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The education of our subject was obtained in the schools of Germany. He was a youth of about nineteen when he decided to cast in his lot with the inhabitants of this favored land, and upon his arrival in the United States he spent one year in La Fayette, Indiana. Coming then to Logansport, he worked at whatever he could find to do, whereby he might earn an honest livelihood. He chopped wood, cut logs, was variously employed at the Barnett House; from 1859 to 1862 was connected with the Forest Mills and then for about two years was occupied in teaming upon his own account.
Having been frugal and careful of his means, the young man at last had a sufficient sum laid aside to enable him to embark in business for himself. Since 1864 he has been more or less connected with the liquor business, for a time running a boarding-house in conjunction with the other line. For fifteen years he was the general agent at Logansport for the Indianapolis Brewing Company, and of late years he has represented the Columbia Brew- ing Company, of this city. In 1896 he embarked in the livery business, and the following year erected a substantial brick stable and carriage-house on Third street. From time to time he has invested judiciously in real estate, 'and now owns many valuable pieces of property in Logansport and else- where. In addition to numerous houses and lots in the city, he owns fine farm-lands near the corporation limits. His success in business is, indeed, somewhat remarkable, in view of the fact that at the start he was handi- capped by being a stranger to the language and customs of America; had no. capital or influential friends and was literally forced to " paddle his own canoe."
From the time that he became a voter Mr. Schneeberger has used his franchise in favor of the Democratic party. Fraternally he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, the Independent Order of Foresters and. St. Joseph's Mutual Benefit Society. He was reared in the Catholic church and adheres to its teachings.
The first marriage of Mr. Schneeberger took place in 1860, Miss Annie Sommers being the lady of his choice. They became the parents of five
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children, only one of whom, Mary, is living. After the death of his first wife, our subject married, in 1875, Miss Mary Lash. Two children, a son and a daughter, Frederick and Clara, bless their union. They have a pleasant home and have many sincere friends and well-wishers.
G EORGE W. WILSON .- Born on a farm in Union county, Indiana, near Liberty, on the 11th of May, 1843, George W. Wilson came with his father to Cass county when twelve years of age and has since resided upon the farm which is now his home. Previous to that date he had remained in the county of his nativity and his childhood days were quietly passed after the usual manner in which farmer lads spend their time. In 1855 the family came to Cass county, making the journey by team to Deer Creek township, where the father purchased a farm, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, on which not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made. Upon the old homestead our subject grew to manhood, and with the passing years he assisted in the labors that placed the land under cultivation and made it to bring forth abundant harvests. His educational privileges were limited, but his training at farm work was not meagre. He carried on business with his father until the latter's death in 1871, since which time he has managed the farm alone.
On the 29th of January, 1873, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wil- son and Miss Catherine Beamer, and their home has been blessed with six children: Harry, a farmer of Deer Creek township, Cass county; Lora, Stella and Carl, at home; and William A. and Alma I., now deceased.
In addition to his home farm Mr. Wilson owns a tract of seventy-eight acres on section 20, Deer Creek township, and has both places under a high state of cultivation. He has made most of the improvements on the old homestead, and these stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. He carries on general farmning and stock-raising, and his well-tilled fields indicate his ability in the former line, while the excellent appearance of his horses and cattle also show that he is progressive in the latter department of his business. He is industrious, careful in management and sagacious in the direction of his business affairs. His methods, too, are honorable and com- mend him to the confidence of all. Idleness forms no part of his nature and
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his energetic prosecution of his farm duties has brought to him prosperity which he well deserves. In politics Mr. Wilson is a Republican, and in his religious associations is a member of the Christian church.
N ELSON W. CADY, M. D .- In the subject of this review we have one who has attained to distinction in the line of his profession, who has been an earnest and discriminating student and who holds a position of due relative precedence among the medical practitioners of Logansport. "Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth," said the sage Epicharmus, and the truth of the admonition has been verified in all human affairs in all the ages which have rolled their course since his day. The subject to whose life history we now direct attention has, by ceaseless toil and endeavor, attained a marked success in professional life, has gained the respect and confidence of men, and is recognized as one of the distinctively representa- tive citizens of Cass county.
