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To this union two children were born : Desta, married to Frank Kneller, a· farmer of Cleveland township, and Homer J., still living at home. Mr. Ummel is a Democrat, and in religious matters a zealous and liberal supporter of the Lutheran church. The fam- ily is industrious and well respected.
JOSHUA N. ANDERSON.
Joshua N. Anderson, a very respecta- ble and well known farmer living in Troy township, was born in Westmoreland coun- ty, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1834, and is the son of Benjamin and Catherine (Weigle) Anderson, both natives of Penn- sylvania, from which state they removed
to Wayne county, Ohio, about 1846, where they located on a farm and engaged in agriculture, remaining there to the close of their lives. They were industrious and economical and soon enjoyed all the com- forts of rural life. They were devoted mem- bers of he Free Will Baptist church, giving it liberal support. The death of the hus- band occurred in 1863, and that of his wife in 1892, aged eighty-four. Thirteen chil- dren were born to them: Joseph and Jacob, deceased ; Joshua N. : James, David and Wil- liam, deceased; Elizabeth, Caleb, Eliza, Mar- garet, Frank, Alice, Winfield Scott, de- ceased.
Joshua N. Anderson was nine years of age when his parents moved to Wayne coun- ty, Ohio, and he continued to live there till 1884, when he came to Troy township, Whit- ley county, of which he is still a resident. He has been a lifelong farmer and at present is the owner of a farm of forty acres, well improved and comfortable with convenient buildings. October 30, 1856, he was married to Drusilla J .. daughter of James and Eliza (Stoner) Young, and born int Ashland coun- ty, Ohio, May 27. 1838. Her father was born in Virginia, and the mother in Pennsyl- vania, both coming with their parents, when quite young, to Ashland county, where they were married and spent their lives. They were faithful members of the German Re- formed church, highly respected and exem- plary in conduct. The wife died September 22, 1876, and the husband October 16, 1892. Eight children were born to them. Lucinda C., deceased: Drusilla J .; Martha L., de- ceased ; Mary E., Rebecca J., Sylvanus, de- ceased; Emma and John, deceased; and Sarah A.
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Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson: Clinton A., married to Matilda Pierce, living in Richland township; Flor- ence D., wife of Frank Hall, of Columbia City, has four children, Goldie, John, Miner- va, and Chester; Crissie, wife of Austin Knepper, living in Cleveland, Ohio, has had three children, Rolland, Chloe E., deceased; and Hale; Charlie W. married Nona South- erly, lives in Kosciusko county, and has six children, Orva, Virgil, Clela, Freda, Merlin, and Kenneth ; Marlie M. married Viola Da- lano, lives in Logansport, and has six chil- dren, Glenn, Gladys, Beatrice, Frederick, Bernice and Robert; and Bertha, deceased when five years of age; Charlie and Marlie are twins.
Mr. Anderson is a Republican and had four brothers in the Civil war, two losing their lives, Jacob and William. Mrs. An- derson is a faithful member of the Free Methodist church.
WILLIAM BRUBAKER.
William Brubaker, a proprietor of "Lakeside Farm" in Troy township, was born in Perry county, Ohio, November 20, 1843. When a lad of eight he ac- companied his mother to Whitley county, his education being in the public schools. He was married in 1871 to Melissa, daugh- ter of Lysander P. and Lydia (Robinson) Joslin, born in Troy township, June 24. 1849. The parents were from Ohio, the fa- ther from Delaware county, the mother front Champaign county, and came to Whitley county in early life, where they lived until
1873, when they moved to Kansas, where they remained until their deaths. They were members of the Baptist church. Fifteen children were born to them: Eliza, Jane, Elsie, Melissa, Luther, Rosie, John, Mi- nerva, Andrew, Ida, Lillian, Esther, Dellie, Elmer and Elmus (twins).
Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Brubaker : Charles, who married Maud Wise, lives in Troy township and has three children, Hazel, Jane and William; Hale, a student in the junior class of Wabash Col- lege and first lieutenant in Company G, Third Regiment, Indiana National Guard. In 1871 Mr. Brubaker purchased one hundred and thirty acres of native forest land, bor- dering Goose Lake, which now, as a result of his earnest labor and successful manage- ment, presents a neat and thrifty appear- ance, being nicely fenced, well drained and thoroughly equipped with a comfortable and substantial residence, barn and other im- provements necessary to render farm life pleasant and profitable.
