History of Northeast Indiana : LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Volume II, Part 36

Author: Ford, Ira, 1848- ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 618

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John A. Banghman spent the first twenty years of his life in his native county in Ohio and was educated in the common schools. Soon after he came to Noble County he married on August 19, 1877, Melissa J. River. She was born in Noble County, April 19, 1861, and was educated in the common schools. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Baugh- man rented his father's farm until his means had increased as a result of their mutual thrift and in- dustry to a point where he could buy the farm, and he has spent practically all his adult life in this one locality.

Mr. and Mrs. Baughman had three children. Clyde, the oldest, completed the work of the com- mon schools and also attended Valparaiso College and Hillsdale College in Michigan, and is now a railroad employe. Chauncey, a graduate of the common schools and of the Valparaiso College, is a farmer and teacher in Noble Township. Iva, who is the wife of Floy Stureman, of Noble Township, also attended Valparaiso and Terre Haute colleges.

Mr. Baughman has been quite active in the affairs of the democratic party in his locality. He is en- gaged in general farming and the livestock business and has 881/2 acres, all of which he manages with a high degree of productiveness.

FRANK HANLON is a former trustee of Green Township of Noble County, and is one of the best known men in that community. For many years he was a successful teacher, and some of his most loyal friends are his old pupils. He has also been a farmer, and is now giving most of his time to the management of his place in section 2 of Green Township.

On the farm where he now lives he was born, August 8, 1866, son of James and Mary (Hendricks) Hanlon. His parents were both natives of Penn- sylvania. His father was born in Allegheny County and came to Noble County, Indiana, in 1856, grew

up here and married, then developed the land where his son now lives into a good farm. The parents were both active members of the Summit Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics the father was a democrat. There were three children: William, who died at the age of thirteen months; Frank; and Warren, who died when twelve years of age.

Frank Hanlon while reared in a rural environment and having experience from early boyhood in the duties of the farm, acquired a liberal education apart from the opportunities presented by the local dis- trict schools. He attended the Albion Normal School and also the Methodist College at Fort Wayne. He taught his first term of school in 1884, thirty-five years ago, and there was probably not a year in which he did not give several months or more to teaching until 1907. He then gave up the profession in order to take complete supervision of the home farm, but in the winter of 1918, probably as a patriotic service, he again taught a term of school. He has a well cultivated farm of 160 acres, and he is a thorough and systematic farmer.

In the fall of 1908 Mr. Hanlon was elected trustee of Green Township, and filled that office to the satisfaction of all concerned for six years. He is a democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a trustee, steward and superintendent of the Sunday school. September 5, 1889, he married Margaret J. McCoy, who was born in Green Township.

JAMES E. TERRY did his principal work as a farmer in an era of low prices and adverse condi- tions, but made such good use of his time and energy as to win a competence, which now enables him to enjoy life at leisure and in retirement. His home for many years has been at Nevada Mills in James- town Township.

Mr. Terry was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, April 8, 1849, a son of Thompson C. and Harriet ( Richey) Terry, both natives of New York State. His father was born in 1828 and his mother in Genesee County in 1833. Thompson Terry was an early settler in the woods of Sandusky County, Ohio, cleared up a farm there, and in 1864 again ventured as a pioneer to Jamestown Township in Steuben County, where he bought the George New- nam farm and finally sold that and moved to Nevada Mills in the same township, where he engaged in merchandising. He died in 1897 and his widow on May 15, 1916. He was quite active in republican politics for a number of years, and held the office of justice of the peace for nearly a quarter of a century. Both he and his wife were liberal in their religious views. They had three children: James E .; Alice Jeanette, who died in 1864, at the age of four years; and George, a resident of Millgrove Township in Steuben County.

James E. Terry was about fourteen years old when his parents moved to Steuben County, and finished his education here in the public schools and also attended the Orland Academy and the college at Angola, and thus prepared he became a success- ful teacher, a vocation he followed five terms. With that exception he has been farming since early man- hood until he retired, and is owner of a place of 180 acres. Mr. Terry has had his home at Nevada Mills since 1884. In politics he is a republican with- out any official record, and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member.

