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James Chambers, deceased, was born in Loudoun County, Va., near Harper's Ferry, Sept. 3, 1787, a son of William Chambers, also a native of Virginia, of English descent. He was married in 1811 to Sarah Barrack, and soon after moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled in the woods with Indians and wild animals for neighbors. Subsequently he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, where he followed farming till the fall of 1844, when he came to De Kalb County and settled on section 15, Wilmington Township, making another home in the woods, where he lived till Sept. 15, 1860. His wife died July 2, 1881. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living- Lucinda, Catherine, Melinda, Robert, Mary, James and William. Lucinda is the widow of Samuel Hankins, and has had four chil- dren, three living. Melinda married A. T. Packer, and has had seven children; five are living. James married Sarah Griffith. One daughter, Delilah, who died in 1864, was the wife of T. T. McCurdy. Another daughter, Elizabeth, died Jan. 27, 1885. She was the wife of Nicholas Minich, of Massillon, Ohio, and
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had six children, four of whom are living. Robert, William, Catherine and Mary live on the old homestead which contains 105 acres of valuable land.
James Chambers, Jr., was born in Carroll County, Ohio, May 2, 1830, a son of James and Sarah (Barrack) Chambers, and in 1844 came with his parents to De Kalb County, Ind., and set- tled on section 15, Wilmington Township, where he grew to manhood. He in early life learned the mason's trade which has been his occupation since arriving at man's estate. He was married Oct. 12, 1851, to Sarah Griffith, daughter of Hezekiah Griffith, who settled in De Kalb County in 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have had five children, but two of whom are living -Calvin D. and Flora. A son, Walter W., died Dec. 8, 1880, in the twenty-first year of his age. Mr. Chambers has been Constable of Wilmington Township four years. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity.
Cassius J. Coats, attorney, Butler, Ind., commenced the prac- tice of law at this place Sept. 6, 1880.
Dr. Noyce Coats was born in Warren, Pa., in 1822, and died in Wilmington, Ind., in 1877. He had no educational advant- ages beyond a few terms in a district school in Green, Trum- bull Co., Ohio, and the home instructions of his father and mother, Rufus and Mercy Coats, who, when their son was in his fifteenth year, in 1837, migrated to the woods of Indiana. Here Noyce grew to manhood as a farm laborer, but never without a book in his pocket or fastened on the plow he fol- lowed in a convenient place for his eyes to glance upon it that he might memorize that which proved, afterward, of great service to him, for in the succeeding years we find him em- ployed as a teacher in the log school-houses of De Kalb County. He had a memory disciplined by methods not taught him by others, and an intellect that expanded for something more. In 1860, with his family consisting of his wife (Rebecca Culp, born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1827, and died in Wilmington, Ind., in 1881) and three children -- Cassius J., George W. and Letitia A .- he removed from this county to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he attended a full course of lectures. He received the ap- pointment of Surgeon in the army during the Rebellion and served till the close of the war, when he returned to Indiana where he resided, in the practice of his profession. His manners were genial, his affections warm, his conversation
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instructive, his temperament cheerful, his gayety overflowing, and the poor and destitute of the community lost a liberal and humane benefactor by his death, which occurred after an illness of four days, of inflammation of the lungs.
Herman N. Coffinberry, train master and traffic manager of the third, fourth and seventeenth districts of the eastern divis- ion of the Wabash Railway, was born in Sherman Township, St. Joe Co., Mich., April 23, 1846, a son of S. C. Coffinberry, an attorney of Constantine, Mich. Our subject's educational advantages were limited. At the age of fourteen years he was employed by John Putnam in his native county and worked as a farm hand at $10 per month for ten months, after which he spent a few months in his father's office. In 1861 he went to Three Rivers, Mich., and worked as a mason for four months, and from there to Adamsville, Mich., where he worked two years for Hon. George Redfield. He then returned to Con- stantine, Mich., and was first employed in the freight-house of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Com- pany for one year, after which he had charge of the freight and ticket office until 1870. He then returned to Three Rivers, Mich., and took charge of the station there for the same com- pany until February, 1873, when he went to Cleveland and was revising clerk in Addison Hill's freight office three months. His health failing him he went to Osage, Iowa, where he re- mained till 1875, and during that time he was engaged in the mercantile business. He was also Deputy U. S. Marshal some time. He returned to Constantine with his stock of goods and carried on the business at that place a few months. In the spring of 1876 he went to Wabash, Ind., and was en- gaged as master of transportation for the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railroad, and in the fall of 1878 entered the em- ploy of the Wabash Railway Company, taking charge of the yards at Fort Wayne until the fall of 1881, when he came to Butler, assuming the duties of his present position. March 20, 1878, he was married at Wabash, Ind., to Miss Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William Ditlor. They have two children-William H. and John B. Mr. Coffinberry has been a Mason for eighteen years, and a Knight Templar fifteen years, and has recently had the Consistory degrees conferred upon him. His father was formerly Grand Master of Michigan and at one time held the office of Grand High Priest of the chapter.
