Mr. Cleland was born on a farm in Noble County, Indiana, August 6, 1892, and is a son of John C. and Julia (Busz) Cleland. The paternal grandfather was Jonathan Cleland, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1832, and was reared and received a common school education in his native state. As a young man he felt that Indiana offered him better opportunities for success, and accordingly made his way overland and settled on undeveloped land in Noble County, where he developed a good property and was one of the substantial men of his community at the time of his death, in 1918. He married Elsie Gray, a native of Pennsylvania, who also died in Noble County. The maternal grandfather of Samuel C. Cleland was John Busz, likewise a pioneer of the same county, where for many years he carried on agricultural operations and also served the farmers for many years as a veterinary surgeon.
John C. Cleland, the father of Samuel C. Cleland, was born August 10, 1869, on his father's Noble County farm, and received his education in the public schools. Reared to the pursuits of farming, he adopted that calling at the outset of his career and became a successful farmer and grower of live stock, but in 1910 retired from active tilling of the soil when elected sheriff of Noble County, a capacity in which he served very capably for two terms. From the expiration of his last term he lived in retirement until his death, in October, 1923. Mr. Cleland was prominent in the Democratic party, of which he served as chairman of the county committee for some years. He was a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of Masonry and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his worthy wife were faithful members of the Presbyterian Church. She was born October 23, 1871, and died in May, 1921, and they were the parents of two children: Samuel C., of this review; and Dorothea B., a graduate of Albion High School and of the University of Indiana, class of 1925, who taught school for one year and is now secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association at Muncie, Indiana.
Samuel C. Cleland attended the public schools of Noble County, and was graduated from the Albion High School, class of 1910, following which he entered the University of Indiana, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws as a member of the class of 1921, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Laws from the same institution. While attending college he was admitted to membership in the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. In 1921 he commenced the practice of his profession at Fort Wayne, in the offices of Judge Eggeman, and January 1, 1923, became a member of the firm of Eggeman, Reed & Cleland, with offices in the First National Bank Building, Suite 1201. This has become one of the most formidable organizations of the city and has been engaged successfully in much important litigation. Mr. Cleland is a member of the Allen County Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, in all of which he has numerous friends. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, is one of the main speakers in the Twelfth District, and his voice has also been heard in state politics. On September 6, 1917, Mr. Cleland enlisted for service in the World war and went into intensive training at Camp Zachary Taylor. Later, at Camp Mills, he received a commission as second lieutenant of infantry. He landed in France September 16, 1918, and returned to the United States February 5, 1919, after having been wounded in the jaw during the Ypres-Lys offensive at Audenarde, Belgium, October 31, 1918. He was confined to the hospital for fourteen months, and received his honorable discharge December 23, 1919. Mr. Cleland is a member of the Masonic order and the Optimist Club, and his religious connection is with the Congregational Church.
On January 1, 1920, Mr. Cleland was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Hart, of Albion, Indiana, a graduate of Albion High School and a graduate in music of Oberlin College, class of 1918. To Mr. and Mrs. Cleland there have been born two children: John Hart, born December 5, 1922; and Mary Elizabeth, born August 24, 1925.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
CLIFFORD LOUIS BORNSGHEIN is president of the Anthony Wayne Motor Company at 402 East Washington Boulevard, Fort Wayne. This is the Fort Wayne headquarters for the Lincoln and Ford cars and trucks, and in addition to the authorized and standard Ford service Mr. Bornschein has given his business the title of being the "company of courtesy” and the personal reflection of his knowledge and interest in the personnel of the business has undoubtedly been an important factor in its tremendous growth and success.
Mr. Bornschein was born at Louisville, Kentucky, September 8, 1889, son of Joseph John and Eliza (La Blanc) Bornschein. His parents were also born in Kentucky, his father in 1865 and his mother in 1870. In1901 they moved to Indianapolis, where Joseph J. Bornschein conducted a distribution agency for the Coca Cola products. He is now retired from business, with a competence, and divides most of his time between Florida and California. He is an enthusiastic motorist, and drives everywhere in his own car. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Christian Science Church.
