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DRS. W. H. and J. L. SHORT, physicians and surgeons, sons of Thomas Short, of Eden Township. The father was born in Pennsylvania April 8, 1820. His parents, James and Frances (Gilbert) Short, were natives of Ireland, and when but a boy he came with them to Ohio, where his father died. In 1841, he came west on foot, and purchased eighty acres of land in Eden Township, and upon which he effected a permanent settlement the same year; and January 13, 1842, married Margaret Larimer, who died September 28, 1877, the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are yet living. Mr. Short married his present wife, Mrs. Mary Murray, in 1880. He is a Demo- crat, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. William H. Short was reared a farmer. He attended the Collegiate Institute at Ontario two years, and was one year at Adrian, Mich. He read medicine under Dr. Bartlett Larimer-his mother's brother-and attended his first course of lectures at Ann Arbor the winter of 1866-67. He graduated the term of 1868-69, after which he came to La Grange, where he has since practiced his profession.
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Dr. John L. Short, a native of Eden Township, finished his literary educa- tion at Ontario. He began the study of medicine, in 1867, under Dr. Larimer. The season of 1868-69, he took a course of lectures at Ann Arbor, and graduated from that college the winter of 1872-73. The next year he studied with his brother, and the winter of 1874 attended a course of lectures at the Miami Medical College and Hospital in Cincinnati. While in Ann Arbor, he received a special diploma on Physical Diagnosis. He and brother are well schooled in their profession. and command a lucrative practice.
ALBERT F. SKEER, mechanic, was born in Butler County, Penn., March 29, 1834, son of Eli and Mary A. (Dugan) Skeer (see biography of Thomas J. Skeer). Albert F., in 1850, removed to Hebron, Licking Co., Ohio, learned the cabinet-maker's trade with his brother Thomas J., and in 1852 purchased his brother's interest in the business, after which he continued it alone for six years. In 1858, he came to La Grange, where he has worked at carpentering. Mr. Skeer is a skilled workman, and has erected some of the finest buildings in this and adjoining counties. For two years he was engaged on the new court house in La Grange, during which time he lost only seven working days. He has been for many years a member of Meridian Sun Lodge, No. 76, A., F. & A. M .. , of which he has been W. M., and at present is its Treasurer. He served in both the J. W. and S. W. stations, and has also represented his lodge at the Grand Lodge. Mr. Skeer was married December 25, 1855, to Hannah C. Brown, a native of Licking County, Ohio, one of six children born to Peter and Hannah (Flinn) Brown, both natives of Virginia. Mr. Skeer and wife are parents of seven living children-William H., Thomas K., Adolphus G., George P., Albert F., Carrie B. and Harry. Mr. Skeer is a Democrat.
THOMAS J. SKEER was born in the "Keystone State," March 28, 1818, one of nine children born to Eli and Mary A. (Dugan) Skeer, seven of whom are living. Thomas J. Skeer received but an average education in youth, and early in life learned the carpenter's trade, which was also his father's. In 1840, he went to Hebron, Licking County, Ohio, where he engaged in carpen- tering, cabinet-making and undertaking. In December, 1846, he was married to Sarah Taggart, who was born in New Jersey April 10, 1819. In May, 1856, Mr. Skeer removed to La Grange. He has been employed over La Grange and neighboring counties in the erection of some of the finest buildings. For a number of years, he has been employed in Chicago during the summer months, and during the war was employed at his trade in the South by the Government. He and wife have had born to them six children-Frances, John, Thomas, Belle, James and Florence. Mr. Skeer is one of the reading citizens of La Grange, and is enterprising and thoroughgoing.
WILLIAM S. SMITH, dentist, is a native of Licking County, Ohio, where he was born September 10, 1850. He is the son of Harrison and Margaret Smith, the former of whom was born in Wheeling, W. Va., October 16, 1816, and the latter in Licking County, Ohio, May 8, 1825. The subject came with his parents to La Grange, Ind., in the fall of 1858, where he has since remained, with the exception of eighteen months, during which time he was engaged in practicing dentistry at White Pigeon, Mich., returning to La Grange on the 1st of January, 1879. Mr. Smith first began the pursuit of his present vocation in the fall of 1875, and, although, quite a young man, by careful attention to business, he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is the only resident dentist of La Grange, and his office is located on the corner of Detroit and Spring streets.
