John C. Knoblock is the son of Frederic and Saloma Knoblock, who were natives of Strasburg, Germany, and came to this country in 1829, and settled in Canton, Ohio. In 1833, they migrated to Indiana and entered Government land in Marshall county, where they cleared and improved a farm. The subject of this sketch was born in the city of Canton, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1830. While yet a small boy he learned the shoemaker's trade, so as to be able to make the boots and shoes for the family, and at the age of 13 came to Indiana with his parents, and worked on the farm for five years. He then started out from home on foot and walked to South Bend. where he hired out at $10 a month as a teamster for A. R. & J. H. Harper, who, as soon as they became acquainted with the young man and his good qualities, gave him a position in their flouring mill, the mill being now known as the "Phoenix." While at the mill he became acquainted with a millwright who was about to embark in the grocery trade, and he was induced to take a position in his store as clerk, where he remained for several years, until he had acquired a full knowledge of the business. March 3, 1853, he began business for himself in copartnership with Kasper Rockstroh, and continued in business with varying success until 1871, when his estate was worth over $75,000. He then was induced to engage in the manufacture of furniture. Some time after the establishment was remodeled and converted into a factory for the manufacture of reapers. In 1876 the building was again changed and he began in company with others the manufacture of the celebrated South Bend chilled plow, which he still continues. In 1865 he engaged in a general mining business, which he has continued ever since. In 1870 he was one of the organizers and charter members of the St. Joseph County Savings Bank, which has proved a success to its managers, and a great benefit to the people. He was treasurer of this institution for four years, and has been one of its trustees since its organization.

From 1866 to 1870 he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners, but owing to the pressure of private business he declined to be renominated for that office. He was also a member of the Town Council for a number of terms before the city was organized. Politically, he has been a staunch Republican since 1860, and is a zealous supporter of that party and its nominees. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the lodge, chapter and commandery, and has held at various times prominent offices in each of these divisions of the order. He is quite liberal in his religions views, believing that if the people are properly educated they will be of necessity right in matters pertaining to their salvation.

He was married in this city in 1853, to Miss Lissetta Myer, daughter of John M. and Wenina Myer. She was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1836. They have had 3 children, 2 of whom are now living. The eldest, Clara L., was born Dec. 12, 1854, and died when nine years of age. Their second child, Hattie Lee, was born Dec 21, 1856, and is the wife of George W. Reynolds, of this city. The youngest, Otto M. was born June 19, 1859; he sti1l lives with his parents.

Mr. Knoblock is a self made man; he started in life for himself in this city without a dollar of capital, and by honest industry has acquired a competence. As an evidence of his public spirit and enterprise, he intends to donate a building to the city for the establishment of a school of philosophy and physiology and kindred subjects, the institution to be so arranged as to be self-sustaining.

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William Knoblock was born in Ohio in 1832 and is the son of Frederick and Mary (Watson) Knoblock, who came to this State and located in Marshall. He engaged in the grocery business in 1864, which he continued three years; then engaged in the manufacture of furniture and tables, which he continued until 1872; then sold out and, in connection with his brother, engaged in the retail furniture trade, which they still continue and are doing a very large business. Mr. Knoblock is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and also of Turn-Verein. He was married in 1853 to Josephine Knoblock, of South Bend, who was born in Ohio in 1833; they had 3 children by this marriage; Mrs. K. died in 1865, and in 1866 he was married to Christina D. Scheyer, of this city; they have 3 children. Politically, Mr. Knoblock is a Republican.

