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The subject's maternal grandparents were Solomon and Sarah ( Markle )
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Dill, natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. Solomon Dill was a farmer and ran a blacksmith shop on his farm in Hamilton county, Indiana. In 1857 he removed to Iowa and settled in Cambridge, where he followed blacksmithing for some time, later going to Kansas, in 1868, and purchasing land in Labette county, where the wife died in 1869 and he in 1871. They were the parents of the following children: Israel M., Eliza, Phoebe, David, Louisa, Benjamin Franklin, Caroline, John, and a twin sister to Phoebe, who died in infancy. All the boys were in the Civil war, David being killed in that conflict.
The subject of this sketch was reared on his father's farm in Cicero township, securing an exceptionally good education, after completing the course in the district schools attending the normal schools at Danville and Valparaiso. Subsequently he taught school for nine years and made a splendid reputation as an educator, three years of that time being in the schools of the city of Tipton, he having come to this place in 1887. In 1890 Mr. Rouls engaged in the real estate, insurance and loan business and in May, 1912, became associated with Lee Leavell in the same business, which he still continues.
On May 30, 1888, the subject was united in marriage to Mary Lilly, daughter of Greenbury and Eliza (Wright) Lilly, and this union was blessed by the birth of three children : Fred is a farmer ; Mary G. is a senior in the Tipton high school; Lilly died in infancy. The mother of these children died on March 3. . 1905, at the age of forty-seven years five months. She was a member of the West Street Christian church. Her birthplace was Madison township, Tipton county, Indiana. her father a native of Virginia and her mother of Indiana. She was one of a family of seven children : Joseph A., David, Sylvan, Sarah, Mrs. Rouls ( subject's first wife), Edwin E. and Oliver. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Rouls' first wife was David Lilly, while her maternal grandfather was a Wright.
On December 30, 1908, Mr. Rouls married, for his second wife, Ardella Hogg, daughter of Taylor and Jane ( Price) Hogg, born in Howard county, Indiana, February 4, 1876. Her father was a native of Virginia and her mother of Howard county, Indiana. Mrs. Rouls is the third of a family of seven children, who are Fanny, Camden, Mrs. Rouls, June, May, Earl and Ola. To Mr. Rouls' second marriage has been born one child. Jane Alice.
Mr. and Mrs. Rouls are members of the Methodist church, he being a. steward and belonging to the Methodist Brotherhood. Fraternally, Mr. Rouls is affiliated with Tipton Lodge No. 151. Knights of Pythias. Display-
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ing an active and intelligent interest in political affairs, he has devoted much time to the furtherance of the principles of the Republican party and is at the present time chairman of the Republican county central committee. In 1888 he was elected city clerk of Tipton, being the first Republican to hold that office in the history of the city. In 1892 he was honored by election to the mayoralty and served one term with credit and honor to himself and to the city.
Personally, Mr. Rouls is a pleasant man to meet, a kind, friendly, hos- pitable and large-hearted gentleman who strives to do all the good he can while passing through the world. He has lived an upright, useful and honor- able life, one that has resulted in great good to those whom it has touched. and he is eminently worthy of the high respect in which he is held by all classes.
ARTIE SMITSON. ยท
Every human being submits to the controlling influence of others or wields an influence which touches, controls, guides or misdirects others. If he be honest and successful in his chosen field of endeavor, investigation will brighten his fame and point the way along which others may follow with like success. Consequently a critical study of the record of the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this paragraph may be beneficial to the reader, for it has been one of usefulness and honor, and for the discouraged youth standing "where meets the brook and river of life," it abounds in both lesson and incentive. Through his own indomitable energy, perseverance. sound judgment and honesty, Mr. Smitson. although yet a young man, has ascended the ladder until he is today one of the leading business men of the section of the Hoosier state of which this volume treats, and is a public- spirited citizen who has done much of good for Tipton county.
