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ip - the yours has been identified with the Representative surgens. At the present time the Doctor is secretary of the Beat santar position with the Warsaw die hard. of Health. From 1890 Mary'le sertoli secretary of the board of school trustees of Warstew, in all of which He Hates Mice weer discharged in a manner acestated to add to his high professional repate.
Dr. Webber is a prominent member of ille Masonic fraternity, in which he has risen to a high rank, having served as great an- mander of the Knights Templars of Indiana ir 1891. He also serves as grant patron . the Order of Eastern Star and has been e- thustastic and untiring in his efforts to pri - mate the interests of the various depar- ments of the orders with which he is an- nected. In politics he is to Wedded Repal- Hem, always rel ly to support and deletethis political convictions. He is active in his party, acting abvays frem principe and not from aspirations for ofice for political pre- ferment. Sometimes he sees fit to differ from party leaders, in which instances the
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Dr. Well er is a firm believer in revente. Hogy to the Presbyterian church. He stof tavarity detailed with all worthy. enterprises tending to promote the month the e mananity and make the world bet- For. Te disse takes a pardonable pride in the matterial prosperity of the city of his residence, is a believer in its future and leads His influence to all movements calculated in any way to develop the resources of the county and state. Socially the Doctor and its hastig move in the best society circles and are deservedly popular with all classes I parte in the community. Their home in a quiet repeat where relned simplicity reigns and within its hospitable walls his friends are frequently wont to assemble to enjoy the spirit of good cheer and be enter- tained by the charm of their presence and conversation ...
vi Dr. Webber personally it may be sad He is a man of strong and active sympathies ; His temperament is warm and ardent, his ich es segg and intense and these and other attractive characteristics have unconsciously drawn to him an unusual number of devoted friends upon whom, under all circumstances, he can rely. He is a close student of human nature and comprehends with little effort the motives and purposes of men. A lover of 'married, in Virginia, a Mass Simmons att
me been devoted. Of spotless che ater the tolagging industry and energy he .... . The. Be a position of great uschthe- art fraction and sound. today to complete de ample & spametrically developed. com.
tak surgeons of northern Andland and his position as the of the state - representative citizens is cheerfuly conceded by all who know him.
EPHRAIM WELLS.
In reading over the record of the Hive- of many prominent citizens the bee the i- pressed with the fact that cortah. families show at the outset their string felnation toward books and learning generally. Among the farming community it is the rule and not the exception to find ordinary de- cations, but occasionally a family is niet with that rises above the others in the settle education and the capacity to grasp the larger questions of mental itpa vement. Such a family is that of the subject of this manoir. He was born in Miand Granty. of William P. and Almayra ( Trueax Wells. the father's family hailing originally from Virginia and the mother's from Maryland. The grandfather was Levi Wels, a man .: unusual capacity-a genius, in short. lie
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sif low att practiced medicine at. of the ministry. in connection with his : Calles, be kept a store and With it. Any'S the Reader of this section in in thelive. The als sowhat a far ... Saadet Lesbacary a a considerable
Hem. He grew to manhood of monet's Hatte and early married Miss es send to then the Flowing Cadres Levi, who died in infancy; subject : Martha j., who became office of Benjamin Kersey, and after his the wife of George Michaels, of Lake nelip: Harriett E. married Peter Clem- ; r. d is deceased : Nancy E., who married Just Cranmer and lives in Mentode, Th- Fax: Anne, who became the wife of Will- Gladwell and lives in Clay township: wer, who married Henry Leffel and re- a ta Wayne township. William P. Als aneved from Miami county, Ohio, in kember, 1849. and bought a farm in Lake Ilike lis father, he also was a efter at the gospel, but his church was Fret Ting the United Brethren. He het atm at thirty years and for about de years was an itinerant. He possessed " the Ane oratorical ability of his fa- that was a man of great usefulness and Stracter, his life being filled with Breeds, mostly unknown to his neigh- At ten years of age the subject of Freandit was brought to this county by "success in the county, and wichis great in-
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encher in the county, tout deense granted in the chung esperaBa- ing from the High school in Wards, at. 1 Wayne. At one time he Hehe ap A : the public school of Silver Em methods of instruction anticipated to mat ways the excellent usages tand flens of the present day. His high mont character. fine scholarship, advanced ideas and spices- od discipline made that the leading colt- cator of the county, not excepting one. The has been three times married, His third wife being Mes. jennie ( Bank, Wiener, Why presented him with two children: Aan, who died in infancy, and rida, Mat. Decen- ber 1. 1883, who will complete the fresh- man year in 1902 in Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio, She has a fine musica! education, which she is still further fapt v- ing. Being their only living chile, 5 is de intention of the parents to give her the Test education obtainable. Mr. Wells Has as ex- cellert farm and raises grain and worker in the farmers' institute. 3 th are earnest and consistent people. Aled with the love of life and hope for the future. M. Wells is a sterling Republican, Having Cost his first vote for Vi raham Line In that takes great interest in the success of this party. ile is one of the strongest workers for party
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With demain For ten years, this section m& recreation attending the comindice di hi- idlow estvens in his judgment and Honor. The dutiny are theniers of the Chitet Brethren damen of which he imi. Wer of Lake View Lodge No. Tog. Knights of Bytes, of Silver Lake, and is one of the ste ag intellectual, the real and practical The-
SYLVESTER BARBER.