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John .N. Lederer was born in the town of Arsburg, Bavaria, in 1833. He was educated in the college and gymnasium of Hof; came to this country in June, 1853, and to Indiana, locating in South Bend, where he was employed as a bookkeeper for Harper & Deyoe, at which business he continued for about three months; he then worked in a flouring and grist mi1l for a short time, and afterward worked on the railroad for several months. He then, in connection with J. C. Knoblock, engaged in the grocery and bakery business, which he continued until 1859, at which time he built a meat market on Washington street and engaged in the sale of meats and packing of pork. He was married June 27, 1860, to Miss Antoinette Bauer, daughter of Francis and Maria (Elman) Bauer, of this city; they have one child living, Annie, born Jan. 1, 1872. In 1872 Mr. Lederer returned to Germany, and spent several months at his old home, and made an extended tour of the continent. In 1873 he formed a co-partnership with J. C. Knoblock again in the wholesale and retail grocery business, which he continued until 1877. In 1868 be also formed a partnership with A. T. Coquillard and W. H. Longley. They purchased large tracts of land in Boone county, Nebraska, and platted and laid out the village of St. Edwards. In August, 1876, they formed a stock company, known as "The St, Edward's Land and Emigration Company," of which Mr. Lederer was elected at their first meeting vice president for the term of five years. In 1879, in connection with others, he entered into a contract with the Northwestem Railway Company for the purchase of 25,000 acres of land in Wisconsin. He built a large business block on East Washington street, known as the "Blue Front," and a fine residence on Lafayette street, and now has in course of construction on Washington street one of the finest business blocks in the city, to be known as "Union Block." Mr. Lederer started in South Bend with $11 in gold, and has by persevering industry acquired a competence. He has been a lifelong Democrat. The Board of County Commissioners in 1870 appointed him Commissioner of South Bend for the appraisement of property for benefits and damages. He has his office at 86 Michigan street.

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William H. Longley was born in Elkhart county, Ind., October 3, 1846, and is the son of Andrew and Mary Longley, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Indiana. His father came to this State in 1834, and located in Elkhart county, where he resided until 1853; he then camp, to this county and located on Portage Prairie, and soon afterward moved to Sumption's Prairie, where he now resides. Mr. Longley remained at home on the farm until he was 16 years old, then entered the University of Notre Dame, where he took a full commercial course, and graduated in 1867; he then entered the dry goods house of John Brownfield, Esq., where he has since been engaged as salesman and bookkeeper. He was married in this city, to Miss Helen L. Searle of the same place, December 14, 1871, a daughter of Richard Searle Esq., of this place, and was born in Pennsylvania in 1848; they have one son, born January 28, 1878. Mr. Longley is treasurer of the St. Edwards Land and Emigration Company, and also of the Wisconsin Land and Emigration Company of this city. Politically, he is a Democrat.

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Charles W. Martin was born in New Jersev in 1815, and is the son of Charles and Mary Martin, who were natives of New Jersey, and of French descent; he learned the harness and saddlery trade when a boy; his education was limited to a few months' attendance at the district school. He left New Jersey when 19 years o1d, and went to Ohio, where he worked at his trade about one year, and then came to Indiana and located in South Bend, reaching this city in 1837. He at once engaged in the saddlery and harness business, which he has continued up to the present time. He located at No. 88 Michigan street. There was but one engaged in the business when he came here, and he is now the oldest pioneer in the harness trade in South Bend. He was married in this city in 1842 to Jane Buck, who was born in Ohio in 1821; they have 3 children living: Horace, Silas and Mary. Mr. M. is a member of the Odd Fellows' order, and himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. His son is now engaged with him and they carry on their business at the old stand, No. 88 Washington street.

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John A. McGill, M. D. was born in New York in 1842, the son of Robert S. and ____ McGill, natives of Massachusetts. He began the study of medicine when 25 years of age, and began the practice of the art while under the preceptorship of Dr. James Emmett, of Niagara Fa1ls, N. Y., which he continued for five years. He then attended the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated at that institution in 1873, when he commenced the practice of medicine in Attica, N. Y. He came to Indiana in 1877 and settled in South Bend, where he has since resided and continued the practice of medicine and surgery. Dr. McGill was married in New York June 7, 1876, to Carrie M. Conley, daughter of Benjamin and Emily Conley, of New York; she was born in the same State in 1848. He is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, and of the First Presbyterian Church, this city.

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B. Merritt, M. D., was born in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1809. He is the son of Peter and Nancy Merritt, who were natives of the same State. His early life was spent at home and in attendance at school. He began the study of medicine at the Geneva (N. Y.) Medical College, and graduated at that institution in 1834, when he moved to Detroit, Mich. and began the practice of medicine. He came to South Bend in 1838, where he has since resided, in the practice of medicine, with the exception of four years spent in California. He was a member of the first medical society formed in the city and was for some time treasurer of that body. The Doctor has been a member of the Masonic order for many years, and politically, he is a Republican.

