Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 31

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Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1350

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water the this coming. This see- Sig January queSet. Vir. Kape and B. THE. She died without ie chose for its fourth wife Bay- M'en Betty, to whom he was married Jan- My a IR78. She bore him one child, Wade, wie Med aged seven weeks. Mrs. Kaye Was Born August 23. 1841, and was Reagiert this county in 1852.

N.a. Nape How owns a total of over Your Harol weres of excellent land. acquired was hig gy at wwen exertions and good man- "Comment. Mrs. Rape is a member of the Christian church, and Mr. Kupe, though not a mentier, has been trustee and treasurer Palestine Christian church for thirteen seats. He is a member of the Lodge No. 73. Warsaw. F. & A. M., having joined in son. in politics he is an ardent Democrat und was salve earnestly solicited to run on His party ticket for sheriff, but declined the mr. He is a splendid specimen of the weer farmer and is spending his dedin- ing days in happiness and peace after the tamuk of a long and active life.

EDWARD G. BLACK.

In the person traveling by railway across the state at this day it seems almost incredible that only a little more than half " century ago almost every foot of land was covered with a dense forest through which the light of day rarely ever penetrated. But -ne. was the fact. In a little more than han century every foot and branch has been

Den done had it not been for the fertile awaited the oferty of the settlers. The tek was a long one, but well repaid the settlers for the trials and hardships. It was through Fach experience that the subject of this memorial passed, particularly in his early years. ilis birth occurred in. Prairie town- Ship, Nurdiuske Granty, India, May 18. 1851, and he is the son of Joseph and Strat. (Richison ) Black. The family of which the subject is an honorable member is of English descent. The grandfather resided in Virginia and followed the occupation of farming. His marriage occurred in that state and one of his sons was Joseph, the father of the subject. When Joseph was a small boy his father moved from Virginia in Ohio, and there he grew up with the total advantages affected bys of that early period, his sch wing being obtained at the pioneer subscription schools. Possessing by nature a good mind, he took to be ks and obtained a good education for that day. In an carly day he became acquainted with the liny who afterward became his wife. They were married and their malon was blevet with three sols and three daughters. Pre- vious to his marriage he traveled through the state of Indiana and all the Northwest. and while on this trip bought the tand os which he afterward lived in this county, in Prairie township. Every fort of It was cov- ered with heavy timber which had to be re- moved before the sell could be cultivated. It was a task of immense magnitude, but had to be performed if the family was to

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1 onared wagen through the Head of Claypool; NOM Br. hon MACHEN. 18 is mal pass the still clearings tand the

" fress of the "Hoosier state." Er the sindlight was let in and the fields Well and corn took the place of the vir- Brests. Their family comprised the wing chikiren : Clarinda, who married . Hlan and lives with her father in % de township, ale county; Edward. ( ... jec: Salein, who married Catherine Kite and resides in this county: Sarah, became the wife of William Boggus : Ave in this county; Cynthia is unmar- " and tives at home with her father: ses will married Cassie Burkett, als.

tomber 26, 1885, has a good extention and resides at home with her parents, being im- married. She passed the examination for the high school and has also taken thetrue- tion in music. The parents are members of the United Brethren church of Chapo d. of which he has served as Sunday-school si- perintendent and as steward. He is a miem- her of Tent No. 83. K. O. T. M .. and Mrs. Black of Five No. 163, I. O. T. M. 62 Claypool of which she is sergeant. Mr. Black is a Democrat and takes much interest in the affairs of the county and e matry. He is not an tapirant for office, but cald well. IM any county position. He & throughny practical and stands high in the community as man and neighbor. The family is emi- Bently respectable and its members are un- usually well informed and intelligent.

Fiward G. Black remained ion his it- Hat's from until he attained the age of Le day-vue years, securing in the meantime I education at the public schools and wat & aring the sunlamers what it was to ok a a farm. Upon reaching his ma- rity he bired out to his father by the month i continued thus employed for the space Three years, saving up a snug sum of QUINCY .1. HOSSLER. in the meantime. April 4, 1878, he clis Miss Mollie, daughter of George "Man is the noblest work of God" and. a truly noble man but fulfils the plan of the Creator. The life of man describes a circle. The cycles of existence of different lives form concentric circles, for some are given but a quarter of a century wherein to complete the appointed work, while the span of others varies to the allotted three score and ten. But how true and comfort- ing that life is measured, not by years alene. . Margaret ( Barrick) Ritchie. Her Lirth altered December 9, 1860, she being of Wermanic descent. She was reared in Kosci- ske county and in the common schools here dived her education. To her parents He were born seven children, three sons wwe har daughters, of whom the only sur- r.vors are Mrs. Black, and John W., a resi- Gmx of Milford, Indiana. To this union ree children were born, as follows: Walter ' but rather by a purpose achieved. by noble

A BIOGRAPHY.

