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After completing his education in the pub- lic schools the son, Albert H. Cushing, em- barked in the cooperage business, but was afterward engaged in the drug trade. Since 1891, however, he has been extensively en- gaged in real-estate operations, in which he is associated with his father. Few men are more prominently or widely known in the business circles of South Bend than these gentlemen, and their popularity is well de- served.
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In 1893 Mr. Albert Cushing was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Tutt, a daugh- ter of Charles Tutt, one of the honored old residents of St. Joseph county.
W. P. KELLEY. The name of W. P. Kelley has been prominently associated with the business interests of St. Joseph county and South Bend for a number of years, and his whole career has been marked by signal in- tegrity, justice and honor. He was born in Sullivan, Sullivan county, Indiana, on the nineteenth of October, 1862, the son of James Kelley, a native of Ohio, while the mother was a daughter of E. Rockwell, also a native of that state. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kelley took up their abode in Sullivan, Indiana, where the father became well known as a merchant, and his death there occurred when his son was but five years of age. In 1870 the mother was again married, after which W. P. Kelley went to Terre Haute, In- diana, and became a student in its public schools. After completing his education he engaged in the fire insurance business in 1880, but in 1893 he removed to Indianapolis and in the following year came to South Bend, where he has ever since been engaged in the fire insurance business. His sound judgment, sagacity and unflagging energy have made him a valued factor of the department which he represents, and his reputation in trade circles has ever been unassailable, for he has exemplified in his dealings the old adage that honesty is the best policy. In politics he is an earnest Republican, an active worker in the ranks of his party, and he holds the of- fice of treasurer of the Republican central committee.
On the twelfth of September, 1888, Mr. Kel- ley was united in marriage to Miss Ella M. Mitchell, a daughter of James Mitchell, of Indianapolis. Mr. Kelley holds membership relations with the Knights of Pythias and the Commercial Athletic club.
WILLIAM L. TEMPLE. Mr. Temple is truly a self-made man, and from the study of his life one may learn valuable lessons. De- pending upon his own resources from the early age of eleven years, he has by sheer force of will and untiring effort worked his way upward until he now occupies a leading place among the business men of South Bend, for as president of the Temple & Shaw Cigar Manufacturing Company he is well and fav- orably known. He traces his ancestry to the mother country of England, the birth-
place of his great-grandfather, while his grandfather, Caleb Temple, was a native of the commonwealth which cradled so much of our national history, the Old Dominion of Virginia. His son and the father of him whose name introduces this review, William L. Temple, was a native of Crawford county, Indiana, where he was well known as a mer- . chant and leading politician, and for a number of years he held the position of county clerk. His death occurred when he had reached the age of seventy-five years. He was united in marriage to Martha Sanders, a native of Georgia, and in their family were ten children, nine daughters and one son.
William L. Temple, the only son and the youngest child of the family, is also a native of Crawford county, Indiana, where he was born on the fifteenth of January, 1858, and there he was reared and received his limited educational training. At the early age of eleven years he started out alone to battle with the world, for three years working in the county treasurer's office. On the expira- tion of that period he came west to Lincoln, Nebraska, where at the early age of fourteen years he became guard in the penitentiary, re- maining there for two years. and at the end of that time he was serving as the warden's private secretary. Returning thence to Leav- enworth, Indiana, he became deputy clerk of Crawford county, and on the expiration of his four years' term in that position he was elected the county auditor of the county, be- ing then but twenty-one years of age and the youngest county official in the entire state of Indiana. Despite his years, however, the duties of the office were discharged with a promptness and fidelity worthy of all com- mendation for four years, and at its close he entered upon the duties of a traveling sales- man, thus continuing for the long period of twenty-one years, and during that time he traveled throughout every state in the Union selling cigars. It was in the year 1891 that he came to South Bend and organized the firm of Temple, Hummel & Ellis, cigar manu- facturers, which later became Temple & Ellis and subsequently was changed to its present form of Temple & Shaw, one of the largest cigar manufacturing companies in this sec- tion of the state, their manufactory being lo- cated at 301 South Carroll street. They began operations with thirty employes, but as their business continued to grow they ex- panded their facilities and now 350 competent
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operatives are given employment, with three men on the road, and their product is sent throughout every part of the United States.
