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subject, is the next in order of birth ; Lelia is a teacher by occupation ; Dr. Frank W. is a physician at Ottumwa, Iowa ; Charles is the next in the order of birth ; Rose A. is the wife of John Douglas, of Maxwell ; and Lavantia, the youngest of the children, is a music teacher.
William E. Mills, the subject proper of this sketch, was reared on a farm and educated at the public schools. In 1889 he began learning the drug business in a store at Maxwell, and finally bought an interest in the store, where he continued to carry on business until he came to Pine Village, and here is establishing a good reputation for faithful service. He is a member of the village board of trustees. In his political views he is a Republican, active in the local councils of the party ; is chairman of the Republican central committee of his township. Socially, he is a member of the orders of Freemasonry and Knights of Pythias. He is a representative citizen and is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens.
On the Ist of October, 1893, Mr. Mills was united in marriage with Miss Maude Fleckinger, of Story county, Iowa.
REV. JOHN ZIMMERMAN.
This highly respected citizen of Perry township, Tipppecanoe county, Indiana, a well-to-do farmer and retired minister of the Mennonite church, comes from sterling Alsatian stock. His grandfather Zimmerman went from Germany to Alsace during the revolutionary times in France, and there his son, John Zimmerman, the father of our subject, was born, reared and married, the lady of his choice being Magdalena Roth. Their only child, John, was born February 20, 1832. She, however, by previous marriage to Christian Shurk had two children, -Joseph and Nicholas. John died in Sep- tember, 1847, and Magdalena, his wife, about ten months afterward, when their son John was sixteen years old, and at that age young John came to America, making the voyage in a sailing vessel from Havre, France, to New York, where he landed in June, 1849. From New York city he made his way westward to Ohio. In Butler county, that state, he found a brother of his mother, Nicholas Roth, whom he visited and for whom he worked on the farm for a while. Then he went to Iowa, visiting Keokuk and Mount Pleasant, and after three years spent in the United States he returned to his native land and spent three years amid the scenes of his childhood. During that time he came into possession of two thousand dollars, which he inher- ited from his father's estate.
October 16, 1852, while temporarily in the old country, he wedded Miss Magdalena Slegel, who was born in Alsace August 10, 1832, daughter of Jo- seph and Magdalena (Smith) Slegel. Joseph Slegel, also a native of Alsace,
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was a well-to-do farmer. He and his family accompanied our subject to America, and he settled in Davis county, Iowa, where he bought eighty acres of land and developed the same into a fine farm. He died about the age of sixty-two years.
It was in 1854 that Mr. Zimmerman returned to the United States, with his wife and her family, as above stated. They sailed from Havre, France, in the ship St. Nicholas, an old-fashioned vessel, and were forty days in reaching New York. They all went to Davis county, Iowa, and there Mr. Zimmerman purchased eighty acres of wild prairie land, which he improved and cultivated, and where he lived until the winter of 1865-6. At that time he went to Missouri and took up his abode in Hickory county, where he bought eighty acres of prairie land, to the improvement of which he directed his energies. He made his home in Missouri until 1877, and that year came to Indiana and selected a location in Tippecanoe county. At first he rented land here and then he purchased his present farm, two- hundred and twenty-four acres, which he has developed into one of the most desirable farms in the locality, among the improvements he has placed here being a substantial two-story brick residence.
Mr. Zimmerman has been for twenty years a minister of the Mennonite church, an earnest and active worker in the cause of Christ, but is now retired from the ministry. He was educated in both the French and Ger- man languages and is a good scholar, attending in his youth a college at Montpelier, France. He is a man of great kindliness of heart, of true Chris- tian feeling and great simplicity of character.
He is the father of fourteen children and seventeen grandchildren. Of his children, we record that Josephine was born in Germany; Nicholas, in mid-ocean and was named for the vessel in which they sailed; the others in America, -Magdalena, Annie, Mary, Joseph, Katie, Lizzie, John, Lydia, Rosie, Leah, Sarah and Benjamin. Mrs. Zimmerman died June 16, 1889. She, too, was a Mennonite, as also were her parents.
In concluding this sketch, we state that among Mr. Zimmerman's books is one which he highly prizes. It is an old German Bible, bearing date of MDXXXVI, printed in Zurich, Switzerland, by Christoffel Froschouer. This venerable book was among the earliest Bibles printed, and is in clear, legible type. It is believed to be one of the oldest Bibles in Ameriea.