. He go when there ing first to Cairo, Ilinois, where he worked at the case about eighteen in an' sufficient evidence of his qualifications : but he began to extend his tour and during the three years following visited the norther .. and eastern states, replenishing his parce From time to time by working at his trade and gradually widening the area of his knowledge by contact with the word .. Whether it be true or not that one jeality possesses advantage- over another in this art of not, it is certain that he acquired a thorough knowledge of what was known in the places he visited, which was a decided advantage in preparing him for the store- quent career as one of the States meet their- ough, ali round newspaper men. of se tiyle spare? det the grim mes- senger heads hat and we are left to me niet How to accept submissively." Such is the Beauty and appropriate introduction to a touching and eloquent memorial read before the eighta amand session of the Istand Daily Press Association, touching the Mie and character of the hate Quincy .A. Hossler. of Warsaw, former president of the associa- den tone for many years one of Indiana's most popular and distinguished journalists. Ma dossier's untimely death removed from the newspaper fraternity of the west one of Re brightest minds and loftiest intellects, of the many beautiful tributes to his high standing in this profesion and to his high -setting as a man and citizen attest the abid- In 1866 Mr. Tossler returned & War- saw and for the ensuing two years was in the employ of his brother. C. G. Hostes. ::: the clothing business. On the Bath day of May, 1806, he was happily married to Miss Kate Paul, one of the city's most accom- plished and popular young ladies, and tiro years later purchased a half interest in the Northern Indianian newspaper office, assum- ing charge of the business and mechanical departments. The paper was conducted by Williams & Trosster until May, 1875. when they purchased the Fort Wayne Daily and Weekly Gazette. Six months later General Williams withdrew from the firm and Mr. Hossler was left to conduct the paper alene. a task for which he was peculiarly well fitted, as the continued growth of the Ga- He place he had in the heart and affee- come of his brethren of the press and others. (gainey A. Hassler was born in the town 6 MMXMe. Butler county, Ohio, on the :SE day of October, 1843. His father, Jacob Hassler, removed from. Ohio to Indi- ana in 1850, settling first in Jay county, thence the same year came to the county of Kosciusko and located near the village of Lewisburg, where his death occurred a few months later. The carly life of Quincy .1. was spent on the farm and when old enough he entered the common schools, where he proscented his studies until the age of four- teen. In 1857, with his mother, he re- " moved to Warsaw and on January of the year following entered the printing office " the Northern Indianian to learn the "art zette in public favor abundantly prove .. preservative." His quick perception, indus- " Mr. Hossler edited the paper with marked

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Bring the tet ten years of na re of this .... massier was connected with the

. existe wer and favorably known to the

am sitting he Ratalten in the different wet associations to which he belonged. ay.este tis popularity with his brethren of ve press in madiana and elsewhere. For a number of years he was an active member of ne tatiana Republican Editorial Associa- : ... which passed appropriate resolutions weeding his death at the meeting helo in Hastapolis, February, 1894. His connec- a . with the Northern Indiana Editorial go ciation also dates back many years and que of its sessions he was a conspicuous sure tte admired the social features of wave gatherings, believing that by bringing chants together they would become better painted and thus prevent personal candles which two frequently appeared in Ga lanes of their respective papers. This ... he always practiced and carried out the fullest extent. In forming his per- hai associations he entirely ignored party is and among his warmest friends were My who hekl opinions directly the op- site of those which he entertained. He was manifested the fivelest interest in welfare of the association, served two tas as its president and at the time of - ceath was a member of the executive

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considerable length to The High pre test standing and analy worth. A. Millet, the action taken by these several of gattiz .- tions the Masonic and Odd Fellow- Berater- nities, of which he was a conspicuous met- ber, and the Royal Arcanum pald Mae re- spect to his memory in beamtlily written resolutions, while the press throughout the state contained many complimentary eringi- ums tetliying to his distinguished services as a journalist and bemoaning his departure from the ranks.

