Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead, Part 52

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Publication date: 1893
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born January 23, 1886, and died February 2, 1887; and Lanra M., born July 14, 1889. Mr. Rummel is a church member and a prominent citizen of his section. In politics he is a Republican and has been a member of the Central Committee for a number of years. He is well known throughont the county as a Republican and has held a number of local positions.

EDWARD ALLEN JERNEGAN, Mishawaka. Ind. The subject of this sketch is one of the old soldier citizens of St. Joseph county, Ind., a prominent newspaper man, and for twenty years the editor of the Mishawaka Enterprise. He is of English stock, his very remote ancestors coming with the Danes into England before the time of William the Conqueror, being descendants of Sir Henry Jerningham, as the name was originally spelled. The founders of the family in America came about 1700, settling in Massachusetts, and were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. They were

seafaring people, and for generations sea captains, in the old whale-voyaging days, living in Nantucket and New Bedford. On both sides the ancestors of our subject lost valuable vessels during the troubles caused by Napoleon's embargo. Leonard Jernegan, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Edgartown. Mass., and was a sea captain. He married a Coffin, a descendant of Sir Isaac Coffin, and they were the parents of three sons who survived: Thomas, father of our subject; Joseph Leonard (one of the early and prominent members of the St. Joseph county bar); and Charles, who became a resident of New York. Capt. Jernegan was for many years a navigator, and was lost at sea in one of his own vessels just as he was enter- ing the harbor of New Bedford. He left considerable property. Thomas Jernegan, son of the above and father of the subject of our sketch, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, February 23, 1816, received an academic education, and early in life learned the printer's trade in New Bedford. He engaged in the mercantile business in Boston, but in 1840 came to South Bend, where his brother, Joseph L., was already located, engaged in the mercantile business, and in 1842 bought the Mishawaka Tocsin, founded by Wilbnr F. Story, and afterward edited by Mr. Mer- rifield. Mr. Jernegan took this paper to South Bend and then moved to La Porte, resided one year, then took it to Michigan City and changed the name of the paper to the Michigan City News. Mr. Jernegan also engaged in the mercantile business, and was postmaster under President Pierce. He also conducted various newspaper enterprises for over a quarter of a century. During the Civil war the office was closed, the editor, foreman and devil all entering the service of the United States. Mr. Jernegan was appointed by President Lincoln, assistant paymaster in the U. S. navy, which position he held for three years. In politics he is a stanch Republican, originally being a free soil Democrat. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jernegan are members of the Episcopal Church. In 1882 Mr. Jernegan received an appointment in the Pension Department at Washington, where he now resides. He married, in Nan- tucket, Annie M. Clasby, daughter of Capt. Renben Clasby, an experienced sea captain of that city. To Mr. and Mrs. Jernegan were born two children who died in infancy and five who lived to matnrity, as follows: Ellen, Louise C., Edward A., Charlotte C. and Arthur T. The first two were born in Sonth Bend, Edward A. in La Porte and the remainder in Michigan City. Mr. Jernegan, at the age of seventy- seven, is hale and hearty, and attends to all of the duties of life with unabated vigor. He has always been a man of probity of character and well known for his enterprise and energy, and has long been a prominent citizen. Edward A. Jernegan, our subject, was born at La Porte, Ind., January 27, 1846, and was taken to Michigan City by his parents when but one year old. He received the education of the pub- lic school of that city and attended the high school. In 1862, August 16, he enlisted at Michigan City, at the age of sixteen years, in the service of the United States, as a drummer in Company K, Seventy-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged March 19, 1863, at Louisville, Ky., in order to take the position of paymaster's clerk under his father, on the United States steamer, " Commodore Barney," in the Atlantic squadron. He was in the

