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On October 29, 1893, Joseph P. Feist was married to Clara Speiser, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 4, 1867, daughter of Blasius and Barbara (Kreher) Speiser, to which union four daughters have been born, Lorena, Martha, Frieda and Catherine. Mrs. Feist's parents came from the province of Hohenzollern, Germany. Having come to America in 1866, they located in Cincinnati, where the father was a cabinetmaker, and where he lived for six or seven years. He located in Lawrenceburg, with his family, in 1873, and died in Lawrenceburg in 1892. His widow died in June, 1913, at the age of seventy. Before coming to this country Blasius Speiser served his time in the German army. He and his wife were brought up as Catholics, and were the parents of three children : Clara, wife of Mr. Feist; Charlie, of Aurora, this county, and Frank, of Lawrenceburg. After locating in Law- renceburg. Blasius Speiser was a director in the Lawrenceburg Building Asso- ciation. Fraternally, he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Feist's paternal grandfather died in Germany in middle life. His wife, Catherine Speiser, lived to a very old age. They had only two children, Blasius, Mrs. Feist's father, and another son, who was a prominent soldier in the Germany army. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Feist were Gregor and Philomina (Hipp) Kreher, who lived and died in Germany, Gregor Kreher having been a wealthy farmer, who held various public offices. He was known as a man of benevolent disposition, and gave liberally to the poor. Only three of their children, Barbara, Marie Magdalene and Anna, grew to maturity, the remainder dying young. Mrs. Feist was reared in Law- renceburg, and has lived there since 1873, having lived to see wonderful development in all phases of life in Dearborn county.
Mr. Feist was reared as a Catholic, but is not now identified with that church. Mrs. Feist is a member of the Zion Evangelical church. Fraternally, Mr. Feist is a member of Lawrenceburg Lodge No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons, and also of Morning Star Lodge No. 16, Independent Order of Odd
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Fellows, of Petersburg, Kentucky. He is a Democrat in politics. In a busi- ness way Mr. Feist is a director in the Progressive Building and Loan Asso- ciation, of Lawrenceburg.
Some men are known in the community in which they live, not so much for the great amount of money they accumulate or the wealth they acquire, but for their intelligence and native powers of leadership; for their genial personal manners and their progressive spirit. A man of this character is Joseph Philip Feist, who is highly respected and honored by all the people of Dearborn county for his personal worth, his splendid moral character and his buoyant spirit.
ORVILLE SULLIVAN JAQUITH, M. D.
Dr. Orville Sullivan Jaquith, physician and surgeon of Lawrenceburg, this county, comes from a family which has an interesting history. He has one sister who married a physician, two sisters who are professional nurses and a brother who is a pharmacist. Dr. Jaquith was well educated for the medical profession, having had the advantage of the very best medical col- leges in this country. His father and mother were ardent advocates of edu- cation and gave all their children every advantage for obtaining the very best possible training. Having received a good classical education, Doctor Jaquith then took up the preliminary training for the medical profession and after being graduated from a college of proved standing, was able to do some three years' post-graduate work. This training has admirably fitted him for his profession and is responsible, no doubt, for his large success as a prac- ticing physician since locating in Lawrenceburg about twenty years ago.
Born at Wright's Corner, Indiana, on September 27, 1872, Doctor Jaquith is the son of Edwin L. and Ann Eliza (Howerton) Jaquith, also natives of Indiana, who were the parents of eight children, namely : Cora, who lives in Indianapolis ; Clementine, who is the wife of J. B. House, of Indianola, Mississippi; Iva, the wife of Dr. J. W. House, of Indianapolis; Nellie, a pro- fessional nurse in Indianapolis; Dr. Orville S., of Lawrenceburg; Frank E., a pharmacist of Memphis, Tennessee; Elizabeth, a professional nurse in In- dianapolis and Leoline, a music teacher in Indianapolis, a graduate of the conservatory of music at that place.
