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TABER, GEORGE [Logansport, Indiana]
VETERAN LAWYER DIES
George Taber, pioneer citizen and veteran member of the Cass County BarAssociation died at his home in Logansport last night after a long illness. Hewas 75 years of age. Taber at one time owned large tracts of land in Fultoncounty which his father had purchased from the Indians.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 2, 1930]

TABER, STEPHEN C. [Rochester, Indiana]
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TABERNACLE - 1908 [Rochester, Indiana]
My grandfather, John G. Hill, helped build the Rochester Tabernacle about 1906or thereabouts, as a place to hold summer revival meetings, sponsored by all thechurches in Rochester. It was located on the "south commons" onsoutheast corner of 7th and Pontiac streets. The town had two commons, eachabout one-fourth square block. The "north commons" was vacant and usedfor ball games until the high school was built in 1912. The Tabernacle had asawdust floor and wood benches and a pulpit. Meetings were held there everynight. People would go forward and join the church of their choice. I joinedchurch there that summer. In the fall it was torn down. Later Al Fenstermakerbuilt the three houses that now occupy the site.
[Hill Family, Clarence F. Hill, Fulton Co. Folks, Vol. 1., Willard]
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NEW TABERNACLE
Rochester is to have a tabernacle in the near future, the plans having alreadybeen completed.
Work on the new building, which will be 60x80 feet in dimensions, will becommenced the first week in September and will be completed in about one week.It is to be erected on the vacant lot in the rear of the M.E. parsonage and willbe constructed one story high, with a sloping roof on both sides. The sides willbe made so that they may be raised all along for ventilation.
As soon as completed, the new building will be used as a place of worship in aseries of union revival meetings with evangelist Honeywell, of Chicago, as theprincipal speaker, along with his two assistants. Evangelist Honeywell is wellknown throughout the country as a powerful man and was a right-hand man to Rev.Billy Sunday for several years. These meetings will continue through Septemberand include the first week in October.
Another purpose of the building, according to the plans of the builders, will bethe holding of political meetings there during October and first week ofNovember. This will be a fine place as the building will have a seating capacityof 1,500 and will be the same as being out doors with the advantage ofprotection from the elements.
Before next winter the building will be torn down and the lumber returned to thedealer.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 13, 1908]

GOSPEL TABERNACLE
Rochester is to be the scene of a modern uptodate religious campaign. NextMonday morning work will be begun on a tabernacle which will seat about 1800people. The tabernacle will be located on the lot in front of the Hospital andof course will be a temporary structure. The meetings will begin Friday evening,Sept. 11 and will be in charge of the Rev. I. E. Honeywell, a noted evangelist.He will be assisted by a singer and an assistant. During the meeting Mr.Honeywell plans to have the Rev. Billy Sunday here and also the Rev. MelvinTrotter of Grand Rapids, one of the most successful christian workers of theday. Mr. Sunday and Mr. Trotter are both well known to Winona attendants.
Every christian man and woman in Rochester and surrounding country is invited tojoin in this great movement which has for its purpose the conversion of everyperson not already a christian.
The meetings will probably continue for a month. The tabernacle will be usedafter the meetings are over for the political gatherings of all parties.
Every man in Rochester who can drive a nail or handle a saw is invited to assistin the building of the tabernacle and a large force of volunteer workers isrequested for Tuesday morning of next week. All who can are requested to be onhand Monday afternoon. Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock a force of twenty men willbe needed.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 5, 1908]

HOUSE OF WORSHIP
The new Gospel Tabernacle was started this morning and a force of men areworking hard to have it ready for occupancy by next Sunday morning when thechurches interested in the movement will hold their first service. The plan wasto be ready Friday 11th but the date for the first meeting has been changed tonext Saturday the 13th. Morning, afternoon and evening services will be held onthat day. The expenses of the churches interested in the movement will be keptup just the same as usual as the envelopes will be brought to the tabernacleservices and the offerings to the different churches will be given to theirrespective treasurers at the close of each service.
Next Saturday evening there will be a choir rehearsal of all the singers whowill assist with the meeting at the Tabernacle. Every singer in Rochester isinvited to join the great chorus choir which will number about 250 voices. Themeetings will have as leader of the singing a trained chorus leader and talentedsinger, the Rev. M. C. Martin of Minneapolis. A great orchestra will also beorganized and anyone who can play on a musical instrument will be invited tojoin it.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 9, 1908]

BUILDING THE TABERNACLE
The building of Gospel Tabernacle just west of the Methodist church is creatingmuch interest. Climbing over the building and weilding hammer and saw are threeprominent pastors, Dr. Campbell and Revs. Newman and Smith. The former areexcellent mechanics and Mr. Smith is good help, splendid on the lift. JudgeTroutman occasionally comes around to lend a hand or bring a melon for "theboys" working on the building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 10, 1908]

REVIVAL BEGINS
The Big Meeting planned for by a number of the pastors of Rochester will beginwith a choir rehearsal this evening under the direction of Rev. Martin thedirector of music for the meeting. Every singer in Rochester who can help withthe music in any way is invited to join in this rehearsal. Books will be usedappropriate for the services. Persons who can play on musical instruments areinvited to join in the orchestra. All members of churches interested in thismeeting will bring their envelopes and put them in the contribution plates justas they would at their own churches. The arrangements of the Tabernacle aresurprisingly complete and comfortable. The seats are broad and of dressed lumberand there are backs to them too. The ventilation has been looked after and thereare plenty of windows and doors to let in fresh air.
Evangelist Honeywell who will have charge of the meeting is a man who has hadlarge experience in this work and will prove the right man for this campaign.
Services are as follows: Sunday morning 10:45 with sermon by Rev. I. E.Honeywell. Afternoon service at 3 o'clock. Evening service at 7 o'clock withsermon by Rev. Honeywell. The tabernacle will accommodate 1,500 people.Everybody is invited to all the services.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 12, 1908]

GREAT CROWDS
The union tabernacle meetings for which the churches of Rochester have beenplanning for several weeks, opened yesterday with great congregations, a fulltabernacle greeting Evangelist Honeywell when he stepped inside the door for theevening service. The morning sermon was devoted to the subject of prayer, andthe evangelist appealed to the Christians to pray earnestly for a great revival,saying that there had never been a great revival except as the result of muchprayer. He insisted that there must be a whole hearted consecration to God. Hequoted examples from the lives of many of the Bible characters to prove that thegreat men, those who had accomplished great things, had been men of prayer. Healso illustrated his point by returning to great men, both preachers and menoutside of the pulpit, who were given to earnest prayer. He defined prayer inthe following language: "Prayer is the confession of our need. It is man'sweakness throwing itself on God's strength. It is man's ignorance throwingitself on God's wisdom. It is our refuge to trouble, our strength in weakness,our armor in battle. It is our comfort in sorrow, it is the wings by which wefly to God, a ladder for our feet in climbing to the sky. It is the first signof conversion, it is the birth cry of the soul."
The subject in the evening was "Revivals." Mr. Honeywell introducedhis subject by stating that he wished that he might appear not so much in theofficial capacity of a preacher or evangelist, but rather in the character of anearnest and true friend. He spoke of the great need of a revival and theconditions which would bring it about. The great revivals mentiond in the Biblewere spoken of, then Mr. Honeywel showed that the Episcopalian, the Lutherans,the Congregationilists, the Presbytrians, the Quakers, the Methodists and theBaptists were the results of great revivals. Revivals in business, pleasure,styles and politics are common, and are thought nothing of, but when the churchtalks about a revival some old backslidden official or godless hypocrite in thechurch cries "I object." His story of the little girl whose sunshinyreligion had been rebuked by her stern old grandfather and who went out andstroked the head of the neighbor's donkey, remarking, "Good old donkey,you've got religion all right for you have a long face just like grandpa,"caused a great outburst of laughter from the great congregation, which seemed toappreciate his witty thrusts at the long faced, backslidden church member. Hespoke of quarrels and envy among the churches and church members standing in theway of the revivals and pleaded with those who professed to be Christians toline up for God.
The evangelists are very pleasant and agreeable persons. Rev. Honeywell is astrong and forceful speaker, dealing in facts that are not always as pleasing tosome of his hearers because of the truths he tells. He is argumentative andconvincng in his utterances and it is believed that he will accomplish a greatwork in this community.
Rev. A. E. Phelps has not yet been much in evidence as a speaker. Upon himdepends much of the management of the meetings. His work is more in line withthe afternoon meetings and looking after the boys, girls and children. He issuch a pleasant and sociable gentleman that he can not fail in the work he hasin hand.
It is in Prof. M. C. Martin that much interest centers. As a singer evangelisthe is certainly a success. In a very brief time he has organized a chorus andorchestra that makes the welkin ring and adds inspiration to all hearers. Hismanagement is superb, even the children cheerfully obeying every request made byhim. He sings some beautiful solos as a mester of art. It is a matter of regretthat a picture of this evangelist cannot be given at this time. To see and hearhim will be more satisfactory to determine his merits.
Services this evening at 7:30. Announcements of afternoon meetings will be madeat the evening meeting.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 14, 1908]

SOME HARD HITS
A very large and inspiring audience gathered at the Tabernacle Monday night, tohear the gospel in song and story. Usually that night is an off time for revivalwork, was not so in this instance. In the congregation were the representativepeople of the city. Prof. Martin led the large chorus which sang the new songswith enthusiasm. The singing could be heard for many squares. Every one isbeginning to feel that a very great religious campaign has begun. Large successis predicted on every hand. Evangelist Honeywell preached a sermon full oftruths which he drove home with power.
Mr. Honeywell said in part: "I never stand before an audience of this sizein my evangelistic work without having a number of thoughts crowd in upon me.One is this. We never met until the other night, so may never meet again afterthe close of these services until we meet at the judgment day of God. Another isthat in a few brief years we will all be asleep beneath the sod. Ten twenty,fifty, seventy-five years from tonight, where will we all be? Our church bellswill be rung from our church spires but they will be rung by other hands forother worshipers. Our pulpits will be filled with other preachers and our pewswith other listeners. But there is still another and more serious thought whichcomes to us and that is this: What an immense power, I mean immense mortal powerthere is, even in a congregation of this size. Do you know it is impossible forus to estimate aright the power that lies latent in the churches of our landtoday? Many of our church members, because they can not do everything, arewilling to sit around until they actually mildew, and do nothing. All the greatthings of the world have been done little by little, by little agents, by littlepersons, by little things. And I want to say that if you ever have a revivalhere, the work will not be accomplished by the evangelist and the singer alone.If I thought that you imagined that this was my work and that the success orfailure depended upon me and that you have no special part in it, I would packmy trunk at the close of this service and return to Chicago by the first train.This is your meeting, and mine." Using a common phrase, "It is up toyou."
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, September 15, 1908]

INTEREST GROWS
A large crowd gathered at the Tabernacle last evening. Fine chorus singing andable preaching are the attractions which bid fair to command the whole attentionof the community for the month. Never in the history of this city has there beenso great a religious campaign planned and never more capable and successfulleaders to direct the movement. Success seems certain. Prof Martin did splendidwork with the large chorus and sang a solo with great acceptability. His work isvery fine. Mr. Honeywell, though a little hoarse from hard speaking, preached amasterly sermon on "will the old book stand, or nuts for the skeptic tocrack." The large audience listened most intently.
The salient points of Mr. Honeywell's sermon were as follows: "We do nothave to go back to the bible times to determine the truth or falsity of theBible. We judge a tree by its fruits, so can we judge Christianity. Some men saythat they cannot believe the whale swallowed Jonah. The Bible does not say thatit was a whale. It says that God prepared a great fish. There is a great sharkin the Museum at London down the throat of which a team and wagn can be driven.Bad men would not write such a book as the Bible and they could not if theywould. It must have been the work of good men. If it was an imposition bad menwould not hate it and good men love it.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 16, 1908]

GOOD HOME LIFE
Great interest was manifested at the Tabernacle meeting last evening. Theaudience was large notwithstanding counter attractions. The chorus was increasedand sang for the first half hour with enthusiasm. Mr. Martin sang "OldJordan's Waves I do Not Fear." Mr. Honeywell in voice much improvedpreached a telling sermon on "The Home Problem" No one who heard itwill ever forget what was said. The large audience was visibly and deeply moved.
Mr. Honeywell said the longer I live, the more I visit from home to home, themore I see of the sorrows and cares, the successes and failures of this life,the more I am impressed that the home problem is the greatest problem of ourcivilization. If the home life is pure all is pure. National life never risesabove the home life, and never sinks below it. The prettiest picture earthfurnishes is a whole family on the way to heaven, and the most horrible pictureis a whole family on the way to hell. A child properly trained up to a properpoint will not go astray. The child who does not obey his father will obeyneither social, civil, nor divine laws. The lives of the mothers of Napoleon,Lord Bacon, Washington, Patrick Henry and of the Wesleys are illustrations ofthe influence of the parent on the life of the child. The children are followingin the footstes of the parents. Do not lead them in the wrong way. Gabriel mightcome down here and preach and you might have an angel choir to sing, withheavenly musicians to play the accompaniments, but you will never reach the boysand girls, you will never save the young men and women, if you have to drag themin over some old wind broken backslider or some society dame of a mother.
Announcements
Tonight 7:30 o'clock at the Tabernacle Mr. Honeywell will preach.
Tomorrow 9:40 to 12. Business mens meeting at Democratic headquarters. 2:30 daymeeting at the Tabernacle.
Cottage prayer meetings will be tomorrow morning at 9:30 as follows: At the homeof Daniel Agnew 1326 Main St., A. J. Brockie, 1212 Franklin St.; L. K. Brower,402 W. 3rd St; C. G. Hoover, 525 Madison St; W. E. Jewell, 1130 Elm St; theMisses McCaughey, 719 Jefferson St; Frank Dillon, 113 E. 10th St.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 17, 1908]

HITS THE MARK
The largest crowd of the week attended the Tabernacle meeting last night. Thechoir and the Evangelist did their best work and the meeting was a success. Thefirst half hour of song by the choir of a hundred voices added often by thelarge audience was an inspiration; Evangelist Honeywell followed with a sermonof telling force. It was as a great battering ram beating down the walls ofprejudice and sin. The sermon was severe in some parts, but no one could disputeits truth.
His theme was "No room in the Inn for Jesus." There was no room forHim when he came into the world and with many no room yet. In some churches hesaid little room for the real Christ. In the lives of many professed followers,little room for the real Christ. It was on this point that the preacher smotehard the worldliness of the day. He said it was not the low unattractivegambling room back of the saloon that was the greatest curse but the fashionablehomes, the gilded palaces that with prize parties and wine suppers started youngmen and women on the way to ruin. The low down dives are but the last scenes ina tragedy which began at the prize card parties, the fashionable dance and thewine suppers. In business he said there was little room for the real Christ.Here he dwelt severaly upon the cut-throat methods of some in their mad crazefor wealth and praised many stalwart, upright christian business men who standfor the highest integrity in the business world. It will be hard for the greataudience to forget his words. Speaking of the effect of his sermon he said,"Throw a stone into a pack of dogs. The dog that is hit will howl."It's the fellow who is hit that will howl at what others said.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 18, 1908]

BRAVERY NEEDED
The largest indoor congragation ever assembled in Fulton county gathered in theTabernacle last night to hear evangelist Honeywell. The huge building was packedto the limits and hundreds stood outside and heard the service. Never in thisvicinity was there such a religious movement of such gigantic proportions. Therewas no doubt in the minds of any there last night of the very great finaloutcome of this movement.
The great choir of nearly two hundred voices and many instruments led by Mr.Martin did splendid service. Their choruses roused great enthusiasm. Theofferings for current expenses for the day ran over $100 thrown loose into thebaskets. The pastors who have the meeting in charge were greatly pleased.
Mr. Honeywell was at his best and preached with telling effect his "Kill orCure" sermon and it brought forth frequent bursts of applause. It was aphillippic which will not soon be forgotten in Rochester. It was entertainingand heroic. It bristled with truths that needed to be told. He said in part:"Many men are physical giants and yet they are moral cowards. Fitzsimmons,Corbet, Jeffries and men of that stamp are physical marvels, but they are moralcowards. When you enter a campaign like this, you soon learn who the weak-kneedcowards are. You will soon hear 'Oh, I don't believe in revivals. Too muchexcitement for me.' The trouble is the church is afraid of creating a littleopposition or trouble. Talk about sensational preaching. Jesus was a sensationalpreacher.
Tonight in the name of my mother, of my wife, of the children who hear my name,in the name of the Christ and the church, and all that is noble and virtuous, inthe name of broken hearts, in the name of the drunkard and his family, in thename of a sinning and lost humanity I declare war! war! war! against sin andcorruption; against damnation and the devil here in Rochester to the bitter end.What the world needs today is brave men. We need brave men in the pulpit, but weneed more than that, we need brave men who will stand by the preachers.
You ought to forbid your children gadding the streets at nights. Many a poorgirl has lost her name, simply because her fool of a father and mother haveallowed her to gad the streets at night. I like to see a brave girl, one whowill choose her companions right. The average young man is more particular abouthis associates than the average young girl. Until the young women take a decidedstand and absolutely refuse to go with young men who are immoral, the young menwill remain bad.
In the Morning, Mr. Honeywell preached a sermon which gripped the hearts of alarge congregation, on 23d Psalm. The tabernacle was filled at the afternoonservice for young people by boys, girls, young men and women, and the olderones. After a very interesting service over a half hundred accepted Christ,among them being many adults.
Prof. Martin called upon several of the young ladies to sing verses of thedifferent songs and the congreagtion were well pleased with the work done. Thedifferent instruments were in evidence and did much to add to the success of themusic.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 21, 1908]

WHERE ARE YOU?
"What a sermon that was!" was an exclamation on many lips at the closeof last night's tabernacle meeting. It is the opinion of many that so strong anappeal was never made in this vicinity. It was eloquent, tragic and convincing.The preacher inspired by his subject and wrought up by the tremendous necessityof the hour, like a caged lion strode the platform speaking such truths as madesouls tremble. The climax was reached in the touching and impassioned prayer ofDr. Campbell, leaving a spell over the great audience and many in tears.
The service opened with a half hour of song, the chorus doing excellent workunder Mr. Martin's able direction. With as fine an audience as one would wish toaddress, Evangelist Honeywell having just left the bedside of his sick wife tobe at the service, took the platform.
He took for his subject the scene in the garden of Gethsemane just beforeChrist's betrayal, and likened the church of today to the three groups foundthere. He said that the largest group now, as then were found near the edge ofthe garden, close to the world. The great majority of the church today areliving on the border line of the world. It is hard to tell them from the world.The only way you can tell is to look up their names on the church register. Thenearer you live to Jesus, the more elbow room you will have The nearer therelationship the greater the obligation. I owe to Mrs. Honeywell and my threechildren a duty which I do not owe to any other woman and children upon earth.By one deed of wrong I could cause Mrs. Honeywell and my three children to hangtheir heads in shame You owe to your wife and children what you owe to no otherson earth. And so the christian owes to Christ the love and allegiance ofchildren. The trouble is that too many church members are down on a level withthe world and the world has no respect for your religion if you do not live upto it.
The whole worldly crowd of theatre going, card playing and dancing churchmembers in the church today could not cast a devil out of a boy as big as apeanut. The way some church members act you would think that they had a throughticket to Heaven in a pullman palace car, but they will get side-tracked one ofthese days with a hot box.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 23, 1908]

KEEP IN FRONT
The tabernacle meetings still hold the center of interest. Notwithstanding theband concert and the Republican rally, a great audience gathered to hear thelarge chorus choir sing those rousing choruses and the evangelist proclaim thetruths of the gospel in forceful language. "This is probably my lastmessage to the church," said the preacher after he had finished a strongsermon to backsliders the cause of whose failure he attributed to indulgence inthe questionable things of the world.
Speaking of the careless backslider he said that "people belonging to thatclass would be sure of heaven if some epidemic came and took them before theyget time to backslide. There is too much joining the church and not enoughjoining the body of Christ. There are hundreds and thousands of those whosenames are on church books in earth to whom Christ will say "I never knewyou." Many a man backslides because he neglects prayer. Watch and pray arewonderful words, but thre are times when we need to watch and hustle and pray. Aman stormed at his family one day, spoiling the pleasure of everybody in thehouse and after leaving the house his little girl was heard to say "Mama,we made an awful mistake when we married papa, didn't we?" If you don'tlive your religion in your every day life, it doesn't amount to shucks. I tellyou the preacher has as good a right to play cards, go to theatres and dance aschurch members and if he does he is no worse than they are.
"The problem of the 20th century is How shall we capture this sin cursedworld for Christ? I'll tell you we will capture this old world for God when themembers of our churches will be loyal and true to their vows and will not sellout to the devil."
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 24, 1908]

CARING FOR SOULS
The good work goes on. The revival fires are burning. Quite a number last nightcommitted themselves to the christian life and many are on the point ofstarting.
The attendance was large at the tabernacle and the large chorus of nearly 200voices sang with much enthusiasm. Mr. Hoffman and Miss Newman sang a duet andthe congregation joined in the singing with fervor. Evangelist Honeywell veryseriously and with a message of universal interest spoke with telling effect.
Taking his text from the words "No man careth for my soul" he said inpart, "This is one of the most pathetic plaints that ever issued from ahuman soul. The great organ of the human heart not only has its dispason stop,its vox jubilante and magic flute, but also the tearful tremulo. We live in anage of haste. Millions are crowded off the track by close competition, victimsof jealousy, malice and hatred. The man whose fortune was dissipated through anunfortunate marriage but represents a multitude who have awakened to cry out 'Noman careth for my soul.' What about your own boys and girls? Have you everspoken to them about their spiritual welfare, or will they meet you at thejudgment and say 'No man cared for my soul?' Mr. Pelton, of Cherokee, Iowa, whohad long championed the cause of infidelity sent for the preacher when his girlhad died. God has been patient with you a long time. It may be that a hearsebacked up to your door is the only thing that will awaken you. To you who areunsaved I would say that there are those who care for your soul. We care foryour soul or we would not have left our families in their loneliness to bringthis message. These preachers care or they would not have asked us to come; thechristians care, God cares, Jesus cares, or he would not have died foryou."
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 25, 1908]

ARE YOU RIGHT?
There was a tug of war at the tabernacle meeting last evening. It was a battlefor men. The evangelist had a mighty conviction that men must be reached. Hedelivered one of his ablest philippics against sin. Not in the memory of thegreat audience had anyone ever heard a more teriffic arraignment of the subtleforms of sin which curse the home and society. It was a severe but a necessarylesson which opened the eyes of many to the conditions which previal in modernsociety and which is sapping the spiritual and moral life of the community. Atthe close of the great appeal quite a number responded.
The service opened with the usual half-hour of song led by Mr. Martin. A duetwas sung by Miss Smith and Miss Stacy which was greatly enjoyed.
Using the story of the Shunamite woman as a basis for his sermon, Mr. Honeywellsaid "I would like to make this message so plain that no one can truthfullygo away and say 'the message was not intended for me.' Is it well with thee? Notif you are here without Jesus Christ. My heart is profuundly moved as I see mendrifting on in sin. Is it well with the man who takes his occasional glass? Yousay, 'but I never get drunk.' That may be true, yet where did the drunkard takehis first step which led to his downfall and ruin? It was with his occasionalglass. It is not well with you if you occasionally sit at a gambling table ortake the name of God in vain or hang lewd pictures on the walls of his memory,or live a licentious life. Men, what is the matter with you anyway? Jesus Christdied for you that you might have life everlasting. I do not believe that youever held a revival in this town but that some man received his last call. Is itwell with the child? How many here know where their children are tonight? Youapparently don't care where your children go so long as they are in by teno'clock. You are much interested in their education, and have great anxietyabout their bodies but you give no thought of their relationship to God."
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 26, 1908]

GREAT MEETINGS
Sunday was high tide in the religious movement in this community. Never beforehas there been a campaign here of such proportions and not in a generation suchinterest manifested. The leaders are confident that present results are only ashadow of what is coming. The great day opened in the morning service when thelarge audience gladly pledged funds to pay all the necessary current exenses ofthe meeting. Evangelist Honeywell followed the offering with a strong sermon on"He shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you."It was a strong argument showing the all conquering power of God in theindividual and the church. It was a sermon which inspired a faith andconfidence.
The men's meeting in the afternoon was a pronounced success. A large chorussang. The Clarion Quartett of Indianapolis also delighted the audience bysinging two numbers, and Mr. Honeywell delivered to the five hundred men presentsuch a telling address as will not soon be forgotten. The burden of all hismessages has been for men and in this service his interest was intense. Thetruths he uttered flashed and scintillated and burned their way into the greataudience which applauded frequently. The meeting over, the long procession ofmen marched away, all declaring they had never heard its like before.
The meeting for women at the Evangelical church was also a success. The housewas packed, even the gallery was filled. Evangelist Phelps delivered a specialsermon to women on the "Insence of the home." He dwelt upon therequirements of a true home and especially emphasized the confidentialrelationship that should be kept up between mother and daughters. The sermon wasfull of excellent truth and was enthusiastically received.
The evening tabernacle meeting was very large, many coming for miles to be inthe service. The great platform was filled with singers who sang as neverbefore, eliciting frequent applause. The singing by classes was amusing.Evangelist Honeywell preached a masterly sermon on "How shall we escape ifwe neglect so great salvation." The great audience listened almostbreathlessly to the masterly appeal. His arguments for a hell were strong andconvincing and his call at the close of the service brought a response from alarge number. When the great crowd left for their homes it was with a deeseriousness and conviction which will result in a better life.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 28, 1908]

THE PRODIGAL SON
The tabernacle meetings were resumed yesterday. Six meetings were held in thehomes at 9:30 o'clock which were well attended. Evangelist Phelps conducted thetabernacle afternoon meeting. It was a discussion on soul winning followed by around table discussion.
The evening attendance was good and the interest excellent. Mr. Honeywell gave a"heart to heart talk" as he called it, using for his subject theFather in the parable of the prodigal son. It was a very forceful sermonillustrating in a way which strongly enforced propositions. The effect of thesermon was very fine and many responded to the call to accept the christianlife.
The tabernacle is being prepared for the cool weather and moves are beingstarted so that the building will be comfortably heated for the afternoon andevening services.
Taking for his text John 3-16 "For God so loved the world that He gave hisonly begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but haveeverlasting life." Mr. Honeywell said that the most interesting person inthe story of the prodigal son was not the boy who went away and after a hardexperience with the world, returned to his father's home. Neither was it theolder son, who was like the so-called moral man of today. The most interestingperson is the father who continued to love his son and welcomed him home,forgave him and made him one of the family again.
Comparing the love of God with His other attributes we get some idea of howgreat it is. And yet men spurn it and turn away from it. It is unmanly to spurnthe love of God who made the greatest sacrifice possible, to save men from sin.He might have made one great world of all the worlds or planets and given thatfor the world's redemption, but he could have created other worlds but Godhimself could not create another only begotten Son. He gave his only Son. Surelyit is unmanly to reject his gift.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 30, 1908]

MANY INTERESTED
The tabernacle has been more tightly closed and comfortably heated. The largeaudience last evening found it delightful. Almost all the seats in the greatbuilding were filled. The chorus sang with enthusiasm some excellent choruses.Mr. Martin sang "The Ninety and Nine," Evangelist Honeywell with hisaccustomed force and vigor preached a very strong sermon. It smote very hard andstamped some practices in society as being crimes. Sabbath desecration, profaneswearing and prenatal murder were denounced in unmeasured terms.
Taking his subject from the story of the feast of Belshazzar, the evangelistsaid that many a man like this king disregarded their mothers advice until theygot into trouble and turned away from the preacher until calamity came. The caseof two men who professed to be infidels and the dying works of Tom Paine andVoltaire were cited as illustrating the fact that even blatant unbelievers areready to cry out to God for mercy when death is near. The message to Belshazzarwas "Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." Thebalances in which men are being weighed are the ten commandments. Man's God isthat which he loves most. With some men it would not be necessary to call apreacher to preach a funeral sermon. You could place a bottle on the casket, ora pack of cards, or the lives of ruined girls and the story would be told.
With many a woman a card party prize or society would tell the story. As to thesin of swearing it is evidence that the very foundations of a man's characterand honor are honey-combed and rotten. Man needs the sabbath for a rest day. Ifhe does not take rest he will break down and die or go to the insane asylum. Theman who keeps his store open on Sunday violates the laws of God and man and is abad citizen. How much to you weigh by the law, "Thou shalt not kill?"Many a boy is killing his mother by his wild and sinful life. Anti-natalinfanticide is a hideous crime and sin now prevalent in society. Some M.D.sshould put their degree D.M. - damnable murderers. Every man who sells a pieceof goods under false pretenses is a thief. On the other hand the man who failsto do honest work for his wages is a thief. Weighed in these balances every manfinds himself wanting. But as the Czar who found the sleeping soldier with thesum total of his debts on a sheet of paper before him, paid them all, so Christdied that we might be justified with God.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 1, 1908]

CANNOT ESCAPE
All who attended the tabernacle meeting last night felt that a crisis in themeeting had been reached, much work has been done, but will the revival firessweep the entire community is the question yet unanswered. The determined wordsof evangelists and pastors and the pledge of several hundred christian people toput themselves wholly into the work bespeak yet greater things. It isconfidently expected that before many days hundreds will respond to the call tothe christian life. Evangelist Honeywell who has always seen great results inhis meetings is expecting such results.
Tonight he will preach his great sermon on questionable amusements, a greatcrowd is expected.
In his sermon last night he said: "We can not study sin in its separateforms, but must study the principal back of all sin, which is rebellion againstGod. Sin is not a mistake or weakness but it is a crime. Crime must have itspunishment. Every government has its penalty for crime, and the transgressormust pay the penalty of his crime. So the transgressor of the law of God is onlyreceiving justice in being punished for his crime. A friend holding a meetingspoke to a gambler who said, 'I'll cut out the booze, I'll quit my cussing, I'llgive up gambling, I'll live a pure life and then I wont need to accept Christ asmy saviour.' Is that so? Suppose a man cracks a safe in Rochester tonight andsteals $10,000, goes to Texas and lives an upright life for twenty years. If hecomes back at the end of that time he will be compelled to pay the penalty. Sothe man who has lived a life of sin, even though he might quit the sin wouldstill be liable to punishment for the sin which had been committed. But Chrtistdied as our substitute and suffered death upon the cross that we might not dieetrnally.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 2, 1908]

UNPARDONABLE
Throngs of people attended the tabernacle meetings yesterday. It was high tidein the history of religious movements in Rochester. Not in the memory of theoldest citizen have so many people met in one place to hear the gospel. Twothousand people crowded the tabernacle last night and hundreds coming latereturned to their home, or waited outside to hear the music or to catch a fewearnest words of the preacher. Pastors Campbell, Smith and Newman whoinaugurated the movement and are standing by it so earnestly, expressed theirdeep satisfaction in the splendid work already done and predict great things forthis work which will close the campaign.
The day opened with a strong sermon by Evangelist Honeywell at 10:30 o'clock. Itwas a sermon on "Power" and was one of the best this master preacherhas given. A great audience of men gathered in the afternoon numbering seven oreight hundred. It was as fine a crowd of men as one would wish to address. Thesong program over, the ladies of the choir departed and Evangelist Honeywelllaid off his coat and other surplus garments, took the platform and for over anhour held the great audience under the spell of mighty truths driven home withenergy.
All were moved by the manly appeals made and saw things in a new light. He spokeon the subject of "choice," saying that every man has the alternativeof choosing good or bad, weal or woe, heaven or hell, blessing or cursing. Wellmay a man tremble at the responsibility, and yet we should rejoice in the highhonor with which God crowns us. By committing such vast and eternal interests tous, he declares that we are not senseless machines, but immortal spirits inpossession of many God-like attributes. Every man ought to choose God becauseall men need Christ. No man is ever truly a man until he is a Christian man. Themanliest men this country has produced have been Christian men and he who thinksthat he loses any of his manliness by surrendering his life to Christ has agreat deal to learn about manhood. The fact of the matter is that the moremanhood a man possesses, the more likely he is to be a Christian. Some presentpledged themselves to lead a new life and all went home with a desire to bebetter.
Evangelist Phelps preached an able sermon to the women in mass meeting at theMethodist Episcopal church at the three o'clock hour. The service was mosthelpful.
At the great evening hour, to the vast throng that crowded the tabernacle,Evangelist Honeywell preached his powerful sermon on the "Unpardonablesin." It was an appeal unequaled in the memory of this community and allwere face to face with the appalling fact that the hardened heart made thereturn to God less probable - sometimes impossible. It is possible to say noagain and again until it becomes impossible to say yes. The continued rejectionof Jesus Christ has hardened the heart. The man or the woman may be livingwithout any worry or care whatsoever regarding the future, yet the spirit of Godmay have left him or her. It sometimes shows itself in absolute indifference andsometimes in bitter malignity. It is not any particular sin, it is simply theconstant and prevalent rejection of Christ. At the close of the sermon a scoreof people responded to the call to lead a christian life.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 5, 1908]

CAN NOT ESCAPE
A large Monday evening audience assembled at the tabernacle. There was a markedfeeling of seriousness resulting from the great Sunday meeting. The congregationwas left in darkness for ten minutes by the blowing of an electric fuse but theysang familiar hymns till the light was restored. A fine spirit was prevalent anda faith which foreshadow large results this week. Today was set apart as a dayof fasting and prayer. Little cooking was done and the time given to prayer forthe great work. A dozen prayer meetings were held in the homes this morning andmany assembled at the tabernacle afterward for a further service of prayer. Thisafternoon Mr. Honeywell spoke most earnestly at the tabernacle meeting. Thecampaign for Christianity is the most carefully flamed and most doggedly foughtof any ever known here. Surely there will be a great victory.
In his sermon last night Mr. Honeywell said that escape from your sin isimpossible. It is absolutely sure that if a man puts his hand in the fire hewill be burned. You may escape the law, but you can not escape the consequencesof your own sins. You may escape the laws of man but you can not escape the lawsof God. No man can hide where his sin will not find him. When a man does not paythe penalty of his sin before human courts he pays for it in a court where thereis no possibility of bribery, the court of physical retribution for moraloffenses. Not only do certain diseases follow in the train of certain sins, butin a general way there is the most intimate connection between morality andhealth. All sins have physical consequences. Sin also finds you out in yourcharacter. Wherever else the law may seem to fail, her it absolutely neverfails.
Your sin will also find you out in your children. That is one of the most awfulthings about sin, its curse tells, not upon us, but upon our children. Againyour sin will find you out in your conscience. No physical torments match thetorments of an accusing conscience. Then, lastly, your sin will find you out ineternity. We shall reap in eternity the consequences of every sin.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 6, 1908]

WHAT THINK YE?
A fine evening brought another large audience to the tabernacle, many drivingfor several miles. One traveling salesman from Chicago remained three days hereto get help and has gone away with light and happy heart. Many from out of townare here to get help from the meetings while some of her own citizens have not,even like the ground hog, come out of their holes to see the signs of springcoming to this community.
The chorus sang with unusual power and enthusiasm. Mr. Martin also sang mostacceptably both in the preliminary and after services. Evangelist Honeywell withusual vigor and persuasive power delivered another telling message. In theservice which followed many pledged fidelity to Christ. A part of his sermon wasas follows: The question of the age, the question of the ages past, the questionof the ages yet to come is "What think ye of Christ?" Christianitychallenges thought. Addressed to our minds, it calls into play all the facultieswhich God gives us. Christianity has saved civilization and been the crowningbenefactor of the world. Greece and Rome in the days of their highest refinementwere reeking in abomination but Christianity threw a purifying element into thefetid mass. The slave when Christ came was a mere live chattle. The gospelstrikes the shackles off from every slave. See the effects of Christianity uponscience. There is no conflict between science and Christianity. There may be aconflict between divine truths and many scientific theories but theory is onething and scientific fact is another. In christian lands alone science has foundits widest sphere. School houses, academies, seminaries, universities, andprinting presses are found only where christianity is preached. What think he ofChrist, my friend? Where will you spend eternity? Prepare for it. Leave it notuntil the last hour. Leave it not until you get sick. You may never be sick. Youmay never get more time. This night thy soul may be required of you.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 7, 1908]

FLY FROM DANGER
The tabernacle meeting had the right-of-way last night. Though "TheDevil" was billed for another place it proved no counter attraction as thecrowd came even in large numbers. The evangelist quoting a remark made by awoman in the choir said: "It is apparent by this great crowd tonight thatthe people of Rochester do not want to go to the 'Devil'. This is a hopefulsign. I will show you a more excellent way." He then proceeded to deliver avery strong sermon on eternal punishment. It was so clear and convincing that noone would think to dispute his position which is that of the thinkingtheological world. An impression was made on the great audience that will notsoon be forgotten. It deepened conviction and a number responded at the close ofthe meeting to the call to the Christian life.
Mr. Honeywell said in part: "My friend, depend upon it, the doctrine ofeternal punishment is an eternal fact. After this life there comes death, andafter death the judgment, and after that eternal happiness for the redeemed andeternal damnation for the lost. It is not true that scholars no longer believein a hell. But suppose scholars did say there was no hell. The Bible says thereis. Hell is a place of physical suffering. I had a friend who visited a hospitalin which were 1,200 people, all for sin. Hell is God's hospital for theincurables. Then Hell is a place of memory and remorse. I have seen men fall tothe floor and writhe in agony in memory of their sin. An eternity of memory andremorse is an awful thing.
Hell is also a place of shame and vile companions.. All murderers, adulterers,liars, thieves, hold-up men, drunkards and the vile off-scouring of the earthwill be there.
It is no wonder that we are in earnest. God has done everything that He can toblock your way to hell. He has tried to block it with the advice and prayers ofmother and the counsel of father. He offers you pardon from your sins. Will youtake it?
Revival Doings
When the Christian people of this community, with a few exceptions, conceivedthe idea of erecting a large tabernacle for the purpose of inaugurating areligious campaign extending over four weeks, they builded better than theyknew. With a unanimity of sentiment and action and a full confidence of successthey began an undertaking that not a few doubting Thomases declared to beimpracticable. Not daunted by any discouragements a commodious tabernaclecapable of accommodating 2,000 worshipers was quickly erected without anyassurances of where the means were to come from to meet the more than $500expenses. In union there is strength and by the united effort of the Christianmen and women, liberally assisted by the moral sentiment of the community, allthe financial obligations were quickly and cheerfully met.
With the project of a four weeks' religious campaign fully launched, theservices of the well known evangelist, J. E. Honeywell of Chicago, assisted byRev. A. S. Phelps, of the same city, and the noted singing evangelist, Rev. M.C. Martin, of Minneapolis, the campaign against sin and ungodliness beganSeptember 15th and has been in progress every day from that time to the present.Numerous meetings have been held, as many as four in a day and night, notincluding cottage prayer meetings held nearly every day in homes in variousparts of the city. As valiant workers and prime movers in the building of thetabernacle and the evangelistic work, Rev. A. M. Smith of the Presbyterianchurch, Rev. J. G. Campbell of the Methodist church and Rev. Levi Newman of theEvangelical church, deserve great praise. They have done all that was possiblefor men to do to bring about the success that has attended all the meetings.Their energy and zeal know no bounds.
Commendatory words for the three evangelists are not necessary. The bestevidence of their worth as workers in the Lord's vineyard is attested by theirpower to draw thousands of people from long distances to listen to the powerfulsermons by Mr. Honeywell and the angelic voices of the large chorus choir underthe direction of Mr. Martin, supplemented by the prayers and work of ReverendsSmith, Campbell, Newman and others. All have labored hard and faithfully topurify the religious atmosphere of Rochester and vicinity and bring sinners torepentance. Many have sought the better way of life and others are seeking theway that leads to peace and happiness. No man could work more earnestly andfervently than has Evangelist Honeywell. His eloquence, logic and sincerity haveendeared him to the hearts of his large congregations and his reward should bein the harvesting of many sheaves into the Christian fold.
These services will be continued in about the same order that they have beenconducted for the past month and close on the coming Sunday night.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 8, 1908]

NO EXCUSE TAKEN
Thursday evening was another victory at the tabernacle. The crowd was notdiminished and the fervor has increased. There was an enthusiasm incongregational singing which foretold victory. Evangelist Honeywell was pleasedwith the spirit manifested and said Rochester was a week behind most places insuch a movement. The meeting he said had reached a stage which foreshadowedgreat results but this should have been reached a week before. Nevertheless hesaid the next three days will count mighty for the kingdom of God in this city.A number of visiting clergymen from other places were in the audience and somesat on the platform. Interest in the movement here has gone out to neighboringtowns and cities. All eyes are on Rochester. The week is favrably commented onby the press of other cities.
Mr. Honeywell preached with usual vigor and confidence and at the conclusion ofthe service a number responded to the invitation to profess Christ. A part ofthe sermon is as follows: "Excuses are as old as man himself. Now there isa vast difference between a reason and an excuse. I have never yet been able tofind a man who has had a reasonable excuse why he should not be a Christian. Thefact that you can not understand the entire Bible is the very strongest proof ofits Divine origin. Could you clearly understand everything in the Bible then youcould write a book its equal, and if you could write one its equal, thenthousands of people could write a better one. You can understand enough to startwith. You know that you are sinners and in need of salvation. But some one saysto me, 'I don't know. I am an agnostic.' The Latin word for agnostic isignoramus. Why don't you say 'I am an ignoramus?'
"Through the influence of Ingersol, Lou Wallace, was induced to write atale of the Christ, exposing the falsities of that life as portrayed in thegospels, but after a careful study he realized that Jesus was the Christ andwith all his skepticism swept away, he wrote that book, Ben Hur. And when peoplesay they can not bear to associate with hypocrites, what will you do in eternityfor all those hypocrites are going to hell."
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 9, 1908]