JAMES W. MCMULLEN, M. D.
Dr. James W. McMullen, of Pine Village, Warren county, has been engaged in the practice of his profession here ever since 1875, - the whole period of his professional career.
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Dr. McMullen is a native of Ross county, Ohio, and was a child when his father, Samuel A. McMullen, died; and in 1852 the mother, with her two children (the subject of this sketch and a sister), emigrated to Warren county, Indiana, locating at Williamsport. At that place young James attended school. His medical education he obtained at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, where he graduated in 1875, and the same year he located at Pine Village. From 1892 to 1894 he was editor of the Village News, the paper being conducted by the firm of McMullen & Son.
For his wife the Doctor married Miss Sarah Ann Swadley, a daughter of Nicholas and Nancy Ann Swadley, and the Doctor and his wife have four children, - John, Annetta (wife of Charles Ale, of Francisville, Indiana), Clarence A. and Ray,-the last two mentioned being yet inmates of their parental home.
Dr. McMullen is president of the village board of trustees, and both professionally and socially he is held in high esteem. Politically, he is a Republican.
HORACE D. HOFFMAN.
Tippecanoe county is indebted to such men as Horace D. Hoffman for the high position which it occupied among the counties of this great state. He has assisted materially in the development of its resources and has always been noted for his public spirit and general usefulness as a citizen. For thirty years he has carried on a sawmill, one of the landmarks of Perry township, as it was built during the winter of 1833-4, the second mill erected in the township. It was constructed by Daniel Peters, a pioneer of this county, who chose this point on the middle fork of Wildcat creek, on his own homestead, as a suitable place for a mill, and here he built the dam and mill, which for over sixty-five years have been prominent features of this region.
The great-grandfather of our subject, George Hoffman, was born in Maryland, February 26, 1735, and died September 24, 1789. He married Anna Maria Hornbager, and of the eleven children who blessed their union the names of but three, George, Henry and Christopher, are remembered. The family removed to Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, where they became prosperous farmers. George Hoffman, grandfather of our subject, was an agriculturist in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and died there. He married a Miss Good, and of their children we have the names of but two, Daniel and George. The family was identified with the Lutheran church.
Daniel, father of Horace D. Hoffman, was born in Lehigh county,
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Pennsylvania, April 11, 1800. He learned the carpenter's and cabinet- maker's trades, and became a well-to-do business man and much respected citizen. Following his early training, he was a Lutheran. He married Mary Good, daughter of Henry and Mary Good, and ten children blessed their union, namely: Matilda, Rebecca, Moses, Israel, Horace D., Eliza, Mary, Amanda, Elmina and Sarah. Politically, Daniel Hoffman was a Democrat of the old Jackson school. He was summoned to his reward March 15, 1873.
Horace D. Hoffman was born May 19, 1835, in Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, and when a young man he mastered the carpenter's trade. In November, 1853, he came to this county and found employment in Sheffield township at his trade. After ten years of industrious toil he thought himself justified in taking a wife, and for the succeeding two years he engaged in farming in Madison and Ross townships, Clinton county. The next five years he lived in Mulberry and worked at his old trade, after which he settled on the Robinson farm in Perry township and managed that place for three years. In the autumn of 1869 he removed to the homestead of Daniel Peter, and has since operated the mill and farm. He now owns two hun- dred acres of valuable land and the sawmill, and is recognized as one of the most substantial business men of this community. He is a man of upright- ness of word and deed, and none know him save to wish him well. Frater- nally, he is a Mason, a member of Dayton Lodge, No. 103, A. F. & A. M.
In this township Mr. Hoffman married Eliza Peter March 28, 1863. She was born July 13, 1835, and was summoned to the silent land July 13, 1896. A devoted wife and mother, a consistent member of the Lutheran church, a true friend and neighbor, she was beloved by everyone. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff- man had two sons,-Daniel B. and William H. The parents of Mrs. Hoff- man were Daniel and Mary (Burkhalter) Peter, the second couple married in Perry township. The mother was a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Beesy) Burkhalter. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Hoffman were William, Henry, Catherine, Elizabeth, Daniel, Eli, Nicholas, Calvin and Irvin. Daniel Peter was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in September, 1805, a son of William Peter, who bought and entered thirty-three hundred acres from the government and from original owners, this land being situated in Perry township, this county, and Clinton county, this state, and bought two hun- dred and sixty acres of land besides, giving that to his son Daniel. In 1833 William Peter settled in Ross township, Clinton county, whither he removed from Butler county, Ohio, where he had dwelt for some years. He cleared a valuable farm and lived to middle age. He was a member of the German Reformed church and enjoyed the high regard of his associates. His chil- dren comprised William, Henry, Daniel, Leah, Jonathan, Adam, Mary,
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Emmanuel, Reuben, Elizabeth and Joseph. Daniel Peter cleared away the woods from his farm, erected the mill referred to above and sold lumber. He often hauled flour and lumber to Chicago, returning with salt, groceries and other needed supplies. The trip required several days and he was obliged to camp out along the way at night. From the date of his settle- ment here, in 1833, until his death, in December, 1879, he was one of the best and most progressive citizens of this section. He helped to build churches and schools, and did all in his power to benefit the day and genera- tion in which he lived. He was a member of the German Reformed church.
