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The marriage of this worthy man and Elizabeth Shower was celebrated February 23, 1832, in West Buffalo township, Union county, Pennsylvania, the Rev. John George Auspauch performing the ceremony. Mrs. Korner was born June 11, 1807, in Beaver township, Union county, her parents be- ing John and Madelina (Snyder) Shower, the former of German extraction. The eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Korner was Benjamin Franklin, born No- vember 19, 1832, in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, and baptized January 13, 1833, by Rev. Mr. Auspauch, before the congregation at Mifflinburg. He died February 24, 1875, on his farm in Van Buren township, and left two sons, Edgar Douglas and Benjamin Franklin. The wife of B. F. Korner, Sr., survived him, dying January 19, 1877, when in her forty-fifth year. Their son William died May 1, 1858, aged four years; C. L. died December 7, 1860, when three and one-half years old; and a little daughter died July 22, 1872, when within a week of being three years old. Margaret was born
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August 12, 1836, and baptized May 14, 1837, by the Rev. John Stoach, in Seneca county, Ohio. She became the wife of L. B. Badger, who served in the Union army during the last year of the civil war, and died in the hospital in the summer of 1865. Sarah Jane, born October 28, 1837, in Thompson township, Seneca county, Ohio, was baptized July 1, 1838, by Frederick Row; she became the wife of Wesley Noland, by whom she had six children, namely: William, Alonzo, John, James, Philip and Dora. She departed this life July 26, 1865, when within three months of the twenty-eighth anni- versary of her birth. Mrs. Elizabeth Korner departed this life March 18, 1887, when almost eighty years of age, and was buried in the Star City cemetery.
William Shower Korner was born April 22, 1834, in Mifflinburg, Penn- sylvania, and was baptized June 29, 1834, at the home of his parents, by the Rev. J. G. Auspauch. He remained with his father until he reached his ma- jority, when he rented land in Van Buren and Indian Creek townships. At length he bought of Isaac Cohen a homestead of eighty acres, its situation being on section 16, Van Buren township. This place was then wild, un- broken prairie, but he improved it and reduced it to cultivation during the three years of his ownership. His next farm was a quarter-section of land on section 15, partially improved, and six years later he sold it and invested in eighty acres of section 14, living thereon for ten years. His next removal was to section 15, where he purchased a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, forty acres of which were under cultivation. Two years subsequently he came to Star City, where he entered into partnership with R. B. Minton, and engaged in the buying and selling of live stock. The present firm of Birdenbaugh & Korner was organized in 1881, and they transact a large and paying business. Mr. Korner's first commercial experience was in 1861-2, when he lived in Logansport and was employed by E. T. Stevens in buying furs, hides, wool, cattle, sheep and horses.
. Fraternally Mr. Korner is a charter member of Lodge No. 427, Knights of Pythias, in which he has occupied several offices, and in the local lodge of the Odd Fellows he has passed all of the chairs. On the 14th of February, 1864, he left his little family on the farm and went forth to do battle for the Union, enlisting in Company F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, from which he was honorably discharged August 5, 1865. He has been independent in politics, and twice has been the candidate for the sheriff's office on the Populist ticket.
The marriage of Mr. Korner and Hannah Payton, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Crosley) Payton, was celebrated June 3, 1855. She was born September 26, 1833, in Pickaway county, Ohio, and by her marriage has become the mother of seven children: Joseph Franklin, born February 10, 65
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1856, in Indian Creek township, married Azuba Marker; William Harvey, born May 20, 1858, died at the age of three months; John Russell, a farmer, was born June 17, 1859; Henry Shaw,. born January 4, 1862, married Eva Simms, and has three children, Earl, Merle and Theodore; Charles Milton, born September 1, 1867, married Mabel H. Kemp, April 23, 1890, and their little son, Harry Leo, was born June 30, 1892. Charles M., in company with Otto Birdenbaugh, carries on the store of Birdenbaugh & Korner; Van Korner Burton, born March 3, 1873, married Estella Ent, and is the agent and telegraph operator for the Panhandle Railroad at Crown Point, Indiana; Effie Elizabeth, born July 21, 1877, is still with her parents at home.
FREDERICK GARLING.