When the life of the nation was imperiled in the war of the Rebellion, he enlisted April 21, 1861, in Company E, Seventeenth Regi- ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving three years and two months in Wilder's Brigade, Army of the Cumberland. In a skirmish he was wounded in the thigh, being disabled for several months and sent to the hospital. After discharge he veteranized in Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-sec- ond Regiment, was niade sergeant of his company and served until the close of the war. He is a member of English Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Etna. In politics he is a Republican, but refuses to serve in public capacity. Mrs. Brubaker is
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an active member of the Woman's Relief Corps of Columbia City and also takes an interest in religious matters, being a member of the Baptist church. The family is well known and highly respected, taking an ac- tive interest in all social and public enterprises.
WILLIAM E. MAGLEY.
The leading photographer of Whitley county is William E. Magley, whose train- ing, experience and artistic talent specially fit him for the production of high grade work in this, in many respects the finest of arts, the preservation of the features of those living today for the gratification, not only of their associates but for the more pro- nounced satisfaction to be derived to suc- ceeding generations.
Mr. Magley, a native son of Whitley county, was born February 19, 1867, at the parental homestead in Thorncreek township. his parents being Fredrick and Elizabeth (Summeny) Magley, of whom more extend- ed reference is found on another page of this history. His boyhood being passed on the farm he received such training as the local schools afforded though he early knew the full meaning of hard toil: Suffering a brok- en leg he was somewhat disabled for much farm work, and so turned his attention to other channels, being led toward photogra- phy, having a decided inclination to artistic work. Securing a kodak he snapped pretty nearly everything in his neighborhood, ob- taining many beautiful scenes of numerous lakes near his home, his ambition becoming so stirred that he embarked into the work
more extendedly. He fitted up a gallery on a limited scale on the farm which soon be- canie so patronized that he removed to a more central point, starting a gallery at Churubusco. For five years his business sur- passed expectations so that in 1893 he suc- ceeded Roe Jones in his present location at Columbia City, where he has established high grade facilities, catering to the best trade. He still retains the Churubusco gal- lery where he keeps a competent operator. Having devoted several years to the making of superior work he has attained a high de- gree of excellence, his posing's being studied for best effects in light and shade, his re- touching of negatives being to emphasize the best in a picture, the results being superior photographs that will compare favorably with those produced in more pretentious stu- dios, as is well illustrated by the many ex- cellent portraits in this work, for which the photographs were made by Mr. Magley.
March 22, 1906, he was married to Miss Sindora Campbell, of Noble county. who for some years resided in the home of Mrs. Eliza Collins in Columbia City. While Mr. Mag- ley is a Republican he keeps "the even tenor of his way," not aspiring to public recogni- tion, but preferring to attain that still great- er excellence as an artist that can be secured enly by constant study, application and well directed intelligence.
ELISHA LYMAN MCLALLEN.
Elisha Lyman McLallen, deceased, was for many years connected with the business interests of Columbia City and his name is
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inseparably connected with its history. He was a man whom all honored and esteemed and this review of his life will prove of deep interest to many. He was prominent in mercantile, political and fraternal circles, and ever unselfishly devoted to the best interests of the community.
Mr. McLallen was born in Tompkins couny, New York, February 2, 1836. His father was of Scotch descent, and his moth- er, whose maiden name was Frances Lyman, came of English ancestors, who traced their genealogy back to Richard Lyman, born at High Ongar in 1580. Early in the seven- teenth century he emigrated to America and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1640. When our subject was eight years of age, he was brought to Whitley county, the family locating in Richland township upon a farm, which now adjoins the village of Larwill. This region was then an almost unbroken wilderness and the children of the family were reared amid the wild scenes of the fron- tier. There are now only two survivors- Henry McLallen and Mrs. D. B. Clugston.