Dr. Cady was born in Indianapolis, October 3, 1850, and belongs to one of the oldest American families. Only fifteen years had passed after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock when Nicholas Cady, a native of Wales, braved the dangers of a voyage across the Atlantic in the little sea- craft of that day. He took up his residence in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1645, and in 1648 removed to Groton, that state. He married Judith Knapp and they had nine children, including Joseph Cady, who became the father of eleven children. Of this number was David Cady, and of his eleven children, this son, Joseph Cady, also had eleven. The latter's son, Albe Cady, had a family of five, which number included Charles Warner Cady, father of our subject. He was born in Keene, New Hampshire, and married Abigail Aikman Kiersted, who was descended from an old Knicker- bocker Holland-Dutch family, of New York. Mr. Cady was connected with the fire-insurance business throughout his entire life and was the first fire- insurance agent in Indiana. He died in Indianapolis in 1855, when only forty-five years of age, having been a resident of the state from 1840.
Dr. Cady was one of a family of six children and was only five years of age at the time of his father's death. He was reared in the city of his nativ- ity, and completed his literary education by graduation in Cornell University,
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with the class of 1874. A man of strong mentality, his tastes naturally tended in the direction of a professional career, and deciding to prepare for the practice of medicine he matriculated in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York city, in which institution he was graduated in 1877. The same year he located in Logansport, where he has since engaged in the practice of medicine with excellent success. He is a close student of his profession and keeps fully abreast with the advancement that is continnally being made therein. His knowledge is comprehensive and accurate and his skill is demonstrated in the excellent success which has followed his efforts in the sick-room. He possesses marked judgment and discernment in the diag- nosing of disease and is peculiarly successful in anticipating the issue of com- plications. He observes most closely the ethics of the unwritten professional code and shows most careful courtesy to his fellow practitioners. Along pro- fessional lines he is connected with the Cass County Medical and the Indiana State Medical Associations.
In 1883 the Doctor married Miss Jennie M. Miller, of Waverly, New York, and in the social circles of Logansport they hold an enviable position. The Doctor has been a member of the city board of health for about twelve years. He is very prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Orient Lodge, No. 72, A. F. & A. M .; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M .; Logansport Coun- cil, No. 11, R. & S. M., and is also identified with Apollo Lodge, No. 62, Knights of Pythias. His political support is given the Republican party, and while not an aspirant for office he keeps well informed on political issues, as every American citizen should do, and in local affairs gives a public-spirited and generous support to all measures and enterprises for the public good.
TOTT N. ANTRIM, a member of the leading law firm of Peru, Mitchell, 1 N Antrim & McClintic, is a native of this county, born March 25, 1847, and is the youngest son of Benjamin and Frances Antrim. He was ten years old when (his father and mother being dead) he went to make his home with an elder brother, L. W. Antrim, where he continued to live for two years; then he sallied out into the "cold world." "Our life is but a battle, " says a writer, " and like the winds, never resting, homeless, we storm across the water of the convulsed earth." So our homeless lad undertook the voyage of life unaided, to take care of himself as well as he could. He labored upon
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a farm during the warmer portion of the year and during the winter attended school until eighteen years of age.
Then he endeavored to enlist in the war for the Union, where Uncle Sam would have the care of him, but no, he was too small! In the spring of 1866, having some money saved from his earnings, he entered Union Col- lege at Merom, Indiana, and, having already qualified himself for teaching, he alternately taught and attended school, and at length located in Peru, where he read law in the office of Shirk & Mitchell, and in 1873 he was admitted to practice at the Miami county bar. In the spring of 1874 he opened an office and entered into practice. In the fall of 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial circuit, composed of Miami and Wabash counties, and held that office for two consecutive terms. In 1888 he was elected by a pluralty of forty-one on the Republican ticket, as a representative of Miami to the state legislature, the fifty-third general assembly, the county at the same time giving a Democratic plurality of two hundred and ninety-seven for secretary of state.
