Kosciusko County, Indiana - The whole text, 1919 (part 10 of 11)

William W. Gilliam grew up on the old farm in Tippecanoe Township. He had a common school education and was at home with his parents until twenty-one, when he started out to carve his own fortune in the world.

In 1872 he married Miss Mary C. Baker, a native of Kosciusko County. His career has been spent as a progressive farmer of this county. He now owns 330 acres comprising his home place in Wayne Township and also has 145 acres in LaGrange County. He combines good stock with productive fields, and his farm is one of the chief producing centers of agricultural supplies in the-county. ,

Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam have three children: Mabel, who finished her education in high school and is now the widow of George A. Snyder of Warsaw; Mary, a graduate of the common schools and wife of William R. Hall, of Warsaw; and Fred E., who was educated in the public schools and is a farmer in Plain Township. He married Irene Hill.

Mr. Gilliam and family are members of the Progressive Brethren Church at Warsaw and he is one of the deacons. Politically he is a republican and is at present serving on the Township Advisory Board.

Rev. George H. THayer. Hon. JoHn D. THayer. For a period of more than fifty-five years the name Thayer has been one of greatest significance in Kosciusko County. Members of the family have been effective upholders of the Christian religion and every phase of morality and intellectual and spiritual progress. They have been business men of more than ordinary ability, have been leaders in public affairs, and the City of Warsaw in particular has cause to remember their attainments and influence with gratitude.

The Rev. George H. Thayer was best known to this community and all over Northern Indiana as a pioneer Methodist preacher, one who was a true missionary and carried the Gospel word to many isolated communities. He was born December 29, 1807, in Brown County, New York. His father was James Thayer, a native of Massachusetts and of colonial ancestry. James Thayer served as captain of a company of militia during the War of 1812. Rev. George H. Thayer was graduated from Onondaga Academy and both prior to his graduation and afterwards he taught school. When about eighteen years of age he was converted and joined the Methodist Church. In 1836 he entered the ministry and for a number of years pursued the work without compensation, undertaking the arduous role of the itinerant minister, walking and riding horseback for miles to keep his appointments. He is properly remembered among the pioneer evangelists of that faith in Northern Indiana. In 1845 he located at Peru, Indiana, and three years later moved to Marshall County. From there in 1859 he came to Bourbon in Kosciusko County, and laid out Thayer's Addition to that town. Rev. George H. Thayer was a man of strong force of character, was public spirited, an earnest worker on matters pertaining to religious and educational development, and for these and many other reasons his life should be a matter of record in Kosciusko County. He was not only devoted to his duty as he saw it, but was an original and profound thinker on many subjects, and a man of enlightened opinions and convictions. He cast his first presidential ballot for Andrew Jackson, but later became a whig, and still later supported the republican principles. He was a Knight Templar in the

Masonic fraternity. His death occurred December 6, 1899, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. His first wife was Hannah Griffin, who died in 1865. She was the mother of three children: Henry G., John D. and Frances Augusta. Both the sons became prominent men in Indiana. In 1867 Rev. Mr. Thayer married Mrs. Amelia Crockett. To that union were born two daughters: Lillie and Emma G.

Hon. John D. Thayer, who left an indelible impress not only upon business affairs but upon the public life of Kosciusko County, was one of the sons of the late Rev. George H. Thayer. John D. Thayer was born in Syracuse, New York, Mav 27, 1840. and when about five years of age accompanied his father to Peru, Indiana, spent part of his early youth in Marshall County, and went with his father to Bourbon in Kosciusko County in 1859, and helped the latter develop a farm there. Thus the early circumstances of John D. Thayer were those of a rural community. He gained his education in district schools and came to manhood on the old farm near Bourbon. He also supplemented his early education by a course in DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. He had also taught school prior to going to college.

It was his early ambition to become a lawyer, though destiny overruled and his life work was chiefly in business and industrial affairs. He lived at both Bourbon and Plymouth for several years, and at

In 1862 John D. Thaver married Sara Erwin, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Scott) Erwin, who were Quaker settlers in Marshall County, Indiana. About a year after his marriage Mr. Thayer moved to Warsaw, and that city was thenceforth his home. With his brother Henry G. he bought the mill west of the square which originally was built by Colonel Chapman. This industry they operated for a number of years. In 1876 John D. Thayer bought the Big Four grain elevator, and operated it until he sold the building to J. F. Beyer to be used asa barn. He next bought the elevator originally owned by Samuel Oldfather. He continued in the elevator and grain business until his death.

In many ways Mr. Thayer was prominently identified with the affairs of Warsaw. He was an ardent republican and was twice honored by election to the Lower House of the State Legislature. and once to the State Senate. He was not a silent member of the legislative body, but did much to shape legislation during his term of service. He was author of some of the measures still found on the statute books of the state. Fraternally he was active in the Masonic Order, attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and was also a Knight Templar. Anything that was undertaken to make a better and greater city was sure to appeal to him, and he took a great deal of pride in the prosperity and welfare of his own community, and in every way possible assisted its progress.

This sterling citizen of Warsaw passed away January 28, 1895. He and his wife were the parents of six children, two of whom died in infancy, and the other four are Mattie O.. now Mrs. E. E. Hendee, of

Mrs. Thayer was of the Quaker religious belief, but owing to the fact that there was no organization of Quakers at Warsaw she and the rest of her family attended the Presbyterian Church. In her younger days she taught school, and through all her life she kept in close touch with educational affairs. She was an able helper and adviser to the able man with whom she lived for a period of thirty-three years. Her death - oceurred September 10, 1914. She took a very active part with other Warsaw women in the work of the W. C. T. U., and some forty years ago she was one of the participants in the liquor crusades. She was also a member of the Zerelda Reading Club, and she and Mr. Thayer were among the charter members of the local chapter of the Order of Eastern Star.

Joun S. CoNKLIN has become well known to different farming sections in Kosciusko County as a veteran thresherman. He has been operating threshing outfits over this district for over twenty-five years. Mr. Conklin is also a practical farmer and his home is 214 miles southeast of Warsaw.

He was born on the southeast corner section of Wayne Township on February 8, 1869, son of Cyrus E. and Isabel J. (Lucas) Conklin. Mr. Conklin grew up on the farm where he was born and attended the district schools to the age of eighteen. After that he worked at home and at the age of twenty-one, on July 12, 1890, married Miss Laura J. Walker. Mrs. Conklin was born half a mile north of her husband's birthplace, and they attended the same school and were in the same classes.

After their marriage they took charge of the Conklin home farm, later lived on the Walker farm, and from that moved to another place nearby. When twenty-five years old, in 1895, Mr. Conklin bought his first threshing outfit and has been continuously in the business with all the changes and incidents thereto for more than twenty-five years. He is now using his fourth outfit, which represents a remarkable advance over the first machinery, which at the time was the best on the market. Mr. Conklin had the distinction of operating the first wind stacker over a district between the Nickel Plate Railroad and the Pennsylvania lines.

Mr. and Mrs. Conklin have seven living children. Frank, a graduate of the Warsaw High School and who also studied at Winona, became first sergeant in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Mobile Ordnance repair shops and now in France. Harry, who also represents the family in army service, is a graduate of the common schools and is a member of Battery D of the One Hundred Thirty-seventh Field Artillery and now in New Jersey. Mary is a graduate of the common schools and is the wife of Carl Funk. Eva is still at home and Zola May and Lola Fay, twins, born December 17, 1911, have recently begun their school careers. The youngest of the family is Ralph, aged five years.

Order of Odd Fellows at Claypool and is also a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. Politically he votes as a democrat in national affairs, but is liberal and gives his support to the best man in local questions.

Jacos W. Marz, who has a fine farm property in the northeast corner of Wayne Township, is of that type of citizens who begin life without special advantages or the inheritance of means except the ability to toil and make the best of environment.

He has proved himself one of the sturdy characters of Kosciusko County, and though he and his wife had absolutely nothing when they married they are now possessed of some valuable property and have gained an enviable station in life.

Mr. Matz was born in Franklin County, Ohio, April 18, 1860, son of Daniel and Mary A. (Matz) Matz. Both parents were natives of Berks County, Pennsylvania. They spent their last years in Ohio. Of their six children five are still living: Sidney; Orlando Franklin; Ida J., a graduate of the Wooster High School and of Akron College, and now a teacher in the schools of Akron; and Ella, wife of Loren . Lounsbury, of Akron.

Jacob W. Matz grew to manhood in Wayne County, Ohio, and was educated in the district schools. He was only thirteen when he started to make his own living. For several years he worked on a farm at wages of only $4 a month. On the 24th of December, 1882, he arrived in Kosciusko County. He was poor and practically a stranger, and for several years he continued to do farm work at wages.

On November 19, 1885, he married Lydia Freesner. Mrs. Matz was born in Hocking County, Ohio, and was two years old when her parents moved to Kosciusko County, where she grew up and received her education in the district schools, and she also taught school in the eounty. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs, Matz rented land in the county until 1900, when they achieved one definite advance in prosperity by purchasing seventy-three acres of land where they now live. Since then other items have been added to their prosperity, and besides they have twenty-five acres in Tippecanoe Township and fifty acres in Plain Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Matz have also been active in the affairs of their community and are members of the Progressive Brethren Church at Dutchtown. In politics Mr. Matz is a republican. He and his wife have three children: Ida A., a graduate of the common schools and wife of R. W. Kile; Anna, who has finished the work of the common schools and lives at home; and Luella, who is also at home. All are graduates of the common schools.

