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Smith, a lumberman of Rochester, Indiana. John Adam, born November 15, 1860, died February 22, 1862. Adam Lazarus, born May 9, 1862, is engaged in business with his father. Mr. Beck was married the sec- ond time, December 18, 1884, the lady of his choice being Mrs. Mary Ellen Nille, a daughter of Samuel and Vrena (Walte) Baumgartner. She was born in Adams county, Indiana, July 28, 1852, and by her first marriage had one child, Emma Amelia, who was born March 19, 1876, and is still with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Beck have one son, Harmon Samuel, born September 20, 1885.
Our subject and his wife hold member- ship in the Evangelical Church, and are highly-esteemed people. The former casts his ballot in support of the men and meas- ures of the Republican party, but has never been a politician in the sense of office-seek- ing. As a citizen he is public-spirited and progressive, devoted to the best interests of the community and to all that is calculated to enhance the general welfare. It was a fortunate day for him when he decided to leave his native land and come to America, for here he has found a pleasant home, has won many warm friends and become one of the substantial citizens of Huntington.
ARION B. STULTS .- The growth and development of a city, its progress and its upbuilding, depends largely upon its mer- chants. If they are men of enterprise, wide awake and energetic, they carry forward their commercial interests with an activity that produces the best results in the city with which they are connected. The gentle- man whose name heads this review is a rep-
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resentative of this class. He is to-day recognized as one of the most prominent and reliable merchants of Huntington, where he is engaged in the furniture busi- ness. Ilis entire life has been passed in this county. He was born in Clear Creek township, May 13, 1855, and is the eldest child of Jacob and Margaret (Best) Stults, honored pioneer settlers of northeastern Indiana. No event of special importance occurred during his childhood and youth. His days were passed in the usual manner of farmer lads, aiding in the cultivation of the farın as soon as old enough to handle the plow and attending the district schools of the neighborhood during the winter season, when the farm work was practically over. Thus he acquired a good common-school education, and at the age of eighteen he began teaching, which profession he fol- lowed for six years. He had fitted himself for this work in the Normal school at Val- paraiso, and soon demonstrated his ability as an excellent instructor; and in June, 1879, he was elected to the office of County Superintendent, which he filled in a very satisfactory manner for one term. He has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the cause of education, and has done all in his power in behalf of the public-school system.
In the spring of 1882 Mr. Stults turned his attention to merchandising by selling agricultural implements, being thus engaged for one summer. In November, 1882, he embarked in the furniture business in con- nection with John F. Fulton, under the firm name of Fulton & Stults, which connection was continued until May, 1983, when the firm of M. B. Stults & Company was formed, Mr. Fulton retiring. Our subject then associated himself with his brother, S.
P. Stults, and Jacob Mishler, under the firm name of M. B. Stults & Company.
They had a large and well appointed store, carried a carefully selected stock, and by their courteous treatment, honest deal- ing and earnest desire to please their patrons they built up a good trade. In the spring of 1893 our subject bought out the whole business and has since continued alone. He is one of the most progressive merchants of Huntington.
Mr. Stults was married on Christmas Day of 1878, the lady of his choice being Miss Lydia O. Mishler, the third daughter of Jacob and Sarah Mishler, of this city. She also was born in Clear Creek township, August 28, 1857, and had two children, - Clarence E. and Flora May; but the former died in infancy. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are highly esteemed people whose friends throughout the community are many.
' In his political relations Mr. Stults is a Republican, and his social affiliations are with the Knights of Pythias. In June, 1895, Mr. Stultz was elected a member of the City Board of School Trustees, and is sec- retary of that Board. He possesses the true Western spirit of progress that has made the development of the Mississippi valley the wonder of the world. Hunting- ton recognizes in him one of its leading and influential business men, and he is a wor- thy representative of an esteemed pioneer family.
ICHAEL WEBER, deceased, was one of the honored pioneers of northeastern Indiana. He was born March 6, 1813, in Wern- heim, Darmstadt, Germany, and died on the
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farm near Huntington, January 15, 1894, respected by all who knew him. His par- ents were John and Catherine Weber, na- tives of Germany, and the former died when Michael was only six months old. He was left without the guiding influence of a father, but was tenderly cared for by his mother un- til he was able to start out in life for him- self. Her death occurred in 1839.
