Kosciusko County, Indiana - The whole text, 1919 (part 3 of 11)

ALBERT E. Ross, when he married twenty years ago, had a team and twenty-seven dollars' worth of furniture. He applied himself to farming, the vocation to which he had been trained as a boy, and by hard and constant work and by paying attention to the selling as well as to the producing end of his business he has prospered so that he owns a large farm of 370 acres in Jackson Township, his home being in section 2 south of Sidney, and his name is everywhere

Mr. Ross was born August 30, 1876, in the same township where he now resides, and his parents were John and Jane (Stout) Ross. His mother died in 1884 and his father is still living. Albert E. is the oldest of four children. His sister Cora is the wife of A. B. Ulrey, of Jackson Township. Eva is the wife of Milton Miller, of Jackson Township, and Charles W. Ross is also a well known farmer in the same locality.

Albert E. Ross grew up on the old homestead, attended the district schools near home, and was married in his twenty-first year, on February 26, 1898. Miss Rosa C. Fox was his bride. She has been a faithful manager of the home and has closely co-operated with her husband in their joint enterprise as farmers. Mr. Ross has fed many carloads of cattle, hogs and sheep during the last twenty years and he has made his money in stock and grain. He ships his own stock, buys by the carload, and keeps in close touch with market conditions. Mr. Ross is a republican, has been quite active in party interest, and he and his wife are members of the Church of the Brethren. They have two sons, .Eugene, a graduate of the common schools, and Lawrence, eight years old.

JAMES E. Giuu, a farmer living a mile and a half north and a mile and a half west of Silver Lake, is a man of wide and unusual experience, and has spent more than half a century as a citizen of Kosciusko County.

His birth occurred in Champaign County, Ohio, September 24, 1843. His birthplace was near Mechanicsburg. His parents were John D. and Sophia (Winett) Gill. His grandfather, David Gill, was born in Maryland of Irish ancestry, and married Mary Dent of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They were married in Maryland, where Mary Dent's father was an extensive slave holder. When his daughter married this planter gave her eight or ten slaves, but when David Gill and wife moved to Ohio the slaves automatically became free, and all of them remained in that state but one, who kept close to the family as long as she lived. David Gill had a home near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and was both a farmer and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife died in that vicinity. They had four sons and four daughters. John D. Gill was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, January 14, 1812. His wife, Sophia Winett, was born in Virginia June 25, 1808. They married in Champaign County, Ohio, and lived on a farm and later in the Village of Mechaniesburg, where John D. Gill followed his trade as a shoemaker. He was the father of seven children: Henry and Susanna, deceased ; Newton A., a retired farmer living in Clay Township of this county ; James E.; John J., of Warsaw; Amelia A., wife of Joshua Rose, of Seneca County, Ohio; and Sophia F., wife of Henry Baum, of Seward Township. ' trict schools of his day. His first important enterprise was in association with a brother. Together they cleared and put into cultivation a tract of eighty acres of land. This was the work that kept him busy until he was twenty-three, when he established a home of his own by his marriage April 1, 1866, to Miss Martha A. Rolland. She was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 7, 1845, and came to Kosciusko County at the age of ten years. ;

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gill went. to housekeeping in a little log cabin 16 by 18 feet, furnished with the utmost simplicity of furniture and equipment. It remained their home for eight years, and they then bought a farm of 115 acres one mile west of Silver Lake. This was their second home and after eight years they sold it, and in 1884 came to their present home of eighty acres, constituting one of the well kept and productive farms of Seward Township.

Mrs. Gill died August 10, 1912, and her death was the first break in the family circle in more than forty-five years. She was the mother of seven children,.and one of them has died since her death. These children are: John D., of Warsaw; Dellie, wife of Cal Wise, of Warsaw; Louis, deceased; James E., of Mentone, Indiana; Laverna, wife of Albert Whittenberger; Samuel F., who lives in Montana; Elmore, whose home is north of Warsaw. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Gill is a demoerat and has served as constable, and wherever possible has exercised an influence toward the betterment and upbuilding of his community.

LeonaRD SuMME's carefully tended and valuable farm is in Franklin Township. He has spent practically all his life in the southern part of Kosciusko county and beginning life with little capital has proved his ability and won a comfortable competence and success. He owns 203 acres where he lives.

He was born January 29, 1862, in Seward Township, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Rough) Summe. His father was born in Berne, Switzerland, January 25, 1836, and came to the United States when a young man in 1855. He settled in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he met and married his wife, Catherine Rough, who was a native of that county, born November 20, 1840. In 1861 they moved to Indiana, locating near Claypool in Seward Township, and subsequently established their home in Franklin Township. The parents are still living, in advanced years, and are among the highly esteemed old people in this part of the county. They had ten children, namely: Mary, wife of John F. Haney; Amos, of Franklin Township; Leonard; John, of Silver Lake; Malinda, who is one of the deceased children; Fred, of Silver Lake; Frank, of Mentone; Alva; Alta, deceased wife of I. Tucker; and Elmer, of Silver Lake.

Mr. Leonard Summe grew up in Seward Township and was educated in the district schools there. When only a boy he started out to make his own way in the world, and has well earned the success now enjoyed. He married Miss Effie D. Tucker, grand- daughter of that well known and stalwart pioneer and leading citizen of Kosciusko County, Horace Tucker. Mrs. Summe was born in Franklin Township, June 7, 1875, daughter of Albert L. and Elizabeth (Bechtelheimer) Tucker. Her mother died in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Summe after their marriage lived on the Alva L. Tucker farm until 1902, and then came to their present home, where their children have grown up and where they have surrounded themselves with good neighbors and with most prosperous circumstances.

They have four children: Delta R., a graduate of high school and wife of Orville Royer of Franklin Township; Albert L., who is a graduate of high school and is still at home; Alta M. and Ralph M. Mr. and Mrs. Summe have one grandchild. Mr. Summe is a democrat in politics but has never cared to hold office.

Ivan TUCKER is a grandson of Horace Tucker and is a prosperous farmer in Franklin Township, in the vicinity which has been made memorable by the residence and activities of the Tucker family since pioneer days.

His grandfather, Horace Tucker, was born in Richland County, 'Ohio, November 8, 1825, son of John and Mary (Ward) Tucker, Horace Tucker came to Kosciusko County in 1846 and paid $2.50 an acre for a quarter section in section 20 of Franklin Township, a short distance northeast of the farm where Ivan Tucker now lives. He cut the first tree in the woods, erected a log cabin home, and then went back to Ohio, where on January 13, 1848, he married Miss Eliza Johnston. They came and occupied their log cabin home in the fall of 1848, and it was on that farm that their three children were born, Albert L., Rosella and Hollis. Horace Tucker was one of the Pioneer stock raisers and dealers in Kosciusko County. He and another man shipped the first carload of stock ever sent by rail from Warsaw. The prosperity he and his wife enjoyed in later years was the more appreciated because their first home in the county was of the crudest description and with the most meager furnishings, much of it home made furniture with no pretense to style and with very little comfort. In 1871 Horace Tucker erected a brick house on his farm. It is said that his wind pump was the second in the township. He was in the stock business on an extensive scale, and in that line was succeeded by his son Albert.

Albert L. Tucker was born in Franklin Township, September 19, 1849, and in many ways measured up to the business ability and sturdy character of his honored father. He married Elizabeth Bechtelheimer, who was born in Indiana in 1853 and died in March, 1888. They have eight children: Elmore, of Newcastle, Indiana ; Effie, wife of Leonard Summe, of Franklin Township; Ida, widow of Lawrence Huffer, of Burket, Indiana; Ivan; Roy, a farmer in the state of Washington; John, of Chicago; Millie, wife of Arthur Gelty, of Silver Lake; and Frank C., of Claypool.

-Ivan Tucker was born on his father's farm in section 31 of Franklin Township and in that community he grew to manhood, attending the local schools. At the age of eighteen he went to work for his grandfather, Horace Tucker, later farmed his place one year, spent one year in Ohio, and also a short time in the West. In December, 1901, he married Miss Alta Summe. She died in August, 1902, without children. April 2, 1905, Mr. Tucker married Cecil McFarland. She was born in Franklin Township, December 21, 1884, and was educated in the common schools.

For a number of years Mr. Tucker owned and occupied the old Horace Tucker homestead, but finally sold that and in 1911 came to his present place in section 30, where he owns 144 acres of carefully cultivated land. He is a breeder and raiser of graded stock and usually feeds a carload of cattle for the market every year. Politically he is a democrat.

Omer N. Ieo is one of the influential citizens of Franklin Township, is a farmer, stock buyer, and a leader in all the community activities. His fine farm, which represents almost a lifetime of effort and enterprise on his part, is situated five miles south and one mile east of Mentone.

