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Dr. Dreese has a high standing in social and civic circles as well as in professional affairs. He has fraternal affiliations with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Or- der of Red Men, the Knights of the Maccabees, the National Union, and has been medical examiner for the Maccabees for years. He is a member of the Reformed church.
Dr. Dreese married, in 1876, Miss Sarah E. Kirkpatrick, and five
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children have been born to them. Virgie T. was born April 13, 1877; Claude, January 19, 1879, and died in 1886; Edith, December 25, 1880; an infant died unnamed; and Ruth, February 26, 1893.
GEORGE MUTSCHLER.
George Mutschler, prominent manufacturer and citizen of Goshen, for forty years closely identified with the various interests of Elkhart county, a veteran of the Civil war and a man of influential citizen- ship in his adopted country, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, April 28, 1839. Reared and educated there up to the age of fourteen, in 1854, when a young but independent lad of fifteen, he came alone across the Atlantic to America.
Locating at Canal Dover, Ohio, he learned the furniture trade, and followed that occupation at Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, until the spring of 1861. April 15, 1861, three days after Fort Sumter fell, he responded to the three months' call and on the expiration of that term re-enlisted as a private in the Fourth Ohio Infantry. He was a soldier for the Union three and a half years. He was under Mc- Clelland at Rich Mountain, Virginia, was transferred to General Shields division and with the army in Shenandoah Valley until July. 1862, and then assigned to the Army of the Potomac and continued with the same until June. 1864. He was in all the battles of the Second Army Corps, and was wounded by a minie ball through the left thigh at the battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse, an injury that kept him in the hospital from June to November, 1864, thus interrupting his otherwise continuous service from the opening of the war.
On receiving his honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio, in 1864, he returned to Ohio and resumed his trade as cabinet-maker in Wooster and Norwalk. Mr. Mutschler came to Elkhart county in 1866. At Millersburg he was engaged in the manufacture of furniture and in the undertaking business from that date until he came to Goshen in May, 1893. He bought an interest in the I. X. L. and Goshen Pump Company, and in 1896 became general manager and treasurer of the company, a position he has since held. This company, which is one of the representative manufacturing concerns of the county, has the following officers: B. F. Deahl, president : John Hale, vice-president ; George Mutschler, treasurer, and J. A. Arthur, secretary. At this writ- ing sixty-five men are on the payrolls of the company, and several trav- eling salesmen are maintained in outside territory.
Mr. Mutschler is a member of Randall Post No. 320, G. A. R., at Millersburg. He has been connected with the Reformed churchi since he was fourteen years old and is active in church work. His political views are Democratic.
In November, 1866, he married Miss Sarah Froelich, who was born and reared in Ohio. They are the parents of six children. four
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sons and two daughters. Emma is the wife of B. F. Deahl, a promi- nent attorney of Goshen. Albert, of the Coppes-Zook-Mutschler Com- pany at Nappanee, is mentioned at length elsewhere in this volume. Charles, of Nappanee, is also sketched on other pages. Alice is the wife of Lloyd Burris, the present deputy prosecuting attorney of Elk- hart county; George is in his father's business. William is studying law in the University of Michigan, and expects to graduate with the class in June. 1906.
B. R. THROCKMORTON.
B. R. Throckmorton, who is known by name and reputation throughout Elkhart county as one of its leading photographers. being one of the few in his profession who are really deserving of the title of " artist," was born in LaPorte, Indiana, June 25, 1879. and for the past five years has been identified with the city of Goshen as a citizen and business man.
A son of James M. and Nancy ( Karney ) Throckmorton, who have been residents of Goshen for several years. Mr. Throckmorton at the age of nine years was taken to South Bend, where he grew to manhood and obtained a high school education. Beginning the study of his art in a gallery, he is a practical photographer and has equipped himself in a most thorough manner for all branches of his work. He came to Goshen in February, 1900, and after managing a gallery here for six weeks purchased the same and has since conducted it, although he has practically remade the business since taking control and has ex- panded his trade to very satisfactory proportions. Besides making fine photographs in all the regular styles he does considerable sketch work of a high order of merit, having devoted much time and study to this branch of his art, and his work in general has received much favorable commendation from photographic journals.
