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E. A. CAMPBELL was born in New York City, October 20, 1838. His parents, Augustus and Mary (Conklin) Campbell, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of New York City, claim an American ancestry antedating the Revolution. The Campbells are descended from the Irish legionaries, the Scots, who drove out the Piets, or Cruithne, from Scotland and took possession of northern Britain in the sixth century. The Conklins are of Dutch descent, the first of the name in America settling on the Island of New Amsterdam. It is related that Cornelius Campbell, the great-uncle of Augustus, captured a horse from the British at Trenton, N. J., which he at once presented to General Washington. Matthias Campbell, father of Augustus, a professor of music, died in New Jersey. His father-in-law (Conklin) was a chair-maker in New York. Augustus Campbell moved to New York in his youth, and became a contractor and builder, carrying on work in that city and Brooklyn, until his death, September 15, 1887. He was twice married, first to a daughter of Preserved Fish, of New York, to whom one son was born, and secondly to Miss Conklin, the mother of the subject of this sketch.

E. A. Campbell was educated in his native city. In 1855 he accompanied his uncle, Isaac Ammerman, to St. Joseph, Mich. Finding employment in a saw mill there, he worked for two years, when he received injuries which required treatment at the hands of the able surgeons in New York City. After his recovery he located in Rahway, N. J., and learned the carriage-trimmer's trade in the shop of his uncle, William Jewell. A term of two years there closed his career in the East; for he turned his steps toward the setting sun, and without money, worked his way on the Erie Canal to Buffalo. Thence he set out for Michigan, arrived at Kalamazoo, worked at his trade until 1865, when he located at Elkhart, Ind. In 1869 he established his carriage shops, which are still carried on by him with his son, Edward F. Campbell, manager. In 1886 Mr. Campbell was elected city treasurer, an office which be has held continuously down to the present time. He declined re-nomination in the year 1892; but was a candidate for the county treasuryship. His record as city treasurer is not only without reproach, but it is also superior to that of any predecessor in the office. This fact is known and appreciated; so that the higher county position will be his if nominated by the convention for that office. He is prominent in Pythian circles and in the order of Chosen Friends, who elected him delegate to the Supreme Council, held at Washington, D. C., in September, 1890. He aided in organizing the pioneer fire department of Elkhart, and was elected chief. In this connection he follows in his father's footsteps; for the name of Augustus Campbell is found on the rolls of the fire department of New York and Brooklyn - his badge, No. 371, being now in possession of Edward A.

Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Mattie A. Fosdick, a native of Illinois, February, 22, 1864. They are the parents of Gertrude M., and Edward F. He is credited with being one of the whole-souled men of Elkhart. His interest in the welfare of the city has always been recognized, while his business and social methods have placed him, in that enviable position, where his word is as good as his bond.

During the latter part of 1892 Mr. Campbell was nominated as a candidate for county treasurer on the Democratic ticket held in Goshen, Ind., and after making a short speech the band struck up "The Campbells are coming." At the close of the campaign it was found that Mr. Campbell was elected by a majority of seventy-three, but was counted out on the theory that certain members of the several election boards had not signed the poll-books properly. Mr. Campbell at once appealed to the courts and after a hotly contested trial before special Judge Hubbard, of South Bend, it was decided that the votes should be counted as cast, which gave Mr. Campbell the office of treasurer of Elkhart County. The decision of the judge gave universal satisfaction, both parties assenting. Mr. Campbell is now a resident of Goshen and will work hard for the interest of the taxpayers of his county, and says that if he can make as good a record as some of his predecessors he will have the assurance that the public will be satisfied with his administration.

�Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana
Together with Biographies of Many Prominent Men of Northern Indiana and the Whole State, Both Living and Dead�
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1893
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C. H. CHASE, president of the Review Printing Company, of Elkhart; Ind., is a gentleman of marked business ability, and possesses the resourcefulness for which the native New Englander has become noted. Set him down where you will, and if he does not begin bettering his condition without any unnecessary delay, he will be doing violence to the history and traditions of his people, and will be no more worthy to be called a son of New England. Certain it is that those who had the good fortune to be born in New England, or to be descended from New England stock, have attained prominence in whatever section they have located, and certain it is also that, however humble their stations in life, they had a knowledge and com�prehension of the science of economics peculiar to themselves. They knew the value of money, and were masters of the art of multiplying their dollars. They knew how to be frugal without being miserly, and could be hospitable and generous without being wasteful or extravagant. They were models of industry and activity, and so uniformly successful in building up comfortable fortunes, as to make the value of these qualities to their possessor strikingly apparent to one who takes the trouble to familiarize himself with the history of the New England people. To this class of people belongs C. H. Chase, who was born in Franconia, N. H., November 4, 1833, his parents, Joseph C. and Lucretia (Demick) Chase, having also been born in the Granite State, and were descended from English stock. Their ancestors came to this country in the historic ship, the Mayflower, and some of the cooking utensils which were used by them on that vessel are still in possession of the family. The Chases trace their ancestry back eight generations, all of whom were honored residents of New England. The maternal grandfather, Benjamin Demick, was a soldier in the war of 1812, stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., while the paternal grandfather, Paul Chase, was a prominent contractor and merchant but became financially involved during the crisis of 1836-7. Joseph C. Chase, his son and the father of the subject of this sketch, was also a merchant and at the time of his death was con�nected with the Boston Herald, having charge of the advertising department. He was at one time considerable of a politician and was in the custom house under James Buchanan, but was ousted from that office on account of his Douglas proclivities. He died in the city of Boston on the 4th of April, 1859, having been a man of considerable prominence and a stanch Democrat throughout life. He was the father of four sons and one daughter, of which family three members are now living: Charles H., George S. and William E. The eldest of these sons, Charles H., was a resident of his native place until about seven years of age, at which time he was taken to Derby Line, Vt., by his parents, and his education was obtained in Stanstead Academy, an institution he attended until he was about fourteen years of age. He then entered the office of the Sherbrooke Gazette, of Sherbrooke, Canada, to learn the art of printing, where he continued for about eighteen months, when he removed with his parents to Cambridge, Mass., and finished his knowledge of printing in the book office of that place, which is now known as the Riverside Printing Establishment, and is noted as one of the leading publishing houses of the country. Following this he secured a position on the Boston Cultivator, where he remained until he became of age, at which time he gave up his position to follow the advice of Horace Greeley and "go west," and he eventually found himself in Winona, Minn., where he assumed charge of the Winona Argus, of which he had control one year. He returned to Manchester, N. H., and in connection with Otis S. Eastman, purchased an agricultural paper known as the Farmer and Visitor, but only continued it a few months, as the investment, did not prove very remunerative. Mr. Chase then went west as far as Davenport., Iowa, where he worked for some time, thence to Keokuk, Iowa, and while in the latter place was united in marriage to Miss Cynthia Parmenter, a native of New Hampshire, who died December 10, 1863. He removed with his young wife to Cleveland, Ohio, and was there employed on the Cleveland Review, in the fall of 1858. In February of the following year, in connection with a Mr. Weller, he purchased the Elkhart (Indiana) Review. They continued the publication of this paper until the following November, when Mr. Chase purchased Mr. Weller's interest and continued alone until 1865, when his brother, George S., became connected with him. In May, 1871, A. P. Kent bought an interest in the paper and it has since been controlled by these two gentlemen. In January, 1890, a handsome new brick building was completed for their occupation, and they have now one of the best equipped offices in the State.