Clifford L. Bornschein, only child of his parents, attended school at Paducah, Kentucky, and graduated from the grade and manual training high schools of Indianapolis. For several years he was associated with his father, traveling over Indiana, representing Coca Cola products and then came to Fort Wayne and built up a Coca Cola agency of his own. He sold out this business in 1917 and for a few months handled the Paige cars in Fort Wayne. On January 10, 1918, he joined the colors with the United States navy, and served nearly a year, until January 1, 1919. Following the war he resumed his connection with the automobile business and on September 21, 1925, organized the Anthony Wayne Motor Company, of which he has since been president. He is also a director and manager of the Wayne Auto Equipment Company.
Mr. Bornschein is a member of the Masonic bodies at Fort Wayne, including Mispah TempIe of the Mystic Shrine, is a member of the American Legion, Fort Wayne Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, and the Episcopal Church. He married, August 2, 1917, Miss Madge Magee, of Fort Wayne, a graduate of the high school there and Smith College of Northampton, Massachusetts. They have two children, twins, Joseph John and Mary, who were born October 16, 1924.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILLIAM ALBERT HENRY is a native of Indiana, has lived practically all his life at South Bend and is well known in that city as an electrical contractor. His business is the Henry Electric Shop, located at 1011 South Michigan Street.
William A. Henry was born at South Bend, December 10, 1891. His parents were Grant and Anna (Gantz) Henry. His father was born in Pennsylvania and was a boy when his parents moved to South Bend in 1876. Anna Gantz was born in Germany and was one year old when her people came to South Bend.
William A. Henry was the second in a large family of eleven children, nine of whom are living. He attended public schools in South Bend, completed his high school work at Notre Dame University, and took his technical work in preparation for his profession as an electrician at Chicago. Mr. Henry returned to South Bend and from 1917 to 1926 was city electrician. On leaving that office he established, in January, 1926, the Henry Electric Shop, which has been developed into a very profitable business. He has done a great deal of work as an electrical contractor, handling man of the large contracts in the South Bend territory.
Mr. Henry is a member of the Uptown Business Men's Association, the Electrical Engineers of South Bend, the Western Association of Electrical Inspectors. He is a Knight Templar Mason. In 1929 he was monarch of Alvain Grotto of South Bend. His hobby is outdoor life and motoring. On April 4, 1930 he was united in marriage with Kathryn Yarger, of South Bend.
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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
JOHN HOWARD WARE, South Bend manufacturer, is president and general manager of the Fulton-Harwood Brass & Aluminum Company. While he has been connected with this company only a few years, Mr. Ware's principal business experience has been in the foundry industry.
The Fulton-Harwood Brass & Aluminum Company was started in a small way in 1910 by F. H. Fulton and L. J. Harwood as a brass foundry. The plant has been several times enlarged until today it is one of the most modern foundries in the Middle West. Machine tool builders, cream separator manufacturers, automotive industries, some of them the largest concerns of the Middle West, depend of the Fulton-Harwood Company for all of their foundry work. This plant at South Bend was busy during the World war with contracts for Government material and munitions.
Mr. Ware is a native of Columbus, Ohio, where he was born September 6, 1888, son of John Howe and Laura Belle (Hall) Ware. His father was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, and is living retired at South Bend. The mother was born in Columbus and is deceased. One other child is Pearl Lucille, wife of Harrison Storms, of Wilmette, Illinois.
J. Howard Ware attended grade and high schools in Columbus and after his parents moved to Cleveland finished his schooling there in high school and business college. For seven years he was clerk and bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Cleveland. In 1919 he became production manager for a casting manufacturing company of Cleveland and subsequently was made assistant manager of the brass foundry at Detroit, where he remained until he came to South Bend in 1927. He was with the castings company at Detroit, in charge of all war orders during the World war period. Mr. Ware since coming to South Bend has had full charge of the Fulton-Harwood Company as president and general manager. He is also vice president of the Bohn Lumber Products Company of Detroit.