Artie Smitson was born in Tipton. Tipton county, Indiana, October 24. 1878, the son of German and Arsula (Linderman ) Smitson, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother of Richmond. Indiana. Of a family of four children, the subject was the youngest, the others being: William, de- ceased: Lelah, who died at the age of seven: Charles, who lives in Kansas. The father of Mr. Smitson came to Indiana with his parents when he was a boy. locating at Jackson Station. Cicero township, Tipton county, where they resided for some years, then removing to the city of Tipton, where the father engaged in teaming, also serving as chief of police two different terms.
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His death occurred about 1885, his wife still surviving. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also his widow.
The paternal grandparents of the subject were early settlers in Tipton county, Indiana, where they lived to ripe old age and were the parents of the following children: German; John; Henry; Peter; Polly is the wife of Elijah Elliott, of Tipton : Sallie, deceased, was the wife of John Ewing. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Smitson were natives of Germany, and on coming to the United States located in Richmond, Indiana, where they were large land owners. They removed to Tipton county at an early date and lived here the remainder of their days. They had the following children : Barney, John, Willian:, Lizzie and Arsula.
Artie Smitson spent his early life attending the public schools of his . native city and at the age of fifteen years he began working in a laundry, which occupation he followed until 1903, when he engaged in that business on his own account. His present up-to-date laundry plant at No. 29 South Independence street is the result of his energy and good business sense. It is equipped with the latest and best appliances for doing the finest work possi- ble. A large business is done and several hands are employed.
On July 27, 1902, Mr. Smitson was united in marriage to Tessie Jack- son, daughter of Adam and Mary S. (George) Jackson. Mrs. Smitson was born in Tipton, where her mother is yet living, her father having died in 1905. The father, Adam Jackson, was a soldier in the Civil war and served almost all through that conflict, being wounded in the battle of Champion's Hill. To Mr. and Mrs. Smitson have been born two children, Mary Edith and Harrison A., the former having died at the age of nine months.
Fraternally. Mr. Smitson holds membership in Tipton Lodge No. 220, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Smitson is a member of the Christian church.
EVERY A. MOCK.
Success in this life comes to the deserving. It is an axiom demonstrated by all human experience that a man gets out of this life what he puts into it, plus a reasonable interest on the investment .. The individual who inherits a large estate and adds nothing to his fortune can not be called a successful man. He that falls heir to a large fortune and increases its value is suc- cessful in proportion to the amount he adds to his possession. But the man (22)
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who starts in the world unaided and by sheer force of will, controlled by cor- rect principles, forges ahead and at length reaches a position of honor among his fellow citizens achieves success such as representatives of the two former classes can neither understand nor appreciate. To a considerable extent the subject of this sketch is a creditable representative of the class last named, a class which has furnished much of the bone and sinew of the country and added to the stability of our government and its institutions.
Every A. Mock was born in Cicero township in the little town of Kinder- hook on November 10, 1870. He was the son of William C. and Eliza J. (Orr) Mock. Both of these parents were natives of Indiana, his father being born in Hamilton county and his mother in Tipton county. They had nine children : Every A. and Melville O., both of Tipton county; Mary F., wife of Herman Dillinger, of Cicero township; Eliza E., wife of Frank Boyd. of Cicero township: William L., of Ashtabula county, Ohio; Raymond E., of Cicero township; Orville O., of Cicero township; Lena Belle, who is still at home, and Leland C., of Tipton. The father of the subject of this sketch has always been a farmer. In early manhood he lived in Hamilton county, but since 1881 he has resided in Tipton county. He now owns one hundred and twenty acres in Cicero township, which he has brought to a high state of cultivation. For the past five years he and his wife have lived in Tipton. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Mock, whose wife was Elizabeth ( Mur- ray) Mock. They lived in Hamilton county, near Strawtown, and died there in middle life. They had six children who lived to maturity : William C .. James R., Margaret, Melinda, Eda and Ellen. The maternal grandfather was William Orr and his wife was Mary (Wright) Orr. Both were natives of Indiana, and lived in their early days in Tipton county, and later moved to Hamilton county, where they died. They had six children, Asbury. John. Sarah, Kelly, Eliza J. and Amanda.
