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to the United States Supreme Court in April, 1890. He was a member of the Board of State Charities of Indiana, 1892-9, and was Vice-Presi- dent of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in May, 1898, when it was held in New York City. He has written and delivered many addresses on sociological subjects. He was a member of the In- diana State Senate, 1895-9, and drew the present law as to care of de- pendent children, since adopted in principle by many of the states. He is also author of the law remodeling the penal system, establishing the parole system and indeterminate sentence. These laws have been especi- ally commended by the International Prison Congress, etc. He was the first president of the Indiana Reformatory, and was a delegate to the In- ternational Prison Congress, held at Brussels, Belgium, in 1895, and at Washington, D. C., in 1916. He was also a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Judges at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904. He is a member of the American Bar Associa- tion and the Indiana Bar Association, is a Democrat in politics and has been prominent in promoting the construction of a waterway between Lake Erie and Michigan by the United States Government.
Miss Julia E. Emanuel -- It is specially gratifying to accord in this publication special recognition to Miss Emanuel, who is the proprietor and active manager of one of the admirably appointed and ably conducted drug stores of Fort Wayne, the same being designated as the Chemist Shop and being eligibly situated in attractive quarters at the corner of Berry and Harrison Streets, the designated number of the establishment being 201 West Berry Street. Miss Emanuel has shown marked technical ability in her chosen profession, for the work of which she carefully educated herself, and she has shown equal ambition and mature judgment as a business woman of exceptional resourcefulness and progressiveness. It may consistently be said that she has an inherent predilection for her present profession and business, for her father was an able physician and surgeon and after his death her mother became successful in the conducting of a drugstore in the former office building of the deceased husband and father. Miss Emanuel was born at Antwerp, Paulding county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Dr. Appeles D. and Emma C. (Kauff- man) Emanuel, her father having been a representative physician and surgeon in that county at the time of his death, in 1876, and his widow having thereafter developed in his former office a prosperous drug busi- ness, she having been a resident of Antwerp at the time of her death. In the public schools of her native village Miss Emanuel continued her studies until she had availed herself of the advantages of the high school, and she early began to assist in her mother's drugstore, in which she gained her initial knowledge of practical pharmacy. Her self-reliant ambition was shown in her determination to prepare herself fully for the profession in which she has since achieved substantial and merited success, and she finally entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1889 and from which she received the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. In 1892 Miss Emanuel came to Fort Wayne and for the ensuing ten years was employed in the prescription department in the drugstore of Meyer Brothers, her abiltiy as a chemist and her scrupulous care in the com- pounding of prescriptions having gained to her the confidence and high esteem of the local representatives of the medical profession as well as of the general public. In 1902 she established her independent business enterprise as a pharmacist, and in 1907 she removed from her original
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quarters in the Arcade building to her present location, where she has built up a large and representative trade in the handling of drugs, chem- icals, toilet articles and general lines of druggist's sundries, and with a most modern and complete prescription department in which the best of service is given. Miss Emanuel is popular in both business and social circles in Fort Wayne and is distinctly a woman of gracious personality, even as she is one of marked business ability.
Stephen C. Emenhiser has been a resident of Allen county from the time of his birth, is a scion of an honored pioneer family, and is to-day one of the representative farmers and stock-growers of Jackson township, where he is the owner of a well-improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He purchased this place when he was a young man and shortly prior to his marriage, and his devoted young wife proved his efficicent coadjutor when he set to himself the arduous task of reclaiming the land to cultivation, the entire tract having been covered with heavy timber at the time when it came into his possession. Thus through his energy and good management have been made all the improvements that now mark the place as a model farm, the house, barns and other farm buildings having been erected by him and independence and pros- perity having crowned his well-ordered endeavors. In connection with diversified agriculture Mr. Emenhiser raises live stock of the better type, including full-blooded Shropshire sheep and Poland-China swine. Mr. Emenhiser has not only been one of the world's productive workers, but has also stood exponent of broad-minded and progressive citizenship. He served one year as township supervisor and for the long period of sixteen years was an influential and valued member of the advisory board of Allen county. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, he was formerly in active affiliation with the Improved Order of Red Men, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Monroeville, from which village they have service on rural mail route No. 1. Mr. Emenhiser was born in Madison township, this county, on March 2, 1865, and is a son of Josephi and Adeline (Clark) Emenhiser, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, and the latter in Virginia, of English lineage. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in the state of Ohio, whence they came to Allen county more than half a century ago and established their home on a pioneer farm in Madison township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, in the meanwhile contributing a worthy quota to the social and industrial development and progress of the county. Of their fine family of sixteen children the first born died in infancy; Adam is now deceased ; Katherine was the third in order of birth; James is deceased ; Mrs. Ameria Smithi resides in Hoagland, Indiana; Joseph is deceased ; Mrs. Jennie Tood resides in Richmond, Indiana; John is a resident of Jackson township; Adeline is deceased; William is a resident of Texas; Mrs. Abigail Stoneburner resides in Hoagland ; Stephen C., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Mrs. Sarah Kantro maintains her home in New York, and Mrs. Minnie Bardey in Buffalo, New York; David is a resident of Hoagland and his twin sister, Delilah, is deceased. Stephen C. Emenhiser acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Mad- ison township and in the meanwhile assisted in the reclamation and other work of the home farm. He has never severed his allegiance to the great basic industry of husbandry and has for many years been one of the vigorous exemplars of farm enterprise in his native county, as
