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Sec. 12 .- THE INDIANA FOUNDRY COM- PANY .- This is one of our latest acquisitions. The company was organized April 17, 1903, with a capital of ten thousand dollars. Like most of our successful manufactories, it had a modest beginning ; but it has developed rap- idly. The incorporators were: William N. Bergan, Alonzo A. Forsyth, Joseph Bergan, Frederick L. Dennis. Edward Bergan, Hiram W. VanNest and Chauncey N. Fassett. The present officers are: Frederick L. Dennis, president; William N. Bergan. vice-presi- dent: F. H. Fassett, secretary; Chauncey N. Fassett. treasurer and general manager; M. Konzen, cashier and purchasing agent.
Sec. 13 .- THE LA SALLE PAPER COMPANY. -This company is now under the sole man- agement of Frank P. Nicely. The building in which the business of manufacturing paper is carried on, situated on East Madison street, on the east race, is deserving of par- ticular notice from the circumstance that here. when Beach & Keedy were the proprie- tors, the first paper made in South Bend was manufactured. It is at present the only fac- tory in South Bend for the manufacture of paper.
Sec. 14 .- THE WINKLER BROTHERS' MANU- FACTURING COMPANY .- The friendly relations of the members of manufacturing companies in South Bend is manifested by the number of companies organized by families-the Studebakers, the Olivers, the Birdsells, the O'Briens. the Knoblocks. the Stephensons, the Campbells, the Hunts, the Colmers, and many others: and more recently, the Winklers. The Winkler Brothers are also distinguished for
their success before the organization of any corporation. Like the Studebakers, they be- gan at the anvil and the bench. On October 29, 1902, when their business in the manu- facture of wagons and other vehicles had increased to mammoth proportions, they found the necessity of becoming incorpora- ted. The capital was fixed at seventy-five thousand dollars; and they purchased a large vacant tract on the Lake Shore railroad, in the southwest part of the city, where they erected a most complete and modern factory building, which was completed and occupied during the past two years. The present offi- cers are: Frederick C. Winkler, president ; Charles H. Winkler, vice-president; John G. Grim. secretary; Remy Vuylsteke, superin- tendent.
Sec. 15 .- OTHER MANUFACTURING COM- PANIES .- South Bend is essentially so much a manufacturing city that it would be quite impossible in this work to give an extended notice of each, or even of a majority, of the companies now organized and engaged in al- most every variety of manufacturing. The following is but a partial list of companies not yet mentioned. most of which would be entitled to far more notice than that which can here be given :
The Matthews Steam Boiler Works, long conducted by that good, industrious citizen, Jonathan Matthews.
The Indiana Lumber and Manufacturing Company, one of the present live companies of the city, at the head of which is the genial and energetic Christopher Fassnacht.
The Colfax Manufacturing Company, en- gaged in the building of light wagons, and which preserves in our industrial history the name of our most distinguished citizen of other days, Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, and that of his son, also Schuyler Colfax, for- mer mayor of South Bend.
The Stephenson Manufacturing Company, makers of wood turnings. This is the same corporation mentioned in connection with the A. C. Staley Manufacturing Company.
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The South Bend Iron Bed Company.
The Colmer Brothers, makers of tools and bicycle specialties.
The Hunt Brothers' Wagon and Carriage Works.
The Davies Shirt Company; and the Wil- son Brothers' Shirt Manufacturing Company. Both of these are very prosperous, and the Wilson Company has a number of very large buildings.
The South Bend Watch Company, having a factory situated near the eastern city lim- its, between South Bend and Mishawaka. The quality of the watches made in this factory is quite equal to that of those made at Elgin or Waltham.
