Memorial record of northeastern Indiana, Part 93

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Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
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After being mustered out and before the close of the war, Mr. Frederick returned to his home for about a month, then went. to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was in the Quartermaster's police service for about a year. During the two succeeding years he was in Randolph and Jay counties, Indiana; then spent six months in Bates county, Mis- souri, and traveled through Kansas to Omaha, Nebraska, on an eight months trip. There he began to learn the carpenter's trade, and was employed on Government work, building barracks. He next engaged in work on the Union Pacific Railroad, building windmills, for eight months, after which he returned to Omaha, and from

there to Sioux City, Iowa, where he worked at the carpenter's trade for eight months. He followed the same business in Little Rock, Arkansas, for three years, and was in Fulton, Arkansas, for one year,-during which time he built the county house at Washington, that State, having the con- tract for all except the brick and stone work.

Mr. Frederick thus traveled quite exten- sively, and then returned to his home on a visit. On the 15th of June, 1875, he came to Garrett, Indiana, a town composed of five unfinished dwellings, with also about five store rooms still uncompleted. The place had been platted April 20, 1875, by Washington Cowan. Mr. Frederick erected his present dwelling and two store rooms and continued his residence here until June, 1876, when the town almost died out. In 1880, however, it began rapidly to rebuild, and is now the most important place in the county. In July, 1878, he took charge of the Baltimore Land & Improvement Com- pany, acting as agent for ten years. In 1 880 he began contracting and building, and the following year established a lumber yard, continuing operations along that line until 1888. He has been connected with the erection of two hundred buildings in this town and may well be numbered among the founders of the enterprising city of Garrett.

Mr. Frederick was married November 10, 1872, to Miss Emma, daughter of John Hipkins. They now have five children: Agnes Emma, born September 25, 1873; Mary Edith, born August 17, 1875; Queen Elizabeth, born May 31, 1877; Jessie Belle, who was born December 8, 1879, and died July 23, 1880; and Frances Cleveland, born November 28, 1887. Mrs. Frederick and her children are members of the Episcopal

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Church. In his political views Mr. Fred- erick is a Democrat, and is now serving as a member of the School Board. He is a prominent Mason, having taken the Knight Templar, Scottish Rite and Mystic Shrine degrees, and is a member of Charles Case Post, No. 253, G. A. R., and the Independ- ent Order of Red Men. His enterprise and industry, good management and persever- ance have brought to him success, and his fair and honorable dealing have gained him the confidence and respect of all whom he has met.

IRAM W. BOWMAN, M. D., St. Joe, Indiana .- The members of the medical profession are, perhaps, more in the confidence and esteem of those over whose health they have super- vision than men of any other profession or calling are or can be who become in any way connected with the affairs of others. To the family, the family physician is its closest friend, on whose words and skill often hang the momentous issue of life and death. His presence cheers when hope has departed, and the vigils of weary watchers are lightened and the tension of their minds relax when he approaches. Kindness of speech, a sympathetic nature and a cheering presence are qualities important to physi- cian, and are appreciated by a discerning public. These elements, in a happy com- bination with a thorough scientific knowl- edge of materia medica, have endeared Dr. Bowman to the hearts of the people among whom he practices.

The Doctor is a son of Soloman A. Bow- man, a native of Ashland county, Ohio, who was a cabinetmaker and carpenter by trade. Soloman A. was a son of John Bowman,

who was born in Pennsylvania, and who be- came one of the first settlers ol Ashland county, Ohio. The father of our subject died in 1856, at the age of thirty-seven years. He married Rebecca, daughter of Nicholas Jones, of Ashland county, who bore him three children, a daughter and two sons. The former married Charles Rhoads, of Spencerville, Indiana; she died in 1874. Francis M., the third child, is living in Chi- cago, at present being connected with one of the railroads entering that city. Hiram W. is the second child in order of birth, having been born in Ashland county, Ohio, October 8, 1849.