Mr. Igo was born in Edgar County, Illinois, September 16, 1866, a son of William and Leah (Wilkins) Igo. His parents were both born and reared in Highland County, Ohio, where they married. William Igo was a son of Henry Igo, one of the early settlers in that part of Ohio. From Highland County William Igo and wife moved to Edgar County, Illinois, were farmers there many years, and later moved out to Oklahoma, where they died. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their nine children five are still living, and two of the sons are in Kosciusko County, George and Omer, the former also a farmer in Franklin Township.

Omer N. Igo was educated in Edgar County, Illinois, also attended school in Kosciusko County, and at the age of twenty he became self supporting and went to work for John R. Black, whose daughter, Minnie Black, he subsequently married. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Igo settled on the farm where they now live, and here he owns 127 acres of well improved soil. From his farm he carries on his extensive operations as a cattle man. He buys, feeds and ships several carloads of stock every year. Mr. Igo was one of the organizers of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company and a director for some years. He also served one term as trustee of Franklin Township, and has taken quite an interest in politics as a - democrat. ;

He and his wife have a fine family of children, ten in number, briefly mentioned as follows: Icie, a graduate of the common schools and wife of Marion Taylor; Fro, a graduate of the common schools and wife of Floyd Tucker; Joe, who finished the common school course and is now with the colors; Nellie, who has completed the work of the local schools; Othello, a student, in high school; and Ernest, Virgil, Lewis, Edgar and Lillian E., who are the younger children, still in the home circle.

Evias LEININGER has been content to extend his usefulness and energy largely in one locality, and in the quiet but valuable vocation of farming. Mr. Leininger lives on one of the good farms of Franklin Township, not far from Beaver Dam.

He came to Kosciusko County when a boy. Ile was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1849, a son of Isaac and Mary C. (Petry) Leininger. Both parents were natives of Pennsylvania, the mother of Berks County. After their marriage in Berks County they settled in Schuylkill County, where the father died in 1856. The mother married again and subsequently came to Indiana, bringing some of her children and settling near Beaver Dam. She died in that community. She was the mother of ten children by her first husband, and those living today are: David, a farmer in Fulton County; Elias; Daniel, a merchant at Akron, Indiana, and Sarah, wife of Henry Halderman.

Elias Leininger was about fifteen years old when he came to Kosciusko County. He finished his education here in the German and English schools and lived at home until eighteen. Having learned the cabinet-making trade, he worked at that occupation at Beaver Dam for fourteen years, being employed as a cabinet-maker largely during the winter seasons and working as a carpenter in the summer. Then for several years he was associated with his brother Jonas in a general merchandise store at Silver Lake.

In 1875 Mr. Leininger married Miss Amanda Kistler, who was born and reared in the same locality of Pennsylvania as her husband. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Leininger located at Beaver Dam, and in the spring of 1883 they came to their present fine farm in Franklin Township. Mr. Leininger is a breeder of Duroc hogs, but has not specialized to any extent, and has made his prosperity through general farming. He and his family enjoy the comforts of a very modern home, built in a most substantial manner, with brick veneering. He and his wife are members of the Church of God and he is a republican, though he voted as a democrat up to the campaign of 1896.

Mr. Leininger is the father of eight children: Anina; Loa; Beulah; Ida, in the employ of the government as domestic instructor; Charles; Mabel, wife of Carl Gast, of Akron; Daniel, who is a Second Lientenant and now in Texas; and Helen, at home.

Isaac M. SHoeMAKER is one of the men of high standing and substantial achievements in Franklin Township. His farm is in section 5, a mile east of Beaver Dam. He has lived in that community many years and not least among his contributions to the community is his family of sturdy sons and capable daughters who have grown up in his home and gone forth most of them into homes of their own.

Mr. Shoemaker was born in Franklin Township, February 27, 1856, a son of Elias and Rebecca (Radbaugh) Shoemaker. His father was born in Maryland and his mother in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Elias Shoemaker went to Ohio at the age of sixteen, later to St. Joseph County, Indiana, married, and after a few years came to Kosciusko County and established a home on the farm now owned by his son Isaac. He and his wife were active members of the Dunkard Church. In polities he was a democrat. Of. the twelve children in the parents' family seven are living: Barbara A., widow of Albert Myers; Mary J., wife of Amos Swihart; Levi, of Bloomsburg, Indiana; Joseph, of Clay Township, this county; Isaac M.; Benjamin, who lives in Kansas; Daniel, of Seward Township.

Isaac M. Shoemaker grew up on his father's farm and had the advantages of the local schools. March 11, 1883, he married Miss Margaret Miller. She was born in Ohio, September 23, 1859, but from early girlhood was reared in Kosciusko County.

At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs, Shoemaker settled on the farm where they now reside, and that has been Mr. Shoemaker's home ever since but for a period of five years. He has eighty-two acres that has long responded to his skillful and capable management, and has furnished him the resources for keeping up the home and providing for his children.

He and his wife had fourteen children, and a brief record of those that grew up is as follows: Elva, wife of Elza P. Karns; Clyde, who married Fern Regnos; Ralph, who married Myrtle Gilmore; Earl, who married Ruth Douglas, of Chicago; Edna, wife of Clark Chapman, of California; Carl, a resident of California but now with the United States Army; Floyd, who married Elma Thornburg and lives in Fulton County; Russell, who marfied Isel Hill and is now with the United States forces in France; Roy, at Camp Colt, Gettysburg; Lester, who married Lavon Snyder and lives in Lake Township; Forest and Glenn, both at home, the latter still in high school. Mr. Shoemaker is an independent voter.

ALBERT SARBER. One of the oldest residents of Franklin Township is Albert Sarber, who has lived in that locality more than three-quarters of a century, and as a child knew it when the timber was uncut, when the swamps were undrained, and when nearly every home was a log cabin. Every railroad in the county has been built within his recollection, and the journey which he can now make from his home farm to Warsaw by interurban in a few minutes, required almost a day of hard traveling over rough roads when he was a young man. His own share and contribution to the development and improvements has been considerable, and he has always been looked upon as one of the sturdy American citizens of his locality.

Mr. Sarber, whose home farm is a half-mile west and a quartermile south of Mentone, was born in Putnam County, Ohio. January 3, 1841, a son of George and Lydia (Andreck) Sarber. He comes of an old Pennsylvania German family, his great-grandfather, John Sarber, being a native of Germany. His grandparents were Adam and Catherine (Eusleu) Sarber, both natives of Pennsylvania, where they married, and in 1814 went into the western wilderness to Franklin County, Ohio. They lived there until about 1824, then moved to

Putnam County, where they did their work as pioneers, and when old age came upon them they moved to Kosciusko County, where both of them died. Adam Sarber had a family of twelve children.

Third among them was George Sarber, father of Albert. George Sarber was born in Luzerne. County, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1810. He married in Ohio Lydia Andreck, and in 1841 they came to Kosciusko County and bought 171 acres of uncleared land in Franklin Township. Their cabin was erected in the midst of the green woods, and years of hard work on the part of George Sarber brought much of his land under cultivation. He was a quiet, unassuming man, but active in church, and he and his wife were both members of the Methodist society at Mentone. He was a democrat in politics. In their family were three children: Catherine, now deceased, who - married John Morgan; Hiram, who married Mary E. Lee, and is also deceased; and Albert, the only survivor. :

Albert Sarber was a small infant when brought to Kosciusko County. As strength came to him he helped on the farm and attended the little subscription school near home. On reaching his majority his father divided between him and Hiram the old home- 'stead, and they bought their sister's share. His brother Hiram had three children, and at his death Albert bought out their interests and thus practically became owner of the old farm.

In August, 1861, Albert Sarber married Margaret Nellans. She was the mother of four children, two of whom are still living: Maranda H., wife of Abram Whetstone, and Mary M. The mother of these children died in 1872, and on September 27. 1874, Mr. Sarber married Amelia A. Garrison. She was born in Whitley County, Indiana, August 17, 1855, and came to Kosciusko County when a young lady. To this marriage were also born four children, and two are living: Macy, who married Bertha Smith, and has two children, and Ora, wife of William Boman, of Mentone. Mr. and Mrs. Sarber are very active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a democrat in politics, but has never sought official honors.

GeorcEe G. Cook has given the years of an active life, thirty or more, to the business of farming and stock dealing, and his present home is a valuable body of land in section 36 of Franklin Township, five miles south of Mentone. ;

He was born in the same section of Franklin Township, January 16, 1866, a son of Alexander and Mary (Davidson) Cook. His parents were both born in Scotland and in the same locality. His father was born June 12, 1827, and in 1852 came to the United States. Landing in New York City, he went on to Ashland County, Ohio, where he went to work as a stone mason, a trade he had learned in Seotland. He worked in that line for several years in Ohio and then engaged in the saw mill business. After coming to the United States he earned money sufficient to bring over his widowed mother and other members of the family, and on the same boat that transported them to America there came Mary Davidson, from the same Scotch neighborhood, and not long after her arrival she and Alexander Cook were married. Then for several years he continued in the saw mill business in Ohio, and about 1863 brought his mill to Kosciusko County and set up the machinery in Franklin Township, where he sawed up vast quantities of timber and continued the operation of the mill until. 1898. After coming to Indiana he went back to Ohio for the purpose of casting his vote at the second election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He was a sturdy and steadfast supporter of the republican party. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church and gave liberal support to all public and religious movements in their community. In their family were seven children, one of whom died in infancy, and the others were Alexander J., William A., Mary B., who married Clem Jones; Ida H., now deceased ; Maggie J., also deceased, and George G.

