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important and exacting office he still serves -a fact which is most strongly indicative of his fidelity to the trust reposed, his popu- larity in the community and his signal ability as an executive. In these two po- sitions it has been his honorable privilege to take an official action in the graduation of all the pupils who have passed through the high and training schools up to the present time. He has steadily maintained an in- terest in educational matters, is a man of high intellectual attainments and has done much to advance interests in this line, not only in the city but in the State. In 1869 he was elected Trustee of the Indiana Uni- versity and rendered able service as such until his election to his present position, when, becoming ex officio member of the State Board of Education, he resigned the trusteeship. At this juncture, in recog- nition of his efficient efforts and as a mark of the honor and esteem in which he is held, the university conferred upon him the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a life member of the National Educational Association, and also a member of the National Council of Education. He has long been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and has represented it for many years in its diocesan and general conven- tions.
The marriage of Dr. Irwin was consum- mated in September, 1847, when he was united to Miss Martha C. Mahon, of Carl- isle, Pennsylvania, and she still presides with gracious dignity over their attractive home. Mrs. Irwin is the daughter of John D. Mahon, who was one of the most prom- inent lawyers of the Pennsylvania bar, and the granddaughter of Judge Thomas Dun- can, who was for ten years a member of the Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania, and who
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had for a short time the unique experience of having as his colleagues four of his own students.
OUIS BRAMES .- In Fort Wayne's list of enterprises and enterprising men are found the Summit City Bot- tling Works and the proprietor of the establishment, Louis Brames. To omit mention of these would be to leave incom- plete the work now under consideration. The Summit City Bottling Works is the old- est, largest and most prominent enterprise in this city devoted to the production of light beverages, and is probably the largest institution of its kind in the State of In- diana. It was established in 1880 by Mr. Louis Brames and Mr. C. Erman, and six months from the inception of the business it passed into the entire control of Mr. Brames, he having purchased his partner's interest. Since that date he has conducted it under his own name. The facilities of the house embrace a commodious plant, comprised in a large brick building, which is fully equipped with all the latest improved generating, bottling and bottle-washing ma- chinery, operated by steam power and furnishing employment for about fifteen men. A number of wagons are used in delivering the product to customers. The products comprise all kinds of aerated bev- erages, including soda water, ginger ale, birch beer, root beer, sarsaparilla, cham- paign cider, seltzer and mineral waters, all of which are made of the choicest and purest ingredients and finest syrups, and are unexcelled for purity, fine flavor and health- fulness. The firm also bottles fine Califor- nia wines, Philadelphia ale and porter, and is sole agent in this market for the sale of
the Pabst Brewing Company's Milwaukee, Select Export, Bohemian and lager beer; supplies the trade and families with this beer in bulk and bottles, as may be desired, and also deals in all kinds of native and Califor- nia wines. During the fifteen years he has been at the head of this business Mr. Brames has built up and maintained an ex- cellent trade. The sale of his products now extends throughout a radius of eighty miles or more from this city. His loca- tion is at Nos. 123 to 127 Clay street.
Having thus spoken of the important in- dustry of which Mr. Brames is the head, we pass now to a sketch of his life.
Louis Brames was born in Madison town- ship, Allen county, Indiana, January 3, 1847, the sixth in the family of eight children of Christopher and Elizabeth Brames, na- tives of Hanover, Germany, and early set- tlers of Indiana. His father a farmer, young Louis was reared to farm life. In addition to the ordinary public-school education, he had the advantage of a commercial training in a business college. In 1868, on attaining his majority, he embarked in the grocery business at No. 49 East Main street, Fort Wayne, where he conducted a successful business until 1871, when he sold out to Mr. Frank A. Webber. After this he accepted a position as bookkeeper for Mr. A. Wolf, proprietor of a meat market, and in this capacity he served efficiently six years. His failing health at this time made it necessary for him to seek a change of location and he went to Hot Springs. On his return to Fort Wayne, much improved physically, he set- tled down as bookkeeper in the bottling es- tablishment of Frank Hake, in which capac- ity he served two years. Next, we find him in the wholesale beer business with Peter Certia. When this partnership was dissolved,
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Mr. Brames accepted a position with Mon- ning & Company, as shipping clerk, and was thus occupied until he established his present business in 1880, as already stated at the be- ginning of this article.
