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So you see he is kept pretty busy during the day- time, and his loyal membership in about a dozen secret orders doesn't give him much quiet between the supper and breakfast hours.
Sometimes Mr. Cook enlists in the combats waged on the sea of politics. He is not, however, the noisy. blustering battleship which puts up the spectacular show; he is. rather. the submarine torpedo buat which glides quietly beneath the surface and gets in its work on the adversary where its demonstrative brother could never have done it.
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WILMER LEONARD
I N speaking of a firm it is always proper to designate the senior and junior member. It would be a game of chance in regard to the Leonard twins unless you saw the letterhead first. Wilmer is the senior member of the firm by a very narrow margin. Wilmer Leonard was born in Delaware County, Indiana, near Muncie. It makes him smile whenever he hears the slang phrase, "Were you ever in Muncie?" Ever since he knew better he has been in Fort Wayne. He came here with his parents in 1871. The father started the manufacture of brick two miles north of the city on the Leo road. Wilmer is tall and lanky and this is the reason he was sent to school in Fort Wayne. It was a long distance but he walked it easily.
He was graduated from the high school in 1883 and and then took a law course in Ann Arbor. He lost no time in beginning the practice of law. He was not as busy when he started as he is now. Today he has a large and lucrative practice. In early days he liked to make mud pies but never craved to get at real work with mud in making brick. He thought that it would be easier to practice law. He has worked hard in the legal profession and has earned all of the laurels achieved. He never gets stage fright before a jury and can make a speech that is as full of excellent good law points as it is of eloquence. He knows when to put a dam in his flood of oratory and he knows enough not to dam tuu much.
In politics he has been an active Republican and has heen a forceful speaker on the stump. He takes an interest in public affairs and is one of the prominent younger members of the Allen County bar.
FRANK W. EDMUNDS
M R. EDMUNDS is said to have made the remark once that electricity is no joke, even if a lot of folks do make light of it.
As you will observe, he made the remark only once; the person to whom it was addressed fell in a faint and he hasn't dared to risk it again.
Frank is an electrician. He has been that way for quite a number of years and will probably never get over it. He has helped to brighten as many homes and busi- ness houses in this community as any one man could possibly do. Just as likely as not you were pushing one of Frank's electric bells when you made that call last evening: it's more than likely that the lights in the home were fixed there by him.
Mr. Edmunds has lived in Fort Wayne all his life and isn't ashamed to admit it. After attending the public schools, he was graduated from the Methodist College, then an important institution of learning. He then entered the employ of the Fort Wayne Electric Works and remained for three years. During that time, he picked up a whole lot of information concerning the business which will mainly occupy his attention during the remainder of his days. For a short time, then, he was in Chicago during the World's Fair year working for the Central Electric Company, an off-shoot of the local concern. Then he returned to engage in the electrical construction and supply business in partnership with Herbert J. Law. They continued together for three years, at the close of which time the Edmunds Electric Con- struction Company was organized. He is the active head of the concern.
Mr. Edmunds is president of the Fort Wayne Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association, and his game fowls have gobbled up blue and red ribbons wherever they have been exhibited.
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FRANK C. TOLAN
AS soon as Frank Tolan was old enough to learn to walk, he looked out of the west window of the humble home and regretted. He has been regretting ever since. As a child, he stood there and wished that he had been born over on the next farm to the westward instead of the place where the event really occurred. The reason for this was that the farm of his nativity was located just over the Ohio line, while the next farm- house to the westward was in indiana, and the regret of the life of this man is that he isn't a natural born Hoosier instead of a Buckeye. But he has done the best he could to overcome the fact, by removing to Indiana to stay just as soon as he had learned how to set type and "kick" a job press in an Ohio printing office.
