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Ihadson Beck was born in Leesburg. Kosciusko county, Indiana. December 28. 1839. and died at Citronelle. Mabama, May 5. 1885. In his youth he passed several years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was partly educated in select schools and also took a commercial course of study, be- knowledge of business in general. In early manhood he located in Warsaw, where. in 1802. he opened a general store and for ser- eral years was connected with the mercantile prosperity of the city. He relinquished mer- chandising only to take a higher step in the business circles of the city, county and state by becoming president of the Lake City Bank, a position he heki until the hour of his untimely death.
March 11, 1803. Hudson Beck Was united in marriage at Warsaw with Miss Mary A. Johnson, and to this marriage were born two children, Albion and Clara. In 1872 he erected his handsome residence on Fort Wayne street, Warsaw, where his family still reside. Mr. Beck traveled a great deal during his latter years, making an extended trip through Europe for the benefit of his health, being accompanied by his father. He also spent some time in Ci- orado and one year in northern Alabama. where he owned and operated a plantation. Hle later visited the exposition in New Or- leans, which was the last trip he made be- fore passing to the other world.
Fraternally Mr. Beck was a Knight Templar Mason and was one of the three trustees and treasurer of the building com- mittee in charge of the erection of the Ma- sonic Temple, in which he took great inter-
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est. In politics a Democrat, he was a det- . to which he had devoted the Best thing ;- egate to the Democratic national convention seven years of life in disseminating. of June, 1884. Educated, intelligent, social Of the two children born to Hudson and Mary .A. (Johnson) Beck, Albion is how engaged in private banking, and Clara, wh. 1 was married to Wilber N. Funk, died when twenty-five years old, the mother of two. children, Mary Salome, who died in iner twelfth year, and Agne- Louise, now aged fourteen. Mrs. Beck is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a lady of strong intellectuality and advanced thought, and it may be added, without a particle of adulation and with impunity, that she stands foremost in the esteem of the besi residents of Kosciusko county, male or female. and magnetic, he made his mark there and elsewhere. Mr. Beck was a member of the Christian church for twenty years and was a most liberal contributor to its support. While on a visit to Alabama for the pur- pose of recuperating his health, Mr. Beck suffered from a relapse and, as stated above. died at Citronelle. Mobile county, that state, at 8:30 A. M., May 5, 1885. aged forty- five years, four months and seven days. His remains were brought home to Warsaw and the funeral services were held at his resi- dence in the presence of the surviving mem- ; bers of his family and a vast number of friends, A handsome gray granite monu- ment in Oakwood cemetery now marks the spot where all that was mortal of this once WILLIAM W. KIRKPATRICK. good and active factor in life's busy scenes rests in peace.
A young, prosperous and rising farmer
Mrs. Mary A. (Johnson) Beck is a of Washington township, Kosciusko com- daughter of Prof. Daniel Taylor Johnson, ty, Indiana, was born in Tippecanoe town- ship, the same county, February 5. 1863.
who was principal of the Warsaw schools, but who, losing his voice, retired from the Hand is a son of William and Anna ( Pierce ) vocation of teaching and engaged in fire and .Kirkpatrick. The former was a son of John Kirkpatrick, who emigrated with his parents from Kentucky to Ohio in 1804. He was born March 6. 1795, and died August 17. 1826, leaving a widew and six still chi- dren. William Kirkpatrick was born in life insurance. He was born in Charles- ton, Massachusetts, in 1817, and for twenty years was a teacher, eight years of this time in Warsaw. He was reared a Universalist, but at the age of thirty-two was converted to the Methodist faith and was licensed as a preacher at Washington C. H., Fayette county, Ohio. In March, 1842, he mar- ried Mary J. White, of Muskingum coun- ty, Ohio, who died four years after mar- riage, leaving two daughters, of whom one is now Mrs. Hudson Beck. Rev. Daniel T. Johnson was called away July 12, 1886, a firm believer in and consoled by the faith
1 Clark county, Ohio, July 19. 1822. He came I to this state with his widowed mother an ! her six children in 1836, the mother being fortunate enough to posses one thousand dollars in cash and an additional sum with which to purchase a farm. Of this farm her father. William Cowan, was the overseer. and he also employed himself in making wooden plows. William Kirkpatrick, who
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was then a lad, no longer attended school. buit worked out by the month in order to earn money with which to aid in the sup- port of his mother, and this was his course of life until his marriage. February IS, 1847. He then rented a farm in Plain town- ship, occupied it about one year and then bought a farm of one hundred acres in Tip- pecanoe and Plain townships, on which his children were afterward born, and on which he lived until March 8. 1883. when he pur- chased one-quarter of section 1o, in Wash- ington township, the greater part of which he improved.
