JOHN HENRY ZUVER, SR., of South Bend, was educated for the law and became a member of the St. Joseph County bar. However, the work that has made the strongest call upon his inclinations and talents has been writing for newspapers, newspaper work in general, and research and criticism of current problems in politics and economics.

Mr. Zuver was born at Amboy, Michigan, July 29, 1873, son of Henry and Julia A. (Kuhns) Zuver. He attended school at Pioneer, Ohio, was a student in Hillsdale College of Michigan, and in 1893 graduated from the Detroit College of Law. Mr. Zuver practiced law at Jackson, Michigan, from 1894 to 1901. In 1900 the first important fruit of his authorship appeared, Early Pilgrimage of John Hay. From 1901 to 1905 Mr. Zuver was editor of the Law Giver, at Battle Creek, Michigan, and since then has been in the regular routine of newspaper work. He was editor of the Battle Creek, Michigan, Journal from 1905 to 1910, was on the staff of the Grand Rapids Herald in 1911, came to South Bend in 1912 as a reporter and from 1917 to 1921 was editor of the South Bend News-Times. He edited the Indiana Saturday Night during 1922-23, and since 1923 has been secretary- treasurer of the South Bend Mirror-Press, In- corporated, and editor The South Bend Mirror. He is one of Indiana's best known newspaper men.

In addition to his contributions to the press Mr. Zuver is also author of Get Ready to Lead, published in 1916, just before America entered the World war, and in 1920 he made a study, published under the title of Analysis of the League of Nations Covenant.

Mr. Zuver is an independent in politics. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and B. P. O. Elks, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His offices are in the Mirror Press Building at 307 West Jefferson Boulevard, and his home is at 1051 Portage Street. Mr. Zuver married at Detroit, June 19, 1895, Miss Mary Campbell. They have two children. Their daughter, Leah Barbara, is a graduate of the South Bend High School, took her degree at DePauw University in 1919 and did graduate work in Columbia University in New York. She is now Mrs. Leah Zuver Davidson, of Chicago. Mr. Zuver's son, John Henry, Jr., is a graduate of the South Bend High School, also attended the University of Idaho, and is now vice president of the Mirror-Press, Incorporated. He married Miss Jessie Wright, of Rochester, Indiana.

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


HON. ZACHARIAH THOMAS DUNGAN. Among the men who have attained to distinction at the Indiana bar and have also been prominent in political and civic life, few have better records than Hon. Zachariah Thomas Dungan, mayor of Huntington. It may be said that Mayor Dungan's legal attainments are of a solid rather than a showy character. He is thoroughly grounded in elementary principles and possessed of a fine discrimination in the application of legal precedents. As chief executive of the city he is serving his third term and is giving his fellow citizens a capable and businesslike administration, in which he seeks every means at hand to further the progress of the community.

Mr. Dungan was born December 7, 1860, in a log cabin, on or near the banks of the Wabash River, in Huntington County, Indiana, the third child and only son of Mathew and Hannah J. (Barker) Dungan. He was reared on a farm and attended the public schools until seventeen years of age, when he began teaching during the winter terms, while in the summers he attended the normal school at Danville, Indiana, from which he was duly graduated. He was then appointed a cadet to Purdue University, but did not accept, preferring a teacher's course. He taught nine terms in the winter and during the summer months assisted his father on the farm, and later engaged in newspaper work and reading law. On the day he reached his majority Mr. Dungan was admitted to practice law at the Huntington County bar, under Judge James R. Slack, and for some time was connected with the firm of Kenner & Dille, and later formed a partnership with Judge Charles W. Watkins, under the firm name of Watkins, Dungan & Stults. He is a member of the Huntington County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association, and is admitted to practice before the Supreme and Appellate Courts and the United States District Court. He was appointed United States district commissioner by Federal Judge John D. Baker, but resigned after serving two years.

