Wll.LIAM RUSSELL CLARK, M. D., who maintains his office headquarters at 2809 Broadway in the City of Fort Wayne, the judicial center of Allen County, has marked with success his loyal ministration in his profession and is distinctly one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in his native county.

Doctor Clark was born on the parental home farm in Pleasant Township, Allen County, June 19, 1902, and is a son of Henry and Evelyn (Robinson) Clark. Henry Clark was born in Allen County in the year 1876, and here his death occurred in April, 1902, about two months prior to the birth of his son, Dr. William R. Clark, of this review. He passed his entire life in his native county, received the advantages of its public schools and was actively associated with farm enterprise from his boyhood until his death. He was a son of Zacharius and Elizabeth (Smith) Clark, the former of whom was born in Wells County, this state, and the latter in Allen County, both having been representatives of sterling pioneer families of this section of the Hoosier State, and both having passed the closing years of their lives on their home farm in Allen County. Dr. William R. Clark was reared in the home of his maternal grandparents, James Bishop Robinson and Mercy (Rice) Robinson, both natives of Allen County, where the former was born in Pleasant Township, in 1848, the latter having been born in 1851. James B. Robinson was a son of James Robinson and the family name of his mother was Kimmel, both having been residents of Allen County at the time of their death and James Robinson having here settled in the early pioneer days, as evidenced by the fact that he here obtained land direct from the Government and that he here developed one of the large and valuable farm estates of the pioneer era. James B. Robinson was long numbered among the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Pleasant Township, where he served three terms as township trustee and where he died in the year 1928, about the time of his attaining to the age of eighty years. He was a cousin of Hon. James Robinson, who represented the Twelfth Indiana District in the United States Congress several years.

Doctor Clark gained his earlier education by attending the public schools of his native township, and in the adjoining County of Wells he was graduated in the high school at Ossian, as a member of the class of 1919. In advancing his education along academic lines he continued his studies in the University of Indiana until he was there graduated with the class of 1924 and received the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1926 he was graduated in the medical department of the university, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by one year of service as an interne in St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne. He has since continued in the successful general practice of his profession in this city. The Doctor has membership in the Allen County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, besides being affiliated with the Phi Chi honorary medical fraternity. While a student in the University of Indiana he was president of the Indiana Club two years, this club having since been developed into a national organization of fraternal order.

September 13, 1924, marked the marriage of Doctor Clark to Miss Fernnie B. Smith, who was born in Allen County, February 28, 1903, and who was graduated in the Central High School of Fort Wayne as a member of the class of 1921, she having thereafter been a student one year in the University of Indiana. Doctor and Mrs. Clark maintain their home at 4515 Beaver Street and are popular figures in the social life of their home city.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


ERNEST CONRAD HECKMAN. Among the men who have contributed to the development and beautification of Fort Wayne through their skill and good workmanship along the lines of contracting and building, one who has gained well-deserved prominence is Ernest C. Heckman. Commencing his career on a farm, as a youth he learned the trade of carpenter, and in 1900 came to Fort Wayne, where, since engaging in business on his own account, he has erected many handsome and commodious residences and other structures.

Mr. Heckman was born July 17, 1879, on a farm in Adams County, Indiana, and is a son of Edward and Lena (Stoppenhagen) Heckman, natives of Adams County, and a grandson of William Heckman, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Indiana in his youth, here passing the remainder of his life as a farmer. Edward Heckman was reared on the home farm in Adams County and spent his active years in the cultivation of the soil, becoming a substantial agriculturist and a highly-respected citizen. At the age of seventy-nine years he is now retired and living at Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Heckman, who was killed by a trolly car August 25, 1917, at the age of sixty-two years, was a daughter of Ernest Stoppenhagen, a native of Germany. She and Mr. Heckman were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living: Fred, who lives in South America; Ernest C., of this review; Henry of Detroit; William, of Dallas, Texas; Charles, of Ann Arbor, Michigan ; Martin, of Fort Wayne; Herman, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mrs. Bertha Bertelson of Free Soil, Michigan; and Mrs. Hanna Hughes, of Ohio.