GEORGE McGAHAN.
George McGahan was born in Medina township, Warren county, May II, 1845, on the farm where his brother Simeon now lives. His parents were Thomas and Lavina A. McGahan. His father was a native of Penn- sylvania, and his mother either of that state or Indiana. Her maiden name was Gard, and her first husband was a Mr. Watts. The McGahan family are of Scotch descent and their children inherit many of the noble qualities of that thrifty, noble race.
Our subject was one of the five sons born to his parents and was brought up to manhood on his father's farm. When twenty-one years old he began life for himself, and the following year was married to Miss Mary J. Harmon, and farmed on various places until 1889, when he purchased and cleared the farm on which he now resides. He owns eight hundred and sixty-four acres of land, of which four hundred and sixty-four are in Medina township. Over four hundred acres of this property are under excellent cultivation, and on this he carries on general farming and stock-raising. Mr. McGahan has had four children, namely: Abraham O., Simeon, deceased, Silva and Arthur.
In politics. our subject is a decided Republican and always takes an interest in public affairs. He is a loyal citizen and a good neighbor.
JOHN W. MILLS.
John W. Mills, ex-county commissioner of Warren county and a repre- sentative agriculturist and stock-raiser, was born in Adams township, on his present farm, April 6, 1832, a son of Jacob and Jane (Cassell) Mills. The father was born near Newbury, South Carolina, and was the first one of his family to locate in Warren county, to which he came in 1829 from Ohio, the trip being made by wagon. He entered eighty acres of government land in section 29, township 23, range 7 west, for which he paid one dol- lar and twenty-five cents an acre. On this he erected a log cabin eighteen
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feet square, and began improving the land, which consisted of prairie and timber. Here he died in 1887, at the age of eighty-four. In his latter years he was a devout member of the Baptist church. To him and his wife were born thirteen children, as follows : Thomas; Sarah, widow of Benjamin Davis, who lives in Pine Village ; James, Mary, Joseph, William, Elizabeth, Jacob, Rachel and Abijah are deceased ; John W., our subject; Margaret J. resides at Oxford and is the wife of John Freeman ; and Job lives at Pine Village.
John W. Mills remained on the home farm with his father until twenty- one years of age, then farmed for his father on shares for two years, after which he went to Benton for a year and later to Nebraska, where he pre- empted a homestead near Nebraska City, on which he lived for part of a year. He then returned to Adams county, rented his father's farm and other land until 1867, when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres, and in 1868 another eighty acres, and moved thereon in 1869. In 1876 he bought the old homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, which, in addition to his other property, makes him the possessor of about six hundred acres here and about one hundred and twenty acres in Pine township. He carried on gen- eral farming and stock-raising until recent years, when he rented part of his land and is now retired from active work. On the land he now owns stood the old log school-house where he attended the subscription school of pioneer times.
In his political views Mr. Mills is a thorough Republican, and has be- longed to that party ever since its organization. He was elected assessor of Adams township and served two years. In 1886 he was chosen one of the county commissioners of Warren county for a term of three years, at the expiration of which time he was re-elected for a similar term. In both of these positions he performed the duties incumbent upon him with ability, intelligence and circumspection, thereby winning the high regard and consid- eration of his fellow citizens.
The marriage of Mr. Mills was solemnized January 1, 1866, when he was united to Miss Hannah A. Frazier, a native of Adams township and a daughter of David and Zemia Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have no children.
NELLIE E. GREEN, M. D.
