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His angles are not only salbacterien, progressive in their general theme, Lai are . (Entertaining !! Fittac los aigle lang go up np b fbat & the average writer for for class of istenals, ther milosyon he offers his now vast and appreciative audience is eagerly ged and los altose accepted without ques tion. Mr. Rogers be- be one call Whowon daxing for the state through hi. inudable work in organizing bugs and girl- ofthe.
Finally deciding that a larger fuld af alselling and General success awaited him in the newspaper world, he atendoned farben, and on line 1. 11,12, purchased The Warren Republican, of the Jon thor estate, and this be bas . untinued to publish with prodotto od stessay Sel su monda seeing the paper's advertising almost doubled and pearls 0. hundred new subscriber added to its subscription lists, and the paper is rapidly becoming more important as at molder of public opinion in die section of the state. Its mechanical appearance has been greatly imper and its columns teem with the latest and most important news, and its editorial carry weight in advocat- ing whatever is best for local improvement in any way. Mr. Rodgers has made improvements in the plant, which is now modernly equipped in every respect. He has added a new double-feed Babcock Dispatch press, a new Universal Gally job, fourteen by twenty-two, press, also folder, and several hundred dollars' worth of up-to-date type and other modern fixtures. The job department would be a credit to cities much larger than Williamsport. and prompt and high grade work is the aim of Mr. Rodgers. The Warren Republican was established in 1844 and it has long been familiar in every household in this locality. It is now read by more than six thousand read- ers each week, and it covers a circulation feld of much wealth in Warren, Fountain, Benton, Tippecanoe, Vermilion and Montgomery counties, Indiana. and Vermilion and Iroquois counties, Illinois. It has been housed in a sub- stantial, handsome brick building since 1894.
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ans. and] selhe sem our home and Itirriet ( Perkinss Mcclamby The Former and my int. who were nationof Ohio, were lait is he fenty var Meget of 1820, and fletcher 17, 1850. They moved to Warren & pory Tildias, and 1857. When de sultent www. ten years of age. inile DeChamene moved to Warrick cours, Indian vol cared their family to them. Iain McClaren, a brother of the ship of due stetch, was a collier of the Civil war and died while in the service. Robert and Jasper are the only surviy ag children.
Robed McClatchy was reared to manhood and came to Warren county, Indiana, in 1872. On March 12, 1879, he was married to Lizzie May Sibrell, who was born on May 13, 1862, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth ( Ed- monds) Sibrell. Peter Sibrell was born in Ross county, Ohio, on September 13, 1821, while his wife was born in the same county on August 17. 1828. They were married August 11, 1845, to which union were born six girls, four of whom are living. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion Peter Sibrell enlisted in the Twelfth Indiana Battery, which was stationed at Fort Negley, serving as a soldier nine months. After his marriage he came to Indiana and was remarkably successful here, accumulating money and land very rapidly. He gave four hundred and fifty acres to his children, each one thus becoming the pe cessor of a nice farm.
To Mr. and Mrs. McClatchy have been born three children, namely : Bessie became the wife of Thomas McCoy and they have one child, Merle ;
escaping the injustice- hearted bygg they by the way wemay. The have been true to then adopted ontoby amppiled our in @ non- and rougir in all our wars, and we 1. call ys Jer remy for maler shores. There have come & the Counted Stare- rom for Mirati el Jest ther alien lands. men of Bantel financial masos bour go call withewy siky ambitions, and gradually, step by step. they have adarice ! cocopelege 0) positi as of influence and cast we canins- lille of attime OF These Lieve can be none mentioned who have mple Warren Counde lem plice uf glade during past generations why deserve pan favoriting moderation than the late Thomas Cline, a man who had a host of war fressenthroughout this locality for he led an industrion, and exemplac- lift
Thomas Cline was born in Roscommon, I. cand, and there he grew to young manhood, much in the same manner as other boys of that country. Seeing the lack of opportunities there, he decided to cast his lot in a . ew country and he emigrated to New York and remained there a short time, finally penetrating. to the interior of the continent, where he spent the latter part of his life. He was a hard working man and did whatever he could get to do to make an honest living. From the East he came to Hamilton, Ohio, where he remained some time. then came on to Warren county, Indian . locating in Warren township, on a farm where he spent the rest of his life successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, and there his death occurred.
