History of the Catholic church in Indiana, Volume II, Part 47

Author: Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900, ed
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Logansport, Ind., A. W. Bowen & co.
Number of Pages: 1476

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D ANIEL HURLEY, an industrious and honored citizen of Indi- anapolis, resides at No. 1208 Lexington avenue, within the limits of St. Patrick's parish, having been a resident of this parish ever since he came to the city in 1882. Mr. Hurley was born in Lancaster, Ohio, August 13, 1861. His father, Daniel Hurley, was a native of county Cork, Ireland, there grew to manhood and married Miss Ellen Higgins. About 1848 they emigrated to Can- (764)

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ada, locating in Montreal, where Mrs. Hurley died, leaving her hus- band with a son. Later Mr. Hurley removed to Washington Court House, Ohio, where he married Margaret Ring, and at length settled in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1868 both Mr. Hurley and his wife died, the former first, and the latter within a week after his death, apparently from grief at the loss of her husband. They left two sons, beside the son of the first marriage of Mr. Hurley. The two sons by Mr. Hurley's second marriage were named Daniel and John, the former the subject of this sketch, and the latter a resident of Washington Court House, Ohio.

Daniel Hurley, the subject of this sketch, after the death of his parents was taken into the family of a maternal uncle, with whom he remained until he was about seventeen years of age, at which time he began the battle of life for himself, going into the lake Superior region. There he remained a year and then returned to Washington Court House, Ohio. A year later he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Big Four Rail- way company, beginning as a fireman, and retaining this position six years. At the end of those six years he was given charge of a locomotive, which responsible position he has held ever since.

Mr. Hurley was married, in Cincinnati, to Miss Anna Stogs- dale, of St. Paul, Ind., by whom he has three children, two daughters and a son, viz: Edna, Margaret and Daniel. Beside being a faithful, careful and trusted employee of the Big Four Rail- way company, Mr. Hurley is recognized by all that know him as an intelligent and worthy citizen, and is an esteemed member of Capital council, No. 276, Young Men's institute.

DEV. ANTHONY M. ELLERING, pastor of St. Paul's church, Columbia City, Whitley county, Ind., was born in the prov- ince of Westphalia, Prussia, March 18, 1854, the first of a family of seven children born to Gerhard and Mary Anna (Esseling) Ellering, natives, also, of the same province.

Gerhard Ellering attended the parochial school of his native village of Epe until he attained the age of fifteen years, and was

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then employed in farming. He was married in Epe, in 1852, by Father Bernard Lammers, and this union was blessed with seven children, who were named in order of birth as follows: Anthony M., Henry, Bernard, Catharina, George, Joseph and Clement, all now living in Minnesota, with the exception of the Rev. Anthony M., the subject of this biography. In 1868 the family came to America, landing in New York city August 22 of that year, whence they went directly to Meire's Grove, Stearns county, Minn., where the father purchased a farm, which he cultivated until his death, which took place December 23, 1884, and where, also, his wife had died a year previous, both in the faith of the holy Catholic church-their remains being interred, side by side, in St. John's cemetery.

Rev. Anthony M. Ellering was primarily educated in a paro- chial school of his native village of Epe, Westphalia; then, after his first holy communion, he attended for two years a private Latin school, and, at the age of fifteen years, left this school to come to America with his parents. From 1874 until 1878 he attended the university at Collegeville, Minn., from which he was graduated after finishing his classical studies. From 1878 until 1880 he attended Calvary college, Fond du Lac county, Wis., from which he graduated in philosophy, and from 1880 until 1884 attended St. Francis seminary at Milwaukee, Wis., from which he was graduated in theology. He was then invested with minor orders-sub-deacon and deacon-in the seminary chapel by the late Most Rev. Archbishop Heiss, and was ordained priest at the Fort Wayne (Ind.) cathedral by the late Right Rev. Bishop Dwenger, June 1I, 1884. He then returned to the home of his parents in Minnesota, and said his first mass on St. John's day, June 24, 1884. He was appointed assistant pastor at Michigan City, Ind., the same year, and later was pastor at Warsaw, Pierce- ton and Bourbon, with his residence at Fort Wayne, and May 1, 1886, was appointed to the pastorate of St. Paul, Columbia City, having also charge of Warsaw parish. Father Ellering is an eru- dite scholar, a fine pulpit orator and a pure Christian. He has been a faithful servant of the church and has labored arduously for the advancement of the spiritual and temporal wants of his (766)

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congregation, who hold him in deep veneration, love and gratitude. Since he has had charge of St. Paul's parish he has erected a new school-house at a cost of $5,000, and made many improvements in the church property, and never tires of the good work he has at heart.

