John Makemson was much more than an ordinary man - indeed one of his mental make-up and characteristics is as one to a thousand. By successful real estate transactions he made money very rapidly and in the course of years his holdings amounted to over two thousand acres of as fine land as Kosciusko county contained. In addition to farming and dealing in real estate, he was also largely interested in live stock. He purchased cattle all over this and surrounding counties, pastured them until the market was favorable and then shipped to the eastern cities, where he never failed to receive liberal prices. As a dealer in and raiser of cattle be long enjoyed the reputation of doing the largest and most successful business of the kind in northern Indiana, and in an early day he also amassed large wealth from the sale of nursery stock, his nursery being the largest and most successful at that time in Indiana north of Indianapolis. Every enterprise to which he devoted his energies prospered and at one time he enjoyed the distinction of being not only the most active business man in Kosciusko county, but also the wealthiest.

John Makemson established a reputation for industry, honesty, integrity, prudence and judgment such as few men attain. He always possessed energy, resolution, determination and in early life acted according to the motto, "I will find a way or make one." His good common sense, caution, foresight and accurate powers of observation, together with the traits above named and others of equal importance, enabled him to overcome every obstacle and establish a career highly successful in all of its parts. He accumulated wealth simply as the result of growth and exercise of the qualities enumerated, and dealt with his fellow men in the high and honorable way that never fails to win esteem and regard.

Mr. Makemson was a pious man and originally an active member of the Seventh Day Baptist church. Later in life he became a Methodist and so continued to the end of his days. Politically he was a Whig and later a Republican. He took an active interest in public affairs and at one time was elected treasurer of Kosciusko county, the duties of which he discharged in a manner satisfactory to the people regardless of politics. He was twice married, the first time while living in Ohio, to Ariel Davis, a union which resulted in the birth of six sons and three daughters. Subsequently he entered into the marriage relation with Sarah Bright, who bore him four children. Mr. Makemson's private character was without a stain and his name is associated with no questionable transactions. He is kindly and affectionately remembered by his kindred, friends and acquaintances as a man of generous and noble impulses, for his many acts of kindness and beneficence and for all the noble qualities of intelligence and enterprising citizenship. He had the Christian's love for his fellow men, used his large means liberally for the extension of religious and charitable objects and his name and fame are destined to be long remembered in the annals of northern Indiana, especially in the history of the county for the material advancement of which he gave his best years and energies.

Marshall Makemson was born in Washington township, Kosciusko county, July 3, 1845, and is a son of John and Ariel Makemson. He remained at home; working on the farm until his twenty-third year, meanwhile during his 'teens attending the common schools and obtaining a limited education. When a youth of seventeen he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana, Infantry, entering the service February 9, 1865, and receiving his discharge the following August. Returning home he determined to acquire a better education, accordingly he entered the graded schools of Pierceton, where he took up the higher branches, and subsequently became a student of the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso. After pursuing his studies for a considerable length of time and making substantial progress, he returned home and resumed agricultural pursuits on his father's farm, continuing the same until his marriage on the 16th of January, 1868, to Miss Hettie Roe, who bore him four children, viz.: Renna, Ora A., Flosie, deceased, and Carl M., deceased. His second marriage, which was solemnized June 8, 1888, was to Sarah Kuhn, who has borne him three children, Walter, Florence M. and one that died in infancy unnamed.

Not long after his first marriage Mr. Makemson engaged in general merchandising at Pierceton, Indiana, where he carried on a successful business for three years. Disposing of his stock at the expiration of that time, he moved to the farm in Tippecanoe township where he now lives, the place being one of the several quarter sections which his father divided among his children. But little improvement had been made on the place up to the time of his taking possession and the present high state of cultivation to which it has been brought and the comfortable dwelling, commodious barn and other substantial buildings it contains have been the result of his own labors and enterprise.

In all that constitutes advanced agriculture Mr. Makemson is a model farmer and the success he has achieved in this vocation, alone entitles him to a conspicuous place among the most progressive men of the county in which he lives. He has added greatly to the value of his land and by judicious dealings in various business enterprises has accumulated an ample fortune, sufficiently large to make his situation one of independence. Not a little of his money has come to him from the sale of fine hogs, of which he is considered one of the largest and most successful raisers in the county.

Mr. Makemson is a Republican, but while not an active partisan he has been greatly interested in the success of his party and has done much effective service both as an advisor among the local leaders and as a worker in the ranks when campaigns have been in progress. Fraternally he is a. member of John Murray Post. G. A. R., and at one time was connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but of late has not been actively identified with that organization.

Like his father before him, Mr. Makemson is a man of pronounced religious views and makes the church to which he belongs paramount to every other consideration. The Methodist creed embodies his faith and as class leader, superintendent of the Sunday schools and in the capacity of private member he has rendered efficient service and to the best of his ability lived up to his ideal of Christian manhood.

Mrs. Makemson has proved in every sense a fitting partner to her husband, sharing his trials and helping him to face them, rejoicing in his success and taking pride in his prosperity, until now, in the sunshine of a contented home, they are surrounded with happiness which results from difficulties conquered and obstacles removed. She is devotedly attached to the church with which her husband is identified and is noted for her good works and charities generously bestowed upon the unfortunate and the deserving poor.