Thus in the very heart of nature, Elisha McLallen spent his hoyhood days, keeping pace with the wonderful development of a rich and fertile country and glorying unto the day of his death in the greatness of the commonwealth he helped to build. His edu- cational privileges were very limited, but his devoted mother fostered in him a taste for study and supplied him with a well selected library, from which he gained much valuable and interesting information. It was also largely through her efforts that the son was permitted to attend the academy at North- field, Massachusetts, where he was a class- mate of the evangelist, Moody. On the com-
pletion of his school life, Mr. McLallen re- turned to Larwill and his first business en- gagement was as a member of the corps of civil engineers in charge of the construction of the Chicago & Fort Wayne Railroad. In 1857. shortly after he attained his majority. he formed a partnership with D. B. Clugs- ton and purchased the store in Larwill, which was established by his father in 1852. Sub- sequently he formed a business connection with A. R. Clugston and this relationship existed until 1873. During this time they met with a fair degree of success and Mr. McLallen steadily added to the competence which he was acquiring. In that year he formed a partnership with his brother, Hen- ry McLallen, in the banking business. under the firm name of E. L. McLallen & Co. The Farmers' Bank, which they organized, was successfully conducted and became one of the leading financial concerns in this part of the state. He adhered to strict business prin- ciples and his far-sightedness, executive abil- ity and keen discrimination were important factors in bringing to them the high degree of success which attended their efforts. He was scrupulously honest and his integrity was so well known that his word was as good as his bond. He was at the head of the banking house for twenty years and his business career covered four decades of hon- orable and active effort that enhanced the public prosperity, while at the same time it promoted his individual wealth.
Mr. McLallen did much for his city, his country, his state and for humanity. In the public affairs of northeastern Indiana he was very prominent and no man took a deep- er or more sincere interest in the welfare of his community. He was progressive, enter-
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prising and public-spirited and his aid was never sought in vain for any enterprise, which he believed would benefit the com- munity. When it was seen that he gave his support to any measure, public confidence was aroused and other help was thereby se- cured. For eight years he was on the school board and did most effective service in the cause of education. Soon after he became a member of the board, the East Ward build- ing was erected, and not long after work was begun on the main building. During its construction his entire time was given to su- pervision of the work, and when it was com- pleted the building was one of which the city may well be proud. He believed in good schools and good teachers, regarding educa- tion as one of the bulwarks of the nation. He established a large library for the pub- lic schools of Columbia City, first with 2,300 volumes, but which now has between 3,000 and 4,000 volumes. He has also presented to the schools scientific apparatus.
Mr. McLallen was a stalwart Democrat, an ardent advocate of the principles of that party and he had great confidence in Grover Cleveland as a leader. Personally he cared nothing for political preferment, his tastes being more in the line of business, but he aided others in securing office. He was quite prominent in Masonic circles and was a close adherent of the benevolent and char- itable principles upon which the ancient and illustrious order was founded. From a sketch of him compiled by Thomas R. Mar- shall, of Columbia City, we secure the fol- lowing record of his connection with Ma- sonry :
"He was raised in Columbia City Lodge. No. 189, April 30, 1860. He dimitted June
3, 1861, and became a charter member and first Senior Warden of Due Guard Lodge, No. 278, of Larwill, Indiana, of which he was master for many years. He was read- mitted to Columbia City Lodge November 19, 1883, and from 1885 until his death, with the exception of one year, served as its mas- ter. He was exalted to the sublime degree of a Royal Arch Mason in Fort Wayne Chapter, March 20, 1861, and was admitted to Columbia City Chapter, No. 54. January 3. 1874, and was high priest in 1879, 1880 and 1881. He was chosen a member of Fort Wayne Council, November 12, 1862, was a charter member of Columbia City Council, No. 55, and was its first illustrious master. He was knighted in Fort Wayne Commandery, May 5, 1862, and was the first and only eminent commander of Cy- rene Commandery, No. 34. He was charter member of Columbia City Chapter. No. 65, Order of the Eastern Star. He received the ineffable degrees of the Ancient and Accept- ed Scottish Rite in Indiana Consistory, and was elected to the thirty-third degree in 1904, but died before it could be conferred. Thus it will be seen that our departed friend rounded the circle of all grades of Masonry. sounded all its shoals and depths, put good work on board, and calmly waited the breeze which wafted him into the presence of that God in whom as the youngest entered ap- prentice he put his trust."
Mr. Mclellan was entirely free from os- tentation and` display, was known and es- teemed for his kind-hearted generosity and his benevolence. His charity was always of that kind which seeks not the praises of men. content with the approving conscience.
He was genial and companionable, lively
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and humorous, interesting and entertaining, and it was a privilege to be admitted to the circle of his life friends and learn his true nobility. He passed away March 10, 1895, at the age of fifty-nine. He was honored and respected throughout the community and the deepest grief was felt by all who had known him either in business or a social way. He left on the community an impress of good, which will be long felt, although his familiar figure is no more seen on the streets of his adopted city.
BENJAMIN HIVELY.