To the marriage of William and AAnna Kirkpatrick were born nine children, name- ly: John W., born June 8. 1848, died April 4, 1849: Mary E., born February 16, 1850. lied December 6, 1861; Sarah J., born Sep- tember 5, 1852, is the wife of John T. Gil- liam and lives in Tippecanoe township : Eliza A., born January 12. 1855, is married to S. B. Long and lives in Plain township: Mar- garet E., born July 21. 1857, lives with her brother, William W .: M. Pierce, born Oc- tober 30, 1860, married Hortense Crawford, and lives in Pierceton ; William W., whose name opens this biography, born February 5. 1863 ; Eunice A., born July 25, 1865, died May 7, 1884; Alvin W., born December 25. 1867, died August 18, 1872.
William W. Kirkpatrick was reared on his father's farm, was educated in the dis- trict schools, and remained with his parents until his marriage, November 18. 1896. with Miss Nettie M. Goshert, who was born Sep- tember 9, 1874. George Goshert, grandia- ther of Mrs. Kirkpatrick, was a native of Pennsylvania and reared in Ohio, where he married Susan Dilsaver. He later came to Kosciusko county, Indiana, and located in
Prairie township, where Jasper Goshert Was burn September 9. 1845. He married Lecta Hall, who was born also in this county, De- cember 18. 1854. Be rented a farm for a few years and then bought a place in the same township, on which he still lives. He is an active member of the Chited Brethren church and one of the most highly respected farmers of his township. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kirkpatrick have been born two children, mandy: BAY HI .. May 17. INMy, and WERKER M. No- vember a7. Eyes. The mother of the Shi- just died February 27. 1892. in the Faith of the Presbyterian church, and his father died March 26, 1898. also a member of the Presbyterian church, his attendance at Wot- ship being with the congregation at Pierce- ton. The subject's mother was a native of Clark county, Ohio, and was born March 6, 1824.
Fraternally Mr. Kirkpatrick is a mich- ber of the Knights of Pythia- Lodge at Pierceton. In politics is a Democrat in sentiment. but is not active as a partisan. having a preference for attending to his pri- vate affairs rather than those of the public.
JACOB S. WEAVER.
The subject of this review is a gentle- ^ man of high standing to whom has not been denied a full measure of success. He is dis- tinctively one of the representative citizens of Washington township, and has long been. a recognized factor of importance in con- nection with the agricultural interests of the county of Kosciusko. Mr. Weaver has been conspicuously identified with the ma- terial growth and prosperity of this part of
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the state; since coming to the West his life has been very closely interwoven with the history of the county where he has lived for over half a century. George Weaver was the father of Jacob S. He was a native of Virginia and lived in that state until after his mother's death, when he bid farewell to the familiar scenes of his childhood home and started out to make his fortune in what was then the new and sparsely settled county of Fairfield, Ohio. He was a lad of fifteen when he reached his destination, and for some time thereafter worked at the car- penter's trade, his services as a builder be- ing greatly prized by the early settlers of the community in which he lived. In addi- tion to carpentry he devoted considerable at- tention to cabinetmaking and for a number of years ran a shop where coffins and all kinds of furniture were manufactured to meet the wants of the people in a large area of territory.
In 1820, when twenty-three years old. Mr. Weaver was united in marriage to Miss Mary Clark, whose parents, Horatio and Rebekkah ( Lane ) Clark, were carly settlers of Fairfield county. In connection with me- chanical pursuits Mr. Weaver carried on agriculture to a considerable extent, having owned a good farm in Fairfield county and later purchased a place in the county of Logan. In October, 1848, he closed his manufacturing establishment and exchanged his Ohio farm for two hundred and eighty acres of unimproved land in Kosciusko county, Indiana; the place being in what is now the township of Washington. Here Mr. Weaver began the task of clearing and improving a farm, an undertaking requir- ing much hard labor and attended with in- conveniences by no means few or insignifi-
cant. He first bank a sabetald however, house and then addressed himself manfally to the clearing of his land, which was dense- ly covered with a forest growth of prim- itive wildness and beauty. He also put up a shop and, when the weather would not per- mit di outdoor work, employed the time in cabinetmaking, repairing, etc. by means of which he was enabled to earn more than sufficient means to defray current expenses. He ienced all of his hand, reduced a goodly number of acres to cultivation and made one of the best farms in the township of Warii- ington but unfortunately did not live very long to enjoy the fruits of his labors, dying on the 15th of April 1858. Mrs. Weaver was left with a family of four children, one son and three daughters. The names of the entire family are as follows: Rebecca .1., Elizabeth, George M., Horatio C., Jacob S., Percy A., Hanmah L., Martha M. and Mary P. Mr. Weaver was an estimable citizen and a zealous member of the Christian church. He was noted for his honesty, in- dastry and a desire to do the right as he saw and understood the right and he died as he had lived, at peace with God and his fel- low man.
