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be recorded in the minutes of this lodge, a copy be given to his de- voted mother and sister, and the altar and the jewels, where he has so often met with the craft, be draped in mourning. Respectfully submitted, F. W. Wilson, Elwood Morris, S. A. Macdonald, com- mittee."
David J. Hoerner, deceased, many years one of the prominent bakers of the city of Richmond, was born in Waldenburg, Ger- many, Feb. 12, 1830. His parents spent their entire lives in the Fatherland, the father dying during the early childhood of David J. and thus leaving to his wife the care of their little son and a daughter. The latter, grown to womanhood, became Mrs. Chris- tina Rist, of Dayton, Ohio, and is deceased. At an early age David J. Hoerner began preparation for the ministry, pursuing his studies 'in Waldenburg and later at Stuttgart until after his majority, but his financial circumstances were limited, and finding it very diffi- cult to meet his expenses he followed his uncle's advice to abandon his studies and take up some trade. Accordingly, he began learn- ing the baker's trade, beginning his apprenticeship in the Father- land. In 1854, however, he determined to try his fortune in America, and crossing the Atlantic took up his residence in Day- ton, Ohio, where he completed his apprenticeship in the bakery establishment of the firm of Bosler & Bowman. In 1855 Mr. Hloer- ner removed to Richmond, where he began business on his own account, establishing the second enterprise of the kind in the city, his predecessor being William Mason. He began operations on a small scale at No. 13 South Fifth street, but his trade constantly increased in volume and importance until it had assumed extensive proportions. The quality of his goods, his evident desire to please his patrons, and his straightforward dealings won for him a very marked success, and many years be maintained the leadership in his line in this section of the State. At the time of the war, in 1862 and 1863, he furnished bread and other bakery goods for a regiment of soldiers encamped at Richmond. He was one of the first cracker manufacturers in the city. These goods were at first made by hand, but after a time, owing to the great demand, he in- creased his facilities by putting in the most improved machinery used in the manufacture of crackers, and his trade was then ex- tended over many of the adjoining States. Ile carried on a gen- eral bakery business and prosperity attended his well directed efforts. He was solicited to join the United States Baking Com- pany when the great combine was formed, but refused and carried on an independent business until 1892, when he retired, being snc- ceeded in the enterprise by his sons. Mr. Hoerner was a man of excellent business and executive ability, of keen discrimination, sound judgment and capable management. He did not limit his efforts to one line of business, but encouraged many enterprises that promoted the commercial activity of the city and promoted some by his financial assistance and his advice. Hle was at one time a large stockholder and a director in the Richmond National Bank, which for a considerable period was one of the substantial institutions of the city, but which afterward failed, Mr. Hoerner
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losing considerable money thereby. He was also one of the organ- izers of the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company, was chosen its first president, and served in that capacity until his death. His reputation in all trade transactions was above question and to an unusual degree he enjoyed the confidence and regard of those with whom he was brought in contact through business dealings. In 1892, accompanied by his wife, he went abroad, visiting the prin- cipal cities of France, England and Germany, also the places of historic interest, and the beautiful scenes for which those countries are famed. In 1855 Mr. Hoerner was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Markwart, a native of Germany, but at the time of her marriage a resident of Dayton, Ohio. They had two sons: Charles M., born Oct. 19, 1857, is now living in Richmond, connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio railway offices, and David F., born April 17, 1860, married Mamie Vincent, died in the West, Jan. 18, 1884, and his widow resides in Richmond. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Hoerner was married, May 4. 1862, to Miss Catherine Leab, daughter of John and Christina ( Ream) Leab, of near Cen- terville, and of this union were born eight children: Magdalena Christina, born March 11, 1863, is the wife of Ross D. Sherman, connected with the Starr Piano Company at Richmond ; Anna Bar- bara, born Jan. 30, 1865, became the wife of Robert Jenkins, and died Ang. 19, 1895 ; Flora Magdalene, born March 15, 1867, is the wife of Cassius C. Beall, of Richmond; John Jacob, born March 6, 1870, is connected as manager with the Fleischman Yeast Com- pany at Minneapolis, Minn .; Emma Gertrude, born July 4, 1872, became the wife of Charles Bradway and died Dec. 12, 1907; Mary Catherine, born Ang. 31, 1875, is the widow of Lonis Basselman, who died Feb. 10, 1910, and she is living with her mother, having had two children-David, born Ang. 21, 1903, died July 25, 1911, and Sanford, born July 6, 1905; Christina Caroline, born Ang. 4, 1879, died Aug. 2, 1880, and George William, born May 2, 1882, died June 26, 1896. Mrs. Hoerner was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 1, 1839, and is of German descent. She came with her parents to Wayne county in 1854, is still a respected resi- dent of the city of Richmond. She holds membership in the First Presbyterian Church, and is also a member of the Daughters of Rebekah of Herman lodge. Mr. Hoerner passed away Nov. 4. 1895. He held membership in St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and in his political connections was always an ardent Re- publican. He was a member of Webb Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Ilarmony Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the German Benevolent Society.
