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hard times as well as prosperity means to men; to make money easily and spend it freely. This accumulation of information gathered by actual con- tact with the world makes Mr. Sullivan an entertaining companion. Alto- gether he has met with success and as evidence of his acquirements he has often been called upon by the people to fill responsible positions. The family originated in Ireland, from which historic land the elder Dennis Sullivan emigrated to this country in the early thirties. At Fort Wayne, Indiana, he met and married Catherine Welsh, an Irish girl who came over some years before, and the couple located at Lafayette about 1834. The father was foreman in one of the city's early packing houses and was noted for his industry, capacity for hard work and genial disposition. His son, Dennis T. Sullivan, was born at Lafayette, Indiana, July 16, 1847, and obtained most of his early education in the parochial school, supplemented by a course in Kennedy's Commercial College. Having learned the butcher's trade, he worked in a retail establishment until the completion of his twenty-second year, when the roving fever took possession of him and he determined to visit distant parts. Going to Texas at a time when the long-horned cattle were the state's principal product, he engaged as a drover to accompany herds on the trail to Kansas. He followed this occupation for two years and then worked at his trade for some time in Kansas City. In succession, he resided for short periods in Omaha and Council Bluffs and then spent a year and a half in Chicago, working as a butcher in all these cities. Going to Watseka, Illinois, he got into politics, was elected town marshal, served two years, resigned and returned to his original starting place. This was in 1875 and after a short rest he resumed his work of killing cattle for a Lafayette firm. Subsequently he worked two years at Indianapolis, but eventually came back to his old home and followed butchering until the spring of 1881, when he was elected marshal of Lafayette for a term of four years. In 1885 Mr. Sullivan obtained employment with the Dryfus packing house, with which he has since continued and now occupies the responsible position of depart- ment foreman. For over thirteen years Mr. Sullivan has represented the first ward in the city council and in 1906 was elected councilman-at-large. During this long period he has been quite an influential factor in the city government, serving as committee chairman in connection with various im- provements. Mr. Sullivan has never married. He is a member of St. Ann's Catholic church, of the Young Men's Hibernian Society and a liberal con- tributor to good causes. There is no more popular man in Lafayette nor one that stands higher for honesty in his dealings and general integrity of character.
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JONAS A. PETERSON.
Indiana has caught but a fractional portion of the valuable immigration from Sweden, which has so enriched other states of the north and west. She seems to be too far below the isothermal line along which emigration in- stinctively travels, to suit the people of the cooler latitudes of Scandinavia. What has come, however, is made up of first-class people, always poor at first but working out to success by reason of their industrions and saving habits. We have a few excellent examples in Tippecanoe county and none more worthy than the family of Peterson. Jonas A. Peterson, a son of very poor parents, was born in Sweden April 3, 1831. His father, Peter Peterson, was a farmer in a small way and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Jacobs. Jonas A., who kept fairly well informed, soon decided that Sweden, while an excellent country in many ways, gave but scant opportunity for her poor boys to rise to affluence. The great republic beyond the seas offered much better chance and to this strange land he determined to go. It was in 1859, when twenty-eight years old, that the lone emigrant landed at the port of New York, and he lost no time in coming West. Upon reaching Fountain county, Indiana, he made an accounting of stock and found he had just two dollars left. Temporarily he took what he could get and chopped wood and split rails for a living. The next move was to hire out to a farmer at ten dollars per month and board. which arrangement lasted several years, with but little improvement from a financial standpoint. Eventually he lo- cated in Tippecanoe county and at present his original two dollars has in- creased to thirty thousand dollars, representing the price of three hundred and twenty-eight acres of land which he owns, valued at ninety dollars per acre. But he has other property and all of it goes to show what a willing heart and strong hands can do to overcome adversity.
