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The paternal grandfather of Mrs. John was John S. Ulrich, now deceased, wie was twice married. first to Esther Swihars. and. second, to Susan (Swihart ) Knoop. By his first marriage he was the father of the fol- lowing children: Samuel S. is mentioned more fully below, Mary (married B. K. West and had one son. Willie, now de- teen years and excepting her all were mar- : ceased ), Jacob ( married France> Baer and rial.
ยท became the father of the following children :
Letty Gordon (now deceased ) married " Sarah, who married Daniel Eller. Charles, first a Mr. Minnich and after his death she . Gilford, John Calvin, who married Lillie married Lewis Miller, and still later became , Meorhart, Reuben. Susan and Gertrude ). the wife of Jesse Myers. She had no chil- Aaron, Jonathan (married Lydia Wilson
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and has the following children: Carl. Or- ville. Lee, deceased, and Fanny), Esther ( deceased ), and Sarah ( deceased ). Sammuel S., mentioned above, was born September 4. 1833. and died January 21, 1893. On the Best of May, 1857. he was married to Phobe Miller, who was born July 17, 1835. and died July 5, 1807. By this union were born two children, Lettie and Albert. Sammel S. Ulrich lived for a year on his father's farm and then, in 1858, bought a tract of eighty acres in section 15, Jackson township. This was all wooded land, there being not even a building site cleared. While clearing this land he was at the same time engaged in teaching school, which occupation he fol- lowed as long as his health permitted. He also performed the duties of trustee and later took an active part in the building of school No. 7 and the German Baptist church near his home. Of the latter society he and his , and a brief record of their children. Io wife were faithful and active members from soon after their marriage until their deaths. Of them a friend of long standing once said : "I have known Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich for over forty years and have always found them to be upright, pious and charitable. ever ready to assist the poor and afflicted." Subsequently Samuel S. Ulrich bought eighty acres, which he sold to C. N. John.' and then bought another eighty-acre tract adjoining his original purchase. This tract is now owned by Lettie Ulrich John and Albert B. Ulrich, the last-named now a pro- fessor in the University of Southern Cali- fornia. By his marriage with Susan ( Swi- hart ) Knoop Mr. Ulrich was the father of the following children: Gilford (married Mate E. Blue and they have two children. Virgil and Frank) and Anna ( married Olin Harley and they have three children. Arthur.
Robert and Herbert ). By her former i. riage to Mr. Swihart Mrs. Ulrich Way mother of the following children: Esta ( married Ed Holderman and had childres. Meri, who married Carrie Lester and : . two children. Mary and Lester. Ciem, Sua who married W. 11. Howe, Adan. Grad. who married Rosene E. Little, and Fie- berty. George (deceased ) , Allan & deceased Elizabeth ( married Thomas Wantz and .... the following children: Mamie, who mar- ried Wylie Phillips and has three chiffre .. Charles. Gerald and Nota. Kuias, who the ried Blanche Winei and has one child. Cies ence. Nancy, who married Anson Eliott and has one child, Burson, Charles, Florent. Roy. Hazel, Edmond and Marie ).
