Rev. Leewell Carpenter was born near Akron, in Summit county, Ohio, in December, 1832, and thus had exceeded the allotted time of human existence by seven or eight years at the time of his death. His early rearing was on a farm, and during his boyhood his parents moved to Fulton county, Ohio. The district schools laid the foundation of his mental training, and he was also a student in Old Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia, an institution known probably to every member of the Christian church in its association with Alexander Campbell its founder. Early in life he determined upon a career in the ministry, but for a number of years his activities were divided between his studies for his profession, and his work as an education, and in public office. He taught school for a time in Fulton county, Ohio, and while living at Wauseon, Ohio, was elected treasurer of Fulton county and by re-election served two terms. That public service was during the Civil war. He had already begun preaching after leaving the office of county treasurer, and devoted his entire time to the ministry.

In 1868 Rev. Carpenter came to Indiana, and was stationed at Wabash in charge of the local church. In a very short time, through his exceptional talent as a preacher, his ability in the organization of churches, and the extension of the beneficent activities of religion into both new and old fields, he became a figure of national importance in the Christian world. He was pastor of the Christian church at Wabash for many years. He was elected by the State Sunday school association as Sunday school evangelist for the state of Indiana, a position he retained a long time, and in the discharge of his duties visited practically every section of the state. For twenty years prior to his death, Rev. Mr. Carpenter was president of Bethany Assembly, the National Chautauqua of the Christian church, with grounds located twenty miles south of Indianapolis. He was one of the organizers of that institution.

Perhaps no minister ever lived who dedicated more churches than did Rev. Carpenter. The number at which he presided in this capacity reaches seven hundred and sixty-two and they were located throughout the United States and Canada. The travel necessary to reach these churches alone comprehend considerable portion of one man's life, but it was characteristic of him that he allowed no ordinary consideration to deter him from the performance of his duties. The last twenty years of his life were largely devoted to the dedication of churches.

The Rev. Mr. Carpenter was six feet two inches in height, jovial in disposition, and in every sense of the word was an optimist. His faculty of looking on the bright side of everything was translated into hope and encouragement among thousands who came to him for sympathy and mental and spiritual relief. He was an exceptional Bible student, and an orator of much power and resource. He was a firm believer in the creed he advocated, was honest in his convictions, a devoted and sincere worker, and always maintained a happy balance between practice and theory, so that he might well be described as having been a "doer of the Word." His talents as a minister, and his personal attributes rendered him a prominent and welcome personality everywhere. He was outspoken in his convictions on every subject, and his sound reasonŽing commanded the closest attention.

It was not only within the immediate sphere of the church that Rev. Carpenter was known. In politics, a republican, his services as a campaign orator were utilized in this state and elsewhere. He was affiliated with both the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternity and while believing in the tenets of those orders, he was not a strict attendant at their lodge meetings.

Rev. Carpenter was married in Fulton, Ohio, to Miss Mary E. Funk. To their union were born seven children, one of whom died in infancy and the others are mentioned as follows: Willard H., a hardware merchant at Wabash; Mary Inez, wife of George F. Blue, of Kansas City, Missouri; Errett L., associated with his older brother in business at Wabash; Arthur B., a photographer in Wabash; Rhea E., wife of Professor George W. Hoke, of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio; and Frank E., an attorney at Cleveland, Ohio.

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The boyhood of David B. Sheller was spent in Pennsylvania, attending the district schools and in learning the trade of a cooper, and when he was yet young in years he moved to Salem, Montgomery county, Ohio. There he met and married Nancy J. Venus, their marriage taking place in November, 1838. She was born on September 15, 1821, and died in North Manchester, May 8, 1893. They became the parents of the following children: Mary Ann, born April 24, 1841, who married Marsh H. Parks; Isabelle, born July 7, 1844, who became Mrs. Henry Holderman; James Harvey, born June 7, 1842; Catherine, born December 7, 1846, now living in North Manchester; John, born July 13, 1848, now of Huntington, Indiana; Daniel, born April 8, 1856, a resident of North Manchester; and Horace B., born March 7, 1858, also of North Manchester.

In 1851 Mr. and Mrs. Sheller came to Wabash county with their family which consisted then of four children. For two years thereafter they lived at Liberty Mills, and there the father devoted himself to his trade as a cooper. When the family removed to North Manchester in 1853 he there engaged in the same business, continuing in it with a good measure of success to the end of his days.

Though he started out in life a poor boy, he reached a place in life where he came to be regarded as a highly successful man, and it is not too much to say that he gained that distinction solely through his own unaided efforts. By reason of his long and distinctly honorable career he was highly regarded and esteemed by all who knew him, and when he died on February 11, 1858, he was sincerely mourned in the community where he had long resided. His widow survived him until May 8, 1893, and she reared her children to honorable and useful lives, standing toward them in the relation of father as well as mother for they were still young when the father passed out.

Daniel Sheller, son of David B., who has watched the city of North Manchester grow from a mere cluster of small dwellings into the second largest and most important city of Wabash county, is a native of this locality, born here on April 8, 1856, as in indicated in a preceding paragraph relative to his parents. It will not be necessary to make further mention of those worthy people, but the life and business career of their son will be touched upon in connection with the sketch of the parents.

When David Brandt Sheller passed away in 1858 it devolved upon the young mother to rear her children alone, and it is but a natural consequence, considering the circumstances, that they did not receive the most extensive and comprehensive educations. Daniel Sheller spent his boyhood days helping his mother in whatever manner he found possible, and while yet young in years he hired out to Jacob Karns, receiving for his services the daily wage of 25 cents. Oft times, after a long and hard day's work, Mr. Sheller and his younger brother, Horace, would saw cordwood and stack it in a wood house for fifty cents a cord, and in various other ways did he become familiar with the toil that the boy of the present day seldom meets with.