August 15, 1872, the Daily Review was established, and has been continued with marked success ever since, its establishment being one of Mr. Kent's ideas. It is a very newsy, well-edited sheet, and some valuable information can always be gleaned from its columns. Mr. Chase is a gentleman of fine literary attainments, and has proven himself to be the right man in the right place. On the 14th of November, 1866, he took for his second wife Miss Alice M. Defrees, who has borne him four children: Ernest C.; Charles H., Jr.; Frederick E. and Carrie L. Mr. Chase was assistant assessor of internal revenue under President Lincoln, and from 1871 to 1873 he was a member of the school board of Elkhart.

STRAFFORD MAXON, born in Wyoming county, N. Y., October 10, 1830; is the son of John and Lydia (Sweet) Maxon, also natives of New York, whose ancestors came from Scotland in colonial days. When patriotism sounded the tocsin for revolution, members of this family rushed to the front. The grand father McCabe, was one of the first to respond to the call of the republic, and, thirty -six years later, when the same beaten enemy returned to conquer the land and crush out liberty, John Maxon, named above, was one of the first to join the defenders of the Union. The Maxons were farmers in New York State for generations. The parents of Strafford, who moved to Indiana years ago, were the pioneers, it is said, of the name in the West. That patriarchal Quaker preached at intervals in Indiana and Michigan, and while in the last named State visiting his daughter, died at a ripe old age. John and Lydia Maxon were the parents of nine children. Of that large family, four are living, namely: Mrs. Polly Tallman, Friend, Elizabeth and Strafford.

Strafford Maxon accompanied his parents, brother and sisters, to Elkhart county in 1838. The homestead near Elkhart City was his home from that period up to 1850, when he made the five months' overland trip to California, in the trail of the Argonauts of 1849, and passed three years in the mining camp of Hangtown; discovered a gold deposit which proved very valuable, and in 1854, pleased to escape the hardships of life among the mines, returned to Elkhart. For the eighteen succeeding years he carried on an extensive mercantile house at Elkhart, and then established a lumber yard, planing mill, sash, door and blind factory, with which he was connected until 1890, and of which he was the owner until 1884. In 1890 he was elected mayor of Elkhart, and would have been re-elected in 1892 had he not declined the nomination. For years he was a member of the school board, and by earnest, well-directed effort, carried many measures most beneficial to the city schools. He also served as city treasurer.

He is an old Master Mason and a member of the Knights Templar Commandery, always taking a deep interest in the work of the lodges, council, chapter and commandery.

Mr. Maxon's marriage with Miss Mary A. Stillman took place in 1854. Of their five children, three: Ada, Hugh and Emma, are living. The mother died in 1890, in the beautiful home at Elkhart. She was a member of the Congregational Church there since its establishment, while Mr. Maxon, also a member, held the office of trustee for ten years. Since 1854, when Mr. Maxon returned from California, he lost no opportunity of aiding in the advancement of the city he was henceforth to make his home. Every progressive measure was supported by him and he was rewarded by witnessing Elkhart's advance from a straggling hamlet, near the junction of the St. Joseph and Elkhart Rivers, to a prosperous city of great manu�facturing industries, large commercial houses, churches, schools, newspaper offices, and well-ordered society.

HON. ORRIN Z. HUBBELL. This well-known resident of Elkhart county, Ind., is of a decidedly literary turn of mind, and as an orator is a forcible and convincing speaker. His fertile imagination and happy manner of expressing himself has placed him second to no other orator in his section of the country, and his logic is sound and comprehensive. He is a strong personality which at once commands the attention of his hearers, while his wit, mental capacity and penetration are well known among his fellows. He is also a writer of ability and his articles abound in the same fine qualities which make him the orator that he is, while as a conversationalist he is entertaining and vivacious.

His educational advantages were better than most boys receive and as his tendency was studious and industrious, he stored his mind with information that would be of practical use to him in later years, and was considered precocious by his relatives and friends. Soon after his birth in Huntington county, Ind., he was taken without his consent to Butler, De Kalb county, where his youth was passed. He has always been proud of his nativity and has more than once been heard to boast of being a "Hoosier." In 1873 he walked forth from the high school of Butler as a graduate of that institution, and as he had previously formed the determination of attending college he at once set about finding employment in order to obtain means with which to defray the expenses of a collegiate education. He succeeded in accomplishing his object, but what it cost him of self-denial and mental anxiety will never be known to any but himself. His surroundings were peculiar and rather unusual, but he fought his battle bravely and at the end of the, to him, ever memorable four years, he graduated with honor from the University of Indiana, receiving the degree of baccalaureus artium. The world was then before him to choose from, but first the heavy debt that he had contracted had to be cancelled and he set about to accomplish this.

His literary ability had already begun to attract attention and upon his return to Butler he was tendered the position of editor of the Butler Record, in which capacity he served with marked success for several years. He subsequently occupied the same position on the De Kalb County Republican and at a still later period he became principal of the Monroeville schools and still later superintendent of the Butler schools and finally principal of the Bristol schools. In all of these positions he distinguished himself as an educator and disciplinarian and as a newspaper man he was alive to the current issues of the day and handled his subjects with an ease, grace and :finish that could not fail to attract attention.