March 14. 1872, Mr. Peterson married Susanna Paul, who was born in Pennsylvania, March 16, 1839, and came to Tippecanoe county, in 1852. Of their five children, three survive, namely: Charles P., born December 14, 1874, married Emma Elenfritz, and lives at Lafayette; Francis P., born June 24, 1877, remains at home unmarried; Sarah L., born July 30, 1880, is the wife of Henry Dunk. Mr. Peterson is a member of the Lutheran church and his wife a Presbyterian. In politics, Mr. Peterson is a Republican, but not an office seeker or mixer with politicians. He is an honest, upright man who does his duty to all as he sees it, pays his taxes promptly, wrongs no
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one and endeavors in every way to follow the Golden Rule. The whole family reflect the character of their parents and no people in the township are more respected for their quiet worth and unobtrusive conduct.
FERDINAND DRYFUS.
No business man in the city of Lafayette is regarded with higher favor than the gentleman to a brief review of whose interesting career the reader's attention is directed in the following paragraphs. He is one of those public- spirited men who, while looking after his own interests, does not neglect to discharge his duties in fostering the upbuilding of the community in general.
Ferdinand Dryfus, the well-known secretary and treasurer of the Dryfus Packing and Provision Company, of Lafayette, Indiana, was born in Europe in the month of March, 1860, and when a lad of only thirteen years of age lie embarked for the United States, landing on the shores of the New World in the year 1873. His brother, Leopold Dryfus, had preceded him and was then engaged in the meat business in Lafayette, this state, and with him Ferdinand was associated in business until 1880, in which year a partnership was formed. the younger Dryfus having been merely in the employ of the elder Dryfus prior to that time. Young Dryfus took a third interest in the business, which he had by that time learned to conduct in a most successful manner. The firm was known as Dryfus & Sharp in the retail business. In 1881 they engaged in a wholesale business and began packing pork on a small scale and a limited capital. In 1886, the business having steadily grown, Mr. Sharp's interest was purchased by the Dryfus broth- ers and the name then changed to the Dryfus Packing and Provision Com- pany. At that time the plant was not a very extensive one, but it gave prom- ise of great future development, and from year to year, by able management. wise foresight and judicious propagation of principles, the business grew by leaps and bounds, an immense and far-reaching trade now being carried on by this plant, the capacity of which is three hundred hogs per day, besides many cattle, sheep and other animals. Their pay-roll is one of the largest of any concern in the city, there being about one hundred persons constantly employed. The plant is modern and up-to-date in every detail, the best and latest designed machinery being installed in all departments and every- thing is systematically managed and conveniently arranged. Among the equipment may be mentioned two ice machines with a capacity of one hun-
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dred tons, and there are nine cooling rooms. Four salesmen are kept on the road selling the products of the plant which have met with favor for so many years that little effort is required to effect large sales. In connection with a very extensive home trade, consignments of their meats are exported to foreign countries annually, where there is a constant and ready demand. . A criterion of the superior quality of the products of the Dryfus plant is the fact that a large percentage of their customers are of many years' standing. It is deemed that sufficient has been said to show that this is a home institu- tion of which any community might well be proud and which has contributed much to the substantial upbuilding of the city of Lafayette and vicinity.
Although Ferdinand Dryfus is the manager of this great institution, which necessarily takes a great deal of time and painstaking attention, yet he has many other interests, being connected with the Merchants', Farmers'. Traders', and First National Banks of Lafayette, as a stockholder, all sound and thriving institutions ; and he is also interested in the Lafayette Telephone Company, which is an extensive business at this writing. Mr. Dryfus is also a stockholder in the bank at Boswell, Indiana.