On December 20, 1877, there took place one of the most important events of Mr. Sheller's life - his marriage to Miss Mary Salome Bonewitz, the daughter of Esli Bonewitz. Their union has proved an unusually happy one, and four children have been born to them, as follows: Ernest, now of Toledo, and a veteran of the Spanish-American war, member of Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, Colonel George M. Studebaker in command; May, who married H. I. Hayes, and has two children, Veva and Eileen; Otto, of North Manchester, and Foster F., now attending high school.

For about seven years after his marriage Mr. Sheller was in the employ of J. M. Jennings, the proprietor of a grocery store, and there he learned the details of that business. For three years after that he was employed by Grossnicker Brothers, and on February 22, 1888, he bought out the concern and embarked in the grocery and bakery business on his own account. Mr. Sheller may be designated as the only man in North Manchester today who has for twenty-six consecutive years been engaged successfully in one line of business, and this unusual circumstance and condition may readily be attributed to the hard work that Mr. Sheller has brought to bear upon his task, and his ceaseless efforts to build up a successful and representative business establishment in his line. His ambition has been a worthy one, and the success that has marked his efforts is equally so.

Politically, Mr. Sheller is a republican, and for ten years he continuously held the office of town treasurer. He has also manifested an active interest in church work, and as a member of the Methodist church of this city was for eight years treasurer of the church organization. A good citizen at all times, he has been active and forceful in any movement launched for the betterment and development of the community, and since the organization of the Fair Association he has been a member and stockholder of that body, one of the developing influences of the town and county, as none will deny.

Mr. Sheller has enjoyed a long and prosperous career in business and he is now looking ahead to the time when he may safely lay aside his business cares, leaving them in the hands of his sons. His home life is ideal and happy, and it is there that he finds his greatest pleasure. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Odd Fellows, but has no other fraternal or social connections that can detract him from his own fireside.

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Reared in the atmosphere of farm life, he had no other ambition than to farm and farm successfully, so that his vocation was always that of the agriculturist. He acquired his first farm in 1886 - a fine place of eighty acres in Chester township, and from time to time added to it as his means permitted. He improved the place in many ways, and as a result of hard work and conscientious attention to business he prospered with the passing years. When he passed on, he left a snug accumulation that would have kept him in comfort and idleness for many years had he been spared and had he been content to live in idleness.

On June 31, 1871, Mr. Adams was married to Miss Lida Hanley, daughter of Thomas Hanley, now deceased, of Chester township. She survives her husband and her residence is in North Manchester.

Mr. Adams was a man who always had a healthy interest in public affairs. He was a stanch advocate of advanced methods in the public schools, and the improvement of the roads of the county was one of his pet hobbies. He was always to be found active and alert when any movement was launched for the general good of his community, and the up building of its best interests of whatever order. For years he was a member of the Board of Drainage Commissioners and did excellent work for the city and county in that office. He and his wife both had membership in the Christian church and were active in the work of that denomination, as Mrs. Adams is to the present day. Socially Mr. Adams was identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and he was an enthusiastic supporter of both societies.

On October 29, 1912, Mr. Adams passed away, and with his death Wabash county lost one of her pioneers and a good man. He was buried in Fairview Cemetery, near North Manchester.

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The Union Trust Company, the only concern of its kind in North Manchester, was organized on June 10, 1913, the following well-known men being at its head: Dr. David Ginther, president; M. F. Adams, secretary; A. A. Ulrey, 1st vice president; J. M. Curtner, 2nd vice president; and George D. Garber, cashier. The capital stock of the concern is $40,000, with a surplus of $10,000, and they conduct a trust, as well as a banking business. The organization in its every detail is complete, and with its conservative management and splendid official personnel, it is a credit to the city.

Mr. Adams is socially prominent in North Manchester as a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He was married in June, 1910, to Miss Iva E. Snideman, a daughter of David Snideman, of North Manchester.

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Isaac E. Gingerick was born near Xenia, Ohio, January 10, 1851, and in the following May after his birth his parents, John P. and Barbara A. (Shearer) Gingerick, left Ohio and located in Wabash county. The family at that time consisted of three children. Their home was established at Liberty Mills, where John P. Gingerick, who was a practical miller by trade, operated the local mills up to January, 1861. The next home of the family was at Laketon, where Mr. Gingerick conducted the mill for about two years. This was followed by six months of employment again at Liberty Mills, and he then became miller at Collamer, in Whitley county. The elder Mr. Gingerick for some time had been affected by an illness which interfered a great deal with the prosecution of his duties, and finally accepted the advice of his physician to seek outdoor employment away from the dust of milling operations. That caused the family to move to a farm and both parents lived in the country, and the father was a substantial farmer until death.

The father died in January and the mother in July of the year 1886, and both were laid to rest in the cemetery at Pleasant Grove. To their marriage were born these children: William S., who died in 1864; Mary, who died in 1908; Isaac; John F.; Austin D.; Charles F.; and Flora A., who died in 1879.

The boyhood days of Isaac E. Gingerick were spent in assisting his father in the mill and on the farm, and the education supplied him was of the quality and quantity afforded in the district schools of that time. At twenty-one he became independent and while earning his living by teaching school and in other lines of work he was eagerly accepting every opportunity to study law, which he had determined upon as his ultimate vocation. Finally he was qualified for practice, was admitted to the bar and got his first case and earned his first fee in 1880. In August of the same year he opened his office in North Manchester, and his name on the roll or local attorneys has been continuous ever since.

In political views Mr. Gingerick is a republican of the Lincoln type, and has been somewhat active in public affairs, serving several terms as city attorney, and also as a member of the school board. He is a popular man socially, and is well known in local Masonic circles, having affiliations with the Blue Lodge at North Manchester.

On June 27, 1882, Mr. Gingerick was united in marriage with Miss Lelia E. Stewart, a daughter of Louis M. Stewart. To their marriage have been born two children: Kent S, is chief draftsman with a manufacturing concern in Illinois; and Marjorie is a graduate of the Indiana State University, and is now teaching school.