When four years of age his parents set- tled in Spencerville, De Kalb county, being one of the first families to locate in the town- ship. A log house was erected, in which the family took refuge, the father finding profit- able employment at his trade and erecting some of the first houses in the county. Young Hiram's early life was spent after the fashion common with boys of pioneer par- ents. The district schools afforded him the means of acquiring the rudiments of an En- glish education, which subsequently he had the privilege to develop and extend by a course of study in the graded school at New- ville, afterward entering the Auburn Normal School, where he fitted himself for a higher course of study than the home schools afford- ed. Upon leaving Auburn he entered the Presbyterian Acadamy of Ashland county, Ohio, and later finished his literary course in the Western University of Delaware, Ohio.

He had diligently applied himself to study during the period of school life and his education at the finish was thorough, wide in scope, and adequate, upon which to build a professional education, in materia medica. The profession of medicine he

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quite early in life fixed upon as his call- ing and to that end all his energies were directed to the accomplishment of his well conceived purpose. To obtain the means to defray the expense of a medical education he took up teaching. He was then only twenty years old. Already he had achieved much, yet much more remained to be ac- complished. While teaching he 'read med- icine under the able direction of the late Dr. G. W. Murphy, Spencerville, under whose pre- ceptorship he was prepared for matricula- tion in the medical department of Wooster University, at which he graduated in 1874. Returning to Newville he opened an office and practiced for a short time. Realizing the need of greater thoroughness in the pro- fession, he closed his office to take the post- graduate course in the celebrated Jefferson College of Medicine and Surgery in Penn- sylvania. Upon its completion he returned to De Kalb county, where he successfully practiced for five years. Again he closed his office to still further prosecute his studies, this time going to Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, where he took the post-graduate. course. Again establishing himself in the practice at St. Joe, De Kalb county, he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is devoted to his profession, a hard student, sparing neither labor nor expense to keep himself well abreast of the foremost in the rapid advancement of the sciences of medicine and surgery. In his library may be found medical works embrac- ing the best known authors, and in his cabinets are to be found all the latest appli- ances and instruments which facilitate and give an approximation to safety in hazardous cases.

Dr. Bowman was married to Mary E., daughter of John Lichty and sister of Hon.

J. D. Lichty, Congressman-elect from this district. They have had three children, two sons living and a daughter deceased. Socially, the Doctor is a member of the Ancient Order of Masonry, having attained to the Master's degrees, and also has member- ships in the Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

I SAAC HARRISON CASE occupies the responsible position of general manager for the firm of Kimball & Company, dealers in pianos and or- gans at Fort Wayne. He is a thorough- going business man, honored in all things, of excellent executive ability and sagacity, and not a little of the success of this establish- ment is due to his enterprising, progressive management.

Mr. Case was born in Stark county, Illinois. His father was John Case, a farmer by occupation. His mother bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Dallwrimple, and was a daughter of Isaac Dallwrimple, a native of the same county. In the Case family were eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom nine are living. The record is as follows: George, a resident of Iowa; John A .; Jo C .; Lucy, wife of E. G. Livingston, of Illinois; Sarah, wife of Foster Morgan, of Illinois; Isabella, wife of J. Robinson, Clerk of the Supreme Court at Springfield, Mis- souri; Tina, wife of J. Flower, of Spring- field, Missouri; Mrs. Mary Cater; and Mary Jane, deceased wife of George Coleman, of Whitley, Illinois.

The subject of this review attended the district schools of Whitley county until four- teen years of age. He then wished to at- tend the city schools, but to this his father would not agree and in consequence he ran

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away from home and secured employment with A. P. Carpenter, president of the Men- dota Organ Factory in Mendota, Illinois. He worked for Mr. Carpenter two years for his board, clothes and permission to attend school. He did the chores, rode the horses and performed such other work as he could. After two years he went on the road, selling organs from a wagon in the country. For two years he was thus employed, and then Mr. Servant, under whom he had worked, engaged his services in the office. Subse- quently he entered into partnership with A. P. Young, as proprietor of a music store in El Paso, Illinois.

Mr. Case continued there for two years, after which he traveled for a year as a sales- man in the interests of the Kimball Com- pany, of Chicago. During the three suc- ceeding years he was in the employ of R. W. Stuart, of La Fayette, Indiana, and then engaged with Baldwin & Company, of Fort Wayne, with whom he remained nine years. He is now general manager of the largest piano and organ store in the State of Indiana, that of Kimball & Company, of Fort Wayne. He never received any in- struction in music, but is nevertheless an ex- cellent performer on the piano.

