Noble County, Indiana - The whole text, 1902 (part 9 of 21)

Henry I. Park

This gentleman, the secretary and treasurer of the Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company, is well entitled to distinction as one of the progressive and enterprising business men of northern Indiana, and for some years has been officially connected with this, one if the largest and most important manufacturing establishments in the state, located at Kendallville. Upon the industrial activitv of a community or city depends in a large measure the prosperity of the people.

and the men recognized as leading citizens and directors of progress are those who have in hand the management and control of large business enterprises.

A native of Indiana, Henry I. Park was horn August 24, 1845, m tne town of Auburn, Dekalb count}-, of which his father, the late Wesley Park, was one of the founders, and his early years were spent amid the familiar scenes of his birth. Like the majority of boys in a country town his youth was comparatively uneventful, and at intervals during his minority he attended the public schools, where was laid the foundation of the success which later marked his business career.

On the breaking out of the great Rebellion Mr. Park, with true patriotic fervor, responded to the government's call for volunteers by enlisting in Company H. Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, with which he served about one year, being compelled to sever his connection with the army at the expiration of that time by reason of a disability, which unfitted him for the rugged duties of a soldier. Returning to Auburn after receiving his discharge, he became associated with his brother, Amos B. Park, as suttler of the Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and, as such, accompanied the regiment throughout its varied experiences, until mustered out in 1865. In that year he came to Kendallville and engaged in the hardware business with the brother above mentioned, and the firm thus constituted continued until the spring of 1872. Shortly after disposing of his commercial interest Mr. Park became connected with the manufacturing firm of Flint & Walling, and upon the incorporation of the company some time later he was chosen secretary and treasurer, the duties of which dual position he has since discharged in an eminently able and satisfactory manner. To narrate in detail Mr. Park's long and busy career in the high and responsible 1 ffice with which he has been honored, or to put in cold dead type the many duties which he lias so faithfully and worthily discharged, would far transcend the limits of an article of this kind, and at the same time it would be to publish to the people of Kendallville and Noble county a formidable array of facts; suffice it to state, therefore, that he enjoys to an unlimited degree the trust and confidence of the management of the mammoth enterprise with which he is identified, and as secretary and treasurer possesses a thorough and accurate knowledge of evendetail of the business coming within his sphere. An accomplished accountant and an able financier, his manifold duties are so systematically arranged as to cause him little or no inconvenience, while as custodian of the funds of the firm his record has been horn rable and upright, never having swerved from the strict path of rectitude but always proving able to discharge worthily the responsibilities resting upon him as the principal factor in a station demanding the highest order of business talent. He has labored faithfully and earnestly to promote the interests of the great enterprise, subordinating every other consideration to this one object, and it is conceded that much of the phenomenal success with which the firm has met is directly attributed' to his energy and systematic methods.

Aside from his connection with the Flint & Walling Company. Air. Park lias been a prominent factor in the general business and industrial interests of Kendallville, every enterprise calculated to advance the- city, materially or otherwise, receiving his hearty support and co-operation. All educational interests or movements for the dissemination of knowledge find in him a friend. ile is unwavering in support of whatever he believes to be right and upholds his honest convictions at the sacrifice of every other interest. As a citizen he is deservedly popular, charity and benevolence being among his chief characteristics, and to the poor and needy he is ever ready to extend a helping hand.

Fraternally Mr. Park is a Mason of high standing, having attained the thirty-second degree in the ancient and honorable order, while the Presbyterian church, of which he is a zealous member, represents his religious creed. At the present time he is a trustee of the congregation worshiping in Kendallville, and for the support of the gospel, both at home and abroad, he is a frequent and liberal contributor. His political support is given to the Republican party, but the wiles and chicanery of the modern partisan have always received his strongest condemnation. While earnest in the support of his principles and ever ready to assign an intelligent reason for his opinions and convictions, he is. first of all, a man of business, and has never entertained any aspirations for political honor of any kind.

Mr. Park is a man of broad general information, a careful reader of the world's best literature, and an intelligent student of current events. Conscientious in the discharge of the duties of citizenship, he is a valuable factor of the body politic, and his aim has always been to shape his life according to the highest standing of excellence. He entertains noble aims and high ideals, and the consensus of opinion in the city of his residence is that he stands before the world a model of the successful business man and a true type of the broad-minded, courteous gentleman.

preceding paragraph, an early settler and founder of the town of Auburn, 'Intl., where he located as long ago' as the year 1835. He was the first treasurer of Dekalb county, which office he filled a number of terms, and in many other ways he became a prominent and influential citizen. At the breaking out of the Civil war he recruited Company K. Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and upon the organization of the regiment received his commission as captain. He accompanied his command to the front and proved a brave and gallant leader, participating in a number of battles, the most important of which was Fort Donelson, Tenn. By reason of physical ailments, incapacitating him from further active service, be resigned a short time following the action at Fort Donelson, and shortly thereafter was appointed suttler of the regiment to> which he had belonged.

1 sition and returned to his home in Auburn. Subsequentlv Mr. Park emigrated to northern Missouri, where he spent the remaining years of his life.

The maiden name of Mrs. Weslev Park, the mother of the subject of this article, was Sophia Ingman. She was a native of. Ohio and bore her husband ten children, six of whom grew to maturity, namely: Amos B., Henrietta, Henry I., John AY, Emma and Elizabeth. Of these John AY is connected with the Flint & Walling Manufac- turing Company as traveling salesman; he is a capable and reliable business man and has done much to advertise the firm throughout the United States and bringing its various products to the favorable notice i f the people of the country. The mother departed this life in Auburn, Ind., in 1852, she having been the first white woman settler in that village.

Henry I. Park was married in Ligonier, Ind., to Lelle C. Chapman, daughter of 1 Ion. G. W. Chapman, of Ligonier, and by this union two children have been born, viz.: Harriet C, who died when but in her seventh year, and Henrietta I.

Archy Campbell

To present in detail the leading facts in the life of one of Kendallville's busy men of affairs and throw light upon some of his more prominent characteristics, is the task in hand in order to place before the reader the following brief biography of Archy Campbell. Though still in the prime of vigorous manhood, he has already won a distinguished place in the business world, besides impressing his strong personality upon the community where for a number of years he has been a forceful factor in directing thought and molding opinion. Mr. Campbell is descended from sturdy Scotch-Irish ancestry and combines in his make-up the characteristics of these two strong and virile razees. His father. Donald Campbell, a native of Scotland, was born in the year 1808, and his mother. Elizabeth Geegan, was born in the state of New York in 1S17. The former died December 22, 1892, in LaChute, province of Quebec. Canada, al the ripe old age of eighty-five years. The family of Donald and Elizabeth Campbell consisted of four children, namely: Ida, who died at the age of sixteen; Geraldiue, widow of the late Pliny C. Taber, of Kendall ville; John A. and Archy.

Archy Campbell was born September 28, 1856, in Syracuse, N. Y, and spent the first twelve years of his life in the city of his 1 : tivity. He was then taken by his parents to the town of Morrisburg, Canada, where he remained until his twentieth year, meanwhile attending the public schools and obtaining a good practical education. Leaving Canada prior to attaining his majority, he joined a brother in California, but did not long remain in that state, returning east after a few months and locating in the city of Kendallville, Ind., where, in partnership with his brother, John A. Campbell, he engaged in the mercantile business. For a period of four years the firm of Campbell Brothers did a large and lucrative business and became widely and favorably known in commercial circles throughout northeastern Indiana. At the expiration of four years Archy Campbell purchased his brother's interest in the store and conducted a successful trade until 1887. when Jacob C. Fetter was admitted to- partnership, under the firm name of Campbell & Co. From 1887 to 1894 Messrs. Campbell & Fetter devoted their attention exclusively to merchandising, during which period they greatly increased the volume of their business and became the leaders in their line of trade in the city. In the latter year they engaged in banking, an enterprise which they still carry on and which, like their mercantile interests, has redounded to their success and financial profit.

By nature, education and experience, Mr. Campbell is endowed with business qualifications far above the average, and by strict attention to every detail of his enterprises has achieved signal success, where many men would have failed. As a merchant, he is extensively and favorably known in the commercial world and throughout his career in Kendallville has earned a reputation for integrity and fair dealingsuch as few attain. In all the transactions of life he is noted for the exact justice he shows in his intercourse with his fellow men. being prompt, energetic and watchful, at the same time extending to those with whom he has dealings the largest measure of courtesy. Prompt in meeting evenobligation he has always enjoyed unlimited credit, and by the exercise of sound judgment and superior financial abilities he has built up a private fortune which places him among the most substantial men of Kendallville and the county of Noble. As a financier, he easily ranks with the successful capitalists of northern Indiana, and from his long experience in monetary and commercial affairs his opinions have great weight and his ideas always receive the utmost consideration.

While essentially a business man in the full sense of the term. Mr. Campbell is also public-spirited in all the word implies. Since becoming a resident of Kendallville he has manifested a lively interest in everything pertaining to the city's growth and welfare, and as president of the local educational board he has done much to promote the efficiency of the schools and to awake an interest in the intellectual improvement of the community. By reason of the active part taken in all enterprises promoting the public gooc1 or the general diffusion of knowledge he has earned the gratitude and good will of his fellow-citizens, and it is praise well and honorably earned to class him with the progressive men and leading benefactors in a city noted far and wide for the high character of its citizenship.