There have been few cascades, eddies or shallows in Mr. Makemson' s life stream, it has always had an ever deep and steady flow. He moves steadily on, attending faithfully to his own affairs and observing the maxim of one of America's greatest business men. "Do what you do thoroughly and be faithfully in al1 accepted trusts." He always has a fixed end and aim in view, and when he acts it is quietly and with precision. He has a strong and positive will and in his make-up there is no hypocrisy and nothing savoring of ostentation or show. He is liberal to the worthy and performs his charities in a quiet, unobtrusive way, which characterizes the true philanthropist and genuine lover of his kind. Throughout his life Mr. Makemson has first of all been true to himself and it has then followed that he could not be untrue to any man. One of his main ambitions has been to do good to his fellowman individually, and at the same time to use his influence so as best to subserve the general welfare of the community. In him Tippecanoe township has a truly good man, a useful citizen and the community a popular and genial friend and neighbor whose sympathizing nature leads him to make any reasonable sacrifice if thereby the material and oral status of his fellow men may he promoted.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

DAVID STOLER.
This octogenarian and one of the oldest living citizens of Washington township, Kosciusko county, Indiana, is a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and was born November 3, 1817, a son of John and Magdalena (Fluke) Stoler, both of whom were of German extraction.

Martin Stoler, paternal grandfather of David, whose name stands at the head of this biographical record, was the first of the family to come to America, where he had married; he settled in Pennsylvania, where he engaged in farming and where his son John, father of David Stoler, was born. The part of what is now the Keystone state in which Martin Stoler was at that time was still inhabited by the Indians, who became antagonistic, and drove Martin and his family to Virginia, where they resided seven years, and then returned to the farm in Pennsylvania which Martin had first settled upon and where these pioneers passed the remainder of their lives.

John Stoler, father of David, grew to manhood on the Bedford county, Pennsylvania farm, and there married Magdalena Fluke, who bore him seven children, viz.: Abraham, who lived to be ninety years old; Catherine, who died in the fall of 1901, in Pennsylvania in her ninety-fifth year; John; Mary; Philip; Susanna and David.

David Stoler was reared on the home farm in Redford county, Pennsylvania, but at a proper age was apprenticed to the trade of masonry, and when twenty years old left the homestead to work as a journeyman mason and also at farming. About this time, 1839, he married Miss Barbara A. Shoup, a native of his own state, and continued to work at his trade about eight years longer, in connection with farming.

In October, 1855, Mr. and Mrs. Stoler came to Indiana and settled in Washington township, Kosciusko county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in the southwest corner of the township and paid for it all, excepting one hundred dollars. He built a log cabin and converted the wild place, in course of time, into a first-class farm, living on it till 1862. From that time until 1875 he worked elsewhere at cabinetmaking, but still did a great deal of this class of work on his own premises.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Stoler have been born eleven children, viz.: Martin H., George W., Drucilla, Frederick, William, Lovica, two that died in infancy in Pennsylvania:, Samuel P., Tobias and James.

Mrs. Barbara A. Stoler was called away in 1860, and Mr. Stoler chose for his second wife Mary Banta, whom he married in 1863, but to this union no children were born. This lady died in June, 1893, and Mr. Stoler next married Elizabeth A. McFurson, who died June 22, 1901, also without issue. Since then Mr. Stoler has lived alone on his farm.

Mr. Stoler has for sixty years been a member of the Presbyterian church, of which for many years he has served as a trustee and as sexton. In politics he is a Democrat and has always enjoyed the confidence of his party, whom he has served as supervisor of his township. His neighbors have always respected Mr. Stoler as one of the most upright of men, and his long life of usefulness has merited this recognition by his many friends, who all warmly esteem him.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

DAVID DAUSMAN.
Among the leading men and representative farmers of Kosciusko county none enjoy a higher standing or have achieved a greater measure of success than the worthy subject of this review who lives on one of the most beautiful and attractive places in the township of Jefferson. Mr. Dausman has been a potential factor in the local affairs of this part of the country ever since becoming a resident of Kosciusko county, thirty years ago, and today there are few men as widely known or who have accomplished as much as he towards the material development of one of the most fertile regions in the northern part of Indiana. As the name indicates, the Dausman family is of German origin. David Dausman, father of the subject, was born in Alsace, Germany, March 27, 1816, and when thirteen years of age was brought to America by his parents, David and Mattie Dausman, who settled in Canada. Shortly after his arrival in the new world young Dausman began working at the potter's trade and on becoming proficient engaged in the manufacture of pottery, which he continued with marked success until 1873, meanwhile devoting a portion of his time to farming. In his young manhood he married Miss Magdalene Byers, who was born in Canada, near Niagara Falls, on the 2d day of February, 1817. Subsequently David Dausman and family moved from Canada to Elkhart county, Indiana, where he entered land, choosing for his future home a tract in what is now the township of Jackson. He made of the latter a comfortable home and continued to live thereon until his death, which occurred in August, 1899. Mrs. Dausman is still living, making her home at this time with a married daughter in Kosciusko county. David and Magdalena Dausman reared a family of eight children, whose names are as follows: Jacob (deceased), Anna, Mary, Michael (deceased), David, Catherine, Samuel and Moses.