Still other manufacturing industries are: The Boiler Compound Manufacturing Com- pany ; The Hull Brothers' Boiler Company .; Thaddeus Talcott's Boiler Works; Maurer, Labadie & Company, boiler makers; The Northern Brass & Aluminum Foundry; The Frank Fisher Brick Kilns; The Frank Per- kins Brick Kilns: The South Bend Brick Company ; The Jacobson-Peterson Broom
Works : The Botts & Klaasen Concrete Works: The Calvert H. Defrees Concrete Works: The R. S. Hollowell Conerete Works; The Henry C. Eckler Building Material Man- ufacturers; The Miller & Donahue Lumber Manufacturing Company ; The Smith & Jack- son Lumber and Manufacturing Company ; The Ziegler-Stickler Lumber and Manufac- turing Company; The Ideal Concrete Ma- chine Company: The Edmondson Concrete Machine Company : The R. Z. Snell Cement Block Machine Manufacturers; The South Bend Machine Manufacturing Company : The Williams-Forrest Machine Company; The South Bend Chandelier Company: The Me- Erlain & Elbel Cigar Box Manufacturers; Bernard J. Engeldrum, Charles L. Goetz, Omacht & Stedman, and eighteen to twenty other cigar manufacturers; The South Bend Dowel Works; The Sibley Drill Manufac- turers: The George Cutter Electric Specialty Company ; The Russell & Ober Excelsior Man-
ufacturers; The Wells-Kreighbaum Extension Table Manufacturers; The N. P. Bowsher Feed Mill Manufacturing Company; The In- diana Anchor Fence Company; The Worden Bucktail Fishing Tackle Company; The An- derson Brass Foundry; The Meyer Foundry and Manufacturing Company; The Sibley Machine Tool Company; The South Bend Foundry Company; The John Gannen Grill Company ; The William Neidhart Grill Man- ufacturer; The John A. Neuperth Grill Man- ufacturer: The Owen Harness Snaps Manu- factory ; The John D. Haberle Machine Works; The Schock Machine Company; The Charles M. Starr Machine Works; The Per- fection Mattress Company; The Russell & Ober Mattress Makers; The Turner Oil Fil- ter Company; The South Bend Pulp and Plaster Company; The Beall Non-Pounding Frog and Crossing Company : The John Bey- rer Roofing Company; The Lauber & Weiss Galvanized Works: The Cassady Rotary En- gine Company; David Armstrong Rubber Stamp Factory; The H. A. Pershing Office Supply Works; The Bailey & Ingram Rub- ber Stamp Works: The August Soderberg Snuff Factory : The South Bend Spark Ar- rester Company ; The Malleable Steel Range Manufacturing Company ; The C. G. Folsom & Co. Stove Company; The South Bend Tent & Awning Company; The Indiana Tent & Awning Company ; The James W. Camper Tent & Awning Works; The South Bend Spring Wagon & Carriage Company; The John Dyer Weather Strip Works: the Chauncey Pippinger Weather Strip Works ; The South Bend Split Pulley Works.
See. 16 .- BANKS .- Closely connected with the manufactures and general business of South Bend are its banks. These institutions are almost coeval with the municipality it- self. The State Bank of Indiana was char- tered on January 28, 1834, with headquarters at Indianapolis, and with authority to es -. tablish ten district branches throughont the state." Dr. John A. Henricks and Hon. Thomas D. Baird, assisted by Hon. George a. R. S., 1838, pp. 92-115.
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Crawford, of Elkhart county, secured the lo- cation of one of the branch banks at South Bend. On February 22, 1838, a public meet- ing was held at the court house to express the great satisfaction of the people with this action ; and on February 24, 1838, a dinner was given at the Exchange hotel in honor of the same event. Subscription books were opened July 2, 1838. Alexis Coquillard, Lath- rop M. Taylor and John Grant acting as com- missioners. The books were closed August 4, 1838, with more than a thousand shares sub- scribed over the amount required. The bank was opened for business November 24, 1838. It was first located in a two-story brick build-
Among the presidents of our first bank, the South Bend Branch of the State Bank of Indiana. were Tyra W. Bray, John Eg- bert, Lathrop M. Taylor. Anthony Defrees, Jonathan L. Jernegan. Samuel C. Sample and Ricketson Burroughs. Marshall P. Chapin, as teller, settled up the affairs of the bank at the expiration of the charter. The officers of the second bank, the Bank of the State of Indiana, during its existence, from 1858 to 1864, were : President, John Brownfield ; cash- ier, Horatio Chapin; and teller. John T. Lindsey.
The First National Bank of South Bend was organized September 5, 1863, by Charles
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ing at the northeast corner of Michigan street and what is now Colfax avenue. In 1841, the long familiar building opposite, with its imposing porticos, on the southwest corner of the same streets, was occupied by the bank: and there it remained until the expiration of the charter, in 1858.
On March 3. 1855. a charter had been obtained for a bank to be known as the Bank of the State of Indiana, with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to begin business on the expiration of the char- ter of the old bank. This bank continned until the establishment of national banks, in 1864.
