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vember, 1906, and in doing so the Republican majority was reversed. During the sixty-fifth regular legislative session he has been a mem- ber of the Criminal Code Committee, Commit- tee on Publie Morals, Claims and Expendi- tures Committee, Constitutional Revision Committee, Natural Resources Committee, Supervision and Inspection of Journal. In the legislature of 1903 he was chairman of the Committee on State's Prisons. He was a member of the Committee on the Organi- zations of Courts, Fees and Salaries Com- mittee, Labor and Labor Statistics Commit- tee. Mr. Bingham was the Democratic can- didate for judge in 1894, for St. Joseph and Laporte counties. Close study has given him keen insight into the important political problems, and he has thus been a valued fac- tor in administering the affairs of the gov- ernment.
In December, 1872, Mr. Bingham was united in marriage to Hattie E. Grimes, a daughter of Dr. Grimes, one of the old and well known physicians of Mishawaka. Four children have been born to bless their home.
JOSEPH B. ARNOLD was born near Medina, Orleans County, New York, July 1. 1839. He attended an advanced school in South Bend, and then tanght one term of school in Elk- hart county, after which he went to Des Moines, where he clerked in his brother-in- law's store until the breaking out of the war, when at the first call for troops he enlisted for three months. He drilled with the com- pany and was in readiness to start when word came that the quota was full, and the services of the company not accepted. IIe then re- turned to South Bend and soon turned his attention to the study of law, in the office of Judge Thomas S. Stanfield, after which he attended a law school in Chicago and was admitted to the bar in South Bend in 1863. and engaged in practice. IIe soon com- menced compiling an abstract of the titles to real estate of St. Joseph county. That he understood the business and spared no pains is attested to by the fact that the Arnold Abstracts always stand the test. For many years he devoted much time to the abstract business, but in 1902 he sold the abstracts, and since then has practiced law, when not busy attending to his private affairs, which take much of his time. With his sister, Mrs. Garrison, he occupies the beautiful home- stead on West Jefferson street, purchased of his father in 1861. He cast his first presi-
dential vote for Lincoln in 1860, and has been true to the principles of the Republican party since. Ile joined the Masonic Fraternity in about 1868.
Mr. Arnold is unquestionably one of the most astute and painstaking lawyers of St. Joseph county, a constant student of men and affairs. His honorable means of adjust- ing the legal complications of his clients has won for him the confidence of the entire com- munity. Endowed by nature with a sense of right and justice, he shuns all action that is to the detriment of his fellowmen, and squares his life by the Golden Rule. His courtesy. tact, consideration, and all-around good fellowship, have added to his apprecia- tors many warm and dependable friends.
RALPH H. JERNEGAN. Although a com- paratively short time has elapsed since Ralph H. Jernegan began practice at the bar of Mishawaka his rise has been rapid, and he to- day occupies a leading position among the representatives of the legal profession in his district. His reputation has been won through earnest, honest labor, and his high standing is a merited tribute to his ability. His birth occurred in the city of Mishawaka on the 30th of August, 1877, his parents being Ed A. and Nannie C. (Sherman) Jernegan, whose his- tory will be found on other pages in this work. Their son Ralph, the youngest of four children, two sons and two daughters. ob- tained his early literary education in the pub- lie schools of his native city, in which he was graduated in the high school with the class of 1897, and immediately thereafter he en- tered upon the study of the profession which he had chosen as a life work in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Close application characterized this period of his career, and at the time of his graduation in that high in- stitution of learning in 1900 he had gained a broad general knowledge of jurisprudence. On the 3d of October, 1900, he opened his law office in Mishawaka, where for a time he was in partnership with Mr. Bingham, but since the severance of that relationship has been alone. Although the duties of his pro- fession have assumed extensive proportions he is also interested in many of the leading business concerns of the city, being a stoek- holder in one of its leading banks, and is also interested in the Beiger Furniture Company of Mishawaka, in which he is now serving as seeretary.
In 1904 was celebrated the marriage of Mr.