David Dausman, whose name forms the caption of this article, was born in Union township, Elkhart county, Indiana, August 3, 1848. He was fortunate in being descended from thrifty ancestors, his parents being noted for their industrious and frugal habits as well as for the sterling moral worth which was ever a prominent characteristic of their lives. Young David inherited these excellent traits and early exemplified them in his childhood and youth while assisting his father with the work of the farm and obtaining an education in the common schools. He grew up with the predominating idea of relying upon himself, and while still young began to formulate plans for his future course of action. He remained under the parental roof until after his majority and then decided to devote his life to agricultural pursuits, a resolution which he carried out with results that are today plainly apparent to the people of his community and throughout Kosciusko county in general.

As a worthy helpmate on the journey or life Mr. Dausman chose Miss Tillie Phillips, of Wayne county, Ohio. Mrs. Dausman was born August 23, 1851, the daughter of Lewis and Harriett (Orwig) Phillips, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively; these parents moved to Indiana in 1865 and settled in Elkhart county, where Mrs. Dausman grew to womanhood and it was here also that her marriage was solemnized.

Two days after his marriage Mr. Dausman took his bride to Kosciusko county and began housekeeping on a farm in Tippecanoe township, where he lived about three years as a renter. Subsequently he changed his residence to the township of Jefferson, where in 1877 he purchased the land from which he has since developed one of the finest farms and most beautiful and attractive homes in that part of the county. When Mr. Dausman moved to his place he found it without improvements of any kind and covered with a dense growth of forest and underbrush which required a prodigious amount of hard labor to remove. Like many others in similar circumstances he threw all the energy of his being into the task before him and knew little rest or recreation until he had reduced other improvements in keeping therewith. In the course of time the forest was cleared away, stumps removed, fences built, a successful drainage system inaugurated, and recently one of the finest brick residences in Jefferson township erected, in addition to which barns and other outbuildings were put up until the farm now bears every evidence of the advanced prosperity which has characterized the career of the proprietor since he set out to make a home and carve out a destiny.

Mr. Dausman's farm contains one hundred and twenty acres and is a model in all of its improvements and appointments. Everything on the place gives evidence of the industry, care, good taste and successful management of the owner, who, as stated in a. preceding paragraph, has honorably earned and well sustained the reputation of one of the county's most enterprising and progressive farmers as well as one of its clear-headed, shrewd and far-seeing business men.

In addition to cultivating his own land, Mr. Dausman is the business manager and general overseer of the Dunning estate, which is perhaps the largest and most important agriculturist interest in Kosciusko county, containing eighteen hundred and seventy-one acres, much of which is in a high state of cultivation. This large place is owned by David M. Dunning, of Auburn, New York, a capitalist and man of affairs. To manage successfully such a large interest requires sound judgment and business ability far above the average, both of which, with other equally meritorious qualities, Mr. Dausman possesses in an eminent degree. He has proven worthy of the confidence reposed in him and has never failed to render a strict reckoning to the entire satisfaction of the wealthy capitalist whom he represents.

In a business sense Mr. Dausman's life has been much more successful than that of the average farmer; although he began without the least pecuniary help from any one, he has by close application to his affairs amassed a competence. This has been the result of individual efforts and he is therefore a conspicuous example of the self-made man. Personally he is kind and obliging, taking delight in conferring favors upon his friends, while his enemies, if he has any, have never tittered a breath of suspicion against his character nor cast a blot upon his reputation as an honest, upright, moral citizen. He is a kind and considerate husband and father and obliging neighbor and in every way a most amiable and estimable gentleman.

Mr. and Mrs. Dausman are the parents of seven children, whose names and dates of birth are as follows: Stella, April 8, 1872, died July 7, 1873; Minnie, March 4, 1874, married Ansi1 D. Weimer, a farmer of this county: Charles, January 8, 1870, married Nettie Palmer and lives in the county of Kosciusko; Samuel D., June 20, 1870, married Clara Thwates and is also a resident of the county; Franklin, June 28, 1880, died June 2, 1895; Beulah, July 24, 1887, living at home; and Goldie, who was born November 28,1893, and departed this life December 1, 1894.

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Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

WILLIAM H. THORN.
It is not too much to say that the well known subject of this sketch is one of the leading men of Washington township or that the county of Kosciusko is proud to number him among her most worthy and exemplary citizens. A native of Indiana, his birth occurred in Wabash county on the 12th day of April, 1845. For many years the Thorns were residents of Ohio, in which state numerous descendants of the original founder of the family are yet living and, as far as known, all who bear the name are noted for honor, integrity and the essential elements of intelligent and enterprising citizenship. John and Rebecca (Metcalf) Thorn, parents of William H., came to Wabash county, Indiana as early as 1836 and settled in North Manchester where the father built the first flouring-mill ever operated in that part of the country. John Thorn had two brothers, Isaac and William, the latter the pioneer merchant of North Manchester and a successful business man. John continued to manufacture flour until seventy-four years of age, meanwhile meeting with good success in his business and becoming one of the financially strong men of the county of Wabash. By reason of several business reverses he lost a considerable portion of his wealth, which compelled him to spend the remainder of his life in circumstances far different from what he had formerly enjoyed.

In religion he was a devout member of the Methodist church. He was an aggressive politician and for many years a local leader of the Republican party. Honored and esteemed by all who knew him, he earned the reputation of an upright citizen, always willing to render assistance to worthy enterprises, free to give careful and disinterested advice and in many instances affording substantial aid and encouragement to the needy and deserving. John and Rebecca Thorn had ten children: Hannah, Phoebe, Joseph, William H., Sarah, Anna, Anola, Eva, Iantha and two that died in infancy.