"The subject of this membrial is another of the bir soldiers whom it gives the history- han the greatest plustre to place on FOOT . This she did he done before it is too late i got the Han particulars from their own lips. Their sterilices were to great not to die- servetiin theniet in the pages of history. Wind a great deal to quit all pursuits and & # to war with the chances against him of ever coming back, or if he came back to do so with shattered health for the re- matador of his life of in a crippled condition. .s. Bach was the chance taken willingly by Na Barber; in fact, he seemed to enjoy tak- ing chances for Uncle Sam, for he enlisted Have several times. Let us learn a little more about this gallant old soldier. The cod mixed Scotch and English stock, which has ht a lange measure accounts for la courage and hardflood. His Father's people were Buglish and his mother's were Sounds Subject was Born in Seward town- ship, Kirchusko County, October 21, 1845,
Barber was a native of DagMARA the meant to Massachusetts When he was young with. Me there met and Married a indy of the state and they were the parent- of the following children: Land Srl.k. Min R. Nauy and Myron. Ro Fen se farmer anal his cinadren were brought topa a farm. Mily received a Mir esel dia . tapete reaching manhood married ME her. At the age of sixteen years he left the father's nome and began letting the tet- not's trade. A few years after his wertige. which required in New York, He starte : Re: the West and in the time Handler A. Warst. indiana, conting as far as the end of the Walsh & Brie canti. He there se ared an is tooth and bre tight His Radily and ti mie- Hon goods to Kosciusko a anty, arriving in 1838. having entered eighty teres in the Genre woods. Two years later the hall ing cabin on the hand and place The Family therein and begaat our dear of the ca tie - ii. He was one of the first seper in des part of the county and at that time bis pac. was part of a wilderness, filled with will animals. He was a man of great physia. strength, and in the early times was to say- porter of Andrew Jackson and the Dem- cratic party, but upon the repeal of the ME- souri compromise he joined the WHEEL later the Republicans, fand remind, with. them mail his death. He was the first - tee of Seward township, being with the. first and later elected, and served as sach ! six years. Le som became xWww the Big- out the county for his sterling qualified ar was finally brought out by his party & # candidate for county e mails det. was triumphantly elected. serving as such
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crian church. tent was a poll - " Far age dying with the Highest respec. i exergi diy at the age of ninety-in years.
"a to HAR Rand Sixteen days. He butine .. any. hatta : Charles, Who martin. W. A. I river and is deceased, was i B. the Twenty-eighth lowa Infantry chen wald served three years ; served in the Twentieth Invitata In-
rt. Nebraska, served in the Twentieth : Twenty-sixth: Regiments inchina In- Gang ihate about three and a half years : Poteter, subject; George, who wedded wat Miner and is now deceased, served in pe one Hundred and Twentieth Regiment plat kantry for three years ; Edwin. de weide Magie Bailey and lives in Mar- For any. halina: There Is, who mar- .of Vat Her id, lives in this township. As will be conserved above, six of the Barber you when the Civil war broke out, enlisted. we be fring and served substantially anti! ag. was Hedared. They were all hardy de aring id ows and made ident s Mier. " were present in nearly all the principal. w vesets of the war and suffered intensely
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service, subsequently fighting a packet. Vosberg. Missionary Ridge, de. He then. was obliged to leave the service Maling health and returned in the. Wat re- Covering Himself and Feeling the More au- turn, and having regained s the Best weight, which was but didly-her when he came back, he again
mal tek the field. MY way daty for one hundred Kgs. he .... arnol home, but as sort te he HE, TOO - Twenty-sixth Regiment and served with the stame until the end of the war. WARC ...... the last regiment he was under fire for date- teen days at Mobile. Valamit. The WEB- and returned to his father's form. The 1. .. month for the health he just in the service of his country. His military wood & splendid one, showing his interse Hvaky to the side bag and his bravery in welke and endurance in the harassing campaigns. The was only ala m twenty years that the Cia T the war. der ro he was a vier ta di- zen in the eyes of the How he had served
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Here Arter and resides in this township; Hvede his father's farm: Arthur, Who Weiter Miss wie Harold and Bres in IM- noise als wife having died, Mr. Barber Married in ISSE, Minerva J. Callahan, why presented Him with one child, Low decease. Mar Bacher is a Republican, tand was dette cette to a friend cratie township. In that acidity he did his township much good. Regent , the schools and sean house and thus respectively Wiliam Detun plan de . in thering the school year. He is a men- in Clark county, Vino, and Jobb Formen. Wer Ete Called Brethren church and the who died in Kosciusko eventy. Indian. November 2. 1880. of the west prominent of the country's citi- what the Barber has two side parchment Steepest was, one bearing the date of April .. . 43, and the signature of Presi- det g h Wyler. This is the third deed! Brand in the city of Kosciusko by the Soldat and is a valuable souvenir and. role in the Barber homestead ..