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J. FRANK SNYDER, editor La Grange Democrat, is a native of Richland County, Ohio, and was born December 14, 1851. He is a son of David and Leigh (Browneller) Snyder, who were what is known as Pennsylvania Dutch, but of German descent. The father died in 1872, but the mother is yet living, and resides in Kosciusko County, Ind. They were parents of nine children. J. F. Snyder came with his parents to Kosciusko County in 1852, and was there raised on a farm to manhood. He attended the district schools of his neigh- borhood and finished his literary education in the high school at Pierceton. From the time he was sixteen years old, he taught school winters, and worked on the farm summers, until 1873, when he entered the employ of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad in the capacities of station agent and telegraph operator. In 1876, he connected himself with the Columbia City Post as local editor and general assistant. After nine months, he severed his connection with that periodical, and in April, 1877, established the Princeton Free Press. In September, 1878, he started the Adams County Union, at Decatur, and in No- vember, 1879, he moved to La Grange and established the La Grange Demo- crat. [See History of the Press of La Grange County.] Mr. Snyder was married in September, 1877, to Gertrude Hoover, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Snyder is a Democrat, and a member of the I. O. O. F. of La Grange.
EDWARD B. SPEED, M. D. (deceased), was a son of Henry Speed, and was born at Troy, N. Y., September 7, 1825. He learned the carpenter's trade when a young man, and afterward taught school to pay his way through medi- cal college at Geneva, N. Y., from which he graduated, and then practiced in his native State eighteen months. The fall of 1856, he was united in marriage with Esther M. Cornell, and the next spring came to this town, where he soon obtained a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Speed, in 1864, was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Soon after his arrival at the front, he was taken ill with a complication of disorders, which resulted in his death. He was an honored and respected citizen, a member of the M. E. Church and the I. O. O. F., and a Republican in politics. Mrs. Speed, the widow, was born January 3, 1832, and to her marriage with Dr. Speed were born two children-Alice I. and Emma E. Under Gen .. Grant's administration in 1869, Mrs. Speed was appointed Postmistress of La Grange, a position which she has since retained with satisfaction, assisted by her brother, C. G. Cornell, as Deputy.
NELSON STACY, ex-Sheriff. Wareham Stacy was a native of Vermont, and a widower with six children at the time of his marriage with Mrs. Sabra Bennett, a widow, also with six children; she was a native of the State of New York, and to them was born one son, the subject of this sketch. The father was a farmer, and died November 14, 1850, followed by his widow August 28, 1865. Nelson Stacy was born November 29, 1829, in Clark County, Ohio. He was raised a farmer. In 1850, he came to this county, where two half-broth- ers were living, and April 15, 1852, married Laura R. Anderson, daughter of John and Mary (Gage) Anderson, who were among the early settlers of Steuben County. Mr. Stacy then farmed in Lima Township, where he first settled, un- til 1876, when he was elected County Sheriff as a Republican, and re-elected in 1878. Since the expiration of his second term, Mr. Stacy has been living retired in La Grange. They have eight children-Mary, John, Mahlon, Ann A., Sa- bra, Frank, Elias and Clara ; all living except Ann Adell, who died when an infant. Mrs. Stacy was born February 1, 1835, in Chautauqua County, N. Y.
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EDWIN TEMPLE, County Sheriff, was born in Orleans County, N. Y., December 23, 1840, the son of Luther and Sarah (De Forrest) Temple, natives of New York State, and the parents of four children, two of whom are living. In 1847, the family emigrated to Milford Township, where they had friends. Here Luther Temple began farming, but, in 1848. died of lung fever, followed by his widow in 1854. He was a jovial man, and commanded the respect of his acquaintances. Edwin, after the death of his mother, began life for himself. July 24, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer In- fantry, and was discharged at Baton Rouge January 10, 1866. After his en- listment, he was transferred to the First Indiana Heavy Artillery, serving in the Department of the Gulf, and was in the engagements of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, New Orleans, and with Gen. Butler in his movement up the Red River. After the war, he returned home and engaged in farming. In the fall of 1880, he was elected Sheriff by the Republican party, which position he now fills. He was married February 1, 1873, to Miss Mary Ream, daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth (Hoofer) Ream, who was born in Seneca County, Ohio, October 17, 1847. They are the parents of one son-Phillip.
J. C. TIDRICK, grocery merchant, was born in Bloomfield Township February 15, 1841, and is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Rathburn) Tidrick, who were among the old settlers of Bloomfield. [For further particulars regarding his father, Jacob Tidrick, see the biographical department of Bloomfield Town- ship.] J. C. Tidrick was reared on his father's farm until twenty-two years of age, and received a good common-school education. In 1864, he began his business career in La Grange, at the grocery trade. The winter of 1864, he sold out to King & Rice, and January 1, 1866, he again embarked in the same business in La Grange, under the firm name of Tidrick & Selby. Owing to the death of Mr. Selby, Mr. Tidrick sold the entire stock to W. T. Parry the spring of 1868, and the following August went to Kansas. In 1872, he came back, and again embarked in the grocery trade, at which he has since con- tinued. Mr. Tidrick has been successful as a business man, and is enterprising as a citizen. He is a Republican, is married and has a family.
