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After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mosher located on their present homestead of eighty acres, and here their five children were born : Ada B., Miriam A., Esther M., James A. and Tracy P., but two, Esther and James, have passed away. Mr. Mosher is an independent voter, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Miles H. Tibbetts Post, No. 260, of Plymouth, Indiana.
DR. HOMER H. TALLMAN, Lapaz's leading physician, is an Iowan by birth, born in Linn county, that state, November 13, 1873, but is a representative of a southern family from Virginia, the birthplace of his paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Tallman. John C. Tallman, his father, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, November 26, 1848, and when a young man journeyed west and was in many of the western states, finally locating in Linn county, Iowa. He wedded on the Ist of January, 1873, Margaret J. Ebright, in Franklin county, Ohio.
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From Linn county John C. Tallman went to Marion, that state, and worked for J. W. Kendall; was later the manager of the retail depart- ment of the wholesale and retail hardware firm of C. E. Armstrong & Company at Clinton, Iowa, for three years; for a time was identified with the retail hardware and later the grocery trade of Grinnell, Iowa, and after a residence in both Rockford and Evanston, Illinois, engaged in the grocery and market business; he traded for the John W. Thomas farm in North township, Marshall county, Indiana. After a time he sold that land and bought the J. N. McNeil farm east of Lapaz in North township, which he now owns. He is a carpenter and contractor in Lapaz. Mrs. Tallman is also living. A son and a daughter were born to them, and the latter, Mary Effie, is the wife of Clarence G. Hale, of Chicago.
Dr. Tallman, the elder of the children and the only son, was about seven years old when his parents moved to Marion, Iowa, and there he first attended school, a pupil of Mrs. Lydia Knott. He was also a student in the Clinton schools, and completing the grammar grade at Rochelle, Illinois, he entered the high school at Grinnell, Iowa, and spent two years there. He was next a student in the Northwestern University at Evanston, where he studied medicine and graduated in 1900, while in June of the following year he came to Lapaz. In the meantime he has spent two years in practice in Chicago, but with that exception has practiced continuously in this city. He is a member of the Marshall County and the American Medical Associations and of the Masonic order, affiliating with the blue lodge of Lakeville, No. 353, F. & A. M., and the chapter and commandery of Plymouth. He is also a member of Lapaz Lodge, No. 56, K. O. T. M .; Lodge No. 4325; M. W. of A .; Lapaz Lodge, No. 613, A. O. O. G., and Lawndale Lodge, No. 3. N. A. U. He is the medical examiner of all these lodges men- tioned, and is also the surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and for the Industrial Portland Cement Company, of Syracuse, Indiana. Dr. Tallman is a Republican politically and belongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of Northwestern University.
JACOB VOLLMER is one of the oldest and best known business men of Bremen, having been identified with its interests for over fifty-nine years, but he is now living retired from the active duties of life, although he owns large interests in the live stock business and real estate, owning about six hundred acres of land in Marshall and St. Joseph counties. The Vollmer family have been identified with the interests of Marshall county since an early day in its history. Jacob Vollmer, Sr., was born in Wur- temberg, Germany, but when ten years of age he was brought by his parents to America, and their first home in this country was in Stark county, Ohio, where Jacob Vollmer married Philebena Appel, who was born in Byron, Germany, and she was also ten years of age when brought to this country. From Stark county Jacob Vollmer journeyed to Mar- shall county, Indiana, in about 1846, and took up his abode in German township, where he was prominently identified with agricultural interests until his retirement and his removal to Bremen. His death occurred when fifty-nine years of age, and his wife reached the age of sixty-seven
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years ere called to the home beyond. In their family were five daughters and two sons, all of whom attained to years of maturity.
Jacob Vollmer, their eldest son and second child, was born in German township, Marshall county, Indiana, December 7, 1848, and he remained at home and assisted in the farm work until the age of twenty-one years. He then began teaming and lumbering in and around Bremen, and after about ten years thus spent he entered the retail lumber and manufacturing business in Bremen. During his sixteen years' connection with that industry he became well known in the business circles of Marshall county, but at the close of the long period he sold his interests and retired from the active business world.