Joun D. Gopparp, owner of one of the largest farms of Kosciusko County, has spent practically all his life in Indiana, and is an honored surviving veteran of the Civil war. He fought valiantly for the cause of the Union, and his entire career may be described as a battle, since he had to struggle for his own living when a mere boy. With the aid of a good wife he has acquired substantial means and is one of the

Mr. Goddard was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, near Battleground, November 9, 1842, son of Benjamin H. and Nancy (Deardoff) Goddard. His father was a native of the State of Maine and his mother of Ohio. Both families were pioneers in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where Benjamin Goddard and wife married and where they lived on a farm until 1846. In that year they removed to Newton County, Indiana, which was then just beginning to be settled. Benjamin Goddard died there in 1847. His wife married again and survived him nearly fifty years. She passed away at Morocco, Indiana, in 1904. Benjamin Goddard and wife had five children: Sarah Ann, who died in 1874; Matilda, widow of Lafayette McCullough, living at Leon, Kansas; Catherine, widow of Finley Shaffer, a soldier of the Civil war; John D.; Melissa, wife of John Smart, living near Morocco. The second husband of Nancy Goddard was Andrew Murphy, who gave up his life as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war.

John D. Goddard started to make his own way in the world whenonly ten years old. He was employed at monthly wages on a farm to the age of eighteen. He responded with all he had to the call of ' President Lincoln for volunteers to put down the rebellion and on September 7, 1861, enlisted in Company D of the Ninth Indiana Infantry. He was with the regiment on constant duty until mustered out three years later in September, 1864. He was wounded in the great battle of Chickamauga. His first battle was at Greenbrier, following which he participated at Stone River, Chickamauga, and a number of the battles leading up to the Atlanta campaign. Following the war he returned to Newton County, Indiana, and resumed his ¢areer as a farmer.

On February 15, 1866, Mr. Goddard married Mary J. Kessler. Mrs. Goddard was born in Newton County September 4, 1845, daughter of David and Rachel (Fisher) Kessler. Her father was a native of Virginia and her mother of Indiana. Her parents were the first couple married at Battle Ground. Mrs. Goddard was reared in Jasper County, now Newton County, Indiana. Her father was a stanch republican and a member of the United Brethren Church.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Goddard settled on the farm of his father-in-law, and later he bought the farm and was greatly prospered as a farmer in Newton County until he left there in 1901 and came to Warsaw. In Kosciusko County Mr. Goddard has invested heavily in land and now owns 535 acres.

Mr. Goddard is one of the interesting men who voted for President Lincoln during the Civil war times. He became a republican then and has always been true to the doctrines of the party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Warsaw, and he is affiliated with his old army comrades in the Grand Army Post.

Mr. and Mrs. Goddard have had the following children: Clara, of Denver, Colorado; Anna, deceased; Rachel Raye, wife of Alexander Craig, of Bristow, Connecticut ; William, who owns a farm in Cali-

Wituiim H. Orr. The winning of a comfortable prosperity after many struggles with fortune and the establishment of a home and place as an honored and influential citizen of his community is a short measure of the accomplishment of William H. Orr, who for many years has been identified with Kosciusko County. Mr. Orr is proprietor of the well known Brookside Farm, comprising 160 acres 314 miles northeast of Warsaw in Wayne County.

He is a native of Wayne County, Ohio. Ilis first place was in Orrville, a town which was laid out by three brothers, Smith, James and Samuel Orr, all of whom emigrated from Ireland, first settling in Philadelphia and from there going to Wayne County, Ohio, when it was a wilderness community. Of these three brothers James Orr was grandfather of William H. Orr. His children were named Barr R., Samuel, James, William, Henry, Elizabeth, Mariah, Margaret, Mary, Amanda.

Samuel Orr, the father of William H. Orr, married Mary McClellan, of Apple Creek. They had two children, William H. and Ann Eliza, the latter dying at the age of fourteen. Samuel Orr died in Ohio, and his widow, about 1852, brought her family to Indiana, locating at Anderson, and about 1855 going by ox team to Noble County, Indiana.

When he was sixteen vears old William H. Orr left home and started to make his own living. He had the equipment of a district school education. After some years of self support he entered, at the age of twenty-three, Valparaiso College and was graduated in the teachers and business course. For a time he was located at Ligonier, and for about eighteen years was in business in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan. In April, 1891, he traded for a farm and later bought his present place, the Brookside Farm in Kosciusko County.

Mr. Orr has four children: Mabel, wife of Homer Van Curen; Iva, wife of Walter Hover; Mary, wife of Earl D. Keefer; and William A., who is a graduate of the Warsaw High School and is still at home. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Morris Chapel, and Mr. Orr is one of the trustees. He is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees at Ligonier and in politics is a democrat. Judge William Orr, a prominent figure in the bar and affairs of Wayne County, Ohio, is a first cousin of Mr. Orr's father.

Harry Laturopsz is one of the oldest residents of Kosciusko County. He has been identified with the county in the capacity of a substantial mechanical workman or as a farmer for fully half a century. He is now proprietor of a good farm of forty acres known as the Silvias Ramble Farm, located 314 miles southeast of Warsaw in Wayne Townip. on rural route No. 6. ae Lathrope is a native of England, having been born at Denby Dale in Yorkshire April 8, 1849. He was sixtcen years old when he eame with his parents to the United States in August, 1865. The family located at Warsaw, where Harry Lathrope grew to maturity.

Mr. Lathrope married Huldah Elder. Mrs. Lathrope was born 514 miles from Warsaw in Washington Township September 25, 1858. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lathrope located at Warsaw, where he followed his trade for many years. In 1910 they moved to their present: comfortable home in the country. They became the parents of two children, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lathrope made a trip back to England in April, 1892, and spent several months in the old country visiting friends and familiar scenes. Mr. Lathrope is a member of the Church of England and is a republican in politics.

JONATHAN WyLanpb. Some highly developed farms lie along rural route No. 6 out of Warsaw in Wayne Township, and one of them is the place of Jonathan Wyland in the southeast corner of that township, in section 36. Mr. Wyland has given a good account of his energies and abilities and deserves to rank well to the front among the - farming men of one of the richest agricultural sections of Indiana.

Mr. Wyland is a native of Kosciusko County, born in Tippecanoe Township April 22, 1862, son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Bowman) Wyland. His father was a native of Ohio and his mother of Pennsylvania. Both parents came to Indiana in early days, the Wylands loeating in Kosciusko County and the Bowmans in Noble County. Jonathan, Sr., and wife after marriage located on a farm in Tippecanoe Township, where he entered 126 acres of government land, and there they spent their useful careers. Both were active Christians, and very fine people. Of their fifteen children the following are still living: Daniel, of Michigan ; Nathaniel, of Oregon; Alfred, of Michigan ; Ford, who lives in the State of Washington ; Emanuel, of Kosciusko County ; Elizabeth, wife of Emanuel Fanciel, of Noble County, Indiana; Mary M., wife of Daniel Llewellyn, of Elkhart County, Indiana; and Jonathan.

Jonathan Wyland grew up on the old homestead in Tippecanoe Township and was educated in the district schools. At the age of twenty he started to make his own living and did farm work until his marriage in December, 1885, to Miss Caroline Mindline, of Tippecanoe Township. Mrs. Wyland is a native of Ohio, but has spent most of her life in Kosciusko County.

The first five years after his marriage Mr. Wyland did farming and saw milling and in 1890 moved to Wayne Township, and has owned and occupied his present home in the southeast quarter of that township since 1910. By the united industry and economy of himself and good wife he has built up a fine estate of 180 acres. His reputation as a farmer is most widely known as a successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. His herd is headed by Warsaw Victor. He also breeds Duroe and Poland China hogs. He is a prohibitionist in polities and is very active in the United Brethren Church.

He and his wife have two children: Lester E., born May 20, 1891, is a graduate of the common schools and of Winona Academy in 1910, and by his marriage to Margaret Hickok has four children, named

HISTORY OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY 661 Margaret, Rose M. and Catherine, twins, and Florence V. Both he and his family are members of the United Brethren Church. Devona,

Homer T. MENzIE is one of the residents of Kosciusko County with whom love of land, of peace and industry is a dominant characteristic. Mr. Menzie has one of the good farms seven miles east of Warsaw, on rural route No. 3, and does a splendid business in general farming and stock raising.

He was born at the place he now owns December 24, 1884, son of William T. and Emily (Groves) Menzie. His parents were also born in Kosciusko County and represented early pioneer families here. The mother was born in Washington Township October 8, 1848. After their marriage they settled on the 'farm where their son Homer now lives, and the father lived there until his death on December 8, 1885. There were five children: Verna, wife of H. C. Rosselot, of Long Beach, California; Ada, wife of D. F. Van Nattor, on a farm in Washington Township; Mary, wife of F. P. Benton, at Warsaw; and A. G., who is foreman for the Winona Electric Light & Water Company.