As soon as Michael Weber had attained the age required for admission into the pub- lic schools, he began his education and pur- sued his studies until fourteen years of age, He then started out upon his business career, and the success that he achieved through life was due entirely to his own efforts. For three years he worked at the tailor's trade and then turned his attention to farming, which he continuously followed until his life's labors were ended.
Ere leaving his native land, Mr. Weber was married, the lady of his choice being Mary Falter, and to them were born the fol- lowing children: Jacob, who was born De- cember 20, 1837, married Lena Zahn, and is now living in Huntington; William was born June 16, 1839; Philip, born March 3, 1841, is in business in Richmond, Indiana; John Falter, born October 3, 1842, wedded Mary Treichler, and is now engaged in farm- ing near the old home place: their children are Bertha Elizabeth, William Leonard, Melosena Clara, Edward Franklin and Mary Alma; George Frank, born April 18, 1844, died in Indiana, March 21, 1881 ; Christian, born February 21, 1846, died May 1, 1847; Anna Mary, born October 10, 1847, died April 19, 1880: she was the wife of James B. Williams, of Huntington, Indiana, and · had three children, -Robert, Charles and Mamie. Henry, born June 27, 1849, died December 19, 1873, in Huntington, where
he had been engaged in clerking in a drug store.
The mother of this family died August 1, 1849, of cholera, at the age of thirty-six years. Mr. Weber was again married June 20, 1850, his second union being with Anna Barbara, a daughter of Albert and Margaret (Geisler) Hofmann. She was married to Adam Smith, September 15, 1848, and they had one child, who died in infancy, while the death of Mr. Smith occurred July 20, 1849. Mrs. Weber was born in Bavaria, Germany, November 5, 1819, and with her first husband crossed the Atlantic, landing in New York in November, 1848. They
resided for six months in Fort Wayne, In- diana, afterward lived for a half year in Huntington, Indiana, and then came to the farm, upon which Mrs. Weber is still liv- ing. Her father died in 1854, at the age of seventy-eight years, and her mother passed away in September, 1820. The members of their family-John, Barbara, Frederick, Albert and Elizabeth-all came to America, and with the exception of Mrs. Weber all are probably now deceased. Her father was a second time married, but the two sons of that union both died in childhood. The children of the second marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Weber are here indicated. Albert Anthony, the eldest, was born January 21, 1853. Frederick, born January 5, 1855, was married September 10, 1882, to Mary Palmer, daughter of Daniel and Rachel ( Koch) Palmer born January 17. 1866, in Whitley county, Indiana. Their children are Annie Mar- garet, born October 3, 1883; Louisa Flora, born February 27, 1886; Martha Margaret, born February 12, 1889; Mary Henrietta, born May 9, 1892. Frederick is engaged in operating the old home farm. Anna Mar- garet, born January 10, 1859, was married
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November 25, 1879, to Rev. Stephen Has- sold, who was born November 22, 1853, and is a minister of the German Lutheran Church at Fairfield Center, De Kalb county, Indiana. They have a family of eight chil- dren, namely: Carl Michael, born Septem- ber 25, 1880; Frederick Stephen, born Jan- uary 22, 1882; William John, born Jan- uary 25, 1884; Anna Bertha, born April 29, 1886; Sophy Mary, who was born March 26, 1888, and died on the 6th of October, following; Otto Anthony, born November 8, 1889; Theodore Henry, born June 22, 1893; and Paul Edwin, born October 14, 1894.
In 1840 Mr. Weber determined to seek a home in America. He made all prepara- tions, bade adieu to the Fatherland and af- ter a voyage of several weeks landed at New York, whence he came to Huntington, Indiana. From that time until his death he was prominently identified with the agricul- tural interests of this locality. In Decem- ber he located on eighty acres of land on section 25, Clear Creek township, and at once began reclaiming it from its uneulti- vated condition and transforming the dense forest into rich and fertile fields. He be- came the possessor of a good home all through his own efforts. In religion he was a follower of the great reformer, Martin Luther, and an active member of the Ger- man Lutheran Church. His political sup- port was given to the Democracy, and he was honored with a number of local offices, having served as trustee of his township for two terms, and also as church trustee. He was true to every trust reposed in him, whether public or private, and he left to his family the priceless heritage of an untar- nished name. After a long and useful iden- tification with the best interests of the coun-
ty, he passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-one. His estimable wife still resides on the old home farm, and has the warm re- gard of all who know her.