In 1904 Mr. Vollmer married Anna Backus, a daughter of August Backus. In political matters he votes with the Democratic party and takes an active part in the public life of his community, and is a member of the Lutheran church.
HON. CHARLES KELLISON. Probably no one is better known in the city of Plymouth, Indiana, than Hon. Charles Kellison, a prominent at- torney of that city. He is a native of the state of New York, having been born in Steuben county, June 17, 1850. His father, James Kellison, was born in Pennsylvania and removed, with his parents, to New York when but ten years of age. For the larger part of his life he was in the lumber trade. He is of Scotch and German ancestry. Elizabeth (Meek) Kelli- son, mother of our subject, was the daughter of James Meek, of English descent, and was born in Yates county, New York. She passed to her reward at the age of seventy-nine years. There were seven children born to this union, one daughter and six sons. Of these four grew to maturity, and three are living at this writing : Robert, a farmer in Steuben county, New York; James L., a farmer in the same county; and Charles, the youngest son, and the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Kellison was reared in New York and obtained his elementary education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine at the University of Michigan, and was graduated in his twenty-second year. He began the practice of his profession at Scio, New York, where he remained for two years. In 1874, before removing to Indiana, he became a student of law in the office of Hon. Hamilton Ward, of New York, and in October of that year came to Indiana and located at Decatur, in Adams county. Here he taught school for a time, and later became a law student of Judge David Studebaker, being admit- ted to the bar in 1876.
In April, 1877, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Cross, a daughter of Abel Cross, a farmer in Adams county. In this same year Mr. Kellison moved to Plymouth, and entered into the practice of law and has devoted the last thirty years to this profession.
For years Mr. Kellison has taken an active part in the political affairs of the state and county. He stumped Adams county, in 1876, and later a goodly part of northern Indiana, for the Democratic party, and has been honored by the people in the election to the state legislature for two terms ( 1884-1888) as representative from Marshall county. In 1896 he was
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nominated for Congress, and, although not elected, reduced the majority of his opponent 2,700 votes over the previous election.
Mr. Kellison has two children: Herbert, and Mamie, the wife of Cecil G. White, of Los Angeles, California.
For years a member of the Knights of Pythias, Mr. Kellison assisted in the organization of Lodge No. 65, at Decatur, Indiana, and was also a charter member of Lodge No. 117, at Plymouth. He is a member of the State Bar Association and, July 10, 1907, delivered the annual address at the session of that honorable body. He is widely known and universally respected by his fellow citizens.
CHRISTIAN SEILER was born on the west shore of Lake Brienz, near Interlaken, Canton-Bern, Switzerland, March 18, 1838, and in the house in which he first saw the light of day his father, Christian Seiler, was born on the Ioth of August, 1806, while his mother, Anna Fautz, was born August 15, 1810, in Gsteigweiler, two miles from Interlaken. They were married in the spring of 1837, and in the historic old home in Switzerland there were born to them Christian, Frederick, Anna, Susan and Margaret. In the year of 1853, when their eldest son was fifteen years of age, the family set sail for the United States, and after spending twenty-eight days on the ocean the weary travelers reached the harbor of New York, where they remained over Sunday and then proceeded on their way, via the Erie railroad, to Buffalo, thence by boat to Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, by the Lake Shore railroad to South Bend, Indiana, where they arrived on the Ist of December, 1853, and four days later, with ox teams and wagon owned by Uncle John Dietrich, continued their journey to their destination in Bremen. There Mr. Seiler, Sr., purchased of his brother-in-law eighty acres of land one mile west of Bremen, the purchase price being seven hundred dollars. But he was only able to pay three hundred dollars in cash and for the remaining four hundred his son Christian was bound out to his Uncle Dietrich for five years. At the expiration of that period, on the roth of June, 1859, the young lad went to Olney, Richland county, Illi- nois, where he worked at his trade of carpentering and cabinet-making with excellent success until his removal to Bremen in 1860. Here he re- sumed the work of his trades and continued their work with increasing success until he was obliged to put aside all personal consideration and lend his services to his country in its Civil war. He enlisted in October, 1861, in Company K, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with his regiment he participated in the battle of Shiloh, the siege of Corinth and the engagements at Perryville, Stone river and Chickamauga. From the Ist of May, 1863, until the 28th of October, following, he was the color bearer for the regiment, but while going to Bridgeport, Tennessee, he was injured and was obliged to surrender the flag. He was taken to the field hospital and this ended his career for active service, although he remained with his regiment at Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the sum- mer of 1864, and on the 5th of November of that year was there honor- ably discharged from the service.
