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18, 1908, recorded the marriage of Emmett E. Harper to Miss Fannie G. Greenawalt, who likewise was born and reared in Allen county and who is the eldest of the four children of Oliver J. and Ella (Jackson) Greenawalt; Hazel, the second child, is the wife of Mr. Hickner, who holds in 1917 the position of principal of the public schools in the city of Valparaiso, Indiana; George R. is principal of the schools of Norway, Michigan; and Mary, who remains in Allen county, has likewise made an excellent record as a school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Harper have three children-George Edward, Bruce Morris and Mary Elaine.
Morse Harrod, M. D., has been established in the general practice of his profession in the city of Fort Wayne for a quarter of a century and is known and honored as one of the able and representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, the broad scope of his practice indi- cating the high estimate placed upon him as a man and as an exponent of his exacting profession. The Doctor was born on a farm in Allen county, April 4, 1866, a son of Morgan and Belinda (Beam) Harrod, the former of whom was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 3, 1826, and the ยท latter in Allen county, Indiana, September 16, 1832, she having here con- tinued to maintain her home during the long intervening years and being now one of the venerable and revered representatives of a sterling pioneer family of the county. Morgan Harrod passed the major part of his life in Allen county and was long numbered among the progressive farmers and influential citizens, his death having occurred one day prior to the eighty-second anniversary of his birth. He passed to the life eternal on August 2, 1908, after a life of signal integrity and usefulness. The Har- rod family was founded in America in the colonial days and John Harrod, an uncle of the late Morgan Harrod, was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. Dr. Harrod is of a family of eight sons and three dangh- ters, and all of the number are living, except two of the sons. The Doctor was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and after he had made good use of the advantages of the public schools his ambition led him to prepare himself for the profession in which he has achieved dis- tinctive success and precedence. He entered the celebrated Eclectic Medical College in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in this institution was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the general practice of his profession in Fort Wayne, where he has also become an interested principal in a num- ber of business enterprises of important order. He served as county coroner from 1892 to 1896, is a Democrat in his political allegiance, has received in the Masonic fraternity the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and both he and his wife hold member- ship in the Baptist church. On May 31, 1888, was recorded the marriage of Dr. Harrod to Miss Jennie L. Lipes, who likewise was born and reared in this county, a daughter of D. D. and Mary J. (Somers) Lipes, the former of whom is deceased and the latter resides in the city of Fort Wayne. Dr. and Mrs. Harrod have three children, concerning whom brief record is entered in conclusion of this review : Camilla is the wife of Sidney H. Karn and they have one daughter, Jean Elizabeth. Wayne Allen Harrod was graduated in the Fort Wayne High School and in the Guggenheim Institute of Mining Engineers, at Golden, Colorado, and is now holding a responsible position as a mining engineer at Keddic, California. Velma June, the youngest of the children, remains at the parental home.