N. Culver. Thomas S. Stanfield, John A. Hen- ricks, Ethan S. Reynolds, John Reynolds and Ransom Hubbard. The capital stock was one hundred thousand dollars. The bank opened for business in the old St. Joseph block, at the corner of Washington and Main streets, November 30, 1863. Thomas S. Stanfield was the first president and John T. Lindsey first cashier. The directors were Thomas S. Stan- field, John Reynolds, Ethan S. Reynolds, John A. Henricks and Ransom Hubbard. Wil- liam Miller. afterwards Mayor Miller. be- came president in 1867, and in the same year Charles W. Guthrie became cashier. In 1869 John A. Henricks was elected president. On
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January 13, 1871, Caleb A. Kimball was the southwest corner of Michigan and Jeffer- elected cashier, a position which he has ever son streets. In 1883, the present site was purchased, at the northeast corner of Main and Center streets, where a commodious bank building was erected. In 1900 this building was greatly enlarged and improved. The bank has now as commodious and pleasant quarters as could be desired. The business has continued to increase in an ex- traordinary degree, from the beginning. In since held. John R. Foster was afterwards president, and was succeeded by Lucius Hub- bard, who is still president. The vice-presi- dents have been Albert G. Cushing, Ethan S. Reynolds. Edward B. Reynolds and Marion B. Staley. the present incumbent. On the burning of the old St. Joseph block. in 1865, the bank was removed to the building of the old State Bank of Indiana, where it re- mained for thirty-five years. On June 10, 1900, the bank was again located on the site of its original quarters, in the Oliver hotel block, at the northwest corner of Washington and Main streets.
The South Bend National Bank was organ- ized in 1870 by John Brownfield. William Miller. Lucius Hubbard, Schuyler Colfax, William Mack, Powers Green. Darwin H. Baker. Benjamin F. Price and Caleb A. Kim- ball. John Brownfield was the first president. He was succeeded, in 1888, by William Mil- ler, who remained president until his death, February 21, 1901. Marvin Campbell has been president since the death of Mr. Miller. The bank was for many years located in the Price Theatre building on Michigan street, adjoining the old State Bank building. It is now on the same street, near the corner of Washington street.
The origin of the St. Joseph County Sav- ings Bank is principally due to Theodore J. Seixas, one of the brightest financiers in the history of the county. The bank was incor- porated November 25. 1869. The incorpo- rators were Louis Humphreys, John C. Knob- lock, Thelus M. Bissell. Joseph Worden, Adam S. Baker. T. Wilkes Defrees. David Greenawalt. Almond Bugbee. William F. Bul- la and John C. Birdsell. The bank was opened for business in January, 1870. The first bank building was located on the east side of Main street, a little north of Washington. The location was afterwards changed to a point nearly opposite, on the west side of the same street. Afterwards, for a time, it was at
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ST. JOSEPH COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, SOUTH BEND.
1870 the deposits were seven thousand, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. They are now over three and a quarter millions. The depositors num- ber nearly ten thousand, and over thirteen hundred thousand dollars have been paid to them in interest. Mr. Seixas served as seere- tary and cashier until 1878, when he was suc- ceeded by the present incumbent, Lucius G. Tong. The first president was Louis
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Humphreys. On the death of Dr. Hum- phreys, George W. Matthews became presi- dent. On the death of Mr. Matthews, in 1895, Jacob Woolverton became president. In the year 1900, the St. Joseph Loan and Trust Company was organized in connection with the bank, and has since done a most extensive business. It may be said that the extraordin- ary success of the St. Joseph County Savings Bank has been due chiefly to the business ability. kindliness and strict integrity of Theodore J. Seixas, Lucius G. Tong and the other managers of its concern. The present officers of the bank are: President. Jacob Woolverton; vice-president, Benjamin F. Dunn ; second vice-president, George U. Bing- ham; secretary and treasurer, Lucius G. Tong. The officers of the trust company are : President, John M. Studebaker, Sr .; vice- president, Jacob Woolverton; second vice- president, George U. Bingham ; secretary and treasurer, Lucius G. Tong.
The People's Savings Bank was organized in 1875 by Joseph B. Arnold, Jr .. and oth- ers. Mr. Arnold was the first president. The trustees were: Hiram Jackson, Newton Jack- son. Aaron Webster, Henry B. Hine, George W. Swygart. Andrew J. Jaquith. Joseph B. Arnold, Sr., and Joseph B. Arnold. Jr. The business was successfully carried on for ten years, when the bank voluntarily closed, paid its depositors in full and retired.
The foregoing may be considered as the his- torical banking concerns of the city. The remaining banks and trust companies. all of which are doing an excellent business, are : The Citizens' National Bank, the Merchants' National Bank, the American Trust Com- pany and the Citizens' Loan. Trust and Sav- ings Company.
VI. RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL.
Sec. 1 .- THE METHODIST CHURCH .- From May 6th to May 13th, 1906. the First Meth- odist Episcopal Church of South Bend held its diamond jubilee. in commemoration of the first organization of the local society.