On his return to Bremen, Mr. Seiler resumed the work of his trade and thus continued until he erected a store house and shop in 1871 and engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, but after eleven years
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in that business he sold his interest therein. Throughout the period of his residence in Marshall county Mr. Seiler has been prominently identi- fied with its public affairs and his prominence and well known reliability have led to his selection for many positions of public trust. The first office which he filled was that of township assessor, continuing in the office from 1870 to 1874, and from 1876 to 1882 he was a member of the school board. From 1884 until 1887 he served in the capacities of clerk and ' treasurer of Bremen, and in 1890 was elected to the office of justice of the peace, but did not qualify. Since 1884, covering a period of twenty-three years, he has been a notary public. He is also prominent in the fraternal as well as the social and political life of Marshall county and has member- ship relations with the Masonic order and the Blue Lodge. He is a mem- ber of the Grand Army, Hartzog Post, No. 400, and served as its com- mander in 1895.
On the 15th of February, 1866, Mr. Seiler married Mary Ann Beyler, who was born in German township February 15, 1846, and there were born to them the following children: Frederick W., deceased; Margaret E., the wife of John Hanes, of Kokomo, Indiana; Ida Anna, the wife of Andrew De Vore, of Bourbon, this state; Edward Clayton, deceased ; Clara E., the wife of John Bolden, of Indianapolis, Indiana ; Emma E., the wife of Stacy Snyder, of Bourbon ; Josephine, the wife of Birch W. Lewel- len, of Muncie, Indiana ; and Jeannette M., who died March 25, 1902. At the present time there are five daughters living. In 1881 Mr. Seiler made the return journey to his old home in Switzerland, renewing again after so many years the acquaintances and scenes of his youth, and he remained at his old home about three months. In April, 1891, his wife died, thus severing a union of many years, and he is spending his remaining days in the old Seiler home in Bremen.
PROSPER A. BALL, of the firm of Ball & Company, dry goods and clothing merchants of Plymouth, is one of the well known and highly re- spected merchants of the city. He is a native of Indiana, his birth occur- ring January 14, 1869. His father, Philip Jacob Ball, was a native of Germany, and, after coming to the United States, settled at Plymouth in 1875. Here he entered the dry goods and clothing business in partner- ship with a Mr. Carabin, which partnership continued until 1890, when it was dissolved, and the firm became known as Ball & Company, the sons. Prosper, Jerome and Alpha J., being admitted as members. The elder Mr. Ball died in 1902, and since that time the three sons have continued the business under the same firm name. Our subject is in charge of the dry goods department, Jerome conducts the ladies' ready-to-wear depart- ment and Alpha is in charge of the clothing department and also looks after the financial affairs. The store is the largest in Plymouth and em- ploys about fifteen people. It is well known about the vicinity and is doing a continually increasing business.
Mr. Prosper Ball was married in 1902 to Miss Minnie Rayden, and enjoyed his wedded life but one year, his wife dying in 1903.
In his political thought he is a Democrat, and is actively engaged in furthering the welfare of his county in his private and political relations.
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CHARLES W. NEWMAN. The success of Charles W. Newman, farmer and dairyman of Union township, is, without doubt, partly based on his stanch ancestry. Through his paternal forefathers he inherits the shrewd- ness and versatility of the Connecticut Yankee, while the maternal side contributes the persevering thrift of German blood. His father came into Ohio while yet a young man, and Charles W. was born on the home farm in the Buckeye state on the 25th of August, 1854. He was also reared to agricultural pursuits in his native locality, and in 1881 married Mary E. Rickenbaugh, also a native of Ohio. To this union were born the follow- ing children : Claude R., John A., Gale S. and J. Dick, all residents of Indiana.