During the greater part of his life Mr. Dungan's leading ambition has been along the lines of his profession, in which his industry and talents have gained hi substantial promotion and a large clientage. But he also has entered into public life. In 1883 he served as clerk in the State Senate. From 1892 until 1896 he served as mayor of Huntington, and again occupied the mayoralty from 1898 until 1902. In January, 1930, he was again chosen as chief executive of his adopted city. During his earlier terms he assisted in forming what has since been known as the Municipal League of Indiana, and was its president for two years. He was attorney and assistant claim agent of the Wabash Railroad, with headquarters at Huntington, having under his jurisdiction some 936 miles of territory, from 1901 until January 1, 1923, and attained much prominence from the masterly manner in which he handled his cases. During the more than twenty years that he represented this railroad his labors were onerous and the results entirely satisfactory to the company, and added lustre to his own reputation. The company was continuously involved in claims for damages for personal injuries. Mr. Dungan was constantly engaged in the trial of such cases before juries. The representative of a corporation goes before a jury which is almost unconsciously prejudiced against his client. To succeed argues the possession of unusual tact as well as accurate learning. Mr. Dungan was unusually successful, but when defeat his best effort, he so brought out the legal questions involved as to enable him, in meritorious cases, to obtain justice for his client in the Appellate Courts.

In 1916 Mr. Dungan was one of the delegates from the Eleventh Congressional District to the St. Louis Democratic National Convention. He had charge of the distribution of all tickets at that convention, and in 1920 he was a presidential elector for the same district. Mr. Dungan has always been a Democrat and firmly believes in the principles of his party. He is no radical, however, being broad-minded and a lover of fair play. He is public-spirited, believes in public improvements, and for many years has been an advocate of progressive movements both in the city and country. From 1923 until 1927 he was clerk of the Supreme Court and discharged the duties of that office in a highly commendable manner. In religion Mayor Dungan and his family were formerly members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huntington, and contributed liberally to all church movements and charities. After his second marriage he joined the Third Christian Church of Indianapolis, of which he is still a member. Mr. Dungan is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Exchange Club, and is state extension chairman of the Exchange Clubs of Indiana. He and his wife are the owners of 428 acres of valuable land in Wayne County, and he enjoys looking after his farms, and he and his wife have a beautiful modern home at Huntington, surrounded by one of the best-kept flower gardens in the city.

In 1880 Mr. Dungan was united in marriage with Miss Lina Close, eldest daughter of George and Mary (Ellis) Close, and to this union there were born two sons: Harry Oliver, accountant with the Majestic Company, Huntington; and Carl Mathew, attorney and assistant claim agent for the Wabash Railroad, who succeeded his father in those capacities and acted as such until fatally injured in an accident, dying June 2, 1924. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Dungan married in 1924, Emma H. Beeson, only daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Cassady) Hart, residents of Wayne County. Mrs. Dungan is a direct descendant of John Hart, one of the signers from Rhode Island of the Declaration of Independence.

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


DAVID A. VANDE WALLE was born at Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana, June 27, 1875, and his business career has been developed in that community. Mr. Vande Walle is proprietor of the Mishawaka Monument Company, a large and prosperous business, and is also identified with other organizations that represent the progressive commercial and civic vitality of the city.

Mr. Vande Walle is a son of Felix and Ida (DeClercq) Vande Walle. His parents were born in Belgium and were among the first Belgians to locate at Mishawaka, where they established their home in the early 1860s.

David A. Vande Walle attended grammar and high school in Mishawaka and as a youth learned the cigar maker's trade, which he followed until 1900. From 1900 to 1920 he was a mail carrierr for the Mishawaka post office. Leaving that service, he took up real estate, conducting a general brokerage office, under the name of Penn Realty Company, until 1922. In that year he bought the Mishawaka Monument Company, later taking his own son into partnership, and the D. A. Vande Walle & Son firm in 1925 put up a large building specially arranged and equipped for the work shop, show room and office of the Mishawaka Monument Company.

In addition to this business Mr. Vande Walle is a director of the Mishawaka Building & Loan Association. He is active in the Knights of Columbus and the St. Joseph Catholic Church.

He married in 1900 Mary Kowalski, who was born in Posen, Poland, but was reared and educated in Mishawaka. The oldest of their four children is Lawrence A., now junior partner with his father in the monument business, who is married and has three children. The daughter Hildegarde is the wife of Anthony Jackson and the mother of two children. The two younger children are Angela and David J.

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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


PAUL EARL LATCHEM, an engineer by profession actively identified with the street and road paving business, and also one of the owners of the coal and building material organization at Wabash, was born in that Indiana city March 7, 1888.