Mr. Cline was married in Ireland and one child was born to them before they left the old country, John Cline, who now lives in Attica, this county, he
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Nary TEDY bouch: Young the falliet born in 1mois and the mother born ne. Myiga Indiana. Morris Mening WEMoved farming in Vermilion county. Mimois and his family consisted , i five children, namely : I. C., of this review : Andrew lives on the state line between Illinois and Indiana ; Estella married William Esmarthy, and they live in Bismark, Illinois; Rus- sell lives in Indiana; Jewel is at home.
The subject of this sketch grew up on his father's farm in Illinois and there he received a good education in the neighboring schools. He came to Warren county, Indiana, and purchased a farm in Steuben township, in 1895 and there he still resides engaged in general farming and stock raising and he has been very successful. He has added many modern improvements on his place and it now ranks with the best in the township. His place con- sists of one hundred acres.
Mr. Young was married in 1895 to Lillian May Larabee, daughter of Sylvester and Cornelia ( Croukhite) Larabee. Mrs. Young's mother wa- born in Warren county, Indiana, but her father was a native of Ohio, from which state he came to this county and was one of the early settlers. Four children have been born to the subject and wife, n. mely : Pearl is at home : Marshall Curtis, Sylvester Joel and Harley Howard.
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It is que! anthonderd inger neces jones & Text of auf- let s del applied energy, unflagging determin ant posting the idler o deander Miel she never courts the body mails the men who have diligentor bought her favor are crowned with her of seings. In tracing the history of Med Van Red Bullyer, store . fil fortuner and widely known auctioneer, of M fren county, it is plainly seen wok Ille prosperity which he enjeesh been won by commendable que s and it is also his personal worin that has gained for him the high esteein di those who know him.
Mr. Butler, who lives on the Keys gravel road, about a mile south of Carbondale, was born in Warren county, Indiana, on December 16, 1871, and is the son of George D. and Minerva (Van Reed) Butler. His father was a farmer and auctioneer, a native of Pennsylvania, and he was a young man when he came to Indiana, and made his start in Warren county by buying a small piece of land where the subject's home now stands. His family consisted of four children, namely : Clara C., who married Otto J. Swanson, is deceased, as is also her husband; Fern, their only child, makes her home with the subject of this sketch; Robert A. married Emma Milli- gan: Lee, of this review; and George Clinton Butler, the youngest.
George D). Butler and Minerva Van Reed, parents of the subject, were married in 1867. She is the daughter of Levi and Amelia ( Bowman) Van
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levicon Mis al comma gerButtething his service of the Latter -THE While b des no I long to my church, he is a dofever in the spiritual entillc- and his leaning's dre towards the Presbyterian chinch. Personally. he is popular, hans a good misser, a genial andlight. companion
JOHN ROBERT BROADIE.
Upon the roll of representative citizens and prominent and infoonial agriculturalists of Washington township, Warren county, Indiana, appears the name at the head of this sketch.
Mr. Broadie has been a resident of this county, on the old Broadie hotte- stead, since his birth. He has worked his way to a position of precedence in the agricultural world, while he is held in unqualified esteem by the people of his community. This old homestead has never passed out of the possession of the family since it was deeded by the goverment, in the carly thirties of the nineteenth century, to the maternal grandfather. John R. Wilson, at the gov
after coming for Aftera. Vitor completing they cantation seled . ination, Thomas Benton Broadie and Martha J. Wilson worst met as spulents zy Thorn- town Academy, from which the latter graduated m 1860. The former heard his country's call to arms, and in 1862 abandoned his hopes of more education and enlisted with the Sixteenth Indiana Battery, Army of the Potomac, in the war of the Rebellion. He served his country three years as a Union soldier and was honorably discharged in 1865. Their marriage occurred November 9, 1865. They began their married life on the site of the present homestead. Much of this was yet uncleared, but Mr. Broadie was a successful tiller of the soil and with the sturdiness of his Scotch ancestry bravely went to work. He at first farmed on a small scale. but increased the cultivable area year by year until he had a splendid farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He also in- proved a farm in Jordan township of one hundred and sixty acres which lies one-half mile north of Hedrick, Indiana. The improvement of these two farms virtually constituted his life work. Mr. Broadie died January 31. 1890. aged a little more than forty-nine years. His widow survived him six years, in which time she turned her farming interests over to her son, John R., and built herself and family a comfortable, modern home on Falls street in Will- iamsport, Indiana. She died March 1, 1896, and was buried beside her hus- band in the family lot in the Williamsport cemetery.