In 1881, the year following his marriage, Mr. Newman removed to Pulaski county, Indiana, and two years thereafter to Cass county, where he engaged in farming for fifteen years. In 1897 he located in Union township, Marshall county, upon a farm of one hundred and fifty-eight acres, the whole of which he placed under cultivation and improved with suitable buildings and modern appliances. In 1906 he removed to the property known as the Culver farm, which he has since brought into an ideal condition as a raiser of dairy and farm products. One of his largest customers is the Culver Academy, which requires a daily supply of one hundred gallons of milk. Mr. Newman has not only met with gratifying success as an agriculturist, in the conduct of his personal affairs, but has earned the general respect of his fellow associates, and at the present time' is serving as county chairman of the Farmers' Institute. He is also affili- ated with the I. O. O. F. and the K. O. T. M., as a fraternatist, and in his religious faith is a member of the Reformed church.
HENRY HUMRICHOUSER, a retired farmer and live-stock dealer, was born in York, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1829, a son of William and Rachel (Thompson) Humrichouser. Henry Humrichouser resided in Ashland county, Ohio, until he had reached the age of about twenty years, and in the fall of 1850 he came to Plymouth and worked for Dr. Griffin and Judge Fuller for a year. In the fall of 1851 he returned to Ohio, and from there went to California in 1852, but in 1855 came again to Ply- mouth and in the following year engaged in the grocery business with N. S. Woodward. In 1859, as a member of the firm Humrichouser & Quivey, he became a mill, grain and stock dealer, and in 1865 he engaged in the grocery and live stock business with J. Dial, their firm name being Humrichouser & Dial. In 1877 Mr. Humrichouser retired from active business and has devoted the time since to superintending his farm inter- ests. He has two fine farms in Center township and a city residence in Plymouth. He is a director of the Plymouth State Bank, was elected the marshal of the city and was a member of the first fire company of Ply- mouth.
Mr. Humrichouser married in 1858 Miss Rachael Hunter, of Ashland county, Ohio, and she died in Plymouth in 1903. They became the par- ents of two sous: William, who died at the age of twenty-one years, and Harry, who was born in Plymouth September 30, 1866.
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EDWARD M. WRIGHT. As a manager of the box factory of Bremen, one of Marshall county's leading industrial institutions, Edward M. Wright is well known to the residents of both his city and county. He entered the factory when a youth just out of school, starting as an ordi- nary laborer, learning the business in every department, until in 1897 he was made the manager of the factory and now has entire charge of this institution. Employment is furnished to twenty men, and the factory has done much to promote the industrial activity of Marshall county.
Mr. Wright was born in New Paris, Indiana, July 8, 1868, the second son of John J. and Sarah F. (Loomis) Wright, prominent and well known. residents of this city. When Edward M. was a babe of one year the fam- ily came to Bremen, where the little son attained to years of maturity and attended the public schools, completing his educational training by a busi- ness course in Hillsdale College of Michigan. He then returned to Bre- men and his since been identified with its business interests.
On the 4th of August, 1894, Mr. Wright was united in marriage to Minnie B. Ungry, a daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (Pickens) Ungry, of Bremen. One daughter has been born of this union, Helen D. Mr. Wright is a Republican in his political affiliations and is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity.
JONES GRANT. In an enumeration in Marshall county of those who have gained success in the business world and won public recognition is found Jones Grant, the present treasurer of Marshall county and a resident of Plymouth. He was born in Stark county, Ohio, January 29, 1843, a son of John and Mary (Gaskill) Grant, natives respectively of New Jersey and Ohio. The father remained in the state of his nativity, engaged in agricultural pursuits, until he removed with his father, Stacy Grant, to Stark county, Ohio, where the family were numbered among the early pio- neers. They were of Scotch origin. In 1852 John Grant continued his westward journey to Marshall county, Indiana, establishing his home in the eastern part of the county, where he was engaged in farming until his removal to Wayne county, Iowa, in 1855. His death occurred in Keokuk county of that state when he had attained the age of forty-six years, and his wife was thirty-nine years of age at the time of her death. In their family were eight children, four of whom grew to years of maturity and are living at the present time.