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intimated in a preceding division of this article. On October 18, 1890, he married Miss Emma Davidson, daughter of Richard and Mary (Liv- inston) Davidson, who were born and reared in Licking county, Ohio, and who came to Allen county, Indiana, in 1888. They here resided four years on a farm in Jefferson township and then removed to Kalida, Putnam county, Ohio, where the father passed the remainder of his life and where the widowed mother still resides. Of the children the eldest, Marion, is a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mrs. Ella Pritchard lives in Ohio ; Mrs. Emenhiser was the third child; John and Homer reside in Ohio, the former in the city of Toledo; Mrs. Maude Pratt likewise is a resident of Toledo; James is deceased; Richard is a resident of Bay City, Michigan, and William is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Emenhiser have seven children: Mrs. Grace Fernet, Mrs. Ada Starehime, Charles, Au- gustus, Leonard, Stella and Homer. Edward, the fifth child, is deceased, and Augustus, Leonard, Stella and Homer remain at the parental home.
William Emme came direct from his home in Germany to Fort Wayne, where he readily found employment at his trade of cabinet- maker. He was employed constantly by the Pennsylvania Railroad from about 1881. He was born in Germany on March 14, 1848, and his parents were Henry and Christina (Toensing) Emme, both deceased. The father died when William Emme was three years old, and the other children left fatherless at that time were Diederick, now living in Germany ; Henry, Sophia and Pauline, all deceased. When he was fourteen years old Wil- liam Emme was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker in his native community, and he was twenty-four years old when he came to America. After he settled in Fort Wayne he engaged in the carpentering and contracting business and was thus occupied for about nine years, when he found permanent employment in the cabinet work department of the Penn- sylvania road. Mr. Emme is employed in the finer work on the coaches, where the skill of a cabinet-maker is in demand. He was pensioned by the company on June 20, 1915. In September, 1876, Mr. Emme was married to Miss Minnie Vollmerding, who, like himself, was born in Germany. Their children are Minnie, Sophia, Fred and Carrie. All four live at home with the parents, and Fred is employed by the Fort . Wayne Foundry and Machine Company. The family are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and have a wide circle of friends in the city that has been their home these many years.
Franklin A. Emrick .- In according consideration in this history to those whose ability, character and services have given them assured prestige as representative members of the Allen county bar, there is special reason for offering more than casual recognition to Mr. Emrick, who has served as prosecuting attorney of the county and who has made an enviable record in this office-as a determined, resourceful and well- fortified trial lawyer and as one signally loyal to the public trust reposed in him and to the profession in which he has achieved merited success. Not only technical ability but also hard and persistent work are the mediums through which consistent advancement is made in the legal profession, and Mr. Emrick has lived up to the requirements that insure such prestige. He was born in Pleasant township, this county, on Jan- uary 30, 1873, and is a son of John P. and Catherine (McFillen) Emrick, who have for many years been substantial farmers and honored citizens of Allen county. In the public schools of his native county Franklin A. Emrick continued his studies until he had completed the curriculum of
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the Ann Arbor (Michigan) high school, and in the meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future career. He began the study of law under effective private preceptorship and was admitted to practice in 1899, but he did not hold as adequate aught else than the most thor- ough preparation for his chosen vocation, with the result that he entered the literary department of the University of Michigan for one year and then the law department of the same university, at Ann Arbor, leaving there to accept the office of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in 1899. Of this position he continued the incumbent until January 1, 1904, when he engaged in the general practice of law in Fort Wayne, in partnership with his brother, E. V. Emrick. Within the ensuing decade he was identified with a large amount of important litigation in the courts of this section of Indiana and by his decisive victories added materially to his reputation as a versatile advocate. His ability and his former official experience marked him as a logical candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney of his native county, to which position he was elected in the autumn of 1914 and of which he continued the efficient incumbent until his term expired, December 31, 1917. As public pros- ecutor he achieved results with the maximum of speed and the minimum of friction, with the result that his record constitutes a worthy part of governmental and legal history of Allen county. Mr. Emrick is a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and he has been active and influential in political affairs in his native county. In the Masonic fraternity he has rounded the circle of each the York and Scottish Rites, besides being affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is actively iden- tified also with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the National Union. On June 24, 1904, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Emrick to Miss Mary Ellen Hile, daughter of George Hile, a well-known citizen of Garrett, DeKalb county, and the two children of this union are Franklin A., Jr., and Mary Catherine.
