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BIOGRAPHICAL.
Heman Bangs, farmer, section 11, Richland Township, was born in Bennington County, Vt., June 14, 1813, a son of Nathaniel and Judah (Elwell) Bangs, of English descent. His great-grandmother went with her sixteen sons to the place of enlistment and saw them all enrolled in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war. She died at the age of 104 years. His father died at the age of ninety-seven years. His mother was drowned in the Erie Canal, at Lockport, N.Y., when on her way West to visit him. She was in the fifty-first year of her age. When our subject was eleven years old he went to live with Robert Madison, a neighboring farmer, and remained with him till manhood, moving with him when fifteen
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years of age to Genesee County, N. Y. When he reached his majority he had $100 as a nucleus upon which to build his future. After working a time by the month he bought a farm in Niagara County, N. Y., of the Holland Company, and lived there two years. In 1839 he sold his farm and came West. The first winter he spent in Kalamazoo, Mich., and March 13, 1840, came to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled on the farm where he now lives. It was heavily timbered, and neighbors were few, there being but twelve families in Richland and three in Fairfield Township' at the time. He was a young man of energy and ambition and went bravely to work to make a home. He also for a time worked at the carpenter and joiner's trade in connection with farming, there being a demand for that kind of labor. In addition to his home farm, Mr. Bangs has had 320 acres of land which he has given to his children. He has been prosperous in his business operations, and is now one of the wealthiest farmers of Richland Township. He was married Nov. 22, 1842, to Catherine E. Chaffy, born in 1821, a daughter of Joshua and Polly (Bowers) Chaffy, who came to De Kalb County from New York in 1838, and subsequently moved to Lagrange County. They have had seven children-Eunice L., Nathaniel, John H., Winfield Scott, Caroline L., Charles H., and Matilda (deceased). In 1841 Mr. Bangs united with the Protestant Methodist church, but afterward transferred his membership to the United Brethern church, which church his wife joined later. He has always taken an interest in church and Sabbath-school matters, and has for several years been a Trustee and Steward, and Leader of the United Brethern church for five or six years, and Superintendent of the Sab- bath-school. Politically he was formerly a Whig, and is now one of the foremost workers in the Republican ranks. In the spring of 1840 Mr. Bangs helped to build the first school-house in Richland Township. He also made the first coffin for the first person who died in the township, it being for a child of Obadiah Smith. The first loom in the county was made by Mr. Bangs in the spring of 1840.
Christian C. Browand was born in Erie County, Pa., June 30, 1838, the fifth child of David M. and Catherine (Shank) Brow- and, natives of Lancaster County, Pa., of Swiss descent. When our subject was five years old his parents settled in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he lived till fourteen years of age when they settled
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on a farm. In 1859 our subject went to Noble County, Ind., where he was employed as a clerk in a store till his enlistment, Oct. 20, 1862, in Company G, One Hundredth Indiana Infantry. His regiment was in the army of the Tennessee, and partici- pated in the battles of Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty Station, Dallas, New Hope, Hardy and Allentown; was with Sherman in his march to the sea, and at the close of the war he participated in the grand review at Washington. July 15, 1865, he was honorably discharged, after which he returned to Noble County and found employment in the store he left at the time of his enlistment where he worked two years. Jan. 7, 1867, he married Miss Samantha Crogsley, a native of Ohio and a daughter of Solomon and Susana (Gault) Crogsley, natives of Lehigh County, Pa., of German and Irish descent, who settled in this township in 1848. They have had four children, but one living-Alice. The deceased are Minnie J., Beatrice and Gracie E. Mr. Browand lost his health in the army, and for ten years he was unable to do any labor, but is now partially recovered. In 1878 he settled in De Kalb County. Mr. Brow- and and wife are members of the Disciples church. He is a member of F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. fraternities. In politics he is a Republican. He had five brothers in the late war, three in the Eighty-eighth, one in the One Hundredth, and one in the Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry. Two received wounds; all served three years.