Jacob S. Weaver, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was born in Fairfield Granty. Ohio. November 2. 1829, and remained with his father, contributing to the support of the family until old enough to begin life for Himself. Ile was reared to farm labor and! spent the first nineteen years of his Wie in Ohio, his educational training being com- lined to a few months' attendance cach win- fer season upon the subscription schools, in which ony the rudimentary branches were taught. He accompanied his parents to Kosciusko county, Indiana, in 1848, and
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bore his full share in clearing and develop- ing the home farm in Washington township which he now owns.
On the 26th day of October, 1856, Mr. Weaver and Miss Sarah Kaylor were united in the holy bonds of wedlock and immedi- ately thereafter they began housekeeping on the Weaver homestead, from which they have never changed their habitation. iler parents, John and Keziah ( Tracey ) Kay- Jor, were natives of Maryland, but carly moved to Logan county, Ohio, where Mrs. Weaver was born March 27. 1836, and reared. Being the oldest of the family, many of the household duties fell upon her shoulders when she was but a girl, in con- sequence of which her early educational privileges were exceedingly limited. Soon after his marriage Mr. Weaver bought the home farm, which originally consisted of three hundred and twenty acres of fine land. Hle has sold portions of the place from time to time, reducing it to its pre-ent area of one hundred and seventy acres, which in general improvements and productiveness are not excelled by any like amount of land in the county of Kosciusko. Mr. Weaver brought his place to high state of tillage and early took rank as an enterprising agricult- urist. The great measure of success which attended his efforts while actively engaged - in farming stands not only in evidence of his industry and thrift, but also of his assiduous application and singleness of purpose. He continued actively engaged in husbandry until 1805, when, by reason of the comfort- able fortune acquired, he wisely concluded to cease his labors and spend the remainder of his days in the enjoyment of the rest and quiet which he had so well earned.
tegrity and his high standing in the com .- munity is second to that of no other chi- zen. In public affairs he has always been an interested observer. his political prefer- ences always finding favor in the Republican party's principles of popular government. ile has never been an office secker, but has ever used his inattence to induce his party to place upon the ticket the names of men mentally and norally qualified for the post- tions to be filed. Well posted upon the leading political issues of the day and be- lieving carnestly in the party with which he has been identified since its organization. .. c early impressed its principles and doctrines apen the minds of his sons, all of whom are uncompromising Republicans.
Mr. Weaver is an active worker in the Baptist church and for a number of years has held important official positions in the local congregation of which he is a me- ber. being at the present time treasurer. Clerk and trustee. He is an enthusiastic Sunday- school worker and by closely studying the Holy Scriptures is well prepared to teach . successfully the class of which he now has charge. Mrs. Weaver is also a zealous Christian and as a teacher in the Sunday- school has done efficient service in the cause of religion, having by her instruction as well as by personal eforts induced many young people to abandon the ways of sin and enter the visible kingdom of the Most High. They are a most worthy old couple, inte- ligent beyond the average, and their indu- ence has always been powerful for good among their neighbors and many friends. Their Christian characters have always been "irreproachable, and the general spirit of re- ligion which pervades their pleasant and Mr. Weaver is a man of unswerving in- hospitable home puts at ease every one who
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enters their door. They are held in the most profound respect by all who know them and the amount of good which they have accom- plished in this life will never be fully known and appreciated until in the great day "when the books are opened" and every one receives his reward for the deeds done in the body.