In 1882 he came to Elkhart, but between the time of his graduation and the time of his arrival in this section, he had found time to study law, for which profession he seemed to have a natural aptitude and a decided inclination. He was by nature fitted for this most difficult of al1 the learned professions, and was regularly graduated from the law department of Notre Dame University. Although still a young man he occupies a leading position at the Indiana bar, and as might have been expected, his talents have led him into the arena of politics. In 1888 he was nominated for the State Senate and was elected by a majority of 780 votes, leading his ticket by 300 votes. He made a wise and energetic committee-man and in the work of the chamber was so prominent that he received warm praise from political friend and foe alike.

He has found time to cultivate the social graces, is a Knight Templar, a Thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a prominent Odd Fellow, and in the latter lodge and elsewhere has acquired fame as a lecturer. He is the attorney for the People's Mutual Benefit Society and for the Fidelity Building & Savings Union of Indianapolis. He has a beautiful residence on Beardsley avenue, and there, surrounded by his family, his greatest enjoyment is to be had. He has a well-chosen library and his home surroundings indicate intelligent and refined taste. In early manhood he was united in marriage with Miss Cora E. Congdon, of Bristol, a beautiful girl, who has made him a devoted wife. Together they went abroad in 1887, visited the British Isles and explored the romantic ruins and antiquities of continental Europe, and upon his return Mr. Hubbell published a small book describing his experiences and impressions of life in foreign countries, which is interesting and instructive.

Mr. Hubbell's father was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and was a civil engineer by profession. His mother was formerly Miss Sarah A. Zeigler, a native of Tuscarawas, Ohio. To them were born four children: Orrin Z.; Clara, wife of P. Y. Hoffman; Lizzie, wife of William J. Richey, and Ida L. The father was the civil engineer for the Detroit, Eel River & Illinois Railway, now the Wabash Railway, and also for the Adrian State Line Railroad, which was not completed. Both parents were far above the average in mental and moral attributes and their children inherited many of their best qualities. The paternal grandfather, Jason Hubbell, was a Vermonter. He followed farming, milling and merchandising, and while in Cleveland owned a tract of 80 acres there which is now worth millions of dollars. Parents, except the mother, and grandparents, after useful lives, passed away. Mr. Hubbell's ancestors were Revolutionary patriots and also soldiers in the war of 1812. His father raised a regiment for the Union army during the civil war; but could not himself enter the service owing to physical infirmities, though his two brothers, Orson J. and Harris B. went out to fight their country's battles. Our subject, on the maternal side, had two uncles, James and Benjamin in the same war. The former bravely fell with his face to the foe at the bloody battle of Shiloh. Of all the members of this family, among soldiers and civilians, toilers at the plow or at the bar, none is better fitted for distinguished public service than Orrin Z. Hubbell, whose life has been one of strict integrity throughout.

JOHN COOK, director of the First National Bank of Elkhart, Ind., is a quiet, unpretentious man, whose youth was spent in the country, his time being occupied by the healthful and useful pursuit of agriculture. He was born in the old historic city of Chillicothe, Ohio, December 3, 1826, being a son of James and Amy (Winder) Cook, who were born in Maryland and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively. The paternal grandfather, Henry Cook, removed from his native State of Maryland to Ohio in 1800, at which time the country was almost wholly unsettled, and the woods were inhabited by prowling bears and other wild animals, while numerous large tribes of Indians obtained an easy living with rod and gun, unmolested by the sound of the hunter's axe. He tilled the soil in the vicinity of Chillicothe, and there his son James was brought up and obtained a thorough knowledge of agriculture. In 1830 he pushed farther westward and purchased a tract of land in the vicinity of Goshen, Ind., but later he removed to the town and carried on mercantile pursuits for a number of years, retiring from the active duties of life a number of years before his death, which occurred in 1854, his wife's death having occurred in 1840. Three of their children grew to maturity, but only two are living at the present time, John and Henry. Owing to the primitive condition of the schools of his day, John Cook did not obtain a very thorough education, but he possessed a naturally fine mind, and this he strengthened and enriched by contact with the business affairs of life, and by keeping thoroughly posted on the current topics of the day. As he was but a youth when be came to Goshen he was brought up in the mercantile business by his father, and he and his brother carried on the business together in that town for five years. In 1854 Mr. Cook established the Salem Bank of Goshen in connection with Thomas G. Harrison, which is now a State bank, managed by John W. Irwin. Mr. Cook conducted this bank in a praiseworthy manner until 1865, when he went to New York City, and for one year was engaged in the flour commission business. In the spring of 1867 he came to Elkhart, Ind., and purchased stock in the First National Bank, of which he became cashier, a position he retained until he voluntarily resigned and retired from all active business life, yet acting as vice-president, a position he has had for the last ten years, since which time he has lived in retirement, enjoying the fruits of his well spent life, and the competency which his foresight and keen business discernment has won him. He still retains stock in the bank and a directorship, but has turned over its management into the bands of others. He bas been a member of the city council two or three terms, and throughout the greater portion of his active life has been interested in farming, for he is the owner of 1,500 acres of land well adapted for the purposes of general farming. Although he has owned land from early manhood, he has never plowed a furrow in his life, this branch of his business affairs being altogether in the hands of others. He wooed and won for his wife Miss Martha Winber, their union taking place in 1848, she being a daughter of James A. Winber. In 1889 Mr. Cook took for his second wife Miss Cora M. Keck, an accomplished lady and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by whom he has one child, Charlotte Mae. Mr. Cook is a highly educated man, having had every advantage. He is a great reader, an interesting talker, having traveled extensively both in this country and the old world, and is popular with all who know him.