Christian C. Buss, the eldest of twelve children of Christian and Margaret (Staley) Buss, was born in De Kalb County, Ind., July 2, 1844. His father was a native of the canton Berne, Switzerland, and after arriving at manhood came to the United States and located in Ohio, where he married Margaret Staley, also a native of Switzerland. In 1843 he came to De Kalb County and entered eighty acres of land, and then returned to Ohio and moved his family to the new home, making the jour- ney with ox teams. He lived one season on the farm of John Husselman, and then moved to his own land, which he had been preparing in the meantime for his family, erecting a log house and clearing a part of the timber. He made this place his home till his death in 1867. His widow survived him a few years. They had a family of six sons and six daughters, two sons and five daughters are living. Mr. Buss was a graduate of a high school in his native country, and was one of the finest 46
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German scholars in the county. He worked at the cooper's trade in his early life, and later at the carpenter's trade. He was a skillful mechanic, and many buildings are still standing in De Kalb County as an evidence of his handiwork. C. C. Buss, the subject of our sketch, was reared a farmer, and in his youth learned the art of surveying. His father owned a saw- mill, and when not in school he assisted on the farm and in the mill. He subsequently went to Smithfield Township and ran the Lockhart Mills three years; then returned to Richland Township, where he is now doing a good business, buying and sawing hard wood lumber. His farm contains 120 acres of choice land, all well improved, and is one of the most valuable in the township. He was married March 14, 1866, to Eliza- beth, fourth daughter of William and Barbara Park. To them have been born eight children, seyen of whom are living-Will- iam H., John H., Isaac H., George H., Charles L., Barbara M., and Belle. Eda May died in infancy.
Pollaus N. Calkin was born in Essex County, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1830, the sixth son and twelfth child of Calvin and Kezia (Kel- logg) Calkin. In 1833 his parents moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, and in 1840 to De Kalb County, Ind., locating on 160 acres of wild land in Richland Township. Here our subject grew to manhood and was early inured to the hardships and pri- vations of life on a frontier farm. He was married March 27, 1851, to Matilda Brown, daughter of Levi and Jane (Peak) Brown, who came to De Kalb County from Seneca County, Ohio, in 1850. After his marriage he settled on a part of his father's farm where he still remains. In 1873 he engaged in the manu- facture of tile, brick and lumber, which he still continues, at present, however, is also superintending his farm. He has 110 acres of land all well improved, with a good residence and farm buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Calkin have eight children-Horace N., Milo L., Frank C., Lindal G., Adna W., Charles F., Mary J., and Rosa May. Mr. Calkin in his political affiliations is a Republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Benjamin A. Chaffie, Postmaster, Corunna, was born Oct. II, 1815, in Tompkins County, N. Y., a son of Benjamin and Clarissa (Brefford) Chaffie, the former a native of Massachusetts, the lat- ter of New York. In 1836 he removed to Medina County, Ohio, and Nov. 25 of that year was married to Caroline, daughter of George Story. In 1845 he settled in Fairfield Township this Luca ca. 11.10.12.
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county, on forty acres of land entered from the Government. He changed locations several times, but continued farming pur- suits till 1858, when he engaged in the mercantile business at Turkey Creek, which he followed till 1861, when he came to Corunna, where he was similarly engaged till 1869. In 1873 he received the appointment of Postmaster and Express Agent, positions he still holds. To him and his first wife, who died Feb. 4, 1864, were born three children-Orlin, Lavisa (deceased), and Albert O. April 30, 1865, he married Mrs. Mary Conway, whose maiden name was Thompkins. At the first election held in Fairfield he was elected Trustee, and while living in Steuben County, Ind., served as Magistrate two terms. He is a mem- ber of the United Brethren church. He casts his suffrage with the Republican party.
Andrew F. Cox was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1833, the fifth of nine children of Jacob and Jane (Denman) Cox, natives of Pennsylvania, his father of German and his mother of Scotch descent. Jacob Cox died March 15, 1885. His golden wedding was celebrated Dec. 5, 1874, and the following April his wife died. Our subject remained with his father till manhood. In 1854 he came to Indiana and taught school in Miami County, one winter ; then returned home, and after a brief stay came to De Kalb County, and March 18, 1856, was married to B. A. Helwig, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Garsnage) Hel- wig. The first year after their marriage they lived in Noble County, Ind., then moved to Steuben County and bought twenty acres of unimproved land, which he improved, and sub- sequenty sold and bought fifty acres in the same township where he lived till March 28, 1882, when he came to De Kalb County, and bought eighty acres of improved land in Richland Town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have a family of three children-Sarah L., Belle O., and George Elmer. Mr. Cox is a member of the Baptist, and his wife of the Evangelical Lutheran church. In politics he affiliates with the Democratic party.