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Jernegan and Estella Frank, she being the daughter of Charles and Mary (Buckheit) Frank, whose history also appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. Jernegan is a member of the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pyth- ias, No. 453, both of Mishawaka. In his politi- cal connections he is a Republican, and takes a deep interest in the political questions which affect the welfare of state and nation and mold the public policy. As its representative he has served as the township chairman of the central committee, also as first vice chairman of the county central committee, and for six years was deputy prosecuting attorney under Clark and Kurtz. He is a broad-minded. progressive man and publie spirited citizen, and in all life's relations is found true to the duties of professional and social life which the day may bring forth.
ENOS E. LONG. The family of which the subject of this review is a representative is a pioneer one in St. Joseph county, for as early as 1837 Stephen M. Long came from Ohio to Indiana and secured government land in Penn township, St. Joseph county. There he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1875. In that year he moved to Mish- awaka, which continued as his home until his death in 1890, at the age of seventy-eight years. Ilis name is deeply engraved on the pages of St. Joseph county's history in con- nection with its public affairs of an early day. For a number of years he served as a mem- ber of the town board of Mishawaka. Mrs. Long bore the maiden name of Mary Eutzler. and was a native of Ohio. Her death oc- eurred in 1865. when sixty years of age.
Enos E. Long, a son of this honored old pioneer conple. was engaged in farming from the time he completed his education in the country sehools until he had reached his twen- tv-third year. His birth occurred in Penn township of this county, on the 28th of An- gust. 1848. In 1873 he came to Mishawaka and was in the employ of the Andrews School and Church Furniture Company four years, and then with the Perkins Company fourteen years. From 1888 until 1892 he served as a justice of the peace. to which office he was returned in 1898 for four years, and in 1906 he was again elected to that office for a pe- riod of four years. During this time Mr. Jong also studied law, and in March, 1901. was admitted to the bar in South Bend. He has gained distinction in his official and pro- fessional career, has been an earnest and dis-
criminating student, and has drawn about him a circle of devoted friends.
On the 1st of December, 1870, Mr. Long was united in marriage to Maggie House- holder. a native of Wood county, Ohio, and a daughter of John Honseholder. One son has been born of this union. Fred L.
JOIIN A. HIBBERD is actively connected with a profession which has important bear- ing npon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and which has long since been considered as conserving the publie welfare by furthering the ends of jus- tice and maintaining individual rights. His reputation as a lawyer has been won through earnest, honest labor, and his standing at the bar is a merited tribute to his ability. He now has a good practice and his careful preparation of cases is supplemented by a power of argument and forceful presentation of his points. in the court room, so that he seldom fails to impress conrt and jury.
The life history of Mr. Hibberd is closely identified with the annals of St. Joseph coun- ty. which has been his home for forty years. He is not alone a prominent representative of the bar of northern Indiana but is also a leading citizen and financier of this section of the state. He is a native of the Empire State, born in Syracuse November 12, 1855, a son of Joseph H. and Helen (Baldwin) Ilibberd. also natives of that great commonwealth. The father, whose birthday was January 19. 1827. is a retired farmer. making his home with his son, John A.
The public schools of South Bend furnished John A. Hibberd with the foundation of his education, and after mastering the elementary branches he completed a high-school course and then for a time taught school in the county. While thus engaged he decided upon the law as his life work, spending two years in the office of Arnold & Creed and then en- tering the Union College of Law. Chicago, from which he graduated in 1883-William Jennings Bryan being a fellow student of the same class. Having thus thoroughly pre- pared himself to assume the active duties of his profession Mr. Hibberd returned to South Bend. and has since practiced here, establish- ing himself both as a leading lawyer and a prominent man of affairs. He is an active supporter of Republican principles and poli- cies, and was nominated by the party as prosecuting attorney many years ago. mak- ing the race with no hope of election.
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Throughout the period of his residence in South Bend he has been actively and praeti- cally interested in public and progressive movements, having been for a number of years a member of the school board, one of the organizers of the Citizens' National Bank, of which he is the vice-president, and is also one of the founders and the vice-president of the Citizens' Loan, Trust and Savings Com- pany. Mr. Hibberd is also the proprietor of the Hibberd Printing Company.