The childhood and youthful years of William H. Thorn were spent in Wabash county in the common schools of which he received a good practical education. When he was fourteen his mother died and two years later he started out to achieve his own fortune. When a small boy he entered his father's mill for the purpose of learning the miller's trade and at the age of sixteen he had become so proficient that it was no difficult matter for him to secure remunerative employment. He continued to follow his chosen calling at various places until his fortieth year, meantime obtaining his full share of the amusements and enjoyments of life, besides saving from his earnings sufficient means to put him in comfortable circumstances.

It was about the year 1880 that Mr. Thorn first turned his attention to dealing in real estate, from which time until a comparatively recent date he made that his chief business. His real estate transactions took a wide range and for several years he traveled quite widely throughout Ohio, Indiana and other middle states, besides making a number of extensive tours through various states and territories of the west, in several of which he now has large landed interests. Mr. Thorn has given especial attention to dealing in farm lands, in which from the beginning his transactions have resulted in liberal financial gains. Not only has he traded for other parties, but by buying when favorable opportunities presented themselves and disposing of his lands when the markets were right he frequently met with the most encouraging success. As a judge of the relative values of all kinds of real estate Mr. Thorn has few equals and no superiors in his line of business and all of his dealings have been carried on and consummated with the object in view of satisfying all parties concerned. His integrity has never been questioned in any of his transactions and when once given, his word has proved absolutely reliable and the end generally justified the confidence which his patrons reposed in his honor and good judgment. Mr. Thom became a resident of Kosciusko county in 1869 and since the year 1885 has been permanently located in the county. He was united in marriage November l0, 1891, to Mrs. Emeline King, widow of the late Albert King and daughter of John D. and Mary Shaffer, residents of Noble county and of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Thorn have a beautiful, attractive and hospitable home, supplied with many of the comforts and conveniences and not a few of the luxuries of life and their social standing in the community is second to that that of no other two residents of the county. Mr. Thorn is a man of decided convictions on all matters, and, being intelligent and wide awake, it is natural that he should take much more than a passive interest in public and political affairs. He has always stood for progress and improvement in material and moral things and politically has long wielded a potential influence for the Republican party, of which he has been a. stanch adherent ever since old enough to exercise the right of voting. Not an aspirant for official preferment himself, he works diligently in behalf of his friends and deems no sacrifice too great to make if thereby the interests of the party may be advanced. He is a member of the Masonic brotherhood, the principles of which he endeavors to exemplify in a life devoted to the good of his fellow men. Mr. Thorn has ever been loyal to his convictions of right and has discharged the duties of neighbor and citizen with the object in view of making his friends happier and the community better. Blessed with an abundance of worldly wealth, all of which has been acquired by his own unaided efforts, he has not been selfish; on the contrary, his benefactions have been many, while his liberality and philanthropy have been felt not only in his own locality but in other places where worthy enterprises have been prosecuted. Personally he is a man of pleasing presence, genial in deportment and popular with all-in short, a typical representative of the enterprising, successful, self-made men who have done so much to develop the resources of the great middle west and advance all of its interests.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

JOHN S. HEAGY.
The occupation of farming, to which this subject has applied his time and attention since reaching his majority, is the oldest business pursuit of mankind and the one in which he will ever be the most independent. Of course when this is said reference is made to civilized man, because hunting and fishing were the primitive pursuits of man before he reached the civilized state. Since the evolutionists have shown that man comes from a man-monkey that lived in the last geological epoch and that the said monkey in turn came from a still lower form of primates, and so on back to protoplasm, the superiority of one person by reason of birth over another has been almost wholly given up. In other words, as all mankind came from monkeys, it is not in order for one man to brag that he came from a better monkey than his neighbor. So that farmers stand just as high as merchants or doctors. In addition, the farmer is far more independent. If he is out of debt he can laugh at panics and periods of tight markets. Thus is situated the subject of this brief memoir. John S. Heagy was born in Wayne county, Indiana, May 29, 1860, and is the son of Theodore and Mary (Barnes) Heagy. The Heagy family are of Germanic descent, the emigrant ancestor settling in Pennsylvania about four generations ago. In that state the grandfather and father of subject were born and reared. The Barnes family is of Scotch descent. The father and mother were married in Wayne county, Indiana, and to them these children were born: Eliza, who became the wife of Perry Bond and lives in Tennessee; Etta, who wedded Ed. Ridenbaugh and resides in Pierceton, Indiana; John S., subject; William, who married Miss Emma Little and lives in this county; George, who wedded Miss Cora McAlpine and resides in this township; Homer married Myrtle Wickersham, and resides at Marion, Indiana; Minnie married John Weaver, and is now deceased. The father moved from Wayne county to this county about 1870 or 1871, and located in Washington township, where he still resides. Theodore Heagy is a man who knows how to make money by honorable business methods, and was at one time connected with a large factory at Pierceton, Indiana. He possesses more than ordinary ability, and stands high in the community where he resides as a citizen and a business man. He is a member of the Baptist church, and in politics is a stalwart Republican.