One of the substantial citizens of Medaryville, where he is now living a retired life, is Frederick Garling, who was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, September 19, 1856, a son of Joseph and Mary (Walls) Garling. The parents also were natives of the same locality, and were there reared and married. Two sons were born to them, John and Frederick. In the . year 1869 the father came to America accompanied by his family. They sailed on the Germania from Hamburg to New York, where they arrived October 19, 1869, after nine days spent upon the water. On the 22d of the same month they arrived in Medaryville, Pulaski county, Indiana, and Mr. Garling purchased a farm of eighty acres two and one half miles east of the town. It was a timber tract, very wet and entirely unimproved, but he built a log house and at once began the development of the property, which he transformed into a rich and valuable tract. By thrift and industry he was also enabled to add to the tract until he had one hundred and twenty acres of arable land, and on that farm he spent the remainder of his life. In religious belief he was a Lutheran, and held the office of church trustee and secretary for several years. He died December 16, 1896, at the age of sixty- four years.
Frederick Garling, whose name introduces this review, acquired a fair education in the schools of his native land, where he pursued his studies until thirteen years of age, when he came with his parents to America. He assisted in the arduous task of developing the new farm, spending many a day in the forests in clearing away the trees or in the fields in planting and harvesting crops. When twenty-three years of age he was married, in Medaryville, March 1, 1876, to Mary Poppe, who was born March 28, 1861, in the same locality as was her husband. Their union has been blessed with four children who have reached years of maturity: William, Bertie, Charles and Louis.
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The mother of these children died February 2, 1893, and Mr. Garling was again married, Otilla Kribisch becoming his wife. She was born May 28, 1868, in Prussia, and is a daughter of August and Albertina Kribisch. Her father was a farmer by occupation, and with his family he emigrated to America in 1871. He worked on the railroad for a time and then settled in Cass township, Pulaski county, where he purchased eighty acres of land, to which he added from time to time until he had a valuable farm of one hun- dred and sixty acres. He improved his land, became a substantial citizen, and died on the home place where he had lived for many years. His chil- dren were August, Ottila and Teena. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and was a good citizen, highly esteemed for his many excellent quali- ties. Mr. and Mrs. Garling have but one child, August.
After his first marriage Mr. Garling rented land, and in 1893 he pur- chased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, -a valuable property which is under a high state of cultivation and improved with all the modern acces- sories and conveniences of the model farm. In 1897 he came with his family to Medaryville, and since the 27th of June, of that year, has engaged in the livery business here, meeting with excellent success in his undertakings. He has a liberal patronage, and his straightforward business methods have secured him the confidence of all his patrons. His political support is given the Republican party, and both Mr. and Mrs. Garling are consistent mem- bers of the Lutheran church.
BENJAMIN B. LEMASTER.
For the past seven years Mr. LeMaster has been a resident of Earl Park, Indiana, where he is now successfully engaged in the livery businss. He has led a life of honest toil, and throughout his career of continued and far- reaching usefulness his duties have been performed with the greatest care, while his business interests have been so managed as to win him the confidence of the public and the prosperity which should always attend honorable effort.
Mr. LeMaster was born near Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, Novem- ber 29, 1855, and is a son of Cornelius B. and Lucy (Rice) LeMaster. His paternal grandparents were of French descent, and the grandfather was killed by the Indians in Ohio at an early day. The maternal grandparents were natives of Virginia and were also pioneers of the Buckeye state. Cor- melins B. LeMaster, our subject's father, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, and when a young man removed to Adams county, Indiana, where he pur- . chased one hundred and sixty acres of land. On selling this, in 1864, he Lought eighty acres near Goodland, in Newton county, this state, to which
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he added one hundred and twenty acres ten years later. He has since dis- posed of his farm, however, and bought a home in Goodland, where he now resides. His wife, who was a native of Virginia, died in 1897. Of their eight children, all were born in Adams county, with the exception of the two youngest, whose births occurred in Newton county. They were as follows: Mary Elizabeth, who died at the age of one year; John Perry, who is en- gaged in the livery business in Boswell, Indiana; Nancy Ellen, wife of Will- iam Wirtsbaugh, a poultryman of Goodland, Indiana; Benjamin B., the sub- ject of this sketch; Samuel P., a farmer north of Goodland; Lewis Wilson, who owns and operates a farm one and a half mi'es north of Fowler; and William Albert and Edgar Boyd, each of whom died at the age of three years.
Until eighteen years of age Benjamin B. LeMaster attended the com- mon schools of Goodland and worked on the home farm during his vacations. During the following three years he gave his father his entire time, and in 1876, as a farmer, he began operations on his own account, renting from his father eighty acres, located near Goodland. After two years spent upon that place he moved to a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, belonging to De- witt Deniston, three and a half miles north of Fowler, in Benton county, In- diana, which he successfully operated for fourteen years. Coming to Earl Park in 1891, he purchased the livery barn of John Galbreath, now valued at two thousand dollars, and has met with excellent success in his new under- taking. Besides his stable he owns a comfortable residence in Earl Park and some town property at Goodland.