GOD'S GREAT LOVE
There seems no lack of interest on the part of the multitude as the greattabernacle meeting nears its close. The great building was filled again lastnight with a more serious and thoughtful congregation. There seemed to be butone feeling among the masses and that was that the gospel as preached is trueand life would be richer and better to accept it and live it. Scores arehesitating on the point of decision. It is confidently expected that many willreach a decision tonight and tomorrow. A number of influential thinking peoplehave declared themselves within the last few days, other have given theirpromise to make the start.
The choir sang wth unusual sweetness and fervor last night and the largeaudience also sang with enthusiasm. Prof. Martin sang with much feeling "IsHe Yours." Evangelist Honeywell preached on John III 16 "God'sMatchless Love for the World." He said, "The Bible is simply God'slove story, the story of the love of God to a sinful world. This is the mostamazing thing in all the Bible. In all the triumphant power of love why is thename of Lincoln the best loved in this American Continent? Undoubtedly becauseof His great loving and forgiving heart. And friends, this is the power andattractiveness in the name of Jesus.
There are three great incomprehensibles. The first is eternity, the second isspace and the third is God's great love to a lost and ruined world and yourindifference and scorn and repudiation of that love. I can understand"eternity" somewhat, I can in a measure, group "space" but Ican not fathom or understand or comprehend the love of God. God loved the worldand gave His Son. The measure of love is sacrifice.
I have an only son; how I love him. Suppose I should see him arrested by theenemies of Christ, blindfolded and then they spit on his face and smote him onthe cheek, put a cruel crown of thorns on his brow and forced it down until theblood poured down his face on either side. Suppose they laid the lash on him,laid a cross down upon the ground and nailed him to it, and then took the crossto which he was nailed and plunged it into a hole in the rock, and left himhanging there, the agony getting worse and worse all the time. How do yousuppose I would feel? But, men that is just what God saw. He gave His onlybegotten Son to come and suffer and die in our stead as a substitute for us,that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish but have everlastinglife."
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, October 10, 1908]

GOOD RESULTS
The great tabernacle meetings are a thing of the past. For four weeks day andnight the meetings have been in progress they have occupied the attention of alarge number of our people. They have been the topic of conversation on thestreet and in the homes. Not in the history of Rochester has there been such astrenuous campaign to win men to Christ and to elevate the standard of morale.The results are apparent to all. Over two hundred have committed themselvesdefinitely to the christian life. Hundreds of others have been quickened intonew life and the standard of morals throughout the whole community elevated. Theresults have many times repaid the labor and expense.
Evangelist Honeywell has proven himself a great preacher, a tireless worker andhas impressed the community with his sterling qualities. Mr. Martin and Mr.Phelps, his assistants, are efficient men of the best type. They are all acredit to their profession. They leave with the universal regard of the people.
The meetings yesterday were all large and interesting. The evenng crowd againout taxed the capacity of the great tabernacle, many not being able to gainentrance. Evangelist Honeywell preached his final sermon to church at themorning service. It was a service very helpful and full of power. The afternoonmeeting for men was one of the best of the series. The preacher reached theclimax of his earnestness when he placed two boys on the platform and made suchan appeal for the boys to be saved from the ravages of the saloon as had neverbeen equaled in this community. The large body of men were visibly moved as thefiery truths were burned into their hearts.
To the evening congregation he preached on the Judgment. With all the power ofhis being he portrayed the great assize in a manner that men trembled and womenwept. When the great sermon was finished a number of people pledged themselvesto the Christian life. The total number of converts whose cards were turned overto the pastors are as follows: Methodist Episcopal 112; Evangelical 37;Presbyterian 17; Disciples 16; Baptist 13; United Brethren 5; Brethren 1; nochoice expressed 8; total received 209.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 12, 1908]

A HUGE MEETING
A larger or more attentive political gathering than that which assembled at thetabernacle Monday night has never been seen under cover in Rochester. Out-doormeetings have exceeded it in numbers but never under a roof. The tabernacle,recently occupied for a religious campaign, with a seating capacity for nearly2,000 persons, was well filled. - - - -
Hon. Harvey H. Hannah, of Tenn., ex-attorney general and present railroadcommissioner of that state, was introduced by Mr. Ott McMahan, democratic countychairman. - - - - - - - - - -.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 13, 1908]

MARSHALL'S DAY
Hon. Thomas Marshall, democratic candidate for governor, was scheduled to speakin Rochester at 1:30 Thursday. Owing to the long distance between his lastspeaking point and this place he was a little late in arriving, but when he camehe was received with open arms and shouts of applause from throats of thousandsof democrats and many republicans who will rejoice to have him occupy thegubernatorial chair for the next four years. He was met at the Erie depot by thecommittee, a half dozen bands and a multitude of democrats bearing banners withappropriate and telling mottoes. After a short parade he was escorted to thelarge tabernacle that was found to be full and overflowing with enthusiastic menand women, all anxious to see and hear the man who is to become the nextgovernor of Indiana. Hundreds were turned away not being able to get withinhearing or seeing distance.
Mr. Marshall was introduced by Mr. O. F. Montgomery in a few words that werewell chosen and fitting the occasion. Without hesitation Mr. Marshall at onceproceeded with his speech with a force and energy characteristic of the man. Hisintroductory remarks caught the attention of his large audience at once and heldit in deep interest and silence save for the thunderous applause that greetedhis quaint sayings and strong points in argument. His whole speech was alonglines that received the hearty approval of all who were fortunate enough to hearit.
Barnhart Rally
Tonight the citizens of Rochester and Fulton county are to show theirappreciation of Henry A. Barnhart, democratic candidate for congress, by one ofthe most spectacular and brilliant parades ever witnessed in Rochester. Peoplewithout regard to political affiliation will be in attendance to do honor to aworthy citizen. There will be decorated floats and automobiles, a large numberof bands, horsemen and wagons, a gaily dressed company of ladies on horsebackand many other attractions that will excite the admiration of the multitude. Aspecial feature of the parade will be the display made by the SENTINEL force andall the attaches of the telephone company. You will have to see it to appreciateits gorgeousness and splendor. It will be the most unique and pleasing paradeyou have ever seen in this city. It will be a great tribute of respect andconfidence in a fellow citizen well known and highly respected.
After the parade, Mr. Barnhart will speak at the tabernacle and all should goearly if they hope to get within hearing distance.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 29, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The work of tearing down the tabernacle will begin tomorrow and will be done bycontract. The lumber will all be sold or returned to Brandenburg & Co., andBarrett. There will be roofing and pieces of lumber for sale to any who can useit.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 5, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The tabernacle, which has been such a feature of interest in this community,will soon be but a memory. The contract for the removal of the building has beenlet to Rev. L. Newman and a force of men have been engaged upon the building fortwo days. The lumber in the building that was rented, will be returned. Theroofing, siding and short lengths of piece stuff will be sold. It is with regretto the entire community that the building has to be removed as such a buildingis a public necessity, and it is to be hoped that some such building may beerected in the near future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, November 7, 1908]

TABERNACLE - 1915 [Rochester, Indiana]
TABERNACLE TO BE ERECTED SOON
Beginning with next Monday evening, when the first of the cottage prayermeetings will be held over the city, the preparation for the tabernacle meetingswill begin in earnest.
Prayer meetings will be held the first three evenings of the week, places to beannounced later. On Thursday evening the chorus choir, under the leadership ofMr. Bray, will hold its first meeting in the tabernacle for organization andrehearsal. Frday evening will be the dedication of the tabernacle, at whichservice it is expected that Dr. C. A. Decker of South Bend will be the speaker.On Saturday evening, Dr. M. B. Williams will be present and open the campaign.
Tuesday and Wednesday are the days set apart for the building of the tabernacle,which will be erected on the Sterner lot on Pontiac street and is to be built bythe men of the churches and city. Every man willing to help is asked to comeprepared to drive nails. In order that proper provision be made for dinners tobe served by the women of the churches, it is suggested that all men who willhelp give their names to any of the ministers or to the general committee,composed of Ed Vawter, J. D. Holman, H. W. Wilson, George Faurote, B. F. Fretzand Omar Smith.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 1, 1915]

REAL FREE DINNER TOMORROW
A big dinner will be served to all the men who work on the tabernacle tomorrowand Wednesday. Those dinners will not be made up of ices, whipped creams andsalads, but of roast beef, chicken and all the good things which go with thesesubstantials.
Men are asked to bring their hammers, saws and nail aprons to the tabernacletomorrow morning and their appetites to the Presbyterian church at noon, whendinner will be served by the ladies of the U. B., Baptist and Presbyterianchurches. This is one time when church dinners are free.
Prayer meetings will be held tonight at the homes of A. D. Hughes, Mrs. NancyMeyer, Oscar Baldwin and Miss McCaughey.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 4, 1915]

TABERNACLE WORK MAKING PROGRESS
Work on the big tabernacle on Pontiac street is proceeding rapidly and theworkmen expect to have the structure completed Thursday evening in time for therehearsal of the chorus.
The rafters of the building are now on and the roof will be finished Wednesday,when 50 more men are needed. The seats and the platform will be installedWednesday afternoon and Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bray, Dr. Williams' singer and helper, are here now makingpreparations for the chorus rehearsal Thursday evening. All of the singers ofthe city are urged to help in the chorus work.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 5, 1915]

TABERNACLE NEAR COMPLETION
Sixty-four men, workmen on the new tabernacle on Pontiac street, were serveddinner today in the basement of the Presbyterian church. The members of the boysmanual training class of the high school assisted on the building thisafternoon. The structure is now ready for the roof and nearly all of the seatswill be in place by 'Thursday.
It was announced today that Rev. Henry DAVIS of the First Methodist church ofSouth Bend will deliver the opening address at the tabernacle Friday evening.Dr. Williams will arrive Saturday and will begin his work Saturday night. Thetabernacle when completed will seat 1,600 people. It is 116 feet longh and 77feet wide. The building faces on Pontiac street and the platform will be erectedat the east end. It is the largest tabernacle ever built here.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 6, 1915]

WILLIAMS WILL OPEN CAMPAIGN IN CITY TONIGHT
Rev. M. B. Williams, the evangelist, will open his four weeks campaign inRochester at the tabernacle this evening at 7:30 when he will deliver his firstsermon. Rev. Williams comes here from Darlington, Ind., where with his helpers,he has recently closed one of the most successful revivals ever held in thattown. The evangelist comes to this city confident that he will be able to do thecommunity much good.
As Rev. Henry L. Davis of South Bend failed to arrive Friday evening thededication program was not as expected. The local ministers occupied theplatform, speaking enthusiastically, and about 300 people attended the meeting.During the meetings at the tabernacle, no services will be held at any of thelocal churches, except Sunday school, which will convene at the usual places.Choir Leader Bray asserts that he has his organization whipped into shape forthe opening meeting this evening. Mrs. Bray, who is the pianist, and women'sworker, is enthusiastic over the prospects here. She is the daughter of aprominent former South Bend minister, Rev. Peter MOERDYKE.
The tabernacle is strongly built and much credit is due Oscar Baldwin of thiscity for the excellency of the structure. His work as contractor assures perfectsafety. The lighting is very good and the seats are built to bring comfort, infact the best seats ever seen in a tabernacle. The little discomfort because ofinadequate heating Friday night was overcome today by lining the entire insidewith heavy paper. This keeps the draft away and the building will be ascomfortable as a home parlor.
Dr. Williams preaches tonight at 7:30 and a large audience is expected to hearhim. A Womans Work Committee was appointed last night composed of five womenfrom each church. The committee met Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Bray, whooutlined the work for the coming weeks.
The decorating committee has made the tabernacle beautiful as far as theirmaterial went but wish everyone would bring what they may have to help itsbeauty. The pastors expect great things from these meetings, and all seemwilling to lend every effort to make the greatest revival Rochester has everknown.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, October 9, 1915]

WILLIAMS TALKS ON PRAYER AND IS HEARD BY 700
An audience of over 700 people greeted Evangelist M. B. Williams Tuesday nightwhen he delivered a powerful sermon on prayer. A greater interest was manifestedthan at any previous gathering.
In discussing prayer, Dr. Williams said that many people are not taught whenyoung how to pray properly and consequently their faith is destroyed when theyhave a chance to prove things for themselves. Dr. Williams said that an infidelonce told him that he was taught when young that God would give anyoneeverything which he named in his prayers. Later this man learned that he hadbeen fooled.
Dr. Williams also accused many people of making selfish prayers, that they wanttoo much for themselves without thinking now it would affect others. "If wegot what we pray for" said Dr. Williams, "we would not know what todo. We would act like the colored minister who prayed for an earthquake."He emphasized the fact that all prayers should end with the words, "Thywill, not mine, be done."
Mr. Bray had his booster choir on the platform for the first time Tuesdayevening. They received much applause on their first effort.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 13, 1915]

WILLIAMS SAYS AUDIENCE OFTEN MAKES PULPIT
Evangelist Williams delivered his second sermon on prayer Wednesday evening atthe tabernacle to an audience of over 750.
Taking for his subject the text from James 5:16, "The fervent, effectualprayer of a righteous man availeth much," Dr. Williams made the followingremarks: "True prayer is the reflection of God's thoughts back uponhimself. True eloquence consists in the power of an orator to condense thethought which the audience breathes upon him in vapor. Thus eloquence demandstwo factors, the speaker and the audience. The audience makes the pulpit manytimes. Many preachers are dragged down by a cold church, and many mediocrepreachers get in a warm, wide-awake congregation and make strong men. Thepreacher will either lift his congregation to his level or they will take him totheirs. The fervent prayer is the earnest one; the effectual prayer produces,hence this combination of earnestness and production, always availethmuch."
The evangelist gave the first of his Bible addresses Wednesday afternoon, takingfor his subject "Faith." Many new and helpful thoughts were given andall were led to see faith in a different light. He said: "Faith is notfeeling or sight, but rather these come by faith. Religious feeling is faith inaction. We should not pray for God can't give faith since he is omniscient.Faith is for partial knowledge and God has all knowledge, hence cannot impartwhat he does not possess. Man has but partial knowledge, hence must have andexercise faith. Faith is the spiritual eye through which we see God, spirit, theheavenly hosts, angels, etc. God gives in two ways - creation and impartation.What we are by creation may be strengthened by keeping what God may impart to uslater, such as knowledge, wisdom, truth, love, justice, etc. But faith dependson ourselves. We may ask for knowledge to increase faith but not for faithitself since he has none and has no use for it."
Following the sermon on prayer a number of cottage prayer meetings were heldover the city Thursday morning. The local people plan to hold 20 meetings ofthis kind. The meetings are now held at 10 and 10:30 o'clock.
The choir work is proceeding with good results and Mr. Bray announced that thenew hymn books which regularly sold for 45 cents will be given out for 25 cents.Dr. Williams has suggested that a nursery be established near the tabernacle forthe mothers who wish to attend the meetings.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 14, 1915]

[NOTE: See several succeeding issues of the Rochester Sentinel for lengthyarticles concerning use of the new Tabernacle]

2,000 HEAR WILLIAMS IN FINALE
Results of Meetings:
Converts, 216
Meeting began Oct 8th; ended Nov. 7th.
Cost of building and incidentals, $880.
Offering to Evangelist (estimated) $500.
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The supporters of the tabernacle meetings in Rochester were deeply gratifiedSunday evening when nearly 2,000 people gathered to hear Dr. M. B. Williamsdeliver an adress which marked the end of a series of services lasting fourweeks. About 50 people responded, at the close of the sermon, to the invitationto come forward.
An announcement of interest to local people was made when one of the ministerssaid that Pat Emmons, a former well known Rochester man, now of South Bend,would speak at the tabernacle Monday night. Mr. Emmons, since his conversionseveral years ago, has been conducting services in this part of the state and isheard nearly every Sunday night in his home town. He was present here at themeeting Sunday evening. Last winter, Mr. Emmons delivered a sermon here to alarge audience at the Presbyterian church.
A large number of men were present Sunday afterrnoon at the tabernacle when Dr.Williams talked upon the subject, "The Steps in the Life of a Fast YoungMan." It was the opinion of many that the discourse should have been heardby every man in Rochester. Large audiences were present at the meetings Saturdaynight and Sunday morning.
Although Rochester failed to raise as large an offering for Dr. Williams as isusually given at the close of revival meetings, the people responded quicklySunday, when the ministers started to take up the collection. Seven or eightpeople gave $10 apiece while over 30 each gave five dollars. A large number gavefrom one to five dollars. It is estimated that Dr. Williams received nearly$500.
Dr. Williams will hold his next meeting in Salem, Ill., where he will deliverhis first sermon next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bray left for that city Monday. Hewill have charge of the erection of the building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, November 8, 1915]

TABERNACLE - 1922 [Lake Manitou]
[Also See LAKE MANITOU, LAKE MANITOU'S EARLY HISTORY - Rochester Sentinel,Saturday, March 11, 1922]

TO RAZE TABERNACLE IN COLONIAL HOTEL GROUNDS
The old tabernacle in the Colonial Hotel grounds - a landmark in the vicinitysince its erection by the late Colonel Wood in 1892, is to be razed. The sceneof Wood's popular menagerie, where seals were a great attraction, and of manypublic gatherings and entertainments which brought to the community suchcelebrated personages as Hobson, Albert Beveridge, James Watson and Harry S.New, will be no more.
The building which long since lost its fine appearance, being used as a stableand later as a garage, will have to make way for parking space for automobiles,is the edict. Fred Davis of Jeffersonville, chief owner of the Colonial hoteland grounds, will donate the lumber to the fair association to be used inrepairing sheds torn down by the cyclone of last March.
To care for his large patronage, Manager Ray Newell will supervise theconstruction of a new road north of the present one leading into his grounds andwill open the old road which bordered the lake. The present road will be theroad of ingress to the grounds, while the two roads will provide outlets. Thearrangement will provide nearly treble the present parking space.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 22, 1925]

TALBERT, HARRY [Lake Manitou]
See: Talbert's Inn
See: Hotels - Talbert Hotel

TALBERT'S INN [Lake Manitou]
See: Hotels - Talbert Hotel
SALOON AT THE LAKE
By publishing a notice of application for liquor license in the Fulton Leader,Charley Talbert, the Columbia Park landlord avoided a protest against a Lakesaloon and has been licensed to run a saloon on the Kepler land adjoining theAkron road, on the north shore of Lake Manitau.
The law requires that an applicant for saloon license show that he is a fitperson to conduct a saloon, and that he is not under conviction for violatingthe liquor laws. Cal Hoover and A. B. Chamberlain testified to Talbert's goodcharacter and the license was granted.
The last grand jury returned two indictments against Talbert for selling liquorwithout a license.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 7, 1907]

[Adv] To the Basket Ball Boys: - - - Big Fish and Chicken Dinners areAwaiting YOU!. TALBERT'S INN, Lake Manitou.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 12, 1924]

TALLY, REUBEN [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Fairview
See: Rochester, Indiana [Historical Review]

TALLY & MARTIN [Rochester, Indiana]
. . . Planing machine to be run by steam power being installed in new buildinglocated near the steam grist mill, by R. Tally and D. R. Martin. . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 17, 1863]
Planing Mill. Messrs. Tally & Martin are doing good business with their newPlaning Mill. On Tuesday last, they run 4,000 feet of lumber through themachine, much of which was oak and white ash flooring. Any mechanic who willdress hard-wood flooring by hand, when he can get it done by machinery, deservesto suffer with the backache.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, February 12, 1863]

TALLY & PHELPS [Rochester, Indiana]
We hope none of our friends will forget that Messrs Tally & Phelps aremanufacturing excellent flour, at their mill, which they have christened as the"Union Mills" .
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, February 13, 1862]

Tally & Phelps would respectfully inform the public that they have rentedthe Wallace's Steam Mill . . . Rochester.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 10, 1862]

TALLY'S LANDING [Lake Manitou]
[See LAKE MANITOU, LAKE MANITOU'S EARLY HISTORY - Rochester Sentinel, Saturday,March 11, 1922]

TALMA, INDIANA [Newcastle Township]
Located on SR-25, Section 12, at approximately 500E and 675N.
Formerly called Bloomingsburg.
Established June 13, 1851.
Name changed to Talma in 1895, and name became official Jan. 25, 1896.
Electrified 8:00 p.m., Oct. 1, 1935.
First building, one room dirt floor cabin, about 100 yards S of the presentbridge, built by Asa Coplen.
The telephone company established in 1902, and bought by Rochester Telephone Co.in 1928.

There is only one town named Talma in the whole United States according toRand McNally, publisher of atlases.
Talma originally was known as Bloomingsburg. William Roundtree Kubley, havingfound the name Talma in a word puzzle in a farm magazine, petitionedsuccessfully to have the town's long name changed to Talma. [see Charles BeehlerFamily, William Amell Sausaman, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
The dictionary defines Talma as a large cape or short full cloak of the 19thcentury, named after the 18th century French actor, Francois Joseph Talma.
Although some disgruntled citizens petitioned the P. O. Department against thechange of name, it became official and permanent January 25, 1896.
Asa Coplen began selling lots in Bloomingsburg as early as 1854. He built aone-room dirt-floor cabin about 100 yards south of the present Talma bridge. In1858 he got gold fever and started with his family for California. His wife diedat Fort Riley, Kansas. Before she died, she made Asa promise to return toIndiana with the children, which he did, and became the founder of Bloomingsburg.
Asa Coplen platted the town of Bloomingsburg January 7, 1862. It had 40 lots andsix streets: River, Race, Main (now SR-25), County (now 650N), North and South.The lots sold for $10 to $150 each.
When asked why he named it Bloomingsburg, Coplen would reply, "It's thebloomingiest town I ever saw."
The 1883 Historical Atlas of Fulton County describes Bloomingsburg as having twogeneral stores, one drug store, a meat market, hotel, two doctors, wagonmaker,shoemaker, blacksmith, harness maker, saw mill, grist mill, I.O.O.F. lodge,Grange hall, and a church with 80 members.
Talma reached its greatest prosperity in the early 1900's according to RalphHatfield, lifelong resident and proprietor of Hatfield's store. When Ralph was aboy, there was Hatfield's general store, Simon Grove's grocery, Pete Kesler'sbarbershop, Charles Stansbury's blacksmith shop, Omar Montgomery's restaurant,bakery, and butcher shop. Montgomery's ice cream parlor was a loafing place forthe younger generation and was known as "Hell's Half Acre."
Other businesses included William Henry Baugher's blacksmith shop, a wool-buyingshop, and Earl Chapman's hardware. Baugher bought the old brick schoolhouse in1903 and used the bottom floor to sell carriages and wagons, while the secondfloor was used by various organizations as a meeting place.
A new school was built in 1903 but it burned down in 1915. The new NewcastleTownship school was completed in 1917 and a gymnasium was added in 1940. Thisbuilding was destroyed by tornado April 3, 1974, and the site is now being madeready for the construction of the Newcastle Township Community Center this year(1976).
A telephone company was started by Simon and Lou Grove in 1902. The RochesterTelephone Company bought the Talma telephone system with nearly 200 subscribersin 1928.
A three-story grist mill was still in operation until heavy winds blew off thetop in 1908. The present ditch north of El-Ro-Vert campgrounds is the old millrace but there is no evidence now of the dam which was in the river almost duenorth of the mill.
There was a town pump and watering trough on the south side of Main street nearthe corner of Race street.
Talma's post office, established June 13, 1851, was discontinued January 2,1907, the last postmaster being Loring W. Hatfield, and the area became RuralRoute 5, Rochester.
The present SR-25 east out of Rochester was known as the Warsaw road.
[Talma The Blooming Burg, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
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In a game of base ball at Bloomingsburg [Talma] last Friday, between theMaple Leaf club of Argos, and the Clumsies of Bloomingsburg, the score stood 30to 20 in favor of the Bloomingsburg club. It was an easy victory for theClumsies and they are considerably elated over the manner in which they"done" the brag nine from Argos.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 25, 1886]
TALMA
Grove & Imler have dissolved their partnership. Imler will take the drygoods and grocery departments and Grove will take the hardware.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 28, 1904]

TALMA
Omer Montgomery put in a stock of groceries along with his restaurant and meatmarket last week.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 10, 1904]

TALMA
Mentone Gazette.
Omer Montgomery has sold his bakery and restaurant at Waukarusa and will locateagain at Talma.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 3, 1906]

ACQUIRES TALMA STORE
Samuel Friend has traded his home and lots on West Fourth street, near themausoleum, for the McFadden general store at Talma and will move there soon,having already taken possession of the store. Mr. Friend formerly operated thegrocery now owned by the Frye brothers and prior to that managed a business inthe southwest room at the corner of Main and Seventh streets.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Friday, December 18, 1925]

TALMA CELEBRATES WHEN POWER IS TURNED ON
The celebration and jubilee which was held at Talma Tuesday night over theelectrification of that town was attended by between 500 and 600 persons.Ceremonies fitting to the occasion were held.
The Northern Indiana Power Company by furnishing electric power to the residentsof Talma has fulfilled the ambition of the residents of that city who havewanted the service for a great many years.
During the past year the extension was made by the company and now some thirtyresidents of Talma who formerly had privately owned electric lighting plants arenow taking power from the company.
Lights On
The lights were turned on at eight o'clock last night and when they firststarted to flicker a great shout went up from all present. Officials of thepower company were present and gave addresses.
Other members on the program were selections by the Rochester American Legionband, vocal and string duet, Blanche Yeazel and Velma Kessler; solo, LeonardO'Dell, and a short talk by John Haimbaugh, trustee of Newcastle township.
The members of the committee in charge of the celebration Loren Kramer, RalphHatfield and John Haimbaugh were disappointed when a representative of theIndiana State Department of Conservation failed to make his appearance.
Lower Power Dam
The speaker was to have told about Talma being selected as the site for a lowpower dam in the Tippecanoe river and also as the prospective site for a parkalong Indiana's most scenic river.
Following the celebration hot dog sandwiches and coffee was furnished free toall those present.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, October 2, 1935]

PLANS BEING LAID FOR TWP. BUILDING AT TALMA
The Newcastle Township Institute committee is holding a special called publicmeeting at the Talma High school building Wednesday eveningt, Feb. 21, at 7:30o'clock, for the purpose of sounding out the commnity on the possibility ofbuilding a community building after the war.
The need for a more spacious building is accentuated every year at institutetime as well as throughout the school season with present space inadequate forbasketball and other school and general community activities.
The Newcastle Farmers Indtitute is and has been one of the outstanding ruralevents not only in Fulton county but also in northern Indiana for a number ofyears and more spacious and modern "housing" facilities for thecommunity's programs are imperative.
Charles Jones, Sr., who was born and reared in Newcastle township, will discussthe plans and all township residents as well as others who are interested in theproposed building project are requested to attend the meeting.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, February 20, 1945]

TALMA COLTS [Talma, Indiana]
The Talma Colts met the strong Crystal Lake team Sunday, on the Talma grounds,in fast game, the score standing 5 to 5 at the end of the 9th inning. It was notfinished on account of the boys catching a train. The Colts will meet the ArgosGrays Saturday and the Etna Green Tigers Sunday on the Talma grounds.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 1, 1908]

TALMA POST OFFICE [Talma, Indiana]
Located approximately 550E and 675N.
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NEWS OF THE DAY
The Talma postoffice has been ordered closed taking effect January 1. The mailwill be served to the patrons on route 5 from Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 7, 1907]

TALMA POSTMASTERS [Talma, Indiana]
Simon Y. Grove, Jan 25, 1896. Loring W. Hatfield, M.O. June 4, 1897.
Loring W. Hatfield, June 4, 1897. Dis. Mail to Rochester Nov 23, 1906. EffectiveJan 2, 1907.

TALMA RUBE BAND [Talma, Indiana]
TALMA RUBE BAND GIVES NET TEAM GOOD SUPPORT
When Talma High school's basketball team drubbed the Tippecanoe team Fridaynight for a second time this season, this time on Tippecanoe's floor, by a scoreof 45 to 11, the players were supported by the Taoma Rube band of seven pieces,a new trick musical organization formed at the Talma school.
Four boys and three girls compose the band, which includes cornet, bugle, basshorn, trombone, saxaphone, Frisco whistle and drum. The musicians are HelenRathfon, Bedelia Byrers, Miles Pash, Joe Thrall, Dorothy Deamer, John Surguy andRobert Rahfeldt. The band will follow the basketball team to Argos next Fridaynight. In time, it is expected, the band will be increased in membership.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, December 8, 1924]

TALMA TELEPHONE CO. [Talma, Indiana]
Started by Simon Grove and Lou Grove in 1902.
Sold to Rochester Telephone Company in 1928. It had nearly 200 subscribers.
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TALMA
Argos Reflector.
The Talma telephone system will be extended one and one-half miles west and onemile south of Center.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 14, 1905]

TALMA TELEPHONE IMPROVEMENT
The Talma Telephone Co., has re-arranged its business so that all business forthe Whippoorwill, Tiosa and Talma exchanges is now operated at Talma. Some fine,new apparatus has been installed, an expert electrician has overhauled theswitch boards and put everything in first class condition and the service willbe greatly improved.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 14, 1905]

IS NOW PLANT'S SOLE OWNER
Mrs. Lee Jamison, formerly of Tiosa, now of Claypool, is now sole owner of theWhippoorwill Telephone Co., having acquired the half interest held by the TalmaTelephone Company.
The Whippoorwill exchange, which has 145 patrons, is said to be valued at$4,000, and is a good paying business, but its distance from Talma made it hardto handle. Mrs. Jamison will continue William Wynn, it is believed, as manager.S. Y. Grove is president of the Talma company, which is also in a flourishingcondition.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 3, 1915]

TALMA THRESHING COMPANY [Talma, Indiana]
See Threshing Rings

TALMA WHITE SOX [Talma, Indiana]
Baseball team.

TAMARACK CORNER [Henry Township]

TAMARACK HOTEL [Leiters Ford, Indiana]
William Jefferson LEITER, pioneer resident of Fulton county, who came here withhis parents in a covered wagon in 1854, died at his home on West Eighth streetSaturday evening following a long illness, which had confined him to his homefor a number of weeks. Death was caused by old age and complications. He was 83years of age.
Mr. Leiter was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 17, 1840. Five years later hisparents, Mr. and Mrs. John LEITER, Jr., started westward and took up a homesteadon the south bank of the Tippecanoe river near where Leiters now stands. Theford at the river here was given its name by Mr. Leiter's parents who built arude shanty there shortly after arriving. They simply placed four posts in theground and nailed the boards on them.
Later they constructed a second and more permanent home, building it of Tamaracklogs. For many years it was known as the Tamarack Hotel and here Mr. Leiter as ayoung man worked on the farm helping to clear the land and make it tillable. Heattended the district school and later went to Valparaiso College and uponreturning spent several years teaching school in this vicinity. He was marriedon December 27, 1805, to Ellen A. HICKMAN, who was born in 1841 in Fultoncounty.
On January 21, 1877, along with Clark HICKMAN he took over the Potawatomie Millsin Rochester, which stood where the Erie Elevator is now located. Water powerfrom the old canal was used and the mill soon became one of the best and largestin Northern Indiana. Frederick PETERSON later on bought out Mr. Hickman and themill then went under the firm name of LEITER and PETERSON. In 1896 the buildingburned to the ground and for some time afterwards Mr. Leiter was interested inthe bank which grew into the U. S. Bank and Trust Co. In 1898 he erected anotherelevator on the site of the old one and since that time has been active incharge until a few months previous to his death. Altogether he was in the grainbusiness 46 years. . . . . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 21, 1923]

TASTY MAID COFFEE SHOP [Rochester, Indiana
[Adv] Sunday Dinner - Tomato Soup, Roast Veal with Dressing / Roast Chicken withOyster Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Bread Sweet Potatoes, Escalloped Corn,Asparagus Tips on Toast, Pimento Slaw, Ice Cream and Cake, Coffee/Tea/Milk.Price 65 Cents. Not the cheapest place in town, but the best. Tassy Maid CoffeeShop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 25, 1922]

The Tasty Maid Coffee shop has been designated as the local depot for theHiner Red Ball Line. Miss Etta Emmons is the agent, who will be glad to furnishinformation to travelers as to connections made with other bus lines by theHines company.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, March 3, 1925]

TATE, JACOB [Perry Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Jacob Tate, teacher in the public schools at Gilead, a native of RushCounty, Indiana, born January 16, 1848, is the eldest in a family of ninechildren born to William and Leanna (Mincks) Tate, who were natives of Bedfordand Green Counties, Pennsylvania, respectively. Their parents emigrated toIndiana in a very early day. Subject's father settled in Miami County about1853, of which he continued a resident until his death, which occurred March 7,1871. He was a blacksmith by trade, served his country gallantly during theentire war, enlisting in 1861 in Company A, 39th Indiana Volunteer Infantry,which subsequently became the 8th Cavalry. He was with Sherman on his March tothe Sea, and participated in all the engagements incident to that campaign. Ourimmediate subject always made his home with his parents, and, upon the death ofhis father, became the support of his widowed mother. He received a commonschool education. He has always made teaching his occupation, in whichprofession he has been eminently successful, ranking as one of the bestinstructors of Miami County. Is a member of the M. E. Church. In politics anardent Republican.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. pp. 735-736]

TATHAM, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
John Tatham is of English stock, born in Halifax, Eng., September 26, 1827, andwhen a mere boy he learned the art of manufacturing all kinds of woolen andcotton fabrics, so common in that country. He received the rudiments of a commonschool education in his native country. This education was however morepractical than of a literary character, being chiefly the music of the loom orthe hum of the machinery. He was married in November 1849, to Miss Ellen Taylor,born in 1827. These parents came to America in 1851, landing at New York, wherethey resided for ten years. They then moved to Seymour, Ind., and from thencesettled in Rochester in March, 1881. He purchased the woolen mill where he isnow engaged in his chosen occupation. He has refitted and remodeled the mills,putting in new and valuable machinery. He has a carder, a spinner and a numberof improved looms, all propelled by a new and powerful engine. He is prepared tomanufacture all kinds of woolen goods, including flannels, cassimeres, jeans andblankets, and from his long experience is warranted in guaranteeing satisfactionto all who may favor him with their patronage. His factory furnishes employmentto from twelve to seventy hands, and he proposes to enlarge the facilities assoon as possible. His family are Henry, born in New York, May 22, 1854; Clara,born November 20, 1861; Mattie, born November 21, 1863; William, born September15, 1865; John, born August 4,1867, and Sarah, born February 4, 1869. Mr. Tathamis a genial gentleman, and has since his residence here made many friends.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 27]

TATHAM'S WOOLEN MILLS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] (Recently the Jessen Flouring Mill) Are now ready to do all kind of workcommonly done at establishments of this kind, such as Carding, Spinning, Dyeingand Weaving. I also manufacture a good variety of the best woolen goods whichare in every way superior to Eastern stock, being made honestly and withoutattempts to deceive buyers as to their actual quality, for Cash or Goods. Ipropose to furnish a reliable home market for Wools, and thus greatly stimulatesheep breeding in this county. Farmers who know their own interests will atleast give me a call before selling their wool to shippers. JOHN TATHAM.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 28, 1881]

TAVERN LOT [Rochester, Indiana]
Located on north side of East Third Street, between Main and Madison Streets.

TAXI BUSINESSES [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Bus Lines
See: See, Russell

NEW TAXI LINE
Announcement has been made of the opening of taxicab service by the ServiceMotor Livery Company. William Maglecic, painter, is the local owner and manager.The new company has a large enclosed car and several open ones and will answercalls day or night. Their headquartrs for the present will be the Arlingtonhotel.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 27, 1921]

STARTS NEW TAXI
A new taxi line has been started in the city by William Wines, former nightpolice chief who will give 24-hour service.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 17, 1922]

[Adv] NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC . I have taken over the local service heretoforeoperated from the Dawson & Coplen Drug Store and will continue the same,making every effort to please the public. GUY BRYANT, Proprietor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 15, 1922]

TAXI RATES CUT
As the result of considerable competition on the part of bus men taxi rates wentsuddenly downward in the city Sunday and it was possible for lake passengers toget out to Manitou for ten cents, while the charge to Long Beach was reducedfrom a quarter to fifteen cents.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 20, 1922]

TAYLOR, CECIL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Cecil Taylor)

TAYLOR, CHARLES [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Don't Eat Tough Meat, When you can buy a fine juicy and tender steak,roast or boil at THE OLD RELIABLE. We handle only the best and always haveplenty of it. Our line of fancy smoked and salted meats can't be beat by anyone.We deliver meat to your house free of cost and send you just the piece you want.Try us. CHAS. TAYLOR.
[Rochester Stneinel, Wednesday, August 28, 1901

NEWS OF THE DAY
A deal was made Wednesday, whereby Chas. F. Taylor became owner of L. C.Kistler's brick store room and flat building on the corner of Main and Pearlstreets. Taylor will be given possession April 1st, and will move his meatmarket from the Arlington block to that room.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 22, 1906]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Ike Emmons will open a short order restaurant in the room formerly occupied bythe American restaurant and the C. F. Taylor meat market. The restaurant will beon the ala a carte plan and Mr. Emmons says it is going to be the real thing andthat the people will be able to get anything to eat that they desire.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 5, 1906]

[Adv] Christmas Dinner - - - - - TAYLOR'S MARKET, Chas. F. Taylor, 900 MainSt.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 23, 1908]

TAYLOR WILL OPEN MEAT SHOP
The many friends of Charles Taylor of this city will be somewhat surprised tolearn that he is to re-engage in the meat market business in Rochester. Sometime ago he sold his business at the corner of Main and Ninth streets to L. C.Kistler and went on the road as a traveling salesman for a Chicago meat packingfirm. However, after a few weeks he found that the work did not agree with himand he resigned. Now he has purchased the Jacob Karn meat shop in the north endand will move the fixtures to the room south of the court house which wasformerly occupied by the "Bud" Ware wholesale liquor house. Mr. Tayloris well known in the local business world in the meat business and will, nodoubt, prove as successful this time as he has heretofore.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 13, 1912]

SHORT NEWS
A deal was completed today whereby Charles Taylor again takes possession of themeat market, now operated by L. C. Kistler. Mr. Taylor formerly owned the meatmarket on the corner of Main and Ninth streets and sold to Mr. Kistler about ayear ago, to take a position as traveling salesman. Mr. Kistler is undecided asto what he will do in the future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, February 17, 1913]

STARTS POULTRY BUSINESS
Charles Taylor, who recently moved to this city from Kansas, has leased the siteof the old Rochester College and will go into the chicken raising business on alarge scale. During the past week he has built three large chicken houses withruns. Mr. Taylor has ordered 2,500 baby chicks. The poultry raiser intends tomarket his produce to Lake Manitou summer visitors.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, March 15, 1926]

TAYLOR, EVERETT [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Everett Taylor)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Everett Taylor)

TAYLOR, HARLEY W., MD. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Harley W. Taylor, M.D., was born in Fulton county, Indiana, August 24, 1877, theson of William and Delilah (Dumbauld) Taylor, the former a native of Indiana andthe latter being the daughter of Peter and Susan (Stockberger) Dumbauld, pioneersettlers of Fulton county. William Taylor was born in Pulaski county, Indiana.He removed to Fulton county and worked in a store for a time, and then he wentto Marshall county and began a real estate business. For the last six years, heand his wife have been living in South Bend, Indiana. They have four children,all of whom are living, the subject of this review being the oldest. WilliamTaylor is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of OddFellows. Harley W. Taylor was reared on a farm in Marshall county and attendedthe graded and high schools of his home community. After completing hiselementary studies, he taught school for a time and then attended RochesterNormal College. Deciding to take up the profession of medicine, he matriculatedin the Medical College of Indianapolis and was graduated from that institutionin 1905. Since that time he has been in active practice in Rochester, Indiana,with the exception of four months spent in the Medical Corps of the UnitedStates Army during the World war. Before his entrance into the service, he wasexamining physician on the draft exemption board. On October 7, 1905, he marriedHazel A. Taylor, of Thorntown, Indiana, and they have one daughter, MariettaLouise. Dr. Taylor holds membership in American Medical Association and theState, the Thirteenth District, and the Fulton County Medical Associations. Infraternal circles, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows, and he is a Thirty-second Degree Mason. He takes a deepinterest in all movements for the civic welfare. He served for two years as thesecretary of the school board, and in 1922, he was made president of that board.He and his wife are devout members of the Baptist church.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 283-284 Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

TAYLOR, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage
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NEWS OF THE DAY
John Taylor has purchased the John Becker blacksmith shop on West Seventhstreet, and will take possession at once. Mr. Taylor has had ample experienceand will, no doubt, enjoy a good patronage. Mr. Taylor, who has been residing inKokomo, will remove to this city.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 31, 1910]

TAYLOR, JOHN S. [Rochester Township]
BIOGRAPHY
John S. Taylor, dairyman and farmer, is a native of Center county, Pa., bornNov. 11, 1831. He is a son of William and Susannah (Roop) Taylor, both nativesof Pennsylvania, where the father died at fifty-two years of age and the mothernow at eighty-one years of age, resides in Westmoreland county of her nativestate. By occupation the father of Mr. Taylor was a miller and carried on themilling business for quite a number of years in Pennsylvania. John S. Taylorreceived a common school education and then learned the tanner's trade, at whichhe worked for seven years near Ligonier, Pa. In 1854 he came to Indiana andsettled in Miami county, near Peru and there carried on farming for ten years,or until 1864, when he came to Fulton county and for two years lived inRochester and then removed to his present place of residence one-half mile northof Rochester. In 1868 Mr. Taylor began the dairy business and with the slightomission of one year has continued this industry ever since. His dairy is one ofthe best in northern Indiana. In connection with this interest he has for manyyears given considerable attention to stock interests, and now has on his farmof 107 acres some of the best blooded stock to be found in he county. Themarriage of Mr. Taylor took place in December, 1852, to Miss Susan Ambrose, whowas born in Westmoreland county, Pa., Dec. 17, 1833. She is a daughter ofKillian and Elizabeth Ambrose, who came to Fulton county about the same timethat the Taylor family came. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are these twochildren: Madge and Charles F. In politics Mr. Taylor is an ardent republicanand is a K. of H. He is a man of honest motive and he and family are highlyrespected.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 135]

TAYLOR, ORBRA [Rochester, Indiana]
ORBRA TAYLOR PURCHASES THE HUB SHOE STORE
The Hub Shoe store, pioneer in its line in this community, today was sold toOrbra Taylor. Guy Alspach, former proprietor, who is an uncle of Mr. Taylor,stated today he would continue his residency in this city and engage in amanufacturing business.
The new proprietor of The Hub has been associated with the store for over 27years and is thoroughly experienced in the shoe business.
Mr. Alspach started The Hub shoe store over 37 years ago with Robert Marsh,former resident of this city, as his partner. Later Mr. Marsh retired frombusiness and moved to New York state. A short time afterward Sylvester Alspach,father of Guy, became a partner and assisted in the operation of the store untilhis death, a number of years ago.
The new proprietor will in the near future announce his plans on the managementand operation of the store.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, February 12, 1937]

TAYLOR, SUE BELLE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Mitchell, Carol

TAYLOR, W. H. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] DO YOU WANT A FARM in Fulton, Marsahll and adjoining counties? - - - Ialso represent the best Life Insurance in the world. - - - W. H. TAYLOR, Officein Arlington Building. P.S. - Also agent for the famous Caxton School Supplies.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 20, 1901]
0
HAS W. H. TAYLOR FLED HIS HOME?
What is a present mystery to his family and friends is the whereabouts of W. H.Taylor, the well known real estate agent, who left Rochester Monday for partsunknown. He told members of his family that he was going away to look after atrade but from remarks that he has made in the past they are of the opinion thathe intends to remain.
Mr. Taylor has been in the real estate business in Rochester for many years andis well known to Fulton county citizens. For two terms he was town councilmanand in his official capacity gave excellent satisfaction. It is much to beregretted if Mr. Taylor has left the city indefinitely and if he has encounteredfinancial difficulties, it is hoped that he will be able to meet them and comeback.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, May 1, 1913]
TAYLOR, WILKS [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Downs Sawmill

TAYLOR & MITCHELL SADDLE & HARNESS SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
A. E. Taylor, C. A. Mitchell. We would most respectfully inform the public thatwe have opened a Saddle & Harness Shop in the building occupied by A. E.Taylor as a Store . . . Taylor & Mitchell. Rochester, Feb 16th, 1861.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 16, 1861]

Notice. The firm of Taylor & Mitchell in the Saddle and Harness business,is this day dissolved by mutual agreement. C. A. Mitchell continuing thebusiness at the old stand. . . those indebted will please call and settle witheither party at A E. Taylor's Store. A. E. Taylor, C. A. Mitchell. Roch., Aug19th, 1861.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 24, 1861]

TAYLOR & REEDER [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] TAYLOR & REEDER, Real Estate Brtokers, Arlington Block. - - - - - -
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 28, 1903]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The building occupied by Taylor & Reeder's feed store, and owned by A.Thalman, caught fire, about 10 o'clock, Tuesday night, in some unknown manner.The department was called out and soon extinguished. [sic !!!!]
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 5, 1904]

TAYLOR DAIRY [Rochester Township]
Located one-half mile N of Erie Railroad on W side old US-31.
Founded by John S. Taylor in 1868 and was still in business in 1896.