October 1, 1871, he married Miss Helen Hobson, of Steuben County. She died in January, 1895, the mother of three children. Raymond, who is a mer- chant at Inverness in Steuben County, married Lulu McNett, and they have two children, Eleanor and Ralph. Fred, a merchant at Nevada Mills, married

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Iola Bachelor, and has had two daughters, Helen, deceased, and Genevieve. Lou is the wife of Perry Sprague, a lumber merchant at Syracuse, Indiana, and is the mother of one son and two daughters, Alice, Nellie and Dale. In January, 1897, Mr. Terry married Flossie Kreuder, who was born in Medina County, Ohio, August 1, 1868, a daughter of Conrad and Catherine (Turner) Kreuder, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Ohio. The Kreuder family came to Steuben County in 1876, settling in Pleasant Township, where Mrs. Terry's father died in 1883, at the age of sixty-four, and her mother in 1894, aged sixty-two. Mr. Kreuder was a farmer. Mrs. Terry had a public school edu- cation, attended the Tri-State College, and was a sucecssful teacher for ten years. She was one of a family of four children, named Mary, Theodore, and Flora and Flossie, twins.

FRANK L. KIPLINGER is president and manager of the Knisely Dry Goods Company of Butler, one of the oldest business establishments of DeKalb County. The Knisely brothers were in business at Butler be- ginning nearly fifty years ago. The present firm is an incorporation, with Mr. Kiplinger its executive head and H. B. Miller, secretary and treasurer, and the directors are Mr. Kiplinger, H. B. and E. C. Miller and Mrs. Kiplinger.

Mr. Kiplinger was born in Ashland County, Ohio, July 29, 1859. He has been a merchant nearly all his life. His father was a country merchant in Ohio, and the son when not in the village schools was working in his father's store. At the age of twenty-one he went out to Kansas and had a varied mercantile experience in that state for several years. On coming to Indiana he was a clerk in the employ of Knisely Brothers at Butler for ten years. After that he was a traveling dry goods salesman over Indiana Territory, representing a Cleveland house for ten years. He then returned to Butler and bought an interest in and took the management of the old business of Knisely Brothers.

Mr. Kiplinger married Della Miller, of Waterloo, Indiana, a graduate of the high school of that city. Mrs. Kiplinger has been prominent in local affairs at Butler and was one of those instrumental in securing the public library, and for the past twelve years has served as secretary of the Library Board. Mr. and Mrs. Kiplinger are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and he is a trustee. He is affiliated with Forest Lodge No. 259, Free and Accepted Masons, with the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, the Apollo Commandery of Knights Tem- plar at Kendallville, was a Shriner and was a mem- ber of the Scottish Rite Class of 1919.

GEORGE GLOYD. One of the old and carefully tended homesteads of Sparta Township in Noble County is owned and managed by the Gloyd broth- ers, comprising George and W. H. Gloyd, who have been successfully identified with agriculture and stock raising and with the citizenship of that locality practically all their lives. The farm is on the Lin- coln Highway, a mile southeast of Kimmell.

George Gloyd was born on that farm December 8, 1848, a son of William and Matilda (Beachgood) Gloyd. His great-grandfather, Daniel Gloyd, was a soldier in the American Revolution, enlisting at the age of sixteen and at the battle of Bunker Hill was wounded while fighting for the cause of inde- pendence. William Gloyd, grandfather of George, was an overseer in the employ of Major Lewis, who married General Washington's step-daughter. William Gloyd, Jr., father of the Gloyd brothers, was a native of Missouri and moved from there to

Ohio, where he married Matilda Beachgood. She was born in Maryland and her father was a soldier in the War of 1812 under General Jackson. Her brother, James Beachgood, was with Phil Sheridan's army at Winchester, and served all through the war. William and Matilda Gloyd after their marriage moved from Ohio to Noble County, Indiana, and were pioneers in Sparta Township. They were members of the Sparta Christian Church and were highly thought of people all their lives. Of their six children three are still living: Caroline, wife of John Foster, of York Township, who served in the Civil war; George and W. H. Gloyd.

W. H. Gloyd was also born on the old homestead, had a district school education, and on March 15, 1877, married Mary R. Bowers. She had two brothers who were Union soldiers. Henry S. Bowers enlisted in 1861 and remained until the close of the war, being with Sherman on the march to the sea and participating in twenty-three battles but was never wounded. The other brother was in the war two years.

The Gloyd brothers are members of the Christian Church and both are active republicans, their father having been a whig and a charter member of the republican party. The Gloyd farm comprises 240 acres.

JOHN HEMRY has been a citizen of Steuben Coun- ty for more than half a century, and the name is well known in York and Clear Lake townships, where the people of this name were pioneers. The Hemry family were among the earliest settlers in the State of Ohio, the old home having been in Crawford County for many years.