Charles S. Bond, M. D., is one of the successful physicians and popular citizens of his native county, and is one of the most highly honored residents of the city of Richmond, where he has been en - gaged in the practice of his profession nearly thirty years. lle is an able representative of the medical fraternity in this section of the State and is well entitled to consideration in this publication. Dr. Bond was born on a farm near Webster, this county, June 8. . 1856, a son of Simon Il. and Susan ( Harris) Bond. natives of
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Wayne county, the former born near Webster, in 1831, and the latter near Williamsburg. The father was one of a large family and his parents died when he was eight years old. He received his edu- cation in the common schools, was a teacher for several years, followed farming during the greater part of his active career, and for a time was engaged in general mercantile pursuits at the vil- lage of Webster. He labored indefatigably during the earlier years of his life and, although disabled from sickness, by good manage- ment and energy, was enabled to make a good living for his fam- ily, he and his wife being held in unqualified esteem by all who knew them. He took great interest in public affairs and was an upright and exemplary man. In the later years he suffered from ill health, and he died in the home of his daughter, in California, Jan. 16, 1898, at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother of Dr. Bond was a daughter of Benjamin Harris. She was educated in the schools of Wayne county, and remained a resident here until her death, in March, 1876. Her father was one of the pioneers of the county, entering land near Chester and afterward removing to a farm near Williamsburg. He was one of the builders of the Wil- liamsburg & Richmond turnpike. He lived to the age of ninety- five years and was then killed by an accident, caused by a runaway horse. Both of the ancestors of Dr. Bond came from England, landing near Philadelphia, and afterward went to South Carolina and thence came to Wayne county. Dr. Charles S. Bond was reared under the sturdy discipline of the home farm, and was duly afforded the advantages of the common schools of Webster, Wil- liamsburg, and Richmond, and Wayne county has been his home from the time of his birth to the present time. At the age of fifteen he entered Earlham College and remained, with alternate teaching and going to school, until he had completed his junior year. At that time he went to Antioch College, Ohio, in order to do some special work in Comparative Anatomy. He remained there two years and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1878. He then taught school for a time, continuing his medical studies under Dr. J. R. Weist, of Richmond, until 1882, when he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and in 1883 graduated with the honors of the class, being one of four men chosen as valedictorians. In 1887 he graduated at Earlham College, receiv- ing the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science. Be- fore his graduation he was offered a place in the office of his pre- ceptor, Dr. J. R. Weist (who was then the leading surgeon in the Middle West, serving as secretary of the American Surgical Asso- ciation for twenty years), and came direct from Bellevue to a place in the office. He formed a partnership with Dr. Weist that lasted : fourteen years and was dissolved by mutual consent two or three years before the death of the senior member. During this time Dr. Bond served as coroner of Wayne county four years ( 1884- 1888), and was assistant surgoen of the Pennsylvania railroad ten vears, assisting in several bad wrecks, among them the terrible Hagerstown disaster, where four persons were killed and some sixty injured. He was one of the founders of St. Stephen's Hos-
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pital and has been on the medical board of that institution and Reid Memorial Hospital since organization, until the present time, 1912. He was city health officer from 1906 to 1910 and brought about several reforms in meat and milk inspection for the city, getting Government inspection for the local slaughter houses. He has for several years been very much interested in the study and preven- tion of tuberculosis and has given illustrated lectures on this sub- ject before many medical societies, as well as chautauquas and other popular audiences. He was a delegate to the Congress of Tuberculosis in London, in 1901, and the Governor of Indiana