In 1879 Mr. Temple was united in marriage to Mary Scott, a daughter of A. M. and Sarah (Clark) Scott, of Leavenworth, Craw- ford county, Indiana, where their daughter was born and reared. To this union has been born two children, a daughter and a son,- Ethel Loraine, the wife of Horace T. Rey- nolds, of South Bend, and William L., Jr., attending the Culver Military academy. Mr. Temple gives his political support to the Democracy, and is a prominent member of the Masonic order, being a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows order in Leavenworth, Indiana, of the Elks of South Bend, and is a member of all the leading city clubs.
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W. B. SCHAEFER. Conspicuous in the roll of names of the younger men who have been successful in the business circles of St. Jo- seph county is that of W. B. Schaefer, who is extensively engaged in the lumber business in South Bend. He was born in Pierceton, Indiana, on the fifth of November, 1874. His father, William R. Schaefer, was a native of German, but when a young man about twenty-one years of age came to the United States and made his way to Indiana, resid- ing in Goshen for a number of years there- after. He then removed to Pierceton of that state and engaged in the mercantile busi- ness, but is now living retired from the active duties and cares of life, enjoying the fruits of years of toil in the past, but he still main- tains his home in Pierceton. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah J. Ruch, and was a native of Ohio.
W. B. Schaefer completed his education in the high school of Pierceton, in which he graduated in 1893, and immediately thereafter he entered upon a clerkship in a store in Elkhart. A few years afterward he came to South Bend, this being in 1897, and again assumed a clerical position, with the Martin & Page Lumber Company, where he laid the foundation for his future life work, for in 1901 he embarked in the wholesale lumber business for himself, with offices in the Dean building. He has attained a high degree of success in his business venture, and is recog- nized as a young man of energy, enterprise and ambition. His trade extends over northern Indiana and southern Michigan and
is constantly increasing, for his business methods are honorable and above reproach.
Mr. Schaefer is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church and of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he is secretary of the board of directors.
MILTON BARMORE PINE. Milton B. Pine, oc- cupying an enviable position with the Singer Sewing Machine Company of South Bend, was born in this city on the twenty-first of April, 1873, a son of Leighton Pine, whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this work. After completing his education in the schools of South Bend Milton B. decided to enter the dental profession, and accordingly spent two years in the office of Dr. Conklin, of this city. He then went to Chicago and entered the Chi- cago College of Dental Surgery, in which he was graduated in 1894, but owing to the ex- cellent training he had received while with Dr. Conklin within one year and a half after entering college he was granted by the State Board of Dental Examiners a license to prac- tice, and he opened an office while attending college. The Doctor was engaged in practice in Chicago until 1902, when he returned to South Bend and in March of the following year assumed charge of the works of the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Cairo, Illinois, and South Bend, while in 1904 he was officially installed as manager of the works in both cities. Dr. Pine was not brought into this company by his father, but for several years they had repeatedly urged him to join them, and at last he determined to abandon his profession and accept their offer. His excellent business ability has won him a high position in this large corporation, and South Bend numbers him among her promi- nent young business men.
On the ninth of February, 1904, Dr. Pine was united in marriage to Miss Garnett M. Hupp, of South Bend. The Doctor is a mem- ber of the Chicago South Shore Country club, the Chicago Automobile club, the Chicago Athletic club and the Chicago Yacht club. He is an enthusiastic automobilist, having owned the first steam car in Chicago and was one of the organizers of the Chicago Automo- bile club. A young man of vigor, and like his father, an able organizer, he fills his im- portant position with satisfaction to all.