Mr. Brames has for years taken an act- ive interest in municipal affairs. He is an ardent Democrat, and has twice served as Councilman for the First Ward. He mar- ried Miss Mary A. Tibbit, a daughter of one of the pioneer settlers and land-owners of Allen county, and of their seven children four are now living-two sons and two daughters. Both he and his family have a membership in St. Mary's Catholic Church.
A LLAN H. DOUGALL, who is en- gaged in the pension, Government claim and insurance business at Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a veteran of the Civil war, and nearly ever since the war has been prominently identified with that organization known as the G. A. R.
Although Capt. Dougall is thoroughly an American at heart, he is not a native of this country. He was born in Glasgow, Scot- land, July 17, 1836, and when twenty-two years of age came with his father, John Dougall, and the other members of the fam- ily, to the United States, landing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 2, 1858. In July of that year the family settled on a farm in St. Joseph township, Allen county, and engaged in general farming, and thus was the subject of our sketch occupied when the war cloud gathered and burst upon the country of his adoption. His father had taken a promi- nent part in securing the abolition of human slavery in the British Colonies, and he clear- ly foresaw that American slavery had to suc- cumb ere peace would be restored in this 17
country. He was not only willing that his son should enlist in the Union army but he was also proud that he had sons he could send forth to fight for such a cause. Allan H., the subject of our sketch, enlisted in July, 1862, as a private in Company D, Eighty- eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and went with his command to Southern battle-fields. While leading his company-he having at- tained the rank of First Lieutenant-against a Rebel battery at Resaca, May 15, 1864, he was severely wounded in the right arm and shoulder, which wound crippled his whole right side and rendered him ever aft- erward unfit for manual labor. July 1 of that same year he was made Adjutant of his regiment, and while serving as such in the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864, was shot through the left leg. From the commencement of General Sherman's march to the sea until the war closed Capt. Dougall was topographical engineer of the First Brig- ade, First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, under General H. C. Hobart, and the Aide to Colonel C. E. Briant, commanding the right wing of the brigade, composed of the Thirty-third Ohio, Eighty-eighth Indiana and Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteers. His third and last wound was received at Ben- tonville, North Carolina, where he was left on the field, but he succeeded in regaining the Union lines, and remained on active duty until the war closed. On the Ist day of May, 1865, he was commissioned Captain of his Company (Company D). His connection with the G. A. R. dates from August, 1866, when he became a member of New Haven Post, G. A. R .; he is now a member of An- thony Wayne Post, being among the oldest members in the Department of Indiana, and is at present Assistant Inspector General of the G. A. R.
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At the close of the war Captain Dougall returned to Indiana and took up his resi- dence at New Haven, Allen county, where he engaged in the milling business, continu- ing to reside there for some years. His name is prominently connected with the early history of that town. He served for several years as its Clerk and also as a mem- ber of its School Board, the first set of books for both these corporations having been opened by him. As stated at the beginning of this sketch he is now engaged in a pen- sion, Government claim and insurance busi- ness in Fort Wayne, for which business he seems to be peculiarly adapted and in which he is meeting with most satisfactory success. Captain Dougall has always been a Repub- lican. In 1872 he was a candidate for the State Legislature, but, although he ran far ahead of his ticket, receiving more votes than the Governor and Congressman in the county, he was defeated. At various times he has served as secretary of the Republican Central Committee. He was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Morton Club, in which flourishing political body he has held official position; and in Masonic circles he stands high, being Past Master of the Newman Lodge in New Haven, and Past High Priest of Fort Wayne Chapter and Illustrious Master of Fort Wayne Council. He is also vice president of the Fort Wayne Caledonian Club. When he came to this country Captain Dougall brought with him his transfer from the Kirk of Scotland, and on taking up his residence in Fort Wayne became a member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. That was in 1858. He is still an honored mem- ber of this church.