Edwin L. Jaquith, who was the son of Sullivan and Lucy Jaquith, na- tives of France, was reared at Wright's Corner, Indiana, his parents having been early settlers of that place. He was a farmer there, the owner of two
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hundred acres of land, and there he reared his family. After some of the children had grown to maturity, he rented out his farm and moved to Hills- dale, Michigan, in order that some of the children might have the advantage of the educational opportunities which Hillsdale College offered. After living in Hillsdale for some time, the family came to this county, locating at Law- renceburg, where Dr. Orville S. Jaquith was already engaged in the practice of medicine. The father died in Lawrenceburg at the age of sixty-seven. His widow, who before her marriage was Ann Eliza Howerton, is still living and makes her home with her daughters in Indianapolis. Edwin L. Jaquith was a member of the Freewill Baptist church and his widow is a member of the same church. The grandparents of Doctor Jaquith, as heretofore stated, were natives of France and rather early settlers at Wright's Corner, Indiana, where Sullivan Jaquith was a farmer and where he also conducted a general store. He reared a family of six children, namely: Edwin L., Ella, who married H. D. McMullen, of Aurora, Indiana; Sena, Emma, Anna and Fannie. Mrs. Ann Eliza Jaquith, Doctor Jaquith's mother, is of English descent, and is one of a family of six children, the others being Mary, Albert, George, Frank and Laurinda.
Reared on his father's farm at Wright's Corner, Indiana, Orville S. Jaquith attended the district schools and subsequently the Lawrenceburg high school. After finishing high school, he entered Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated there with the class of 1897; later taking a post-graduate course in Rush Medical College and the Chicago Polyclinic Medical College, altogether spending three years at these latter two institu- tions. With the exception of the time he has spent in the Chicago institutions, Doctor Jaquith has practiced medicine in Lawrenceburg ever since 1897.
On June 15, 1900, Dr. Orville S. Jaquith was married to Maud Rinaman, the daughter of Victor and Lucy ( Kinney) Rinaman, to which union five children have been born, Mildred, Maurine, Edwin, Frances and Cornelius, the latter of whom died shortly after birth. Mrs. Jaquith was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, her father being a native of Ohio and her mother of New Jersey. Her father died in 1913 and her mother died in 1883. They were the parents of three children, Mrs. Jaquith and two who died in infancy.
Although the Jaquiths have long been identified with the Baptist church, Doctor Jaquith and wife are now members of the Church of Christ in Lawrenceburg, of which Doctor Jaquith is an elder and also a teacher of the men's Bible class. He takes no considerable part in politics, but always votes in support of the Prohibition principles and the Prohibition candidates, being a bitter foe of the liquor traffic and the licensed saloon.
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Dr. Orville Sullivan Jaquith is a worthy son of far-seeing parents, who made every sacrifice to give their sons and daughters the best available edu- cational advantages. He is strongly attached to the practice of medicine and has made a success which is a worthy tribute to the memory of his de- parted father. Successful and respected in Dearborn county as a physician and surgeon, Doctor Jaquith is also popular as a citizen and influential in the civic life of the county and city where he has so long lived. Doctor and Mrs. Jaquith are also popular socially in Lawrenceburg and enjoy the warm es- teem of many friends.
JUDGE WARREN N. HAUCK.
Warren N. Hauck, judge of the circuit court of the seventh judicial cir- cuit of Indiana, comprising Dearborn and Ohio counties, is descended from two of the oldest families of Dearborn county. He was the son of John Jacob Hauck, who was mayor of the city of Lawrenceburg for many years, and was very prominent in the political and civic life of this county. He did much toward the early forming of the city of Lawrenceburg and was very active in both the business and religious interests of that city. He was a man of great integrity and intellect; kind and charitable in his community, firm and just in all his decisions. Judge Hauck's father was a member of the home guards during the Civil War, and, as a lieutenant of a home com- pany, helped ward off the attack of Morgan's raiders. He made several trips to Europe on account of failing health, and after a long illness passed away on February 2, 1880.
Judge Hauck's mother was a woman of strong character, loved by all . that knew her. She was very active in religious work and was a most de- voted wife and mother. She was responsible for the beautiful home life in which Judge Hauck was reared. She greatly mourned the loss of her de- voted husband, and after twenty-two years of widowhood, on April 16, 1902, in her eighty-third year, joined him in eternal rest. Both were devout Presbyterians. To them were born nine children. The first, a boy who died in infancy; John, who now resides in Indianapolis; Jacob, deceased, who lived in Greenfield, Indiana; Caroline, widow of Daniel H. Miller, of Law- renceburg; Henrietta M., who resides with Judge Hauck; George F., de- ceased, who resided at Greenfield. Indiana : Mary, who died in her eighteenth year; Emma C., widow of Walter V. Denton, of Aurora, Indiana, and lastly, Warren N., the subject of this sketch.