After attending the public schools of Adams County Ernest C. Heckman applied himself to learning the trade of carpenter, and when he left the parental farm, at the age of twenty-one years, in 1900, came to Fort Wayne, which has since been his home and the scene of his success. For a time he worked at his trade as a journeyman, and then became superintendent of construction for the Curdes Company, a capacity in which he was employed for eight years. At the end of that time he embarked in business on his own account, and as before mentioned, has become one of the leading builders and contractors of his adopted city, maintaining his office at Indian Village, where he resides in a modern English type home. In addition to his regular business Mr. Heckman deals in a modest way in rea1 estate and is also the owner of a farm in Marshall County, Indiana, in the supervision of the operation of which he takes great pleasure, this being one of his hobbies, with the designing of buildings. He has several civic and fraternal connections and has always associated himself with movements which have made for the betterment of the community.

On December 27, 1905, Mr. Heckman was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude M. Gable, who was born. on a large dairy farm near Fort Wayne, in Allen County, and is a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Eggeman) Gable. Mrs. Gable was born in Adams Township, Allen County, July 25, 1847, and died January 14, 1929. Mr. Gable was born in Germany, and was four years of age when brought to the United States, the family settling in Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated. He was still a young man when he came to Allen County, Indiana, whence he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred Forty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he served during the war between the states. At the close of the war he returned to farming and subsequently developed a large dairy farm near Fort Wayne, which he operated for thirty years, or until the time of his retirement. He died in November, 1923, at the age of eighty- two years, leaving seven children, all of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Heckman have had four children: Wilbur Henry, born May 1, 1907; Melvin Herman, born November 13, 1911; Walter Glen, born December 23, 1920; and Robert George, born February 27, 1929, who died five days later.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


CLOYN R. HERD, physician and surgeon at Peru, now engaged in private practice, was graduated from medical college in 1925, and has had a routine of hospital service, including connection with the Wabash Railway Hospital at Peru, which gave him unusual training for his work as a private practitioner.

Doctor Herd was born at Elwood, Indiana, July 7, 1900. His grandfather, George Herd, came from England and settled in Indiana in 1850. He was a farmer and merchant and served throughout the Civil war as a Union soldier. He and his wife, Susan B. Herd, were married in Indiana, where she was born. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Herd was Phillip Wolford, who was also a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war. He was an one time a township trustee in Cass County. M. B. Herd and his wife, Mary (Wolford) Herd, were both born at Lucerne in Cass County. M. B. Herd all his active life was in the railway service.

Cloyn R. Herd attended school at Logansport, graduated from the Peru High School and in 1923 completed his premedical course and received the Bachelor of Science degree at Indiana University. He graduated M. D. in 1925 and was appointed interne at St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis. During 1926 he was on the staff of the New York City Hospital and in 1927 returned to Peru, where he was connected with the Wabash Railway Hospital until July, 1929. He opened his office July 1, 1929, and has since engaged in a general practice, with special attention to general surgery. He is assistant surgeon in charge at the Wabash Railway Hospital and is surgeon to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and is on the executive staff of Duke's Memorial Hospital.

Doctor Herd during the World war was in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the university. He is secretary and treasurer of the Miami County Medical Society, member of the Indiana State and American Medical Associations and belongs to the Phi Beta Phi medical fraternity. He is affiliated with Peru Lodge No. 67, A. F. and A. M., as a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Christian Church and is a Republican in politics.

He married, in 1925, Miss Kathryn Simpson, and they have a daughter, Bettie Irene.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


EMANUEL ALKIVLADIS SCOPELITIS, a South Bend business man, came to America after he had fulfilled all the duties of patriotism and had gone through the entire gamut of the World war, beginning in 1914 and continuing for six years through those military operations carried on by Greece in enlarging its dominion over the Aegean Islands and coast lands.

Mr. Scopelitis was born near Athens, Greece, December 15, 1894. He was educated in schools, and had some active experience in the dairy and milk industry. He was twenty years of age when he was called to the colors in 1914, and he remained enrolled in the Greek armies until 1920, rising to the rank of sergeant major.