JOSEPH A. WERWINSKI. Mr. Werwinski is distinctly the architect of his own fortunes. and as the record of a young man it is one of which he may well be proud. He has gained
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a most brilliant success, a just reward of meritorious, honorable effort, which commands the respect and admiration of all. He is a native son of South Bend, born on the four- teenth of January, 1882, a son of Michael and Amelia (Kaiser) Werwinski, the former having been born across the water in Europe, while the latter was born in Laporte county, Indiana. When a young man the father came to South Bend and engaged in the grocery business, thus continuing until his death in 1889, at the early age of thirty-six years. The mother still resides in South Bend.
Their son Joseph attended the parochial schools of South Bend, also the normal school at Valparaiso and the South Bend Commer- cial College, remaining in the last named in- stitution for five years, thus receiving an ex- cellent educational training. For a short time thereafter he clerked in a grocery store, and was also deputy township trustee under James D. Reid for one and a half years, and then for the following' two years taught in the public schools in Crumstown, St. Joseph county, Indiana. He then secured a position with the real estate firm of Staley & Robin- son, with whom he remained for three years, and on the first of January, 1905, he em- barked in that business for himself on Chapin and Divison streets. His first venture in this business, however, was at the age of twenty- one years when he bought one acre of ground, naming it Werwinski, which he subdivided and built upon, making a success of this ven- ture. He is now handling one of the largest tracts of land in St. Joseph county, consist- ing of thirteen hundred and twenty-six lots belonging to the Clement Studebaker estate, which is known as Summit Place addition and is located south and west from the Singer Manufacturing Company. Mr. Werwinski has practically built up the west end, a remark- able feat for so young a man. Out of four hundred and twenty lots in the first and second additions there have been built about three hundred houses, while in the third addi- tion he has up to the present time sold over three hundred lots, twelve of which were to be used for a Polish church and school, facing on Ohio street. On the Summit addition cement walks and curbings have been built. He has recently purchased for a syndicate. composed of Horace M. Kauffman, himself and a few other local business men, the Kauff- man place addition, consisting of one hundred and thirty-three lots in the most prosperous
part of the city, within two hundred feet of Michigan avenue, and one of the streets is named Werwinski in honor of our subject. Mr. Werwinski is part owner of this addition, and is also vice-president of the Kosciusko Building & Loan Association, one of the largest corporations of its kind in South Bend. He is a Republican in his political views, and is second vice-president of the county Republican central committee. Fraternally he affiliates with the Knights of Columbus, the order of Owls and the Elks, and is a member of the Polish Turners, the Polish National Alliance of America and the Local Real Es- tate Board. His is a remarkable career for so young a man. He was left without a father when a mere boy, and alone and unaided has worked his way upward to the high position he now occupies.
EMANUEL R. WILLS, of South Bend, is too well known to the citizens of this community to need any introduction to the readers of this volume. He is a prominent factor in the in- dustrial and political life of St. Joseph county, and both his public and private record is one of which he has every reason to be proud. The place of his nativity was York county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the first of October, 1840, a son of Lewis and Magdeline (Fleshman) Wills, natives also of that commonwealth.
Emanuel R. Wills grew to manhood on his father's farm, being occupied in the labors incident to the clearing and cultivation of the homestead. In 1865 he came to South Bend, and for a time thereafter clerked in a dry- goods store, while later he was engaged in the grocery business for himself. In 1882, without any solicitation on his part, he was chosen and elected city treasurer, the duties of which he discharged with promptness and fidelity worthy of all commendation for two years, and on the expiration of that period he was made the treasurer of St. Joseph county. At the following election he was re- turned to that position, thus showing how efficiently he had discharged the obligations resting upon him. In 1891 Mr. Wills was elected the county assessor, and was as equally successful in that office, while at the present time he is engaged in the fire insurance and real estate business in St. Joseph county. . He has earned for himself an enviable repu- tation as a careful man of business, always known for his prompt and honorable methods of dealing, which have won him the deserved
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and unbounded confidence of his fellow men.
