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the business with all the enthusiasm of a according to the principles of the fraternity, professional naturalist. By carefully consid- and he is also identified with the order of Ben Hur, to which society his wife also be- longs. ering the demands of the trade he is able to supply his numerous customers with any- thing in his line for which they may call. He Mr. Noble has been twice married; first on July 2, 1868, to Miss Rosella Bills, who. was born in Ohio and came to this county with her parents when quite young. She presented her husband with the following children : Lillie Augusta, Lucy Adell, Ly- man J., who died in infancy. The mother was called to her final rest January 8, 1879, and on May 5, 1881, Mr. Noble married Miss Mary A. Smith, of this county, the union being blessed with one child, Alva E. has spared neither pains nor expense in stocking his establishment and keeping abreast of the times, his various houses being filled to their utmost capacity, some rare and costly exotics representing thousands of dol- lars, others being devoted to the more popu- lar plants and flowers which are always fa- vorites and of which the people never seem to tire. In the department devoted to roses there are sixteen hundred bushes of the finest varieties obtainable, some of which were pro- cured only after long continued correspond- ence and painstaking effort. There are six- teen thousand elegant carnations, fifteen hun- GEORGE L. HANES. dred chrysanthemums, and over two thou- sand geraniums. Mr. Noble has built up a George L. Hanes, the leading liveryman of Columbia City, was born in Wyandot county, Ohio, in 1856, and is the son of Da- vid and Lucy (Owens) Hanes, both natives of New York state and of Holland ances- try. They came to Ohio in 1852 and lo- cated on wild land, which for the first time under their energy began to quicken with the pulse of systematic productiveness. In 1859 these parents removed to Columbia City, where the father accepted a position as head sawyer in a mill. After filling this position to the entire satisfaction of his employers for two years, he resigned and opened up a grocery store. After three years of success- ful operation he accepted a favorable offer to dispose of the store, after which he en- gaged in general contracting and thus con- tinued the remainder of his active business life. Mr. and Mrs. David Owens were the mammoth business, representing a capital of many thousand dollars, all the result of his industry, sound judgment and wise fore- thought. His success is creditable alike to his business tact and refined taste, and that he stands among the foremost of his profes- sion in the state of Indiana is cheerfully con- ceded not only by the laity, but by leading florists who have visited and inspected his splendid establishment. In addition to his large and growing business interests, he is keenly alive to every movement and enter- prise having for its object the advancement of his city along material and other lines, and he discharges the duties of citizenship as becomes an intelligent, progressive Amer- ican, who is proud of his country and its institutions. A member of the Masonic brotherhood, he endeavors to square his life
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parents of seven children : Martin, who was a soldier during the Civil war, a member of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infan- try. He died in 1905. Elizabeth, who is the widow of Joseph Souders; Lena. the wife of Marion Tinkham, of Lima, Ohio; Emeline, who is the wife of John W. John- ston, of Stonington, Connecticut ; Jonathan, who is living in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Franklin, who is an engineer in Traverse City, Michigan, and George L.
George L. Hanes received his early ed- ucation in the common schools of the neigh- borhood and after attaining mature years took up life's duties on his own account. He was employed in a planing mill for nineteen years, after which he took a position in a grist mill. He continued in this business for eight years, when he purchased a feed barn. which business he conducted for one year, when he disposed of it and in partnership with J. W. Collins bought a livery and sales stable. The firm is now known as Hanes & Wigent, the latter having purchased the in- terest of Mr. Collins. These gentlemen keep on hand quite a number of good roadsters and are able to supply any kind of a rig or conveyance required. They take especial pride in keeping their stock in the best pos- sible condition and are courteous and af- fable in their relations with the public. In 1882 Mr. Hanes was married to Miss Mary Nesel, a native of Roanoke, Indiana. Their home has never been blessed with the birth of any children, but they are raising an or- phan boy, Robert, who has been with them since he was three years old. Fraternally Mr. Hanes is a member of the Ben Hur lodge, while in politics he supports the Re- publican party. He is a man of sound dis- crimination and good business ability and is
counted a successful man. Mrs. Hanes is a member of the Methodist church and takes an active interest in the various charitable and benevolent movements connected with that society. She has been a true helpmate to her husband and with him is highly es- teemed throughout the community.