In 1921 he came to the United States, first locating at Gary, where he started a small dairy business for himself in 1922. This he operated until 1927, when he sold out, and moving to South Bend, joined the South Bend Pure Milk Company, an old established firm, having retail and wholesale milk deliveries to all parts of the city and manufacturing milk products. Since 1929 Mr. Scopelitis has been sole owner of the business, with headquarters at 416 West Calvert Street.

Mr. Scopelitis is a man of interesting experience and talks entertainingly and informatively of his early life in Greece. He is unmarried, is a member of the Woodmen of the World and Fraternal Order of Eagles, and belongs to the Dairymen's Club of South Bend.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


A. LYNN MINZEY is a South Bend realtor, president and manager of the A. Lynn Minzey Realty Corporation, with offices in the Odd Fellows Building. Mr. Minzey is a member of an old and honored family of Saint Joseph County, and in his business career has frequently come in contact with representatives of families who knew his grandparents in the early days.

Mr. Minzey was born at Mishawaka, May 8, 1899, son of Hervey E. and Hattie (Hoose) Minzey. Both his father and mother were born in St. Joseph County. His paternal grandfather, James Minzey, was a Civil war veteran. Hervey E. Minzey died in 1914. His widow is now Mrs. John H. Paltz, of Mishawaka.

A. Lynn Minzey was the oldest of the five children of his father and mother. His sister, Elsie Fern Minzey, is a missionary worker and for the past three years her labors have been in the heart of Central Africa. A. Lynn Minzey was educated in the grade and high schools of Niles and Buchanan, Michigan, and his first important business experience was selling victrolas for the firm of Elbel Brothers of South Bend. Later he was in a similar business in Chicago, but in 1922 returned to South Bend, and his name has since been prominently associated with local real estate activities. In 1928 he formed the A. Lynn Minzey Realty Corporation, of which he has been president and manager. In his activities he has subdivided and developed several parcels of South Bend acreage, including Gillmer Park, Hazelton and other tracts adjoining the city limits. He has made a specialty of subdivision work and property management. Among properties managed by his firm is the Odd Fellows Building, in which he has his offices.

Mr. Minzey married, May 17, 1924, Miss Irene Hammond. She was born in St. Joseph County, daughter of Judge Lewis W. Hammond, of South Bend. To their marriage were born three children, Constance Elizabeth, Lynette Hammond and Ronald Daniel. Mr. Minzey is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Kiwanis Club, of which he is a past director. He is a former secretary of the South Bend, Mishawaka Real Estate Board and is a member of the Baptist Church of Mishawaka.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


EMERY JOSEPH VARGA is a South Bend business man, and his importance in the commercial life of that city is represented by his connections as proprietor and founder in 1917 of E. J. Varga & Sons, a retail hardware business at 415 South Chapin St. He is also proprietor of the South Bend Hardware Company, at 828 South Michigan Street. He is president of the Indiana Furniture & Hardware Company, at 802 West Indiana Avenue, and is also a director of the Chapin State Bank.

All of the success represented in these enterprises has been the product of a very active and forceful business career. Mr. Varga was born in Hungary, October 25, 1888, and he brought with him to America no advantages and assets outside of his personal character and his willingness to go through all the work required to establish himself as an independent business man. When he was a year old his father died, and in 1899, when he was eleven years old, he left Hungary, in company with his mother. They located at South Bend, and here, after a brief period of schooling, he began work in the plant of the Singer Manufacturing Company. A more important part of his training and apprenticeship were his employment with the Sibley Hardware Company. There he learned the hardware business, and out of his experience and a modest capital representing his accumulations, he established a store of his own in 1917. Since then he has branched out to the other enterprises enumerated at the beginning of this sketch.

Mr. Varga has been active in various Hungarian societies, including the Hungarian Young Men's Club, Hungarian Business Men's Association, and he was one of the first representatives of his nationality in South Bend to join the Masonic Lodge. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Uptown Business Men's Association, and the Trinity Hungarian Church.

He married Miss Cecilia Parogi, also a native of Hungary, who was brought to South Bend when a child. They have five children, Rose, Emery J., Jr., Cecilia, Amelia and Mary. The son is now with his father in business and active in the E. J. Varga & Son hardware business on South Chapin Street.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


FRANK A. MANN, president of the White Swan Laundry at South Bend, has had an active experience in the laundry industry for over thirty years, and his work has been a contribution to the development of laundry service.