Their family consisted of six children, viz. : Charles ("., deceased ; Anna M., now the wife of T. F. Christian, of Danville, Ilinois: Augustus G., of Williamsport ; James C., of Portland, Oregon; John R., the subject, and William E., deceased. John R. received his education in the common school-
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FRANK. A. WEGERLY
Among the man of Water panty who have toread their way to the front 1 4Wver 1 4 of 3 bil worddel mont rather than by the influence and muen, assuage of mig. no heter of warthis example than that of Frank .A. Wogedy well known birkoff Warren township, could be found. He is a man of excellent judgment, which accounts for his uniform success, possessing clem ideas in all business matters. Being careful in his calcula- tions. resome Pal in his dealings and eminently honorable in his relations with others, people have always reposed confidence in his word and his integrity has ever been above criticism.
Mr. Wegerly was born March 20, 1863, in Circleville, Ohio, the son of Adani and Amelia (Slager) Wegerly. The father was a farmer in Pickaway county, Ohio. His family consisted of six children, namely : William, John, Milt, Alice, Frank A. (of this sketch), and Lafayette.
Frank A. Wegerly was educated in Pickaway county, Ohio, and he came to Indiana on August 25, 1884. and has thus spent the past twenty-eight years in the Hoosier state. He arrived here without capital, and in order to get a start in the world he worked out at odd jobs, starting life with nothing, but he was persevering and thrifty and in due course of time became very well established. Locating in Warren county, he prospered from year to year as a general farmer and stock man, until at this writing he is the owner of the May farm in Warren township, consisting of two hundred acres, also owns one hundred and sixty acres in Pulaski county, this state. He has kept his
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time Isent. n ! they lived om. chill. But L .: Mand the wie so fier Kisuper and they love one child. Iwould. Nota is attending.
In religione watters Mr. Wegerly belongs to the Presbyterian church. and fratemalle is a member of the Woodmen and the Improved Order of Red Men.
JAMES S. WAGNER.
There is little that interests one more than to carve how different men begin and continue the duties of life. Some commence in hesitation and seem to be deterred at every obstacle they encounter. Other begin boldly, but after a time show by some defect in execution that they have not properly mastered their tasks. Still others commence with steady grasp of the situation and show by their subsequent accomplishments that they have compassed the problem of life. To the last class success always come and they are the men who leave behind them good names and properties honorably won in life's struggle.
James S. Wagner, a successful and enterprising farmer of Medina town- ship, Warren county, Indiana, was born on April 9, 1860. His parents, William Thomas and Margaret (Turman) Wagner, were also natives of Warren county. The father, born October 3. 1836, died August 23, 1900, while the mother, born May 27. 1837, died October 10, 1874. The paternal grandpar- ents, Michael and Margaret Wagner, were natives of Germany, the former having been born on January 16, 1804, and died January 20, 1866, and the latter died January 7, 1871, aged sixty-seven years. Upon his emigration from Germany, the grand father came direct from New York city to Warren county. Indiana, where he entered government land, which he cleared and developed into a good farm. On this place he remained until his death. The subject's paternal great-grandparents were Simon G. and Agnes Wagner, the first named dying on August 23, 1840, at the age of sixty-seven years, his wife dying on June 30. 1843. at the age of sixty nine years. An uncle of the sub-
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Willson Wpor Aze a stanch Republicar m Ins policed wnik. though never to police secker. Fraternally, he was a member of the Free and .it copied Mesens, and his religious membership was with the Melandet I pisen pal church.