Mr. Case was united in marriage with Miss Angelina May Wells, daughter of J. Wells, of Illinois. They have two children, -a son and daughter, -and have also lost two.

ILLIAM H. LEAS .- Among the men who have taken up their resi- dence in Waterloo, Indiana, and exerted a widely felt influence on the community, especially in connection with the legal profession, is the gentleman whose

name introduces this review. His individu- ality of character and his thorough knowl- edge of law has made his name familiar as a leading member of the profession in this sec- tion of the State for some years, and the his- tory of northeastern Indiana's prominent legal practitioners would be incomplete with- out his record.

Mr. Leas was born in Salem township, Steuben county, Indiana, on the 16th day of September, 1849, and is the fourth son of John and Susan (Schimpff) Leas. The fa- ther was born near the city of Gettysburg in Adamns county, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1816, and traces his ancestry back to one of the valiant heroes of the Revolution, this hon- ored veteran having been his grandfather in the agnatic line, and the commissioned Col- onel of a regiment of militia, receiving such preferinent through Wilson Shannon. John Leas was the eldest son of John and Eliza- beth (Spangler) Leas. The grandfather was an early settler of Stark county, Ohio, and later of Guernsey county, whence he re- moved with his family to Smithfield town- ship, De Kalb county, Indiana, where he opened up a farm, spending his last years, however, in Waterloo.

The father of our subject was married at Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, to Susan Schimpff, a native of Germany, who when thirteen years of age was brought by her parents to America, the family locating in Stark county. She had four brothers and three sisters. Of this family one removed to Philadelphia, another to Chicago, while Mrs. Leas accompanied her husband to northern Indiana. Early in the year 1840 they took up their residence in Steuben county, this State, where, by industry and persistent labor Mr. Leas opened a large farm. In 1868 he removed to the present

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homestead in Smithfield township, and in 1874, in connection with four others, he or- ganized the Citizens' Bank of Waterloo, of which he became the sole owner at a later period. In 1894, on account of ill health, after twenty years spent in the banking busi- ness, he retired to private life, and was suc- ceeded by his son, Hezekiah K. Leas. In the family of John and Susan Leas were twelve children, three of whom died in in- fancy, and the following named are the sur- viving brothers and sisters: Martin V., Jacob H., John S., William H., Obadiah, Heze- kiah K., Elizabeth S., Adeline and Daniel L.

The subject of this review acquired his education in the common schools and after- ward engaged in teaching in the district schools, while later he was employed in the graded schools of Waterloo. Subsequently he assisted Messrs. Willard, Kingman & Mc- Conahey in surveying and making county maps in Ohio and Indiana. In 1873 he en- tered upon the study of law at Angola, and in the fall of that year became a student in Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1875, on the 24th day of March. He had been admitted to the bar at Angola, Indiana, while pursuing his studies, and on the Ist of June, 1875, opened an office in Waterloo, where he has continued to prac- tice for twenty years. At the time of the opening of the law office he associated him- self with C. M. Phillips, and later with R. W. McBride and Joseph L. Morlan, under the firm style of McBride, Morlan & Leas. This firm continued practice until the death of Mr. Morlan in August, 1878, when the partnership was dissolved.

Mr. Leas then opened an office and en- gaged in practice alone. Some time after- ward, however, he associated himself in

business with D. Y. Husselman, and the firm of Husselman & Leas continued to ex- ist until Mr. Husselman retired to accept the editorship of the Auburn Courier, in company with the present editor, James A. Barnes. Since that time he has been alone in the prosecution of his chosen calling. His success in a professional way has been pronounced and offers the best evidence of his ability in his profession. He is a strong advocate with the jury and is concise in his appeals before the court. His honor, candor and fairness in all things have given him a distinctive popularity among his pro- fessional brethren and all others with whom he has come in contact in a business way, and he is now enjoying a good clientage and a host of friends. He is a close student and has a marked familiarity with the details of law and its precedents.