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battles of Stone River and Perrysville, and also took part in several severe akir- mishes. He became dangerously ill, and wae in the hospitale at Nashville and Louisville for two months. His naval service was principally on the North Carolina coast and the James River. He resigned from the navy May 1, 1864, and re-enlisted as a private in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged September 22, 1864. Thus, while still a boy, Mr. Jernegan did good service for his country. He was a soldier, and also served as a minute man during Morgan's raid, in July, 1863, and was made clerk in the provost marshal's office after his discharge until the close of the war. After his service closed as a soldier, Mr. Jernegan became associate editor with his father of the Michigan City Enterprise, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Mishawaka and bought the Mishawaka Enterprise, which he has ably conducted and made a success in every way. Politically he is a Republican, and holds the' office . of postmaster under President Harrison. He is a member of the G. A. R., and has held the office of commander for two terma. He is also a member of the Mishawaka Masonic Lodge, No. 130, Mishawaka Chapter, No. 83, Mishawaka Council and South Bend Commandery, No. 13, K. T., and has held the office of high priest of the chapter and minor offices in other bodiee. Mr. Jernegan married September 6, 1869, Nannie C. Sherman, daughter of Hon. M. G. and Charlotte (Hartwell) Sher- man. Dr. Sherman was a resident of Michigan City, born at Barre, Vt., and descended from the old colonial family of the stock of Roger Sherman. He came to Michigan City about 1856 and founded the car shopa. Dr. Sherman was a prom- inent politician, a noted speaker, and had served in the Indiana Legislature. He entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was promoted rapidly on merit to the successive ranks of regimental, brigade and division surgeon. He died in Michigan City in June, 1890, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Mra. Sherman was a daughter of Col. J. K. Hartwell, of the Canadian provincial forces. To Mr. and Mrs. Jernegan have been born four children, three now living: Mason S., born December 6, 1870, at Michigan City, a young man who was liberally educated at Wabash College, and who now is associate editor of the Mishawaka Enterprise; May C., born May 16, 1872, a graduate of the high school; and Ralph H., born August 30, 1877. Mr. Jernegan is a substantial man, owna real estate in Mishawaka, and is well known as a newspaper editor of ability and enterprise. When a mere boy he displayed these manly qualities which have distinguished him since. As a citizen, his character has been above reproach. He is highly regarded by the members of his profession, and for two years was president of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association.

JACOB WOOLVERTON, vice-president of the St. Joseph County Savings Bank at South Bend, and a dealer in real estate, is well and favorably known in financial and real estate circles, and has always sustained a high reputation in his community. He owes hia nativity to this county, his birth occurring in Warren township, Sep- tember 3, 1845, his parents being Charles and Jane (Lawson) Woolverton. The father was a resident of Hamilton county, Ohio, during his boyhood days, but in 1829 took up his abode in Park county, Ind., and in 1831 or 1832 in St. Joseph county, where he became a land speculator. While pursuing this business he made trips to and from Park county and Cincinnati, and often stopped at the home of the Lawsons, by which means he formed the acquaintance of his wife, their marriage taking place in 1840. They settled on a farm in Warren township, this county, soon after and on that farm the mother is still residing, and although she has attained the age of seventy-seven years, she is yet hale and hearty. When they first took up their residence in this section, Indians and wild animals were still plentiful, and although they were compelled to undergo the usual hardships of the pioneer, they were better supplied with worldly goods than a great many. Mr. Woolverton entered several tracts of land, purchasing from the Government at $1.25 per acre, and selling it to the rapidly incoming settlers, by which means he made consid-

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erable money. He built a little log house on his farm, in which he and his wife were living when Jacob was born. He was justice of the pesce for several years prior to his death, which took place November 2, 1852, when the subject of this sketch was only seven years old. He was a very useful citizen in the early days of this section and it was owing to just such men that the country was brought to ita present state of agricultural perfection. But two of his children are now living, Jacob and Charles, the former of whom was reared on his native farm, the majority of his days being spent in clearing and working the same. His school days were limited to the winter months until he was nineteen years of age, when he came to South Bend and entered Northern Indiana College, which institution he at- tended for two years. He then took a commercial course in Eastman Business College, from which he graduated. Succeeding this he traveled for some time throughout the Southern and Western states, and upon returning to South Bend went to work by the month for Col. Eddy, district internal revenue collector. He next traveled for a few montha for a Cleveland wholesale oil house, after which he was the book-keeper of Studebaker Bros. for a few montha. His aspirations having always been to be a real estate man and follow in the footsteps of his father he, in connection with William L. Kizer, formed a partnership June 10, 1869, and have since remained business associates. They have been very successful in this line of work and handle an enormous amount of property. Their operations are extensive and widespread, and connections of the most substantial character have been formed with capitaliats and citizens generally. Theirs is the oldest and most prominent real estate firm of the county, and as they thoroughly understand the value of realty throughout the county, and are open and above board in their transactions, their large patronage is not to be wondered at. His time has been too fully occupied for him to aspire to political preferment, but he has been treasurer of the Republican Central Committee of the county. He has been vice-president of the St. Joseph County Savings Bank for many years and is a stockholder in the Citizens' National Bank. In October, 1870, he married Alice M. Rupel, who has borne him four chil- dren: John J., Howard A., Earl E. and an infant.