HENRY FISCHER. Among the prominent business men of Nappanee, Ind., is Henry Fischer, who conducts a well-appointed drug store at that place. He was born in the State of New York, October 5, 1857, to Henry J. and Fredericka (King) Fischer, the former of whom was born in Germany, December 25, 1824, and was there reared and educated and served for some time in the German army. Upon coming to this country when a young man, he landed at New York City but soon after settled at Syracuse, where he worked at the cooper's trade which he had learned in the old country. He remained in New York for about ten years after his marriage, then moved to Edgerton, Ohio, where he followed his trade for some three years, or until 1870, at which time he took up his residence in Goshen, Ind., where his trade occupied his time and attention until his death, February 18, 1881. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and at one time was an Odd Fellow. He became well to do while in Syracuse, N. Y., but lost a large sum of money at the patent-right business, but in a great measure retrieved his losses in later years. He became well known in Goshen and was much respected. His wife was born in Germany in 1836, came with her parents to this country, and was principally reared in Syracuse, N. Y. Her father was John King. To Henry J. Fischer and wife the following children were born: Minnie, who died young; Henry, the subject of this sketch; Herman, who lives at Topeka, Kan.; Emma, who died young; Albert, who is a resident of Elkhart, Ind., and Charles, who resides in Detroit, Mich. After the death of her husband Mrs. Fischer married a Mr. Beiling and is now making her home in Detroit. She is a member of the Lutheran Church. Henry Fischer was only thirteen years old when the family came to Elkhart county. He assisted his father in the cooper shop and attended school until sixteen years of age when he began clerking in a drug store, a calling be followed up to 1889, when he started in business for himself in Nappanee, where he has become a popular, successful and highly esteemed man of business. He is very energetic and pushing and carries a choice line of drugs of all kinds, and an excellent stock of books, stationery, wall paper, etc. He has always been a strong Republican, takes an interest in all public matters and is generous in contributing to enterprises of a worthy nature. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is the efficient financial secretary of the same. In 1887 he took for his companion through life Miss Emma R. Wyland, of Goshen, where her birth occurred October 8, 1857, a daughter of Israel Wyland, who for eight years was county recorder of Elkbart county. Israel Wyland was married twice, his first union resulting in the following children: Cyrus, James B., Lorinda J., John A., all of whom are living. His second union was to Mrs. Lydia De Lotter, and in due course of time resulted in the birth of two children: Emma R. (Mrs. Fischer), and a little girl who died in infancy. Mrs. Fischer's mother was married three times, her maiden name being Wysong. Her first union did not bear fruit, but to her second union were given the following children: Mary A. E., Anna, James M., whose sketch appears in this volume; Sylvanus, and the following who are deceased: Louis C., Manda J. and Sarah A. Her third marriage was to Mr. Wyland with the above results . In addition to filling the responsible duties of county recorder he was elected assessor of Elkhart township a number of times, and also on various occasions filled the office of assessor of Goshen with credit to himself. Mrs. Fischer is finely educated, being a graduate of the classical course of the Goshen High School in 1878, and completed the Chautauqua course in 1889, obtaining at the same time the Garnet and White Seals. For ten years she was a teacher in the public schools of Goshen, and won a high reputation as an educator and disciplinarian. Mr. and Mrs. Fischer have a pretty and comfortable home in Nappanee and move in the highest social circles of the place. They have two promising children: Ralston, born September 11, 1889, and Fredericka L., born June 23, 1890. Mr. Fischer is in every sense of the term a self-made man, and deserves much credit for the way in which he has conquered Dame Fortune.