In his political adherency, Mr. Leas is a stalwart Democrat, and an active worker in the interests of his party. He was twice nominated for the office of Prosecuting At- torney of the Thirty-fifth judical district of Indiana, and each time ran far ahead of his ticket; but as the district was largely Repub- lican he was defeated. He was twice elected to serve on the board of trustees of the graded schools of Waterloo and dis- charged the duties of that position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. From the formation of the Northeastern Agricultural Association, he has been among its active workers and was twice elected secretary of the organization. He then declined further elections owing to the demands made upon his time by the profession.

On the 20th of August, 1878, Mr. Leas was united in marriage with Emma J. Danks, the youngest daughter of Oris and

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Stella (Booge) Danks. The mother died dur- ing the infancy of her daughter. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Leas has been blessed with two children, -Stella B. and Earl D., born July 4, 1880, and February 15, 1882, re- spectively.

ATHANIEL BANISTER, a farm- er of section 24, La Gro town- ship, Wabash county, was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, De- cember 13, 1818, the eldest of the ten chil- dren of Collen and Mary (Powell) Banister. Six of the children are now living. The father was born in Virginia about the year 1796. In 1856 he came to Indiana, locating in Wabash county, where he spent the re- mainder of his life, dying in 1871, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a farmer by occupation, was one of the sturdy men of his day, and was a public-spirited and representative citizen. His wife, Mary (Pow- ell) Banister, was a native of Maryland and a daughter of Zenas Powell, of that State. When she was a small child the family moved to Kentucky on horseback. She lived to an advanced age. The grand- father of our subject, John Banister, was a native of Virginia, and was a tanner by occupation.

Nathaniel Banister, the subject of this sketch, was about seven years of age when the family came to Fayette county, Indiana, and he remained with his parents until nine- teen years of age, when he started out in life for himself, first working by the month at farm labor. In 1844 he located on the farm he still owns, in section 24, La Gro township, Wabash county, then unimproved land. Mr. Banister erected a log cabin, and immediately began to subdue his quarter

section of land. becoming one of the early pioneer fariners of the township. His entire business life has been spent at farm labor, and he is now recognized as one of the reliable, upright and successful men of this locality. A Democrat in political matters, he has always taken an active part in the advance- ment of the purest principles of his party. Mr. Banister has always been recognized as a broad-minded and liberal gentleman, always alive to the best interests of La Gro town- ship, and at one time he served as its Trustee.

In 1841, in Fayette county, Indiana, our subject was united in marriage with Eleanor Dale, a native of that county. They have had ten children, namely: Marietta, Theodore, Lewis, Granville (deceased), Al- fred, Horace, Sanford, Charlotte (deceased), Amanda (deceased) and Alice. For many years Mr. Banister has been a member of and an earnest worker in the Christian Church.

HOMAS R. BRADY, one of the leading physicians of Wabash, was born in Liberty township, Wabash county, Indiana, January 2, 1843. He was the eldest of the ten children of William and Frances (Imlay) Brady. Eight of the children are still living. William Brady, the father of our subject, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 15, 1816, and resided in that county until twenty-five years of age. He then located in Indiana, pre-empting a claim of a quarter section of land in Liberty township, and became one of the early pioneer farmers. His claim was a part of the Indian reservation, which was opened in 1841. Mr. Brady's subsequent

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life was spent in Liberty, where he died Sep- tember 10, 1869, at the age of fifty-three years. Deeply interested in church matters, he was for many years an Elder in the Pres- byterian Church, and was one of the organ- izers of the Liberty Church. In early life he was identified with the Whig party, and afterward became a stanch Republican. In local matters, Mr. Brady was a public-spir- ited, broad-minded gentleman, especially in- terested in those two important matters in any community, -good schools and good roads.

The grandfather of our subject, Cleason Brady, was born in Maryland in 1789. In 1802 he removed to Ohio, and was one of the early pioneers of the locality where he settled. In 1843, after forty-one years spent there, he located in Wabash county, Indiana, where he died in 1859, at the age of seventy years. Cleason Brady was a giant in stat- ure, and was noted as one of the strongest men ever living in Wabash county. He was devoted to the cause of abolition. At one time his place was known as the "switch station " on the " Underground Railroad."