TAYLOR'S DRY GOODS STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
A. E. Taylor would respectfully inform the Citizens of Fulton County that he haspurchased the interest of Milo R. Smith in the Dry Goods Trade. Rochester, Jan.26, 1860.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 28, 1860]

Allen E. Taylor, Esq., one of our most estimable citizens, is about to movefrom this city to Fulton County in the north part of the State. -- Terre HauteEvening Journal.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 4, 1860]

All kinds of Family Groceries . . . Charles Becker's . . . two doors north ofTaylor's Dry Goods store, formerly Smith and Bro., on Main street.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, March 1, 1860]

A. E. Taylor. Dealer in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,Hats, Caps, Ready-Made Clothing, Boots, Shoes, &c. Store formerly occupiedby Milo R. Smith, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, March 8, 1860]
Mr. R. Gould respectfully announces to the citizens of Rochester and vicinitythat he has again opened rooms at the Old Stand, over the store of A. E. Taylor,and is now prepared to execute in the Highest Style of Photographic Art . . .Rochester, March 22, 1860.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday March 29, 1860]

Mr. Taylor is now receiving his mammoth Stock of Dry Goods, Hardware Bootsand Shoes, Groceries, etc., etc., to which he would respectfully invite thepublic and the rest of man and women kind to call and see. These goods werebought at the lowest prices possible, -- Mr. Cash being the buyer,-- and we takeit he buys as low as the lowest. Consequently look for bargains.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 31, 1860]

Picture Gallery!! Over A. E. Taylor's Store. Photographs of every variety ofstyle . . . Robert Gould. Rochester, June 6, 1861.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, June 20, 1861]

Notice! Having purchased the entire stock of goods & merchandise of Mr.A. E. Taylor, I take this method of informing the citizens of Fulton andadjoining counties that I shall continue the establishment much after the oldstyle of Mr. Taylor . . . Mr. Taylor will act as my agent for the present,assisted by Mr. C. A. Mitchell, in transacting the business . . . . . W. W.Tuley.
[Rochester Mercuty, Thursday, December 5, 1861]
See Taylor & Mitchell Saddle & Harness Shop.

TAYLOR LODGE [Rochester, Indiana]
See Lodges, I.O.G.T

TAYLOR, McMAHAN, EWING AND WARD [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] HO FOR NORTH WEST TEXAS. Next Excursion April 17th, May 1st, May 15th,June 19th, 1907. We have the Best Lands in the Panhandle Country. SEE US BEFOREYOU GO. Parties going from Rochester will have to start one day before theirdates. Agents at Rochester, Indiana TAYLOR, McMAHAN, EWING and WARD.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, May 23, 1907]

TAYLOR MEAT MARKET [Rochester, Indiana]
BUSINESS REVIEW OF ROCHESTER MERCHANTS
Few, if any, meat dealers in this section have attained a prominence equal tothat of this Modern Meat Market. Maintaining an up-to-date meat market, theyhave an enviable record for cleanliness and sanitation. Insisting thateverything about their place be in accordance with the most scientific ideasregarding sanitation, they have thus assured the public that meats coming fromtheir establishment are pure and wholesome. Nor have they seen fit to takeadvantage of the general tendency to maintain high prices needlessly, but on theother hand have been most moderate in their selling.

By reason of their fair dealing with the public their patronage has increaseduntil today their Market is not only popular in the home city, but in all thesurrounding territory. Whenever in need of anything in their line our readerscould do no better than visit this popular establishment and be convinced andsee meats which they offer in abundance at prices that are extremely reasonable.
We wish to compliment the management of this well known concern for the policiesadopted and to predict for Taylor Meat Market a continued era of prosperity.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 17, 1922]

TAYLOR POULTRY, CHARLES [Rochester, Indiana]
Charles Taylor, who recently moved to this city from Kansas, has leased the siteof the old Rochester College and will go into the chicken raising business on alarge scale. During the past week he has built three large chicken houses withruns. Mr. Taylor has ordered 2500 baby chicks. The poultry raiser intends tomarket his produce to Lake Manitou summer visitors.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, March 15, 1926]

TAYLOR SADDLE & HARNESS SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
A. E. Taylor, Saddle & Harness shop (also groceries, hides and peltries)opposite M.E. Church, Rochester, C. A. Mitchell, Clerk.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 4, 1863]

New Firm. A. J. Davidson & A. Milizer, have purchased A. E. Taylor'sHarness Shop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 31, 1863]

Notice. Sold out, left the country, debtors notified to pay Enoch Sturgeon,Justice of the Peace. A. E. Taylor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 2, 1864]

TEEL & SON [Rochester, Indiana]
TO OPEN MEAT MARKET
Theodore Teel and son will open a meat market in the room on North Main streetin which Fry Brothers operated a grocery store instead of a grocery as wasannounced in the News-Sentinel Monday evening. The new market which willspecialize in home killed meats will be opened the latter part of this week. Anad annnouncing the opening will be carried in this paper.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, March 24, 1927]

[Adv] Meat Specials For This Week - - - - - TEEL & SON, White FrontMarket, 608 Main St., Phone 68. We Deliver.
{The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 22, 1927]

TELEGRAPHY SCHOOL [Rochester, Indiana]
TELEGRAPHY SCHOOL STARTS
The school for telegraphers, inaugurated by John Slaybaugh, local Western Unionmanager, started Thursday night, with an enrollment of 17, 10 of whom are girls.
Instruction will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings to start, lessonslasting about two hours. R.R. and commercial telegraphy will be taught and latera radio instrument will be installed for the use of the boys who may contemplateentering the signal service of the United States.
Following are those who plan to take this work: Miss Florence White, Miss MarieWhite, Miss Alma Roseburg, Kenneth Roberts, Miss Ella Emmons, Miss DorisSlaybaugh, Gerald Horner, Robert Murphy, Miss Cleo Fugate, Miss Alma Fugate,Florent Sharkey, Robert Moore, Robert Dawe, Claud Chamberlain, Harry Richmond,Miss Lucile Sheward and Miss Madge Wallace.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 12, 1918]

TELEGRAPHY SCHOOL IS GROWING; 40 ENROLLED
Fully 40 students have enrolled with John Slaybaugh, Western Union manager, forhis instruction in telegraphy, the second session of the class to be held at8:00 this evening in the basement under the Western Union office. Several longtables have been erected and instruments were being installed today.
A member of the city council has been asked to visit the school this evening andwill probably address the students, many of whom are girls. It is entirelypossible that the school may grow into one of importance.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 16, 1918]

TEMPERANCE MEETINGS [Fulton County]
Rev. A. E. Babcock will lecture on the subject of Temperance at the M.E. Churchon Tuesday evening next December 6, 1859.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 3, 1859]

The Temperance Picnic held last Saturday at the Fair Ground, according toprevious announcement passed off pleasantly. Of the speeches we were unable tospeak not having heard them. The Mexico and Rochester Brass Bands enlivened theintervals with soul stirring strains, and the Glee Club, under the direction ofProf. Montgomery, added greatly to the occasion. We do not know that there wasany more than the usual number of quiet strolls through the shady grove, or anymore tender speeches made than on similar occasions, but all seemed happy.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 16, 1860]

Special Notice. The Ministers of Fulton County are requested to preach aSermon on the subject of Temperance at their earliest convenience by aresolution passed by the I.O. of G.T. in this place. R. P. Smith, W. Sec.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January , 1861]

Temperance Pic-Nic. There will be a Temperance Pic-nic at Akron, FultonCounty, Indiana, on Saturday, the 22nd day of June, 1861 The best Speakers ofthe County are expected.
All are invited to attend, bring your basket of "grub,' and we will have agood time. Akron, June 7, 1861.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 8, 1861]

The good people of Akron contemplate holding a two days Temperance Meeting,to commence on Tuesday, the 18th inst. . . .
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, February 13, 1862]

Notice. Rev. J. B. DeMotte to preach on temperance at I.O.G.T., February 8,Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 7, 1863]

Temperance Picnic. There will be a Temperance Picnic at Akron on Friday the15th of June. A number of good Speakers will be present . . . The Hoover familyconsisting of four Blind Brothers will give one of their highly interesting andentertaining vocal and instrumental concerts.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, June 14, 1866]

There will be a temperance meeting held at the Mud Creek school house, Fridayevening, for the purpose of organizing a lodge. All are invited to attend. . .
[Rochester Union-Spy, Friday, October 1, 1875]

TEMPLE HALL [Rochester, Indiana]
In 1891 a society of Progressive Thinkers was organized in Lyceum Hall, theprincipal promoters being Dr. S. S. Terry, Hon. Milo R. Smith, Editor MajorBitters, John M. Davis, Robert H. Henkle and a large number of ladies. The firstminister was Prof. Charles W. Peters of Plymouth, England. In the fall of 1892Temple Hall was constructed for the special use of the society on the secondfloor of the Long building, over what is now the Book Store and Walle's Jewelrystore.

TERRY, LYON [Rochester, Indiana]
I was born in Rochester in 1892, grew up there and graduated from Rochester highschool with the class of 1911.
Our neighbor, Jonathan Dawson, the veteran village druggist, had one of thefirst horseless carriages [about 1902]. It was a Pope-Toledo, as I recall, andwe kids followed it on bicycles.
Hugh's father, the Hon. Henry A. Barnhart, was the Congressman from our districtand owned a Studebaker E.M.F. Hugh drove some of us boys to Culver one day justbefore election and he cussed those horse and buggy drivers for whom he had toslow down, saying he hoped his Dad would soon get the election over with so hewouldn't have to stop for "those voters."
During vacations I kept busy at various jobs. I picked strawberries at Meyer'sfarm, west of the Fairgrounds, and worked at the canning factory. I did a littletelephone line work with my schoolmate Roscoe Pontius, who later becamepresident and manger of the Rochester Telephone Company. I also woorked a coupleof summers at the carpentry trade with Oscar Badwin, an excellent house builderand an admirable citizen.
One summer I worked for Gresham Bearss on his farm five miles southwest of town.I took the day off on the 4th of July to go to Fulton with other boys but gotback by bicycle early the next morning and plowed corn. The heat was terrificand after lunch I told Gresham that my horse was too hot to work; but possiblythinking that I was the one who was hot and tired, he said go ahead.
After two rows the horse keeled over. Gresham saw this from the barn and cameout with a bucket of water which he doused on the animal's head. It gasped andexpired, and we instantly learned that that wasn't the way to treat heat stroke.
In 1915 I graduated [from University of Michigan] with the degree of bachelor ofcivil engineering and soon left for the Oklahoma oil fields.
I took time out for the first World War, became a second lieutenant in the 85thField Artillery and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, Ala., when the war ended.
I went on to Texas [his car and possessions all had been stolen in Tulsa], minusthe auto and engineering equipment, and soon went broke in Gorman, Texas. It wasthen that my old carpentry apprenticeship in Rochester proved to be a lifesaver.I was able to earn enough as a carpenter in a booming oil camp to pay my way toWashington, D.C., where I became an oil and gas valuation engineer for UncleSam.
In Washington I renewed an Indiana friendship with Miss Edna Brubaker from Peru,and we were married in 1920.
We moved to New York City in 1921, where I becme associated with consultingengineers and later with the Satandard Oil company (N.J.). In 1927 I joined theoil and gas engineering firm of Ralph E. Davis Engineers, of Pittsburgh and NewYork.
The consulting engineering business can get pretty rough in hard times. In 1932during the Depression there were few jobs and Mr. Davis had to let most of thestaff go. But we were retained by the City of Chicago to represent the citybefore the Illinois Commerce Commission regarding the project to bring naturalgas from Texas to Chicago.
The city was about broke and we didn't get paid until years later. I worked onthe case daytimes. But Mr. Davis, an excellent bridge player, earned our runningexpenses by playing bridge in the evenings in a money game at one of those ritzyhotels on the north shore.
My most interesting job, perhaps, was building a natural gas pipeline to theCity of Vienna, Austria, in 1933-34.
In 1936 I became engineer for the newly-formed Petroleum Dept. of The ChaseNational Bank of New York, now The Chase Manhattan Bank, the largest commercialbank outside of California.
Over the years we built up a sizeable business of financing and serving the oiland gas industry throughout the country and the foreign operations of domesticcompanies. I ultimately became vice president of the bank. Among otheractivities I served on the Board of Directors of the Southern ProductionCompany, Ft. Worth, Texas.
I was retired by The Chase Manhattan Bank in 1957 and became associated withLehan Brothers, an old line firm of investment bankers, as a consultant in theirpetroleum department.
In 1963 I was awarded the Anthony F. Lucas Medal by the American Institute ofMining Engineers "for distinguished achievement in the PetroleumIndustry."
I retired in 1966 from Lehman Brothers. -Lyon F. Terry.
[Terry & Lyon Families, Sara Terry Shirk, Fulton Co. Folks, Vol. 1, Willard]
[NOTE: much interesting material had to be omitted. -WCT]
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LYON TERRY HEADS BIG OIL CONSTRUCTION WORK
A former Rochester young man, Lyon F. Terry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Terryof this city, is named as the supervisor of an important engineering feat in anarticle in the July issue of the Scientific American. The article is entitled,"Underground Arteries for Oil and Gas," and tells at some length ofaccomplishments in the way of piping gas from one city to another. That partdealing with Mr. Terry's work reads as follows:
"An interesting feat of engineering was accomplished in constructing theMississippi river crossing when the natural gas pipeline from Monroe, Louisianato Memphis, Tennessee, was built. Lyon F. Terry of the Ralph E. Davisengineering organization supervised the construction of the line, including theriver crossing. Massive concrete headers were built just back of both levees,where the 18-inch trunk line was subdivided into four 10 inch pipes about 12,000feet long.
"From the levee, the line had to traverse two thickets, two small lakes, aswamp, an 800 foot mud flat, and the 3,000 foot main channel of the river, whichwas about 80 feet deep at that point. Ten-ton concrete anchors were placed atintervals across the main channel, and the pipe was joined together and loweredfrom barges and pontoons, held in place by the anchors and two big boats. Thejoints were screwed together, fitted with collar leak clamps, coated withbitumastic enamel, and weighted with 1800-pound river clamps. The four-parallelline lie in a neat up-stream bow, designed to withstand the periodic rampages of"Old man river."
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, July 5, 1929]

LYON TERRY LEAVES FOR VIENNA ON BIG PROJECT
Lyon Terry, son of Frank Terry, 902 Jefferson St., sailed on the AcquitaniaWednesday night from New York his destination being Vienna, Austria. Terry, whois an engineer, will go to Europe for the European Gas & Electrical Company,to supervise some construction work there. He is vice president of Ralph E.Davis, Inc., of New York City, an engineering firm.
Terry will spend a few days in London following his arrival there May 16th andthen will proceed to Hamburg, Germany, and thence on to Vienna. He expected tobe abroad until August. His wife and children will remain at their home in NewYork.
Lyon graduated from Rochester High School in the class of 1911 and then majoredin engineering at the University of Michigan graduating in 1915. Since then hehas been in engineering work and has supervised some large projects in variousplaces over the country. One of these which received much notice was the layingof large oil pipe lines across the Mississippi River.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, May 11, 1933]

TERRY, SAMUEL P., DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
Dr. S. P. Terry, Physician and Surgeon. Office with Dr. Rhodes, south sidePublic square. Residence two blocks west of Dawson's Drug store, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 1, 1897]

BIOGRAPHY
Samuel P. Terry, M.D., a native of this county, born May 15, 1861, son of Dr.Samuel S. and Sarah (McCloud) Terry. The former was born in Tompkins county,N.Y., in 1824, and died in Rochester in 1893. He was a son of Samuel and LauraTerry, natives of New York and of English descent. The late Dr. Terry obtained agood primary education. In 1840 he began the study of medicine and in 1844graduated from the medical department of Willoughby university. In 1846 he cameto Fulton county and located at Akron, but two years later removed to Rochester,where he resided until his death. He represented this and Miami county in theIndiana general assembly from 1864 to 1868. During the war he was firstassistant surgeon of the seventy-third Indiana regiment. He was a men ofpronounced ability and unquestioned character. The mother of Dr. Samuel P. Terrywas born in Ohio and died in Rochester in 1883 and is yet remembered for hergrace of character and womanly purity. The subject of this review attended theRochester schools until September, 1878, when he entered Notre Dame universityand there continued for nearly four years. In 1882 he entered the law office ofJudge J. S. Slick as a law student. Here he continued until 1884, when he wasadmitted to practice at the Fulton county bar. He continued the pracrtice of lawfor some time and in 1894 began the study of medicine at the medical college ofOhio. March 23, 1896, he graduated from the college of physicians and surgeonsat Indianapolis and is now engaged in the practice of his profession atRochester. Dr. Terry was united in marriage Oct. 12, 1887, to Miss Mary E.Walker, of Rochester. To this union are these children, viz.: Lillian, SamuelW., and Frederick P. Politically Dr. Terry is a republican and a member ofRapier commandery, No. 1 at Indianapolis, and he is the only thirty-seconddegree Mason in Fulton county. He gave the name to Fredonia lodge, No. 122, K.of P., of which he was a charter member and its first chancellor commander.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 135-136]

TERRY, SAMUEL S., DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
The parents of this gentleman, Samuel and Laura Terry, were of English descentand natives of New York, where they were married. They left their native Stateand settled in Norh Fairfield, Ohio, in 1836. He was a miller and engineer andfollowed his trade in connection with his interests in agricultural affairs. Hedeceased in 1859, but his companion survived him until the year 1880. The Doctoris a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., where he was born November 10, 1824. Hespent his early years in attending the common district and high schools, wherehe received a more than ordinary education. He also assisted his father in hiswork, when not otherwise engaged. At the age of seventeen years, he chosemedicine as a profession, and commenced reading in 1840 under Dr. Campbell, ofNorth Fairfield. He continued reading there for three years, then attendedlectures at the Medical Department of the Willoughby University, where hegraduated in 1844 with the degree of M.D. He immediately commenced practicing inHuron County, Ohio, but in 1846 immigrated West and located at Akron, FultonCo., Ind. Here he soon established a lucrative practice, which he sustained,with a very slight interruption, for twenty-five years. It is with the medicalprofession like all other matters of science, that new discoveries areconstantly being made, and the man who succeeds best must keep pace withprogress in his profession. So in 1848, finding that a great change was beingeffected in the development of his profession, he, in company with Dr. CharlesBrackett, of Rochester, attended a special course of lectures for one year atthe Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He returned and continued hispractice with renewed energy and increased success till the year 1871, when hisfailing health compelled him to abandon the practice. He then began dealing inlumber on an extensive scale and with good success; but a few years of activework was sufficient to prove to him that his energy was greater than hisphysical powers. So he abandoned this business and became a resident ofRochester, and is now interested in railrod affairs, being one of he directorsof the Chicago & Atlantic extension of the Great Erie system of roads. Hiswealth enables him to be of much assistance in the various enterprises for thepublic good. In August, 1849, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah McCloud, anative of Ohio, then a resident of Fulton County with her parents, George andPolly McCloud. Two sons were born to these parents--Franklin H., a promisingyoung attorney, just admitted to practice at the Fulton County bar; and SamualP., a very persistent disciple of Blacksone. On February 8, 1883, Mrs. Terrydeparted this life, leaving many sorrowing friends and a name of all the womanlyvirtues ever given to human being. The Doctor served as State Senator fromFulton and Miami counties, from 1864 to 1868, with distinction to himself andcredit to his constituency. He also served on the medical staff as FirstAssistant Surgeon of the Seventy-third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during thewar.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 27]

TERRY DRUG STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
F. H. TERRY NEW DRUGGIST
A business deal was transacted late Monday whereby Frank Terry became the ownerof the drug store at the [NW] corner of Main and Seventh Sts., and MarshalCotton, of South Bend, most recent proprietor of the stock, became the owner ofa small farm southeast of Rochester. Mr. Terry stated Tuesday that he did notknow what he would do with the store, but that for the present A. J. FARAR, whohas been managing the place, will continue.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 22, 1918]

TEXACO SERVICE STATION [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] OPENING Sat., Jan. 12, '29. TEXACO SERVICE STATION, 417-423 Main St. Onegallon of gas or one quart of oil free with a purchase of 5 gallons of gas. CARLBIDDINGER, Mgr., WM. BUSSERT, Asst.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, January 10, 1929]

THACKER, CARL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Music Machine Agency

THACKER, CARL, MRS. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands

THACKER, MILTON
See: Mitchell, Carol

THACKER FUNERAL HOME [Rochester, Indiana]
MILTON THACKER BUYS THE BARNHART HOME
The Barnhart residence, one of the well-known homes of the city, situated 1118South Main street, today was sold to Milton Thacker of this city by the heirs ofthe Henry A. Barnhart estate.
Mr. Thacker, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thacker of this city, plans tomake the residence into modern equipped funeral home and will open the mortuaryin May of 1946.
Milton, who is a graduate of the Rochester High School is now enrolled in theIndiana College of Mortuary Science, Indianapolis, will complete his trainingwell in advance of the opening date of the services and received a medicaldischarge in March of 1944. [sic]
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Barnhart, who have resided at the Barnhart home for thepast several years will continue their residency there until the coming springit was stated.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, October 18, 1945]

THACKER MUSIC SERVICE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] NOTICE. We will open our record shop at 115 W. 8th (formerly Maiben'sLaundry) Sat. July 31st. New and Used Records and Supplies. THACKER MUSICSERVICE. We need your scrap records in order to get new ones!
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, July 29, 1943]

BUYS "JUKE" ROUTES
Carl Thacker, owner and operator of the Thacker Music Co., of this city, onFriday announced the purchase of the Logansport Automatic Music Co., owned byErnie Powell of that city. Possession is given the local concern today. Thackerwill continue operation of the Cass county routes and Mr. Powell has beenretained to manage that part of the business until next Sept. 1.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, March 31, 1945]

THACKER TO OPEN MUSIC STORE ON E. 8TH.
Carl Thacker, of the Thacker Music Co., today announced that he had purchasedthe two-story brick building on the northwest corner of Madison and Eighthstreet from Claude "Toy" Chamberlain.
Mr. Thacker will open a retail record and Majestic radio store in this propertywithin the next few weeks, he stated. The building formerly was occupied by theGordon H. Miller plumbing and heating shop. Mr. Miller recently completed alarge one-story building at the rear of 930 Jefferson street which will househis plumbing and heating business.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, September 10, 1945]

THACKER RADIO & APPLIANCE STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
LEE SHARPE TO MANAGE THACKER RADIO STORE
Carl Thacker, owner of the Thacker Radio and Appliance Store today announces hehas employed Lee Sharpe, of this city, to take over the temporary management ofthe store.
Mr. Sharpe, who was formerly associated with Val Zimmerman in the furniture andundertaking business, has been a resident of this city for 13 years.
The new radio and appliance store which will be located in the Thacker buildingon the corner of Eighth and Madison streets will be opened to the public inabout three weeks. Mrs. Dorothy Hagan will be the bookkeeper in this new store.The upstairs rooms of the two story brick building will be used for radio andappliance repair work.
In the spring, it was disclosed that Mr. Sharpe will become a partner of MiltonThacker in the mortury business which will be established in this city.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, November 13, 1945]

THALMANN, ANTON [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] GREAT SLAUGHTER! The entire Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes,will be closed out within the next 90 days regardless of cost as I desire tomake a change. "This is business." - - - Remember the place, Fromm'sold stand, North Main St., corner room. ANTON THALMANN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 10, 1885]

[Adv] GREETING! Having purchased the entire stock of Clothing and Gent'sFurnishings of Fred Bosenberg, I am pleased to announce to my friends andcustomers that I HAVE REMOVED the same to my store room and will give buyers allthe advantages I secure in saving rents, clerk hire, etc. COMPLETE STOCK.
My stock of General Merchandise is not equaled in Rochester, and my expenses areso low that customers will save money every time by buying of me. ANTON THALMANN,North End.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 1, 1891]

TO THE PUBLIC
Having sold my entire stock of general merchandise to M. Colgan & Co., Idesire to express my sincere thanks to my many customers who have patronized mefor the twenty years I have been in business, and I desire to say that I haveopened a feed, sale and livery business at north Main street and would be gladto share a part of the public patronage to my new line of business. - - - A.THALMANN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, October 26, 1901]

RAILROAD SALOON ROBBED
Burglars gained entrance to the railroad saloon owned by A. Thalmann, lastnight, and made away with about $75 worth of goods. The thieves chiseled a holethrough the back door and then it was an easy matter to gain access to thebuilding.
The cash register was relieved of about $18.00 and a gold watch. The owl slotmachine was also touched for about eight or ten dollars. The wine and whiskeycase was not overlooked as could be readily told by the empty shelves, which thenight before, contained some fine liquors. It is estimated that abouttwenty-five dollars worth of the liquors were taken.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 17, 1905]

THALMANN, HARRY [Rochester, Indiana]
NEW GROCERY
Harry Thalmann, for years a successful grocer in the north end will open a newgrocery in the Mercer Building Saturday morning. The policy of the store will beto sell every thing at cut rates and the proprietor hopes to attract trade froma wide surrounding territory.
The new store is clean and fresh and the stock is entirely new. While it seemsthat Rochester is plentifully supplied with groceries there is always room forone more, and Mr. Thalmann proposes to be a large advertiser and will doubtlesssecure a liberal share of the trade.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 14, 1909]

[Adv] Saturday Specials at the NEW CUT RATE GROCERY. - - - Cash Only. HARRYTHALMANN'S CUT PRICE GROCERY.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 14, 1909]

[Adv] CUT PRICE GROCERY, 830 Main St., Harry Thalmann. For your ThanksgivingDinner - - - - .
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 25, 1909]

THATCHMASTER [Rochester, Indiana]
Patent issued in 1973 to Dean O. Neff of Rochester. The machine, Thatchmaster,to be manufactured and sold by Brinley-Hardy Company in Louisville, Ky.

THEATORIUM [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
John Fieser will move his stock of buggies back into the room occupied by theTheatorium.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 15, 1907

THEATRE [Rochester, Indiana]
Dramatical. We are informed that the Dramatic Company organized in this placelast winter, have about concluded their arrangements and will give their firstent ertainment in a week or two. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 4, 1867]

Rochester Dramatic Troupe. This Troupe are taking great pains in fittingthemselves for theatrical entertainments . . . The Glick Brothers of this placehave executd a very fine painting to be used as the curtain. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 11, 1867]

Remember. The Theater to-night. The Renowned Dramatic Troupe make their grandde-but at the Court House this evening.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, May 2, 1867]

Theatrical. We learn that the Rochester Dramatic Troupe are preparing for theTheatrical season again.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 15, 1867]

HOME TOWN TALES
By "Pioneer"
Wilber Mitchell opened Rochester's first moving picture show in the New Millerbuilding, 624 Main street.
The program, all for five cents, consisted of two short reel picture stories anda colored illustrated song. The singer making the song sweet and remembered wasMay Brockman Touhy.
Next in local motion picture industry came Earle Miller, who opened the"Moving Picture Palace" of its day in the room now occupied byHoward's Variety store, 830 Main street. In his neat little theater Earle Millerintroduced America's first "talking motion picture" during the winterseason of 1913. While the effort was crude, the star artist being Black Patti,it was the beginning of present-day effect and completeness and we counted itmarvelous and good
In later years the Bassett Brothers opened the "My Show" in the northHeilbrun room, later followed by changed name to "Paramount," which inlate years unoccupied, has been a heavy eye sore of decay and neglect. Then cameMr. and Mrs. LeRoy Shanks with motion pictures and a song, which was followed byCarl Jessen who through advertising and a contest named his picture show the K.G.Following Jessen's venture came James Masterson and Son, opening a movingpicture show in the old Academy of Music which was of short duration, due to thefact that "folks" were unwilling to climb stairs. But the venture ofall ventures was made by James L. Kimmel in opening a picture show andvaudeville north of the public square. It was the "Biggest show and themost for your money." Two reels of pictures and five vaudeville actschanging three times weekly, cost Kimmel 200 acres of the very best farm land inMiami county.
Up to now Krieghbaum Brothers occupy and hold "the center" for thevery best to be shown in pictures. One theater is flashing "TheChar-Bell," while in bright lights is announced "The Rex," thelatest addition to a long list in theatrical and motion picture Rochesterhistory.
To Earle Miller goes the "Laurel of Entertainment Achievement" of pastor present Rochester history. His Mid-Winter Chautauqua of 1914 held at the oldAcademy of Music brought to Rochester Elbert Hubbard, the beloved sage of theRoycrofters Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the man claiming the discovery of the NorthPole, Louise Dunbar and John A. Preston and a supporting company of professionalartists in "The Light Eternal," Judge Ben Linsey, famous JuvenileCourt Judge, Opie Reed, renowned American novelist and writer and the greatKilty Band.
An early advocate of the "VERY BEST' in entertainment and enlightenment,regardless of the fact that high aim proved a heavy financial loss to him andhis associates, Earle Miller carried the banner of true optimism and vitalidealism. He he remained and carried on, both fortune and national reputationwould have been his reward.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, May 3, 1935]
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Rochester people dressed to attend social functions at the Knights of PythiasHall, also lost to this community by fire several years ago after theorganization almost ceased to function.
Older citizens will remember such attractions as John Preston in "The LightEternal," Otis Skinner in "His Lady Friends," John Haggerty in"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," our own Graham Earl, Ralph Ravencroft,Harry Holden and a host of local professional actors residing here, before thedays of motion pictures.
Then too Rochester applauded its talented local amateurs as every theatre seasonbrought them before the footlights.
Outside cultural talent brought to Rochester included the then famous Opie Read,Dr. Frederick Cook of North Pole fame, Judge Ronald Baggot, Fra Elbert Hubbardand names of the great too numerous to mention. Rochester really was the centerof cultural entertainers, breaking their jump between Chicago and New York. Thebest of the legitimate stage played the old Academy of Music.
Very few teenagers have seen the old favorite plays like "Uncle Tom'sCabin," East Lynn," "Sid Plunkard," "The DenverExpress," and countless others in the repertoire of the one-night standtroupes which visited this city.
The Redpath Chautauqua was a regular summer visitor and set up tent on a lot at415 West Eighth street where the residence built by Postmaster Dean Neff nowstands. The winter months brought the best of lecture course talent year in andyear out. Rochester was really a mecca for high class entertaining.
The first of the outdoor motion picture theatres was established by the late RoyShanks at about the same time as Mose Kimmel operated a vaudeville theatre (TheManitou) north of the public square. This writer nightly packed crowed into theEarle Theatre, present location of the Kroger market (Knapp Building), and J.Carl Jessen provided poenty of opposition with his Kai-Gee movie house where nowstands the Arthur Shore building (716 Main).
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 25, 1958]

Gentry's Dog and Pony Show under canvas was also a frequent Rochesterattraction when plenty of vacant lots were available upon which to set upbusiness. At home here, the Graham Earle Theatrical Company was a permanentresident on the east shore of Lake Manitou and was followed in later years bythe Holdens. As far as we know, John Ravencroft is the only living directdescendant of the Holden Companies still active in the entertainment world. Johnis a member of the King's Jesters of radio fame.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Tuesday May 12, 1959]

Earle A. Miller listed the following amateur footlight artists in 1905: OmarB. Smith, Frank E. Bryant, Senator Rome Stephenson, Harry Shields, Dr. W. S.Shafer, Nobby True, Henry A. Barnhart, Hugh Elliott, Attorney Enoch Myers, WillHoffman, Viv Essick, Peter Stingley, William Rannells, W. H. Guthrie, Dr. PerryHeath, Samuel Essick, Henry Bibler, Clyde Entsminger, Ray Fretz, Tom McMahan,Dee Reiter, Carl Jessen, Earle Miller and Justice of Peace John Troutman.
THEATRE LUNCH [Rochester, Indiana]
WILLARD SHOP WILL CHANGE ITS LOCATION
The Willard Battery and Radio Shop owned by Owen and Harold Davisson will onOctober 27 be moved from the rear of the Charles Kepler service station to thecity building on Main street occupied by the Theatre Lunch which closes itsdoors Saturday night. The Davissons plan to remodel their new quarters and buildan addition to the east end of the building to house machines while battery,wiring troubles are being adjusted. A radio salesroom will be operated in thefront part of the building. The chevrolet firm will occupy the room vacated bythe Willard shop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 20, 1924]

THEMIS, ALEXANDER [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rainbow Cafe

THIRD REGIMENT BAND [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rannells, William W.
See: Rochester Bands
__________

This band evolved from the Knights of Pythias Band, and was formed in 1889,with George Van Scoik, director. It was Rochester's first military band.
Members: H. A. (Ad) Reiter, Viv Essick, Alfred (Pipey) Goodrich, Stilla Bailey,Joe Ault, Bill Dewitt, Fred Stephenson, Walter Stephenson, Val Zimmerman, PaulEmrick, Frank Crim, Jacob Crim, Henry Meyer, L. B. Walters, Ed Zook CharlesMeyers, and Billy True. Drum majors were Edgar Wallace and Meade Kingery.
They played at Indianapolis, Evansville, South Bend, lodge encampments,political gatherings, fairs, and numerous events throughout the state, until theoutbreak of the Spanish-American War.

THIRD STREET CASH GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Bananas, oranges, potatoes, apples, Cold Meats and Groceries. Open Sunday.THIRD STREET CASH GROCERY. We Deliver. Phone 214.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, September 15, 1934]

HAROLD REESE PURCHASES THIRD STREET GROCERY
In a deal closed last week, W. J. Russell sold the Third Street grocery toHarold Reese. Fred Reese, father of Harold, is managing the store. Mr. Reese wasformerly employed at the Bashore Feed store. No changes are planned for thestore.
Mr. Russell is retiring from the grocery business due to ill health. He hadowned and operated the grocery for five months.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, September 11, 1944]

BUYS GROCERY
A business transfer involving the Third street grocery has been announced, withMrs. Bessie DeLand having acquired the stock of groceries and meats from FredReese. The new proprietor has taken possession and plans several improvements inthe business.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, January 22, 1945]
THIRD ST. GROCERY HAS NEW OWNERSHIP
The Third Street Grocery located at 221 West Third street is now under theownership and management of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Abbott. They purchased the storeand stock from Mr. and Mrs. Harley Thompson. The new owners intend to carry onthe personal service policy but plan to expand their business and service in thecoming months.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, October 31, 1945]

THIRTY-ONE CAFE [Rochester, Indiana]
31 CAFE TO BE MOVED TO 707 MAIN STREET
Albert Groves and Jack Jefferies who came to this city from Winamac and openedthe 31 Cafe at 604 North Main street on December 14, 1930, today announced thatthey had leased the room in the Barrett Hotel building at 707 Main street ofAbner J. Barrett. Groves and Jefferies will move their cafe to the new locationand plan to have the same in operation on May 22. In their new location Grovesand Jefferies plan to specialize on regular meals.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, May 5, 1931]

THOMAS, H. L. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] CLOSING OUT SALE. Beginning at once I will close out my entire stock offurniture, stoves, tools and cash register at a great saving to you. H. L.THOMAS, 512 Main St., Rochester, Ind.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 26, 1943]

THOMAS, RICHARD M. [Grass Creek, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Richard M. Thomas was born in Pulaski county, Indiana, March 21, 1868, educatedin the common schools and began work for himself at the age of twenty. Until1902 he farmed, then became manager and owner of a hardwar store in Grass Creek.He married Miss Minnie Murray and had four children: Lelah, Robert, Floyd andAlice. Richard Thomas is the son of J. W. and Martha J. (Anders) Thomas, who hadnine children, of whom four are now living. J. W. Thomas was a farmer and servedin the Civil war. He is still living. His wife, the mother of Richard Thomas,died in 1920, and was buried in Victor Chapel cemetery. As an evidence ofpioneer days, Mrs. Richard Thomas has a woolen blanket which her mother carded,spun and wove by hand out of the wool from a sheep which she raised herself.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 284-285 Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

THOMAS SECOND HAND STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
TOPPS GARMENT CO. LEASES TWO ROOMS IN MOOSE BUILDING
To give Topps Garment Company needed space for expansion of their plantfacilities, a committee of local business men, working in cooperation with FredMoore, effected a lease of two more rooms in the Moose building, opposite theTopps plant, on a five year basis effective July 1.
With the Topps Garment Company entering into the lease, they will gain space nowoccupied by Thomas Second Hand Store and King Oil Burner Company, to beconverted into a cutting room, thus enabling them to place more sewing machineryin the factory room formerly used for cutting operations. They will be able toadd at least 25 to their payroll and will be in a position to bid on largergovernment contracts than they have heretofore been able to handle.
Carlton Haskett has been appointed trustee by the business men to sellmerchandise in the Thomas Second Hand Store following purchase of the stock bythe business men.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 23, 1941]

BUYS THOMAS STORE
Charles S. Overmyer, Rochester, has purchased the Holmes Thomas New and UsedFurniture Store at 500 North Main street from Carlton H. Haskett, appointedtrustee of a group of local business men. Mr. Overmyer stated today that hewould close the stockout in order to make room for the Topps ManufacturingCompany, who will occupy that building and the adjoining one soon.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 25, 1941

THOMAS BROTHERS HARDWARE [Grass Creek, Indiana]
Located S side of street just W of the railroad.
In January of 1903, Richard Melvin Thomas and his brother Frank Thomas boughtthe hardware store in Grass Creek and it was known as the Thomas BrothersHardware. They bought the store from Asa Murray (Mother's brother) and FrankKumler (brother to Roy Kumler) who had previously bought the store from Dan Ranswho had built the hardware building about the year of 1890.
Rock-a-by and crank type washing machines, DeLaval cream separators, John Deerewalking plows, and several Studebaker buggies and wagons as well as otherhardware items were sold during those early years.
Mathew Thomas, a third brother, had a section of the store where he had ajewelry shop and also did watch repairing for several years. William Thomas, afourth brother, with Frank Thomas operated a stockyard just south of the presentelevator. Frank Thomas taught the Dewey school near Marshtown, and then waselected Wayne Township trustee in 1905.
When R. M. Thomas and family moved to Grass Creek, they bought a house and barnright across the road from the hardware store. The barn had been used as alivery stable so the Thomases continued to use it as a livery stable. This wasvery handy as all travel was by horse and buggy or wagon, and many would feedtheir horses while in town. Sometimes we would take salesmen to the next townwith closed buggy, or sleigh, if snow was on the ground.
Thomas Hardware Store had the first telephone in Grass Creek, number 1, which wekept until the dial system was installed in about 1947.
We just got started selling John Deere equipment when the depression hit in theearly 1930's. In 1938 conditions were starting to improve, and the farmersneeded a lot of farm machinery and tractors. That year we sold 75 new tractorsand 75 used tractors, as the farmers' products had increased in value.
In 1963 we incorporated as the Thomas Hardware, Inc., with me president, EugeneThomas vice president, Helen Huffman, who has been working for us since WorldWar II, as secretary-treasurer. Eugene is the third generation, and with foursons we may have the fourth generation in the Thomas Hardware.
On March 15, 1972, the post office was moved into Thomas Hardware, Inc. With thehelp of the community, the post office sales went from less than $1,000 to over$5,000 sales in the first year and Grass Creek got two mail deliveries per day.
In 1973, we added a new display building where the John W. Harrison home andphotography shop once stood.
[Thomas Family, Robert D. Thomas, Fulton County Folks, Vol. 1, Willard]
See Whence Grass Creek?, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard.