Mr. Mann was born at Heyworth in McLean County, Illinois, May 23, 1873. TheMann family were pioneers of Illinois. His parents were Samuel and Maria (French) Mann. Samuel Mann was born at Galesburg, Illinois, son of Henry Mann, a native of New York State, who came west in pioneer times, traveling by horseback and settling at Galesburg. Maria (French) Mann was born at Elmira, New York.

Frank A. Mann is the oldest of three children, all of whom are living. He attended school at Galesburg and when seventeen years of age went to the Southwest, and was in the railroad service in Texas until 1894. On returning to Illinois he was employed for twenty years in the laundry business. In 1922 he moved to South Bend and bought the White Swan Laundry from Mr. Quinn Taggart. Mr. Taggart had established the business in 1894. The White Swan Laundry under the ownership and management of Mr. Mann and his son has become one of the largest institutions of its kind in the state. The business employs 115 people. It was the first laundry in South Bend to use ivory soap exclusively for its work. Mr. Frank A. Mann is president of the business, his wife., Catherine Mann, is vice president, and his son, Fred, is secretary, general manager.

Mr. Mann married, July 4, 1894, Miss Catherine Barnett, who was born at Bement, Illinois, daughter of John Barnett. They have three children: Adeline, wife of George Homrig, of Salt Lake City; Fred A.; and Grace, wife of Reed Duncan, of Newcastle, Indiana, and mother of a son, Kenneth Duncan.

Mr. Frank A. Mann is president of the St. Joseph Valley Laundry Men's Association. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, the Uptown Business Men's Association; and is a Presbyterian.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


FRED ARCHIE MANN. Probably no other business directly connected with household service has expanded and developed more rapidly than the laundry industry, which has passed far beyond the positions of an occasional and incidental to a vital and constant need of our domestic economy.

One of the very prominent men in the laundry industry of Indiana is Fred A. Mann, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the South Bend White Swan Laundry, at South Bend,. Mr. Mann was born at Bloomington, Illinois, November 19, 1897, son of Frank A. Mann, who is president of this company and whose career is sketched preceding. Fred A. Mann attended school at Bloomington, and spent a number of years in the service of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. At first he worked on the equipment installation squad out of Chicago, and during the World war did installation work at various army camps. For three years he was with the Illinois Central Railway Company and then became associated with a laundry business at Champaign, Illinois.

Mr. Mann in 1922 moved to South Bend, where he has since been secretary, treasurer and general manager of the White Swan Laundry. He is interested in several other laundry industries of Indiana, including the Anderson Laundry at Anderson, of which he is president, is vice president of the Newcastle Laundry at Newcastle, and is president of the White Swan Cleaning & Laundry Corporation at Evansville, Indiana.

Mr. Mann is a former treasurer of the St. Joseph Valley Men's Association, is a member of the Uptown Business Men's Association at South Bend, the Chamber of Commerce, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.

He married at Terre Haute, Indiana, May 31, 1919, Miss Louise Stevens, who was born at Terre Haute, daughter of George C. Stevens. They have one son, Fred A., Jr., born August 2, 1922.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


MYRON DAVID PUTERBAUGH enjoys a prominent place in South Bend commercial circles as a business educator. For thirty years he was identified with the South Bend Business College, of which he was treasurer and manager, and his ability as a teacher, his work in organization and administration, were responsible for giving that school its splendid rating among the commercial schools of Indiana. It was an accredited school, and had an annual enrollment of about 700 students. On May 8, 1930, the school was chartered as a College of Commerce, with Mr. Puterbaugh as treasurer and manager.

Mr. Puterbaugh was born in Berrien County, Michigan, May 30, 1877. As a boy he attended public schools and completed his education in the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, Michigan. He had four years of teaching experience in country schools in Michigan. It was on Labor Day of 1900 that Mr. Puterbaugh arrived in South Bend, and he at once began his duties as an instructor in the South Bend Business College. Later he acquired a financial interest in the institution and for many years it has been under his management as treasurer and manager.