Mr. Throckmorton resides at his studio, which is a cosy little place and very conveniently situated for his patrons. He is unmarried. Fraternally he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a Republican.
JAMES EDWARD NEWELL.
James Edward Newell, superintendent of a high school of Bris- tol, was born in Jefferson township, Elkhart county in 1879. His father, John P. Newell. also a native of Jefferson township, is now living at the age of fifty-seven years. The grandfather, Joseph New- ell, was a native of Scotland and when a boy emigrated from that country to the new world with his father in 1836, the family home being established in Jefferson township, Elkhart county, Indiana, when this was still a pioneer district, in which the work of improvement and
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progress had scarcely been begin. Joseph Newell followed the occu- pation of farming and John P. Newell has made the same pursuit his life work. He has ever been an industrious and enterprising man and his labors have brought to him a creditable measure of success. His life has at all times been upright and honorable, in consistent harmony with his professions as a member of the United Brethren church, in which he is a most active and capable worker. He is one of the triis- tees of the church in which he holds membership and also a trustee of St. Joseph's Conference. His political allegiance is given to the Repub- lican party and for four years he filled the office of trustee in Jefferson township. He is a man who stands high in the esteem of his neigh- bors and friends and his worth in the community is widely recognized. He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Kinyon, a daughter of Thomas J. and Nancy (Case) Kinyon, who was born in Jefferson township and died in 1904, at the age of fifty-eight years. Her father came from New York to Indiana, settling in Jefferson township among the early residents of that locality. He followed the occupation of farming and was well known as a pioneer citizen of his community. Mrs. Newell was also a member of the United Brethren church, taking an interested and helpful part in its work. In the family were two children. the elder being Sarah L .. who became the wife of John Everingham, a blacksmith of Bristol.
Professor James Edward Newell is indebted to the public school system of the county for the early educational privileges he enjoyed. He afterward entered Otterbein University of Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897, and in 1904 the degree of Mas- ter of Arts was conferred upon him by that institution. For three years after his graduation he taught in the district schools of his native town- ship and then took charge of the department of mathematics in the Eastern Indiana Normal University at Muncie, where he remained for a year. He afterward spent two years in Bourbon College at Bour- bon, Indiana, of which he was president and also occupied the chairs of Latin and Mathematics. In 1903 he came to Bristol to accept the superintendency of the high and other schools of this place and is now at the head of the public school system here, which under his guidance has made substantial improvement, reaching out to a higher standard of intellectual development. Professor Newell has also won much more than local fame on the lecture platform, delivering lectures upon popular and educational topics and his services have been in frequent demand by teachers' institutes of the state. Since his own graduation he has done considerable post graduate work at his university and is a man of scholarly attainments, continually broadening his knowledge by research and investigation.
Professor Newell was married in 1904 to Miss Frances Paine, a (laughter of James B. and Cornelia (Dickason) Paine, the former a lawyer by profession. Mrs. Newell was born in Jackson, Ohio, in 1881
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and like her husband is prominent socially, while over her home she presides with gracious hospitality. Both are members of the United Brethren church in which they take an active part. Professor Newell is now superintendent of the Sunday school and is also president of St. Joseph's branch of the Young People's Christian Union. He like- wise belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and to the Masonic lodge and in his political affiliation is a Republican. In the line of his profession he is connected with the Indiana Teachers' Association and is a trustee of the Indiana Central University. He has already made for himself an enviable reputation as an educator and lecturer and is destined to win still higher honors and broader fame in professional circles.
HIRAM F. KIDDER.