THOMPSON, ABNER [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Abner Thompson, youngest son of William and Ruth Thompson, was born in WayneCounty, Ind., April 6, 1824. His father was a native of Ireland and his motherof South Carolina. When young Abner was but a small boy, his father went toSouth Carolina with a herd of horses, and after disposing of them started on hisreturn, burt was never afterward heard from And when he was but ten years oldhis mother was taken away, leaving him doubly an orphan; however, abrother-in-law gave him the protection of his friendly roof, where he remainedperforming the duties of a farm hand until he was twenty-one years old. At thistime he rmoved to Henry County and purchased a piece of land, which he at onceset about improving for a home. On the 26th of November, 1846, he was united inmarriage to Miss Mary Adamson, with whom he lived until death removed her fromhis side on the 15th of March, 1863. The fruits of this union were sixchildren--Isaac, William, Margaret, Sarah, Abner M. and Mary E.; of these, Abnerdied in his nineteenth year; the others are all married and settled forthemselves in life. Mr. T. remained on his little farm in Henry County until theautumn of 1863, when he removed to Fulton County, locating in Henry Township,where he purchased 308 acres of land, on which some improvements had been made,and to which he has steadily added. Mr. Thompson had no capital and but littleeducation to start with, but with a large share of courage, energy and businesstact, to which he added "success," as a motto, he has been able tosurround himself with beautiful fields and many modern conveniences. He hasrecently purchased another tract of 42 acres of land near the old place, towhich he has removed his family. Mr. Thompson was married a second time, June 7,1864; this time to Miss Susan Swihart. Of this union were born threesons--Charles C., John and Frank; of these, John lived but two months; the othertwo are yet at home. Though not connected with any church, Mr. T. is a man ofstrict integrity and enjoys the esteem of his acquaintances.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 41]

THOMPSON, BYRON "BARNEY" [Akron, Indiana]
See Akron Feed & Grain

THOMPSON, EARL D. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Earl D. Thompson)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Earl D. Thompson)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Third Letter From Earl D. Thompson)

NEW GROCERY
We are now located on College avenue with a new stock of groceries. We also keepon hand a supply of Grand Union goods, with which we are giving nice premiums.Phone 245. ELWOOD THOMPSON.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 4, 1911]

THOMPSON, GENE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Gene Thompson)

THOMPSON, H. B., DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Scientific Optician. Office with Dr. S. P. Terry. - - - Can be consultedat Dr. Terry's office, in the Long building, on Wednesday and Thursday of eachweek. - - - -
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 30, 1897]

[Adv] OPTICIAN: Dr. H. B. THOMPSON, over Blue Drug Store, examines your eyesfree. Eight years experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Office days, Thursday,Friday and Saturday.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 11, 1900]

[Adv] Have moved my office to Fieser block over Fair store, where I havepleasant offices easy of access. Consult me about your eyes. Satisfactionguaranteed -- Dr. H. B. THOMPSON.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 21, 1900]

THOMPSON, JESSE H. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Jesse Thompson)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Jesse Thompson)

THOMPSON, STANT [Akron, Indiana]
BUYS RESTAURANT
Akron News.
Stant THOMPSON surprised himself the other day, as well as the rest of us byselling his restaurant stock and fixtures to Bud WARE, of Rochester. Thepurchaser took possession Thursday morning and Stant has no job. He retains hisbusiness room and his residence, but has nothing in view for future businessactivity, but is alert to any opening that may fall his way. The new owner hassome acquaintance here, but is practically a stranger.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 31, 1913]

FENIE'S CAFE SOLD TO NEW MAN
Fenie's Cafe, formerly owned by S. C. Fenimore and Son, has been sold to StantonThompson, a former resident of this city and who has been operating a restaurantin Akron, Ind., for several years. Mr. Thompson took possession of the cafe thismorning.
Mr. Fenimore and son Lonnie opened Fenie's Cafe June 17th and ever since havehad a first class patronage. They have not fully decided as to their futurework.
Mr. Thompson has had five years experience in the restaurant business. For threeyears he was an employe of R. P. True, of this city. Until June of last summer,he conducted a restaurant in Akron. Mr. Thompson has the reputation of being afirst class restaurant man and will undoubtedly make a success of his newventure.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 15, 1913]

THOMPSON, U. D. [Rochester, Indiana]
RESTAURANT
U. D. Thompson wishes to announce to the citizens of Fulton and adjoiningcounties that he has started a first-class restaurant in the building formerlykept by A. J. Corbet, and will also keep week and day boarders. Meals 20 cents;board by the week $3.00.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 21, 1882]

THOMPSON, WILLIAM C. [Rochester, Indiana]
LT. BILL THOMPSON GETS CONTRACT WITH PIRATES
Lt. William C. Thompson, 22, will report for spring training with the PittsburghPirates of the National league, at Hornell, N.Y., next April, provided, ofcourse, that he is discharged from the Army Air Force before that time.
This fact became known Sunday when a talent scout for the Pirates lookedThompson over in a game in which Jimtown took the low end of a 2-3 score, andimmediately offered the local youth his contract to crash the big time.
Thompson, home on a rest furlough after 18 months confinement in a Nazi prisoncamp, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mac Thompson, owners of the SunshineDairy, this city.
He is a graduate of Hammond high school, and attended Ball State college beforeenlisting in the air corps. He was on his 26th mission over Austria when hisship was shot down with the loss of half the crew. With five other Americanairmen, he was chosen to supervise sports activities within the prison camp,including baseball, football, softball and soccer, with the use of athleticequipment provided by the Red Cross. He was liberated last May 2 and evacuated,arriving home on a 60-day furlough June 23. He has since been granted a 30-dayextension, and will be seen in the local linep next Sunday, when the Indiansmeet the Chicago Giants, one of th fastest semi-pro teams in the middle west.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 20, 1945]

THOMPSON, WILLIAM MAC [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Sanitary Milk Co.
See: Sunshine Dairy

THOMPSON & SON [Rochester, Indiana]
Drs. W. J. Thompson & Son would respectfully inform the citizens of Fultoncounty, that they have commenced the practice of the medical profession . . .Office two doors South of Holmes & Miller's new building.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 18, 1864]

THOMPSON GARAGE [Akron, Indiana]
AKRON GARAGE SOLD
The Buick garage in Akron which was built last year by Stanton R. Thompson ofthat place has been sold to R. R. Hattery and Dan Secor of the same place. Mr.Hattery took possession of the business at once. He will abandon the repair shopwhich he has been running in Akron for the past several years. Everett Showalterand Russell Meredith will remain in the employ of the new firm.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 15, 1920]

THOMPSON LIVERY STABLES [Rochester, Indiana]
City Livery and Sale Stables. Mr. James Rannells . . . has purchased the stableformerly owned by Dr. Thompson, and has moved into the large and spacious stableat the Continental Couse. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, February 20, 1868]

THOMPSON SHOE REPAIR SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
NEW SHOE SHOP
George Thompson, a former resident of this city and for the last ten years aresident of Mishawaka, intends to open a shoe repairing shop here next week inthe room back of the American Dry Goods store. Mr. Thompson has brought with him$900 worth of machinery.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 19, 1914]

THOMSON'S TAVERN [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] ANOTHER TEST for those who eat - 30¢ Plate Lunch - - - - THOMSON'STAVERN, 513 Main, phone 160.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 24, 1933]

THORNBURG, HAROLD [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Harold Thornburg)

THORSTENSON, PETER O. [Rochester Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Peter O. Thorstenson, a progressive farmer of Rochester township, was born inSweden, March 10, 1865, the son of Ole and Hannah (Person) Thorstenson, both ofwhom lived and died in Sweden. They had nine children two of whom died ininfancy and they are: Elna, Peter O., Nels, Charstie, Thomas, Olaf, and Bertha,the two who died being born between Elna and Peter. Peter O. Thorstensonreceived his education in the public schools of his native country and thenserved ninety days in the Swedish army as did his father and grandfather inaccordance with the Swedish law. He came to the United States in 1888 andlocated at Paxton, Ford county, Illinois, where he worked on several farms. In1902 or 1903 he bought the farm in Rochester township, Fulton county, Indiana,on which he now resides, but returned to Illinois to work for two years. At theexpiration of that time, in the spring of 1905, he moved to his farm, which is alarge one of two hundred acres. He has tiled and improved the property which isone of the best farms in the township. Although he does general farming in themain, he devotes considerable attention to stock raising. In 1920, he purchasedfifteen acres at the edge of the city of Rochester. There were excellentbuildings on the tract, yet he further improved them and made the place his homefor nearly three years. On February 15, 1899, he was married to Leda Youngren,the daughter of Gust Youngren, of Paxton, Illinois, and to this union were bornfour children all of whom are living: Mildred, who married Earl Townsend, ofLiberty township, and who has one child, Irene; Julius, who married SeledaMcCarter and lives on his father's fifteen acre farm at the edge of Rochester;Albert; and Carl. He is a member of the Lutheran church and is highly esteemedin the township which is his home.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, p. 285, Dayton Historical PublishingCo., 1923]

THREE BROTHER'S GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Also See Four Brothers Grocery
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Three of the sons of John B. McMahan -- Otto, Tom and Will -- all teachers,have completed arrangements to open a new grocery in the Mercer corner room ofthe Odd Fellows building, southwest of the public square. They have all had someexperience as store keepers, all are bright and reliable young men and they aregoing to make a success of the business. They will have a splendid location andwill equip the fine, large room with new fixtures and a complete new stock ofgoods.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 8, 1904]

[Adv] Clean New Grocery - - - will be opened Saturday, March 14th at theMercer Corner. We will sell for Cash ONLY. - - - THREE BROTHER'S GROCERY, Ott,Tom and Bill McMahan. On the Mercer Corner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 17, 1904]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The McMahan brothers bought the Arnold Burch meat market and will move it andthe Newman market in the rear end of their grocery. Mr. Burch will do the fancycutting.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 16, 1904]

[Adv] The Fair is Next Week. But Ott, Tom and Bill are not Going! Instead,they will remain at their grocery store and give all their customers fair andcourteous treatment. They would like to have you come in and tell them about theBig Pumpkins and Fat Hogs. - - - 3 BROTHERS GROCERY.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 30, 1904]

[Adv] Try 3 BROS Grocery and Meat Market. Not in the Combine. Their motto isquick service small profit. Ott, Tom and Bill McMAHAN. Mercer corner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 18, 1905]

NEWS OF THE DAY
When your cupboards are very empty
And groceries you haven't got
We would like to fill your order,
Say Tom, Bill and Ott.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 1, 1905]

[Adv] Aut-Tom-o-Bile. They sell Groceries and Meats.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 21, 1905]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The McMahan Bros., Ott, Tom & Bill, who have conducted their grocery underthe title 3 Brothers for the past couple of years, made a trade yesterday withOtto Caple, for the former Hoffman farm which is located near the fair ground,and gave Mr. Caple possession of their store this morning. The boys have beenvery successful business men and made many friends while in the grocerybusiness, but are desirous of educating themselves for professional careers andintend going to school at Ann Arbor, in the near future. They thank their manyfriends for their kindly interest and patronage and trust that the people willextend the same courtesy to the present proprietor, Mr. Caple.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 7, 1905]

THE GROCERY BUSINESS
The sale of 3 Bros. Grocery to Mr. Lon Lough & Son transfers the businessinto hands as reliable and painstaking to please the trade as were the popularMcMahans. The Messrs Lough are widely known as square dealing obliging gentlemenand the many former patrons of the store will find the new management worthy ofall favors. Mr. Otto McMahan will remain with the new firm for some time and heinvites all of his old customers to come and get acquainted with the newproprietors and give them a trial.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 29, 1905]

TWO GROCERIES SOLD
Two business changes were effected in Rochester today, whereby two grocerieschanged hands the Messrs Ott, Hugh, Tom and Bill McMahan buying the businessrecently owned by the Three Brothers, and Robert S. Lowry buying the ShannonMackey stock and business. For the past few months it has been reported that theMcMahan brothers would again engage in business here and it was at one timetheir intention to open another store here, but Mr. Lou Lough, who bought thestore founded by the McMahan Brothers, of Otto Caple was not pleased with thatline of business and decided to return to his farm near Leiters, and for thatreason sold the store. The Three Brothers will add another member to the firm --their brother Hugh -- and it will be known in the future as the Four Brothers.
The intention of the new firm is to at first give a sale to reduce the stock ofgroceries, and dispose with the entire stock of meats on hand, and will then addlines of dry goods, notions, and shoes, which they have bought. The McMahan boyswere very successful in their first business venture and built up a very largetrade. Mr. Lowry who purchased the Mackey grocery will turn it over to his son,Robert who will manage it in the future. Mr. Mackey had a very good business andhis trade was the largest in that section of Rochester. Mr. Lowry will takepossession Wednesday morning. Mr. Mackey will retire from business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, February 27, 1906]
THREE-FIFTY STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
ANOTHER SHOE STORE IN ROCHESTER SOON
Guy Alspach of this city, owner of several shoe stores in northern Indiana, willsoon open another store in Rochester to be known as the "Three-fiftyStore." The stock will consist of an all-leather line of men's and women'sshoes only, to sell for but one price, $3.50. No definite date has been set forthe opening, but it is thought that it will be in the near future. The new storewill occupy the room on E. 8th street recently vacated by H. F. Pierce, and willbe under the competent management of Mr. Mohler Bell who is now connected withMr. Alspach's store in Logansport.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 12, 1924]

THRESHING RINGS [Fulton County]
KEWANNA
The members of the Prairie Grove Threshing Co., gathered at the home of Geo. E.Finney, Sunday and partook of a big dinner given in honor of W. E. Gaskill andwife. Mr. Gaskill who has done the Company's threshing for two years, is nowgoing to move to Douglas county, Wash.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 7, 1903]

KEWANNA
From the Herald
The Snyder threshing ring inWayne township finished its work last week, havingbeen engaged six days on threshing oats and six on wheat. Thirteen land ownersbelonged to the ring, of which John Costello is president and Chris Lambert,secretary. - - -
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 22, 1903]

MT. TABER
The Leader Threshing Co. are building new sheds for some of their machinery atthe home of Felix Tobey.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 20, 1904]

KEWANNA
Kewanna Herald.
The Bruce Lake Station Threshing Company has a membership of 17. They beganthreshing at Geo. Garmon's on July 11th and finished at Lee Ramsey's on July21st, having threshed 6,151 bushels of wheat off of 270 acres in 51 hours and 50minutes actual working time. This made an average of 118 bushels per hour and acrop average of 23 bushels per acre.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 3, 1906]

MACY
Macy Monitor.
The Shafer machine threshed for Zartman brothers living one-half mile north ofMacy, 110 bushels of wheat from pieces of ground containing just a little lessthan two and one-half acres.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 3, 1906]

TUESDAY
The Pleasant Valley threshing club threshed 10,000 bushels of grain in sevendays and then the members and their families, in the number of 75 people, met atClarence Eshelman's and indulged in eight gallons of ice cream, nine cakes, anda box of cigars. There are fourteen members of the club.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 17, 1906]

THRESHING RING NEWS
The Big Foot Threshing Ring threshed 3,303 bushels of wheat, 8,711 bushels ofoats in 55 hours. The difference in time among members amounted to $28.45 infavor of the men with the small jobs.
On the evening of the 20 of August the members of the Ring and their families tothe number of 88 met on W. Horn's lawn and consumed 10 gallons of ice cream and14 cakes.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 31, 1906]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Haimbaugh-Mercer threshing company have secured a new husking and shreddingmachine that is guaranteed to handle one thousand bushels of corn a day.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 22, 1906]

BRUCE LAKE
Kewanna Herald.
The Bruce lake threshing ring met at the lake school house Saturday night andperfected arrangements for the Season's work. Jerome Harris will furnish theoutfit and work begins next Monday at Harry Moon's. There are 20 farmers in thering this season.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 27, 1907]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Antioch threshing ring held its last meeting at Antioch school house lastevening. Reports of the work done were read adopted after which the crowdconsumed nearly ten gallons of cream and a sufficient number of cakes. "Infact," John Hagen said, "they ate so much that they nearly froze up." All the work is now done except the clover and hulling. The members ofthe ring are as follows: John Hagen, Wm. Tetzlaff, Mel Hay, S. E. Gordon, P.Thorstenson, O. Martindale, D. Martindale, N. Mason, H. Rans, Louis Felder,Richard Hill and Mart Warner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 21, 1908]

UNION IS FORMED
We the threshermen of the State of Indiana, believing in the necessity of anassociation for our mutual good, to protect our mutual interests, and to promoteharmony among ourselves; to secure just and equitable laws for the protection ofourselves, our lives and our property, do hereby unite in an association to beknown as the Fulton County Threshermens' association.
The above paragraph is the preamble adopted by the threshermen of Fulton county,at their meeting at the court house in this city, Saturday afternoon.
In the past seasons of harvest time the threshermen of the county were allindependent of each other and necessarily there has always been more or less ofa jangle as the result of a cut in prices and other matters that continuallyarise in the business. Accordingly, to do away with this state of affairs, thethreshermen decided to get together and form an assocation that there might beunity among themselves. The table of prices adopted by the association willreadily convince the farmers that it is not the purpose of the union to work anyhardship upon them. Following is the lists of prices: - - - -
As seen by the comparison all sorts of prices were charged heretofore, while nowone farmer will pay the same as another and the threshermen will get the same.
Charter members of the association are, J. H. Baird and sons, Oliver Geier, LeeMontgomery, Charles R. Coplen, Melvin Jones, J. P. O'Connell, D. A. Wagoner,Adam Blinn, C. F. Good, T. E. Shelton, Charles Fry and T. J. DuBois.
The officers elected Saturday are: President, T. J. DuBois; vice-president,Oliver Geier; secretary and treasurer, Lee Montgomery; directors, Charles Coplen,J. P. O'Connell and Eugene Shelton.
The next meeting of the association will be held at the court house Saturday,April 30.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, April 18, 1910]

BERTHASVILLE
Mount Nebo's threshing ring closed their program with an outing at Adam's campThursday afternoon, with ice cream for refreshments.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 1, 1910]

EBENEZER
The threshing ring of this neighborhood had an ice cream supper at Ed Camerer'sTuesday evening. All enjoyed a good time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 10, 1911]

MT. OLIVE
The threshing ring at Mt. Olive had an ice cream supper Saturday evening and allhad a fine time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 23, 1911]

THRESHING RING INCORPORATES
Ten farmers of the Talma neighborhood, who recently formed a threshing ring,have taken out articles of incorporation for $5,000 for their organization underthe name of the Talma Threshing Company. They have elected oficers for theirfirst year and have purchased a complete threshing outfit including a steamengine, separator, clover huller, corn shredder and also a buzz saw. Theirpurpose in incorporating was to bind the members of the ring more closelytogether as a going concern and also to make the company liable in case of anytrouble in place of any one man on whom the blame for a loss might be attached.They intend to do work for anyone who hires them both inside and outside thering. The officers are Charles T. Jones, president; Lloyd Kessler, Sect andtreas; Willard Dick, Frank B. Ward and Charles Holloway, directors.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 11, 1919]
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FULTON COUNTY USED MANY THRESHING RINGS
By Shirley Willard
Fulton County, like all counties in Indiana. had several threshing rings. Thesewere groups of farmers who organized to harvest their grain by hiring athreshing machine. Each farmer did his own binding by pulling a reaper behindhis horses. The reaper cut the standing grain and tied it into bundles. Thebundles were gathered and stacked standing up in clumps called shocks, eachshock having seven to nine bundles, and two or three bundles were spread acrossthe top to help shed the rain. You can still see this on Amish farms.
When the threshing machine came, all the farmers in the ring came to each farmand worked together to do the threshing. There might have been as many as 100threshing rings in Fulton County. Some owners of threshing machines were GeneNafe of western Rochester Township, Isaac Edgington of Delong, Claude Brubakerand Dan Fry of Richland Center, Delbert Wright of Tiosa, Dave Van Meter and IkeRans of Marshtown, Lawrence Rouch of Grass Creek, Emanuel Slaybaugh of Akron,Dean Neff, Sid Bixler, Ellis and Frank Greer
of Kewanna,
Bill Baldwin recalled a threshing ring West of Rochester in the following storyhe wrote for a creative writing class in Florida last winter. The Baldwins livedon a farm at Germany Station. (the name was changed Loyal in 1918 and laterchanged again to Pershing)
"When I wag a teenager, my father and some other farmers owned threshingequipment consisting of a grain separator (the actual threshing machine) and anAvery steam engine. Bill Mathias was the separator man and Mr. Dickerson ran thesteam engine. Bill Anderson, John Eash, Ira Butts, and my father William L.Baldwin were farmers in the ring.
"The separator had knives that cut the string, grain and stalks intopieces, then the separator shook the grain loose from the husk, and the graincame out a spout and was put into sacks or a wagon. A blower blew the straw outof a pipe unto a straw stack. Tractors were used to operate machinery in thebarnyard but not allowed to go through the fields because farmers thought itwould ruin their land by compacting the soil so nothing would ever grow again.
"The steam engine was fired with coal and a number of 55 gallon barrelswere filled with water to make the steam. A large tank mounted on a wagon with alarge pump mounted on its top with a long handle to operate the pump was used tokeep these barrels full of water.
"It was my job to drive this tank wagon to the nearest creek, drop a largehose in the water and pump the tank full of water. You would seldom get a tankfull of water until you would hear two blasts on the steam whistle whichindicated they were getting low on water. I would then rush back and fill thebarrels, then back to the creek to fill the tank again.
"At noon all the ladies in the neighborhood assembled to prepare thethreshers' dinner which was unbelievable and out of this world.
"These hard-working sweaty men would wash up in the yard around a wash tubfull of water to remove some of the dirt and sweat of the mornings work.
"After that sumptuous meal there was no time for a siesta as everyone wentright back to work.
"After several years of faithful service, the Avery steam engine gave upand sat in our barnyard for a couple of years before it was cut up for scrap.
"The separator was still used for a couple of years, powered by the moremodern oil-pull tractor run by Ira Butts. The tractor vibrated so much that theyhad to bury a 'dead man' which was a five-foot log with cables tied to thewheels. This buried log kept the tractor from moving around."
To research threshing, I borrowed a book through interlibrary loan: Threshing inthe Midwest 1820-1940 by J. Sanford Pikoon, Indiana University Press. It had inthe appendix a copy of the bylaws of Prairie Grove Threshing Company, Charles E.Finney, Fulton County Indiana, c. 1920-1945. Finney was the step-father of HelenBarkman, and she believes that he was the secretary of the ring. Howard Mutchlerhad a threshing machine and then beginning in 1927 Murl Zellers, who threshedfor Prairie Grove and Mt. Olive. Murl's son, Fred Zellers, recalled the PrairieGrove farmers: Art Showley, John Denton, Sam and Jess Charters, Sam Lamb, BillPerkins, Joe Clark, John Bigler, Tyke Elsenman, 'Biggie' Grube, and BillWharton.
Harley Denton, grandson of Charles Finney, remembers working in 1942 for MurlZeller's threshing ring. A man got $5 a day for himself, team and wagon. Hisbrother, Charles Denton, San Bernadino, California, has pictures of Zellers'threshing machine and sent copies to the museum.
In 1950 I (Shirley Ogle) carried water on my pony for what was probably the lastthreshing ring in the county. I had a black Shetland pony named Sugar and I rodeher to carry a glass fruit jar of ice water and paper cups to the workersseveral times a day. My parents lived on a 100 acre farm west of Mt. Zion. Otherfarmers on the threshing ring were Earl Gibson, Fred See, Harley Beck, JoeBaker, Merl Richter, Denny Smith, Ed Fishback, and Walter Townsend. Earl Gibsonwas the last farmer to use horses in our neighborhood. One time one of hishorses reached over and took a big bite out of the seat of my father's truck.
Walter Townsend was quite a joker. Among his many tricks, he put chewed tobaccoon a tractor seat so someone would sit on it and it would look as if they haddirtied their pants. If I remember right, his daughter Norma (Vedder) sat on itonce and got the dirty pants. She and Helen Beck were farmers' daughters whodrove tractors that year.
Russell Sroufe owned the threshing machine, which was powered by a tractor, nota steam engine. All the farmers who had wheat or oats traded work to get theharvest in. About a month after the threshing was done, we had an ice creamsupper at one of the farm houses and the men settled up, that is, divided theexpenses.
If anyone has memories or photos of threshing rings in Fulton County, pleaseshare them by writing me or calling 223-2352. We would like to compile a list ofall the threshing rings.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 11, 1997]

MORE THRESHING CREWS IN FULTON COUNTY
By Shirley Willard
After my article appeared in the Sentinel, several people responded with fondmemories of threshing rings in Fulton County. We made copies of all their photosto preserve in the museum. Thank you for helping to preserve this interestinghistory.
Sharon and Ben Overmyer in Richland Township had a threshing machine. JohnSheetz, Rochester, recalled running the blower in the 1930s to make a strawshed. During threshing, the grain is separated from the straw, and a common usefor the straw was to make a shed for cattle shelter. First a frame was made ofwood posts and wire. Then when the threshing machine came, a man was assigned tohandle the pipe that blew the straw. This pipe was moved to spread the straw outto form the roof of the straw shed.
My father, Charlie Ogle, made a straw shed in about 1950 and it lasted manyyears. Unlike the house made of straw in the Three Little Pigs story, thesestraw sheds were very sturdy and had a life time of 10 to 20 years.
Paul Weller recalled that his uncle Jess Weller drove a steam engine to Kewannato run the creamery in about 1943 or 44. Paul's father, Claude Weller, managedthe creamery. The boiler had broken down , so they used Ira Overmyer's steamengine to provide steam for the Kewanna Cooperative Creamery for about threemonths. Dick Baldwin operated the steam engine. Overmyer used the steam enginefor his sawmill at the Big Woods on the Aubbee-Union township line straightnorth of Lake Bruce.
Charles Beard, Fulton, had a threshing machine near the Reed schoolhouse.Members of the ring included Oth and Ralph Eytcheson, Sherman Reed, Clyde Champ,Guy Nellans, Sam Dague, Leonard and Sam Kirk.
Dewitt Stafford, Akron, recalled that Wayne Drudge had a threshing machine inthe 1930s. He had a steam engine, thresher seed huller and corn shredder.Farmers he threshed were Nyle Merley, Fred and Ollie Deardorff, Carl Floor, OdinSausaman, Kenneth Luckenbill, Ralph Miller, Harley Rogers, Harvey Long, VerleRamsey, and Russell Bacon.
Maxine Nickels Geier St. Clair's picture of the threshing machine owned by herfather, Oliver Geier, Grass Creek, was published In Fulton County Folks Vol. 2.He operated it from 1904 to 1920, when they moved to South Bend. Farmers in histhreshing ring were Jack Waddups, William Diveley, A. D. and Joe Hizer, FredHarsh, Ora Rans, Andrew and Ed Geier, Roy Geier, Carl Bailey, Jim and DeconBailey, and Bert Conn. Maxine's aunt Maude Geier's father, William Brower, had athreshing machine c. 1900.
Lucille Moore's grandfather, Eugene Nafe, had a threshing machine on the OlsonRoad near Germany Bridge. Lucille has photos, the note to purchase the machinein 1891 for $1,175 from Huber Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio; receiptsshowing payments in November 1898, 1901 and 1902; and notes to purchase windblower ($125) and Plover Huller ($350) in August 1898. A booklet of bills foruse by threshermen records work billed to Lest Campbell, Case Hudkins, ElzaParker, Tom Shafer, G.M. Fisher, J. S. Gilbert, S. Cook, C. R. Frell, WilliamPickens, Luther Cough, James Fall, H. A. Moon, Eli Henderson, James Hott, Jakeand W. T. Henderson, B. and J. Bruce, Jasper and Esra Hudkins, Bob Smith,Charley Kilmer, G. O. Leming, A. D. McBride, Tom Graffis, George Kuhn, Frank andW. O. Enyart, A. C. Denis, John Rude, L. Johnson, and R. Zellers.
Richard Kistler, North Webster, wrote about threshing remembered from hisboyhood days, "My father, Cecil Kistler, lived two and half miles south ofFulton and just west of the present Caston School. While we lived there from1928 to 1944, he participated in a threshing ring which extended east acrossstate road 25 south into Cass County.
"People included Marion Studebaker who lived on road 25 just north ofCaston, Ernest Studebaker who lived just south of Caston, Ivan Minthorn, ErmalRiemenschneider, Ed Buchanan, and Charley Rans. The membership of our ring wouldchange depending on who had wheat, rye, or oats to thresh.
"Our thresher man was George Johnson, who lived two or three miles east ofroad 25. George had two threshing machines one each of which were powered byRumely Oil Pull tractors. One machine had a 28 inch throat and the other one was32 inches wide and could accommodate more feeding in of bundles.
"Since George Johnson had two machines he threshed quite a number of rings,some up to Fulton, and extending on east of town. George himself, plus a hiredman, operated one machine, and Verdell Overmyer operated the other.
'In addition, George was a stock hauler and owned two large trucks for haulingfarmers' hogs and cattle to market. Again one truck was larger than the otherand could haul more livestock. These trucks were used to haul fuel, grease.tools, etc threshing machines each day.
On the years the big 32 inch machine and the big truck did the threshing of ourring, it always sent a thrill through my young adolescent body! . .

"After a short hitch in the Army, I felt called to the Christianministry and in the fall of 1947, 1 enrolled and attended Indiana CentralCollege at Indianapolis. During my freshman year, I took Freshman Compositionand was required to write about ten themes. One theme I called a 'StrangeHumming,' in which I tried to recapture the sound of the humming of thethreshing machine and the sound of the Oil Pull with its two cylinder 'pum, pum,pum" sound. I'm afraid that I was not able to convey to paper the strangehumming or singing which I felt within me, as I tried to recapture the thrilland excitement a boy felt when the machine and tractor were doing their work. Atleast my grade was only a C as I recall, and I also doubt whether my Comp.teacher had ever fed bundles or hauled grain during threshing.
"We did not have a steam engine in our area, although I can just barelyremember a steam engine with a corn shredder coming up our old dirt road andgetting stuck in a mud hole in the road. My dad took his team of horses withdouble trees and log chains and snaked the steam engine and shredder out.
"A few years later, my older brother lived on our old farm and heparticipated in a smaller ring which used Cliff Vanator and his outfit. Cliffhad an F-30 Farmall tractor to power the machine, and the F-30 did not havenearly the power of the Oil Pulls. His machine was no longer than 28 inchesmaybe even smaller.
"I wanted to tell you that I appreciated your article and it brought backmemories for me. My next younger brother and I, in our earlier days, had a placebehind our old farm house and did we ever farm that dirt!! We would plant ourwheat, cut it and pile little piles of dirt as shocks, and haul it to thresh it,all within one day's time, all with our little toys some of which were boughtentoys and some of which we made and improvised. Such memories!"
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 9, 1997]

THRUSH, RUFUS [Rochester, Indiana]
BARBER SHOP SOLD
Roy Hill, Monday purchased the Wall Street Barber Shop, locatedin the 30 blockof East Ninth street, from Rufus Thrush. Mr. Hill has taken possession of theshop and will continue to operate the same. Mr. Hill has been a b arber for thepast four years and has been employed in tonsorial parlors in Logansport, Fultonand Rochester. Mr. Thrush, whlhas operated the shop for mahy years, is retiringbecause of ill health.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, April 8, 1941]

THRUSH'S NORTH END MARKET [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Go to Thrush's North End Market for choice cuts of corn-fed and porkRoasts, Steaks and Boils. . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 6, 1919]

TICE'S MARKET [Rochester, Indiana]
See Fruit and Produce Stands

TIMBERS, ARCH [Rochester, Indiana]
SELLS OUT TO PARTNER
A deal was consumated Monday, whereby W. P. Watson becomes the sole owner of thedry cleaning and pressing establishment on west Ninth street, formerly owned byWatson and Timbers, Mr. Watson buying Arch Timbers interest. Mr. Timbers decidedthat the work was too confining and desired more work in the open. Mr. Watsonthe present owner, has had many years of experience in this line of work and isquite prepared to take charge of a large business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 12, 1913]
BIOGRAPHY
Arch Timbers, a substantial merchant of Rochester, was born in Fulton county,Indiana, September 11, 1888, the son of Oliver and Margaret M. (Anderson)Timbers, reliable farmers of this county. He received his elementary educationin the graded and high school of his home community and then attended theRochester Normal College. His education completed, he began work on the farm,but finding it unsuited to his tastes, he became a clerk in a store. He followedthis occupation for a time, only to abandon his position to become the managerof a restaurant. He again changed his line of work, becoming a salesman for theSouth Bend Malleable Iron Company. When the war with Germany broke out, heenlisted in the service of his country as musician in Coast Artillery, servingfrom March, 1918, until the signing of the armistice released him from service.Upon his discharge, which occurred at Chillicothe, Ohio, he returned to his homein Rochester, Indiana, and established a dry-cleaning business. His success wasalmost instantaneous, and he has enlarged his business to include the sale ofmens and boys' clothing. He is known in Rochester as one of its most successfulbusiness men despite the fact that his enterprise is scarcely past the embryonicstage. His part in the World war made him eligible to membership in the AmericanLegion, and during the year of 1921, he was the vice-commander of the Leroy C.Shelton Post No. 36, of that organization in Rochester. In fraternal circles, heis a popular member of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he supports theDemocratic party, and in 1921 he was the chairman of the city central committee,doing much to increase the strength of his party in Fulton county.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, p. 286, Dayton Historical PublishingCo., 1923]

TIMBERS, JOHN [Rochester/Akron, Indiana]
LOCAL NEWS - THURSDAY
John Timbers is moving his restaurant fixtures to Akron today. Dick Lowman hasthe contract and is moving the outfit on wagons. John expects to put in a niceplace at Akron and as he is a good fellow and understands his business he oughtto secure a good trade there.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 27, 1902]

TIMBERS CLOTHING STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv. full page] For Men - - - -Doors open for business Saturday, May 27 - - -ARCH TIMBERS CASH CLOTHING AND FURNISHING STORE. 707 Main Street, ArlingtonBlock.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 26, 1922]

[Adv] - - - - ARCH TIMBERS' GIGANTIC UNLOADING SALE - - - - ARCH TIMBERS,"I'll Get You Yet". Arlington Block, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 9, 1924]

Arch Timbers, owner of the clothing store bearing his name at 707 Main streetannounced Friday morning that he would retire from business and has announcedthat he will hold a monster closing-out sale of the $10,000 stock carried. . . .Mr. Timbers will go into the jobbing business with headquarters in this city.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Friday, September 10, 1926]

[Adv] Big Clothing and Furnishing Auction at the Arch Timbers Store in theArlington Block - - - beginning Saturday, Dec. 18, 1926 - - -until the entirestock is closed out.

NEW STORE WILL OPEN IN THE ARLINGTON BLOCK
Morris & Border, operators of several chain stores throughout Indiana andOhio, with main offices at Mishawaka, Ind., were in this city Tuesday where theyclosed a long-term lease with A. J. Barrett on the store room formerly occupiedby Arch Timbers clothing store.
The branch store of the M. & B. chain will carry a complete stock of LadiesReady-to-Wear garments and Men's Furnishings. Mr. Borden when interrogatedconcerning the opening of the new business stated he believed they would beready by Saturday, Sept. 17th.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, September 7, 1927]

TIME [Rochester, Indiana]
TO GET U. S. TIME
The Kaders will soon have United States Observatory time at eleven o'clock eachday.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 11, 1915]

TIMES THEATRE [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 616-622 Main.
Formerly Char-Bell Theatre.
Building constructed of bricks from the Rochester Normal University which wastorn down in 1923. It was first used as a garage.
See: Char-Bell Theatre
See: Moving Picture Theaters
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CHAR-BELL THEATRE IS RENAMED TIMES
A new word was added to the everyday vocabulary of Rochester and Fulton countyresidents today with the official announcement by Lisle Krieghbaum, manager,that the Char-Bell theatre will from now on be known as the Times theatre.
Citizens got a pre-view of the change in name yesterday when workmen rushed tocomplete installation of the large, ultra-modern new marquee on the theatre,showing the name "Times" in large, Neon-lighted letters above themarquee proper.
The local movie house has been known as Char-Bell since its establishment inFebruary, 1924. The change in name is in line with a current extensivemodernization program.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, March 24, 1942]

TIOSA, INDIANA [Richland Township]
Located on 200E at approximately 675N.
Officially recorded by the county surveyor July 3, 1869.
Streets: Railroad, Walnut, Main, West, First, Second, Third and Fourth.
An additional 37 lots were added on the south in 1888.
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TIOSA SWEPT BY FIRE
The Business Portion of the Town in Ashes
Early Monday morning the report reached here that Tiosa was burning up and earlyrisers state that the light was so bright that a pin could be picked up on Mainstreet. A SENTINEL reporter soon procured a conveyance and drove to the scene ofdevastation where the worst reports were verified, the entire business portionof the town having been burned to the ground, and stocks of goods were scatteredabout on every corner.
It is the general belief that the fire was communicated from a pile of sawdustnear the Tiosa Lumber Co's. mill, which had been burning for several days andthe high winds of Sunday night made it impossible to check the flames when oncestarted.
The populace were soon on the ground and fought fire like heroes until it wasfound there was no hope of saving the business portion of the town when theydirected their efforts to removing the stocks of goods and preventing the spreadof the conflagration to the residence portion. Everything in the path of thefire was burned to the ground and the sight presented was one of desolation. Thelosses are as follows:
Tiosa Lumber Co's. saw-mills, lumber yards, $40,000, no insurance.
Geo. Perschbacher's elevator, $3,000. Insured $2,500.
Contents of elevator, $600, insurance not known.
Geo. Perschbacher, two store rooms, $1,000, insurance $500.
A. B. Surguy's drug store, $1,200, no insurance.
Shobe & Richard's wagon, carriage and blacksmith shop, $500. Insurance $300.
Machlan's carpenter shop, $400, no insurance.
Palmer's meat market, $350, no insurance.
John Shetterly's harness shop, $350, no insurance.
C. E. Kepler's meat market, $350, no insurance.
Geo. Perschbacher residence, $500, no insurance.
John Shetterly's residence, $300, no insurance.
D. M. Swinehart's building used for depot and postoffice purposes, $150, noinsurance.
Total loss, $48,700. Total insurance, $3,500.
The above figures do not include damage to goods and losses of same incident tosudden removal on such occasions, which, in this case will amount toconsiderable.
Mr. Geo. Perschbacher says it is his intention to rebuild the elevator and storeroom at once. Dr. A. B. Surguy, C. D. Shobe and Chas. Kepler have also expressedtheir intentions strongly in favor of rebuilding. The depot and postoffice arelocated in the hotel until suitable quarters are proviced.
The L. E. & W. officials bestow great praise upon station agent Swinehartfor the prompt and efficiant manner in which the movable railroad property wasremoved from danger, and upon Mr. Alvah McNeely, who connected an instrument tothe wire and telegraphed the news to Rochester, Peru and other points.
The loss is a serious one to Tiosa as it will entirely close business thereuntil suitable buildings can be erected. However, it will not be long until anew town will arise from the ashes.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 27, 1895]

LOCAL NEWS
True Bros have purchased LeRoy Smith's restaurant stock at Tiosa and are makingimprovements on their Enterprise restaurant here. They will do a lunch counterbusiness almost exclusively.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 16, 1901]

TIOSA
Will Kestner has purchased the barber shop of Frank Fisher and moved same in theroom formerly occupied by Chas. Wright. Mr. Wright moved in the room over thepost office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 22, 1906]

TIOSA
H. W. Wynn is putting a new gasoline engine in the elevator at this place.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 18, 1909]

TIOSA
Eddie Kissman, the 10-year-old son of Lake Erie Engineer Willard Kissman, waskilled Sunday at Tiosa, while attending a ball game. A foul batted ball struckhim in the chest and he died before medical aid could relieve him.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 14, 1910]

TIOSA
Special to the Sentinel.
The Tiosa Dramatic Club will give "Little Buckshot" at the hall aboveTimbaugh's store Saturday evening, February 1st. The club is composed of allhome talent who respectfully solicit the patronage of the entire community.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 1, 1913]

TRADES TIOSA ELEVATOR, STORE FOR PULASKI FARM
A business deal is being closed this week whereby John R. Starr of Winamac,trades the former J. R. Conner farm of 240 acres northeast of Winamac for anelevator and mercantile business at Tiosa. H. W. Winn becomes the owner of thefarm and expects to move onto it from Tiosa.
The elevator business at Tiosa will be under the management of William Hoch, ofWinamac, who was long associated with Mr. Starr.
Dana Starr, son of the new owner, will be in charge of the general store.Besides shelf merchandise, the stock includes coal, tile, cement and numeroussimilar lines. The Tiosa postoffice is also located in the store. J. P.Gilsinger of Pulaski has been engaged to assist in invoicing the stock.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoch expect to move to Tiosa within a couple of weeks, occupyinganother house there before they get possession of the one included in the trade.
Mr. Winn, who becomes owner of the farm, built the elevator which was erected atLake Bruce some years ago on a site which was known as Winn Station for a time.He later located at Tiosa, which is on that branch of the Nickel Plate railwayrunning from Indianapolis to Michigan City.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 18, 1925]

[Adv] Fair Prices - Courteous Service. Your Patronage solicited. OVERMYER'SSTORE, TIOSA, IND. 2¢ Above Market in Trade for Eggs. - - - -
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 18, 1931]

JOE BIDWELL BUYS ELEVATOR AT TIOSA
Joe Bidwell, former Akron grocer and a member of the Fulton County War Price& Rationing Board, has purchased the Tiosa elevator of Greshem Lough, it wasannounced today.
Clarence "Pat" Overmyer, who recently returned from the service willmanage the business for Mr. Bidwell who will take possession Dec. 10, and plansto remodel the property and to add several new lines of merchandise and suppliesto the present stock.
Overmyer, a past trustee of Richland townip, is well-known in the territoryserved by the elevator. The deal was made through the Fred Moore agency of thiscity.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, December 7, 1945]
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Town was destroyed by fire September 23, 1895, from fire started in thesawdust pile at the Tiosa Lumber Company mill.
Tiosa had the first high school in Richland Township. Only two classesgraduated, 1902 and 1903.
It was moved to the County Line School for the next two years, and calledRichland Center High School.