In 1836, a party of seven men gathered together in Licking county, Ohio, to discuss a question of great moment to them. They had resolved to emigrate to the wilds of northern Indiana to make new homes for themselves in that little occupied section and the arrangements for such a trip involved considerable preparation. The names of these men. all of whom were married and heads of growing young families, were Daniel Hively, Jacob Shearer, Peter Shriner, Jacob Hively. Adam Henry and John Egolph. They rigged up their "prairie schooners." packed their household utensils, cracked their whips and started on what was then a long, arduous and trying journey. They drove as best they could over the wretched roads and trails during the day and turned out early in the evenings to spend the night in camp. In course of time, these resolute men, with their wives and little ones, reached their destination, which was the new county of Whitley in the young state
of Indiana. In the list above given will be found the names of these genuine first set- tlers and they and their descendants have for seventy years been factors in the de- velopment and history-making of this section.
Daniel Hively, leader of this party of pioneers, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, October 15, 1798, and removed to. Ohio in early manhood. There he met and December 16, 1824, was married to Cathar- ine Egolph, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1804. It was twelve years subsequently that they became members of the party of travelers for the northwest and on arrival in Indiana, Daniel entered eighty acres of government land in Thorncreek township, at the time when Indians and wolves were plentiful throughout this entire section. He lived forty-six years after becoming a citizen of Whitley county, his death not occurring un- til 1882 on the farm, where he first settled. in the howling wilderness. His wife sur- vived him fourteen years and closed her eyes on the world December 10, 1896, which was her ninety-second birthday. They had thir- teen children. Mary, widow of Solomon Unspaugh, and Catharine, widow of John Miller, reside on the old Miller farm; Henry died in infancy: Jonathan died at the age of sixty-six ; Daniel is a Columbia township farmer; Mahala first married David Bear and next Elisha Bashford, of Wisconsin ; Elizabeth also married twice. first Jacob Fisher and next Leonard Hyre, with whom she now lives in Columbia City: Samuel died at the age of sixty-six; Benjamin; George W. died at the age of fifty; Isaac, a Thorncreek township farmer ; Solomon owns
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his father's old homestead; and Sarah, wife of P. Linley, a resident of Missouri.
Benjamin Hively, the ninth child, was born at the parental home in Whitley coun- ty, Indiana, January 27, 1840. He has spent his whole life in farming and now owns eighty acres of land, part of his father's farm, which he rents and is practically re- tired from business. March 24, 1861, he married Lucinda Miller, by whom he has had three children: Jane, the eldest, mar- ried William Coolman, living in Thorncreek township, and has eight children: Grace Maud, Claud, Gertrude, Oscar, Goldie, Glen, Alvin and Fern; Malinda, second daughter of Mr. Hively, married Charles Ramsey and died at the age of thirty-four, leaving six children, Walter, Ruth, Orpha, Grover, Ha- zel and Alice, who died in childhood, and another died in infancy.
Mr. Hively's third child died when three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hively are members of the German Reformed church.
Solomon Miller, father of Mrs. Hively, is the oldest living settler of Thorncreek township, a venerable and respected relic of an age that has passed. His parents, George and Catharine (Humbarger) Miller, were Pennsylvanians, who moved into Perry county. Ohio, in the early years of the nine- teenth century and made their livelihood by farming. They had ten children, all long since dead except Solomon, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, July 22, 1822. His fathed died there three months previous to his birth and he lived with his mother until twenty years of age, working out by the month. In 1841 he married Malinda Ans- paugh, of Perry county, and two years later came west, accompanied by his wife, one
child named Lucinda and his widowed mother. Arriving in Whitley county, he first located east of his present home, but later moved to the farm on which Michael Zor- ger now resides. He spent a number of years in clearing and working this tract, but in 1860 purchased the one hundred and fifty- three acres constituting his present home- stead, which he has converted into one of the most desirable farms in Thorncreek town- ship. Mr. Miller had seventeen children : Lucinda, Mary A., Catharine, David, Ma- linda, Sarah Jane, Matilda, Mahala and Ben- jamin (deceased), Lavina, Solomon (de- ceased), Margaret, Eli, Elizabeth, Emma and George W. (deceased), and one that died in infancy. July 24, 1905, Mr. Miller's rela- tives assembled to honor his eighty-third birthday anniversary and it was an occasion long to be remembered. One hundred and thirty persons were present and of this num- ber over one hundred were composed of his descendants. This by no means measures his contribution to the population of his adopted state, as he has fifty-three grandchil- dren, sixty great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. At this reunion, as he had often done before, Mr. Miller re- counted the trials and tribulations he had gone through as a pioneer settler of Whit- ley county. He was unusually strong in his prime and during his lifetime has perhaps done more hard work than any man in the county. He chopped wood and split rails for fifty cents a day. He bound wheat in Elkhart and Noble counties for a bushel a day, but as he did two men's work, he was often paid double. When he came here. Co- lumbia City was a mere hamlet and the struggle for existence was very severe. It
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cost eighteen cents to send a letter, the best houses were mere shacks and rude log cabins, there was no money or luxuries of any kind, all being poor and compelled to work at the hardest of drudgery. How great the con- trast with the fine pike roads, traction lines, railways, rural mail delivery, telephones. finely improved farms, yet Solomon Miller has lived to see all these wondrous changes. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Miller was married in 1890 to Delilah O'Connell, of Marshall county, but there was a speedy separation, followed in 1897 by a third mar- riage to Mrs. Ellen Souers, with whom he has since lived happily. His mother, to whom he was much attached, was tenderly cared for at his home until her death at the age of eighty-five years.