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John C. Miller, M. D., was born in Ohio in 1851; he received a liberal education, and at the age of 19 began the study of medicine, and graduated at the medical college of Cleveland in 1874, where he practiced for a short time; came to this county in 1876 and began the practice of medicine, where he has since resided. He has a large practice and is one of the rising young men in the healing art in South Bend. He was married in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1876, to Miss Kate Pontrus. The Doctor is the present Coroner of St. Joseph county.

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Joshua D. Miller was born in 1818 near Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Hardman) Mil1er, father a native of Virginia, and mother of Pennsylvania, pioneers of that county; they moved to Wayne county, Ind., in 1818, and to this county in 1831, settling about five miles north of South Bend. The subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm. Sept. 27, 1849, he married Lydia Ann, daughter of Samuel Good and a native of Ohio, whose parents were from Virginia, and they had 7 children, only one of whom is now living: Mary, residing at home. Followed carpentering about 20 years; his farm consisted of 200 acres, on secs. 32 and 33, German tp., which he sold in 1877; in 1872 he moved into the city of South Bend, and now resides on La Porte avenue. Has held a number of local offices, was School Director, Assessor, etc.; was a Whig in former years, but is now a Republican, and has been a member of the County Republican Central Committee about ten years. He is a member of the Universalist Church, built the house of worship for that denomination in Greene tp., and is now enjoying a retired life in comfort.

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William Miller, deceased, was the son of Tobias and Sarah (Henderson) Miller, father a native of Pennsylvania, and mother of Virginia. His father came to this State from Virginia in 1833, and located in this county; afterward moved to LaPorte, where he resided until the date of his death. He had 12 children, of which the subject of this notice was the 6th, and was born in Franklin county, Va. ,in 1809; came to Union county, Ind., with his parents when a small child; his education was such as the log school-houses of that early day afforded; he learned the tanner's trade when quite a young boy, and for a time followed that business, but afterward was engaged in business of various kinds during life. He was married in Union county, Ind., to Miss Mary Miller, daughter of John and Nancy (Kepper) Mi11er, who came to this State from Virginia in 1810 and settled in Union county, where they resided during life. Mrs. M. was born in Union county, Ind., in 1811; they had 6 children: John F., born in 1831; Isaac N., born 1835; William H., born in 1838; Martha E., born in 1839; Henry Clay, born in 1844; and Horace G., born in 1849. Mr. Mi11er came to St. Joseph county in 1833 and engaged in farming, which he continued until 1846, when he moved to the city of South Bend and engaged in mercantile and other business; was also a member of the Hydraulic Power Company. He filled many positions of trust and importance, and was one of South Bend's most honored citizens.

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William Miller, one of the pioneers of this county, was born March 16, 1821, in Pennsylvania. His ancestors were Germans and came to this country about the middle of the last century, during the prevalence of the religious wars that were at that time devastating that portion of Europe. At the time of his birth his native State had not yet inaugurated her liberal school system, and the only advantages of education he obtained were during the winter months at the very inferior district schools of the county. He left home at the age of 14 and entered a store as clerk in the city of Harrisburg, Penn., where he remained until 1837, when he emigrated with his father's family to this county, where he has made his home ever since. In 1849 he was one of the pioneers that crossed the plains to the gold fields of California. He returned to this city in 1852, and in 1853-'4 built railroads in Illinois under contract. In 1855 he engaged in the milling business in this county, and in 1869 he sold out his interest in that and commenced banking, which he still continues. He is at present cashier of the South Bend National Bank. In 1872 he was elected Mayor of South Bend, and reelected to the office in 1874. He has also an interest in a mill at Mishawaka.

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Charles Morgan was born in the northeastern part of North Carolina Nov. 1, 1810. He remained at home on the farm until he was 21, and then served an apprenticeship at the carpenter and joiner's trade, which has been his business ever since. He emigrated to this State in 1826, locating in Wayne county, where he resided until 1835, when he moved to South Bend, this county, where he has since resided. He was married in Wayne county, this State, in 1828, to Susan Moon, who was born in the western part of North Carolina. She died in 1833, and he was subsequently married in this city to Sarah Shonnard; who was born in New Jersey in 1814. They have 3 children by this marriage and he has one by his first marriage. He belongs to the Odd Fellows order in this city.