The first ancestor of the Mishler fahn of whom the biographer has any record Jacob Mishler. He married Sarah Saat'. follows: (1) Mary Ann, who died in touch. married John W. Miller and they had the following children: Samuel P. omarried Rachel Heckman and had five children. V- bert, who married . Alice Ulrey, Jacob, who married a Miss Idle. Elliot. Resm, who mar- ried a Miss Clover, and Callie, who married a Miss Burwell). Hannah ( deceased). Levi ( married Anna Ulrich, daughter of Joseph Ulrich, and they have the following chi- dren: Joseph. Allie deceased, who was the hasband of Rett Fisher. Hiram, who mir- ried Susie Virey, daughter of Noah Uirey. Lizzie. Dayton and Melvin. Hiram (mar- Fried a Miss Rhodes, now deceased. by what he had a daughter, Florence, the wife . i Prof. O'Duddle, and upon her death he mar- ried Nancy Wertemberg ). AAaron (parrk : Martha Huffman and has two children. Mil- ton and Cora). Mary (married first Aaron
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(Trich. by whom she had three children, ne deceased. Hiram, who married Densey Nagle, and Joe, and upon the death of her Erst husband married Isaac Ulrich, the son of John J. Ulrich). Lizzie ( married Joseph Uirich, son of Joseph Ulrich, and they have three children, Ira D. deceased. Altie and Anna, John E. (married Angeline Westen- berger). Sarah ( deceased ), Ira ( married Lizzie Swartz and they have two children. Dorence and Floyd ). (2). Lydia died in 1800. (3) Christiana married Jacob Sens and they have the following children : An- crew (deceased ). Susan ( married Lee Bu- chanan ). John. Joseph, Jacob, Lalie. Hottie deceased ). Allie (deceased ). Katie ( mar- .i'd a Mr. Conway ). (A) Daniel married Catherine Miller and they became the par- ans of the following children: Noah the- (red). Mary Lettie ( deceased ). Henry (deceased1. Phobe Ann ( married Lewis Bayman and by him is the mother of the i Mowing children : A child that died in in- fancy. Maud, deceased. Roy. Lottie, Alfred bad Earl). Lewis (married Barbara Arnot and they had the following children : Harley. Sarah, Ruth, deceased, and a child deceased in infancy). George (married first Priscilla Parks, by whom he has one child. AAmos. and for his second wife married Lizzie Horning ). Aaron ( married Ella Kyler and 's one daughter, Ethel ). John ( married Sarah Hlaines and by her has two children,
became the father of the following children : Mary (married Harvey Serber and has ore child, Martha). Daniel (married Jennie Connei and they have two children, Lloy : and Trude ). David ( married Sue Martin). Lydia (married Albert Walters). Henry ( married a Miss Smith, by whom he be- came the father of five children). Am (married Jacob Karas and they have chil- dren ). Jacob ( married Piney Nichols and they had one child, now deceased). thy Jacob married Margaret ( Peggy ) Warner. (7) Adam married for his first wife Cath- arine Gripe, the daughter of Jacob, Cripe. and by her had the following children: Mary (deceased ), one that died annames. Flora (married David Shively1. Samma (married Christ Miller ). After the death of his first wife Adam Mishler married Catharine Ulrich. (8) Solomon and (9), Betsey are deceased.
The descendants of larin and An. Heckman are as follows: 01 Ann Mari. married Benjamin B. Stead, now decease .. and they became the parents of the flow. ing children: Clarence. Colvin. Arthur. Annie and Lettie. (2) David Lewis mar- ried Mary -----. and they became the parents of the following children: Emot married Edward Brubaker and by him had two children. Otis and Roy). Carrie. Olie and Pearl. 031 Mary Etta married Them- is C. Lucas and they had the following Pearl and Roy, the latter deceased ), Liza . children: Effie. Hope. Nora and Orville. Jane (deceased ). Esta ( deceased ) and Ira (+) George married Annie Rebecca F. became the wife of Henry D. Heistand and they are the parents of these children: Melvin Harvey ( married Doris Heistand ). Albert Roy. Carl Ritt and Frank Mayo. (6) Richard V. married Sarah J. -- , and they became the parents of married Lillie Circle and by her has the & Rowing children: May. Lee, Blanche. Merdina, a child that died in infancy, and Clem). (5) John married first Sarah War- ner, who died without issue, and he after- ward married Nancy Priser, by whom he
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the following children : Stella Maud (mar- ried Abe Nichols). Claudius May and Guy Roscoe. (7) Charles A. married Mary and they have one child, Alma Pink. (8) Simon P. married Elvie - and they have two children, Ima and Paul. (0) Laura M. became the wife of Charles Stead and the mother of one child, Naoma Fern.
As a matter of undoubted interest the following extract from the Los Angeles ( California ) Herald, of October 15. 1901. is here appended. It had reference to the election of Albert B. Ulrich to the chair of biology in the University of Southern Cali- fornia :
The man who was elected to the chair of biology is not altogether unknown in this city, as he came here early in the summer and soon identified himself with the intellectual life of the city. He is of middle age and is a man of great force of character and an earnest student. Ile has been iden- tified with the University of Indiana for many years. in one department and another, and has been a member of the Academy of Sciences of Indi- ana since 1892, where he was brought in contact with the great biologists of the central states, among whom were identified at that time such men as David Starr Jordan, then president of the University of In- diana : Dr. Coulter, author of a series of botanic ; O. P. Jenkins, now physiologist at Stanford Univer- sity, and many others. He has issued eleven publi- cations, which have appeared in the academy proceed- ing, and elsewhere. Chief among these is a study of South American fishes of much value to biologists in that it is a great condensation over any publication yet issued. In gathering the data for this booklet. Professor Ulrich discovered and named several new varieties of one species of fish.
tor im zool gy. where he remained ww , goats. then took up the study of medicine. consisting courses at the Rush Medical College, also completi- a course at the Northern Minois College of Ophtin - mology.
