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indebtedness of every parish of which he has had charge. As a pastor, he has ever enjoyed the warm affection of his flock, and this is manifested to a marked degree in his present charge.
H ENRY H. TORLINE, a highly respected farmer of Addison township, Shelby county, Ind., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 19, 1837, a son of Bernard H. and Adelaide (Grimme) Torline, natives of Germany.
Bernard H. Torline, a son of Dirk and Anna Mary (Bamker) Torline, was born in the parish of Bersenbrueck, Hanover, Ger- many, August 11, 1805, and in 1835 brought his wife to America. They located in Cincinnati, where the father was employed in a printing office as a common laborer until 1841, when he removed to Enochsburg, Franklin county, Ind., and engaged in farming. His was the third Catholic family to settle near Enochsburg, and he, in conjunction with eight others, built the first Catholic church in Enochsburg. He was united in marriage, in his native parish, November 9, 1834, with Miss Adelaide Grimme, who was born August 5, 1806, a daughter of Herman H. and Maria A. (Zum- berge) Grimme, and this union was blessed with eight children, viz: Richard, the eldest, died in Germany; Henry H., whose name opens this article; Elizabeth, who is married to Joseph Goke; Josephine, wife of Frederick Schroeder; John A., of Kansas; Caro- line died October 9, 1897; Frank and Zeta, deceased-all born in America, with the exception of the eldest. The mother of this family passed away May 5, 1881; the father, who was a small man, full of fire and energy, died March 24, 1894, his remains being interred in St. John's parish, at Enochsburg. He had been a very industrious and successful farmer, and left, at the time of his death, 122 acres of well-cultivated land, earned entirely by his own exer- tions. He was greatly respected throughout his township and he and wife were devout and true Catholics, in which faith their chil- dren were all baptized.
Henry H. Torline was but four years of age when his parents settled in Franklin county. He attended public school until twelve
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years old, and then assisted on the home farm until twenty-one. January 9, 1859, he there married Miss Mary Ann Bommann, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 19, 1840, a daughter of Joseph and Gertrude (Weldaur) Bommann, who came from Ger- many-the former born in Ankum and the later in Oldenburg, and who, after residing in Cincinnati a short time, located near Mr. Torline's farm in Franklin county-pioneers of the Catholic church. For a year after marriage Henry H. Torline continued to reside in Franklin county, then lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1862, engaged in general work, when he returned to Franklin county, purchased a sixty-five-acre farm, on which he lived one year, then came to Shelby county in 1863, and for five years engaged in contracting for cord-wood supplies for railroad companies. In 1867 he bought a farm of 143 acres in Sugar Creek township, this county, on which he made his home until September, 1884, when he bought the fifteen-acre lot on which he now lives, within the sight of Shelbyville.
Mr. and Mrs. Torline are members of St. Joseph's congrega- tion, she being a member of the Altar society. They have been blessed with no children of their own, but have reared five orphans, viz: Mrs. John Bogeman, née Anna Schaffer, and Emma, Eva, Rachel and Altie Holton (all four of the same family). These children were not born in the Catholic faith, but have been con- verted and are now consistent members of St. Joseph's church. In politics Mr. Torline is a democrat and has served three years as county commissioner and held other local offices. He and wife are highly respected members of society, are liberal in their con- tributions to the support of their church, and are greatly esteemed for the genuine charity and benevolence of their dispositions.
R EV. JOHN TREMMEL, the beloved pastor of St. Joseph's church, at Covington, Fountain county, Ind., was born in Fort Wayne, August 29, 1866, a son of John and Josephine (Kel- liger) Tremmel, natives of Germany and Switzerland respectively. He attended the parochial schools of Fort Wayne until 1881, and (1338)
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then entered St. Lawrence college, from which he was graduated in the classical course in 1886; he next attended St. Francis semi- nary in Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1887 entered the Theological sem- inary at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he concluded his studies in theol- ogy, and was ordained priest June 13, 1890. His first appoint- ment was as assistant to Rev H. M. Plaster at Hammond, Ind .; he was next placed in charge at LaGro, Ind., and in January, 1891, was appointed to his present pastorate of St. Joseph's, which also includes the mission at Veedersburg.
Rev. Father Tremmel is a well educated gentleman, a pious clergyman, and a zealous worker in the holy faith; he has made many warm friends in Covington, composed of both Catholics and Protestants, who respect him not only for his fidelity to his charge, but for his gentle demeanor, gracious manners and naturally ami- able personal characteristics.