John Heagy remained with his father until he was of age, receiving a fair education and learning fully the art of farming and stock raising. He determined to follow that occupation and began to rent and farm tracts for himself. On November 21, 1882, he married Miss Flora J., daughter of Joseph and Sarah Thatcher, of Pierceton, Indiana, and by her has four children, their names being as follows: Edna, born July 5, 1883, died when nine days old; Earl, born February 17, 1890; Ethel, born March 7, 1894, died October 30, 1894; Carl, born April 16, 1897. Mrs. Heagy was born in Champaign county, Ohio, September 29, 1861. When Mr. Heagy was first married he had comparatively nothing. He farmed one year in this county, and then took the western fever and started for Kansas, where he took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and lived on the same for thirteen months, when he went to central Kansas and rented land and made money. He remained in Sumner county, Kansas, for eight years and continued to pile up money in spite of the grasshoppers and the droughts. Like his father, under whom he was trained, it is easy for him to make money. His methods take into account the saving of a part of his earnings. In the fall of 1893, when the Cherokee strip was thrown into market, he took a claim of one hundred and sixty acres and remained on the same for six years. In 1899 he sold out and returned to Indiana, and bought his present farm of one hundred and ninety acres. He is in comfortable circumstances and is respected for his many good qualities of citizenship. He is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is one of the most intelligent and progressive of the younger farmers of the county.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

CHARLES R. LONG, M. D.
This eminent physician and surgeon, now a resident of Pierceton, Kosciusko county, Indiana, is a son of James P. and Ebigha (Hunt) Long and was born in Morrow county, Ohio, October 13, 1851. When he was two years old his parents moved to Henry county, Illinois, where they resided until 1858, then returned to Fredericktown, Ohio, where our subject completed his education in the public and high schools, from which he graduated at the age of sixteen. He then attended a select class for two years, held by a Presbyterian minister, and in 1868 his parents came to Pierceton and here he engaged as clerk in a hardware store, where he was employed about six years. He then began the study of medicine with his father (who was a practicing physician), and later attended the Detroit Medical College, of Detroit, Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1880. He returned to Pierceton and at once began the practice of medicine and has since been recognized as one of the most ski1lful practitioners of the city.

He is a member of Pierceton Lodge No. 377, F. & A. M., in which he has passed all the chairs and represented the lodge in the grand lodge. He was master of Pierceton Lodge for seven years. He is also a member of the Pierceton Lodge No. 257, I. O. O. F., has likewise passed all the chairs and represented the lodge in the grand lodge, and also belongs to the Warsaw Knights Templar Commandery, No. 10. He is a member of the national, state and county medical societies and has been president of the county society three times. Politically the Doctor is a Republican and was elected as a member of the school board several times. The Doctor is the owner of two hundred and eighteen acres of fine farm land, and makes a specialty of raising fine blooded Durham cattle and Berkshire hogs and carries on general farming.

On March 15, 1881, Dr, Long was united in marriage to Miss Emma J. Hoover, daughter of Daniel and Henrietta (Heagy) Hoover, by whom he has four children as follows: Nora, deceased, Adda, deceased, Lena and Florence.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

HIRAM O. KING, M. D.
This successful physician and farmer of Pierceton, Kosciusko county, Indiana, a son of Michael and Rachel (Switzer) King, was born in Noble county, Indiana, November 16, 1850. He attended the public schools of his native place for his preliminary education and took a course at the Kendallville Academy. At the age of twenty-five he left school and began teaching in the district schools. He also commenced a course of medical study under the preceptorship of Dr. J. L. Gilbert, of Kendallville, and later entered the Detroit Medical College, graduating there from in the spring of 1876. Not content with the knowledge thus obtained, he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, taking a postgraduate course, graduating there from in 1882. In 1876 he began the practice of his profession at Moscow, Hillsdale county, Michigan, remaining there for one year. In the fall of 1877 he moved to Pierceton, where he again opened an office and, with the exception of the time requisite to complete his post-graduating course, has continued here ever since in the practice of his profession. Dr. King has grown in favor as a physician and surgeon and now enjoys a most lucrative practice. His standing among his professional brethren is high and the value of his services in the sick chamber has been long assured and appreciated by many families throughout the entire county.

Fraternally the Doctor is a member of Pierceton Lodge No. 387. A. F. & A. M., has held all the offices of the local lodge, and is now its worshipful master. Dr. King also holds membership in Pierceton Lodge No. 245, K. of P., is a past chancellor and has served as representative of the local or subordinate lodge in the grand lodge. In medical associations he holds membership not only with the county, but state organization, and is a regular attendant at the sessions of each. He is a member of the United States pension examining board, receiving his appointment under President McKinley's first administration.

On November 11, 1879, Dr. King led to the altar Miss Ida Bethia Wilson, a daughter of Albert and Isabelle (Trobridge) Wilson, who became the mother of one son, Ralph, born April 1, 1874, now clerking in a clothing store at Pierceton. Mrs. King was born March 12, 1861, in Noble county, on her father's farm, adjoining that where the Doctor was born. Dr. King is of German descent. His father was a native of Haden-Baden, Germany, born in 1804, and came to America when he was a young man of twenty-six years of age, locating first in Ohio, and in 1850 moved to Indiana. He was three times married, first to a lady in Germany; his second wife was Miss Rachael Switzer, a native of Ohio, and his third wife was Mrs. Henrietta Potter.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen, Publisher
Logansport, Indiana
1902