George G. Cook has spent practically all his life in Franklin Township, and as he grew up here was educated in the common schools. In January, 1889, he married Miss Mary Thompson, who was also born in this locality. They had five children, and the three now living are: Grace J., a graduate of the common schools and a former student in the high school, which she attended nearly four years, now the wife of Oren C. Craig; Merle, a graduate of the common schools and high school, unmarried and living at home; and Willis, who graduated from the Akron High School and is now serving with the rank of corporal in the United States Army.

Mr. Cook is affiliated with Akron Lodge of Masons and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Warsaw. He is a republican and has been quite active in the party. His farm comprises 100 acres, and this valuable estate represents his individual efforts and management, with the exception of about a thousand dollars which was his primary capital. Mr. Cook is also one of the directors of the Exchange Bank of Akron.

Wiuuiam FE. Davis has been continuously identified with the mercantile and civic affairs of the village of Burkett for over thirty years, almost in fact since the village was founded, and anyone who knows Burkett also knows William E. Davis. For the past eight years he has served as postmaster, handling those duties besides supervising his store.

Mr. Davis was born in Union County, Indiana, August 25, 1858, a son of Edmund and Elizabeth (Krauss) Davis. His father was born in England, while his mother was a native of Germany. Both came to the United States when young people, were married at Cincinnati, Ohio, and then moved to a farm in Union County, Indiana. They lived in Putnam County, Ohio, during their last years. They had only two children, William E. and Mary E. The latter is the wife of S. C. Arnold, of Ottawa, Ohio.

William E. Davis spent a portion of his youth on his father's farm in Union County. He also attended school there and completed his education in the high school at Ottawa, Ohio. After graduation from high school he taught for five years and left that vocation to identify himself with the Town of Burket in 1884. About two years later he built the building, 44 by 130 feet, which he has occupied by a large and varied stock of general merchandise and which has been one of the principal trading centers of this community for thirty years. Mr. Davis began with limited capital and has made individual service and hard work his principal asset in life.

He takes justifiable pride in the fine family of children who have grown up in his home. March 19, 1879, he married Ada J. Parker. She was born at Kalida, Ohio. Their children are six in number. The oldest, Edmund P., a graduate of high school and of Indiana University, from which he received the degree Master of Arts, also has a degree from Clark University, and for nine years was head of the Department of Mathematics in the State College of Pennsylvania. Recently his services have been acquired as professor of mathematics by the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn, New York. The second son, George E., who graduated A. B. from Indiana State University, has also been a successful teacher, and was head of the Science Department of the Mishawaka, Indiana, High School until he accepted a position in government service as a, draftsman at Philadelphia, handling the plans for concrete ship construction. Guido W., a high school graduate, became identified in August, 1918, with the aeroplane department of the Packard Motor Works. The daughter, Mary, is the wife of H. E. Rancevan. Lena married H. J. McGinley. Ethel is the wife of Glen Hatfield.

Mr. Davis and family are active members of the Methodist Episecopal Church. He has been a member of the official board and for four years was president of the Kosciusko County Sunday School Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically his associations have connected him with the democratic party since he attained voting age.

JosePH E. ForEMAN has been one of the busy and enterprising factors in the citizenship of Seward Township for a number of years. His fundamental interests are as a farmer, but he is also secretary and treasurer of the Burket Equity Union Elevator. This is a business that furnishes the medium to many farmers and grain raisers around Burket for the adequate storage and marketing of their crops. The elevator company has as its officers and directors the following well known local citizens: George M. Alexander, president ; A. D. Sands, vice president; Joseph E. Forman, secretary and treasurer; W. A. Hoffman and J. A. Bechtol, directors; and Albert H. Parker, manager.

Mr. Foreman was born two miles east of Burket in Seward Township, August 10, 1876. He is a son of Robert and Mary (Stumpff) Foreman, both of whom were natives of Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The grandfather, Elias Foreman, also a native of Pennsylvania, was the son of a native of Germany, who on coming to the United States located in Pennsylvania. Robert Foreman, who was born October 30, 1844, grew up in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, married at Three Rivers, Michigan, February 29, 1872, and soon afterward he and his wife came to Kosciusko County and for two years rented a farm two and a half miles east of Burket. They then bought their own place of eighty acres and were thrifty farmers and good citizens of that locality the rest of their lives. Robert Foreman died February 12, 1911, and his wife February 15, 1918. They were devout members of the Lutheran Church and among its leading supporters. Robert Foreman voted as a republican and had a record as a soldier of the Civil War, having been with Company H of the One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He and his wife had two children, Joseph E. and Sarah E. Sarah married for her first husband Albert Pumley and later became the wife of Jacob Hatfield. She was the mother of three children.

Joseph E. Foreman grew up on his father's farm and acquired a liberal education. After utilizing all that the district schools could give him he attended the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, and with that preparation entered actively into educational work, a profession he followed for twelve years.

June 10, 1905, Mr. Foreman married Eliza J. Roberts. Mrs. Foreman was born in Kosciusko County and was educated in district and select schools, and her record as a teacher covered terms through nineteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Foreman are active supporters of the Church of the Living God. Mr. Foreman is a member of the National Horse Thief Detective Association. In March, 1918, he and his wife moved to the Village of Burkett. He owns and supervises the operation of a farm of 120 acres, and also owns a half interest in another place of 100 acres.

Ciem A. Jones has been a factor in the community around Burket and in Franklin Township for a number of years. From the farm and farm management his interests have extended to local banks and other business concerns, and he is one of the influential and representative citizens of that community. His farm is in Franklin - Township, three miles southwest of Burket.

He was born in Seward Township of this county, February 4, 1867, a son of John and Nancy (Hire) Jones. He grew up as a boy on a farm two and a half miles southwest of Burkett, this old place being situated on the Angling road. The summer months he employed working on the farm and usually attended school in winter. He was at home until past twenty-one, then married Mary Cook, daughter of Alexander Cook, one of the early and prominent pioneers of Franklin Township. Mrs. Jones was born in Ohio and was educated in the common schools.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jones rented his father's farm five miles west of Warsaw fourteen years, and then moved to the place where they now live and where they have eighty acres under cultivation and in a high state of improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children: Golda, a graduate of the common schools, is the wife of Russell Ring. Ivan, who farms a mile south and two miles east of Burkett, married Roxie Kuhn. Mrs. Jones is a member of the United Brethren Church. In politics he is a democrat, but is satis- fied to cast his vote, and has no desire for local office. He lives very busily, looking after his live stock and crops, and is also a stockholder in the Bank of Seward and is one of the directors, and is a stockholder in the Equity Union Elevator at Burket.

UxyssEs B. Howarp is one of the business men of constructive mold and special energy who are giving life and vitality to affairs at Burket. He is a business man, though he could be justly classified as a farmer, and it is to agriculture that he devotes most of his time. He is also one of the local bankers, and for many years was a railway man. He comes of a good old Indiana family, but his prosperity has been almost entirely the result of his efforts and well directed energies.

Mr. Howard was born in Whitley County, Indiana, April 11, 1862, son of Daniel and Margaret (Blaine) Howard. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Ohio. His mother was brought to Indiana when two years old and his father came here when about twenty-two. Daniel Howard learned the trade of blacksmith, and in 1862 enlisted in Company B of the Seventy-Fourth Indiana Infantry. He served until the end of the war, was a private, and a large part of the time was assigned to duty as a regimental blacksmith. After the war he returned to Whitley County, and in 1883 moved to Kosciusko County, and was the honest village blacksmith in Burket until his death in 1912. His wife passed away in 1908. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he was a republican and member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In their family were eight children, all of whom are still living. It is noteworthy that Daniel Howard, who died at a good old age, was the first break in the circle of thirteen children, the sons and daughters of his father. The eight children of Daniel Howard are: Ulysses B.; Cora, wife of Frank Vancuren; Dora, wife of S. R. Bunch; Curtis, who lives in Northern Indiana; Milo, a farmer in Seward Township; Stella, wife of Oscar Johnson; James, a farmer in Seward Township ; Raymond, of Burket.

U. B. Howard lived in Whitley County until he was twenty years of age, and while there gained his education in the district schools. Even prior to that he had worked at monthly wages and he early learned how to rely upon himself. December 29, 1887, at the age of twenty-five, he married Miss Edith Meyer, member of an old 'and well known family of Kosciusko County. She is a daughter of Aaron and Susanna H. (Dreisbach) Meyer. Her father was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and her mother was a native of the same state. Her mother was brought to Kosciusko County when a girl of twelve and her father came here at the age of twenty-one. In 1854 they settled in Kosciusko County. Mrs. Howard was reared in Seward Township.