Mr. Ware is a modern type of business man with many social and civic interests, represented by his affiliations as a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Rotary Club, Indiana Club, Coquillard Golf Club of South Bend, the Harmony Society of Detroit, Knife and Fork Club of South Bend, Chamber of Commerce, and the American Foundry Men's Association.
He married, August 20, 1913, at Cleveland, Miss Grace Helen Brown. She was born in that city, a daughter of Charles W. Brown. They have three children, Geraldine Ruth, Patricia Grace and John Howard, Jr.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
OSWALD M. SCHNAIBLE, cashier of the First Merchants National Bank of Lafayette, was instructed in the routine of banking from the time he left high school, and his developing abilities, together with his pleasing personality and fine character, have brought him large responsibilities in his own institution and in the general financial life of his home city.
Mr. Schnaible represents an old family of Tippecanoe County, where he was born December 25, 1890. His father, Matt Schnaible, was born at Wurttemberg, Germany, and settled in Indiana in 1850. He was one of the early grain dealers of Tippecanoe County and at one time operated elevators at Shadeland, Buck Creek and Lafayette. That business was later modified and became the Matt Schnaible Coal Company, still in existence as one of the leading firms of the kind at Lafayette. Matt Schnaible was a member of the City Council. He married Katherine Sattler, of Lafayette, and they were the parents of eight children.
Oswald M. Schnaible attended the grade and high schools at Lafayette and in 1908, when eighteen years of age, became a collector for the Merchants National Bank. He put all the enthusiasm, industry and intelligence at his command into his work, and as a result received steady advancement. In 1918 there occurred a consolidation of banking interests at Lafayette, resulting in the First Merchants National Bank, and in 1923 Mr. Schnaible was promoted to the office of cashier of this institution, one of the largest banks in Western Indiana.
In March 1918, he enlisted and was in training with the Marine Corps at the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, until discharged in February, 1919. Mr. Schnaible is a member of the Kiwanis Club. He has many of the extraordinary business talents that marked his father. He is thoroughly public spirited, ready to assist in any community enterprises for the betterment and advancement of the city.
Mr. Schnaible married Miss Louise Dickinson, a native of Bloomfield, Indiana. They have two sons, Gale Edward and Richard George.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
CHARLES H. RUPLE, postmaster of Earl Park, Benton County, is a business man of wide experience. For many years he was in the grain business both in Illinois and in Indiana. Among other activities of his life should be included a period of farming and cotton growing in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
Mr. Ruple was born in Mason County, Illinois, August 3, 1862. His father, Martin H. Ruple, was a native of Virginia and settled in Illinois in 1841, developing a large farm in the Illinois River Valley. He enlisted and served with an Illinois regiment in the Civil war and was always a man much interested in political affairs, serving on the school board and also took a deep interest in church matters. Martin H. Ruple married Dianah Case, who came from Pennsylvania and was of Scotch ancestry. They had nine children, Charles H, Laura, George, Bertha, William, now deceased, Rutherford, Delia, Julia and Blanch, both deceased.
Charles H. Ruple was educated in grade and high schools in Delavan, Illinois, at Mason City, Illinois, and completed a business course at Quincy. After leaving school he spent two years on the farm with his father and then went out to Kansas to take charge of some land owned by the family. He lived there seven years, and, being a single man, he kept house while conducting the farming operations. For a time he was employed in a hardware and implement store at Hutchison, Kansas.
Mr. Ruple on returning to Illinois was in the flour milling business at Mount Pulaski until he sold out, trading his holdings for land. In 1895 he became a grain dealer at Chestnut, Illinois, where he had his business headquarters until 1907. In that year he bought a tract of land in the Delta district of the Lower Mississippi, and had a great deal of success in growing cotton on a profitable basis in that fertile area. Eventually there came a succession of flood years, which wiped his crops and much of his soil into the sea. All the time he was farming in Mississippi his family remained at Lincoln City, Illinois, and he went home to visit only twice a year.