He is a son of the late John B. Latchem, and a grandson of Caleb Latchem, who established his home in Wabash County in 1848.

Caleb Latchem was born in Delaware, in 1819, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was a miller by trade, and after coming to Wabash County devoted himself to the management of a farm until his death in 1882. John B. Latchem was for many years one of the outstanding figures in the business life of Wabash County. He was born in Rush County, Indiana, April 2, 1842, and died July 6, 1913. Great determination and energy were his outstanding assets and enabled him to overcome the lack of educational privileges beyond those of the country schools. While he never qualified as a lawyer, which was his early ambition, he found an ever-widening scope of interest and activities. He taught school, for thirteen years was in the grain elevator business, founded the Treaty Creek Stone & Lime Company, at first manufacturing lime and later entered the lumber business. John B. Latchem in 1880 became a director in the first building and loan association of Wabash, became president of the Wabash Loan & Savings Association when it was organized in 1894, and from 1907 until his death was secretary and treasurer of the Wabash County Loan & Trust Company. His influence and capital gave Wabash some of its important early industries, including the Wabash Cabinet Company, the Wabash Bridge & Iron Works Company, of which he was president. He was a prominent Democrat, serving as chairman of the County central committee and as delegate to many conventions, and he served ten years on the Wabash city council. He was a York and Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church.

John B. Latchem married in 1869 Miss Amelia Alber, daughter of Phillip Alber. They had three children, Charles, Paul and Lucy.

Paul E. Latchem was educated in the public schools of Wabash and graduated with the degree Civil Engineer from Purdue University in 1910. After leaving Purdue he was for seven years connected with the Wabash Railway Company as assistant engineer in the maintenance of way department, with headquarters at Peru. In 1916 he became city engineer of Huntington, Indiana, and by reappointment in 1920 served in that post until 1924. In the latter year he returned to Wabash as city engineer, but resigned to engage in the contracting business, organizing the Mid-West Asphalt Paving Company. This is an organization that has done an extensive business in hot asphalt paving work both on city streets and country roads. The company also does some concrete work.

In March, 1930, Mr. Latchem bought the Hipskind Coal Yard at Wabash, and is now one of the owners of Butterbaugh & Latchem Company, handling fuel and builders supplies.

Mr. Latchem is a Democrat in politics, a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married Rosanna M. Rilley, a native of Peru, and they have a daughter, Nancy Jean, born January 1, 1921.

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


WILLIAM KRUEGER has been a resident of South Bend since 1907, and his name is well known in business circles. He is proprietor of the Krueger Fuel Company, at 2207 South Main Street.

Mr. Krueger was born in Germany, March 3, 1877. When he was three years old his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Krueger, came to the United States and located in Chicago. In that city William Krueger grew up and received his public school advantages. He followed different lines of work there and on coming to South Bend in 1907 entered the employment of the Studebaker Corporation. From 1910 to 1918 he was in the saloon business and then went back to the Studebaker Corporation for two years.

Mr. Krueger in 1920 established the Krueger Fuel Company, which is a wholesale and retail business. He has developed it to a complete service in fuel supplies, covering the entire south side district of the city. He does a large business the entire year, and he has lived up to the slogan which he adopted a number of years ago: "Try us - There is a difference."

Mr. Krueger never joined any social clubs, preferring to devote his time away from business to his home and family. He has two daughters: Irene, wife of Benjamin Shultz, of South Bend, and mother of three children, Ralph, Elizabeth and Lois; and Wyona, wife of William Gafken, of South Bend, and mother of two children, Fletcher and Mildred.

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


HARRY D. NEWELL, whose general and special business experience has been in the field of paper manufacturing, with which he has been identified since early manhood, is general manager of the United Paper Board Company and the Wabash Coating Mills. These are two of the most important industries of that city, and in consequence Mr. Newell has a place of much importance in the commercial life of the community.

He was born at North Leominster, Massachusetts, August 29, 1872. His father, William A. Newell, was a business man at Shirley, Massachusetts, and married Nellie Cowdrey, daughter of Nathaniel W. Cowdrey. The Cowdreys were Colonial settlers of Massachusetts and of Revolutionary ancestry. The Newells were a family that lived for a number a generations near Mason, New Hampshire. Harry D. Newell was one of two sons. His brother, Albion W., is in business at Boston, Massachusetts.