PILLIAM WEBER, a prominent physician and surgeon of Colum- bia City, has for almost a quarter of a century been connected with the medical profession of Whitley county. Here he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession and here has he steadily worked his way upward, his merits achiev- ing a high reputation, his skill and ability winning him a most liberal and lucrative patronage.
Dr. Weber was born in Hessen-Darm- stadt, Germany, on the 16th of June, 1839, and is a son of Michael and Anna (Falter) Weber, who also were born in the Father- land. The parents with their two children left that country in 1840, sailing from Ham- burg and landing at New York after a voy- age of sixty days. They made their way at once to Huntington, Indiana, where the father purchased a farm, and throughout his remaining days devoted his energies to agri- cultural pursuits. He passed away in 1894. His wife died of cholera many years previ- ously, and he had afterward married again. By the first union there were eight children, four of whom are yet living: Jacob, the Doctor, Philip and John. Frank, Henry and Mary are all deceased, and one died in infancy. The children of the second mar- riage, three in number, are: Anton A., who is now serving as County Clerk of Hunting- ton county; Maggie, wife of Rev. Hassold, of the city of Huntington; and Frederick, who is living on the old homestead.
Dr. Weber was only an infant when
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brought by his parents to the New World, and upon the old home farm in the Hoosier State was reared to manhood, within which time he became familiar with all the duties that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. Work in the fields gave him abundant physical training, while his educa- tional training in an early day was received in the common schools of Huntington. He was still young when he began teaching school, and for seven years he successfully followed that profession, acting as superin- tendent of the Huntington schools for a year. He then attended one term of high school at Logansport and later was graduated at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, of Indianapolis. In June, 1869, he was graduated at the Detroit Medical College and then attended two courses of lectures in the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, being graduated at that institution in the class of 1871.
Dr. Weber was now well fitted for the practice of his chosen profession, having been a very thorough and systematic student, and at once looked about him for a favora- ble location. He decided to come to Co- lumbia City, and soon opening an office he awaited his first patient, who was not long in arriving. From that time his practice has constantly and steadily increased in volume, and the large patronage which he now has is justly merited.
In 1875 the Doctor was united in mar- riage with Miss Mary E. Myers, of Whitley county, Indiana, and they have had a family of seven children, as follows: Flora, de- ceased; Edward, who is now a student in Wittenberg College, of Springfield, Ohio: Lloyd W., Ross, Jesse and Ruth, who are attending school; and one who died in infancy.
By his ballot Dr. Weber supports the Democracy. Although he has never had time or inclination for public office, yet he has been called by his fellow townsmen to serve as a member of the City Council, and for two terms has been secretary of the Whitley County Board of Health, being the present incumbent. The Doctor has also been a member of the Pension Board and examiner for a number of insurance com- panies. He belongs to the Lutheran Church and is a member of the State Med- ical Society and the Whitley County Medi- cal Society. Not only is he a most successful practitioner of medicine but is also an ardent student of modern medical and surgical methods, ever desirous of improving with the years his knowledge of his profession. Not content with mediocrity he constantly labors for advancement, and is continually progressing, giving to his patrons the ben- efit of his researches.
A NTHONY ALBERT WEBER, a native of Huntington county, Indi- ana, is one of her mostly highly respected citizens, and is well worthy of representation in her annals. His lineage is traced to old Teutonic stock, and from this source he derives many of the traits which make him a valued citizen of the Republic.
His father, Michael Weber, was born in Germany, and was married there to Mary Falter, and they had eight children. He emigrated to the United States in 1840, and came directly to Huntington county, Indi- ana, where he engaged in farming in Clear Creek township. There he resided until his death, which occurred in January, 1894, surrounded by the comforts secured by his
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industry and thrift. His first wife died in 1847, and he was afterward married to Barbara Huffman, who still survives. In early days Mr. Weber served as Trustee of Clear Creek township, and in this capacity proved himself a man of more than usual executive ability.