JACOB S. WALTERS. The vocation of the pharmacist is unquestionably a highly important one in any and every community, for upon his care and skill almost as much as upon that displayed by the medical profession, oftentimes depends the physical welfare - nay, the life or death of the sick or ailing. Among the favorably known druggists of Elkhart county, Ind., may be mentioned the name of Jacob S. Walters, who has an attractive and well-appointed store in Nappanee, which was established in 1880. He was born in Union township, this county, February 19, 1854, and was the youngest son of Justin Walters and his wife Elizabeth (Hartman) Walters. The father was born in Germany, May 5, 1815; was a member of a prominent German family, and in the land of his birth was educated. After marrying, he came to this country in 1845, and about 1846 settled in Columbiana county, Ohio, and in Elkhart county, Ind., in 1848, taking up his residence in Union township where he followed farming from that time until his death in February, 1868. He was a member of the Mennonite Church and politically was a Republican. When he came to the United States he had no means, but with the perseverance and energy which has ever characterized the German people, he kept earnestly at work and was soon in fair circumstances. He followed his trade of weaving in the old, as well as in the new country, and in this way made considerable money. He identified himself with the interests of his adopted country, and came to be known as a man of much public spirit. He knew what it was to be a pioneer and suffered the hardships of such a life, but he always conducted himself in an upright manner. He was very domestic in his tastes and found his greatest happiness in his home surrounded by his wife and children. He is still kindly remembered by some of the old residents of the county. His widow now resides on the old homestead one and one half miles northeast of Nappanee. She was born six miles from Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 1816; was there educated, but the greater part of her life has been spent on American soil, where her family has been reared. For the past twenty-five years her health has not been of the best, but through all her sufferings she has preserved her pleasant and cheerful disposition. She bore her husband nine children, seven of whom are living: Elizabeth, born September 21, 1836, married Henry Christofel; was left a widow, and later married Jacob Yoder, and is now residing five miles south of Elkhart. Six of the children she bore her first husband are deceased - Isaac, Sarah, Maggie, John, Lizzie, Amanda. Katie, the only surviving member, is now Mrs. Bowers; John A. was the next in order of birth and was born January 7, 1838; is a merchant of Wakarusa; married Esther Bachert of Canada. December 15, 1853, and is the father of these children: Jacob B., Mary, Henry, Samuel, Alice, Esther, Elizabeth, Susan, Charles S., Agnes and Belle. Mary was born August 5, 1840; married a Mr. Truex and died in 1868, leaving one child - William. George S. was born July 24, 1843, is a farmer living near Nappanee; married Susan Ernest of Elkhart county, and has these children: Frank, Alice, Ida, Jesse, Milo, Ira, Oscar, Bert and Verney. Henry J. was born July 7, 1850; married Christina Weaver; is clerking in his brother's store, and is the father of three children: Melvin, Nora and Daniel. Jacob S., the subject of this sketch and Lydia, who was born August 20, 1860, and resides on the old homestead with her mother. Two children died when young; the death of one occurring on the ocean while the family were en route to this country, and was buried at sea. Jacob S. Walters was born in Union township this county; was reared to a farm life and attended the district schools, the summer seasons being spent in assisting his father on the home farm. After the death of the head of the family, he worked by the month on a farm, but still attended school during the winter in 1876. After a time he embarked in the drug business in Locke by buying out his brother John A., being thus associated with Dr. J. K. Julien, the firm name being Julien & Walters. This partnership lasted for one year, when Mr. Walters purchased the interest of Dr. Julien and continued the business until 1880, when he put up a business house in Nappanee and stocked it with drugs, still retaining his stock at Locke for two years, which was under the care of Dr. Paxton. In 1882 he discontinued his business there, sold his building and put all his money in his establishment in Nappanee, and is at present conducting a profitable business, where he first held forth. He is handling a full line of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, wall-paper, books and notions, his stock being valued at about $6,000; his annual sales amounting to $12,000. Socially he has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. since 1877 - Nappanee Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 656, Goshen Chapter No. 45, R. A. M., and Bashoe Council, No. 15, Goshen, Indiana & South Bend Commandery No. 13, K. T. He has held or filled all of the offices in the Nappanee Lodge. On August 31, 1879, Mr. Walters was married at Locke, Ind., to Miss Henrietta Burkholder, a resident of Miami county, Ind., and a native of Green county, Wis., where she was born June 19, 1859. To her union with Mr. Walters the following children have been given: Arthur M., born May 16, 1880; Maudie E., November 16, 1882; William, March 3, 1884; Louisa M., November 28, 1886; Chester A., December 2, 1889; Charles R., January 16, 1891, and Clara Belle, November 1, 1892. Mrs. Walters is a daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Shaffer) Burkholder, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania, the father's birth occurring in Bedford county to Jacob Burkholder who came of German parents. The Shaffers were also Pennsylvanians and were well known and highly respected people in the section in which they resided. Jacob Burkholder, the father, was born in 1822 and died in Miami county, Ind., in 1876, having been a minister of the Reformed Church for many years, and preached in different portions of Indiana. He left his native State after reaching manhood, and first located in Illinois, where he lived for two years, then moved to Green county, Wis., and after a few years became a resident of Huntington county. While pursuing his calling he resided in many different places and expounded the gospel from many pulpit. Twenty years of his life were devoted to the cause of Christianity, and in the meantime, being a skilled mechanic, he worked at the carpenter's trade. He was public spirited and energetic and politically was a Democrat. His wife's birth occurred two years later than his own. She survives him and is a resident of Mexico, Miami Co., Ind. Their union resulted in the birth of ten children, eight of whom are living: William T. is a resident of Missouri and is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Sarah C. is the wife of Stephen De Haven of Wisconsin; Mary E. became the wife of Joseph Bennett, who was killed on the Wabash Railroad, after which she married Emery Poole; Lucinda A. is the wife of Rev. Joseph Bechtel of the United Brethren Church of Fulton, Ind.; Jeremiah is a school teacher of Denver, Ind., and justice of the peace of his township; Jacob C. died at the age of thirteen years; Rebecca is the wife of John See; Henrietta (Mrs. Walters); Margaret J. died at the age of two months; and John, who resides in Denver, Ind., is successfully engaged in teaching school. After the death of Mr. Burkholder, his widow married again, becoming the wife of Michael Nicewinder, being now a resident of Mexico, Ind. She is a member of the Reformed Church and a true Christian in every respect. Mrs. Walters was the youngest but one of her family, and while attending school formed the acquaintance of Mr. Walters, which eventually resulted in the marriage. Outside of the drug business Mr. Waiters, in connection with Wilson Slabaugh, manufactures hard and soft wood lumber, and conducts a lumber yard at Nappanee, and they are doing a general building supply business; they handle lime and cement. They do an annual business of from $25,000 to 830,000. Mr. Walters is a self-made man, and what he has in the way of worldly goods has been obtained by his own hard work. He is among the prominent business men of Nappanee, and has also a small amount of stock in the Nappanee Furniture Company. He is the owner of a nice residence and also his store building. As a business man and a citizen generally he commands the respect of all and has many warm friends. He is a member in good standing of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association, and for seventeen years past has been connected with the drug business. While a resident of Locke he held the position of postmaster for three years.

WILLIAM W. BEST. Mr. Best, a prominent resident of Nappanee, Ind., where he has made his home since the fall of 1891; came from Kosciusko county, of which he was a resident from 1865. He owes his nativity to the Buckeye State, born in Carroll county, April 8, 1836, and was the youngest of eight children, seven sons and one daughter, born to the union of John and Mary (Cooper) Best. John Best was born in the southern part of Pennsylvania and was the son of an old Revolutionary soldier. The latter was born in England and fought in King George's army. He was brought to this country but left the English army and became a soldier in the American army. He reared a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, as follows: John, George, David, Jacob, Catherine and Mary. These children settled in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The father of our subject emigrated to Ohio at an early day, about 1812, and died in Putnam county in 1860. He held membership in the Lutheran Church and was prominent in all good work. He was an extensive farmer, owned a sawmill and was a carpenter by trade. He accumulated a good property. His wife, Mary Cooper, was a native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of a prominent family of that State. She had a brother in the war of 1812. She followed her husband to the grave in 1863, and was in full communion with the Lutheran Church at the time of her death. Both parents of our subject were pioneers in Carroll county, Ohio, and the father was an extensive farmer, owning 200 acres of land. The children born to the family are named as follows: George, Jacob, John, Abram (killed in the Civil war), Isaac, Sarah A., Joseph and William W. Of these children only our subject and his brother John came to Indiana, and both settled in Kosciusko county. Only six of these children are now living. William W. Best was educated in the district schools of his native county, attending during the winter months, and assisting his father on the farm, and in the sawmill during the summer season. When about seventeen years of age he began learning the carpenter trade, continued this about two years, and then returned home, where he took charge of the farm until his father's death. His maternal grandfather was a noted hunter and trapper, and Mrs. Best was with her father on several occasions when he shot bear. In the year 1856 our subject was united in marriage to Miss Nancy J. Wagner, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Rainer) Wagner, and remained in Ohio until after the war, when he moved his family to Indiana. He settled in Kosciusko county, on a farm of 160 acres, but subsequently put up a sawmill, and carried on both farming and milling. During the Rebellion our subject enlisted, but on account of a crippled ankle and foot which he got from a fall from a barn, he was rejected. He helped to raise Company D, One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio; and formed a company of forty men and acted as recruiting agent part of the time during the war. During the winter of 1862-3 he was with the Twenty-third Army Corps. He had a brother Abram, who died in the service, and the latter had a son, sixteen years of age, who was a soldier. George Best had a son, John C., who served through the war. William W. Best remained on the farm until 1891, when he moved to Nappanee. He has been successful in all his business occupations, and is a substantial citizen of the county. He and wife are the parents of children, as follows: D. M., a real estate dealer of Elkhart; William H., in the market business in Nappanee; Lydia A., now Mrs. E. Lienuart, of St. Joseph county; Mary A., now Mrs. J. D. Good, of Nappanee; Margaret E., now Mrs. Christian Johnson; Ada L., now Mrs. Mahlon H. Thomas, of Chicago; John M., residing in Nappanee; Philip I., in Nappanee, and Florence E. Mr. Best and sons are ardent supporters of Democratic principles, and he is a public-spirited citizen. He is now engaged in the real estate, insurance and collecting business. He and wife have a cozy home on South Elm street, near the United Brethren Church, and are highly esteemed as upright, honorable citizens.