After a partnership of one year's duration with W. C. Bailey, he formed a business union with Hon. James M. Brown, under the firm name of Brown & Antrim, which continued for nine years and was terminated by the appoint- ment of Mr. Brown as judge of the Miami circuit court. In 1890 he formed a partnership with Joseph N. Tillett, the present prosecuting attorney for the fifty-first judicial circuit, under the firm name of Antrim & Tillett, and this relation existed for five years. January 1, 1896, the present law firm of Mitchell, Antrim & McClintic was formed. These gentlemen have a good business, as they deserve, for their honorable and thoroughgoing manner of prosecuting all the business entrusted to them.
February 11, 1875, Mr. Antrim was united in marriage with Miss M. S. Adkisson, of Bellair, Illinois, who died March 6, 1894, leaving three children, - Macy C., Nott W. and Minnie F.
G EORGE W. LANDON .- Kokomo has become one of the most thriving and enterprising industrial and commercial centers of the Hoosier state, and its prestige in the business world is due to such men as Mr. Landon. His efforts toward advancing the material interests of the city are so widely recognized that they can be considered as no secondary part of his career of
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signal usefulness. He belongs to that class of representative Americans who while gaining individual success also promote the public prosperity, and he stands pre-eminent among those who have conferred honor and dignity upon the city of his home no less by his well conducted business interests than by his upright life and commendable career.
Mr. Landon was born in Franklin county, Ohio, near Columbus, Feb- ruary 6, 1847, and is a son of Orin and Delilah (Triplett) Landon, the former a native of New York and the latter of Virginia. The paternal grandfather was also born in the Empire state and was of English descent. He followed farming during the greater part of his active business career, and in the last years of his life engaged in preaching to some extent, as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He had a family of fourteen children. His death occurred near Columbus, Ohio, when he was aged eighty-three years. Orin Landon also carried on agricultural pursuits. During his boyhood he removed to the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, with his parents, and having attained his majority was married there to Miss Delilah Triplett, who was born in Virginia, as was her father, who in an early day removed to the Buck- eye state. He followed farming and died in Franklin county, Ohio, at the age of eighty-three years. Mrs. Landon was one of his three children, and by her marriage she became the mother of three sons and a daughter: Hannibal, of Remington, Indiana; Imogene, who lives with her brothers; George W .; and Eugene, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri. Orin Landon continued his resi- dence in Ohio until 1866, when he removed to Ligonier, Indiana, where he engaged in farming. He was also a contractor and builder. With his wife he came to Kokomo in 1884, and died in this city in 1890, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife passed away in 1889, at the age of seventy-two. Both were members of the Methodist church.
George W. Landon, whose name introduces this review, was born on the farm near Columbus, Ohio, but was reared in that city and attended its pub- lic schools. Later he was a student in Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio, and in 1864 he entered his country's service as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, in which he served for five months. His service was almost one continual battle, for he was stationed in front of Petersburg during the siege of the city. On account of disability he was discharged.