In 1884. on the 8th of May, Mr. Hibberd was united in marriage to Miss Mollie C. Cor- bett, a daughter of Charles Corbett. of Williams county. Ohio. and two children have been born of this union-flelen, in 1885, and Marjorie, in 1890. the former now a student in Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Hibberd is a Mason, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter No. 29. and is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Elks and other societies. He ranks high at the bar and in political cir- cles, and is altogether a most substantial and influential citizen. In a more special and personal sense Mr. Hibberd is a broad-minded man, giving his chief attention to his business affairs, but, nevertheless, finding opportunity to aid in the intellectual development and moral progress of the community. realizing the necessity of growth along these lines. As a man of unswerving integrity and honor, one who has a strong appreciation for the higher ethies of life. he has gained and re- taine:l the confidence and respect of his fel- low men.
HARRY WAIR. A prominent representative of the younger members of the bar of this section of the state is Harry Wair. of South Bend who is also accounted one of the rising political leaders. He was born in LaPorte, Indiana, being a son of Andrew Jackson and Judith S. Wair. His rudimentary education was received in the schools of his native city. after which he pursued a course in the Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor. gradu- ating from the law department of that uni- versity. He then returned to LaPorte and opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession. but a short time afterward came to South Bend and resumed the private prac- tice of law. From the beginning of his career as a legal practitioner his efforts have been attended with success. for he has thoroughly mastered the science of jurisprudence and his deep research and thorough preparation of
every case committed to his care enable him to meet at once any contingency that may arise. Ilis ability has led to his selection for publie honors, and during his residence in LaPorte county he was elected to the state legislature. Mr. Wair ranks high among the younger representatives of the bar and in political circles, and South Bend numbers him among her leading and influential citizens.
FRANK E. HERING. In connection with both the industrial and political interests of northern Indiana the name of Frank E. Her- ing is well known and honored. Ile was born in Northumberland county. Pennsylvania, on the 30th of April, 1874, a son of Solomon and Mary (Nener) Hering. both of German par- entage. The father. also a native of Pennsyl- vania. now makes his home with his son in South Bend.
Frank E. Ilering received an excellent edn- rational training in his youth. having first attended the Williamsport. Pennsylvania. high school, in which he graduated in 1892. and during the following year was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Dur- ing the years of 1893-94-95 he attended the University of Chicago and in 1896 was at Bucknell University in charge of athletics. He then came to Notre Dame as director of athletics, and there received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1898 and Bachelor of Laws in 1902. During the intervening period from 1898 until 1902 Mr. Hering taught history and English. being awarded the English medal in 1898. His broad intel- ligence. scholarly attainments and his full appreciation of the value of knowledge as a preparation for life's responsibilities made him an able educator. His name is also well known throughout northern Indiana in politi- cal circles. for in 1902 he was the Democratie nominee for Congress, two years later being renominated for that high official position, and although he declined to have his name nsed the party refused to accept his declina- tion. At both elections he ran far ahead of his ticket. in 1904 receiving five thousand above the average vote. In 1902 Mr. Hering left Notre Dame and entered upon a connec- tion with the ice business in the wholesale trade. as a member of the firm of Hering and Murphy. The name has become well known throughout this section of the state in busi- ness cireles, and they have won an enviable success in this line of endeavor. Mr. Hering is also president of the State Association of
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the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was chairman of the building committee for their new hall in South Bend, one of the finest in the United States. He is also Na- tional Treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
In 1895, in Chicago, Mr. Hering was united in marriage to Miss Florence Madison Dal- mond, a daughter of Charles M. Dalmond, of French descent and a resident of Chicago. Mr. Hering is a scholarly gentleman, a bril- liant orator, a prominent politieian, courteous and popular, and his future is bright with promise.