RICHARD HERRON.
Whitley county's agricultural develop- ments were not so early as other parts of the state, her pioneer period not beginning in earnest until the late thirties. Most of the first settlers have long since passed away, but it is not unusual to meet with farmers who came to the couny about the middle of the last century and occasionally one is living who settled here long before he Civil war. It was this class who laid the foundation for Indiana's greatness and wealth, as they were men who had to struggle with the swamps and forests in all their wildness. It was the pioneer farmer who overcame these obstacles and one of them, who came before the Civil war and is still living in the enjoyment of a serene old age, is he whose name heads this sketch.
Richard Herron is a native of the Ohio
county of Tuscarawas, so noted in the days when the Buckeye state was familiar with Indian frays and all the excitement incident to those stirring times. His birth occurred May 5, 1831, his parents being Nicholas and Phebe (Tinkey) Herron, the former of Mary- land and the latter of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They were married in Ohio, in 1854 came to Indiana and settled on a farm in Noble county, where they lived until their deaths, which occurred many years ago. They had ten children : John, Richard, Da- vid, Jane. Jerome, Isaiah, Mary, Liza, Ann, Samuel and Sarah. Richard remained 011 the farm with his father until manhood and had the same kind of experience that fell to most farm boys in those days. This con- sisted of a little attendance at school, occa- sionally a diversion at a neighborhood frolic and a great deal of hard work.
In 1858, he came to Noble county, Indi- ana, where he worked as a farm hand for some years, and later as a renter until the Civil war. In 1894 he came to Whitley county and purchased a small farm in Thorn- creek township, on which he has since lived. October 26, 1854, Mr. Herron married. Sarah, daughter of John and Massie (Johnson) Le- master, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 26, 1834. Mr. and Mrs. Herron have had seven children : Martha, deceased, Malinda Ann, John Nicholas, Wesley, Wil- liam, Charles and Sella May. In February, 1865, Mr. Herron enlisted in Company E. One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in several skirmishes, but no battles of importance. . His political affiliations are Democratic. One son, Wesley, lives near and operates the farm, his daughter, Lillie May, living with his parents.
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DAVID HYRE.
The founder of the family of this name, long familiar in Whitley county, was a native of North Carolina, whence he emigrated to Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century, but in 1849 came here and settled in Thorncreek township, on the farm now owned by Colonel Rush. Wesley Hyre, such was his name, married before his departure from the Buckeye state and became the fa- ther of seven children : Aaron, Leonard, Jo- seph, Wesley, Sarah (deceased), Anna and Martha. Joseph, the third child, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, and when he grew to manhood married Jane Gnega, a na- tive of Ohio, whose parents became early settlers of Whitley county. After his mar- riage, Joseph was for several years in the saw-mill business, but later in life operated a farm that he cleared. He spent fifty-five years of his life in Thorncreek township, his death occurring March 8, 1904, at the age of sixty-four years. His old homestead of three hundred and thirty-four acres was well improved with first-class buildings. He was the father of six children: Virgil, David, Mary, wife of Charles Riley, of Thorncreek township : Emma, wife of Perry Bowerman, of Columbia City; Lydia, wife of Ernest Cotterly, of Thorncreek township; and Wil- lie, who died in childhood. The mother is a resident of Columbia City.
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