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JOHN R. JONES, the county clerk of Marshall county, with residence in Plymouth, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, November 10, 1867. It was in that county that his father, Ezra T. Jones, also had his nativity, and he was there reared and twice married, his first union being with Harriet Connor, by whom he had three children, two sons and a daughter, but only one daughter is now living, Mary Jane, the wife of Benjamin Berry, of Fulton county, Indiana, near Macy. The father married for his second wife Harlena Jane Tyrrell, who was born in Ohio, and they became the parents of two sons and two daughters, but both of the daughters are now deceased, and of the sons Ansley B., the younger, is engaged in the hardware business in Argos. Ezra T. Jones came to Indiana in the fall of 1873 and established his home in the southern part of the county, where he yet maintains his residence, being now about sixty years of age. He has never taken an active part in the political life, always voting with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Richland Center, an active and efficient worker in the cause of Christianity. His wife died some years ago, and for his third wife he married Eliza A. Garn, nee Flannigan.
John R. Jones was but a lad of five years when he became a resident of Marshall county, receiving his educational training in its public schools, and his first official position was as the trustee of Green township, con- tinuing in that office from 1894 to November, 1900, six years. He then moved to Argos and became the editor for two years of the Argos Reflector. In his earlier life he taught school for nine years in Marshall and Fulton counties, while later he represented on the road the fire and life insurance business. In 1902 he was made the clerk of Marshall county, entering upon his official duties January 1, 1904, retiring January I, 1908, and in 1906 was elected to the office of chairman of the Demo- cratic party of Marshall county and re-elected in 1908. In addition to discharging his official duties he is also engaged in the real estate business and is interested in Texas land, owning about thirteen hundred and fifty acres in Marion county.
On the 26th of March, 1891, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Cora M. McElfresh, a native daughter of Marshall county, where her
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parents, Elijah and Rachel ( Davis) McElfresh, established their home in an early day and are numbered among its honored pioneers. The father is now a retired farmer of Argos. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones: Marcie, Ethel, Agnes and Louise. Mr. Jones has fraternal relations with the Knights of Pythias order of Argos and with the Masonic order in Plymouth.
DR. A. E. STEVENS, a physician and surgeon of high reputation and substantial practice at Maxinkuckee, Marshall county, is a native of Noblesville, Indiana, born on the 20th of January, 1844. His father, Dr. Oliver Perry Stevens, was also a physician of the place for many years, so that this section of the county is particularly indebted to the family for the faithful and reliable administrations of that profession which shares with the clergy the gratitude and deep affections of the well ordered citizen. The elder man was born and reared in Stark county, Ohio, and was an alumnus of the Ohio State Medical College of Cleve- land. For several years he practiced his profession in Noble county, Indiana, and then removed to Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he remained for twenty-two years. In 1874 he located in Maxinkuckee, Indiana, and continued there until his death at the age of sixty-seven years. He had a very large practice and was widely esteemed throughout Marshall county both as a physician and a man. The mother of our subject, Leonora Stevens, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, and was eleven years of age when she came to Indiana with her parents, being reared to womanhood on the home farm. By her marriage to Dr. Stevens she became the mother of four sons and one daughter, Dr. A. E. Stevens being the eldest of the family.
The future doctor was but seven years of age when his parents removed to Columbia county, Wisconsin, and there he finally begun the study of medicine under his father's guidance, later attending the Cleve- land Medical College, from which he graduated with his professional degree in 1872. Following his graduation he returned to Wisconsin, but soon afterward went to Cresco, Iowa, where he first entered into practice. For two years he remained at that place and then removed to Monterey, Indiana, where he remained for fifteen years. In 1889 he located at Maxinkuckee, and has there remained as a valuable member of the community in every respect.
In 1866 Dr. A. E. Stevens was united in marriage with Miss Jane Allen, a native of New York. Seven children have been born to this union, four of whom are deceased. The living are: Oliver R., located in Maxinkuckee, and is a book binder, married; Dessie F., wife of A. C. Edinger, a resident of Boone Grove, Indiana, and an agriculturist ; Guy, located in this county, and a painter by occupation, married. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat.