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J. F. Morrill, M. D., was born at Cleveland, O., in January. 1852. His parents were Wooster and S. E. Morrill. He attended school until 17, when he left that and entered the drug business as an apprentice; after remaining two years in this he took up the study of medicine and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati. Ohio. In March, 1879, he married Mary M. Plumb, of Austinburg, O.; one child has been born to them. In November, 1879, he moved to this city (South Bend) from Three Rivers, Mich., and erected the mineral bath house. The water was one of the attractions of the place, and he has proved that the water is beneficial in the treatment of various diseases. The water comes from an artesian well 68 feet deep. It is strongly chalybeate, contains iron, magnesia and sodium, a little lime and sulphur. It is abont 40° Fahr. the year round. By bathing in the water at a temperature of 100° to 110° it opens the pores of the skin and the iron contained in the water will stimulate. Rheumatism and various diseases of the blood are curable by this method, and in connection with electricity has a beneficial result on all diseases.

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Mrs. S. E. Morrill, M. D., was born in Twinsburg, Ohio, in September, 1828; her father, Perley Abbey, was an architect, and shortly after her birth moved to Cleveland, O., where she remained until 1855; at 18 she was married to Wooster Morrill, of New Hampshire; five years afterward their only child was born. She was left a widow at 36, and since then has educated herself in the medical profession. She graduated at the Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1868; since that time has been practicing in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington; has made a specialty of electricity as a remedial agent. Used it at first as an auxiliary to medicine only, but has discovered that it can be used to cure all acute and chronic diseases without medicine. She has invented a battery that will detect any disease, no matter where located, without asking the patient a question. The possibilities of electricity as a remedial agent, she claims, are not dreamed of by the medical profession. She came to South Bend to avail herself of the mineral water. "God rules the universe with water and electricity, and with these same elements can doctors control disease."

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Hon. Charles Lefferts Murray, editor of the South Bend Herald, was born in 1815, in Murraysville, Bradford county, Pa., his father of Scotch ancestry and his mother of English; while very young his parents moved with him to Athens, Pa.; in 1828 he commenced to learn the printing business in Towanda, and continued in Columbus, O.; worked a year in Jacksonville, Ill., where lived a relative of considerable note, Gen. Murray McConnell; suffering from ague he returned to Columbus, where he remained until 1834, in the newspaper business; editorially conducted the Piqua (0.) Courier for a time, being the first in the State in 1835 to "run up" the name of Gen. Harrison; in 1837 he established the Goshen Express, the first newspaper in the county; was Postmaster at Goshen, under President Harrison; followed farming for awhile; reported for seven sessions the proceedings of the State Legislature for the State Journal, then owned by John D. Defrees; in 1859 he was elected a Representative to the State Legislature on the Republican ticket, for Elkhart and Lagrange counties, by 900 majority; in 1860 he was elected Senator by 1,200 majority. In the spring of 1861, President Lincoln having called for 75,000 men to put down the Rebellion inaugurated by the "Confederate States of the South," Governor Morton called an extra session of the Legislature, and issued a proclamation for the assembling of Indiana's quota of militia at Indianapolis, to join the Union forces. Mr. Murray being a member of the State Senate, before repairing to the capitol, issued a call for volunteers through the two newspapers of Goshen, made out the first muster roll, and, heading it with his own name; left it at the Auditor's office for signatures, which was soon filled beyond the complement allowed to single companies. On the evening of his departure he got them together at the court-house, nominated Milo S. Hascall for CaptJ1in, and E. R. Kerstetter for First Lieutenant, and then left on the night train for Indianapolis, and after taking his seat in the Senate, was soon followed by all the volunteers on his muster roll. He went to war as a private, was promoted Orderly Sergeant, then Quartermaster of the 48th Ind. Vol. Inf., which position he resigned on account of sickness ; but on account of his efficiency as a soldier and officer, it was three months before his resignation was accepted. In 1862-'3 he resumed his seat in the Legislature, and after the expiration of his term he continued by all honorable means to sustain a vigorous prosecution of the efforts of the Government to suppress the Rebellion. In 1870 he sold his farm and moved into Goshen, and subsequently contributed as a miscellaneous writer to the Democrat in 1872 he took the stump for Greeley, having been appointed a member of the State Executive Committee by the “Liberal” party; the next year he purchased the Goshen Democrat, and in December, 1874, he took possession of the South Bend Herald, with his son C. T. in charge; in 1876 he moved to this city and assumed the entire management.

