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twelve years on the democratic central committee where his abil- ities won for him recognition among the leaders of his party in Marshall county. He was for four years deputy auditor, and in 1886 was his party's nominee for auditor, to which he was elected by the average majority. As a public official, Mr. Lehr has been quite popular with the people, and under his management the business of the office has been conducted with efficiency and dispatch. He is a member of the Masonic order and the G. A. R., in which he has served as commander of the post. In the Ma- sonic fraternity he has served as master for a number of years, besides holding all other stations in the Blue lodge, and having been honored as representative member to the Grand lodge at three different sessions. His marriage was solemnized May 5, 1868, to Miss Ellen Carnahan, daughter of David and Sarah (Ringle) Carnahan. Mrs. Lehr was born in Armstrong county, Penn., and when five years of age accompanied her parents to Iowa, in which state her father died. The mother subsequently settled in Marshall county, and later moved to La Porte county where Mrs. Lehr was living at the time of her marriage. The following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Lehr: Cora A., Norman Edward, Hattie B., and Melinda A.
Lebrecht Lumis, cooper, was born in the kingdom of Saxony, Germany, September 8, 1829, and is the son of George and Mary Lumis, both natives of the same country. He was reared and educated in Saxony and at the age of thirteen began to learn the cooper's trade, and after becoming proficient in the same, opened a shop which he conducted for about one year. In 1853 he came to the United States and located at South Bend, where he worked as journeyman until the spring of 1855, at which time he came to Plymouth and established a shop, one of the largest of the kind in the city, and has since conducted a suc- cessful business. He purchased the old court house and moved it to its present location, and has used it as a shop until the pres- ent time. Mr. Lumis has been successful in a financial point of view, having accumulated a handsome competence, and is now one of the stockholders of the Plymouth Plow factory, and also of the electric light company. He handles all kinds of cooper- age material, manufactures all kinds of barrels for the local and general trade, and his business has much more than a local rep- utation. He was married in Plymouth, December 1, 1857, to Miss Carrie Ebel, a native of Prussia, who died November 30, 1880. Two children of this marriage are living, viz .: Mary, wife of Jacob Schroeder, and Carrie, wife of B. Sells. Mr. Lumis is a democrat in politics and a member of the Lutheran church.
Daniel McDonald is one of the most prominent and influen- tial citizens of Marshall county. The name has for many years been identified with the press of the county, the father of Daniel
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having established the Marshall County Democrat in 1855, and the paper afterward being principally owned or edited by him- self or sons. Daniel McDonald bought a half-interest in the office from his father in August, 1875, and since that time has been conspicuously connected with the paper as its editor. The Plymouth Democrat, as it has been known since 1860, has always occupied a high rank in that hard working and progressive fraternity known as "the country press of Indiana." None of the democratic state papers have had more influence with their party during the troubled years since the war than the one pre- sided over by Daniel McDonald. But it is not simply as an editor that he has been conspicuous and influential among the democracy. He has represented it in various positions of trust and has been a familiar figure as delegate to its various conven- tions of all grades. In 1869 he was elected by his party as rep- resentative in the legislature from Marshall county, and served with ability and fidelity. In 1871, April 3, he was appointed clerk of Marshall county to fill out an unexpired term which expired on November I of the same year. He then commenced the term for which he had been elected, which expired November I, 1875. He was re-elected and served for four more years. It is hardly necessary to add that he performed the responsible duties of the clerkship to the entire satisfaction of the people of the county and retired with the good will of all. Mr. McDonald ranks as an "old settler," having resided at Plymouth ever since the county of Marshall was organized, in i836. In addition to the local honors conferred upon him, Mr. McDonald has often been "spoken of " for higher places, and once or twice made the race for state nominations from his party, but failed to meet with his usual success in this ambition. Mr. McDonald is about fifty-eight years of age and few men approach the evening of life with more personal friends or more general popularity with all classes.
