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Dr. Stephens, one of his ten children, acquired his early education in the public schools of Sharon. Pennsylvania. and later attended the Muncie high school. When he had completed his more specifically literary education he entered upon preparation for a professional career as a student in the Indiana Dental College, of Indianapolis, and was graduated with the class of 1903. Thus well equipped for his chosen calling he came to Indiana Harbor, opened his office, and has in the months which have since intervened secured a good patronage, which is constantly increasing.
Dr. Stephens was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church and is one of the members at Indiana Harbor. He belongs to the Delta
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Sigma Delta, a dental fraternity, and he exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party.
WILLIAM HALFMAN.
William Halfman, prominent farmer and cigar manufacturer, residing on section 3, Ross township, is a native son of Lake county and has spent most of his life in busy pursuits within its boundaries. He is a young man of progress and enterprise, has never lacked plenty to do and has made money from boyhood up, and has really only begun the career of activity which will result in greater successes in the future.
Mr. Halfman was born May 18, 1875. on the farm where he still re- sides, in Ross township, Lake county. His father, Henry Halfman, was one of the old settlers of Lake county. William was reared and educated in Ross township, receiving his early educational training in the district schools. At the age of sixteen he left home and went to Chicago, where for a time he was engaged in the milk business, was conductor on the street railway, and was also connected with the police force. He then returned to Lake county and began farming the old homestead, where he has since centered most of liis energies. He does general farming, stock-raising and dairying and milk- shipping, and his place of over three hundred acres is one of the best in Lake county, being a scene of business activity and industry from one end of the year to the other. For about two years, while still engaged in farining, he traveled through Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and South Dakota as the sales- man for the McCormick and Champion farm machinery. In 1902 he began the manufacture of cigars, which he has made a very profitable enterprise. His most popular brand is the "Halfman's White Ribbon." a high-grade five- cent smoke.
Mr. Halfman is one of the influential young Democrats of the county, and is at the present writing a candidate for the office of township trustee. He has always been interested in the public affairs and general welfare of his community, and can be depended upon for his due share of assistance and co-operation in all good works.
Mr. Halfman married, in 1895, Miss Clara Klein, who was born in Grundy county, Illinois, a daughter of Henry J. and Clara Klein. They have three children : Clara, Edward and Marie.
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DR. SAMUEL A. BELL.
Dr. Samuel A. Bell, a successful and prominent member of the dental profession at Hammond, where he has been in practice ever since his gradu- ation from college, is a man of recognized ability and talent, not only in connection with his duties as a professional man, but in the larger realms of life. both business and social. He has concerned himself with, and con- sequently his time and energies have been called upon for many affairs per- taining to the general progress and development, and he has proved himself a thoroughly public-spirited and enterprising man. He is especially popular as a dentist. and has a large and high-class patronage, whose constantly re- curring needs make steady demands upon all his time.
Dr. Bell was born in Kingston, Canada, October 18, 1868, being a son of John and Helen (McKechnie) Bell, natives, respectively, of England and Edinburg, Scotland. His mother was a daughter of William and Helen Mc- Kechinie, who came to America from Scotland. William McKechnie was a soldier in the English army during the war of 1812, and by occupation was a general merchant in Canada. He died in Kingston, at the age of ninety-two, and his wife died when about sixty-five. They had seven children. John Bell, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Bell. was born in England, whence he moved to Canada, and was a farmer near Kingston the rest of his life, which came to an end when he was about eighty years of age. His wife Ellen also attained advanced years, and they were the parents of eight children.
Dr. Bell's father was a farmer throughout the active period of his life. almost all of which has been spent in Canada, and he still resides at Kingston. In his earlier years he was a soldier in the English army, with the rank of lieutenant. He is a Methodist, as was his wife, whom death separated from him in February, 1901, when she was sixty-seven years old. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom are still living. as follows: John A .. of Watertown. New York: James H., of Kingston, Canada: Senator Thomas E., of Hammond ; Dr. Samuel A., of Hammond : Rose A., wife of Thomas Copely, of Kingston; Maggie, widow of James Butland, of Kings- ton ; and Nellie H., wife of Andrew McLean, of Kingston.