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The paternal grandparents of Judge Hauck lived in Billigheim, Germany, where his grandfather was mayor for twenty years. He was a grain dealer and operated a flouring-mill. After being twice married, he died well ad- vanced in years. George N. and Anna M. (Forster) Hornberger, the ma- ternal grandparents of Judge Hauck, were natives of Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in 1831. They lived in Cincinnati until 1837, then moved to Lawrenceburg, this county, and lived there the remainder of their lives. He was a prominent man in the political history of Lawrenceburg, where he operated a hotel for many years. George N. Hornberger was for many years a soldier in the French army and fought in the battle of Waterloo under Napoleon.
Warren N. Hauck was born in Lawrenceburg on June 6, 1860. As a. boy he attended the public schools there, graduating with the class of 1878. He then went to Nelson's Business College at Cincinnati, during 1880 and 1881, graduating there in the fall of the latter year. Immediately after- wards he entered Cincinnati Law School and was graduated with the class. of 1884. In the meantime he was also attending the McMicken, or Cincin- nati University, where he pursued a special course of instruction.
In May, 1884, Warren N. Hauck was elected city attorney and served in that capacity about eighteen years, or until 1913. In 1885 he was appointed county attorney and held that office until 1908, practicing law most of the time while he held these offices. In 1908 he was elected a representative to- the Indiana General Assembly for Dearborn county, and after serving two years, in 1910 was elected as joint-senator from Dearborn, Franklin and Ohio counties for a term of four years. While in the Legislature he intro- duced many bills which were enacted into laws, and which are upon the stat- ute books today. He was chairman of the committee on banks and trust companies for two sessions in the Indiana Senate and was a prominent and leading member of the judiciary committees in both houses of the Indiana General Assembly when a member. He also served as chairman of the Democratic senatorial caucus in 1913. He resigned as senator on May 10, 1913, to accept the appointment of judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Indiana, the appointment being made necessary by the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge George E. Downey, who became comptroller of the treasury of the United States. Judge Hauck was nominated and elected circuit judge of Dearborn and Ohio counties by the Democratic party for a full term of six years in November, 1914, and is now filling his first elec- tive term.
No man in this section of Indiana, perhaps, has been the recipient of
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more frequent or greater honors than Judge Hauck. From a good beginning he has gradually risen to his present honorable position on the bench and it may be said, in all fairness, that his progress is the result of true merit, and that his reward has come through faithful and sincere service.
As one of the leading Democrats of Dearborn county, Judge Hauck has been called upon frequently to serve as a delegate to judicial, congressional and state conventions. Judge Hauck served three campaigns as chairman of the Dearborn county Democratic central committee in 1900, 1902 and 1904 and his influence and support, naturally, are much sought after by candidates. The people of Dearborn county, especially the Democratic rank and file, be- lieve firmly in Judge Hauck's counsel and depend upon him for guidance. He is a stockholder in the Peoples National Bank, the German American Bank, the Lawrenceburg Gas Company, the Ohio Valley Coffin Company, and is a director of the Greendale cemetery.
Judge Hauck is a worthy son of ancestors who, in their day and genera- tion, also served with distinction and honor in many public capacities. He is a man of dignified presence and of agreeable and pleasing personality, very modest, plain and unassuming in every way.
ARTHUR THOMAS FAGALY, M. D.
The physician comes into the home at a time when the family is beset by sorrow and distress. All look to the physician to save the life of the afflicted one yet a little longer, and, even when his skill and his art have failed, he is a good comforter in the time of sorrow. The physician, who, in his daily practice, is going and coming among the sick, always conscious of the noble service it is possible for him to perform, is perhaps the greatest servant of all mankind. The physician's equipment consists, not only in science and skill, but in that peculiar personality which the profession develops. Dr. Arthur Thomas Fagaly, one of the well-known physicians of Lawrenceburg, this county, and one of the most skillful surgeons in this section of the state, is far more than a physician and surgeon. Even though Doctor Fagaly has scarcely reached the prime of life, by his kindly personality he has firmly es- tablished himself in scores of homes in Lawrenceburg and Dearborn county. Out of his care of the treatment of disease and his sympathetic regard for the conditions under which his labors are performed, he has built up a large
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practice in this section of Indiana and thoroughly merits the esteem of the public.