ap- pointed him a delegate to the Congress of Tuberculosis at Wash- ington in 1908. Ile was very much interested in Bright's Disease for several years and was appointed to read four State papers on this subject before the State Medical Society. He is also interested in the photography of very small bodies, such as blood corpuscles and sections of tissues, as well as bacteria and other causes of dis- ease, and has given many lectures before medical schools, using lantern slides made from photographs of these small bodies. He is a member of the Commercial Club of the city of Richmond, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Tourist Club, and the lodge of Elks, having served as president of the Country Club in 1911. He has an attractive home and the same is a center of gra- cious hospitality. In his political proclivities Dr. Bond is a Re- publican, and though he takes a loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare and general progress of his home city, county and State, he has had no desire for public office. He and his wife are active and valued members of the Presbyterian church at Rich- mond. He is a member of the Indiana Academy of Science, the National Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, the National Science Association, the American Medical Association, the Mis- sissippi Valley Medical Association, of which he was vice-presi- dent in 1897; the Union District Medical Association, of which he was president in 1910; the Wayne County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1889; and of the Indiana Medical So- ciety, of which he was president in 1895. He is one of those men- tioned in "Who's Who in America," in the "Men of Progress of In- diana," in "American Men of Science," and has been lately chosen by the New York Medical World as one of 250-physicians and surgeons-in the United States for their medical album of five volumes. He has written many articles on medicine for journals and has illustrated several subjects in books by photographs from microscopic slides. On Sept. 18, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Bond to Miss Julia M. Boyd, daughter of Dr. Samuel Boyd, of Dublin, Ind. Dr. Boyd was a prominent man in the State, was president of the State Medical Society in 1876, and took an active part in all moral public movements. Mrs. Bond was a teacher in the public schools and a student in the State Normal at Terre Haute before marriage. Dr. and Mrs. Bond have two children : George S., a graduate of Earlham ( 1903) and of Ann Arbor (1905), and who also took a degree in medicine at the latter institution in 1908, is assistant in medicine at Johns Hopkins, where he has been
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located four years. He was married Dec. 27, 1911, to Elizabeth Lida Jones, of Richmond. Florence M. Bond, who graduated at Earlham with the class of 1911, is now a candidate for graduation in Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in June, 1912.
Walter S. Commons, a prominent agriculturalist of the town- ship of Center, with residence in Centerville, was born at the old homestead, which he now owns and operates, on Noland's Fork, in Center township, March 28, 1853, the youngest son of David and Bethena (Carter) Commons (see sketch of Joseph 1. Commons, page 461, for ancestral history). Walter S. Commons received a practical education in the common schools, with a pleasant and profitable year at Earlham College, and with this he regretfully closed his school career to take up the solemn duties of life and care of his widowed mother, who died in 1896. Although instinc- tively an agriculturist, he has been identified with the growth and progress of the diversified interests of citizenship and has been financially interested in numerous commercial enterprises, with more or less success. That he is an "up-to-date" farmer is mani- fested by the many modern conveniences to be found about his place. Politically he believes in the principles of the Republican party, and his popularity is evidenced by the fact that in 1910 he was elected a member of the Indiana State Senate and is still an incumbent of that position. He was united in marriage in 1874 to Miss Sarah A. Maudlin, daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Maud- lin. Three sons have graced the firseside of Mr. and Mrs. Com- mons-Ernest I .. , Charles C., and Horace J. The latter is engaged with his father in farming, and the two older sons are in business for themselves. Fraternally Mr. Commons is well affiliated with the Masonic order.