Every A. Mock was reared on his father's farm in Tipton county, and attended the district schools and later took a course at Valparaiso University. He then taught for four years in the district school of his county, but decided to take up the study of law. He entered the law office of Beauchamp and Mount, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1894. He then opened an office in Windfall and practiced there for five years. He then came to Tipton where he has practiced continuously since.
Mr. Mock is an influential Republican and in the fall of 1890 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the thirty-sixth judicial circuit, at that time comprising Howard and Tipton counties, serving two years. Before that. however, in 1898, he was the nominee of his party for the house of representa-
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tives from Clinton and Tipton counties, but was defeated by a small vote, though making a most commendable race against odds. In 1904 he was nominated and elected to the Indiana state senate from Hamilton and Tipton counties and served through the sessions of 1905, 1907 and the special session of 1908, at which time the county option law was passed. Mr. Mock was chairman of the public morals committee which had charge of this bill, and he was an important factor in preparing this legislation.
On the 26th day of November, 1893, he was married to Isoria M. Kleyla, daughter of Peter M. and Bathsheba ( Parker) Kleyla. Eight children have been born to them: Eva B., Don H .: Ruth N., who died in infancy ; Mary . E., May, Ralph E., Robert A. and Helen C. Mrs. Mock died on March 19, 1913, at the age of thirty-nine .. She, as well as Mr. Mock, was a member of the Christian church. Mr. Mock is a deacon in the congregation at Tipton and belongs to several fraternal organizations. He is a member of Austin Lodge No. 128, Free and Accepted Masons, and also of the Tipton Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He is also a member of the Windfall Lodge of Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Tribe of Ben-Hur. Politically, he has always been a Republican. He has always taken an active part in the affairs of his church and for the past three years has been president of the County Association of Christian Churches. He owns a farm of eighty acres in Cicero township and another of twenty acres east of Tipton.
Mrs. Mock was born in Tipton county, Indiana, December 25. 1873. Her father came from Germany when he was three years old and grew to manhood in Tipton county. Her mother was born in Wayne county and came to Tipton county when an infant, with her parents and grew to woman- hood here. Her father died in Tipton county on the farm where E. A. Mock now lives. Her mother is still living. They had five children who lived to maturity, William H., John D., Barbara .E., Isoria M. and Mary F. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Mock were Martin and Barbara Kleyla. They came from Germany and were early settlers in Tipton county, where he died at the age of ninety-two. They had four children, Henry. Peter M., Mary and Amelia, Mrs. Mock's mother, Mrs. Bathsheba Kleyla, is now the oldest continuous resident of Tipton county. His maternal great-grandfather Wright built the first brick house in Tipton county. Mr. Mock has always been a citizen of high civic ideals and has ever manifested a willingness to assist in any measures tending to advance the general welfare of the com- munity honored by his residence. He has lived and labored many years in the county and stands as one of the worthy citizens and representative men of his locality.
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CHARLES C. BRYAN.
In these latter days, when every one is complaining about the high cost of living, it is, indeed, a great satisfaction to write the career of a man who is doing all he can to remedy this unfortunate state of affairs. Within the last few years there have been thousands upon thousands of five- and ten-cent stores springing up all over the country. It is a constant surprise to walk through one of these stores and see the wide variety of articles which have been placed upon the market at this low price. One can nearly furnish a home now by going through a five- and ten-cent store and making judicious selec- tions from their wide assortment. One has said that there are over five thou- sand different articles which have been manufactured which can be retailed for five and ten cents. No one will gainsay the fact that any man who seeks to bring about a lower cost of living deserves the commendation of his fellow citizens. Such a man is Charles C. Bryan, the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Bryan was born in Jamestown, Greene county, Ohio, December 9, 1876, the son of John and Laura B. (Glass) Bryan, who were natives of Ohio. Mr. Bryan is one of four children, the others being Charles C., of Tipton ; Bertha F., wife of W. C. Ludington, of Richmond. Indiana: Arthur D., of Tipton, and a little daughter who died in infancy. The father of the subject was born on a farm near Jamestown, Ohio, and lived there most of his life. In 1882 he moved to the village of Grape Grove, Ohio, where he con- ducted a general store for about fifteen years. He then moved to Muncie, Indiana, where he and his son, Charles C., started a grocery store, which they continued for a period of twelve years. He died in Muncie. on June 21. 1908. at the age of fifty-seven, and his wife died on March 3. 1913. Both were members of the Christian church.