DR. N. S. LINDQUIST has been a member of the medical fraternity of Plymouth since 1899. His alma mater is the renowned Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, in which he graduated with the class of 1899, and in the same year he opened an office in his native city of Plymouth, where he was born on the 27th of August, 1874, to Peter
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H. and Celia (Anderson) Lindquist, both natives of Sweden. When about twenty-one years of age the father left his native country and came to the United States, and shortly after his arrival in this country he established his home in Plymouth, where he has ever since been identified with the blacksmith's trade, being now one of the oldest representatives of the business in the city. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lindquist are living and are as follows: Dr. J. A., a practicing physician of Springfield, Illinois; N. S., the subject of this review ; Charles O., a resi- dent of South Bend; and Walter H., a traveling man.
Dr. N. S. Lindquist received his literary training in the public schools of Plymouth, where. he graduated with the class of 1894, and he then became enrolled among the students of Hahnemann College to prepare for the profession which he has chosen as his life work. The same year of his graduation, 1899, he opened an office in Plymouth, where he has since faithfully responded to the calls of the sick and suffering and has won for himself a leading place in the profession.
Dr. Lindquist married, in 1899, Maggie Francisco, a daughter of Mrs. C. A. Francisco, of Lincoln, Illinois, and their two children are Frank V. and Olive C. The Doctor is a member of the Indiana Insti- tute of Homeopathy and is a prominent Mason, affiliating with the blue lodge, chapter and Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity in Plymouth and is a Republican in his political affiliations.
REV. MARTIN L. PETER, the pastor of the Lutheran church of Lapaz, was born three miles west of Corydon, Harrison county, Indiana, Jan- uary 28, 1865. Rev. Philip A. Peter, his father, is one of the most widely known ministers in the Lutheran denomination, long a most earnest laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, and by both voice and pen he has proclaimed His teachings to the world. He was born near Frank- iort-on-the-Main, Germany, but was only about three years old when he came with his parents to America, and arriving in the harbor of Balti- more, Maryland, the family eventually made their way to Louisville, Kentucky, a short time afterward going to New Albany, Indiana, and from there to Corydon, of the same state. There Rev. Philip A. Peter attended the academy, his preceptor being Professor Nail, a native of the Isle of Man, and later he spent several years as a teacher, both teaching and studying theology under the president of the Indiana Synod. In 1858 he entered the ministry of the Lutheran church and was stationed at Corydon, Indiana, for nine years preaching at the home church near that city. From there he went to Shelbyville, Illinois, where he labored less than two years, and then for five years preached at Olean, Indiana. and at West Baltimore, Ohio.
The ministerial labors of Rev. Philip A. Peter cover the unusually long period of fifty years, and in addition to his zealous labors as a pastor he has been the author of many worthy publications, including the "History of the Reformation," published by the authority of the Ohio Synod. He is also the author of "St. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles." With Professor William Schmidt, of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minne- sota, he is the author of the "History of the Ohio Synod," and he has
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also contributed to the Lutheran periodicals and magazines several well known English hymns. The wife of Rev. Peter was before marriage Mahala Rhodes, born south of Corydon, Indiana, June 22, 1829, and she died June 14, 1903. She was the daughter of Abraham and Mary (Crabill) Rhodes, from old Virginia, but the family located in Harrison county, Indiana, about one hundred years ago. Members of this family fought under Washington during the Revolutionary war.
Three sons and four daughters were born to Rev. and Mrs. Peter, and their fourth child and second son, Martin L., has worthily followed the footsteps of his honored father leading to the higher life and is one of the eminent exponents of the Lutheran faith. His first training in the public schools of West Baltimore, Ohio, was continued in the Capital University at Columbus, that state, where he remained for three years, and then entering the junior year of Roanoke College at Salem, Virginia, graduated in June of 1889. In the fall of the same year he became a student in the Columbus, Ohio, Theological Seminary, and following his graduation in 1892 was ordained a minister and installed as the pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, five miles northwest of Lapaz. In the year following he organized the Lutheran chapel at Lapaz, and in 1906 he organized a church at Pleasant Valley, three miles northeast of Lake- ville, Indiana, while also he is the secretary and was the promoter of the National Lutheran Library Association, the author of a condensation of Christian baptism, and his last work, "A Miracle Among Men," has won him renown as an author. He, too, has spent many years in the vine- yard of the Lord, an earnest and efficient worker, patient and diligent, and is loved by his people and honored by all who know him.
