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of physicians and surgeons for many years prior to his death. It was in this incident of his professional career that Dr. Rosenthal took great- est pride. He was a supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and took an active interest in the affairs of the nation, state and city. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both Dr. and Mrs. Rosenthal were prominent in the affairs of Achduth Veshalom Synagogue congregation. Dr. Rosenthal's place in the medical world is suggested by his connection with the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Allen County Medical Society. The wife of Dr. Rosenthal was formerly Miss Adele Rauh, with whom he was united in marriage, November 30, 1857, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Rosenthal died, in 1895, at the age of sixty years. Dr. and Mrs. Rosen- thal were the parents of seven children. These were Dr. Charles H., who was a successful doctor of dental surgery at Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time of his death; Rebecca, the wife of Joseph Lohman, of Fort Wayne; Ed- ward A., who was successfully established in the practice of law at Chi- cago at the time of his death; Minnie, the wife of Cyrus Arnold, of De- troit, Michigan; Dr. Maurice I., the widely known surgeon of Fort Wayne; Hattie, the wife of Louis Frankel, of Chicago; and John Milton, a representative dental practitioner of Fort Wayne.
J. Milton Rosenthal, D. D. S .- A leading practioner of dental sur- gery is Dr. J. Milton Rosenthal, who maintains a modern suite in the Utility Building. Dr. Rosenthal was born January 25, 1875, and has always resided in this city. He is the son of Dr. Isaac M. and Adelle (Rauh) Rosenthal. Dr. Isaac M. Rosenthal, whose name is held in the fondest memory by thousands of Fort Wayne people, as well as members of the medical profession throughout Indiana, was one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of his day. His life forms the subject of an extended biography in this volume. Following his course of study in the public and high schools of his home city, Dr. J. Milton Rosenthal entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1894 and was graduated with the-degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in the class of 1897. He returned to Fort Wayne and in August of 1897 opened an office on Harrison street opposite the Commercial Club building between Berry and Wayne streets. Here he remained for five years, after which he took possession of a suite in the Flick building on West Berry street and remained for a period of about ten years. In 1911 he located in the People's Trust build- ing on Calhoun street and there remained until the summer of 1917, when he took quarters, modern in every respect, in the new Utility building on East Wayne street, between Calhoun and Clinton streets. The com- plete equipment of Dr. Rosenthal's new office is a silent proclamation of his thorough acquaintanceship with the most advanced points of prac- tice and service in dental surgery. Dr. Rosenthal gives special attention to orthodontia (straightening teeth) and oral surgery. He is dental surgeon to St. Joseph and Fort Wayne Lutheran hospitals. Dr. Rosen- thal is an active member of the Isaac Knapp Coterie of Fort Wayne; the Twelfth District Dental Association; the Northern Indiana Dental Asso- ciation, and the Indiana State and the National Associations. He is a member of the Fort Wayne Lodge of Elks and the I. O. O. F. lodge. He is actively connected with the Fort Wayne Country club and the Uni- versity Club of Fort Wayne. He is a member of the Achduoth Vesholom congregation. Although never taking an active part in politics he has always been a Democrat. On January 21, 1908, he was united in mar- riage with Miss Ruth Loewenstein, also a resident of Fort Wayne, the
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daughter of Jacob and Dora Loewenstein. To Dr. and Mrs. Rosenthal have been born two sons, J. Milton Rosenthal, Jr., born October 7, 1909, and Edward Charles Rosenthal, born December 28, 1916. The family home is located at 338 West Berry street.