DAVID BALLIET.
The gentleman whose biography is here given is one of the prosperous farmers of Washington township and principal owner and founder of the Pierceton Roller Mills, and well deserves mention in the biographical memoirs of Kosciusko county. He is a son of Stephen and Catherine (Zehner) Balliet, and was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1820. His boyhood days were passed in his native county and it was there he attended school until his seventeenth birthday, when his parents moved to Richland county, Ohio. To his former schooling was added two winter terms in the public schools of Richland county, and then he applied himself to the milling business. After becoming proficient in this line of business and having saved some money, he engaged in business on his own account in 1841, following it successfully until 1859, when he traded his mill property for a farm which he conducted until 1877. While he was successful as a farmer, he ever had a yearning to again engage in milling and looked about him for an opportunity to do so. The chance finally came and he traded his Richland farm for the grist-mill located in Pierceton, Kosciusko county, Indiana, where he has since been located and conducted the milling business. Some time since he disposed of a third interest in the mill to Daniel W. Strouse, of Pierceton, who continued as his partner until April, 1902, when Mr. Balliet purchased his interest and is now the sole owner in the enterprise. The revolution in the manufacture of flour by the introduction of the roller process prompted Mr. Balliet to add the improvement to his plant, in order to meet the demands of consumers and keep pace with competitive millers from other points, which was speedily done. The mill is now doing a large general business and is the only flouring mill in Pierceton. It enjoys a fine trade and the product enjoys a high reputation among the people of the county.

The grandfather of our subject was Leonard Balliet of Franco-German parentage, and was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania. His father, John, and two brothers, Paul and Joseph, were the first of the family that came to America, over two hundred years ago, and settled in the Penn colony. Leonard married a lady of Scotch parentage and they reared a large family, consisting of eleven children. The father, Leonard, became a soldier in the Continental army and served throughout the long and trying struggle which finally culminated in the independence of the colonies from English domination. The names of the children born to Leonard Balliet and wife are as follows: Leonard, Jr., Stephen, George Daniel, Eva, Joseph, Henry, Jonas, Jacob, David, and John, who died in infancy. It will be seen from the chronology that Stephen, the second son of Leonard, and who married Catherine Zahner, is the father of our subject, David Balliet. Stephen Balliet was a cooper and blacksmith by trade, and also a farmer. He and his wife became the parents of twelve children, namely: Nancy, Benjamin, Joseph, John, Stephen, Leonard, Henry, David (the subject), Tillina, Catherine, Jonas and Mary Ann. Leonard and David are the only members of the family now living, Leonard now residing in Wyandot county, Ohio, at the advanced age of eighty-six.

From 1860 to 1869 Mr. Balliet, while a resident of Ohio, held the office of township trustee of Wyandot county, and also the office of supervisor. In his marital relations Mr. Balliet has been unfortunate and yet fortunate. His first marriage occurred January 6, 1846, the lady being Miss Lena Swartz, a daughter of John and Catherine (Drysbuck) Swartz. Children were born of this union, namely: Aaron, deceased; Lydia, deceased; John Franklin, a banker, of Kansas; Marietta; Tillman, a resident of Cleveland; and one that died in infancy. After the death of Mrs. Balliet Mr. Balliet married Elizabeth Balliet, widow of his brother Joseph. There were no children by this marriage. His third wife was Jane (Raney) Weatherby, daughter of Robert Raney. They were the parents of one child, Charles, who assists in the operation of the mill. The fourth wife was Mrs. Elizabeth (Manner) Shank, daughter of James and Jane McAlexander Manner. She was born March 30, 1837, and was formerly the wife of Abraham Shank.

Politically Mr. Balliet is a Democrat, but of the quiet type who leave the turmoil of politics for others. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Balliet are of German descent, coming to America prior to the Revolutionary war and settling in the Penn colony. Mr. Balliet is an active participant in all movements that tend to the public good and enjoys the confidence and esteem of many sincere friends. Fraternally he is a Mason, having become a member of Nevada Lodge, in Ohio, in 1863. He has held many of the offices therein. In religion his early choice was the German Reformed church, but on moving to Ohio he became a member of the Lutheran church, there being no church of the former denomination in Richland county. On coming to Pierceton similar difficulty was met and there being no Lutheran church he became a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he is a prominent official.

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Logansport, Indiana
1902

FRANCIS McNAMARA, DECEASED.
Francis McNamara was a native of Clare Castle, County Clare, Ireland, and was a son of Francis and Mary (Hassett) McNamara, a family long and well known in Clare Castle.

Bridget McNamara, sister of Francis, died in the city of Philadelphia at the remarkable age of one hundred and sixteen years. She was the wife of John Sweeney, a veterinary surgeon, known in Ireland as a farrier. After the death of her husband Bridget (McNamara) Sweeney came from London to America, to make her home with her son, John F. McSweeney, a Catholic priest located at Maysville, Kentucky. The remarkable vitality of this family is astonishing, and the feat that she performed in crossing the Atlantic ocean when ninety-six years old can not, it is believed by the writer, be paralleled. The father of Francis McNamara lived to be one hundred and six years old, dying in the old country. Francis McNamara, the subject of this sketch, came to America with an uncle named McBeth, who, commanded the sailing vessel Sarah, of Greenoch. Captain McBeth was an educated gentleman and was of much assistance to Francis, the latter remaining with him until reaching the age of twenty-eight, about which time the vessel was wrecked and lost.