Rev. Peter married, October 24, 1894, Augusta, a daughter of J. G. and Jane (Jenner) Pfeiffer, of Columbus, Ohio, where the daughter was formerly a teacher in the high school. Her brother, Professor Ed Pfeiffer. is a member of the faculties of the Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Capital University, and one of her pupils, Harry G. Archer, is a noted musical author. Esther Augusta, the only child of Rev. and Mrs. Peter, is attending school in Lapaz.
DANIEL W. MILLER. The business interests of Tyner find a worthy representative in Daniel W. Miller, a merchant and postmaster, who belongs to that class of representative American men that promote public interests while advancing individual progress. He is a native of Indiana, his birth having occurred in Elkhart county, near Nappanee, December 3, 1877. His father, Levi Miller, who was at one time a farmer of this county, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, and was there reared. Having arrived at years of maturity, he wedded Miss Mary Farmwald, who is now deceased. She, too, was a native of the Buckeye state and both were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. They had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom Daniel W. Miller is the third son and sixth child. On leaving Ohio the father removed to Indiana, settling in Elkhart county, where he worked on the railroad and studied medicine. Later he took up his abode near Nappanee and began the practice of medicine, following that profession until 1884, when he left Elkhart county and brought his family to Marshall county. Here he made
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a location in German township and bought a farm of twenty acres which was covered with the native timber. This he cleared away and continued the development of the place, at the same time practicing his profession in German township until about 1890, when he removed to Polk township and bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. This he also culti- vated and developed and derived therefrom a gratifying income. In 1894 he went to North Dakota, where he practiced for about ten years, after which he removed to the state of Washington, locating near Wenatchee, where he is now located in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the German Baptist church and his life has been characterized by high and honorable principles, while in the line of his profession his service has been of marked value to his fellow men.
Daniel W. Miller was a pupil in the district schools of West town- ship and also spent one term as a student at North Manchester. During the periods of vacation he worked in the fields upon the home farm, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. When nineteen years of age he left home and started out upon an independent business life as an employe of Samuel Cripe, of North township, with whom he remained for seven months. He then went to Plymouth, where he was employed in the old novelty works in the finishing room, spending three months there. On the expiration of that period he accompanied his father to Dakota, where the succeeding two years were passcd, after which he returned to Marshall county and began work as a farm hand by the month. Later he again went to Dakota, where he followed farming for seven months, when he once more returned to Marshall county and again was employed at farm labor here. His life has been one of unremitting diligence and activity and whatever success he has enjoyed is attributable to his own labors.
On Christmas day of 1898 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Bertha C. Pippenger, who was born in Fulton county, Indiana, a daughter of Joseph and Sophia Pippenger, who were farmers of North township. Mrs. Miller was reared and educated in Polk township, where her father owned a farm of forty acres. For two years after their marriage the young couple lived in Polk township, where Mr. Miller carried on general agricultural pursuits, and then removed to Plymouth, where the succeed- ing winter was passed. In the spring he took up his abode in West township and was employed at threshing by Henry Price. He afterward worked on the Pennsylvania railroad on a steam shovel and invested his earnings in twenty acres of land in Polk township. He cleared part of this and then traded his land for a threshing machine, and for two seasons operated his thresher, but in the year 1904 he lost his arm in a corn husker. He then sold the thresher but took another one as part pay and used it for husking corn. In the spring of 1905 he located in Tyner and purchased the store of Mr. Fink. He is now carrying a line of notions, candy, cigars and school supplies and has a good establishment, receiving a liberal share of the public patronage. On the 4th of April, 1905, he was appointed postmaster and is now filling that position.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born three children-Lila, Goldie and Susie-all of whom are natives of Polk township. The parents are members of the United Brethren church and are highly
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esteemed in the community, enjoying in large measure the confidence and friendship of those with whom they have been brought in contact.
