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in various places of trust he has shown himself worthy of honor and con- fidence and an excellent depositary of the county's administrative affairs.
Mr. Glover is a Pennsylvanian by birth and rearing. He was born at Bolivar, January 26. 1856, and is of Scotch lineage in only the third genera- tion from the original American progenitor. His paternal grandfather. James Glover, was born in the city of Edinburg, Scotland, and came to the United States something over seventy years ago. He settled in Maryland, and died at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, at ninety-two years of age. Robert Glover, the father of the Lake county recorder, was born in Maryland, and is now seventy-one years old, residing in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He has been a stationary engineer nearly all his life. His wife is also living at the age of sixty-seven, and her maiden name was Clara Corsin.
Mr. William J. Glover was taken to Pittsburg in childhood, and was educated there in the public schools. He found employment at different lines of work before he entered the iron mills, and for some twenty-two years he was employed in the iron mills in Pittsburg and in East Chicago. He came to Chicago, Illinois, in 1882, and in 1888 settled at East Chicago. The latter was a mere town at that time, and he was one of the first settlers. In addi- tion to his daily work he became identified with the public life of the place, and before long was taking an active part in Republican politics. He was elected and served one term as treasurer of East Chicago, and was elected to the city council for two terms. While serving in the latter position he was elected. in 1896, to the office of recorder of Lake county, and then severed his connection with affairs in East Chicago and moved to Crown Point, where he has since made his home. He was chosen for a second term as recorder in 1900, so that he has served nearly eight years. He has always been a Republican, and is a man of popular and genial mamers, just such a one as the people of a community pick out as a representative citizen and choose for their various administrative offices.
Mr. Glover has affiliations with the Masons, the Elks, the Foresters, the Maccabees, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers. He was married in June, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Owens, of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania. They have five children : Robert S., Edward C., Florence M .. William J., Jr., and Helen.
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WILLIAM HENRY WOOD.
William Henry Wood, general merchant at Deep River, has been the leader in the business affairs of this community for many years. In fact, the Wood family, grandfather, father and sons, have been closely identified with industrial and commercial interests of Ross township as long as any other family still existing in the county, and they have kept fully abreast of the tide of progress and development which has advanced Lake county from a wilderness to one of the richest and most prosperous counties of the state.
The pioneer of the family was John Wood, grandfather of the above named, who came out from the east to Lake county, Indiana, before the official separation and organization of the counties of Porter and Lake. He was a miller by occupation, and by building and operating the old grist and saw mill at Deep River supplied the early settlers with commodities abso- lutely essential to civilization and modest comfort. His mill was one of the first in the county, and he carried on his business here for many years. He was of English and Scotch descent.
George Wood, the father of William H. Wood, was born in Massa- chusetts, and in boyhood came out to Lake county with his parents, being reared, educated and married in this county. He engaged in general mer- chandising and milling at Deep River during most of his active career, and was a prominent and influential man in the surrounding country. He was a member of the Unitarian church at Hobart. His death occurred when he was fifty-nine years old. He married Mary J. Digerd, who was born in Buffalo, New York, of Irish descent, and is still living. They were the. parents of six children, four of whom reached adult age.
William Henry Wood, the fourth child and third son of this family, was born in Deep River, Lake county, July 2, 1865, and was reared and has spent all his life at this place. After attending the common schools he entered the business department of the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, where he was graduated in two years, and then returned to Deep River. He was with his father in the creamery business for two years, and then he and his brother Eugene bought out their father and carried on the general store and creamery in partnership for six years. Mr. Wood then
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bought out his brother, and has been very successfully conducting the mer- cantile business ever since. He is also vice-president of the Ohio Standard Oil Company, at Amsterdam, Ohio, and has various other business interests.