CALDWELL W. TUTTLE.
Conspicuous among the active business men and public-spirited citizens of Whitley county is the gentleman whose name intro- duces this sketch, whose character stands out clear and distinct as one of the leaders of enterprise and directors of thought and opinion in all matters relating to the mate- rial and social advancement of the commu- nity. Caldwell W. Tuttle is a native of Whitley county and was born in Columbia township March 1, 1843. His paternal grandfather, Wolcott Tuttle, whose birth oc- curred in New York, moved in early life to Pennsylvania, thence to Ohio, in Sandusky county of which state he spent the remainder of his days as a member of the legal profes- sion. His son, Horace Tuttle, was born at Mt. Morris, New York, received his educa- tion in his native state and later engaged in agricultural pursuits in Ohio. He also fol- lowed farming in Michigan and from the latter state came to Indiana in 1837 on a prospecting tour. during which he visited Whitley county, and being pleased with the country entered a tract of land in what is now Columbia township, to which he moved his family in 1839, coming from Sturgis. Michigan, in a sled. A brother, Ransom Tuttle, accompanied him to his new home in
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the forest of Whitley county, and the two entered into partnership to clear and develop land, of which in due time they had eighty acres under cultivation. They purchased other lands from time to time until their holdings amounted to four hundred acres, and on this they lived and labored for a pe- riod of ten years, removing much of the dense forest growth and improving a fine farm, their original cabin being the third building of the kind in the township of Co- lumbia. In 1849 the Tuttle brothers dis- posed of their personal effects, and renting their land, moved to Columbia City, where they opened a general store, which was con- ducted quite successfully for a number of years, and in connection therewith they also ran a tavern, "The Western Exchange," which appears to have been liberally pat- ronized. For about three years after 1855 they retired from both lines of business, but at the end of that time again took charge of the tavern, which they continued to manage until its destruction by fire in 1860, operat- ing a hardware store in connection. Fol- lowing this the brothers engaged in buying and selling real estate and various other in- terests, including the loaning of money and selling hardware. Horace Tuttle died in May, 1863, his wife, whose maiden name was Letitia Caldwell, having died in Noven- ber. 1862. They were the parents of the following children: Randolph, killed in a railroad accident at Brainard, Minnesota ; Caldwell W .; Margaret E., who married S. S. Lavey: Alice: William S .: Franklin P .: and Laura, all dead except the last named and Caldwell W.
After his parents changed their residence to Columbia City. Caldwell W. Tuttle, until
his sixteenth year, pursued his studies witlı great assiduity, becoming familiar with the branches which then constituted the public school course. At the age of seventeen young Tuttle began learning the tinner's trade, but after working at it for one year laid aside his implements and entered the army, enlisting in July, 1862, in Company K. Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, with which he served for nine months, during which time he took part in the campaigns against General Bragg in Kentucky and par- ticipated in the bloody battle of Perryville. At the expiration of the period mentioned he was discharged on account of disability, and when sufficiently recovered he accepted a clerkship in a mercantile establishment in Columbia City, where he continued for two years as a salesman. The better to prepare himself for a business career, in 1865 he completed a full commercial course in the Fort Wayne Business College and after his graduation again accepted employment in the mercantile line, spending the ensuing two and a half years clerking in a dry goods house. Severing his connection with the firm at the end of that time, he went to Kan- sas City, Missouri, and assisted in organiz- ing a live stock insurance company, of which he became general agent. After two years in that capacity he and a friend became as- sociated in the grocery business, which en- gaged his attention until 1870, when he dis- posed of his interest in the enterprise and opened a boot and shoe store in Columbia City in partnership with his uncle. Ransom Tuttle, the firm lasting until the latter's death in 1890, the meantime purchasing a grist mill, of which the subject took personal charge on March 15. 1881. This was one
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of the first mills of the kind in Whitley coun- ty and together with considerable other property it came into Mr. Tuttle's posses- sion at his uncle's death. In 1883 a full roll- er process was installed with a capacity of two hundred barrels daily. It was the first mill in this congressional district to be so remodeled to meet the modern demands. Mr. Tuttle sold his store in 1897. In August, 1897, he was appointed by President Mc- Kinley United States commissioner for Alaska, when he departed for the scene of his duties in Sitka, the capital, where he *spent three and a half years in the discharge of his official functions, which corresponded to those of a common pleas court. He has always been a pronunced Republican and as such has rendered valuable service to his party, serving as presidential elector for the twelfth congressional district in 1896, be- sides contributing largely to the success of the ticket in various other capacities.