DR. J. M. PARTRIDGE, for nearly forty years a successful and honored practicing physician of South Bend, St. Joseph county, was born in Gustavus, Trumbull county, Ohio, May 17, 1835, and is a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Bailey) Partridge. His father was a native of Connecticut, born in 1808, and when twelve years of age removed with his grand- father, Thomas, to the state of Ohio. His mother, a daughter of Iddo Bailey, was a native of Vermont, removed to the Buckeye State about 1825, and died in February, 1856. Thomas Partridge, his grandfather, served through the Revolutionary War, and partiei- pated in the engagement which resulted in the surrender of the British forces under Cornwallis.
During his early years Dr. Partridge lived on a farm, and received a good education in the district schools of his neighborhood. At the age of twenty he began teaching in the winter months, assisting his father on the home farm in summer. Thus he continued for three years, when, yielding to an earnest desire for a classical education. at the age of twenty-three he began his preparatory studies at Oberlin college. A stranger and without means he was obliged to find employment to support himself, and during the six years covering his preparatory and collegiate courses worked and studied far into the night of each day. During a part of this time he was employed as a teacher in the preparatory department of the college .-
of Washington, his company (K) being sta- tioned at Fort Slocum and later removed to Fort Stevens in anticipation of an attack from the enemy, which occurred July 12, 1864, when General Early was repulsed from his assault on the national capital. He was mustered out of service August 23, 1864, and returned to Oberlin. At this time, upon the recommendation of President Fairehild, of Oberlin College, he went to Berea, Kentucky, and organized the first classes in Greek, Latin and algebra for the recently established in- stitution which afterward became the well known Berea College.
In the spring of 1865 Dr. Partridge en- tered the office of Dr. L. B. Dye as a medieal student, his preceptor being a physician of Gustavus. In the fall he continued his studies with Doetors Blair and Sanders, at Cleve- land, Ohio, and during the ensuing winter he attended his first course of lectures in the Cleveland Homeopathie College. In No- vember, 1866, he eommeneed medieal prae- tice in partnership with Dr. Craig at Niles, Michigan, where he remained a year and then attended a second course of lectures at Hahnemann Medical College. Chicago, where he received a diploma in the spring of 1868. In the preceding year he had obtained his second literary degree, with the title A. M .. from Oberlin College, so that he now was en- titled to both M. D. and the title indicated.
In March, 1868, Dr. Partridge commenced the practice of his permanent profession at South Bend. being the first homeopath to be recognized as a successful practitioner in the city. By his quiet yet positive ways, his superior mental discipline, his sympathy and practical judgment, and his thorough pro- fessional knowledge, all enforced by most fa- vorable results of actual practice, he estab- lished himself firmly in the publie confidence and won position as well as pecuniary re- wards. He erected a beautiful residence for his family, as well as a fine block of houses for rent. and came into possession of other property which placed him among the sub- stantial citizens of South Bend. Although well advanced in years, the doctor is still in the active ranks of his profession. He is an old member of the Indiana Medical Insti- tute, and has been a frequent contributor to the medical press. his papers showing a marked clearness and condensation of state- ance of professional information. The doetor
After his graduation from Oberlin College Dr. Partridge enlisted (in 1863) in the Ohio state militia, an organization intended for home protection, but subject to the orders of the governor. In April, 1864, his regiment, the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio, was or- dered to the front and attached to the garri- . ment and an interesting style in the convey- son holding the fortifieations about the city
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and his family are Presbyterians. Politi- cally he is a stanch Republican, but has never been active in any field but that of his pro- fession.
On the 28th of October. 1866, on leaving Ohio for Niles. Michigan, Dr. Partridge was married to Aurelia H. Chapman, of Kings- ville, Ohio, a daughter of Jedediah and Sarah E. (Osborne) Chapman. She was a graduate of Oberlin College, class of '65, and at the time of her marriage was preceptress of Kingsville Academy. The family born to them consisted of Clara. Eloise. William Har- vey, Charlotte, Frances and Katherine. Dr. Partridge had two brothers and five sisters, one of the former, Captain Harvey W. Par- tridge, being killed at the battle of Chicka- manga and buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The remainder are all living. The doctor and his wife and their six children are all graduates of Ober- lin College.