JOHN TROXLER, for many years in the harness business at Jasper, Ind., is a son of Joseph and Mary (Block) Troxler, and was born in Dubois county November 21, 1843, was raised on his- father's farm, attended the common schools, and at the age of thirty years engaged in his present business, which he has contin- ued ever since. He was married to Miss Mary Kraus, a daughter of Charles Kraus of Jasper, May 26, 1874, and of the four children that blessed this union three are still living, viz: Helen R., Charles A. and Ellen N. The family are members of St. Joseph's church, and faithful their duties. Mr. Troxler is temperate and industrious and has won the esteem of all who know him, and his family enjoy with him the respect of the community.
T THOMAS J. TULEY, an eminent attorney at law, Logansport, Ind., and a member of St. Joseph's church, was born in Jeffer- son county, Ky., August 8, 1844, a son of Preston F. and Mary C. (Woodruff) Tuley-the latter a daughter of Judge Seth Woodruff
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and born in Elizabeth, N. J., and her death taking place in New Albany, Ind., August 7, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine years-the Woodruff family being of Welsh ancestry.
Preston F. Tuley was born in Louisville, Ky., January 10, 1800, and was a son of William Floyd Tuley, a native of Virginia, who served with Col. John Floyd in the early Indian wars of Ken- tucky, and was killed in a fight with the redskins at Floyd's Forks. Charles Tuley, father of William F. Tuley, was also a native of Virginia, was of French extraction, was a soldier of the war of the Revolution and in some of the early Indian wars, and married Elizabeth Floyd, a sister of ex-Gov. John Floyd, of Virginia. Preston F. Tuley was reared a merchant in Louisville, moved to Indiana, was a very popular democrat, and served his party as sheriff of Floyd county and also as a member of the state legisla- ture. He settled in New Albany, Ind., where he continued mer- chandizing, and also managed several farms belonging to his wife, and died March 24, 1851, leaving a family of eight children, viz: William W., who was a lawyer by profession, served in the war with Mexico as chief clerk in the quartermaster's department for two years, and later became colonel in the Indiana militia; he also served as city clerk of New Albany, and for nine years was county clerk of Floyd county; George W. was a carpenter and steamboat- cabinet worker, later became a farmer, and is now living in retire- ment in New Albany; Edward P., who was born February 11, 1829, was a dealer in harness and saddlery at Uniontown, Ky., but when the Civil war broke out located in New Albany, Ind., where his death took place January 17, 1889; Charles Preston was a farmer in Floyd county, Ind., and died in August, 1877; Benjamin F. was for a number of years a steamboat carpenter and clerk, was from 1872 to 1878 deputy clerk of Floyd county, later was in the saw-mill and lumber business, and was called away April 1, 1884; Priscilla B. became the wife of Col. Thomas D. Sedgwick, and passed to her final rest, at New Albany, March 16, 1872, at the age of thirty-five years; Seth W. has been a clerk in the post- office department at Washington, D. C., and Thomas J., the youngest member of the family, is the gentleman whose name opens this biographical record.
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Thomas J. Tuley was an infant when his parents removed from Kentucky to New Albany, Ind., and still a small boy when his father was called away. He received his primary education in the common schools and then attended private schools in New Albany, and later entered the law department of the State uni- versity at Bloomington, Ind., and at the age of seventeen years entered the county clerk's office at New Albany, where he served three years as deputy, and later served in the same capacity at Rockport, Ind., although he practically had charge of the office for several months. In the fall of 1865, at the request of his cousin, Judge M. F. Tuley, of Chicago, he went to that city and studied law in the office of the judge until admitted to the bar in 1870, when he became a partner of his preceptors (Barker & Tuley), and carried on a law business until the great fire of 1871, when he lost his all. He then returned to New Albany, Ind., and practiced in the office of his brother, also doing newspaper and other literary work until January, 1875, when he came to Logans- port. Here he soon established an excellent practice, but from 1878 until 1881 was a member of the firm of McConnell & Tuley; he has since been alone, doing a general law business, but giving his especial attention to courts of equity, in which he has frequently served as judge pro tem.
In politics Mr. Tuley is a democrat, filled the office of city attorney for nearly four years, and has also served in other posi- tions of trust and honor.