Jones Grant, the third child in order of birth, was a little lad of nine years at the time of the removal of his parents to Marshall county, and he grew to mature years in Bourbon and Walnut, continuing his residence in the Hoosier state until the removal of the family to Iowa. After the death of his parents in 1857 he returned to Marshall county, being then about fourteen years of age, and he afterward worked at farm labor by the month until his enlistment for service in the Civil war in 1861, joining Company D, Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career cover- ing a period of over three years. During that time he participated in many of the historic battles of the war, including Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Culpeper, Atlanta and many others. While at the front he was four times wounded, first at the battle of Shiloh, next at Stone River, the third time at Woodbury and the fourth at Chickamauga, where he lay
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on the battlefield without any attention whatever for more than a week. He was finally taken as a prisoner of war, later paroled and sent to the hospital, and was honorably discharged with the rank of corporal in Sep- tember, 1864, at Chickamauga, Tennessee. Returning to his old home in Marshall county, Mr. Grant resumed his agricultural labors in Walnut township, and is now the owner of one hundred and ten acres of rich and fertile land in Warren township. During the long period of forty years he maintained his residence on this farm, in that time transforming the land from its primitive state into one of the finest homesteads of the county. Its work is now carried on by his son, for Mr. Grant's election to the office of treasurer of Marshall county necessitated his removal to Plymouth. He is a Republican in his political affiliations, and he won the election in a Democratic stronghold of five hundred majority.
In March, 1865, Mr. Grant married Amanda J. Perry, a daughter of James Perry, and they have three children: Estes, the wife of Emry Hight, of Walnut township; Edwin J., the deputy treasurer of Marshall county ; and Everett F., who is farming the homestead. Mr. Grant is a prominent member of Miles H. Tibbits Post, G. A. R., of Plymouth, and also has membership relations with the blue lodge of Masons in this city. In the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has long been a prominent and efficient member, he has held all the offices and is now the trustee, and is an active and zealous worker in the cause of Christianity.
EDWARD S. KITCH is prominently identified with the real estate and fire insurance interests of Bremen, and he has also been numbered among the county's leading educators, since he entered the school room as a teacher at the age of twenty-one years. His birth occurred in German township, Marshall county, Indiana, February 6, 1868. His father, Mar- tin U. Kitch, was born in Crawford county, Ohio, but came to Marshall county, Indiana, with his father, John B. Kitch, in an early day, and they established their home in German township, where the former was subse- quently married to Amanda M. Lehr, a native of Ohio. The young couple began their married life on a farm in German township just south of Bremen, and they became the parents of three sons and a daughter.
Edward S. Kitch, their second son and second child in order of birth. attended first the public schools of German township and later became a student in the Valparaiso University and the county normal. As above stated, he began teaching at the age of twenty-one years, and has ever since been numbered among Marshall county's prominent and well known educators. He has taught principally in German township, and during ten years of the time he was also engaged in the mercantile business dur- ing the summer months. He is now prominently identified with the insur- ance and real estate business, and in 1899 was appointed to the office of justice of the peace, to which he was re-elected in 1902 and has been the incumbent since that time. He is actively interested in the public life of his community, voting with the Democratic party, and for two years he was his party's representative in the office of city clerk of Bremen.
On the 18th of December, 1892, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kitch and Della E. Bates. She is a daughter of James and Mary (Ringle) Bates, prominent old settlers of Marshall county, and Mrs. Kitch was born
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in its township of German. They have one daughter living, Vivian I., at home, and their only son, Thornton, died at the age of two years. Mr. Kitch is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. He has been a life-long resident of Marshall county and is recognized as one of its distinctively representative citizens.
CLINTON HUFF. Since the early days of Marshall county's history the name of Huff has been prominently associated with its milling inter- ests, and Clinton Huff is now efficiently carrying on the work inaugurated by his father, William Huff, many years ago. William Huff, Sr., was a native son of Germany, from whence he was brought to the United States by his parents when but three years of age, and the family located in Ohio. From there they journeyed to Marshall county, Indiana, during an early period in the history of this section of the state, and took up their abode in German township. Here William Huff was united in marriage to one of the township's native daughters, Eliza J. Annis, and they became the parents of ten children, four of whom are now living. Mr. Huff, the father, learned and followed the carpenter's trade, and many of the homes and buildings of German township were erected by him in an early day. He later drifted into the saw-milling business, and he continued actively identified with that vocation until his death on the 21st of August, 1895. Mrs. Huff is yet living.
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