sturdy discipline of the home farm, the while he duly availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He had full appreciation of the independence and opportunities offered in connection with agricultural pursuits, and to the same he paid continuous and effective allegiance during the course of a long and active career. He became the owner of one of the finely -improved farms of Clear Creek township, and this valuable estate of 50 acres he continued to retain in his possession until February, 1913, when he disposed of the property on favorable terms, his years of close and able application having gained to him a substantial competency, so that the gracious evening of his life is assured of prosperity and most pleasing environments, now that he has retired from the active labors that long engrossed his time and attention. He is the owner of valuable realestate in the city of Huntington, judicial center of the county, and also in the village of Goblesville, where his holdings include his attractive residence property. Mr. Summers has contributed a generous quota to the industrial and civic progress and upbuilding of the county in which he has resided from his childhood, and he has been significantly liberal and public-spirited in his attitude. For fully twenty years he served as supervisor of Clear Creek township, and his long incumbency of this important office was fruitful in the promotion of the best interests of his township, besides being indicative of the unqualified confidence and esteem in which he is held in the community. , For eight years he was superintendent of the Columbia City pike road, one of the finest gravel roads traversing Huntington county. In politics Mr. Summers has been a stalwart advocate of the basic principles of the republican party, to which he still pays allegiance, as a member of its progressive wing. He is affiliated with West Point Lodge, No. 688, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in their pleasant home in the village of Goblesville he and his wife find satisfaction in extending cordial welcome to their wide circle of friends.