C HARLES E. HYLAND, superintendent of police, at Terre Haute, appointed by the board of metropolitan police commissioners, was born April 21, 1857, in Ashboro, Ind., a son of James and Mary Hyland, natives of county Mayo, Ireland. These parents came to the United States ten years prior to the birth of Charles E. and located in Clay county, Ind., near the village of Ashboro, where James Hyland purchased a farm, on which he resided until his death, August 14, 1864; this place is still in possession of the family, his mother, sister and brothers.

The early youth of Charles E. Hyland was passed on the home farm, and in 1871, November 9, he came to the city of Terre Haute and began learning the stonecutter's trade, at which he served a regular apprenticeship with Hanrahan & Grace, becom- ing quite proficient in the meantime. For some time after com- pleting his apprenticeship, Mr. Hyland did journey work in various places, notably among which was Washington city, D. C., where he was employed in the construction of the Washington monument, and he also assisted on the Indiana state house at Indianapolis, and the Vigo county court house at Terre Haute. Mr. Hyland was appointed patrolman on the city police force of Terre Haute February 1, 1885, was promoted sergeant July 28, 1889, and on March 14, 1891, was made captain, the duties of which position he discharged in a most efficient manner until April 1, 1897, at which time he was appointed to the position he now so ably fills, to- wit, superintendent of the metropolitan police. He was married May 30, 1887, at St. Joseph's church, by the Rev. Joseph Frewin, to Mol- lie Kelly of St. Mary's of the Woods, a union blessed with the birth of two children: Charles J. Hyland, who died in infancy, and Mar- guerite. Mr. and Mrs. Hyland are devoted members of St. Patrick's parish, Terre Haute, and in their daily lives exemplify the true faith

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which they profess. In his every relation of life, Mr. Hyland has proved a most worthy citizen, and in his official capacities the city of his adoption has never known a more capable or trustworthy public servant. He is a member of the A. O. H., uniform rank K. of P., Improved Order of Red Men, the Modern Woodmen, and the A. O. U. W.

W TILLIAM JOSEPH IMHOFF, dealer in groceries, Richmond, Ind., is, as the name implies, of German parentage, his father, Joseph Imhoff, having been born in Reeke, province of Westphalia, Germany, in May, 1818. Joseph Imhoff came to the United States in 1838, at the age of twenty, and for some time thereafter found employment as a common laborer in Cincinnati, where he lived for a period of nine years. From that city he moved, in 1853, to Richmond, Ind., making the latter place his home until 1889, in May of which year his death occurred. He was married in Cincinnati, July 18, 1846, by Father Leo, pastor of St. Joseph church, to Miss Mary Uphenbrock, who bore him eight children, whose naines are as follows: Henry, William J., Mary (wife of Henry Mille), Bernadina, Elizabeth, Louisa, Anna (wife of Herman Austerman) and Bernard, deceased. Joseph Imhoff was reared in the faith of the mother church and trained his chil- dren according to its pure teachings, all of whom, with the parents, have their names upon the records of St. Andrew's parish, Richmond.

William Joseph Imhoff was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 22, 1851. He attended the St. Andrew's school until his thir- teenth year, when he began an apprenticeship to learn the cabinet- making trade, at which he soon became quite proficient and which he followed for a little over three years. For a period of ten years he was engaged with the George H. Grant Church Furniture com- pany, Richmond, the greater part of the time as superintendent of their factory, but for some years has been identified with the com- mercial interests of Richmond as dealer in fancy groceries, etc., being one of the best known men in that line of trade in the city.

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Dryer, of Richmond, was solemnized in St. Andrew's church, May 27, 1873, by Father Hunt. To this union three children have been born: Joseph, Julius and George, all of whom are still with the parents. Mr. Imhoff and family belong to St. Andrew's par- ish, of which they are earnest and devoted members.

Gerhard Henry Imhoff, paternal grandfather of the subject, was born in Hanover, Germany, July 16, 1775, and died in Rich- mond, July 20, 1882, aged 107 years and four days.

L EANDER JACKSON, one of the leading painters and decora- tors of Terre Haute, of which city he is a native, was born August 8, 1851, the son of Benjamin Brice and Margaret (Dibley) Jackson, both parents natives of Indiana. The subject's ancestors, on both sides, came from the eastern part of the United States in a very early day, and were among the pioneers of the Hoosier state. Benjamin B. Jackson died when his son, the subject of this sketch, was seven years old, leaving a widow and four children, all of whom are living at this time.