Nearly all of Mr. Monster's active Wie was connected with the newspaper be- ness in its various capacities. During this long period of journalistic service he at- tained an enviable distinction, especially as a newspaper manager, while his whole- heartedness, boundless generosity and ani- hent social qualities made Him a friend : every one with whom he had relations. the was a man of almost limitless energy til with him to will was to do. En Mis We work he was the very embodiment of extraskem and every enterprise that had for its object the upholding of the business enlisted His Lerty co-operation and financial support. it was ling and henoted career he was not unmindful of the business site of Me. by diligence and successful management hay-

CLARPENDANT OF BROCK. .. DET.

HEALTHand Rate of the most Moral and

suse tedy ret ling prevence, to spend, speck met & yametruly developed American : ra to dealers ip and made his presence ide in whatever capacity his abilities were werbe. While devoted to his pr Fession und fragmenty be noted by being chosen to i ratives of prominence and influence in it- vari as fase diations, he loved to mingle with his fellow men, regardless of calling. and was the faithand friend and genial com- panion of all classes and conditions of per- ple. This was a broad, liberal mind, optimis- tic in aff the term implies, but exclusive in the sense that nothing favoring in the slight- est degree of insincerity, hypocrisy of chat could for a moment find lodgement therein. He was a many man. best Miked by those who knew him most intimately, and like a ry vi sunlight he often fumined and made bright the pathway of those into whose lives & rathe cast no golden favors.

While an ardent Republican and for For the of the party's recognized letters in northern Indiana, he never allowed polit- Re: References to interfere with his business relations, her, as already stated, did i have .whatis whatever to do in the matter of Austin frien Ship. He was not identified with any religious body, you had a must pr - Masse respect for religion and for a number vi vers was a regular attendant of the Presbyterian church of Warsaw, to which .s wife belongel. A loving and most de- voiced husband, a master of his calling. a moder citizen, a friend without deceitfulmes

De gaulle a ait withmeat pretetel. A point

to come will rank as one of the note The .. . his day and generation in the state of ml- and. Struck down in the prime of vigor manhond and in the wealth of his a distress. The departed this life on the 6th day of De- comber, 1843, lasting to his friends and to the world the priceless heritage of the time the synonym of honor and a character - sullied by the Shadow of a salim Medi- seguies were marked by beautiful that appro- priate religious ceremonies conducted by the pastor of the Presbyterian church, followed by the sublime ritual services of the various internal organizations of which the de- ceased was an honored member. A large concourse of friends and admirers Boll we! the mortal remains to beautiful Game . : cemetery and when the beloved i am ais gently k wered to its Andi resting price and and every one in the vast thing felt the : - s as a personal bereavement.

in closing this sketch it is deemed ap- propriate to sabjoin the Following tenker poem by William E. Pane. poet tatrate the Northern Indiana Editorial Ass chats. and read by him at its annadt session in 1894. commemorative of the "Past Year, Dead." of whom Mr. Fissler Www. Mx .

They were, BAN ANER ES WERE We miss them and ri cal .. we say

Whose smiles, whose words we love to greet.

We bow our heads and bend bei re The shrine of sorrow. Love & Strong And Wie is sweet but, itever tons. Grief stands and greets us un Wand's Share;

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Wesee them dite shadows glide. Tweea common Wee.

... Haft, ulice warm, is com and nuts! weist mes on each familie brow. C. Was d & confit, brother, friend.

.. ..... boot we can Hace the change El hier Kuntstoy's tend?

v. sen. and wa you starry track Sat worldof Leaving knowledge back! In surette is the core reply.

Som where Car: Calvary's Mount above,

Mathis the crown of Life through Love.

A-could, who was as stort last year; .ve, perchance they stim hold dear stieg seit on that's shore , . antarunth may crowd each brow at We how deck with Asphodil; And hos with sony's celestial swell That with us sleep in silence now.