An interesting chapter in the life-record of Ferdinand Dryfus is that bearing on his domestic life, which dates from the year 1886, when he was united in the bonds of matrimony with Flora Mayer. She is the representa- tive of an old and influential family, having been born in the city of Lafayette where she was educated and where the major portion of her life has been spent. The cozy home of Mr. and Mrs. Dryfus has been blessed by the birth of two winsome and talented daughters. Fannie, born in the year 1888, is a musician of much promise, being a graduate of the School of Music of Cincinnati, Ohio. As a result of her musical talent and other praiseworthy accomplishments she is held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends. Belle, the second child, was born in 1891 and is now a student of music in Indian- apolis. Indiana, being very apt in her studies and evincing much of the esthetic nature displayed by her elder sister. This happy family is prominent in the best social circles of Lafayette, and each member of the same belongs to the Jewish church of that city, of which they are liberal supporters and regular attendants. In his fraternal relations Mr. Dryfus belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In his political relations he is an unswerving Democrat and he is always interested in the success of his party's principles. He has served in the capacity of councilman from the third ward for many years, in a manner that has won the commendation of all. and he is at this writing councilman-at-large. His only aim in his official capacity is to bene- fit the poor whose able champion he has ever been, as is shown by his record
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when the great gas syndicate made an effort to raise the price of their product, the voice of Mr. Dryfus being heard in defense of the poor. He was then a member of the committee on franchises. He has long been liberal in his donations to the worthy poor and many acts of charitable kindness could be cited, but in this humanitarian work he is unostentatious and quiet, desir- ing to avoid publicity. He is always on the best of terms with his employes, for he believes in mutual interests, that which is for their good resulting also in good for himself, and there has never been a strike of any consequence among his men, which shows the workings of this spirit of altruism, without which the highest good cannot be accomplished. His farm of one hundred and sixty acres is managed in a manner as to be fruitful of the best results, the place being highly improved and kept in first-class condition. Mr. Dryfus is well-known to all classes in Tippecanoe county, admired and esteemed by all, especially those who have known him best, been associated with him the closest and the many unfortunates whom he has helped and encouraged.
WILLIAM GLAZE.
A citizen who by his long residence in Tippecanoe county has won the confidence and esteem of his many acquaintances by reason of his public spirit, honesty and industry is William Glaze, one of the best-known citizens of Sheffield township. He was born in Brown county, Ohio, November 15, 1837. the son of James and Mary ( Phillips) Glaze, who grew up in Brown county. Ohio, and married there in 1836. In 1845 they moved to Montgom- ery county, Indiana, locating on a farm. Two years later they moved to Randolph township, Tippecanoe county, and took up general farming and got a good start there, but in 1858 they moved to Illinois where they en- gaged in farming. Mrs. James Glaze survived but two years after moving there. dying in 1860, but her husband remained in Illinois until 1895 when he returned to Montgomery county, Indiana, and lived there until his death, in 1901. He was an excellent farmer and a good citizen whom everybody re- spected. To Mr. and Mrs. James Glaze sixteen children were born, namely : William; Joseph and George (twins), Nathaniel, Charles, John; Sarah J. and Retta A. (twins). Martha, Stephen, Malilah, Ruth, Mary E., Thomas, Albert and Amanda. By a second marriage, James Glaze became the father of one child, a son, named Ira.
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William Glaze, of this review, was reared on the farm on which he worked until he was eighteen years old, when he was crippled by being cut with an ax, which disabled him from farm work. He was educated in the common schools. When eighteen years of age he began clerking in a store and soon had an excellent knowledge of merchandising, which he followed for a period of ten years, when he returned to farming.
Mr. Glaze was married on February 17, 1862, to Isabelle Young, who was born at Dayton, Indiana, September 6, 1844, and was reared in Tippe- canoe county, Indiana. Her father was known as an honest, hard-working man in his community. To Mr. and Mrs. William Glaze five children were born, three of whom are living at this writing, namely: James A., who is farming in this county; Jesse F., also a farmer in this county; George N. is in the mercantile business with his father at Dayton, Indiana.
After making a success of farming, William Glaze decided to finish his business career in the mercantile line, consequently in March, 1907, he pur- chased a stock of goods in Dayton and has since been conducting very suc- cessfully a general store under the firm name of William Glaze & Son. They have built up an extensive trade and are now enjoying a very liberal patron- age with the surrounding country. In fact. Mr. Glaze has made a success at whatever he has undertaken, being a man who sticks closely to whatever he has in hand. He learned the carpenter's trade and did some contracting, and became a very good workman.
In politics Mr. Glaze is a Republican and has always taken some interest in local affairs of whatever nature that was calculated to benefit his com- munity. On November 3, 1898, he was elected trustee of Sheffield township, and is very ably discharging the duties of the same. 'He is known to be strictly honest and trustworthy.
CHARLES TURNER.