Never can greater honor be paid than to him who aids in holding high the standard which represents the deeper principles of liberty, and the military career of Hiram F. Kidder is one which will ever re- dound to his honor as a loyal and devoted son of the Republic. In the paths of peace he has also won an enviable reputation through the sterl- ing qualities which go to the making of a good citizen and a trustworthy official. He is a native of Genesee county, New York, born August 25. 1842, a grandson of E. B. Kidder, a native of the New Eng- land states, and a son of E. B. Kidder, who was born in Vermont. The last named located in western New York, near Buffalo, in an early day, and was a miller by occupation. His death occurred there when he was about sixty years of age. Ilis wife, who in her maidenhood was Emeline G. Hill, was also a New Englander by birth, and she reached the age of eighty-two years. In the family of this worthy old couple were seven children, six sons and one daughter. and four of the sons were soldiers in the war of the rebellion. the youngest lay- ing down his life on the altar of his country.
Hiram F. Kidder, the eldest son in his parents' family. was reared in the place of his nativity. On reaching the age of nineteen years he came to Goshen, Indiana, and in 1861 enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Company M. Second Indiana Cavalry, as a musician, but by Governor Morton was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and in October, 1863, as adjutant of the regiment, serving in that capac- ity until the close of the struggle. He served in the Southwestern De- partment, Sherman's army, and with that gallant band participated in all the important battles of the war, including Shiloh, Atlanta. the siege of Corinth, and at the battle of Resaca was wounded and his horse shot under him. He was a brave and fearless soldier, and when the war ended and his services were no longer needed he was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana, after a military career of over three years. Returning to his home in Goshen Mr. Kidder was for a time thereafter engaged in the hotel business, in various mercantile
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enterprises and in the livery business until his appointment as court bailiff. For eight years he also served as the deputy sheriff of Elk- hart county, and in 1894 was elected to that office, the duties of which he so creditably filled that he was re-elected in 1806. Since the expira- tion of his second term as sheriff he has lived in retirement in his pleasant home in Goshen. During the St. Louis Exposition he had charge of the Goshen Manufacturing Company's interests there.
In 1866 Mr. Kidder was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Rowell, eldest daughter of one of Goshen's oldest pioneers, and their only daughter, Minnie L., is the wife of C. R. Leas, by whom she has one son, Dean Chester. Mr. Kidder is a life-long Republican, and is an active worker in the ranks of his party. He holds pleasant rela- tions with his old army comrades as a member of Post No. 90. G. A. R., in which he served as adjutant for five years and is also a past commander. He also holds membership relations with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Goshen.
ANTHONY DEAHL.
Though now and for a number of years recognized as one of the foremost representatives of the Elkhart county bar, both as regards his personal ability and the extent of his practice, Anthony Deahl began his independent career without any other advantages than such as a sound constitution and resolute will confer, and through his consistent en- deavor gradually worked up to a position of influence and power in the county. Ask his friends as to the characteristic which has been most responsible for his success, and the tenor of the answer almost invariably is " unflagging industry." From tender years of boyhood until the present lie has labored, in many capacities, has followed the plow and done all kinds of farm work, has carpentered, has taught school, has studied with an intensity of application equaled by few, has discharged the duties of public office, and for the past fifteen years has, with char- acteristic energy, devoted himself to an increasing and profitable law practice. Earnestness and force are natural accompaniments of such industry, and these are the clear-cut qualities which have most vividly impressed themselves upon the writer during his acquaintance with Mr. Deahl.
The biography of this self-made lawyer of Goshen finds its scenes almost entirely laid in Elkhart county. Born at Millersburg, September 10. 1861. a son of the late Jacob Deahl, he was taken, at the age of nine years. to a farm near the village of his birth, and that old homestead, about three miles northeast of town, was the center of his life history until he was twenty years old. His father, born in Hesse-Cassel, Ger- many. November 23. 1817, died April 26, 1900. His mother, Margaret Hoffman, born in Luxemburg, February, 1822, was eighty years old at her death on January 30, 1902. The father arrived in America in 1850.
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the mother in 1852, and were married in Elkhart county October II, 1859. There were three children, the daughter Mary being the wife of James A. Rogers, of Goshen.
Anthony Deahl began attending school when four years old, but after moving to the farm he had a mile and a half to walk to the school and even so was able to attend only about three months each year, his help being found necessary at home in farm labor and in assisting his father in the carpenter trade, which he learned quite thoroughly.