Mr. Newell was educated in schools and academies in Massachusetts, and in 1898 began his active career in the paper industry. In 1900 he joined the plant of the Champion Coated Paper Company at Hamilton, Ohio, but in September, 1902, returned to Massachusetts and took charge of the Champion International Company's plant at Lawrence. In 1906 he was made superintendent of the mills, remaining there until 1917, when he came to Indiana and became superintendent of the Wabash Mill. In 1918 he was made manager of the coating mills and in 1922 the additional responsibility of looking after the paper board mill was given him. These Wabash coating mills are subsidiary plants of the United Paper Board Company, which operates a total of fourteen mills in different parts of the country. The mills at Wabash have a production of two hundred pounds and about 325 employees.

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


GILBERT M. LA SALLE for more than a third of a century has practiced medicine and surgery at Wabash. His name stands out as one of deserved eminence in the medical profession not only because of his individual skill and attainments but also for the inspiring example of his leadership.

Doctor La Salle was born in Wabsh County, August 29, 1870. The La Salle family is of French ancestry. His grandfather, Elizur La Salle, was born in Fayette County, Indiana, and later bought a tract of Government land in Noble Township of Wabash County. His pioneer activities comprised farming, lumbering, and work as a carpenter and contractor. The parents of Doctor La Salle were Elizur and America (Corey) La Salle. His father was born on the home farm in Noble Township and spent his active life as a farmer.

Doctor La Salle was one of four children. He attended district schools and also the grad and high schools at Wabash. He had a wholesome association with farm work. The first talent he developed was a taste for music and for a time he was a band instructor and leader. His musical abilities gave him some of the means to pursue his professional education. He began reading medicine in Wabaash, and was a student during 1892-93 in the Chicago Medical College, now the medical department of Northwestern University. The following winter he attended Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, and then entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, where he was graduated M. D. in 1895. Following his graduation he returned to Wabash and has practiced there steadily for thirty-five years. While always carrying on a general practice, his abilities have been increasingly taken up with an extensive surgical practice. Doctor La Salle was several times honored with the office of president of the County Medical Society and is a member of the Indiana State and American Medical Association, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In Masonry he is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Knights Templar Commandery and Scottish Rite Consistory and is also a member of the Elks.

Doctor La Salle is a life member of the Mayo Institute and is a former health officer for the City and County of Wabash. During the World war he was a member of the Medical Advisory Board and was enrolled in the Medical Reserve Corps.

He married, July 30, 1895, Miss Daisy Summerland, a native of Wabash and member of a prominent family of the city. They have two children: Eleanore, a graduate of the Blaker School at Indianapolis and now teaching at Wabash; and Robert M., who graduated Bachelor of Science from Indiana University in 1929 and is a senior in the medical school of the university.

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


GUSTAVE A. WESNER was born in the southern part of Russia, March 31, 1892, and was six year of age when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wesner, came to the United States and located at Saint Joseph, Michigan.

It was in Saint Joseph, Michigan, that Gustave A. Wesner grew up and had his early business experience, and from there moved to South Bend, where he is widely known as a specialist in service and in sales for motorcycles, having the local agency for the Harley-Davidson Motorcycles.

His business is known as the Harley-Davidson Sales Company, located at 311 East Jefferson Boulevard.

Mr. Wesner after completing his education in Saint Joseph, Michigan, entered the retail meat market business at Berrien Springs. His business career was interrupted during the World war, when he joined the colors and was assigned duties in the baking and cooking department of the Quartermaster's Corps at Camp Custer. Except for this military service he was in the meat market business at Berrian Springs from 1916 to 1922. He then returned to Saint Joseph, where he became a dealer in bicycles and shortly afterward took over the agency for the Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In 1927 he moved his business headquarters to South Bend, and has as his territory all of Saint Joseph County for the sale of Harley-Davidson machines. Mr. Wesner has done much to build and extend the sales of these remarkably efficient vehicles, effecting many sales to police departments and to stores and business firms that are more and more resorting to motorcycles for quick service.

Mr. Wesner is financial secretary and active member of the South Bend Motor Cycles Club and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Olga Paschke, who was born at Saint Joseph, Michigan.