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Lon D. Fleming was born in the state of Ohio, September 21, 1855. His parents were Josiah and Rosanna (Lynn) Fleming. He was quite young when the family moved to Indiana, where he grew to manhood, and had an education afforded by the common and high schools. The ambition to become a lawyer was not formed until after a considerable experience in other lines of activities, and he showed an ability that would have gained him promotion in a different direction had he so willed it. As a boy he became interested in telegraphy, learned how to handle a key in an expert fashion, and on getting his first position as a dispatcher had the distinction for awhile of being the youngest telegraph operator in the United States. He was not only a youth in the profession, but was able to send a message accurately over the wires as rapidly as almost any telegrapher in the country. After considerable experience at this work he moved to Ligonier, Indiana and for a time had the management of his father's hotel . In the meantime he had determined to study law, and make its practice his life's work. Since his admission to the bar he has devoted himself steadily and successfully to the profession.

As a democrat in politics, Mr. Fleming has shown much interest in public affairs and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Noble county. In that office he established a record of speedy conviction of criminals. Many men who willfully violated the criminal statutes of the state of Indiana are at present paying for their crimes through the efforts of Mr. Fleming to establish peace and order. He later went to New York City, where he practiced law and was editor of several legal publications. In 1903, owing to the death of his only son, and the consequent illness of his wife, he returned to Indiana, and took up his residence in North Manchester. Here he became interested in the real estate business, and the firm of Isenbarger and Fleming since 1905 has been the largest of its kind in the county. Through their office they afford a medium for accurate knowledge of land and values to many hundreds of investors located in Indiana and Illinois, and other parts of the country, and they do business on a broader scale than any other real estate man in this section.

In 1883 Mr. Fleming married Miss Lucy Schwartz of Greenville, Ohio. Their only son and child was Reno, now deceased. Although his home has been in Wabash county a comparatively short time only, Mr. Fleming's life has been spent in the service of Indiana, and he bears the respect and esteem of all who know him. He at one time was offered the position of legal adviser to Governor Marshall of Indiana, but refused that honor. Many positions of special responsibility and trust have been tendered to him, unsolicited, but Mr. Fleming cares little for public honors, preferring to confine his attention to private interests and the work of his profession.

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John Isenbarger is a native of Indiana, and was born in Kosciusko county, August 7, 1868, a son of John and Catherine (Shoemaker) Isenbarger. His father was twice married, and by his union with Susan Shaefer had the following children: William, of. Manchester; George, of Kosciusko county; Martha, the deceased wife of Aaron Arnold; and Lucinda, who died young. The children of John Isenbarger by Catherine Shoemaker, were Noah; Ella; John; Eli; Waity; and Samuel, who died in infancy. The father died February 23, 1890, and his wife passed away August 12, 1886. David Shoemaker, father of Catherine Shoemaker, was greatly interested in church work, and as a Dunkard, or old German Baptist, organized practically all of the churches of that denomination in Wabash county.

John Isenbarger, Jr., has the usual training of a farmer boy. While still on a farm and earning monthly wages, he saw the promise of larger things in business, and after perceiving his opportunities was not slow in making the best of them He attended district school, and helped his father until about eighteen years old, when he began for himself. His first winter away from home was spent in clearing twelve acres of timberland for a neighbor, and anyone at all familiar with this kind of toil will recognize that he could not have selected a harder means of beginning the foundation for his individual prosperity. Three years later he became a partner with Noah Butterbauch in the hog business. Mr. Isenbarger in 1891 came to Wabash county, locating at North Manchester. For a time his work was as a farm hand at different places in that vicinity. Then for two years he operated a dairy farm, the owner of which was Gilford Miller. He had already become aware of the unusual opportunities presented by the real estate business, and from dairyman opened an office at North Manchester, and began dealing in real estate on a broad basis. Mr. Isenbarger has not confined his operations to affording a medium for the trades and transfers of the local supply and demands, but has enlarged the range of his operations so that he has made land in this part of the state familiar to investors all over western Indiana and in the state of Illinois. By this broadening of the market he has done more perhaps than any other one individual to bring land values in the vicinity of North Manchester up to the high average of first-class farm lands in the middle west. In 1905 Mr. Lon Fleming was admitted to partnership, and together they have prosecuted a very successful and extensive business.

Mr. Isenbarger for many years has taken an active interest in public affairs. As already stated, he has twice been the nominee of his party for the office of state treasurer, being defeated in 1905 by thirteen thousand votes, and in 1909 by only two hundred and seventy votes. It is his intention to make the race again, and if past performances are a criterion his success is practically assured. Mr. Isenbarger was also one of the organizers of the Indiana State Bank at North Manchester, and was the prime factor of the organization of the Commercial Club. To his influence and work was due in large measure the location of the Dunkard College at North Manchester. Aside from his active connection with business, Mr. Isenbarger has found time to cultivate the social side of life, and is identified with the Masonic Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On March 24, 1894, was solemnized his marriage with Cora Shanafelt. Her father, John Shanafelt, was one of Wabash county's pioneers, and for years resided near North Manchester. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Isenbarger were born the following children: Paul, secretary of the North Manchester Milling Company; Bland, in high school, and Lawrence.

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A native of Wabash county, born on a farm in Waltz township, Dr. Ginther's parents were Benjamin and Anna Marie (Keller) Ginther, both of whom were natives of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and were among the pioneers of Wabash county. In 1847 they located at the county seat, then a small village deriving its principal importance from its location on the old Wabash and Erie canal, and also from the possession of the county government offices. For a time after their arrival the Ginther family lived in a sheep stable owned by Col. Hugh Hanna, who laid out the first plat of the city, and whose name has always been esteemed as the founder of this thriving commercial center. Later Benjamin Ginther, having found time to erect a log cabin about eight miles southwest of Wabash, moved his family to that place. There his activities were those of a general farmer and stock raiser, until illness rendered further work impossible. Having acquired some property near the south tollgate on the canal at Wabash, he moved there and up to 1870 acted as gateman. In that year the family residence was moved to North Manchester, and there he had his home until overtaken by death in 1885. His wife survived him until 1888, and both now rest in the cemetery at North Manchester. To their marriage, which occurred about 1838, the following children were born: Henry, Catherine, Anna, Benjamin Jr., Eva, and David.