Mr. Campbell was married in Kendallville, March 12, 1880, to Miss Kate R. Mitchell, daughter of Hon. John Mitchell, one of the city's most progressive business men ( see sketch of John Mitchell ) . and his home has been brightened by the presence of four interesting children, namely; Donald .Mitchell. William Archy, Joseph Weston and Gertrude Mitchell, all living.

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are popular with all classes of people in Kendallville, and their home is a favorite resort of the best_ social circles of the city. They are highly esteemed for their man)- sterling qualities of head and heart, and as earnest and devoted members of the Episcopal church are first and foremost in every good work for bettering the condition of the poor and unfortunate. They have always exerted a wholesome moral infleuence in the community, and with the spirit of true helpers of humanity they have never made ostentatious display of their benevolences or charities.

Milj.Ard F. Owen

The gentleman whose name stands at the head of this biographical sketch was born in Townsend township, Norfolk county, Ontario, Canada. July 4, 185 1, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from the ru'e of the government unda der which he was born - old England - and from the control of which government he was taken by his parents to Silver Creek, Allegan county, Mich., in 1857, and four years later to Cooper, Kalamazoo county, in the same state. Two years later the family removed to Prairieyille, Barry county. Mich., where the}' resided seven years, and there young Millard F. received the greater part of his education in the common schools.

It may be inferred, and truthfully, that the parents of Mr. Owen, of this sketch, were of strong Yankee proclivities - using the word "Yankee" as it is applied by Britons to all the inhabitants of the United States - as the name of the subject of this sketch is Millard F., and was no doubt named in honor of Millard Fillmore, a former resident of Buffalo, N. Y., and elected in [848 vice-president of the United States on the Whig ticket with Zachary Taylor, the renowned hero of our war with Mexico, and whom Fillmore succeeded to the presidency about a year after attaining the office. The fact is, that the father of the subject was born in New York state

When Millard F. Owen was about nineteen years of age the family located in Otsego, Allegan county. Mich., where the father, of whom further mention will be made, entered into the produce business, and where, when Millard F. had attained his majority, the father and son entered into partnership, under the firm style of J. W. Owen & Son. In the spring of 1873 trns firm sold out their business, and Millard F, the subject, engaged in telegraphy in the office of the L. S. & M. S. Railway Company, at Otsego. Mich., in which employ hewas retained until June, 1874, after which time he acted in the same capacity in different offices of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company until December 15 of the same year, when he was appointed agent for the same company at Runic City, and superintendent of the "Resort" in summer, anil here he has resided ever since, with the exception of six months passed in Colorado.

In 1876 Mr. Owen became connected with the boat "livery" service at Rome City, Ind., and with the steamer line in [878, and in the latter year he represented the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Companv in the committee which organized the Chautauqua Assembly. It may be here mentioned, by the by. that Mr. Owen filled the offices of president and auditor of this assembly at its twenty-third annual meeting in 1901.

In 1895 Mr. Owen assumed the management of the "Island Hotel and Restaurant," and in 1896, when the Spring Beach Hotel Company was organized, was appointed its secretary, in which capacity he is still acting in the most satisfactory manner, and in a manner, in which, perhaps, few other persons could act. Mr. Owen is also manager and secretary of the row-boat company at J Rome City, and is president and manager of. the Steam-Packet Company of the same place, all these responsible positions giving proof of his mure than ordinary ability as an executive official, which quality is further shown in the relations of his subsequent business career. In 1898 the Rome City Ice Company was organized, but was really owned by Millard F. Owen and Henry G. Cobb, and in September, 1900, Mr. Owen purchased the Sylvan Lake Hotel, of which he is still the sole proprietor.

will, u of Clark Haughton, the manager, formerly, of the Lakeside House, which sin. id mi the site of the present Sylvan Lake 111. use. Mr>. Owen, now deceased, was a daughter of William R. Truesdall, and was born in Norwalk, Ohio, January 9, 185 1. She was reared in Ohio until about seventeen years old. when she came to Rome City with her parents. To Air. and Airs. Owen were born three children - Laura De, Jessie M. and Vera T. Of these, the eldest, Laura De. is the wife of Clement G. Routsong, who is the night operator of the telegraph of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company at Albion, Ind. The mother of these children was called away, however, at Rome City, July 4, 1898, and her loss most deeply mourned by her sorrowing family and friends.

Joel W. Owen, father of Millard F., was born in Genesee count}', N. Y., March 28, 1817, and the wife of Joel W., before marriage, was Miss Mary Woodbeck, who was also a native of New York and was born November 19, 1828. These parents were married in Rockfurd, Norfolk county, Ontarii . August 14. 1850: from Canada they returned to the United States in 1857 and li cated in Allegan county, Mich., where the father embarked in sawmilling. starting also the first gristmill at Plainwell and also the first at Allegan, the court town of the county. Joel W. Owen, however, had first married Miss Cynthia Kitchen, who died in Ontario, leaving one sun. Egbert A. To the second marriage have been born five children, viz. : Millard F. ; Cynthia, who is the wife of Eber Sherwood, of Otsego, Mich.; Jessie: Charles: and Cora, wife of William Junes, nf Detroit. The parents now have their home at Otsego. Mich.

was born in Chemung, N. Y., September 29, 1787, was by profession a Methodist clergyman, and was also a gallant soldier in the war of j8ij. His death occurred at Plainwell, Mich.. December 12, J870. and the dates here given show at what an advanced age. His wife, the maternal grandmother of Millard F. Owen, was before marriage Miss Anna Winter, who was born in the state of Xew York August 11, 1786, and died at Silver Creek, Mich, (or Argenta. Mich.), February 2H, i860. Epinetis Owen, father of Jesse Owen, died from the effects of an injury received in a mill at Vittoria, Ontario.

Millard F. Owen is noted for the interest lie takes in ancient relics and old books, and of the latter he owns many of rare value. He keeps a hotel that is famous throughout northeastern Indiana and his cuisine is as renowned for its excellence as are the home comforts in general of the hostelry and the genial affability of the landlord.

Mr. Owen is a member of blue lodge, No, 451, F. & A. M. and of R. A. M. chapter. No. 64. of Kendallville, and of Eastern Star, No. 232 ; he is also a member of Rome City Lodge, No. 460. K. of P. As a citizen he is one of the most progressive in Noble county, as well as one of the most public spirited.

Peter A. Sunday

Peter A. Sunday, leading business man of Albion, Noble county. Ind.. a native of Ashland county. Ohio, was born February 18, 1834, and is a sun of Henry and Elizabeth (Kunkle) Sunday, both natives of the Buckeye state. Of these parents the father, although he had passed his life as a farmer in his native state, was suddenly called away by death while he was visiting a son in Lagrange county, Ind. ; the mother passed away at her home in Ohio. They were the parents of seven sons and one daughter, who were born in the following older: Wesley, Andrew, Daniel, Jefferson, John, Peter A., Amanda and Levi. Of these eight Peter A. and Jefferson are the only survivors, Daniel, John and Levi having died in childhood. Amanda was married to a Mr. Knull, and her death occurred in April, 190 1 ; Jefferson is now a farmer in Fulton count}-, Ind.

Peter A. Sunday was hut thirteen years of age when he left the parental roof and began an apprenticeship at harness-making in Lagrange, learned the business, and worked as a journeyman until his coming to Albion, November 8, 1864. Here he at once established a manufacturing business in his own line, in which he has met with signal success. He now owns considerable property in Albion, mostly consisting of residences and vacant lots; he also owns valuable property in the city of Lagrange. Ind. ; city property in Mansfield, Ohio; a farm in Noble count v. Ind.. and city lots in Wichita, Kans., all resulting from his own unaided enterprise and good management.

Air. Sunday was united in marriage March 13, 1862, at Lagrange, Ind., with Miss Lucretia L. Garmire, a native of Fostoria, Ohio, who was but four years of age when brought to Indiana by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sunday have had no children born to their union, but in order to fill the parental void in their heart have reared H. G. Garmire. a brother of Mrs. Sunday, since his thirteenth year until manhood, being in the home over twentv years.

The education of Mr. Sunday was but limited, as far as schools are concerned, yet by private study be has acquired a large ami unt of useful information, including the German language, which, although he can read with ease, he cannot speak very fluently. He early became imbued with business principles, his adherence to which has resulted in his present competence. Mrs. Sunday, however, was educated in the city schools of Lagrange and secured excellent educational training.

In politics Air. Sunday is of Democratic proclivities, although he is not held down to party lines on local issues, and has never sought public office; nevertheless, he was the first city marshal of Albion, which position he filled two terms. In religion Air. and Airs. Sunday are identified with the Evangelical Lutheran church, the tenets of which they adhere to with fervid tenacity.

The Sunday family, although small in numbers, wield a large influence in the social circles of Albion, being greatly respected by the entire community.