Born in Hamilton county, Ohio, ten miles from Cincinnati, on September 8, 1870, Arthur Thomas Fagaly moved with his parents, William S. and Matilda V. (Cottingham) Fagaly, to Bright, Indiana, when one year old. There he lived until thirteen years of age, attending the public schools and acquiring the rudiments of the splendid education and intellectual equipment which he later was to acquire, not only in the schools and colleges of the country, but in the school of experience. Having attended the schools of Law- renceburg, this county, until 1885, when he was fifteen years old, he further pursued his education in Washington, D. C., by attending the night school of that city, paying his expenses by service as a page in the national House of Rep- resentatives for one year, and in the United States patent office for two years. two years, after which he began the study of medicine in Lawrence- burg. Five years later, in 1893, he received his diploma and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Miami Medical College, and immedi- ately thereafter began the practice of medicine at Moundville, Missouri, remaining there for one year, at the end of which time he located at Man- chester, Indiana, where he remained for two years, following which he re- turned to Lawrenceburg, in 1896, and there established the office and prac- tice which he has since maintained. Doctor Fagaly is a member of the Dear- born County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Association and is prominent in both organizations. Year by year his practice has grown, and although, as heretofore noted, he is a comparatively young man, he never- theless has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Lawrenceburg for almost twenty years, and is now well established in this county.
Dr. Arthur Thomas Fagaly's father, who was a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, and was reared a farmer in that county, during his early man- hood combined the occupation of farmer and the profession of school teacher, working on the farm during the summers and teaching in the winters: later, for a period, being engaged in the general mercantile business at Bright. this county. In 1883 he was appointed deputy county auditor and served in that public capacity for eight years, after which he was engaged in the grocery business until 1906, in which year.he was elected county auditor and for eight years very efficiently administered the affairs of that important office. Mr. Fagaly is now living retired in the city of Lawrenceburg. Mrs. Fagaly, mother of Doctor Fagaly, was born in Dearborn county, daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Stoms) Cottingham, early settlers of this county, who came from
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Maryland when quite young. Her paternal grandfather, Francis Nelson, was a kinsman of Lord Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar. Mrs. Fagaly passed away on October 20, 1912, at the age of sixty-four. She was the mother of six children, as follow : Dr. Arthur Thomas Fagaly, of Lawrenceburg; Roy, of North Bend, Ohio; Mabel, who married Ezra P. Hayes, of Lawrenceburg ; Guy N., of Burnside, Kentucky; Carey, of Lawrenceburg, and Edward M., of Cincinnati.
The Fagaly family, whose name originally was spelled Voegele, and which is of German origin, was founded in this county by George Fagaly, the paternal great-grandfather of Doctor M. Fagaly. Born and reared in Ger- many, he settled in Maryland upon his arrival in America and there he spent the remainder of his life. His widow, Rosalie, came West with her family and settled at Cincinnati, in that now populous city's village days, where she became the owner of ten acres of land on the site of what is now the corner of Fifth and Mound streets. Later the family removed to the country and there she died. John Fagaly, one of the sons of George and Rosalie Fagaly, married Mary T. Stuart, a native of this county, and was the grandfather of Doctor Fagaly. John Fagaly was born in Maryland and early was a meat packer. Later he became a farmer in Hamilton county. Ohio, and died in 1863, at the age of fifty-six years. His wife, who was a daughter of William and Mary (Tate)' Stuart, died in 1890, at the age of eighty. She was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom grew to maturity, as fol- low: George W., James H., Rosalie E., Francis M., John L., Elizabeth and William S. William Stuart, after serving valiantly as a soldier in the War of 1812, married Mary Tate, daughter of Doctor Tate, who was a surgeon in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War, and became a pioneer in Dearborn county. His wife lived to be one hundred and four years of age and was accidentally burned to death.
On March 22, 1894, one year after Doctor Fagaly's graduation from the medical college and two years before he established himself in the practice of medicine at Lawrenceburg, he was married to Tillie L. Oester, daughter of Nicholas and Eliza (Loheide) Oester, to which union has been born one son, William J. Mrs. Fagaly, who was born at Aurora, this county, is the daugh- ter of native-born German parents, who are now both deceased, but who lived to rear a family of eight children, namely : Mary, Louise, William, Charles, Emma, Lena, Tillie and Lilly.