Edward Young Teas, horticulturist, a prominent citizen of Centerville, was born at what is now called Quakertown, Umion county, Indiana, March 8, 1829. His father, Thomas S. Teas, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., and in that city was reared to manhood. At the age of twenty-two years he made the journey on foot, via Niagara Falls and Pittsburgh, to Preble county, Ohio, where he afterward married Miss Sarah C. Strattan, who had removed to that county from New Jersey with her parents. After his marriage, Thomas S. Teas established a linseed-oil mill (the motive power of which was a treadmill for horses) on Four-Mile creek, near the present village of Fair Haven. After being so employed for a num- ber of years he removed to Union county, Indiana, and there erected a linseed-oil mill which was run by water power. A num- ber of years later he removed to a farm south of Richmond, in Wayne county, and resided there a few years. He then purchased a farm and saw mill in Henry county and resided there the remain- der of his life. Ilis death occurred in 1850 and his widow survived until 1870. They were the parents of five children: John C. died in December, 1908; Edward Y. is the second in order of birth ; Mar- tha D. died at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1906; Eimnice S. is deceased ; and Thomas S. resides at Salem, Ohio. Edward Y. Teas received his educational training at Spiceland Academy in Henry county
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and at Earlham College, and when but twelve years of age it may be said that he began his successful career as a horticulturist. One day when he and his older brother, John C., were returning home from the postoffice, a neighbor gave them some cast-away apple- tree roots. The boys took them home, planted several rows, and were so successful that, besides planting an orchard for themselves, they sold a number of plants to others. In this circumstance was begun the career of Mr. Teas as a horticulturist, in which he has been continuously engaged throughout a long and prosperous ca- reer. Hle remained in Henry county until 1852, when he and his brother purchased the Aldrich nursery at Indianapolis, at that time the largest in the State, and they conducted it about four years. Mr. Teas then started a nursery at Chester, north of Richmond, in Wayne county, and was located there several years, after which
he purchased a greenhouse in the southern part of the city of Rich- mond and conducted it several years. He then removed to Henry county and started a nursery at Dunreith, where he remained about fifteen years, and in June, 1901, came to Centerville, where he has since resided. There his business has flourished from the start, and he has won a wide reputation as a horticulturist, the business at present being conducted under the name of E. Y. Teas & Son. Mr. Teas helped organize the Indiana Horticultural Society at Indian- apolis, in December, 1860, and of thirty-two charter members he is the only survivor. He has missed only two or three meetings of the society since it was organized. Hle is also a charter member of the American Nurserymen's Association, which includes all of the nurserymen in America. In the matter of politics Mr. Teas is aligned with the Prohibition party, but has never been an aspirant for public office of any nature. Fraternally he was formerly identi- fied with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious faith is that of the Orthodox Quaker church. Mr. Teas was married in Indianapolis, in June, 1851, to Miss Maria Givan, who died in 1861, the mother of two children: Ellen M. is the wife of E. B. Hodgin, station agent at Wellsburg, W. Va., and William S. is a resident of Freeport, N. Y., where he occupies the position of sta- tion agent. In 1863 Mr. Teas was married to Mrs. Sarah A. (Stu- art ) Coffin, daughter of Amos Stuart, of Henry county, and widow of Nathan Coffin., Of this union there are two children: Fred E. resides in Centerville and is associated in business with his father, and Mary T. is the wife of John E. Parker, of Eaton, Ohio, and at the present time is in Stuttgart, Germany, a student in the Con- servatory of Music at that place.
William M. Bailey, a prominent telephone manager and citizen of the city of Richmond, is a native of the State of South Carolina, born in Barnwell county, Aug. 31, 1870. His parents, Frederick M. and Caroline M. ( Rice) Bailey, were born in South Carolina, and his father was a sea island cotton planter, owning 360 acres of land which were devoted to that industry. He served four years in the Confederate army during the Civil war and after the close of the conflict was for twenty years the postmaster at Edisto Island, S. C.' lle died in December, 1908, and his widow resides at Edisto. They
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became the parents of five children, two of whom died in childhood and three survive, of whom William M. is the eldest. Minna is the wife of L. C. King, of Edisto, S. C., and Mildred resides at home with her mother. William M. Bailey received his early education in the schools of his native district in South Carolina and finished his schooling at Porter's Military Academy, at Charleston, S. C. He afterward engaged in the telephone business with the Bell Tele- phone Company at Charleston, and remained thus engaged for a period of ten years, in various positions from learner to manager. Ile then entered the independent telephone field and has since been connected with independent companies, in Charleston, S. C., in Ken- tucky, and in Richmond, Ind., and in 1901 came to Richmond, where he is the general manager and director of the Richmond Home Tel- ephone Company. This company was organized in 1899 and has had a very successful history. When Mr. Bailey assumed the man- agement of the business the company had only 1,250 telephones in use, and now it has over 3.300. The entire plant has been recon- structed under his administration, and in 1906-07 a fine large build- ing was erected to accommodate the demands of a rapidly increas- ing business. . Mr. Bailey is also vice-president of the American Concrete Pole Company and is a director of the Indiana Toll Clear- ing Company, of Indianapolis. The American Concrete Pole Com- pany was organized in 1907 and constructs concrete poles under contract and sells the right to construct to other companies. The concrete pole is the invention of Mr. Bailey, and after much study and a series of tests he has demonstrated beyond all doubt that these poles will not only meet, but far surpass, all requirements and claims established for cedar poles. With the re-enforcement