Dr. Bell spent his youth on a Canadian farm, attending the district schools for his early education. He later entered the Ontario Veterinary
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College, where he was graduated in 1890. He did not make a permanent choice of the veterinarian profession, but on coming to the United States en- tered the dental department of the Northwestern University, of Chicago. graduating in 1894. He at once began his practice in Hammond, and has had ten most successful years of professional work in this city. He is a member of the Indiana State Dental Association.
Dr. Bell affiliates with Garfield Lodge No. 569. F. & A. M., and is treasurer of the lodge. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks fraternities. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He is a member of the Hammond school board, and is president of the Indiana State Associa- tion of School Boards. His residence is at 366 South Hohman street, where he built a good home in 1897. and besides this he owns other city real estate. He was married September 6. 1896. to Miss Ada Sanger. a daughter of Cyril and Carrie (Childres) Sanger. They have two children, Cyril and Walter.
ELMER D. BRANDENBURG.
Elmer D. Brandenburg, attorney at law, and in the real estate and in- surance business in Hammond, Indiana, belongs to the younger and pro- gressive element of the city and has gained quite a reputation and a prom- inent place among the members of the bar and the business men since identi- fying himslf with Hammond.
Mr. Brandenburg was born in Harrisburg. Ohio, October 13, 1871. being a son of John W. and Eliza J. (England) Brandenburg, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Ohio. His grandfather, Patterson C. Brandenburg, was born in the early days of Kentucky history, and was a farmer, reaching the great age of ninety-eight years. His wife Elizabeth died young, and they had five sons and one daughter.
John W. Brandenburg for a number of years operated a sawmill and a threshing outfit at Harrisburg, Ohio. He came to Indiana in 1881, locating at Winamac, where he lived until 1898, when he came to Hammond and is now in the employ of the Chicago Telephone Company. He was a soldier in the Civil war, serving three years as a private in Company F. Thirteenth Indiana Infantry, and was in the battle of Shiloh and other hard-fought bat- tles of that great struggle. He is not identified with any church, but his
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wife is a Methodist. His wife's father was David England, a native of Ohio, a soldier of the Civil war, and a farmer by occupation. He died in Ohio at the age of sixty-three years, and his wife, who was Matilda Brown, died in Hammond. Indiana, in 1903. at the age of seventy-one. They had five sons and five daughters. John W. and Eliza J. Brandenburg had four chil- dren : Eva, deceased : Elmer D. : Lacy A .. wife of John M. Kellar, of Ham- mond ; and Oliver C., of Hammond.
Elmer D. Brandenburg attended the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and of Winamac. Indiana. He afterward entered the University of Indian- apolis, from which he graduated in 1898. having taken the law course, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He began his practice in Gas City. Grant county, and for two years served as deputy prosecutor of that county. He located in Hammond in February. 1903, and has had a successful practice since that time. In connection with his brother Oliver, whose history is given below. h ยท also conducts a real estate and insurance business.
December 26, 1899. Mr. Brandenburg married Miss Josephine C. Balfe, a daughter of Colonel John C. and Vitalis Balfe. Mrs. Brandenburg is a member of the Catholic church. Mr. Brandenburg is a member of Gas City Lodge No. 428. K. of P., being past chancellor. His political sentiments inclin e to the Republican party. He resides at 329 Sibley street, and he and his ife are numbered among the popular members of Hammond society.
OLIVER C. BRANDENBURG.
Oliver C. Brandenburg, of the firm of Brandenburg Brothers. real estate and insurance, in the First National Bank building, at Hammond, has found a profitable and useful niche in the business world, and has already proved himself a public-spirited and progressive citizen during his brief con- nection with business affairs in Hammond.
He was born at Harrisburg. Ohio. March 29. 1876, being the youngest of the four children of John W. and Eliza J. (England) Brandenburg, who are both living in Hammond. The further family history is given above in the biography of Mr. Brandenburg's brother.
Oliver C. Brandenburg was nine years old when his parents came from Ohio to Indiana, and he attended the public schools of Winamac, where he was reared to manhood. He entered the Central Normal College at Danville
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about 1892, and after finishing his course there engaged in teaching for six terms. He came to Hammond in 1899 and taught here for two terms, and then took up the real estate and insurance business in Gas City, Indiana. In December, 1902, he returned to Hammond, and a short time later the firm of Brandenburg Brothers was formed, which has carried on a very profitable business in real estate and insurance ever since.