Cornelius B. Phillips

York and lived on a farm until seven years of age. He then went to New York City, where he was employed, as a clerk in a wholesale house. In September. 1850. he came to Albion, Ind., and clerked for William M. Clapp in a dry-goods store for six years. He then embarked in business in connection with John E. Walters and continued therein two years and six months. He then entered into a partnership with Judge Clapp in the dry-goods business, and continued therein until 1876, when he engaged in business alone, which venture proved extensive and very .successful, and lasted until 1880, when he was burned out, losing about fifteen thousand dollars. He then engaged in the grain and insurance business. He has long been associated with the business interests of Noble county and of Albion, and has always ranked as a citizen of sterling integrity and of great moral worth. He is intelligent, of good business qualifications, is industrious and persevering, and has succeeded in securing a competency from a financial point of view. He served two terms of four years each as auditor of Noble county, has held several other important positions, and in every instance discharged the duties thereof with marked ability and to the entire satisfaction of the people, and has left no stain of dishonor to sully his fair reputation.

In November, 1861, he was married to Miss Catharine Pepple, an amiable and intelligent daughter of the late James Pepple, of Albion. She died in 1877. To this union were born three children : Thurlow, who died unmarried; Grace, who became the wife of George O. Russell, Jr., of Albion, and who died a few years ago ; and Ettie, now the widow of Arthur Talbert, deceased. In 1878 Mr. Phillips was married to Miss Mary Kuhn, an intelligent and refined daughter of Washington and Rebecca Kuhn, of York township. She still survives, and is mistress of a happy home. To this union were born four children : Fred, Cornelius B. W ., Mabel and Lula.

Mr. Phillips has for many years been an honored member of the Masonic order and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For seventeen years he served as secretary of the former order, and held the presidency of the latter for several years. While not a member of any church, he is a regular attendant at, and a liberal supporter of, the Presbyterian church of Albion, of which his wife is a zealous and consistent member. Since he left the auditor's office he has been in the grocer}- business, and is having a large, flourishing trade. Mr. Phillips from early youth, as above indicated, has had the benefit of commercial training, and being of an industrious and stirring nature, his future success seems assured. His residence is commodious, tastily and richly furnished, and is presided over by one who does not seem to rely chiefly upon a splendid mansion with costly furnishings for happiness, believing that -

"Home's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home's where affection calls, Filled with shrines the heart has builded."

George Rumbaugh

It is well known historically that when the ordinance of secession was passed and was adopted by most of the southern states, many of the best and wisest men of old Virginia deplored the condition of affairs and strove, though in vain, td save the state from the clutches of the secessionists. A large section in the northwest part of the old state, however, remained loyal to the Union, and representatives from forty counties met in convention at Wheeling, on the Ohio river, June 11, 1861, rejected the ordinance of secession and organized a state government, the constitution of which was adopted May 3, (862, and the state admitted into the Union June 20, [863, and among the counties that constituted the newstate was Berkeley, in which the subject of this sketch had his nativity.

G& rge Rumbaugh, be it then explained, was bom in Berkeley count}-, \"a., August 14. 1829, and was about five years of age when taken by his parents to Seneca county, Ohio, where the family settled on a farm, on which young George was reared to manhood. In the spring of 1850 George came from Ohio to Noble county. Ind., with no capital save his strong arms and his knowledge of farming. He also possessed a strong determination to succeed in life, if determination and industry were to count for anything.

By practicing frugality and by laboring diligently and by keeping his eyes open to the main chance. Mr. Rumbaugh worked his way upward until he became the owner of several farms in Jefferson township, and in 1883 came to Orange township and purchased his present fine homestead of eighty acres, all of which is handsomely improved.

Mr. Rumbaugh was united in marriage at Albion, Ind., September T4, 1854, with Miss Martha Pike, who was horn in Seneca county, Ohio, November 4. 1838. and to this union have been horn four children, who still live to honor, love and cheer the declining years of their parents, and whose births took place in the following order: Daniel, Willard. Laura and Nettie J., and of these highly cultivated children further mention will be made before this sketch shall have been brought to a close. In the meantime something may be and ought to be said relative to the military career of the brave and patriotic father.

In September, [864, George Rumbaugh enlisted in Company 1). Thirteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the engagement at Fort Fisher, and also in several severe skirmishes, and served until honorably discharged on account of disability at New Berne, X. C, in June 1865. After his discharge from the military service Mi'. Rumbaugh returned to his wife and children, whom he had left behind, while he risked his life on the battle field. Mr. Rumbaugh's regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and he was on the famous march through the Carolinas. and he was in New Berrie, N. C, when the glad intelligence reached the poor hoys of the surrender of General R. E. Lee, and just at this time these glad tidings meant home and friends and loved ones again. Five days subsequently the sad news of the assassination of the great and good Lincoln came, which was a sore contrast to the former.

children, wa Noble county. Ind., August jj. 1856, was educatied in the common schools and was reared to agricultural pursuits. lie was an unusually bright young man and has always been greatly interested in local politics. Since 1887 he has been a member of the Republican county central committee; Willard Rumbaugh. the second born, is a merchant and is postmaster at LaOtto. Ind.; Laura and Xettie J. still have their home under the parental roof. Of these. Willard was a school teacher in Noble count}- for four years when a young man, and Nettie J. has taught in the public schools of Noble county since 188s - a vocation she is still following- with the earnest approval of the people. The family are members of the United Brethren church and enjoy the respect of the entire community.

William Rumbaugh, the father of the above named George, was born in Virginia and there married Miss Mary Musetter, a native of the same state, who became the mother of the respected family already named in detail. From Virginia Mr. and and Mrs. William Rumbaugh removed to Seneca county, Ohio, in the latter part of the 'thirties, and in that count)* the mother died when fourty-four years old and the father when about seventy years of age. They were greatly respected by their neighbors and reared a family of nine children, of whom George, the subject of this sketch, was the fourth in order of birth.

Samuel Pike, the father of Mrs. Martha Rumbaugh, was born in the state of New York, and married Miss Mary Cutright, a native of Seneca count}-, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pike came to Noble dainty. lnd., in 1852, and located in Jefferson township, but later removed to Wayne township, where the mother passed away, but the father, returning- to Jefferson township, died there when sixty-nine years old.

George Rumbaugh has been one of the most energetic and progressive men that ever lived in Orange township. He has through his personal efforts raised himself from the plane of comparative poverty to the height of prosperity, has reared a family of which the township and county may well feel proud, and he enjoys the respect and unaffected esteem of all his neighbors, ] near and far. His son Daniel, especially, j promises to be indeed a worthy successor, i while the record of the career of the other I

Rev. Owen W. Bowen

Rev. Owen W. Bowen. Evangelical Lutheran clergyman at Albion and a fervent and earnest dispenser of the truths and blessings of the gospel, was born in Noble county, hid., March 6, 1841, and is a son of William E. and Elizabeth (Weitzel) Bowen, both of Pennsylvania nativity and of English and German descent, respectively. William E. and Elizabeth Bowen were married in the Keystone state, and in 1837 came to Noble county, lnd., where William E. entered forty acres of farm land in Green township, to which he subsequently added, by purchase and otherwise, until at his death he was possessed of three hundred and sixty acres. Pie was born February 7, 18 10, and died May 5, 1881 ; his wife was born February 15, 1814, and died August 26, 1882. These parents had a family of nine children, of whom five are still living, namely: Margaret, wife of E. D. Spencer, of Albion; Rev. Owen W. ; Elizabeth, widow of Dr. S. M. Spencer, also residing in Albion; William W., a well-to-do farmer living one mile north of the city; Franklin J. is a mechanic and resides at Fort Wayne. The father of this family was quite prominent in political life, served as sheriff four years, as county treasurer four years, and for many years was a constable and justice of the peace.

winter terms. He also pursued a two-years' course of study at Wittenburg" College, Ohio, where he was prepared fur the ministry. He began his labors as pastor in the Lutheran church at Three Rivers, Mich., where he remained three years, to the great edification of his congregation. He was next' stationed at Ligonier, Ind., and supplied the Salem charge, preaching for about five years. In 1883 he came to Albion, where he had three congregations under bis charge for about four years, anil was president of the school board for four years. The next five years he bad charge of the Massillon congregation at Monroeville, Ind., and then returned to Albion, where he has no regular work, but supplies each of the pulpits as circumstances require, his eloquence and lucid logic, as well as fervency, making him a welcome speaker on all occasions and to all hearers.

Rev. Mr. Bowen was joined in marriage at Constantine, Mich., May 9. 1872. with A 1 i -. ^ Sarah C. Ileckmau. who was born in Pennsylvania, February 4, 1847, and was a daughter of Aaron Heckman, a farmer. Two children came to bless this union, towit: Maggie Belle, born April 14, 1873, is now the wife of Mert Webster, foreman in one of the departments of the rubber factory at Mishawaka; and William Luther, who was horn January 2, 1875. an(3 's an employe in the same department.

Mrs. Sarah C. Bowen departed this life February 8, 1901. at the family home in Albion. She was a worthy and exemplarv j Christian and a true helpmeet. Since her death Air. Bowen has kept house alone at the old home, although he owns a farm in Green township, which he frequently visits, and this diverts his mind from his sorrows.

Mr. Bowen has affiliated with the Democrats through his mature years, but has not been held down strictly by party discipline, as he is a Prohibitionist in sentiment and an ardent advocate of sobriety. His exalted Christian character commands the respect and admiration of his fellow-citizens, and nowhere more so than in the county of his birth.

This prominent physician of Noble county, Ind.. and honored citizen of the city of Ligonier, was born June 3, 1833, in the town of Edinburg, Portage county. Ohio, and is a son of Jacob ami Mary I Morgan) Knepper.