After his southern farming experience he returned to Illinois and for five years was in the grain business at Galton. He then traded for a grain elevator at Chesterville and in 1917 moved to Earl Park, Indiana, where he continued buying and dealing in grain for a year and a half. He left the grain business to take up insurance, and has handled all classes of insurance at Earl Park during the past decade.
He was appointed postmaster in 1922 and was reappointed to that office in 1926-1929. Mr. Ruple is an enthusiastic Republican, an elder in the Earl Park Presbyterian Church, and wherever he has lived has taken much interest in church work. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Court of Honor.
Mr. Ruple married in December, 1892, Miss Fanny S. Starz, who was born at Delavan, Illinois. They have two children, Lucile and Frances. Lucile is the wife of Charles Ghere of Des Moines, Iowa, and has a son, Charles F. Frances is the wife of Wesley V. Woodruff, of Chicago, and they have a son, Alden Wesley, born in December, 1929.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILLIAM G. GUDE is a fine type of the Indiana banker. His judgment on financial questions is accepted as authoritative, and both as a banker and citizen he is broadminded, progressive and willing at all times to subordinate his personal interests to the welfare of the community.
Mr. Gude, who is president of the First Merchants National Bank of Lafayette, was born in that city April 2, 1868. His father, Gerhard Gude, was of German ancestry and was five years of age when his parents settle in Ohio. In 1865 he moved to Lafayette, and became well known in that city in the cooperage business.
William G. Gude was educated in Lafayette, having the advantages of the grade and high schools. After leaving school he took up railroad work with the Monon Railway, and spent twenty years in the transportation and accounting department at Chicago. Mr. Gude has always felt that this long training in railway service was perhaps the most important factor in his career as a banker. In 1905 he returned to Lafayette, was appointed assistant cashier of the Merchants National Bank, then was promoted to cashier, and in 1918, when the Merchants National, the First National and the American National Banks were consolidated, their resources and businesses all combining as the First Merchants National Bank, Mr. Gude was elected vice president and since 1925 has been president of this institution, one of the largest and strongest banks in Western Indiana.
Throughout the war period Mr. Gude gave his counsel as a banker and his enthusiasm as a citizen to the promotion of measures for the Government. He was on the committee for the sale of War Bonds, during the first and second drives, and part of the time was chairman of the loan committee.
He married Miss Anna Wagner, of a pioneer family of Lafayette. They have three children: Miss Elizabeth, a graduate of Purdue University; William, who graduated from the mechanical engineering department of Purdue in 1925; and Miss Madeline, who is still in school.
Mr. Gude is a member of the American Bankers Association and a number of years ago held the office of treasurer of the Indiana State Bankers Association. He is a member of the Lafayette Club, the Country Club and the Knights of Columbus.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
ROSWELL MELROY KAISER, cashier of the Bunker Hill State Bank, has been well known in this section of Indiana and is a member of an old family of Cass County. Mr. Kaiser still has his home near Walton in Cass County, where he was born December 21, 1888.
His grandfather, Eckhardt Kaiser, came from Hessen, Germany, lived for a time in the East, then at Dayton, Ohio, and in 1854 came to Cass County, where he bought the land which has ever since been known as the Kaiser farm and which is today owned and occupied by his son, William Kaiser. William Kaiser was born in Indiana and is a well-to-do and prosperous farmer of Cass County. He married Lucinda Smith, who is of English ancestry.
Roswell M. Kaiser is one of three children. He was educated in the grade and high schools at Walton, after which he attended Valparaiso Normal School. Like many other successful business men, he began his career as a school teacher. For two terms he taught in grade school and three terms in the Onward High School. For about two years he was in the mail service in Cass County, resigning to become assistant cashier, in May, 1917, of the Cass County State Bank. On September 30, of the same year he was promoted to cashier, but resigned this office August 10, 1925, to sell life insurance and later engaged in the general insurance business.