Mr. Tuttle was married December 23. 1869. in Henderson, Kentucky, to Miss Al- ice B. Nesler, of that state, who has borne him three children, namely: Ransom, who is interested with his father in operating the mill; Laura Belle and Marie, the last two deceased. As indicated in a preceding para- graph. Mr. Tuttle is one of the leading busi- ness men of Whitley county and for many years his name has been intimately associated with all enterprises having for their object the material prosperity of the community and the general welfare of his fellowmen. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Tuttle has taken all the degrees of the York rite and those of the Scottish rite up to and including the Rose Croix. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
WILLIAM F. KING, M. D.
William Franklin King, M. D .. a leading member of his profession at Columbia City, was born at Bellaire, Ohio, March 10, 1874. and is the son of William and Emeline (Dent) King, both of whom are natives of Ohio.
William Franklin King attended the pub- lic schools of Bellaire, after which he spent three years in Franklin College at New Ath- ens, Ohio. Entering the Ohio Medical Uni- versity at Columbus he completed the course. graduating as a Doctor of Medicine April 5. 1898. He then engaged in the practice of his profession with his brother, Dr. James R. King, at Roanoke, Indiana, until July. 1898. when he located in Columbia City, where he has since been actively engaged. Dr. James R. King was associated with him here for one year. He has met with gratifying success and a large and constantly increasing patron- age. The Doctor holds membership in the Whitley County and the Indiana State Med- ical societies and the American Medical As- sociation and is generally recognized as a safe counsellor and close medical student by his professional brethren. He is treasurer and a member of the board of censors of the Whitley County Medical Association and was secretary of the Whitley county board of health for two years. Doctor and Mrs. King are devoted members of the Presbyte- rian church. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. He takes an active part in mu- nicipal affairs and has been instrumental in the inauguration of needed reforms in mat- ters affecting the health of the community. Keeping abreast of the great advance in med-
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ical science through his professional associ- ations and journals, Dr. King is ever found in the front ranks of practitioners. While not too sanguine as to every advance claimed by enthusiasts, he stands ready to accord due credit to whatever appears to conform to scientific demands and meets the requirements of a varied daily practice.
October 24. 1901, Dr. King was mar- ried to Miss Blanche Meely, of Columbia City. Her father, George Meely, was an early resident of Columbia City, being re- membered as one of the successful and prom- inent merchants. He served as a soldier in the Civil war, with the Twentieth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry and was an early member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His death occurred February 22, 1903. Doctor and Mrs. King are the parents of one child, Eleanor.
BERNARD A. WIDUP, D. D. S.
The subject of this review is a native of Whitley county, Indiana, as was also his father, Horace Widup, his mother, whose maiden name was Anna Shepherd, having been born in the state of Ohio. Horace Widup is a farmer and stock raiser and for the last twenty-five years has lived in Pulaski county, where he owns a fine farm yielding him an independent income. Mrs. Widup was brought to Whitley county by her par- ents when nine years old and here grew to maturity and married, and is the mother of five children, whose names are: Merlin V., a farmer of St. Joseph county, Indiana ; Ber- nard A., William R., George A. and Alpha.
Dr. Widup received his elementary edu-
cation in the district schools of Pulaski county and spent the spring and summer months meantime on the farm, growing into rugged manhood. He taught four years and then entered the dental college in In- dianapolis, from which he was graduated with an honorable record as a close and painstaking student in 1905. Doctor Widup at once came to Columbia City and purchas- ing the office and good will of his uncle, Dr. H. C. Widup, entered upon the practice, which he has since continued, receiving that liberal patronage that technical skill, experi- ence and courteous treatment demand. Heª not only holds the business which his uncle had built up but has added materially to its- volume. The Doctor has a fine suite of par- lors, elegantly furnished, and a laboratory thoroughly equipped with the latest and most improved instruments and appliances used in the profession.