Jacob Knepper was of German ancestry, but was horn in Pennsylvania, and his wife was a native of Ohio. They were married in Columbiana county, and afterward resided in Edinburg for a number of years. They later removed to Williams county, Ohio, where the father died at the age of seventy-six vears and the mother at the age of sixtv-six. They were the parents of seven children: of these Rossanah is the widow of Henry Thomas and now resides with her daughter in Cleveland; Jeremiah M.. died in Bryan. Ohio, in 1805. at the age ,4" sixty-three; Edwin W., of this sketch: William M. is a successful farmer of Williams county. Ohio: Selina was the wife of Aaron Brannon ami died in 1879; Allen is a farmer, now living in Williams county, Ohio: and an unnamed child died in infancy. Edwin W. Knepper received his early education in his native state by attending the public schools and the Carroll Academy.

He commenced his professional studies with Dr. H. Cooney, of Bryan, Ohio, and began the practice of his profession at Eden, Ohio, in 1864, where lie remained two years, coming to Ligonier in May, 1866, has here remained and is now in the enjoyment of a large and remunerative practice.

The Doctor was married in Ohio, February 7. [857, to .Miss .Margaret Jane McQuilkin. a native of Carroll county, Ohio, who was born August 5, 1835. They have become the parents of six children. Two died early in infancy and two died unmarried. The living are Edwin W., Jr., an expert accountant in the employ of the American Steel and Wire Company of Cleveland. He was educated in the high school of Ligonier, took a two-years' course at the State University of Indiana, and completed his studies by a two-years' course with the Commercial College of the V. M. C. A. of Cleveland. He is still single. The other living child is Mabel Jane, also a graduate of the Ligonier high school. She has taught two terms. Considerable attention was given to her musical education, and she is now an accomplished musician and line vocalist.

Dr. Knepper, in his political views, is a life-long Republican, having voted for every presidential nominee of the party from the days of John C. Fremont to the present time. In 1897 he was elected to the lower house of the general assembly, representing the joint district of Noble and Dekalb counties, and served two years. He also held city and school offices in Ligonier. In the legislature the Doctor was a member of the committee 011 claims, mileage and accounts, chairman of the committee on statues; also member of the committee on forestry, medicine, health and vital statistics.

In the professional societies the Doctor has been a member of the American Medical Association, and of the Indiana .Medical Society for thirty years. He is a member and past president of the Northwestern Indiana Medical Association, and has twice served as president of the Noble Count}- Medical Association. He \vas the legal surgeon of tne Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway for six years, or while its service was maintained at this point. In the fraternal organizations he holds membership in Excelsior Lodge, No. 267, I. O. O. F., and has passed the chairs ; also a member of Washington Encampment. No. 89, of which he is past city patriarch. For about twenty years, ne held the position of district deputy for subordinate lodges and the encampment. 1 le is also a member of Ligonier Lodge, No. 123, K. of P. Religiously the Doctor and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. Their social relations are of the highest and they enjoy the friendship and esteem of a large circle of friends in the city and countv.

James Tate

One of the most practical and prosperous farmers of Noble count)'. Ind.. is James Tate, who was born February 22, 1822, in Flaxby, parish of Gouldsborough, county of York, England, and is a son of John and Christine (Cross) Tate. John Tate was horn in Lincolnshire, England. September 30, 1786, followed the occupation of farming, meeting with reasonable success, and died April 12, [864, in Flaxby. The muther. Christine (Cross) Tate, was born in Westminster, London, in 1797. and died in Flaxby, January 24, 1877, leaving eleven children, namely: John Henry, Susanna, Tin mas. James, Robert. Ann Elizabeth, Phillip, Mary Sarah, Catherine, Martha Jane and Emma.

James Tate was educated "on his native heath" and there engaged in farming and also to some extent in butchering until he was about twenty-eight years old. Being favorably impressed with the reports given of the country across the sea and desirous of trying for himself if the stories were true he sailed for New York in the spring of 1850 and reached port in May of that year. He went at once to Summit count}-, Ohio, where he was married. April 4, [854, to .Miss Caroline Julia Schofield. Mrs. Tate was born in Tompkins county. N. Y., October 10, 1827, and grew to be an estimable young woman, who took a deep interest in the cause of religion and gave much of her time to its advancement. She died April 20, 1887, leaving five children: Robert Newton, Christine E., Richard Baxter, Rosa Ann, who married J. W. Hunter, of Abingdon, 111., and Dora Lila, while one child had entered the gates of the Holy City. On April 28, 1890, Mr. Tate was again joined in marriage, the lady of his choice being Mrs. I.uthena M. (Gallup) Jones, widow of Pomeroy Jones and daughter of Rufus B. and Abigail (Reynolds) Gallup, of whom further mention is made below. Pomeroy Jones was a native of Mercer county. Penn., born December 7, 1832, but was taken to Dekalb county. Ind., and there grew to manhood. About 185 t he moved to Wayne township, Noble county, where he died April

12. 1880. Luthena M. Gallup was born in Saratoga county, N. Y.. January 31. 1838, and is a lady possessing man)- pleasing attributes of character, which endear her to those who have come within the charmed radius of her acquaintance. Her first union resulted in the birth of three children, namely : Abbie A., who became the wife of S. C. Franks, and died in Kendallville. March 2, 1884: Rufus C. and J. Austin.

Immediately following his first marriage Mr. Tate left Summit county, Ohio, in April. 1854, to locate in Noble county. Ind. He settled in Wayne township, where he was a renter for one year, and then purchased a farm in that township and continued to make that locality his home until 1875. when he moved to his farm in Orange township, where he has since lived. He owns three hundred and twenty acres of as fine land as can be found in the county, in Orange township, and one hundred and seventy acres in Wayne township and is one of the most successful farmers who have been a credit to Noble county. His land is kept in good shape furnished with good, substantial buildings, surrounded by well kept lawns snd fields, while his orchard supplies him with fruit that would tempt the appetite of an epicure. It would be impossible to find a man who stands better among his neighbors or who takes greater pleasure in the welfare and prosperity of the community than Mr. Tate, whose residence here of almost half a century has shown him to be an honorable, upright man in every walk of life and one who well deserves the high respect and implicit confidence reposed in him. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tate are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which thev are untiring workers.

It was in 1888 that lie erected his beautiful home, just in the limits of Rome City, Ind., with spacious outbuildings, which are a credit to the township. He is a member of the F. & A. M., lodge No. 451, at Rome City, and Miss Dora is a member of the Eastern Star, No. 232.

Harvey E. Hoak

Ligonier, Noble county, Ind.. is favored with many notable citizens, and among the foremost stands Harvey E. Hoak, not only as an enterprising farmer but as the inventor and manufacturer of a superior incubator which finds a ready sale in all parts of the country. Mr. Hoak was born March 4, 1867, and is a native of Noble county. His father, Daniel Hoak, was born in Champaign county, Ohio. June 16, 1841, and in 1 85 J came to Indiana with his parents, who located in Sparta township, one mile northvest of Cromwell. Here he resided until bis marriage, in 1866, to- Miss Susan Hitler, daughter of Joseph Hitler, when he took possession of the Jane Greene farm, upon which lie lived until the purchase of the land now occupied by his son, Harvey E. He died June 20, 1900, leaving two children, Harvey E. and Mary L., the latter of whom was horn February 4, 1872, and married Harris 1'. Tucker, a prosperous young farmer of Sparta township, by whom she has two children, Joyce and Paul.

Harvey E. Hoak attended the schools of Ligonier until he had completed the junior year, when he entered the drug store of his uncle in Ligonier, remaining there three years. He then entered the employ of Dr.

E. L. Watson, of the same village, and was with him two years. On April 25, 1894, he led to the altar of Hymen Miss Blanche Marker, who was born November 20, 1873, and is a daughter of Albert and Sarah (Surfus) Marker, both of whom are natives of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Marker were married in j 870 and are the parents of three children, viz: Blanche: Charley, born October 24, 1876: and Nettie M.,,born August 6, 1882, but who died March 22, 1887. Two children have blessed the home of Mr, Hoak, namely : Bernice, who was born November 9, 1895, and who, on October 4, 1897, came to a tragic death, her throat and one side of her face being lacerated by angry swine; and Russell L., who' was born November 2j, 1898, and is a bright, attractive child.

After his marriage Mr. Hoak engaged in argicultural pursuits and tended the homestead, although his residence was on the Henry [Miller farm until after the death of his father, when he moved into the house in Jul)', 1900. He owns one hundred and twenty-six acres of land and is a careful farmer, who looks closely after the details of his work and who does not hesitate to branch out in new lines when he finds the occasion propitious. He makes a specialty of fancy stock,-, believing, and rightly, that it pays to handle only the best if a raiser wishes for good results, and the animals found on his premises are all thoroughbreds. He raises Shropshire sheep, Poland-China hogs, Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, Pekin ducks and Mammoth Bronze turkeys, and owned the largest turkey exhibited at the Chicago Poultry Show. He cares for bis stock in a manner that results in profit as well as satisfaction from them, and

Mr. llnak and his family are true Christians, and Mr. Hoak willingly aids financially any organization designed to benefit mankind. Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 123, Knights of Pythias, of Ligonier, and is a Democrat in politics, and cast his first vote for Cleveland. Mr. Hoak, although an American-born citizen and nonpartisan, will support the measures which will best benefit the masses. Mr. Hoak has musical talent and at one time was a member of the Ligonier .Military Band, composed of thirty pieces, and this band took the prize instruments, valued at twenty-five hundred dollars, at the international encampment at Chicago, 111. He took lessons on the violin from the eminent violinist. Otto Soldon, who had performed before the crowned heads of Europe. The Ligonier Band also took the thirteen-hundred-dollar prize at Peru and also a prize at Findlay.