Homer T. Menzie grew up on the old homestead, gained his education in the common schools, and was reared and trained in the occupation which he has followed chiefly throughout his active career. On reaching manhood he went east and for eleven months was foreman in the plant of the New York Glucose Company at Jersey City and was also weighmaster for the same company. After his marriage he returned to Kosciusko County and has been busily engaged in farming, supervising his fields and crops, and he also buys carload lots of livestock, pasturing and finishing them for market.

Mr. Menzie married Miss Ethel Smith, daughter of G. J. Smith of Kosciusko County. She was born in Wayne Township and was educated in the common schools. They have three children: Lucile, aged ten; Audra, aged nine; and Morris J., aged seven. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Morris Chapel and Mr. Menzie is one of the official board and has served as superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a republican in politics.

GrorcE B. Saumon is one of Kosciusko County's well known citizens who started life without particular advantages and assets and by self denial, thrift and industry gradually accumulated those means which represent financial independence. He is now possessor of a good farm home in Washington Township, a mile south and 114 miles west of Pierceton, on rural route No. 3.

Mr. Salmon is a native of Whitley County, Indiana, born near Larwell July 13, 1866. His parents were Benjamin B. and Susanna (Sickafoose) Salmon. His father was born near Marietta in Washington County, Ohio, and his mother was a native of the same state. When he was three years old his parents moved to Delaware County, Ohio, where he grew up to the age of twenty-one and then came to Indiana in 1843 and located a mile north of Larwell, where he was one of the early settlers. His wife's people had come to Indiana in 1837 and established their home near Lee's Corners in Cleveland Township of Whitley County, where the maternal grandparents of George B. Salmon spent their last years. Benjamin B. Salmon married in Whitley County and was one of the substantial farmers and highly respected citizens of the Larwell community until his death in 1894. He and his wife had three children, Michael dying at the age of six years. Della, who was born in 1864, became the wife of Rev. C. A. Bellheimer, of Elwood, Indiana.

George B. Salmon had the old farm in Whitley County as the scene of his youth and in that locality he attended the common schools to the age of fourteen. After that he was on his own responsibility and worked at any honorable occupation he could find.

After considerable experience and with a view to a settled future he married on March 1, 1892, Miss Elizabeth Ring, who was born and educated in Whitley County. Mr. Salmon worked for some years in a saw mill. He finally bought the old farm in Whitley County, but in March, 1894, moved to Kosciusko County and acquired a good farm of eighty acres where he and his family now reside. Mr. Salmon has prospered here as a general farmer and stock raiser and is a man who takes an active interest in local welfare. He has served as a member of the township advisory board and politically votes the republican ticket.

Mr. and Mrs. Salmon had three children. The daughter Neva was graduated from the common schools and died about the time she attained womanhood. Garth B. is a graduate of the common schools and the local high school, spent one term in Winona and one term in Hanover College, and is still living at home. The youngest'is Dorothy, aged sixteen years. All the family are members of the Presbyterian Church at Pierceton and Mr. Salmon is one of its elders.

Joun L. Boaos, whose concentrated energies through a long period of years have been directed to farming and who owns one of the good places on route No. 6 out of Warsaw, is a member of one of the very earliest families to establish their homes in the wilderness of what is now Kosciusko County. His father was in fact in this county before it was organized and about the time the boundaries were laid out.

Mr. Boggs' grandparents were Andrew and Susannah (Bowen) Boggs, both of whom were born in Greenbrier County, Virginia. They came to Indiana in 1825, about the time Indianapolis was established as a city, and made their home in Wayne County and from there moved to Henry County, where Susannah Boggs died May 4, 1834. Her husband soon afterward located in Blackford County, where he married a second time. He served as a justice while living in Delaware and Blackford counties and was also associate judge of the latter county. He was a man of affairs and was one of the proprietors of Hartford City, county seat of Blackford County. After a long and useful life he died January 27, 1854. ; old when brought to Indiana and grew t and Blackford counties. The sons of the early settlers had very little opportunity to obtain what would now be called a very liberal education, since public schools in the modern sense of the term did not then exist in Indiana. But he wisely made use of such advantages as came to him, and developed a good mind, a resourceful energy, and a character that entitled him to the respect of all who knew him. At the age of fourteen he was practically thrown upon his own resources. At that time, in the spring of 1835, he accompanied two of his brothers from Wayne County to LaPorte County, making the entire journey on foot. He and his brothers worked for a time as farm laborers at ten dollars a month. Later he pursued his journey to Peru in the Miami Reserve, but in the fall of 1835 came to Kosciusko County. For a time he made his home with his brother-in-law Joel L. Long, near Leesburg. Then followed years of toil and careful economy in order to realize his ambition to become a farmer, and land owner, and eventually he acquired a generous property in Prairie Township of Kosciusko County, where he lived until his death. He was a democrat in politics and was a member of the Seventh Adventist Church.

Andrew H. Boggs married, December 14, 1843, Martha Ann Thomas, daughter of Antepas and Axsa Thomas, also natives of Tennessee. The Thomas family were also among the pionecrs of Kosciusko County, arriving here in the fall of 1835. Mrs. Andrew H. Boggs died June 3, 1886. She was a member of the Christian Church. They had a large family of children, and those now living are: Axsa, wife of Samuel Anglin, of Wausau; Thomas W., a farmer in Clay Township; John L.; Ellen; Samuel. who lives in Kosciusko County: Jennie. wife of Edward Shinn, of Oklahoma; Harvey D. of Prairie Township.

John L. Boggs was born on his father's farm in Prairie Township January 7, 1855. In that locality he grew to manhood and acquired an education in the district schools and was a worker on the home place to the age of twenty-three.

On October 25, 1880, he married Miss Rosa Norris. Mrs. Boggs was born in Prairie Township and at the age of three years was left an orphan. She found a good home with Mr. Horn in Elkhart County and was given a good common school education. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Boggs rented his father's farm in Prairie Township for seven years, and then bought his present place in Monroe Township, comprising ninety-six acres, devoted to general farming and stock raising.

He and his wife have three children: Andrew H., a graduate of the common schools who lives on his father's farm. married Rubie Fisher. He also owns fifty-three acres of his own. Virginia, the second child. is the wife of Calvin Smith, owner of a good farm of sixty acres in Clay Township. Mattie is the wife of Walter S. Scott, of Monroe Township. Mr. Boggs has seven grandchildren, five boys and two girls. In polities he is a democrat.

Mr. Smith was born in Richland Township, Holmes County, Ohio, August 13, 1848. He is a son of Peter and Hannah (Patton) Smith. His father was born in Ontario, Canada, and his mother in Pennsyl-| vania. Peter Smith grew to maturity in Canada and then moved to . New York State, where he married a Miss Springenberger. She died in New York State, the mother of eleven children. Later he moved to Pennsylvania and married Miss Hannah Patton, and they finally brought their family to Holmes County, Ohio, where they spent their last years. Peter Smith was a very successful man in handling his affairs whether farming or business, and owned a large place of 400 acres. He was the father of twenty-six children by his two wives.

Charles W. Smith grew up on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, and had training afforded by the public schools of his day. When a single man he moved to Indiana and in Allen County he married Miss Clara Bushong. After their marriage they located on a farm in Allen County and he acquired forty acres there. Selling that they moved to Kosciusko County and bought forty acres in Washington Township, and now own a well improved place of eighty acres 114 miles southwest of Pierceton, on rural route No. 2. Mr. Smith is a republican in politics, but has never sought any of the honors of public affairs. He is a general farmer and stock raiser, and a man whose reputation is one of the best in his part of the county.

Mr. Smith has been twice married. His first marriage, to Clara Bushong, occurred March 26, 1876. His second marriage, to Allie Zinninger, occurred April 12, 1899.

MiuTton I. Koontz. One of the names that is well known to the people of Kosciusko County as representing expert agricultural ability and sound citizenship is that of Milton I. Koontz, who grew up in this county and has distinguished himself by his progressive measures and achievements as a farmer of Monroe Township.

Mr. Koontz was born in Jennings County, Indiana, September 27, 1882, a son of William and Hannah (Bowman) Koontz. His parents were married in Ohio and both were born on the same day, month and year. The father died in 1908. From Ohio they moved to Jennings County, Indiana, and in 1887 located in Monroe Township of Kosciusko County, where they had their home the rest of their lives. William Koontz was a very well to do farmer, and his efforts enabled him to accumulate a large property of 390 acres. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and in politics a republican. William Koontz and wife have four children: Sadie, wife of Frank Richards, of Whitley County, Indiana; Rilla, widow of Charles Barnhart; Calvin M., of Monroe Township; and Milton.

Milton I. Koontz has lived in Kosciusko County since he was five years old. He was educated in the common schools of Monroe Township and lived at home until his marriage to Miss Elnore Workman. Mrs. Koontz is a native of Kosciusko County and was reared and educated here.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Koontz settled on 160 acres which he bought from his father's estate. He has made a splendid success both in his fields and in the handling of his livestock. The farm equipment of the Koontz place measures up to the very best found anywhere in the county. The barn is in its main dimensions 40 by 60 feet, with an L 30 by 40 feet. There is a basement under the entire structure and it has capacity for holding an immense amount of stock and farm material. The Koontz home is one that many city people might envy. It contains nine rooms, is furnace heated, and has all the up-to-date conveniences and facilities.