Mr. Tuley was reared a Protestant, his maternal grandfather, Woodruff, having been a minister as well as a judge, and Mr. Tuley's early education was antagonistic to Catholicism, but a conversation with Mrs. Gen. William T. Sherman unbiased his mind, and after five years of study and investigation he became converted to the faith and was admitted to the church by Father Koehne in 1875.
January 13, 1876, Mr. Tuley was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Rush, daughter of Dr. William P. Rush, of Edinburg, Ind., and a granddaughter of Elihu Stout, a pioneer of Vincennes, Ind., and the publisher of the first newspaper issued in the state. Mrs. Tuley was reared a Catholic, her mother having been also a
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convert to the faith. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Tuley was blessed with one child, Mary Agnes, who is now a student at Mount Aloysius academy at Cresson, Pa., but the mother was called to her heavenly home November 10, 1883.
Fraternally Mr. Tuley was the first council commander of the Woodmen of the World, in the state of Indiana, and served three terms. As has been intimated, he has paid considerable attention to literary work, being a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, and it was his pen that indited all the editorials pub- lished in the Shamrock, at Logansport, on St. Patrick's day, 1877. He has quite a lucrative law practice, which is constantly aug- menting, owns considerable real estate in Floyd county, Ind., and is a gentleman who commands the respect and esteem of all with whom he becomes acquainted.
JOHN ULRICH, a druggist of Aurora, Dearborn county, chief J of the fire department and trustee of the Immaculate Conception church, is a son of Frank and Mary Kindscherf) Ulrich, of Baden, Germany, who came to the United States in 1851, and located in New Orleans, La. They then lived five years in Petersburg, Ky., then located at Lawrenceburg, Ind., and came to Aurora, Ind., in 1861. The father worked at the cooper trade in Aurora until 1890.
John Ulrich, the subject, was born November 13, 1860, in Petersburg, Ky. He attended the common schools, and at the age of thirteen learned the cooper trade, which he worked at until he was sixteen years old. He then engaged in his present business under Mr. Leibecks for five years; then returned to the cooper business on account of poor health for five years; then purchased the Leibeck drug stock and removed it to his present place, corner of Second and Main streets, and carries a stock now valued at about $6,000. He was married to Helen Nees, a daughter of J. A. Nees, of Aurora, on May 10, 1882, and five children have blessed this union, viz: Willie, George, Leonia, Arlie and Helen, all members of St. Mary's church. He owns his own place of business, is a member and president of Aurora commandery, No. 232, and is one of the most enterprising and popular citizens of Aurora.
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R EV. FRANCIS XAVIER UNTERREITMEIER, assistant priest of St. John the Baptist's Catholic church of Vincennes, Ind., was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 30, 1867, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Wimmer) Unterreitmeier, the former of whom is a carpenter and builder in the village of Altfraunhofen, where the parents now reside. Father Unterreitmeier is the only surviving son born to his parents, but has two married sisters still living in Bavaria. A maternal uncle, Rev. Lawrence Wimmer, is a priest in Germany, and subject and he are the only members of the fam- ily in church orders.
Father Unterreitmeier received his elementary education in his native country, and when between seventeen and eighteen years of age came alone to America. He began his academic education at St. Vincent's abbey, Westmoreland county, Pa., and at the Brothers' school, Dayton, Ohio, attending the latter but a short time, and completed his collegiate course at St. Benedict's abbey, Atchison, Kans .; his philosophical and theological studies were pursued at St. Meinrad, Ind., and November 3, 1894, he was ordained priest at the St. Francis Xavier cathedral in Vincennes, by Bishop Chatard, when he at once entered upon the duties of his present office, which have been almost wholly performed by him- self, owing to the physical disability of his superior, Rev. Father Merz (now deceased). With commendable humility, but with pious vigor and zeal, Father Unterreitmeir, never tires in his duty, and his whole heart is devoted to the welfare of his congregation and the good of the church.
R EV. JOHN B. UNVERZAGT, pastor of St. Maurice's church, Decatur county, Ind., is a native of Baden, Germany, and was born October 10, 1834. He studied seven years in the college at Freiburg, and two years in the university of Freiburg, then entered the Jesuit order in 1857, and in 1860 was sent to Lyons, France, and in 1866 was sent to New Orleans, La. In 1868 he was dis- patched to Constantine, Africa, and there attended the French and Irish missions. In 1870 he was forced to leave as a Prussian spy,
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and was appointed military chaplain to 15,000 French prisoners at Rastadt, Baden.