STANLEY A. CLARK. Dr. Stanley A. Clark, one of the younger members of the medieal profession in St. Joseph county. was born in Galien, Berrien county, Michigan. July 14, 1877, a son of Charles A. and Lydia ( Blakes- lie) Clark, the former a native of Huntsburg. Ohio, and the latter of Batavia, Illinois.
Dr. Clark, the eldest of their three chil- dren, two sons and a daughter, received his literary education in the public schools of his native city of Galien. graduating in the high school in 1894. For one year thereafter he studied pharmacy in the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso, Indiana, and then entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, in which he completed the course and was graduated in 1898. He was house surgeon in Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago, for the following year, and in 1899 located at his old home in Galien. Michigan, for the practice of his chosen profession, where he remained for two years, and since 1901 has been numbered among the leading medical practitioners of South Bend. He is a mem- ber of the St. Joseph County Medieal So- ciety, the American Medical Association and the American Institute of Homeopathy, also a member of the staff of Epworth Hospital. In his political views Dr. Clark is a stanch Republican, and is coroner of St. Joseph county at the present time. His fraternal connections are with the Knights of Modern Maccabees, Modern Woodmen of America,
and the Masonic order, South Bend Com- mandery No. 13.
J. A. STOECKLEY. There is ever a degree of satisfaction and profit in scanning the life history of one who has attained to an em- inent degree of success; who has had the mentality to direct his endeavors toward the desired ends, and the singleness and stead- fastness of purpose which have given due value to each consecutive detail of effort. As a distinctive type of a self-made man we can refer with singular propriety to the honored subject whose name forms the caption of this review. Doctor Stoeckley's father died when he was but one year of age. Thus grow- ing from infancy to boyhood he was thrown upon his own resources, working his way through school, college and his profession to the substantial position he has attained.
He was born in Monroeville, Ohio, on the 20th day of May, 1870, a son of Anthony and Theresa Sinnot Stoeckley, the latter a native of Ohio but of German descent. The father was born in Germany, but eame to the United States when nineteen years of age and identi- fied his interests with the city of Monroe- ville, being long numbered among its prom- inent merchants. His death ocenrred in 1871. He was an honored soldier of the Civil war, and the severities which he endured during his campaign hastened his death.
Dr. Stoeckley attended the parochial and public schools, and graduated from the high school of Monroeville, Ohio, in 1887, and then entered a drug store as a clerk, earning and saving enough money for his first year's col- lege course, and immediately thereafter be- gan the study of pharmacy at the Western Reserve College of Cleveland, Ohio, and thus continned in pharmacy until the fall of 1893, when he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. He continued his occupa- tion as a pharmacist in the summer months. Thus with the help of some borrowed money he was enabled to continue his college work and was graduated on the 7th of April, 1896. In the same year he came to South Bend and opened an office in the Oliver Opera House block. but in the following year, 1897, moved to his present offices on West Washington street, which are well equipped with modern appliances for the conduct of his business. He has a dental surgeon and lady attendant to assist him in his work, and he always keeps in touch with the advancement that is continually being made in the profession. He
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has not only an enviable reputation and prac- tice in South Bend and vicinity, but enjoys a nice practice at Notre Dame and St. Mary's. He has since pursued a post-grad- uate course in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, his alma mater. The doctor further keeps in touch with the advancement in den- tistry by his membership in the Northern Indiana Dental Society, of which he has been secretary. treasurer, vice-president and presi- dent ; is also a director of the Indiana State Dental Society; also a member of the Odon- tographie Dental Society of Chicago and a member of the National and International Dental Society. He was one of the three rep- resentatives from Indiana to the International Dental Congress at St. Louis during the World's Fair.
The marriage of Dr. Stoeckley was cele- brated on June 18, 1902. when Miss Emelyn Hinkle, a native of Muncie, Indiana, and a daughter of Mrs. Cecelia B. Hinkle, now of South Bend, Indiana, became his wife. They have one son, John Francis, who was born on the 13th of September. 1904, and a dangh- ter, Hildegarde Cecelia, born February 6, 1907. Dr. Stoeckley gives his political sup- port to the Democratic party. and fraternal- ly he is a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He and his family are members of St. Patrick's Catholic church of South Bend, Indiana.
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