In July, 1836, he married Ann Maria Spriggs, of Kentucky. His children are Francis W., Charles T., Edward, Gordon N., Harris F., Willis G., Emeline, Mary S. and Eliza O.

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Cornelius H. Myers, M. D., was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1852, and is the son of Enos and Mary Myers, who were natives of Pennsylvania. They settled in Elkhart county, this State, in 1852, where the subject of this sketch spent his early life with his parents on a farm, attending the district school during the winter months. He taught school for two years and then began the study of medicine in 1874 at Goshen, Ind., with Dr. W. A. Whipple, the most prominent homeopathic physician in Elkhart county. He attended the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1875, graduated in 1877, and began the practice of medicine in South Bend in 1876, in connection with Dr. Partridge, the leading homeopathic physician of Northern Indiana, with whom he has since continued in practice. He was married in 1879 to Miss Gertrude W. Harris, of this city. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Myers is a Republican.

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Henry Nelville, M. D., was born in Ohio, Dec. 14, 1839; he remained at home and worked on the farm until twenty years old, receiving such education as the common schools of that day afforded. He then taught school for a number of years, and at the age of 29 began the study of medicine in the Homeopathic College of Cleveland, Ohio; graduated in 1872, and soon began the practice of medicine and surgery in Randolph, New York, where he remained a short time and then moved to Albion, N. Y., where he continued his practice for, three years. Dec. 30, 1879, he came to this city and located, where he now resides. He was married in 1868, in New York to Miss A. S. Jones, daughter, of Abner and Lydia S. Jones, natives of Vermont. She was born in New York in 1844. She began the study of medicine in 1869, graduating at the Homeopathic College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1872, and has since been engaged in the practice of medicine in connection with her husband. They have 2 children: Pearl and Ruby. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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J. M. Partridge, A. M., M. D. Dr. Partridge was born in Gustavus, Trumbull county, Ohio, May 17, 1835, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Bailey) Partridge. His father, Isaac, was born in Connecticut in 1808, and in 1820 removed with his grandfather, Thomas, to Ohio, where he still resides. His mother, a daughter of Ida Bailey, was a native of Vermont, and removed to Ohio about 1825. She died in February, 1856. His grandfather, Thomas Partridge, served through the Revolutionary war, and took part in the engagement that resulted in the final surrender of the British forces under Lord Cornwallis.

During his early years Dr. Partridge lived on a farm, where he received a good common-school education. At the age of 20 years he began teaching school in the winter, and assisted on his father's farm in the summer. Thus he continued for three years, when, yielding to an earnest desire for a classical education, at the age of 23 he began his studies at Oberlin preparatory to a college course. Here he encountered and overcame difficulties that would have utterly discouraged many. A stranger and almost penniless he soon found employment, so that by working a few hours each day and studying, often till midnight, throughout the six years' course of study he paid all current expenses and kept up with his classes. During part of this time he was employed as teacher in the preparatory department of the college.

In 1863 he enlisted in the Ohio State Militia, an organization intended for home protection, but subject to the orders of the Governor. In April, 1804, during the darkest hours of the Rebellion, his regiment, the 150th Ohio, was ordered to the front and attached to the garrison holding the fortifications about the city of Washington. His company (K) was garrisoning Fort Slocum at the time General Early attempted to take it in his attack upon Washington, July 3, 1864, and which attack was signally repulsed. On the 15th of August following, his regiment was mustered out of the service' at Cleveland, O., and he immediately returned to Oberlin, where he graduated with his class, receiving his diploma and title of A. B. Aug. 28, 1864. At this time Rev. John G. Fee, an earnest anti-slavery reformer, had conceived the idea of establishing an academic school at the heretofore obscure town of Berea, in the backwoods of Kentucky. He asked Pres. Fairchild, of Oberlin College, to send him a teacher who had ability and courage to successfully assist him in this work. Dr. Partridge was recommended. He remained with Mr. Fee six months and organized the first classes in Greek, Latin and algebra that were ever taught in what is now Berea College.