During this same preparatory period, too. he took upon himself one of the qualifications needed to perfect himself for the presidency of the Umon, should that honor be thrust upon him-he spent many days driving a mule or two attached to one end of a long rope. the other end of which was tied to a boat on the Miami and Erre Canal. It was after this that he learned to be a printer, and, as his chances of becoming president didn't seem to improve, notwithstanding his special prepara- tion for it, he continued to follow the trade, until now he is identified with *the art preservative of arts" in the capacity of man on the road for the American Type- founders Company, of Chicago, and has been for eight years. This is the largest printers' sopply house in the world, handling everything that enters into the equip- ment of the complete printing plant. The picture shows him displaying a Whitlock printing press.
Mr. Tolan travels the northern half of the State of Indiana and he has the pleasure of knowing and feeling the warm association of many staunch and loyal friends in his district.
CHARLES W. MINER
A MAN who persistently takes things is not neces- sarily a kleptomaniac. Charley Miner is taking things daily and never gets into trouble. He knows how to take.
He was born in Columbia City but never did anything else there to speak of. He left that city when he was fourteen years old and when he was seventeen he started out as a traveling photographer. He took views through Canada and in the lake regions. He developed into a landscape artist of no mean ability while still a lad, as his views found a ready sale. Just at the close of the civil war he was born with the united republic. He has grown up with it. He came to Fort Wayne fourteen years ago and likes the place. He began to display his taking ways as soon as he arrived. He formed a part- nership with Mr. Dexter and the photographic studio of Miner & Dexter was opened. In three years Mr. Miner bought his partner out. For eleven years he has watched its business grow constantly. He now has a studio built for him according to his own plans, equipped with all of the most modern appliances and conveniences. He can take a wrinkle and make it resemble a smile. He can grow hair on a bald head quicker than the entire bunch of Sutherland sisters working in concert. Socially Mr. Miner is just as popular as he is in business. He Is an Elk, an Eagle and also a member of the Pythian Knights. In this order he is very prominent in the uniformed rank. As a sportsman he is one of the best hunters in this neck of the woods, He always has a high bred hunting dog trailing at his heels, and he is humanely interested in the happiness of the animals which lend excitement to the sport. His game bag is usually well laden when he returns home from the hunt.
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GLEN W. MILLS
O man should be roasted for believing in airs if he was born at Galesburg, Michigan. It is nearly fifty years ago that Glen Mills felt the first breath ut life at Galesburg. He was educated in Kalamazoo, then went with his family to Kansas City. The air did not suit him there so he moved back to the celery-scented atmosphere of Kalamazoo. He could not keep out of the state that is all cut up by lake breezes. In 1875 he went to Detroit to go into the atr business. He became a successful music dealer and then entered the services of the Packard Company of Fort Wayne, selling their pianos and organs.
In 1802 when the company established its Fort Wayne retail branch and wanted a general salesman, Mr. Mills was transplanted to this city. He thinks that no air is good unless it comes from a Packard instrument. This is one reason that he had the name of the City Band changed to the City Packard Band. Now he likes the airs better. He is one of the enthusiastic promoters of popular hand concerts in Fort Wayne and deserves much praise for his work.
Just because he was horn at Galesburg, he does not put on airs. He is a popular fellow and has made many friends in the city of his adoption.
He does not care how many of the citizens of Fort Wayne play or how much they play, providing they play the airs he dispenses. He likes the notes of the Uncle Sam persuasion when they are coming his way in ex- change for notes from his store.
Glen likes music so well that he confidentially states that he could exist on note meal.
WILLIAM J. LENNART
T `HERE is no danger of Will Lennart getting lost in Fort Wayne. He was born in this city about forty years ago and is perfectly contented. He was graduated from the Brothers School to enter a business career. He did not career much but he has transacted a vast amount business. He has had a most thorough schooling in the business world and as an insurance and real estate man he has few, if any, superiors.
He began business with A. C. Greenabaum, one of the pioneer insurance and real estate men in this city. Then he was with Edsall & Son. For three years he was private secretary to Superintendent C. D. Law of the Pennsylvania, and also private secretary to Super- intendent of Motive Power G. L. Potter of the same company Then he entered the insurance office of the late S. C. Lumbard, another excellent business man. He mastered the art of bookkeeping hy thorough practical training and has been considered one of the very best expert accountants in the city for several years. Will has straightened out many sets of books.
