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and Cynthia C. (Pearson) Johnson, who were among the early settlers of Allen county and were prominent in the county all their active lives. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Butt. Jessie L. is married, and she and her husband live on the home place with the parents. They have two children-Ivan and John. William Edward, the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Butt, is professor of economics in the Kentucky State University. He has two children-Olin and Arthur. James F., Jr., is married and lives in the vicinity of the old home. He is his father's assistant on the home farm. Mr. Butt has taken his place in the public life of the community, and it is a notable fact that he served Maumee township as trustee in 1884 when he was but twenty-four years of age, and held the record then for the youngest trustee in the state. He was re-elected in 1886, and since that time has held other offices of public trust. He is a Democrat in politics, and fraternally has membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being affiliated with Lodge No. 463 at Antwerp, Ohio.
Frederick C. Buuck is to be consistently designated as one of the representative farmers of Allen county, and his well improved homestead, comprising sixty acres, is eligibly situated in Marion township. That he has proved himself loyally interested in community affairs and has gained secure place in popular esteem is indicated by the fact that he is serving as township trustee, to which office he was elected in 1914. Mr. Buuck was born in Adams county, Indiana, February 18, 1864, a son of Ernest and Sophia (Kleinschmidt) Buuck, both of whom were born in Germany. Ernest Buuck was a lad of seven years when he accompanied his parents on their immigration to the United States and the family home was established in Adams county, Indiana, where he was reared to manhood under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, assisted in the development of the home farm and profited by the advantages of the schools of the locality and period. He eventually instituted independ- ent operations as a farmer and became one of the prosperous and honored exponents of agricultural industry in Adams county, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1911, his wife having preceded him to the life eternal by about two years, and both having been earnest members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Buuck was a Democrat in politics and was one of the loyal young men of Indiana who went forth in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. He enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry, and with this gallant command continued in active service at the front until he was so severely wounded as to incapacitate him for further activity, with the result that he was accorded an honorable discharge, after having taken part in a number of severe conflicts. In later years he signalized his abiding interest in his old comrades by retaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. Frederick C. Bunck, the immediate sub- ject of this review, was the third in orler of birth in a family of eleven children; Louise resides in the city of Richmond, Indiana; Minnie is the widow of Gustav Rumphe and maintains her home in Fort Wayne; Ernst still remains in Adams county ; Martin is deceased; William is a pros- perons farmer in Adams county ; Mary, Sophia and Anna are deceased; Elizabeth is the wife of Christian Mahrnowald, of Jefferson township, Allen county ; and Christian resides in Fort Wayne. Frederick C. Buuck grew to adult age under the invigorating discipline of the home farm, continued to assist in its work and management until he was twenty-two
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years of age and in the meanwhile had not failed to profit by the advan- tages afforded in the public schools of his native county. Upon leaving the parental home he came to Fort Wayne, where he was employed three years in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The free and inde- pendent life of the farm, though demanding much of arduous toil, made insistent appeal to him and caused him soon to resume his alliance with agricultural industry. He purchased his present homestead of sixty acres, upon which he has made the best of improvements, including the erection of his commodious house and other good farm buildings, and he has so applied his mental and physical powers as to make of his farm industry a distinctive success, his attention having been given to diver- sified agriculture and to the raising of good live stock. Mr. Buuck is a stalwart in the local camp of the Democratic party, takes lively interest in all that concerns the well-being of his home township and county, and has given most effective service in the office of township trustee. Both he and his wife are earnest communicants of the German Lutheran church. On December 4, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Buuck to Miss Mary Doehrmann, daughter of Conrad and Minnie (Zwick) Doehrmann, of Adams county, and the two children of this union, Martin and Freda, still remain at the parental home.
James B. Cahill is junior member of the representative firm of Getz & Cahill, which conducts one of the well appointed undertaking and funeral-directing establishments of Fort Wayne, and on other pages of this work is made individual mention of his associate in the ' business, Joseph F. Getz. Mr. Cahill was born in Cass county, Indiana, on the 26th of August, 1879, and is a son of James Cahill, who was for a number of years engaged in farming in Cass county and who later removed to the city of Logansport, that county, and entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with which he continued his identifica- tion many years. He died October 3, 1899, and his wife is living in Fort Wayne. James B. Cahill acquired his early education in the St. Vincent Catholic parochial schools of Logansport and supplemented the same by a course in Hall's Business College of that city. He then assumed a position in the Logansport offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, but later prepared himself for the undertaking business, in which connection he acquired a thorough knowledge of the modern system of embalming. For a time he was employed in the under- taking establishment of Potter & Moffitt, in Muncie, this state, and in 1900 came to Fort Wayne, where he entered the employ of the firm of Schone & Veith, being their first licensed embalmer. With this concern he continued his effective services until July, 1908, when he formed a partner- ship with Joseph Getz and established their present business enterprise, in connection with which they have the most approved facilities for careful and consistent service as embalmers and general funeral directors. Mr. Cahill is affiliated with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Catholic Benevolent League of Indiana, and of the Holy Name Society of the cathedral parish of the Catholic church in the city of Fort Wayne, both he and his wife being earnest communicants of this parish. He is identi- fied also with the Married Men's Society of the cathedral and is a member of the Retail Merchants' Association of Fort Wayne. On June 22, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cahill to Miss Eleanor Reinhart, who was born at Fort Wayne June 24, 1880, and who was educated in
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St. Mary's parochial schools. She is a daughter of Matthias and Anna Marie (Bargus) Reinhart, both deceased.
