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and after his father removed to Pittsburgh William M. took charge of the railroad eating house, of which he continued the owner until about 1903, when the Pennsylvania Company assumed control of all such places along its system. A quarter of a century before his death Mr. McKinnie opened the Wayne Hotel, which he conducted ten years, with brilliant success, and which he made one of the leading hotels of Indiana. For several years after his retirement he gave his attention principally to the management of his important real estate interests in Fort Wayne and Allen county, and, in 1904, went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he succeeded his father and brother as proprietor of the Hotel Anderson. In 1910 he sold his interests in this business and returned to Fort Wayne, where he was successfully engaged in the real estate business until his death. His health had been much impaired for a number of months prior to his demise, and the immediate cause of his death was pernicious anaemia. A man of broad mental ken and well-fortified convictions, Mr. McKinnie was distinctively a business man and had no ambition for political preferment. He was a communicant of the Catholic church, as is also his widow. On June 1, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKinnie to Miss Georgie Fleming, a daughter of William and Helen F. (Mayer) Fleming, of Fort Wayne, Mr. Fleming having been one of the honored and influential citizens of Allen county for many years prior to his death. Mrs. McKinnie still maintains her home in Fort Wayne. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. McKinnie four survive the honored father-Linda M., Gerald, Carlotta and Fleming. In conclusion the fol- lowing quotations are taken from an editorial that appeared in a Fort Wayne paper at the time of the death of Mr. McKinnie: "The feeling of sadness that pervades the community is not confined alone to mani- festations of sympathy for the bereaved family, but is an evidence of genuine regret at the passing of a beloved friend and companion, a pro- gressive citizen, a man whose heart o'erflowed with the milk of human kindness and whose sympathies were decidedly cosmopolitan. Mr. Mc- Kinnie was active in the business and social life of Fort Wayne, gave willing aid to any movement for the betterment of his home city, and his passing will leave a void that only time will fill."
Martha McMahon .- One of the recent comers to Allen county is Mrs. Martha McMahon, widow of the late William C. McMahon, who died at his home in Pleasant township on September 1, 1907. They came to Allen county in 1906, after more than fifty years of residence in Illinois. Mrs. McMahon was born on January 15, 1847, near Montreal, Quebec, daughter of Richard and J. (McMahon) Perry. The family came to Illinois in 1850 and there made their home for many years. Martha Perry married William C. McMahon on January 18, 1865. He was born in Philadelphia on June 30, 1838, son of Samuel and Eliza (Caldwell) McMahon, both born in Ireland, whence they came to America in youth. Their son, William C., was a veteran of the Civil war, having served three years in the 106th Illinois Infantry as a member of Com- pany D, participating in many of the memorable engagements of the long and bloody war. He was a farmer practically all his life, successful and prosperous, and was a man of no little influence in his home com- munity. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. To him and his wife were born nine children. Eliza Jane is the wife of J. C. Newlin; Charles C. lives in Illinois, his native state; Edward Llovd died in young life; Harvey L. is a farmer in Pleasant township; William is engaged in the grain and lumber business in Georgetown,
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Illinois; Flora B. is the wife of Doctor Merrell, of Marshalltown, Iowa; Hattie E. married C. H. Loos, of Fort Wayne; John R. lives on the home farm with his widowed mother, who finds a good deal of pleasure in the grandchildren that are springing up about her. Eliza is the mother of Samuel C. Charles has one daughter, Hattie Bell. Harvey has a son named Harold H. William has three children,-Edward, Mary and Katherine. Flora is the mother of Mary E. and Robert Perry. Hattie has a daughter named Martha Annette. John has one son, William C., named in honor of the grandsire, William C. McMahon, who died soon after coming to make his home in Pleasant township among his children. He is buried in the cemetery at Ossian, Indiana.