Mr. and Mrs. Koontz are the parents of five children: Leota, Ammen, Esther, Ruth and Marie. Fraternally Mr. Koontz is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and in politics is a republican.

Catvin M. Koon7z is one of the substantial element of agriculturists in Kosciusko County and is said to have one of the best kept farm homes in Monroe Township. This farm is known by the popular name of Woodside Farm and comprises ninety-five well cultivated and managed acres located 514 miles northwest of South Whitley, on rural route No. 3.

Mr. Koontz was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 19, 1880, son of William and Hannah Bauman Koontz. Three weeks after his birth his parents moved to Indiana and located in Jennings County and eight years later came to Kosciusko County, where Calvin M. Koontz has spent all his subsequent years. He was educated in the common schools and also in Manchester College.

Mr. Koontz has two children, Thelma, aged ten years, and Edith Stafford. The latter is the daughter of his wife by a formcr marriage. Thelma is his first wife's child. In 1914 Mr. Koontz married Mrs. Zelma Idle Stafford, daughter of T. H. Idle.

Mr. Koontz is a very active and prominent member of the Christian Church, being president of the board of trustees and serving as superintendent of the Sunday school now in his eighth year, and for four years was superintendent of the Monroe Township Sunday School Association and is now its vice president. He is affiliated with Springfield Lodge No. 213 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is part grand of the lodge and member of the Encampment. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and in politics is a republican. He has been party committeeman, and in many other ways takes an active interest in local affairs.

ABRAHAM PFLEIDERER. A mark of special esteem and confidence has been reposed in Abraham Ptleiderer by his fellow citizens in Monroe Township, who have continuously kept him in the office of township assessor for the past eight years. __

Mr. Pfleiderer was born in Liberty Township of Crawford County, Ohio, December 19, 1846, a son of David and Mary (Hackenleble) Pfleiderer. His father was born in Germany December 4, 1822, and was brought to this country by his parents in the fall of 1830, when only eight years old. The Pfleiderers located in Crawford County,

'Ohio, where David Pfleiderer grew to manhood and married Mary Hackenleble, a native of Crawford County. Their children were: Linda Moore, Anna Stafford, Mary Huffman, James B., Clara Simmons, Mattie Fridle and Abraham.

Abraham Pfleiderer grew up in Ohio and has been a practical farmer of Monroe Township for many years. He is a member of the Baptist Church and in politics a democrat, has served as supervisor, as township committeeman and was appointed to the office of assessor in 1911. He is now in his second four-year term.

Mr. Pfleiderer married Sarah A. Wert, who was born in Sandusky Township of Crawford County, Ohio, June 16, 1844, daughter of John and Saloma (Shaffer) Wert. Her parents were both natives of Pennsylvania but spent their last years in Crawford County, Ohio. In the Wert family were seven children, three of whom are still living: J. B. Wert, of Carrollton, Ohio; Eliza Roop, now living with Mr. and Mrs. Pfleiderer; and Sarah A.

Wituiam FE. Merrick is one of those fortunate men who possess farms and landed interests in Kosciusko County. He has lived in this county all his life, came to manhood with ample experience and training in what has proved his permanent vocation, and gradually from year to year has accumulated a property and the other interests that furnish a solid basis of satisfaction and comfort. His home is in Washington Township, 214 miles southwest of Pierceton, on rural route No. 2.

Mr. Merrick was born in Van Buren Township of this county July 13, 1864, son of Henry Edward and Mahala E. (Wright) Merrick. The Merricks are a pioneer family in Kosciusko County. His grandfather, Richard H. Merrick, was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, August 10, 1813, and during his early. life there followed teaming and blacksmithing. He had a very limited education. In Maryland June 6, 1837, he married Miss Nancy Halbert, who was born in Morgan County, Virginia, daughter of Noah and Susan Halbert. In 1848 Richard H. Merrick moved from Maryland to Montgomery County, Ohio, and in 1857 came to Kosciusko County. For seven years he worked the farm of William Felkner south of Milford, and afterwards owned and improved eighty acres in Monroe Township. He died November 29, 1884. He was a member and for many years an elder in the Christian Church and his widow belonged to the same denomination. They had three children, Henrietta S., who married O, O. Felkner, Henry Edward, and Mary C., who married Myron Potter.

Henry E. Merrick was born in Maryland and was a small boy when brought to Kosciusko County. He grew up on a farm in Van Buren Township, had a common school education supplemented by a course in Hillsdale College in Michigan, and for a number of years he was a successful teacher. On July 4, 1863, Henry Edward Merrick married Mahala Wright, who was bern in Kosciusko County

August 28, 1843, and spent all her life in this county. Mr. Merrick died in 1911 and his wife in November, 1917. He was very active in the affairs of the Christian Church, which he served as an officer, and Was a democratic in politics. He and his wife had eight children, two of whom died voung. Those still living are: William E.; Charles E., of Monroe Township; Frank M., of Milford; Neil W., of South Bend; Harry E., of Youngstown, Ohio; and Ralph E., of Elkhart County, Indiana.

William E. Merrick lived on a farm in Van Buren Township to the age of sixteen. His early advantages were supplied by the public schools of Milford and Monroe Township, and he also attended the County Normal and the College at Valparaiso. His early work, like that of his father. was as a teacher, and he had nine terms of teaching to his eredit in this county.

November 8, 1888, he married Sarah A. Frank. She was born in Wood County, Ohio, August 13. 1874, daughter of Thornton and Catherine (Wiley) Frank. Her father was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1832, and moved to Wood County, Ohio, in 1843. He married there December 20, 1860, Catherine Wiley, who was born in Wood County June 16, 1840, daughter of James M. and Sarah (Wright) Wiley. James M. Wiley was born in 1809. Thornton Frank enlisted in Company E of the One Hundred and Fortyfourth Ohio Infantry for service in the Civil war.

After his marriage William E. Merrick began farming in Monroe Township, and after three years moved across the road from his 'former place to his present farm in Washington Township. Five children were born to them. Dongola, born October 4, 1890, is now deceased; Alaroma, born July 10, 1894, is the wife of Frank Green, of Piereceton, and they have one daughter, a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrick, named Sarah E. Green, who was born January 1, 1913. Bunola, the third chjld, was born February 10, 1897, is a graduate and post-graduate of the Pierceton High School, and is now the wife of Walter W. Wiggs. Catherine, next youngest of the family, was born August 5, 1907, and is a student in the common schools, while the youngest, Donnabelle, was born July 31, 1912, and has already begun her schooling. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pierceton and Mr. Merrick has served as church trustee. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and in politics is a democrat.

Epaar H. Henperson has been individually carrying the burdens of agriculture in Kosciusko County for a number of years. Business has prospered under his hand and he has enjoyed many of the good things of life, including a good home and the riches of esteem paid him by his fellow citizens.

Mr. Henderson's home is in Washington Township on rural route No. 2 out of Pierceton. He is a native of Ohio, born in Perry County October 11, 1880, son of George and Almeda (Voorhes) Ifenderson. His parents were also natives of Perry County, Ohio, were married there and in 1885 brought their family to Wayne Township of Kos- ciusko County. They are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Warsaw and the father is a prohibitionist. They have five children: Ruth, wife of J. W. Keefer, of Monmouth, Illinois; Edgar H.; Margaret, wife of Harry Van Meter, of Wayne Township; Edith, a graduate of the Warsaw High School and now a stenographer at Elkhart; and Harold, who married Chloe Thompson and who as a United States soldier took part in the Mexican trouble in 1916 and is now with the army cantonment at Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Edgar H. Henderson was five years old when brought to Kosciusko County. He grew up in this locality, was educated in the district schools and remained at home to the age of twenty. He first married Bertha E. Funk, daughter of S. C. Funk and member of an old and prominent family of this county. Mrs. Henderson died in January, 1912, the mother of four children, Mary, Ward, Edith B. and Fred. Fred is now deceased. Mr. Henderson married for his present wife Edith E. Hawkins. They have two young children, Russell, aged four, and Ralph, aged two. Mr. Henderson is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Loyal Order of Moose and in politics is a republican. His farm comprises forty-three acres in section 30 of Washington Township.

J. R. Hover, editor and proprietor of the Pierceton Record, is descended from one of the first pioneer families of Kosciusko County. Four generations of the Hovers have lived in this county. His father and great-grandfather bore the name Peter and they lived a portion of their lives at least in Kosciusko County. They came to the county in 1837, locating in the vicinity of where the Village of Wooster now stands in Washington Township. When the first election was held in that township there were only five voters and grandfather Peter Hover was one of them. The Hovers as a rule have been agriculturists and in politics their affiliation has been steadily with the republican party since it was organized. The family also furnished charter members to the Presbyterian Church at Warsaw. Peter H. Hover, father of the Pierceton editor, spent his active life as a farmer in this county, and in religion he first was a member of the Baptist Church and later belonged to the United Brethren denomination. He married Lucy Van Ness, a native of Logan County, Ohio. Of their five children three are still living: George A., of Stillwater, Oklahoma; Ida, wife of H. G. Mickey, of Pierceton; and J. R. Hover.