In 1874 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wills and Miss Margaret Coquillard, she be- ing a daughter of Benjamin and Sophia Co- quillard, of South Bend, and they have four children-Leo J., Edmund A., Florentine M. and Adele M.
GEORGE GOETZ. The late George Goetz, a well known merchant of South Bend and for years engaged in the wood and coal business, was born in Baden, Germany, March 24, 1844. His father, Adam Goetz, was a farmer of Germany, where he married Catherine Karle, also a native of Baden. They had one child and the father died before George was born, the widow coming to America when he was an infant of six months. The mother and her two children settled in New York, and she was again married to Peter Toep, who, although a German, was born under the French flag. Mr. Toep had come to the United States when he was twenty-one years of age, and by his marriage to Mrs. Adam Goetz he became the father of three sons and three daughters: William, Katherine (de- ceased), Henry, Elizabeth, Frank and Min- nie.
In 1880 Mr. Toep located with his family in South Bend, and during the first year of his residence there was engaged in the dry goods business. Subsequently he was in the coal and wood business, for a portion of the time with George Goetz, and still later formed a partnership with his son Frank in the jew- elry line. He died in 1906, highly respected as a merchant and a man.
George Goetz was married, in 1871, to Miss Catherine Mayer, at Rome, New York. His wife and widow was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, December 11, 1847, the daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Miller) Mayer, also both Bavarians. The father was a farmer, and had a family of six children, Mrs. Goetz being the only one of the children who came to America. In 1880 Mr. and Mrs. Goetz became residents of St. Joseph county, the husband working for the first year there as superintendent of the shipping department of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Later he engaged in the coal and wood business. In 1890 he went into the post office as stamp clerk, retired from active work in 1894 and died in 1906. Of the family of eight sons and two daughters three of the former are deceased. the children in the order of their birth being as follows: George Peter, Wil-
liam (deceased), Frank (deceased), Joseph, Minnie, Edward, Katherine, Frederick, Ar- thur and John (deceased). The children were all reared and schooled in South Bend, and have proved a credit to themselves and their parents.
In politics Mr. Goetz was a Democrat. He was a faithful and active member of St. Mary's Catholic church, and in every relation of life a man of probity and reliability. His widow is now classed among the old residents of South Bend, and a substantial factor in its best progress.
GABRIEL R. SUMMERS. Among the repre- sentative citizens of St. Joseph county, es- teemed alike for his sterling worth of character and his activity in the business world is Gabriel R. Summers, a resident of South Bend. He was born in Laporte county, Indiana, on the thirteenth of March, 1857, a son of Edward Summers, whose birth oc- curred in Ireland. During his early man- hood, however, he came to the United States, and after one year spent in Virginia went to Laporte and entered the service of the Drul- linger family, one of the oldest and best known in that section of the state. He after- wards married Miss Catherine Drullinger, and his death occurred in Clay township, St. Jo- seph county, Indiana, in 1880, when he had reached the fifty-sixth milestone on the jour- ney of life.
Gabriel R. Summers received an excellent education at Notre Dame University, in which he was graduated in 1873, and after leaving that institution he lived on a farm until he purchased the Jennings place adjoining the old homestead in 1880, which he still owns and operates. In addition to carrying on the work of the farm Mr. Summers has also dealt heavily in real estate, having been very suc- cessful in this line of endeavor, and he has handled some of the most valuable real estate in the county, being the owner of much land at the present time. In 1895 he organized the Vanderhoof Company, manufacturers of proprietary medicines, of which he is now the sole owner, and in 1894 he became president of the South Bend Iron Bed Company, one of the most successful enterprises of its kind in this section of the state. Thus for many years Mr. Summers has been an active factor in the industrial interests of St. Joseph county, and through his diligence, persever- ance and business ability has acquired a hand- some competence, while at the same time he
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has also contributed to the general prosperity through the conduct of large enterprises.