GORDON NOEL MURRAY, editor and proprietor of the Nappanee News, was born July 22, 1852, at the Murray Homestead, in Jefferson township, Elkhart Co., Ind., being a member of a family of six brothers and three sisters. His early years were spent on the farm, receiving an education afforded by the country school of that day, by attending school in the winter season and working on the farm during the summer, until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he moved to Goshen with his parents. There, in 1871, he obtained a situation as an apprentice in a machine shop. Working in various factories in that city until 1874, young Murray took up his residence in Sterling, Ill., where he remained until the spring of 1877; during that interval having charge of a factory as foreman, and being employed as a commercial traveler. Going to South Bend in the same year, young Murray followed the vocation of a mechanic until the winter of 1877-78, when he entered the mechanical department of the South Bend Herald, then published by his brother, Charles T. Murray. The latter returning to Washington, D. C., in the spring of 1878, the father of the subject of this sketch - Hon. Charles L. Murray - sold his interest in the Goshen Democrat, and took charge of the South Bend Herald. It was then that young Murray was initiated into the mysteries of journalism, continuing as he did in the capacity of business manager and city editor of the Herald until the spring of 1881. After his father disposed of the Herald, at that time, Mr. Murray again entered on the duties of a commercial traveler. In June of the same year, 1881, he was married to Miss Ellen Niles Taylor, at Ionia, Mich. Under a mortgage, the Herald material reverting to his parent, Mr. Murray again returned to the printing business at South Bend in 1882. Forming a partnership with a younger brother, Harris F. Murray, and his father, under the firm name of C. L. Murray & Sons, job printers, Mr. Murray completed his trade in the "art preservative." In the fall of 1884 the job printing office was disposed of, and soon after fell into the hands of prominent Prohibitionists of the State, who had formed a stock company to establish a State organ for their party. Mr. Murray became a stockholder, and was awarded the contract of moving the plant to Indianapolis, where it was consolidated with that of the Monitor Journal, and there he established the mechanical department of the Indiana Phalanx, now the State Prohibition organ. The Phalanx Company being unable to continue the salary at which Mr. Murray was employed, he removed to Goshen, Ind., where he became identified with the Daily News. He first entered on the duties of solicitor on the road, but soon after became business manager of the office, and later a member of the firm, as the News Printing Company. He continued there until January, 1888, when he was enabled, through the assistance of Thomas A. Starr, senior editor of the Goshen News, to purchase the Nappanee News, which he has edited during the past five years, bringing the paper into local prominence among the publications of northern Indiana. He is one of the directors of the Fair Association of the county, that his father organized in an early day and became the first secretary, holding that position for a great many years. Mr. Murray comes of journalistic stock; he is a self-made man, always having made his way in the world by his own energy since leaving the farm.