Mrs. Hoak graduated in the common schools in the class of 1886 and is also a graduate from the Ligonier high school with the class of 1892, and was valedictorian of the class.

John A. Lower

nal history of this gentlebe learned from the bioghe late Daniel Lower. ind on another page of this which the attention of the fully invited.

John A. Lower, an agriculturist of Elkhart township. Noble county, Ind.. and a gentleman of repute both as a farmer and a public-spirited citizen, was born on his father's farm in this township, November 25, 1 85 J, and here he has always made his home, assisting on the home place until his marriage. April 8, 1877, to Mis.. Mary A. 1'ollock, who was born in Noble county* December 10, 1858, and is a daughter of Lancelot and Nancy (Masters) Pollock. To this congenial union have been horn six children. of whom five are still living, and of whom one died in infancy. The names of the survivors are Pearl V., who is the wife of Earnest C. Nichols; Daniel A.; Frederick .'v.; Ollie M.: and Russell.

In the fall of 1877 Mr. Lower and his bride settled on the farm of one hundred and seventy acres on which he still lives, and which he has improved with a fine dwelling and substantial farm buildings of every needful kind for the care of implements, stock. en ps. etc.. while the farm itself is cultivated on scientific principles that net to the owner the most profitable returns and is not excelled in good management by any similar tract of land in the township.

The late Daniel Lower, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bavaria, Germany, March 22, 1815. and first married Abigal DeLong, who died in Elkhart township. Noble count)-, the mother of six children, of whom five reached the years of maturity, and were named as follows: Elizabeth, who is the wife of Joseph W. Marshall: William D. : Jacob; Margaret, who died when about twenty years old; and Mary, who is the wife of Frederick Schwab.

large number of children, of whom five reached mature years, viz: Abigal, who is now deceased; John A., the subject of this sketch: Daniel D. ; Barbara, the wife of George Domer; and James, who is now also deceased. The mother of this family has also passed away.

John A. Lower, who is classed among the foremost citizens of Elkhart township and as one of its best farmers, counts his friends by the score and is universally respected. He is broad minded and publicspirited and is ever ready with his means in aiding any project designed for the publicgood. Although a popular member of the Democratic part)-, he has never been an office seeker, although be is ever ready to render his services in forwarding the publicwelfare when needed. His wife, who is a most amiable lady and a true helpmate, is a consistent member of the Free Baptist church.

Alpheus Hardendorf

An influential and prosperous citizen of Jefferson township. Noble county, Ind., is the third in a family of twelve children born to John and Lydia (Seeley) Hardendorf. Heis a native of Steuben count)-, N. Y., and was born August 6, 1828. John Hardendorf was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., and spent his entire life in that state, dying in Syracuse, August 12, 1848. when in his fifty-ninth year. His wife was a native of Saratoga and died in June, 1885. in Allegan)' count)-. Mich, having attained the advanced age of eight)- years.

pursuits until the year 1849. when he came to Indiana, where he engaged in farming in Steuben count)-, for three years. He then moved to Walworth count)-. Wis., but remained only a short time, returning to Indiana in February, 1858, settling in Noble count)-, near Kendallville. Wavne township. After living there about six and one-half years he moved to Jefferson township, wdiich his since been his place of residence. Here he owns eighty acres of fine farm land, which he has placed in such an excellent state of improvement that it vields an abundant return for the labor expended upon it.

August 30, 1857. in Whitley county, this state, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hardendorf and Miss Celestine Tousley. a daughter of David and Nancy ( Noyes) Tousle)-, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Rome, N. Y. Mrs. Hardendorf was horn in Jefferson county, N. Y., September 15, 1824, and has been an able and willing assistant of her husband during the many years in which they have traveled the checkered pathway of life together. Their union resulted in the birth of four children : Alpheus J. ; Anna M.. who became the wife of Frank A. Hitchcock, died in New Mexico at the age of thirty-four years; two children died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Hardendorf are untiring workers in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which the)- are members and enjoy the confidence and esteem of all who know them. Mr. Hardendorf was converted and joined the church when but thirteen years of age. Three years afterward, at the age of sixteen, he was appointed steward, and at the age of eighteen he was I a class-leader. From that time until n< >w be has been an official member of the church.

Mr And Mrs. A. Hardendorf

being steward and class-leader at the same time, with the exception of a few years. 1 [e has held all the other offices of the quarterly conference, save two; to one he was elected but did nut serve, the other being recording steward, which is conferred by appointment. Mrs. Hardendorf was converted at the age of nineteen years, and has been a member ever since.

Each calling or business, if honorable, has its place in the scheme of human existence, constituting a part of the plan whereby life's methods are pursued and man reaches his ultimate destiny. While all businesses are needed, the actual importance of each is largely determined by its usefulness. So dependent is man upon his fellow-men that the worth of the individual is largely reckoned by what he has done for humanity. There is no class to whom greater gratitude is due than to those self-sacrificing, nobleminded men whose life work has been the alienation of the burden of suffering that rests upon the world, thus appreciably lengthening the span of human existence. This influence cannot be measured by any ..uman standard; their helpfulness is as broad as the universe and their power goes hand in hand with the beneficent laws of nature that come from the source of life itself. Some one has said, "He serves God best who serves humanity most."

The skilled physician, then, by the exercise of his native talents and acquired ability, is not only performing a service for humanity but is following in the footsteps of the great Teacher who said : "Inasmuch as ye

.V name that stands conspicuously forth m connection with the medical profession oi northern Indiana is that of Dr. William H. Franks, the subject of this review, a regular practicing physician and surgeon at Ligonier, hid. The Franks family was established on American soil by .Michael Franks, the grandfather of Dr. William II.. who emigrated from Germany and located in Fayette county, Penn., where he reared a large family. The Trader family is of Irish ancestry. The Doctor was born near Uniontown, Fayette county, Penn., on the 26th of April, 1841. He is a son of Samuel and Susan ( Trader) Franks, natives also of the same county. Their lives were there spent, the mother dying of cancer at the age of fifty-nine. The father was not remarried, and lived to the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. He was a farmer during his active life and was fairly successful in that calling. Samuel and Susan Franks were the parents of eight children, whose curcumstances are as follows : Sarah, the eldest, is the wife of John L. Whetstone, a farmer of Fayette county, Penn.; Amy, the second born, became the wife of Ross Anderson, and, both are deceased; Elizabeth H. married John Jaco, who enlisted for service during the Civil war and was killed on the held of battle. She is still a widow and resides in her native county. William H., the subject of this sketch, is next in order of birth. Eliza J. is the wife of Charles Griffin and is nowliving in Kansas. Her husband served in the army throughout the entire peril id of the Civil war. Amanda became the wife of Harry Zimmerman and lives in West Virginia, where her husband is an operator and station agent on the Baltimore & Ohio Southern Railway. Mary C. is the wife of Luther Wheeler, of Deer Park, Md. Susan died of diphtheria at the age of seven years. Dr. Franks was educated in the public schools of his native state and at George's Creek Academy, Fayette county, Penn. After finishing his common-school studies he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. F. C. Robinson, at Uniontown, Penn., and remained there three years. He then entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and after finishing a course of study in that institution removed to Indiana in [864, and for eleven years practiced the healing art at Brimfield, Noble county. Desiring to further perfect himself in the science of medicine, he in 1873 entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, completed the course in medicine begun at Jefferson Medical College, and graduated in the spring of [874. In 1878 Dr. Franks located in Ligonier, and has since remained there, engaged in the constant practice of his profession. Since locating in his present field of endeavor the Doctor has been favored with a liberal share of public favor, his success being but the just reward of his honest efforts to fulfill the exacting demands made upon his skill as a physician. Added to this is a natural geniality and cheerfulness of disposition which not only helps him to make friends but which is so vital an element of success in the sick-room. The Doctor is .1 member of the Noble County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Society. I hi September 23, [866, Dr. Franks was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Gibson, a native of Noble county, Ind.. and a daughter of A. ( ',. and Eliza Gibson, natives of Virginia. The parents were among the early settlers of the county, coming here when there were but few white people in this part of the state. The marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Franks has been blessed with the birth of four children, two of whom have passed away. Walter E. was afflicted with spinal disease from childhood and died at the age of nineteen. He was a bright and intelligent boy. Earnest G is in the employ of a railroad company in Colorado. The third born of this family was Arthur, who died of diphtheria at the age of seven years. Haidee May, a young lady, is still under j Methodist Episcopal church. Politically Dr. Franks has been a life-long Democrat, though not immovably bound by party ties. His sympathies are with the free-silver movement as advocated by William Jennings Bryan.

Dr. Franks owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Elkhart county, adjoining the county line. It is finely improved and well stocked, in the latter line the Doctor making a specialty of thoroughbred Poland-China hogs and Shropshire sheep. He rents the farm but reserves his stock.