Captain Dougall has a most estimable wife and a family of four children. He was
married in 1862 to Miss Josephine Griffin, and their two sons are John T. and Arthur H .; and their daughters, M. Inez and Winnie J., all well known in the social circles of Fort Wayne. M. Inez is now the wife of S. B. Fleming and resides in Hartford City, Indiana.
a APTAIN CHARLES REESE .- The German type is one which has many representatives in the New World, and wherever found they are noted for their thrift and enter- prise. A fair representative of this type is found in the subject of our sketch, Mr. Charles Reese, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is gratifying to us to be able to present a biography of him in this work.
Charles Reese was born in Germany, January 15, 1834, son of Elfert and Mary (Arp) Reese, both natives of that country. The father was by occupation a carpenter. He passed his whole life in Germany and died there in 1864, at the ripe age of sev- enty-five years. It was when in his seventeenth year that Charles Reese set sail for America. Up to that time he had attended school in the old country. On his arrival here he located in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he spent one summer, then went to Pittsburg and attended school, making a specialty of the study of our language. For two years and a half he worked at the trade of chairmaker in Fort Wayne, in that time thoroughly mastering the business, and then going to Attica, Indiana, where he formed a copartnership with his brother under the firm name of C. & C. Reese, conducting a furnishing store. At the end of two years this partnership was
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dissolved by his brother's selling out to Phillip Kullman. Our subject and Mr. Kullman then did business together for six years or until the outbreak of the Civil war, when Mr. Reese sold out to his partner and volunteered for service in the Union army. That was in July, 1861. He enlisted as a member of Company D, Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was elected First Lieutenant of his company. By his faithful and gallant service he won recognition from' his superior officers, and in October, 1863, was promoted to the captaincy of his com- pany. His service included participation in numerous battles and skirmishes, promi- nent among which we note the following: Seven Pines, Peach Orchard, Malvern Hill, Glendale, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, second Bull Run, and Gettysburg. At the battle of Gettysburg he was shot in the head by a minie ball which destroyed the sight of his left eye, the ball remaining in his head and resisting all surgical skill to re- move it.
At the close of the war Captain Reese came to Fort Wayne, and, in partnership with Jacob J. Miller, engaged in the chair business. Subsequently Mr. F. C. Reese, a nephew of the Captain, bought out Mr. Miller's interest, and from that time until early in the 'Sos the two Mr. Reeses con- ducted business together. After this our subject was for four years engaged in the grocery business, continuing thus occupied until he was elected City Assessor of Fort Wayne. In this office he served six years. Since 1893 he has occupied his present position, that of Deputy Revenue Collector. In politics, Captain Reese is a staunch Democrat, and it was on the Democratic ticket that he was elected City Assessor. He has also been honored by election to the
City Council as a representative from the First Ward, and has served three terms as Councilman.
Mr. Reese was married in 1864 to Miss Sophia Stoppenhagen, and they have had eleven children, eight of whom are now living, three having died in infancy. One of their daughters is the wife of the Rev. George Koenig, of Brooklyn, New York.
Like most of the veterans of the Civil war, the subject of our sketch is identified with the G. A. R., his membership being in Sion S. Bass Post. He is also a member of the Union Veterans, another popular organization.
e MMETT V. EMERICK, attorney at law, at Fort Wayne, is a rising young barrister who is rapidly ac- quiring prominence at the Allen county bar. He is a native of the county, born in Pleasant township, February 2, 1868, and is a son of J. P. and Catherine (Mc- Phillen) Emerick, the former a native of Ashland county, Ohio, the latter of Ireland, and when a child was brought to Ohio. Eight children comprised the family, five sons and three daughters, of whom one son is dead. Mr. Emerick, Sr., departed this life June 11, 1894, aged sixty-three years. He was an enterprising and respected citizen, whose good name is a priceless heritage to his children.
Young Emerick received the rudiments of his primary English education in the country schools, which was completed at the age of sixteen years, having attained to a degree of thoroughness that admitted of his en- trance to Taylor University, Fort Wayne. Here he displayed a splendid adaptation of
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himself to student life, and was graduated in 1888. While pursuing his studies at the university, he devoted his leisure hours to reading law in the office of his preceptor, J. M. Robinson, a well known and success- ful lawyer of the city. After his graduation he was appointed Deputy Prosecuting At- torney, and although he was yet in his mi- nority his knowledge of law and his natural tact made him a capable and efficient deputy prosecutor. He assisted the prosecuting attorney, Mr. Robinson, his former pre- ceptor, in the prosecution of one David- son, who is now serving a life sentence for murder.