The biggest town in Richland township is Tiosa, named for a Potawatomi Indianchief who had a reservation there prior to 1838.
The land on which the town was built was owned by Jacob Miller, who apparentlyfounded the town just after the completion of the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicagorailroad (now Norfold & Western).
Jacob Miller had a general store, a sawmill and a grain elevator by the railroadtracks. The post office was located in the depot. John Perschbacher operated ahotel, and there was a blacksmith and harness shop and a resident physician, Dr.C. J. Loring.
Destroyed in the fire of September 23, 1895 were: the lumber company, grainelevator, store, meat market, saloon, depot, wagon and blacksmith shop, Surguy'sdrug store and home, Wile's dry goods store, carpenter shop and GeorgePerschbacher's home.
Not many of these buildings were covered by insurance and the town neverrecovered its former prosperity.
The morning after the fire Hank Thompson and Delbert Wright bought a sawmill atBigfoot and set it up on the south side of Tiosa to provide lumber to rebuildthe town. Delbert's brother, William Wright, was in the sawmill and carpenterbusiness with Delbert, helping rebuild Tiosa. He also had a general store with apartner named Emanuel Reed. His daughter, Rena Wright, former RHS teacher, saidthat the townsfolk called it "Reed and Wright and Rithmetic."
After the fire the Christian Church, which had been on the NW corner of 200E and700N at the north edge of Tiosa, was moved into the burned area of town west ofthe elevator. It did not grow and was eventually torn down and the lumber madeinto a barn and a shed.
The Tiosa grain elevator was rebuilt, still stands, but has not been used since1970.
There was a pickle factory north of the elevator on the railroad tracks around1914.
Today Tiosa has a Brethren church (built in 1884), Strong's store, Fred Oden'srepair, Jim Lewis's mechanical & Welding shop, and several houses.
[Tiosa and Richland Center, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
George Leroy Wolford was a blacksmith at Tiosa.

TIOSA BAND [Tiosa, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands

TIOSA LUMBER COMPANY [Tiosa, Indiana]
Destroyed by fire September 23, 1895.
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[Adv] BUILDING MATERIAL, Pine and Hard Wood Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Doors,Windowos, Nails, &c. New Planing Mill just started and a large stock of drylumber on hand. Call or write for prices. TIOSA LUMBER CO., Tiosa, Indiana.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 25, 1891]

TIOSA POST OFFICE [Tiosa, Indiana]
Located approximately 675N on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad.
[F.C.H.S. Files]

CHANGE IN TIOSA POSTAL SYSTEM EFFECTIVE AUG. 16
In keeping with Uncle Sam's policy to trim operating expenses of the U. S.Postal service to a minimum, the Tiosa postoffice and its one rural route willbe taken into the Rochester postoffice department beginning Tuesday a.m., August16th, and become known as Rural Route 8.
George Wright, former driver of the Tiosa route will be retained as driver onthe new route which serves a total of 140 box holders and with the new change inthe system, all of the patrons will receive their mail at least two hoursearlier, inasmuch as the Tiosa carrier was compelled to wait until 9 o'clockeach morning for the arrival of the star route carrier which brought the mail tothe Tiosa postoffice.
The Tiosa postoffice which was under the supervision of Ruth E. Williams will beeliminated entirely and the saving thus effected, is estimated to be close to$800 per year.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, August 15, 1932]

TIOSA POSTMASTERS [Tiosa, Indiana]
Jacob Miller, June 12, 1872. Augustine Hisey, Sep 18, 1885.
Banj F. Machlan. M.O. Par 29, 1892. Apr 12, 1889. Milton A. Felts, Apr 7, 1890.
Daniel M. Swinehart.
Neri Swihart, May 6, 1898. Samuel McNeely, Jan 20, 1899.
Samuel McNeely, Jan 30, 1899. ---- 1903, N.B. Aug 16, 1905. Earl W. Wynn, July13, 1916.
Ruth E. Williams, confirmed Dec. 10, 1926. Remarks 4th Ck.
[Discontd. Oct 14th eff Aug 15, 1932. Mail to Rochester]
[F.C.H.S. Files]
TIOSA TOWN BAND [Tiosa, Indiana]
Directed by Harry C. Clymer, who also played a cornet.

TIPPECANOE, INDIANA [Marshall County, Indiana]
Mentone Gazette.
H. E. Graham, from Tippecanoe, has purchased the Getty & Jones livery stockat Silver Lake.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 14, 1907]

TIPPECANOE HAS A BAD FIRE
The little town of Tippecanoe, located about six miles west of Mentone, wasvisited by a very bad fire at about 5:30 o'clock on Sunday morning. The firestarted in a small building owned by Walter Armantrout and occupied by ashoeshop conducted by Isaac Rhodes and a dry cleaning plant operated by Mr.Dill. This building was burned to the ground, as was also the residence ofQuincy Cram, which was next to it. The Cram livery barn, which was located justback of the Cram home, was saved with difficulty. The loss is estimated atseveral thousand dollars.
As soon as the fire was discovered a call for help was sent out and volunteerfiremen hurried to the scene from Mentone, Argos and Bourbon. The Mentonefiremen did the most effective work and were responsible for checking the spreadof the fire. The origin of the fire is unknown.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 11, 1913]

TIPPECANOE HAS JUICE; WILL STAGE CELEBRATION
Electricity was turned through the transmission line to Tippecanoe Saturdaymorning for the first time and was found to work splendidly. Work on the projecthas been very slow on account of the inclement weather.
Tonight the residents of Tippecanoe will hold a big celebration when the town isilluminated for the first time by electricity. They have planned to hold an icecream supper and a band concert and want the people of this city to help themcelebrate. A large number of persons have planned to go.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 7, 1915]

The whole town of Tippecanoe was threatened by fire which completelydestroyed the business block owned by Earl Sparks at an early hour Thursdaymorning, according to word received in Rochester.
In the building which was completely destroyed by the flames were the Sparks'general store, where dry goods, groceries, meats and other articles aredispersed, the postoffice and the office of Dr. T. F. RINGLE, who occupied theupper floor.
The buulding which was burned, was next door to the Tippecanoe State bank, andthe volunteer firemen and the fire departments from Mentone and Bremen, whichwere summoned to the scene, it was said, were hard put to save the bankbuilding.
Practically everything in the Sparks store was destroyed by the flames with theexception of two pianos, which were moved out before the fire had gainedconsiderable headway. All of the office, fixtures and other appurtenances inDr.Ringle's office were also destroyed, but the workers had time to removepractically everything of value from the postoffice.
The fire, which got under way at about eight o'clock, is believed to havestarted on the roof from an overheated or defective chimney flue. At 10 o'clockthe blaze was practically under control and at that hour it was stated thatthere was no danger of further damage. It was impossible to estimate the exactloss, which will probably run well into the thousands of dollars. Sparks, whoowned both the building and the general store carried but little insurance.
The Northern Indiana Power Company was called from Tippecanoe as thetransmission line was burned thru and danger from the high voltage wire wasfeared.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 14, 1922]

NEW BUSINESS BLOCK
J. C. Harmer, general store merchant of Tippecanoe, is very busy these daysbuilding a new two-story business block for his business. The building will bethe first of its kind in the town. The cost will be over $12,000. The businesswill occupy the basement and first floor and on the second floor will bearranged two apartments for living. The front of the building will be finishedin brick and the sides in cement blocks. The site is on one of the four bestcorners in the town and will make a very fine place for the conduct of thebusiness.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, April 14, 1925]

STORE AT TIPPECANOE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
An exploding oil heater early Saturday caused damage estimated at between $4,000and $5,000 to the building and department store of Mrs. Rolla Rhodes atTippecanoe. The building which was insured for $2,500 is owned by Orval Smith ofTippecanoe, while Mrs. Rhodes had her loss coverd by insurance.
The building is a two-story structure with the Rhodes store on the ground floorand three apartments above. Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Ida Warsham shared oneapartment, Miss Mildred Stuckey, Culver and Miss Joyce Caldwell, Bourbon, schoolteachers in the Tippecanoe schools another, and Milo Cormican, an employee ofMrs. Rhodes the third. The school teachers, luckily, left yesterday for theirChristmas vacation.
The fire started in the apartment of Mr. Cormican shortly after midnight when anoil stove in his room exploded when he attempted to light it. Cormican attemptedto smother the flames with a rug and when he could not control the flames threwthe stove down the stairs. Cormican received bad burns on his face and hands.
The store had been kept open late last night to accommodate Christmas shoppers.Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Worsham who had not retired were able to flee from thebuilding in safety. Fire departments from Bourbon, Mentone and Etna Greenassisted the Tippecanoe department in battling the fire and kept the flames fromspreading to nearby buildings.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 23, 1939]

BUY TIPPECANOE GROCERY
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Downs, former local residents, but more recently of theTippecanoe community, today announced the purchase of the Moriarty grocery storeat Tippecanoe. They took possession of the store as of April 1.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, April 2, 1945]

TIPPECANOE DAIRY [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
C. F. Briles of southeast of Rochester, purchased the Tippecanoe dairy of Mrs.F. H. Cornelius today. Mr. Briles has rented the Cornelius farm and willcontinue to serve the dairy's old customers in first class style.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 1, 1911]

TIPPECANOE OIL COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
There will be a meeting of Stockholders of the Tippecanoe Oil company at theoffice of Attorney F. H. Terry, Thursday evening, at 7:30. CHAS. W. CAFFYN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 17, 1899]

OUT OF BUSINESS
The Tippecanoe Oil Co., of this city, is out of business. The stockholders metlast night and ratified the sale of the three Peru wells and the last dividendwas declared.
The Tippecanoe Oil Co., was one of the very few which got out whole in the Perufield. The company owned three wells which paid out and left the stockholders alittle profit. Those in the company were W. H. Deniston, Chas.W. Caffyn, C. C.Wolf, H. A. Barnhart, Capt. H. C. Long, Milo R. Smith, Jos. A. Myers, Frank H.Terry, Chas. Jackson, Chas. Brouck, Mrs. Sarah Lyon and A. C. Mitchell.
The three wells and all machinery were recently sold for $1500. During the twoyears the wells were operated the company sold oil to the amount of $8,000. Butoil well drilling and pumping costs lots of money and the Tippecanoe Company hasdecided to let well enough alone and quit the business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 20, 1899]

TIPPECANOE PETTICOAT COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located second floor, approximately 111 to 115 East 9th St, across from CourtHouse.
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FACTORY MACHINERY PURCHASED
The Tippecanoe Petticoat Company, the members of which are Messrs. Cline ofLogansport, Tillman of Burr Oak, Mich., and M. M. Bitters of this city, will beready for business about September 1.
The John Smith building south of the public square will be utilized for factorypurposes and work on the remodeling will begin at once.
The firm will manufacture silk petticoats for the most part, but will make somecheaper grades. About five or six women will be employed at the start and it isexpected many more will be taken on after the industry is well under way.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 11, 1910]

NORTH MANCHESTER WANTS IT
Wabash Plain Dealer.
The officers of the Tippecanoe Petticoat Company, a flourishing industry ofRochester, are considering a change of location.
Business men of North Manchester are after the plant to take the place of theStrauss skirt factory which recently went out of business.
As an inducement for their removal from Rochester, citizens of North Manchesteroffer them a cash bonus, free rent, and moving expenses. North Manchester has nofactory which will employ women and several expert skirt makers from that placeare now employed in Rochester at the factory.
The proposition of citizens of North Manchester will be given carefulconsideration by officers of the company and their decision will be announcedwithin thirty or sixty days.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 20, 1911]

MAKING DRESS SKIRTS
The Tippecanoe Petticoat Company, which has built up a fine business inmanufacturing petticoats, has added a new line to its business and is nowturning out a fine line of dress skirts. The dress skirt business has just beenstarted but gives promise of developing into a very popular side line and hasalready necessitated the employment of additional help in the factory. Thecompany first embarked in the skirt business quite by accident, having beencommissioned by a large retail merchant to make up a lot of dress skirts frompiece goods which did not move well. The skirts were made up in the latest styleand the unsalable merchandise was readily turned into a handsome profit by theshrewd merchant. Since that time many similar orders have been executed and themaking of dress skirts has become a regular feature of the business.
The Tippecanoe Petticoat Company is a Rochester industry, which is rapidlyforging to the front. The business was started in a small way, but is rapidlygrowing into a thriving business under the careful management of M. M. Bittersand Otto Cline.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 26, 1911]

NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS
In mentioning the Tippecanoe Petticoat Company Saturday The Sentinel erred inreferring to Otto Cline as one of the proprietors of the business. Ira F.Tillman purchased Mr. Cline's interest in the company some time ago and isassociated with M. M.Bitters in the management of the plant.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 28, 1911]

PETTICOAT MACHINERY MOVED
The machinery of the old Petticoat factory was moved out, this morning, andshipped to Auburn, where it will be used in the Auburn Garment Company'sfactory.
Rochester Sentinel, Monday, June 2, 1913]

Word has been received from St. Petersburg, Fla., by Rochester friends of thedeath of Otto L. CLINE, formerly of this city, who died at his home thereSaturday evening at 11 o'clock aged 60 years. Mr. Cline, it will be remembered,was one of the organizers and directors of the Tippecanoe Petticoat factory,which was run in this city ten or twelve years ago.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, May 25, 1926]

TIPPECANOE RABBIT CLUB [Fulton County]
See: Fulton County Rabbit Club
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RABBIT CLUB TO MEET
Rabbit breeders of this vicinity are invited to attend the meeting of theTippecanoe Rabbit club, to be held Thursday evening, May 11, at 8:00 o'clock, atthe home of E. B. Smith, northeast of Rochester. This club was recentlyorganized to promote the interests of rabbit breeders and fanciers of thisdistrict. Mr. Smith's home is 5 miles north and 1 mile east of Rochester.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, May 10, 1944]

TIPPECANOE RIVER [Fulton County]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Sant Painter, who has spent considerable of his spare moments hunting pearls inthe Tippecanoe river, found a beauty Sunday. The pearl is of uniform shape andwill be mounted in a ring for his daughter, Mrs. Heber Dunlap.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 10, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
On April 26, 1906, Walter Smith and Lyman Brackett, Jr., placed pieces of paperbearing their names and addresses in bottles and after sealing threw them intothe Tippecanoe river at the Michigan road bridge. Monday Walter received aletter signed S. S. Abbott which stated that the sender had picked up the bottlewith the message contained in the Wabash river, fourteen miles south ofVincennes, while fishing. The bottle had traveled hundreds of miles and hadprobably lodged at various places for many days while enroute.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 24, 1908]

BANKS OF TIPPECANOE
"On The Banks Of The Tippecanoe," is the title of a most pleasingpopular ballad now being published by two former residents of Warsaw now livingin Chicago. Fred Brower and Mrs. Zella Williams are co-authors of the ballad.The song depicts the Tippecanoe River, youth, home, mother and memories.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 30, 1929]

WRITES "TIPPECANOE" SONG
A new song, "On the Banks of the Tippecanoe" has recently appeared, itbeing written by Zella Williams of Chicago and published by Reub Williams andSons of Warsaw. It is a ballad full of melody and swing and gives promise ofbecoming a very popular air.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, May 29, 1929]

TIPPECANOE SHORES [Aubbeenaubbee Township]
A housing and mobile home development west of Delong on the Tippecanoe River.

TIPPECANOE TELEPHONE SYSTEM [Tippecanoe, Indiana]
TIPPECANOE TELEPHONE SYSTEM HAS BEEN SOLD
Paul A. Hockett, Indianapolis, has purchased the independent telephone system atTippecanoe and will take charge of the plant on June 15, it was announced todayby Charles Cooper, who has been the manager of the company for the past eightyears. The deal was really consommated April 1.
The Tippecanoe telephone system was founded and operated for 32 years by Williamand Sherman Gaskill. It has 90 telephones and the rates are from $1.35 to $1.75per month. Sherman Gaskill has been dead for several years and Mr. Cooper washis son-in-law.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, May 27, 1938]
TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIP [Fulton County]
On March 8, 1842, the name of Tippecanoe Township was changed to Aubbeenaubbee.

TIPPECANOE VALLEY EGG CO. [Akron, Indiana]
Teddy L. and Mary Ann Whittenberger Cox owned and operated the Tippecanoe ValleyEgg Co. in Akron several years.
[Jacob Whittenberger Family, Velma Bright, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

TIPPY EDMOND BERL [Talma, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
E. B. Tippy, whose residence in Fulton county dates from 1875, is accounted oneof the practical and progressive agriculturists, and belongs to that class ofcitizens who have gained for Indiana marked prestige among the agriculturalstates of the Union. He was born in Franklin county, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1845. Thefamily is of Scotch origin, and the father of our subject, Levi Tippy, was bornnear Johnstown, Ohio. He married Louie A. Denune, daugher of John Denune, whowas born in Paris, France, and came to America with Gen. LaFayette, serving as adrummer boy with the French troops in the colonial army. He married a MissBarrel, a relative of Gen. Grant's family. Levi Tippy died of cholera inLouisville, Ky., in 1852, at the age of thirty-five. His children were asfollows: George, who is living near Columbus, Ohio; E. B.; and Lewis, deceased.Our subject was left an orphan at the age of six years, and was reared by a Mr.Brown in Delaware county, Ohio, until nineteen years of age. He then bought histime, and removed to Livingston county, Mo., but returned after eight months andlearned the carpenter's trade in Delaware county, under S. Gorsuch. He afterwardmarried and then removed to Boone county, Mo., but in a short time againreturned to Delaware county, where he lived for four years. At the expiration ofthat period he began farming, which he continued in Ohio until coming toIndiana, in 1875. His first land was purchased with money that he had earned atschool teaching. He here bought forty acres of land just east of Bloomingsburg,which he operated for four years, when he sold and purchased a farm adjoiningthe village, comprising 115 acres. He is progressive in his methods and at thesame time extremely practical in his work, so that he has won a comfortablecompetence. Mr. Tippy was married Jan. 20, 1867, to Emma Fix, daughter of DavidFix, and their home was blessed with six children--Della, wife of Jesse Emmons;Frank, a popular young man who possesses much mechanical genius; Levi, whomarried Ella Ross and resides in Newcastle township; Ida, a teacher; Eva andLinnie. Mr. Tippy is one of the leaders of the democracy in his township, and isnow serving as trustee, having entered upon the duties of the office on Aug. 5,1895. His genuine worth has won him the high esteem of all, and he well deservesrcognition in this volume.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 136-137]

HOME TOWN TALES
By "Pioneer"
January 20, 1935, Mr. Edmond B. Tippy, a resident of Newcastle township for thepast 50 years, reached "Pier No. 90."
By "Pier No. 90" we mean that Mr. Tippy is 90 years - YOUNG - not thatmany years "OLD" - which fact he can easily prove for he drives andtakes pleasure in his automobile, reads and writes without aid of glasses, andwith nimbleness equal to any star on the Talma basketball team, he can kickhigher than his head.
A party of Rochesterites attending the Newcastle Towship Farmer's institute onlast Friday enjoyed a rare visit with this grand and wonderful man. For a man tohave NINETY YEARS checked against him, be as light a-foot, mentally more keenand active than the average person of forty years - plus - not an ache or pain,surely all this cannot be a gift - it must be KNOWING HOW TO LIVE.
If there were any oversight whatever in arranging the program of the NewcastleTownship Farmer's Institute for 1935, an annual event for many years regarded asone of the outstanding institutes in the state of Indiana, it was the omissionof a lecture by Mr. Tippy, subject: "HOW TO BE YOUNG AT NINETY."
If one should read to Mr. Tippy that portion of the 90th Psalm which admonishes:"The days of our years are three score years and ten, and if by reason ofstrength they be four score years, yet there is strength, labor and sorrow; forit is soon cut off and we fly away," we feel more than sure Mr. Tippy wouldjokingly remark, "YOU ARE NOT TALKING TO ME."
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, February 19, 1935]

OBITUARY
Edmond Berl TIPPY, aged 93, for many years a resident of Talma, died at 8:30o'clock Saturday morning in the Woodlawn Hospital after an illness of six monthsdue to infirmities of age.
The deceased was born in Franklin county, Ohio, January 20, 1845 and moved toNewcastle township to reside 62 years ago from Columbus, Ohio. His parents wereLevi and Willie Ann (DeNUNE) TIPPY.
Mr. Tippy early in life was a carpenter and then purchased a farm in Newcastletownship. He has been a resident of Talma since 1913 at which time he retired.He was a staunch Democrat and served as trustee of Newcastle township from 1895to 1901.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Della EMMONS, Talma; Mrs. Eva FORE,Rochester, and Mrs. Ida SCOTT, Lebanon, Mo.; two sons, Frank TIPPY, Rochesterand Lee TIPPY, Talma; 8 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Tippydied April 10, 1925 and a daughter, Mrs. Linnie TIPPY died March 31, 1933.
The funeral services will be held from the Christian Church in Talma, at 2 p.m.Monday with Rev. Charles MILLES, pastor of the Rochester Christian Church,officiating. Burial will be made in the cemetery at Talma.
The body will lie in state in the Foster Funeral Home until the time of thefuneral where the friends may pay their respects.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, February 5, 1938]

TIPPY, GENE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage

TIPPY, RAYMOND [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage
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BRYANT & TIPPY OPEN NEW MID-WAY GARAGE
A new garage will open in this city on next Wednesday morning in the building atthe rear of the Black and Bailey hardware store. The proprietors Bert Bryant andRaymond Tippy are thoroly experienced mechanics, the former having been incharge of the repair department of the Louderback garage for a period of nineyears, while Mr. Tippy has had years of experience in automobile repair work inthis city.
The new garage which will be known as the "Mid-Way" will be equippedwith the most modern machinery and a complete assortment of parts andaccessories for all makes of cars will be carried in stock.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, December 28, 1931]

TIPTON, GEORGE [Newcastle Township]
BIOGRAPHY
George Tipton. - This worthy citizen is a native of Belmont County, Ohio, bornJune 10, 1810. He was married June 15, 1837, to Susanna Holmes, a native ofSouthern Ohio, born April 22, 1815. His father, Thomas Tipton, was born inVirginia in 1785, and married Hannah Horn, a native of Germany, born March 11 ofthe same year. They settled in Ohio at an early date, where he died in 1850. Butshe followed her children to this State, where she deceased about the year 1860.Mrs. Tipton's father, Samuel Holmes, was born in Maryland in October, 1790. Hemarried Mary McNabb, and settled in Ohio, where they died. Mr. Tipton, was oneof the earliest settlers of this township, noted for his integrity andhospitality. He has no children.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 51]

TIPTON, HOLMES [Rochester, Indiana]
HOLMES TIPTON (Biography)
County Recorder Holmes TIPTON is a native of Fulton county. Born in Newcastletownship in 1854, he grew up on a farm there, and received his education in thecountry schools. He adopted farming as his vocation and followed it untilelected Recorder in 1890. His term of office will expire next December, afterwhich he expects to engage permanently in the livestock business at which he hasbeen very successful. He married Etta ASHTON, of this city, and they have fourdaughters -- Echo, Lula, Celia and Bessie [TIPTON].
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

BIOGRAPHY
Holmes L. Tipton, ex-recorder of Fulton county, and a representative of one ofthe old families of the county, was born on his father's farm in Newcastletownship, Nov. 5, 1854. He is the son of Joshua Tipton, a native of Coshoctoncounty, Ohio, born March 6, 1813. His mother, who bore the maiden name ofElizabeth Fuller, was born Oct. 2, 1816. They were married in 1835, and in 1838removed to Kosciusko county, Ind., whence in 1839 they came to Newcastletownship, Fulton county, where the father successfully carried on farming untilhis death. He died Aug. 18, 1893, leaving a valuable estate. The children of thefamily are: Daniel, of Kosciusko county; Thomas, of Butler county, Kans.; John,of Marion county, Iowa; James, of Rochester,; Hannah, wife of Obadiah Hopper;Margaret, deceased wife of Amos Hider; Florence, wife of Perry Hamlet, of Barroncounty, Wis., and Alpheus, wife of Charles Baxter. Mr. Tipton, of this review,spent his childhood as a farmer lad, assisting in the labors of the field andreceiving about the usual training in the district schools. On attaining hismajority he began farming on his own accout, at first renting a tract of landand afterward purchasing. His youth experience in this line now proved to him ofvalue and he successfully carried on agricultural pursuits until November, 1891,when he was elected to the office of county rcorder on the democratic ticket.His personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him by those who know himis shown by the fact that he received all but seven votes of his own party andat least one hundred of the republican party. His prompt and efficient dischargeof the duties of the office fully showed that the trust reposed in him was notmisplaced. On his retirement from public office he resumed grain farming andstock dealing, and his operations along these lines have proved to him aprofitable source of income. He owns some valuable real estate in Newcastletownship and also in Rochester, where he now resides. On Dec. 1, 1876, Mr.Tipton married Nancy Ashton, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, thirty-nine yearsago, a daughter of Charles Ashton. She was left an orphan at a very early ageand was reared by a relative. She has a sister, Annie, now the wife of John Gano,of Chicago, and two brothers, C. Ashton, of Fostoria, Ohio, and George, of thestate of Washington. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Tipton are Echo, agednineteen, who was educated in the Rochester schools, and was her father's ableassistant in the recorders's office; Lula born in 1880; Celia, in 1883; andBessie, in 1890. Mr. Tipton is one of the best known men in Fulton county.Possessed of excellent business and executive ability, he has won success in hisundertakings, and his genial, social manner has made him a popular citizen andgained him many warm friends.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 137-138]

TIPTON, JAMES C. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
James C. Tipton, farmer, Rochester, son of Joshua and Elizabeth Tipton; theywere born, reared and married near Mount Vernon, Ohio; married about 1835, andemigrated to Kosciusko County about 1838, where they remained about one year,when they settled at their present residence in Newcastle Township, this county.Father was born March 6, 1813, and mother October 12,1816; she was the daughterof Daniel Fuller. James C. was born in Newcastle Township February 15, 1857. Atthe age of nineteen, James C., in company with his brother Holmes L., made atrip with covered wagon to Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, where James C.remained about one year with two brothers of that place. From there he went toJudsonia, White County, Ark.; in the fall of 1876, attended the Baptist Collegeat that place, about four months of the six that he remained at that place,uniting with the Baptist Church of that village. In the spring of 1877, hereturned to this county, and April 13, 1880, married Sarah Mabel McQuern. Theyresided a few months at Big Foot, where Mr. Tipton was keeping store; sold outthe store in September 1880, and soon after settled at their present residenceon Mrs. McQuern's farm. Mrs.Tipton is the daughter of James H. and Martha A.McQuern, born in this township October 7, 1857. She is a member of the Mt. ZionPresbyterian Church; Mr. Tipton of the Yellow Creek Baptist Church, of NewcastleTownship. In politics, he is a Democrat.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 31]

[Adv] PIANOS AND ORGANS of any style or make desired, on reasonable terms andat low prices can be bought of J. C. TIPTON, Successor to CRIM & TIPTON. - -- Salesroom at Wolf's. Piano and Organ repairing a specialty.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 23, 1889]

JAMES C. TIPTON (Biography)
A well known face among Rochester's galaxy of successful business men is that ofJames C. TIPTON, who has been in the musical merchandise business since 1886,and has built up a successful business by courteous treatment and fair dealing.His specialty is pianos and organs, and he sells them on small margins and easypayments, and has sold more instruments than any other one man in this part ofthe country, and has always given satisfaction. He was born in Fulton county in1857, and was married in 1880 to Miss Mabel McQUERN, and they have four children-- one girl and three boys.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

[Adv] MOVED to the I.O.O.F. building, west of the court house, where you canfind the wonderful and peerless A. B. CHASE PIANOS - - - The Esty Organ - - - J.C. TIPTON.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 12, 1901]

TIPTON BARBER SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
Located basement 112 E 8th.
Later became Westwood Barber Shop, operated by Fred Westwood and his son, RandyWestwood.
See Rochester High School Basketball.

TIPTON TAXI [Rochester, Indiana]
Raymond Tipton has joined the ranks of the local taxi-cabbists, with a closedFord.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 8, 1919]

TIPTONVILLE, INDIANA [Rochester Township]
Earliest settlement of Rochester, located at the dam at the outlet of LakeManitou.
Named in honor of John Tipton, the Indian agent.

The water-powered mill and two or three other buildings were built in thesummer of 1827 immediately south of the present dam location on Lake Manitou.The mill was a two-story frame building with one run of stones, adaptedexclusively to grinding corn, that being the only kind of grain raised by theIndians
The government also built a blacksmith shop and homes for the miller andblacksmith. A privately-owned trading post was established on the site, whichwas the first known settlement within Fulton County.
The name of this settlement was Tiptonville, so named by its builder, SamuelMilroy, in honor of John Tipton, the Indian agent.
Milroy was paid $1,450 for building the mill. About 22 men were employed to helpin the construction work.

The first miller was James Wyman who married an Indian woman and died in1831. Nathan Rose then became the miller. The trading post was operated by aFrenchman named DeClaire. The blacksmith was John Lindsey whose wife, Elizabeth,was the first white woman to die in Fulton County.
As none of these men were deeded land, they are not considered the firstsettlers of Fulton County.
Lindsey brought his wife and family in a covered wagon in 1830 or 1831. He hadhelped build the mill and log buildings at Tiptonville, having come without hisfamily in 1827.
At that time there was an Indian trail between the future sites of Akron andRochester. This trail crossed Mill Creek at a point a few rods from the placeElizabeth Lindsey was buried. There was no dam at Lake Manitou hence Mill Creekwas something like a river and quite deep, with a ford near Mrs. Lindsey'sgrave.
The village of Tiptonville disappeared when the Indians left Fulton County in1838 because government support was withdrawn
[Potawatomi Treaty of 1826, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

TIRE, WORLD'S LARGEST [Rochester, Indiana]
WORLD'S LARGEST TIRE TO BE IN CITY FRIDAY
The largest tire in the world is on its way to Rochester and will be onexhibition about 3:30 p.m., Nov. 7, at J. W. Brubaker's garage. That intenseinterest will be aroused is a foregone conclusion, as this gigantic tire, anoutstanding curiosity, has been an awe-inspiring spectacle wherever it has beenshown.
"This massive tire, which has traveled thousands of miles visiting varioussections of the United States and Canada, is an object of wonderment. Itmeasures 12 feet high and four feet wide; total weight 3,900 lbs., includingtire and yolk - just a fraction under two tons," said Mr. Friedlander ofthe Goodyear company. The tire was built by the Goodyear Tire & RubberCompany, of Akron, Ohio. Three months time was required to construct the rubbergiant, which is, except for size, an exact replica of the regular GoodyearAll-Weather Supertwist cord tire, the measurements being in exact ratio tomeasurements and manufacture of the regular size tire. This rubber curiosity isvalued at $5,000.
A prominent aeronautical authority recently prophesied that tires of that sizemay be necessary for equipment of the aeroplanes of tomorrow.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 6, 1930]

TIVOLI HALL [Rochester, Indiana]
The business men at the north end have employed a nigh watchman. His beat isfrom the Tivoli Hall to Farrington's stand.
. . . such harmonious, delightful sounds were made by a Mr. Lipman, ofCincinnati, and Mr. Williamson of this place. These two musical gentlemen withtheir charming instruments entertained and enthused a large attentive crowd atthe Tivoli Hall Thursday night . . . [Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 9,1876]

TOILETS, OUTDOOR [Fulton County]
[NOTE: Outdoor toilets were nicknamed "Chic Sale" after a thencurrently popular talk given on many occasions by its author, Charles (Chic)Sale, "America's great rural character actor," and later published bySpecialist Publishing Company, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Mo., copyright1929.
The story is told by one Lem Putt who took unusual pride in every detail of hischosen profession - specializing in designing and building outhouses. Its humorrested in the portrayal of "generally-known-but-seldom-mentioned incidentsof every day life," spoken by Lem Putt, a super-serious individual, uponwhose shoulders rested the gigantic task of designing and constructing outhousesof which he was most proud.
Mr. Sale said that Lem Putt, "that wasn't his real name," the featurecharacter of the story, "was just as sincere in his work as a great painterwhose heart is in his canvas; and in this little sketch I have simply tried tobring to you recollections of a man I once knew, who was so rich in odd andlikable traits of character as to make a most lasting impression on mymemory."
There must have been at least ninety percent of the population of the UnitedStates who knew Chic Sale as the author of "The Specialist" during thelate Twenties and early Thirties. Mr. Sale also appeared in at least one shortmotion picture depicting him as "The Specialist." -- WCT]
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COMMUNITY SANITATION PROJECTS
STARTED IN FULTON KCOUNTY
* * * * Photo * * * *
Through the co-operation of the United States health service, the Indiana statedivision of public health, and the federal emergency relief administration, aproject of major importance has been initiated in approximately all of Indiana.It is the community sanitation project, designed primarily to eradicateunwholesome conditions created by insanitary outdoor toilets approved by bothstate and federal health authorities.
The project is being inaugurated in Fulton county under the direction of C. RoyWilson, county supervisor, and is being sponsored by the local healthauthorities and WPA officials. Ten men so far are working in this county.
The sanitation project is one of the few WPA projects under which relief labormay be used on private property. The arrangements is for the property owner tofurnish all material necessary for the sanitating of his privy, and the WPA tofurnish all labor and supervision for the work required. It has been proven thatthis method of sanitating homes not served by sewers is a remarkably inexpensiveand satisfactory one for property owners, as the cost of materials is veryreasonable, and the trouble and worry of securing labor and supervision isavoided altogether.
Old lumber may be used in reconstructing buildings to conform to thespecifications designated by the state health department, but a complete newconcrete sanitary unit is constructed in each privy built under the sanitationproject. The finished privy for a completely fly-tight and rodent-proof unit setover a five-foot pit, free from surface drainage. Concrete floor and riser, withtight fitting seat and self-closing lid, properly adjusted metal vent pipe thatis screened at the top, and proper ventilation for the building are some of theoutstanding sanitary features of the approved sanitary privy. These featuresmake it uninviting to the common house fly that is regularly visiting the oldgerm-breeding privy on so many properties, and then carrying its filth tothousands of persons by way of food upon which he wipes his feet.
The death rates in Indiana for typhoid fever and diarrhoea are disgracefullyhigh, and can be materially lowered by concerted efforts in the part of thecitizens in eliminating at this time the source of many cases of these dreadeddiseases.
If the people here will co-operate with the officials directing the work, Fultoncounty can derive great benefits from the project, not only in the way ofputting men back to work, but also in the matter of bettering the public healthof the whole community.
Furthermore, the individual property owner who sanitates his premises now willprofit by the inexpensive arrangement under which the sanitation project isoperating. It is to be sincerely hoped that Fulton County will manifestcommunity pride and public health interest at this time, and help to make thisimportant WPA and public health program a seccessful one.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, September 18, 1935]

TOLEDO, FORT WAYNE & CHICAGO BARGE CANAL [Fulton County]
See: Erie & Michigan Canal
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A GIGANTIC CANAL
Plans are now being made by the government for the opening of a gigantic canalwhich will connect Toledo and Chicago. Frank Leverett, of Ann Arbor and Mrank B.Taylor both members of the United States geological survey, are preparing ajoint monograph for the government, the former dealing with the glacial periodin northern Indiana and the southern peninsula of Michigan and the latter givinga glacial history of the great lakes. Both of these gentlemen are fully preparedto give accurate information concerning the soil characteristics and altitudesof the proposed canal route.
Mr. Taylor and Mr. Leverett agree on the following route:
From Toledo to Ft. Wayne using the Maumee. Fort Wayne is 177 feet higher thanToledo. Several locks would be required in the river.
From Ft. Wayne, passing through Huntington, to Rochester, on a perfect level.This stretch would be the "summit level" of the canal. Four riverswould empty into this "summit level," the St. Mary's, the St. Joseph,the Tippecanoe and Eel rivers.
From Rochestr to Bass lake, with a thirty foot drop in the lock at Rochester.
From Bass lake to Deep river, south of Hobart. Here two locks would be required,one of forty feet and another of sixty feet.
From Deep river to Calumet river, which empties into the lake at Chicago, withthis great improvement, boat traffic would begin much earlier than it cancommence now -- that is, that portion which must pass by way of the straits ofMackinaw -- and it would continue much later in the fall. This route would cutoff about 450 miles on the water trip between Toledo and Chicago. It is about700 miles by water between the cities now. The canal would be about 250 miles inlength.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 21, 1907]

HERE'S OUR CANAL
The following letter from the officers of the Toledo, Ft. Wayne and ChicagoWaterway Association addressed to Beyer Bros. of this city explains itself andit is worthy the attention of business men:
Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan 27, '08.
Beyer Bros Co., Rochester, Ind.
Gentlemen: There is a movement on foot to build a ship canal from Toledo toChicago or perhaps to Michigan City. The gentlemen who have undertaken to locatethe line of the canal have followed the summit level at Ft. Wayne, the lowestsummit level between Toledo and Chicago, and this leads us to Rochester as thewest end of this level.
We feel that the proposition we have in hand is feasible and is practicable. Wehave water enough for a ship canal 24 feet deep. This canal will cut off 450miles between Chicago and Lake Erie. It will be an open waterway practically theyear round. We are at Ft. Wayne 175 feet above Lake Erie and 170 feet above LakeMichigan.
I want to know who of your citizens would be interested in this undertaking. Wewant to hold a meeting at Ft. Wayne within the next few weeks when we can havedelagates from Toledo, Napoleon and Defiance, Ohio, and from Huntington, Wabashand Rochester, Ind., and Chicago. I will thank you to take this matter up withsome of your enterprising citizens, call a meeting and appoint delegates toattend our meeting. This will mean much to Rochester and we think her citizensought to be wide awake to her possibilities.
Please address our secretary or me so that we may know if there is any interestthere. Thanking you for your action, I am yours,
T. J. Logan, Sec'y.
P. A. Randall, Chairman
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 29, 1908]

THAT SHIP CANAL
In answer to letters received by several of our citizens, from W. P. Hart,superintendent of the Huntington schools to attend a meeting last night at thatplace of representative citizens along the line of the proposed ship canal fromToledo to Chicago by way of Ft. Wayne, Huntington and Rochester, Enoch Myers,Arthur Metzler and J. E. Troutman responded. The meeting was an enthusiasticone, and the gentlemen came home very much enthused over the matter.
Hon. Perry A. Randall, of Ft. Wayne, acting president of the Indiana Branch ofthe National Harbor Congress was present and made a very instructive speech inwhich he said in part, that President Roosevelt in his speech at Memphis,Tennessee referred to the importance of our country looking after theconstruction of more inland waterways to keep in line with the march of progressof other countries, England, France, and many other countries which haveprofitably spent vast sums of money in canalizing their streams or buildingcanals and thereby cheapening transportation so much that we could not competewith them.
Mr. Randall said that Mr. Frank Taylor of Huntington, a practical civil engineerand secretary of the Harbors congress, had made careful measurements of theground between Toledo and Chicago and the only feasible route for the canalwould be up the Maumee river to Ft. Wayne, thence to Huntington and down theline of the old Wabash canal to near Roann and on down the natural waterway byway of Gilead and Rochester, to a point on the Tippecanoe river south of LakeMaxinkuckee and thence to Indiana Harbor or south Chicago and there meet canalsalready constructed. Mr. Taylor says that this route would require but threelocks and the summit level would be one hundred and ten miles long.
Mr. Taylor is now preparing a pamphle for general circulation to educate thepeople on the whole matter. Ft. Wayne has a branch organization of over sixhundred and Huntington has just perfected a branch organization; and Rochesteris urged to do likewise. The object of these organizations is to educate thepeople to the importance of such an enterprise and bring pressure to bear on ourcongressmen and candidates for congress to have them use every effort to get thebill passed now pending in Congress to make the survey of this waterway; and ifthere is a goverment survey made and reported favorably, the entire East andNorthwest will join us in seeking a part of the appropriations for suchpurposes.
The State of New York has recently made an appropriation of one hundred milliondollars to deepen and improve the old Erie canal and has asked the Government tomake an additional appropriation to make it a ship canal to the lakes, and itwill take the canal now under consideration to complete an easy watrway toChicago and the great Northwest.
While the whole matter looks gigantic and seems almost an impossibility yet theRochester delegation who heard the speeches last night are ready to say it is no"pipe dream," but a reality that may be realized in the near future.
Think of Rochester being a sea-port town and you think of possibilitiesinnumerable.
There will be meetings in the near future here and an attempt made to effect anorganization to act in conjunction with our sister cities in pushing the goodcause. Along the public is urged to lend a helping hand.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 5, 1908]

SHIP CANAL TALK
The Chicago Tribune has a ship canal story from Fort Wayne which says: "TheToledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago Deep Waterway association has a grand scheme fora canal connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. This canal will save 800 milesof journey up and down the lakes.
"There have been many such schemes before and, of course, each and everypromoter has declared that his own particular scheme has them all beat, butaccording to the Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago Deep Waterway association 'thisis the only truly feasible one.'
"The reasons given in a pamphlet published by this association soundplausible. An engineer who has examined this route as well as the otherspreviously proposed says that the Fort Wayne route will have a lower summitlevel than any other that has been planned in the past or that can be discoveredin the future. The highest point on this route will be but 177 feet above thelevel of Lake Erie and this summit level will extend for a distance of 100miles, thus allowing the boats to shoot along for a 100 mile stretch withoutbeing hindered by locks.
'The route worked out by this engineer has a greater supply of water on thissummit level than any other previously proposed canal. This is important, for ifthe canal proves a success it will be traveled by a large number of boats everyday, and thus will keep the lock working overtime. Each time the lock is openedto allow a ship to pass through a certain amount of water will be needed, andunless this can be supplied by feeders on the highest level of the canal itwould have to be pumped in, thus increasing the cost of operating.
"It is declared by the promoters of this scheme that this particular routewill require fewer locks, owing to the lower summit level. Thus the originalcost of building will be decreased, for the construction of locks is one of themost important items in the cost of a canal. Besides this point in its favor theabsence of locks will allow boats to make faster time and will decrease the costof operating, as each lock adds to the cost of operating the whole canal.
"The country through which this proposed canal will pass presents fewdifficulties for the builder. Lyman E. Cooley, the well known engineer of theChicago drainage canal, thinks this is the best route which has been planned. Hesays that the Maumee river could be used all the way from Toledo to Fort Wayneand about twenty miles of the Tippecanoe river can be used below Rochester.
"Rock cutting would be necessary in only two or possibly three places, butthere would be no deep rock cutting. There are only two places where deep cutswould have to be made and both of these cuts would be made through clay driftswith no rock cutting.
"If a canal were built along this route there could be connected with itmany other lesser canals. The Miami and Erie canal, which connects Cincinnatiwith Lake Erie at Toledo, by way of Defiance, O., already is in use and needsonly moderate enlargement to do excellent service as a large route to and fromthe middle section of the Ohio river.
"At Wabash the old canal, which has fallen into decay, could be revived andthus another connection with the Ohio river would be made."
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 1, 1908]