Doctor Fagaly belongs to Lawrenceburg Lodge No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons, as does also his father, William S. Fagaly, who also belongs to Chap- ter No. 56, Royal Arch Masons. The Fagaly family is well known in this
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section and Doctor Fagaly, at the beginning of his career, had the responsi- bility of sustaining the high reputation and honorable. standing of a worthy father. It is not too much to say that he has worthily fulfilled this respon- sibility, not only as a physician and surgeon, but as a citizen of Dearborn county.
JOSEPH SCHLEICHER.
The attention of the reader is now directed to a short biographical sketch of Joseph Schleicher, well-known grocer of Lawrenceburg, this county, whose business bears the firm style of Schleicher Brothers. The family is an old one in the history of Lawrenceburg, and one which has taken a leading part in community affairs. Joseph Schleicher's father was one of the earliest and most progressive manufacturers of this district and over a goody stretch of years did much to enhance the commercial interests of the city.
Joseph Schleicher was born in Greendale, this county, on August 1, 1857, a son of Adam and Louise (Meier) Schleicher, both natives of the German empire, the former of whom came from Saxeweimer and the latter from Han- over. They were the parents of three sons and nine daughters, eight of the children living to maturity. These were Louise (deceased), who was the wife of Charles Kepper; Sarah and Alice, both unmarried, and the latter a teacher in the public schools of Denver, Colorado; Charles, of Mobile, Alabama, and Emma, wife of Doctor J. D. Terrill, of the same city. There was also Adelia, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-three years, and George, who for many years was a partner in the grocery business with his brother Joseph, the immediate subject of this sketch. George died on December 10, 1914, leaving his widow, who was Anna Matilda Israel, before her marriage, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary, all of whom remain unmarried and are teachers in the public schools of 'Anderson, this state. George Schleicher was four years the senior of Joseph, and their partnership continued uninterruptedly over a period of thirty-three years. His widow is a daughter of Charles and Anna Elizabeth (Niklaus) Israel, her father a native of Germany and her mother of Switzerland. Both spent their last days in Lawrenceburg, the father dying at the age of eighty-four and the mother at the age of eighty-seven. There were in their family but three children, Mrs. George Schleicher and two brothers, both of whom died un- married.
Adam Schleicher received an excellent education in his youth and re-
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mained in his native land until he was twenty-eight years of age. He im- grated to America in 1848, landing in New York City, where he worked for a short time, later residing for a while in New Orleans and Cincinnati. It was in the year 1850 that he arrived in Lawrenceburg and located per- manently. Together with several other enterprising citizens he organized the old Miami Valley Furniture Company. A large factory was erected and Mr. Schleicher was actively engaged in the manufacture of furniture from 1868 to 1890, when he retired and sold the building to the James-Meyer Buggy Company. Mr. Scheicher passed away in Lawrenceburg in 1898, at the age of seventy-eight and his widow still survives at the advanced age of eighty-six. Both were reared in the Lutheran faith, but upon coming to America they allied themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church, proving faithful and devout members of the same. Adam Schleicher's parents were Justine and Elizabeth (Stutz) Schleicher, for whom he sent after having be- come well established in this country. They reached Lawrenceburg in 1854 and lived the balance of their lives in that city, both dying at a good old age. He was a machinist and builder and was successful in his labors. Their children were: Adam, Joseph, George, Christian, William, Henry and Eliza- beth.
Joseph Schleicher's maternal grandparents were William and Evangeline (Bankor) Meier, both natives of Germany, the former of whom immigrated to America in 1837, the latter following him two years later. For a short time they remained residents of Cincinnati, but tiring of city life, they came to Dearborn county and found a suitable location in Clay township. where they lived out the remainder of their allotted days. They had been farmers in the old country and were successful in their venture in the new land. Will- iam Meier passed from life at the advanced age of eighty-six years and his wife at the age of seventy-five, having been born in 1807. To them were born the following children: Louise. mother of Joseph Schleicher : Sophia, Catherine, Henry, Christian, John, Edward and Andrew.
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