The lady whose name heads this sketch is a regular practicing physician in Fowler. The time has been when such an announcement as this met with surprise and incredulity. The idea of a female physician in regular practice was something novel. Seeing an opportunity to turn this to per- sonal advantage, even the profession aided in giving wings to ridiculous stor-
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ies and comments. But happily most of the profession readily recognized her talents, and the opposition of the others only tended to give her a pro- fessional introduction to the community. From the very first year Dr. Green has had a profitable practice. . Being introduced to the community by a prominent family, she readily took her place in society, and began her chosen work. The lady who served as a medium of her introduction is one who received helpful treatment from the skill of Dr. Green when she was a practitioner at Princeton, Illinois.
A native of Vermont, Dr. Green, when a child, accompanied her par- ents to Detroit, Michigan, where she was educated and grew to womanhood. Her father being a physician, she in her school days became imbued with the idea that there was room for her in the profession and began a course of reading in her father's library, and became so well pleased with her progress and fascinated with the study that she clandestinely attended a course of lectures at Rush Medical College in Chicago, and so great an interest was manifested that she was eventually admitted to the class-room, though at that time the college curriculum was confined to the instruction of the sterner sex. This course only stimulated her ambition to become a physician, and she entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, from which she received the much coveted prize, the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
She established an office temporarily at Yorktown, Illinois, but soon afterward relocated and practiced for several years, with good success, at Princeton; and while there she also made regular professional visits to other towns in the surrounding country and had a large number of patrons. But her ambition was to locate in some pleasant, unpretentious town and build up a local practice. Thus, through the importunities of the lady whose life she had saved, she found in Fowler the desired location, in 1884, since which time she has been identified with its people. She is the "family physician " of many of the best families in town and country, and has a very large office practice. Though not averse to general practice and surgery, she is espe- cially pleased with the liberal patronage she receives from women and chil- dren. Unlike the office of the " bearish, ugly man," hers is a little palace of beauty, adorned with pictures, books'and bric-a-brac and a handsome piano, where the waiting sufferer may be at ease.
Dr. Green is a lady of intelligence and refinement, specially gifted in conversation and affable and agreeable in manner. The only wonder is - but we digress. The Doctor is devoted to her profession, and no day is too cold or hot, no night too dark or stormy, for her to promptly reach the bed- side of the sick and suffering. . By the possession of indomitable energy and a robust constitution, this is rendered possible. She keeps her own horses 18
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and carriages and employs a trustworthy man to take care of them and drive them.
This is another instance where the " domain of man " has been success- fully invaded by the gentler sex, and one of the learned professions creditably appropriated by a " weak woman."
WILLIAM W. SALE.
William W. Sale, a merchant and hotel-keeper at Pine Village, Warren county, is a son of John F. Sale, who was a native of Warren county, Ohio, born December 9, 1809. John F. was the eldest child of Robert and Magdalena (Smith) Sale, both of whom were natives of Virginia and of French descent. Robert Sale was a gallant soldier in the war between the United States and England, in 1812, serving under General Wayne, and after the British aggressor had been deservedly chastised Mr. Sale, in the prime of early manhood, went to Ohio, and took up military land. At first he settled in Greene county, but soon he removed to Warren county, Ohio, and there he became the owner of one hundred and ninety acres of the aforesaid military land. This tract he improved and continued to make his home thereon until his death, which occurred October 1, 1823, when he was but thirty-eight years old. He was married November 8, 1808.
John F. Sale, father of the subject of this article, was reared as a farmer and always followed that occupation, meeting with success in his industrious and well directed efforts. For his wife he chose Miss Lydia A. Wilkinson, their marriage being celebrated February 27, 1834. Seven chil- dren were born to them, and all but the eldest, Robert, who was killed by lightning, June 28, 1858, are yet living, namely: Mary M., Martha A., Har- riet E., Sarah L., John F. and William W. The mother entered into the silent land November 5, 1867, and January 26, 1879, Mr. Sale wedded Mrs. Elizabeth A. Metzker, daughter of Jonathan and Eveline (Moore) Campbell. Mrs. Sale was born in Warren county, Ohio, August 12, 1833, and she is still living, her home being at the Pine Village Hotel, as it has been for a number of years past. In 1856 Mr. Sale purchased a quarter-section of land in Adams township, Warren county, and there he settled with his family the following year. In 1876 he sold his farm and embarked in the hotel business in the same locality, and for a score of years he carried on this enterprise successfully. His death took place December 10, 1896. He was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which denom- ination Mrs. Sale has also belonged for years. An excellent citizen and a most worthy man in every respect, Mr. Sale possessed the entire confidence of all with whom the relations of life brought him into contact. For a
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score of years, dating from 1858, he was a justice of the peace, and in addi- tion to this he likewise acted in the capacity of notary public.