Stephen A. Callahan is one of the representative younger members of the bar of his native county and since his retirement from the office of assistant prosecuting attorney of Allen county has been engaged in the independent practice of his profession in Fort Wayne, with secure standing and reputation as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. Mr. Callahan was born at Fort Wayne on July 30, 1888, and is a son of James T. and Margaret (Dolan) Callahan, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Indiana. The father holds the position of chief train dispatcher at Fort Wayne for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, and he and his wife have maintained their home in Fort Wayne for thirty years. Of their four children the subject of this review is the third; Winifred remains at the parental home; Frank J. is associated with the Moran Ice Company; and Robert is, in 1917, a student in the Fort Wayne high school. Stephen A. Callahan acquired his early education in the excellent Catholic parochial schools of Fort Wayne and in preparation for his chosen profession entered the law department of the great Valparaiso University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, with virtually coincident admission to the bar of his native state. For two and one-half years after his graduation he was associated with the well known Fort Wayne law firm of Leonard, Rose & Zollars, and he was then appointed deputy prosecuting attorney of the county, a position in which he made an admirable record and from which he finally retired to engage in active general practice in an individual way. Mr. Callahan is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, is a communicant of the Catholic church, is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and the Loyal Order of Moose. May 26, 1914, recorded the mar- riage of Mr. Callahan to Miss Esther Auger, who likewise was born and reared in Fort Wayne and who is a daughter of Louis and Lydia (Bird) Auger, the former of whom is deceased.
Warren D. Calvin, M. D., is above all else a man of distinct individu- ality, and that individuality is the positive expression of a strong and loyal nature that in turn exemplifies itself in the true stewardship of good works and kindly deeds. The Doctor is a man of thought and efficient service, and as a true humanitarian he is free from bigotry and intolerance in all of the relations of life. He is one of the essen- tially representative physicians and surgeons of Allen county and is engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Fort Wayne. Like many another American who has achieved success and prestige in professional life, Dr. Calvin passed the period of his childhood and youth under the effective and invigorating discipline of the farm, and of the enduring value of this discipline he is deeply appreciative. On the old homestead farm of his father, two and one-half miles distant from Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, Dr. Warren D. Calvin was born, May 27, 1867, his father having been "a farmer good, with corn and beef and plenty," and where he himself early gained a full quota of experience as he "mowed and hoed and held the plow," his active asso- ciation with the basic industry of agriculture having continued under these benign conditions until he was nineteen years of age, the while he waxed strong of brain and brawn, as he had not failed to make good
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use of the advantages of the district schools. In this connection it has been recorded that "He attended a country school which at times en- rolled more than sixty pupils and which, because of certain local in- fluences involved in the personnel of the patrons of that school, was peculiarly an intellectual rural center. Algebra and Latin were taught at times and from its walls there emerged scores and scores of teachers, many of whom later became able representatives of the legal, medical, pedagogic and ministerial professions, it being worthy of note that one of the students for which this school stood sponsor eventually be- came United States representative to Mexico." Dr. Calvin expresses his sense of thankfulness for the fortuitous influences that compassed him in the formative period of his youth and he reverts with great satisfaction to the vitalizing privileges that were his in the school above mentioned. He followed the prevailing ambition of the youth of that rural community and put his scholastic attainments to practical test by entering the field of pedagogic service. At the age of seventeen years he assumed charge of his first school, and in the meanwhile he furthered his own education by attending the autumn terms in the high school at Bryan, the judicial center of his native county. When nineteen years of age he devoted a portion of his time as a traveling representative and salesman for A. H. Andrews & Company, manu- facturers of school apparatus and furniture, with headquarters in the city of Chicago. His vaulting ambition to gain a liberal education did not overleap the bounds of practical judgment, and it can not be regarded as other than fortunate that the young man was compelled to consult ways and means in the attainment of the desired end and that he was virtually dependent upon his own resources in defraying the expenses of his higher academic and his professional education. In the autumn of 1887 Dr. Calvin entered the preparatory department of Hiram College, of which institution the