F. M. VEDDER, groceryman, was born in Elkhart County in March, 1843, son of Adam and Sarah Vedder, who were parents of four children. His mother died when he was about eighteen months old, and shortly after- ward his father married again, and moved to Wisconsin, where he died during the war. After the death of his mother, F. M. Vedder was bound out to John Thompson, now of Eden Township, until he was eighteen years old. He was enrolled a member of Company C, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, August 27, 1861, and discharged December 12, 1863. He participated in the engagements of Perryville, Pittsburg Landing, and all the engagements of his regiment until the 31st of December, 1862, when the battle of Stone River commenced. On this day he was wounded four times severely, and left within the rebel lines, without food or shelter, until January 2, 1863, when the enemy was driven from the field. Mr. Vedder was then sent to the hospital at Nash- ville, when, being unfit for further service, he was discharged. He lived with Mr. Thompson, in Eden Township, for upward of two years, during which time he attended the district schools and the Collegiate Institute at Ontario. The spring of 1866 he moved to La Grange and engaged in different kinds of employment. For two years was Deputy Revenue Assessor, and the last year'of this time was Deputy Revenue Collector. He was also Deputy County Treasurer under Treasurers Newman and Shepardson. He was married, November 10,
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1869, to Miss Mary E. Wade, and to them have been born three children- Charles B., Frank J., deceased, and John N. In 1874, Mr. Vedder and Joseph B. Wade engaged together in the grocery trade, but in June, 1875, . Mr. Vedder sold out his interest, and July 27, 1875, embarked in the same business alone. He is a Republican. His brother, George W., was in the same company and regiment with Mr. Vedder.
JOSEPH B. WADE, attorney at law, was born in Harrison County, Va., April 11, 1826, the youngest of two children born to Samuel and Mary (Bizzard) Wade, his mother dying when he was only nine months old. His father afterward married Margaret Michael, and finally died in Marion County, Ohio. The fall of 1829, Mrs. Wade and her two step-children came with Benjamin Jones to what is now Greenfield Township, among the first settlers. They located at what is now the village of Lexington, where our subject received such education as the county schools afforded. He began the study of law in 1846, and at the same time assisted on the farm. In 1852, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in La Grange, continuing three and a half years. He was then employed by the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company for one year, as Director and Stock Solicitor. In November, 1857, he was admitted to the bar. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M., and has been W. M. of the Meridian Sun Lodge, No. 76, four years. Mr. Wade is also a member of La Grange Chap- ter, No. 36, R. A. M. He was married April 7, 1846, to Louisa J. Warner, daughter of Eliphalet and Edith (Gray) Warner, and a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio. To them have been born eight children ; four are yet living- Cyrus U., Mary M., Charlie C. and Carrie E. The first-named read law under his father, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in La Grange. He was elected and served two terms in the Thirty-fourth Judicial Circuit as Prosecut- ing Attorney. He married Miss Mary Will, and in the spring of 1880 en- tered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, and is now located at Roann, Ind. Charlie C. married Miss Maggie Will, purchased his brother's interest in law, and is now practicing with his father under the firm name of Wade & Wade.
HON. E. W. WEIR was born March 12, 1813, in Washington County, N. Y., of Samuel and Sarah (Woods) Weir, who were natives of that State. Samuel Weir was a soldier of the war of 1812, and his wife's father was a Revolutionary soldier. In 1836, E. W. Weir immigrated to La Grange County. The fall of 1836, he settled on part of Section 24, in Bloomfield Township. Mr. Weir disposed of this property in 1837 to his mother, but it is now in possession of Norman Weir. Mr. Weir then moved to Milford Township, where he farmed until his removal to La Grange. In 1852, he was elected County Treasurer by the Democrats, and served four years ; then engaged in farming. On the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Bill, Mr. Weir became a Republican, and was elected to the State Senate, serving in the sessions of 1878 and 1879. He was identified with the organization of the First National Bank of Lima in 1865. He has been three times married, first to Miss Amy A. Hern, daughter of William Hern. This lady died in 1847, leaving three children, two of whom are now living-John and Emily. In 1849, he married his second wife, Mrs. Savilla Rice, daughter of A. E. Durand, and widow of Dewitt Rice. This lady died in 1855, leaving one daughter, Sarah, who is yet living. Mr. Weir's present wife was Mrs. Abigail W. Cowley, widow of E. D. Cowley, and daughter of Elisha White. This lady had a family by her first husband, and is in every respect a helpmeet for Mr. Weir.