After the death of Mr. Lumbard, Mr. Lennart started in business for himself, and now the firm of Lennart & Ortlieb is one of the leading insurance and real estate firms of the city. On real estate valnes Mr. Lennart is accurately posted. As a citizen Mr. Lennart is thor- oughly active. He was elected as a Republican council- man from the Seventh Ward, overcoming a Democratic majority of at least two hundred. This shows his popu- Iarity among his neighbors. He lives up near the reser- voir and is not afraid of water in other ways; he is city broke. He ran for county anditor on the Republican ticket and his following of friends was so strong that he was defeated by only a few votes. Will has a faculty of retaining friends once made and this attests for his popularity.
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CHARLES G. GUILD
H ERE is Mr. Guild in the role of Ben Franklin, the man who first punctured the clouds with the pointed end of a kite and let the electric fluid leak out.
In this age of enlightenment and progress we are always looking for the man who does not hide his light under a bushel. Charley Guild does not hide his light anywhere. He has light to sell and for sixteen years as secretary and manager of the Fort Wayne Electric Light and Power Company he has made much of an endeavor to turn night into day in Fort Wayne. You don't need to light a match to find your nose even on a sombre evening. Charley does not like dark methods, and this is the reason he came to Fort Wayne from Chicago.
He was born on Lake Michigan on the spot where Chicago now stands. The town was there when Charley was born and he left it there. This was awfully cluse to forty years ago. It was in 1882 that we find Charley in a back seat at the Fort Wayne High School looking out of the window for freedom.
For four years he helped to tell Mr. John Bass how to run the foundry and machine works. Then he thought that the plumbers were making more money than any one else and he became secretary of a local plumbing establishment. He learned to know a lead pipe cinch when he saw it and leaped into the electric lighting business when it was yet young. He has grown with the business and sheds his radiance about everywhere.
He likes to play golf so well that he is planning a system for lighting the links,
WILLIAM N. BALLOU
S INCE he became secretary of the Republican County Central Committee, Mr. Ballou has been an en- thusiastic student of the king of the pachyderms- namely, the G. O. P. elephant. You will notice he handles the subject with dexterity and ease, which is a fine accomplishment for one of such limited experience in that particular line.
Professionally, Mr. Ballou is a good lawyer. The pachyderm business is only a side issue. He's giving it his attention just now in order to prepare for future emergency calls if an experienced man is needed to care for the ** critter"' in any way whatsoever.
Mr. Ballou came from Michigan when he was a small boy and spent the rest of his earlier years on a farm in Perry Township, this county. His father was a Hunter- town merchant, but conducted a large farm at the same time. After leaving the country schools, young Ballou went to Angola where he remained in attendance at the Tri-State Normal School until the time of his graduation from the classical course in 1807. Then he decided upon a course in law. This took him to Ann Arbor where he entered the University of Michigan. He graduated in 1900.
Of course Mr. Ballou selected Fort Wayne as the best place in the universe to open a law office. so hither he came and formed a partnership with William C. Geake, but Geake secured the office of deputy attorney general for Indiana and removed to Indianapolis to remain during the period of his teri. Mr. Ballou then formed an alliance with E. G. Hoffman, who is also a graduate of the Ann Arbor school.
Mr. Ballou has already mixed in politics to some extent, having been at one time candidate for council- man-at-large on the Republican ticket.
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HERBERT L. SOMERS
H ERE we find Mr. Somers making a speech. The picture doesn't say whether it is a discourse on his record as a representative from Allen County to the state legislature, or a talk before a drowsy jury. In either event he is filled with his subject, because in the one instance he is anxious to win his point before the twelve good men and true ; and, as to the other, he is not averse to the acceptance of further political honors. Like every other politician, who hasn't been long at the busi- ness, he is proud to review his past record.