CANAL SURVEY TO BE STARTED SOON
That a preliminary survey of the proposed barge CANAL from Toledo to Chicago viaFort Wayne, will be ordered by the war department, at a not far distant date andthat the survey will disclose the practicability of such an inland waterway, wasthe opinion expressed to a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette representative by GeneralBixby, chief of army engineers, to whom the matter will be finally referredbefore the secretary of war is asked to authorize the survey, according to anarticle published by the Ft. Wayne paper.
The announcement is of great local interest since it is probable that the FortWayne route will put Rochester on the big canal.
Money Appropriated
The special board which several months ago completed the project has submittedits information to the river and harbor board and this body recommended thesurvey. Already $25,000 has been appropriated for the survey and an exhastiveexamination of the existant conditions in the country through which the canalwill pass will be made. The river and harbor act of 1912 recommends a survey ofthe proposed route and the condition of detailed estimates of cost.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 9, 1913]

CANAL SURVEY IS ORDERED
A detailed survey of the proposed barge canal from Toledo to Lake Michigan byway of the Maumee river and Fort Wane has just been ordered by the board of armyengineers, and the sum of $25,000 has been set aside for the purpose. The surveyis ordered to begin immediately, and will include Rochester.
The detailed survey comes as a result of the report submitted some time ago by aspecial board of engineers including Colonel Mills, Major Zinn and MajorBrumwell. These men went over the route of the proposed canal and theirstatistical report pertaining to the plans and estimates has been approved.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 8, 1913]

CANAL ENGINEERS ARE IN ROCHESTER
Two government engineers, T. M. Churchill and R. W. Sutherland, who have beengoing over the two proposed routes of the canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michiganarrived in Rochester Sunday for the first time and were busy today at the courthouse searching the records for data that would help them in their work. Theywill leave Rochester Tuesday, but will this evening address a meeting of theCommercial club at eight o'clock.
The route of the canal, if the project is found feasible, will be determined bythe report that Messrs. Churchill and Southerland give the government. They aresimply ordered by the board of army engineers to go over the two proposed routesand have specific instructions not to give out any information as to theprogress of their work and the facts developed. They have been working on thecanal project for about two months.
The chance of the canal following the lower route by the way of Rochester isgood; although the distance is longer the grade is not as high and fewer lockswould have to be built. South Bend, Elkhart and other cities on the northernroute are bending every effort to secure the canal as it means cheaper rawmaterials and more factories.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, February 16, 1914]

CANAL SURVEYORS AGAIN IN COUNTY
Frank Scholes and Leonard G. Thomas, two government surveyors, have been busyfor the past few days looking over that part of the proposed southern route ofthe Erie-Michigan canal, which lies near Akron.
Mr. Scholes, who has been over part of the northern route, believes that it istoo high to be feasible, and thinks that if the canal is built, it will followthe southern route, which includes Rochester. The men will return to Ft. Wayneas soon as they have finished taking desired levels along Sugar creek nearAkron.
The organization of canal boosters perfected at their meeting, in Fort Wayne,will be known as the Erie-Michigan Waterways Association. Officers were electedas follows: President, Perry A. Randall, Fort Wayne; Vice president for Indiana,J. W. Caswell, Huntington, and Richard Elbell, South Bend; secretary andtreasurer, T. J. Logan, Fort Wayne. The association voted to call a meeting soonin Toledo or Chicago to promote interest in the proposed Toledo, Fort Wayne& Chicago canal.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 2, 1914]

CANAL SURVEYS ARE COMMENCED
Fort Wayne, April 30. (Special) -- Actual work on the two surveys for theToledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago barge canal began today. United States JuniorEngineer Malcomb R. Sutherland is in charge of the work here during the absenceof Engineer P. M. Churchill.
Several additional engineers have received their appointments. One party willstart at Michigan City and work east. Two other parties will start from FortWayne, one on the southern, or Huntington-Rochester route, and the other on thenorthern or Warsaw-South Bend route.
Three separate crews will begin work on the survey of the southern route fromFort Wayne to Huntington and Rochester. One crew will be known as the transitparty, another as the level party and the third as the plane table crew.
Engineer Frank Scholes will advance the party and pick out the routeconnections. Scholes and Leonard G. Thomas have gone to Dixon, O., and willestablish connecting level lines for Fort Wayne in order to start surveying workto Fort Wayne. H. B. Sacknus and L. B. Glasgow are in Waterville, O., toestablish gauging stations.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 30, 1914]

SOUTHERN ROUTE WILL BE CHOSEN
It is now quite definitely understood that the reports of the army engineersengaged in making the surveys of proposed lake-to-lake routes will be favorableto the southern route which would bring the deep waterway a few miles north ofRochester.
General interest in the project has not been aroused in this city as yetalthough many individuals are evincing a deep interest in the progress of themovement, the consumation of which will rebound to the great advantage of cityand county.
One of the latest proofs that the United States government is in earnest in itsefforts to promote the project for the construction of the ship canal is thefact that Capt. Watkins, of Washington, D. C., another engineer, has beendetailed to assist in the work of making the preliminary surveys for the greatwaterway. He will be located in the office at the Fort Wayne postoffice buildingwhere Engineers Churchill and Sutherland, well known here, are located.
Col. W. V. Hudson, of Chicago, one of the army officers who is directing thework, was in Fort Wayne Thursday, conferring with the local men in charge of thework. Col. Judson [sic] is reported as having expressed the opinion that theErie & Michigan canal will most surely be constructed.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 18, 1914]

MORE ENGINEERS ARE HERE ON CANAL WORK
Alan W. Greene and R. D. Lose of the United States Engineering departmentarrived in the city Wednesday evening to work on that part of the proposedsouthern route of the lake-to-lake canal, which passes north of Rochester.
The two men have been taking levels near Akron and have covered half thedistance between here and there. The projected route comes down the Chippewanuckcreek, after passing just south of Akron, to the Tippecanoe river, which itfollows until the river bends to the south, the canal then boing off in ageneral direction toward Knox.
The men will take levels along this route, making Rochester their headquartersfor several days, land will then move on further west. It was the originalintention to have the canal enter Lake Michigan near Gary, but Chicago is makingsuch a strong bid for it that Greene believes the proposed Calumet river routewill be taken into the city. Greene is a former deputy surveyor of Marshallcounty and has acquaintances here. He also brought word that Churchill andSutherland, U. S. engineers in charge, have been superseded by another armyengineer.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 20, 1914]

ALL SURVEY WORK ON CANAL TO BE FINISHED
All survey work on the proposed Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago barge canal,which if built, may pass through Rochester, will be completed. When the presentallotment of $25,000 has been exhausted the United States government willprovide more funds. No other routes except the northern and southern will besurveyed. The survey of the southern route has been practically completed. Itpasses through this city.
The above is in a condensed form the information given out by Col. John Mills,senior member of the board of army engineers which went to Ft. Wayne severaldays ago to look over the records and reports of the local engineers. Col. Millssaid:
"I cannot say, you know, which route will be selected. In fact I do notknow. We will determine that after all the surveys have been completed. I havetalked with the northern Indiana representatives in congress and they seem tofavor the canal. Public sentiment will help a great deal and I understand thatsome people up this way are doing all they can to have the canal built."
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 17, 1914]

NEEDS 105 BRIDGES
If the board of army engineers approves of the report now being prepared byCaptain Watkins and his subordinates on the Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago bargecanal, it will require 105 bridges from Toledo to Chicago on the northern route.These bridges will cost approximately from $35,000 to $200,000 each.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 1, 1915]

HOPES FOR CANAL ARE SEEMINGLY HARD HIT
Huntington will take the initiative in getting the towns and cities, among themRochester, on the southern route of the Erie-Michigan barge canal, to worktogether in presenting evidence to the board of army engineers in proof of thecontention that it is a better route than the north one. This was decidedfollowing receipt of news that the army board has reported that the northernroute is the better one because of fewer engineering difficulties.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 18, 1916]

TOM & DOT'S DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT [Henry Township]
Located about one mile east of Akron.
Dorothy, daughter of Kenneth and Lena Gearhart Fellers, married Thomas Harger,son of O. R. and Ethel Bolley Harger, on May 29, 1953. They own and operate Tomand Dot's Drive-In Restaurant. They purchased the drive-in in 1966, added thedining room in April 1971 and have operated it ever since.
[Dr. Joseph Sippy Family, Velma Bright, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

TOM THUMB [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Tonight is "Date Night" Take your best girl to see Jack Benny in"It's In The Air" Everybody is going. - - - After the show bring yourgirl to TOM THUMB, for Sandwiches - Beer.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, November 13, 1935]

[Adv] I have bought the TOM THUMB SANDWICH SHOP and will be open for businessthis week and after making some repairs. CHARLES FLAGG, Mgr.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 6, 1939]

[Adv] TOM THUMB RESTAURANT. Sandwiches, Lunches, Short Orders. Draft, BottleBeer. Chicken Dinners Every Thursday.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 5, 1942]

FLAGG SECURES MANAGER FOR TOM THUMB CAFE
Charles Flagg today announced he has secured a manager for the Tom Thumb cafe inorder that he may enter the Veterans' hospital at Indianapolis for treatment.
Charles Martin, an experienced restaurant operator of South Bend, will take overactive management of the cafe on Monday, Oct. 16. Mrs. Martin will assist herhusband and their permanent residence will be established in this city as soonas suitable living quarters are found.
Mr. Flagg, formerly a cook in the U. S. Navy, was injured in action during theinvasion of Salerno, some time ago.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, October 13, 1944]

TOM THUMB SOLD
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Martin today announced the sale of the Tom Thumb cafe to Mr.and Mrs. Wm. F. Lightfoot of this city. The Martins came here from South Bendseveral months ago, having purchased the local cafe and tavern from Chas. Flagg.They have returned to South Bend where they will reside. Lightfoot plans severalimprovements in the place. He has already taken possession.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 16, 1945]

BUYS TOM THUMB
A deal was reported today whereby Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kofron have purchased fromWilliam Lightfoot the stock, fixtures and good will of the Tom Thumb cafe, at716 Main street. Mrs. Kofron, who is experienced in restaurant business, willmanage the cafe, it is stated.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday May 29, 1945]

TOM THUMB GOLF COURSE [Akron, Indiana]
HOTEL AT LONG BEACH TO OPEN ON THE FOURTH
The Manitou Hotel at the Long Beach Amusement Park which was puchased severalweeks ago from A. J. Barrett by Richard Edwards, of Indianapolis, will be openedto the public on July Fourth. During the past five weeks Mr. Edwards hasrefurnished and re-decorated the hotel. New beds have been installed in each ofthe rooms. Meals will be served and a specialty of Italian dinners will be made.A Tom Thumb golf course has been erected by Mr. Edwards near the hotel for theamusement of the guests and also the general public. The course is lighted by anumber of large flood lights so that the sport may be enjoyed at night as wellas by day. Tom Thumb golf courses have proved popular everywhere they have beeninstalled. Mr. Edwards has changed the name of the hotel to the "Edico."
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 30, 1930]

NEW TOM THUMB COURSE
Akron will soon have a miniature golf course as D. A. Pike is now building oneon his property on East Rochester street. The course will be 18 holes and willcontain numerous hazards. It is being built by an expert and it is expected tobe as fine as any in this section of the state when completed. The course willbe opened the first of next week.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, August 16, 1930]

TOM'S AUTO EXCHANGE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Tom's Welcome to the few Auto Owners who have not as yet called at mystore to Save Money on All Auto Accessories, Tires a Specialty - - - Used Fordson Hands at All Times. TOM'S AUTO EXCHANGE, South of the Court House.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 5, 1918]

TOMBAUGH, CLYDE W.
NEW PLANET DISCOVERED BY ARIZONA OBSERVATORY
Cambridge, Mass., March 13 - (UP) - Discovery of a new planet beyond the orbitof Neptune was reported to have been discovered - - - - [not readable] - - - -day.
The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., made the discovery, observatoryofficials announced and said it was the outstanding event in recent astronomicalhistory.
Although the name of the discoverer has not been announced it was believedProfessor Percival Lowell was entitled to most of the credit. It was recalledthat several years ago he attributed certain eccentricities in Neptune's orbitto the possible existence of a remote planet hitherto unknown.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, March 13, 1930]

NEW PLANT IS "SHOT" AT YERKES OBSERVATORY
Lake Geneva, Wis., March 18. - The new trans-Neptunian planet was sighted andphotographed by University of Chicago astronomers at Yerkes observatory lastnight.
The photographs were forwarded to the university today at the direction of Prof.George Van Blesbroeck, acting director.
"How this planet escaped detection all these years is easilyapparent," the Professor said. "It is so extremely faint that underthe closest observation its movement is scarcely discernible and hence it hasevery appearance of a fixed star."
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, March 18, 1930]

TOMBAUGH, GARNET [CARVEY] [Akron/Culver/Rochester Indiana]
MACY
Macy Monitor.
The following Macy high school students have been transferred to the Rochestercollege to complete their high school eduation: Blaine and Judd Hurst, MarvinBriggs, Merrill and Albert Belt, Garnet Snowberger, Ruth Dubois, Garnet Carvey,Dessa Nicodemus and Rosa Sowers.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 21, 1908]

AKRON MOTHERS WANT MILK SUPPLY TESTED
Mrs. Karl Gast and Mrs. J. L. Tombaugh, representing the mothers' club of Akron,Monday evening came before a special meeting of the town board of Akron, whenthey asked the board to pass an ordinance compelling all men who sell milk inAkron to have their cows tested for tuberculosis. The board did not take actionon the request, but it is said that several of the milk dealers who supply thegreatest amount of milk to Akron people, are willing to have their cows testedwithout any action by the board.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 25, 1922]

TOMBAUGH, HEZEKIAH [Perry Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
Hezekiah Tombaugh, native of Perry Township, was born June 16, 1853, being theelder of two children born to George and Elizabeth (Thomas) (Swihart) Tombaugh.George Tombaugh, father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, October 28,1796. He grew to manhood in his native State, and was reared on a farm. Hemarried there Susanna Myers, by whom he was the father of ten [sic] children, asfollows: Lucinda, born November 22, 1820; Elizabeth, born April 9, 1822; Isaiah,born May 11, 1824; Levi, born July 7, 1826; Aaron, born November 14, 1828; MaryAnn, born April 3, 1831; Susanna M., born February 9, 1834; George W., bornDecember 24, 1837; Jacob M., born May 7, 1840. He, with his family, moved toOhio in 1831; one year later he removed to Indiana and Miami County, firstsettling near Mexico, living there one year, when he moved to Perry Township, ofwhich he continued a resident until his death, which occurred in 1880. His firstwife died October 14, 1850. He was subsequently (March 6, 1851) married toElizabeth (Thomas) Swihart, widow of Jonathan Swihart. To this marriage twochildren were born, Hezekiah, our subject, and Rebecca, February 18, 1856. Mr.Tombaugh always followed farming, in which he was successful. He was a member ofthe Dunkard Church, and always lived a true Christian. He united with thatchurch in 1831. Our immediate subject has always lived at the old homestead. Hereceived a good common school education. September 12, 1875, his marriage withCatherine M. Heddleson was solemnized, and to their union two children wereborn, both deceased. April 18, 1879, he suffered the bereavement of losing hisbeloved wife. February 21, 1883, his nuptials with Hannah Speck were celebrated,to whom have been born two children, George E. and Jesse L. He has always madefarming his occupation, and he has been very successful. He now owns 124 acresof well-improved land. He and wife are members of the Brethren Church. Inpolitics he is a Republican, and he always manifests a good, live interest inthe political affairs of his community, where he was honored, in 1886, by anelection to the office of Township Trustee.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. p. 736]

TOMBAUGH, JESSE L. [Akron/Culver/Rochester, Indiana]
See: Carvey & Tombaugh
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'07 COLLEGE CLASS
Commencement week of the Rochester College will be ushered in next Sunday at theBaptist church when Rev. O. P. Miles will preach the baccalaureate sermon to theclass of thirty-five, who have completed the course prescribed by theinstitution. On Monday evening Aug 5, Prof. Sims' music class will give a musicrecital at the Chapel Hall. Prof Sims has already demonstrated his ability alongmusical lines, therefore something very good may be expected. On the dayfollowing the entire class will picnic at the lake and on Wednesday evening theAlumni and Rochester banquet will be held at the College. This will no doubt bea pleasant occasion as the Rochester College numbers among its graduates many ofthe cities' most promising young people.
The graduating exercises will be held Thursday evening, Aug 8, at the ChapelHall at the College. The address of the evening will be made by Hon. Wm. H.Sanders of Marion. Mr. Sanders is one of the most fluent and deepest thinkingorators of the state and will ably discuss his chosen topic, "A Phase ortwo of the Mind Life." This will conclude the exercises incident to thegraduation.
The class is of the average size, perhaps larger than usual, considering thefact that there are no music graduates this year. However there will be nextsummer. Those who have finished the commercial and shorthand departments are:Ferne Ault, Ethel Lackey, Ruth Davis, Lenora Rush, Fred Foglesong, NellieHamlett, Vera Krieg, Geo. Aughinbaugh, Raymon Waller, Ua Lewis, Walter Coplen,Cathren King, Nora King, Elva Heeter, Earnest Hart, Earl Harter, Retha Ross,Grace Rowie, Edmund Osborne.
The graduates of the high school and teachers' departments are as follows: HalP. Bybee, Jesse L. Tombaugh, GoldieTombaugh, Fredrick K. Deardorff, Erret Carvey,Charles Maple, Ralph Newcomer, Guy Thayer, Glen Louderback, Coma Sommer, RussellH. Smith, Opha Pletcher, Harley Davis, Henry Robinson, F. J. Ginther, NanaMcGraw.
The young people who have finished the course hail from this city and numerousother surrounding towns. Indeed northern Indiana is well represented.
Mr. Hal P. Bybee is President of the class, Edmund Osborne, Secretary and MissJessie [sic] Tombaugh, Treasurer. The motto is "Laurels to Those WhoWin," the class flower, the carnation, and the colors, maroon and white.The class, as a whole, is composed of intellectual and industrious young people,and their instructors entertain the highest hopes for a successful future forthem.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 1, 1907]

TOMBAUGH BACK AT WORK
J. L. Tombaugh, superintendent of schools at Akron, who is a member of thecontracting firm of Tombaugh and Carvey, building a road in Aubbeenaubbeetownship, suffered severe injuries several days ago when he fell into a gravelscreen, but is now able to be back at work, according to word from Akron.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 25, 1922]
[NOTE: Dad had built a large box which was hung on the side of a gravel freightcar. The gravel car had come from Million Brothers at Lake Cicot. When no truckwas there, the unloaders could go ahead and shovel gravel into the box. When atruck arrived to load, the chute was opened, the truck loaded quickly, andneither the truck nor the men were detained. Dad had cautioned the men about thedanger. He climbed onto the truck to open the chute, and the box beingwell-filled, broke loose and pinned him against the side of the Model T Fordtruck bed.
This occurred on a railroad siding at Bruce Lake Station. About every day I waswith my Dad, and this time I was playing at Harrison Crabill's general store atBruce Lake Station with their grandson, Chauncy Summers. One of the men camerushing into the store and used the telephone. I was not listening to theconversation, but Chauncy said, "Let's go. Your Dad is hurt!" We ranto the scene where they had just released Dad and had him on a board on which hewas carried to the Crabill store. Dad saw me and said, "Be a good boy,Wendell." Mr. and Mrs. Crabill had living quarters in the rear rooms of thestore, which they offered as a place for Dad to stay. Mother and I stayed therewith him for a few days, until he was able to be moved to the rented house atLeiters Ford (owned by Della Steinhiser of near Leiters Ford).
The doctor told Dad that if the injury had occurred only an inch or two in anyother direction it would have been fatal.
The above I recall this 27th day of October, 1997. I am 82 years old. - WendellC. Tombaugh.]

Jesse Tombaugh, of Akron, son-in-law of John W. Carvey, of Macy, narrowlyescaped serious injury while procuring gravel for a road near Bruce Lake. Thegravel is shipped in from Lake Cicot and as the gravel was being unloaded fromthe chute to the truck, where he was, the chute broke, letting four loads ofgravel fall upon him. - - - MACY ITEMS.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 26, 1922]

J. L. Tombaugh and George Secrist have purchased six cylinder touring cars,Harvey Overmyer, four cylinder touring Mrs. M. O. Enyart, six cylinder sedan,and Henry Zellers a sport touring car of the Rochester Buick Company. - - -SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 30, 1922]

BIOGRAPHY
Jesse L. Tombaugh, A.B., superintendent of Akron High School, is one of theleading exponents of his profession in northern Indiana, and one whose work inbehalf of the public schools is of a most constructive nature. He was born in[Perry township] Miami county, Indiana, August 1, 1886, son of Hezekiah andHannah (Speck) Tombaugh, the former born in [Perry township] Miami county,Indiana, and his parents were natives of Pennsylvania and Switzerland,respectively. A farmer, he owns and operates one hundred and twenty-five acresof excellent land in Miami county where he and his wife are still living. ARepublican, he is active in his party and he is serving as a township trustee.Both he and his wife are the products of the common schools. They had threechildren: George E., who took two years at high school, is a motorman for theWinona Interurban Railway; Superintendent Tombaugh, who was the second child;and Goldie, who was graduated from the Rochester High School in 1907, is takinga secretarial course in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Business College.Superintendent Tombaugh, after completing four terms at the Rochester HighSchool, had a year at the Rochester College, and then in 1907, received histeacher's diploma. In 1908 he entered upon his professional career, but sincethen has been a constant student, and has done post-graduate work in mathematicsat Indiana University, and with Professor Emory, whom he regards as one of themost capable educators in the country. In [1915] he took his degree of[Bachelor] of Arts. In 1916 he was principal of schools at Union City, Indiana,and during the subsequent year took up some more post-graduate work at theUniversity of Chicago, completing which in 1917 he accepted the principalship ofthe high school at Akron, but in 1918 left it to become superintendent of theChester township high school at North Manchester, Indiana, and remained there ayear. Offered the superintendency of the high school of Akron in 1919, heaccepted the offer, returned to Akron, and has since remained in this city tothe satisfaction of his pupils, their parents, the teachers under him, and thepublic generally. He exercises the right of franchise in support of the manrather than to uphold party organization. A Mason, he belongs to the Blue Lodgeof Akron, the chapter at Rochester, and the Commandery at Warsaw, and he is alsoa member of the college fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa. He married April 20, 1912,Miss Garnet Carvey, and they have one son, Wendell C., who is attending thegrade school. Mrs. Tombaugh was born in Miami county, Indiana, September 2,1888, daughter of John W. and Harriet L. (McGinnis) Carvey. She went through thegrade and high school of her native county, and took three years at MacyInstitute, and one year at Rochester College. Her father was born in [Allentownship] Miami county, is a contractor and agriculturalist, and owns a finefarm of two hundred and eighty acres in [Allen township] Miami county. He isindependent in politics, his fraternal connections are Masonic and he and hiswife are members of the Church of Christ, to which denomination Mrs. Tombaughalso belongs. The latter is one of seven children born to her parents, four sonsand three daughters, of whom five survive, and all are residents of Miamicounty, with the exception of Mrs. Tombaugh. Her sister, Pauline, is a teacherin the Miami county public schools. Superintendent Tombaugh is a man whoseinterests are centered in his work, and he rejoices in the fact that it is hisprivilege to train the plastic minds of the rising generation and fit thoseunder his supervision for the duties of life. Both he and his wife are verypopular, and are leaders in the cultural life of Fulton county.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 286-288, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

AKRON SCHOOLS HEAD ACCEPTS CULVER POST
Jesse L. Tombaugh, four years superintendent of the Akron schools, next fallwill take up new work as Culver school superintendent, it has been learned.
From the numerous applicants for the position made vacant by the election ofCulver Superintendent, Deane Waller, as county superintendent, Mr. Tombaugh waselected superintendent of the Culver schools for the coming year.
Mr. Tombaugh has a splendid record for scholarship, having received an A. B.degree from Indiana University some years ago and last year received his A. M.degree from Columbia University. In addition he has completed the major portionof his Ph. D. degree in Chicago University. In each of the two latterinstitutions he has been elected to the Phi Delta Kappa franternity in receptionof superior scholarship.
Besides having had teaching experience in lesser positions, he served astownship principal of Chester township, Wabash county, one year, principal ofUnion City schools one year, also principal one year and superintendent fouryears of the Akron schools
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Thursday, June 18, 1925]

TOMBAUGH FAMILY [Rochester, Indiana]
TOMBAUGH FAMILY TRUST

TO:

1. The Fulton County Public Library
2. City of Rochester, Indiana
3. Fulton County, Indiana
4. State of Indiana
5. United States of America

Writing this letter is the most awesome task which we ever tackled, for itconcerns something which undoubtedly will be of great historical and economicimportance to our Local, State and National governments.
It is addressed to you - people whom we never will meet, many who will not beborn for hundreds of years.
May we shake your hands across the table of time. We are Wendell C. Tombaugh,husband; Jean C. Tombaugh, wife; and John B. Tombaugh, son.
Each of us now owns a revocable trust, all three of which are handled by ourTrustee, Norwest Bank Indiana, N.A., (soon to be renamed Wells Fargo), Mr. H.Phil Tomson, Vice President and Trust Officer. Upon the death of the last of us,the assets from our three trusts will merge into another trust, called TOMBAUGHFAMILY TRUST, and the three present trusts will no longer exist.
Without quoting the details of the trust, basically it provides thatdistribution be made as follows:
1. Fulton County Public Library, first 50 years of the Trust, 90% of the netearnings per year.
2. City of Rochester, Indiana, next 50 years of the Trust, 90% of the netearnings per year.
3. Fulton County, Indiana, next 100 years of the Trust, 90% of the net earningsper year.
4. State of Indiana, next 200 years of the Trust, 90% of the net earnings peryear.
5. United States of America, thereafter, 100% of the net earnings per year.
Unallocated net earnings are retained in the Trust corpus for growth.

It is our desire that income from the Tombaugh Family Trust go to benefit themost people over the longest possible period of time, and that it be usedwisely.
It is our further desire that the purpose of the money which you receive, shouldbe to reduce taxes - permanently.
The money is of little value, and may be harmful, if it is not used wisely. Wemay be unintentionally feeding the government's Gargantuan appetite, encouragingits further growth and intrusiveness on freedom. Our intentions are good. Howthe money is used is your responsibility. It is also your opportunity.
It will be so tempting to spend the money as it comes. Easy come, easy go. Tospend the money as it arrives would only get the community living a life stylewhich it cannot afford when the money stops.
We suggest that you create a fund into which you deposit all which you receivefrom the Tombaugh Family Trust, and at the end of the first year you may spend90 percent of the net earnings of your fund, leaving ten per cent for furthergrowth, and repeating this yearly thereafter. The projected estimate of yourfund's growth can be demonstrated by glancing at the projected growth of trustcorpus and net income of the Tombaugh Family Trust, prepared July 22, 1998 by H.Phil Tomson, Vice President and Trust Officer, Norwest Bank, Indiana, N.A.:

We hope to leave 2.5 million dollars net, after our deaths.
Estimated growth of the trust corpus over the first fifty years is from 2.5million to 61.8 million with estimated net annual income from $49,500 to 1.15million.
Estimated growth of the trust corpus over the next fifty years is from 61.8million to 1.5 billion with estimated net annual income from 1.15 million to28.4 million.
Estimated growth of the trust corpus over the next one hundred years is from 1.5billion to 880 billion, with estimated net annual income from 28.4 million to16.3 billion.
These estimates cover only the first two hundred years of the trust, after whichthe rate of growth is higher.

It is our wish that the Trustee furnish an annual news release, showing thename, TOMBAUGH FAMILY TRUST, the name of the current recipient, total amount ofpayment made for the year, total payments to date, the number of years paymentshave been made, and the number of years remaining to be paid to the currentrecipient, together with such other information as the Trustee deems advisable.

__________________ __________________ __________________
Wendell C. Tombaugh Jean C. Tombaugh John B. Tombaugh

Tombaugh family dedicates fortune
to future permanent tax reduction
By Jack K. Overmyer
Because they wish "to pay some rent" for the good fortune they havereceived from their community and their governments, retired Judge Wendell C.Tombaugh, his wife Jean C. and son John B. have created a financial trust thatis unprecedented in purpose and in length. When implemented some years hence, itwill provide enormous public fundings and reductions in taxes, for centuries tocome.
Each of the Tombaughs presently owns a revocable trust that, upon the death ofthe last of them, will merge into another named the Tombaugh Family Trust. Atthe time of the last death, the Family Trust is expected to be worth a net $2.5million.
Beneficiaries of 90 percent of the annual net income from the Trust will be inorder:
* The Fulton County, Indiana, Public Library, for the first 50 years.
* The City of Rochester, Indiana, for the next 50 years.
* Fulton County, Indiana, for the next 100 years.
* The State of Indiana, for the next 200 years.
* The United States of America, thereafter, will retain 100 percent of theannual net earnings of the Trust, all unallocated earnings having been retainedheretofore for Trust growth.
Amounts of money staggering in their size will be developed over the years forthe governmental units. This is revealed by the following projections providedby the Trustee of the Tombaugh Family Trust, Norwest Bank of Indiana,represented by H. Philip Tomson of Peru, vice president and trust officer:
* For the first 50 years the Fulton County Library's estimated annual net incomefrom the Trust will grow during the period from $49,500 to $1.15 million. TheTrust itself will grow from $2.5 million to $61.8 million.
* For the next 50 years the City of Rochester's estimated annual net income fromthe Tust will grow during the period from $1.16 million to $28.4 million. TheTrust itself will grow from $61.8 million to $1.5 billion.
* For the next 100 years Fulton County's estimated annual net income from theTrust will grow during the period from $28.4 million to $16.3 billion. The trustitself will grow from $1.5 billion to $880 billion.
Through the following centuries, The Trust grows even more rapidly for thebenefit of the State of Indiana, for 200 years, thereafter for the United Statesof America. Trust income and balance amounts reach the trillions by year 300.
Judge Tombaugh, in a letter that each governmental beneficiary will receive whenthe Fanily Trust is created by the last family death, expresses his family'sdesire that income from the Trust "benefit the most people over the longestperiod of time" and that its purpose "should be to reduce taxes -permanently."
The Trust will be of little value and may be harmful if not used wisely, hewarns. "We may unintentionally be feeding the government's Gargantuanappetite, encouraging its further growth and intrusiveness on freedom. Ourintentions are good. How the money is used is your responsibility. It also isyour opportunity."
Judge Tombaugh also suggests in his letter that each governmental agency createa separate fund for money it receives from the Tombaugh Family Trust and, as theTrust itself does, retain 10 percent yearly for growth. If begun, this could seta pattern for succeeding agencies to follow.
By retaining 10 percent of each year's earnings for growth, the judge writes,each agency will eliminate the temptation to spend all the money as it comes.
To do so "would only get the community living a lifestyle which it cannotafford when the money stops."
The Trustee, Norwest Bank, should issue an annual statement to the media, statesJudge Tombaugh, detailing how much money has been paid from the Tombaugh FamilyTrust the preceding year, total payments to date, number of years payments havebeen made and the number of years remaining to be paid to the current recipient.
Addressing the reaon for creating the Trust, Judge Tombaugh writes: "Thiscommunity and our government have been good to us. We now wish to pay some rent.We honestly believe this is the reaon why we were put on this Earth. Our job isdone. May God Bless America!"
Judge Tombaugh, 83, was judge of the Fulton Circuit Court from 1967-78. He hasresided in Fulton County almost 70 years, is a graduate of Rochester High Schooland Indiana University School of Law. He was an FBI agent, is a U.S. Navyveteran and was a retailer before assuming the bench. His wife, Jean, 82, wasinvolved for 30 years in local genealogical research, joined by her husbandafter his retirement. They continue to research local genealogical andhistorical material which they issue from their own publishing house. Son John,56, is compiling books that will describe the origins and daily history of WorldWar II; he also is associated with his parents in their genealogical endeavors.
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Tombaugh gifts
many at library
By Christina M. Seiler
Staff Writer, The Sentinel
The Indiana Room at the Fulton County Public Library has almost too manyTombaugh-family published books to count.
"We're very, very grateful," library business manager Grace Millersaid of the hardbound gifts given by Wendell and Jean Tombaugh and their familygenealogical publishing business.
She could not comment, she said, on the monetary gift the Tombaugh Family hasgiven to the library.
"They have a great love for keeping the Fulton County history," Millersaid. "He's always had a great love for the library."
Among the books at the county library that the Tombaughs have researched,written and published; "School Enumerations, starting at 1896; the index toFulton County; an Index to Fulton County Folks; Marshall County Cemeteryinscriptions; Briefs of Indiana Wills 1836 to 1974; Indiana Court Records forthe October term 1836 through an unknown date; Fulton County CemeteryInscriptions (with included genealogical notes); The Fulton County, 1880 Census;FultonCounty Births, 1882-1920; Indiana marriages 1836-1983; Miami County Allenand Perry Township Cemetery Inscriptions; Fulton County Obituaries from TheRochester Sentinel; Fulton County Death Records, 1882-1920.
"They are certainly friends of the library," former library boardmember and banker Don Groenleer said today.
The Tombaugh gift will mean a lot to the library, he said. Groenleer is a memberof the board of directors of the Northern Indiana Community Foundation."Many other libraries have endowments," he said. "We have a smallone, but nothing of this size."
"Of course, the library board is thrilled to death with this, said LallaHeyde, a member. "We have been made aware that trust is coming, but we havenot discussed it yet."
The Tombaugh Family's hope is that the governmental entities which receive theirmoney use it to lower taxes.
The library's current budget - including the Fulton and Leiters Ford branches is$779,360, Miller said. The current tax rate is 35 cents per each $100 ofassessed valuation.
Fulton County Library director Dave Ewick was out of town today with a sickchild and could not be reached for comment.
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TONER, A. D. [Kewanna, Indiana]

BIOGRAPHY
A. D. Toner, one of the most successful citizens of Fulton county, was born inFayette county, Ind., June 20, 1834. His parents were Samuel and Anna (Shaffer)Toner. Unto them were born eleven children, of which the subject of this mentionis the youngest. He was about eight years of age when his parents came to Fultoncounty and settled in Wayne township. Mr. Toner grew to manhood on the farm andgained a fair common school education. He remained on the farm till about 1859,when he became a resident of Kewanna and about that time began dealing in livestock, in which business he continued until about 1880. This, his first businessventure, proved successful. In 1880 he became the prime factor in a movement forthe construction of a railroad from Logansport through Kewanna to South Bend,and was instrumental in the organization of a company of Kewanna citizens forthe construction of the railroad. The movement resulted in inducing the Vandaliarailroad company to propose building a railroad from Logansport to lakeMaxinkuckee, in consideration of the right of way and $20,000. Mr. Toner, P. S.Troutman, John F. Wilson and Hickman Phillips assumed the responsibility ofsecuring the right of way and the $20,000, becoming responsible to the Vandaliarailroad company for the named consideration. They were aided in making thissubsidy good by the public, who voted taxation and gave donations. Mr. Tonerbuilt thirteen miles of the road as a contractor and, as soon as the road wascompleted he erected a small elevator at Kewanna. Four years later additionswere made to the elevator, and machinery for making flour was placed in it.Since then this mill and elevator has been owned and operated by the firm of A.D. Toner and Brunk. Mr. Toner was one of the parties who built the Masonictemple of Kewanna. In 1886 he erected what is now the Toner house, which hotelbuilding he owns. Mr. Toner has done much toward the upbuilding of Kewanna. Hehas erected several fine brick business houses, as well several residences, andnow owns considerable property in the town. He is progressive and ever ready tocontribute to the improvement of the town. It was mainly due to him that the H.J. Heinz company was induced to establish a pickle salting house at Kewanna in1894. July 25, 1893, Mr. Toner established the Kewanna bank, of which he is soleproprietor, and H. D. Howell cashier. He has always been interested in farming anow owns in Wayne and Union townships nearly 1,000 acres of highly cultivatedland. He built the second frame barn erected in Union township. He began hisbusiness career without a dollar, but by means of his superior business ability,energy and enterprise he amassed considerable wealth. In politics he has alwaysbeen a democrat. He served as representative of Fulton and Pulaski counties inthe general assembly of Indiana session of 1884-85.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 138-139]

LOCAL NEWS
A. D. Toner, of Kewanna who secured the contract for all the grading for the C.R. & M. Ry. from North Judson to a point about two miles east of Kewanna,began work at Judson this morning, with seventy teams. The distance he has tograde is about twenty-five miles.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 1, 1901]

LOCAL NEWS
The grading on the C. R. & M. from where A. D. Toner's contract ends twomiles east of Kewanna to Peru is to be done by a Mr. McKinley. A car load ofmules was to arrive in Kewanna last night, and the contractor, with a largeforce of men, will begin the work immediately.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 11, 1901]

LOCAL NEWS
J. D. [sic] Toner, who had the contract for grading on the C. R. & M.railroad from North Judson to two miles east of Kewanna, completed his work,with the exception of that within the corporation of Kewanna, Tuesday evening.All the right of way has not [?] been secured to Kewanna.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 10, 1901]

From the Herald
A. D. Toner received the contract Monday of grading between 30 and 40 miles ofthe C. R. & M. north from North Judson. With the 26 miles he graded fromNorth Judson to Kewanna he will have pretty close to grading the entire northend.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 28, 1902]

TONER, A. D. [Kewanna, Indiana]
Once owned much business property in Kewanna.
He had a plaque put on the front of one building instead of a monument on hisgrave
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TONER, AL. D., Jr. [Kewanna, Indiana]
AL. D. TONER, Jr. (Biography)
Attorney Al. D. TONER, Jr., of Kewanna, is a native of Union township, havingbeen born on a farm there 35 years ago. He received his education in the Kewannaschools and at Valparaiso Normal. He read law for about six years and opened anoffice in Kewanna in February '91. From the beginning Mr. Toner has had a nicelaw and collection business and he is considered one of the safest counselors inthe state. He married Miss Jesse PHILLIPS, of Marion, Ohio, and they have a babyboy, Worth [TONER].
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

TONER, ANDREW J. [Union Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew J. Toner, a worthy citizen of Union Township, was born in Shelby County,Ind., October 18, 1828. His parents were natives of Northumberland County, Penn.In 1832, Mr. Toner, Sr., moved to Delaware County, Ohio, where they remained tenyears, when they returned to Indiana and settled in Union Township, this county.Mr. A. J. Toner was married to Mary A. Cavander July 26, 1849. She was bornMarch 20, 1828; her parents were natives of Delawre. Mr. Toner is the father ofeight children, viz.: James, Isaac S., John, Nancy A., Harriet J., Albert D.,William E. and Jerry A. Mr. Toner is a farmer, owning the farm on which helives; he occasionally deals in stock also. He and his wife are members of theMethodist Episcopal Church.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 59]

TONER, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington

TONER, JOHN HENDERSON [Kewanna, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
John Henderson Toner is of one of the oldest and best known families in Fultoncounty. He was born in Shelby county, Ind., Jan 7, 1826. His parents were Samueland Annie (Shafer) Toner. His father was of Irish descent and his mother ofGerman. They were born and married in Northumberland county, Pa., came toIndiana in 1832, and first settled in Shelby county. In the fall of 1843 theysettled in Wayne township, Fulton county, where they resided till death. Theyhad eleven children. The subject of this biographical sketch gained a faircommon school education and very early in life began farming on his own account.For many years he continued farming and, though he began as a renter, successfollowed his efforts and at present he owns a fine farm of 381 acres. In 1889Mr. Toner removed from his farm into Kewanna, where he has since lived, and in1891 he and his son-in-law, D. W. Sibert, established the Exchange bank ofKewanna, which they have since operated. Mr. Toner has been twice married. In1848, he wedded Elizabeth Updegraff, who died leaving no children, and in 1857he married Hester A. Graham. Unto the second marriage was born a daughter, Lulahby name, now the wife of D. W. Sibert. In church faith Mr. and Mrs. Toner areMethodists. He has been a member of the I.O.O.F. since 1857. Mr. Toner enjoysthe esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, and has always been identifiedas a representative citizen of the county. In politics he was formerly ademocrat, but is now a prohibitionist. He has never sought political preferment.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 139]

TONER ELEVATOR [Fulton, Indiana]
BIG PURCHASE
L. G. Holz, of Rochester, Saturday bought the elevator plant, lumber yard andcoal business of A. D. Toner at Fulton, valued at $20,000. Possession was givenMonday and J. E. Snepp, formerly of Kewanna, will remain as manager.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 8, 1913]

TONER ELEVATOR [Kewanna, Indiana]
Owned by A. D. Toner, who also owned elevators and Fulton and Lucerne.
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KEWANNA
Kewanna Herald.
The biggest thing in this section is the new Toner elevator now in process ofconstruction just east of the Vandalia depot. The grain cleaner will handle1,600 bushels per hour, and the car loader 60 bushels per minute. The elevatorstands 77 feet high at the highest point and everything about it is assubstantial and neat as it is big.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 2, 1905]

TONER OPERA HOUSE [Kewanna, Indiana]
KEWANNA
The democratic meeting, Tuesday evening at Toner's Opera House, was a completesuccess in every particular. More people could not have gotten in the hall. ProfHering delivered one of those stirring addresses for which he is noted. Thepeople are more than ever convinced that Hering should go to Congress instead ofBrick.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 21, 1904]

TOPPS GARMENT MFG. CO. [Rochester, Indiana]
See Elin Manufacturing Co.
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NEW NAME company president Alan Dorrell announced a new name for EdmontonManufacturing Company Wednesday. It is now Topps Safety Apparel Inc. Thebusiness, started in Rochester in 1938 by Jack and Seymour Elin, remained intheir family until last-January, when it was purchased by the British FaithfulGroup. Faithful, a European leader in the manufacture of work uniforms andprotective apparel, has operations in England and Holland in addition to theU.S. Edmonton's corporate headquarters, warehouse and distribution center are at501-503 Main St., Rochester, and production plants in Edmonton and Greensburg,Ky.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, December 26, 1997]

TORNADO OF 1974 [Fulton County]
Occurred on Wednesday, April 3, 1974.
See Talma, Indiana
Also See Cyclone, March 10, 1925
TORX DIVISION OF CAMCAR CORP. [Fulton County]
See Indiana Metal Products

TOURIST CAMP [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rochester Tourist Camp

TOWN LAKE [Henry Township]
Located approximately 1125E and 175S.