Four months study abroad, where he spent . ... time at the Pasteur institute at Parts, Sitting inboratory metade, vienting the moongeht fit Naples, the largest and most important da saudade. o the land in the world, and wendung a : tue at . universities of Berlin. Heidelberg, Zarea and of ford gave him an insight into the laboratory sathy of the old world, and the spirit of European meth. i .- as they differ from those of America.
For seven years Professor Ulrich was professor biology at Manchester College, in Indiana, gian four years to zoology and three to botany and banter iology. At other times he has been professor at biology in the Warsaw Summer School, india ... instructor of zoology in the biological state of the University of Indiana, located at Lake Wawaste and instructor of embryology in the biological state . of the University of Indiana. The field of resource. has been wide, and what Professor Ulrich has garia: ed has fitted him especially to the new position, at. the trustees feel that they have made a wise choices their latest addition to the faculty.
FRANCIS M. SHIPLEY.
It is a pleasure to meet an oid settler -- one who came here in the commencement as a boy, when the observation was quick- est and the mind being formed-and learn. from his lips of the trials which were en- dured for the sake of the happy home- which now dot the county of Kosciusko. Such a man is the subject of this sketch. All of his earliest impressions were gained in the woods of the pioneer period and he tells many stories of those times. The ph - neers were happy. It is singular how easily a person can adapt himself to any surround-
Professor Ulrich has studied widely. After grad- uating from the Indiana State Normal School, he en- tered the University of Indiana, where he received the degree of bachelor of arts. The marine biological lab- oratory at Woods Holl, Massachusetts, then claim- ed his time for a period of study, and on his return to Indiana he entered the State University as instrue- F ings and derive comfort therefrom. And
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yet it fails to be at all singular when ac- count is taken of the selfish desire to be comfortable. If we have enough to cat and enough to wear and a little ahead and an outlook for some good books, we can man- age to worry along and derive considerable satisfaction out of life. So the old settler was happy, as every one will emphatically tell you. So says the subject of this sketch. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, April 16. 1839, and is a son of Reuben P. and Margaret ( Popham). Shipley. The Ship- leys came from Maryland where the family had settled many years before. Grandfa- ther Shipley was born in Maryland, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. Ile was of English descent, and in early manhood married Miss Rebecca Phillips, to this mar- riage fourteen children being born. Reuben P., father of the subject, was the oldest of this family. He grew to maturity in Knox county, Ohio, receiving a limited education in the pioneer schools, and married Miss Popham in 1836 in that county. To their marriage eight children were born, as fol- lows: Francis M., Mary P., Elias, John W., Sherman. Rebecca J., Worthington and Minerva A. Of these John W., Sherman and Mary P. are deceased. Reuben P. moved to Kosciusko county in the year 1844, where the grandfather Popham had entered a considerable tract of land from the government some five or six years previous- ly. On this land five or six acres were cleared when the Shipleys arrived. The country was very new then, there being wild animals in the woods and the Indians were still here in abundance. The land was cov- ered with dense forests which had to be cleared off before crops could be raised. : Great-grandfather Popham possessed some
striking characteristics. He had come to Anterica as a British soldier during the war of the Revolution, and when the war ende? had concluded to remain here. Grandia- ther Popham had educated himself for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a natural crater, and at his death was credited with having married more couples than any other man of his time. He and his boys cleared up the old farm. The Shipley's secured land in this county, and on the farm of his father Francis M. was reared. He was required to learn the busi- ness of farming at an early age and in the winters was sent a considerable distance to the pioneer schools. In 1858 he was unite! in marriage with Miss Isabella Clark and! to this marriage four children were born, as follows: Charles W. born July 30, 1850. married Miss Mary S. Jemison and they now live in Lake township: Ewin E ... bom March 2, 1861, educated himself well and for many years was a teacher in the con .- mon schools of the county : he married Miss Emma Blood and now resides in Mentagse county. Texas: Mary A. born December 10. 1863. married J. M. Chambers and lives in Montague county, Texas, her basban : being an attorney at law : William P .. bern January 5. 1865. wedded Miss Mary J. Me- Grady, and lives on the farm with his fn- ther. The first wife of Francis M. Shipley having died. he married Mrs. Philena .1. Strode on December 18. 1884. and the issue of this marriage was one daughter, now de- ceased. Mr. Shipley has led an active life. He was for several years general lumber agent for the Singer Manufacturing Com- pany, and was three years with the Birdsell Manufacturing Company, of South Bend. lle is the owner of two hundred and fifty-