JOHN ANGLEMYER, who for the past thirty-eight years has been a citizen of Elk- hart county, Ind., and for the most part a resident of Union township, was born on his father's farm in Westmoreland county, Penn., and was one of ten children reared by Adam and Elizabeth (Siple) Anglemyer. The father, Adam Anglemyer, was born in Berks county, Penn., in 1777, and was one of ten or twelve children. He was of German descent and a descendant of a prominent family. His death occurred in 1858, when eighty-one years of age. His wife, who was alao a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1783, and died in 1876, when nearly ninety-four years of age. She was an eye-witness of the funeral procession of Gen. George Wash- ington. This old conple were married in their native State and made their home there for a number of years, eight of their children being born there. Mr. Adam Anglemyer lost his home in the Keystone State by going security. Thinking to bet- ter his condition, he emigrated with his family, in 1821, to Columbiana county, Ohio, where for a number of years he lived on a rented farm. He was a cripple, but worked at his trade, tailor, managed to get along and finally secured & home. During his early life he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, but at the time of his death was 8 German Baptist. He was a man devoted to his home, firm in hia ideas, and public spirited and enterprising. In early life his wife waa a Preaby- terian, but she also became identified with the German Baptist Church. Their chil- dren were named as follows: Martha, married John Coblentz, of Columbiana county, Ohio, both are now deceased; Sarsh, married John Hilburn and lived in Canada, she is now deceased; Jacob, married Rebecca Sumners, resred a family and died in Ohio; Joseph, married Margaret Mellinger and resred a family and died in his native county; Solomon, married Catherine Smith and now resides in Huntington county, this State, and reared a large family; John (subject); Adam, married Han- 21

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nah Hoke, both died in this State and left a family; Ephraim, married Lucinda Seidner, who died in Miami county, Ind., and left a family; Elizabeth had a large family, also died in Miami county, and was the wife of Jacob Seidner; and Susan, who is now living in Union township, this county, and is the wife of George Grove and the mother of four children. The original of this notice was born December 16, 1818, on his father's farm in the Keystone State, and he was a child of three years when his parents moved to Ohio. He grew to mature years in Columbiana county, that State, attended the common district schools and worked as a farm boy until twenty-one years of age. After this he worked on a farm by the month, and on March 16, 1843, was married to Miss Margaret Hoke, a native of Columbiana county, Ohio. After marriage he worked at the shoemaker's trade and also followed farming, and in 1849 moved on a farm in Columbiana county, tilling the soil until 1853. Three children were born to them in that county, one in the State of Indiana, and in the fall of 1853 and the early part of 1854 the family moved to Elkhart county, Ind. They settled in Union township and bought a farm of eighty acres on Section 16. This farm was then nearly all in the woods, but Mr. Angle- myer began improving the place and added to it until he at one time owned 240 acres, and has a fine, well-improved farm. In religion he is a German Baptist. He has been a member of that church for forty years, is an elder in the same, and is much interested in religious and educational matters. As a farmer he has met with success. He is an upright, worthy citizen and one of the foremost farm- ers. His wife was a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Longanecker) Hoke and the granddaughter of Martin and Margaret (Mellinger) Hoke. The Hoke family is of German origin; Martin Hoke, grandfather of Mrs. Anglemyer, was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early date. He went back to bring on his family but died. His widow then moved to the Buckeye State with the three children-Henry, John and Elizabeth-and here passed the remainder of her days, dying in Columbiana county. Henry Hoke, the father of Mrs. Anglemyer, was born in Berks county, Penn., March 10, 1799, but was reared in Columbiana county, Ohio. He was married February 15, 1820, and settled on a farm, where his death occurred August 19, 1857. Mr. Hoke was a stanch Republican, a member of the German Baptist Church, and a leading man in his neighborhood. He held a num- ber of offices in the township and for several years was a school teacher. His wife was born in the Keystone State July 28, 1800, and was a daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Mack) Longanecker. She was a member of the German Baptist Church and died in November, 1875, when seventy-five years of age. This worthy couple were the parents of several children, as follows: Samuel, married to Anna Paulding, died in Union township, Elkhart county, leaving a widow and two children; Isaac, mar- ried to Eliza Weaver, and resided in Elkhart township from 1853 until 1890, and then died, leaving a family of eight children, all in this county; Sarah, married Conrad Rhodes and had a family of thirteen children (she is now a resident of Butler county, Penn.); Margaret (Mrs. Anglemyer); Martin, married Catharine Metz and resides in Huntington county, this State, and is the father of eight children; Lydia, married Jacob Kitch and both are now deceased (they left one child, Amanda); Jonas, married Rebecca Halverstalt, resides in Columbiana county, Ohio, and has seven children; George, married Catharine Buzzard, resides in Harrison township, Elkhart county, and has seven children. To Mr. and Mrs. Anglemyer have been born four children. Franklin, who was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, June 13, 1844, is a farmer in Elkhart county, Ind .; De Lorma, also a native of Ohio, born March 3, 1849, died in 1879; he married Miss Mary Miller, daughter of Jacob and Mrs. Miller, whose family were John. Levi, Andrew, Elizabeth and Mary, and became the father of one child, Laura, who is living; he was a farmer in Elkhart county, a member of the German Baptist Church. Lydia A., born August 5, 1853, became the wife of Jonas Frederick, son of William Frederick, one of four children, the others being: Rebecca, William and Jesse, a farmer of Union township. They