Henry William McMaken was born and reared in Adams township, Allen county, Indiana, the date of his nativity being December 14, 1874. He is a son of Henry Clay and Frances (Link) McMaken and his grand- father was born in the old Fort. Henry C. followed farming and became the owner of a fine farm, from the active duties of which he is now re- tired. His children are Lucy, Luella, Dora (son), Helene, Elizabeth, and Henry W. The last named was educated in the public schools and pur- sued the duties of the farm with his father. In 1901 he bought eighty acres of land and has continued in the general farming until the present time. April 4, 1900, he was married to Jessie, daughter of Henry and Martha J. (Birely) Frech, and they have six children: Henry, Ruth, Herbert, Margaret, Wilma, Edith. Mr. McMaken is one of the energetic and prosperous farmers who takes a deep interest in all affairs of his community and usually votes for the principles of the Republican party.
Edward J. McOscar, M. D .- Through character and stewardship Dr. McOscar has proved himself well fortified for the achieving of worthy success in his profession and is now to be consistently designated as one of the successful physicians and surgeons of Fort Wayne, where he has been established in practice for thirty years and is now giving his at- tention almost exclusively to the surgical branch of his profession. The Doctor was born in Dekalb county, Indiana, November 14, 1860, being the third in order of birth of seven sons, born to John and Mary (Skil- liny; MicOscar, who were born in the state of Pennsylvania-the former near Harrisburg, in 1822, and the latter in the city of Philadelphia, in 1834. John McOscar accompanied his parents on their removal from Stark county, Ohio, to Dekalb county, Indiana, in 1845, and his father, Hugh McOscar, there obtained a tract of government land, in which connection he became one of the pioneer agriculturists of that section of the state. John McOscar was long numbered among the representative farmers and substantial citizens of DeKalb county, where he continued to reside until his death. He was a man of strong intellectual powers and much business ability and so ordered his life as to command popular estcem. It may be noted that he was one of the pioneer teachers in the common schools of DeKalb county, with the history of which county the family name has been long and prominently identified. Prior to their mar- riage his wife likewise had been a popular teacher in the schools of De- Kalb county, to which county she came with her parents, in 1846, from Ashland county, Ohio, and after the death of her husband, in 1887, she re- moved to Fort Wayne, where she continued to reside with her son, Dr. Edward J., subject of this review, until her death, which occurred, October 27, 1910. Mrs. McOscar was a woman of fine mental ken and personality, she had traveled somewhat extensively, and to the close of her life continued to take lively interest in matters pertaining to the
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improving of civic conditions. The public schools of his native county afforded Dr. MeOscar his early educational advantages and eventually he showed his spirit of reciprocity by teaching in the schools of the county for two years. In preparing himself for his chosen profession he was fortunate in being able to enter the historic old Jefferson Medical College, in the city of Philadelphia, and in this admirable institution was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he gained most valuable clinical ex- perience through two years of service in the hospital connected with his alma mater and in the Philadelphia Polyelinie Hospital. In 1886 he came to Fort Wayne and his novitiate was of briefer duration than is usual in his profession, as he soon built up a successful practice. He has con- tinued his professional activities in an independent or individual way during the long intervening years. The Doctor has taken effective post-graduate work in leading institutions in New York city, Phila- delphia and Chieago, as well as in the great medieal and surgical in- stitutions of Berlin and Vienna, his trip abroad for this purpose having been made in 1908 and his primary object having been to advance his skill in surgery, to which department of praetiee he has since given his special attention. The Doctor has indulged himself in extensive travels, largely for pleasure, and thus has visited the Canadian provinces, Mexico, the West Indies, Panama, the northern portion of South America, and the Bahama and the Hawaiian islands. In 1912 he visited Japan, China and the Philippine Islands, and on the homeward trip crossed Siberia and visited Moscow, Petrograd and other points of interest in Continental Europe. He has found his travels both a pleasure and an inspiration, as well as a medium for the accumulation of knowledge and fortifying experience along cosmopolitan lines. Dr. McOscar is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association, the Congress of Clinical Surgeons of America, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Fort Wayne Medical Society. He is a member of the surgical staff retained by the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, is a consulting surgeon for the Wabash Railroad, and he served three years as surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is local medical examiner for several leading life insurance companies. The Doctor pays loval allegi- ance to the cause of the Democratic party, is a communicant of the Fort Wayne Cathedral parish of the Catholic church, holds membership in the Commercial Club and the Country Club, and is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Maceabees.