Dr. David Ginther was born May 27, 1848. His career has been one in which self-reliance and individual initiative have played a more important part than any fortune that comes from inheritance, or as the result of chance or circumstance. Until he was thirteen years old he lived at home, getting some education in the district schools, and assisting his father. He then started out for himself, and after working for a farmer in the neighborhood found a job in a sawmill. In this way he earned his own living, and when about seventeen years old, in 1865, took up the study of medicine, with an older brother at Hagerstown, Indiana, where he remained until 1871. In the meantime he had attended lectures in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati. In June, 1871, Dr. Ginther came to North Manchester, walking to that village from Wabash, and such were his financial circumstances that during his first six months of his practice he attended all his patients even when they lived at a considerable distance in the country on foot. The best years of his life have been spent in administering to the ills of the people around North Manchester, and by hard and conscientious labor he long ago built up a splendid practice.

Aside from his medical activities, the doctor has interested himself in various commercial enterprises, owning stock in two local banks, and several times has conducted drug stores in the city. He also has the honor of being president of the new Union Trust Company. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Order, is a republican in politics, and espouses the doctrines of the Lutheran church denomination. He has served several terms as a member of the school board and the city council, and at an earlier date had an influential part in local politics. In December, 1877, Dr. Ginther married Miss Laura Whitlow, a daughter of H. C. Whitlow, of North Manchester, Indiana.

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Born in Miami county, Ohio, near the county seat of Troy, on January 8, 1846, Andrew Pearson is the son of William and Sarah (Million) Pearson. The paternal ancestry of the subject is of South Carolina, and the maternal ancestry of Tennessee birth, so that the family have long possessed the instincts and inclinations of the true southerner. William Pearson was but a small child when his father died, and he was reared by his mother's people. They came to Ohio at an early date, and in Miami county the mother and father of the subject were united in marriage. They became the parents of twelve children, four of whom died in infancy, and the names of the others are here presented in the order of birth: Ephraim, who died at the age of sixty years; Andrew, of this review; Eliza J., who married Calvin Hutchins; Augusta, who married Henry Bent; Mary E., the wife of Zeno Shambaugh; Ella married Mark Shambaugh; Milo married Rose Werst; and Frank, who died at the age of thirty-three. He had married Josie Stauffer and left two children when he died.

William Pearson first settled in Miami county, after coming to Indiana, and after living there about two years moved to Wabash county. There he spent the remainder of his life. His first farm had on it an old log cabin and an old sawmill run by water power. He continued improving the place from year to year, until after seven years he disposed of it and bought another farm two miles east and moved to it. Here he found another log house, which he improved in many respects, and also put up other buildings. There was some cleared land on this place, but a great deal of it was covered with standing timber, which in those days had no value other than for an occasional fence rail, or to build a log house when one was needed. Later Mr. Pearson moved to his last farm, about three-quarters of a mile east of the previous one, and there he ended his days. This place has since then been regarded by the family as the old homestead and our subject now owns and occupies it.

William Pearson was a religious man, and a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church all his days. He was a man who always bore an excellent reputation, and one who wielded a splendid influence in his community. When he died he was mourned by many who knew him for the many sterling qualities of heart and mind that had marked him.

Andrew Pearson was educated in Wabash county for the most part. His education, it is true, was a limited one, but the advantage of the Wabash city schools gave him an opportunity above many of his generation.

When he had finished his schooling Mr. Pearson went to work on his father's farm and he was thus occupied until he reached the age of twenty-five, when he married. He chose Sarah Armstrong for his wife, and she was a daughter of Campbell and Susan Armstrong, natives of Preble county, Ohio. To this marriage six children have been born, concerning whom mention is here made: Bertha, the oldest, married F. S. Adams, and they have two children, Bennett and Martin; Annette married Campbell Gaunt, and their children are Allen, Robert and Lawrence; Mary married Charles Erwin, and their one child is named Esther; Susan married C. Kaufman, and they have three children, named Harry, Eugene and Rachel; Pearl is unmarried and Harry, the youngest of the six, married Nellie Burkholder. They have three children, Charles, Geneva and Wayne.

Mr. Pearson located on his present place, known as the Old Hoosier Homestead, in 1908. It has 216 acres in all, and is well kept and is one of the productive places of the township, many improvements having gone into effect since it came into the ownership of Mr. Pearson.

Mrs. Pearson is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Pearson is an independent in politics. The family have a most excellent standing in their community and enjoy a host of good friends in and about the township and county.

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The paternal grandparents of Mr. Clupper had the following children: John; Christian; Louis; Henry; Elizabeth, who married James Tyner; Mary, who married Fred Maurer; and Anna, who married Jacob Hainlen. By his first wife, who died in 1877, Louis Clupper became the father of two sons, W. F., and one who died in infancy. He was married (second) to Maria Putman, a daughter of Joseph Putman, and three children were born to this union, namely: George, who married Ethel Whitlock; Harley, who married Grace Unger, who is now deceased; and Hugh, who married Letha Sutton.

W. F. Clupper was but three years of age at the time of his mother's death, and he was then taken by his maternal grandparents to rear. He received good educational advantages in the public schools of Noble township, and grew up to agricultural pursuits, which he has always made his life work. On his present farm, a tract of seventy-three acres, he has done all the clearing that was not done by his grandfather, and has remodeled many of the buildings and replaced others with new ones. The present turnpike has been put through here during Mr. Clupper's residence, and he was superintendent thereof during the time of its building, a piece of work which was accomplished under the most unfavorable weather conditions, and which took two years in its completion. All of the machinery on his property is of the most modern construction, and indicate the owner to be a most progressive and enterprising farmer, and such is the reputation he bears throughout the community. In addition to general farming he also successfully carries on stock raising, and his business is so carefully and systematically managed that he has won a high degree of prosperity. Mr. Clupper's grandfather Clupper was a republican, and his father also supported republican candidates and principles. Mr. Clupper himself has exercised his prerogative in voting independently, preferring to support rather the man he deems best fitted for the office than to give his vote because of any party allegiance. He has never sought nor cared for public office, finding his whole time and attention demanded by the duties of the homestead place. However, he has always shown his public spirit in helping movements for the advancement of his section. His religious connection is with the Christian church at Treaty, to which his wife also belongs, and of which he has served for some time as a member of the board of elders.