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have eight children: Judith, Charles, Edith, John, Anna, Jesse, Fannie and Harvey. John Anglemyer's (subject's) youngest son, David H., is living on a small farm near the home place and is also a successful farmer. He was born in Elkhart county, Ind., May 26, 1864, and was reared under the parental roof. He married Miss Catherine Moyer, one of a family of seven children: Catharine, Angeline, Daniel, Abraham, Susan, Nancy and Saloma, a native of Elkhart county, born September 4, 1864, and a daughter of George W. and Mary (Engle) Moyer. Mr. Moyer was an early settler of Elkhart county and Harrison townehip. David H., John Anglemyer's youngest son, and wife are well-to-do young people. John Anglemyer (subject) and wife raised and provided homes for the following orphans: Amanda Kitch, only child of Mrs. Anglemyer's sister, who married Jesse Newcomer, a well-to-do farmer; Amanda Newcomer, who died after living with them a few years; John W. Anglemyer, grandchild of subject, who now resides with them; Katie Bucher, who also resides with them at this time, and is an estimable young woman. Franklin, John Anglemyer's eldest son, was ten years of age when the family moved to this State. He attended the district school of Elkhart county and then the Goshen High School, thus fitting himself for teaching. In 1865 he branched out in his career as an educator and first tanght in Scott township, Kosciusko Co., Ind., but afterward taught in Elkhart county. At the same time he followed agri- cultural pursuits and has a farm of fifty-nine acres; this he has well improved. He was married in 1867 to Susanna Hoover, a native of Union township, Elkhart county, and daughter of Samuel and Mary A. (Wisler) Hoover. The Hoover family is among the most prominent ones of the county. Mrs. Anglemyer was the eldest of four children-John, David and Jonas-and was born in Ohio, December 4, 1846. By her marriage she became the mother of four children, viz. : Albert H., born May 28, 1868, married Miss Ida Iffert, of Union township, daughter of Louis Iffert (see sketch); Oliver S., born August 17, 1871, single; Jesse J., born January 28, 1874, and John W., born December 28, 1879. Franklin's first wife died in 1881 and he subsequently married Mrs. Isophine Longanecker, a native of Ohio, and the widow of Frank Longanecker. Her maiden name was Hoover, daughter of M. Hoover. She was born Jannary 13, 1854, and was one of a family of five children: Calvin, Sylvester, Ida, Clara and Jane. To Mrs. Anglemyer's first marriage were born two children-Ella and Alice-both natives of Ohio, the former born February 12, 1876, and the latter March 12, 1878. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. F. Anglemyer-Mervin E., born February 11, 1886, and Wilber F., born June 13, 1892. Two children died in infancy. Franklin Anglemyer is a member of the German Baptist Church, in which he holds office. He has a farm near the old home place and is prosperous and contented.