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


RALPH WILLIS ZELLERS is proprietor and manager of "The Radio Clinic," at 209 West Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend. This is an organization specializing in radio service only, and is the only business of its kind in this part of Indiana. It handles repair and service work for many of the local radio dealers, and also has a large private clientage. Mr. Zellers is one of the foremost radio engineers in Indiana, and has come to be regarded as an expert in the elimination of radio reception interference. Much has been added to his reputation in that line by his work as manager of the South Bend Tribune Radio Interference Bureau, which is a very popular department of this great newspaper.

Mr. Zellers was born on a farm near Rochester in Fulton County, Indiana, April 21, 1907. His parents, James J. and Norma (Fuller) Zellers, were also born in Fulton County. His mother is deceased and his father since 1923 has lived in South Bend. Ralph W. Zellers was the fourth in a family of seven children, all of whom are living.

He attended the Kewanna High School. His is a case where a schoolboy's hobby developed into a permanent and successful business. The radio was in very much of an experimental stage but was a subject that aroused the mechanical instincts of thousands of schoolboys, and Mr. Zellers while in school worked with the most primitive equipment and familiarized himself with every successive development in radio receiving, so that he was a master of the technic almost from the time he left school.

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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


WARREN BIGLER. It has been said that wherever a group of prominent Indiana Republicans are gathered Warren Bigler, of Wabash, is present either in person or in influence. Mr. Bigler for over half a century has been a power in Indiana party politics. His home City of Wabash has a high degree of respect for him as a business man and as a public spirited citizen, whose support has insured the success of many important undertakings. Mr. Bigler is what is known as a practical idealist, energetic and forceful in getting things accomplished, and at the same time few men have a more intimate associa tion with science and literature, and he could be properly classed among Indiana intelligentsia.

He was born in Shelby County, Indiana, September 24, 1851, being the only one of the children to grow up in the family of Louis and Malissie Bigler. His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to Shelby County in 1848. In the early years he was a Mississippi River steamboat captain. In Shelby County he operated a flour mill.

Warren Bigler was educated in Shelby County, attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and for two years was a teacher in his native county. On moving to Wabash he established the Wabash County Abstract Company and from 1890 to 1895 was associated with Captain Atkinson in the firm of Atkinson & Bigler. For thirty- five years he has carried on a mortgage and loan business.

Mr. Bigler married Miss Carrie Major, of Shelbyville. They have one son, Herbert S., who was educated in the University of Michigan and for a number of years managed his father's plantation in Louisiana. Herbert Bigler married Lucy H. Herring and they have a daughter, Mary, who is the wife of Robert L. Adams, connected with the Indiana State Highway Commission. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have a son Robert Lewis, Jr., born July 26, 1927.

Mr. Warren Bigler for thirty-four years has been a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Wabash. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, but his chief hobby for over half a century has been party politics. He was one of the most prominent supporters of Charles W. Fairbanks. Governor Hanley appointed him in 1905 to fill out an unexpired term as state auditor. Three years after coming to Wabash he was elected, in 1878, a member of the Republican city committee, served ten years as secretary and chairman of the city committee, for eighteen years held executive positions in the county committee and has given twenty-six years to the work of state and district committees. He was for five years a member of the Wabash city commission, for eighteen years a school trustee, and six of the eight school buildings were erected while he was in office. Largely through his personal efforts the Carnegie Library Building was acquired for Wabash. For eight years he was a member of the board of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Richmond and is now serving his third term as a trustee of the Indiana State School for the Deaf. These various services frequently overlapped, but he has given a total of forty-five years to public affairs and fifty-four years to executive responsibilities in the Republican party. He has attended national party conventions since 1880, almost the only important one up to 1920 which he missed being that of 1896. Mr. Bigler's constructive influence in Wabash should not be overlooked. He erected several business blocks and has otherwise aided in the building program in the city. While he was secretary of the old Board of Trade two of Wabash's largest permanent industrial plants were secured for the city.

A very busy life has not interfered with his life long habit of reading good literature. He has used the resources of a fine private library, and because of his extensive knowledge of books he was offered the post of state librarian at Indianapolis. His hobby is higher mathematics, and he is perhaps one of the very few men in Indiana who can propound the Einstein theory of relativity. Mr. Bigler has been an extensive traveler, his travels having taken him allover Europe and through Central America, and anthropology is another of the learned sciences of which he has more than a passing knowledge.

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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