Maurice I. Rosenthal, M. D., F. A. C. S .- In the city of Fort Wayne where he was born Doctor Maurice I. Rosenthal is giving added distinc- tion to the profession in which his father, Doctor Isaac M. Rosenthal, attained to the highest honors. Doctor Rosenthal has succeeded his father as the surgeon to the Saint Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, one of the noble institutions of this city whose hospital ranks among the best in the middle west. Doctor Rosenthal was born in Fort Wayne on April 9, 1869, son of Doctor Isaac M. and Adele (Rauh) Rosenthal, the names of both of whom are held in lasting honor in Allen county. Doctor Isaac M. Rosenthal is the subject of a biographical essay in another portion of this work. Doctor Maurice I. Rosenthal attended the public schools in Fort Wayne until he completed the curriculum of the high school and then entered the Ohio Medical College, medical department of the Cin- cinnati university, from which institution he graduated in 1889. Immediately after his graduation at Cincinnati he went to Europe, where he further pursued his studies at the University of Berlin and the University of Strasburg, in Germany, and at the University of Prague, in Bohemia. In 1892 the doctor returned to the United States and for the ensuing decade was engaged in active general practice in Fort Wayne. Since the expiration of that period he has specialized in surgery and his success has amply justified his concentration of effort in this department of professional service. In 1902 he again visited the European schools of medicine, taking special studies in Berne, Switzerland, and in Vienna, Austria. Doctor Rosenthal has furnished a number of contributions to medical literature. He is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the Tri-State Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the Allen County Medical Society, besides which he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Gynecologysts and Obstetricians. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and an active member of the Commercial Club, the Country Club and the University club. Subordin- ating all else to the demands of his profession, Doctor Rosenthal has had no desire to enter the arena of practical politics, although he gives allegiance to the Democratic party and takes loyal interest in all things pertaining to the civic and material welfare of the community. His name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors of his native city.
Louis G. Rosselot .- One of the long established and reliable families of St. Joseph township is represented by Louis G. Rosselot, who was born there November 16, 1858, son of Louis and Sophia (Racine) Rosselot, natives of France and Switzerland, respectively. As young people they immigrated to America and met and married in St. Joseph township, which community represented their home and the scene of their activities through the remainder of their lives. They were sturdy people, possessing many admirable attributes of heart and mind, and they added their full share to the community welfare during their years as residents of St. Joseph township. Seven children were born to them. Louis, the subject, was the first born. Then followed Charles, Henry, Mary, Sophia, Amelia and Lucy. All reached years of maturity and added much to the com- fort and well-being of their parents, both of whom are now deceased.
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The subject had his education in the common schools of his home com- munity and when in his 'teens turned his attention to work in the paper mills. He spent twelve years in that industry and then abandoned it for the more congenial occupation of farming. He returned to the old homestead, where he has since devoted himself exclusively to farming, and the appearance of the eighty-acre tract he works is ample evidence and proof of the wisdom of his later choice of an occupation. Mr. Rosselot was united in marriage with Miss Anna Ream, in 1884. She is a daughter of John and Anna (Kramer) Ream, German people who came from the Fatherland in their young married life and settled in Mercer county, Ohio, later locating in Allen county, Indiana, where they passed the last ten years of their lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Rosselot four children have been born. They are Louis, Clarence, Georgia and Alma. The family have membership in the English Lutheran church and the husband and father is an adherent of the Republican party in the matter of politics.
Dr. Charles Joseph Rothschild .- Dr. Charles Joseph Rothschild, one of the younger men of his profession in Fort Wayne, and coroner of Allen county, may with all propriety be spoken of as a leader in his pro- fession in Allen county today, and his successes thus far in his career give promise of a brilliant future in his chosen field of usefulness. Dr. Rothschild was born in Fort Wayne, May 28, 1881, son of Henry and Sophia (Rauh) Rothschild, both of German birth and parentage. The father was born in Wurtemburg on December 4, 1835, and resides in Fort Wayne, and the mother in Landau, April 26, 1841, and she died March 3, 1917. Dr. Rothschild was their only child and they viewed his promising career with a good deal of well merited satisfaction. Charles Joseph Rothschild was given a public school training, and when he had finished with the high school and its prescribed courses entered the University of Michigan and was graduated from the medical school of the University in 1905. Returning to Fort Wayne he associated him- self with Doctor Maurice I. Rosenthal, continuing for three years, after which he went to Europe and spent two years in post graduate work. During that time Doctor Rothschild was clinical assistant in the Royal and Imperial Woman's clinic of the University Hospital at the University of Vienna and an interne in Rudolfiner Haus in Vienna, and had the op- portunity to study under the most noted master pathologists of Berlin, Vienna and London. He improved his time and in the two years spent abroad gathered a fund of information that a less ambitious student would not have gleaned in a much longer period. Returning, in 1910, to Fort Wayne, he established offices in the Peoples' Trust Building, where he conducted a general practice in medicine and surgery until July, 1917, when he moved into the Utility building, where he main- tains a modern office. Doctor Rothschild is a member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association, the North- ern Tri-State Medical Association, the Fort Wayne Medical Society, and the Fort Wayne Academy of Medicine. In 1909 he was chairman of the executive committee of the American Medical Association of Vienna, Austria, and he is a member of the local Country Club, the Fort Wayne Commercial Club, is a charter member of Kiwanis and of the University club, is a member of the Independent Order of B'Nai B'Rith, the Benevol- ent and protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is Republican in politics, and in March, 1916, was nominated by his party for the office of county coroner, and was elected by a handsome majority.