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Jonathan Hart .- When it is stated that on the 17th of April, 1917, this sterling and honored citizen of Monroe township celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth and that he has been a resident of Allen county since he was a lad of twelve years, it becomes evident that he is a representative of one of the county's pioneer families and that his memory constitutes a gracious link between the primitive past and the twentieth century of opulent prosperity in this now favored section of the Hoosier state. Mr. Hart has been one of the world's prolific workers and it was entirely through his own ability and efforts that he made his way to the place of material prosperity and well merited independence. For more than half a century he has maintained his home on his present well improved farm, which comprises eighty acres and which is eligibly situated in Section 16, Monroe township. This land was largely covered with timber when he purchased the property, and his original dwelling was a little log house of the primitive type. With the passing years his energetic and timely labors brought about the reclamation of his land and its development into one of the specific centers of prosperous agri- cultural and live-stock industry in the county, the while increasing pros- perity was made manifest in the substantial buildings with which he improved the place. Now veneral in years, he has given over to others the heavy labors and responsibilities that were long his portion, but vigorous of mind and physical powers to a degree that gives denial to his age, he still takes vital interest in the affairs of his farm and in all that concerns the welfare of the township and county to whose develop- ment and progress he has contributed his quota. In his farm enterprise he achieved special success as a grower and feeder of live stock of all kinds and was a leader in the industrial progress of his township, even as he has been one of, its influential citizens. He is a Democrat in politics and served at one time as supervisor of Monroe township. Mr. Hart was born in Ashland county, Ohio, April 17, 1837, and is a son of George and Sarah (Friedline) Hart, who were natives of Pennsylvania and who became early settlers in Ashland county,- Ohio, whence they came to Indiana and established their home on one of the pioneer and embryonic farms of Allen county in the year 1849. Here they passed the remainder of their lives, and of their ten children only four are now living. Jona- than Hart has profited much from the discipline given in the broad school of experience but his specific education was limited to a somewhat irregu- lar attendance in the common schools of Ohio. After the family removal to Allen county he attended the pioneer schools for brief intervals, and in connection with the reclaiming and other work of his father's farm he gained full fellowship with arduous toil. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority and then pur- chased his present farm, which he has made one of the valuable places of Monroe township. In 1861 Mr. Hart wedded Miss Sarah W. Hines, and this devoted wife and helpmeet of his young manhood was his faith- ful companion for nearly forty years, the gracious ties being severed when she passed to the life eternal, in 1898. They became the parents of four children : O. P., Wayne M., William and Jeanette, all of whom are living except the last named. In 1901 Mr. Hart married Mrs. Vir- ginia E. (Hines) Gerian, a sister of his first wife and the widow of Jonas L. Gerian, and she died in 1904. By her first marriage Mrs. Hart had seven children, all of whom are living, namely: Lucy M., Elmer S.,
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Israel M., Daniel H., Wilson F., William, and Clyde E. Of these children five now reside in California and two in Michigan.
Arthur Harter .- In Section 12, Springfield township, is situated the finely improved and well ordered farm of Mr. Harter, the same comprising one hundred and fifty acres of most fertile and productive land and con- stituting one of the valuable rural properties of the county. Mr. Harter is a representative of one of the old and honored families of Allen county and his maternal grandparents were numbered among the very early pioneer settlers of this favored section of the state, where they established their home, in Springfield township, in the year 1837. Arthur Harter was born on the old homestead farm of his father, in Springfield township, and the date of his nativity was November 22, 1862. He is a son of Wil- liam and Lucinda (Hall) Harter, both of whom were born in Stark county, Ohio, and the latter was but two years old at.the time of her parents' removal to Allen county, Indiana, where she was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer era. William Harter, a scion of one of the influential pioneer families of Stark county, Ohio, was there reared to adult age and was a young man when he came to Indiana and found employment as a moulder in the original Bass foundry, besides which he did skillful work as a millwright and expert mechanic along other lines. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Springfield town- ship, where he developed one of the excellent places of this part of the county and continued to reside, a sterling and highly honored citizen, until his death, which occurred in February, 1916, his cherished and devoted wife having passed to the life eternal May 19, 1895. Of their five children the four who survive are Olive Esther, Arthur, Mildred Lucinda, and Isaac. Emma, the youngest of the number, died in child- hood. The father was a Republican in politics, was influential in con- nection with community affairs of a public order, and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Through youthful association with the work of the home farm and through his attendance in the public schools of his native township, Arthur Harter waxed strong in physical and mental power and well fortified himself for the active duties and responsibilities of life. He had continued during the intervening years his close and effective alli- ance with the fundamental and all-important industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and is known as one of the substantial and aggressive exponents of the same in his native county. While he has shown loyal interest in all things touching the welfare of his home township and county and is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the Republican party, he has never desired or held public office. Both lie and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hicksville, and he is affiliated with the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Spencerville, Dekalb county. On December 24, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harter to Miss Ella Shutt, who was born and reared in this county, a daughter of George and Mary Ann (Houk) Shutt, both of whom were born in Ohio and were children when the respective parents numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Allen county. George Shutt was the youngest in a family of eight children, and the names of the other children are here noted: John, Daniel, Levi, Samuel, Joseph, Jacob and William-a remarkable family of sturdy sons. The names of the children of George and Mary Ann Shutt are here designated: Gertrude, Hattie, Mortimer, Lillie, Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Harter became the parents of two children, of whom the elder, Stella, is deceased, and the younger is George
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William, he remaining at the parental home and being an ambitious and popular young man who is associated with his father in the work and management of the farm.