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E. G. WHITE, M. D., was born in Wayne County, N. Y., March 22, 1830 ; a son of Ira and Jane G. (Rennie) White, natives of Vermont and the city of New York respectively. Soon after the birth of our subject, his mother died, and at the age of twelve his father died. He had come to Maumee City, Ohio, with his father in 1836, where he lived until thirteen years old, when he returned to the State of New York. In 1845, he returned to Maumee City, where he became a printer. In 1847, he went to Columbus, and for nearly four years worked in the offices of the State Journal and Ohio Statesman. The summer of 1850, he visited his native State, and that winter began the study of medicine. He attended the Starling Medical College in Columbus, and received instructions from such men as Profs. Childs, Howard, Moore, Judkins, et al. After his graduation in February, 1854, he practiced for a time in Licking County, Ohio. In July, 1857, he came to this town. Immediately after the battle of Stone River, in 1863, Dr. White received a telegram from Gov. Mor- ton to gather as many surgeons as possible and report for special duty at Nash- ville and Murfreesboro. After attending to this, he contracted as Acting Assist- ant Surgeon, and remained until the close of the war. For the past thirteen years, he has been Examining Surgeon of applicants for pensions, and is also the present examiner of the K. of H., and a number of insurance companies. Dr. White and Agnes R. Murch, of Licking County, Ohio, were married in Oc- tober, 1856, and are the parents of two living children-Ira and George M. Dr. White is one of the Trustees of Bloomfield Township. He and wife are mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church.
JAMES H. WIGTON is the son of William Wigton, deceased, who was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., November 18, 1817, son of William and Elizabeth (Mushback) Wigton, of Scotch descent. William Wigton, Sr., was a Major in the regular army and the war of 1812. William Wigton, Jr., in about 1839, married Emily Holmes, daughter of Capt. James and Elizabeth (Wells) Holmes, and sister of C. B. Holmes. Capt. Holmes was a State Sur- veyor, and in 1831 or 1832 entered 7,000 acres of land in La Grange and Noble Counties. A short time before his death, he called his children around him and divided this property among them, Mrs. Wigton, for her share, getting 640 acres, Section 14, in Clay Township. Upon this woodland, in a cabin they had erected, Mr. and Mrs. Wigton settled in 1843. In March, 1849, Mr. Wigton started overland for California with a company of others, and on the journey all were killed by the Indians or died of disease excepting himself and David Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Wigton resided on the old place in Clay Township until February, 1865, when they sold it, and started East for the benefit of Mrs. Wigton's health. Arriving at Hebron, Ohio, the birthplace of Mrs. Wigton, she became worse and died there. Mr. Wigton, after this, continued on to Accomack County, Va., where he died in August, 1868. They were parents of seven children, only three-James H., Robert and Mary-now living. James H. was born in Hebron, Ohio, March 27, 1843, and came with his parents to La Grange County. He was married in 1872 to Miss Florence, daughter of Henry O. and Caroline M. (Smurr) Belding, and to this union is born one son -Martin K. Mr. Wigton owns 160 acres of land in Clay Township, and the only cooper-shop in La Grange.
FRED. B. WOOD, M. D., physician and druggist, was born in the State of New York in 1844, to Arthur and Sarah (Farnham) Wood. He was left an orphan when eight years of age, his father having died when he was but three. At the age of two years, De Kalb County, Ind., became his home. By
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saving his wages he was enabled to attend Hillsdale College the years of 1857 and 1858. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was the second person to enlist for three years from De Kalb County. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Liberty Gap and Chickamauga. At Stone River he was wounded slightly in the head, and the last day of the fight at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, he was taken prisoner and conveyed to Richmond. He was first incarcerated in Scott's Prison, afterward in Royster, Pemberton and Belle Isle. February 22, 1864, he was taken to Andersonville, and was in the first squad of troops to enter this Golgotha. September 7, 1864, he was removed to the prison at Savannah, Ga. ; October 3, 1864, he was transferred to Milan, and from there back to Savannah, where he was exchanged November 21, 1864, being exactly fourteen months in rebel prisons, where he endured more than the sufferings of death. In the spring of 1865, he attended Hillsdale College, after which he continued his medical studies at Angola. In October, 1865, he went to Belle- vue and attended lectures, and the next year began practicing in Big Rapids, Mich. In 1871, he graduated from the Rush Medical College in Chicago. After attending a course of lectures at Fort Wayne, he graduated from that school in 1879. In the spring of 1881, came to this place and engaged in practicing and the drug trade. Was married, July 22, 1865, to Mary J. Sar- gent, who has borne him two sons, J. Fordyce and Phonso S.