William Emrich, who now' lives retired in his attractive home at Huntertown, is one of the venerable and honored citizens of Allen county, within whose borders he has resided since his early youth, a scion of one of the sterling German pioneer families who here settled more than sixty years ago, and he has been one of the vigorous and successful exponents of agricultural enterprise in the country, his old homestead farm, of one hundred and ten acres, having been developed and improved under his energetic management and being one of the fine farms of Perry township. He still owns the property, which is now under the active management of his youngest son, Frank E. Mr. Emrich was born in Baden, Germany, December 17, 1838, a son of Franz and Elizabeth (Hockerberger) Emrich, who came with their children to America in 1852, remained for an interval in Pennsylvania, then removed to Stark county, Ohio, whence. about eighteen months later, they came to Allen county, Indiana. The family home was established on a little farm of thirty acres, in Spring- field township, and at the time only two acres of the tract had been cleared. With the passing years Franz Emrich achieved independence and success through his association with agricultural industry, and both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in this country, their religious faith having been that of the Lutheran church. Of the three
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children, the eldest was Elizabeth, whose death occurred in 1905; the sub- ject of this review was the next in order of birth ; and George is a resident of Cedar Creek township, this county. William Emrich acquired his early education in the schools of his native land and was a lad of four- teen years at the time of the family immigration to the United States. In Starke county. Ohio, he attended school two months, and hi broader education has been gained under the direction of that greatest of all head-masters, experience. Upon the removal of the family to Allen county he became his father's energetic assistant in the work of the home farm, and later was employed for twelve years on neighboring farms in Springfield township. Frugal and industrious, he carefully conserved his financial resources and eventually was enabled to purchase the fine homestead farm which he still owns, in Perry township. The present sub- stantial improvements on the place were made by him and he long held precedence as one of the enterprising and substantial exponents of agri- cultural and live-stock industry in Perry township. In October, 1907, he retired from the farm and removed to Huntertown, where he now oc- cupies his attractive and modern home, on Hunter street, the house hav- ing been erected by him and being of cement-block construction. His second wife died, in 1909, and Mrs. Amanda Friece now has charge of the domestic affairs of his home. In his young manhood, Mr. Emrich wedded Miss Margaret Holewarth, who was born in Germany, a daughter of Daniel and Barbara Holcwarth, who settled in Ohio upon coming to America and thence came to Allen county and established their home in Springfield township, where they passed the residue of their lives. Mrs. Emrich died, February 15. 1871. at the birth of her daughter Sarah. She was the mother of five children, all of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth Worley; John, of Perry township; Martin, of Fort Wayne; Charles, a resident of Ohio, and Mrs. Sarah Parker, of Perry township. Mr. Emrich married for his second wife Miss Ellen Boger, who was born in Ohio, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Gruber) Boger, who were natives of Germany and came from Ohio to Allen county, Indiana, in an early day, their home having been in Springfield township at the time of their death. Mrs. Ellen Emrich passed to the life eternal on January 22, 1909, and is survived by two children, Harry A., who is a resident of Fort Wayne. and Frank E., who remains on the old homestead farm, in Perry township. William Emrich has always given his political al- legiance to the Democratic party, and while living on his farm he and his wife were active members of the Reformed Lutheran church in Springfield township.