In politics Mr. Miller has been a Republican since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, but the honors and emoluments of office have had little attraction for him and he has never sought public office until becoming postmaster of Tyner, being appointed by President Roosevelt. Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient Order of Gleaners, and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His life has been one of untiring industry and he may truly be called a self-made man, for his perseverance and diligence constitute the basis of the success which he has enjoyed.
NOVITAS B. ASPINALL, M. D. For many generations the ancestors of Dr. Aspinall have been distinguished representatives of the medical profession in both England and Germany. His paternal great-grand- father was one of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of England, and to his son, Dr. George Aspinall, was accorded a prominent position with the medical fraternity in Liverpool, England. That city was the birthplace of the latter's son and the father of the Doctor of this review, R. H. Aspinall, who also became a practicing physician of Liverpool and practiced in connection with his father. Dr. R. H. Aspinall married Emily E. Hague, a native of the fatherland of Ger- many. Her father, Dr. Henri A. Hague, was a graduate of a medical. college and was a practicing physician of Germany for many years. Eight children were born to Dr. R. H. and Emily Aspinall, three sons and five daughters, and the sons are all practicing physicians.
Dr. Novitas B. Aspinall, the only representative of his family in America, attended the Kings College of Liverpool, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons with the class of 1879, the Oxford University in 1874, and after the completion of his studies he practiced with his father for one year. In the fall of 1881 he came to the United States, and during the following seven years was a resident of New York, removing thence to Chicago, where he practiced his profession from 1888 until 1892, and it was at the close of that year that he came to Plymouth and so prominently identified himself with its professional life. His practice is in connection with Dr. Borton, whose daughter Grace he married on the Ioth of June, 1896, and their only child, Jane Borton, is now a little maid of six years. Dr. Aspinall holds membership rela- tions with the Indiana State Medical Society, the International Asso- ciation of Railway Surgeons, the American Association, the Pennsylvania Railway Surgeons, the Marshall County Physicians' Association, and is the secretary of the Marshall County Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Masonic order, in which he affiliates with the blue lodge, council, chapter and the Knights Templar, and is a member of the Order of Ben Hur, the Foresters and the Woodmen of the World. In connection with his large practice Dr. Aspinall is also the surgeon for the Pennsylvania and the Lake Shore Railroad Companies, is the secretary of the Monarch Iron Works, and is largely interested in real estate in Plymouth and Marshall county. He is a member of the Episcopal church.
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HENRY CLAY TABER was born in Center township, Marshall county, Indiana, April 13, 1840, and his entire life with the exception of his services in the Civil war, was spent on the old Taber homestead in Mar- shall county. His name is indelibly inscribed on the pages of the early and much of the subsequent history of his community, and he was a man of the highest integrity of character. He was a son of Samuel Dennis and Jane (Pope) Taber, both of whom were born in New York, and from that state they moved to Pennsylvania, thence to Ohio and subsequently to Indiana. Their first home in this state was in Allen county, from whence they came to Marshall county in 1833. Samuel D. Taber was one of the contractors to build the Michigan road, he having constructed about twelve miles of this historic old highway, and in that same year his son Cyrus was born on the 26th of June, and it is stated that he was the first white child born within the confines of Marshall county. Samuel Dennis Taber was born April 19, 1798, and died April 22, 1864. He built the residence where so many years of the life of his son Henry Clay were spent and where his widow yet resides. He was married on the Ist of July, 1830, and in an early day they kept a country hotel on their farm, which he developed from a dense timber tract. Jane (Pope) Taber was born March 7, 1806, and died in Marshall county May 10, 1878. These honored pioneers became the parents of the following children: Cyrus, Mary Ann, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Sarah Frances, Oliver Perry, Lucyette and William Paul. The father was one of the prominent characters in Marshall county in an early day, serving in many of its minor offices. He was a justice of the peace and one of the early county judges, having for many years been prominently known as Judge Taber. He was first a Whig and later a Republican in his political affiliations, and both he and his wife were Presbyterians, although during the later years of her life she was a member of the Advent church.