Through the courtesy of the Rev. Madison H. Appleby, present pastor of the church, the following historical sketch, published in connection with the jubilee, is here given :
"Organized Methodism north of the Wa- bash river had its beginnings in 1831, when from the Illinois conference N. B. Griffith was appointed to the Ft. Wayne mission, Madison district, Allen Wiley, presiding elder.a
"On the 24th of January, 1831. Rev. N.
FIRST M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH BEND.
B. Griffith and Benjamin Ross and family ar- rived at South Bend. Sammel Martin and wife and Benjamin Potter and wife, who were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. had preceded them. N. B. Griffith came as a missionary, but as there was a deep snow on the ground and the weather was very cold, and as the few families in the village were
a. But see Chap. 8. Subd. 5, Sec. 13, of this history. While the first regular organization may have been under the Rev. N. B. Griffith, as stated, yet it appears that the Rev. James Armstrong organized the first Methodist church in the county, at Hamilton, on Terre Coupee Prairie, in 1830.
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sheltered in cabins and half-faced shanties. no room could be had large enough to ac- commodate the people for preaching. On the evening of the 31st of January, these Meth- odist families met at the house of Benjamin Ross and held a prayer-meeting, which was the first Methodist worship, if not the first Protestant worship, held in South Bend.
"Some time in Mareh following, the Rev. Leonard B. Gurley. on a missionary tour. ar- rived and preached in the house of Benjamin Ross: but as the field had been provided for by the appointment of Mr. Griffith, he did not remain.
"Early in April Mr. Griffith returned, and on the evening of the 6th collected the peo- ple in the bar-room of a small tavern kept by Benjamin Coquillard, a Roman Catholic, and preached; after which he organized the first class, consisting of Samuel Martin and wife. Benjamin Potter and wife, Benjamin Ross and wife, Rebecca Stull and Simeon Mason. Martin and Ross were appointed leaders. In June, 1831. William Stanfield and wife came to South Bend and were added to the class by certificate, and Mr. Stan- field was soon afterward appointed leader. About the same time Samuel Newman and wife were also added by letter. In August Ja- cob Hardman. M. D .. and in the fall Samuel Good and wife joined by certificate. A Sab- bath school was organized and officered as follows: Superintendent, William Stanfield; secretary and treasurer. Horatio Chapin ; teachers. H. Chapin, E. R. Tutt. Elliott Smith and Dr. Hardman. This was a union sehool. In 1835 the first Methodist Sunday school was organized. It met for a time in John Brownfield's kitchen. The first church build- ing was erected on North Main street in 1835-36. A brick church building was built. in 1851. on the site of the present building, at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets. It was dedicated on the 17th of Angust of that year. The present building was com- pleted in 1871. A parsonage on the site now cceupied was built in 1866. during the pas-
torate of Dr. C. A. Brooke. This building was torn down and replaced by the present. modern and commodious strueture, in 1905. The following men have served the church as pastors since its organization, in 1831 :
"N. B. Griffith. R. S. Robinson, G. M. Bes- wick, B. Phelps, S. R. Ball. James S. Harri- son, David Stiver, William M. Farley. G. M. Boyd. Zachariah James, F. Crane, John H. Bruce, John B. De Motte. Milton Mahin. John P. Jones, T. C. Hackney. Henry C. Benson. E. S. Preston, James Johnson, James C. Reed, A. A. Gee, C. S. Burgner, William Wilson. Joseph C. Reed. G. Morgan, S. T. Cooper, Clark Skinner, C. A. Brooke, John Thrush, J. Il. Swope, G. M. Boyd. H. A. Gobin (two terms). JJ. C. Stephens. S. B. Town (two terms). W. H. Hickman, H. M. Middleton. J. II. Hollingsworth. E. P. Bennett and M. Il. Appleby."
The second society established in South Bend by the Methodist church was the Miehi- gan Street Church, or Grace Church. as it is more properly ealled. This church was organized in 1869, with one hundred and thir- ty-seven members. The first pastor was the Rev. William R. Mikels. This church has eon- tinned prosperous to this day.
The German Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1872 by the Rev. Philip Walker, of Michigan City. The first pastor was the Rev. William Keller. The society has a fine brick church at the northwest corner of Lafayette and Wayne streets. The present pastor is the Rev. Henry Karnopp.