Doctor Widup was married in 1892 to Miss Glen Anderson. They have one child. Clio Bonita. The Doctor is an esteemed member of the Knights of the Maccabees, Modern Woodmen and the Order of Ben Hur, and, with his wife, belongs to the Methodist church. Socially both carry a healthy and elevating influence tending to- ward greater geniality and a closer social relationship in the circles where their pres- ence is most often found.
CARL L. SOUDER, M. D.
Carl Lawrence Souder, M. D., a leading and respected member of his profession, was born at Larwill, Indiana, August 18, 1874,
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being the son of Dr. Christopher and Sabina (Trembly) Souder. Dr. Christopher Souder was of German descent, was born in Ohio, and accompanied his parents to Indiana when a child. He became a physician and practiced in this county for twenty-six years. He was a graduate of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical College and also of the literary de- partment of Mendota College. He taught school until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years and six months, taking part in all of the battles in which his regiment earned its enviable record in the Army of the Cum- berland and Tennessee. He was auditor of Whitley county for four years, and as an educator ever took an interest in the educa- tion and upbuilding of children and young people. He was an active member of the Masonic order and shaped his life in harmony with its fraternal teachings. He died De- cember 15, 1899. Mrs. Souder was the daughter of John S. Trembly, of Ohio. Doc- tor and Mrs. Souder were parents of eight children, four of whom are deceased. Those living are: Carl; Ralph, a, physician of Chi- cago; Wade, a farmer, and Bessie, a stenog- rapher.
Carl Lawrence Souder received his edu- cation in the common and high schools, after which he taught for two years. Subsequent- ly he attended the Northern Indiana Normal University and the State University at Bloomington. and graduated from the scien- tific department of the Northern Indiana University. at Valparaiso, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then took a course in the medical department of the Northwest- ern University at Chicago, graduating with
the class of 1898. Doctor Souder is active in the various societies of his profession and. stands high in the esteem of his community as a careful and scientific conservator of health. June 5, 1900, he was married to Miss Lura Shinneman, a native of this county. Doctor Souder's religious affiliation is with the Lutheran church, while fraternal- ly he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Ben Hur.
CHARLES LEMUEL DEVAULT.
Among the rising members of the Whit -- ley county bar is Charles Lemuel DeVault,. whose birth occurred in Columbia City, Oc- tober 22, 1872. His parents are Captain Os- mus F. and Julia (Watson) DeVault. One brother is William Allen DeVault, of Cheru- busco, and a younger brother, Lewis Mar- shall DeVault, was for some years a promi- nent educator of this county, dying June 10, 1900. Capt. Osmus Fletcher De Vault, a native of Ross county, Ohio, is the youngest of six sons and five daughters, whose par- ents were Nicholas and Frances (Popejoy} DeVault, the former of French ancestry, de- scending from a line of distinguished French soldiers and himself an officer in the Ameri- can army during the war of 1812. He earned an honorable career in both military and civil life and died at Jacksonville, Il- linois, in 1858. Osmus F. DeVault enlisted at the breaking out of the Rebellion, serving as an officer in Company A, Eleventh Indi- ana Cavalry, One Hundred Twenty-sixth Regiment and participating in a number of campaigns and battles, receiving the distinc -.
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tion due to a brave officer whose duty was in 1894 took the platform as a popular lec- faithfully performed. Julia Watson DeVault. turer, which experience added luster to his already established reputation as an enter- taining speaker. Mr. DeVault is a Repub- lican and is an influential factor in his party councils. His religious creed is represented by the Evangelical Lutheran faith, being a member of Grace church. He is also identi- fied with Alpha Zeta chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. An able lawyer, a public spirited citizen and an intelligent gentleman of progressive ideas, Mr. DeVault holds a warm place in the esteem of the community. born in Morrow county, Ohio, October II, 1837, was the eldest of a family of seven born to Alexander and Laura (Storrs) Wat- son, he a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated in the celebrated Scotch University. He came to the United States when twenty- four years old and engaged in business at Milford, Connecticut, until his removal to Ohio. In 1855 he came to Whitley county, where he died in 1862. His wife, a daugh- ter of Emory Storrs, of Connecticut, sur- vived a number of years, dying at Alta-Vista. Kansas, in 1890.