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Charles Coffrin, carpenter and joiner, Butler, Ind., was born in Whitley, Canada, thirty miles east of Toronto, Dec. 8, 1839, a son of Robert Coffrin, a native of Vermont, who moved to Canada in 1836 and died there in 1849. His mother is now the widow of Abraham Scott, and lives in Butler. In 1859 Mr. Coffrin went to Dodge County, Wis., and worked at his trade till February, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Nine- teenth Wisconsin Infantry, and served three years, participating in the battles of Fortress Monroe, siege of Yorktown, where the regiment met with a heavy loss, Suffolk, Dreary Bluff and others. His brother Amasa was in the same regiment and was killed at Dreary Bluff. After his return from the war Mr. Coffrin came to Indiana, in June, 1865, and worked for W. W. Egnew, of Butler, two years making pumps; then worked at his trade a few years, when he bought a farm near Butler. In 1883 he returned to Butler, and has since paid the greater part of his attention to horses. He has one horse, Farmers' Pride, which is four years old and weighs 1,700 pounds; another, Ca- nadian Jack, is five years old and weighs 1,750 pounds. Mr. Coffrin was married June 11, 1861, to Mary Howard, daughter of Morris Howard, of Steuben County, Ind. To them have been born two children, but one of whom is living-Evalena. She is a well-known teacher of Franklin and Wilmington town- ships, and is a graduate of Butler High School.
Payne K. Coggswell, engineer for the Wabash Railway, But- ler, Ind., was born in Litchfield County, Conn., Feb. 9, 1846, a son of Hiram H. Coggswell. He was educated in his native town, Canaan, remaining there till fourteen years of age, when he came West and went to work on the Illinois Central Rail- road as newsboy, running from Chicago to Centralia. Two and a half years later he returned to Connecticut and followed the same business on the Housatonic Railroad till 1863, when he was employed on the same road as fireman ; worked in that capacity two and a half years, and Sept. 19, 1865, was given charge of an engine. He was employed as engineer five years, and in 1870 was transferred to a new road, the Connecticut Western, on which he worked nine and a half years. He ran the engine on the first passenger train that went into Hartford on that road. In the summer of 1879 he entered the employ of the Wabash Railroad, running between Lafayette and Dan- ville. In August, 1881, he was transferred to Butler, where he
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has since lived. Mr. Coggswell was married Nov. 3, 1869, to Minnie E., daughter of Mervin R. Lente, of West Point, N. Y. They have two children-Katie M. and Alice B. Mr. Coggs- well is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers. He was Master of his lodge in Millerton, N. Y., six years.
Charles H. Crane, grocer, Butler, Ind., was born in Seneca County, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1846, a son of John G. Crane, who moved to Carlton, Mich., in 186S. He was reared in his native county, and received a good education, completing it at the Onondaga Academy, near Syracuse, N. Y. He taught school three years in New York, and in 1859 came West as far as Michigan, and engaged in the hide and leather business in Ypsilanti till 1875, when he went to Toledo, Ohio, and was em- ployed as a traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery till 1877. In January, 1877, he came to Butler and formed a part- nership in the grocery business with James Fisher. Eleven months later he bought Mr. Fisher's interest and conducted the business alone a year and a half. Then for three years was in partnership with W. E. Crane, in the F. W. Oberlin building on Broadway. In the meantime they built the store now occu- pied by Lingenfelter, to whom they sold it in June, 1880, and the same year built the store he now occupies on Oak street, mov- ing into it in December. This store is the largest and most convenient of the kind in Butler. The cellar is a rear base- ment, under the crockery and glassware departments, each of which is entered from the main room, and in full view of the front entrance. Mr. Crane keeps a large supply of everything in his line, consisting of groceries, provisions, crockery, glass- ware, etc., and is able to compete with any firm in the place. His annual sales amount to $15,000, with a constantly increas- ing trade. He was married October, 1871, to Emma, daughter of Alexander Wallace. They have three children-Austin, Mary and Carrie. Mr. Crane is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity.