Thomas D. Daily was born in Ontario County, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1818, a son of William and Elizabeth (Dillingham) Daily, the former a native of Vermont and of Irish descent, and the lat- ter a native of Massachusetts and of Welsh origin. In the fall of 1827, our subject with his father's family removed to Oak- land County, Mich., where he was reared on a frontier farm re- ceiving a limited education in the early schools of that county. Died ctis 1891 aged 72 years Som 20 ft
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When he was sixteen years old he purchased his time of his father and began working for himself. In the spring of 1841 he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and purchased eighty acres of wild land, which his brother had previously entered. He cleared ten acres during the summer, and then returned to his home in Michigan, where, Oct. 25, 1825, he was married to Miss Susan Knapp, a daughter of Henry and Esther (Moses) Knapp. She was born in Livingston County, N. Y., and came with her parents to Michigan when ten years of age. After his marriage our subject removed to his new home in De Kalb County, where they passed through all the hardships and privations of a pioneer life, but by close attention to his pursuits, and through their good management he has accumulated a good property. He has one son-William H., who married Mary L. McDonald, and now resides on the old homestead. In 1882 Mr. Daily and his wife removed to the village of Corunna, where they are en- joying the accumulation of many years of hard toil. Politi- cally Mr. Daily is a Republican.
T. J. Eldridge was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, April 9, 1835, the only son of Benjamin and Ellen (Hite) Eldridge, na- tives of Ohio, of English and German descent. His mother died when he was five months old. When he was fourteen years old he began to work by the month for farmers, and when eighteen years of age began to work at the carpenter's trade, which he followed fourteen years. In the meantime the Rebellion broke out, and May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and served till Sept. 4, 1864. In 1866 he came to De Kalb County, and settled in Richland Township on land he had bought in 1858. Here he has since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. El- dridge was married March 31, 1859, to Mahala Kenan, of San- dusky, Ohio. To them have been born six children, but three of whom are living-Benjamin F., Ann M. and Oliver P. The deceased are Henrietta, Ida M. and Emeline. Politically Mr. Eldridge is a Republican.
Manoah Franks was born in Wayne County, Ohio, April 17, 1827, the third son and fifth child of Peter and Julia (Fletcher) Franks, his father a native of Fayette County, Pa., born May 21, 1797, and his mother of Virginia, of English parentage. His father was a son of Jacob and Sarah (Livengood) Franks, a grandson of Jacob and Barbara (Bradbury) Franks, and a great
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grandson of Michael Franks, who with three sons came from Alsace, Germany, to America in the early part of the eighteenth century. A record of the Franks family for a period of 500 years is preserved by them, and is now extant in Ohio. Our subject was reared on a farm, remaining with his parents till manhood. He received a fair education in the common schools of his county. He was married Feb. 7, 1849, to Lu- cinda, daughter of William and Mary (Hackett) Mackey, the foriner a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania, of French descent. In the spring of 1851 Mr. Franks, with his wife and one child, moved to Indiana and bought 160 acres of land on section 12, Allen Township, Noble County. It was heavily timbered land, but after building a small cabin for his family he went bravely to work to clear it and make a home. When he reached Indiana, after paying for his land, he had just money enough to buy a cow, ten bushels of wheat and two bushels of corn. Possessed of unlimited energy, he improved his land, and for twelve years made Noble County his home. In 1863 he bought the farm in Richland Township, De Kalb County, where he resided for twenty-two years, moving back to the old homestead in Noble County in the spring of 1885. His farm in De Kalb County contains 1311/2 acres of fine land, all well improved. Mr. and Mrs. Franks have had three chil- dren, but two of whom are living. John, the eldest, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1850, and died of consumption at the homestead in De Kalb County, Ind., Sept. 8, 1872. Ma- rion and Mary (twins) were born at the homestead in Noble County, Ind., June 8, 1854. Marion married Minnie Britton, and lives on the; old homestead in De Kalb County. Mary married Francis L. Britton, of Richland Township. Mr. and Mrs. Franks are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Democrat.