Jesse Macbeth, successful young lawyer of Fort Wayne and a resident of that city since 1900, is the eldest of six children born to David F. and Samantha (Macbeth) Smith. The separation of the parents resulted in a division of the family name, the mother and children holding to the maternal family name of Maebeth. She was a daughter of Samuel Patterson Maebeth and the granddaughter of Samuel Hamilton Macbeth, of Brown county, Ohio. Jesse Macbeth was born on a farm near Felicity, Ohio, October 10, 1877. He had his early schooling in the common schools in Clermont and Warren counties, Ohio, later attending the National Normal University, Central Normal College, Valparaiso and Indiana Universities, and the John Marshall Law School. He won diplo- mas from Central Normal College and the law school above named. After teaching school two terms in his native state. Mr. Macbeth located in Fort Wayne, in 1900, there engaging in teaching for six
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years. He then took up the practice of law and has enjoyed a very creditable success in that field. He has been active in fraternal and educational organizations and was for six years a member of the Fort Wayne Board of Education, serving the city well in that capacity. His fraternal activities are with the Masonic order, and he is a past grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for the state of Indiana. A Democrat, he has done his full share in advancing party interests, but has never been a seeker after political honors. In 1903 Mr. Macbeth married Miss Agnes Kurtz, of Harlan, Allen county, Indiana, and they are the parents of five children-Cecil, Alice, James, Esther and George. Since January 1, 1916, Mr. Macbeth has been associated with David H. Hogg, under the firm name of Macbeth and Hogg.
Charles A. Mailand .- The Mailand family came to Allen county in the year 1837 and was identified with this region in its earliest stages of agricultural development. Men and women of the name have from then down to the present time contributed liberally and loyally of their best to the upbuilding of their respective communities and have found their reward in material benefits as well as in the consciousness of duty well performed. Charles A. Mailand, who is the immediate subject of this sketch devoted to the family, was born on August 13, 1864, in Marion township, son of Carl and Berhardina (Berning) Mailand, who came to Allen county as children in company of their respective families. Carl Mailand came of German parents and was a member of the German Lutheran church, as were his parents before him. He acquired land in Allen county and settled down to the business of stock raising, in which he enjoyed a worthy success, and he acquired a good deal of property during his lifetime. He was a participating witness in some of the greatest changes the county passed through in the days of her development from a wilderness to a productive farming region and was wont to tell how, when a boy on his father's farm, they always went to their work armed with knife and gun, partly for the sake of pro- tection and partly because desirable game abounded and it was con- sidered a good plan to be prepared, even in those days. Deer were plentiful, and were frequently shot from the windows of the cabin home, and the Indian in those early times was a constant menace to the happi- ness and well being of the pioneer settlers. Charles A. Mailand was one of nine children born to his parents. Lazetta and Henry W., the two eldest, are deceased. Louisa married Henry Swartz and lives in Fort Wayne; Ferdinand, Amelia, Sophia and Minnie are no longer living, and Berhardina married Fred H. Meyer, of Pleasant township. Charles A. was the youngest of the family. He was educated in the common schools of Marion township and was employed on the home farm until his marriage. At that time he was the recipient of a gift of one hundred and twenty acres of land from his father, it being the custom of the elder Mailand to present each of his children with some land on their marriage. Young Mailand later added one hundred and eight acres and has for years carried on a successful business in stock farming. He has kept up the standard of his place to a pleasing degree and his farm is a modern one in every respect. Mr. Mailand has extended his inter- ests into other channels and was a director in the Hoagland State Bank. He was married on October 23, 1890, to Miss Johanna Meyer, the daugh- ter of J. C. Meyer, who is mentioned at some length in other pages of
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this work. The Mailands have five children-Alvina, Herman C., Luella, William and Herbert, all at home.