In 1898 Mr. Clupper was united in marriage with Miss Ida Long, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Burgett) Long. For one year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Clupper made their home at Treaty, where their eldest child, Merlin, was born. Since their return to the farm they have had two children: Cyril and Noel, and all three are now attending school.

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George Pressler was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 3, 1840, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Gephart) Pressler, and a grandson of Michael Pressler and George Gephart. The parents were natives of Pennsylvania, but were married in Ohio, and their family consisted of nine sons and two daughters. The father, who was a bricklayer and stone mason by trade, died in 1855.

George Pressler was educated in the public schools of his native county, and there was reared to agricultural pursuits. While a resident of the Buckeye state he was married (first) to Laura M. Huiet, daughter of Joseph and Susan Huiet and to this union there was born seven children: Joseph, who died at the age of four years; Lucretia, who died when thirteen years of age; Norman; Pearlie; Emma, Daisy, and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Pressler died in 1885, and Mr. Pressler was married (second) to Lydia Semans, the daughter of Thomas J. and Rebecca Semans, of Wabash, Indiana, and to this union there were born three children, two of whom died in infancy, Warren being the only survivor. The second Mrs. Pressler died in 1895, and Mr. Pressler was married (third) to Rebecca M. Coate, daughter of Hiram and Rachel Coate, of Clinton county, Ohio . They have no children.

On coming to Indiana in 1871 Mr. Pressler settled first on a farm about one-half a mile east of his present property, a tract of eighty acres, of which thirty-five acres had been cleared, and here was located an old log house and log barn. He cleared this land, installed modern improvements and erected good buildings and here continued to reside for a number of years, carrying on successful farming and stock-raising operations. Prior to disposing of this land he had purchased his present property, thirty-nine acres, on which the buildings had already been erected. Here he made his home and has shown himself both a practical and scientific agriculturist. He is a friend of modern methods, and by their intelligent use has made his property pay him well for the work he has expended upon it, thus making himself one of the substantial men of his community. He has been granted long years, and now in the evening of life, has a comfortable home and may look back over a career which in war or in peace bears no stain or blemish. In addition to his home farm he is the owner of a tract of seventy-six and one-half acres on what was formerly the Indian Reserve, and here he has made all the improvements and erected the buildings. This farm is now being cultivated by Mr. Pressler's son, Norman, an energetic and skilful farmer, who is rapidly becoming known as a worthy successor to a worthy father. Norman Pressler was married to Miss Ollie Norris, and they have become the parents of two children, Moren and Carl.

The first year of the Civil war found Mr. Pressler an ardent Union man, but it was not until August, 1862, that he was able to so arrange his affairs that he was able to leave his home and go to the front. Becoming a member of Company K, Ninety-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he saw active service almost from the start, and during the time that followed until his honorable discharge in June, 1865, he participated in some of the most sanguinary battles of the great struggle. Some of these are: Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Orchard Knob, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Dallas, Pickett's Mills, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station and Nashville. The Atlanta campaign lasted from May 6th until September 4th, and not a day passed that was not marked by more or less fighting, and during this time Mr. Pressler took part in skirmishes too numerous to mention. His services brought him promotion among his comrades to the rank of corporal, and as such he served during the last year and a half of the war. Mr. Pressler was wounded four times, but on only one occasion allowed himself to be taken to the hospital. At the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 16, 1864, while storming the enemy's breastworks with his company, a bullet struck him just over the heart, but the three straps which held his canteen, haversack and cartridge box saved his life by stopping the force of the bullet, although he was confined to the field hospital for two weeks and was then sent to the hospital at Jeffersonville, Indiana, where he remained for six weeks. He still retains possession of the old army canteen as well as the bullet which struck him, the latter being dented on the end from coming into contact with the straps and Mr. Pressler's rib. He has kept these relics for forty-nine years.

At the battle of Chickamauga, on Saturday about noon, when his regiment first went into the engagement, they were stationed on the extreme left of the firing line. It will be remembered that in that battle the Confederates kept their troops moving from their left to their right in order to flank the Union army. In order to •prevent the success of this movement, two men from each company in Mr. Pressler's regiment were detailed as flankers under the command of Major Birch of the Ninety-third. This detail stood at the left of the position occupied by their regiment, and were much exposed. The rebels were getting thick in their front and the bullets were flying fast when Mr. Pressler observed a damaged caisson, around which were lying six or eight dead or dying horses, and thinking it would be a good place to stand behind while firing, he started for it. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion; the caisson had been hit by a shell and exploded, the horses were thrown and scattered, and Mr. Pressler was knocked senseless. Had this happened fifteen seconds later he would have lost his life, since as it was he was very close to the caisson.

Mr. Pressler's entire service was replete with brave and active service, and at all times he held the highest esteem and respect of his officers and the admiration of his comrades. He had two brothers in the army; William, who served in the same regiment, was taken prisoner at Pickett's Mills, and was held prisoner for nine months; five of which were spent in the terrible Andersonville prison; and Aaron, who served in the 184th Ohio Volunteers during the last year of the war. Both were younger than he.