Anthony A. Weber was born in Clear Creek township, Huntington county, Indi- ana, January 21, 1853. There he grew to manhood, in boyhood and youth learning those lessons of industry and frugality which have been of great worth to him through life. He acquired a thorough education in the common branches in the public schools, and was also a student in the normal schools held in this city. At the age of twenty years he succeeded in obtaining a teacher's license, and for eight successive terms was employed in the common schools of the county. He was engaged in farming during the vacation until the summer of 1877, when he was em- ployed by P. T. Baker as salesman of agri- cultural implements. In 1849 he bought forty acres of his present farm in Union township, to which he afterward added another forty acres; seventy acres of this land he has brought to a high state of culti- vation.
In politics Mr. Weber supports the prin- ciples of the Democratic party. He was Trustee of Union township from 1886 until 1890, and in June of the latter year he was elected Clerk of the Court of Huntington county, and assumed charge of the office April 16, 1891, retiring April 16, 1895. His deputies were W. F. Wright and Ev- erett C. Branyan.
Under date of April 15, 1895, the Evc- ning Herald, Republican, printed the follow- lowing editorial comment: "Mr. Moffett will succeed one of the most efficient, cour-
teous and and obliging clerks the county has ever had, and his administration will bring no discredit upon himself and his party if it shall prove as acceptable as that of Mr. Weber. Mr. Weber retires with the utmost good will of all our citizens, no matter what their party sentiments are. The office has been run in the interest of the whole people during his incumbency, and he has won the plaudit, 'Well done, good and faithful serv- ant '"
The Huntington Daily Democrat, under date of April 16, 1895, says: "The outgoing clerk, Anthony A. Weber, has been a very efficient officer during his four years of service as county clerk. He has always been courteous, agreeable, accommodating, and, without any prejudice to party affili- ations in the discharge of his duties, has succeeded in meriting the good will of every one with whom he has come in contact. As a citizen Mr. Weber ranks among the first of the city."
In these two cditorials one gets the pulse of the people, Democrat and Republican alike.
Mr. Weber, upon the expiration of his term of office, purchased a half interest in the feed barn of Samuel Bucher & Son, the firm name being Bucher & Weber. This barn has a capacity of over 300 horses, and all kinds of feed are kept on sale and de- livered to any part of the city.
March 20, 1879, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Mary Catharine Bucher, the daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Johnson) Bucher. Mrs. Weber was born in Clear Creek township, Huntington county, Indi- ana, August 6, 1859, and died January 10, 1889, the mother of four children: Lilly May, born April 23, 1880; William Michael, born June 28, 1882; Grace Gertrude, born
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June 18, 1885; and Margaret Ruth, born February 20, 1888. Mr. Weber was mar- ried a second time, January 21, 1890, to Miss Freelove Clara Yant, a daughter of Eli and Mary (Miller) Yant, who was born July 25, 1861, in Stark county, Ohio. There are two children of this marriage: Paul Grayston, born October 8, 1892, and Modjeska Mary, born February 22, 1894.
ON. ORVILLE CARVER .- There is ever a reflex or reciprocal phase as distinguishing the term honor in its personal application-that is, there must be the intrinsic element in the subjective and then will come the reflex in the appreciation of his fellowmen who in turn grant him honor. The subject of this review has passed nearly his entire life in Steuben county, Indiana, has been for near- ly thirty years identified with the business interests of Angola, having been consecutive- ly concerned in the drug business during this entire period, while his parents were among the early and most honored pioneers of the county, thus rendering doubly expe- dient the incorporation of a review of his personal and ancestral history in this con- nection.