J. R. Hover was born at Wooster in Washington Township March 7, 1870, and grew up in agricultural surroundings. He attended the public schools at Wooster, leaving at the age of sixteen. For about twenty years Mr. Hover suffered from rheumatism, almost to the extent of being completely incapacitated for regular work. He has always been a busy man, and in May, 1910, bought the Pierceton Record which he has successfully managed and edited since that date. He is now serving his third consecutive term as town clerk and is a leader in the republican party.

_ WiLuiAm KIRKENDALL, a prosperous farmer of Washington Township, represents a family that has been identified with Kosciusko County for over eighty years. The good and substantial qualities of the race are exemplified in the career of Mr. William Kirkendall, who began life with practically no means and assets but'has promoted himself until he is now proprietor of one of the excellent farms of the county.

Mr. Kirkendall was born near Milford, Indiana, May 19, 1868, son of Jacob and Christiana (Cook) Kirkendall. Both parents were natives of Ohio and came to Kosciusko County when young people. They married and then settled on a farm near Milford, where the mother died. The only daughter died at the age of twelve years. Her name was Mary. William Kirkendall lost his mother in early infancy, and after that was reared by his grandfather Cook. His grandfather gave him a good home and sent him to school, but at the age of twelve years practically made him manager of the Cook farm. Mr. Kirkendall remained there with added responsibilities and duties until he was twenty-three years old.

On March 19, 1894, he married Miss Minnie Wilkinson, a native of Noble County, Indiana, but reared in Whitley County. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kirkendall settled near the A-Square Schoolhouse on twenty acres of land and gradually added to this until he had a farm of eighty acres. He finally traded that for the 158 acres where he now lives and this home and property represents his substantial achievements.

Mr. and Mrs. Kirkendall have three children, Fred, Hazel and Blanche, all of whom have received the best advantages of the local schools. Mr. Kirkendall is a democrat in politics.

FLoyp Strissy is a present trustee of Turkey Creek Township. In every way he has justified the expectations of his fellow citizens who elected him to that office and it is highly consistent that a member of the Strieby family should be endowed with these responsibilities. The Striebys are a deep rooted stock of Kosciusko County and their names and activities have been a factor in Turkey Creek Township for fourscore years.

The family was established here by William Strieby, grandfather of Floyd. William was born in Pennsylvania March 23, 1811, a son of John and Maria (Richel) Strieby, also natives of Pennsylvania. In the same year that William was born his parents moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and he grew up there and married. His father died in Tuscarawas County in 1841 and his mother in 1839.

December 28. 1830, in Tuscarawas County. William Strieby married Elizabeth Stiffler, who was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1814, and was only three weeks old when her parents moved to Stark County, Ohio. Her father, Conrad Stiffler, was born in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, in 1792, and her mother, Rachel (Fitters) Stiffler, was born in the same county in 1789. Several of the Stiffler children were early settlers in Kosciusko County.

County occurred in July, 1836. The removal was made with two yoke of oxen, a covered. wagon, and besides household goods they brought with them two cows and two yearling heifers. William Strieby bought eighty acres of land in Van Buren Township, but in the following April sold and acquired the 160 acres in section 29 of Turkey Creek Township in which locality he had his home the rest of his life. The trials and adversities which beset the pioneers can be told from the experiences of William Strieby. He paid ten dollars for the first barrel of salt he used in this county. His round log cabin was burned down soon after it was'completed. and in order to re-establish himself he made the journey back to Ohio on foot to secure money for the purchase of his place in Turkey Creek Township. One of the main sources of dependence for provisions was the venison which could be had in abundance. He frequently hunted deer and sold the meat for three cents a pound. At times the family lived on a diet of potatoes, venison and pumpkins. William Strieby bought corn and paid sixty cents a bushel for the first lot and seventyfive cents for the next quantity. He had a wife who was equal to every emergency and without her encouragement and assistance the family would doubtless have returned to Ohio. She helped to clear many an acre of land, cutting all the small timber and even accompanied her husband in hunting deer. As a result of hardships and prevalent fever and ague the family became so discouraged in the fall of 1837 that they determined to return to Ohio. A purchaser was found for their cows but in a day or so Mrs. Strieby decided it would be better for them all if they remained. She was an expert in all the housewifely accomplishments of her time, spinning and weaving wool and yarn and flax and making all the clothing used in the home. She frequently dug up ginseng and lady slipper roots, for which there was an active commercial demand, and at one time she sold a quantity for forty-six dollars. The first wheat harvest was hauled with ox teams to Michigan City in 1840 and sold for two and a half cents a bushel. Large quantities of butter were produced on the farm and it sold for about twelve and a half cents a pound. Mrs. Strieby once carried twenty-five or thirty pounds of butter to Milford, a distance of eight miles.

For all these early disadvantages Mr. and Mrs. William Strieby were greatly prospered in the course of years, and besides their home farm of about 240 acres they gave their children land and money and saw them all well established. On December 28, 1880, William Strieby and wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and though it was one of the coldest days of the winter, nearly fourscore people gathered to do them honor. Before they died they could count nearly sixty grandchildren, and over thirty great-grandchildren. Their children born in Tuscarawas County were Henry, Anna, and Andrew, while those natives of Kosciusko County were William, Joel, Elizabeth. John, Conrad, Sarah, Alfred, Minerva and Barbara.

John B. Strieby, father of Floyd, was born in Turkey Creek Township February 23, 1844, and was one of the sons of the family who served in the Union army. He enlisted in 1864 in Company G of the 38th Indiana Infantry, joining his regiment in Cioldsboro, North Carolina. He was on detail service between Chattanooga and Atlanta, around Nashville, and received his honorable discharge July 15, 1865. After the war he engaged in farming, and acquired over a hundred acres of land in section 28 of Turkey Creek Township. He was an active member of the United Brethren church, and in polities a republican. John B. Strieby married on October 14, 1866, Delilah Cable. She was born in Turkey Creek Township, June 19, 1847, daughter of Cornelius and Margaret (Mock) Cable. John B. Strieby and wife had four children: Ida, born November 9, 1867, wife of Richard Guy, a former trustee of Turkey Creek Township; Alfaretta, born September 15, 1869, wife of David Clayton, of Turkey Creek Township; Floyd; and John Franklin. born August 4, 1877. who farms the old homestead.

Mr. Floyd Strieby was born in Turkey Creek Township, October 10, 1871. He has spent all his life in the locality of his birth, was educated in the local schools, and the cultivation of the land has claimed the largest share of his energies since early manhood. Tle owns sixty acres and is a general farmer and stock raiser.

In 1894 he married Miss Stella Whitehead, daughter of J. A. and Martha (Blanchard) Whitehead. She was reared and edneated in Turkey Creek Township. They have two children. Marie, a graduate of. the common school and the Syracuse High School. was a college student three years and taught school several vears. She is living at home. George, a graduate of the common schools. is also at. home. Mrs. Strieby is a member of the Radical United Brethren Chureh. In polities he is a republican. He was first appointed and served one year as township trustee and was then elected for the regu'ar term of four years. Mr. Strieby has done much to maintain the best standards of the township schools and has proved honest. competent and efficient in every responsibility whether official or of a private nature.

Russet, H. Buruer was born August 7, 1876, at Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana. Three years later his father, Harris E. Butler. disposed of his business interests and entered the ministry. which ealling he faithfully followed for forty years over various fields of labor scattered throughout the northern half of Indiana, familiarly known to members of the United Brethren Church as St. Joseph Conference. From place to place the family was shifted that the father might labor for the betterment of mankind. Although the years were filled with privations and disappointments. the father's faith never wavered and every trial only served to strengthen his determination for greater service. It was this spirit of service he instilled in the members of his family. F é

In the fall of 1897 the family moved from Albion, Indiana, to Warsaw. Since then Russell II. Butler has been a resident of this county. He was educated in the common schools of Westfield, Fulton, Logansport, Galveston and Dayton, Indiana. His high school education was completed in Albion in 1896. The following year he

When President McKinley issued his call for volunteers for the Spanish-American war, Russell H. Butler, who was away from home. responded to the call and enlisted June 27, 1898, at Plymouth, in Company M, 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Col. George M. Studebaker, and was sent into training at Port Tampa, Florida. On his return from the service he enlisted as a sergeant in Company H.., Indiana National Guard, June 20, 1900. The family points with pride to its record as defenders of home, country and liberty.

The great-great-grandfather, Uriah Butler, was a soldier in the. American revolution. The grandfather, Alfred Austin Butler, served in the Mexican war of 1846, also during the Civil war. The father. Rev. H. E. Butler, was one of Indiana's youngest soldiers in the Civil war, where he spent the better part of three years of his young life. His uncle, Richard Butler, served in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American struggle.

The mother of Russell Butler was Rebecca Uncapher Butler, daughter of Israel and Margaret Uncapher. The Uncaphers came from Saxony, Germany, in colonial days and settled in Virginia on the Lord Fairfax estate at an annual rental of two pounds, fifteen shillings and six pence. They were neighbors of George Washington. One member of the family, Dr. Abigal Uncapher, was twice elected to Congress from Maryland.