September 26, 1900, Mr. Brandenburg married Miss Lillie May Conn, a daughter of William and Eliza Jane (Ginder) Conn. They have one daughter, Mable Winona Brandenburg. Mrs. Brandenburg is a member of the Methodist church. He affiliates with Monterey Lodge No. 660, I. O. O. F., and with the Fraternal Assurance Society of America. In politics he is a Republican. His home is at 49 Sibley street.
DR. CYRUS W. CAMPBELL.
Dr. Cyrus W. Campbell, physician and surgeon with offices in the Ma- jestic building at Hammond, Indiana, has carried on a successful practice in this city for thirteen years, and is one of the progressive and skillful prac- titioners of Lake county. He has been devoted to his professional duties, and still takes a studious interest in all that concerns medical science. His twenty years of experience has given him well deserved prestige among his fellow physicians, and the patronage which he receives in Hammond and sur- rounding country is evidence of his standing in the profession.
Dr. Campbell was born in Monterey, Indiana, October 15, 1850, being a son of Francis G. and Delia (Campbell) Campbell, natives, respectively, of Ohio and New York. His paternal grandfather, Dugall Campbell, was a native of Ohio, of Scotch descent, a farmer, and was married three times. having a large family. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Campbell was a native of New York state, and had three children. Francis G. Campbell was a printer by trade, and in 1846 moved west and located in Monterey, Indiana, where he carried on real estate and merchandising business and also farm- ing, and where he died in 1878, at the age of fifty-six years, being the in- cumbent of the office of county commissioner at the time. His wife had died four years previously, aged fifty-four. She was a member of the Methodist church. They had five children, four sons and one daughter: Elizabeth, the
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wife of H. S. Fausler, of Monterey, Indiana : Hiram F., of Hammond ; Cyrus WV. : William A., of Alger, Ohio; and Eli L., of Cotulla, Texas.
Dr. Campbell was reared on a farm near Monterey, Indiana, and had the benefit of the district schools. In 1879 he entered the Medical College of In- diana at Indianapolis, and after completing the course began practicing in Blue Grass, Fulton county, Indiana, where he remained until 1891, and in the spring of that year located in Hammond, which has been the seat of his suc- cessful practice to the present time.
October 30, 1873, Dr. Campbell married Miss Ellen Wallace, a daughter of James and Margaret (Babcock) Wallace. Seven children have been born to them, Margaret, Clarence, Ethel, Claudius, Fay, Murley and Dean. Clar- ence died at the age of thirteen months. Ethel married Frank Stakemiller, of Hammond, and they have two children, Donald and Ellen. Claudius is in the employ of the Hammond Company, being foreman of the casing de- partment ; he married Frances Kizer, and they have one son, Cyrus. The family are Baptists in religion. Dr. Campbell affiliates with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees, and is a member of the Kankakee Valley Medi- cal Association. He is a Republican in politics, and is secretary of the board of health of Hammond. He owns his nice home at 326 Truman avenue, where the family extend an open-hearted hospitality to their many friends.
DR. L. D. JACKSON.
Dr. Lorenzo D. Jackson, physician and surgeon at Hammond, has been engaged in active practice in this city for nearly fifteen years, and in this useful profession has attained considerable distinction both in Hammond and the surrounding country. He is not only an able and sympathetic practi- tioner, but is also a man of broad experience and capacity in other lines of work. He had been successfully engaged in various activities and kinds of business before taking up the practice of medicine, and his life has been spent in different parts of the country. He is an active, public-spirited citizen, and is held in high esteem by his many friends and business associates.
Dr. Jackson was born in Wayne county, Indiana, January 15, 1849, a son of Joseph and Mary E. (Harvey) Jackson, natives of Virginia and In- diana, respectively. Mrs. Mary E. Jackson was a daughter of William Harvey, who was born in North Carolina, and became a pioneer settler of
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Wayne county. Indiana, where he took up government land and became a thrifty and prosperous farmer. He and his wife lived to advanced years. and were the parents of five children. He was of Welsh descent.
Caleb Jackson, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Jackson, was a native of Virginia, and a descendant of English ancestors who had come from the north of Ireland and settled in Virginia. He grew to manhood in that state, and in the early days of the last century he came direct from the Old Dominion state to Wayne county, Indiana, where he figured as one of the prominent pioneer settlers and where he spent the remainder of his long and useful life. He took up goverment land, on which he reared his six children. He was foremost in the promotion of railroad building in those days. He had the contract for building the Pennsylvania road through Wayne county, and was afterward for a number of years a director in that railroad company.