Mr. Puterbaugh is a past master of St. Joseph Lodge No. 45, A. F. and A. M., is a member of the South Bend Royal Arch Chapter, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He is a member or the Chamber of Commerce and the Twentieth Degree Club.

He married, October 23,1903, Miss Jessica Thayer Faulknor, of South Bend. She died December 9, 1919. They had two children. Their daughter Annajane, born September 19, 1907, is a graduate of the South Bend High School and is a graduate in the class of 1930 at the Ball Teachers College at Muncie. The son, Myron David Jr., born May 23, 1910, after completing his high school work spent one year in Bowling Green Business University in Kentucky. He is a graduate of the South Bend Business College, and is a student, class of 1933, at Notre Dame.

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INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


ADAM NELSON SHIDLER. This is one of the old and honored names of St. Joseph County, where the Shidlers have lived for over three-quarters of a century. Their activities have identified them with both town and country, with farming and business, and a prominent characteristic has been mechanical genius. Mr. Adam N. Shidler is owner of the Shidler Brothers Manufacturing Company, a long established and successful manufacturing concern at South Bend.

Mr. Shidler was born on a farm in Union Township, St. Joseph County, September 18, 1869, and was the seventh of the nine children of Adam W. and Mary (Klopfenstine) Shidler. The Shidler family came originally from Switzerland, first settling in England and in the United States became residents of Western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, George W. Shidler, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he married Catherine Wise. About 1810 they moved to Stark County, Ohio, where George W. Shidler operated a saw mill and grist mill and a farm. Both he and his wife lived to a good old age.

Adam W. Shidler was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 30, 1832. In 1854 he and his brother Jacob erected a saw mill near Lakeville in Union Township, St. Joseph County. He was interested in the operation of this saw mill until the close of the Civil war, and subsequently acquired his farm nine miles south of South Bend, on which he lived out the rest of his life. In addition to general farming he operated portable saw mills. He was a keen observer and saw many ways in which to improve methods of doing things on his farm. At one time he was granted a patent for a sugar sap evaporator. He began voting as a Whig and from 1856 supported the Republican national candidates. He served as township trustee. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church and for many years he was affiliated with the Masonic Lodge. He married in 1853 Mary M. Klopfenstine. They gave their children liberal educational opportunities, all but one of them becoming teachers. Several of the sons attended Valparaiso University and two of them became physicians and one a dentist.

Adam N. Shidler grew up on the homestead farm south of South Bend, attended district schools and Valparaiso University, and for two years taught in St. Joseph County. He and his brother J. Willard taught for two years at Ellisville, Illinois, and from 1890 to 1893 were in business as hardware merchants in that town. They then returned to St. Joseph County and were in the retail hardware business at South Bend until 1896. In that year these brothers bought a controlling interest in the Wells Manufacturing Company. This was an old established business, a furniture factory, specializing in tables. During 1896-97 the business was conducted as Wells-Shidler Manufacturing Company. In 1897 Dr. Clem Shidler, South Bend dentist, joined the other two brothers and the Shidler Brothers Manufacturing Company was incorporated. The articles of incorporation were dissolved in 1920 and the three brothers continued in the business as a partnership under the same name until 1928, when Adam Shidler became sole owner. For many years this firm has operated a factory making fine dining and office tables, and the output is sold from coast to coast. In addition to the factory Mr. Shidler conducts a retail factory furniture store, which enjoys a large trade throughout the South Bend district.

Mr. Shidler while in the hardware business was honored by election as president of the Indiana Retail Hardware Dealers Association. He is active in civic and business organizations, is a member of the South Bend Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Y. M. C. A. and the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married, September 18, 1895, Miss Etta M. Slough, who was born in Center Township, St. Joseph County, daughter of Martin Slough. She was a teacher at South Bend before her marriage. Mrs. Shidler died April 26, 1926, leaving two children: Alice Madelon, wife of Elliott L. Olney, who is associated with Mr. Shidler in the furniture business; and Arthur M., a student in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Shidler on September 10, 1929, married Mrs. Carlesta C. Minesinger, of Indianapolis.

INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931


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