JOSHICA RING.

wat ha age approaches it is quite the the thing for a person to look back over - leto and out whether the world is any we by his having lived. It must be a why retrospect, indeed, when no goul the theend upon such an examination. co atttry what a consolation it must Hytte to know that his He Has been .. example of excellence for the guidance of

wanie day" How many ( per- roll these lines sam hold up their het le with. price and say without a less than the world is beter but their having Aver The Si ject of this menidid is the of the number in this county who can truthfully antike sach why the the pretcare of WAS friendly and Butit ance. Me is a native OF the great Gentur empire, at birth courtin de Wa- deck in May. 1830. and Can ine [ Saper, Ring were married. in that country, where they were d' - Rate? anl educated. The father was a aitwrists

nection with farming. They were the par-

that Med in Infancy.

Joshua King. the subject of the Beatles, grew te manhend in his native crusty cat secured a good education. He learned the business of farming and has made i bis Hie Work. After reaching the majority he worked for several yours, carefully string his earnings, for he had made ty tte mind in cross the vedan to America. On the 2 th of May. 1854. he Warded & salting vond and after several weeks spent in passing of the ocean was landed safe and sound in New York harbor. He came west to Screen county, Ohio, and found emph ymest . a a farm and was thus employed for seven ... years, saving his wayes to geting ready to bay a farm By himself. The Amely an- duded that it is best for man want to live alone, and therefore took unto him-elf a wife

Wer parents. Both children dimentions and are progresive is a vary he had only thirty dollars in .. car ob bant strive that thing he has steadily Held in the face of Mie. The sixty acres of land in the which he pad two hundred he was and owned four hundred and Hig Matters. the paid the latter by install- many as it became due. Te cleared the Wie Betaald meade the improvements. Ile .Wenn drew and eightcon teres, all of which is wa gy of as there is in the township. Be- Show that he has saved six thousand - Here Are the reason to be proud of My ste- ces in He tale of His god name. Every- brug baths Him in the highest respect. This Hadfly are members of the Lutheran church and me & mtributes liberally to the support much. therest in political affairs. He can say with truth. "I have lived an honest life and have done my whole day. "

METCALFE BECK. DECEASED.

One of the early pioneer merchants of Lechung, Kosciusko county, Indiana, was the tate Metealle Beck, who was not only a indeed considerable importance in the de-

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15. they're being the digingef ar years, six months and twenty-eight days . i.

The parents of Meatalle Beck were quite well-to-de farming people in any- land, and when nine years will be came ; America with his father, landing on News York city July 11, 182 .. In 1825 The Ram- ily cale as far west ts Wister, Och. where Meterlie attended a control Schade one your, tant the three FOR WEG Ner's studied the German, beique. Rettferdig to qualify Minnet for a whilethis to per- chasers who could understand Gerning only. At Wister, Ohio, he carried on the T- cery trade for a short time, then sold out, and on June 29, 1835, arrived in Kosci- usko county, indiana. He derhed

it being then the only town in the county. and then became proprietor of the store. He conducted it until 1863, and then sold it to the late Edward Moore, he himself com- ing to Warsaw.

Metcalfe Beck was first joined the mar- ringe December 22, 2836, by Judge Com- stock, to Miss Banice, eldest daughter Of the Judge: Lat Banice did not live long. and April 18, 1857. Mr. Beck married his second wife, Catherine Lewis, who died

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Seat Partie New York, whether she i have taken for treatment during her Elles The Kidat marriage of A. Jack was a Sarah, daughter Fi Rev. J. P. Sigken. She was born near Trennten, New York. April to. 1837. of ringenet de- went, and still survives. She most tender's For tig her husband during his last ih- as well handled, during the last decade of He was aline a constant attendant at Hatte administering comforts to Him it exerted the somization and what the Demet e agratulations of his many

Mr. Bock had long felt a strong desire resist the scenes of his youth, and in May. 18og. accompanied by his son Hui- since deceased ), he made a trip to his Hatte Yorkshire, as well as to Scotland: wievagy went to France, where they were very impressed with the magnificence of Kris. From there they went to Besten. Massachusetts, en route for home. While and they write many descriptive letters > to their journeyings, which were pub- Show in the Daily Times, of Warsaw, and "ere eagerly read by their many friends. To the first marriage of Metcalfe Beck were porn: Mary E., now the wife of William Biens; Hudson, a biography of scott is given on another page; and Vic- dia, widew of Edward Moon. To the last rriage was born one son, who died when fort eighteen months old, the love and vorection of the father being concentrated woon him to the last, and the tender side of dis nature showing at its best when at play with the little boy whose childish sports caprices he enjoyed without reserve. wn. Reuben Williams, editor of the Daily times, in commenting on the character of