One of the successful lawyers of Marshall county is J. D. McLaren, who was born in Indiana county, Penn., July 18, 1835. He is a son of James and Mary J. (Hill) McLaren, who moved from their native county, Indiana, to Westmoreland county, Penn., where they lived until the year 1854. In that year James McLaren moved to the city of Saltzburg, Indiana county, for the purpose of educating his family, but subsequently returned to Westmoreland county in 1857, moving thence in 1862 to McCou- pon county, Ills., where his death afterward occurred. He was a man of intelligence, possessed rare business qualities, and for some years was superintendent of the Pennsylvania state rail- road from Johnstown to Holidaysburg. John D. McLaren was reared in Pennsylvania, and in early life attended the schools at Saltzburg, and later became a student in Washington college,
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Jefferson county, Penn., where he pursued his studies for some time, but owing to financial trouble was not enabled to complete the full course. He was for some time engaged in teaching in the town of Livermore, Westmoreland county, and in July, 1856, began the study of law in the office of H. W. Weir, of Saltzburg, under whose instruction he continued until September, 1858, at which time he was admitted to the bar. He then effected a co-part- nership with his preceptor, and began the practice of his profes- sion in Indiana county, where he continued in the enjoyment of a lucrative business until the spring of 1865. In the meantime, July, 1863, he enlisted in a company which was recruited in the town where he resided, was mustered into the service at Pitts- burgh, and was honorably discharged January 21, 1864, having served principally on detail duty. In 1865 he went to Illinois, and after remaining there one year returned to Pennsylvania with the intention of locating at Pittsburgh, but was deterred from so do- ing on account of a fire which destroyed his valuable law library. Upon the solicitation of friends he came to Indiana in 1866, and located in Knox, the seat of justice of Stark county, where he began the practice of his profession, in which he soon won recog- nition among the successful lawyers of that city. In 1875 he lo- cated in Warsaw, Ind., for the purpose of educating his children, but in the spring of 1877 moved to Valparaiso, which was his home until the following September, at which time he came to Plymouth, where he has since resided and where he has a large and lucrative practice in the courts of Marshall and other coun- ties. As a practitioner his abundant resources never fail to ad- vance the interest of his clients, and in his discussions of law to the court, or of fact to the jury, he is ever practical, logical and lucid. He has filled the office of judge of the circuit court of Marshall county by appointment, and in his experience on the bench he exhibited a keenness of perception, a firmness of grasp upon legal propositions, and power of analysis which belong only to the natural jurist. His first wife, Anna M. Porter, daughter of Andrew W. and Ruth S. Porter, whom he married Novem- ber 5, 1858, died in October, 1875. She was the mother of four children: Charles H., Birdie R., Daniel P. and John D. Mr. McLaren was again married February 2, 1879, to Miss Susan Williams, of Toledo, Ohio.
Christian Mannual was born in Germany, February 7, 1840, and is the son of Daniel and Louisa (Houff) Mannual, who came to America in 1844, and settled in Stark county, Ohio, where the father died in 1850. Mrs. Mannual is still living and makes her home at this time with the subject of this sketch. The following are the names of the living children of Mr. and Mrs. Mannual: Daniel, Antro, Charles, Christian, William and Elizabeth. Christian Mannual was reared in Ohio, and owing to the death of
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his father was early in life compelled to contribute his part toward the support of the family, in consequence of which he received but a limited educational training. He became a resi- dent of Marshall county in 1862, and soon afterward settled upon his present place, where he cleared and developed a good farm of 140 acres, which represents his own labor and industry. He was married in 1863 to Miss Elizabeth Zimmerman, daughter of Conrad Zimmerman, of Center township, and to their union have been born eleven children, viz .: Joseph I., Charles Emery, Barbara Louisa, wife of William Gottschalk; Daniel F., William, Lavina Catherine, John, Lewis, Detha, Bertha Maude, and Rosa Ella. Mr. Mannual was a soldier in the late war, enlisting in 1861 in Company K, Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, with which he served for a period of eleven months. He is a mem- ber of the Miles H. Tibbitt's post, G. A. R., of Plymouth, and independent in politics.