After their marriage they began housekeeping at Hammond, Indiana, and soon afterwards moved to Chicago, where Mr. Howard went to work as a depot employe of one of the railroads. .He was in the service of one company for thirteen years, and that service was characterized by diligence and complete faithfulness to all the inter- ests of the corporation. It was with what he had earned and saved while in the city that he returned to Kosciusko County and bought his original farm of seventy-three and a third acres. In 1915 he acquired still more land, so that his present place, located a half-mile north of Burket, contains 116 2-3 acres. This is the farm and the home which reflects in large degree the substantial work of Mr. Howard. Heis also one of the directors of the Bank of Seward and in politics is a republican.

He and his wife have three sons. Cecil, a graduate of the Burket and Warsaw High Schools, is a graduate civil engineer from Purdue University, being now connected with the Smith Construction Company at Detroit. Claude is also a high school graduate, and Homer, the youngest son, is now proprietor of the principal garage at Burket. Mrs. Howard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

J. WARREN CoLEMAN. The county has had no more energetic and better citizen during the past forty years than J. Warren Coleman of Warsaw. Far and wide over this section of the state he is known as a capable insurance man, and has been the principal factor in making the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company one of the most important conservators against fire losses in Kosciusko County. Outside of his private business his name is closely associated with the organized welfare and progress movement in Warsaw.

While not himself a native of Kosciusko County, he belongs to a family which may justly be considered among Indiana's pioneers. His grandfather, Daniel Coleman, settled in Allen County, this state, at a period when wild Indians were more plentiful than white men. In the course of years he acquired extensive holdings in real estate and was very intimately identified with the early history of the county of which Fort Wayne is the metropolis. - His son Augustus, father of J. Warren, spent his youth and early manhood after the manner of pioneer boys in northwest Indiana, and married Sarah M. Whittaker. In the fall of 1861 he offered his services in defense of the Union and was enrolled in the Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His service was brief. On April 4, 1862, he died from exposure while suffering from an attack of the black measles. Two of his four children are still living. His widow afterwards married Robert Anderson and had two children by that union.

J. Warren Coleman spent his early life on a farm in Allen County, and while thus engaged he enjoyed such advantages as the local district schools were able to bestow. In 1869, when rising to manhood, he went to Logansport and for five years was employed in a lumber yard there, and that was the basis of his business experience. Afterwards, with his brother Louis F., he operated the old homestead for one year, and the two then bought a fruit farm on Tippeeanoe Lake in Kosciusko County.

From the scenes of country life Mr. Coleman in 1878 moved to Warsaw, and engaged in the general insurance business. This has been his line for the past thirty-eight years, and he is probably the oldest man in the business in this section of Indiana. After twelve years he became general agent for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, and has now held that post and looked after local business - for the company for a quarter of a century. In the meantime he has placed and adjusted millions of dollars of insurance.

In many ways the wise counsel and material aid of Mr. Coleman have been utilized for the good of the community. For fifteen years he was a member of the city Board of Education, twelve years of that time serving as president of the body, and under his administration there was a wise provision for the local schools and in many directions a distinct advance and improvement. To no one organization does the county seat owe more for its present prosperity than the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce, and it should be noted that Mr. Coleman was one of the leading spirits in its organization, was a liberal contributor to its campaigns, and has always been a director since it was established. It was largely his idea and his active leadership that brought about the construction of the present splendid home for the Knights of Pythias at Warsaw. He is a member of both the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men, and in polities is a republican.

On October 22, 1874, Mr. Coleman married Miss Mary Aman. They became the parents of two children: Eugene A. and Mabel C. pe daughter is the wife of Cyrus Hall, a banker of Leesburg, Injana.

The son, Eugene A., was born August 16, 1876, and acquired his education in the public schools of Warsaw, at Notre Dame University and in Otterbein College. Just prior to graduation from the latter institution, which however, subsequently awarded him his diploma, war with Spain was declared and he left school to become a member of Company H, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry. At Matanzas, Cuba, he was employed as clerical aide to General Sanger. After the war was over he joined his father in the insurance business. When life was at its brightest, possessed of loyal friends, with wife and child, a beautiful new home, with every incentive to live, he was stricken by disease and died in 1910. His wife before her marriage was Miss Flora Hall, and their only child was named Eugenia. Eugene A Coleman, whose brief but productive career should long be cherished, was identified with the United Brethren Church, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Frep A. McSHeErry is a native of Kosciusko County, and for over thirty years has applied his energies to the business of farming and stock raising, and is easily one of the most substantial business men and citizens of Seward Township. His farm home is on Rural Route No. 4 out of Claypool, three and a half miles west and a mile and three-quarters north of that town. Mr. McSherry's interests are not alone identified with the farm, since his operations as a stock buyer and feeder have brought him high standing among the stock men of this section of the state, and he is one of the leading shippers out

Mr. McSherry was born on the farm where he now resides August 28, 1867, and is the only surviving child of Frederick and Elizabeth (Wilks) McSherry. His father was a native of Ohio and his mother of Pennsylvania. His father was brought to Kosciusko County when three years old and grew up here. The mother came to Indiana when a young woman, and she and her husband were married in this county. They spent their lives here as practical and successful farmers. They were devout members of the United Brethren Church and Frederick McSherry was a republican in politics. He and his son owned 458 acres in Seward Township, and that estate is the basis of the son's enterprise as a farmer and stockman today. There were five children in the family, but four of them died while young.

Fred A. McSherry, after getting his education in the local schools, became his father's assistant on the farm, and gradually from year to year assumed more of its responsibilities, and since the death of his parents has been its owner and proprietor. He buys stock in carload lots and practically all the resources of his farm are turned toward the raising of meat for the market.

Mr. McSherry married Dora Tucker, a native of this county, who was educated in the schools of Burket. To their union were born eleven children. ten of whom are still living: Lillie, wife of Robert Chinworth of Warsaw; Clancy, a graduate of Burket High School, who is married and lives on the home farm in Seward Township; Charles, a graduate of the Burket High School, and now a soldier in the United States Army; Fey, a graduate of the Burket High School and a teacher; Mary, John and Edith, all high school students ; Catherine, who is in the seventh grade of the public schools; Dorothy; Paul, deceased; and Wilbur. In political faith Mr. Me- Sherry is a republican.

Wiuuiam Hanes. Of the men who have made farming and the management of land and its resources their chief business in life, it is a special pleasure to refer to William Hanes, proprietor of the Sugar Lane Farm of 200 acres, situated four miles northwest of Silver Lake in Seward Township. Mr. Hanes is an old timer of this community, has lived here all his life, and his boyhood strength and enthusiasm were contributed to the sum total of labors by which his family succeeded in the heavy pioneer task of developing a portion of Kosciusko County's original wilderness.

The Sugar Lane Farm was the old Hanes homestead where he was born March 19, 1849, a son of John A. and Catherine (Good) Hanes. Catherine Good was a native of Perry County, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Hoffman) Good, who were originally from Pennsylvania and were settlers in Franklin Township of Kosciusko County about 1840. John A. Hanes in 1844, as a young man, moved from Hancock County, Ohio, to Kosciusko County, and he married Catherine Good January 6, 1846. In the same year he located on the old Hanes homestead, and he made his home there until the death of his wife. John A. Hanes died at Terre Haute, Indiana. For his second wife he married Mary Moore, and there were six children by each

Of these the only one still living is William Hanes. While a boy on the farm he attended the local schools and made such good use of his advantages that he entered the profession of teaching and followed it for ten winters. At the age of sixteen he tried to get into the nation's service as a soldier in the Civil War, which was then nearing its coriclusion, but was rejected on account of his age.

In December, 1874, Mr. Hanes married Miss Elizabeth Stout, who was born in Ohio and was brought to this county by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hanes have three children: Luella, who died in childhood ; Charles V., who lives on the home farm and married Nora Shoemaker and Roy E., a graduate of the Silver Lake High School, and now in the dry goods business at Silver Lake, married Opal Kirland.

Mr. Hanes many years ago bought the old Hanes homestead and has kept it in a perfect condition of cultivation and improvement so that it is widely known for its crops and live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Hanes are members of the United Brethren Church, and he is a republican, without any aspirations for holding office.

JOSEPH SMALLEY is one of Kosciusko County's well known citizens who started life with no particular advantages or assets, and by thrift and industry has gradually accumulated those means which represent financial independence. Mr. Smalley has been a resident of this county over thirty-five years, owns a farm, but in 1918 retired to a town home at Burket.