LACOR ORIEN DEATON.
Warke may, Ohio, became the meeting piedi families destined to hear the unite ! at alie the alleestory of a large and promi- Het Bridge, the Deaton family. Amen!
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1. We married Frances C. Forslagy & Ra- ter of Jacob Forney, who came HAD Clark o anty fran York county, PennyMal. i 1835. and married into the Army Auml; of Miami county. George W. and France C. Dann were the parents of the box. Deaton, who was born in CIN Omy. Ohio. August 20, 1858. The paternal til material grandfathers of the subject were
George W. Deaton, the father of the - meditate subject of this sketch, may te Gassed among the pioneers of Resca county. He was one of the stalwart figure- This day and aded largely in the develop- the state. he was born in Clark & auty. Olio, October 15. 1833. ome yer Sker the close of the Famous Black Hawk war, at. was reared in his native coming, attaining was of the kind that the way of His way re- ceival, rather linked in Hy se get the three ever, what he lacked in the in teaching was
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tto with the spirit. gove bis theart and voice weare substitutes for the army, tam .og assisted in raising a company. ile A towed farming as the occupation in pick & anty wall 1863. when he secure . Fact of land in Kosciusko county, Indi- mit the place which is now the home of his Samedi v. With some assistance from is itler-in-law he secured two additional Facts, making in all two hundred and sev- as he started wat with very thetic, at the mend his death he was in very gun ar-
an religion he was a devont be- Es Exist pa Chate .. and was hed in support of find society. In politics he N. a stanch and uncompromising Repub- i'm that was earnest in his advocacy of the Heyles of that party. He died Jane 30. AS, and his remains He buried in M. Wussten cemetery, Clay township. His de- c. wie dla sleeps beside him in the day "the dead and a beautiful stone marks dir kot resting place. They were the par- ma & the & Howling children: William Sat, War ded December 25, 1871; Jacob W. W se History follows: Mary Belle died aber to, 1802: john R., a farmer ner
in 1901 received a wound; Cyrus B. vlas the old homestead ; Charles Q is a farmer Hear Claypool.
At the time of My father's Reach The beton was in his twentieth year and the re- His mother, who was left"when the theatre .
this appeared to her the best way to grille and the able assistance date bitte geht's the den was canceled. The awesome. Si- S. and Grant, were sent Bech , da sons, Jacob iding MANGE MENT.
idence in his juligment. The Galata management of the them for revence. years. Every man for bien vendett w. practical, the Groups diversified, and the firm Acest Wel stocked. The estate grew to Bte hundred and forty acres of hand and three
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Hard speeches by James A. Logan, which. appended to date with lasting influence am. in myhis best note to the present time he has Hasta Kesilen and a worker ands ? - ideal Ene. From ISgo to Tyou bi- county hundred klar as central committeeman. On Weather 3. 1900, be assumed the responsi-
& Manges Being David Pour, of Band town- Say, and Egbert Gawthrop, of Van Buren
On the 21st of August, 1883. Mr. De- of the united, in marriage with Mass Mediy Catania, the daughter of Rev. john Caufi- Ha, at Hangokat minister who was well # HES county. The latter was born in the of seventy-three years. firee months . Bettler county, Michigan, May 14. 1801 .. W war ded Hie's journey together and ig have they hand side by side in the creating their comfortable home. Mise . Peter's lotde is her paradise and her Here are her pride. She is a lady of of lu tad pleasing address and her many
contamination of the eighth grade . he's studies of the seventh grade tw is very ... I music. Bittela Botte is in the sixth grade And is Toall of the study of language. Fer. 1. is in the fifth grade, Sherman Bitte in the third grade, and Ruth Agnes and Ortene beverage are at home and have not yet ar- rived at school age.