In November, 1871, he came to the southern diocese of Indi- ana. His first appointment here was at Leopold, Perry county, in 1872, and whilst there, he relieved his church of bankruptcy, paid the entire debt and furnished the church. In 1877 he started St. Mark's parish, in the same county, and was the first resident priest. Here he erected the parsonage and supplied the church with all necessary paraphernalia, and after twenty months was sent to Bloomington, Ind., and there finished the St. Charles Bor- romeo church in 1879. During the same time he infused new life and vigor in St. Vincent's parish, at Bedford, Lawrence county, and began the erection of the rectory, having likewise the charge of this parish.
In 1883 he was sent to Newcastle, Henry county, and remained there until 1885. At Troy, Father Unverzagt next had charge of the parish of St. Pius. Whilst there he paid the debts which had been incurred, purchased three new bells at a cost of $530, erected a tower clock at a cost of $1,000, and the other general improve- ments made aggregated $500.
January 28, 1891, Father Unverzagt came to his charge in St. Maurice parish, and made a record for himself as priest which he may be proud of. He has paid $900 debts, frescoed the church in 1892, at a cost of $416, furnished new pews, costing $400, and a new organ, in 1893, at a cost of $375. Besides the above he has placed in new stone walks, and repaired the Sisters' home. The total of work he has accomplished whilst the priest of St. Maurice will amount to at least $3,000. The number of families in the parish is fifty-two and the souls 255. The parish is in a healthy finan- cial state, and Father Unverzagt has guided the church through with that fortitude which is one of his cardinal characteristics. ' The records of St. Maurice have been carefully compiled and written up by the Reverend pastor, and are, in fact, more than usually com- plete. Father Unverzagt will soon establish the Franciscan Sis- ters in charge of the schools, and this action will prove an impor- tant factor in the success of the church. The value of St. Maurice's property is placed at $20,000.
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R EV. JOSEPH UPHAUS, pastor of St. Peter's church, Wina- mac, Pulaski county, was born in Putnam county, Ind., was a school-teacher in his youth, and was educated for the priesthood at the Carthagenian school of the Precious Blood. January 17, 1873, he was one of the first to be ordained by Bishop Dwenger. He received his first charge as pastor of the church of the Assump- tion, at Nashville, Tenn., where he built the parsonage at a cost of $3,600, remained two and a half years, and was then for three years at St. Joseph's college in California. His next charge was that at Maria Stein, Mercer county, Ohio, or at St. John the Bap- tist's, of that place. In 1879 he was transferred to New Corydon, Jay county, Ind., where he erected Trinity church and also the. schools in 1885, and also built a church in Jefferson township, in Adams county. After eight years of arduous and faithful, as well as fruitful, work at New Corydon, Father Uphaus was returned to Nashville, Tenn., and from Nashville came to Winamac at the date mentioned above, where his labors have met with abundant success, and where he has won the heartfelt love of his congregation.
DETER VAN HUFFEL, patternmaker of the South Bend Foundry company, and a leading member of the Belgian Catholic congregation at South Bend, Ind., was born in Hans- beke, province of Eastvlander, Belgium, in February, 1847, and is a son of Leo and Victoria (Van Vooren) Van Huffel, who were born in 1808 and 1811, respectively.
Leo Van Huffel attended a parochial school in his native country until fifteen years of age, and was then apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade; was married, in 1841, at St. Peter's church, in Hansbeke, by Father Bullens, and had born to him six children, in the following order: Isadore, Peter (the subject), Serfhine, Emanuel, Octave and Prudence. In 1873 he brought his family to America, landing in New York and thence coming direct to Mishawaka, Ind., where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1891, in which year his wife also died, both in the Catholic faith, and their remains now rest side by side in St. Joseph's cemetery.
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Peter Van Huffel attended the parochial schools of Belgium until nineteen years old, then learned blacksmithing, and in 1873 came to Mishawaka with his parents, and remained with them until their decease in 1891, when he came to South Bend, and has been connected with the South Bend Foundry company as general foreman in different departments. He was first married in Hans- beke, Belgium, in 1877, to Miss Clemency DeFrees, who died in November, 1889. In January, 1891, he was next united in mat- rimony, in Mishawaka, by Rev. A. B. Oechtering, with Miss The- ressa Ersert, and this union has been blessed with two children- Benedict and William. Mr. Van Huffel is a member of Father Paanakker's congregation, and is recognized as one of its leading and progressive members. He is a steady-going, temperate and industrious citizen, and is well deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by all who know him.