The Doctor's friends are legion and the future undoubtedly holds in store for him greater successes than any that have heretofore come to him. The family are occupy-

For the past thirty-seven years this gentleman has been a photographer at Ligonier, and is now its leading artist. He is a native of Wayne county. N. Y.. his birth occurring March 6, 1836. He is a great-grandson of Zebulon Cornell, a grandson of John and Mahala (Allen) Cornell, and i-, one in a family of four sons and two daughters born to the marriage of William A. Cornell and Mary E. Case. The family is of Irish- Scotch-Welsh origin, their coming to this country being prior to the establishment of the American colonies as an independent gi vernment. Notwithstanding the fact thai the family belonged to the religious sect known as Quakers, and consequently opposed to mortal strife, Zebulon Cornell was ;> soldier in the Revolutionary war, and the flintlock gun carried by him is a valued possession of the subject of this sketch. John Cornell came from New York state to Indiana about the year 1850, locating at Lagrange, where he passed the remainder of his days. William A. Cornell was a tanner and shoemaker, and died at Lagrange, Inch, in 1865.

11. R. Cornell lived in his native state until seventeen years of age. his time being passed in going to school, assisting his father and such other occupations incident to the youth of the average American hoy. In [853 he went to Michigan, and after working at such employment as offered for about q 'entering and contracting, a part of the time being located at Lagrange, Ind. In 1862, in partnership with his brother, Charles G., ..e engag'ed in the photographic business at Toledo, Ohio, and thus continued until October, 1864, when he came to Ligonier, where he has since resided, engaged in the same occupation. Mr. Cornell has an established reputation of being one of the best photographers in the state. In 1858 he married Natio Antoinette Bush, who died in February, 1864. leaving two daughters - Matie E. and Nettie B. These children nave never known the want of a mother, as tlie marriage of Mr. Cornell to Miss Ann E. Gould happily supplied their loss. To this marriage one daughter was born, Helen Irene, who died in infancy. Mr. Cornell is a Royal Arch Mason, an encampment degree Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. He is a Republican, served on the old town board and afterward in the city council of Ligonier, and has in all ways lived the life of a law-abiding- citizen.

Len A. Banta

Inventor and manufacturer of the Ormas Incubator, is a worth)- son of Indiana, having been born in Kendall ville, October 27, 18(17. a son ot" John D. and Susan (Blue) Banta, natives 1 f Elkhart township. Albert Banta, grandfather, was < ne of the pioneers of Noble county, and prominent in bringing about that development of our resources which has made northern Indiana famous among the middle states. The family of John and Susan Banta comprised seven chil- , dren: Len, the subject, is the eldest; Wilmah; Grace; George F. ; Bruce; Jennie; and William, who died in childhood. The youngest three are married ; George has heeu a merchant for some years in Kansas ; Bruce is in the employ of his hrother Len ; Jennie is the wife of Luther Starkey and resides in Wolf Lake.

Len Banta had the usual educational advantages which fell to the lot of the Indiana he iv of his day, taking the usual course in the public schools of his district, supplemented by a course in the normal institutes of Noble and Whitley counties for several years. On laving aside his studies to take the responsibilities of life, he taught school in the aforesaid counties for five and a half years, and then went to Oregon and engaged in mining for several years, the hazardous enterprise proving successful. In 1875 he returned to Ligonier and established his present business, which has proved quite remunerative. He is the patentee of the Ormas Incubator, the name indicating the locality where he was living when he worked out the problem involved in its construction. The product is a self-regulating machine for the artificial hatching of eggs. His business of manufacturing gives employment to a number of men, and the annual output is two thousand machines, which find a ready sale among poultry men.

Mr. Banta was married in this county in 1889 to Miss Bertie Mathews, a daughter of Captain E. W. Mathews, now of this city. She received her preparatory education in the public schools of Albion and is a graduate from the high school. No children have blessed this union, but some three years ago Mr. and Mrs. Banta adopted a little two-year-old girl named Jessie, who receives all the care and laving kindness that would be bestowed on a child of their own.

The parents of Mr. Banta are residents of Ligonier, the father a retired merchant and mechanic in good circumstances. Len Banta is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he and wife are members of the Free-Will Baptist church, and enjoy the society and friendship of a large circle of friends.

William H. Hosler

Resides in Orange township in one of the most beautiful and palatial homes found in the rural districts of Noble county, Ind., and is numbered among the prominent men of the county and one of its most successful farmers. Mr. Hosier was born in Morrow county, Ohio, April 22, 1846, to Samuel Rorhbaugh and Barbara (Keifer) Hosier, both natives of Pennsylvania, he of York county, where he was born November 10, 1820, and she of Lebanon county, born August 15, 1823. They resided in what was then Morrow county, Ohio, until the spring of 1850, when they moved to Indiana, stopping in Albion for a short time and then locating in Rome City. While living there the father worked at his trade, which was that of a carpenter, and two years later moved to their farm in Orange township, where they still reside. Five children were born to them, namely: John H., who resides in Reedsburg, Wis.; William W.. of this sketch; Mary C, wife of Thomas L. Imes;

Maple Villa Residence Of William Hosler

Minerva L., who died in infancy; and Ella 1!., wife of William A. Imes. The paternal grandparents of William H. Hosier were George and Catherine (Rorhbaugh ) Hosier, the grandfather being a skilled carpenter. The family is of German descent and the name was originally Hasler.

William H. Hosier was a child of four years when his parents came to Noble county, hid., where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the common schools and then entered the Eastman Business College, of Chicago, in 1866, where he took a complete business course.; lie was pleased with the free, untrammeled life of the farm and chose that vocation as the occupation of his life, meeting with well merited success a- a result of his industry and application to the various details which go to form the elements of farming. He remained with his parents until his own marriage. December to. 1N74. to .Miss Mary E., daughter of the late William lines, of Orange township. Mr. Imes was one of the most widely known residents of the township, having resided here for almost fifty years, and entered heartily into all the enterprises of public import. Her mother was Jane ( 1 fafferty 1 Imes. who survives her husband and lives on the homestead. Airs. Hosier was one of seven children and was horn March 14. 1856, in Orange township, where she was reared and educated. She has presented her husband with two. daughters: Nellie, who died at the age of four days, ami Mary Mamie, who is the wife of Edward H. Rhoades, of Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Rhoades was the recipient of her dipli ma at the age of thirteen and then attended the high school at Rrimfield one year and at Rome City two years. She then entered the college at Oberlin, Ohio, in [894, and took- a musical and classical course at this famous institution. Mr. Rhoades is an attorney at law. He graduated from the Oberlin University, is associated with his father, ami the style of the firm is Rhoades & Rhoades. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoades have one little son, by name of William Hosier. Mr. Hosier is both prominent and popular in his count}', is an adherent of the Republican party and cast his first vote for Grant, lie was trustee of Orange township two terms - from [884 to 1888 - and was one of the first members of the county council appointed after that office was created. Mrs. Hosier is a member of the Methodisl Episcopal church at Brimfield. hid.

Henry G. Zimmerman

The Noble county bar has many able and well-known lawyers who enjoy a reputation its citizens refer to with commendable pride, and it with this class that Mr. Zimmerman is known, and to which he has attained by that strict attention to business and. m m rable dealing which a community requires from those it wishes to refer to as: repri sentative men.

Mr. Zimmerman is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and was born in Huntingdon county, October 27, JN4J. His parents are descendants of that -rand old stock of which William Penn was the most prominent type; whose characteristics can never he obliterated and have had and will continue to have a controlling influence over the life work of her people for all time. His early education was under her broad and liberal public school system, supplemented by an academic course at the Cassville Seminary and the State Normal School. Graduating with honors at the age of seventeen, he immediately -commenced teaching and followed the profession for several years. In 1864 he began the study of law in Hollidaysburg, applying himself with such earnestness that, on July 27, 1867, he was admitted to the bar in his native state. So closely had Mr. Zimmerman applied himself to teaching and to the study of law that his health was much impaired, and it was deemed advisable to seek a different climate wherein to recuperate. After visiting several localities he finally visited Indiana, came to Noble county in [809, and was so well pleased that he determined to there locate. He secured the position of principal of the schools of Ligonier. Noble count)-, which he held for one year. and. his health having much improved, lie began the practice of his profession. He served four years, 1874-78, as county superintendent of schools, and his wisdom and practical methods are yet recognized throughout the county. In the practice of his profession he has met with nattering and yet substantial success, and none enjoy .1 higher reputation as a skillful attorney and wise counselor.

In 1877 Mr. Zimmerman was married to Miss Ida E. Loomis. a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She is a lady of superior education, and with cultivation which elevates while it adorns. Two children were born to them: Harry L. and Bayard G. The former is now a prosperous fanner in South Dakota, where Mr. Zimmerman also has large interests, having a tine stock farm of three hundred and twenty acres near Huron. The entire family of Mr. Zimmerman are strong members of the Presbyterian church.

Jesse L. Dunning

This ex-soldier and well-known business man of Ligonier, Noble county, Ind., was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1846, where he lived with his parents on a farm until 1859, when they moved to Ligonier, Ind., where they have since resided. He attended school until the age of sixteen years, when he enlisted in Company A, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, and served three years. The command was assigned to the Department of the Gulf, which embraced Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, with which he participated in the engagement of Sabine I 'ass, Tex., under General Franklin; toeik part in the Red River expedition under Gen-. eral Banks ; was in the White River campaign in Arkansas, and engaged in the campaign around Duvall's Bluff, Ark. On the completion of his service in the army he returned home and attended school for two years in the old brick school-house on the public square.