The paternal grandparents of the subject were Andrew Morrison and Maria (Mills) Bryan, both being natives of Virginia. Early in their lives they went to Greene county, Ohio, where he lived to the ripe old age of four score, while his wife is still living at the age of eighty-seven. They reared a large family, namely : Senaah, Benjamin, Mary, Rachael, Nancy. John, Sarah, Luetta, and Albert, who died when a small boy. The maternal grandparents were James and Mary ( Moorman) Glass, natives of Virginia, who came to Greene county early in life. Their ancestors were English, and they date their history back to the seventeenth century. They died in Greene county, Ohio. They reared a large family of nine children. Harvey. John. James, Albert. Emily, Mildred, Jennie. Laura and Mary.
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Charles C. Bryan was raised in Grape Grove, Ohio, and lived there from the time he was six until twenty-one years of age. He took a business course at the normal school at Ada, Ohio. Later he worked in the summer and attended school in the winter. Like many other young men, he did not know what he wanted to do and started out by learning the printing trade at Midway, Ohio. Not liking this sort of work, he went to Muncie, where he joined his father in the grocery business as above mentioned. He stayed there for several years, and then moved to Tipton in August, 1910, and bought the five- and ten-cent store of Charles Powell and has continued that business until the present time. He has built up his trade until he is now compelled to use several clerks in order to attend to his rapidly growing business.
On the 12th day of June, 1906, Mr. Bryan was married to Della M. Walker, daughter of George and Nancy ( Dinsmore) Walker. To this union there has been born one child, Margaret Josephine.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan are loyal members of the Christian church and con- tribute liberally to its support. Mr. Bryan has always taken a very active part in church work and at the present time is one of the elders in that denomination.
Mr. Bryan carries a large and well-established stock of goods, and his business is increasing all the time. He tries to keep up with all the latest im- provements in store furniture and his place is considered one of the best five- and ten-cent stores in the central part of the state. There is no line of mercantile business now which demands any more attention than the five- and ten-cent stores, and the men who want to get the business which the five- and ten-cent trade calls for must watch all the time to keep abreast of the times. It is some satisfaction to the people of Tipton to know that Mr. Bryan carries an assortment which one can not find in cities of much larger size.
GEORGE F. SCHULENBORG.
Every nation in Europe has contributed citizens to the great state of Indiana, and among all these countries the citizens of German extraction stand high in the estimation of all those who make up our state. Thousands and thousands of sturdy Germans have come to this country and before the war they came in large numbers. We find them in every profession. They have become our lawyers, our doctors, our professional men of every rank. They have been our best farmers, and in every vocation they have made a
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name for themselves. It is interesting to note that when one family would come they would be followed by others of the same family, until frequently there would be as many as three generations of the same family residing in some particular locality in the state.
Of the many German families who came to Tipton county before the war, none stand any higher than the Schulenborg family. George F. Schulen- borg, the subject of this sketch, is the son of Henry G. and Margaret (Jacobs) Schulenborg. His parents were born in Hanover, Germany, and came to this country in the early fifties. The father settled in Ripley county when he was about eighteen years of age, and worked on a farm and helped to build the Whitewater canal, one of the most famous canals of the state. With true German thrift he saved his money and bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in that county, from which he sold forty acres and later traded the remainder for a bottom farm of one hundred and forty acres in the same county. At an early age he married Margaret Jacobs, the daughter of an- other German emigrant. He and his good wife raised a family of nine chil- dren : William H., deceased; John H., of Dearborn county, Indiana ; Mary, single ; Amelia, wife of Frederick Westmeier, of Ripley county : George F., of Tipton ; Samuel, deceased : Paul G., of Tipton : Robert, deceased, and Mar- garet, who died in infancy. His wife died at the early age of thirty-eight. while he continued to work on the farm for many years more. A few years later he married a second time, but there were no children by the second mar- riage.