John Hemry was born in that Ohio county, No- vember 2, 1838, a son of Abram and Mary Ann (Mc- Claskey) Hemry, and grandson of Isaac and Nancy (McCullen) Hemry. Isaac Hemry lived for a num- ber of years in Carroll County, Ohio, and in 1832 moved to Crawford County, where he died August II, 1868, at the age of eighty-four. His widow sur- vived him and passed away at the age of ninety-one in August, 1879. Isaac Hemry during the War of 1812 was captain of an Ohio militia company.

Abram Hemry was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1812. His wife, Mary Ann McClaskey, was born in Ashland County of that state in 1820, a daughter of Jacob McClaskey. In 1845 Abram Hemry brought his family to Steuben County, but some years later returned to Crawford County, Ohio, living there for four years, and afterward settling again on his farm in York Township, where he died when about sixty-five years old. His wife died in Steuben County about 1850. At one time he owned 160 acres in Steuben County, and at the time of his death his farm consisted of seventy-five acres. He and his first wife had nine children, named John, Margaret Ann, Nancy, Lydia, Rebecca, Lila, George, Andrew and Eva. For his second wife Abram Hemry married Mrs. Elizabeth Hanselman and had one child, Lizzie.

John Hemry was seven years old when his par- ents first came to Steuben County. When he was seventeen he went back to Crawford County, and in 1864 settled permanently in Steuben County, buy- ing forty acres of land in York Township. At the present time he owns a farm of 109 acres, also had twenty acres in Ohio for some years, and has sold twelve and a half acres to his son-in-law. His farm is well improved with buildings, his barn being 40 by 72 feet. He is still acting and looking after his farm though eighty-one years of age. Mr. Hemry is a democrat in politics.

In 1864 he married Miss Rebecca Ramsey, of Crawford County, Ohio. She died in 1905, at the

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age of sixty-seven. They had two children: Cora is the deceased wife of Albert Barnes and had one son, John. Carl, now deceased, married Edith Isen- hour, and they had two children, including one son. Kenneth.

CLARENCE A. MALLORY. Some of the earliest names in the chronicles of Jamestown Township of Steuben County are those of the Mallory family. Clarence A. Mallory is a member of the third gen- eration of the family and has spent practically all his life on the old Mallory homestead in James- town.

His father was Asa Mallory, who was born in Ver- mont in 1824, a son of David Mallory, who first came to Steuben County in 1835. Asa Mallory fol- lowed him soon afterward, and was long identified with the upright .citizenship of the county. Some additional facts concerning his history are published elsewhere in this work.

Clarence A. Mallory was born on his father's homestead November 8, 1876. He acquired his edu- cation in the public schools and since early manhood has been a practical farmer. He now handles the operations of 115 acres of the old homestead where his mother is still living. He devotes his land to general farming and stockraising. Mr. Mallory is a democrat, and he and his wife attend the com- munity Church at Jamestown village.

November 29, 1900, he married Miss Lodema Lilly, of Branch County, Michigan. They have two children : Emory Wright, born December 18, 1901, now a junior in the Fremont High School; and Leona Lilly, born November 2, 1907.

WILLIAM DEEMS is one of the honored survivors of the great Civil war, and for three years he rep- resented DeKalb County in that great conflict. He has been a resident of DeKalb County all his life, and is well deserving of the comfortable retirement he now enjoys on his home farm in Wilmington Township.

He was born in that township November 22, 1843, a son of George and Hannah (Dudgeon) Deems, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. George Deems was one of the pioneers of DeKalb County and lived in Wilmington Township until he met death in 1845, being killed by a falling tree. The care and rearing of the six children then devolved upon his widow. These six children were named, John, Joseph, Eli, Eliza, George and Will- iam, William being the only survivor.

William Deems grew up on the home farm and had a limited education in the log cabin district schools of his day. He was only eighteen when the war broke out, and in August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H of the Eighty-Eighth Indiana Infan- try. He served faithfully as a corporal and was mus- tered out in June, 1865. After the war he returned to DeKalb County, farmed and worked as a farm hand, and eventually acquired an independent hold- ing. He now has seventy acres of good farm land in Wilmington Township. Mr. Deems' parents were members of the Methodist Church. He is affiliated with Meade Post No. 44 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a republican in politics.