May 12, 1902, R. H. Butler married Elizabeth Vindor the youngest of a family of six girls born to Rgpig) Foremen of Goshen, Indiana. She was educated in the common and high school at Goshen. When she was but a mere child her father died and before completing high school the death of her mother left her an orphan. To this union was born one child, Wilbur Foreman Butler, March 11, 1903, a graduate of the common schools and a member of the high school. The family are all members of the Presbyterian Church and prominently identified with the church's activities. Mr. Butler has served as a teacher and superintendent for several years in the Sunday school. Under his leadership the school increased to over five hundred in membership. He is a true blue republican in politics and has taken much interest in his party in recent years. He defeated five of his opponents in the first primary election, involving county candidates ever held in Kosciusko County, May 7. 1918, and was elected to the office of county clerk November 5, 1918, by an overwhelming majority. Nearly nine years of his life were spent in the employ of the postal department of the government. He resigned this position to engage in business for himself. In 1908 he established The W. F. Butler Company and did an extensive business, through catalogue, with more than 10,000 schools throughout the states and the island possessions. When the United States entered the World's war the business was suspended.

the late Rev. Mr. Shackelford prosecuted his unselfish labors in the hearts and better natures of his fellow men and was the type of man whose memory endures because of the thousand acts of kindness and of love which he performed as he went through the world.

A native of Ohio, he was born in Fayette County October 22, 1826. He was reared on a farm and educated in district schools. 'At the age of nineteen he came with his parents to Wabash County, Indiana, and soon afterwards was converted to Christianity and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He early decided to dedicate his life to the cause of the Master, and having become an exhorter was ordained to the ministry in 1853 and admitted to the North Indiana Conference. For forty years he was engaged in active ministerial work, and with the exception of three years spent in the Southern Il]linois Conference his labors were confined to Northern Indiana. As is the custom of Methodist ministers, he moved from station to station, and there are many communities which have grateful remembrance of his work and influence. He became widely known for his piety and his exalted character.

In 1891 Rev. Mr. Shackelford retired from active ministerial work, but the habits of four decades had become a part of his nature and he never wholly gave up preaching.

"While the late Mr. Shackelford did not acquire wealth in the material sense of the word, he enjoyed the riches of esteem, and passed away happy in his religious faith. His death occurred at Warsaw February 7, 1900. Mrs. Shackelford was born in Ross County, Ohio, October 14, 1832, a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Holiday) Wilson. Her death occurred December 7, 1911.

TirFIN J. SHACKELFORD, M. D. The spirit of service in Rev. N. D. Shackelford was continued and represented in Kosciusko County many years by his son, the late Dr. Tiffin J. Shackelford, who practiced medicine there over thirty years. a."

He was born February 12, 1855, while his parents were living in Clinton County, Indiana. He gained his early education in several different localities. He graduated from the Logansport High School, and in 1879, after some preliminary study, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and was graduated M. D. in 1882. He served as interne in the Maryland Woman's Hospital and for one year was resident physician of that institution. In the fall of 1883 he became a resident of Warsaw. His standing as a physician and man was the very highest, until his death more than thirty years later. He was always a student of his profession, taking post-graduate courses in New York, Chicago and Baltimore. He was active in those civic, educational and commercial affairs that are most familiar in the city of Warsaw. He served on the County Board of Health for years and as secretary of the City Health Board for several years. He was president and secretary of the County Medi- cal Sociéty several times, and in 1914 was president of the Thirteenth District Medical Society. He was identified with the Indiana State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, was a Knight of Pythias and past eminent commander of Warsaw Commandery No. 10 of the Knight Templar Masons. He was a director of the Lake City Bank, and at his death was first vice president. In many Indiana households a much prized volume is that entitled ''Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose,'' published in 1902. In this volume, among selections by John Hay, Whitcomb Riley, Charles Major, Lew Wallace and many other noted Indiana authors, there is a poem from the pen of Doctor Shackelford. - ©

June 5, 1902, he married Mrs. Emma Irland, a daughter of John Grabner, a Kosciusko County citizen whose career is briefly referred to in following sketch.

Dr. T. J. Shackelford died November 17, 1915, among his friends of many years' service at Warsaw, Ind. He was busy ministering to the sick up to within a few hours of his death and was stricken while on a duty of his profession. He prized his many friendships and never betrayed the trust of his patrons, all of whom honored him with their confidence.

JOHN GRaBNER. For fully half a century, and until his death at the age of fourscore and ten, John Grabner was one of the best known and most valuable citizens of Warsaw.

He was born in Germany November 24, 1827, and was a small boy when brought to America. He came over on a sailing vessel and his youth and early manhood were spent in and around Mansfield, Ohio. He eventually entered the railroad service and for eighteen years had charge of a locomotive either as fireman or engineer.

On moving to Warsaw, Indiana, in 1865, he became a hardware merchant on a small scale. That business continued as part of his enterprises the rest of his life. It became the oldest hardware store under one proprietorship in Kosciusko County. John Grabner was steadily prospered, having that within him which supplemented his untiring industry and enabled him to succeed in all his affairs. He was for many years interested in agriculture, becoming the owner of more than 600 acres in Kosciusko County. Early in the history of the Lake City Bank he became a stockholder, and during his later years was president of that institution.

Though reared in the Roman Catholic religion his spiritual views changed, and for nearly half a century he was identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he was a Mason and a Knight Templar. Politically he was a republican.

_ C, Leroy Leonarp has for many years played an important role in the business affairs of Silver Lake and surrounding community. He is proprietor of the Leonard Supply Company of that town, and is also one of the prominent stock men of Kosciusko County.'

Henry County, Indiana, and when he was a boy his parents settled at Mexico in Miami County. (©. Leroy Leonard spent his boyhood days on a farm not far from Macy, Indiana, and attended the district schools during the-winter terms. At the age of nineteen he came to Silver Lake and in April, 1884, at the age of twenty-one, married Clara Bilger, of that town. She was born in Ohio and came to Kosciusko County when a small girl. Mr. Leonard for a number of years was employed by his father-in-law, John Bilger, in the hardware business. During seven years in the store he learned the business in every detail and then for twelve years was a traveling salesman, representing agricultural and harvesting machinery. He also had an interest in a business of his own, but sold that and took up farming and stock business, and later established his present supply house. Mr. Leonard is widely known among the Shorthorn cattle men of the state. He is a member and director in the Fort Wayne District Shorthorn Breeders' Association and president of the Kosciusko County Shorthorn Breeders' Association. He also has some fancy hogs of the big type Poland China breed, his drove of fifty being headed by Murphy's Wonder, one of the finest males of that breed in the country. Mr. Leonard owns 256 acres of land, divided into two farms, one of them known as the Lakewood Farm and the other the Wildare Farm.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have two daughters: Lela is a graduate of high school and is the wife of Myron E. Murphy, who is acting manager of the Lakewood Farm and owns half the stock interests there. The second daughter, Mina, who graduated from the Silver Lake High School, married Charles Raber, office manager of the Leonard Supply Company.

Mr. Leonard is a republican and for four years was trustee of Lake Township. He is a member of the Masonic blue lodge at 'Warsaw, also the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Commandery branches of the lodge. His wife and daughters are active members of the English Lutheran Church, and he is one of the financial supporters of the church. The appellation of which Mr. Leonard is most proud is business man and farmer and the success which he is meeting in business and farming and pure bred stock raising is of great delight to him.

Saran Roxana CHAPLIN Wince. Life is a strenuous affair in these modern times, even in Kosciusko County. It is a restful inspiration therefore to review a career of such a woman as Mrs. Wince, who has had her full share of the buffets of fortune both good and ill, and yet has passed the age of fourscore with equanimity undisturbed and with a perfect faith in both the present and the ultimate things. Her home for over eighty years has been in Kosciusko County, and her life in many ways reflects the history of its economic, social and spiritual development. '

Mrs. Wince was born February 10, 1838, in a little log cabin on the banks of Eel River near Collamer in Whitley County, Indiana. She was the elder daughter of Stedman Atherton Chaplin and Sarah McQuigg. Her father was born at Baltimore, Windsor County, Vermont, June 2, 1809, and was the oldest son of James Chaplin and Sal- lie Whitney, both of English ancestry. James Chaplin was a son of David Chaplin. The latter's great-grandfather, whose name was probably also David, came from England about 1690 accompanied by a, brother and settled in Massachusetts, probably near Boston, and later in Lunenberg, Worcester County. James Chaplin was born in Lunenberg, July 6, 1778. There were four sons and four daughters in the family of James Chaplin, three of the sons becoming ministers. Joseph Chaplin, the great-uncle of James, served through the Revolutionary war, and one of his brothers in the War of 1812. James Chaplin and Sally Whitney were married about 1808. Sally Whitney's father, John Whitney, was a soldier in the Revolution and served until its close. He again entered his country's service and was stationed on the Oconee River a few miles below Milledgeville, Georgia, from 1793 until 1800. He died April 20, 1800.

. Mrs. Wince's mother Sarah McQuigg was born at Spencer, Tioga County, New York, April 2, 1802. Her first American ancestor was John McQuigg, who was born in May, 1706, and died November 29, 1794, in Litchfield, New Hampshire, and was buried at Bedford. He came to America from the north of Ireland in 1740, escaping from a British press gang on the way by jumping from one hogshead into another. He had eight sons, John, Jr., being born on the way over. Four of these sons served in the Revolutionary war, Daniel, John and David and one whose name is not known. One of them died in the old Sugarhouse prison in New York City. John McQuigg, Sr.'s wife was Mildred Lawson, also a native of the north of Ireland and of Scotch ancestry.