_Mr. Smalley was born in Noble County, Indiana, January 31, 1842, a son of David and Margaret (Shoab) Smalley. The grandfather, Joseph Smalley, a native of Ohio, was a pioneer to Noble County, Indiana, going there about 1830, and enduring all the hardships and vicissitudes connected with the task of making a home in a wilderness. David Smalley grew up in Noble County, attended public school as opportunity offered, and after his marriage settled down to farming and made that his lifelong home. He and his wife had three children: Melissa, who never married and died at the age of seventy-four; Jacob, who lives on the old homestead and is a stock buyer; and Joseph.

Joseph Smalley lived with his parents until he was grown, and his early youth was one of companionship with labor and without ready access to those liberalizing advantages of schools. On November 17, 1871, he married Miss Mary Bybee, member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Kosciusko County. Her father, Washington Bybee, was at one time county commissioner and was on the board when the court house was erected. Mrs. Smalley grew up on her father's farm in Franklin Township and was educated in the common schools. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Smalley lived for thirteen years in Noble County, but in 1882 moved to their farm of 160 acres, half in Franklin and half in Seward townships. This property they still own, and Mr. Smalley also has a half interest in

Of their children two are deceased. Those still living are: Harry, who lives on a farm and married Miss Borton; Gertrude, wife of Frank Bear, a farmer; and Lucinda, unmarried.

GrorGE W. Bousz is one of the capable farmers and stock raisers of Kosciusko County, made his start in life at an early age, worked at one time for farmers at wages of $3 a month, and by thrift, energy and foresight has accomplished what most men desire, the establishment of a good home, a fair degree of prosperity, and has reared a family and kept all of his relations to his friends and his community honorable and straightforward.

Mr. Bouse who lives on a farm in Seward Township four and a half miles northwest of Silver Lake, was born in Fulton County, Indiana, February 13, 1866, a son of John and Mary A. (Worley) Bouse. His father was born in Germany and his real name was John Prince. Brought to this country as an infant, his parents soon died and he was adopted and carefully reared by John Bouse, whose name he took. After reaching manhood, and with a very limited education, he began to carve out his own destiny. He married Mary A. Worley, a native of Ohio, and they began housekeeping in circumstances just above the level of poverty, but by day labor, by thrift and economy, they got a start and finally secured a piece of land in Monroe Township of Kosciusko County, where in the course of time they developed a good home. They did an excellent part by their children, twelve in number, nine of whom are still living: Catherine, wife of Ben Perry; Nancy, wife of Jake Hulban; Tena, wife of Charles Near; Lydia, wife of A. J. Packer; Harvey, a farmer; William, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is employed by the United States Government; Ollie, wife of James Craig, of Monroe Township ; Dessie, wife of Al Cook of McCook, Nebraska; and George W.

George W. Bouse grew up on his father's farm in Monroe Township, and left school at the age of eleven to begin work to support himself. Some of his early employment was with farmers in Seward Township, where he now lives. He gained the reputation of being hard working, honest and a thrifty young man, and that reputation was his principal capital when he married and settled down to achieve independence. Mr. Bouse is now the owner of 130 acres of land, most of which represents his individual efforts and striving, and he has been a very successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Belgian horses. He is a democrat in politics and he and his family are identified with the United Brethren Church at Yellow Creek Lake.

Mr. Bouse married for his first wife Miss Wava Mattix. She died the mother of two children, the only one now living being Walter, who is a graduate of the high school at Claypool. For his present wife Mr. Bouse married Etta Miller. They have two children, Alton D., born in 1915, and Lauretta, born October 6, 1917.

Orven A. HEIGHWAY. A well situated and circumstanced farmer and stockman of Franklin Township is Orven A. Heighway, proprietor of the '' Hillside Home'' in section 26. Mr. Heighway is one of the vigorous and hustling younger men in the farming industry of Kosciusko County and has already reached a most satisfactory stage of progress, though doubtless the most fruitful years of his life is still ahead of him.

Mr. Heighway was born in Newcastle Township of Fulton County, Indiana, August 23, 1883. His parents were Empson A. and Keziah (Teel) Heighway, his father a native of Ohio and his mother of Franklin Township, Kosciusko County. Empson A. Heighway was born in Ohio, was reared in Illinois, and moved to Indiana when a boy, and after his marriage lived in Kosciusko County for a time and then settled in Fulton County, near Akron. He and his wife are members of the Church of Christ, and in politics he is a republican. There are six children in the family: Leslie M., a telegraph operator at Bluffton, Ohio; Charles W., of Plymouth, Indiana; Mary C., unmarried; Maggie A., wife of Sidney Leininger; Cora, who died in infancy; and Orven A.

Orven A. Heighway grew up on his father's farm in Fulton County and was educated in the district schools. He lived at home until he married in 1904 Miss Nellie M. Black. She is a daughter of John R. and Lucinda Black, both now residing in Montone. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Heighway lived for a year on the Black farm and then came to their present place, where they have 120 acres, and this land has responded magnificently in crops and products to their management and labors.

Mr. and Mrs. Heighway had four children: Edith, Frances, now deceased, Robert and Wanda. The family are members of the United Brethren Church at Beaver Dam, of which Mr. Heighway is a trustee and secretary and treasurer. He carries insurance in the Modern Woodmen of America, and also in the Farmers National Life. In politics he votes as a republican, and has served as a member of the Township Advisory Board.

THERON D. BuTTeRBAUGH is one of the men of distinction living on the extreme southern line of Kosciusko County, his farm and home being in the southeast quarter of section 14, Lake Township, adjoining the Wabash County line and only a mile or so from the Big Four Railway. Mr. Butterbaugh has a fine farm and is also a man of education and of leadership in civic affairs and is an ordained minister of the Church of the Brethren. His home is 51% miles southeast of Silver Lake.

Mr. Butterbaugh was born in Pleasant Township of Wabash County June 18, 1872, a sun of George W. and Lydia (Miller) Butterbaugh. His father was born in section 14 of Lake Township September 28, 1846. The Butterbaugh families were pioneers here, coming to the county about 1840. The wife of George W. Butterbaugh was born in Pleasant Township of Wabash County October 17, 1848. Both grew up in that locality, married there, settled in Wabash

County and later in Lake Township of this county, where they owned 185 acres close to North Manchester. They lived on that farm home thirty years and then bought a small farm where the widow is still living. There were three sons in the family. Theron Ds: Abraham, a resident of North Manchester; and Esta, a well known citizen and business man of Warsaw, auditor and a stockholder in the Hugo Manufacturing Company of that city.

Theron D. Butterbaugh was reared on the farm near North Manchester and made for himself unusual opportunities in the way of an education. He is a graduate of the Bible department of the North Manchester College, and also attended the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute. Most of his experience has been in practical farming and on Jaurary 20, 1895, he married Miss Mary E. Wright. - She was born in Manchester Township of Wabash County July 12, 1876.

Five years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Butterbaugh located on the farm where they now reside, and where Mr. Butterbaugh owns the southeast quarter of section 14. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising. He has been an ordained minister of the Church of the Brethern since December, 1913, and now has charge of the West Eel River Church and does considerable evangelical work. Politically he is a republican.

Mr. and Mrs. Butterbaugh have seven children: Hazel M., a graduate of North Manchester, now in Bethany Bible School in Chicago preparing for foreign missionary work; Rubie M., wife of Russell E. Werking, of Wabash County; Robert E., attending high school, as is the next child, Delbert W.; James D. and Paul R., twins, born in 1910; and Mariam Lucile, born in January, 1917.

WiuuiaM S. Person. The people of Prairie Township know William S. Person as a most capable farmer, a citizen who responds to all the duties and obligations of his community, and a very straightforward and capable official, now serving as trustee of the township. Many declare that the affairs of the township were never better managed than by the present trustee.

Mr. Person was born in this township October 7, 1871, and has spent most of his life here. His present home farm is a mile west and a mile north of Atwood: His parents were William and Margaret (McCutcheon) Person, both now deceased. His father was born at Richmond, Indiana, in May, 1830, and when he was a small child his parents moved to LaPorte County, Indiana, where he grew to manhood. Margaret McCutcheon was born in Pennsylvania February 14, 1840, and came with her parents to Liberty Mills in Wabash County. She married at the age of fourteen. She reared in her home after her marriage her baby brother, who later ran off and enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war. He made a record as a brave and gallant soldier, and is still living, a very capable business man. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. William Person lived at Liberty Mills for several years and then moved to Collamer in Whitley County, where he established the first grocery store. Margaret Person was an active member of the United Brethren Church. They had a family of five sons and one daughter: Charles, of Bourbon, Indiana; Edward, of Atwood; Benjamin, of Bourbon; Sarah, wife of Frank Henderson, of Warsaw; William S.; and Rollie E., of North Dakota.

acquired an education in the district schools, attending school in the winter and working on the farm in the summer. After leaving school he took employment with a neighboring farmer and spent six years in his service. . ; In November, 1894, he married Miss Ida Mangus. She was born in St. Joseph County, Indiana, and was educated in the common schools of Kosciusko County, where her parents located when she was a small girl. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Person engaged in farming, and now have a place of fine improvements comprising seventy-five acres. Mr. Person is a successful stock raiser and has a number of graded Durham cattle.