Francis McNamara, when about twenty-eight years old, went into nautical service on Lake Champlain, which he followed for two years. He then worked on a farm about one year in New York, and then went to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, continuing in the same line about two years. Later he became a manager in one of the departments of a paper mill owned by William Hogg. It was at this time he was married, the lady who became his wife being Christina Webber, a daughter of John Adam and .Anna Mary (Burkhart) Webber. They became the parents of nine children, namely: William, John Goodlow, Margaret Ann, Mary, Francis, Barbara, Bridget, Mathew and George Gordon.

Christina (Webber) McNamara was born in Swartzenberg, Germany, in 1813 and came to America in 1832, when nineteen years old, suffering shipwreck on the passage. She found a home with a sister in Pennsylvania, and her father, being wealthy, paid for a round-trip ticket for two years, but they never went back and consequently were disinherited. Christina was a college graduate, and quite accomplished. While residing with her brother and sister the family removed to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there Christina met Mr. McNamara, to whom she was married at Brownsville, although they were of diverse religions, he being a Catholic and she a Lutheran. About 1840 Mr. McNamara migrated to Ohio and purchased a farm of eighty acres in Jefferson township, Knox county, where he resided until 1881, when he moved to Kosciusko county, Indiana, and here his wife passed away at Pierceton June 21, 1886, and here, also, after a life of retirement of about six years, Mr. McNamara was called to the unknown beyond January 19, 1887.

John Goodlow McNamara was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania October 9, 1837, and when four years old was taken by his parents to Ohio., where he later attended school in an old-fashioned log schoolhouse, he being then about fourteen. When he was aged twenty-three he attended the Haski1l Academy at Loudonville, Ohio, for five months, and then came to Warsaw, Kosciusko county, Indiana, there he kept bachelor's hall and attended school one season. He next went to Columbia City, and then attended the high school at Pierceton for two terms. He was next employed in clearing off forest land for three years, and finally became a contractor in which vocation he erected twenty-two barns and forty-seven houses, going through all the lumber with jack-plane and dressing it by hand. In the meantime he took a course of study in law, and also did some farm work.

In 1863 and 1864 Mr. McNamara was engaged in getting out timber in Michigan, and there also he built the trestle-work across the Titawawassee river; later he took a gang of men to the pineries and got out three million feet of logs. He then returned to Kosciusko county and bought fifty-two acres of timber-land and went into the lumber business for about a year. He also placed part of this land under cultivation, later sold it and purchased one hundred and ten acres, which he cleared up and made his home until about 1901, when he retired to Pierceton to pass the remainder of his days in peace and comfort.

The marriage of John G. McNamara was solemnized in Knox county, Ohio, January 1, 1862, with Miss Caroline Beam, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Kruger) Beam, and born in Knox county October 23. 1841. This marriage has been blessed with four children, viz.: Mary E., who died in 1866, when three and a half years old; John Francis, who died July 3, 1876, aged seven years and three weeks; Dora Ada, born September 16, 1867, is deceased; and Alma Bell, born September 27, 1868, died February 25, 1869.

Jacob Beam, father of Mrs. Caroline McNamara, was born in West Baden, Germany, and there learned shoemaking. He was still a young man when he came to the United States and settled in Knox county, Ohio, where he married Mary Kruger, also a native of Germany, who at the age of twenty came to America with her parents, who settled in Canton, Ohio, where her grandfather, John Kruger, met his death by a fall from a cherry tree.

John G. McNamara is a, ski1lful and versatile mechanic, being a blacksmith, gunsmith, carpenter, cabinetmaker, and, in fact, a worker at any trade requiring the use of tools. He stands very high in the esteem of his neighbors. He is a member of the Masonic order and also a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was instrumental in organizing the first lodge in the county, in 1873. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never been an aspirant for office.

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Logansport, Indiana
1902

JOSIAH ANDREAS.
Josiah Andreas, a son of John and Nancy Jane (Balliert) Andreas, was born Schuylkil1 county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1835. When he was but a child of two years of age his parents moved to Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio. Here his early youth was passed and through the medium of the district schools he obtained his education. On laying aside his textbooks he applied his energies to mastering the trade of carpenter, working at that business for three years. He then moved to Wyandot county and engaged in farming, which he carried on for eighteen years, meeting with fair success. In 1877 he concluded to change his location, and moved to Pierceton and purchased seventy-one and three-fourths acres of land located in Washington township, adjoining the town, on which he has since made his home. In the cultivation of his farm Mr. Andreas has paid considerable attention to fruits, which in their season are the source of great income and profit. He also is a breeder of stock and his pastures afford ample range for many fine specimens of cattle and hogs, which are fattened for the market on grain raised upon the farm. His management is productive of good results, giving a handsome income for the labor and care expended.

On November 12, 1857, Mr. Andreas and Mary Petrie, a daughter of David and Lydia (Settlemeyer) Petrie, were married. They are the parents of nine children, namely: Amelia Carretta died at the age of twelve years; Phiana E. died at the age of twenty-eight years; William D. died in infancy; Valiria died when twelve years of age; Emma became the wife of James Houser and they are residents of Akron, Fulton county, Indiana; Mary died at the age of twenty-four; John Louis lives at home; Cyrus lives at Culver, Indiana; Savillia married Charles Brauer and they are residents of Fort Wayne.

In his religious views Mr. Andreas is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has served the congregation as trustee and as steward. He is independent in his politics, and cares nothing for the platforms or policies under which the various parties seek to obtain office for their adherents. He exercises the right of franchise in favor of the man whose qualities and honesty of purpose are best known.