John McQuigg, Jr. was twice married. His first wife was Mollie: Gilmore, by whom he had one child, John M. McQuigg. His second wife was Sarah Coburn, by whom he had eleven children, five sons and six daughters. John, Jr., served in Captain Philip Putnam's company in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nahum Baldwin of Amherst, New Hampshire, and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Hutchins of Concord. The regiment was raised in the latter part of - September, 1776, to re-enforce the army in the State of New York. Whether the other brothers who fought in the War of the Revolution were in the same regiment is not known. John McQuigg, Jr., was one of the pioneers of New York, having gone into the Valley of the Susquehanna by way of Otsego Lake, following the old Indian trail to Owego.

His oldest son, John M. McQuigg, born October 19, 1771, in New Hampshire, died August 18, 1812, at Spencer, Tioga County, New York. He married Lucy Lee, daughter of Henry Lee. Henry Lee was a soldier in the Revolution, came home on a furlough, was stricken with the smallpox and died, his wife dying of the same disease. He left three small girls. John M. McQuigg and Lucy Lee were married by a minister named Spaulding. The young couple were invited to a wedding, and after the first pair had been securely tied and had taken their seats, John and Lucy were married, no one being in the secret but the minister. They were the grandparents of Mrs. Wince. Nine children were born to them, the fourth among: whom was Sarah, who married Stedman A. Chaplin. Lucy McQuigg, after the death of her first husband, married a Revolutionary soldier named Michael Burge, who afterwards became a Methodist minister. In that war he was captured by the British and the story is told how he amused himself by picking the graybacks from his clothes, confining them in a quill, and blowing them on to any luckless British officer who came near.

Stedman Chaplin and Sarah McQuigg were married September. 24, 1834, in Lawrence County, Tennessee. They remained in Tennessee about two years after their marriage, and then came by way of boat and schooner wagon to Whitley County, Indiana, reaching there just after New Year's, 1836. Their first child, Byron Englebert, was born April 2, 1836. The farm they entered was not far from Collamer and was a lovely place in springtime, being a perfect garden of flowers. The Indians were numerous and quite a party of them, hideously painted stayed one night at the Chaplin home, sleeping on the floor. Stedman Chaplin's father, James Chaplin, had settled on Eel River in 1835. Both the Chaplin families moved to Kosciusko County in the fall of 1838, settling on adjoining farms about two miles south of where Pierceton now stands. Mrs. Wince's second brother Virgil Maro was born in the new home April 24, 1840; her sister Henrietta Susan was born June 7, 1842; and her brother John Willard was born August 18, 1846. Byron died November 11, 1858; John, October 15, 1858; Virgil, July 16. 1891; Henrietta still living, married William Clover, March 12, 1868. He died May 13, 1903. Mrs. Clover has four children, all living.

Roxana Chaplin had that type of mind and heart which absorbs abundantly of the great life around her, whether that life is the woods and the wilderness conditions of her youth, or the life of crowded cities. The joys and sorrows of the home, the beauty of nature, the incidents of school and church, were woven into her very being and transmuted there into that patience, kindliness, charity and poetic fervor which have become her habitual expression and the means by which she has accomplished so many worthy and good things in her community. She was an eager student of poetry when a girl and for years she has written hoth poetry and prose, and all her writing has been inspired by a purpose to elevate and do good. As a girl she attended the common schools of Washington Township, and for part of one term was in school at Warsaw, and part of another term at Wolf Lake in Noble County. However, a large part of her education was acquired at home under the wise tuition of her father, who was a man of splendid education, a teacher and a minister of the Gospel. Mrs. Wince taught school for many years, has gardened and raised small fruits on a small scale, has marketed both vegetables and fruit in the Town of Pierceton, and this brief statement would account for the external facts of her life. However, the people that know her best care least for these external circumstances, and love her for those deep and intimate attributes which are not capable of description. She has always been a prohibitionist and wrote the first article on prohibition ever published in Kosciusko County. She was actively identified with the Good Templars in some of those early crusades to overthrow saloons, and has been a member of the Good Templars since the first organization was started at Pierceton. She and her family have always had deep religious experiences, and Mrs. Winee for many years has been identified with the Age to Come Adventists.

On March 13, 1867, at the home of her father in Washington Township she was married to Mr. John L. Wince, a minister and farmer, son of Philip and Martha (Scott) Wince. His father was of German ancestry and his mother was of mingled Scotch, English and Welsh. The Wince family emigrated from Virginia to Ohio when John L., the first child, was a baby. The trip was made in cold November weather by means of a schooner wagon, and the baby cried all the way. From Ohio they moved to Whitley County, Indiana, but not until J. L. Wince had grown to manhood. He was one of ten children. Mr. and Mrs. Wince were one in their faith, their tastes, their aspirations. He too was a writer of verse, and some of his poems were greatly admired and widely copied. He also wrote extensively in prose, and was for many years the pastor of five different churches, and being a man of spotless character, he is still held in fond memory by all who knew him. Mrs. Wince had only one child, a son, born in March, 1872, who died five weeks later, but has brought up two. One, Frances Adella Lenwell, motherless, taken when she was ten years of age, and who grew up to become a beloved and lovely woman.

Miss Lenwell married Christopher Beason for her first husband, by whom she had two sons. She lived with him until her sons were young lads of ten and five years of age, when he became insane and was taken to Longcliff Asylum, where he ultimately died. Mrs. Beaane second husband is a Mr. Cyrus Musselman, still living near

A short time after taking Adella Lenwell, Mrs. Wince took Mrs. Henrietta Clover's youngest son, 214 years old, who had unfortunately been injured by a fall that made it necessary to isolate him from all other children, the fall having brought on epilepsy. He is still with Mrs. Wince, was never cured, is now in his forty-fifth year. Mrs. Wince has mothered nearly a dozen other children at various periods, and has taken into her heart and watched over with tender interest, many, many more. She is ''Auntie'' to all the children everywhere.

NosLe HEADLEE is proprietor of the Twin Elm Farm of Monroe Township. A farm is known by its products just as a factory is, and the distinguished quality of the productiveness of the Twin Elm Farm is a fine herd of Jersey cattle and O I C hogs. Mr. Headlee, its proprietor, is a widely experienced and thoroughly competent agriculturist, and knows how to get the best out of any given acreage or farm plant. His place consists of eighty acres located 314 miles southeast of Pierceton in section 1 of Monroe Township.

Bureau County, Illinois, August 5, 1850, son of Jehu and Diantha (Pratt) Headlee. His great-grandfather, John Headlee, was a Hollander and on coming to the United States settled in North Carolina in 1776, while the Revolutionary war was in progress. He married in that state and spent there the rest of his days. His son, John Headlee, grandfather of Noble, married in North Carolina Elizabeth Long. They then moved to Pennsylvania, lived on a farm, and subsequently moved to what is now Morrow County, Ohio, and were pioneers of that location. After another period of residence in Belmont County, Ohio, the family moved out to Bureau County, Illinois, about 1828. That is one of the earliest years in the annals of what is now one of the richest and most progressive farming communities of Northern Illinois. John Headlee died in that county.

Jehu Headlee was reared in Ohio and Illinois, married in the latter state, and finally moved to Iowa, where he died. He was active as a member and elder of the Disciples Church and in politics was a republican. He and his wife had six children, only two of whom are now living, Hattie and Noble. Flattie is the wife of Capt. T. P. Gray, a clerk in the pension department at Washington, District of Columbia.

Noble Headlee was reared partly in Illinois and partly in Towa, gaining his education in the common schools. He lived with his father to the age of twenty-one and after that made his own way in the world.

January 1, 1888, he married Susan Leedy, who was born in Richland County, Ohio, April 4, 1853, daughter of David S. and Mary (Tenley) Leedy. When she was a child her parents moved to Whitley County, Indiana, where she grew up and was educated in the public schools. From this locality Mrs. Headlee went to Illinois and was married there. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Headlee, _ three now living: Eva M., who is the wife of L. C. Faulkner and lives on the Headlee farm, their child, E. M. Faulkner, being the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Headlee. Harvey Headlee is now with the Aviation Corps of the United States army. Alle D. is a graduate of the common schools and wife of E. S. Lancaster, living in Michigan. The family are members of the Disciples Church and Mr. Headlee votes his politics independently.

Wiriuiam Pouk. In the death of William Polk, which occurred at his home farm in Wayne Township of Kosciusko County on February 21, 1915, a large community in this section of Indiana lost an honored citizen and a tried and true friend and supporter of all that was good in the affairs of human life. He had been for thirty-five years a resident of Kosciusko County.