As a life-long Republican he has taken much interest in public affairs. He is now candidate for township trustee, and was at one time on the ad- visory board. He has been the postmaster of Deep River for the past ten years, the office being located in his store. He is a Mason affiliating with Hobart Lodge No. 357. He is well known in business and social circles, and his store is up to date and a large one for a place the size of Deep River. He carries about four thousand dollars' stock, and has a large trade from all the surrounding country. ,
Mr. Wood married, in 1894, Miss Martha Battia, of Middle Falls, New York. They have two children, Olive and Raymond.
HENRY C. BATTERMAN.
Henry C. Batterman, prominent in the industrial, mercantile and finan- cial affairs of Dyer, St. John township, began his career at this place some thirty years ago, with his trade and his character as his principal capital, and during the intervening period has come to be one of the most influential business men of this part of Lake county. He has been prominently identi- fied with nearly ali the affairs of Dyer, whether of a business, social or polit- ical or whatsoever nature, and is an all-round worthy citizen whom all esteem and hold in highest regard.
Mr. Batterman is a brother of Edward Batterman, the well known business man of Hobart, and in whose personal history on other pages of this work will be found the parental and ancestral records. Mr. H. C. Batter- man was born in Will county, Illinois, October 10, 1855, and was reared and educated there. He learned the harness-making business, and at the age of twenty, in 1875, came to Lake county, where he continued to work at his trade, following it altogether for twenty-two years. He prospered from the first, and has been on the up-grade ever since he started out on his own hook. In 1894 he established a livery business in Dyer, and has carried it on very successfully to the present time. In 1900 he opened his machine and blacksmith shops and agricultural implement house, and in these lines does a large and steadily increasing business. He took a leading part at the
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organization of the First National Bank at Dyer, and is a director and the vice-president of that substantial financial institution. He also owns stock in the creamery at Dyer, and is secretary and treasurer of the Horse Breed- ers' Association at Dyer. He has had an annual trade in his implement and shops enterprise amounting to over ten thousand dollars, and his business push and energy are continually increasing his hold on the commercial and industrial affairs of the county. In public matters and political questions he has always adhered to the principles and policies of the Republican party. He has served as superintendent of roads and was on the township advisory board. "He has also been active in religious affairs, and is an official member of the Dyer Union church.
Mr. Batterman has been married three times. His first wife was Mary Richart, by whom he had one son, Joe B. The second marriage was with Maggie Young, and his present wife was Miss Helen Richart, a sister of his first wife. They have two living children, Carrie and Johanna. Fraternally he is a member of the Order of the Foresters of America, Council No. 16. at Dyer, and he was a member of the High Order of Foresters.
JAMES A. PATTERSON.
James A. Patterson, an attorney at law engaged in practice in Indiana Harbor since the summer of 1902, was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on the 3Ist of August. 1867, and is one of a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, whose parents are William and Mary (McAlpin) Patterson. His paternal grandfather, William Patterson, Sr., was born in Scotland, belonging to one of the old families of that country. Emigrating to America. he spent his last days in Canada, where he died at the very advanced age of ninety-two years. He had long devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits and in that way had provided for his family, numbering his wife and four or five children.
William Patterson, Jr., was born in Catron, Scotland, and after arriving at years of maturity he married Miss Mary McAlpin, a native of Kilmarnock. Ayrshire. She belonged to a family numbering several daughters and hier father died in Scotland when he had attained a venerable age. William Patterson followed mining during much of his life. When a young man he left Scotland and went to Australia, where he was engaged in mining gold.
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He afterward emigrated to Canada, locating in a pioneer district, and there he carried on farming for three or four years, at the end of which time he went to Pennsylvania. On leaving that state about 1876 he journeyed west- ward to Illinois, settling at Coal City, where he engaged in mining coal, but his last years were spent in the Indian Territory, where he died in 1885, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife still survives him and is now seventy- six years of age. Like her husband she is a member of the Presbyterian church, and through many years has shaped her life by its teachings and precepts. To this worthy couple were born four sons and four daughters, and six are yet living : Margaret, who is the wife of D. W. Frye, of Coal City, Illinois ; Helen, the wife of David H. Wilson, also a resident of Coal City : William M., who is living in St. Louis, Missouri ; Robert J., a resident of Moberly, Missouri; James A. ; and Elizabeth, the wife of Cornelius Clark, of Coal City. Illinois.