Mr. and Mrs. Person are the parents of four sons and one daughter: Hershel, a graduate of the common schools, is now with the American Armies in France; Hobard also finished the common school course and lives at Fort Wayne. Harley lives at home. Emma is a senior in high school, and the youngest, William, was born in 1913. Mr. Person is affiliated with Atwood Lodge No. 493, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is the present Noble Grand. He isa republican in politics and has been one of the active leaders in local politics for a number of years. For fourteen years he served as supervisor, and in 1914 was elected township trustee, beginning his duties in January, 1915.

S. B. Ipen. Probably the only bank in the State of Indiana that is owned and managed from president to assistant cashier by one family is the Etna Bank at Etna Green. All the offices in this institution are held by persons named Iden. S. B. Iden is president, Mrs. S. B. Iden is vice president, the cashier is their daughter Altha M., the two assistant cashiers are also other daughters, Mary A. and Amy J. The Etna Bank was established in 1900, and supplies the only banking facilities of the town of Etna Green. It has a capital of $20,000, surplus of $10,000, and a recent statement indicates that its deposits aggregate more than $300,000, all of which is a most creditable showing for a country bank, and indicates the confidence the people of that part of Kosciusko County have in the personnel of its management and ownership.

Mr. Iden has been a resident of Kosciusko County since early childhood. He was born in Carroll County, Ohio, May 21, 1860, a son of Washington and Eliza (Heston) Iden, and a grandson of George Iden. Both his parents were born in Carroll County, Ohio, Washington Iden in 1815 and his mother in 1818. They were reared and married in that county, lived on a farm there for a number of years, and in 1864 brought their family to Etna Township of Kosciusko County and established a new home on a farm north of Etna Green. Washington Iden was one of the most capable farmers of his time. He was as progressive and ready to adopt new ideas as he was diligent and capable in routine affairs. He is credited with having introduced into this part of Kosciusko County the first Poland China hogs and the first Durham cattle. At one time he was president of the Bourbon Fair in Marshall County. His name also appears on some of the older official lists of the township. For a number of years he was township assessor. He began voting as a whig, and cast a ballot for General William Henry Harrison. Later he was equally active in the republican party. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church. They were the parents of eleven children, and seven are still living. The father died in 1903. The son Thomas J. lives in Iowa, while John, William A., L. A., Florence and S. B. are all residents of Etna Township. Mary C. is married and lives in New Mexico.

S. B. Iden was four years old when brought to Kosciusko County, and here he attended the district schools of his home township, also the schools at Warsaw, and early qualified for work as a teacher. For ten years he taught school in different parts of the county, and after giving up that vocation took up the business of stock buying. Since the establishment of the Etna Bank he has concentrated his principal time and energies upon its management, and in 1910 erected the substantial building in which the bank has its home.

Mr. Iden lived at home with his parents until he was thirty years of age. February 15, 1891, he married Miss Viola Yeiter. She was born in Prairie Township of this county, was well educated, and had also taught school before her marriage. They have three daughters: Altha May, who is a graduate of the Etna Green High School and is cashier of the bank; Mary Avis, who is a high school graduate and also attended the State University three years; and Amy J., who graduated from the local high school with the class of 1918 and is attending the State University. The family are members of the Christian Church and Mr. Iden is one of the church trustees. He is a loyal republican in politics, and served one term as trustee of Etna eowDehDs and for about ten years has been a member of the County

Forrest KNEPPER has a number of interests to occupy his time and energies. He is the present trustee of Etna Township, has lived in that community for a number of years and gained a reputation as a farmer and stock man, and is one of Kosciusko County's best known republican leaders.

He was born in Whitley County, Indiana, June 4, 1873, a son of Lewis and Matilda (Sevits) Knepper. His parents were both born in Ohio, and their respective families moved to Indiana when they were young. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Whitley County, but in 1888 moved to Kosciusko County and had their home in Etna Township until October, 1917, when they moved to another farm in Tippecanoe Township of Marshall County. They are still active and have a host of friends in Kosciusko County. They are members of the Christian Church and Lewis Knepper is a democrat.

They had four children. Iva is the wife of Edwin Gay, of Etna Township. Dora died at the age of sixteen and Homer died when twelve years old.

Forrest Knepper was fifteen years old when the family came to Kosciusko County, and he grew to manhood on the farm in Etna Township. He acquired a good education, at first in the common schools, later in the North Manchester College, and after a normal course began teaching at the age of eighteen. For six years teaching was his chief occupation. He had also acquired by experience a thorough knowledge of farming, and for ten years he worked with an elevator company at Warsaw, Indiana.

April 4, 1898, Mr. Knepper married Miss Lucy Towns. She was born in Marshall County, Indiana, and is a graduate of the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Knepper have three children, Lucile, Robert and Lyndon. Lucile is a graduate of the Etna Green High School, attended the Winona School, and is now a teacher in Etna Township. Robert is a graduate of the common and high schools and spent one year in the State University. Lyndon is attending high school at Etna Green.

The family are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Knepper is one of its deacons. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and is a republican in politics. He has served as a member of the county central committee and in his present office as township trustee is carefully looking after the welfare of the schools and highways, and all the other routine business connected with his office. Mr. Knepper has a good farm of 120 acres, and also rents 160 acres. All this land is devoted to pasturing and the raising of grain crops, and he is one of the shippers of livestock out of the county.

CHARLES C. JOHNSON has figured prominently in the business affairs and citizenship of Etna Green and Etna Township for many years. His present work in relationship to the community is as general farmer and stock raiser, his home being a quarter of a mile east of Etna Green.

Mr. Johnson was born in Stark County, Ohio, August 6, 1862, a son of Daniel and Jane (Brush) Johnson. His father was born in Pennsylvania September 14, 1837, and his mother in New York state April 10, 1836. Both are still living and both are past the age of eighty years. They grew up from childhood in Stark County, were married there, and in 1874 moved to Kosciusko County and located south of Etna Green. They continued to live in that farming community until 1892, when they moved into the village of Etna Green, where they are still living. Daniel Johnson owns 194 acres of well cultivated land in Etna Township. He is a republican voter and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There were four children in the family: Florence M., wife of Douglas Senour; Charles C.; Oscar A., who married Lulu Shenefield and lives south of Etna Green ; and Daniel C., who died in fancy.

December 9, 1887, he married Miss Cora A. Catell, who was born in Kosciusko County, June 2, 1865, daughter of Joseph B. and Alice (Garwood) Catell. Mrs. Johnson has spent practically all her life in Kosciusko County. After their marriage they farmed his father's farm two years, then lived on Mrs. Johnson's father's farm for a year and another year on the Senour farm. After this experience as a practical agriculturist Mr. Johnson went to Etna Green and became identified with the company as a partner operating the local flour milling industry, elevator and lumber yard. He was a factor in that business for seven years, at the end of which time he sold out his interests and resumed farming, though he made his home in the village for three years longer. He moved to his present farm in 1901.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children: Ethel J. is a graduate of the Etna Green High School, and is still at home. Charles H. was born November 5, 1905, and is still a school boy. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Johnson is on its official board. Politically he is a republican.

CuHartes A. KintzeEL. The people of Kosciusko County know Charles A. Kintzel particularly for his very efficient service as sheriff of the county, and many remember the fact that he was at the time of his election the youngest sheriff the county ever had. Aside from his activity in public affairs he has for many years been one of the successful and progressive farmers of Etna Township, and since leaving the court house has resumed farming on his place threequarters of a mile north of Etna Green.

Mr. Kintzel was born in Prairie Township, February 15, 1871, a son of Christian and Mary (Anglin) Kintzel. While he is of German ancestry, his people have been Americans for more than a century, in fact since the colonial period in. Pennsylvania.

David Kintzel, grandfather of Charles A., was a tanner by trade and owned and operated two tanneries in Pennsylvania. He married Mary Rathfang, and they had ten children, including Christian Kintzel, father of Charles A. In 1865 David Kintzel brought his family to Kosciusko County. Christian Kintzel was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was still a youth when the family came to Kosciusko County. He grew up in Prairie Township. and after his marriage moved to Etna Township, southeast of Etna Green, and that locality is still his home. He is a republican in politics. His first wife died in February, 1871, her only child being Charles A. Kintzel.

Charles A. Kintzel grew up on his father's farm, but was reared principally in the home of his grandparents and uncles. He had a common school education, and on January 3, 1891, he married Minnie B. Silvius. She was born in Etna Township March 3, 1873, daughter of Jacob and Emma (Hershner) Silvius. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kintzel lived for a time on the Silvius farm, and then moved to another place, which they occupied for a time, following which they bought the eighty acres where they still reside. Mr. Kintzel gave all his time to his farming and stock raising until elected to the office of sheriff in 1910. His term of service ran until January 1, 1915, at which time he returned to the farm.