Joseph Jackson, the father of Dr. Jackson, was about eight years old when he came west with his parents to Wayne county, where he grew to manhood and spent the remainder of his life, his occupation being farming. He lived to be seventy-six years old, and his wife died at the age of fifty-six. They were brought up in the faith of the Friends, but she later joined the Christian church. They were the parents of thirteen children, all of whom are living, as follows : Rebecca J., the wife of William Q. Elliott, of Sterling. Kansas; John W., of Cambridge City, Indiana: Olive, wife of John Cod- dington, of Wayne county, Indiana ; Salina J., widow of Lemuel Morgan, of Indianapolis: Caleb B., of Wayne county; Joseph W., of Lebanon, Ohio; Lorenzo D., of Hammond; Lafayette, of Wayne county; Columbus, of La Grange, Indiana : Mary E., wife of Nathan Ray, of Sterling, Kansas; Charles, of Wayne county ; Sarah, wife of George McConaha, of Wayne county ; and Lincoln, of Arkansas City, Kansas.
Dr. Jackson spent his youth in the environments of country and farm life. After completing the district school course he entered Earlhan College. in Wayne county, and later taught school for two terms. He then went out west to California and Nevada, where he was engaged, principally, in milling quartz for the miners. After four years spent in the west he returned to Wayne county, and for a time devoted his efforts to farming. He then be- gan the study of medicine in the Physio-Medical College at Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in 1889. For about a year he practiced in
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Rensselaer. Jasper county, but in 1890 opened his office in Hammond, where he has carried on his practice ever since.
Dr. Jackson is a member of Calumet Lodge No. 601. I. O. O. F., and his political cleavage is Republican. He married Miss Mary E. Blease, a daugh- ter of James and Hannah Blease. They had three children, Eva, John and Sarah, but John died in infancy. Mrs. Jackson is also a physician and sur- geon. being a graduate of the Physio-Medical College, and she also has an extensive practice in Hammond.
OSCAR A. KRINBILL.
Oscar A. Krinbill, manager of the Chicago Telephone Company and commissioner of Lake county, at Hammond, with residence at 25 Rimbach avenue, is one of the successful business men of long standing in this city, and has made his home in Lake county all his life, with the exception of two years spent in Kansas. He was known for many years as the leading drug- gist of Hammond, but has recently withdrawn from purely commercial pur- suits and devoted himself to the management of his other business matters. He is a popular citizen of both Hammond and Lake county, as he deserves from his life-long identification with their interests, and he has to his credit many public-spirited endeavors undertaken for the promotion of the welfare and upbuilding of city and county.
Mr. Krinbill was born in Crown Point, Lake county, August 3. 1863. being a son of George and Marie (Arnold) Krinbill, natives of Pennsyl- vania, the latter one of two sons and two daughters of a native German who came to America and settled in Pennsylvania. The father of George Krin- bill was a life-long resident of Pennsylvania, and was the father of six sons. George Krinbill was engaged in merchandising for many years, and later was a farmer. He is an old settler of Indiana, having come to this state in 1851 and settled at Cedar Lake, and later at Crown Point, his present home. He has lived in Lake county for fifty-two years. He and his wife are Methodists. They were the parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, and six are living at the present time : George Edward, of Dixon, Illinois: Julia, a teacher in the schools of Minneapolis : Daniel W., of Rochester, New York : Albert, deceased : Lena, of Crown Point ; Oscar A., of Hammond: Sarah, de- ceased ; and Lillian M., a teacher in the kindergarten department of the pub- lic schools of Princeton, Illinois.
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Mr. Oscar A. Krinbill was reared at Crown Point, and attended the public schools of that place. He studied pharmacy, and was engaged in the practical work of that profession for seventeen years. He came to Ham- mond. February 14. 1886, and for the first seven years was a drug clerk and for the past ten years conducted a drug store of his own, until he retired from the business in 1903. On September 21, 1903. he became manager of the Chicago Telephone Company, and is performing the duties of that responsible position at the present time.