intimately acquainted with Me. Body; he- Goed, we were more than the main frames. 5 a friendship unbroken existed that we work back upen now with pleasure, its intimacy meghating as it did with a great disparity. Between dur ages. His advice and chemi- agement to us in the earlier struggles on- soutient upon the founding of the Northern Melania, helped much tet-talet was in der offerteglad. knowing him, to we Mit, quite hatimately, we are fully aware that - mie people are wrong in their estimate of Ris "He was one of the most metho ficat men we ever knew. In pioneer days, owing in his knowledge of legal and business affairs, he was often called upon to draw up contracts, make deeds, take mortgages. etc .. for neighbors and friends, and when such a thing as a lot of the paper of word had to be stricken out, with his -kil- fal penmanship he would do this in a way so ornamental that the error would appear to have been done intentionally.

"Exact in business, he demanded, as the invariably paid, the last penny due; yet he was much more liberal when his judgatene sanctioned than even his warmest and meet intimate friends ever knew. . An anecdote will illustrate: His whole heart and what went out, at the very beginning. in faver oi saving the Union from dissolution. : the company from this county were Antes young men from Leesburg and vicinity. When drawn up in line for marching for- ward to join the regiment he presente ? each with a five-dollar gold piece, saying that it would serve them for personal ex- penses."

Mr. Beck came here with the first set-

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visiting on meeting. . waiting the day fixed by the government hit the entering of land. and was consequently we acquainted with if the peculiar characters both of the whites and Indians that are always to be

icandea the skirts of civilization, and. har- insagt di mentary, could in later years re- Have a great many incidents that happened

Nestle Book was a true Christian. de united with the First Presbyterian. Church of Warstew Feruary 20, 1872, and was a of ascientious communicant through- wat the remainder of his life, but weall Lever accept an official position in the church of deewhere. When Mr. Beck had reached his twenty-first year Judge Com- stocks laid his hand on the former's head and Said: "Stick to your business and let ofice ha ne. t have gone through it and it is simply a thing of vain honor."

The last ride Mr. Beck took was to visit the grave of his old boyhood friend. joint Hamilton, who had come to Warsaw for his health, or to visit Chicago Hill, as the Hamilton place is now called, but died shortly afterwards. On the last drive, on geting to the foot of the declivity. Joe Prote, his driver, helped halm step by step un1, the hill till he reached the Hamilton Slide. There they found that the tomb- st me had fallen, which greatly grieved J ... Beck, as it forcibly reminded him of its own approaching end. Mr. F. B. Myers, als an Englishman who had trav- Con with Mr. Beck. likewise became the of the latter's closest friends. Although. drive marriage. Mr. Beck was the night to gre somewhat deficient in tenderness. His where He Showed that the reverse was the Give, as the deep love for his wife and his

was Edward M. and Bruder ... and I many wann and hosting friendship fully

MS. Beck brought with him From Eng- land his grandfather's Bible and with its contents was not at all unfamiliar, and this hely bock he bequeathed to this grandes. Allon Beck. Mr. Beck var www . po- session of his grandfather's watch, which. he brought with More from England, and it is a role highly valued by the Holy. He committed to memory the twelfth. chapter of Ecclesiastes, and out the section when. added upon for a speech reperto Agur's prayer ( Proverbs 3017-10). It was this is .- variable practice, also, to lead in family prayer. The old buildings of Mr. Beck in the homestead are still left intact, even a the familiar old hunting stove he had the in cooking the game he killed when sport- ing in the woods.

In March, 1870, Mrs. Beck gathered. .. class of one hundred chiktren who habitu- ally attended the meetings at the the white Presbyterian church edifice and there Was started the first young people's meeting. which has since been merged into the Si- ciety of Christian Endeavor, each atten- ant being presented with a medal. She has over licen a hard worker in the chance of Christianity and has attended a number ci large assemblages of church-workers, and is still revered by her neighbors for her gund works.

JEROME HARRISON LONES.

It seems there is an start in the which so well prepares a man for bis fatture career as the boyhood years spent on the farm. It. this Respect Jerome Il. Lentes. the trusted.

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Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 31

Author: Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen Number of Pages: 1350

Author:
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1350