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WILSON ALDRICH, a native of Ontario County, N. Y., born October 9, 1830, is the elder of two children living, in the family of Aaron and Sally (Purchase) Aldrich, both natives of Ontario County, N. Y. The subject's mother died in 1838, and his father married Nancy Pratt, a native of New York, and in 1871 went to Ludington, Mason Co., Mich., where he is yet a resident. Wilson Aldrich passed his youth on his father's farm, and received a common-school education. In December, 1851, he went to California, via New York and Nicaragua, and met with moderate success there. Returning to New York in 1853, he remained until June of the following year, when he came and purchased 160 acres of his present farm in this township. In the fall of 1854, he went to Hillsdale, Mich., and was there married October 9, same year, to Miss Catherine Whitbeck. After visiting several points of inter- est in New York, they returned in December to their home in this township. Mr. Aldrich is a Democrat and a prominent farmer. He owns 309 acres of land, and has a family of five children, viz .: Frank J., Florence E., now Mrs. J. F. Summerlin, Fannie A., Eva B. and Burton A. Mrs. Aldrich was born April 8, 1832, in Wayne County, N. Y., and was one of six children born to Thomas J. and Lois (Allen) Whitbeck, natives of New York.
IRA W. BROWN, is the son of Abijah and Maria (Shoff) Brown. His birth occurred March 25, 1824, near Oxford, N. Y., and in 1838 he went to Bellevue, Huron Co., Ohio, with his parents. From the age of seventeen to twenty-one, he worked as an apprentice in the carriage and wagon manufactory of his father, afterward assuming the management for one and one-half years, when he bought his father's interest, and continued the business alone. In about 1847, he and his father purchased a farm in Sandusky County, Ohio, where Ira W. removed
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about two years later. He continued his trade, and manufactured a number of wagons that were taken overland to California during the gold excitement there. In the winter of 1854-55, Mr. Brown emigrated to this county, and after the arrival of his family in the spring, settled in this township. After his arrival here, he operated a steam saw-mill in Johnson Township, in partner- ship with his father, and brother Jacob. The two latter subsequently sold out to Ira W., who continued the business until 1866. In 1865, he moved onto his farm of 160 acres in this township, and has retained most of the timber on the land. In 1870, he built a saw-mill which he has since operated. Mr. Brown, in 1848, August 16, married Julia P. Lamson, whose birth occurred January 10, 1831, in Chenango County, N. Y. Her parents were Orson and Betsey (Shoff) Lamson, natives of New York. Mr. Brown is a member of A., F. & A. M. They have had six children; four are living-Llewellyn A., Clifford J., Louise B., now Mrs. Samuel Weir, and Ellsworth I. Mr. Brown is a leading farmer and lumber dealer, and has one of the finest residences in the township ; his land is well cultivated and improved with good substantial buildings.
HON. JOHN Y. CLARK, deceased, was the son of Isaac and Patience (Young) Clark, both of New Jersey, where the subject was born September 26, 1806, in Sussex County, and where he was married, December 11, 1826, to Hester H. Westbrook. She also was a native of Sussex County, born in 1809, the 4th of April. In 1829, he emigrated to Steuben County, N. Y., journeying to this township in 1836, where he purchased a tract of 160 acres of timbered land. Their nearest neighbors were two miles distant. Mr. Clark, with the assistance of his sons, soon had his farm cleared and improved. He served his township as Justice of the Peace, and was elected, in 1846, to the Lower House of the Indiana State Legislature by the Whig party, of which he was a leader. Mr. Clark died at his home in this township, owning at that time 240 acres of land. He was a man that inspired the esteem and respect of all. His wife died May 7, 1873. They had ten children ; those living are Phobe, now Mrs. Van Kirk; Abraham W .; Patience, now Mrs. Thompson ; Martha, now Mrs. Draggoo ; Eleanor J., now Mrs. Newell ; Hester H., now Mrs. Malone, and William J. Abraham W. has been a member of the Merid- ian Sun Lodge, No. 76, A., F. & A. M., for more than twenty years, and has represented that order at the Grand Lodge several times ; he is also an R. A. and S. M. Mason. Himself and brother, William J., own and live on the old homestead, and are both among Bloomfield's leading citizens.
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