TOWNE, CLYDE E. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Clyde E. Towne)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Clyde E. Towne)

TOWNSEND, JOEL R. [Liberty Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Joel R. Townsend, of Liberty township, is a son of the late Joel Townsend, whowas a settler in this township as early as 1834. His log cabin was of the rudestsort. His bed was supported by pins in the wall and chest or trunk served as histable. His means were very limited, so much so that at one time he was forced todispose of a copper kettle brought from Ohio to get money to pay his taxes. Buthe was frugal and industrious and before his death, May 31, 1879, fortune hadput him in possession of over 1,000 acres of land and much personal property. Hewas born in England in 1808; came to the United States in 1820, and was rearednear Cleveland. He married Vesta Collins, who shared all his privations andenjoyed with him the years of his prosperity. Their living children are: AnselB., Joel R., Lucy A., Harrison, living in Tabor, Iowa, and John N. Joel R.Townsend was born in Liberty township, Fulton county, May 12, 1848. He waseducated at the Oliver school house and was engaged in farming till twenty-eightyears old, when he engaged in merchandising in Macy. In three years he retiredfrom this business and went on the road as traveling salesman for Isaac Stern& Co., of Kokomo, dealers in cigars. He remained in this business four yearsand next engaged with the Alden vinegar company, of St. Louis, and was withthese people four years. His next employers were Huffman & Co.,Indianapolis, with whom he remained till Dec. 6, 1895. Since that time he hasresided on his farm of 180 acres, keeping up the odds and ends about a wellconducted farm. Mr. Townsend was first married Nov. 26, 1869, to ElizabethStibbs, who died in March, 1875, leaving one child,viz.: Mary, wife of RobertMiller, Macy, Ind. Nov. 25, 1875, Mr. Townsend married Clarissa, daughter ofGeorge Carter. Mr. Townsend is a republican and is quite active in partypolitics in the county.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 139-140]

TOWNSEND, JOHN N. [Liberty Township]
BIOGRAPHY
John N. Townsend is the son of Joel and Vesta Townsend, and was born November16, 1854. His father, a native of England, died May 31, 1879, at the age ofsixty-six. His mother, a native of New York, is still living in Miami County.Mr. and Mrs. Townsend, Sr., came to this county about 1834, and settled whereNohn N. now lives. Their first work was to build a log cabin sixteen feetsquare, in which they spent their first year's experience in the wilds of FultonCounty. They had ten children, of whom but four--Ansel B., Joel B., Lucy A. andNohn N., are now living. Mr. T., Sr., a farmer, commenced in the woods andcarved out a handsome and pleasant home for himself and family, having at onetime over a thousand acres of land, and at his death $6,000 in personalproperty. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. J.N. Townsend remained at home until his marriage to Miss Eva Martin, May 4, 1880,when he established himself in the home place. Mrs. T. was raised in thiscounty, and is a daughter of Alfred and Hannah Martin, who are both deceased.Mr. and Mrs. T are the parents of two children--Carrie May and Sallie Dell. Hehas received a liberal education and is a genial gentleman and has provedhimself an efficient teacher of penmanship. Two of his relatives were in thearmies of the rebellion, one of whom died and the other rose to the rank ofLieutenant, and was mustered out under general orders.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 44]

TOWNSEND, SAMUEL [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Townsend was born in Knox County, Ind., April 8, 1817. He is the eldestson of William and Sarah Townsend, natives of North Carolina and Virginiarespectively, and of English ancestry. At the age of seven years, he removedwith his parents to Wayne County, where he received an ordinary education in thecommon school. At the age of twenty-one, he began laboring for the neighboringfarmers, at which he continued for four years. March 4, 1841, he was married toMiss Anna Eliason, a native of Wayne County, born March 16, 1823. He afterwardremoved to Tipton County, thence to Henry, and finally to this county, inOctober, 1864, and purchased the farm on which he now resides, and whichconsisted of seventy-one acres, partly improved. Mr. Townsend has since added anew dwelling and other improvements. He and lady are members of the ChristianChurch, and honored and respected citizens. They are the parents of eightchildren--Martha E., Sarah J., Mary E., Lucinda M., Merinda A., Thomas D.,Willard H. and Lawson Elsworth--a part of whom are married; the others are yetunder the parental roof.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 41]

TOWNSEND OVERLAND COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
Townsend-Martin Overland Co.
OPEN NEW SALESROOM
The Townsend-Martin Overland Co., has opened its salesroom at 606 Main St., twodoors south of the Hoover furniture store. Aside from the cars, they will handleaccessories and maintain a service station. C. C. Townsend and Harry Martin arethe proprietors.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 12, 1919]

[Adv] With Three-Point Cantilever Springs New Overland 4 seems to "SailOver the Roads" - - - - Townsend Overland Company, 116 East 7th, Phone 28.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 22, 1920]

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS OF FULTON COUNTY
WAYNE: William N. Vanmeter, Thomas Deckard and Erastus C. Andrews, Justices ofthe Peace; George H. Potts, Andrew E. Dukes and James W. Torrence, Constables;Jacob Showly, Trustee.
UNION: Thomas W. Barnett, James Ritchey and Benneville Stamm, Justices of thePeace; Rufus B. Lampman, Henry P. Bennett and George Lebo, Constables; IsaiahSlick, Trustee.
AUBBEENAUBBEE: John Leiter and James Hay (elect), Justices of the Peace; AndrewBarger, Constable; John Henderson, Trustee.
LIBERTY: Job W. Johnson, Norman L. Stearns and John Aydelotte, Justices of thePeace; Samuel W. Sellers, Constable; Robert Aitken, Trustee.
ROCHESTER: Thomas H. Howes, Thomas F. Rannells, George W. Truslow and James F.Wagoner, Justices of the Peace; Ralph R. Smith, Edward B. Chinn, Constables;William Mackey, Trustee.
RICHLAND: Isaac Hiatt, John Crum, Tolbert C. Shore, Justices of the Peace;Samuel Wright, John Bonewitz, Constables; Benjamin C. Wilson, Trustee.
HENRY: Robert M. Shields, Levi Burtch, A. L. Bailey, Justices of the Peace;Aaron Ball, Augustus McIntire, John S. Rannells, Constables; James Dawson,Trustee.
NEWCASTLE: John C. Dille, Reuben Redman, Kennedy Whitman, Justices of the Peace;Nicholas King, John Grove, Ellis Strosnider, Constables; Peter C. Dumbauld,Trustee.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 4, 1859]

TOWNSHIPS [Fulton County]
See: Fulton County Townships

TRACY, ROBERT [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Robert Tracy)

TRADING POST, THE [Bruce Lake, Indiana]
Store and restaurant operated for many years by a huge man named John Dellinger.After his death in 1960, Al Speece ran the business but it was closed in the1960's.

TRADING POST, THE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Announcing the Reopening of THE TRADING POST, Saturday, July 31asst. Wehave remodeled and redecorated the store throughout - - - We have held nothingover from the fire - - - [Max Blumenthal]
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, July 29, 1943]

TRAIL OF COURAGE LIVING HISTORY FESTIVAL [Fulton County]
Annual event sponsored by Fulton County Historical Society since 1976.
Held on Fulton County Historical Society grounds W side US-31 just N ofTippecanoe River. to commenorate the taking of the Pottawatomie Indians fromthis area to Missouri around 1845.

TRAIL OF DEATH [Fulton County]
Also see Pottawatomie Indian Monument
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GENERAL TIPTON LED MENOMINEES THRU ROCHESTER
B. F. Stuart, former Loansport resident, now living in Carroll county, hasdelved into the Indian history of this locality and submits the followingaccount of the deportation of the Menominee Indians, under Gen. John Tipton.
"The last treaty in the United States, made with the Pottowattomie Indianswas a very important one and was made in 1836.
"This treaty gave to our government a clear title to all lands held by themexcept twenty-two sections at Twin Lakes, Marshall county, reserved in thetreaty of 1832 by Menominee and his bands.
"Some of these lands were very valuable and were coveted by the whites.Chief Menominee would not sell or move and the government would not depart froma fixed policy to buy their lands and a written consent for possession. Itwanted a good title.
"But Governor Wallace assumed the power and responsibility of taking theselands by force and removing the Indians to Osage county, Kansas. He authorizedGen. John Tipton to raise an army and proceed to the lakes to preserve the peacewhich in reality meant their final removal. Tipton at once made all necessaryarrangements, hastened to the reservation and made known to Menominee thepurpose of his mission. He disarmed them and when rounded up had on roll 859.
"On September 4, 1838, the procession which was about three miles long,began its march. It consisted of Indians on ponies and afoot; armed guards,sixty governent wagons drawn by ox teams. On the wagons were loaded the women,children, sick, aged and feeble. The weather was hot, the roads dry and dusty.It proved in reality a funeral procession with an average daily death rate offive and every camping ground a burial ground. They reached the Old Michiganroad and moved down thru Rochester to Logansport, camping on Honey CreekSeptember 7.
"From here the procession moved to the north bank of the Eel river and thendown on the north bank of the Wabash river to the line between Cass and Carrollcounties. From here they followed the bank of the river one-half mile, and thenat the foot of the bluff to Rattle Snake creek except about one mile which iseast of Lockport, where the road was on the bluff. They followed the above namedcreek about 80 rods -- forded it -- and went up the hill through the woods andthen southwest through Conners Reserve, crossed Pleasant Run creek near theresidence of Abner Robison, then up the hill and nearly south to Pittsburg.
"The Delphi Oracle of September 15, 1838, says they passed there on thewest side of the river. That means they followed the old Delphi and BattleGround road, fording the Tippecanoe at Mays Point, reaching Battle GroundSeptember 11, where they camped. It was here that Tipton gave out $3,000 worthof presents to allay the great discontent among the Indians.
"This is as far as the writer is able to trace the route, except that itwent through Perrysville. They reached Danville, Ill., Sept. 17, 1838.
"One very remarkable feature is that nearly all the route to Battle Groundis today a public highway. There are events that take place in the history of acountry that the farther away in time the more important they become. Such isthe case with the various treaties with the Miami and Pottowattomie Indians andthis last removal."
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 20, 1921]
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The "Trail of Death" removal of the Potawatomies from northernIndiana was the only case in the entire U.S. history of Indian affairs whereforce was used to move the Indians. It is regrettable that the Indiana governor,David Wallace (father of Lew Wallace, Civil War general who wrote "Ben Hur")deemed it necessary to send soldiers with guns and bayonets to remove theIndians from Fulton, Marshall and surrounding counties. So many Indians died onthe forced march to Kansas that it is called the "Trail of Death."
In nine treaties negotiated by Abel C. Pepper, Indian agent, on the banks of theTippecanoe River north of Rochester in 1836, the Potawatomies ceded their landfor 50 cents to $1 an acre and agreed to move west in two years. These treatieswere signed by many different Indians with an X mark, including Chief Kewanna,Aubbeenaubbee and his son Pau-koo-shuck. Sometimes even squaws were allowed tosign, perhaps because they couldn't get the men to sign.
The two years were up August 5, 1838, but there were many bands of Indiansremaining, the largest of which was Chief Menominee's at Twin Lakes, south ofPlymouth. Anticipating their removal, squatters had already moved onto thereserve and built cabins.
One of them, a Mr. Watters, made a practice of burning brush next to theIndians' cornfields that dry summer of 1838 and firing his rifle over the headsof Indians on the trail near his cabin. The Indians broke down Watters' door andthreatened his life, which was followed by the burning of 12 Indian cabins.
Claiming an uprising, Watters and the other white settlers petitioned thegovernor for help. Wallace asked for 100 volunteers and put Gen. John Tipton incharge of removing the Potawatomies forcibly.
Not all the white men wanted the Indians removed. Menominee did not sign thetreaty selling his land, and lawyers advised him to stay and fight it in thecourts. Meniminee claimed that whiskey was used to induce the Indians to signthe treaties and that none of the signers were representatives of Potawatomiproperty rights.
The traders did not want the Indians to leave until their debts were paid, andwould like for them to stay because the trade with them was so profitable. Someoffice seekers were sticking up for the Indians, hoping thereby to get elected.Many of the white men were genuinely sympathetic with peaceable red men andurged them to plant corn and become respectable farmers. But the greedyhomesteaders won out and filed claims for 160 acres of free government land.
Gen Tipton sent word that there would be a meeting of all Indians at theCatholic mission chapel at Twin Lakes. As the Indians arrived, they weredisarmed and many were shackled. On Tuesday, September 4, 1838, Menominee andnearly 1,000 Indians were lined up and marched away at gunpoint. Their villageswere burned so they would know they had nothing to come back to.
The first night the Indians and soldiers camped at the Tippecanoe River bridgenorth of Rochester, near where a DAR historical marker has been erected. Thatnight 20 escaped and took two horses. The next morning 51 persons were unable tocontinue, and so were left to catch up later, most of them sick and theremainder to care for them.
The second day, September 5, they marched single-file through Rochester,stretching from one end of town to the other. They traveled only nine miles thatday, stopping at noon to camp at Mud Creek, north of Fulton, in order to havewater. The first death occurred at this camp. An Indian child died in theevening and was buried under the present SR-25 on the morning of September 7. Achild also was born at this camp, and three Indians joined the emigrating party.
The next day the march continued and they camped at Logansport for three nights,awaiting more wagons and supplies. From there they headed west.
The order of march was as follows: First the U.S. flag carried by a dragoon(regular soldier), then one of the principal officers, next the staff baggagecarts, then the carriage for the Indian chiefs, then one or two chiefs onhorseback led a line of 250 to 300 men, women and children in single file. Onthe flanks of this line at equal distance from each other were the dragoons andvolunteers hastening the stragglers, often with severe gestures and bitterwords.
After this cavalry, came a file of 40 wagons filled with baggage and Indians.The sick were lying in them, rudely, jolted under a canvas which far fromprotecting them from dust and heat, only deprived them of air and several died.On every page of the journals kept by Gen. Tipton and Jesse Douglas, theenrolling agent, are recorded the deaths. The trail is marked by about 150graves of infants and the elderly and weak.
The weather was hot and dry and water was scarce. White people were also dyingin the villages they passed through. Eye-witnesses recalled that the Indianscried "Bish, bish" (water) as they went by. Their food consisted ofbeef and flour cooked in the evening camps. The procession was as sad as afuneral march, and many Indians slipped away. They arrived in Illinois with only859 Indians.
At Danville Ill., the priest Benjamin Petit caught up and was able to uplift thespirits of the Indians. Gen. Tipton and his militia withdrew, leaving WilliamPolke and Father Petit in charge. Menominee and two other recalcitrant chiefswere kept in caged wagon, a jail on wheels, until Father Petit gained theirrelease in Danville. Petit had baptized Menominee and many others into theChristian faith.
The trip took 61 days, arriving at the Osage River in Kansas the first week ofNovember. On the way back to Indiana, Father Petit died in St. Louis frommalaria and fatigue.
The Indians that slipped back to Indiana were conducted west in lateremigrations under Alexis Coquillard, the last one in 1851. But no deaths ordesertions were reported, only trouble with liquor.
[The Trail of Death, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

"It was a sad and mournful sight to see these children of the forestslowly leaving the home of their childhood, that contained not only the gravesof their revered ancestors, but also many endearing scenes which their memorieswould ever recall as sunny spots along their pathway through the wilderness. . ..
"As they looked mournfully back toward these loved scenes that were rapidlyfading in the distance, tears fell from the cheeks of the downcast warrior, oldmen trembled, women wept, the swarthy maiden's cheek turned pale, and sighs ofhalf-suppressed sobs escaped from the groups as they passed along, some on foot,some on horseback and others in wagons. Sad as a funeral procession. . . .
"At times one of the party would start out into the brush and break back totheir encampments on Eel River or on the Tippecanoe, declaring they would ratherdie than be driven from their country. Thus, scores of discontented Indiansreturned from different points on their journey; and it was several years beforethey could be induced to join their tribes west of the Mississippi."
[Moore Family, Reba Moore Shore, Fulton County Folks, Vol. 1, by ShirleyWillard.]

TRAMPS [Rochester, Indiana]
OF TRAMPS AND DRUNKS AND CHICKEN THIEVES
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
The 8 1/2 by 14 inch ledger is in remarkably good condition, considering it is128 years old. Even more remarkable is its existence, for it was snatched fromincineration 35 or so years ago, when county officials cleaned out theCourthouse attic by quietly burning three truckfuls of old records.
Legally, such an act could not be repeated today without first advising personsand organizations which preserve irreplaceable historical documents. Saved fromthat conflagation was this ledger, which contains a register of county jailprisoners It was kept by six Fulton County sheriffs from 1869, through 1892,after which, a larger jail was occupied at Eighth and Madison Streets. Itsentries recall for us late 20th century descendants some less savory aspects of19th century life in a small rural town, but are no less engaging for all that.
The jail register was lent to me for study by a former sheriff, Laurence Norris.It was given to him after being pulled from the bonfire by Don Karns, then adeputy to Sheriff Willard Clark. Norris was Clark's predecessor, having served arecord 12 years after his election in 1946 at age 32 as the county'syoungest-ever sheriff. Clark, by the way, was the third youngest at 34 afterAndrew A. Gast, 33, who was sheriff in 1892 when the register's last entrieswere made.
The county hoosegow which was the setting for these long-ago arrests was a smallplace of only 34 by 30 feet built in 1851 and located in the public square, eastof the 1847 brick courthouse. A dwelling occupied the second floor.
Although not pretentious, the jail was solid with brick walls 18 inches thick.The inside walls were covered with a double coating of two-inch oak planksecured by rows of heavy nails. In the center of the room were small cells thatwere surrounded by a corridor into which prisoners were allowed daytime access.
Such a secure lockup would seem impervious to escape and, indeed, during the 23years covered by the register only two prisoners managed it, both during 1876.William Cornett, in for grand larceny, took flight July 26, perhaps havinglearned how from Abraham White, who had broken out April 22. Sheriff Sidney Moonlost little sleep over either departure, simply signing out each prisoner as'discharged.' He considered it good riddance, evidently having better things todo than ride his horse off on wild goose chases.
Escapee White was fleeing a charge rarely seen now on a court docket:fornication. In those days, in fact, people were incarcerated for other reasonsnot encountered today,: insanity, bastardy. desertion, debt, betting, breakingof Sabbath, insubordination, blackmail. The Victorian society's strict code ofbehavior was in full sway.
Also jailed, however, were the expected horse and chicken thieves, an arsonistor two, an abortionist, bigamist, embezzler, burglars, four for rape and one forincest, besides others charged with animal cruelty and quite a few with assaultand battery. One who showed up regularly for county hospitality was William(sometimes listed as U.S. or Uriah) Weirick. He was a Mexican War veteran withgreat affection for the bottle. Others appear regularly, too, some with colorfulnames: Irish Johnny, Happy Jack, Shorty, John Goldenhorse and Injin Charley.
Showing up most frequently were arrests for drunkenness and vagrancy, by whichaspects of local public life a century ago are revealed.
Public intoxication was constant and common. Sheriffs and marshals kept busyseeing that the drunks did not bother proper folks. During 1882, as an example,184 men were jailed to sober up, each for 1-3 days; mahy were back again soon.Saloons were numerous, many of their customers idled by widespread unemploymentthat had become a scourge on society.
Economic hard times had helped spawn the vagrants, or tramps. After the 1873Panic hit the nation, thousands of these homeless men wandered the countrybegging, stealing, vandalizing and worse. They became a national phenomenon andas their presence continued into the 1890s Americans had begun to loath them ashateful outcasts.
Their "filthy, impudent" visits here were a daily occurrence,according to a Sentinel account in 1885 that called them "barnacles ofcreation who purposely appear at homes when husbands are at work to frighten andannoy women." Authorities were beseeched to "abolish themaltogether."
Hence many of the ledger's 73 pages are filled with their arrests, most commonlyduring winter and spring seasons. Each year it got worse. In 1887-88, SheriffRobert Wallace jailed 101 vagrants, but Sheriff Gast locked up 113 in 1888-89and 136 in 1889-90. Each was kept overnight and fined from 60 to 80 cents.
Not everyone hereabout was jailed for mundane offenses in those ancient days.Charges of murder cried out for my further investigation.
Details of what turned out to be some surprisingly lurid cases now will beforthcomtng.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 24, 1997]

TRANSBARGER & KARN ICE CREAM CO. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] TRANSBARGER & KARN ICE CREAM CO. Use only high test ingredients in themanufacture of their products. The factory is strictly sanitary. A visit willsatisfy you of this assertion. They will deliver orders to any part of the cityor lake. PHONE, Factory 196-02, House, 66. 425 N. Main St.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, May 15, 1913]

TRAVEL IN 1924
SEEING THE U.S.A. IN A CHEVROLET, 75 YEARS AGO
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
Why don't we take an auto trip, said Carrie to her sister Oretta. We could visitrelatives in Illinois and Iowa, see the sights and maybe even venture into thewoods of Minnesota. Brother Charley's willing to go along and drive, he has anew Chevie, it's summertime and the weather is perfect.
Oretta (called Etta) agreed, and the three of them set out from Mishawaka June28 on a month-long journey of 1,900 miles. Charlie was free to go, havingseparated from his wife. Carrie was recently widowed and needed a cheeringchange; Etta's husband Robert stayed home.
Their auto tour may seem commonplace but what makes it interesting is that thetrip was made in 1924. Furthermore, Carrie and Etta each kept daily journalsthat evoke some of what it was like to travel the interior of these UnitedStates 75 years ago, before Interstate Highways and Holiday Inns.
Carrie's grandson is Ben Severns of Athens, a friend since my RHS days, whokindly allowed me to copy his transcription of the women's journals. The threetravelers - Charley McMillen, Carrie Oliver and Oretta Wylie - were the childrenof Henry McMillen, who with a government grant had established a farm east ofGreen Oak when he returned from the Civil War.
The trip was made in Charley's 1924 Chevrolet, a four-door touring model withcloth top and open sides that could be closed from weather with curtains. Itlisted at $495. The cost could be as much as $640 if one added such options asdisc wheels. bumpers, running boards with step plates. nickled radiator shell,headlamps and a Boyce Moto-Meter, which was a thermometer cap for the radiator.It was powered by a 22 horsepower motor and ran on hard tires. The softerballoon tires did not appear until the next year.
By 1924 the automobile fast was becoming the necessity in American life that itis today. More than 20 million of them existed in a nation of 25 millionfamilies. National traveling was not quite the adventure it had been 10 yearsbefore, yet all roads still were two lanes with long stretches of unpaved dirt.Only the main highways around cities were being improved to concrete. Many thatremained in gravel had been widened, though, and made less likely to turn intogluey mud with bad weather.
Speeds averaged 35-40 mph over a day's travel and one rarely tried to drive morethan 200 miles in a day. Numbering of highways did not begin until 1926 and somajor roads had names. That made it difficult at times to understand theiridentities and directions in the forest of signs encountered at intersections.The Lincoln Highway, Ram Bow Trail, Jefferson Highway, A.Y.C. Trail and GlacierTrail all were recorded by Carrie during her travels.
Motors still tended to be unreliable, although easier to repair than today's.Blowouts of the hard tires came with resounding explosions. There were fewroadside rooms to let overnight and finding a good meal was not always easy.
We know nothing from brother Charlie, the driver, concerning any of thebreakdowns and frustrations he encountered. His sisters mention just fourmechanical difficulties. One day there were two blowouts and a tire puncturethat kept the trio out until 1 a.m. Another day a "garageman" wascalled to repair a faulty starter. The other two pauses were unexplained, thesisters evidently considering they were Charley's problems to worry about, nottheirs.
Two other impediments were encountered, though, both on the return trip. A piggot in the way and was run over, its probable death unconfirmed by the journals.On another occasion the three of them looked back to find that a 10-car caravanof Ku Klux Klan members had caught up with them. It followed closely for 20miles into Rochester, Minnesota; "guess they thought we were part ofit," wrote Etta. That night, 45 miles further east at Winona, the Klanburned a cross on the hills overlooking the Mississippi that could be seen bythe three Hoosiers from their hotel. The mid-20s were the peak of KKK activityin the Midwest.
This trip was planned around visits to relatives living at appropriate stopsalong the way. When that advantage was not available, overnight stays were inhotels; the motel was unknown. Hotels were cheap enough, less than $2 a night,but so was everything else compared to-today.
Breakfast cost 30 cents, noon dinner 55 cents, evening supper 60 cents. Gas wasabout 25 cents a gallon and the 22-hp motor didn't, eat it up as quickly as dotoday's engines.
The Mishawakans' route took them past Gary to Paw Paw in north central Illinois,across the Mississippi to Independence, Iowa, and then to the north centralvfllage of Thornton. For two weeks a bevy of relatives entertained them in theMason City, Clear Lake and Fort Dodge.area.
None of Charley's daily drives were of more than 200 miles except for a 265-mileleap into Minnesota's dense woodlands, taken with no apparent concern after theIowa visit. The trio spent a week in a relative's log cabin at Mitten Lake,located near huge Leech Lake in far north central Minnesota. There they loafed,swam, boated, caught many fish including an 18-incher by Etta and endured rainleaking onto their beds one night in a storm. All in all, it was a great place,but "give me the farmland," concluded Carrie, "It's not somonotonous."
The journals of Carrie and Etta contain few complaints about their motoringadventure. Surely, the Chevie must have been an uncomfortable ride on its hardtires and the bumpy gravel roads from which dust constantly drifted through theopen sides during long days at 35-40 mph. No matter. With pluck and enthusiasm,they played the hand that was dealt them 75 years ago and had a grand time doingit. Carrie and Etta's diary entries prove it to be so and I choose to believethat Charlie enjoyed himself as well. If for nothing else, their experience isworthwhile recalling to reinforce our appreciation of how easy we today have iton the road.
The threesome did live long enough to experience better traveling conditionsthemselves. Carrie lived to age 95, dying in 1973. The other two expired at age79, Charley in 1948 and Etta in 1955.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, June 8, 1999]

TREASURE ISLAND [Lake Manitou]
Treasure Island, located W of the Elks Lodge and E of Wolf's Point Drive.

TRI-COUNTY GAZETTE [Mentone, Indiana]
Bernard Clayton, owner and publisher of the Akron News, completed a dealThursday, whereby he became owner of the Tri-County Gazette, at Mentone. Mr.Clayton will take charge immediately and will continue to publish the paperalong the policy carried out in the past. C. N. Smith has owned and publishedthe Tri-County Gazette a score of years, and has always put out an up to dateweekly. It is not known whether he intends to retire or not.
Mr. Clayton will continue to live at Akron and publish the News while hemaintains supervison over his other paper. He has not decided who will edit theGazette. The plant has long been considered one of the best equipped printingoffices for its size in this district.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 19, 1919]

TRI KAPPAS [Rochester, Indiana]
See Orphans, Children of France
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TRI-KAPPA SORORITY TO FURNISH MILK TO
The Tri-Kappa Sorority at their meeting Tuesday night voted to furnish milk for45 students of the Rochester Public Schools who were found to be underweight ina recent survey by the school nurse. The children selected by the sorority areones whose parents cannot afford to buy them milk. Many other children werefound to be underweight in the examination conducted by the school nurse. Theirparents have been notified of the finding of the school nurse and many havetaken steps to see that their children are more properly fed.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 18, 1928]

TRIMBLE MILLINER SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
New Milliner Shop. The Ladies of Rochester and vicinity will be pleased to learnthat Miss Mattie Trimble has just returned from Chicago with a complete stock ofMillinery and Ladies Dress Trimmings . . . Store at her residence one squarewest of the Court House.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, October 25, 1866]

Millinery! Miss Mattie Trimble, having renewed her Millinery Stock at herformer place of business on Jefferson Street, would invite her customers and allothers to call. . . Rochester, Oct. 30, 1867.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, October 31, 1867]

TROPICAL PRODUCTS CO.
See Maurice Shelton.

TROSTER BAKERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Frederick Troster, late of Logansport, has established a bakery in the northroom of the Mammoth Building.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, July 23 1868]

TROUTMAN, JOHN E.
HE SAT WITH ALICE
The happiest man in the national republican convention at Chicago yesterday wasJohn E. Troutman of Rochester, Indiana, who disposes justice for profit andoriginal poetry for pleasure. He was happy because he had a seat on the stagewhere he could look down on United States senators, millionaires and such and inthe same row of seats with Alice Roosevelt Longworth and her husband Nick. Ithappened like this: Two years ago Ed Fitzpatrick of Portland was a candidat forclerk of the supreme court and sent out letters to republican voters. Troutmanreceived one and answered it with a dutch poem in which it was set forth thatHis Honor didn't like the name Fitz -- it being so Irish like. Fitzpatrickconsidered the dutch reply to his letter a gem and the two at once becamefriends.
At the big republican convention Troutman was without a ticket. But he happenedto see Fitz and the latter now being a state officer, he had a stand in withNational Chairman Harry New and got Troutman a ticket. And imagine his surpriseand rare pleasure when he went to the convention and was ushered to a seat onthe stage within a few feet of the speaker's stand and in the same row of seatswith Alice and Nick. And more than this it is said that when he mounted thestage some one said: "here's a poet," and there was great clapping ofhands. His Honor had not shaved for several days, his hair was slightlyChicagoed befrizzle, and the crowd mistook him for Joaquin Miller, the"Poet of the Sierras."
Local rumor has it that the affair was smoothly planned to put Troutman underimaginary obligations to the republican party to try to stop him from wearing ademocratic badge the balance of the campaign.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 17, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
This is to certify to the public that I have formed a partnership with Wallace& Son in the insurance business and moved in with them, over Marsh'agrocery, where we are ready to give you the best possible insurances at alltimes, at the lowest possible rate. Come and see us. Respectfully, J. E.TROUTMAN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 12, 1910]

DEER HUNTING ESCAPADES
By John E. Troutman
Ye editor has requested me to write something of the pioneer days of Fultoncounty. I close my eyes and look at the past, as memory spreads it out beforeme. As I turn the pages of time back, one by one, year by year, decade bydecade, score by score, how quickly the scene changes from the presentbeautiful, well improved country, dotted with white farm dwellings and redbarns, gravel roads, railroads, telegraph lines, telephone lines, flourishingcities and towns, to the primeval forests and prairies, with a cultivated patchhere and there on the dry places, in the midst of which stood the rude logcabin, thatched with clapboards, built up against a huge chimney, daubed insideand out with red clay, and log stables covered with prairie hay, dirt roads,winding around the edge of prairies and ponds, crossing streams where it wasshallow enough to ford.
But there is one thing I can see in this picture of half century ago that looksgood to me, that I can't see in the panorama of the present, and that is thewild game. There was plenty of it here then. Deer in abundance everywhere; wildturkeys in droves, in the woods; all the big prairie west of Rochester, toPleasant Grove (now Kewanna), was alive with wild ducks, wild geese, sandhilcrane, prairie chickens, and quail. Not a patch of wood but you could hear allkinds of squirrels--red, black and gray, fox barking and pheasants drumming.Every fall of the year, at mast time, the air was fairly black with wildpigeons. There was a pigeon-roost in the great willow patch southwest ofRochester, where now is the beautiful Lovatt farm, where we used to go withlanterns, clubs and meal-sacks. The willows were breaking with pigeons roostingthere, and we could knock down and kill all we could carry in a little while.Oh, I liked to hunt pigeons; it was so easy. All you had to do in the morning orevening, was to stand and shoot into the flocks as they flew past, bringing downa bunch at every shot, or slip around in the woods on a wet day and find the topof some tall dead tree black with them, crawl up under it, point your gun upthat way, shut your eyes and pull trigger, then pick up a dozen or more. Oh, itwas fun and such easy fun.
All the streams and lakes were alive with the best varieties of edible fish. Soplenty were they in Lake Manitou, that oftimes the water wheel of the oldgristmill at the outlet would get clogged with them. I remember, when a boy ofeleven years, of seeing a seining party finish up a series of hauls inTippecanoe river near the John Leiter farm, where now is the town of LeitersFord, and they hauled and carried away eleven two-bushel sacks full of pike,bass and redhorse. The smaller varieties they threw back into the river. I amwilling to make affidavit in Judge Ewing's court that I have helped haul athirty-foot seiner in Mud creek, fifty times or more, and the average haul wouldnot be less than a bushel of as fine pike, suckers and goggle-eyes as evergraced a frying pan. Now let Mel Gibbons, Willis Peters and Nels Kirkendall takethe stand if they can beat it. There was no lynx-eyed game law then, and farmersdid not flock to the Sentinel office to buy "No Hunting on ThesePremises" signs.
You didn't have to have a license with your photogrph pinned to yourhunting-shirt. The game was free and you could hunt it wherever you pleased andfind plenty of it anywhere. And this natural and bountiful suppy of game andfish was a Godsend to the pioneer settlers of this country. The wolf of hungerwould have crossed the threshold of many a cabin door had it not been for this.
Well, I never was much of a hunter and I don't want to be the hero in any of thestories of this article. And besides, the foundation of all the big huntingyarns date back to a time when I was too young to do more than remember. But Ihave an excellent memory, and s stil better imagination. I did though, once killa deer. I had been to Bumbarger's orchard to see if the ramboes were ripe, andon the way home, going through a thicket of hazel brush, I saw one. I could onlysee the tips of its ears and long hair on its neck. I ran home and told mother,and said I wantd to shoot it. She helped me load the old musket with powder andbuck-shot and I went back, crawled through the brush to the spot I had marked byleaving my cap and sure enough, there it was. I was trembling like a leaf. Ibelieve Mr. Dawson called it "buck fever". I cocked the musket andsteadied it in the fork of a bush, got a bead, shut both eyes and pulled thetrigger. As soon as I recovered from the shock, I got up and heard a racketwhere the deer had been and knew something had happened. I went to the spot andfound it was dead as a herring, half of its head was shot away. Well, as I stoodin the presence of grim death, I didn't feel as good as I thought I would. Infact, I was ashamed of the deed I had committed. And I made up my mind to justlet it lay and tell no one anything about it, not even my mother. She asked meabout the deer when I returned, and I said it was gone. She asked me what I wasshooting at and I repied "a rabbit." The next day our Dutch neighbor,John Fishely, was making a great howl about some one shooting his little yelowcalf, but I never mentioned any names.
I killed a wild turkey once, too, but the owner caught me at it. My mother hadto pay for it, and I had to take my meals standing up for a week. Suchexperiences were not calculated to encourage one of my age in the pursuit ofwild game.
Late in the fall of 1861, Uncle Jimmy Burton, for whom the school house andneighborhood thereabout was named, came to our house one afernoon and said to mystepfather, Willim Mossman, "Say Bill, me and Richard was up to the ridgefor a load of hay, this morning, and the little ridge was covered with deertracks. They're feedin' on the acorns." "The D----l you say,"said Pap, as I called him. Uncle Jimmy and Pap soon had arrangements made to goto the little ridge that night and watch for deer. The ridge referred to was thesandhill just west of Mud creek, where is now the farm of Mel Slick. There was apole shanty there, where the Milliser boys camped part of the time, to trap andhunt and feed cattle in the winter time, or make wild hay in the summer. Therewas always something there to eat and drink; especially drink. The little ridgewas about a quarter of a mile west of it. I was only ten years old, but I wantedto go along. Pap was an awful fellow to swear. He could swear by note in all themeters and ragtime, and he said: "No! What the h--l would a littlesnot-nose like you do watchin' for deer?" But Uncle Jimmy said, "Oh,let the lad go long, he can stay in the shanty and keep fire. We may get coldtowards morning, and want some place to warm." So I went. We reached theshanty before sundown, and went to the ridge to review the deer signs. Pap andUncle Jimmy picked out the trees they would roost in to watch for the deer andshoot them by moonlight. I heard Pap say: "They'll come about three o'clockin the morning, just about the time the moon gets up good, and then we'll give'mh--l. They wont run away when we shoot, unless they see us, and they won't beapt to look up a tree for us."
We went back to the shanty, started a fire in the old stove, made some coffeeand fried some bacon. Pap removed some straw from one corner of the snanty andlifted up a board that covered a hole in the ground. He ran his arm in the hole,then looked up, smiled and said: "She's here all right, Jim!" then hepulled a black gallon jug out of the hole. No, I dont know what was in it. Theydidn't ask me to taste it; I think though, it was something to keep folks warm,for I heard Pap say to Uncle Jimmy, just before they started: "Better takea purty good snort of it, Jim, we'll get pretty d---d cold before mornin'."After we had fed and watered and Uncle Jimmy had told his usual batch of witchand ghost stories, they left me in the shanty and went to the watch, and alonely time I had of it. I heard all kinds of noises in the night, and wished ahundred times that I had not been so anxious to come along.
The hoot-owls hooted and the screech-owls screeched, and now and then a wolfwould howl a sound that I was perfectly acquainted with. Under ordinarycircumstances it had no terrors, but being alone, in a lonely place, andthinking of the ghost stories I had recently heard, it had all the tendency tokeep my hair standing up straight.
I barricaded the door with all the furniture I could pile against it and went tobed in the bunk of straw, covering with the robes and blankets. I went to sleepand did not waken until I heard pounding on the shanty door and recognized mystepfather demanding admittance. The first thing he said to me was: "We got'em Jawny--three of 'em," and I said "bully." Pap and Uncle Jimmystarted me home at once for the old horse. Uncle Jimmy insisted that I betterget his team, but Pap said he thought we could tie them together and swing themacross old Charley and he'd take them home all right. I think I made the threemiles in about thirty minutes. Just as the sun was coming up, I ate a bite ofjohnny-cake spread with sorghum molasses, drank a cup of milk and straddled oldCharley and gallopped away, my Uncle Jesse Blandin following as fast as hecould. He was a boy some four years my senior.
I got to the shanty by the time Pap and Uncle Jimmy had their breakfast and gotthe jug put away, and we all went to the little ridge for the deer. And therethey were-- three in a row. Old Charley acted like he smelt something and whenhe got sight of them he at once went through a complete transformation, from thegentle old fmily horse that he was to a bucking broncho.
Uncle Jimmy shook his head and said: "He won't carry 'em, Bill." ButPap said he'd fix him, and took off his wamus and put it over the old horse'shead, completely blindfolding him. That seemed to make him easier and they tiedthe legs of two of the deer together and swung them gently across his back, thenlaid the other one on top and tied it fast with prairie hay. They hoisted me ontop of it a, gave me the rein, took the bandage from his eyes and told me to go.I started him, and the holy Saint Peter, when the deer heads began to dangle onhis flanks, he reared, pitched and bucked, knocked over Uncle Jesse, who wastrying to hold him down, and threw me about twenty feet into a briar patch,kicked the deer gally west and made a bee line for home and there we were. Mystepfather didn't simply swear; he raved, and cussed, and swore he'd shoot oldCharley, soon as he got home--but he didn't. Uncle Jimmy talked him out of it.Well, there was nothing to do but carry them home. We got two poles and Pap andUncle Jimmy took the two smallest and swung them across the pole, and UncleJesse and I took the other, and I being smallest, Uncle Jesse said I might takethe short end of the pole. We had to rest every quarter of a mile, but we gothome along toward noon. Mother said old Charley had been there for three hoursor more.
My stepfather, being a noted deer hunter, venison was as common an article offood on his table, as liver is on mine now. Charles Brackett, who will beremembered by many old citizens, was a prominent physicain of this county atthat time, and was also a genial good fellow. Being quite fond of venison and anoccasional chase, he would often call at our primitive cabin and join mystepfather in a deer hunt, or carry home with him on his buckboard, a saddle offat doe-hams for which he would make a liberal credit on his ledger in paymentfor pills, quinine and other "Physick." One morning, just few daysbefore Christmas, 1859, I awoke from my slumbers in the cabin loft and found thefloor as well as the feather-bed I slept under, covered with snow, a thing notinfrequent, as the roof of the cabin was covered with clapboards, through whichthere were many cracks and the cracks between the logs, from the loft up, notbeing very well chinked and not daubed at all, every time it snowed, the flakeswould sift or blow through the crevices or cracks between the logs and cover thewhole loft. But we children did not mind it much, and I presume were thehealthier for the fresh air we enjoyed. We slept under heavy duck-feather ticksand a skift of snow on top made it all the warmer, and the snow was always sweptdown the hatch hole and out of doors before it melted.
One particular morning when I climbed down the ladder from the loft, about thetime the first beams of old Sol were peeping over the tree tops, I discovered avisitor already there, in no less a personage than Doctor Charles Brackett. AndI heard him saying to my stepfather: "Say Bill, where's your dimmijohn?"And then talked about the fine snow, and it being a good day for them, and easyto track, etc., and that kind of talk continued while Mother fried the bacon andbaked a jonny cake and made the coffee, and then they sat down to breakfast. Iwas just a bit bashful in those days, and didn't often go to the table to eatwhen we had company. That morning, while they were eating, I went out to theroad to take a look at the Doctor's horse and buck board, and try a wade in thefresh snow. Just west of the cabin was a cleared patch of ground and then adense patch or thicket of white oak grubs. And there at the edge of the thicket,where some corn rows stood not yet shucked, I saw three deer. I immediately raninto the house and said: "Pap, there's a hull drove of deers in the clearin',"indicating which clearing with a gesture. My stefather jumped from the table andsaid: "Come on, Doc." He took his rifle and shot-pouch from the rack,and struck out, and the Doctor said to my mother: "Mandy, where's myhat?" He put it on and ran to his buck board for his gun and powder hornand they were off. My stepfather got a shot at the deer and crippled one. I wentout to the place and saw blood on the snow, but no deer and no hunters. I wentback to the house and my mother said: "Jonny, we'd better find some placeor Doc's horse, for if they've crippled a deer they won't come back till theygit it." We unhitched the horse and put him in the smokehouse, that beingthe nearest approach to a stable there was on the premises.
Then I heard Mother say, half to herself, "That doctor hain't got a bit ofsense." and I said, "Why ain't he Maam?" for I had alwaysregarded the doctor as a man of unlimited knowledge. "Why," said she,"he hain't got no boots on at all, nuthin' but low slippers, and he'llfreeze his feet and catch his death of cold wadin' in this snow that way."
I don't remember what o'clock it was, but it was nearly dark when the huntersreturned, but they had the deer, a fine big fat doe, and were dragging itbetween them with a couple of hooked sticks. I remember hearing them tell Motherhow many miles they had run it, across the Tippecanoe river and back again, andhow the Doctor broke through the ice and came near going under, and afterwardlost one of his slipers in the snow and had to dig around in the snow a longtime before he found it.
They were tired, wet and cold but happy, contented and cheerful. The Doctor tookoff his slippers nd roasted the reddest pair of feet before the fireplace I eversaw. After they were warm and dry, they skinned the deer and selected some nicebroiling steak from the loins. Just before I received notice from my mother toclimb the ladder to my bed in the loft, I remember seeing my stefather and thedoctor sitting flat down on the hearth bvefore the old fireplace, each broilingvenison on a "spit" and I am not sure but the famous "dimmijohn"was near by, for my stepfather could not keep house without it, anyhow I heardthe doctor say: "Say Bill, this is what I call livin'."
And as I crawled under my duck-feather bed and the arms of Morheus wrapped aboutme and shut out the conscious world, the prayer I breathed to my maker was:"Oh Lord, when I get big let me be a doctor or a deer hunter, or both, Idon't care which."
[Marguerite L. Miller, Home Folks, Vol. I, 1910, pp. 14-20]