Thomas F. Franks, fourth son of Peter and Julia (Fletcher) Franks, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Nov. 29, 1832. He was reared on a farm till his marriage, receiving only a com- mon-school education. Feb. 27, 1855, he was married to Miss Eliza Ann Millard, a native of Crawford County, Ohio, and a daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Moore) Millard, who were natives of Lancaster County, Pa., coming to Crawford County, Ohio, among the early settlers. After his marriage Mr. Franks resided in his native county till 1864, when he removed to De
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Kalb County, Ind., and purchased his present farm of eighty acres of improved land on section 5, Richland Township. Mr. Franks and his wife have been active members of the Metho- dist Episcopal church for thirty years. Of their eight children, seven are living-Julia R., Mary Almeda, William J., Lucinda A., Samantha Alma, Frank N. and Harvey Peter. Virgie O. is deceased. Mr. Franks was appointed Township Trustee to fill a vacancy, June, 1881, and elected to the same office in 1882, and has held the same position by re-election ever since. In politics Mr. Franks is a Democrat.
F. G. Fried, merchant, Corunna, Ind., was born in Germany, June 11, 1840, a son of Gottlieb F. Fried. When our subject was fourteen years of age he emigrated to America, landing in Kendallville, Ind., Jan. 5, 1855, and in 1857 he went to Fort Wayne, where he found employment in a store till the break- ing out of the Rebellion. July 12, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany D, Seventy-fourth Indiana Infantry. He participated in the battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign, and a num- ber of other engagements. He rose from the ranks to Orderly Sergeant and subsequently to Sergeant-Major of the regiment. Later he was detailed to the Commissary Department, and while in the discharge of his duty met with an accident, and was af- terward furloughed and went home to vote for Lincoln's second term, after which he joined his regiment at Goldsboro, N. C. He was discharged June 30, 1865. He returned to Kendall- ville, and soon after embarked in the mercantile business with W. S. Northam, and after a short time sold his interest and clerked till 1867, when he bought an interest in a store in Wa- waka, Noble County, which he conducted two years, and in 1869 located at Corunna where he has since carried on a pros- perous business. Dec. 31, 1866, he married Orie R. Brown, daughter of Rev. William C. Brown. They have four children -F. Eugene, William C., Heber M. and Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Fried are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is an earnest and efficient worker in the Sunday-school.
James B. Frost was born in New Haven, Huron County, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1842, the only son of Richard and Mary (Lewis) Frost, his father a native of Waterbury, Conn., and his mother of the State of New York. They moved to Ohio with their parents when children, and there grew to maturity and were married. In 1845 they moved to Noble County, Ind., where the mother
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died July 4, 1879, and the father June 13, 1883. Our subject grew to manhood in Noble County. He was married July 6, 1862, to Margaret King, daughter of Christian and Christina (Stark) King, natives of Germany, who moved with their family to America and settled in Ohio where the mother died. Mr. King moved to Indiana in 1851, and died in Wabash County in 1873, aged sixty-three years. Mrs. Frost was reared by Jacob C. Miller, of Noble County. After his marriage Mr. Frost settled on a farm a mile from the old homestead where he lived till March, 1882, when he sold his property and bought a farm in Richland Township, De Kalb County, where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Frost have two children-Chloe B. and Arthur D. In his political affiliations Mr. Frost is a Democrat.
James M. Goetschius, known by the early settlers as the noted wolf hunter of De Kalb County, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., July 4, 1812, a son of Lewis and Helen (McMasters) Goetschius. In 1815 his parents moved to Tioga County, N. Y., and there he grew to manhood and married, in 1833, Miss Bet- sey Waterman, a native of New York. The next spring he moved to Huron County, Ohio, where, in August, 1834, his wife died, leaving a daughter-Catherine, now the wife of Daniel Hoffman, of Auburn, Ind. In the spring of 1836 he came to Indiana and entered 240 acres of land in Butler Town- ship, De Kalb County. He cleared and improved a part of the land, built a log house, and May 22, 1839, married Miss Cath- erine Barnes, a native of Tioga County, N. Y. They had many hardships to contend with, but were young and ambitious, and succeeded in making the farm tillable, and in placing them- selves on an equal footing with their neighbors. In 1850 Mr. Goetschius crossed the plains to California and remained there a year and a half, successfully engaged in mining. He returned home through Central America, via the Nicaraugua route. In 1856 he sold his farm in Butler Township and bought the one in Richland Township, section 14, where he has since resided. His farm contains 160 acres of land, and his residence and farm buildings are among the best in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Goetschius have had ten children, but six are living-Helen, Elizabeth, Emily, Philander, Abraham and Ira. Mary and three infants are deceased. Politically Mr. Goetschius is a Democrat. He has held many offices of trust and responsibility in the town- ship, and served three terms as County Commissioner.