His brother, Charles T. Murray, at one time editor of the South Bend Herald, and later the well-known Washington correspondent, now has a newspaper bureau in New York City; and during the presidential campaign of 1892, just closed, was employed in furnishing special matter for the New York Herald. His brother, Edward Murray, a writer and contributor of well-known ability, is business manager of Paper and Press, Lithographer's Journal, and the Spanish-American publication, Papel y Prensa, of Philadelphia. Harris F. Murray, a younger brother, is on the Oregonian, of Pendleton, Ore. Mr. Murray's uncle, F. W. Murray, was for a quarter of a century connected with the press or Cincinnati, as a contributor and compositor. Mr. Murray's father, Hon. Charles L. Murray, the pioneer journalist of Elkhart and Kosciusko counties, was born in 1815, in a small town called Murraysfield, in Bradford county, Penn. His parents were Philadelphians. He was paternally Scotch and maternally English. His paternal grandfather was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and his profession (religious) was, first a Baptist, and then a Universalist minister, and was one of eight brothers who settled in western New York after the Revolution. His maternal grandfather was a Quaker, and followed the business or an architect in Philadelphia, where C. L. Murray's parents were born. While the family resided at Athens, on the Susquehanna River, his father was appointed justice of the peace for life, by the governor of Pennsylvania, under the old constitution. Mr. Murray began, about the year 1828, to learn the printer's trade. The paper was published in Towanda, and supported John Q. Adams for President. His brother-in-law, W. Jenkins, leaving Towanda, Mr. Murray went with the family to Huron county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the first anti-Masonic printing office in the State. In 1831 Mr. Jenkins moved the office to Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. Murray followed him as an apprentice. Completing his trade in 1833, he went west to seek his fortune. Having a relative at Jacksonville, Ill., on his father's side (Murray McConnel), he worked in that place on a paper published by a Mr. Edwards. Taking the prevailing disease of the country � ague - he returned to Columbus, Ohio, by joining his father's nephew in taking a drove of horses through that were being bought for the Philadelphia market. Mounted on a horse young Murray crossed the State from St. Louis via Vincennes, and in spite of the terrible condition of the roads at that time, reached Columbus in safety. Here he again worked for his brother-in-law and became foreman of the office of the Western Hemisphere, the Democratic organ of the State. Young Murray was then in his eighteenth year, and he continued in the employ of the paper until a difficulty arose between him and one of the proprietors. Soon afterward the paper changed hands, and its name changed to the Ohio Statesman, when Mr. Murray again accepted a position in the office, and continued there until 1834. He then went to Piqua, Ohio, on the solicitation of citizens there; and, in company with his brother-in-law, D. B. Espy, established the Piqua Courier. The paper was printed on an old wooden press that had been brought from Philadelphia at an early day. The Courier, with Charles L. Murray as editor, was the first paper in the State which run up the name of Gen. Harrison for President in 1835. Mr. Murray purchased the interest of his brother-in-law in 1836. He was married to a Kentucky lady, by the name of Ann Maria Spriggs, in July of the same year. A party of citizens from Goshen, Ind., solicited Mr. Murray to remove to that town, and he accepted the offer, selling the Courier to one Barrington. In company with Anthony Defrees, of Goshen, Mr. Murray went to Cincinnati and bought an outfit, shipped it to Dayton by canal, and the balance of the way it was transported to Goshen in wagons via Ft. Wayne. The first issue of the Goshen Express, O. L. Murray as editor, appeared in February, 1837. Mr. Defrees soon sold his interest to Mr. Murray, who continued as its editor, at intervals, and under different names, until 1840. At this period, as a Whig candidate, he was defeated for the auditorship of Elkhart county, the Democrats having a large majority in the county. Mr. Murray was appointed postmaster at Goshen, under President Harrison, in 1840, and sold his printing office shortly afterward. He was removed from office during the administration of John Tyler. Mr. Murray, having purchased some land north of Goshen, turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, devoting his time during the winter to working at his trade, or in reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the Indiana State Journal. In 1846 he printed the Republican at Monoquet, Kosciusko county, for one year, under an engagement with land owners there, who were trying to locate the county seat. This was the first paper ever printed in the county. From there he moved to Indianapolis and became assistant editor of the State Journal. In the fall of the following year he returned to his farm in Elkhart county, where his family resided until 1870, though Mr. Murray was still in the habit of going to Indianapolis to report in the Senate, where he served seven sessions in that capacity. In 1859 he was elected by the Republicans, joint-representative, from the counties of Elkhart and Lagrange, by a majority of 900. He served through both extra and regular sessions, and took an active part in important subjects under consideration. In 1860 he was elected to the Senate by over 1,200 majority. He had the advantage of the acquaintance of nearly all the public men of Ohio and Indiana. He was purely a self-made man, never having attended school a day after he was eleven years of age. On the first call of the Government for 75,000 men to put down the rebellion, he wrote out a muster-roll, signed it, placed it in the auditor's office of the county, wrote out and had published in both Goshen papers the first call for volunteers in that city, after which he went out into the townships and made speeches for recruits. After he had raised a sufficient number of men for a company, through a call in the papers, he met the men at Goshen and placed in nomination a captain and first lieutenant, and leaving them to complete the organization, departed for Indianapolis to attend the extra session of the Legislature, called by Gov. Morton, to equip the Indiana troops for the three mouths' service. The quota of troops being filled when the men arrived, they were discharged and returned home. Mr. Murray procured a place as private in Capt. Mann's company, from the city of Elkhart, and, when marching orders came, left his seat in the Senate and boarded a cattle train with the boys one morning, after having lain with them on the ground all night near the Union depot. After serving the three months as a private, he returned home and completed his term in the Senate. On February 1, 1862, he left Camp Ellis, near Goshen, with the Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as quartermaster, and remained with the regiment about two years, until he received his discharge, by reason of severe illness that incapacitated him from duty. In 1870 Mr. Murray sold his farm and removed his family to Goshen, where he soon bought a half interest in the Democrat, which paper he edited until the fall of 1877. About that time he moved to South Bend and took charge of the Herald, which plant he had owned for several years previous, in partnership with his son, Charles T. Murray. He continued to edit the Herald until he sold the office in the fall of 1880. In 1882 the material of the Herald returning to Mr. Murray under a mortgage, and the "good will" of the office having been taken from him through the connivance of the man to whom he had sold the office, whereby he met the first real financial loss during his entire newspaper career, he, in company with his two sons, Gordon N. and Harris F., opened a job printing office at South Bend. Having reached that age when mechanical work became burdensome to him, he was gratuitously employed as editor of the Sun, a Prohibition organ, printed at the job office through arrangements with local adherents of that party. The office was sold during the fall of 1884, and was afterward removed to Indianapolis. At this period Mr. Murray retired from active business life, though he continued to contribute to the columns of the New York Voice, Chicago News, and other journals, over his signature, up to within a few months of his death. He died at his home in the city of South Bend, July 15, 1889. It will be seen by this sketch that the subject thereof was closely identified with the early history of Elkhart county, and later of St. Joseph county. He was a politician from his boyhood, and was particularly "at home with his pen" on all political questions and political history of his time. He was counted as one among the most fluent, yet vigorous writers, in the field of northern Indiana journalism, during his newspaper work therein. Mr. Murray was first a Whig, then a Republican, from that party's infancy until the time of the "Liberal" movement that followed Horace Greeley. He affiliated with the Democratic party until the Prohibitionists organized in the State, when he adopted that political faith, to which he strictly and conscientiously adhered; and was prominent in drafting, in a measure, that party's State platform in 1888.