James A. Patterson was a lad of about nine years when with his parents he removed to Coal City. Illinois, where the days of his youth were passed and his early education was acquired. He afterward pursued a business course in a commercial college at Leavenworth, Kansas, and later he occupied a position as bookkeeper for four or five years. He then went to Valparaiso College and was graduated from the scientific and literary departments, so that he gained a broad general knowledge to serve as an excellent foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning. Following the completion of his normal work at Valparaiso, he took up the study of law in the Chicago Law School of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898, and the same year was admitted to the bar. He has since engaged in practice, covering a period of six years, and on the ist of April. 1902. he opened an office in Indiana Harbor, where he has since been located. His clientage is continually growing and has connected him with much of the in- portant litigation tried here. He is thorough and painstaking in the prepara- tion of a case, clear and concise in argument, cogent and logical in his reason- ing. and has attained a creditable position among the younger members of the Lake county bar.
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Gustav. In 1897 he built his present substantial brick residence at 216 South Holman street.
Mr. Muenich is a veteran of the Civil war in this country, having en- listed in 1862 in Company I. Seventy-second Illinois Infantry, and served about a year, after which he returned to his home at Hessville. Mr. and Mrs. Muenich are both members of the Lutheran church, and in politics he has always adhered to Republican principles and policies.
August 8, 1853. Mr. Muenich was married to Miss Anna Natke, a daughter of Christian and Maria ( Wannock) Natke. Both her paternal and her maternal grandfathers died so long ago that no knowledge of their his- tory is obtainable. but the name of the former's wife was Maria (Rockhill) Vatke. and that of the latter's Katharina Wannock. Mrs. Muenich's father was a farmer. and in 1857 he emigrated with his wife and family from Ger- many to America, and after a short residence in Chicago located at Hessville. where he remained till his death, in 1887, at the age of eighty-one. His wife died in 1877. aged seventy-four. They had three children: Anna, the wife of Mr. Muenich : Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Hess : and Martin Natke.
Four sons and one daughter were born to Mr. and Mrs. Muenich : Carl Gustav is a contractor in Hammond: he married Miss Maria Bellof, and they have one daughter. Etta. Gustav Adolph Muenich died at the age of five and a half years. Rudolph is a paperhanger : he married Alvina Zachholz. and their three children are George. Ida Anna Alvina and Bertha. Maria married Henry Huehn. now deceased. and they had five children. Emma, William. Henry. Myrtle and Arthur. Edward Muenich follows the trade of carpenter : by his wife. Alice Benedict, he has five children. Rebecca, Elmer. Lola. Roy and Arthur.
HENRY L. KEILMAN.
Henry L. Keilman. president of the First National Bank of Dyer and a prominent farmer of St. John township. has spent all his life in Lake county and is of the third generation of the well known family who located in this county sixty years ago. He has spent most of his active years in farming pursuits. which he has followed for over thirty years, and he has resided on his present fine farmstead for twenty-five years. Outside of his financial and agricultural interests he has concerned himself in a public-spirited manner with the administrative affairs of his county and township, and is everywhere
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known as a good citizen, a good neighbor and a man of unusual energy and business capacity.
Mr. Keilman was born in St. John township, September 22, 1856, being the eldest son of Leonard and Lena ( Austgen) Keilman, who in childhood came from their native land of Germany. His father, who is still among the active and enterprising business men of St. John township, is written of elsewhere in this work, and various details of family history are to be found under the name Keilman in various portions of the history.