Jacob Hartman has been a resident of Allen county from the time of his birth, which oceurred on the old homestead farm in Marion town- ship, September 11, 1862, and after having been for nearly a quarter of a century engaged in the retail grocery business in Fort Wayne he here, in 1908, established himself in his present business, that of real estate and insurance, the insurance department of his enterprise being confined largely to fire and casualty indemnity. He has been one of the successful business men and public-spirited citizens of Fort Wayne, where he is well known and highly esteemed, and since January 1, 1914, has served consecutively as councilman at large on the municipal board of aldermen. His politieal allegiance has been exemplified in staunch support of the cause of the Demoeratie party, he and his wife are eom- municants of St. Mary's Catholic church, and he is an active member of the Catholic Benevolent League of Indiana. Joseph Hartman, father of the subject of this review, was born in Germany, about the year 1838, and was reared and educated in his native land. At the age of eighteen years he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in Ameriea. Soon after landing in the United States he made his way to Toledo, Ohio, and in that vicinity he found employment at farm work. He carefully husbanded his earnings and finally came to Allen county, Indiana, and purchased a farm in Marion township. He developed one of the valuable farms of that section of the county and was one of its specially successful exponents of the basic industries of agriculture and stoek-growing during the remainder of his long, worthy and useful life, his death having occurred October 17, 1899, and his name meriting high place on the roll of the sterling pioneers of the county. In 1860 he wedded Miss Caroline Hoffman, who was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and who died in Fort Wayne March 10, 1915, both holding earnestly to the faith of the Catholic church. Of their ten children all are living except one. Jacob Hartman, the immediate subjeet of this sketeh, eon- tinued to be associated in the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority and in the meanwhile he made good use of the advantages afforded in the publie schools of the locality. At the age of twenty-two years he became identified with mercantile enterprise in Fort Wayne, and here he conducted a grocery store continuously for about twenty-four years. He retired from this business in 1908, sinee which time he has given his attention to the real estate and insurance business, as previously noted in this context. In 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hartman to Miss Anna Anken- bruek, a daughter of Bernard and Catherine Ankenbruck, of Fort Wayne, and of this union have been born four sons and four daugh- ters; Augusta is the wife of Joseph J. Hake, of Fort Wayne; Andrew wedded Miss Edith Auer and they reside in this eity; and Jacob, Jr., Marie, Elsie, William, Leo and Irma G. remain at the parental home.
Allen Monroe Hartzell, president of the New Haven State Bank, was born in New Haven, Allen county, Indiana, on August 25, 1856, and is the son of Levi and Mary (Souders) Hartzell, both of them born in Miami county, Ohio. The father came to Allen county in 1840, loeating in what is now New Haven, where he bought land and devoted himself to farming, as well as condueting a grist and saw mill. He died in 1871
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at the age of fifty-eight years and his widow survived him until January 5, 1905, when she was aged eighty-five years and five days. Their chil- dren were seven in number. Joshua is a resident of Marion, Indiana. Elias lives in Hoagland, Indiana. Susan is the wife of Dr. L. L. Null, of New Haven. Jennie married T. C. Shilling, of Troy, Ohio. John R. lives in New Haven. Allen M. was the next, and Warren S., the seventh and youngest child, died at the age of forty years. Allen M. Hartzell had his education in the public schools of New Haven and in the old Methodist College in Fort Wayne. He taught in the public schools for about two years after finishing his studies and then entered the law offices of Robert Shatton in Fort Wayne, where he spent seven years. From that experience he turned to farming and dairying in his native community and that enterprise held his attention successfully until he turned his activities to the banking business, with which he has since been successfully identified. On December 28, 1881, Mr. Hartzell was married to Miss Emmaline Fitch, daughter of Nathaniel Fitch, of Hunter- town, Indiana. Mr. Hartzell is a Republican in politics, a thirty-second degree Mason, and a Shriner. The New Haven State Bank was organized on October 29, 1909, and opened for business December 6, 1909. It opened with a capital stock of $25,000, which was increased, in 1916, to $35,000. The first president was Allen M. Hartzell and he still holds that office. The present board of