Afterwards he was appointed manager of the insurance department of the Wabash Valley Trust Company at Peru, and is still with that institution. In February, 1930, he was asked to take the office of cashier of the Bunker Hill State Bank, which is an affiliated institution of the Wabash Valley Trust Company.
Mr. Kaiser served as town treasurer of Walton from 1920 to 1927. He has taken his share of civic responsibilities, was a member of committees for carrying on the loan drives during the World war and has kept up that custom in community and chest drives since then. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, serving as a trustee, and is a Democrat in politics. He belongs to Walton Lodge No. 423, A. F. and A. M., the Eastern Star and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Kaiser married Marie Martin, member of a pioneer family of Cass County. They have three children, Richard Martin, Francis Stanley and Gordon Stough.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
HARVEY SAMUEL COVER, Indiana inventor and manufacturer, is one of a number of men of industrial genius who have found the best opportunities for work in and around South Bend.
Mr. Cover was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1867, son of Emanuel and Anne (Berkey) Cover, both natives of the same state, and grandson of Emanuel and Catharine (Walters) Cover. His grandfather was born in Pennsylvania, in 1800, and at an early age began study for the ministry and was a circuit riding minister all his life. Two of his brothers lost their lives in the War of 1812 and many years later five of his sons fought on the side of the Union forces in the Civil war. Anne Berkey Cover was a daughter of Joseph and Maria (White) Berkey.
When Harvey S. Cover was eleven years of age his mother died and two years later he carne to Indiana, locating at Goshen. He was entirely dependent upon his own exertions and the necessity of earning a living precluded any school advantages until he had reached the age of seventeen, when he diligently made up for lost time and after a few years qualified as a teacher and taught the school which he had attended at Goshen. Mr. Cover from boyhood has shown a strong bias for scientific study and research. He had some special opportunities for technical training in Purdue University and he has received diplomas in engineering and science from correspondence schools.
His scientific investigations have covered a rather wide and interesting field. For a number of years he has been interested in the subject of eugenics, and he worked out the principles of the famous Galton's law in the form of a chart, the first time that these principles have been reduced to graphic lines and a great deal of favorable comment has been bestowed upon this chart by anthropologists and the scientific world in general.
In a more distinctly commercial field his inventive work has been along the line of perfecting protective devices for the eyes against the hazard of industrial and other occupations. Outstanding in his "nod and shake goggles," made of rubber, containing a special capillary container for water which clears the lenses by simply nodding the head. This invention is incorporated in his new gas mask, hailed as science's most perfect contribution to the means of protecting the eyes of workmen in hazardous industries. This mask is absolutely gas tight, but the supreme advantage of the invention is the device perfected by Mr. Cover to prevent the fogging of the glasses, which are cleared without removing the goggles from the face. He is also originator of the whole-rubber goggles, on which he holds the generic patent granted in 1907.
Mr. Cover has been a resident of South Bend since 1901. In 1901 he took out the first patent granted for a chemical gas mask. He now has ten applications pending for patents on a new line of telescopes and binoculars. One of these binoculars is designed for the use of aviators. It fits over the head so that it can be focused by movements of the jaw, leaving the hands free for other work. Another one is a prism telescope of high power and which does away with the use of a tripod.
Mr. Cover married, June 26, 1895, Miss Katie Berkheiser, daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Heffner) Berkheiser. Her parents were born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and were early settlers of a farm in Penn Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, where Mrs. Cover was born. Mrs. Cover is a highly educated woman and was a teacher in the schools of Mishawaka before her marriage. They have two children. The daughter, Estelle C., born October 2, 1900, is a graduate, with the degree Bachelor of Music, from the Illinois Woman's College, took the Master's degree in music at the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago and was engaged in normal music training in the music department of the Illinois Woman's College. She is now studying music at Berlin, Germany, under Professor Lichtentritt and Professor Czerwonky. The son, Harold S., graduated A. B. from Oberlin College of Ohio in June, 1929, and is now associated with his father in business.