WILLIAM R. COLE. The home of William R. Cole is a mile north of Wolf Lake in Noble County. It is one of the fine farms in that locality, and its proprietor is a man of thorough training and experi- ence and capabilities both as a farmer, business man and as a public-spirited citizen.

Mr. Cole was born in Greene Township of the same county, December 27, 1870, son of James R.

and Martha J. (Ray) Cole. His father was born May 2, 1844, and his mother December 3, 1848. They were married in Noble County, Indiana, in 1867, and for the next two years lived on a farm in Greene Township, then moved to Jefferson Township, where they bought forty acres, and after five years sold that and moved to York Township, where James Cole acquired eighty acres and for many years was successfully identified with its cultivation and man- agement. In 1916 he moved to Albion, where he is now living retired. He was born in Ashland Coun- ty, Ohio, and as a boy enlisted in the First Ohio Regiment and served as a Union soldier throughout the Civil war. He has long been identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He and his wife had ten children, whose names and dates of birth are as follows: Frank W., September 10, 1868; William R., December 27, 1870; Elmer, August 9, 1873; Prentis B., February 9, 1876; Floyd, March 12, 1880; Mary J., June 8, 1882; Mattie, January 27, 1885; Nellie, June 2, 1887; Catherine, in 1889; and Belle, in 1890. Mattie, Catherine, and Belle are all graduates of the Albion High School.

William R. Cole has lived all his life in Noble County, and acquired a common school education as a preparation for the duties of his mature years. He left home when nearly twenty-one, and has since been making his own way in the world, and had acquired a fine reputation as a farmer. After his marriage he rented a farm in Jefferson township for four years, then bought eighty acres west of Wolf Lake, and on selling that acquired his present farm of 160 acres. He raises and feeds cattle and hogs, and is also a stockholder in the Wolf Lake State Bank. Mr. Cole is a republican but has no desire to hold public office. He has been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Albion.

October 11, 1899, he married Dora B. Gray, daugh- ter of William D. and Rachel Gray. She was born on the farm where she and her husband are now living. They have three children: Harold G., a graduate of the common schools; Mabel M., who has also completed the work of the common schools; and Martha R.

IRA E. BRILL, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in LaGrange County, is a worthy representative of the farming element of Northeast Indiana. He has spent his life in Indiana, and has made his present success as an industrious and capable farmer, a man of broad information and very popular among his fellow citizens. He is proprietor of the Scenic Hill Farm, comprising 100 acres in Johnson Township. Mr. Brill has a number of good grade Belgian horses.

He was born in Elkhart Township of Noble Coun- ty, October 30, 1867, a son of George W. and Char- lotte E. (Trittipo) Brill, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Virginia. They were mar- ried in Indiana and located in LaGrange County and later in Elkhart Township of Noble County, where they spent the rest of their years. The father was an active member of the Lutheran Church. In the family were eight children: Lurella E., wife of W. M. Rendfro; Walter E., of Elkhart Township, Noble County; Franklin E., of Ohio; Mrs. Ida M. Reed, of Ligonier; Ira E .; Lillie M., wife of Joe Finck; Melvin G., of Ligonier; and Beulah, wife of Elza Smith.

Ira E. Brill grew up on his father's farm in Noble County, attended common schools, and for the past thirty years has been a hard working member of the agricultural community. In 1892 he married Jennie M. Shanower, of Johnson Township. They have

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one son, Russell R., who was born October 29, 1895. He married Amy A. Gordon and has one child, Hugh G., born November 15, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Brill are members of the Baptist Church, and in politics he is a republican.

FREMONT BACHELOR. For many years the name Bachelor has been significant of good farming methods, large farms, well managed, and a high degree of enterprise and public spirit in all matters of community interest. This is one of the oldest families of Steuben County, and some of the im- portant facts in the history of some of the early members are found on other pages.

Fremont Bachelor, of Millgrove Township, is a son of the late Amos Bachelor, who in his time was one of the largest land owners in the county. Fremont was born in Pleasant Township March 19, 1856, and as a boy attended district schools in Mill- grove and Jamestown townships, and finished his education with a high school course in Waterloo. As a young man he began farming on the old home- stead. In 1887 he married Miss Harriet Ebbert, a daughter of Isaac and Lorena Ebbert.

Mr. Bachelor then took his wife to a farm at In- verness, and lived in that locality for thirteen years. In the fall of 1899 he returned to the old farm, occu- pying it when his father retired and moved to An- gola. He has had his home there for twenty years, and now owns 250 acres. Much of the substantial equipment of the farm is due to his work and in- vestment. He has remodeled the house, and a large barn and silo were also constructed by him.