The paternal grandfather was Gerhardt Schulenborg. He married into the Afterheide family, an old-line family of Germany. To them were born several children : John, Mary, Henry G., Caroline, William, and Frederick, the latter still living in Dearborn county, Indiana. The maternal grand- parents came to America and settled in Ripley county, Indiana, and died there at an old age. They had two children, Herman and Margaret.
George F. Schulenborg was born in Ripley county, Indiana, June 2. 1858. He lived the life of the ordinary farmer boy until he was fifteen years of age, attending the parochial school in the winter time and working on the farm in the summer time. In the spring of 1875 he went to Tipton county, where he attended and worked on the farm of his brother. W. H., for three years. Later he rented his brother's farm and ran that for several years, finally buying it. He first bought forty acres and afterwards another forty, and still owns the eighty acres of as good farming land as can be found in the county. He continued to reside on this farm until December. 1900.
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An evidence of his popularity and the general good esteem in which he was held by his neighbors is shown by the fact that he made the race for sheriff in November, 1900, and was elected over strong opposition. He took charge of the sheriff's office in January, 1901, and so well did he serve the people in the first term that he was elected for a second term. After retiring from the sheriff's office, he continued to reside in Tipton, entering into his present busi- ness of wholesaling and retailing buggies, carriages, harness and seeds. He has a large and well-established business, and has had a full measure of pros- perity.
While still a young man he married Dora M. Sandmann, the daughter of Frederick and Louisa ( Roth) Sandmann. To them have been born three children. Elizabeth, Grace E. and Lela C. Elizabeth married Arthur Lein- inger, of Cicero township, Tipton county. They have two children, Lucile and Doris. Grace E. married Ralph Richmond, and now resides in Indi- anapolis. The youngest daughter is still at home. Mr. and Mrs. Schulen- borg, as well as all the rest of the family, are members of the Lutheran church. Mrs. Schulenborg was also born in Ripley county, of German parentage. Her parents came from Germany and were among the early settlers of Ripley county. Her father later moved to Tipton county, where he died, and her mother is still living in this county. Mrs. Schulenborg has seven brothers and sisters, Doathea, Louisa, Frederick, Elizabeth, Henry, Amelia and John.
Mr. and Mrs. Schulenborg have always been noted for their true German hospitality, and throughout their whole life in this county they have made themselves good neighbors in every sense of that word. They have con- tributed liberally of their substance to the church and to every worthy cause which had for its end the bettering of the community. Every educational and moral influence has enlisted their hearty sympathy and co-operation.
ANTHONY W. CHARLES.
It is the progressive. wide-awake men of affairs that make the real history of a community and their influence as potential factors of the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples such men furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to ac- complish, and there is always a full measure of satisfaction in adverting even in a casual way to their achievements in advancing the interests of their fellow men and in giving strength and solidity to the institutions which make so
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much for the prosperity of a community. Such men are the worthy subjects of this sketch, and as such it is proper that a review of their careers be ac- corded a place among the representative citizens of the city and community in which they reside.
Anthony W. Charles was born in Clarksburg, Decatur county. Indiana, July 13, 1865, and his brother William was born in Tipton, Indiana, Septem- ber 17, 1876. They are the sons of Raphael and Sarah (Warner) Charles, both natives of Germany. They had five children, namely: Anthony W .; Luella, wife of Alonzo S. Ulrich, of Tipton ; William, of Tipton, and two who died in infancy. The father was about sixteen years of age when he came from Germany to America. He had obtained some school education in Ger- many. Upon coming to America he located in Clarksburg, Decatur county, Indiana, and apprenticed himself to a blacksmith, William Humphrey, an occupation which he followed nearly all of his life. He came to Tipton in 1872, and added the wagon and buggy-making business to his regular trade of blacksmith. He bought out the old establishment of Wesley Gates, and conducted the business for many years under the name of Charles & Son for four years, when his son, A. W., bought his interest and ran it under the name of A. W. Charles up to 1907, when he associated with him his brother William, since which time the firm has been known as the Charles Brothers. They manufacture all kinds of buggies, carriages and light wagons.
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