In 18(17 Mr. Dunning was married to Miss Rosa 1!. Mayfield, a native of Ligonier and a daughter of Samuel Mayfield. Three children have been born to them, as follows: Laura, who is at home with her parents; Lewis J., Jr., who married Miss Nellie Cooper, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and is now engaged in business with his father, the firm name being J. L. Dunning & Son ; and Blanche became the wife of J. W. Draper, manager of the Ligonier Electric Light Company.

The parents of Jesse L. Dunning were Lewis J. and Anna (Huber) Dunning, residents of Lancaster, Ohio. The father was born in Stillwater. N. Y., in 1815, and the mother in 1824 in Fairfield count). Ohio. Lewis J. Dunning was a school-teacher in early life, and. believing that Indiana offered better opportunities for advancement, moved to Ligonier, Noble count}-, in 1859, taught school in the < > 1 < I red school-house one winter and then settled cm a farm one mile south of Ligonier. In 1861 he again moved to Ligonier and engaged in mercantile business with Captain J. E. Braden. Lewis J. Dunning, Sr., died April 23, 10.00, and his widow is now a resident of Ligonier, at the age of seventy-seven years. Their children were: Luanda/wife of W. A. Jackson, of Goshen ; Emma married Frank Jackson, brother of W. -V., and they are living at Benton, Ind.; Elizabeth is unmarried and resides with her mother: one brother die! in childhood; and Jesse L. is the subject of this biography.

Prior to engaging in business with his father Jesse L. Dunning entered the store Braden &: Company, with whom he remained for two years. In 1869 father and son engaged in business, and the son has occupied the present stand uninterruptedly from that date. They enjoyed the utmost confidence of the public, and the present firm is regarded as very reliable and successful. Jesse L. Dunning has given thirty-five years of his life to the business, and enjoys a high reputation in business circles, as well as with the public in general.

Jesse L. Dunning has held several responsible positions in city, count)- and state. He served nine years on the city school board, eight of which he was its treasurer and handled many thousands of dollars. He was appointed to the county board of review by Judge Adair and served for three years. He has recently been appointed postmaster at Ligonier, which appointment gives universal satisfaction. Politically Air. Dunning is a stanch Republican, and is active and influential in the councils of the party. In his religious views Mr. Dunning is broad and liberal and is not identified with any denomination.

In addition to his general business Mr. Dunning is interested in the Hotel Goldsmith, the principal hostelry in Ligonier. Mr. Dunning is now engaged in erecting the finest business room and flat in the city, being 22x166 feet, two stories and basement and heated throughout by hot water system. His increasing business made it necessary to have more room. His block is pronounced a model of convenience and elegance, being of pressed brick and cut stone, and he will occupy it about December 1, 1 90 1 .

Among the fraternal organizations Mr. Dunning holds membership with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees, Order of Elks and the Grand Army of the Republic, being the present commander of the local post. Taking a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the development and progress of the city, every movement in that direction meets with his hearty approval and earnest support.

John Walker

men cast upon a desert by shipwreck or other disaster would indeed be helpless were their only hope, in failure of rescue, to rest in the gold or other wealth possessed by any one of their number, as that under such circumstances would prove to be mere dross and utterly worthless toward establishing a commonwealth. But let the unfortunate victims of such a calamity be gifted with a reasonable share of health, strength, mechanical and agricultural skill, and there will in the course of time arise from the desert a blooming and happy community, replete with all the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. It may, then, be said that the subject of this sketch is doubly fortunate, insomuch that he is both a farmer and mechanic.

John Walker was born in Richland county, or rather that part of Richland now known as Morrow county, Ohio, December 21, 1 82 1, and was there reared to manhood, both as a farmer and a blacksmith.

In May, 1849, he came to Noble county, Ind., and located in York township, where be cleared up a farm, on which he erected a comfortable dwelling and made many other improvements, thus developing from a comparative wilderness a home that was an ornament to the neighborhood and which was a source of pecuniary profit to himself. On this place he lived until early in the 'eighties, when he came to his present home in Albion township, since which time he has retired from all active labor and has been passing his years in quiet serenity and comfort.

Mr. Walker was united in marriage, in Morrow count), Ohio, March j;, 1845, with Miss Miriam Cook, also a native of Richland county, Ohio, and born November

In politics Mr. Walker is a Democrat, but while he is interested in the success of his party at the polls, is not a seeker after office, and office-holding is so distasteful to him that, while a resident of York township, he declined to serve after having been elected township trustee.

Mr. Walker, however, has passed his years in useful industry, is very public spirited, and at all times is ready to lend a helping hand in advancing the public welfare and the moral progress of his community as well as its physical condition, and no man in the township is more highly respected by his neighbors.

Daniel L. Sower

There are men in this life who face death with impunity and win for themselves as grand a name on the field of war in a few vears as they do in the peaceful fields of agriculture in half a lifetime, but happy is the man who secures a reputation in both fields within the span of a quarter (if a century, as has done the subject of this sketch.

Daniel L. Sower was born on a farm in Morrow county, Ohio, October 27, [840, and when ten years of age went with his parents to live in Seneca county, Ohio; four years later he went with his father to Gratiot county. Mich., and located within six miles of Ithaca, in Noth Star township, where he lived about five years and then returned to Morrow county, Ohio, remained there two vears. and February 26, 1862, enlisted in G inpanv ( i. Fi irty-mnth Ohio Volunteer

Infantry, in which he served three years. 1 [e endured the hardships of a soldier's life must manfully, bravely conducted himself in several sanguinary engagements, and underment many months of cruel imprisonment with fortitude, if not with patience.

At the commencement of his military career Mr. Sower was overcome by fatigue on a long march and fairly gave out near Perryville. Ky. He was captured by the enemy, but was paroled the next day. and the following spring was exchanged, when he rejoined his regiment at Murfreesboro, Tenn. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded, was again taken prisoner, and was sent to Richmond. Ya., where he was confined in the Pemberton prison for about two months and then sent to Danville, Va.. where he was imprisoned five months or longer, and then taken again to Richmond, where he was paroled a few days later and sent to Camp Parole, Md., having suffered about nine months of rebel imprisonment. After being detained at Camp Parole about six weeks he was transferred to Camp Chase, at Columbus. Ohio, where he was held about five months, when he was exchanged and rejoined his regiment at Huntsville, Ala. He took part in the siege of Corinth, after the battle of Shiloh, and was honorably discharged and mustered out at Huntsville, Ala., February 27, 1865.

Mr. Sower never had the advantages of a good practical education. Whilst a resident of Michigan he had the honor of attending the pioneer school of the early days of Michigan. The building was erected of hewn logs and 22x28 feet in dimension. It was covered with clapboards or "shakes" and the seats were of split saplings or puncheons. He has witnessed the transformation from the log cabin school-house to the modern school-houses of the twentieth century. He has witnessed threshing done in the good old way, without any separator to clean the grain from the chaff as to-day. When he and his estimable wife became citizens of Noble county, it was almost a wilderness where their home lies. They resided for years in a humble log cabin and a greater part of their beautiful estate of to-day was covered with the unbroken forest. Bv perseverance and economy, coupled with determination, they haw toiled early and late and practiced economy, and to-day, in 1902, they have one of the most beautiful homesteads in the township of Orange. Their beautiful and costly residence was erected in 1887, and besides their large and commodious residence their large barns and outbuildings and well fenced fields, closely kept up. indicate the thrifty farmers. All these years Mr. Sower was ably assisted by his wife, who has nobly and valiantly stood by his side in the building up of their beautiful estate.

As a soldier Mr. Sower has a record which he may well feel proud of. He was a prisoner of war at two different times during his term of service, which was 1 f three years duration. His first capture was in the vicinity of Perryville, Ky. He with others of the boys in blue, had been on a long and wear}" march at the time when General Buell was in pursuit of the rebel Genral Bragg. His shoes were worn out and when they came to Louisville, Ky., expecting to rest for a time, orders came to proceed to Frankfort, Ky.. and while there he. with some others purchased each a pair of boots. Mr. Sower's boots being rather tight for him on the weary and long march, had to re- move them and carry them and march in his bare feet. Exhaustion was finally the cause of his falling by the wayside, and whilst resting and there recuperating for the tedious march, he was captured by the Rebel cavalry ; but was soon paroled, and was forced, with others of his companions, to make his way to Cincinnati, a distance of one hundred miles, and they were forced to beg food of the people as they passed to their destination. His regiment was at the extreme right at Chickamauga when the actions opened on the morning of the first days fight, but was transferred and at noon was in the advance front in the charge. They took two fields of artillery. The second day's action was on Sunday. General Wilich, the commander of their division,- made a speech to the soldiers and said : - "Veil, boys, you may expect to have hard fighting to-day, but nut too hard for us." It was about 10 A. M., of this day whilst the regiment was in hot action, each man endeavoring to shield himself, which was the order given. Mr. Sower was standing behind a small sapling, when just at his side his comrad, Walter T. Colo, was struck down by a minnie ball - Mr. Sower said, "Walter, are you hurt?" No response came and he never saw his comrade again. At this action Mr. Sower received a graze on the right arm, whilst loading his gun - nothing serious. During the afternoon engagement, whilst his regiment was resting on their guns, near one of their silent batteries, Mr. Sower was struck on the left hand and right forefinger with a cannon hall, or a part of a shell, which disabled his left hand and he carries this wound to this day.