At the age of eighteen, having been granted, after examination, a teacher's certificate, he entered upon his career as teacher. In the spring of 1879 he taught a school in Edon township. LaGrange county. Mr. Deahl's connection with this very important department of the world's work was exceedingly creditable in every way. He is still remembered by his pupils, now men and women active in the various walks of life. as having possessed peculiar efficiency as an instructor and, more im- portant still, great personal influence in developing and directing youth- ful minds when in their plastic state. Following his experience in La- Grange county, he taught a term at the Germany schoolhouse, four miles north of Millersburg. and then for two terms had charge, in a very suc- cessful manner. of his old home school, his pupils, in the main, being his former schoolmates. The fact that some of the patrons had mistrusted his ability to cope with the difficulties of management which always con- front a teacher who takes charge of his own school and that he succeeded in overcoming these obstacles in such a manner as to bring forth vol- untary commendation from the very persons who had at first opposed him, is a matter of just pride to Mr. Deahl as he recalls his early teach- ing experiences. In the fall of 1881 he took charge of the primary de- partment of the Millersburg school. the next term taught the interme- diate department, and soon afterward was advanced to the principalship. a position which he held for seven years. He and his brother B. F. together taught four terms of normal school in Millersburg, making twenty-five terms of teaching in the town of Millersburg.
While teaching at Millersburg he served as justice of the peace. and for the last six years was town clerk, a position in which he was able to confer great benefit upon his town by capable management of the village's financial affairs. He was also superintendent of the Reform Sunday school four years. In the fall of 1889 Mr. Deahl entered the law department of the University of Michigan to complete his legal preparation, which he had already begun in private study while teaching school. It is noteworthy, in connection with what we have said of Mr. Deahl's ability to work hard and effectively. that he was the only student out of the three hundred who were his fellows to be allowed to take the two years' course in one. And, by toiling while others slept as well as during all the usual waking hours, he succeeded in carrying this double load. and on June 26. 1800, graduated with honors, receiving the degree of I.L. B. On July 2. just six days after the receipt of his
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diploma, Mr. Deahl opened his office in Goshen, and from that date to the present has been found almost constantly engaged in the increasing responsibilities of a growing practice. In 1896 the firm of Deahl and Deahl was established, B. F. Deahl coming in as junior partner, and the brothers have since shared the volume of work which has poured in upon them from every part of the county and brought them into con- nection with the principal cases not only on the docket of Elkhart county courts, but in those of surrounding counties. Mr. Deahl has served as special judge of the circuit court in this district.
Mr. Deahl has devoted himself with such absorbing energy to his profession that he has had little opportunity for public affairs. How- ever, as a loyal member of the Democratic party he has been several times honored, having been the candidate for representative from Elk- hart county in 1894 and for the office of state senator in 1900, in both campaigns succeeding in winning a large vote though not enough to overcome the Republican majority. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Red Men and the Modern Samaritans of the World. Mr. Deahl was elected president of the Goshen Commer- cial Exchange in 1898, served continuously to 1904. the longest period of service in that capacity in the history of the organization.
June 11. 1882, he married Miss Hattie Rogers. Their three sons are: Floyd, born July 15, 1883: Ray, born June 5. 1886; Orlo, born September 30. 1891. Floyd and Ray have each completed the course in the Goshen high school, and this fall enter upon their second year in the law department of the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In describing as we have Mr. Deahl's professional earnestness and industry, it should not be inferred that he is always involved in the meshes and tanglements of the law to the exclusion of all the other manifold interests which appeal to mankind. The same whole-souled enthusiasm he displays in the unraveling of legal cases he directs, in proper season and due proportion, to his recreations. \ pretty little cottage on Lake Wawasee is the home where he and his family delight to spend a large part of the summer season, and nearly every day of his stay there he may be found engaged in his favorite sport of angling, which he carries on with the philosophic patience and enjoyment, not to say success, of another Isaac Walton. Genial and affable, yet with- out the slightest surrender of the dignity which belongs to his integ- rity of character and ability, Mr. Deahl has friends among all classes and lives in their constantly increasing esteem.
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