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Charles P. Roy is a popular representative of one of the numerous families given to Allen county many years ago by France, the great nation with which the United States has become allied in the terrifie European war that is making the second deeade of the twentieth century a climaeterie period in this world's history. Mr. Roy was born in Wash- ington township, this county, on February 22, 1862, and is a son of Felix and Elizabeth (Martin) Roy, both natives of France and both children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to America. Felix Roy was seven years old when he came with his parents to the United States, and after remaining for a time in Ohio removal was made to Allen county, Indiana, at a period that gives to the Roy family a measure of pioneer prestige. The Martin family likewise was early founded in the county, and the marriage of the parents of the subject of this review was solemnized in Perry township. Thereafter they resided on a farm in Washington township until 1868, when removal was made to Perry township, where the father developed a good farm and became one of the valued and substantial citizens of the county in which he was reared to manhood. He continued his active association with agri- cultural pursuits until his death, which occurred March 9, 1891, and his widow passed to eternal rest on June 20, 1909, both having been devout and consistent communicants of the Catholic church. Of the children the eldest is Joseph C., who is a resident of Indianapolis; Julian J. and Frank D. are deceased; Charles P .; John B. and Henry L. are deceased ; Mrs. Amelia Fox is a resident of Fort Wayne; Alexander C. maintains his home in the city of Chicago; Edward resides in Fort Wayne; Mary died in infancy ; Alice resides in Fort Wayne; and Albert is deceased. To the public schools of Perry township Charles P. Roy is indebted for his early educational training, and he continued thereafter his associa- tion with the work and management of the home farm until the death of his honored father. About one month earlier had been solemnized the marriage of the subject of this review, in 1891, and it was in the spring of that year that he purchased his present farm of eighty acres, eligibly situated in Seetion 28, Perry township. Under the energetic and well ordered management of Mr. Roy this homestead has been made one of the model farms of Perry township, as he has erected excellent buildings, including a modern house and barn, and has brought all departments and facilities of the farm up to the most approved standard of twentieth- century husbandry, with due relative attention given to diversified agri- culture and to the raising of excellent types of live stock. Mr. Roy is a Democrat in politics, is liberal and progressive as a citizen, takes lively interest in community affairs and served six years as trustee of Perry township-a preferment that indicates alike his ability, his civie loyalty and his personal popularity. He is a member of the French-American Society in the city of Fort Wayne and both he and his wife are active communicants of St. Vincent Catholic church, in Washington township. On February 10, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Roy to Miss Olive G. Schuler, who likewise was born and reared in this county, and was a daughter of John and Sarah (Coolman) Schuler, the former of whom is living retired in the city of Fort Wayne, where the death of the loved wife and mother occurred on January 21, 1916. Mr. Schuler was born on shipboard while his parents were en route across the Atlantic from Germany to America, and the family home was first established in Pennsylvania, whence removal later was made to Ohio. In the pioneer
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days John Schuler settled in St. Joseph township, Allen county, and later he became one of the substantial farmers of Cedar Creek township, where he continued his productive activities until his removal to Fort Wayne, about the year 1903. Of his five children the eldest, William G., is a prosperous farmer in Perry township; Olive G., wife of the subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Mrs. Gertrude Roeger and Royal are residents of Fort Wayne; and Leah is the wife of Dr. William O. Smith, of Hoagland, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Roy have three children, all of whom remain at the parental home-Mabel Gertrude, Velma Leona, and Hilda Alma.