Isaac D. Dailey, blacksmith, Butler, Ind., was born in Frank- lin Township, Summit Co., Ohio, Feb. 9, 1842, a son of Anthony Dailey, who was a native of Pennsylvania. He was reared on a farm, receiving a good education, completing it at Greens- burg College, Ohio. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in Company B, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio In-
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fantry, and served one year, participating in the battles of Mur- freesboro, Fort Anderson, Wilmington and others. In the fall of 1865 he came to Butler, and the next spring opened a grocery and provision store, which he conducted nine months, when he established his present place of business. He does general blacksmithing and repairing, and has a good patronage. May 26, 1867, he was married to Almira Noel, a native of Tuscara- was County, Ohio, daughter of Nicholas Noel, now of Wil- mington Township. To them have been born four children ; but three are living-Minnie Agnoss, Leota E. and Bertha E. One daughter, Ida L., died in the fifth year of her age. Mr. Dailey belongs to Meade Post, No. 44, G. A. R., and is a faith- ful member, always at his post performing his duty as Quarter- master, and never lacking in any business that is beneficial to the post.
William Demaranville, farmer and stock-raiser, section 35, Wilmington Township, was born in Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass., Aug. 13, 1838, a son of James Demaranville. In 1847 his parents moved to Tompkins County, N. Y., and as soon as large enough he began to chop in the pineries, working by the month till the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in Com- pany A, Thirty-second New York Infantry, and served two years, participating in several hard-fought battles, among them West Point, Malvern Hill, White Oak Swamp, and Chancel- lorsville. He was married March 25, 1865, to Sarah Cramer, daughter of Abram Cramer. To them have been born two children, but one of whom is living-George, born Aug. 30, 1874. Mr. Demaranville moved to Indiana in December, 1865, and in 1868 entered his present farm. He has engaged exten- sively in the dairy business, milking eighteen cows, and also makes a specialty of sheep growing, having a fine flock of over 200 sheep. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Demaranville's brother; Oliver Cramer, was a soldier in the late war, a member of Com- pany F, One Hundred and Ninth New York Infantry, and was taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness and confined in Andersonville Prison. He contracted sciatic rheumatism and scurvy while a prisoner, and died from its effect, culminating in consumption, September, 1880. His wife has the last ration issued to him.
D. D. Diehl, of Butler, Ind., was born in Summit County, 62
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Ohio, Jan. 25, 1843, son of Isaac Diehl, who moved to De Kalb County, Ind., in April, 1843, and settled in Stafford Township. He remained on the farm with his parents until 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and in March, 1862, was sent home on account of ill health. After his recovery in August, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company H, Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, under Captain, and afterward General Blair, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, in all the battles in front and around Atlanta, in the de- cisive charge of Jonesboro, which caused the fall of Atlanta, and marched with Sherman to the sea and through the Caro- linas, and was in the last and bloody battle of Bentonville, N. C., where the first division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, un- der command of Jeff. C. Davis, Major-General commanding, did such gallant and noble fighting, his regiment being the first to open the fight, being put on the skirmish line very early in the morning. He was taken prisoner at Stone River, Jan. 2, 1862, and exchanged soon after. He had his full share of suf- fering, and contracted disease that will always remain in his system. He was married May 26, 1867, to Salina S. Walters, daughter of Peter Walters. They have had four children ; but three are living-George C., Minnie M. and Lena A., the youngest now being twelve years old. He came to Butler in 1866, and the fall of 1867 moved to Tiskilwa, Ill., and remained two years ; returning to Butler he has made this his home ever since. He was in the agricultural implement business three years, and the book and stationery business with Jones Broth- ers, Chicago, Ill., two years. He is a tin and copper smith by trade, and is foreman of the shop of Beadle & McCurdy, of Butler, Ind. He is a member of Meade Post, No. 44, Depart- ment of Indiana, G. A. R., and is the Commander of the post.