Mr. Somers is a democrat and doesn't care who knows it. He is an Allen County product, his existence dating from 1874. Like most other native Americans who amount to much, he served an apprenticeship husking corn, pulling mustard out of the flax and driving the hogs to market. After graduating from the farm, field and fireside, he passed through the common schools and entered the Valparaiso Normal School where he prepared himself as a teacher. For four years he wielded the spelling book, and boarded aruund, and then with the proceeds, continued his studies at DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, and "the University of Indian- apolis. He came forth from the latter university in May, 1900, having graduated from its law department. In partnership with H. F. Kennerk he began the practice of law, and his selection as a recipient of important political honors two years later shows that he has stirred around Some.
In the fall of 1902. Mr. Somers was elected to a seat in the legislature where he was honored by appointment upon several important standing committees, including the Judiciary, the Ways and Means, County and Tuwn- ship Business, Roads, and Insurance.
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JOSEPH V. FOX
E VEN if a man has been a baker all of his life he still needs the dough.
Joe Fox was born in Fort Wayne ahout fifty-four years ago. His father was a gardener, and, while he was raising vegetables and Joe, the city grew out to his farm and Mr. Fox, Sr., quit gardening. Then he started the pioneer restaurant and bakery combined on East Main street.
At the age of fourteen Jue entered this bakery, con- fectionary and restaurant. Of course, he had been in the place before, but had never drawn a salary. He had simply taken the cake. From that time on he assisted in the management for thirty-five years,
He got so familiar with dough in this East Main street eating-house that when Mayor Berghoff was elected to the head of the municipality, he selected Joe to take charge of the city dough. He is now comp- troller of Fort Wayne and continues to serve dough to the "hungry" once a month. He is the most popular man about the city hall on pay day. There are other days when he is popular, but never quite so much so as on the date mentioned. He looks after the finances and not a penny can be appropriated unless he says so. He serves his appropriation dishes just about the same as he served the meals at his restaurant. He tries to have all appetites appeased and always have enough to go around.
He serves everything cold in the comptroller's office- cold cash. In his restaurant everything was served cold except the ice cream.
Joseph Fox is a hale fellow well met and from con- Somme to cafe noir he will always be found to be a genial gentleman.
JUSTIN N. STUDY
M R. STUDY is the man behind the Fort Wayne public schools, and he is always busy pushing them to the forefront in efficiency and thoroughness.
When, in 1896, a superintendent for the Fort Wayne schools was sought. Indiana furnished the right man for the place.
Mr. Study began life on a farm near Hagerstown, in Wayne County. While he was still a youngster, the family moved to town where the lad entered the public s hool. After finishing the course, he went to Delaware. Ohio, and in 1871 wis graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University located at that place.
Shortly after leaving the university, Mr. Study was Selected as superintendent of the schools at Anderson, Indiana. Later he fillel a like important position at the head of the Greencastle schools. He then went to Richmond, and it was while performing his duties there that the Fort Wayne Board of Education recognized in him the proper man to superintend the schools of this city.
During the eight years of his work here, Sup .rin'en- dent Study has witnessed a remarkable developme it in the schools. At present, one hundred and sixty-eight teachers are employed, an increase of forty-five during his connection with the schools. The enrollment of pupils is now over six thousand. There are, in all. seventeen buildings, including the magnificent new high and manual training school just finished at a cost of $250,000. Five ward buildings and the high school have been opened for use during the past eight years.
Mr. Study is a Past Eminent Commander of Fort Wayne Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, and is an active Scottish Rite Mason.
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FRANK V. CULBERTSON
I T is a splendid thing to have anybody speak well of you: but in this part of Indiana it is a glorious thing for Frank V. Culbertson to write down in his little reference book that you are O. K. Mr. Culbertson is paid to look into the affairs of people and report to his employers. R. G Dun & Co., ot New York, who, in turn, give the information to those who ask whether it is safe to give you financial credit or not. So it is well to have a stand-in with the man whose picture we see here, and the only way to do it is to treat your neighbors fairly, pay your debts promptly and go to church at least once on Sunday.