A native of Hebron, Tolland county, Connecticut, our subject was born on the 20th of August, 1843, being the son of Dr. Lewis E. and Frances A. (Porter) Carver, who emigrated from the Nutmeg State to Indiana in the year 1845, and upon their arrival here located in Steuben county. Dr. Carver was a man of fine professional tal- ent, strong intellectuality and sterling in- tegrity, and he became prominent and influ- ential as a citizen of the county, having been called upon to serve in numerous posi-
tions of public trust and responsibility. In 1849 he was elected County Treasurer, and three years later County Recorder, being the incumbent in both offices for some time. He was strong in his anti-slavery attitude and became one of the most pronounced of Abolitionists, using his influence in every possible way to extirpate the curse of hu- man slavery, identifying himself with the Republican party at the time of its organiza- tion and ever after holding to the political fatih thus espoused. His house was one of the stations on the famous " underground rail- way," and through his intervention many a poor slave was aided on his way to freedom. In 1866 Dr. Carver entered into partnership with his son, our subject, and engaged in the drug business at Angola, under the firm name of Lewis E. Carver & Son, and this association was maintained for twelve years, when the Doctor retired from active business and so continued until the hour of his demise, which occurred March 22, 1891, at which time he had attained the patriarchal age of eighty-three years, and was revered as one of the honored pioneers of this section of the State, and as a man who had ever stood four-square to every wind that blew. The mother of our subject is also a na- tive of Connecticut, being a representa- tive of one of the old and influential fami- lies of that State. She is still living to enjoy the filial solicitude and devotion of her children and her children's children, being now (1895) seventy-eight years of age. Dr. and Mrs. Carver became the parents of eight children, of whom five still survive.
Orville Carver was still a child at the time of his parents' removal to Indiana, and he grew to maturity in Angola and here re- ceived his educational discipline. He was just verging upon young manhood at the time
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the cloud of Civil war cast its gruesome pall over a divided nation, and when rebellion armed itself against the Union he was roused to the depths of a nature which was intrin- sically loyal and patriotic, and in the first year of the war we find him entering the ranks of the brave boys in blue, by enlist- ment as a member of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until his teri of enlistment expired, in July, 1864, when he was honorably discharged. He had within this time seen active and arduous service, having participated in the first battle of Bull Run, and the Peninsular campaign, then the second battle of Bull Run, and the battles of Antietam, Shepherds- ville, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg. Not yet, however, did he come to the point of considering that his service to his nation was complete, and in April, 1865, he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Hancock's Veteran Corps, with which heserved until a year after the close of the war, retiring as an honored veteran and a valiant son of the Republic.
In 1866 Mr. Carver returned to his home in Angola and here entered into partnership with his father in the drug business, as already stated. His association with this important line of enterprise has been con- secutive since that early period, and it is needless to say that he now holds rank as the pioneer druggist not only of the little city but also of this section of the State. Mr. Carver has been animated by the most progressive spirit and has been signally alive to all that would conserve the public good, his aid and influence having been extended to every feasible undertaking or project tending to promote the normal advancement and stable prosperity of the city and the county. Having thus been conspicuous in those lines which most meet
with the approval and endorsement of the public in any community it was but in na- tural order that Mr. Carver should have been honored with distinguished official po- sitions. In 1869 he received from President Grant the appointment as Postmaster of Angola, and served in this capacity for a period of fourteen years, being an efficient and faithful official and bringing to bear that marked personal integrity and honor which have been characteristic of the man at all stages of his career. From 1875 un- til 1882 he was the incumbent as chairman of the Republican County Committee, his long tenure of office showing not only that he was possessed of exceptional executive ability, but also standing in evidence that he had been a zealous worker in the party cause and that he had gained and retained the confidence and esteem of his party in the county. In June, 1884, Mr. Carver was a delegate from Indiana to the National Re- publican Convention, at Chicago, which nominated James G. Blaine for the presi- dency, and in 1888 he was honored by the Republicans of the county with the nomina- tion for the State Senate, proving his popu- larity in a very decisive victory at the ensu- ing election, and ably maintaining the cause of his constituents and the people of the State by his careful and conservative meth- ods while serving in the Senate, doing much to bring about a wise and effective legisla- tion. He was one of the governor's staff, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, at the opening of the Columbian Exposition, tak- ing an active part. Our subject is a trustee of the Tri-State Normal School, at Angola, Indiana, was one of the organizers and is vice-president of the Steuben County Bank, one of the stanch financial institutions of the county; is a director in the Steuben
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