of electro-carbon twisted rods and spiral binding wires properly distributed in the column of cement, the poles are not only sub- stantial and durable, but remarkable elasticity is displayed. For instance, a pole thirty feet in length will permit a deflection of thirty inches before the cement cracks. To obtain the above result would require about one-third greater horizontal strain at the top than would be sufficient to destroy a cedar pole of the same dimen- sions. This invention seems destined to be generally adopted mn the construction of all telephone and telegraph lines. Mr. Bailey was married in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 11, 1891, to Miss Elizabeth E. Gregorie, daughter of the late Henry H. Gregorie, of South Carolina, who, during the Civil war, served as a cavalryman in the Confederate army. His widow survives and resides at Sumter, S. C. Mrs. Bailey was born in Aurora, 111., but was reared and edu- cated in Charleston, S. C., and she is a direct descendant of the McGregor family of Scotland. On the maternal side she is a de- scendant of the Kemps and her grandfather was a brother of Sir James Kemp, at one time lieutenant-governor of Canada. To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have been born three children-Gladys G., Eliza- beth K., and Emily E. Mr. Bailey is vice-president of the Young Men's Business Club at Richmond and a member of the Travelers' Protective Association. ITis religious faith is expressed by' mem- bership in St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
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Lewis Weyl was born in the southern part of Perry township, Wayne county, Indiana, April 7, 1847, son of John and Jemima ( Pierce) Weyl. The father was born in Germany, Aug. 18, 1800, and migrated to America in 1818, coming direct to Wayne county, where he built one of the first houses in the village of Economy. lle tanned deer skins, etc., and manufactured the hides into gloves, which he sold in wholesale lots and also at retail. Later he pur- chased an eighty-acre tract south of Economy, where he resided until 1870, his sons operating the farm, and he continued in the glove business until he retired. He then returned to the village of Economy, where he resided with his children until his death, Dec. 14, 1876. Ile was a man of sterling integrity, of generous impulses, and gained a high place in the esteem of his friends. Ilis wite. Jemima ( Pierce) Weyl, was born in Ohio, July 14, 1812, and died July 11, 1881. They were the parents of eleven children: Delilah, born Sept. 15, 1832, died in 1903; Anna, born March 8, 1835, died in 1871; Susannah, born Nov. 6, 1837, died in 1840; Charles, born Feb. 9, 1840, is living retired in Williamsburg; Elizabeth, born July 7, 1842, is the widow of Alvin Cain and resides in Economy; Mar- tha, born Oct. 6, 1844, is the wife of Francis Cain, of Economy; Lewis is the next in order of birth; Matilda, born March 1, 1849. died Feb. 12, 1859; Mary, born Feb. 17, 1851, is the wife of Abraham Covalt, of Muncie, Ind .; Joseph, born June 30, 1855, died in the year of his birth ; and William, born Dec. 20, 1858, died in 1859. Lewis Weyl was reared in this county and received his educational train- ing in the public schools. He worked at home until about nine- teen years old and then engaged in business as a dealer in live stock. Two years later he purchased a farm located two miles east of Economy and continued in the stock business and managed this farm until 1905, when he removed to the village of Economy and erected the dwelling where he resides. He has recently sold bis large farm, but still owns sixty acres of land in Perry township and 160 acres in the Panhandle district of Texas, where two of his children reside, the family owning a section of land in one piece there. Mr. Weyl has been retired from the stock business since 1900. On June 2, 1867, Mr. Weyl was married to Miss Polly Men- denhall, daughter of Caleb and Rosetta (Dean) Mendenhall, of Perry township, this county. Four children were the issue of this union : Glennie, born June 2, 1868, is the widow of J. E. Ballenger and resides at Plainsview, Tex. ; Oliver C., born Sept. 15, 1870, mar- ried Celia Hunt and resides in Richmond; Fred D., born Dec. 24, 1877, married Gussie Culbertson and resides in Texas ; and Guss HI., born Nov. 24, 1882, married Dessie Morrison, and is a farmer in Perry township. Mr. Weyl spends his winters in Texas and his summers in the village of Economy. Mrs. Weyl was born in Perry township, this county, Sept. 29, 1846. Mr. Weyl is a stanch sup- porter of the Prohibition party, and although he has never aspired to public office takes an active interest in national and local affairs. His religious faith is expressed by membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a liberal supporter. The parents of Mrs. Weyl were natives of North Carolina, the father born in
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