In 1886 Mr. LeMaster wedded Miss Maggie McDaniels, a daughter of Perry and Lucy McDaniels, of Fowler, Indiana. She was born near Green- castle, this state, and died on the farm north of Fowler, in April, 1888, at the age of twenty-one years. She left one child, Zella, who was born north of Fowler, May 21, 1887, and now lives with our subject's sister, Mrs. Will- iam Wirtsbangh, at Goodland. Mr. LeMaster was again married in March, 1891, his second union being with Miss Matilda Hackley, of Goodland, a daughter of Joseph B. and Emma (Sigman) Hackley, formerly of Ohio, but now of Goodland. Five children blessed this marriage, all born in Earl Park, namely: Benjamin; one who died in infancy; Ethel, William and Edna Myrtle.
NOAH KISTLER.
A prominent farmer of Monroe township, Pulaski county, Indiana, Mr. Kistler was born February 11, 1835, in Bloom township, county of Fairfield, state of Ohio. His parents were Henry and Nancy (Cobel) Kistler, long and
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favorably known throughout that county. The grandfather, also named Henry Kistler, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a descendant of the sturdy German race. He was a miller in early life, but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, which he most successfully carried on in Fairfield county, Ohio, until his death, which occurred in his sixtieth year, about 1841. He married Miss Mary Cramer, and the children born to them were as fol- lows: Benjamin, Hannah, Elizabeth, Henry, Marie, George, Daniel, Lena, Lydia, Hesther and Samuel.
Henry Kistler, the father of Noah, was born in Berks county, Pennsyl- vania, January 12, 1809. The family moved to Ohio when he was a lad, and there he remained until 1844; when he located in Cass county, Indiana, where he remained until his death, in 1877. He was buried in the Cline graveyard, near Royal Center. In early life he was a Whig, but voted with the Democrats after the war, and was trustee of the township for several years. He was married to Nancy Cobel, who was born near Columbus, Ohio. Her children were George Washington, a resident of Cass county; John, who died at the age of twelve years; Noah, our subject; Lavina (Mrs. James R. Holmes), of this county; Joshua, of Cass county; Isabel (Mrs. Joseph H. Corbett), of Harrison township; Martin Luther, of Starke county; and Malinda, who died in her first year. After the death of his wife Mr. Kistler was united with Mary Adams, a widow lady and daughter of Moses Holmes. Their children were: James Lyman, who died when in his fifth year; Thomas Buchanan, a resident of Missouri; Albert, a citizen of Cass county; and Perry, a resident of the same county.
Noah Kistler remained on the farm with his parents until he was twenty- one years of age. He then purchased of his father one hundred and sixty acres of land in Harrison township, sections 16 and 20, which the latter had secured from the school district. In the fall of that year he built a small frame house and took up his residence there, remaining until 1874, when he came to his present farm. Here he built a commodious farm house, into which he moved his family, building two other houses for his tenants, and in the spring of 1881 put up his large barn. He is a wide-awake farmer, and his push and energy have placed him well to the front in progressive farming. He is a Republican, but has never taken an active part in the campaign.
November 11, 1856, he was married to Sarah N. Kistler, a second cousin and a daughter of Henry and Mary (Kistler) Kistler. She was born December 30, 1837. The children who have blessed their home are as fol- lows: Asa Marion, born July 12, 1857, died unmarried August 17, 1873. He is buried in the Reed cemetery; James Rufus, the second son, married Mary Enyard, and has one child, Erwin, who makes his home with our sub- ject; Ida Rebecca, born April 23, 1861, was married August 9, 1881, to John
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Wesley Tuley, and lives on her father's farm. Her children are, Noah, who was born November 8, 1882, and died at the age of four years; Susanna Anna, who was born March 27, 1884, and died at the age of nine years; Martin Leslie, born May 10, 1885; Guy Sheridan, born October 17, 1887; William L. J., born February 9, 1890; Sarah Lula, born May 5, 1895, and Arnold, born October 16, 1897. Martin Lincoln Kistler was born February 9, 1859, and married Cora James. They reside in this county on a farm of forty acres. They had have five children: Sarah (deceased), Lola Fay, Nellie Floe, Flossie Pearl and Annie.
WILLIAM SILAS DEPOY.