Abraham Eakright, farmer and stock-raiser, section 20, Wil- mington Township, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Dec. 30, 1827. His father, Samuel Eakright, was a native of England, and came to America in 1811 and soon after enlisted in the service of the United States, in the war of 1812. He 'settled in Ohio, and there married Mary Maxwell. In 1836 they moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Wilmington Township where he died in 1852. The mother died in 1872. They had
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a family of thirteen children, five of whom are living-Isaac, Benjamin, John, Abraham and James. When the family first moved to De Kalb County their only neighbors were Indians, and it was eighteen months before Mrs. Eakright saw a white woman. Their children and the Indian children were play- mates, and exchanged potatoes, salt, meat and corn-meal for baskets, cranberries, etc. Their trading point was Ft. Wayne or Lima, reaching the former place by pirogue on the river. Abraham Eakright was married June 19, 1851, to Susannah Miller, a native of Cumberland County, Pa., daughter of Joel Miller. They have five children-John J., Sarah A., Edward W., Mary Ann and Ellsworth A. Mr. Eakright owns a good farm of ninety acres which is well-improved, with a pleasant residence and comfortable farm-buildings. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church.
John J. Eakright, section 20, Wilmington Township, is a prom- inent teacher of De Kalb County. He was born three miles south of Butler, March 15, 1852, a son of Abraham and Susan- nah (Miller) Eakright. He was reared on his father's farm and educated in Butler and the High School of Auburn. He began teaching in the fall of 1873, and has taught nine winters in his home district. He taught one winter in Union Township, and the winter of 1884-'85 in No. 3, Wilmington Township. Mr. Eakright has been a very successful teacher, and has gained a · reputation second to none in the county. He takes an active interest in the teachers' institutes of De Kalb County, and has never missed a session since he began teaching. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1884 for a term of four years. Mr. Eak- right was married Oct. 28, 1874, to Acelia Treman, daughter of Edgar Treman, an old settler of Wilmington Township. They have one son-Orton E., born Sept. 9, 1877. Mr. Eakright has a pleasant home of forty-seven acres, and in the summer devotes his attention to farming.
Edward W. Fosdick, attorney at law, Butler, was born in Knox County, Ohio, July 12, 1822, a son of Thomas Fosdick, a native of Connecticut. In 1844 he came to Indiana and located in De Kalb County two miles south of Butler where he engaged in farming till 1855; in the meantime taught school several terms, and also devoted his leisure hours to the study of law. He was elected County Treasurer in 1854, and during the two years he held that office continued his law studies. He began
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his practice in Butler with James E. Rose, under the firm name of Rose & Fosdick. Mr. Rose subsequently moved to Auburn where he has a good practice. Mr. Fosdick has since continued his practice alone and has met with good success. In 1869 he was elected State Senator and served four years. He was mar- ried in 1852 to Helen G. Totten, who died in May, 1856, leav- ing two children-Emma, now deceased, and Edwin L., of Butler. In 1859 he married Ruanna M. Brandon, who died in April, 1860. Sept. 17, 1878, he married Elizabeth H. Fetter- hoff, a native of Springfield, Ohio, daughter of Joseph Fetter- hoff, of Steuben County, Ind.
Edwin L. Fosdick, M. D., of the firm Fosdick & Wilkinson, druggists, Butler, was born in Auburn, Ind., May 1, 1856, a son of Edward and Helen G. (Totten) Fosdick. He received his ele- mentary education in the public schools, and later attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He then attended the medical department of the Michigan University, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1879. He practiced a year at Kewaunee, Ind., and then from December, 1879, till March, 1882, carried on a drug store. He then came to Butler, and the following July, in partnership with his father, opened a store in this place. In February, 1884, his father sold his interest to M. L. Wilkinson, and the firm name was changed to Fosdick & Wilkinson. They carry a complete stock of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, notions, etc. Their stock is valued at $5,000, and they have an annual business of $11,000. Dr. Fosdick was married Jan. 12, 1880, to Josie McCarter, a native of Kewaunee, born May 25, 1861, daughter of Alexander McCarter. He is a member of the De Kalb County Medical Society.