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four acres of excellent land and makes a brief notice was fortunate in having som specialty of raising tine stock. He keeps on hand thoroughbred imported French Perch- eron horses and raises and ships many cattle of the finer grades. He is a keen business man, a fluent talker and a very capable farmer and financier. He is a Democrat, but has not as yet gone wild on the subject of politics, as too many men have. He is broad-ganged. thoroughly reliable, self- made, able from an intellectual standpoint and would make an excellent executive of- ficer, wherever such qualities are required. Because of the fact that Mr. Shipley's great- grandfather was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, his descendants are now entitled to membership in that greatest of American social orders, the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. The subject and his wife are both fond of travel and sightseing and have just returned from a long trip to the Pacific coast. However, they are thet- oughly satisfied with the old Hoosier state as a place of residence and have no desire to live elsewhere.
ORA TUCKER.
There is a great deal in being born im- der a good eye-one that watches and guards off the error and folly that overtake so many young men. The father and the mother that are able to infuse into their children the spirit of the Spartans-the spirit that can meet any fate and make the most of the world-will see their children grow to years of maturity with excellent habits and splendid principles and see them become exemplary citizens. The subject of this
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and clean a father and so sweet & moi" Ile was taught from the start the duties hie -- not ordinary instruction, but the ligh- er duties which all oue to each other and to society. The result has been to give it broad ideas of life and its responsibilities and to fit him for upright and distinguishes citizenship. He was born in Franklin town- ship, this county, March 30, 1883, and is consequently very young in citizenship. Te was raised upon his father's immense estate , and from his earliest years the sight of large herds of cattle, sheep, hogy and horses was a daily occurrence. Youthful experiences are the strongest, and accordingly the lessons of the farm thus taught to him from infancy found a secure lodgment in his understand- ing. No young man could have a better equipment for the duties of the farm than he received. There was the sound judgment of his father and there were the large herds and immense fields of growing grain. i. addition to all this he was given a good wil- cation and in every way fitted for his future successful life upon the farm. Another thing: he selected a splendid woman to share his joys and sorrows, and thus equipped he be- gan the battle of life on his own account Their marriage occurred October 30. 10. Mrs. Nora Tucker was born January 25. 1882, and is the daughter of Orvil and Mary ( Turner) Sarber. She was reared upoa . farm in Marshall county, Indiana, and was well educated in her maidenhood. In Mare .. 1901. this young couple moved upon thei farm on section 22. Franklin township. where he is just beginning the task of open- ing up his farming operations. His success is not to be doubted. He is broad and clear- minded, and is a Republican in politics.
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Both he and his good wife are prepared for life. with all its beauty and its responsi- bilities.
SIDNEY T. MOORE.
Among the farmers and representative men of Etna township, Kosciusko county, deserving of especial mention is the well- known and highly esteemed gentleman whose name initiates this article. Mr. 1 Ireland. His grandfather, John Moore, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1762. He emi- grated to the United States in 1780, settling in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and there, in 1788, was married to Jane MeCurdy. To this union were born ten children, three boys and seven girls, all of whom grew to mature years. In 1831 John Moore moved to Ohio and settled in Summit county, where his death occurred in 1842, at the age of eighty years. John Moore, the subject's fa- ther, was also a native of the Emerald Isle and in his youth came with his parents to the United States, settling in Summit coun- ty, Ohio, where he subsequently met Miss Elizabeth White, who in due time became his wife. The Whites were among the early settlers of the above county and appear to have been substantial and well-to-do people. Grandfather Zeabth White was born in Portage county, Ohio. November 18. 1799. He was married in February, 1823, to Sarah Rodenbaugh, a union which was blessed by the birth of four children, one son and three daughters. He went to California in 1849 and lost his life there by an accident in a mine. He was a quiet, unassuming man. was a good citizen and was well liked by all
who knew him. For several years after his marriage John Moore followed agricultural pursuits in the county of Summit, but later. about 1864. migrated to Indiana and io- cated in Marshall county, where he spent. the remainder of his days as an humble, in- dustrious husbandman, dying as a good old age. Seven children constituted the family of John and Elizabeth ( White ) Moore. namely: James, Sarah, Nelson, Sidney, Jane, Ida and William.