Mr. Pressler is a faithful member of the United Brethren church and has been active in its work and liberal in his support of its movements. For years a Republican, the campaign of 1912 caused him to change his views, and since that time he has been identified with the new progressive party. He has been called at various times to fill public office of a responsible character and served his township as trustee from April, 1888, until August, 1895, and his county as commissioner from 1897 to 1903. His public service has been marked by the same conscientious fidelity to duty that marked his military career, and his honorable and upright methods have brought him friends from all political parties. Few men are better known in Wabash county, and none are more deserving of respect by their fellow citizens.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

Mr. Van Buskirk was born on a farm near Batavia, the judicial center of Genesee county, New York, and the date of his nativity was October 27, 1848. He is a son of John and Ellen (Quirk) Van Buskirk, and is a scion of the fine old Holland Dutch stock that played so important a part in the history of the Empire State. John Van Buskirk devoted practically his entire active life to the great basic industry of agriculture, and when his son Daniel was a child he removed from Genesee county to a farm near Rochester, Monroe county, New York, where he became a substantial and representative agriculturist. Both he and his wife passed the closing days of their lives in the village of Charlotte, that county.

The conditions and influences of the farm compassed the boyhood and youth of Daniel Van Buskirk, and in the meanwhile he attended the common schools of his native State, so that he waxed strong in both mental and physical powers. In the late '60s, when about nineteen years of age, Mr. Van Buskirk severed the home ties and made his way westward, his desire being to identify himself with a section in which were afforded better opportunities for the achieving of independence and success through well-ordered individual effort. To supplement his education he went to the city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and there he continued his studies in an excellent seminary for a period of three years, so that his academic education is above the average. About the year 1872 Mr. Van Buskirk came to Wabash county, Indiana, and established his residence in the village of Laketon, where he was successfully engaged in the buying and shipping of grain until 1877, when he removed to Roann, a thriving little city with whose social and business interests he has continued to be prominently identified during the intervening period of thirty years-years marked by large and worthy achievement on his part. Here he continued to be engaged in the grain business until 1882, when he became the founder of the Exchange Bank of Roann. His administration of the affairs of this solid and popular financial institution has been careful and conservative, and its standing has at all times been of the highest, so that the public confidence in the bank and its owner has been shown in substantial and appreciative patronage. In a small room the bank opened for business on the 2d of April, 1882, and in 1885 Mr. Van Buskirk erected a bank building of better facilities. In this building the business was continued until 1901, when the structure was destroyed by fire, the proprietor thereupon effecting the erection of the present attractive and well-appointed bank building, which adds materially to the appearance of the business section of the village. Mr. Van Buskirk has never lost his appreciation of the great fundamental industry under whose benignant influences he was reared, and he is the owner of a number of fine farms in Wabash county, where his landed estate comprises about 400 acres. He is enterprising and public spirited as a citizen and his influence and co-operation have been freely given in support of measures tending to advance the industrial and civic prosperity or his home village and county. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian church in Roann, be being an elder in the same and liberal in his support of the various departments of church work.

At Laketon, this county, in the year 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Van Buskirk to Miss Martha Miller, who was born and reared in Whitley county, Indiana, and who is a daughter of Ellis Miller, one of the sterling pioneers of that county, where his death occurred in the year 1869. Mr. Miller was a miller by vocation and not only operated a pioneer flour mill in Whitley county, but conducted also a general store. Mr. and Mrs. Van Buskirk have four children, the eldest of whom is Dow, concerning whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. Edith is the wife of Rev. John T. Newell, who is a clergyman of the Presbyterian church and who now holds a pastoral charge at Granville, Ohio. Orrill and Fred remain at the parental home, both of whom have graduated from the Roann high school as members of the classes of 1902 and 1914.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

Dow Van Buskirk, as he is familiarly known in the county that has ever represented his home, was born at Ijamsville, also known as Laketon, Wabash county, on the 18th of July, 1875, and is the eldest of the four children of Daniel and Martha (Miller) Van Buskirk, the former of whom is still the president of the Exchange Bank of Roann. He whose name initiates this sketch was a child of about two years at the time of the family removal to Roann, where he was reared to maturity, and where he acquired his preliminary education in the public schools. He was graduated in the high school in the year 1895, as was also his sister Edith, and this class had the distinction of being the first to be graduated after the establishing of the Roann high school. Immediately after his graduation Mr. Van Buskirk assumed a clerical position in his father's bank, and he has since continued his services as a valued executive of this institution, save for the period during which he was a student in the University of Indiana. In the autumn of 1895 he was matriculated in the law department of the university, and in the same as was graduated as a member of the class of 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of his native State, but he has never engaged in the active practice of his profession, though his technical knowledge has proved of great value to him in connection with his active business career. Mr. Van Buskirk has familiarized himself with the various details of the banking business and is recognized as a reliable and progressive business man as well as an efficient executive officer of the Exchange Bank, of which he has been cashier since his graduation in the university. He takes a vital interest in all that touches the well being of his native county and attractive little home city, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party, both he and his wife holding membership in the Presbyterian church and being popular factors in the leading social activities of the community. They reside on their finely improved farm of eighty-eight acres, eligibly situated in Paw Paw township, about one-quarter mile distant from Roann, and Mr. Van Buskirk gives a general supervision to the farm, in which he takes much pride and through the medium of which he finds both rest and recreation.

On the 6th of June, 1900, Mr. Van Buskirk wedded Miss Maude Squies, daughter of Howard Squies, a representative citizen of Wabash county, and the two children of this union are Katherine and James.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

David Marks, their son, lived at Rochester, New York, in his boyhood and there attended the city schools until he reached the age of seventeen, when he came west to Marion, Indiana, the year being 1867. In Marion he had a married sister living, and he came to visit his sister and see something of the middle west, and it is a notable fact that he reached Marion on the first train that passed through the city. Though he had at first no intention of remaining in Indiana, Mr. Marks became interested in business, and in 1869 became associated with his brother-in-law, Morris Blumenthal, in general merchandising. He was thus associated until January 17, 1880, when he sold out his interest to his brother, Lewis Marks. He then came to Wabash and here became one of the owners in the Star Woolen Mills.

For years Mr. Marks was the financial manager and selling agent of this thriving concern, until on December 13, 1893, the property was destroyed by fire. Succeeding this unfortunate occurrence Mr. Marks went out on the road as a traveling salesman for a wholesale clothing establishment of Rochester, and for eleven years thereafter he had his headquarters, with sample rooms, in the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago.