Mr. and Mrs. Kintzel have one daughter, Erma C., born October 2, 1899, and now a student in the Indiana Central University at Indianapolis, specializing in music. The family are members of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Kintzel is affiliated with the Warsaw Lodge of Odd Fellows, and is a republican, and has served as county chairman of his party.

G. A. McCuure. Kosciusko County has few large farms in the sense of states further west, and the possession of a section of land here gives its owner special distinction. During the past seventy or eighty years some of the largest and choicest tracts of farm land in the county have been owned by the McClures. One of this family is G. A. McClure, widely known as proprietor of the Bonnie Brae's Stock Farm, consisting of 600 acres, located three miles west of Silver Lake in Seward Township.

Before further mention of Mr. McClure and his activities it is proper to take up the career of his honored father, the late Elias McClure, whose experiences furnish material for almost a chapter of valuable history of this locality.

Elias McClure was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Janary 18, 1813, a son of Samuel and Eliza (Edwards) McClure, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Scotland. After the death of Samuel McClure the widowed mother took her two sons, Elias and Robert E., to Ontario County, New York, and there she married a second husband. Largely on account of the early death of his father Elias McClure became dependent upon his own resources when a very small boy. He worked on a farm at $3 a month, and when this wage was increased to $14 it was the highest sum paid in that locality for farm labor. In the meantime he gained his education by the most strenuous efforts and self denial. While attending district schools he did chores for his board, these chores including the milking of 12 cows, the feeding of 150 head of cattle and attending to several teams night and morning. At the age of fourteen he had become a capitalist. He loaned his employer $102, and soon afterwards experienced a sample of ingratitude when, having met with an accident and broken both his legs, he was thrown upon the care of the town, since his employer failed to repay the loan. 'He gradually worked back and accumulated several hundred dollars.

Elias McClure first came to Kosciusko County in 1837, and entered 440 acres. This land was chiefly in Seward Township. Three months Jater he went to Michigan and from there returned to New York and spent one year as a student in an academy. He was well educated, and taught school several winter terms, working on farms during the summer.

born at Rochester, New York, when that city contained only three houses. Her birth occurred September 30, 1822. After his marriage Elias McClure rented a farm for four years, but in 1844 brought his wife and two sons, Andrew E. and Gideon C., to Kosciusko County, and they followed the lake and river route as far as Wabash and from there attempted to come overland with wagon and team. The roads were in a deplorable condition, and both he and his wife walked most of the way, carrying a child, and for miles they were in mud and water up to their knees. They spent one night at the home of a settler, and such was the scarcity of money in those days Elias McClure did not have enough to pay the nominal sum of 25 cents charged for his lodging. But he kept the debt in mind and promptly paid it some weeks later when he met his entertainer at a house raising. Arriving at his own land in section 3 of Seward Township, Elias McClure erected a simple log cabin, which at first contained neither doors nor windows. With various modifications and improvements this house sheltered the family for twenty-three years. Not a little prejudice existed against Elias Mc- Clure because he was a Yankee, and some of the neighbors expressed themselves as sorry that a lazy Yankee had come into the community instead of a good honest Dutchman. The first team he ever had consisted of a yoke of cattle and when one of the steers died this prejudice against the Yankee found expression, and it was diffieult for him to get credit for another animal. But in the course of years this prejudice died down because he was not only extremely industrious but was honest and scrupulous to the last penny. His hard work rapidly broadened the area of cultivation surrounding his pioneer home, and his increasing prosperity enabled him to accumulate land until at one time he was the owner of 3,000 acres. In 1867 he moved his family across the road from the old log house into a commodious and comfortable frame building. While he was always extremely adverse to holding any political office, he was devoted to the welfare of the locality and its moral and religious advancement. For a number of terms he served as trustee of Seward Township.

At the time of his death, January 1, 1906, Elias McClure was one of the oldest men in Kosciusko County. He lacked only seven years in reaching the century mark in life. His good wife passed away January 20, 1892. They had a large family of children named Andrew E., Gideon C., Phoebe E., Emma A., Mary, Gain A., Alma and Plunket. Both Andrew and Gideon were soldiers of the Union army and were captured. Andrew returned home, but Gideon was practically starved to death while a prisoner at Andersonville.

It was in the old log home of his father in section 3 of Seward Township that G. A. McClure was born October 4, 1858. Of his brothers and sisters only two are now living, Phoebe, wife of F. M. Jacques, of Lake Township, and Alma, wife of Levi Yount, of Seward Township.

identified with farming and stock raising, and usually on a large scale. He is well known as a breeder of Polled Durham and Shorthorn cattle, and the stock that grows to maturity on his farm commands a ready sale, not only at the commercial markets but with the farmers and stock men who desire such blood for breeding purposes. Mr. McClure is a stanch republican, and was trustee of Seward Township in 1903-04. His splendidly adapted farm of 600 acres is all in one body, and its improvements and facilities are of the very best. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church.

Mr. McClure married Zadie V. Light, daughter of Peter S. and Jerusha (Garvin) Light. Mrs. McClure's maternal grandfather, James Garvin, came to Seward Township in 1835, and Jerusha Garvin was the first white child born in that township. Her birth occurred September 30, 1839. Jerusha Garvin and Peter S. Light were married November 12, 1857. Of their four children only two are now living, Mrs. McClure and Minerva J., of Peru, Indiana. James Garvin became a prominent man in this county, was a representative in the Legislature during 1849-50 and was a leader in the democratic party. Mr. and Mrs. Garvin were very religious people, belonging to the Baptist Church, and in early days opened their house for worship until the people were able to erect churches.

Joseph W. Light, an old and respected pioneer of Kosciusko County, was born in Virginia, August 25, 1803. He with his parents came to Ohio in mere childhood and there he grew to manhood. He was married, September 24, 1829, to Martha Dunn, a native of Ohio, born in 1808. To this union were born seven children: Rachel, Simmion, Peter S., Ruben, Virginia and America (twins), and one child that died in infancy. Virginia, now Mrs. William Banning of Marion, Michigan, is the only one of the family living. Mr. Light with his family moved to Kosciusko County, Indiana, in 1843, and bought 320 acres of land in Tippecanoe Township.

Having learned the carpenter trade in his youth and not liking agricultural work he followed his profession. He was a master meehanie of his day and could make anything in wood and was called all over the county to build the better houses. IIe and his wife were members of the Baptist Church at Oswego and he was a deacon in the church. He was a stanch republican and filled at different times some minor offices. He was a lover of his country and named his twins after his native state and country.

Mr. and Mrs. McClure have one daughter, Theressa, born February 28, 1890, and a graduate of St. Mary of the Woods near Terre Haute. She is now the wife of George Davis of Philadelphia. Besides their own daughter Mr. and Mrs. McClure reared an adopted daughter, Mabel L. Sailors, from the age of nine years. She is also a graduate of St. Mary of the Woods and of the local high school and is now a student of the State University of Indiana.

JosePH M. Gaskmy, of Etna Township, has done much to train and educate the boys and girls of this county and those of other sections of the state. He has been almost a lifelong teacher, and qualified for that profession after a youth in which he was denied many of the advantages of school. Mr. Gaskill is also a farmer, and has a well improved place of eighty acres a mile east and four miles north of Etna Green. ;

He was born at an old log house that is still standing on his farm on March 22, 1860, a son of John P. and Anna (Shively) Gaskill. His parents were both born in Stark County, Ohio, his father February 29, 1820, and his mother May 19, 1829. His father died March 10, 1879, at the age of fifty-nine, and his mother on October 10, 1913, aged eighty-five. After their marriage in Stark County they lived for a time in Williams County, Ohio, then went to Marshall County, Indiana, and in 1850 located on the land now owned by their son in Etna Township. The mother was an active member of the Dunkard Church, while the father was of Quaker faith. His name appears on the official list of the township as a trustee. A brief record of the children is as follows: Charles W., a farmer in Kosciusko County; Priscilla, widow of William Huffer, living northwest of Plymouth; Isaac C., a twin, and one died in infancy; Joseph M.; John M., who died at the age of four years; and Hannah L.

Joseph M. Gaskill grew up on the home farm, and until he was seventeen years of age had most limited privileges even in the district schools. Most of his education ke acquired out of a spelling book, and in that branch of the literary art became so proficient that in spelling schools far and near he became recognized as one of the most redoubtable performers. Later he secured books, read and studied at home, and at the age of nineteen began applying his meager resources to a higher education. He secured a license to teach school, and in the intervals of teaching attended Valparaiso University a number of terms and also the Plymouth Normal. There has been practically no year in the past thirty when he has not taught part of the time. For nine years he was principal of the Etna Green schools, taught thirty-five years in the country schools of Etna Township, and has also taught in Marshall County.