Mr. Keilman was reared in his native township, and was educated in the district school and then attended, in 1872, Pionono College, near Mil- waukee, Wisconsin. On his return home he at once took up farming, and after his marriage, in 1879, located on the farm where he still resides. He owns three hundred acres, and does general farming, stock-raising and clairying. At the time of the organization of the First National Bank in Dyer, in 1903, he was elected its president, which office he still holds, and his direction of the bank's affairs has been most satisfactory to the stock- hoklers and is resulting in giving the institution considerable prestige among the business interests of St. John township.
Mr. Keilman was elected, on the Democratic ticket, to the office of trustee of St. John township, in 1894. and he held that office for five years and three months. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, St. Joseph's church at Dyer.
In 1879 Mr. Keilman married Miss Maggie Schaefer, who is also a native of St. John township. They have eight children, all born on the old homestead farm in St. John township, as follows: William H., Frank L., Emma, Frances, Raymond, Leonard, Verna and Helen.
DENNIS PALMER.
Dennis Palmer, old settler and man of affairs of Lake county, has been for many years a leading spirit in the commercial and industrial development of Lake county and particularly of that portion where the town of Palmer is situated, which was founded on his land and named as a lasting memorial to his life and services in behalf of the community. He was one of the influ- ential residents who contributed of their own means and lent their vigorous efforts for railroad building in this county. Many enterprises of private
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business and public nature have engaged his attention during a long life of over seventy years, and his place in the county is one of honor, high esteen and most public-spirited and useful performance of his part in life.
Mr. Palmer was born in Lorain county, Ohio, August 21, 1830. His father, also named Dennis, was born in Massachusetts, whence he moved to New York state, and from there to Ohio, settling first in Lorain county. then in Crawford county, and about 1854 came to Lake county, Indiana, where he passed his declining years and died at the age of eighty-two years. His wife, Olive Terril, was a native of Connecticut, but was reared in the early times of Lorain county, Ohio, and died in that state at the age of eighty.
Mr. Palmer was the only son of his parents' five children. He was seven years old when he moved to Crawford county, Ohio, where he was reared. His education was acquired in one of the primitive old log-cabin schools. He remained in that county for two years after his marriage. and in 1854 moved to Mason county, Illinois, but after six months came to Lake county and took up his first residence in Winfield, Winfield township. He was there six years and then came to the place where he has ever since made his place of residence, for over forty years. During his more active career he engaged in various kinds of business, in the raising and shipping of stock, merchandising and farming. A town was laid out on his land in 1882 and named in his honor. At present he owns only one hundred and seventy acres in this vicinity, but once was possessor of six hundred. Much of the growth and prosperity of this region is due to his active efforts. He has one son, Richard, who is in the real estate business in Kansas City, Missouri. He owns lands in Kansas, but these are under the control of this son and his grandson.
Mr. Palmer started out in life without a dollar, and the story of his life is one of self-achievement. industry and capable business management. He therefore deserves the esteem which is accorded him in Lake county, and the weight of his opinions has in many ways been felt throughout the county. He has in the main retired from active pursuits, and confines most of his attention to lending money and dealing in securities. He has been a strong Republican since the organization of the party, and has served as township trustee one term, and was justice of the peace for twenty years. He was all old-line Whig and at the birth of the Republican party espoused its prin- ciples and voted for Fremont, then Lincoln, Garfield, Blaine and Mckinley.
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He helped in getting the lines of the Pennsylvania and the Erie railroads run through Crown Point, which resulted in much of the subsequent prosperity of that town as a commercial center. He was the first man to sign the right of way and give a mile of his own land to the Erie road, doing this with the understanding that the line should be constructed through Crown Point. He also assisted in taking up subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Railroad, signing his own name for one hundred dollars. Through many such enterprises lie has made his influence felt for good in Lake county, and is one of the best known and truly successful men of the county.