In 1905 he became connected with a similar establishment in Chicago, and continued with them until in July, 1912. During these years he retained his home and his interest in Wabash, where he had become identified with various matters of public import, and his influence in his home city was always a most excellent one. In July, 1910, he was elected by the city council as a member of that body to fill the place previously occupied by J. J. Kingston and made vacant by his resignation. In November, 1913, Mr. Marks was appointed by President Wilson a member of the commission to adjust claims arising from the building of the Panama Canal.

Mr. Marks was a democrat in politics, and had ever had the best interests of the community at heart, being known as one of the valuable citizens of the place.

On his 21st birthday Mr. Marks was made a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his other fraternal relations were with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity, the I. O. B. B., and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is Past Grand Exalted Ruler.

On May 1, 1878, Mr. Marks was married to Miss Hattie Hyman, a daughter of Michael Hyman, one of the early pioneers of Wabash. Mr. and Mrs. Marks were the parents of two children; Jean and Shalda (note text is damaged here, not very readable), the latter being the wife of Joseph J. Rosenmeyer of East Orange, New Jersey.

In addition to his regular business activities Mr. Marks was the owner of 178 acres of fine land in Wabash county, which he operated through a tenant, and he was a stockholder of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank of Wabash and of three other national banks in Indianapolis.

A man of affairs, he stood well in local business circles, and, with his family, had a place in the leading social activities of the city. He died July 17, 1914, on the Isthmus of Panama, where he had been since May.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

It would be interesting to enter at some length into the early conditions attendant upon the existence in Indiana eighty-five years ago, but space does not permit of such deviations except in the briefest treatment, and it will suffice here to say that Samuel and Rachel DuBois came to this state when in their early youth, and that all their children were born in Franklin county, where they had settled on a farm. They became the parents of a fine, old-fashioned family of nine - seven sons and two daughters. The sons were: William, John, George, Hazel, Debyge, Oscar and Jasper. The parents ended their days in Franklin county, having lived long and useful lives in their community and being well known and highly esteemed in the county. Samuel DuBois was a Whig all his days and was active and influential in matters of a political nature in his town.

William DuBois had a very limited education, gained in attendance at the three months' winter school of the day. Being one of seven sons, his father favored him in that he did not require him to give his labor at the home farm, but he permitted him to strike out for himself as soon as he wished, so that he had been working on his own responsibility and saving his own earnings for some years when he reached his legal majority, at which time, under ordinary circumstances of that time, he would have gained his freedom from the duties at home.

So it was that William DuBois went to work for other men in the community, and he was employed in one place for a year and a half, earning $7.50 a month during that time. The highest wages he ever earned as a farm hand were $11 a month, which was considered especially good pay in his time. After his marriage in 1848 his father bought him an eighty-acre farm in Union county, and there he took his bride and settled down to the difficult task of getting his farm in shape for productiveness. It was a wild piece of land, practically covered with a heavy growth of timber, but he was able in time to make a presentable farm from it, and he prospered agreeably on that place. In 1864 he moved to Wabash county, however, and here settled in Noble township, on a farm of 160 acres located on the township line. Here he did some clearing and considerable building as well, so that his new place came to be in very good shape before he disposed of it. When Mr. DuBois felt himself no longer able to successfully work the place because of his advancing years, he sold it, and after spending some little time in the home of his married daughter he settled with his son Samuel, who is married and lives in Noble township.

Mr. DuBois married Eliza Davis, daughter of Samuel Davis, in 1848, and to them were born twelve children. They were Hanna, Henry, Alice, Mary, Eveline, Caroline, Emma, Samuel, John, Eliza, and twins named William L. and James H. The wife and mother passed away in August, 1889, and Mr. DuBois remained faithful to her memory.

Mr. DuBois was a member of the United Brethren church and was a stanch and active worker in the organization. He has served as supervisor of Union township, and all his days was an excellent citizen in whatever community he found himself. In earlier years he was a republican, but more recently he turned his attention to the prohibition party and gave excellent service to that cause in the county. Mr. DuBois was one of the fine old men of the county, and he performed his full share toward the development and settlement of the district. As one who accomplished much in his years of activity, it is fitting and proper that his work have mention in such a publication as this.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

Mr. H. G. Baer of Urbana, who until recently was one of the leading merchants of that little city, was born in Paw Paw township, Wabash county, January 9, 1865, a son of Garrison and Catherine Davis Baer. The founders of the family name and fortunes in this county were grandfather Joel Baer and wife, who in 1840 located two miles north and one mile west of Urbana in Paw Paw township. Their settlement was in the midst of the green woods, and before they could begin cultivating the soil a severe task awaited them in the clearing up of the land, felling of trees, ditching and draining, and other back-breaking toil. Urbana was then hardly deserving of the name of village, with one or two stores in frame or log shacks, and the era of sidewalks and up-to-date municipal improvements and mercantile enterprise was still far distant. Joel Baer lived a life of quiet industry and continued to make his home on the farm until his death. The land is still in the family name, being owned by Adam Baer. The Baer household in the days preceding the Civil war was one of those mysterious stations on the underground railway, and Joel Baer was one of the active abolitionists who afforded the shelter of his home to many refugee blacks, who tarried with him a night or in some cases several days until their journey could be furthered toward Canada and freedom.

Garrison Baer, who was one of a family of eight children, six daughters and two sons, all but one having been born in the Buckeye state, was a child of three years when the family left Stark county, Ohio, for Indiana. The trip was made with wagons and teams, and Garrison Baer grew up in the wild surroundings of Paw Paw township, at a time when everything was new and the opportunity for the sportsman with rod and gun was practically unlimited. He followed in the footsteps of his father, became a farmer, and eventually got possession of the old homestead, where he lived a life of quiet usefulness and honorable integrity. His death occurred in 1903 at the age of seventy-five and his widow is still living in Urbana. She was born in Fayette county, Indiana, a daughter of Adam Davis, who was one of the pioneer farmers of Fayette county. Garrison and Catherine Baer were the parents of four children: Joel, of Wabash county; Adam, of Urbana; H. G., who is best known among his associates by the name "Greel"; and Jennie, wife of Frank Baker.