directors includes H. H. Grubb, Ira B. Sleet, A. M. Hartzell, A. R. Schmitker, Josiah Adams, D. B. Nail, and Paul Vonderau, and is made up of practically the same body of men who served when the bank was first organized. Paul Vonderau succeeded his father on the death of the latter, and D. B. Nail serves now in the place of Christ Heine, who was a member of the original board. This gives evidence of a harmonious organization, and indeed, that element has entered largely into the success and growth of the institution. When the bank was organized, T. Thimlar was made vice-president, and on January 2, 1915, he was succeeded in that office by Herman H. Grubb, who now serves in that capacity. The bank building is a commodious structure of brick, with two floors and basement, and a floor space of 22 x 58 feet. It is thoroughly modern, well equipped, and has every facility for the handling of the volume of business that passes through it daily. An idea of the growth of the bank may be gleaned from the following figures: Deposits for 1910 were $128,000: in 1911, $178.000; in 1912, $210.000: in 1913, $256,000; in 1914, $279,000; in 1915, $298,000; in 1916, $349,000; and in 1917, $400,000. Its exchange banks are the Fifth Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the First and Hamilton National Bank of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Carl M. Hassold, cashier of the Hoagland State Bank since October, 1915, is a young man well known in that community. He was born in Huntington, Indiana, on September 25, 1880, and is a son of Rev. Stephen and Margaret (Weber) Hassold. The father is of German birth, having come to America when a child of four years, and the mother was born in Indiana. They lived in Huntington county sixteen years, in DeKalb county eighteen years, and for four years have made their home in Allen county ; and at this writing Reverend Mr. Hassold is pastor of a Lutheran church in Madison township. Their son, Carl M., had his edu- cation in the German Lutheran schools of Huntington, Indiana, and in the Fort Wayne college, from which he was graduated in 1902. He then entered Concordia Seminary to study for the ministry and, in 1905, having
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qualified for the ministry, assumed the pastorate of a Lutheran church in Ohio. He spent four years in that state and a similar period in minis- terial work in Portland, Oregon. His health failed and he withdrew from the ministry. Some months later he returned to Allen county and, in October, 1915, was offered the position of cashier of the Hoagland State Bank. He accepted the post and has continued to discharge the duties of cashier in a capable and altogether satisfactory manner. His success may properly be said to be of his own making, for he had little or no help in getting his education, and he has worked diligently for such benefits as have come his way. Mr. Hassold is Republican in politics and is unmarried.
Fred Hauke has proved himself possessed of that healthy ambition that is certain to be fruitful in worthy achievement, and he is now num- bered among the successful farmers of Maumee township, where he owns and resides upon a fine farm of eighty-four acres, in Section 5, besides which he is the owner of another good farm, of eighty acres, in Milan township. He was about twenty-five years of age when he came from his German fatherland to America, in 1885, and he estab- lished his home in Fort Wayne. Here he was employed twelve years as a skilled mechanic in a boiler shop, and at the expiration of that period he purchased his present homestead farm in Maumee township. Much of the land was cleared by him and upon the place he has made the best of permanent improvements, including farm buildings, fences, tile drainage, etc., the while his success in his farm enterprise has been in consonance with his indomitable energy and progressive policies. Mr. Hauke was born and reared in Birda, Germany, and is the eldest in a family of four children, William having died in 1915 and Henry in 1913, and Minnie being a resident of Mindan, Germany. The parents, Christ and Minnie (Koene) Hauke, passed their entire lives in Germany. In the excellent schools of his native land Fred Hauke received his youthful education, and his ambition and self-reliance manifested themselves when he set forth to seek his fortune in America, as previously noted. He has improved both of his farms and gives his attention to diversified agri- culture and to the raising of good types of live stock. He is a Repub- lican in his political allegiance, and both he and his wife are active members of the Lutheran church. In 1889 Mr. Hauke returned to Ger- many, and shortly afterward was there solemnized his mariage to Miss Anna Ripper, who accompanied him on his return to America and who has proved a devoted helpmeet to him as he has advanced toward the goal of prosperity and independence. They have six children-Edward, Arthur, Elmer, Anna, Adelia and Freda.