July 5, 1888, Mr. Gaskill married Myrtle Leffel. She was born near Etna Green, March 29, 1868, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Baker) Leffel. Mrs. Gaskill attended public schools at Etna Green when Mr. Gaskill was her teacher. Their only child died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill are members of the Christian Church at Etna Green. Mr. Gaskill is a Past Noble Grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and .was formerly identified with the Encampment. In politics he is a republican. For a number of years he held the office of justice of the peace and has served as president of the Board of Trustees of Etna Green, and also treasurer and secretary of the town corporation.

chosen vocation. The Neffs are an old and prominent family of Kosciusko and Elkhart counties, and the name has been identified with farming, the professional life and the ministry for several generations. The Neff family came out of Virginia to Elkhart County in pioneer times.

Noble W. Neff was born at Milford Junction, August 16, 1897, -a son of James and Mary J. (Miller) Neff. His father was born in Elkhart County, October 11, 1857, and died June 8, 1917. His wife was born November 14, 1857. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Elkhart County and later moved to a farm in Kosciusko County, finally locating in Milford Junction. James Neff was an excellent veterinarian as well as practical farmer, and extensive demands were made upon his professional service for many years. He was active in the Church of the Brethren. There were three children in the family: Xoa, an invalid; Grover C. and Noble W. Grover C. Neff has made a name for himself in engineering circles. He graduated from the Milford High School, and at Purdue Uniyersity took the classical courses leading up to the degrees of A. B. and M. A., and is also a graduate civil engineer. For a number of years he has been general superintendent of the Southern Wisconsin Power Company at Portage, Wisconsin, one of the largest hydraulic enterprises in that state. He married May Prehn, a graduate of the Portage High School.

Noble W. Neff grew up at the old home at Milford Junction, was educated in the grammar and high schools, and in 1918 received the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Indiana Veterinary College. He now carries on his practice and also superintends the operation of a farm of eighty acres. He is unmarried and is a member of the Church of the Brethren at Bethany.

CuarLEs H. Petry. A tract of land owned and occupied by Mr. Charles H. Petry well justifies its appropriate name as the Golden Grain Farm. Mr. Petry understands the business of farming in every detail, gets maximum results, and takes pride in keeping up his place not only as a means of greater production but also as a contribution to the general appearance of the community. The Golden Grain Farm is situated four miles south and a mile west of Mentone in Franklin Township. Mr. Petry has 160 acres.

He was born in Richland County, Ohio, May 5, 1867. In January, 1868, his parents, Jacob and Mary J. (Soveland) Petry, the former a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Richland County, Ohio, moved to Kosciusko County and established a home in Franklin Township. Their location was close to Beaver Dam Lake, and Jacob Petry besides operating a farm also conducted a sawmill for a number of years. He was a very successful and highly prosperous man, and at the time of his death owned 231 acres. He and his wife are members of the Church of God, and in politics he voted as a democrat. There were four children: Charles H.; Phianna, wife of Horace G. Thomas; Franklin, who

Charles H. Petry was eight months old when brought to Kosciusko County, and he has always considered this his home. He had about the average experiences of an Indiana farm boy, attending school in winter and helping in the fields in the summer. He lived at home until his father's death. October 9, 1890, he married Miss Flora Loehr, who was born in Harrison Township of this county.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.. Petry continued to live at the old Petry homestead near Beaver Dam, and while that farm was under his management he did much to improve it, erecting a commodious brick house and living in it until December, 1914. At that date he sold the old farm and bought his present place.

Mr. and Mrs. Petry have four children: Ferne L., a graduate of common and high schools, and has a successful record as a teacher; Ruth and Reth, both graduates of the high school, the latter the wife of Lester C. Rogers; and Charles G., who is a graduate of high school and had the remarkable record of being neither absent nor tardy during twelve years of school attendance. He is now connected with the brass works at Elkhart. Mr. Petry is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Akron, Indiana. He is one of the influential workers in the democratic party in Franklin Township.

J. C. Grapy is one of the men upon whom the nation can rely when it comes to a matter of producing food stuffs in a time of crisis. On his farm five miles southeast of Syracuse in Turkey Creek Township he has the reputation of producing more corn and wheat to the acre than any other man in that section. He has studied farming, has had a lifelong experience at it, and stopped at nothing short of the very best returns and the maximum of efficiency. The raising of staple crops is only part of his varied business. He buys and feeds cattle and hogs in carload lots, and recently he sent to market $9,500 worth of cattle. He has a farm of 184 acres, and he actually runs the farm, instead of letting it run him.

Mr. Grady was born March 31, 1878, in this county, a son of Isaac and Amanda (Markley) Grady. His parents are both natives of Ohio. His mother came to this country with her parents when eight years old, and the land acquired by the Markley family at that time is part of the present Grady farm. Mr. Grady's parents are now living at Goshen, Indiana. Both are active members of the German Baptist Church and in politics the father is a prohibitionist. There were three children: J. C.; Lauretta, a widow living at Goshen ; and Chauncey.

J. C. Grady was educated in the district schools, spent several winters in the college at North Manchester, Indiana, and for the past twenty years has applied the best of his talents and energies to the task of farming. May 8, 1904, he married Miss Hattie Elder, a native of Washington Township of Kosciusko County. They have two sons, Glen, born in 1907, and Dean, born in 1912.

WituiamM B. ANGLIN, who for a number of years was a_ local merchant, has successfully given his work and enterprise to a moderate sized farm and has created therefrom most of the comforts and plenty which the family enjoy. He is one of the residents of Prairie Township and has served as trustee of that township.

Mr. Anglin was born in Etna Township of this county May 239, 1846, and is one of the oldest native born citizens of the county. He is a son of Isaac and Catherine (Biggs) Anglin. His mother was a native of Union County, Indiana, while his father was born in West Virginia, October 29, 1814. Isaac Anglin when a young unmarried man came to Kosciusko County in 1836. He was one of the pioneers of Etna Township. His wife came to the county at the age of twentyone, and after their marriage they located in Etna Township. Catherine Anglin died on that farm in 1857, and her husband continued to live there until 1871 and then moved to another locality, where he had his home until his death in 1891. Of the five children only two are now living, Elam H. and William B. The former is a farmer three-quarters of a mile from Crumett in Prairie Township. Isaac Anglin is remembered as one of the stalwart citizens of the early days in Kosciusko County. He was a loyal member of the Methodist Church, a democrat in polities, and served at one time as justice of the peace and township trustee.

William B. Anglin grew up on the home farm in Etna Township was educated in the district schools and also in the Normal School at Valparaiso. Qualifying as a teacher, he followed that profession in the county for eight terms. Later he took up farming, and eventually located at Angleton, where he conducted a general store for twenty years, and during eleven years of that time was the local postmaster. In the meantime he was developing a farm, and now resides on a good place of 100 acres, the active operation of which is in the hands of his son.

Mr. Anglin has had six children: Clarence, deceased ; Gertrude, who was a teacher for nine vears and js now the wife of E. H. Smith, of Prairie Township; Grace, deceased; Mabel, formerly a teacher, now living in Hancock County, Ohio; Ethel, a graduate of the common schools and wife of A. D. Holaway, of Chicago; and Washington - J., who was a graduate of the common schools, spent one term at Purdue University, and by his marriage to Grace Kitch has six sturdy young boys, this family living on the old homestead. Mr. Anglin is an active member, trustee and deacon of the Christian Church. He served six years as trustee of Prairie Township and was elected on the democratic ticket by a margin of nine votes in a locality normally republican by thirty.

Hiram B. Ferverpa has been a resident of Kosciusko County a quarter of a century, grew up in Indiana from early boyhood, and had many hardships and difficulties to contend with in his earlier days. Industry and a determined ambition have brought him an enviable station in life, and among other interests he is now vice

Mr. Ferverda was born in Holland September 21, 1854, son of Banka and Gertrude D. (Young) Ferverda. His parents were also natives of Holland, married there, and the mother died in Holland leaving two sons, Henry and Hiram B. The father was a man of © excellent education and very talented as a musician and in other pursuits. He taught music. After the death of his first wife he again married and had two daughters by the second wife. He brought his family to the United States and located in Union Township of Elkhart County, Indiana, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a member of the Lutheran Church in Holland.

Hiram B. Ferverda was thirteen years old when his father came to Elkhart County. He had begun his education in his native country and finished in the publie schools of Elkhart County. The family were poor and he lived at home and gave most of the wages earned by farm work to the support of the family until he was nearly twentyone years old.

Mr. Ferverda married Evaline Miller, who was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, March 29, 1857, daughter of John D. and Margaret (Lentz) Miller. Her parents were both natives of America and her maternal grandparents were born in Germany.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ferverda moved to a farm four miles west of New Paris, Indiana, and two years later, in 1893, came to Kosciusko County and established their home on a farm near Oswego. Mr. Ferverda bought 160 acres, and developed a splendid farm. He yet owns the farm, but since March, 1909, has lived in Leesburg.