James Mallo was born in Pleasant township and has passed his life thus far within its borders. His natal day is August 24, 1869, and he is a son of George J. and Jane (Dalman) Mallo. The father was born in Buffalo, New York, in the year 1848, and came to Allen county, Indiana, in 1859. He gave his attention mainly to farming enterprises and when the Civil War broke out enlisted and gave one year to service in the Union army. Returning to the pursuits of peace, he came, in time, to own some land in Pleasant township and there spent a good many quiet but busy years in devotion to the business of agriculture. He is now living retired in Fort Wayne, enjoying the comforts won by years of earnest effort. He is Republican in politics and an adherent of the Christian Science faith. To him and his wife seven children were born. Ellen is the wife of Marion Ake; May is the second born; Agnes married Henry Wheeling; Judia is deceased, as are also Mary and Charles. James, the youngest, is the immediate subject of this sketch. He had his education in the schools of Pleasant township and gave his young years to agricultural activities on the farm of his father. He bought forty acres in Lafayette township and there has his home today, where he is engaged in diversified farming and enjoying a very comfortable success in his chosen work. He was married in August, 1893, to Miss Catherine Suter, daughter of Jacob Suter, an old and honored resident of Allen county, who died in 1910, after a life devoted to the pursuits of agri- culture, in which he was very successful. The children of James and Catherine Mallo are Clara, Ethel, Ralph and Clarence. Clara is the wife of Elmer Krouse and is the mother of one child. The three others- Ethel, Ralph and Clarence-are still members of the home family and are young people of much promise.
August E. Martin has been a resident of Allen county from the time of his birth, has contributed materially to the advancement of agricul- tural industry in the county, and is now a successful exponent of the real estate business, with residence and business headquarters in the city of Fort Wayne. On the homestead farm of his father, in Perry township, this county, August E. Martin was born August 17, 1868, and the family name has been worthily linked with civic and industrial advancement in the county for more than half a century. Mr. Martin is a son of August J. and Josephine (Rassat) Martin, both of whom were born in France, both having passed the final decade of their lives in Fort Wayne. The original settlement of the Martin family was made in Stark county, Ohio, from which they finally came to Allen county. The first American representatives of the Rassat family settled in the state of New York, and came thence to Allen county. Mr. Martin was thirteen and his wife nine years of age at the time of the removal of the respective families to America. August J. Martin finally purchased land in Perry township, and on this homestead he and his wife continued to reside until they had attained to advanced age. They became the parents of nine children : Frank, Julian, Alexander, Charles (who died at the age of nine years), Henry, Nestor, August E., Louise, and Josephine. Louise is the wife of Frank Laurent, of Fort Wayne, and Josephine is the wife of Thomas Kehoe, who is with the Overland Automobile Company in Cleveland, Ohio. August E. Martin acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of his native township and supplemented this training by an
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effective course of study in the Academy of the Sacred Heart. He con- tinued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm and after his marriage he was engaged independently for a period of twelve years. He then established his residence upon a farm of two hundred acres in Washington township, and upon this he made many improvements, including good buildings, an effective drainage system and substantial fences. On March 1, 1908, he removed with his family to Fort Wayne. He still owns one of the fine farms of the county and gives much attention to the buying and selling of farm property, and has general supervision of operations on his farm. Upon his removal to Fort Wayne Mr. Martin identified himself with the substantial and pros- perous real estate business of the Monroe Fitch Company, and he still continues active in this important line of enterprise. As a loyal and pro- gressive citizen he gives staunch allegiance to the Democratic party but he has never sought or held public office. He is affiliated with Fort Wayne Lodge, No. 155, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; is identified with the Franco-American Society of Allen county ; and both he and his wife are communicants of the Fort Wayne Cathedral parish of the Catholic church. On January 11, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Martin to Miss Maude E., a daughter of Solomon and Emma (Kryder) Kell, the former a native of Stark county, Ohio, and the latter of Cedar Creek township, this county. Mrs. Kell passed to the life eternal July 30, 1910, and Mr. Kell's death occurred January 31, 1915. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin are Floyd, the wife of John Gillie, of Fort Wayne; Francis remains at the parental home; Scott, the maiden name of whose wife was Bessie Payne, is in the employ of the Tepper Dry Goods Com- pany, of Fort Wayne; Maurice is now a resident of Troy, Ohio; and August E., Jr., is at the parental home.