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Nelson Griffith was born in Fayette County, Pa., Jan. 24, 1812, a son of Asa and Jane (Blair) Griffith, natives of York County, Pa., of Welsh and Irish descent. In 1817 his parents moved to Wayne County, Ohio. When he was eighteen years of age he went into a woolen factory and served an apprentice- ship of three years. He then worked in the same factory four years as a journeyman. In 1839 he moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and entered eighty acres of land in Jackson Township, where he lived fourteen years. In 1853 he sold his farm and purchased the one in Richland Township where he now lives. At the time he bought his land it was mostly heavily timbered, but he has cleared and improved it, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. Mr. Griffith was married March 19, 1837, to Sarah Ann Cobbler, daughter of Philip and Char- lotte (Wolf) Cobbler, who moved from Lancaster County, Pa., to Ohio in 1822. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have had ten children, eight of whom are living-Lewis C., Annie, Clark W., Philip A., Lottie, John and Aaron (twins), Dewitt. The deceased are Harriet and David K. Politically, Mr. Griffith is a Democrat. He has served as Assessor of his township six years and as County Commissioner three years. He and his wife are mem- bers of the Disciples church.
Peter Grogg, a successful and enterprising farmer of Richland Township, residing on section 22, was born March 2, 1821, in Stark County, Ohio, the youngest of seven sons of Solomon and Mary (Snyder) Grogg. After attaining his majority he worked for the neighboring farmers and rented land in Stark County seven years. In 1849 he came to Indiana and bought 160 acres of his farm in Richland Township, De Kalb County. His land was a wild, uncultivated tract, but he and his wife were industrious, and came to a new country expecting to un- dergo hardships and privations, and looking ahead to the time when they would have a home and the accompanying comforts. They endured their hard life without a murmur of complaint. He has been successful, and now has 320 acres of finely cultivated land, a good residence and comfort- able farm buildings. He was married Sept. 3, 1846, to Eliza Smith, a native of Stark County, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin Smith. They have had a family of nine children-Amy Ann, Benjamin S., Lucinda, Jacob W., James H., Mary, Daniel S., Ellen and Elmer Ellsworth. The eldest is deceased. Mr. and
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Mrs. Grogg are members of the English Reformed church. Politically he is a Republican.
John F. Harter was born in Stark County, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1848. He is the third son and fifth child of six children of Emanuel and Mary Ann (Rasor) Harter. The former is a son of Jacob Harter, a native of Pennsylvania and of German parentage ; the latter was a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Everhard) Rasor, formerly from Westmoreland County, Pa., and later of Medina County, Ohio. Our subject was reared on a farm, the district schools affording him the means for an educa- tion. He lived with his parents till twenty-two years of age, when he came to De Kalb County and remained one year, then returned to his former Ohio home. A year later he returned to De Kalb County, and Jan. 8, 1873, was married to Eliza, daughter of William and Catherine Schoup, and again returned to Ohio, where he remained till after the death of his father, which occurred June 24, 1873. His mother died July 14, 1882. Returning to De Kalb County he rented land, and in 1881 pur- chased eighty acres, on which he now lives. He has two chil- dren-William E. and Rosetta. He is a member of the Lutheran church.
Samuel S. Haynes, farmer, section 20, Richland Township, was born in Portage (now Summit) County, Ohio, Aug. 1, 1813, a son of Benjamin and Christiana Haynes, his father a native of Maryland and his mother of Virginia. He was reared and edu- cated in his native county, of which his parents were early settlers. In May, 1841, he moved to Indiana and purchased forty acres of heavily timbered land north of Auburn, and began making a frontier farm. He cleared the land which is now the public square of Auburn. In 1844 he sold out and bought eighty acres in Richland Township, and the second time settled in the woods and cleared a farm in De Kalb Coun- ty. He has made this last purchase his home, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. Mr. Haynes was married Feb. 22, 1837, to Marian Meed, a native of Vermont, who came with her parents, Julius and Marian (Bain) Meed, to Ohio when she was sixteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes have had ten children-Julia L., George B., Charles S., Lorenzo D., Eg- bert M., Tryphena C., Freeman E. (deceased), Perry F., Alfred G. and Chloe K. Politically Mr. Haynes is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the German Baptist church.
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