The Rub-No-More Company .- To note those enterprises which stand representative in their respective lines of industry as bearing upon the precedence and commercial activity of the city of Fort Wayne is one of the prime functions of this publication, and thus particular recog- nition is consistently given to the company whose title is given above and which represents one of the more important industrial and commercial enterprises of the metropolis of Allen county. Continued and cumulative success is the ultimate criterion of merit and reliability in the industrial world, and the priority maintained by the Rub-No-More Company stands in evidence of its well authorized claims as being one of the leading con- cerns of its kind in the United States. The business of this important company had its inception about the year 1880 and was formerly con- ducted under the title of the Summit City Soap Works. The interested principals in the establishing and developing of the enterprise were John O'Rourke, Brutus Burrie and Caspar Miller, who continued the con- trolling forces until 1883, when the expansion of the business led to the formation of a stock company, of which the late Hon. Perry Randall be- came president; Henry Graffe, vice-president; and Brutus Burrie, secre- tary and treasurer. Thereafter the enterprise was continued under the title of the Summit City Soap Works and under the above mentioned executive management until 1892, when the plant and business were purchased by Gustave A. Berghoff, who has been one of the most progressive and resourceful figures in the development of the industrial interests of Fort Wayne and who retained for the concern the title of the Summit City Soap Works, until 1905, when he expanded the scope of operations and effected the organization of the present Rub-No-More Company, of which he has continued the president. Henry C. Berghoff is vice president of the company; Hubert Berghoff is secretary, and Albert Jauch is treasurer. Since Mr. Berghoff assumed control of the business and gave to it the spur of his incisive energy and progressive- ness, new and well equipped buildings have been provided, the plant now covering about three acres of ground, with a frontage of one thousand feet along the Nickel Plate railroad. The special output of the plant is now the superior product known as Rub-No-More Washing Powder and the establishment proper gives employment to a force of about one hundred and thirty persons; the while the company's corps of forty traveling salesmen represent its interests in thirty-five states of the Union. The recognized superiority of the washing powder manufactured by this concern has given to it a cumulative demand wherever it has been introduced, and the Rub-No-More Company has done much to carry the commercial prestige of Fort Wayne into the most diverse sections of the United States.
Ernst C. Rurode .- Few men of Fort Wayne of today have been as closely connected with the development of the city since Civil war times
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as Ernst C. Rurode, who holds a most enviable place in the forefront of the men who have been engaged in mercantile pursuits of Northern Indiana. For half a century he has been an active participant in the com- mercial interests of the city, and during that time has had a part in the wonderful transformation of the place from a town into a modern city. Mr. Rurode is a native of Germany, born May 4, 1838, at Hanover. His parents were Henry and Katherine (Hoyer) Rurode, both born in Germany. The father was engaged in agricultural pursuits. The same longing for the opportunities which brought hundreds of others from the Fatherland to America caused Mr. Rurode, in 1854, to break the old home ties and sail for the United States. For a period he remained in New York city, in the belief that here his fortune would be made. But the west seemed to offer superior advantages, so he came to Indiana and went directly to Terre Haute. From there, in 1860, just before the break- ing out of the Civil war, he transferred his interests to Fort Wayne where, in company with John MacDougal and L. B. Root, he opened the New York Store which has continued ever since as one of the leading com- mercial houses of the region. Following the death of Mr. Root, in 1897, Mr. Rurode became the sole owner of the business, which has since been conducted under the name of the Rurode Dry Goods Company. Mr. Rurode is the president of the reorganized company ; Ernest C. Rurode, Jr., vice president, and Charles A. T. Krimmel, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Rurode's business career, extending down through the half century since the Civil war, has been characterized by various problems of the times, and these form an interesting study for him who would weigh them and compare them with the ever-changing conditions in other fields of endeavor. Through it all Mr. Rurode, ever applying the truest principles of trade, has maintained the place of his business among the best of its kind. Never stooping to questionable business methods, he has always held firmly the confidence of the people of Fort Wayne and the entire northern part of the Hoosier state. In one marked line of effort has Mr. Rurode witnessed a wonderful development-namely, in the methods of advertising. Always conducting his business on a fair and square basis, Mr. Rurode, always a believer in publicity for the upbuild- ing of his trade, has clung steadfastly to the principle of truth in advertising, even in the old days when many advertisers believed that in order to prosper it was necessary to tear down the prosperity of a com- petitor. The wife of Mr. Rurode was formerly Miss Emeline Wilson Peddicord, daughter of the oldest banker in the state; she was a niece of Governor Oglesby, of Illinois. Mrs. Rurode died, Mav 2, 1916. By this union four children were born: One daughter who died in infancy ; Valette, wife of Howell C. Rockhill, treasurer of the Fort Wayne Rolling Mills Co., and treasurer of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co .; Emeline Prather, at home, and Ernst C., Jr., of whom this volume con- tains a biographical sketch. Mr. Rurode is interested in a number of Fort Wayne enterprises, though he has given a great share of his time to his dry goods business. He is president of the Fort Wayne Hotel Company, which owns the Anthony hotel. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the English Lutheran church.