John S. Martin, M. D., a native of Morris county, N. J., and son of Abraham and Lydia (Cumback) Martin, was born June 21, 1836. His parents, who were both natives of the same state, moved to southern Indiana, in 1838, and eight years later emi- grated to Michigan, in which state they both died, the father on November 7, 1860, and the mother in December, 1862. Of their eight children seven are now living, the doctor being the fifth in point of age. He was reared principally in Berrien county, Mich., moving there with his parents when ten years of age. His early educational training was obtained in the public schools, and he subsequently became a student at Hillsdale college, and still later pursued his studies for some time in the state university at Ann Arbor. He began teaching in the public schools at the early age of seventeen, and as an instructor soon took high rank among the successful educators of that part of the state. He subsequently became principal of the Union school at Berrien county, and also taught in Alligon and Kalamazoo counties, Mich., and La Porte county, Ind., having followed the profession with marked success until thirty-six years of age. In the mean- time he began the study of medicine, which he pursued while engaged in his professional work, and with a laudable desire to become proficient in that calling, he entered the medical depart- ment of the Michigan university, in which he completed the prescribed course, graduating in homeopathy in 1877. After graduating he began the practice of his profession at Galesburg, Kalamazoo county, Mich., and after remaining there about ten years moved to Plymouth, Ind., where he has since resided in the enjoyment of an extensive practice in the city and adjacent county. Professionally the doctor occupies a conspicuous place among his brethren of the healing art, and he is no less popular as a citizen, possessing the confidence and esteem of a large cir-
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cle of friends in Marshall county. He was married in 1868 to Miss Minnie C. Huff, daughter of Henry Huff, of Newton county, N. J., to which union three children, Katie L., Martha A., and William Cumback, have been born. The doctor is a mem- ber of the State Medical society, of Michigan, a prohibitionist in his political views, and a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he holds the offices of steward and class leader.
E. C. Martindale, a successful lawyer of Plymouth, and ex- prosecuting attorney, was born in Cass county, Ind., February 2, 1850, and is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Cornwell) Martin- dale, natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia. The father, a well-known minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in Fulton county, in 1863, and the mother departed this life in the year 1880. E. C. Martindale was taken by his parents, to Fulton county, at the age of four years, and received a good education in the city schools of Rochester. He began life for himself as a farmer, in Fulton county, and later, moved to Kan- sas, but on account of the death of his wife, he remained in that state but a short time, returning to Fulton county, where, in 1875, he began the study of law in the office of Enoch Sturgeon. He subsequently pursued his professional reading under the instruc- tion of Messrs. Essick & Holman, and was admitted to the bar in Rochester. In the fall of 1882, he located at Argos, Marshall county, and the same year was elected prosecuting attorney for the district comprising the counties of Marshall and Fulton, the duties of which position he discharged in a highly creditable man- ner, for two terms, having been re-elected in 1884. Near the close of his official term he formed a law partnership with J. D. McLaren, in Plymouth, and the firm has since practiced quite successfully in that city. He is well grounded in the principles of legal jurisprudence, is a clear and logical speaker, a safe and reliable counselor, and occupies a conspicuous place among the successful practitioners of the Marshall county bar. Politi- cally he is a democrat, and as such, has rendered his party valuable service in a number of campaigns. He was married March 21, 1872, to Miss Samantha Bridges, daughter of William Bridges, of Hancock county, Ind. Her death occurred Novem- ber 21, 1873, and on June 9, 1879, Mr. Martindale was again mar- ried to Miss Ann M., daughter of Frederick Stair, of Greene township, a union blessed with the birth of one child, Fred C.
Charles T. Mattingly, a retired business man and well-known citizen of Plymouth, was born in Corydon, Harrison county, Ind., October 6, 1845, and is the son of Ignatius and Rachael T. Mat- tingly. Ignatius Mattingly was a native of Maryland, which state he left at an early day, moving with his parents to Kentucky, where he was reared to maturity. He subsequently moved to Cory-
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don, Ind., where, for many years he was editor and proprietor of a newspaper. He came to Marshall county in 1856 and is now living at the town of Bourbon. The immediate subject of this sketch came to Marshall county when eleven years of age and received his educational training in the public schools and in the office of the Marshall County Republican, of which his father was at that time the publisher. He also completed a commercial course at Oberlin, Ohio, and in 1867 engaged in the lumber business, be- coming a member of the well-known firms of Oglesbee, Mat- tingly & Black, and later of Oglesbee & Mattingly. He continued actively in the lumber business until the year 1877, at which time he disposed of his interests in this line in Marshall county, but he now owns a large and controlling interest in the Indiana Lum- ber company of Nashville, Tenn. From 1885 to 1889 he was en- gaged in the mercantile business, in Plymouth, which like his previous enterprise was conducted with financial profit and suc- cess. He was a soldier in the late war in Company E, One Hun- dred and Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, in which he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment, having held the office of orderly sergeant. For the past several years Mr. Mat- tingly has given his attention to his real estate interests, being the owner of five valuable farms in this county, besides owning good property in Plymouth, Chicago and other cities. He pos- sesses rare financial ability and is justly entitled to mention as one of the thrifty and enterprising citizens of Marshall county. He is prominent in the Masonic order, belonging to Kilwinning lodge, No. 149, Plymouth chapter, No. 49, and Plymouth com- mandery, K. T., No. 26. He is also a member of the Miles Tib- bitt's post, G. A. R. Politically he belongs to the republican party. Miss Evalin L. Pain became his wife in 1866, and to their union has been born one son, Ralph Mattingly, who resides at home. Mr. and Mrs. Mattingly are attendants of the Methodist Epis- copal church.