Leander Jackson was reared in Terre Haute, received a com- mon school education, and, at the age of nine, went to live with an uncle in Wisconsin, in whose family he remained three years, returning at the end of the time to his native city, where he began to learn the trade of painting and decorating. He soon became quite proficient in his chosen calling and followed it, working for different parties, until about the year 1874, when he began con- tracting, which he has since continued on quite an extensive scale in Terre Haute and other cities. He does all kinds of house paint- ing, graining, frescoing, and general work in his line, giving em- ployment to quite a number of men during the busy seasons. His present place of business, number 413 Ohio street, he opened in 1893, and his trade, already large and lucrative, is constantly increasing.

Mr. Jackson was united in marriage in the year 1874 to Mar- garet Monaghan, of Terre Haute, who was born in Canada, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Monaghan-a union blessed with

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the birth of seven children: Frederick, Thomas, Leander, Cather- ine, Laura, Mary, and Emma. Mr. Jackson and family are members of St. Joseph parish, in which they are highly respected. To them the interests of religion are paramount; the parents make their own lives correspond to its precepts and spare no reasonable pains in impressing upon the minds of their children the necessity of making their lives measure to the true standard of faith as laid down by the holy church.

Mr. Jackson is a member of branch No. 630, C. K. A., of which he is president and acting treasurer, and he also belongs to the Ancient Order Hibernians and the Y. M. I.

OSEPH L. INDERRIEDEN, proprietor of the Fairview Ex- J change, a restaurant at the corner of Hickman street and Fairview avenue, Vincennes, Ind., was born in Teutopolis, Effing- ham county, Ill., August 11, 1843. His father, Francis Inderrieden, was a native of the grand duchy of Altenberg, Germany, and his mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Ann Rabe, was born in Hanover. They both came to America in 1836, and in 1839 were married in the Fifth street (Trinity) church at Cincinnati, and lived in Cincinnati up to 1842, when Francis C. Inderrieden was born.

Francis Inderrieden passed eighteen years of his early man- hood as a seafaring man, and later became a hairworker. After his marriage he lived seven years in Cincinnati, Ohio, then a year in St. Louis, Mo., and then went to Effingham county, Ill. In 1846 he brought his family to Vincennes, Ind. His wife died in 1852, the mother of seven children, of whom two only reached mature years-our subject and Francis C .- and of these the latter died September 12, 1877, in his thirty-fourth year, leaving the sub- ject as the sole survivor of the family. The father in his later years retired from the farm, and died March 14, 1894.

Joseph L. Inderrieden was educated in St. John's parochial school, Vincennes, his tutor being his maternal grandfather. John Rabe, who had taught for thirty years in Muhlen, Germany, and whose brother, Father Rabe, was priest in charge of a church in (770)

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the same place for sixty years. After leaving school, subject learned the baker's trade, in which he was employed at the time of his enlistment, in 1862, in battery A, First Ohio artillery, at Cleveland. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Carters- ville, Franklin and others, but, being a baker, was placed on detached duty, and given charge of the government bakery at Chattanooga for six months, and was later employed in a similar position in Nashville, and finally was honorably discharged after a service of three years and eight months.

Mr. Inderrieden was united in marriage, November 2, 1865, with Miss Elizabeth Sophia Buecker, who was born February 2, 1845, in Reisenbach, Prussia. Her parents, Victor and Annie Katherine (Buch) Buecker, started for America with their two children when Mrs. Inderrieden was eighteen months old, but the father died on the voyage and the mother located in Cincinnati with her son, Leo A., who is now engaged in cigarmaking. The mother died at the home of our subject, in Vincennes, January 29, 1886. To Mr. and Mrs. Inderreiden have been born ten children, of whom eight are still living, viz: Leo Frank, Nora (Mrs. Thomas Hayes), Joseph C., Clara A., Almo A., Benjamin J., Annie Dora and Oliver C .; the deceased were named Victor Arthur and Fannie Mary. The eldest son, Leo Frank, is a clerk in Vincennes, Jo- seph C. is a plumber, and Almo A. is a machinist; the others all live under the parental roof. Mr. Inderrieden has been quite success- ful as a business man, having carried on bakeries in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky., and in 1870 returned permanently to Vincennes, Ind. Here he engaged in the restaurant business, to which he has since devoted his undivided attention, and he is now the owner of a fine brick business block, beside his residence. In politics he is a republican, and has served six years as a member of the Vincennes city council. Fraternally he is noble grand of Wabash lodge, No. 20, I. O. O. F., also a member of lodge No. 192, B. & P. O. E., and of the I. O. R. M., having been a repre- sentative to the grand lodge of the latter order. He is very popu- lar in all his society relations and also with the general public, being free and generous in his disposition and liberal in all his views.