Charles Lemual DeVault, after attending the schools of Lorane and Cherubusco, en- tered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895. Mr. DeVault had taught for some time in the schools of Whitley county, liis first school being when he was less than fif- teen years of age. He taught in Smith, Thorncreek and Washington townships and was principal of the Coesse graded schools. He was next superintendent of the schools of New Haven, achieving an enviable repu- tation as an educator. He also conducted normal schools at South Whitley and Cher- ubusco, and in 1897 entered the race for the office of county superintendent, but suffered defeat by a single ballot. He then opened a law office, his success fully justifying his expectations and assuring a leading position at the Whitley county bar. Excepting two years spent in the southwestern part of the United States and Central and South Ameri- ca in the interest of land and colonization enterprises, he has devoted his time and en- ergies to legal affairs. Mr. DeVault as a student won honors in oratorical contests and
DAVID AUGUST WALTER.
David August Walter, civil engineer and official surveyor of Whitley county, is a native of Indiana and the fifth in a fam- ily of twelve children, whose parents were Frederick and Mary (Shinbeckler) Walter. Frederick Walter was born in Germany and was brought to America when a child, the family settling in Whitley county, Indiana, throughout which the name has since be- come quite familiar. The maternal grand- father. Meinrod Shinbeckler, also a native of Germany, was for many years a well known and respected farmer of this county, in which his death occurred in 1894. Fred- erick Walter learned the trade of brick mak- ing, which he followed for a number of years in Columbia City and elsewhere, but later turned his attention to brewing. For twenty- eight years he devoted his entire time to that manufacture. He died in Columbia City at the age of sixty years, his widow, who sur- vives, having reached the age of sixty-seven. Their family consisted of twelve children.
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David August Walter was born February I, 1882, in Columbia City and graduated from the high school. This was supple- mented by a course in Wabash College. Mr. Walter's tastes ran to mathematics and while in college he devoted considerable attention to civil engineering. While still in college he was elected surveyor of Whitley county, the duties of which he has since discharged in a highly creditable and satisfactory man- ner. In November, 1906, he was re-elected to succeed himself. This election was a land- slide to the Republicans and Walter was the only Democrat saved to his party. Mr. Wal- ter is a Democrat, in full sympathy with the principles of his party and keeps thoroughly informed on the issues of, the day. Fra- ternally he belongs to the Pythian order.
THEODORE GARTY.
The gentleman to a brief review of whose career the following lines are devoted; is an American by adoption, but none the . less an ardent admirer of the government and institutions under which his success has been achieved and in all the term implies a loyal citizen of the state and nation to which for many years he has given his allegiance. Theodore Garty is a native of France, where his birth occurred November 3, 1843, being one of three children whose parents, John P. and Catherine (Setton) Garty, were also born amid the vine-clad hills of that beauti- ful and romantic land. The father of Mrs. Garty, Col. Theodore Setton, was a soldier by profession and served the greater part of his life in the armies of France, participating
in a number of campaigns under the first Napoleon, during which he received several slight wounds and not a few serious injuries in the many bloody battles in which his com- mand was engaged. By successive promo- tions he rose from the ranks to the command of his regiment and in addition to filling the various offices of his line he was attached to the staffs of different generals, in all of these capacities displaying bravery and gal- lantry, which endeared him to his men and won the confidence and esteem of his su- periors. He lived to a ripe old age, respected by all who knew him and his name is hon- ored in the country he served so long and well as one of its most faithful and devoted defenders. Col. Setton had one brother, who was also bred to arms and who met a soldier's fate while upholding the cause of the ill-starred Maximilian in Mexico. His remains fill a forgotten grave in that land, as do the bodies of many of his comrades who followed their nation's emblem in an unholy cause. John P. Garty, the subject's father, came to America in 1850 with the object in view of preparing a home for his loved ones in a land abounding in better opportunities than his own afforded. Ani- mated by laudable zeal he followed this hon- orable purpose with every prospect of suc- cess, but the fates appeared to conspire against him as he was taken violently ill shortly after arriving at St. Louis, Missouri, and a little later died and was buried in that city. Subsequently, 1853, Mrs. Garty be- came the wife of a fellow countryman by the name of Victor Crauser, with whom she and her children came to the United States shortly afterwards, settling in Stark county, Ohio, where Mr. Crauser turned his atten-
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