A native of Pennsylvania, William Polk was born January 25, 1834, a son of John Polk. He was four years of age when his parents moved to Monroeville, Indiana, and they were among the early settlers in that section of Allen County. On the old homestead there William Polk grew up, gained an education in the district schools, and started his. independent career as a buyer and seller of lumber and horses. He sold a great quantity of ties for the equipment of the Pennsylvania Railroad. His later years were spent in the quiet routine of farming. ;

In 1855 William Polk married Mary S. Van Buskirk. She was born in Ohio September 2, 1837, and died January 14, 1915, just five weeks before the death of her husband. Almost ten years before their death they celebrated the fiftieth anniversary, their golden wedding day.

is 1880 William Polk moved to Kosciusko County, Indiana, and located on the farm where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of five sons: John H., James L., Marcellus D., Franklin P. and George W. These are all still living. John H. and James L. operates the old homestead in Wayne Township. Marcellus D. and Franklin P. reside at Fairmount, Indiana. George W. lives in Warsaw.

There was nothing out of the ordinary in connection with the life of the late William Polk. He was honest, industrious, paid his just debts, commanded the respect of his fellow men and worthily filled the niche in life to which he was allotted. He was first a Presbyterian, but in later years was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley. It is such men as William Polk who make up the bone and sinew of any community, state or nation.

George W. Polk, youngest son of the late William Polk, has for several years been one of the successful business men at the county seat. He was born at Monroeville in Allen County, Indiana, February 2, 1878, and has lived in Kosciusko County since he was two years of age. As a boy he attended district schools and spent ome term in the Normal School at Warsaw. Though he received a teacher's license he never taught a term of school. Though all his early experiences were associated with the farm, farming did not appeal to him as a permanent vocation, and since early youth he has been identified with some line of active enterprise. For a short time he was in the livery business at Pierceton. Then for a few years he was connected with S. B. Whittenberger, who had stores both at Claypool and Warsaw. In 1902 Mr. Polk established a buggy and harness store in Warsaw, starting on a very modest scale. He is the proprietor of a garage and is the distributing agent for the Buick, Miller and Ford cars and is also engaged in buying and selling live stock. Anything he GS eee he carries through with a purpose and energy that brings results.

Mr. Polk married Neul J. Huffer. They are the parents of two children: Lawrence and Norman. Mr. Polk is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Travelers Protective Association.

M. LaraYetre Van Dorn is one of the intelligent and progressive farmers of Seward Township, and is a native of this county. Suecess has come to him as a reward of long continued and well directed effort. He did not begin life with a fortune and was content with

His family record might well be used as a text for sermons on the value of righteous and simple living. They have been in this country for a number of generations and every generation shows strong men and strong women, nearly all of them blessed with great physical strength and many attained ripe age. Mr. Van Dorn's greatgrandfather, named William Van Dorn, was a native of New Jersey, and lived to be ninety years old. His grandfather was also named Seo was a native of New Jersey, and lived to be eighty-nine years old.

Myron B. Van Dorn, father of M. Lafayette Van Dorn, was born in Ohio and lived to be almost cighty-eight. He was the eighth child in a family of twelve, named in order of age as follows: William, who was born in New Jersey; Polly; Lizzie; Patty; Sallie; Nathaniel, who is now living in his ninety-ninth year at Stromsburg, Nebraska; Nicholas; Myron B.; Philo; Melissa; Nelson and Freedom.

Myron B. Van Dorn married in Ohio Elizabeth Teel, also a native of that state. Shortly after their marriage they came to Indiana, seeking a new home, with most of their possessions on a wagon and with a single cow following behind. They were thirteen days in making the journey. Their first home was near Sevastopol, where Myron B. Van Dorn leased forty acres and began the work of clearing. He was a man of great physical vigor and had a reputation in the early days as a champion rail splitter, and many feats of great physical strength are remembered by his children and others. There was great need for such strength in pioneer times when the principal industry was clearing farms, making rails, and building log cabins. He was always a hand in great demand at the log rollings, then so common. On one of these occasions he was appointed captain on one side while a champion wrestler of the neighborhood was captain of the other side. The captains divided the hands by choice, alternately. A yoke of oxen was given to the wrestler and his men to aid them in their work. Myron Van Dorn and his men worked without a team. The clearing was divided and the contest began. When it was finished the honors were all with the Van Dorn team. The other captain was not satisfied with this defeat and consequently challenged his rival to wrestle. Myron Van Dorn was loth to do this, but after a continued banter for some time accepted the challenge and again won. At another time his brother Philo Van Dorn was a hand in a log rolling where four men were trying to lift a log, two men at each end. Two had succeeded in raising their end, but the other two were unable to lift theirs from the ground. Philo then ordered the men to step aside, and he alone picked up the end and carried it to the log heap quite easily. The few old settlers who are alive and who were acquainted with him will recall many other facts to substantiate his remarkable strength. ps a

Myron B. Van Dorn never had any school privileges, all his instruction having been gathered in one short term. When he had grown to young manhood he became a member ofa singing school, and at that time was unable to read. Singing with the class, he soon committed the songs to memory. He immediately began to associate the spelling of the words of the songs with the spelling of other words, and in this manner his knowledge in reading broadened until he became quite proficient. He was also a good Bible student and well versed in its doctrines. In oral arithmetic he stood above the average, and frequently aided his children in developing mathematical problems in their early school work. He often said to his son Lafayette that he knew what it meant to be uneducated, and was determined to do all he could to give his children appropriate advantages. Even at that time the terms of the public schools were very short, and though Myron Van Dorn had no more money than the other settlers in a time when currency was seldom seen, he was not satisfied with the short terms of the public schools and he willingly co-operated with his neighbors to hire a teacher for a few months' term in addition to the regular term afforded by taxation. He was willing to go to any reasonable sacrifice in order to attain his high ideals of giving his children a worthy preparation for life. No one appreciates these sacrifices and the value of them more than Mr. Lafayette Van Dorn.

After several years on his first farm above noted Myron Van Dorn moved to where the Village of Burket now is and bought land now included in the Isaac Hire farm. That land he also cleared up, sold, and then bought fifty acres near Burket, where he had his home until his death. This land was also in its virgin state, with an abundance of prime beech, sugar, ash, oak, poplar and walnut timber. He cleared a small spot, built a log cabin, moved in and immediately began vigorously swinging the axe to clear away the rest of the woods. Timber at that time was of little value, and there was seldom a market for it at any price. Mr. Lafayette Van Dorn recalls his father - selling eight large walnut trees for $7. At another time he traded for ten bushels of corn one large walnut tree, about five feet in diameter at the stump. It made five logs, each twelve feet long, up to the first limb. Afterwards the tree was found to be curley, making a wood especially prized in fine cabinet work. Such a tree today would be worth a small fortune. Much of this fine timber was made into rails and the farm was fenced into fields containing about four acres each. All the timber not needed for such purposes or for fuel and which could not be sold was piled into heaps and burned. In this way he proceeded until the farm was all cleared and in a state of good cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Van Dorn were members of the same church. In pioneer times the building in which they met to worship consisted of a school house over six miles distant. Later on the members of this congregation and people of the vicinity erected a country church building, known as the Christian Church at Sycamore, this building received its name from a large sycamore tree that stood near. Mr. and Mrs. Van Dorn retained their membership with this congregation until death.

whom are still living. The two deceased we i James. The four living are: M. Lafayette; Hea vie Ae: Burket; Margaret D., wife of Leonadus H. Alexander. of the Burket community ; and Noah L., whose home is also near Burket.

_M. Lafayette Van Dorn has many interesting memories of his own boyhood and recollections that indicate many of the hardships his parents endured. He has seen his father grate corn for meal for bread, flail his wheat by hand, and he was an expert at cradling grain. His mother would take the wool that came from the sheep, wash and pick it, and after it was carded into rolls, spin it into yarn and color it, and when woven into cloth she would cut and make it into clothing for the family, doing all the work by hand in the old fashioned ways, using only shears, needle and thread to do all the sewing. She would bake bread in a cast, perhaps the word cast-iron would be better, oven by raking some of the live coals to the front of the rude old fireplace, then put the oven on this bed of coals and cover the lid with other coals.

Mr. Van Dorn recalls how his father would take the mother and himself and his brother Hiram in a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen and drive six miles to his grandfather Teels, his father walking all the way to drive the oxen. The team would then be left at the Teel home and father and mother would walk a mile through the woods to church. At other times they would make the entire journey on foot and the boys would be carried alternately on their fathers shoulders. Myron Van Dorn was a member of the Christian Church and very strict in the observance of his religious responsibilities. In politics he was a democrat.

M. Lafayette Van Dorn grew up in Seward Township, and started to school when about eight years old. He remembers many incidents of that first term. It was taught in an old log school house situated in a dense woods just a few rods north of the present graded and high school building in Burket. The roads to this old schoolhouse consisted principally of footpaths through the forest. At that time and for several years afterwards the Van Dorn family used tallow candles and lard lamps for light. Mr. Van Dorn himself used such lights and sometimes studied his lessons and read by the light furnished from the rude old fireplace. Despite the meagerness of these early advantages he qualified and became a very competent teacher, a profession he followed for about twenty years, and taught in a number of district schools and also in the schools of Burket Village. :

In growing to manhood he shared many of the pioneer hardships with his parents, especially on the last farm of fifty acres which his father bought. This farm he helped to clear and improved until he left the parental home, at which time he was near twenty-four years old. During the last few years of his life he has not been so actively engaged in farm work as formerly.

When the Town of Burket was laid out he bought two lots, on which he built a house and moved into it. At first much of his time when he was not teaching was occupied in the stores at this' place