The DePoy family is one of the old colonial families of Virginia, and in every generation it has been noted for unswerving patriotism and all of the qualities which go toward the making of valuable citizens. The great-great- great-grandfather of our subject on the paternal side was a native of France, whence he went to Germany and there was married. Later he removed to America, and probably took up his permanent residence in Virginia. The great-grandfather, Jacob DePoy, was born in the Old Dominion, owned a small plantation there, and later removing to Ross county, Ohio, spent his last years there, dying when in his eighty-fifth year. He purchased and managed a fine three-hundred-acre farm in the last named county, and was an influential member of the community. During the war of 1812 he offered his services to the United States, but as the quota was filled he was not called into action. Like his ancestors, he adhered to the German Lutheran church, and in politics was a Democrat. He was five feet and six inches in height and weighed about one hundred and seventy-five pounds, and though he was over four-score years of age at death every one of his teeth was sound and well preserved. All of his children have passed away, namely: Jacob; William; Elizabeth, who married William McFarland; John, who married Catherine Bargal; and Isaac, who died in childhood. Jacob and William married sisters, the former choosing Nancy Parnell and the latter Maria Parnell, daughters of - and Elizabeth (Worrell) Parnell, both of Phila- delphia probably. This family of Parnells were of the same extraction as was the noted Charles Stewart Parnell. Nancy and Maria had one brother, John Parnell, who married Barbara Hydecker. Their mother, when left a widow, became the wife of William Miller, and their only child, William, died when young.
The paternal grandfather of our subject, William DePoy, was born on his father's plantation near Harrisburg, Rockingham county, Virginia, Sep-
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tember 1, 1797. In September, 1823, he settled near Frankfort, Ross county, Ohio, buying three hundred acres, but two years later he went to Fayette county, where he remained for a similar length of time. His home then was in Ross county again until the fall of 1850, when he came to Indi- ana, and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land near Kokomo, Howard county, paying therefor four dollars an acre. Cultivating and im- proving that place until the spring of 1860, he then came to Pulaski county and bought eighty acres of the homestead now in the possession of George Wiseley, situated on the east line of Indian Creek township, and carried on the place until 1870, when he went to live with our subject. He died May 27, 1870, and was buried in the cemetery at Star City. His wife, Maria, to whom he was married in 1821, was born September 2, 1801, in the same
part of Rockingham county, Virginia. Their eldest child, Isaac, born February 2, 1822, died in 1897. He married Nancy Stafford, and their son, William Beamer, is a Baptist minister. William, born September 2, 1823, lived in Marion county, and to himself and wife, Catherine Jane Bentley, the following named children were born: Fletcher Judson, who wedded Laura Clark; Jacob; Sylvester; Olive; Laura, who became the wife of James Thompson; Susie, who married Mark Meyers; Ella; Belle and William. Susan, born September 1, 1825, died about 1874. She had married Charles Stafford, and their four elder children died when young. William also is deceased. Laura Belle married William Linville. Ella married a Mr. Hick- son and now resides in the state of Washington. Nettie became the wife of a Mr. Roberts; and Nancy and Harvey complete the family. Jacob Austin will be referred to later. Eliza Jane, born March 1I, 1837, died in 1892. She married Noah Penny, and resided first in Indian Creek township, Pulaski county, and later in various parts of the west. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Theophilus and others died when young, and Leander survives. James Hamilton, born in June, 1844, died at the age of nineteen years. He enlisted in the civil war of 1861-5, in Company H, Forty- sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Captain (now Judge) George Burson, and while on duty near Fort Pillow volunteered to perform another com- rade's task, and was drowned in the Mississippi river at the time he was endeavoring to perform this duty.
Jacob Austin DePoy, the father of our subject, was born July 22, 1829, in Fayette county, Ohio. He left home upon attaining his majority and worked at the carpenter's trade with Samuel McClure, at Kokomo, Indiana, for about a year. He then was engaged in contracting and building at Ko- komo for four years, after which period he bought a farm of eighty acres and cultivated the place until he came to Pulaski county, in February, 1860. Here he entered eighty acres of land, in Indian Creek township. In 1868 he
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sold that property and bought of John Sutton his present homestead of ninety-one acres, on section 21. There he built a little cabin, which was re- placed by the present substantial house in 1879. He bought and sold other land, and was thrifty and enterprising. He has always been loyal to the Re- publican party, and when living in Howard county, this state, acted in the capacity of trustee of Clay township. He is a leading member of the local Christian church and is generous in his contributions to worthy causes. His marriage to Cyrena Jane Marcum was celebrated December 2, 1852. She was born October 3, 1832, in Miami county, Ohio, a daughter of Josiah and Rachel (Penny) Marcum, who removed to this state about 1849. Amanda Jane, the eldest child of Jacob A. and Cyrena DePoy, was born September 24, 1853. She is the wife of George Hickle, of Kewanna, Indiana, and their children are Ethel and. Katie, aged eight and six years, respectively. Will- iam Silas, born January 1, 1854, is the subject of this biography. Harriet Elizabeth, born October 15, 1856, died at the age of twenty-seven years. John Fremont was born November 17, 1859, and died the same day. Josiah Hamilton, born September 18, 1861, died August 10, 1864; and another in- fant boy, born October 18, 1863, did not long survive. James Leslie, born September 18, 1865, is in the employ of the Winamac Gas Company. Frank Delmer, born April 27, 1869, is the proprietor of a barber shop at Medary- ville, Indiana. Another boy, born September 14, 1873, died in infancy. Harry Raymond, born May 26, 1876, is engaged in cultivating the Warren farm on section 21, Harrison township .. He was married September 23, 1897, to Minnie L. Warren, daughter of Charles Warren, and they have one child, Verna Frances, born April 12, 1898.