Mr. H. C. Baer grew up on the old homestead near Urbana, and while a boy the district school which furnished him an education was conducted in a log building. He thus attended school and worked on the farm until he was about twenty-two years of age, when he came to Urbana and for the following nine years was employed at the Champion Seeder Company under Mr. Speicher. On leaving that establishment, he was clerk in the store of Adam Cook for some time. With this thorough and varied experience in business, in 1908, he and his brother Adam bought out the establishment of Azro Mason, who had for some years conducted business at the Baer location. The Baer Brothers at once enlarged their stock of goods, and until they sold out in the spring of 1914 their enterprise was one of the most conspicuous features of the little city of Urbana. As merchants they built up a large business in general merchandise by close attention to every detail of their trade, by studying the wants of the community in order to provide for them intelligently, and at the same time showed their public spirit by cooperating in many movements for the improvement of the commercial and social advantages of their little community.

On April 15, 1893, Mr. Baer married Miss Minnie Rager, a daughter of Aaron Rager, now deceased. The children born to their marriage are Forest, Wayne and Teddie.

Both the Baer Brothers are stockholders in the Farmers Bank at Urbana. Mr. H. G. Baer is a strong republican, has filled the office of township assessor, and in 1912 was given the nomination of the republican ticket for the office of county recorder. Although he made an excellent showing, and without any particular campaigning on his part, his candidacy fell in the troublous times of the notable split in the republican party, and as a result of the division of the normal vote, the democrats were successful. Mr. Baer when all was over was one of the first to join in wishing his competitor the utmost success while in office. About twenty years ago Mr. Baer joined the order of the Maccabees, and for several years has been record keeper of the Tent at Urbana. He and his family are members of the Evangelical church.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

S. P. Dougherty was born in Liberty township, Wabash county, Indiana, April 19, 1855, and is a son of John and Mary (Preston} Dougherty. His parents, natives of Coshocton county, Ohio, belonged to honored old families of the Buckeye state, where they were married, and in 1850 came to Wabash county, having heard of the opportunities awaiting the energetic and industrious settlers from former neighbors in Ohio who had preceded them here. Taking up a tract of Liberty township land, they began housekeeping in a little frame home, and for a time faced the hardships and inconveniences which attend existence in a new and uncultivated region. The father, however, was a man of industry and energetic nature, and soon began to make his farming operations pay, so that the original home was replaced by a more commodious and comfortable structure, and here the parents passed the remainder of their lives. They were upright and God-fearing people, and by reason of their straightforward lives possessed the esteem and respect of all who knew them. They were the parents of ten children.

The educational advantages of S. P. Dougherty were secured in the same manner as those of other farmers' sons of his day and locality, the district school term lasting several months each winter. The remainder of the year was passed in the hard, unrelenting work on the farm, where the youth gained experience that was to prove of great assistance to him in later years. When he started upon a career of his own he adopted farming for his life work, and in 1889 left Liberty township and settled on his present property in Noble township, which has continued to remain his home. His tract of 157 1/2 acres is nearly all under cultivation, and in addition to this he has cleared thirty-five acres in the same township. When he first located on this property there were but a few buildings, these old and practically worthless, but at this time he has a full set of substantial structures, fitted with modern equipment and conveniences. He is known as a good practical farmer, ever ready to give a trial to new methods which promise to be beneficial. He is a man of exemplary habits, commendable purpose and unbending integrity, and in all life's relations merits the confidence which is so freely accorded him. In political matters he is a democrat, but he has not cared for public office. With his family, he attends the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Dougherty was married to Miss Rose Keesey, the daughter of William and Catherine Keesey, and to this union there has been born one son: Frank, born February 23, 1892, who is single and his father’s assistant on the farm.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914

Mr. Dougherty comes of a family which has been identified with the agricultural interests of Wabash county for something more than sixty-four years. He was born on his father's farm in Liberty township, this county, September 15, 1859, and is a son of John and Mary (Preston} Dougherty, natives of Ohio, and members of well-known and honorable families of that state. The parents were married in Coshocton, and not long thereafter, in 1850, migrated to Wabash county, Indiana, having been attracted hence by the glowing tales of this region's advantages related to them by former neighbors who had already visited in this locality. They took up a tract of Liberty township land, then totally uncultivated, and for some years made their home in a little frame house while with energy and perseverance they established themselves for the rearing of their family. As the years passed, and their financial resources grew, they added to their equipment, erected a new house and other buildings and purchased more land, eventually becoming known as substantial people. Their many sterling qualities won them the respect and esteem of their neighbors and those who came into contact with them, and few people had a wider circle of friends. They were the parents of ten children, whom they endeavored to rear in a manner that would fit them for honored positions in life.

Bernard Dougherty, like his brothers and sisters, received his education in the district schools of Liberty township, made the most of his opportunities, and secured a good mental training. Reared to the life of a farmer, he early adopted that as his life work, and continued to reside with his parents until 1891, at that time moving to what was known as the Farr farm, in Noble township. Subsequently he came to his present property, formerly known as the old Huff farm, in the same township, and this has continued to be his home to the present time. He has built a new residence, has made numerous other improvements, and now has the entire 140 acres under a cultivation. Under his skillful management his land is paying him handsomely for the labor he expends upon it, and he is rapidly becoming one of the most substantial agriculturists of his locality. Mr. Dougherty in his political views harmonizes with the democratic party and has been stalwart in its support, but has never cared nor found time for public office. With his family he attends the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Dougherty was married in Noble township to Miss Eva Weesner, daughter of Daniel Weesner, of Wabash county, and to this union there have been born two children: Mary, born on the Farr farm, and Marguerite, born on the present farm, both of whom were educated in the schools of Wabash.

"History of Wabash County, Indiana"
Clarkson W. Weesner
Lewis Publishing Co.
Chicago and New York
published in 1914