late General James A. Garfield, former president of the United States, was a graduate and of which he later served at president. In this college the Doctor gave his attention to fortifying himself further for the vocation of teaching, in which field he had at the time a future engagement. However, his desire for a higher education resulted in his continuing his studies in Hiram College until his graduation, as a member of the class of 1892, and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. During his junior and senior years he was associated in the editorial work of the two college publi- cations-the annual and the periodical college paper. In the meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future career, and in consonance therewith, in September, 1892, he entered the celebrated Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago. There he continued his technical studies three years, during which he was joint owner of the college med- ical journal, besides having been its editor in chief during the last year. He was also the chief promoter and a member of the editorial board of the first medical annual ever published in connection with a medical college. During the summer vacations of his eight collegiate years Dr. Calvin continued his successful service as a traveling salesman for A. H. Andrew's & Company, the concern previously mentioned, and from this service he obtained the financial returns necessary for the continuance of his studies. He was graduated in Rush Medical College as a member of the class of 1895, and prior to making a permanent location he determined to gain preliminary experience of a practical and varied order. Thus it was that after receiving his degree of Doctor
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of Medicine he served his professional novitiate by engaging in active general practice at Canby, Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota, where he remained nine months. This was followed by one year of surgical work of official order along the course of the Chicago drainage canal, which was then in course of construction, his headquarters being at Riverside. Upon completing this service he came to Fort Wayne, where he has been established in the active practice of his profession since April, 1897, and where his unequivocal success offers the best voucher for his ability, discrimination and personal popularity. He gives his attention largely to the phase of practice involved in internal medication and he has long controlled a large and representative practice that denotes him as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Allen county. Dr. Calvin maintains active and appreciative membership in the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Asso- ciation, the Tri-State Medical Association, the 12th District Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the Allen County Medi- cal Society. He was a member of the faculty of the Ft. Wayne Medical College, and is now (1917) on the Hope Hospital staff. He is medical examiner for eight important life insurance companies and has the distinction of being a member of the United States Medical Reserve Corps, in which he has the rank of first lieutenant. In politics Dr. Calvin believes in supporting men and principles rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines, but if definite political classification were given he would probably be designated as a progressive Republican. In religion the Doctor gives his only denial to the family patronymic, for he goes far afield from the old Calvinistic doctrines and believes that the dogmatic theological creeds are altogether inimical to the interests of mankind, the while he maintains that man's religious nature can incor- porate all its wants under the two tenets of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, untrammeled by creed, ordinances, definite ritualism and mysticism. He believes also that every person should have a vacation from his professional or other vocational work, in order that the mind may dwell upon a different environment and the cells used in the prosecution of his daily employment and thus given a brief and complete rest, with resultant vitalization. In harmony with this conception, Dr. Calvin has taken trips to various parts of the United States and the Canadian provinces, and in each of these digressions he has found it his greatest pleasure to view and contemplate the grand and beautiful spots of nature, especially in the ascending to the mountain heights and fastnesses where nature rules supreme, or at least where the puny handicraft of man is comparatively infinitesimal. In June, 1897, Doctor Calvin wedded Dr. Jessie Carrithers, who is associated with him in practice. Like the average American, Doctor Calvin finds in his ancestral lineage a record that involves the use of the much- discussed hyphen. In short, he is of Scotch, English and Swiss lineage, through being a scion of the Scotch family of McGowan, the English families of Churchill and Kelsey, and the Calvins of Switzerland. Of his forbears who came to America, some established themselves in Puritan New England and some in cavalier Virginia. Later migrations brought other generations of the respective families into contact in the historic old Connecticut Western Reserve of Northern Ohio, and from that section of the old Buckeye state came the first representatives of the Calvin family into Williams county, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was born.