The wife of Mr. Andreas was born September 1, 1839, and was educated in the common schools. In 1852 her parents moved to Ohio, settling in Richland county, and it was there her education was completed, leaving school at the age of seventeen. Her grandfather, Jacob Petrie, was a native of Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Zaner, and they were the parents of six children. David, the father of Mrs. Andreas, was born in Pennsylvania May 20, 1815, died April 20, 1881, married market on grain raised upon the farm. His Lydia Settlemeyer, and they became the management is productive of good results, parents of six children: Jacob, deceased; Mary; Lavina, who became the wife Nathan Hazenbaugh; Louis, who resides in Warsaw; Catherine married Amos Eby; and David, deceased.

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Logansport, Indiana
1902

JAMES HINTON STINSON.
The above named gentleman, now trustee of Washington township, Kosciusko county, Indiana, is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Wilson) Stinson, and was born on the old homestead in Washington township, August 12, 1846. He was educated in the common schools of the district and at the age of seventeen laid aside his text-books and helped to clear and develop the home farm, becoming quite apt in the use of the ax and other implements required on a farm, and thus acquired a good knowledge of all the details pertaining to the business. On May 26, 1870, he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Moore, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Makemson) Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson have no children.

Fraternally he is a member of Pierceton Lodge No. 257, I. O. O. F., and has passed al1 the chairs and represented his lodge in the grand lodge. Religiously he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the political field he gives his support to the Republican party and takes an active part in the political affairs of his township and county. In 1900 he was honored by the people o his township by being nominated and elected to the position of township trustee and is now performing the duties of that office in a manner creditable to himself and satisfactory to his constituency.

Jacob Stinson, the father of our subject, came to Kosciusko county in 1837, and entered six hundred and forty acres of government land under the administration of President Van Buren. He was one of the pioneers of that early period who blazed the way in the forest wilds for the building of the great commonwealth which now ranks among the prominent states of the Union. He died in 1870 on his original homestead, where he had lived since first coming to the county .

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Logansport, Indiana
1902

SAMUEL RIDER.
This prosperous farmer and ex-soldier of the Civil war is a son of John and Catherine (Hake) Rider, and was born in York county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1845. There he resided until he was ten years of age, at which time his parents moved to Whitley county, Indiana. It was there that Samuel again took up his studies, attending the old primitive log school-house, with its rude benches for seats, puncheon floor and slabs laid upon pegs driven into the side of the house for writing desks. Three years were devoted to study and farm life and at the age of sixteen his entire time was given to the work of clearing the land for the plow. It was during that period of the Civil war when the conflicts between the apposing armies told of strenuous efforts to bring the war to a successful termination and additional troops were called far by President Lincoln. Young Samuel, though not of the age required, was strong and rugged and was imbued with that patriotic fervor which characterized the host of gallant defenders who offered their lives in defense of those principles of self-government which has made our country great. Going to Kendallville he enlisted as a recruit in Company F, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was sent to Indianapolis, where he was mustered into the service, and with others forwarded to Chattanooga to join the regiment. He was with his command in east Tennessee, and returned to Nashville in time to take part in the decisive battle around that city under General George H. Thomas; was at Buzzard Roost, and followed Hood's retreating army into Alabama, a series of almost daily conflicts. The regiment was finally returned to Chattanooga, doing garrison duty for four months. In July, 1865, his regiment was a part of the expedition that moved into Georgia, going to Dalton, thence to Atlanta, and subsequently to Marietta, where he was mustered out of the service on October 24, 1865. Drawing his pay at Nashville, he returned to his home and engaged in farming, clearing and developing one hundred and forty-five acres of wild land in Marshall county, and there remained for about nine years, going thence to Whitley county, taking up his residence at Larwill, where he lived for three years. He then went to Kansas, located a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in Kingman county, which he "proved up," staying two years, and then returned to Whitley county, where he remained about nine years, coming thence to Kosciusko county and locating on an eighty-acre tract in Washington township. Two years were spent on that place, when he bought eighty acres of land in section 24, Washington township, where he moved and resided until March, 1902, when he purchased and settled on his present farm in section 26, same township.

In March, 1878, Mr. Rider was married to Miss Rebecca A. Johnson, daughter of William B. and Mary A. (Leferts) Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Rider are the parents of eight children, namely: John William, a resident of Pierceton; Elzie Edward married Hester Bennett, daughter of Noah and Matilda Bennett; Estie Clarence died in October, 1885, at the age of six years; Elmer, aged three years, died in 1885; Effie Eveline is a student at school; Alva, Benjamin and Alta are also attending school.

Fraternally Mr. Rider is a member of John Murray Post, G. A. R., at Pierceton. He has held the office of senior vice and junior vice. Religiously he is a free thinker. In politics Mr. Rider is a stanch Republican, but does not engage actively in political contests.

Daniel Rider was the first of the name in America, was a Hessian, and belonged to a contingent of troops brought to this country by the British. On learning the cause of the trouble between the colonies and England, he left the British army and joined the continentals under Washington, serving throughout the Revolutionary war. When peace was declared he settled in York county, Pennsylvania, where he died. He was the great-great-grandfather of our subject.

Progressive Men and Women of Kosciusko County, Indiana
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Logansport, Indiana
1902