In 1880 Mr. Summers was married to Miss Mercy Ann Longley, a daughter of Andrew and Mary (Rupel) Longley, of St. Joseph county. One daughter has blessed their home, Alice, who was born on the seventeenth of August, 1893. Mr. Summers has fraternal affiliations with the order of Elks, the Royal Arcanum, the Foresters and the Maccabees; and he is also a member of the Commercial Athletic club.
JOHN GALLAGHER. After a long and suc- cessful business career John Gallagher is now living a retired life in South Bend, his pleas- ant residence being located at 319 Colfax avenue. His birth occurred in the city of Burlington, Vermont, September 3, 1830, but to the Emerald Isle must we turn for the early ancestral history of the family. His father, Patrick Gallagher, was born in Ireland, and in that country was married to Ellen Giblin, but shortly afterward, in 1824, the young couple set sail for America, journeying first to Canada, thence to Burlington, Vermont, and finally to Canton, Stark county, Ohio, in 1836, where the husband spent the remainder of his life and died in 1842. The wife and mother survived until eighty-nine years of age, dying in Massillon, Ohio. They became the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to years of ma- turity, but only two are now living, the daughter being Rose Kersy, of Illinois.
John Gallagher, the third child and second son in order of birth in the family, was taken from his native city of Burlington, Vermont, to Canton, Ohio, by his parents when only six years old, there attaining to years of ma- turity and receiving his education in its pub- lic schools. In 1843 he began the tailor's trade, and six years later, in 1849, removed to Lewisville, Ohio, to engage in that occupa- tion for himself, while in 1853 he came to South Bend. In this city he established a merchant tailoring business, which he carried on successfuly until 1904, covering a period of fifty-two years, and thus at that time was the oldest merchant in South Bend.
November 22, 1852, Mr. Gallagher was united in marriage to Jemima Vanderhoof, a native of Summit county, Ohio, and their union resulted in the birth of seven children, but the only two now living are Florence Decker, of South Bend, and Charles C., a practicing physician of Marietta, Ohio. The Vol. II-12.
wife and mother has long since passed away, and in February, 1879, Mr. Gallagher married Rachel Rush, whose death occurred in Sep- tember, 1905. He votes with the Democratic party, and as its representative served as one of the first trustees of South Bend.
During the long period of fifty years he has been associated with the Odd Fellows fra- ternity, being at the present time the oldest member of South Bend Lodge, No. 29, while he is also the only surviving charter member of the Masonic order of this city, in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree. He has passed the Psalmist's span of three score years and ten, and now, as he journeys down the western slope of life, he is resting from arduous cares, in the midst of friends who esteem him for his honorable record and his many commendable characteristics.
VIRGINIUS NICAR, who is numbered among the leading business men of South Bend and St. Joseph county, was born in Mishawaka on the first of November, 1841, his father being Robert B. Nicar, a native of Lynch- burg, Virginia, and a millwright by trade. He came to Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, In- diana, in the thirties, and was thereafter prominently identified with the history of this locality. He served as the treasurer of St. Joseph county from 1851 until 1857, and in many other ways was identified with the pub- lic life of the county of his adoption. From the date of his retirement from the treasurer's office in 1857 until his death in 1865, at the age of sixty-three years, he was engaged in the hardware business. In his life he ex- emplified the beneficient principles of the Masonic order, while politically he was a staunch Republican from the time of the organization of that party until his death, and previous to that time was a Whig, having left the south on account of his hatred of slavery. For his wife Mr. Nicar chose Mary E. Lewellyn, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, where she was also reared, and her mother was a first cousin of William Henry Harrison. Her death occurred in St. Joseph county in 1880, aged seventy-one years. In the family of this worthy pioneer couple were nine chil- dren, all but two of whom grew to years of maturity.
Virginius Nicar, the youngest of the family, remained in his native city of Mishawaka until ten years of age, when he came with his parents to South Bend and continued his education in the public schools of this city,
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