WILLIAM H. HOLDEMAN. Among the newspaper men of northern Indiana who have done so much in the past and are planning so wisely to help forward the interests of their sections in the future, we are pleased to mention Mr. William Holdeman. This gentleman is the editor and proprietor of the Nappanee Advance, established September 11, 1891, and owes his nativity to Indiana, born in Randolph county, August 18, 1847. His great-grandfather, Christian Montel, was a Hessian soldier, and was brought over by King George to fight the Continental army. He was captured by the latter and willingly fought on the other side until the close of the war. He then settled in Virginia and was there married. Jacob Holdeman, grandfather of subject, was born in Virginia in 1787, and married to a Miss Montel. In 1842 he and family moved to Randolph county, Ind., purchased a tract of land and settled in the woods where they remained ten years, from there they moved to Elkhart county, settled on a farm in Union township, and after residing there ten years moved to Kosciusko county, where they purchased land southwest of Nappanee. This they sold later and moved to Webster. Mr Holdeman died December 13, 1866, at the home of his son, Christian, in Elkhart county. A Whig in politics at an early day he later espoused the principles of the Republican party, and remained with that until his death. In religion he was a member of the United Brethren Church, and was active in his support of the same. His son, Christopher, father of our subject, was born in Preble county, Ohio, April 7, 1820, and came with his father to Randolph county, Ind., where he grew to manhood. He married Miss Eliza Study, a daughter of Levi and Mary Study, and a native of Wayne county, Ind., born November 7, 1816. She died at her home northwest of Goshen, Ind., February 27, 1887, and was one of these children, as follows: Matilda, Levi, Abraham, Jesse, William, Charlotte, Eliza and Catherine; only the following are now living: Matilda, Catherine, Elizabeth and Jesse. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Holdeman moved to Jackson township, Elkhart county, Ind., and there reared a family of eight children, as follows: Mary A., born February 17, 1846, married C. K. Stauffer and resides on a farm east of Elkhart; Jesse, born January 10, 1849, married Miss Belle McCloud and resides in Kosciusko county, near Milford (he has a family); Charlotte, born September 3, 1852, married Rev. W. Bussard, a minister in the German Baptist Church, and has several children; Alice J., born May 23, 1858, became the wife F. P. Shultz, of Jefferson township, Elkhart county; one child, not named, died in 1849; Minerva J., died April 13, 1862, when nine months old; Israel, died in 1856, when two weeks old, and William H., our subject. The father of these children is still living and although well along in years, enjoys comparatively good health. A Republican in politics, he keeps himself well posted on all the current topics of the day, and a United Brethren in his religious views, he is active in all good work. William H. Holdeman received the rudiments of his education in the district schools of Jackson township, attending during the winter months and assisting his father with the farm work in summer. At the age of twenty years he commenced teaching school in Elkhart county, and later had the advantages of the Normal School and Butler College, Goshen, and also at Hillsdale College, Michigan. In 1879 he opened a normal school at Nappanee and later became high school principal. Afterward he became editor and proprietor of the Nappanee News, then the only newspaper in the town, and this he conducted very successfully until January 28, 1888, when he sold to G. N. Murray, the present editor. Then he moved to Hicksville, Ohio, purchased The Independent, which he afterward changed to a Republican paper, and moved from there to Woodlawn Park, Chicago, where he owns a good property near Jackson Park. Returning to Nappanee he started The Advance, the only official Republican organ in this part of the county. He is very successful as a newspaper man, and although but recently started, his paper commands an ever widening area of circulation. He is a Methodist in his religious views and is active in church, town and county affairs. On April 25, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary I. Holloway, who was born September 28, 1855, and whose parents, L. D. and Elizabeth (Dehoff) Holloway, were pioneers of Columbiana county, Ohio. She is one of five children, as follows: Mary I., Jennie, Walter T., Harvey and William, all living except Harvey. Mr. and Mrs. Holdeman have two interesting children: Hazel Elizabeth, born June 8, 1888, at Hicksville, Ohio, and Lloyd Holloway, born June 14, 1891.

DR. H. R. STAUFFER is a young physician of Elkhart county, Ind., but he possesses a genius for his calling, and for that reason has attained an enviable reputation among the citizens of the county as well as his professional brethren. He is a product of Elkhart county, for here he was born on the 8th of March, 1858, to John Stauffer and wife, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. His early days were spent on the farm belonging to his father in Union township, and there he became a pupil in the common schools as soon as he was old enough, his literary education being afterward completed in a normal school. At the early age of fifteen years he became a school teacher, his first attempt in this line of work being in the country schools, but so successful was he that he followed it until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time, having previously formed the resolution, he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Julian, of Nappanee, and at the end of one year he entered Rush Medical College, of Chicago, and graduated from same in 1883. Immediately following this he returned to his home in Nappanee, at once hung out his shingle, thus announcing himself as a practitioner of the "healing art." His skill and knowledge of his calling was soon recognized, his practice continued to increase, and now extends over many counties, where his name is well known and highly regarded. He is a member of the County Medical Association, the National Medical Association and for some time past he has been the railroad surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He is medical examiner of pensions at Goshen, and at all times shows that he is up with the times in the advances made in his profession. He is decidedly public spirited, is a stanch Republican politically, and. socially, is a member of the K. of P. lodge of Nappanee, also the I. O. O. F. of the same place. Aside from his practice he is interested in a box factory of Nappanee, which is proving a paying line of work. The factory is desirably located, is a well-equipped plant for its line of work, a specialty being made of bee-hive work and all kinds of bee supplies. The Doctor is interested in this enterprise in connection with his father and his brother Wallace. They ship their boxes to all large cities as well as to numerous States and find their business to be a paying one. The Doctor is a great lover of fine horse-flesh, has some especially speedy animals, and takes great pride in them. His horses are Kentucky bred and are very fast travelers. He is a thoroughly practical business man; is wide awake, active and zealous in his profession, as well as in other matters; is respected where ever known and comes of one of the finest families in the county. The Doctor was married in 1879 to Miss Belzora Jones, who was a native of Cass county, Mich., born on the 7th of September, 1859, being one of four children reared by Howell and Mary (Pemberton) Jones, the former of whom was born in South Carolina, but when young came to Michigan, where for many years he was a resident of Cass county. He was a son of Drury and Jennie (Howell) Jones, and was one of their eight children. He grew to manhood on a farm, married, and reared the following children: Esther, Albert, Lou E., Belzora (Mrs. Stauffer). The father and mother resided on a farm in Cass county until their respective deaths in 1866 and 1870. The latter was a daughter of Joseph and Eleanor (Ashby) Pemberton, both of whom were of English descent, the Pembertons being among the nobility of England, and descendents of Lord Pemberton. Mr. Jones and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church and were well respected in Cass county. Mrs. Stauffer attended the district schools there and finished her education in the school at Valparaiso, where she also studied music and painting. Dr. and Mrs. Stauffer have a daughter, Iva, who was born June 30, 1882. Mrs. Stauffer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and being of a very social disposition has many friends in Nappanee, whom she welcomes to her hospitable home in the eastern part of the town.

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