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William H. Carbaugh, well-to-do farmer and veteran of the Civil war, has been a resident of Allen county for more than fifty years. He began his career in this region as a day-laborer, from which phase he advanced to the position of renter, and later to the dignity of owner of his own place, and he has enjoyed a comfortable prosperity as the reward of his honest efforts to gain independence. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on January 7, 1840, and is the son of Joseph and Margaret (Miller) Carbaugh, who came to Whitley county in 1856 and passed the remainder of their lives in this region. The father worked for years as a laborer. He and his wife reared a family of five children. They were Mary Elizabeth, deceased; William H., the subject of this sketch; John, who is deceased; Susan Catherine, living in Fort Wayne, and Albert, who died in 1915. William H. Car- baugh had the typical log-school education common to the youth of his time, and he was still quite young when he applied himself to the difficult work of clearing land. He worked at that until he was twenty-two years of age, and then enlisted for service in the Civil war. He was a member of Company E, Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and he served through to the end of the war, participating with his regiment in many of the hard fought engagements of the war, conspicuous among them being Perryville, Stone's River and Chickamaugua. When the war ended he returned home, married soon afterward and with his young wife went to Kansas, where he was engaged in various occupations for two years. They returned to Allen county in 1875 and Mr. Carbaugh applied himself to such work as he could find to do, and for several years was employed as a laborer in the community where he settled. In 1876 he rented a farm and for some years worked on the basis of a renter, when he was able to buy a place of his own. He is living to-day on the forty-acre tract he bought then, and on which he gained a pleasing measure of financial independence. On March 19, 1867, Mr. Carbaugh was married to Miss Elizabeth Johnson, the daughter of James and Rebecca (Baxter) Johnson, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and thence to Allen county in 1854. They were farming people and among the best people in their community. A family of fourteen children was reared under their roof. They were Noah, Frances, Isabelle, Harriet, Isaac R., Jacob, Harvey, Abraham, Elizabeth, Lewis, Josiah, Martha, Anna and John. Harvey is living in Lafayette township; Elizabeth is the wife of the subject; Josiah is a resident of Missouri and Anna is living in Wells county, Indiana. The others are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Carbaugh have three children-Oliver, of Fort Wayne; Frank, of Lafayette town- ship, and Alonzo, of Lagrange county, Indiana, where he is engaged in farming. Frank had three children-William Arthur, Gertrude Marie and Lulah, the last two named surviving. Alonzo has six children- Clarence, Edna, Mildred, Ralph, Glenn and Harold. Edna is the wife of Claude Lovell, of Lagrange, and Glenn died in 1907. Edna Lovell has two children-Alvin Alonzo and Ethel, so that Mr. and Mrs. Car- baugh are distinguished among their friends as great-grandparents.
William L. Carnahan was a man whose character was the positive expression of a strong, loyal and noble nature, and it was given him to leave a last impress upon the civic and business life of the city of Fort Wayne, where he was long and prominently identified with the wholesale boot and shoe business and where his fine character and superior ability made him a resourceful force in furthering the industrial and commercial prestige of the Allen county metropolis. He was one
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of the most honored and influential business men of the city at the time of his death, which occurred on June 26, 1897, and this history exercises a consistent function when it accords within its pages a tribute to his memory. Mr. Carnahan was a native of Indiana and a represen- tative of a sterling pioneer family of Tippecanoe county, where he was born on March 5, 1837. His father became a representative merchant in what is now the thriving city of Lafayette, that county, and it was in the schools of that place, which was then a mere village, that the subject of this memoir acquired his early education. He later was graduated in the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, and throughout the rest of his long and useful life he was known as a man of fine intel- lectual attainments as well as of marked business acumen. At the inception of his business career, in 1856, Mr. Carnahan became a pioneer of the state of Nebraska, where he remained three years, during which time he was engaged in the mercantile business in the city of Omaha, besides having served as a clerk in the United States land office at that place. In 1860 he returned to Indiana and established himself in the mercantile business at Delphi, the judicial center of Carroll county. Two years later he returned to Lafayette, where for the ensuing two years he was engaged in the boot and shoe business in a retail way. He then accepted a position as traveling salesman for the firm of Carnahan, Earl & Company, manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, with factory and general headquarters at Lafayette. Eighteen months later he was given an interest in the business and the title of the firm was then changed to Carnahan Brothers & Company. For five and one-half years thereafter Mr. Carnahan continued his re- sourceful activities as traveling representative for the firm, and his ster- ling character, his ability as a salesman and his unqualified popularity proved potent in expanding the business of his firm and popularized its products in a constantly expanding trade territory. In 1872 he came to Fort Wayne and founded the wholesale boot and shoe house of Carna- han, Skinner & Company, and he thereupon assumed the supervision of the clerical and sales departments of the new establishment, his fine administrative ability and thorough technical knowledge giving him special influences in directing the development of the business of the new firm, which was succeeded in 1875 by that of Carnahan, Hanna & Company. He continued as one of the principal and chief executives of this firm and also of its successor, that of Carnahan & Company, which was organized in 1886 and in which his coadjutor was Emmet H. McDonald. He continued as the executive head of the large and prosperous business controlled by this firm until death terminated his activities and brought a close to his long and honorable business career, throughout which his integrity had been inviolable, his progressiveness and energy prodigious and his success unequivocal. The fullest measure of success is ever to be won by loyal and worthy service, and Mr. Carnahan always measured up to the highest standard of business ethics, even as his private life was marked by fine ideals and by kindliness and consideration that won to him the confidence and high regard of all with whom he came in contact. He was essentially a business man, and thus had no desire to enter the turbulence of practical politics or to seek public office, though he gave a staunch allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and was liberal in his civic attitude. He was a consistent member of the Episcopal church, as is also his widow, who still maintains her home in Fort Wayne,
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