The mother of our subject, nce Frances Imlay, was a native of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, but her life was spent princi- pally in Ohio. She was a daughter of David and Dorcas (Johnson) Imlay. Her father located in Muskingum county, Ohio, when it was a wilderness, subsequently became one of the early pioneers of Wabash county, Indiana, and afterward was a pioneer in Nebraska, his death occurring at the latter place at the age of eighty-three years. Mrs. Brady is still living on the homestead in Lib- erty township, Ohio, aged seventy-three years.

Thomas R. Brady, the subject of this sketch, spent his early life on the farm, at-

tending the common schools, and afterward the Huntington Academy. July 16, 1862, he enlisted for service in the late war, enter- ing Company F, One Hundred and First Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His first en- gagement was in the Buell campaign in Kentucky, participated in the battle of Per- ryville, assisted in driving Bragg out of the country, and then joined the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Brady took part in the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns, was with Sherman in all the battles through Georgia and Carolina, and participated in the Grand Review at the close of the war. After three years of arduous service, he was honorably discharged, in July, 1865. Mr. Brady received a wound at the terrible bat- tle of Missionary Ridge, from which he has never fully recovered.

Returning to private life, he taught school for three years, and during that time also studied medicine. He subsequently entered the University of Michigan, and from there went to Rush Medical College at Chicago, graduating at the latter institu- tion in February, 1869. From that time until 1886 Mr. Brady followed the practice of medicine in Wabash county, and in the latter year was elected Clerk of the Court of that county, removing to the city of Wabash, where he has since resided. He served in that position four years, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in Wabash and vicinity.

In political matters, Dr. Brady is a Re- publican of pronounced views. He is a member of the J. H. Emmett Post, G. A. R., and was elected Commander of the same in 1890. The Doctor has been a member of the Masonic order since 1867, affiliating with the La Fountain Lodge, No.

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295, and is also a member of the Wabash Chapter and Commandery.

April 1, 1868, Dr. Brady was united in marriage with Elizabeth J. Dougherty, who died February 13. 1869, leaving one son, Thomas. The latter also departed this life in 1887, at the age of eighteen years. Our subject was again married, June 2, 1870, to Emma L. Brown, a native of Preble county, Ohio, and a daughter of John Brown. Her parents located in Huntington county, Indi- ana, where they died at an advanced age. Dr. and Mrs. Brady have seven children, all at home, namely: William S., John C., George, Maggie, Fannie, Lucretia and Jennie.

J OHN H. RENNER, one of the well known and highly respected mem- bers of the medical profession in Wa- bash county, was born in Montgom- ery county, Ohio, August 2, 1838. He was the eldest of six children born to Emanuel and Sarah (Cecil) Renner. The father was born in Maryland in 1818, where he lived until middle life, removing thence with his family to Darke county, Ohio. Both in his native State and in Ohio he was a school- teacher for a number of years. His death occurred in the latter State in 1861, at the age of forty-four years, and his widow still resides in Ohio. The grandfather of our subject, John Renner, for whom he was named, was a native of Germany, who came to this country at an early day, locating in Maryland, where he resided until his death.

The early life of John H. Renner, the subject of this sketch, was spent in Ohio, attending the common schools. At the age of seventeen years he began teaching, con- tinuing that occupation one year, and the following year was spent in the Otterbein

University at Westerville, Ohio. For the next two years he was again engaged in teaching, and at the end of that time he en- tered the Starling Medical College at Co- lumbus. Mr. Renner began the practice of medicine in Ohio, where he continued three years, and then, in 1867, removed to the village of La Gro, Wabash county, Indiana. Soon after locating here he formed a part- nership with Dr. R. Tobey. but after a year and a half the latter retired from the firm. Since coming to this place Dr. Renner has been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, with the exception of the time spent in completing his collegiate studies. In 1877 he graduated at a medical college in Fort Wayne, in 1882 took a post- graduate course at the Chicago Medical Col- lege, and in 1884 took a degree in the Northwestern Medical School. Entirely de- voted to his profession, the Doctor has ever been a close student, and is now recognized as one of the best educated men in his pro- fession in northeastern Indiana. He is highly respected by all who know him for his high character and broad views, and en- joys the hearty good will of a large circle of friends, who admire his genial and kindly nature.

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Memorial record of northeastern Indiana, Part 93

Author: Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 932

Author:
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 932