JESSE H. GAINES, Mishawaka, Ind. The subject of this sketch is one of the oldest settlers of this town, having come here from Detroit, Mich., December 27, 1839. He is the son of Alfred M. and Mariah Gaines. The ancestors of our subject, on the father's side were of English stock and an old colonial family. General Gaines, husband of the celebrated Myra Clark Gaines, of the famous will case, was a descendant of the same family. The father of our subject was born in Vermont and there engaged in the manufacture of plows. He came to Detroit while a young man; there married a lady of German parentage. He then settled at Constantine, Mich., in 1842, worked in an iron foundry and later settled in Boone county, Mich., and passed the remainder of his days on his farm. He was the father of four children who lived to maturity. One, Adam S., was killed in the Civil war in a skirmish northeast of Knoxville and lies buried in the National Cemetery at Knoxville. He was a member of Company M, Second Michigan Cavalry, enlist- ing in 1861, and was shot in November, 1863. He had been in several battles and had served under Gen. Sheridan, who was his colonel. Oscar O. enlisted in May, 1861, in Company K, Third Michigan Infantry and served in that company until 1863, when he was transferred to the regular army and was made orderly of Gen.

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Sheridan's staff. At the expiration of his original enlistment, he re-enlisted in the regular army and was honorably discharged in 1867, his papers being made ont and signed by Gen. Sheridan with a recommendation accompanying the discharge. He was in many battles, was never sick in any hospital, but died in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1866. Mr. Gaines, the father of our subject, died when on a visit at Wilmington, Del., at an advanced age. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Always hard working and industrions, he was much esteemed. He gave three of his sons to the army, the three brothers' terms of service aggregating thirteen years. Our subject was but three years of age when his parents took him to Constantine, Mich., and here he was reared. He received his education in the public schools, and early began work at the trade of a blacksmith, commencing at the age of sixteen years and finishing when nineteen. He enlisted in the service of the United States, April 23, 1861, at Constantine, Mich., in Company G, Second Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served until April 7, 1865. He was honorably discharged at Detroit, Mich., having participated in every battle in which his com- pany took part, some forty in all, from the first battle of Bull Run up to and includ- ing the Petersburg Mine explosion. This regiment was one of the celebrated fight- ing regiments of Michigan. It was first with Heinzelman's corps, under Gen. Phil. Kearney, and after the death of that famous fighter, was with the Ninth Army Corps, was afterward sent with one of the divisions of the corps to Vicksburg, then to Jackson, Miss., and took part in the Tennessee campaign. In the spring of 1864 the regiment returned to the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Gaines re-enlisted as a veteran at Blair's Cross Roads, Tenn., December 31, 1863, in the same company and regiment. He was never obliged to enter a hospital, and was always an active and efficient soldier. He was taken prisoner July 30, 1864, at the Petersburg Mine explosion and was taken to Danville, Va., and was paroled February 22, 1865. Wheh taken prisoner, Mr. Gaines weighed 160 pounds and when he came ont his weight was but 107 pounds. The prison was a tobacco warehouse, Prison No. 4, and the prison diet of corn meal, with meat three times in seven months did not conduce to any gain of avoirdupois. Just before his capture, Mr. Gaines had been promoted to be second lientenant on account of meritorious services, but as he was reported as killed he was never mustered in under this commission, but after his parole he was commissioned first lieutenant, April 25, 1865, for gallant services. After the close of the war, Mr. Gaines went to Marshall, Mich., where he worked at his trade, and January 1, 1867, he married Jennie Oli- ver, daughter of William and Lucy (Ford) Oliver. To Mr. and Mrs. Gaines have been born five children: Kittie, who married Horace Price, one of the proprietors of the wagon works in Mishawaka; Alfred M., who was a miner in Colorado; Nellie, Charles and Oliver. In 1869 Mr. Gaines came to Mishawaka, where hehas since resided. Mr. Gaines first engaged with his father-in-law, William Oliver, in the blacksmith's business. The latter was one of the old, pioneer citizen of Mishawaka. Since 1879 Mr. Gaines has carried on the blacksmith's business in this town. He is a member of the G. A. R., Mishawaka Post, and has held the offices of quarter- master and post commander.

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Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead, Part 52

Author: Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Brothers Number of Pages: 786

Author:
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Brothers
Number of Pages: 786