William W. Sale was born in Wayne township, Warren county, Ohio, September 11, 1838, and in 1857 he came to this section of Indiana with his father and the rest of the family. On the 4th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company I, Seventy-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and for three years he nobly fought for the stars and stripes and a united land. His regiment was a part of the Fourteenth Army Corps, which was in the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Sale participated in twenty-three important battles, and though he suffered the untold hardships and dangers of a soldier's life he escaped injury from rebel bullets save once, when he was slightly wounded, in the battle at Ebenezer Church, Alabama, April 2, 1865. Always having a sincere comradeship with the boys who " wore the blue," he has long been a member of Wagner Post, No. 365, of Pine Village. In political matters, he is to be found on the side of the Republican party.
On the 23d of December, 1866, Mr. Sale married Miss Margaretta Jar- vis, a daughter of John and Charlotte Jarvis. They were natives of Virginia, and were early pioneers of Montgomery and Warren counties, Indiana, coming here about 1854. Mr. Sale resumed farming upon his return from the battle-fields of the south, and continued to be thus engaged until Feb- ruary, 1882, when he opened a store in Atkinson, Benton county, this state, and from that time to the present he has been occupied in merchandising. In September, 1896, he settled in Pine Village, and since January 18, 1898, has also had charge of the hotel.
Mrs. Sale died October 5, 1890, and of their three children only one, Arla, grew to mature years. She is the wife of Edward Berkshire, of West Lebanon, this county. January 10, 1892, Mr. Sale was a second time mar- ried, the lady of his choice being Miss Lelia Hanson.
ROBERT C. ROGERS.
Perry township, Tippecanoe county, Indiana, includes among its leading citizens the gentleman whose name initiates this sketch, Robert C. Rogers.
Mr. Rogers is a son of one of the original pioneers of the county, Elisha Curtis Rogers, who was of German descent and whose birth occurred in Mid- dlesex county, New Jersey, December 25, 1801. Left an orphan when he was a small boy, Elisha C. was brought up by a Mr. Thompson, a farmer, who moved in 1813 to Warren county, Ohio. At that time he was twelve ' years old. He remained on the farm with Mr. Thompson until he reached his majority, receiving a common-school education, and at the age of twenty- one he received from Mr. Thompson a horse, saddle and bridle and what was
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called a " freedom suit " of clothes. His brothers and sisters were as follows: John, Robert, Mathew, Peter, Sarah, Polly and Bethsheba Ann. After leaving Mr. Thompson, Mr. Rogers worked on a farm, by the month, for Joseph Henderson, near Middletown, Ohio, and in a few years engaged in farming on his own account. He was married November 12, 1825, in Butler county, Ohio, to Rebecca Parke, a native of Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, born July 6, 1805, one of a family of five children, the others being John, David, Elizabeth and Sarah. Mr. Parke came to Indiana with his wife and children in the fall of 1835, arriving in Sheffield township, Tippe- canoe county, October 2. He died in this county, at an advanced age. After their marriage Elisha C. Rogers and wife settled in Butler county, Ohio, near Middletown, where they lived during the next six years. In October, 1832, they removed to Indiana and settled on land which is now covered by the northeast corner of the village of Mulberry. This land, one hundred and sixty acres, he entered, cleared and improved, making of it a fine farm. In the meantime he bought forty acres adjoining it, and in 1854 he sold the whole tract. Shortly afterward he purchased two hundred and forty acres near Rossville, where he passed the closing years of his life and where he died October 23, 1857. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and in politics was a Democrat. His first wife died January 6, 1838, and he married, September 5, 1839, in Clinton county, Indiana, Hannah McCain, who was born July 19, 1807, and was of Irish descent. The children by the first marriage were Eleanor, born February 24, 1826; Harriet, August 7, 1827; Jane, October 14, 1828; Robert C., October 8, 1830; David, May 12, 1833; Joseph, October 2, 1835; and Rebecca, October 11, 1837. By his second wife he had three children: Mary E., born February 27, 1843; Peter, March 29, 1845; and John C., December 12, 1848. Mr. Rogers had three of his sons-Joseph, Peter and John-in the civil war, all in an Indiana volunteer regiment. John and Peter were in the three-years service and participated in many battles, and Peter died of measles while in the army.
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