The birth of Sidney T. Moore occurred Moore's ancestral history is traceable to in Summit county, Ohio, on the 19th day of March, 1849. From his youth he be- came accustomed to the manifold duties of the farm, and of winter seas ms he attended the district schools until he obtained a good practical education, the best. in fact, that the times and circumstances could afford. Un- til his twenty-first year he remained on the home farm, assisting his parents and prov- ing a valuable assistant in running the place and contributing to the support of his parents and the brothers and sisters younger than himself. On attaining his majority he began farming for himself, though still making his home under the parental roof. and it was not until his marriage, at the age of twenty-nine, that he severed the the- that bound him to the family circle. Mr. Moore's marriage was solemnized with Miss Eliza J. Munch, whose parents were natives of Ohio and among the first perma- nent settlers within the present limits of Franklin township. Subsequently they moved to Marshall county, where the youth- ful years of Mrs. Mcore were spent and in- the common schools of which she received a fair English education.
During the six years following his mar- riage Mr. Moore cultivated his father's place
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as a renter, but in 1885 moved from Mar- neighbors and fellow citizens of the com- mumity, and no one occupies a more con- spicuous place in the minds and hearts of the people by whom he is known. His pri- vate character is above criticism and he has always aimed to keep his name and reputa- shall county to a forty-acre farm in Etna township, which was purchased a short time prior to his taking possession. From that time to the present he has made many valuable improvements, besides clearing and fitting the land for tillage, and he now ' tion unspotted. His has been an earnest owns one of the best and most highly cui- life, fraught with much that tends to benefit his kind and his career in the humble sphere of private citizenship has added to the char- actor and stability of the community in which he lives. tivated farms of its size in the township. it comprising one hundred and two acres. He bestows great care upon his fields and by closely studying the adaptability of the soll to different crops has brought his place up Seven children have blessed the marriage of Sidney T. and Louisa Moore, namely: Melvin, Ervin, Chester, John, Nora, Laura and Sanford. to its greatest producing capacity, never failing to realize abundant returns for the time and labor devoted to his chosen calling.
Mr. Moore was elected in 1900 assessor of Eina township and has filled the office to the present time to the satisfaction of everybody concerned, having still some time to serve. His good judgment in the matter of real estate and sound knowledge of the values of the property fit him to discharge .
The subject of this sketch, who figures as one of the leading farmers and stock men. his official innetions with correctness and, of Kosciusko county, is widely and favor- ably known and for a period of fifty-four years has maintained his residence on his present farm in Jackson township. Of his life and family history the biographer is pleased to present the following review :
dispatch, and thus far his course has fully justified the people in the wisdom of their choice. He also served one term as con- stable and as such did his duty in a manner that won the approbation of the people of Tippecanoe township, Marshall county. Mr. . Moore's religions views are in harmony with the teachings of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which denomination he and wife have been members for a number of years. He has served as superintendent of the Sun- day school and as teacher of one of the larg- est and most important classes therein, and at the present time is class leader in the con- gregation to which the family belong.
Mr. Moore is a man of quiet, gentie- manly demeanor, highly esteemed by his
DAVID MILLER.
The family of Millers, of which the sub- ject is an honorable representative, was known many years ago in Lancaster com- ty, Pennsylvania, and the Warners, from: whom he is descended maternally, were carly settlers of linntington county, that state. Samuel Miller, father of David, was born in the former county and in young manhood went to Montgomery county. Ohio, where he met and married, about the year 1815. Elizabeth Warner, who with her parents migrated thither from the Keystone
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state. When Samuel Miller arrived in Ohio he was a well-nigh penniless young man, but, endowed with a generous supply of what the world calls pluck, he was not long in getting a good start, going in debt for a small piece of land which he improved and in due time disposed of at a liberal figure. With the proceeds he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, partly im- : same religious body to which he belonged.
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