Mr. Cover owns a fine business block at the corner of Tutt and South Michigan streets in South Bend. He and his family have a very attractive home on a twenty-acre estate known as Chippewa Knoll. The landscaping work, which has adorned the grounds with shrubs and flowers, is largely the expression of Mrs. Cover's genius in that direction . At this country place Mr. Cover also has a complete laboratory, where he conducts his experiments and from which from time to time have come inventions that have made him known not only in America but in Europe.
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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
LAMBERT DEWITT FOWLER. Worthily bearing one of the honorable old pioneer names of Indiana, and in sturdy qualities greatly resembling his grandfathers, is Lambert D. Fowler, general agent for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for Northern Indiana, and a prominent business man of Fort Wayne. Widely known in insurance circles and filling a position of great responsibility, Mr. Fowler has also to his credit a number of years of recognized efficient official service in the interests of several nationally known manufacturing and engineering companies. This line of congenial work was broken into with the coming on of the World war, for service in which he enlisted in 1917. He was commissioned a first lieutenant, was stationed in New Jersey, and during the whole period of the war was retained as instructor at the Officers Training Camp at Fort Raritan, New Jersey.
Mr. Fowler was born at Marion, Indiana, December 12, 1895, and is a son of William and Almira (Hall) Fowler. His paternal grandfather was James L. Fowler, who was born in England and became a pioneer of Indiana, settling first in Decatur County. Later he moved with his family to Grant County, where he passed the remainder of his life in agricultural operations and was also a manufacturer of drain tile. He was a Democrat and took an active part in politics. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Fowler was James Thomas Hall, a native of North Carolina, who was likewise an Indiana pioneer, settling in Madison County during the '50s and passing the rest of his life in farming.
William Fowler, the father of Lambert D. Fowler, was born in Decatur County, Indiana, in 1860, and was educated in the public schools and reared to agricultural pursuits, which he followed throughout his life, his death occurring in 1909. He was a Democrat in politics, a member of the Baptist Church, and a man of high character and unassailable reputation. His widow survives him as a resident of Marion, and is fifty-seven years of age. There were three children in the family: Lambert D., of this review; Frank Albert, of Fort Wayne; and James Hall of Marion, this state.
Lambert D. Fowler attended the public schools of Grant County, Indiana, and at the age of fourteen years went to Moline, Illinois, where he was apprenticed to the machinists trade, in the meantime managing to complete his education in the high school at that city. Becoming employed by the Root & Van Der Voort Engineering Company, he was promoted respectively to the positions of inspector, superintendent of the machine department and superintendent of the testing, assembling, painting and shipping departments, winning his promotions solely through merit and industry. On August 10, 1917, Mr. Fowler enlisted in the army, was commissioned first lieutenant, and throughout the period of his military service was retained as an instructor at the Officers Training Camp at Camp Raritan, New Jersey, where he received his honorable discharge, January 4, 1919.
Following the completion of his military service Mr. Fowler returned to Moline, Illinois, and entered the sales staff of the Moline Plow Company, with headquarters at Des Moines, Iowa, where he subsequently became service manager for the company. Mr. Fowler's introduction to the insurance business occurred in 1922, and January 1, 1924 he became supervisor of agents in the Des Moines territory for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. In June, 1926, he was made general agent for Northern Indiana for this company, the position which he now holds, with headquarters in the First and Tri-State Building at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Fowler is widely and favorably known in insurance circles as a thoroughly capable and greatly energetic risk man, and one of the most authoritative in the business. He is a Republican in his political views, but has not sought public preferment, although known as a public-spirited citizen. He is a member of the American Legion, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, Quest Club and Fort Wayne Country Club, and a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. His religious connection is with the Congregational Church.
On September 12, 1920, Mr. Fowler was united in marriage with Miss Mary Louise Goss, of Des Moines, Iowa, and to this union there was born one son: Keith DeWitt, born October 25, 1923. Mrs. Fowler died December 8, 1924, and June 9, 1926, Mr. Fowler married Miss Marie Ida Simpson, of Mount Ayr, Iowa. The pleasant family home is at 226 North Seminole Circle, Fort Wayne.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