Ernst C. Rurode, Jr .- Among the progressive younger business men of Fort Wayne is Ernst C. Rurode, Jr., vice president of the Rurode Dry Goods Company, one of the leading retail establishments of northern Indiana. Mr. Rurode was born in Fort Wayne, July 18, 1885, son of
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Ernst C. and Emeline (Peddicord) Rurode. A sketch of the father, who, through a long period of years, has maintained a prominent place among the merchants of northern Indiana, is to be found elsewhere in this volume. After the completion of his course of study in the public schools, Ernst C. Rurode, Jr., attended Culver Military Academy, at Culver, Indiana, and then entered upon a course in the Lawrenceville Prepara- tory School, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. At a time when the ad- vantages of travel were designed to make the most lasting impressions upon the mind of the young man, the way was opened to him for an extended European sojourn, which included visits to Germany, France, Switzerland and England. Upon his return he immediately entered upon an active commercial life by assuming a position of trust with the Rurode Dry Goods Company, of which his father was the active head. Through successive steps he attained to the position of treasurer of the company. On June 10, 1910, Mr. Rurode was united in marriage with Miss Della Rossell, of Fort Wayne, daughter of Joseph and Lulu (Miles) Rossell, natives of Wabash county and Logansport, Indiana, respectively, but now residents of Fort Wayne. Mr. Rossell is a well-known traveling salesman for a leading shoe house. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rurode-Ernst C., the third, and Joseph Rossell Rurode. In politics, Mr. Rurode is a republican. He is an active member of the Masonic order, being a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Elks lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Rurode are members of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Fronica Sack .- Mrs. Fronica Sack comes of a family that was established in Pleasant township in the early forties and has contributed generously to the development of the agricultural resources of the com- munity and to those other communities within the county with which its members have been identified. Mrs. Sack was born in Sheldon, Pleasant township, December 19, 1849, and is a daughter of Joseph and Barbara (Schonbill) Miller. They were of German birth and came to America in young life. They met and married in Fort Wayne, and soon afterward came to Pleasant township, where they bought land and settled down to the quiet of farm life. They owned eighty-five acres of land that later came to be of exceptional value and began life in a two-story log cabin that was more pretentious than the cabin homes of most of their neighbors. Mr. Miller died at the early age of forty-five years, leaving his widow and a family of eight children. They were Fronica, Joseph, Mary. Catherine, Rosa, Anna, Lena and Jacob. Joseph and Catherine are deceased. Mary is the wife of Barney Frieberger of Fort Wayne. Rosa married George Minick, of Monroeville, Indiana. Anna is the wife of Harry Shife. of Fort Wayne. Lena married Charles Minick, who died in October, 1915. Jacob lives in Adams county, Indiana ; Fronica Miller was married January 10, 1870, to Henry Sack, son of Henry Sack, who was a farmer of German parentage and a resident of Hessen Castle. In the parochial schools of that community Henry, Jr., had his early school- ing, and when he had finished his education joined his father in the operation of the home farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he inherited on the death of his parents. He later sold half of the place, but the remaining half was kept for a home, and he spent the best years of his life in the development of that property. He was a prominent man in his community, a Democrat in politics, member of the Catholic church, and an estimable and worthy citizen. He died on November 20, 1899. He and his wife were the parents of a family numbering thirteen chil-
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