Both Mir. and Mrs. Delen are Members of the Claypool Methodist church of WAR. he is treasurer and also a member of the board of trustees. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees Pert No. D.S. a. has been an active lodge worker S.r. beton is a menther of the ... O. T. ... ... iv3, and is evart commander.
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the front as a successful werder of the inmy's interests. During the incredi ency where have been created twenty-the white arches over the stream of the or any. the county buildings have Ten ket ER Es Gedient condition and the paille : SONGS Were never in better cadla . that the the present time. He is medi the streng then i the county and ats influence has been is : in the advancement of the country's Here's. Certain strong characteristics Mark the members of the Death family, from the
there of mine children, Ale Ge- open, selon living, the states of the Matter Meinen John, Levi, Pierce. Mealy.
Father danh. When she was told of days were few on earth, she said. what The home and community will .her. She leaves the aged father, seven Way that two sisters, besides relatives Has to mars her departure. The gratis were interred in Gospel HEM com- the side of her husband, Key. Water, of Rochester, molina, oficinas-
Vito, May 5. 6835, & Machter of Frihet 12, Hogy. She was wounded i. Faye Wannaton March 9. 1850. N.R. and Yes bastan. ved to Clay township, Ki- Wird may, allana, in March 1803. and
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and consistent member. She Were here fringe bravely, and she was called ap. Svart there was but the MOMENTO M a SER - ing spark, adrift in me the content MOMENTS to which it has returned.
"Though ah is Huske TAN GENS MK . With What IS A New In sweet repose top of the Fit. The soul bts found the the things that."
GEORGE L. HUFFMAN.
The problem of clouding the theater from the hand and of thing the .... : - Bought wat to the stillin went only ones with which the early setter. in entend. He repaired Hatte na were early ettich the state of every allen's are.
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polit for the early History of that state. Her removed to Delaware county, Indians. in spe, and afterward came to Wabash ceny the 1822, where a farm was bought Her North Manchester. Here William 3. intima passed the remainder of ais days. ne hosed the occupation of farming the att wp a good property and an estimable wie. The country was very wild when he His came Here, and the wolves and other Sage atavais titen gave him great trvale killing of the small stock and making it Fory dangerous for children to be abroad. especially at night time. A heavy timber & vered the land and his life was spent in Being it off. Hepossessed excellent quali- wer of heart and mind and could, with the proper advantages, have risen to a high p - show in the affairs of men. He died m . Ssa, Beloved by all. To him were born six and Six daughters. as follows: 1 Man the wife di alisam Elliott, lived in Hast e maty, but both husband and wife are now Received; Nancy, who madrid! Lade Be there, Aved in Wabash county and both are deceased: Henderson J. married in Wabash county, but his wife is deceased.
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: George In Subject : Vare Redde Frances Stede and both are Received: WIR- ham Ba jr., who died in infancy.
George Lewis Ruffian spent his youth m. his father's farm, and received in the meantime a good concation, for he was quick with his books and took delight in learning. He masterat the stalles of the common schools and began to teach, having obtained a certificate from the entity stipe"- intendent. In all be taught four ters was highly successful. The semaine : with his father mitit he was twenty-five yours will. bunt during the four years after he reached the age of twenty-one he rented his father's farm, and during that time was atited in marriage with Miss Sarah Murphy, han in
three entdren were born : William I .. born December 26. 88kg, die in 182: Lille May, born February to, 187, is not the wife of Renben W. Uplinger and ves i. Harrison township: Loureta, bors Apsi 13. 1884. tar accomplished young kaip. Mr. Huffman is in comfortable circumstances. His business is sam-milling, in which we die been engaged since INFO, and this wenig .. heavily timbered of antry, he Has Salad an immense quantity of logs. He came to this
JOHN WARREN.