In the spring of 1865 the subject of our sketch entered the office of Dr. L. B. Dye, at Gustavus, to pursue the study of medicine, the following September he entered as student in the office of Drs. Blair and Sanders, at Cleveland, O., and during the ensuing winter he attended the first course of lectures in the Cleveland Homeopathic College, both of his preceptors being Professors, and Dr. Sanders, President of the College. In November, 1866, he commenced medical practice, in partnership with Dr. Craig, at Niles, Mich., where he remained a year, and then attended a second course of lectures at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, where he received a diploma in the spring of 1868. The preceding year he had received his second literary degree and title of A. M. from his alma mater at Oberlin. In March, 1868, he commenced practice in South Bend, where he has ever since remained, now having a partner in his business, Dr. C. H. Myers. He was the first physician to make homeopathy a success in this community, which he has most signally accomplished, not only in popularizing the merits of his system, but also in a pecuniary way. He has already added to the beautiful city of South Bend a fine block of residences, and made himself a comfortable home. His quiet and unassuming manner, his superior mental discipline, his sympathy with the afflicted and his excellent judgment in all cases of emergency draw to him an immense patronage who will be his firm friends for life. Although a thoroughly educated homeopathist and a firm believer in that system of administering remedies, he is very liberal in his views toward other systems, cheerfully acknowledging and thankfully employing the good he finds in any system. Dr. Partridge is a member of the Indiana Medical Institute, and frequently contributes to the medical press. His writing is characterized by that clearness of expression and condensed statement which is most desired in medical or scientific literature. Religiously the Dr. and his wife are Congregationalists. Politically, he is a strong Republican, but owing to the pressing duties of his profession, he has taken no very active part in politics or political campaigns.

On the 28th of October, 1866, on leaving Ohio for Niles, Mich., Dr. Partridge was married to Aurelia H. Chapman, of Kingsyille, Ohio, a native of Madison, in that State, and a daughter of Jedediah and Sarah E. (Osborne) Chapman. She also is a graduate of Oberlin College, class of '65, and at the time of her marriage was Preceptress of Kingsville Academy; she is an educated Christian lady, an exemplary wife and mother. In the family of Dr. Partridge are 5 daughters and one son, namely: Clara, Eloise, William Haney, Charlotte, Anna and Katie, all residing at home. The family are of the very highest standing in the community.

Dr. Partridge had two brothers, Harvey W. and George S., and five sisters, Esther, Mary, Minnie, Julia and Sarah. They are all now living excepting his brother, Capt. Harvey W. Partridge, who was killed in the bloody battle of Chickamauga while in command of Co. "I" of the 105th Ohio Regiment, and now lies buried in the "Soldiers' Cemetery," at Chattanooga, Tenn. His cousin, Co1. Jasper Partridge, of Carmi, I11., was at one time Aid to Gen. John F. Miller, formerly of South Bend. The Doctor's father, Isaac, now 72 years of age, is the only surviving member of a family of eight. There were five brothers, namely: Samuel, Jasper, Wakeman, David and William, and two sisters, Mary and Sarah.

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Benj. Robert Perkins was born in London, Eng., Dec. 25, 1832, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wotham) Perkins, the former a wholesale tin and Japan ware manufacturer during his life-time, employing some 600 hands at times; he is now dead, but his sons, James W. and Richard W., still carry on the business, under the firm name of "B. Perkins & Sons." The subject of this sketch obtained his education in what was called "the city of London school," where he finished the prescribed course; afterward he was for two years a member of the literary and scientific institution on Aldersgate street, London, E. C.; at 17 he was "articled" to Wm. Smith, gas engineer of Snow Hill, London, to learn the business; completed his articles at 21, and at the suggestion of his father, visited this country, expecting to remain only one year, but it resulted in his becoming a citizen of this Republic. On his first arrival he settled in New York city, where he was employed by Samuel Downs as a gas-meter manufacturer, afterward by the American Meter Company of Philadelphia; was subsequently sent out as their foreman to manage their branch works in Cincinnati, where he remained three years. During this time, in 1856, he married Mary M. Westwood, daughter of John C. Westwood, then engineer of the Cincinnati Gas Company; during this year he was assistant inspector for that company. In 1857 he returned on a visit to London, which was extended to a ten-years' residence, during which, until 1861, he assisted his father in his business; he then opened an establishment on his own account, in gas engineering, fitting up a large portion of the famous Crystal Palace at Kensington, which had been used in the Great Exposition of 1862; in company with R. S. Parry, he assisted in fitting up that celebrated vessel, the "Great Eastern," with furniture, stores, etc., and sailed on the same when she made her trial trip. He was afterward engaged in the shipyard of his wife's uncle; at this place were built the largest class of iron-clad vessels, among them the "Resistance" and "Warrior."