After his return from the army Mr. Landon engaged in teaching school 19
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for several years, having also previously followed that profession for one year before the war. He was employed as a teacher in Columbus, Ohio, Leavenworth, Kansas, Muscatine, Iowa, and LaFayette, Indiana, and then began traveling for the Buckeye Reaper & Mowing Machine Company, act- ing as collector in a number of states. In March, 1874, he came to Kokomo, where he has since made his home, and has been and is a very important factor in the commercial activity of the city. He first engaged in the hard- ware business, buying an interest in the firm of Armstrong, Nixon & Com- pany, which was succeeded by the firm of Armstrong, Pickett & Company, the partners being A. F. Armstrong, Edward A. Armstrong, Nathan Pickett and George W. Landon. Those gentlemen were associated in business until 1883, when Mr. Pickett sold his interest to the other members of the firm, and the name was changed to Armstrong, Landon & Company, under which style business was conducted until January 1, 1888, when it was consolidated with the firm of Hunt & Colburn, and the business incorporated under the name of the Armstrong, Landon & Hunt Company. That corporation did business until January 1, 1898, when Mr. Hunt sold his interest to the other stockholders and the corporate name was changed to the Armstrong-Landon Company, which is now at the head of one of the important business inter- ests of the city. The officers of the company are A. F. Armstrong, presi- dent; A. B. Armstrong, vice-president; and George W. Landon, secretary and treasurer. In addition to the hardware and implement business the corporation owns and operates a planing-mill and lumber-yard, does con- tract work, and manufactures all kinds of building materials, interior finish- ings for private dwellings, church seats and bank furniture, and employs, on an average, seventy-five men. For almost twenty-five years Mr. Landon has been connected with the business through its various changes, and his able management, keen discrimination and executive ability have contributed largely to its success. His efforts, however, have not been confined to one line, as he is a prominent factor in a number of leading business interests of the city. He is now secretary of the Kokomo Rubber Company, which employs about one hundred men in the manufacture of bicycle tires. He is a director in the Citizens National Bank and president of the Kokomo Natural Gas Company, and all of these associations contribute to the welfare of the city as well as to his individual prosperity.
On the 2d of October, 1866, Mr. Landon married, in Leavenworth,
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Kansas, Miss Emma Alice Reeves, daughter of William and Mary (McLane) Reeves, of Ross county, Ohio, but later of Bloomington, Illinois. Her father served for several years as a member of the legislature of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Landon have a son and daughter: Hugh McKennan and Maud. They also raised a son, Joseph McDonald. Hugh is the secretary of the Manu- facturers' Natural Gas Company and a director of the Indianapolis Water Works, both of Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Andover Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, and of Harvard University, completing his course in the latter institution as a member of the class of 1892. He married Miss Susette Davis, daughter of F. A. W. Davis, of Indianapolis, and has two' children, Elizabeth and Mary Alice. Their home is in Indianapolis. The daughter, Maud, is the wife of Dr. L. A. Miller, of Peru, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Landon are members of the Congregational church, of Kokomo, with which they have been connected for twenty years, and for a long period the former served as president of the board of trustees. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and in his political views is a Republican. A man of scholarly tastes, of genial temperament and kindly disposition, Mr. Landon holds an enviable position in the esteem of his fellow men by reason of his irreproach- able life, as well as by his business ability and pronounced success.
P ATRICK MCHALE .- Whatever success Patrick McHale has achieved in life-and it is considerable-is due entirely to his own well directed efforts. In his boyhood he started out to make his own way in the world unaided, and by resolute purpose, indefatigable industry and sound judgment he has steadily worked his way upward to a position of affluence. The mon- ument to his labors is his fine farm in Deer Creek township, Miami county, comprising more than two hundred acres of rich land, all under a high state of cultivation and yielding to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care he bestows upon it.
Mr. McHale is one of the worthy citizens that the Emerald Isle has fur- nished to the New World. He was born in county Mayo, Ireland, March 15, 1826, and is the son of Edward and Mary (Brown) McHale. The grand- father, Edward McHale, Sr., belonged to one of the old families of Ireland,
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was a farmer by occupation and spent his entire life in his native land. He had two sons-Edward and Anthony-and eight daughters. The father of our subject, Edward McHale, Jr., was born in Ireland about 1788, and in his early manhood wedded Mary Brown, daughter of Henry Brown. They became the parents of five children,-Bridget, Sidney, Nellie, Patrick and Ann, -who were reared on the home farm and brought up in the faith of the Catholic church. The father carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life, and died of pleurisy in Ireland, when forty three years of age.