Mr. Palmer was married, May 12. 1852, to Miss Mary Wilson, and of the two children, both sons, born to them, one is living. Richard, also men- tioned above. Richard Palmer was born February 17, 1853, and was reared in this county, being educated in the common schools. He has been engaged in the stock, real estate and the banking lines of business, and for some time he resided in Monona county, lowa, and carried on stock, banking and mer- cantile enterprises. He married, November 4, 1875. Miss Mary E. Fargo, by whom he had one son, Mark S. D., who was educated in the common schools and at the Valparaiso College, and is now postmaster at Eskridge. Kansas: at the time of receiving his official notice he was the youngest post- master in the United States. This grandson of Mr. Palmer was married on August 1, 1899, to Miss May E. F. Parsonage, who was born in Wabaunsee county, Kansas, June 17, 1879, her parents being still living and farmers in Wabaunsee county, and she received a high school education and for some time was a teacher. The one daughter of this marriage, Lois Zoe, is thus a great-grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer so that there are four genera- tions alive at the present time. Mark S. D. Palmer is a Republican, having cast his first vote for McKinley, and fraternally he is associated with Tent No. 79. of the Maccabees, at Eskridge, and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen No. 165.
Mr. Richard Palmer's first wife died December 10, 1880. and by his second wife he has six children, as follows: John R .; Alice, who is in the high school: Maude, in school; Fayette, Lucile and Katie On February 27, 1002, Mr. Richard Palmer married Mrs. Mary E. ( Hatteily ) Luth, who was born in Harrison county, Iowa. November 5, 1866, being a daughter of James and Hannah Hatterly. She was educated in the common schools,
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finishing at the Shenandoah high school, and she taught in Iowa for a year and a half. By her marriage to Henry Luth one son, Leslie E., was born, he being now fifteen years old and a student in the public schools of Kansas City, where his parents reside. Richard Palmer moved to Kansas City in June, 1903, and engaged in the real estate business. He is a Republican, having cast his first vote for Hayes, and he has always supported those prin- ciples. His wife is a member of the Christian church, and they are generous in regard to the benevolences.
Mrs. Dennis Palmer was born in Wyandotte county, Ohio, February 19, 1833, and was a daughter of Daniel and Sarah ( Taylor) Wilson. She was one of thirteen children, and six are yet living. She was reared in her native state, and her first school was a log cabin, with a mud and stick chim- ney, with benches of slabs resting on four pins for legs, and the desk for the older scholars a long board resting on pins driven into the wall. She used the goosequill pen, usually fashioned out with the knife of the master, who, for a portion of her school days, was none other than her future husband. Mr. Palmer. Much more might be related of those early pioneer days.
For half a century have Mr. and Mrs. Palmer traveled the journey of life together. sharing the joys and sorrows as they have followed one close on the other. And now at the eventide of life, when the sun of their careers is fast setting, they can look back over the past years as over a golden harvest field where the garnered sheaves of golden deeds lie before God and man as proofs of their noble characters and generous endeavors, so that all-son, grand- children and all who come after them-may rise up and call them blessed.
REV. H. PH. WILLE.
Rev. H. Ph. Wille has been pastor of the First Lutheran church of Whiting since 1891 and was the first minister regularly located here. Dur- ing the years which have since come and gone he has succeeded in build- ing up a strong religious organization and one which has had potent and far-reaching effect in the moral development and progress of this part of the state. Widely known and respected by all with whom he has come in contact. the life record of Rev. Wille cannot fail to prove of deep interest to many of our readers. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, on the 18th of December, 1843, when his parents were en route for America. His father,
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Philip Wille, was a native of Prussia and was a farmer by occupation. He came to the United States in the spring of 1844. locating near Milwaukee Wisconsin, and he lived to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of the new world for forty years, passing away in 1884. when seventy-four years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Charlotte Tews, was ako a native of Prussia and is still living at the very advanced age of eighty- eight years. They became the parents of nineteen children, but only six reached adult age.
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