is the subject of this brief notice. 1 And ile Nie. he is familiar with that ... .. Mashandry. It requires something He he then curciostens to select the best that's in any herd and to rear them in such Etter that the best points will be bre tagit emphasized. As the best so dik ras the best price, the best Hartder- Mand at inject to raise the higher grades, kin 1 - M. drie the market will be the better for a & ser effort toal ottlay. All these important ans are bothe in mind by all good stock weers. Then there are the questions of bing. watering, salting, stables and the site to market animals. It is true that The farmers study the market quota- bas et stock in the principal cities, and by wing very often receive the reward of He watchfulness in a much more satis- was price for their products. This is : got the grain products as well as these We yards. Subject manages thas to But get the best stock, but also to get the price. He was born in Chester town- A SMASK GARAY, July 13. 1855, and is 5. of Samuel and Maria ( Miller) War- The Lady of the Warrens is og Ger-
of the Negst the state time FOR The miner ar come to the great We som har . py at the expense of little the meg med. Com
bish county, where he purchase it that isto, and lived thereon und ING. when he come to this county and bought digity teres in Seward township. He relationen 2 farm for ten years fand then said he said par- Chased Rather south of Vel ns Creek Line. and there lived until his death. the wide se survives him and lives on the one place. it- ingyet, at the age of seventy-six parts, quitte string and active. At the time of this del'in, in Idy5. he was in comfortable circum- stances and was well known and universally respected. He was a successivi fanter ani an honorable man. For many yours prix to his death he was a member of the Catto. Brethren church and was active and on- sistent in church work. He helped to ball. the church of that denomination in the neighin theed and was a liberal combat it all worthy secular and Christie, vater- prises. Their children were as & Hows: Sarah j., wife of Reason Rieke, resides in Seward township: Sylvester, why marile? Jane Pondus, Lives in Seward : Wait : William, who married Mice Gleich, rockies in Wabash county : Robert, anmerken. es with the mother to this townships je ta. si - Fect; Mary, the wife & Jefferson Regens.
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lives in Seward township : Harriet, deceased. who was the wife of John L. Parker, of Seward township; Ellen, the wife of Syt- vester Johnson, resides in Seward township ; Margaret, the wife of Kiley Seacore, lives in Franklin township : Eliza, the wife . f Wil- iam Lower, resides in Harrison township.
Mr. Warren erected his pretty brick rest- dence in 1865, and the surroundings bespeak the carcial and painstaking farmer.
REV. HENDERSON W. BALL ..
John Warren was a lad of nine years when he came to this county. He spent his vonth on the farm and became familiar with hard work, learning all the details that 100 serve him so well in his stock operati is. Upon becoming a man he married Miss Julia Stafer, who bore him two children and then passed away. The children are Etta, born August 24, 1880, who became the wife of Frank Hill and lives in Clay town- ship: Allie, born October 4. 1882, who mar- ried William Huffman and lives in Seward township. Mr. Warren's first wife died in 1887 and in 1800 he wedded Miss Jane Cuffie and by her has two children: Me- lissa, who died in infancy, and Henry, who died at the age of eleven years. The sub- ject has made a fine success of life and is is the enjoyment of a competency. He his made farming and stock raising a specialty. and is one of the best stock judges in the county, the most of his money having been made on stock. He makes a specialty of Norman horses, Poland China hogs and shorthorn cattle. He and his wife are peo- ple of exceptional worth, and all who have the honor of their acquaintance ascribe to them unusual intelligence and high merals. Mr. Warren is a Democrat and has been active in the councils of his party, having served as delegate to the county conven- tions, etc. He is a skillful politician and could serve much higher in public affairs, . coming here and upon his arrival had en-
The mmetry is on sidered the most hon cling to winch that can direct His atten- tin ... The idea of G it with my whites ide. inplanet in the human breast He would be despir, is the most sacred of all our pas- sessions. From savage tribes to civilized peoples the hope of immortality in the star that guides through the stormy sea of the. That hope alone renders life worth living. providing only that it is lived according to the gospel. It is such a life that the sub- jeet of this memorial has lived and is yet living, at the age of eighty years. He was born in Wayne county. Indiana. September 28. 1822, and is the child of William D. and Margaret ( Widner) Ball. The Ball family is of mixed Irish and English descent and hails from the Old Dominion, where Will- iam D. was reared and educated. When he reached the age of fifteen years he removed with his father to cast Tennessee, but in 18ty the family came to Wayne county, Indiana. though William D. had preceded his father there three years, coming on in 1810, the same year Indiana was admitted to state- hood. At that time many portions were wholly unsettled and were very wild. the heavy timber stretching away hundreds of miles with scarcely a clearing and the In- dians and wild animals contending for su- premacy. William D. had married before
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