He was not lit to go onward in the action and was ordered to fall back to an old vacated house, where a number of the wounded and dying were gathered. Whilst there,, amid the groans of the dying and wounded Mr. Sower and his guard and a comrade made their way to a neighboring ravine, with as many canteens as they could carry, to obtain water for the poor fellows. They filled the canteens from pools and when they were taken in charge by a rebel squad. He barely, missed the chance by one day of being incarcerated in the terrible Andersonville Prison Pen. His imprisonment in the rebel prison pens was terrible, and no one knows the horrors and ordeals the poor soldiers passed through but those who were really there.

All honor is due the noble men who so valiantly defended the flag, and endured the hardships and vicissitudes of a soldiers life, like the subject of this review.

It may he added that Mr. Sowers was a teacher in Noble county at the early age of sixteen and also taught the \ear previous to his marriage.

At the conclusion of this long term of valiant army service, Mr. Sower came to Noble count}'. Ind., and engaged in carpenter work for about two years; he then rented land in Orange township for a year, when he removed to Gratiot county, Mich., and located on land that he had previously purchased, and on which he resided about eighteen months, when he returned to Orange township. Noble county, Ind., rented land for another year, and then purchased one hundred and five acres of his present homestead, all of which he has cleared up, and to which he has added ninety acres by purchase.

part of the county. It is improved with an elegant dwelling that is an ornament to the neighborhood, and his farm-buildings are unsurpassed for convenience and substantial construction, while his fields display a scene that indicates to the most careless observer the direction of a master mind fully imbued with agricultural skill and a knowledge of profitable husbandry.

July _', 1868, .Mr. Sower contracted a marriage with one of the most amiable and accomplished young ladies of Orange township - Miss Mary S. Keifer, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, July 2, 1847, and this happy union has been crowned with two children, Corinna and Harry.

Elias Sower, the father of Daniel L. Sower, was horn in York county, Penn., April 5, 1810. was a physician and also a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Margaret Bitner, a highly respected lady and a native of Pennsylvania. To this marriage were born ten children, eight of whom grew to maturity. George Keifer. the father of Mr. Mary S. (Keifer) Sower, was horn in Long Channel, Germany, May 24, 18 15, and married Mary M. Sower, who was horn in Center county, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1819, and is a descendant of one of the most prominenl families of the Keystone state. Mrs. Elias Sower was called away August 1, 1851, but Elias himself survived until September 10, 1887. when he expired in Gratiot count}-, Mich.

George Keifer and wife came from Morrow county, Ohio, to Noble county, and settled in Orange township, where he passed the remainder of his days, and died November 18, 1898. Of their two children. Mrs. Sower was the younger. George Keifer came from Germany with his parents in [819 and was reared in Lebanon and Lancaster counties, Penn., until about twenty years old, and then located in Morrow county, Ohio, where his marriage took place. He was reared to shoemaking, but after coming to Noble count\, \n<\., gave the greater part of his attention to fanning after the first ten years of his residence here, having realized quite a competence at his trade in the meanwhile.

Mr. Sower is a Republican in politics and is always ready to perform his duties as a citizen at the behest of his party, but is not an habitual office-seeker. He has served for live years as assessor of Orange township and for one year a deputy assessor, in which office he performed his duties so impartially as to gain the approbation of the entire community. He has in fact taken an active part in all local affairs, and, being a broad-minded and public-spirited citizen, has gained the undying approbation of his fellow citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Sower arc most liberal in their contributions and to all benevolences worthy their consideration.

John T. Pollock

This gentleman is widely known as one of the honored citizens of Noble count)-. where for many years he has been prominently identified with the varied interests of Ids community. His well-directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable management of his business interests and his sound judgment have brought to him prosperity, and his life demonstrates what may he accomplished by the man of energy and ambition.

of William and Mary (Darker) Pollock, the former a native of Pennsylvania, while the latter came from Ohio. William Pollock came to Indiana in 1848 and located in the vicinity of Cromwell, where he engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. He remained at this place until 1867, in which year lie located near Gcshen, Elkhart county, this state, where he remained until his death, at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. To William and Mary Pollock were born the following named children: Thomas .'v., Elsie A., Elizabeth, Simon, John T., Eli J., Margaret M., Lousetta and Lovisa.

John T. Pollock received as good an educate 11 as the common schools of Sparta township afforded, but any further advance in this direction was interrupted by the advent 1 t war. The clamor of civil strife was resounding through the land, and young Pollock, then just assuming his majority, realized that he owed a duty to his country. On February 20, 1862, he donned the blue and went to the front, where he served faithfully and well alrro st four years, being honorably discharged November 2j, 1865, after having endured all the hardships and privations which fell to the lot' of the soldiers during that terrible struggle, and having been wounded in the leg, September 2, 18:14. at Lovejoy Station, Ga., when he came near bleeding to death.

Up< a his return from the army he took hold of the work upon the home farm, remaining there until his marriage, in 1868, when he began renting land. He farmed in that way for twenty years, when, in 1888, rte was appointed postmaster of Cromwell under President Harrison's administration, and held that office four years, making an enviable record for efficiency in that office. Upon retiring from the postoffice Mr. Pollock purchased a farm south of Cromwell, but remained there only a little more than a year, when he moved into the place where he now lives, known as the William Hitler farm. The tract now contains eighty acres. On March 1, 1868, Mr. Pollock look unto himself a helpmate in the person of .Miss Mary A. Ohlwine, daughter of Samuel Ohlwine. Their marriage has been blessed by the birth of two children. The eldest, Hattie A., was born December 7, 1868. and became the wife of Thomas Adams, a farmer of Whitley county. They have two children living - Cedfic and Andrew T. Their second child. Milton, was born February 5, 1870, and died February 28, 1888.

In politics Mr. Pollock is a stanch Republican. Religiously he is a member of the Cniversalist church in Cromwell, while the other members of the family belong to the New Light Christian church. In all the remmanded the respect 1 with whom he has brought in contact, and the history of locality would be incomplete without a rd of his career.

David S. Longfellow

This valiant ex-soldier, who. it may be said in passing, bears a striking resemblance to his illustrious namesake, the poet, Henry W. Longfellow, ranks as one of the old and honored as well as honorable pioneers of the part of the country in which he now lives. The world judges the character of a community largely by those of its representative citizens and yields its tributes of admiration and respect to those whose works and actions constitute the record of that community's prosperity and pride. Among the prominent citizens of Washington township. Noble county, Ind., who are so well known by reason of the prominent part they have taken in public affairs is David S. Longfellow.

Mr. Longfellow was born April to, 1832, in Champaign county. Ohio. His parents were Joseph and Martha 1 Hull- Crow ) Longfellow, the former a native of Maryland, who died in [865, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine years, and the latter was a native of Virginia. The original progenitor of this family was William Longfellow, who emigrated to America 111 [673. Joseph Longfellow and Mrs. Martha Crow were united in marriage in Champaign county, Ohio, settled down to an agricultural life and lived there until death - the long period of sixty years - from 1805 to [865, Joseph Longfellow becoming a veteran of the war of 1812. To this union with Martha Crow were born the following children: Lemuel V., who is a resident of Iowa; William, who died in infancy; Nathan M., who was a Baptist minister and died about 1896; David S., subject of tins sketch: Silas N.. who is now living 011 the old home place; and Amos M., who died in Kosciusko county. Ind.. in 1N84.

David S. Longfellow attended the common schools of Champaign county. Ohio, and afterward a select school in Greene count v. that state. He attended these institutions until he was twenty years ,,1,1, after which time he attended two terms in Delaware College. He taught school seventeen terms, but afterard went back for another term at college. In 1853 he came to Indiana and engaged in teaching school during the winters, going back to ( )hio in the summer, 1', r two years. In 1855 he began a long career as a school-teacher in Indiana, continuing at this occupation during sixteen cm secutive terms. In the meantime, during the summer seasons, he industriously cleared and farmed the property on which he now lives. He bought this farm in 1856, and is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of fine land.

On February 17, 1805. Mr. Longfellow enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at Kendallville. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac in the Shenandoah valley, and Mr. Longfellow was commissioned first lieutenant of his company and fought under General Hancock in the Reserve Corps until his honorable discharge, August 30, [865.

Mr. Longfellow has been twice married. The first time, on August id, 1855, he was wedded to Miss Barbara Greider, who was born in 1834. a daughter of Henry Greider. After bis marriage he spent one year in Ohio, and after the death of this wife in 1858 he resided with his father-in-law. To this union were born two children: Martha I-;., who became the wife of Jacob Gilbert and bore him six children - David E., Charles A., Aria G., Hazel. Mabel, and Ellis, the last named a citizen of Kosciusko county, Ind.; Barbara, married to William C. Cook, and they have two children - Jennie L., and Leroy L., the hitter deceased. Mrs. Cook attended Valparaiso Normal School one year and taught five terms in Noble countv.