Fred J. Hayden .- The name of Fred J. Hayden is worthy of a promi- nent place in the list of men whose true worth has made Fort Wayne and Indiana most clearly entitled to superior recognition. As a man devoted to the public interests he contributed generously of his talents and ability to further the interests of all the people. As a business man his influence tended to raise to a high plane the interests with which he was connected. Fred J. Hayden was born at Coburg, in the province of Ontario, Canada, the son of Rev. William and Jane (Kirsop) Hayden, both natives of England. His parents, ever interested in his advance- ment, provided the means for excellent educational advantages in his home town, after which he entered Victoria College, where he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1864. Two years afterward he was
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honored by his alma mater with the degree of Master of Arts. Following the period of his graduation, Mr. Hayden's abilities while still a youth were recognized in his connection with the Cobourg and Marmora Rail- way and Mining Company, as its secretary, which position he held for a number of years. He resigned his connection with this concern in 1874 and came directly to Fort Wayne, which was his residence until the time of his death, thirty-two years later. He early identified himself with the best element of the city in its civic and social life and lost no time in taking the steps to qualify as a citizen of the United States. In 1884 Mr. Hayden was elected as the representative of the people of Allen county in the Indiana house of representatives, and here, for two terms, he served with signal efficiency. In 1888 still higher appreciation and honor was accorded him in his election as state senator to represent the counties of Allen and Whitley. At the latter election he was given an unusually large and flattering majority, and his capabilities for the high office were manifested during the two sessions of his service in the senate. As a member of this body he was active in securing the passage of the Australian election law, in 1889, and of the new tax law, in 1891. These two enactments were considered a splendid advance step in mod- ern legislation. Soon after locating in Fort Wayne Mr. Hayden became connected prominently with the management of the First National bank as a member of its directorate, and he identified himself with the manage- ment of a number of large estates in Fort Wayne, a business which he conducted with much credit to himself and profit to his clients. When the matter of holding the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893, was agitated and when the most dependable and intelligent men of the various states were called upon to take an active part in furthering the great enterprise, Mr. Hayden was among the first to receive recognition. In May, 1891, he was appointed by Governor Hovey as one of the World's Fair Commissioners, and in June of the same year, at the initial session of the commission, he was unanimously elected treasurer of the Board of World's Fair Managers of Indiana, which responsible and exacting office he filled to the entire satisfaction of the commission and the people of his state. It has been very truthfully claimed that it was owing to the careful and conservative management of the funds appropriated for this magnificent enterprise by the state that Indiana was enabled to make such a typical and representative showing and to keep its building open until the close of the exposition period. It is worthy of record in this connection that when all accounts were finally adjusted and all expenses met, Mr. Hayden was enabled to turn back into the state treasury nearly two thousand dollars. The selection of Mr. Hayden, a Democrat, by Governor Hovey, a Republican, to serve in this connection discloses the governor's ability to recognize dependability and public spirit re- gardless of party affiliations. As a university graduate, together with practical application of the principles learned in the home and in the school, Mr. Hayden was particularly well fitted, by reason of his many sterling qualities of heart and mind, to fittingly fill the varying positions to which he was called. In 1873 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hayden to Miss Eliza Hanna, the only daughter of the late Judge Samuel Hanna, for many years recognized as Fort Wayne's foremost citizen, and their home on East Lewis street was the scene of much social activity during the lifetime of Mr. Hayden. His death occurred December 30, 1906, and his passing was widely mourned throughout the state. He was
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