When Mr. Culbertson removed from Wooster. Ohio, to Orrville, the same state, he obtained a position with a large transportation company, and stayed with it for six years, at the end of which time he took a position with the Dun Agency at Cleveland, Ohio, as a clerk. This was over twenty years ago. He must have done his work well because he soon found himself holding the positions of chief clerk and assistant manager in the Cleveland territory. In July, 1800, he was sent to Fort Wayne to take the management of the agency located here which has the oversight of eleven counties in Northeastern Indiana. In this territory there are five thousand active business concerns, over one thousand of which are located within the city of Fort Wayne. Six men besides the manager are required to care for this section, They give no attention to the commercial rating of individu.ils, except in response to special inquiries. but keep a constant watch over the business affairs of the eleven counties included in their territory, and it is seldom that anything affecting the commercial welfare of the community escapes their watchful eyes.
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CHARLES G. PAPE
IT was about thirty years ago that Charley Pape used to grab onto the fence around his father's home in Bloomingdale and wonder if he would ever be able to walk without holding on. Charley was a very small youngster in those days. He began to stretch to see it he could look over the fence and he stretched so hard that he began to grow. He has been growing ever since. Goliath would have to get on stilts to look in Charley's eyes now. There may be taller men, but they don't live around these diggings. Charley's father manufactured road machines and operated a large planing mill, and the boy liked to play in the sawdust pile. He hung around so much that to keep him out of mischief he was put to work. He grew up in the business and has made a mark as a manufacturer. He is still interested in his father's enterprises.
Now he is interested in raising wind mills and single- comb Black Minorca chickens. He has trained chickens to lay eggs just whenever he wants them to. This is what he tells the chicken fanciers who are hunting good stock. He is so successful that he is able to laugh when the butchers raise the price of meat. He just telephones to his wife to fry two with the sunnyside up and he drives home past the meat markets with a high and lofty air of independence. Any short man might take a pointer from Charley. See what eggs have done to make a man of him. He is even more than that. He is almost two men. Any one who has been initiated into the Fort Wayne Lodge of Elks in the past few years believes that Charley is about four regiments formed into a hollow square not only ready for but already in action.
He is one of the promoters of the Fort Wayne poultry show and this is one reason he does not eat all of the eggs he gathers from his coops.
WILLIAM D. PAGE
T THE gentleman in the picture is a lineal descendant of Luther Page, one of the earliest Pages of American history. He was a British army officer and came to American shortly after the Pilgrim Fathers had cleared away some of the forest trees and made room for their humble homes on the Massachusetts coast.
Our Mr. Page is the present postmaster at Fort Wayne. When he was a lad of eight he started to learn the printing business. It may have been in those days, as he sat before the type-cases, distributing the letters, that the idea came to him that he would one day have something to say about the distribution of the letters carried by Uncle Sam.
He is a native of Monroe, Mich., his birth occurring 00 1844. After his first "lesson" at type-setting, he attended a grammar school at Ann Arbor at twelve. and then returned to the printing business, locating at Adrian. When the war broke out he also broke out of the printing office and enlisted in Company B. Fifth Wiconsin, but after participating in quelling the memo- rable bank riots at Milwaukee, he was mustered out of the service because of his youth. He next appeared at West Rockford, Ill., and graduated from the high school there, and prepared for college at Clinton, N. Y. He was a student at Hamilton College. and, in 1865, at the age of twenty-one he found himself editor and half owner of the Adrian Expositor. Later, he went to Toledo, and finally, in 1871, came to Fort Wayne to work on the Gazette. In 1874 he established the Fort Wayne Daily News, and continued its publication until it was sold to the present owners, two years ago.
He was appointed postmaster of Fort Wayne by President Mckinley in 1897.
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SYLVANUS F. BOWSER
M R. BOWSER always believed that faith without works is defunct. Fur fourteen years he was a commercial drummer, and was the hrst man who dared to undertake to sell of tanks alone instead of carrying them as a side line. It was right then that he had faith to believe that the manufacture of an oil tank of the right kind would be a first-rate venture. Now, if his efforts had stopped there, the world would never have heard of the oil tank which has made Fort Wayne famous; but they didn't, and the world has learned a whole lot about them.
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