This sterling and honored citizen of Wayne township, Tippecanoe coun- ty, is the popular trustee of the township and the owner of one of the good farms in his locality, a man in whom the utmost confidence has been reposed by those who know him best as a result of his life of unyielding fidelity to right principles. Charles Turner was born in' the township where he has since made his home, his birth occurring on March 9. 1857, the son of James and Elizabeth N. (Emerson) Turner, both still living, making their home
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in Westpoint, this county, where they are highly respected, having lived their long lives industriously and honorably.
Charles Turner is the oldest member of a family of eight children. He was reared upon the home farm in Wayne township where he assisted with the work during the summer months, mastering the details of husbandry, and attending the district schools during the brief winter months, receiving a limited but serviceable education. He found it an irksome task to pore over text-books all day, and consequently was kept at home to work, which he liked better. He remained under his parental roof-tree until twenty-three years old.
Mr. Turner was married in 1880 to Cata K. Dudleston, a native of Clinton county, Indiana, where she was born September 12, 1859. She was educated in the district schools of this county and has proved to be a very faithful helpmeet. To this union six children (living) have been born, and one child, Elmer G., died in his seventeenth year. Maud, the oldest of the family, is the wife of William A. Laugheed, a farmer of Wayne township. Charles W. passed through the common schools; James G. also received a comman school education; Louisa E., Iva May and Worth.
When Mr. Turner started out to make his way in the world alone he had a team of horses, but no other property ; however, he was a hard worker and a good manager from the first and he has succeeded, now owning a fine farm of ninety-five acres in one of the best parts of Tippecanoe county, sec- tion 4, in Burnett's reserve. He has a comfortable dwelling and outbuildings and all the farming machinery and livestock to make a farmstead, and he carries on general farming. He has accumulated his present property by hard work without the aid of any one, and is therefore deserving of the high standing which he today can claim.
Fraternally Mr. Turner is a member of Shawnee Lodge, No. 129, Free and Accepted Masons, at Odell Corners; Wayne Lodge, No. 393, Knights of Pythias, being past chancellor of the same, and he has long taken a very active interest in lodge work.
Politically he supports the Republican ticket, and he served very capably and acceptably as trustee of Wayne township from 1895 to 1900, and on November 3. 1908, he was again elected to the same office and is at this writ- ing discharging the duties of the same in a manner that elicits nothing but praise from everyone concerned, irrespective of party affiliations. He is re- garded by his constituents as not only a man of ability but strictly honest, reliable and trustworthy in all his dealings.
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REV. CHARLES PRESTON FOREMAN, D. D.
The subject of this sketch, who is giving faithful and efficient service as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dayton, Tippecanoe county, comes of a family of preachers, a number of members of the Foreman family having devoted their lives to that sacred calling, either at home or in foreign fields. Indeed, the same may be also said of the Preston family, from which also he is descended. Though handicapped by poor health, the result of accident, he is giving his pastorate strong and faithful service, which is fully appre- ciated by his parishioners.
Rev. Charles Preston Foreman is a native of Ralls county, Missouri, where he was born on the 21st of November, 1868, and is a son of Rev. John Preston and Jennie (Woods) Foreman. The father was a minister of the Presbyterian church and was widely known throughout Missouri as a preach- er and as a friend of education. He was at one time president of the old Van Rensselaer Academy, which was conducted in connection with the Big Creek Presbyterian church in Ralls county, Missouri. The subject's mother died when he was but a youth and he then went to live with his father's sister. Mrs. B. N. McElroy, also a resident of Ralls county. Here he re- mained a number of years, working on the farm in summer and attending the district school during the winter months. In 1884 he entered the Van Rensselaer Academy and there pursued his studies until 1887, when he entered Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri, where he was graduated in June, 1891, with the degree of Master of Science. Soon afterwards he went to San Francisco, California, and for a year was employed as bookkeeper in a mercantile establishment.
Returning then to Missouri, he married, and at once took up the pro- fession of teaching. He was splendidly qualified for this work and gave eminent satisfaction wherever he was employed. Among other positions filled by him was that of superintendent of schools at Roachport, Missouri. Subsequently he held the chair of Latin in the Synodical Female College at Fulton, Missouri.