The happy marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver has been blessed with eight chil- dren: Mary E., wife of George Bench, of Whitley county, this state : William IL., who married Fannie Cole and lives in Washing- ton township, where he is engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits ; John A. married twice, his present wife being Jessie Humble, and resides in Washington township; George W., also a farmer of Washington township, married Eveline Gilispie: Joseph M. mar- ried Belle Blanchard and lives in the city of Detroit, being an employe of Park, Davis & Company, of that city ; Sarah E., the next in order of birth, married Jehu Ontkelt, a farmer of Washington township: Jacob E. married Eveline James and lives on her fa- ther's farm; Charles F., the youngest of the family, is unmarried and still lives under the parental roof: he is one of the pros- perous young farmers of Washington town- ship and also has quite a reputation as a raiser of fine live stock.
HENRY B. FUNK.
It is a well-known fact, fully recognize .! by physicians and by all others who have made the subject a study, that a quiet life and steady habits promote longevity. In the cities where the people are falling over each
other in their desperate attempts to get rich suddenly, and where they are, of a dire- quence, on a severe nervous strain all the time, the mortality tables are much higher them in the country. "The farmer may. there- fore, congratulate himself that though this life may be less eventful it is certainly match longer than is that of his cousin in the city. This hporun fact should be born in ndad when the young men catch the fever to be clerks in some cheap grocery h. a towa .r village. How much better is the life of the farmer who has won a fine farm from the dense woods, reared a large family of chil- dren. made a comfortable home, and finally goes to his reward beloved by all who have the honor of his friendship. Some such a man is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Stark county, Ohio, April 5. 1827, and is the son of Jacob and Catherine ( Bos- ler ) Funk. Martin Funk, the grandfather of subject, came across the ocean from Ger- many many years ago and settled in Penn- sylvania, and there the Funk family in America originated. Jacob was reared in the Keystone state, and received in his youth the usual education afforded pour boys in the woods. He learned the business of farming and stock raising and provedl mere than ordinarily successful in those import- and branches of labor. He married in Penn- sylvania, and soon afterward came to Ohio and settled in Stark county on a farm where Henry, his son, was brought up and edu- cated. When Henry was nineteen years old he began to work out by the month, and coming to the conclusion that it was not well for man to live alone he married Miss Polly Beigh, the daughter of George and Fannie Beigh, one of the most important acts of his life from many standpoints. She was a na-
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tive of Seneca county, Ohio, and was born From the deep wordis where savage ammal and savage Indians lived to this condition of peace and comfort this well-known fam- " By has passed, in a generation and a half. At first their nearest trading point was North Manchester and Liberty Mills, but the times are changed now, and these oil and respected people are passing away with the old order of things still fresh, in their July 9. 1831. and was brought to this coun- ty in 1837, her father settling in Clay town- ship, or what is now Lake township. There the father entered a tract of land and be- gan to clear off the dense timber and fight the wolves from his sheep and calves. To Mr. and Mrs. Funk four children were born, : as follows: Ireal, born in 1850 and died in infancy ; Fanny, who became the wife of theart. Mr. Funk was. on May 3. 1902. bap- Jeremiah Windbigler and lives in Marshall tized in the German Baptist ( Dunkard ) county, Indiana: to them were born four ' church. children, two sons and two daughters, of whom three are living. as follows: Levi, Mary and Anna ; Anna C., bern December SOLOMON HEETER. 28, 1855: Mary Alice, born December 16. 1860, became the wife of Monroe Paulis Jackson township, Kosciusko county. In- diana, furnished a home for many a pioneer who settled within its boundaries with no capital save the intelligence and physical abilities that were the gifts of his Maker and later attained a competency and a j .- sition of influence in the locality in which he chose to reside that, in after years, re- 1 dounded in an enviable reputation for him- self and his descendants; among these die and honored pioneers is Solomon Heeter. who was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, November 22. 1829. and resides in Silver Lake, Indiana ; of their children, three sons and a daughter, one is ! deceased, the names of the others being Cloice, Glent and Meeta M. In 1849 the Funk family came to this township and here Mr. Funk bought one hundred and twenty acres of land, all of which was enveloped with a heavy growth of timber. The family was placed in a rude log house and the task of clearing was begun. At that time the woods were filled with wild animals, and great havoc was created among the live stock, particularly the calves and sheep. David and Elizabeth ( Hay) Heeter. parents of Solomon, were natives of Penn- sylvania, of German descent, and from that state they migrated to Olio about the year 1808, and there, in the interminable forests of Montgomery county, entered a tract vi most unpromising land. This David in due course of time, by hand labor and perse- verance, such as were usual in the back- woods in those early days, cleared ap from: the growth of superfluous timber and erected. the typical log cabin of the period, in which Eternal vigilance was the price of safety, and this was kept up until in the course of titre the wild animals disappeared. Steadily Mr. Funk added to his land until he now owns one hundred and sixty-five acres one mile north of Silver Lake. In his time he ciared up a farm of ninety-five acres. He is one of the best citizens of the county, and is respected everywhere for his many good qualities. He is a Republican and takes much interest in the success of his party.