William M. Enslen, M. D., has achieved in his profession the success and precedence that are to be gained only through ability, close and conscientious application and unselfish stewardship that indicates sub- jective appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of a profession that touches the very destinies of life itself. Doctor Enslen has been estab- lished in successful general practice in the city of Fort Wayne for more than a quarter of a century, and the broad scope and representative nature of his professional business indicate alike his ability as a physician and surgeon and his strong hold upon popular confidence and esteem. The Doctor was born in Allen county, Ohio, October 16, 1863, and is a son of John and Mary (Shutts) Enslen, both of whom continued to reside in that county until their death and the remains of both rest in the family graveyard on the old homestead farm. John Enslen was one of the
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substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Allen county, Ohio, was a Democrat in politics and though he had no ambition for public office he served six years as a member of the board of directors of the county farm and infirmary in Allen county, Ohio. He was the first man in that county to own and operate a threshing machine in which steam power was utilized, and he was a progressive and liberal citizen who did much to further the civic and industrial advancement of the county in which he passed the greater part of his life, his parents having established their home in Allen county in 1831 and he having assisted in the reclamation and development of the pioneer farm. Both he and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the eight children Doctor Enslen, of this review, was the fifth in order of birth; Edward, the first born, is deceased; John H. remains in the old home county and is a prosperous merchant in the village of Elida; Columbus E. and Frank M. are twins, the latter a bachelor, and both are locomotive engineers in the service of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company; George S. is engaged in the mercantile business at Lima, the county seat of Allen county, Ohio; Carrie Della is the wife of William Price, a successful farmer of Allen county, Ohio; and Rosa is the widow of John Summers, who was engaged in the mer- cantile business at Kalida, Putnam county, Ohio, at the time of his death. Dr. William M. Enslen, like many another who has attained to prom- inence in professional life, found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the benignant influences of the farm, and in the meanwhile his alert mentality enabled him to derive the maximum bene- fits from the advantages afforded him in the public schools. He later attended the institution that is now known as Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, and for several years gave effective service as a teacher in the public schools, principally in rural districts in Ohio. He completed a course in medicine in the Fort Wayne Medical College, and while engaged in teaching school began the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Doctor Jones, of Gomer, a village in his native county. He came to Fort Wayne and continued his studies under the direction of Doctor Stemen, and finally entered the Fort Wayne Med- ical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890, and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the long intervening years he has continued in the active practice of his profession in Fort Wayne, and his status is such as to mark him as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of this part of the state. The Doctor retains membership in the American Medical Association, the Tri-State Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Twelfth District Medical Society, and the Allen County Medical Society. The Doctor is prominently affiliated with both the York and Scottish Rite organizations of the Masonic fraternity, and the Mizpah Temple, A. A. O., N. M. S., he being a member of the first class to take the degrees in this temple. He is a Democrat in his political allegiance and as a public-spirited and loyal citizen gave effective service during the four years he represented the Sixth Ward, of Fort Wayne, as a member of the city council. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was specially prom- inent and influential in the building of the new edifice of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church in Fort Wayne. On October 15, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Enslen to Miss Eva Leist, daughter
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of George R. Leist, of Elida, Ohio, and the two children of this union are Helen and Myron.
Sankey Everson is vice-president of the Union Grain & Coal Com- pany and has the general management of its modern grain elevator and business in the village of Edgerton, Jackson township. The company operates also a grist mill and elevator at Payne, Ohio, and bases its oper- ations on a capital stock of thirty thousand dollars. Herman H. Roose, of Fort Wayne, is president of the company and J. Y. Stimmel is secre- tary and treasurer, as well as manager of the mill and elevator at Payne, Ohio. The company was organized about 1903 and was originally in- corporated with a capital stock of sixty thousand dollars. The company originally operated not only its present mill and elevators, but also a second elevator and an electric light plant at Payne, Ohio, as well as an elevator at Worstville, Paulding county, Ohio. Of the extra properties the company disposed when it was found expedient to concentrate the business in the present plants, and simultaneously the capital stock was reduced to its present but ample figure. Adjacent to the village of Edger- ton, Mr. Everson owns a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, upon which he has made the best improvements, including the erection of the modern house which constitutes the attractive and hospitable family home, besides which he has otherwise brought the place up to high standard. In connection with his other business activities Mr. Ever- son has developed a prosperous subsidiary enterprise in the handling of automobile accessories, besides being local agent for the Jackson auto- mobile. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party, and at Payne, Paulding county, Ohio, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He attends and supports the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife is an active member. Mr. Everson was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, No- vember 19, 1871, and there received his early educational discipline under the wonderfully thorough German system. He was thirteen years of age when, in 1884, he accompanied his parents, John and Hannah (Danklef- son) Everson, on their immigration to the United States, and the family home was established on a farm in Paulding county, Ohio, much of the land being still covered with a heavy growth of timber, so that he had experience in the arduous work of clearing and reclaiming a number of acres and making the same available for cultivation. The parents resided on his farm about ten years, passed the ensuing eight years at Edgerton, Allen county, Indiana, and then removed to Michigan, in which state they now reside on their excellent farm near Newberry, Luce county. Of their children the subject of this review is the eldest; Momme lives at Port Clinton, Ohio; and Christ, Mrs. Margaret Frederick, August, and Mrs. Sophia McClain reside in Michigan. After coming to the United States Sankey Everson continued his active association with farm industry until he was twenty-one years of age, when he found employment in a stave mill at Edgerton, where he later became manager of the grain elevator of which he still has the supervision, as vice-president of the company con- trolling the same. In September. 1896, he wedded Miss Marilla Heide- breicht, who was born and reared in Allen county. a daughter of Henry and Henrietta Heidebreicht, who now reside in Edgerton. Mr. Heide- breicht was born in Germany, was young when the family came to America and his marriage was solemnized in Michigan, in which state his wife was born. He served as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war and has ever shown the same spirit of loyalty in the piping times of
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