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M RS. MARY G. PRENATT has been a resident of Madison, Ind., since August, 1848, and is one of the oldest members of St. Mi- chael's church, of this city. She was born in Lorraine, France, in 1813, bore the maiden name of Seymour, and came to the United States in 1832, and for some years made her home in Pittsburg, Pa. She there met and was married to Francis Prenatt, who was born on the banks of the river Rhine and had preceded Miss Seymour to America by a few years. This union was blessed with seven children, viz: Adaline, who is married to John Mullen and resides in Madison; Elizabeth, who was married to William Eckert, but, with her husband, is now deceased, leaving three children; William died in infancy; Sadie is the wife of Daniel Dougherty; Nettie is married to Charles Green, and lives in St. Louis, Mo .; Mary died in infancy, and Francis died a married man.

Mr. Prenatt was a wholesale and retail liquor dealer in Pitts- burg, Pa., and did a very extensive business. He came to Madi- son in 1848, and here entered upon the same line of business, which he successfully followed until his death, in August, 1867, in the faith of the holy Catholic church. He was a liberal contribu- tor to the support of St. Michael's, of which he had been a mem- ber many years, and was active in advancing all matters for the good of his church and its congregation. He was of a charitable disposition, and ever ready to help the needy or unfortunate, irre- spective of creed and nationality, and died an honored man. His widow is a lady of many womanly virtues and enjoys the respect of all who have the happiness of being acquainted with her.

JACOB JAHN, the representative of the Toledo (Ohio) Finlay Brewing company at South Bend, Ind., and a pioneer member of St. Mary's church, in the same city, was born in the town of Castellum, Prussia, August 1, 1850, a son of Jacob and Susanna ( Welche) Jahn. Jacob Jahn, the father, was born in 1820, was educated in the parochial schools of his native town, and later learned the trade of shoemaking, which he followed until death (772)

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called him away in 1868; the mother, who was born in 1818, is now living with our subject in South Bend, a venerated member of the Catholic church.

Jacob Jahn, the subject of this sketch, was educated in a parochial school, which he attended in his native village until fif- teen years of age, and then learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed in the old country until 1872, when he embarked to. America, in company with his mother and his brothers, Charles. and Joseph, and, after a passage of three weeks' duration, landed in New York city, whence they all came immediately to South Bend, Ind. Mr. Jahn here secured employment with the Singer Sewing Machine company, with which he remained eight years, and in 1880 engaged in the grocery trade, which he conducted until 1890, when he accepted the agency of the Finlay Brewing company, of Toledo, Ohio, to which he has ever since devoted his time and attention.

The marriage of Mr. Jahn took place in St. Joseph's church, Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, Ind., June 29, 1879, to Miss Bar- bara Gill, Rev. Father Oechtering being the officiating clergyman. Of the five children that have blessed this union three still live, who are named Theressa, Louisa and Josephine, all three of whom have been reared in the parochial school of St. Mary, at South Bend. Mr. Jahn was one of the organizers of St. John's society, of South Bend, March 25, 1879, was its first recording secretary and is now its president, and has been one of its strongest pillars ever since its incipiency. He is also a member of council No. 701, Catholic Knights of America, at South Bend, and is the recording secretary of this council. As a member of St. Mary's German Catholic church he has been especially ardent and active, has served as secretary and treasurer of the congregation, and has also served as a member of its most important secular committees. He- was a potent factor in causing the erection of the present house of worship and in the erection of the parsonage and school-building, and has ever used his best efforts in advancing the good work of St. Mary's pastors and congregation. He is an honored citizen, and well deserves the high respect in which he is held in both social and church circles.

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M ICHAEL A. JACOB, a well-known educator of Brookville,

Ind., and an ex-soldier of the Civil war, was born November 7, 1844, in Highland township, Franklin county, four miles south of Brookville, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Kuhn) Jacob.

Peter Jacob was born in Overnburg parish, Bavaria, Germany, in 1808, came to America in 1837, landing at Baltimore, whence he went overland to Wheeling, W. Va., and thence down the ·Ohio river to Cincinnati, and from there came to Indiana, where he settled at Blue Creek, Franklin county, where for two or three years he worked on the Whitewater canal, and also, for a short time, at stonecutting. In 1841 he bought a farm on Blue creek, and in 1842 married, at Wolf Creek, Ind., Miss Margaret Kuhn, who was born in Bavaria in 1818, the marriage resulting in the birth of nine children, of whom five are still living, viz: John A., two and a half miles east of Brookville; Mary, wife of William Rieger, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Barbara Margaret, widow of Joseph Groh, of the same city; Minnie Elizabeth, wife of John Vosmeier, .of Richmond, Ind., and Michael A., the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Margaret Jacob passed away in 1859, and Peter Jacob mar- ried, in June, 1861, Mrs. Catharine Bernhart, née Holz, and con- tinued his farming, teaching school during the winter months, until his own death, which occurred in 1875, when his remains were laid beside those of his wife in St. Philomena cemetery, Wolf Creek.