While engaged in teaching, the subject had felt a definite call to preach the gospel and during his engagement as teacher at Westminster he took up the study of theology under private direction and made such progress that he was enabled to pass the examinations and in 1895 was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church. His first pastorate was at the old Belleview Presbyterian church at Caledonia, Missouri, which enjoys the distinction of
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having been the first Presbyterian church organized west of the Mississippi river. During the following six years he was pastor of the Plattsburg Pres- byterian church, in the same state. An interesting fact in connection with this pastorate was the fact that seventeen years prior to this time Mr. Fore- man had served this same church in the humble capacity of janitor. After giving this church splendid service, the subject resigned his pastorate in the fall of 1903 in order to take a post-graduate course in the Kentucky Theolog- ical Seminary, at Louisville, Kentucky, and, as supplementary to this, in 1905 he completed a correspondence course of the Midland University, of Chicago, Illinois, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
After completing his studies in the Kentucky Seminary, Rev. Foreman accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at New Albany, Indiana, where, during a pastorate of three years, he had the most marked success. At this time, however, he was severely injured in an accident on an electric line and during the following year and a half was compelled to remain out of the work. His injuries were such that he has not to this day recovered from their effects, though now able to do effective work. In February, 1908, he was called to the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Dayton, and has since that time been serving this church. He is a man of good address and is a forceful and eloquent speaker. He has done much to advance the interests of the church in Dayton and has won the universal respect and esteem of the people of the community, regardless of religious belief.
In the fall of 1891 Reverend Foreman was married to Cora VanMater Longley, also a native of Missouri and a relative of Francis McKamie, the first Presbyterian minister to preach in America. She is of Scotch descent and is a woman of many splendid qualities of character. Reverend and Mrs. Foreman are the parents of one child, John Preston, who is now a student in the Dayton high school.
Fraternally, the subject is a Freemason, having been raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason in the lodge at Plattsburg, Missouri. He now be- longs to Dayton Lodge, No. 103. He is still a member of the chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Plattsburg, and before leaving there had filled the position of master of the first veil. He belongs to the camp of Modern Woodmen of America at New Albany, Indiana, and he and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star at Dayton.
In every walk of life in which he has been engaged, the subject of this brief sketch has been faithful to the duties that have confronted him and at all times has given the very best service in his power to give. He is an earnest preacher, a faithful pastor and friend, and an enjoyable companion, one whom to know is to love.
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ISAIAH HARSHMAN.
The Harshman family trace their lineage to old settlers of Pennsylvania and for many years they were part of the citizenship of that great common- wealth. Jacob Harshman, one of the descendants, located in Maryland at an early day, married Mary Ellis, a woman of Irish descent, farmed in that state for some years and then removed to Ohio. He secured land in Mont- gomery county, which he farmed for a while, but later went to Jay county, Indiana, where his wife died. He returned to his old home in Ohio and eventually died in Miami county, that state. Of his nine children three were living in 1907, Isaiah, Henry and Rebecca, the latter the wife of George Stew- art, of Star City, Indiana.
Isaiah Harshman, eldest of the survivors, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, January 17, 1840. He was quite young when his father settled in Ohio and he grew up amid the hardships of a pioneer boy's life, on one of the undeveloped farms of the west. When the Civil war broke out, he en- listed in Company F, Seventy-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, beginning his soldier career in October, 1861. His regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General Rosecrans, and took part in the bloody battle of Stone River. Shortly after, during the advance on Chattanooga, he was taken sick and compelled to go to a hospital. As a result his health broke down to such a point that he was disabled for duty and was discharged from the service in September, 1863. Returning to Ohio, he took it easy for some time, trying to recuperate his health, and when suffi- ciently recovered accepted a job as driver of a team by the month. In 1876 he located temporarily in Pulaski county, Indiana, but two years later re- moved to Tippecanoe and has been a constant resident of this county ever since. Some years after arriving he engaged in the sawmill business and met with such success that he was able to save enough money to buy his present farm of one hundred eighty.acres. He has, however, retired from active business and is spending the evening of his life in restful repose.
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