David Martin has passed the ninety-first milestone on the journey of life and is one of the most venerable and honored citizens of Allen county. For more than sixty years he has maintained his residence on the old homestead farm which he reclaimed from the forest wilds of Monroe township, and as a man of exalted integrity of character and superior intellectual ability has been a leader in thought and action and has done much to further the social and material development and progress of his home township and county. A veritable patriarch, he is revered in the community in which he has long lived and labored to goodly ends and of which he is a pioneer, his reminiscences in regard to the early days in Allen county being graphic and interesting and well worthy of perpetuation in the history of this section of the Hoosier state. Mr. Martin is a scion of families that were founded in America in the colonial era, and his parents were sterling pioneers of Ohio. He was born on a pioneer farm in Licking county, Ohio, the date of his nativity having been July 29, 1826, and he is the only survivor of the eight children born to John and Margaret (Mesecup) Martin, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Hagerstown, Maryland. From the old Keystone state the parents removed to Ohio in an early day and became pioneer settlers in Licking county, where the father obtained a tract of wild land and instituted the arduous work of reclaiming a farm. On this old homestead he and his noble wife passed the residue of their lives, worthy in stewardship and achievement and honored by all who knew them. David Martin was reared under the conditions and influence of the pioneer period in the history of the old Buckeye state,
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and through ambitious predilection and close application he acquired an education far superior to that of the average youth of the locality and period. He continued his residence in Ohio until 1851 and then, as a young man of twenty-five years, came to Allen county, Indiana, and valiantly girded himself to meet the duties and responsibilities that devolved upon him as a virtual pioneer. He was able to give most effective and valued service as a representative of the pedagogic pro- fession and for a number of years continued as a successful and pop- ular teacher in the schools of the county during the winter months, the while he devoted his attention to farm work during the intervening summer seasons. In the autumn of the year 1853 was solemnized his marriage, the lady of his choice being likewise born in Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Martin settled on his present homestead farm, in Sections 16 and 19, Monroe township, the tract at the time having been heavily timbered and his original domicile having been a primitive log house, an unpretentious dwelling, but one in which peace, comfort and happiness found abiding place and from which emanated kindliness, good cheer and gracious Christian faith and influence. With the passing years the earnest and arduous labors of Mr. Martin resulted in the reclamation and improving of what is now one of the fine farms of Monroe township, the tract of one hundred and sixty acres having good buildings and its general appearance fully indicating the thrift and good management that have marked its development and the directing of the various de- partments of farm enterprise. Though his venerable years cause Mr. Martin to be an observer rather than an active force in connection with the affairs of his farm, his mental faculties have remained alert and incisive and right living has given him remarkably well-preserved phys- ical powers, so that he still takes a lively interest in the operations of his old homestead and also in community affairs in general. He has given allegiance to the Republican party during virtually the entire period of its existence and no man has been more influential or held in greater veneration in Monroe township than this patriarchal pioneer, whose life has been one of consecrated stewardship as a citizen and as the friend and counselor of his fellow men. He has held many fiduciary positions at various stages in his career, served three terms as public administrator for Monroe township, and at one time he served four months on the grand jury. As young folk both he and his wife became earnest and devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, constant in faith and instant in good works. For more than twenty years he has been licensed as a local preacher of this religious denomination, and it has thus been his to give counsel, comfort and solace to those in affliction, to guide his fellow men to Christian righteousness and to exalt the service of the Divine Master in whose vineyard he has accounted himself a humble worker. The devoted companionship of Mr. Martin and his gracious wife continued for more than sixty years and was dis- solved only when the loved wife and mother was summoned to eternal rest, her death, in October, 1915, having been the supreme loss and bereavement in the life of the venerable citizen to whom this review is dedicated and who holds himself firm in faith and Christian fortitude in the gracious evening of a signally long and useful life. Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of thirteen children, the names of whom follow : Al, Susan (deceased), Margaret Jane (deceased), Florella, Sam- uel, William, David, Jr., Oliver, Joseph, John B., Nancy and Mary Ellen.
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