Mr. and Mrs. Bachelor have one daugliter, wife of Fred Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have one son, Don Fremont.

FRANK TEUTSCH owns a lot of good land in DeKalb County, his home farm of eighty acres being in Troy Township. He has another tract of seventy acres in the same township and 120 acres in Franklin Town- ship. He has been a hard working citizen and farmer for over twenty years, and in that time has bought and paid for, largely from his labors and the products of the soil, 150 acres of the land he owns. He keeps good livestock of different grades, and is an active member of the Arctic Cooperative Association.

Mr. Teutsch was born in Franklin Township March 13, 1875, a son of Peter and Artemisia (Olds) Teutsch. Peter Teutsch was born in Alsace, France, March 22, 1850, a son of Michael Teutsch, who brought his family to America in 1860, settling in Franklin Township of DeKalb County. Peter Teutsch grew up on the farm, was educated partly in France and partly in DeKalb County, and he lived in Franklin Township until late in life, when he retired to Butler, where he and his wife died. He married Artemisia Olds January 5, 1873. Her father was an early settler of Franklin Township and she was born in DeKalb County. Peter Teutsch and wife were members of the United Brethren Church, and he was a republican in politics. They had four chil- dren, one dying in infancy. The three living are Frank; Foster, who married Elsie Campbell and lives in Franklin Township; and Leota, wife of Logan Woods of Fort Wayne.

Frank Teutsch spent his early life on the home farm and acquired a common school education. On June 20, 1898, he married Saloma Mark, who was born in Franklin Township. Since his marriage Mr. Teutsch has occupied and operated his home farm of eighty acres. He is a republican in politics. He and his wife have three children: Mildred, Loren

and Roy. Mildred graduated from the common schools in 1919.

CHARLES E. POLLOCK has made his mark among the citizens of Washington Township in Noble County and is a very progressive, live and enter- prising farmer. His present home is located two and one-half miles west of Wolf Lake.

He was born in Ligonier, Indiana, June 20, 1861, son of Cyrus and Martha (Kendall) Pollock. His father was born in Richland County, Ohio, April 12, 1832, and his mother in Greene County, Ohio, May 5, 1835. Both the Pollock and Kendall families came in an early day to Noble County, Indiana, settling in the woods of Sparta Township, where Cyrus and Martha were married. For several years they con- tinued to live in Sparta Township, then moved to Perry Township, and finally to Ligonier, buying a farm in York Township. In that community they spent their last years. They were members of the Universalist Church, and Cyrus Pollock was a re- publican. He served as superintendent of the County Infirmary from 1876 to 1881. In the family were nine children, seven of whom are still living: Charles E .; Morton, a resident of Angola; Ella, wife of William Lafong; Edwin, of Wolf Lake; Laura, wife of Myron Baker; Lizzie, wife of Harry Schlotterback; and Vivian the wife of Joseph Geiger. One of the deceased children was named Milton.

Charles E. Pollock spent his boyhood days in York Township, and his early advantages were supplied by the district schools. He remained at home till the age of twenty-two, and since then has been solving the problems of life on his own account. The farm his wife owns comprises 112 acres, and in im- provements and productiveness bares favorable com- parison with any farm in Washington Township. Mr. Pollock served seven years as assessor of York Township.

Hc married for his first wife Mary L. Wright, who was born in Noble County, was well educated in the common and high schools and was a teacher before her marriage. The three children born to them are all now deceased. Their names were: Rolland, a graduate of Albion High School; Elva M., who also graduated from the high school and died at the age of twenty-four; and one daughter that died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1907. On February 28, 1918, Mr. Pollock married Mrs. Clara L. Mckenzie. She was born in Stark County, Ohio, June 8, 1859, and came with her parents to Kosciusko County, Indiana, locating near Pierceton, and six months later the family moved to Washington Township, Noble County, and Mrs. Pollock grew up on a farm adjoining that of her husband. She was married to Royal Mckenzie on August 27, 1913. He died July 16, 1914. Mrs. Pollock is a stockholder in the Wolf Lake State Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock are members of the Christian Church, and he served many years as a deacon and is one of the trustees of the Eel River Christian Conference. In politics he is a republican.

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History of Northeast Indiana : LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Volume II, Part 36

Author: Ford, Ira, 1848- ed Publication date: 1920 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 618

Author: Ford, Ira, 1848- ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 618