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many a happy hour was passed, notwith- became acquainted with Mr. Heater. 1 standing the incessant care and labor that were necessary to develop a home that eventually proved to be a source of com- ' fort and satisfactory profit.
After his marriage to Miss Hay, where parents were natives of Virginia, David Hecter purchased forty acres of land in Montgomery county, Ohio, and deep in the forest, which he partially cleared and here, in a little log cabin, he lived for several years. He then sold it and bought a tract of one hundred acres nearer Dayton city. to which he later added eighty acre-, but in 1853 again sold out and came to Indiana. locating in Wabash county, where he bought a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in Chester township, near North Manchester. on which he lived until the opening of the Civil war. Then he bought a small place near East Manchester, where he began the erection of a fine brick dwelling, but died before its completion ; his widow, however, occupied the house for eight years.
To the marriage of David and Elizabeth (Hay) Heeter were born eight children, viz: Solomon, Jonathan. Silas, Samuel. Abner. Barnet, Franklin Marion and Har- riet, of whom five are still living.
Solomon Heeter was reared on his fa- ther's farm and faithfully aided in its cui- tivation until he was twenty-five years okl. and then worked at chopping corn-wood at twenty-five cents per cord and at splitting rails at twenty-five cents per hundred. March 31, 1853. Mr. Heeter was united in marriage with Miss Catherine A. Mause, who was born in Maryland November 26, 1829, of German parentage. From Mary- land the Mause family removed to Mont- gomery county, Ohio, where Catherine A. of its most useful citizens and is comse-
1855 Solomon Heater and his young the came to Indiana, and in Wabash county N. Heeter purchased a fan of eighty acres. to which he added another eighty-here truet. and there made his home until isez. w ... he brought his family to Jack ca to atelia. digliy a très hoạt the place in which, he !. Hives. He has prospered and now ( was d . Hundred and farty teres in Kosciusko to Wabash counties. He is an excellent man- ager and has realized a competence thread . raising grain in large quantities and in breeding live stock.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Soloma Heeter has been blessed with six children. viz : Silas W., born March 8. 1855. harris: Miss Maria Swank, and lives in Wales. county: John F. born September 14. 1850. married Eliza Yant, and also lives in WI. - bash county: Warren E., born August Is. 1858, married Mary Pauling, now Receive 1. and lives in the state of Washington: Ilfren. 1 .. Lora July 9. 18co, married Prude Kitter- man and lives in Wabash county: David E ... born October 15, 1863, died July 19. 1855: and Charles Wester, bern April 15. INT. married Carrie Kno pp, and is also a res- dent of Wabash county, Indiana.
Mr. Hecter is a Democrat in MY pt- ical prodivities, but has never been stret. " partisan not has he ever put himself : :- ward as an ofice socker. He is, however. a public-spirited citizen and a whole-settle. man, ever ready to help forward any werk designed for the public good. He has done much toward bringing Jackson to the front among the sisterhood of townships of Kurdi- usko county, and is recognized by all as one
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quently greatly honored and respected. Fra- do this, but in a large measure this state ternally he is a member of the Knights of has been reached by the subject. He is yet Honor at North Manchester. a young man, his birth having occurred in , Prairie township. Kosciusko or any. Sep- tomber 15. 1872. He is the child of Sam- nel De and Axie S. ( Boggs) Anglin. The JAMES H. ANGLIN. Anglin family are of Scotch-Irish descent and in this country halt from the Old bu- minion, where their ancestors settled many years ago. The grandfather of sabje". James Anglin, in company with Me two brothers. David and Isaac, and che sister. came to Indian in the decade of the Mirties and settled in the northern part of Kusdi- usko county, where they entered land from the government. James Anglin was twice married. first to Miss Hall, who bore him these children: David. Harvey, Wesley, Mary. Fletcher and Samme! D. Ilis first wife having died, he married Mrs. Sett, whose maiden name was Nogle, and by her had the following children : Ella, Ida, Til- lie and MeClellan.
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