Jaume- S. Wagner secured a good practical education in this comment schools of his home community and when old enough he gave asverile 00 the work of the farinstead. Ile has always followel agriculieml pients atul his efforts have been rewarded with a due measure of success: Ble @wili seventy-five acres of the old homestead, the land having been in tin Wagner family for three generations. On this place Mr. Wagner carried of gereed farming operations, raising all the crops common to this locality, and they giving some attention to the raising of live stock, in both of which lines he has found a fair 1 ofit.
On December 24, 1890, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage with Lizzie Umholts, the daughter of Harvey and Jane ( Ambler) Umholts. These par- ents were natives of Ohio, and the father, who was a soldier of the Civil war, died of small-pox in 1882. Harvey and Jane Umholts were the parents of eight children, namely: Martha, deceased; Henry, deceased; John, of Earl Park, Indiana; Sidney, of Independence, Indiana; Lizzie, wife of the subject : Jessie became the wife of Clinton Ogborn ; Harvey, of Chicago, and May, who became the wife of John Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner are the parents of four children, namely: Lucy May, the wife of Ray II. Allen, of Danville, Illinois; Ruth, Charles Fletcher and l'airy are at home.
Politically, Mr. Wagner is a Republican and he has served as supervisor of his township, being the present trustee. To his official duties he is giving the same careful attention as he does to his private business affairs, thus he is earning the approbation of the public. He has always taken much more than a passing interest in the things that had for their object the general improve- ment of the community and county. He is a very able and successful farmer. has won his present prosperity by his own exertions, and has the confidence and respect of his neighbors to a pronounced degree.
day, and generation in the saints lemamed in The air-meldle Jos ment of Fountain coons are as well brugt of Fall gelegt 1% ale - Minute of the public id the esteemin his megles mer de of yoy ror chefer is eminently proper that this model cosid of his Comosena is not Lobab- Lo his worth he is accorded a place among those lese el silvameters have given stability to the body politic and made the world better by their pre -etnie and influence. William B. Schermerhorn is a nalive of Formbon county, In diana, and dates his birth from the 21st day of Augu. t. : 9622000g a son of J. J. and Achsah A. Schermerhorn, the latter bon air porot in Richland township, the former near Schenectady, New York. Previous to her marriage Mrs. Schermerhorn was a Miss Insl: daughter of Ellis and Rebecca ( Staf- ford) Insley, natives of Ohio and easy settlers of the thinship of Richland. where her birth occurred on January 4. 1834.
Of the early years and experience of William B. S formerhorn little need be recorded, as they were in most respects similar to those of the majority of lads born and brought up under the wholesene influence of rural life and rugged discipline of the farm. After a preliminary training in the district schools he entered De Pauw Univer. ly, where he pursued his study for a period of three years, following which he devoted one year to teaching. Not desiring to make educational work his permanent calling, he discontinued teaching and accepted the position of assistant cashier in the old Citizens Bank of Attica, which post he filled with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his employers for three years, when he severed his connections with the in- stitution to engage in the grain business. After two years in that line of trade, he disposed of his interests in Attica and during the following five years devoted his attention to farming and stock raising on the old family homestead in Richland township, where he prospered as a tiller of the soil.
At the expiration of the period indicated, Mr. Schermerhorn turned the farm over to other hands and, returning to Attica, entered upon his duties as cashier of the Central National Bank, to which responsible position he was
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him. Logothe oldy! integrity and -that a mon Tortie lave com for him many warm persona friends is well as the middle of le blane - areichs and the gover ! public. Al teitizen la support sit for amis om forwarding the best interests of his wife and county and His hifneed for ever been on the right side of every moral issue. Standing for s form in all matters making for the general welfare and having the courage ff ii convictions on questions of public import, he maintains the soundness of his opinions and makes principle para nount- to every other concentration. The is a Republican, but not a politician, although well versed in the history of parties and the principles for which they stand. Fraternally, he is a Mason of high landing, belonging to the Royal Arch degree, and he is also an active worker in the Pythian lodge of Attica. Mr. Schermerhorn is a gentleman of : 'easing address and winning personality and, as 1ready indicated, few citizens of his town and county occupy as large a place in the public eye or stand as high in the confidence and esteem of the people.