JOSEPH HENRY VOGLEWEDE, one of the substantial Ger- J man American citizens of Decatur, was born on the paternal estate near this city, August 19, 1847. Garret Voglewede, his father, was born in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, in the year 1818, and came to the United States when a young man, locating near Decatur, Ind., where he purchased a small farm of forty acres and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He added to his original purchase from time to time, until he became the owner of a large and valuable real estate, on which he resided until his death, December 18, 1887. He was married in Decatur, in 1845, to Mary Holthouse, who bore him nine children: Joseph Henry, whose name introduces this sketch; Mary, who became the wife of Henry Myers; Garret, a farmer; John W., a citizen of Decatur; Katie, wife of Michael Towhey, of Lima, Ohio; Lucy, wife of J. Glutting; Anthony, who resides on the old homestead; Lewis, in Decatur, and Anna, deceased. Mr. Voglewede, being one of the first pioneers of the Catholic church in Adams county, did much toward introducing his religion in the new and sparsely settled country. He gave much of his time and contributed liberally of (1346)
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this means to the accomplishment of this object, and lived to see his faith permanently planted among the communities of Decatur and country adjacent.
Joseph Henry Voglewede spent his early years assisting his father on the farm, attending, in the meantime, such schools as the neighborhood afforded, and on attaining his majority, entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the shoemaker's trade. In 1872 he engaged in the boot and shoe trade, in addition to manufacturing, in which he has since continued, his place of business being one of the best known establishments of the kind in the city.
Mr. Voglewede and Mary Meiber were united in marriage October 22, 1872, by Father Von Schwedler, the ceremony being solemnized in St. Mary's church. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Voglewede: Charles, Clara, Clemons, Florence and Bertha (twins), Mary, Agnes, Rosa and Bernard. Mr. Voglewede has served as trustee of St. Mary's parish, and, at this time, is a member of the C. B. L .; Mrs. Voglewede is a mem- ber of St. Mary's society, and both are active in the work of the church.
REV. JOSEPH VILLINGER, O. S. B., pastor of St. Boniface parish, Fulda, Ind., is a native of Switzerland and was born July 10, 1847. Father Joseph was primarily educated in the parochial schools of his native place, canton Aargau, and after- ward he made his classical studies at the colleges of Einsiedeln and Larnen in 1865-71.
In November, 1871, he sailed from Havre, France, arrived at St. Meinrad, Ind., November 21, where he entered in the novitiate of the Benedictine order December 8, 1871. After the novitiate, January 6, 1872, he made his philosophical and theological studies. He was ordained by Bishop Chatard at Ferdinand June 15, 1879, and his first work was as assistant priest at Ferdinand and at Jas- per from June, 1879, to August, 1881. He then taught St. Mein- rad's college and did missionory work in the parishes until 1890. From October 17, 1890, until the present time he has been the ·efficient pastor at Fulda, Ind. During his administration he has
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erected the Sisters' house and made improvements in the church to the amount of $4, 500 without incurring any debt. The school numbers about ninety-five pupils, taught by two Benedictine Sis- ters. The membership of the parish is eighty families or about 400 souls.
R EV. RAYMOND VERNIMONT, pastor of the church of the Most Precious Blood, at Wanatah, Laporte county, Ind., was born in Seneca county, Ohio, October 13, 1856, and is a son of Charlemagne and Mary (Lafontaine) Vernimont. He was educated in Carthagena, Ohio, and June 29, 1885, was ordained at Cincin- nati by Archbishop Elder. He was first assigned to Newport, Ohio, where he labored assiduously until 1887, when he was transferred to Russia, in Shelby county, of the same state, where, until 1890, his labors met with abundant reward. He was next placed in charge of St. Francis hospital at Cincinnati, where he remained three years, and was then returned to Russia, Ohio, where his work, for three and a half years, was as successful as it had been during his first charge at that place. He then officiated a few months in Mercer county, Ohio, and in September, 1897, was given charge of his present parish in Wanatah, where he has won the deep affection of his parishioners and the sincere respect of many persons outside the pale of his church.
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