Henry Clay Taber was reared on a farm and his life pursuit was agriculture. Owing to the poor condition of the schools of the pioneer days he received only a limited educational training. On the 8th of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, Seventy-third Indiana Volun- teer Infantry, as a private, and was honorably discharged July 1, 1865, but he thereafter maintained pleasant relations with his old army com- rades of the blue by his membership in the Grand Army post. Before his enlistment, October 13, 1860, he married Maggie Fife, who died November 17, 1866. She bore him one son, Herman Taber, now of Plymouth. On the 24th of October, 1867, Mr. Taber married Sarah Jane Blasingham, who yet survives him, and to this union were born Susan, Charles (deceased), John E., Nellie Dell, Henry Howard and Samuel Dennis. Mr. Taber affiliated with the Republican party, and the death of this honored old resident of Marshall county occurred on the 6th of January, 1906.
Mrs. Taber was born in Fayette county, Indiana, March 3, 1844, a daughter of John D. and Mary Susan ( Stubblefield) Blasingham, the former of whom was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, September 29, 1815, and died in Marshall county, Indiana, April 21, 1850, a young man of thirty-five years, and the mother, born in Gloucester county May 10,
MR. AND MRS. HENRY C. TABER.
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1818, died in Marshall county August 10, 1900. She bore her husband the following children : Mary Frances, deceased ; Thomas A., who served in the Civil war with Company D, Seventy-third Volunteer Infantry ; Sarah Jane; John Hilliard; Francis Marion, and James C. The father died during the memorable epidemic of typhoid fever in 1850, leaving his widow with the care of five children. Their farm was then an undevel- oped tract of woodland, their home a little log cabin, and under the most unfavorable circumstances the brave and faithful mother of his children set about to provide for her fatherless children with a fidelity worthy of mention. She performed a man's work in clearing the land and raising the crops, but her labors were well rewarded and she reared a family worthy of her honored name. She was possessed of the most sterling qualities of heart and mind, and God blessed her with many years, she having passed the eighty-second milestone ere death claimed her. She was for many years a faithful member of the Methodist church. On the 17th of January, 1859, she married Joseph Burden, by whom she had two children, Joseph Edmond and Eva Ellsworth, but the daughter is de- ceased, as is also the father, who died in 1897. Mrs. Taber has two (2) parchment deeds executed under the hand and seal of President Van Buren, March 20, 1837, valuable souvenirs in her home.
DANIEL R. MORLOCK, a farmer and stockman of West township, was born in Union township, Marshall county, Indiana, December 11, 1858, a son of George Adam Morlock, whose genealogy appears on other pages of this work. The son Daniel received his educational training in the township of West, and at his father's death he became an heir to eighty acres of the homestead farm, a part of which he has since cleared and placed under cultivation, and for twenty-five years he has maintained his residence on this farm.
Mr. Morlock married, in 1883, Fannie E. Crawford, a daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth Crawford, honored pioneer residents of West town- ship, Marshall county. Mrs. Morlock was born in Ohio, but came with her parents to Marshall county in 1865, and she was reared and received her educational training in West township. Their three children are Cora, Claude and Lester, all of whom were born on the homestead in West township. The political affiliations of Mr. Morlock are with the Democratic party.
DR. HENRY A. DEEDS, dentist, councilman and one of the leading citizens of Plymouth, has practiced here throughout his professional career, covering a period of eighteen years. Dentistry is said to be unique among other occupations, for it is a trade, a profession and a business all in one, and it thus follows that in order to attain the highest success in it one must be thoroughly skilled in the theory of the art, expert in the use of the many tools and appliances incidental to the prac- tice of modern dentistry, and must possess good business qualifications. In none of these qualities is Dr. Deeds lacking, and he has therefore attained a foremost position among the representatives of the profession.
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