In the fall of 1889, he was formally ad- mitted to the bar before Judge C. M. Daw- son, now on the bench of the Superior Court. Opening a law office at once he launched into a general practice with a result most gratifying. He is careful and painstaking in the preparation of his cases for trial, and so thoroughly does he inform himself as to the law in the case, and the precedents, de- cisions, etc., that he is rarely dislodged from his position by older and more experi- enced lawyers. Of affable, courteous de- meanor, he is a pleasant gentleman to meet. Socially he is a member of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, having attained to the thirty-second degree; he is also a Knight Templar, a member of the I. O. O. F., Har- mony Lodge, No. 19, K. of P., Phoenix Lodge No. 101, of the A. O. U. W., and Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
Politically he is a Democrat, and for two years was chairman of the Democratic cen- tral committee, which office he creditably filled. A short time ago he was candidate for a place on the Democratic ticket for the important office of Prosecutor and was de- feated by only the half of one vote!
ARTIN L. CHAPLER, who is engaged in the grocery business in the Masonic Temple of Wa- bash, was born in Wabash coun- ty, Indiana, on the 16th of May, 1851, and is a son of John and Rosa (Kellar) Chapler. The father was a native of Switzerland and at the age of seventeen left that country to seek a home this side the Atlantic. He en- gaged in masonry contracting, and on emi- grating to the New World located in Tus- carawas county, Ohio. A few years later he went to Illinois and afterward came to Indiana, locating in Waltz township, Wa- bash county, where he lived for some time. He enlisted in Company A, Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry, under Captain Stone, and served for three months, during which time he was taken prisoner. On account of ill- ness he was paroled and returned to his home, where he died three weeks later, de- parting this life in 1862, at the age of forty- five years. His wife, who was a native of Pennsylvania, survived him until 1880 and was called to her final rest at the age of fifty-seven. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and were highly esteemed people. They had a fam- ily of six children, a son and five daughters, namely: Mary, deceased; Maggie, widow of James A. Hendricks, of Missouri; Sarah, widow of Martin Adams, of Wabash; Cath- erine, wife of J. C. Huff; Rena, wife of Delph Adams, of Wabash; and Martin L. The paternal grandfather of our subject reared a large family and died in Ohio when past the age of seventy years. The mater- nal grandfather was a native of that State, followed farming as a means of livelihood and also died at an advanced age. Little else, however, is known of the ancestry of the family.
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Martin L. Chapler, whose name heads this review, was reared in the city and coun- ty of Wabash, Indiana, his early life being largely passed upon his father's farm. He was interested in the sports to which boys usually turn their attention, and midst play and work the years went by. At the age of twenty-two he began working at the car- penter's trade, which he followed for some years, and was also employed in a gristmill. In January, 1881, he entered the railway mail service, but on account of failing health was forced to abandon this. He is now en- gaged in the grocery business in Wabash and has one of the largest and finest stores in his line in the city. Its cleanliness and tasteful arrangement make it very attractive and he carries an excellent stock of goods. In all his dealings he is straightforward and honorable, and his courteous treatment and earnest desire to please his customers has won him a very liberal patronage from among the best class of citizens.
On the 22d of February, 1882, was cele- brated the marriage which united the des- tinies of Mr. Chapler and Miss Lizzie R. Booram, daughter of George Booram. Their union has been blessed with five chil- dren, four sons and a daughter, but Herman and George have now passed away. Those still living are Lucy, James and Harry.
They have a beautiful home at No. 160 Main street, where warmhearted hospitality reigns supreme and a hearty welcome is ex- tended to their many friends. In addition to this property and his store, Mr. Chapler owns a forty-acre tract of land north of Lagro. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, holding membership in Wabash Command- ery, Murat Temple, of Indianapolis; the Fort Wayne Lodge of Perfection and the Indianapolis Consistory. He is also con-
nected with the Knights of the Maccabees, and in politics is a Republican. A genial, pleasant gentleman, an honorable business man, he well deserves representation in this volume, and with pleasure we present the record of his life to our readers.