June 15, 1893. Mr. Krinbill married Miss Edith Weaver, a daughter of Edward and Anna ( Randolph) Weaver. One daughter has been born to them, Josephine M. Mrs. Krinbill is a member of the Presbyterian church and he belongs to Garfield Lodge No. 569, F. & A. M., Hammond Chapter. R. A. M .. and Hammond Commandery No. 41, K. T., and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He was appointed county commissioner on January 1. 1903, to fill out the vacancy of Stephen Ripley, and he was on the Hammond board of educa- tion for five years. In 1898 he built his nice home at 25 Rimbach avenue, and he also owns two other good residence properties.
PETER CRUMPACKER.
Peter Crumpacker, one of the leading lawyers of Hammond, Indiana, and a member of the firm of Crumpacker and Moran, belongs to an old and prominent family, it having been represented in Maryland prior to the Revo- lutionary war, but later moved to Virginia. In the Old Dominion the paternal grandfather, Owen Crumpacker, had his nativity, and he was of German descent. While a resident of his native commonwealth he was a farmer and after coming to Indiana, in 1828, he continued that as his life occupation, and his death occurred when about sixty-five years of age. His wife Hannah reached the ripe old age of eighty-six years, and became the mother of six children. On the maternal side Mr. Crumpacker is de- scended from the Emmons family, of Scotch-Irish descent, who made their homes in the same section of Virginia as the Crumpackers. In 1832 his grandfather removed from that state to Cass county, Michigan, where his life's labors were ended in death at the age of sixty-eight years, while his wife Elsie survived him to the age of eighty-one years. In their family were three sons and three daughters.
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Peter Crumpacker was born in LaPorte county, Indiana, on the 9th of August, 1858, being a son of Theophilus and Harriet ( Emmons) Crum- packer, natives of old Virginia. Eight children were born to this worthy couple, six sons and two daughters, but only seven are now living : John W., cashier of the Savings Bank of LaPorte; Hon. Edgar D., the present con- gressman from the tenth Indiana district and a resident of Valparaiso; Daniel W., of Willow Springs, Illinois, in the railway mail service ; Eliza A., who became the wife of Melvin W. Lewis, but both have passed away : Peter. of Hammond: Dora A., the wife of Iredell Luther, of Chicago; Charles, who is employed as a traveling salesman and maintains his home in Valparaiso; and Grant, a lawyer of that city. Theophilus Crumpacker. the father of this family, accompanied his parents on their removal to Indiana in 1829, during his boyhood, their first location being in Union county. In 1832 they became residents of Porter county, this state, there spending one year. after which Mr. Theophilus Crumpacker removed to LaPorte county, that continuing as his home until the fall of 1863. From that time until 1865 he resided near Kankakee, Illinois, on the expiration of which period he returned to Porter county, locating on a farm three miles east of Valparaiso. Throughout his active business career he followed agri- cultural pursuits, but in 1890 he retired from the farm and has since made his home in Valparaiso, having now reached the eighty-second milestone on the journey of life. His wife is also in her eighty-second year, and although not members of any religious denomination this worthy old couple are adherents of the Christian faith. Mr. Crumpacker has always taken an active part in public affairs, and for three terms represented his district in the legislature, while he has also served as a township trustee, and has but recently retired from the city council of Valparaiso, of which he was a member for many years.
Peter Crumpacker, the fifth child of this honored Indiana pioneer, spent the greater part of his boyhood days in Porter county, remaining on the homestead farm until twenty-three years of age, during which time he acquired his education in the district schools and in the Valparaiso Normal School. For eight terms thereafter he was employed as a teacher in the country schools. also assisting his father with the work of the farm during the summer months and for a period of nearly three years was the deputy
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county clerk under John Felton in Porter county. He then spent a year and a half in completing a general index of all judgments that had been taken in Porter county, placing them in alphabetical order for ready refer- ence. These duties completed, Mr. Crumpacker began reading law with his brother Edgar at Valparaiso, later taking a one-year course at the North- ern Indiana Law School, in which he graduated in June, 1887, and was immediately thereafter admitted to the bar. In 1888 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Hammond, Indiana, locating in this city on the 5th of March of that year. As a lawyer he is conspicuous among his asso- ciates, not alone on account of the success he has achieved, but by reason of his strong intellectuality, and his influence extends not only into the profes- sional but the political and social circles as well.
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