Prominent among the old and honored citizens of Plymouth, is Sigmond Mayer, member of the well-known grocery firm of Nussbaum & Mayer, is a native of Germany, born in Bibra, Saxe Meiningen, July 3, 1836. His parents M. A. and Minnie (Schayer) Mayer, were also natives of Germany, the father born in 1802, and the mother one year later. They lived and died in their native country, their deaths occurring in the years 1863 and 1849, respectively. Our subject was educated in the schools of his na- tive country and afterward took a course in a commercial college at Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to this country in 1854, when eighteen years of age, and was for some time employed as clerk in a business house in New Orleans, going thence to Lawrence- burg, Ind., and still later to Cincinnati, making that city his head- quarters while engaged in retailing jewelry throughout Indiana
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and the southern states. He was thus engaged in 1861, when the war of the rebellion broke out, in which year he secured the ap- pointment of sutler to the twenty-third Kentucky regiment. Subsequently he was made purveyor of Gen. Osterhaus' division at Vicksburgh, in which capacity he continued until March, 1864, when he severed his connection with the army and came to Plymouth and formed a partnership with L. Nussbaum in the grocery, wool, hide and fur business, and the firm thus constituted still continues. This is one of the oldest business houses in Ply- mouth, and has been reasonably successful. Mr. Mayer was natur- alized as a citizen of the United States, in October, 1860, and the following November cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas, since which time he has been a supporter of the demo- cratic party. During his residence in Plymouth, he has been quite active in local politics, having filled various positions of trust and responsibility. He was elected town treasurer and clerk of the corporation before the town obtained a city charter, filling both offices jointly during the years 1867-68 and 1869. For twelve years in succession, under the city charter, he represented the Second ward in the common council, in the deliberations of which body he took an active part. In June, 1886, he was chosen a member of the board of school trustees for a term of three years, was re-appointed in ISS9, and is still a member of that body. His official life has been remarkably free from criticism and as a private citizen he has always enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the people of his adopted city. Mr. Mayer was married in 1858, to Hannah Shane, of Cincinnati, a native of Saxe Weimer, Germany, and to their union have been born the following child- ren: Minnie, wife of Nathan Kramer, of Minnesota; Rosalie, wife of N. J. Speyer, of New York city; Milton, assistant man- ager of the Nelson Morris Slaughter and Canning Co., Union Stock Yards, Chicago; Bertha, wife of Simon Rosenhaut, of Spokane Falls, Wash .; Solomon, who resides at the same place; Fanny, Julia, Adolph and Edwin. Mr. Mayer is a prominent member of the Masonic order, belonging to the lodge at Plymouth.
Rev. Louis Aloysius Moench, pastor of the St. Michael's Catholic congregation of Plymouth, and also the Catholic church at Bourbon, is a native of Germany, born in Freudenberg, Baden, January 25th, 1853. His early educational training was obtained in the schools of his native country, which he attended until his fourteenth year, when, in 1867, he came to the United States, landing at New York city, moving from thence to Avilla, Noble county, Ind., where he made his home for one year with Rev. Father Duehmig, pastor of the Catholic church at that place. In 1869 he went to Milwaukee, Wis., and entered the St. Francis seminary, where he completed his preparatory studies for the priesthood, and in June, 1876, was ordained priest and in-
L. A. Moench
PASTOR OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH. PLYMOUTH, JNO.