M. ROGERS has long been a prom- inent figure in the business circles of New Haven, Indiana, and is now classed among the very few who are left of the early pioneers of Allen county.
Before presenting a sketch of his life we wish to make reference to his parentage, for no biography is complete without men- tion of the source from which the subject springs. John Rogers, his father, was a native of New Jersey, born in the year 1785, son of Simon and Abigail (Howard) Rogers, their origin being traced back to Ireland and Scotland. The mother of our subject was nee Triphena Shipman, she, too, being a native of New Jersey, the date of her birth, 1790. Her parents were Jabez Shipman and wife, the latter's maiden name being Howard. The Shipmans were of Scotch and English descent. Both the Rogers and the Shipman families moved west at an early day, stopping for a time in Pennsyl- vania and finally making a permanent settlement in Clark county, Ohio. That was in 1800. Grandmother Shipman died at Springfield, Ohio, and Grandfather Ship- man passed away in New Jersey. The Rogers' grandparents both died at Paris, in Preble county, Ohio. It was at Springfield, Ohio, that John Rogers and Triphena Ship- man were married, and soon after their marriage they located in Jennings county, Indiana, but shortly afterward they went
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back to Ohio and until 1825 made their home in Preble county. In 1825 they re- moved to the Hoosier State again, this time locating in Allen county, the site they selected being on the Maumee river in Adams township. At that time there were only six other families in this township. They were the two Welsh families and the families of Jesse Adams, William Caswell, Ezra Taylor, and Eliphalet Edmunds. As soon as Government action could be taken the land here was turned over to the State and then sold to the settlers. John Rogers bought of Levi Blount a tract of choice land, upon which he made permanent settlement, and about one hundred acres of which he cleared and improved, its location being within four miles of Fort Wayne. There were then plenty of Indians and wild animals here and it was a number of years yet before the country was thickly settled. Here Mrs. Rogers died in 1848 and Mr. Rogers in 1877. She was a Baptist and in his religious views he was inclined to Uni- versalism. Their home was the stopping place of all the pioneer preachers in the vicinity, their hospitality was genuine and genial, and was extended alike to stranger and friend, be he preacher of layman. In short, the latchstring from their cabin door was always out. Mr. Rogers assisted in or- ganizing the township and took an active part in its affairs, serving as Justice of the Peace and also as County Assessor and Col- lector of Taxes. He was a participant in the war of 1812. In politics, he was first a Democrat, then a Whig and still later a Re- publican.
He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom nine grew to ma- turity, namely: Benjamin, who died in 1845, left a widow who is now over ninety years
of age and a resident of Fort Wayne; Eliza- beth, wife of David W. Beeson, died in 1832; Nancy, deceased, who was twice married, first to Absalom Holcomb and after his death to Samuel Loveall, left three children, -Edward Holcomb, and a son and daughter by her last marriage, the former being Samuel B. and the latter Mrs. F. Frisbie; Dorcas, the widow of John Brown, has five children, -Henry, John, Alexander, Susan Wilson, and Benjamin; L. M., with whose name we introduced this article; Louisa, deceased wife of D. W. Beeson, left three children, -James, Emily and Helen; Alanson, deceased, was twice married and left three children, -Myron, Flora and Emma; Orin D., who married Miss Clarinda Rowe and lives in New Haven; John, de- ceased; Helen, widow of Amasa Powers, has seven children, -- Flora, Montgomery, Homer, Helen, Amasa, Jessie and America; and Lucien, deceased.
L. M. Rogers, the immediate subject of this review, was born in Springfield, Clarke county, Ohio, January 17, 1818, and from his eighth year was reared in the woods of Allen county, his educational advant- ages being very limited. Altogether his schooling amounted to no more than three months, but by close observation and home study he has acquired as wide a range of knowledge as most men. He remained on the home farm and assisted in its clearing and cultivation for several years. The first work he did for himself was as an employee on the building of the canal from Fort Wayne to the Ohio river. That was be- tween the years 1835 and '38. In 1841 he accepted a clerkship in the store of Mr. Burgess, of New Haven, with whom he re- mained two years, clerking and buying furs. After his marriage, which occurred in 1844,
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