Michael A. Jacob attended public school until eleven years of age, and then, for three months, the parochial school at St. Peter's, Ind. He was then apprenticed to the cooper's trade, which he fol- lowed until August 23, 1862, when he enlisted, under Capt. J. M. Cresswell, at Brookville, in the Eighty-third Indiana volunteer infantry. He served at Memphis, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlan- ta, in Sherman's march to the sea and in the Carolinas, and in many skirmishes and battles, and at Vicksburg, Miss., July 2, 1863, was seriously injured by the bursting of a shell, two feet from his side. He was honorably discharged June 3rd, 1865, and on returning to Franklin county followed carpentering solely until 1877, since which year he has been teaching school on Blue creek during the winter months. He is also correspondent for several newspapers, making his headquarters in Brookville. He is a devout Catholic,

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and was made a trustee of St. Michael's church in 1894. He is also a member of St. Michael's Men's society, was made secretary of St. Joseph's school society in 1888, and is now its president. He is greatly respected by the citizens of Brookville, but still insists on remaining a bachelor.

R EV. EDWARD JAKOB, C. PP. S., formerly pastor of the Church of the Most Precious Blood, of Wanatah, Laporte county, Ind., was born in Ohio in 1859, was educated in Mercer county by the Precious Blood community, was ordained priest in 1883, and was sent as a missionary to Missouri, where he remained six years; he next passed two years in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., then four years in New Riegel, Ohio, and several years in Versailles and at Frenchtown mission, in the same state, working faithfully and zealously in the cause of the church. In February, 1897, he was appointed to the church of the Precious Blood, at Wanatah, which also includes the performance of divine service in the mis- Sions of Shimmels, Hamlet and Walkerton, and notwithstanding the onerous nature of his duties, he performed them well and cheerfully and to the incalculable benefit of the parish and missions. He is very much devoted to his work for the church, to the promo- tion of whose interests he has devoted his life energies, and has been most successful in advancing the spiritual and temporal wel- fare of his parishioners, in his former parishes, as well as in his present mission at St. Augustine's at Rensselaer, Jasper county, in charge of which he was placed February 1, 1898.

GNATIUS JARBOE, a prominent citizen of Brazil, Clay county, I and a worthy member of the church of the Annunciation, was born in Vigo county, Ind., near St. Mary's, August 14, 1841.

Peter Jarboe, father of Ignatius, was a native of Kentucky, and, as nearly as can be ascertained, his parents were born in Maryland and were of French descent. Peter married, in Ken-

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tucky, about 1826, Miss Anne Elder, a native of the state, and to this union were born fourteen children, of whom the names of those who reached maturity will be enumerated further on. In 1842 Mr. and Mrs. Jarboe came to Indiana and settled in the town- ship of Sugar Creek, Vigo county, where Mr. Jarboe entered a tract of government land and followed farming until his death, which took place in St. Mary's, in February, 1874, his wife having been called away some years previously. Mr. Jarboe was a typical pio- neer, an esteemed citizen and an altogether worthy gentleman. Of the fourteen children alluded to above, ten reached adult age, of whom five are deceased, and were named as follows: John, who. died when about twenty-two years old; William, who located in Brazil about 1866, was identified with the early history of the church of the Annunciation, and died at the age of fifty-eight years, leaving a wife and daughter; Celestine died at Carbondale, Ill., at the age of about forty-eight years; Stanislaus, the youngest of the sons, served in the war of the Rebellion as a member of the First Indiana infantry, and lost his life in a gunboat engagement near New Orleans, in the early part of the war, when he was about twenty-one years of age; Mrs. Susan Murphy died in Terre Haute, Ind., several years ago. The five surviving children are: Mrs. Martha Michael, of St. Mary's; Mrs. Mary Aue and Mrs. Philomena Ross, of the same place; Simon, of Dayton, Ohio, and Ignatius, whose name stands at the head of this biographical mention.

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History of the Catholic church in Indiana, Volume II, Part 47

Author: Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900, ed Publication date: 1898 Publisher: Logansport, Ind., A. W. Bowen & co. Number of Pages: 1476

Author: Blanchard, Charles, fl. 1882-1900, ed
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Logansport, Ind., A. W. Bowen & co.
Number of Pages: 1476