Thomas C. Fralick, engineer on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pa- cific Railway, was born in Lower Canada, Oct. 9, 1859, a son of Timothy Fralick, who moved from Canada to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1860, and thence to Port Huron, Mich., in 1865, where our subject was reared and educated. In 1878 he entered the employ of the Chicago & Lake Huron Railroad Company as engine-wiper, and was subsequently promoted to fireman. In 1881 he came to Butler, and ran an engine on a construction-train from Butler to Detroit for the Wabash Rail- road. He now runs on a through-freight from Detroit to Indi- anapolis. Mr. Fralick was married Oct. 10, 1883, to Irene M., daughter of John A. Campbell, of Butler. They have one child
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-Cecile Adelaide. Mr. Fralick is a member of the Odd Fel- low's order and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Frederick Ginder, farmer and stock-raiser, section 26, Wil- mington Township, was born in Ashland County, Ohio, April 25, 1843. In 1853 his father, Jacob Ginder, moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Wilmington Township, where he was reared and educated, attending school in the log cabin school-houses. When eighteen years of age, in 1861, he en- listed in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and par- ticipated in all the battles and skirmishes of the regiment, including Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chick- amauga. He was discharged in the fall of 1864, and returned to the farm, where he remained till the spring of 1868, when, in company with Henry Gunsenhouser, a fellow-soldier, he bought a saw-mill of Bass & Hannah at Fort Wayne, and ran it till January, 1876, when they exchanged it for land. In Feb- ruary, 1877, Mr. Ginder settled on his present farm, where he is doing a successful business. He was married Oct. 22, 1865, to Emily McDannell, daughter of David McDannell, of Staf- ford Township. To them have been born nine children; but seven are living-Jacob S., John P., Hiram and Byron (twins), David O., Nora M. and George Merril. Frederick and Marga- ret are deceased; the latter was burned to death at the age of five years. Mr. and Mrs. Ginder are members of the United Brethren church.
Jacob Ginder, farmer, section 22, Wilmington Township, was born near the City of Worms, Germany, Nov. 6, 1822, a son of Jacob Ginder. He was educated in the public schools of his native country, and in 1833 came to the United States with his parents, settling in Seneca County, Ohio, and in 1838 moved to Wayne County, and thence in 1840 to Richland County. In 1854 Mr. Ginder came to De Kalb County and settled on the northwest quarter of section 27, Wilmington Township. He bought 200 acres at $10 an acre, giving his note for $900 of the money. He has been successful, and has paid his indebted- ness and given his son forty acres of land. He still owns 200 acres, which is now improved, and also town property in But- ler. He ran an ashery three years on his farm in company with Elias Fisher, and subsequently ran a threshing-machine and clover-huller four years and a saw-mill four years. When
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Mr. Ginder was married he did not have money enough to pay the 'Squire, but chopped wood for him for the fee. He now has a good property and can look forward to an old age of peace and plenty, gained by his own frugality and industry, assisted by a noble wife. Mr. Ginder was married Jan. 10, 1843, to Margaret Miller, a native of Germany, daughter of Frederick Miller. To them have been born eleven children, but five of whom are living-Frederick, Catherine, Philip D., Eva and Mary. One son, George W., died in his twentieth year from the effects of a cold in a slight cut on his knee. Mr. and Mrs. Ginder are members of the United Brethren church. Mr. Ginder is a liberal, public-spirited citizen, and is always ready to assist any charitable enterprise or anything of benefit to the community.
Philip D. Ginder, farmer and stock-raiser, section 27, Wil- mington Township, was born in Ashland County, Ohio, March 7, 1846, a son of Jacob Ginder, who settled on section 27 in 1854, and now lives across the street from his first settlement, on section 22. He was reared a farmer and has always fol- lowed that vocation. He lives on a part of the land entered by his father, and in connection with his own cultivates his fa- ther's farm. He owns forty acres of valuable land. His resi- dence is a fine two-story brick, the main part 18 x 28 feet, with a one-story L 24 x 26 feet. He has the finest barn in the town- ship. It is 36 x 62 feet in size, and eighteen feet high. Mr. Ginder was married in January, 1871, to Sarah C. Swaidner, daughter of John Swaidner, of Hicksville, Ohio. To them were born two children; but one, Mary A., is living. Sarah is de- ceased. Mrs. Ginder died Sept. 4, 1873, and April 16, 1874, Mr. Ginder married Martha McDannell, daughter of David Mc- Dannell. To them have been born five children, but three of whom are living-Jacob L., Inez B. and Zantha A. Ida and an infant daughter are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ginder are mem- bers of the United Brethren church.
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