The other Methodist churches of the city are: The Free Methodist Church, the Rev. B. R. Parks, pastor; the Lowell Heights Methodist Church : and the Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Cyrus E. Roberts, pastor. There is also the River Park Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Milburn Chapel, in memory of her father, George Milburn, was built on West Thomas street. in 1883 by Mrs. Clement Stn- debaker at a cost of ten thousand dollars. Before his lamented death Mr. Studebaker
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began the erection at the corner of Laporte and Colfax avenues of what has since become the finest church edifice in northern Indiana, if not in the state. It has been dedicated un- der the name of St. Paul's Memorial Church ; and is a fitting monument to the memory of the great and good man who projected it, as well as to that of Mr. Milburn, for whose com- memoration the original chapel was built. Clement Studebaker, known and beloved by the people of South Bend, could have no fitter monument than this magnificent church of Saint Paul's. The present eloquent and
wives and their children, forming and organ- izing the pioneer church. At the first .meet- ing held in the house of Horatio Chapin, Rev. M. M. Post. of Logansport, officiated as mod- erator, and John McConnell, of Crawfords- ville, was elected the first elder. Later on, August 17. 1834. another meeting was held and more families united with the church, and the Lord's supper was celebrated. On the next day following, Horatio Chapin was elected an elder, and was later ordained by Rev. A. B. Brown of the then territory of Michigan. For over a year they were with-
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SOUTH BEND.
learned pastor is the Rev. William Forney Hovis.
Sec. 2 .- THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .- The Presbyterian church in South Bend had its inception in 1831. when Horatio Chapin and William Stanfield organized the first union Sunday school in a log school house. The his- tory of the First Presbyterian Church in this city has recently been published under the auspices of the church ; and, by permission of the reverend pastor. Dr. Henry Webb John- son, it is inserted in this history, as follows: "On the third day of May, A. D. 1834, in the then wilderness, abounding with Indians. the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend was organized by families, husbands and
out a pastor. and held services in private houses, and in a log school house, that stood where the Jefferson school house now stands. Here it was that their first pastor. Rev. Alfred Bryant, preached to them in October, A. D. 1835. Mr. Bryant was a young man, a grad- uate of Princeton College, and was sent out by the Board of Home Missions, who paid two-thirds of his salary. He was a scholarly and saintly man, and thoroughly devoted to the work of his Lord and Master. He came here with his young wife to face the hardships of the wilderness. and ready to toil with al! his powers, that he might preach the gospel. With his own hands he planed and sawed and dressed lumber, and prepared seats and
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a pulpit for his little flock, and with a few hundred dollars left him from his father's estate, he in later years bought a lot on Main street which he used for the benefit of the church. His earnest, self-sacrificing labors laid the foundation of the church of to-day. The church society was then without a building to worship in. Horatio Chapin owned a large two-story building on Michigan street, near the Water street bridge. In the first story he kept a dry goods store, and in the large upper rooms were the cradle and nursery of the infant church. How often must their thoughts have turned to that large upper room where centuries before their sorrowing Master instituted the Lord's supper in remen- brance of Him. In this upper room the first Sabbath school was organized with Horatio Chapin for superintendent. It began with twelve scholars. The Hon. Samuel Hanna. of Fort Wayne. donated a lot at the corner of Lafayette and Water streets for a church building, and here. in 1836, a small frame church was erected, which in later years was converted into a dwelling, and still remains as such to-day. The first bell of this church was of Spanish make, and was imported by a Catholic church. but for some reason was not accepted, and was purchased and sent here by a sister of Mr. Bryant. This bell was later disposed of in some manner. and later still another bell, cast in New York in 1838. was purchased and is still owned by the church. For over half a century its soft mellow tones sent its ringing invitation to enter the house of God. and tolled solemn funeral notes for the dead.
"The location of the church was found to be not central enough, and the pastor, Mr. Bryant, raised all he could by subscription here. obtained $300 from his esteemed friends and relatives, borrowed $500 on his own re- sponsibility, and turned all over to the trus- tees. With this, in 1839. a new church was built on Main street, on the next lot south of the Y. M. C. A. building. now owned by Mrs. Jacob Kerner. The church was a fine
structure for the time, and had a basement for the Sabbath school. Here in this build- ing. Revs. George Gordon, Robert R. Wells, A. Kerr, J. T. Umstead, A. Y. Moore, Dr. John C. Brown, D. D., and Walter Forsyth, ministered to the church. During Dr. Brown's ministry he enlisted in the army and became chaplain of Colonel Eddy's Forty-eighth regiment, and died in the service. Rev. Wal- ter Forsyth, a native of Scotland, who had been apprenticed as a machinist or engine bnilder, but afterwards studied and prepared himself for the ministry, succeedd Dr. Brown. Hle was a young man full of enthusiasm, and untiring in his labors, and to his active ef- forts, the third church was built of brick with a spire 145 feet tall, in the year 1866, on the corner of Lafayette and Washington streets.
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