Air. Schermerhorn was happily married in the year 1889 to Lottie J. Todd, daughter of Clayton and Isabelle ( Spinning) Todd, one child having been born of the union, a daughter, Bernice.
W. J. SIMMERMAN.
This well known farmer and blacksmith, and one of the enterprising men of the community in which he lives, is a native of Fountain county, In- diana, and one of a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, whose parents, Stephen and Margaret, are among the well known and respected residents of Liberty township. The names of their children are as follows: Dessie; V. J., of this review; Laurie, Frank, James, Addie Grace and Myrtle. The father, whose birth occurred in Fountain county, is a suc- cessful farmer and land owner and for many years has ranked among the leading residents of the community honored by his citizenship.
The subject was born April 2, 1874, in the above township, grew to mature years in close touch with the duties of the farm and early matured
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his plans for the future with the object in view of becoming four fig To passive factor in the affairs of man. After attending the mbane dens holl acquiring a knowledge of the branches taught the reht he founded his allendr. to blacksmithing and in due time became quite a proficient rechaqua as de growing patronage of his establishment in the village of kramer allesis In connection with luis trade. he is also interested In agriculture and for Some time past he has rented one hundred and fifteen acres of fine land of Liberty township, which he cultivate according to the rest approved methods and which returns himquite a liberal income.
Mr. Simmerman w. s married in 1900 to Fannie Howerton, and his home has been brightened by the presence of three interesting children, Ole, Harold and Donald.
Fraternally, Mr. Simmerman belongs to the Woodinen and, with his wife, is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. As a neighbor and friend he is highly esteemed and in all that constitutes intelligen minhood and honorable citizenship he occupies a conspicuous place among his fellow men.
WILMER J. BROWN.
Wilmer J. Brown, a rising young business man, holds the responsible position of manager of his father's store, one of the leading mercantile estab- lishments in Attica. He is a native of Fountain county, Indiana, and the youngest of four children born to Jacob and Katie (Gaines) Brown. The names of the other members of the family are Mrs. Jennie E. Wise, who has two offspring, Margaret and Ogden; Fred, who married Della Pittman, and Pauline, who is still under the parental roof.
Wilmer J. Brown, whose birth occurred on the 29th day of August, 1887, was reared in his native county and in early life enjoyed the advantages of a common school education. Subsequently he took a course in a commer- cial college at Memphis, Tennessee, where he earned honorable standing as a student, and for some time after leaving that institution he served different firms as a stenographer, in which capacity lie proved quite an expert. In the meantime he had become familiar with the mercantile business in his father's store and was promoted to the management of the establishment, which re- sponsible position he still holds and in the discharge of the functions of which he displays ability of a high order. Mr. Brown is essentially a business man and as such ranks among the most enterprising and successful of his com-
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peers. Well !!: 1 by nature and training for a salesman and accountant, he has added to his efficiency by the cultivation of those personal qualities which enable him to inspire confidenice and gain the good will and esteem of his cus- tomers. His popularity in his town and county is limited only by the extent of his acquaintance and there are few if any that stand higher than he in the public gaze. He affiliates with several secret fraternal orders, notably the Improved Order of Red Men and Ben-Hur, in both of which he is an active and influential worker, besides being honored from time to time with im- portant official positions by his fellow members. Thus far Mr. Brown's record, both as a citizen and business man, is without blemish and by his de- termination to adhere to his chosen calling and ever to be governed by prin- ciples of honor and rectitude, it is fitting to bespeak for him a future of great promise and usefulness.
CHAUNCEY R. THOMAS.
The counties of Fountain and Warren number among their citizens many skill ful physicians, lawyers of state repute, manufacturers and business men of more than local reputation; while proud of them, she is not lacking in others who have achi red success in callings requiring intellectual abilities of a high order. Amoung the latter, Chauncey R. Thomas, a popular and suc- cessful teacher of Fountain county, occupies a deservedly conspicuous place. No one is more entitled to the thoughtful consideration of a free and enlight- ened people than he who shapes and directs the minds of the young, adds to the value of their intellectual treasure and moulds their characters. This is pre-eminently the mission of the faithful and conscientious teacher and to such noble work is the life of the subject of this sketch devoted.
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