In 1866 he returned to the United States and took a position with the Springfield (Ill.) Gas Company, which he resigned two years afterward and accepted a similar position at Peoria, Ill.; in 1870 he left the latter place and until 1875 superintended the gas works at Franklin and Columbus, Ind.; he then came to South Bend, where he has been connected with the gas works to the present time; he is now superintendent.

Mr. Perkins has now a family of 6 children.

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George Pflegler was born in the State of Pennsylvania in 1842, the son of George and ___ (McConnell) Pflegler; educated at college; located in South Bend in 1861; he read law, and was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1862, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law in this city. He has formed a co-partnership with Hon. William G. George, and the firm of George & Pflegler is one of the leading law firms in South Bend, and they have a large practice. Mr. Pflegler was elected a city judge in 1869, which position he held several years. In 1877 he was appointed Postmaster of South Bend by President Hayes, which position he still holds. He was married in 1864 in Pennsylvania to Louisa Hamilton, daughter of Isaac and Charlotte Hamilton, of ___ Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1841. They have one son, William G. Mr.. Pflegler belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a staunch Republican.

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Phillias Phillion was born in Canada in 1837, and located in South Bend in 1860. He enlisted in the U. S. army in 1861; was in the service three months; he then re-enlisted in the 48th Ind. Vol. Inf. and served one year. In 1868 he commenced in the grocery trade in this city, on a capital of $200, and is now doing a large business. He was married in this county in 1862 to Miss Fanny Changoman, of this city, and they have 4 children now living.

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Charles Polock, manager of Polack's cigar store. This institution was opened in this city by Mr. Pollock in 1877, in the Oliver House block, and in December following he was burned out. He then reopened at 64 Washington street, where the business has since been continued. At the time this store was established Mr. Polock found he had much to contend with, the opposition in this line of trade being very great; but the citizens soon found he was a man of large experience and practical knowledge in this line of business, that his goods were always first class, and that he carried a stock so much larger than his neighbors that he could give them a better quality of goods at lower prices than other dealers. He now carries a stock of $5,000 and upward, and by strict attention to business and fair dealing he has built up a very large trade, perhaps double that of any other dealer in the city. His stock of fine goods is without doubt the best in Northern Indiana.

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Benjamin F. Price was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 30, 1807, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Fisher) Price, natives of Virginia, who moved to Pennsylvania in 1807. The subject of this sketch served his apprenticeship at the cabinet trade with Mr. W. B. Roberts, of Uniontown, and came to South Bend in 1835 and engaged in the furniture business, which he still continues. He was the first man to apply water-power to the manufacture of furniture in South Bend. He is one of the owners and directors of Price’s theater, of which he is now the manager. He also owns the building on Washington street where his son now carries on the undertaker's business, and a number of houses and lots in the city. He was for several terms President of the Town Board before the city was organized, and was president and manager of the "Odd Fellows Hall Association," which position he held for over 20 years; and the present beautiful hall of that order was built under his management and direction. He was married in Uniontown, Pa., in 1832 to Miss Lucinda Welsh, and they have had 3 boys and 3 girls. Politically, Mr. Price is a Republican.

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Simon Raff,M. D., was born in Wittemberg, Germany, in 1804; came to this country in 1844, settling in Pennsylvania; in 1846 he settled in South Bend, where he now resides. He read medicine in the Innspruck Medical College, and graduated at that institution in 1827; he continued the practice of medicine until 1846, since which time he has conducted a drug store in this city. He was married here in 1846 to Miss Sarah Fry, of this place, and they have 2 children, Louisa and Columbus. Politically, he is a Democrat.

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