In the common schools Patrick McHale acquired his education, but his school privileges were somewhat limited, as his father died when he was only five years of age and he was early forced to earn his own livelihood. His youth was one of labor and not of play. He began learning the stone-mason's trade when only thirteen years of age, receiving no pecuniary recompense for his services and very little clothing. At the age of seventeen and a half years he resolved to try his fortune in America and accordingly sailed from Liver- pool, England, in September, 1843, on the vessel Mazeppa, which after a voyage of seven weeks dropped anchor in the harbor of New Orleans, November 17, 1843. In the Crescent City he worked as a hod-carrier until the following April, when he secured a situation as fireman on a steamer. He was thus employed until the middle of June, when he began working for a farmer about thirty-five miles east of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was employed in that neighborhood for four years, during which time he was married. He then located in Brown county, Ohio, where he purchased twenty acres of land for two hundred dollars. After three years he sold that property for three hundred dollars, having in the meantime built thereon a little log cabin and made other improvements. In the fall of 1850 he removed to Deer Creek township, Miami county, and purchased forty acres of his present farm, --- a tract of timber land, only eight acres of which had been cleared. A log cabin, sixteen by sixteen feet, constituted the improvements, and thus again he began the arduous task of developing a new farm. For twelve years he remained in the cabin home, which was then replaced by a more modern residence. He now has a good set of farm buildings upon his place, and these are surrounded by waving fields of grain giving promise of abundant harvests. As his financial resources have increased he has extended the the boundaries of his farm until it now comprises two hundred and six acres of rich land.
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Mr. McHale has been twice married. While in Ohio he wedded Miss Elizabeth Good, on the 26th of September, 1847. The lady was born January 19, 1827, in Hampton county, Virginia, her parents being Philip and Elizabeth (Abernathy) Good. Her father belonged to one of the Pennsyl- vania-Dutch families, and his wife was of Irish lineage. He followed farm- ing, became a farmer of Brown county, Ohio, and died on his farm there eight years before the marriage of his daughter. He had two children- Philip and Elizabeth. His widow afterward married Eli Osman and their children are Frank, Morris, Eliza, Alice and Jane. To Mr. and Mrs. McHale were born five children-James, Rebecca, Ann, Philip L. and Nellie. The mother died February 23, 1885, at the age of fifty-six years, and Mr. McHale was again married May 30, 1886, in Galveston, Indiana, his second union being with Sarah J. Groves, who was born in Batavia, Ohio, a daugh- ter of Michael Groves. Her father was a farmer belonging to an old Amer- ican family, and became one of the early settlers of Clermont county, Ohio, where he died at the age of eighty-six years. He was twice married and the children of the first union were John, George, William, Mattie and Sarah J.
Mr. and Mrs. McHale reside on his excellent farm in Miami county. He is a stanch Republican in politics, but has never been an office-seeker, giving his time and attention to his farming interests, in which he has met with gratifying success. He stands high in the regard of his fellow townsmen by reason of his upright life and fidelity to duty, and commands the respect of all.
A LFRED P. SELLERS, of the Kokomo Furniture Manufacturing Com- pany, is an illustrative example of that class of citizens who, we can conscientiously say, are the mainstay of a prosperous nation. His energy and good humor are alike a source of popularity, and he is equally well known as an honest, capable and reliable citizen.
Born in Preble county, Ohio, November 28, 1824, he was but a small boy when his parents removed with him to this state, settling in Logansport. The family then removed to Miami county, where he received his "book " education in the old-fashioned subscription school, meanwhile being brought up as a farmer's boy, for nearly all the old settlers of this county in pioneer
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times were necessarily agriculturists. After he had grown up and there were more residents in the community and more building required, Mr. Sellers learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for more than thirty-five years, being employed first in Miami county; but ever since the year 1856 he has been a resident of Kokomo. Here for some years he has followed his trade, taking contracts, etc., and also working considerably at the millwright's trade; indeed, he has built nearly all the mills in the county.
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