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stalled as assistant pastor at Avilla, Ind., in connection with which charge he also ministered to several small congregations in the northern part of the state. He was subsequently trans- ferred to Fort Wayne, where for eight months he was assistant at the Cathedral at that place, and in 1879, took charge of the congregation at Lebanon, Boone county, of which he continued as pastor until his return to Fort Wayne, in 1881. He officiated as assistant pastor of St. Mary's church for one year and one month, and in February, 1883, was transferred to Plymouth and has since had charge of the congregations at this place and Bourbon. Father Moench has become endeared to his people, and enjoys great personal popularity in Plymouth among all classes irrespective of church or creed. His life has been fraught with good works and in his sacred calling he has induced many to abandon the ways of sin for the better way of holiness and peace.
Courtland L. Morris, who for sixteen years has been closely identified with the lumber manufacturing interests of Marshall county, and who is the present proprietor of one of the largest saw-mills of northern Indiana, is a native of Ohio, born in the. county of Huron, June 21, 1844. His parents were William and Angelina (Sweatland) Morris, the former a native of Danbury, Conn., and the latter of Wilksbarre, Penn. They were among the early settlers of Huron, Ohio, where the father followed farming, and where his death occurred about the year 1850. His wife preceded him to the grave, dying in 1846. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county until sixteen years of age, at which time he went to Monmouth, Ill., where for some years he found employment as a farm laborer. In 1862, while at Monmouth, he enlisted in the army, joining Company C, of the Eighty-third Illinois volunteer infantry, with which he served as a private for three years, during the last two of which he did duty as a mounted scout with the army of the Cumberland. During his period of service he never lost a day from duty, and was neither captured nor wounded, although having participated in a number of bloody engagements. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., after which he went to Chicago, where on July 5, 1865, he received his discharge, and drew the residue of his pay. On leaving the army he returned to Illinois, and became a student in the Monmouth academy, in which he pursued his studies for one year, and then entered upon a commercial course in the Commercial college, at Oberlin, Ohio, which, with teleg- raphy, he completed in 1868. In that year he entered the service of the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. Co., as telegraph operator, at Bourbon, Marshall county, Ind., where he took charge of the night office. He served as night operator for about two and a half years, and was then made operator and station agent at 13-B.
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Inwood, in which capacity he continued until April, 1874. He severed his connection with the company in that year, and effected a co-partnership in the lumber business with George Shafer, Mr. Morris purchasing the interest of Charles Croup, and the firm thus formed became known by the name of Shafer & Morris. They manufactured and dealt in lumber at Inwood Station, and in the fall of 1886, formed a branch of the business at Ply- mouth, to which city they afterward moved the main office, and also erected a large mill. In connection with the lumber busi- ness, they dealt quite extensively, while at Inwood, in buggies, carts, etc., and continued the same branch of business at Ply- mouth, where they handled large numbers of vehicles. On February 17, 1890, the partnership of Shafer & Morris, was by mutual consent dissolved, and the business divided, Mr. Shafer remaining in charge at Inwood, and Mr. Morris assuming con- trol of the mill and office at Plymouth. The mill of which he is proprietor is the largest in the county, being 48x86 feet in size, and supplied with the latest improved machinery, the capacity being over 15,000 feet of lumber per day. In addition to the ยท manufacture of lumber, a large business is carried on in felloes, chair stock, etc., large quantities of which are shipped to the leading cities in different parts of the country. Mr. Morris also handles all kinds of native lumber, buying and selling for the local and general markets, handling during the year about 1,000 cars upon the different railroads. He has a large wood-yard where he handles vast quantities of wood for the local fuel mar- ket, and also deals extensively in wagons, buggies and carts, in which he leads the trade in Plymouth. In 1889 he entered into a business partnership with Charles E. Croup, under the name of Croup & Morris, and erected a large saw-mill at Marmont, at Lake Maxinkuckee, which is now in successful operation, manu- facturing large quantities of lumber. Mr. Morris ranks among the successful business men of Marshall county, and is justly esteemed one of the representative citizens of Plymouth. He was married May 16th, 1868, to Mary E. Nickerson, of Huron county, Ohio, who has borne him eight children, five living, viz .: Nellie A., Hattie A., Courtland D., Lloyd H. and Lyrel G. Mr. Morris is prominent in local affairs, a republican in politics and belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and the Miles Tibbitt post, No. 260, G. A. R., of Plymouth.
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