William S. DePoy, who was born on New Year's day, forty-four years ago, in Clay township, Howard county, remained at home until reaching his majority. He then settled upon a forty-acre farm situated on section 20, Harrison township, and carried on agriculture there from 1877 to March, 1885. He then purchased one hundred and forty-one acres of the estate of the widow and heirs of John P. Miller. This fine property is all located on section 31, Harrison township. The house has been remodeled by the present enterprising owner; and other improvements, which have been made, have increased the value and desirability of the place.
On the 16th of October, 1876, Mr. DePoy married Clara Alice Miller, born June 9, 1857, a daughter of John P. and Mary Ann Miller. Five children bless the union of our subject and wife, namely : Oscar Arl, born July 10, 1877; Rose Anna, November 29, 1878; Henry Allen, July 23, 1880; Laura Belle, July 24, 1882, and Serena Geneva, September 1, 1896. Oscar A., the eldest son, is now assisting his father on the home place. On the 24th of November, 1898, he was united in marriage to Miss Della Rinebarger,
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who was born May 15, 1881, the daughter of Thomas and Artemisia (Sykes) Rinebarger.
The wife of our subject is the youngest daughter of John P. Miller, who was one of the pioneers of this locality. He was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, entered a farm in Cass county, this state, in his young man- hood, and coming to Harrison township, this county, about 1839, entered the property since known as the Miller farm. He passed the rest of his days here, his death occurring October 25, 1869, when he was sixty-nine years of age. He was a member of the Christian church, and was a power for good in his neighborhood. Politically he was originally a Whig, and later a Democrat. For some time he was a magistrate in Cass county, after com- ing here served for two terms (or four years) as sheriff, was a trustee of his township for a long time, and was elected to a position as a magistrate, but declined to qualify or serve. He first married Mary Neff, and their eldest child, Polly, who was born August 28, 1826, became the wife of Henry Burgess and the mother of Clark, Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin Bacon) and Hattie (Mrs. Clark Grow). Rachel, born January 1, 1828, died in childhood, and Catherine, born February 19, 1829, died in infancy. Allen Trumble, born June 8, 1830, first married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wasson, April 1, 1852. Their children were as follows: Sarah A., who was born August 19, 1834, and died in the fall of 1856; and Mary Jane, who wedded Ira Simpson. For a second wife Allen T. chose Diana, daughter of Jeremiah and Nancy (Montague) Lowry. She was born September 13, 1837, and they were married December 6, 1858. Their children were named as fol- lows: William Edgar, born August 28, 1859; Barbara Ellen, March 28, 1862; John Allen, September 4, 1864: Hattie May, January 20, 1867; Samuel Oscar, October 20, 1871; Charles Edwin, November 29, 1874; Bes- sie Ann, December 10, 1876; and Harry Earl, September 29, 1878. Susanna, next youngest sister to Allen T., was born August 16, 1832, married James Hayworth, and had the following named children: John, Sarah, David (deceased), William, Melissa (deceased), Ellen, Mary (deceased), James, Ed- ward, and Charles and Eva (twins). The second wife of John P. Miller bore the maiden name of Sarah Chambers. Their eldest child, Melissa Jane, born May 29, 1837, married Frank Vennard, now of Sharpsville, Indiana, and died more than twenty years ago. They were the parents of Sarah, who wedded George Calkins, of Kentucky; Harriet, and Martin. David Wallace, born March 4, 1840, married Mary Henselman, and died in the '70s. His daughter Effie married a Mr. Mitchell, and May is the wife of Charles Ellis. Samuel Biggar, born October 2, 1842, was one of the heroes of the civil war, his death occurring in the hospital at Memphis, Tennessee. Sarah, the youngest of the family, died in infancy. The third wife of John
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