TO PUBLISH POEMS
The poems written by John Troutman, famous local poet, are going to be publishedfor the benefit of his relatives and friends. His son, Earl Troutman, is atpresent making a collection of all of his father's poems which he has writtenduring his lifetime and will have them printed in book form.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 29, 1924]

TROUTMAN, JOHN EMORY [Rochester, Indiana]
JOHN E. TROUTMAN (Biography)
A native of Fulton county, John E. TROUTMAN, was born in 1851 and left an orphanat the age of six months. His youthful life was one of many hardships and heearned his own living since 10 years old. He secured a good common schooleducation and began teaching at the age of 20 and has continued in theprofession for 24 years. He moved from his farm to Rochester in 1887 and hassince resided here. For 10 years he has held the farm agency for the HomeInsurance Co., and is now Justice of the Peace. He takes great pride in theprompt settlement of his insurance losses, and writes deeds, mortgages, etc.,makes loans and collections and guarantees satisfaction in all of his work. Hemarried Miss Malina NEFF and they have two children, a son and a daughter. Mr.Troutman's office is over Dawson's Drug Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

BIOGRAPHY
John E. Troutman, born in Fulton county, Ind., April 17, 1851, is a son of Johnand Amanda (Blandin) Troutman. The father was born in 1828 in Kentucky. He diedin Fulton county, Ind., in 1851. He was a son of Ambrose Troutman, also a nativeof Kentucky, and a son of Michael Troutman, who was born in Germany andemigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania, where he died. The mother ofthe subject of this sketch was born in 1830, in New york and died in Fultoncounty, Ind., in 1875. She was a daughter of Jesse and Maria Blandin, who wereof German lineage. Her parents removed from New York to Ohio, thence to Indiana,settling in Fulton county, near Leiters Ford, in 1840. Ambrose Troutman, thepaternal grandfather of J. E. Troutman, removed from Kentucky to Attica, Ind.,in 1828. In 1839 he settled in Fulton county, near Kewanna. The marriage of JohnTroutman and Amanda Blandin occurred in Fulton county. The subject of thismention is their only child. His father died in the same year the son was born.His mother remained on the farm and the management of the farm was assumed byJohn E., when he was but eleven years of age. His mother's second husband wasWilliam Mossman, who served in the civil war for four years. During his absence,while in the service, John E. took charge of the farm. Hard work andperseverance, therefore, he shared very early in life. He had but little timefor going to school, but attended the country schools a little and while at homeby the fireside he applied himself to his books, and at the age of twenty yearshe became a teacher in the district schools. For twenty-three years he taught inthe schools of Fulton county. He has always had farm interests and lived on thefarm till 1886, when he became a resident of Rochester. He was elected justiceof the peace in 1884, but on removing to Rochester he resigned the office. In1894 he was elected justice of the peace again and is the present incumbent ofthat office. He is a republican in politics, is a member of the Evangelicalchurch of Rochester, member of the order of Red Men and of the I.O.O.F. In 1884Mr. Troutman married Malina Neff, of Fulton county. She was born in Pennsylvaniain 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Troutman have two children: Chloe and Earl.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 140]

TO PUBLISH POEMS
The poems written by John Troutman, famous local poet, are going to be publishedfor the benefit of his relatives and friends. His son Earl Troutman is atpresent making a collection of all of his father's poems which he has writtenduring his lifetime and will have them printed in book form.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 29, 1924]

TROUTMAN, PETER S. [Union Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Capt. P. S. Troutman. - Peter S. Troutman was born January 4, 1833, inBartholomew County, Ind. His father, Greenup Troutman, was born in Kentucky in1811, and removed with his parents to Bartholomew County, Ind., at the age often years. He was reared in that county, and was married there, in February,1832, to Miss Mahala Shoemaker. In 1833, he removed to Clinton County, Ind., andwas engaged in agricultural pursuits there for about six years. In 1839, he cameto Fulton County, and located on the farm now occupied by his son, the subjectof this sketch. He was one of the earliest pioneers of Union Township, andduring his life was one of its most energetic citizens. He died on the 9th ofMay, 1847. His wife survived until 1859, having, in the meantime, married JosephRobinson and returned to Bartholomew County, Ind., where she resided untildeath.
Peter, the subject of this sketch, came with his father's family to FultonCounty when six years of age. His early life was passed amid pioneersurroundings, and at an early age he began to contribute his services in thelabor of clearing and improving the home farm. At intervals in the winter heattended the district schools, and by diligent study acquired a good commonschool education. When twenty-three years of age, he made his first venture inthe commercial world, by shipping a carload of sheep to the Chicago market. Thiswas the first load of stock ever shipped from this township, but he did notcontinue in this line, although his first venture proved very successful. At theage of twenty-five years, he began teaching school, and continued in thisoccupation, during the winter seasons, until the close of the winter term of1862. In July of that year he enlisted as a private soldier in Company E of theEighty-seventh Indiana Regiment, and here began a life that had never been takeninto account in his youthful calculations. For two years and eleven months hefollowed the fortunes of war, and although often in the thickest of the fray, hewas never injured, though on two different occasions his clothing was pierced bybullets. Upon the organization of his regiment, he was chosen First Lieutenantof his company, and went to the field in that capacity. At South Tunnel, Tenn.,on the 19th of December, 1862, he was advanced to the office of Captain of hiscompany, vice Capt. A. T. Jackson, resigned. The regiment was sent to thedefense of Louisville, which was under a threatened attack by Bragg. Their firstactive work was in a skirmish with Bragg's rear guard, on the 6th of October,1862, and on the 8th of the same month they participated in the battle ofPerryville, Ky. From that time until the close of the war, Capt. Troutman wasconstantly with his company, taking part in all the battles in which hisregiment was engaged, except the battle of Missionary Ridge, which was foughtwhile he was sick. These included all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, and,indeed, from Ringgold to Jonesboro, it was almost a continuous battle-field. Onthe "march to the sea," the army was compelled to subsist upon thecountry they passed through, and a foraging brigade was organized by selectingmen from each company of the several regiments, who were placed under thecommand of a Major. Capt. Troutman was chosen to fill the office of commander ofthis party, and on one occasion encountered a large force of the enemy, whogreatly outnumbered his own men. A fight ensued, in which several of his menwere captured, yet they inflicted such heavy loss upon the enemy that he wasglad to quit the field. Once before, on the 4th of August, 1864, Capt. Troutman,aided by his First Lieutenant, averted a stampede of the regiment by hiscoolness and prompt action. On this occasion, they were marching through a densethicket, and were surprised by the reserve forces of the enemy's picket, whoopened fire upon them from ambush. The suddenness of the attack demoralized theUnion boys, who began to flee to the rear, but the Captain stepped from hisplace, and, intercepting their flight, rallied and re-formed the soldiers,without the co-operation of the superior officers. During the South Carolinacampaign, the Colonel was absent, and the duty of commanding the regimentdevolved upon the Major. Thereupon Capt. Troutman was appointed to act as Major,and served in that capacity during all of that campaign. He received a heartyrecommendation from his General to Gov. Morton, for a commission as Colonel, andbut for the termination of the war shortly afterward, would undoubtedly havebeen promoted to this office, as new regiments were being organized and theservices of experienced officers were in demand. He served his country well, andonly laid down his sword when there was no further use for it in the field. Hewas mustered out with his regiment on the 10th of June, 1865, and returned tohis home. For a few months after his return, he was engaged in mercantilepursuits at Kewanna, but finding this prejudicial to his health, he sold hisstock and retired to his farm, where he has ever since been engaged inagricultural pursuits, in connection with the live-stock trade.
In politics he has always been identified with the Republican party, and while azealous partisan, he has seldom sought the honors of office. But in 1872 he wasnominated by his party friends as joint Representative from the counties ofFulton and Kosciusko, and was elected by a flattering majority, serving in thespecial session of 1872 and the regular session of 1873. He gave his adhesionwarmly to the temperance legislation of that period, and was one of the zealoussupporters of the Baxter liquor bill. His identity with the temperance causeproved prejudicial to his own interests, and was probably the secret of hisdefeat for re-nomination. But he discharged his duty as his conscience dictated,and retired with the approbation of a large proortion of his constituency. Hehas always been a radical temperance man, and has been prominently identifiedwith various temperance organizations, including the Sons of Temperance and theGood Templars. He organized a lodge of the latter order in the Eighty-seventhRegiment, which produced a marked effect for good upon the morals of theregiment. He is an active and enthusiastic Mason, having been identified withKewana Lodge, No. 546, from its inception. He united with the Masonic order atRochester, but withdrew from that lodge to become a charter member of KewannaLodge.
He has always been an enterprising and industrious man, and by a life of energyhas accumulated a comfortable store of worldy wealth, while, by his integrityand fair dealing with all men, he has won the esteem and good will of all whoknow him. He has done as much, perhaps, as any indivdual citizen to encouragethe public improvements of the county, and has been particularly the friend ofrailroad enterprises. He was one of the leading spirits in planning for arailroad through Kewanna, and has labored zealously for the success of thisplan, which is now soon to be realized.
On the 5th of January, 1854, Mr. Troutman was united in marriage with MissMartha J. Harvey, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Harvey, who came to UnionTownship in 1848, and were among its best citizens while they lived. Mrs.Troutman is an excellent lady, a devoted wife and mother, and possesses theaffectionate regard of a large circle of friends. Both herself and husband areconsistent members of the Disciples Church at Kewanna. Their wedded life hasbeen blessed by ten children, seven of whom died in infancy. Those who stillsurvive are Mahala E., wife of Enoch Myers, Clauda G. and George B.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, pp. 59-60]

TROUTMAN & DAVIS SAWMILL [Kewanna, Indiana]
By 1850 John Troutman and Joel Davis had built a sawmill to provide lumber forframe houses.

TROY POST OFFICE [Henry Township]
See: Sidconger
See: Sugar Grove School, Henry Township.

TRUE, BILLY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands

TRUE, FRED [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Patents and Inventions

TRUE, MELVIN [Rochester, Indiana]
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Editor News-Sentinel:
This is to remind you that on Sept. 11, 1862 John Robinson Show was inRochester. They had 19 wagons and one elephant, that being the largest show.Well so Dick and I came to town the same day. I liked Rochester, so I quit theshow business and have been here ever since. I was born on Main street whereLouderback's garage is now. It was 74 years ago. I have lived to see Rochestergrow from a small village of 2 stores to a beautiful city. When I was a smallbarefoot boy there were no sidewalks, no brick buildings, no automobiles, noflying machines, no electric lights, no railroads, no paved roads. There wereplenty of ox teams and Huch pin wagons but no buggys. Plenty of Indians. Lots ofwild game. I well remember the first railroad train that came to Rochester.People came for 25 miles around. Some came on foot, horse back, ox teams. Littledinky engines, wood burners. They would stop in the country and wood up. Myfirst school days were the old log school house with slabs for seats. How timeshave changed, as well as the people, but the same old world.
Your Everlasting friend,
Melvin True
544 E. Eighth St.
Old Timer
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 11, 1936]

TRUE, RENALDO P. "NOBBY" [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rochester Baking Company
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RENALDO P. "NOBBY" TRUE (Biography)
Another successful product of Fulton County is Renaldo P. "Nobby"TRUE, who was born 36 years ago. He acquired a good education in the commonschools and adopted teaching as his profession, following it for fifteen years.He also learned the trade of painting and decorating but abandoned his schooland paint brush avenues a year ago when he purchased the Eagle bakery. Sincethat time he has had a splendid business in the bakery, lunch and confectionline and his place is one of the neatest in the city. He married Miss EstellaMITCHELL and they have two children, a son and a daughter.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

[Adv] NOW JUST LOOK HERE. Come over to Nobby's place and buy your Cakes,Pies, Cookies, Rolls and Bread, and stop inviting a spell of sickness by stewingover a hot oven during these sweltering days.
He will treat you fairly and give you your money's worth. NOBBY TRUE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 1, 1899]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Nobby True decided to close his bake shop for an indefinite period andaccordingly the last bake was made yesterday. Mr. True has thought of doing thisfor some time on account of the unprofitableness of the business. And now withflour so high his thoughts were placed in action at once. Jos. Seigfred, who hasdone the baking for Mr. True since his buying the business about sixteen yearsago, has not decided what he will do but he will probably be engaged in bakingelsewhere.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 6, 1909]

NEWS OF THE DAY
H. H. Haggerty, of Bunker Hill, has accepted a position as baker at Nobby True'srestaurant.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 18, 1909]

BIOGRAPHY
Rinaldo P. True was born in Fulton county, Indiana, February 18, 1859, the sonof Pulaski and Elizabeth (McClary) True, the latter of whom was a native ofVirginia and came to Fulton county in 1854 with her parents, Ephraim andCatherine McClary, who were pioneers of this county and died here. ElizabethMcClary True was born February 14, 1834, and is still living. Pulaski True cameto Fulton county with his parents, Samuel and Arathusa (Stone) True, pioneersettlers of the county who are buried in Mt. Zion cemetery. He died in October,1859, at the age of twenty-five years when Rinaldo P. True was seven months old.The mother of our subject married a second time, taking for her husband DavidHoover, and to this union, five children were born, four of whom died inchildhood, only one, Sidney Hoover, of Bristol, Tennessee, now living. RinaldoP. True was educated in the public and high schools of his home community andthen attended the normal school for a time. At the age of seventeen years, hetook up school teaching as a profession, which he followed until he wasthirty-five years of age. At that time he decided to engage in the morelucrative business of conducting a restaurant, and in conjunction with this, hehas managed a highly successful baking busines known as the Rochester Bakery, ofwhich he is the sole proprietor, and his business has been an exceedinglysuccessful venture. In 1887, he married Estelle Mitchell, born in 1861, thedaughter of Charles and Isabel (Collins) Mitchell. Charles Mitchell was born inCarroll county, Indiana, in 1834, and came to Fulton county with his parentswhen he was still a small boy, and his wife was a native of New York. To Mr. andMrs. True have been born three children: Max M., Lucy, and Grace. Lucy True waseducated in the graded and high schools of Rochester and in DePauw University,from which she graduated, having majored in music and English. She then studiedart in Indianapolis and is now a teacher of art and music in Ft. Wayne, Indiana,having previously taught those subjects in Albion, Montpelier, and HartfordCity, Indiana. Grace True was educated in the graded and high schools ofRochester. She took an extra year in high school studying typewriting andshorthand. She was then employed in the office of the Rochester Sentinel untilher marriage to John A. Barrett, which occurred in 1922. In fraternal circles,Mr. True is a valued member of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, and theModern Woodmen of America. He and his wife are members of the MethodistEpiscopal church.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 288-289, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

CHAS. STEWART BUYS NOBBY TRUE BAKERY
Charles Stewart, owner and operator of a bakery at Bremen, has purchased theNobby True bakery in this city, according to an announcement by the new owner.
The new proprietor has already taken over management of the bakery. Modernequipment is now being installed and will be ready for operation Saturday.
Mr. True has been engaged in the restaurant and bakery business in Rochester forover 30 years. The True bakery is one of the best equipped and most completebaking units in Northern Indiana.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, June 9 1936]

TRUE & TRUE [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
The firm of True & True, who have been conducting a restaurant on North Mainstreet, are closing out and will quit business. Walter True and wife will go toIndianapolis, while William True has fitted up a suite of rooms in theCommercial block and will lead a retired life.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 21, 1910]

TRUE & WHITTENBERGER [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Easter is Near and so is True & Whittenberger's Grand MillineryOpening, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 7th, 8th and 9th, '02. - - - TRUE& WHITTENBERGER.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 6, 1892]

[Adv] Bazaar Ribbon Sale. Being overstocked with ribbons of all numbers,shades and qualities, we have inaugurated a cut price sale to continue 30 days.Half Price for all goods on this counter. TRUE & WHITTENBERGER, Successorsto Mrs. Miller.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 3, 1893]
TRUE & WIGMORE GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 822 Main.
[Adv] ANNOUNCEMENT! The People's Grocery Sells Nothing But Fresh Clean Goods andPays the Highest Market Prices for Good Produce. TRUE & WIGMORE, Successorsto Carter Bros., opposite Court House.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 7, 1893]

TRUE & WIGMORE (Biography)
TRUE & WIGMORE enjoy an individuality which places them at the head ofleading grocers of Rochester.
Loyd TRUE was born in this county near Mt. Zion in November, 1860. Raised afarmer boy and attending the common schools and the schools of Rochester, heearly laid the foundation for the practical education, experience and ruggedhealth that he today so well enjoys.
George WIGMORE, the junior member of the firm, was born at Monticello, Whitecounty, Ind. Quitting school at an early age on account of ill health he engagedas clerk in the grocery store of Bennett Bros., of Monticello, with whom heremained for four years when he came to Rochester with Mr. P. D. BENNETT, inwhose employ he remained until March, 1893. When forming a partnership with Mr.True, they purchased the Carter Bros. stock and christened the new venture the"People's Grocery." Without exception they have made the storeeverything its name implies. Mr. True's six years of teaching gives him a wideacquaintance throughout the county which together with Mr. Wigmore's lifelongexperience in the business and his holding the office of City Clerk at onceplaces this firm of enterprising young men at the head and front of the grocerybusiness of Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

ANOTHER BUSINESS FAILURE
The People's Grocery, owned by True & Wigmore, was closed, Tuesday, for thebenefit of creditors. Claims amounting to about one thousand dollars embarrassedthe firm and they decided to close up and try to collect enough of theiraccounts, which amount to nearly as much as their indebtedness, to enable themto settle their obligations and go ahead with their business. The firm is apopular one and it is the universal hope in Rochester that it may be able tosquare up and continue business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 29, 1897]
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Next, to the north [of the Stanton & Sterner Book Store] Holman &Onstott sold dry goods and beyond this True & Wigmore conducted a grocerybusiness, later the operation of Frank Marsh.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Monday, July 14, 1958]
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Lloyd TRUE, 62, former resident of Rochester, but for the last seventeen yearsof Washington, D.C., died there Saturday morning. This news came in the form ofa telegram to relatives here. No further particulars were given as to the causeof his death and could not be learned. It was known that he had been ill for along time and his condition had been serious for some months.
Mr. True at one time was a well known business man here conducting a grocerywith his partner under the name of True and Wigmore. He was always an activeworker in the Republican party and received an appointment through SenatorBeveridge as a guard in the capital building at Washington. He moved his familyat that time and has resided there since. Later he accepted a position with agas company in Washington which he was holding at the time of his death.
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TRUE BROS. RESTAURANT [Rochester, Indiana]
See Enterprise Restaurant.

NEW FACTORY BUILDING
A. E. Serewicz has announced that workmen will begin Wednesday tearing down theold True Planing mill for the purpose of making way for the new building to beerected which will house the auto body company, which will start here as soon aspossible. Mr. Serewica has received full instructions from the Chicagocapitalists behind the movement to go ahead as rapidly as possible and work onthe new building should begin within a short time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 3, 1921]

TRUE TEMPER CORPORATION [Akron, Indiana]
See American Fork & Hoe Co.; See C.K.R. Corporation.

TRUE'S MILL [Rochester Township]
Located at Mount Zion, approximately 500E and 250S.

TRUE'S RESTAURANT, NOBBY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located W side of street at 804 or 806 Main.
Also See True, Renaldo P. "Nobby"
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R. P. "NOBBY" TRUE SELLS CAFE TO JOHN HOOVER
"Nobby's Restaurant," 31 years the property of R. P. "Nobby"True and the oldest established restaurant in the city, has been sold to JohnHoover of east Rochester, who will continue its operation with the presentemployees and who will add Sunday service. Because of his age, Mr. True decidedto sell the popular restaurant, known widely in northern Indiana, in order todevote his entire time to the conduct of his baking business on East Ninthstreet, the Rochester Baking company.
Mr. Hoover, the new proprietor, is an experienced restaurant man, having been inMr. True's employ for several years. He went to a farm seven years ago. He willclose at 8 p.m. except in summer.
The deal was closed at noon Thursday, and the change in management was madeeffective immediately.
In 1894, Mr. True purchased the restaurant from Mrs. Bertha Coplen and developedthe business to its present peak.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, October 2, 1925]

Wonder what Harry Capp, who operated a restaurant on the south side of thepublic square back in the gay nineties, would think of today's restaurant take?And then there was R. P. (Nobby) True who served a good farm meal for less thana half-dollar. Who remembers when Marion Fultz held forth where the CourthouseView Restaurant is now the Kiwanis headquarters? In the Fultz restaurant a hamsandwich cost a nickle and that was before the day of hamburgers.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 6, 1959]

Photo of American Railway Express Agency office, includes Nobby's Restaurant.
[Earle Miller, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 1, Willard]

By and by John Hoover took over the Nobby True place and a good plate of flapjacks could be had for 15 cents, but church suppers held forth for years at 25to 35 cents a plate for all you could eat.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 6, 1959]

TRUSLOW & CO., G. W. [Rochester, Indiana]
G. W. Truslow & Co. have opened a large Store on Main Street, where theykeep the best quality of Gents Furnishing Goods . . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, September 28, 1865]
Old Line Clothing House, opposite Jesse Shields' New Brick, Corner Main andSouth Streets. G. W. Truslow & Co, Merchant Tailors . . . Oct. 28, 1868.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, October 29, 1868]

TRUSLOW CLOTHING STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
Carpenter Shop. Willard & Stahl have erected a new carpenter shop on the lotopposite Truslow's Clothing store which they intend to occupy themselves, andwhere they expect to continue to work for their customers.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, December 12, 1867]

TRUSLOW TAILOR SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
George W. Truslow, Tailor . . . South Room of the Bozarth Building opposite theMansion House, Rochester, June 3, 1858.
[Rochester Gazette, Thursday, December 9, 1858]

G. W. Truslow, Tailor. Shop in the Bozarth Building, south room. Rochester,Ind.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, April 26, 1860]
G. W. Truslow, Tailor, Rochester, Indiana. Shop up stairs in the MammothBuilding. Cutting done at all times.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 10, 1862]

The building now occupied by Mr. Truslow as a merchant tailor's store, issoon to be moved to the opposite side of South street, to make room formaterials which will be used in the construction of two or three brick storerooms, next summer. The building contemplated will be occupied in the thirdstory by the Masonic fraternity.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, October 8, 1868]

TUCKER, ALBERT [Union Township
BIOGRAPHY
Albert Tucker. - The subject of this sketch was born in New York May 1, 1831,and is a son of Seth and Hannah Tucker, natives of New England. Mr. Tucker hasone brother--Edward--living, who resides in Michigan; also one sister--Emily.Mr. A. Tucker was married to Marcella Nash May 19, 1859. Mrs. Tucker was bornAugust 5, 1839, her parents being natives of Massachusetts and Connecticutrespectively. Mrs. Tucker's father died in August, 1851, and her mother died in1878, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Tucker is the father of five children, whosenames are Seth, Kate M., Ellen, Amos R. and Randall. Mr. Tucker, with hisparents, emigrated from New York to LaGrange County, this State, in 1836. Afterhis marriage, his father gave him eighty acres of land near the old homestead,on which they resided one year, when they sold out and went to Michigan, andafter residing there awhile, he removed to this county in 1865, where they havesince resided, most of the time upon the place owned formerly by Mr. A. Akens.He now owns 173 acres of land two miles west of where they live, in PulaskiCounty, on which he has built a fine house and which he intends to occupy in thenear future. By energy and industry he has acquired a comfortable home. He ishonored by his neighbors for his integrity and sterling worth as a citizen.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 60]

TUCKER, MERL [Akron, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Merl Tucker, proprietor of one of the best-equipped garages of Fulton county, isaccepted as one of the most representative young business men of Akron, who hasrisen through his own efforts to a position of affluence and respect. He wasborn in Kosciusko county, Indiana, May 15, 1888, and is the fifth child in afamily of six, five sons and one daughter, born to Hollis and Nettie (Alexander)Tucker. All six of these children survive; two of them are living in Kosciuskocounty; Merl Tucker and his sister are residents of Fulton county; another is inAllen county, and the sixth is in Saint Joseph county. The father was born inKosciusko county, and was educated in its common schools. For years a farmer, hebecame the owner of 503 acres of valuable land, and for the last few years ofhis activity, he was a breeder of Norman horses, but is now living in retirementat Akron. In political faith he is a Republican. The Tucker family is of Englishorigin, but has long been established in the United States. The mother was bornin a house that is still standing in Richland county, Ohio, but she was broughtto Indiana by her parents when she was still a child, and she was reard,educated and married in the latter state. Growing up on his father's farm MerlTucker attended the local schools and learned to be a farmer. After followingthat vocation for some years, in 1921 he went to Chicago and took a course at anauto school of that city. In 1922 he put to practical use the instruction he hadreceived, and opened his present garage with Howard H. Ball as the junior memberof the firm, at Akron. This is one of the most complete in Northern Indiana, thebuilding being 192x61 feet, and is equipped with the best of heating andlighting accommodations. Everything about it is strictly modern, and the firmcarries a full line of accessorites. The service compares very favorably withthat offered in the large cities. Both partners are courteous and obliging, andhave built up a successful business. April 23, 1910, Mr. Tucker was married toMiss Elma, daughter of Horace G. and Phiana (Petry) Thomas. Mrs. Tucker was bornin Kosciusko county, Indiana, February 15, 1896, and the public furnished hereducational training. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have three children: Thomas Edgar,Ferrie Josephine, and Annie Marie, and the two older ones are attending theAkron graded schools. A Republican, Mr. Tucker cast his first vote for TheodoreRoosevelt for president, and he has since continued firm in his support of theprinciples the great American advocated. The people of his home county haveproved their confidence in him upon several occasions by sending him as theirdelegate to the conventions of his party within the county confines. In additionto his business interests he owns forty-five acres of excellent farming landnear Burket, Kosciusko county. Both he and his wife are very popular among theyounger married set of their home city.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 290-291, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

TUGENDRICH, JACOB [Kewanna, Indiana]
I. W. Holeman, Rochester and Jacob Tugendrich, Kewanna sell patent medicine.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 4, 1862]

TULEY DRY GOODS STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
Notice! Having purchased the entire stock of goods & merchandise of Mr. A.E. Taylor, I take this method of informing the citizens of Fulton and adjoiningcounties that I shall continue the establishment much after the old style of Mr.Taylor . . . Mr. Taylor will act as my agent for the present, assisted by Mr. C.A. Mitchell, in transacting the business . . . . . W. W. Tuley.
[Rochester Mercuty, Thursday, December 5, 1861]

TURNAM, HARRY [Rochester, Indiana]
DRY CLEANING WORKS SOLD
Harry Turnam, who has been employed at the Swiss Dry Cleaning works for the pastseveral months, has purchased the H. M. Grubbs dry cleaning establishment onWest Ninth street and has already taken possession. The new owner is anexperienced dry cleaner and tailor and will no doubt prove quite successful inthe venture. Mr. Grubbs has not decided on his future business policy.
The vacancy at the Swiss Dry Cleaning works made vacant by the leaving of Mr.Turnam has been filled by Charles Corbett of Chicago, who has had a number ofyears' experience in one of that city's large dye houses.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 3, 1912]

DRY CLEANER IN FRENCH LEAVE
H. H. Turnam, who conducted the dry cleaning establishment on West Ninth street,this city, for several months, left Rochestr Monday evening and so far as anyoneknows he did not impart a word as to his probable destination. His young wifestated this morning that she was at a loss as to how to account for herhusband's actions and that she had not the slightest idea as to where he hasgone. It is an unfortunate state of circumstances that Mr. Turnam left a numberof unpaid bills behind and creditors have been trying to get a line on hiswhereabouts so thay they take some sort of action.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 2, 1912]

ED HILL ENTERS BUSINESS
Ed Hill of this city has launched in business by a deal which was closed severaldays ago, when he purchased the Turnam dry cleaning establishment on Ninthstreet. Mr. Hill took possession at once and will try and build the business upto a high standard of efficiency. The business has been allowed to drag by theformer owner and it will be a sort of uphill climb for the new proprietor. Mr.Hill has been connected with the tailoring business for a good many years andhis wide experience will do much toward making his venture a success.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 2, 1912]

TURNER, F. H. [Tiosa, Indiana]
[Adv] NEW HARNESS SHOP at Tiosa, Ind. F. H. TURNER. This well known harnessmaker has again opened a shop at Tiosa, and solicits the patronage of allcitizens. He offers to do the nicest and best work for the least money. Give hima call.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 31, 1886]

[Adv] WE LEAD, WHO CAN, MAY FOLLOW. The PLANO BINDER another step in advance.The only Binder made that pulls easily with two hordses. The only Binder havinga fly wheel attachment, which causes the Plano Binder to run one horse lighterthan any other Binder. The Plano Binder remains in motion while turning acorner, cuts and binds grain while making a right hand turn. We build the lightrunning JONES MOWER. You get tired backing your team every time you start intothe grass - not so with the Jones Mower. For sale by F. H. TURNER, Prop.,Central House, Rochester, Indiana. - - - -
[ - - - -]

[Adv] I have my stock of fruit trees, vines, etc., ready for sale just northof the Arlington hotel. Prices about half what agents ask you. F. H. TURNER.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 20, 1899]

TURNER, J. D. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] FURNITURE TO EXCHANGE. I have new furniture to exchange for old. I want tobuy all kinds of household goods, such as stoves, furniture, carpets, etc. Alsowatches, harness and anything of value. - - - You can also get cash for anythingyou have to sell at the PEOPLE'S NEW AND SECOND-HAND STORE, three doors south ofAcademy of Music. J. D. TURNER, Prop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, January 9, 1900]

LOCAL NEWS
J. D. Turner has sold a half interest in his furniture and second hand businessto Bert Braman. The firm will be known as TURNER & BRAMAN, and are ready topay the highest cash price for second hand goods or trade new goods for old.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 3, 1900]

LOCAL NEWS
J. E. Braman and son Bert have bought out J. D. Turner's second hand store. Theexchange was made Saturday. Mr. Turner has been proprietor of the store forthree years, and has received a very liberal patronage. The junior partner ofthe present owners, Braman & Son, has been with Mr. Turner for some time andis acquainted with the work. After a week's visit with relatives at Mentone,Mr.Turner and family will move to Frankfort.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 21, 1901]

TURNER & BRAMAN [Rochester, Indiana]
J. D. Turner has sold a half interest in his furniture and second hand businessto Bert Braman. The firm will be known as TURNER & BRAMAN, and are ready topay the highest cash price for second hand goods or trade new goods for old.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 3, 1900]

TURNER MILLINERY SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
Millinery Goods, Hats and Caps. . . My Store may be found in the South Room ofthe Rannells Hotel. Mrs. S. C. Turner. Rochester Ind., Dec. 5, 1866.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, December 6, 1866]

Mr. B. F. (Frank) Brown has purchased the Millinery and FurnishingEstablishment, one door South of the Central Hotel, of Mrs. S. C. Turner andwill continue the business at the same place. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, February 21, 1867]

[Adv] THE NEW MILLINERY. We are ready for the women whose demands are themost exacting in the matter of Millinery, and we are displaying this season themost attractive hats we have every shown.
Be your preference for flower, bird or velvet trimmed, or the particularly smartblack and white effects, our lines are complete enough to furnish you with thehat you want. TURNER SISTERS.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 23, 1901]

[Adv] Fall and Winter Millinery - - - - TURNER SISTERS, With Holman &Marsh.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 24, 1903]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The room in the Arlington block, formerly occupied by Feder & Silberberg, isbeing fitted up for the Turner Sisters who will move their millinery store thereabout the first of March.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 23, 1906]

[Adv] Millinery Opening, Wednesday, March 18 (one day only) . . . . We shallbe pleased to have you as a visitor on our opening day. TURNER SISTERS,Arlington Block.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 13, 1914]

MANY BUSINESS MOVES WILL BE MADE IN CITY
The News-Sentinel was reliably informed Wednesday afternoon of several changesin business houses which will move in this city within the next six weeks whichwill include the discontunuance of a store, the opening of another establishmentand the changing of the location of two others.
The store which will be closed is the Styles Furnishing Store in the J. F.Dysert building operated for five years by Oren Karn and sold by him to M. Wileand Sons three weeks ago. Mr. Karn, who is the owner of the Coffee Shop and alsothe Dysert building, will move his popular cafe into the room vacated by theStyles Store.
The room which will be vacated in the Fredonia block by the Coffee Shop will beoccupied by the Turner Sisters Millinery store which will be moved from theirpresent location one door north of the room which they will occupy.
The room vacated by the Turner Sisters and the one which foromerly housed thepostoffice will be the home of a new mercantile establishment which will featurepopular priced ladies ready to wear, men's clothing, shoes, dry goods, andladies and gents furnishings.
The owners of the new store the News-Sentinel is not at this time permitted tomake public. This establishment will be opened about September 1 or just as soonas the store can be equipped and openings made between the two rooms.
Mr. Karn will move the Coffee Shop to its new location sometime within the nextfour weeks or just as soon as the room in the Dysert building has been alteredso that it will be ready for occcupancy by the restaurant.
Lyman Brackett, who is the owner of the Fredonia block will start on Fridaymorning to make the changes in the rooms wished by his tenants.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, July 21, 1926]

[Adv - Fall Showing . . . ladies' and misses' Millinery . . . . TurnerSisters, 713 Main
Street.]
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Thursday, September 2, 1926]

TURNER SISTERS MOVE MILLINERY STORE
Turner Sisters, one of the oldest and most popular millinery establishments, anda land mark business venture in the Brackett building at 713 Main street aremoving today to a new location at 110 East Eighth street being vacated by Mary'sBeauty 'shop.
The millinery firm, composed of the Misses Nona and Isabelle Turner, plan, it isunderstood, to carry on their bueiness at the new location where they willwelcome their old friends and customers.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 29, 1945]

TUTTLE, F. B. [Kewanna, Indiana]
PERSONAL
The Baske & Sinnott hardware store in Kewanna has been sold to F. B. Tuttle.The stock is being invoiced and as soon as the inventory is completed. [sic] Mr.Tuttle, who assumes charge of the store, was a former Kewanna business man butfor the past two years has been in the West.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, September 20, 1910]

TWELVE MILE, INDIANA [Cass County]
PURCHASES STORE
A L. Greist has purchased the general store at Twelve Mile known as the Brownstore. He has taken possession.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 12, 1931]

TWELVE MILE SAW MILL LEVELED BY FIRE TODAY
A saw mill owned by Jack Steuber, located on the William Fernald farm three andone-half miles southwest of Twelve Mile, was burned to the ground at 4 o'clockWednesday morning.
The fire was of undetermined origin and was discovered by a man living on aneighboring farm who notified the fire departments of Fulton, Twelve Mile andMexico.
All three departments went to the mill but were unable to save the structure.The loss is estimated at $1,500.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 24, 1936]

TWELVE MILE ELEVATOR IS RAZED BY HUGE FIRE
Fire originating from a bolt of lightning Friday night completely razed thelarge grain elevator at Twelve Mile with an estimated loss of more than $15,000after four fire departments fought in vain for a half hour to bring the blazeunder control.
Lightning struck in the grinding room on the lower floor of the structure about6 o'clock and quickly spread through the building, which was burned to theground in almost 30 minutes.
The blaze also spread to the cement room and feed room of the elevator propertyand burned the roofs of both buildings but action by firemen kept the fire fromcompletely destroying the structures.
The tin side covering of the elevator over the frame structure kept the blazefrom breaking out from the building and several minutes after lightning struck,the blaze had made its way into the grain and feed storage rooms turning theentire structure into a blazing inferno. Firemen from Denver, Mexico and Fultonanswered the call and aided the Twelve Mile department in keeping the fire undercontrol. Hoses were strung to the scene from the cistern in the Twelve Miledepartment building across the tracks of the C. & O. railroad blockingtraffic along the railroad. The signal system of the railroad also was reporteddamaged by the blaze and debris which fell onto the tracks.
The loss of the elevator and its contents is partially covered by insurance, itwas reported Friday night. Hundreds of bushels of grain, mostly wheat and stocksof feed were lost in the blaze and attempts to save valuable records and scalesfrom the office of the building were futile.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, October 3, 1942]
TWO BY FOUR SANDWICH SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
NEW SANDWICH SHOP TO OPEN THURSDAY
A new sandwich shop to be known as the "2 by 4 Sandwich Shop" will beopened Thursday in the room at 113 East Ninth Street by Mae and Sophia Sparks.The two women are the owners of the Rainbow Cafe on North Main Street. The foodto be served at the new establishment will be prepared at the Rainbow Cafe anddelivered to the new shop where it will be kept under the strictest sanitaryconditions until served. Several specials will be featured which will includethe famous "Tasty Sandwich", "Farmers Produced Buttermilk"and sweet milk from Guernsey cows.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, July 20, 1932]

FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA

HANDBOOK

U. S. BANK & TRUST CO. [Rochester, Indiana]
Located at 729 Main.
Henry A. Barnhart was active in organizing the Rochester Trust and Savings Bankwhich was later merged with the U. S. Bank and Trust Company (729 Main) of whichhe was director.
Leonard Joshua Newcomb was a cashier at the time of his death, December 6, 1925.
See Farmers & Merchants Bank
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BUSINESS REVIEW OF ROCHESTER MERCHANTS
This is one of our popular banking institutions in Rochester. Its management atonce found a warm acceptance in the public mind of this locality. And from thefirst day's business and its unpretentious beginning it took a deep root and hasmade a steady, vigorous growth of its business life and each year outdoing itsprevious year until at the present moment it is recognized by the devotedpatronage as one of the soundest banking institutions in this part of the stateof Indiana.
Its capital stock is $75,000 and besides paying its stockholders a dividend eachyear it has also accumulated and laid away for the protection of its depositorsa surplus of $25,000. This it did by strict integrity of its officers, closelywatched and guarded by diligent, sturdy, honest, upright board of directors, byits courteous treatment over the counter and its confidential business methodswith all patrons. It has won an enviable place in the hearts of all the pe0plewho daily seek its advice and counsel in their private matters as well as totrust their surplus hard earnings with this banking house.
The building is beautiful in appearance and pleasing to the eye of the transientman convenient in every point in its interior. This banking institution withfaith pinned to the interest and prosperity of this locality, with fidelity toall, will push forward on the confidence of the people.
This bank bays 4 per cent interest on time certificates of deposit and savings.
Its officers are: F. E. Bryant, President; A. B. Green Vice President; H. L.Coplen, Cashier; J. F. Kumler, Assistant; Flo Delp, Assistant; E. C. Mercer,Secretary, and G. W. Holman, Chairman Board of Directors.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 17, 1922]
NEW EMPLOYEES TAKE UP DUTIES AT U. S. BANK
Several changes in the personnel of the United States Bank & Trust Companywere made today. George Leonard, who has been assistant cashier for the past twoyears, tendered his resignation to accept a position in the National Bank of theRepublic, of Chicago. Miss Lois Fields, stenographer also resigned to accept asimilar position in a South Bend bank.
Howard Wertzberger, member of the '27 R. H. S. class, Misses Josephine Smith andMargaret Bryant have been employed to take up the duties of the formeremployees.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 1, 1927]

WEEK'S TIME GIVEN TO ORGANIZE A NEW BANK IN THE CITY
Indianapolis, July 17. (U.P.) - A one week extension of the time limit forcompleting re-organization of the U. S. Bank & Trust Company, Rochester wasgranted by the State department of financial institions here Monday evening.
Efforts are being made to organize a new bank and take over admissable assets ofthe U. S. Bank and Trust Co., which has been operating on a restricted basissince the National moratorium in March 1933.
Representatives of the proposed new bank asked for more time to completesubscription of stock, Herman Wells, assistant director of the state bankingdepartment explained.
Will Approve New Bank
He said that if the necessary stock is subscribed, his department will approvethe plan formally.
Wells said he did not know what the new bank would be named, explaining that itcould not be incorporated until the money is raised.
Admissable assets of the U. S. Bank & Trust Co. will amount to approximately40 percent of its deposits Wells estimated.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, July 17, 1934]

ASSETS OF U.S.B. & T. CO. ARE SOLD BY MR. YATER
Thomas Yater, Logansport, liquidating agent for the closed United States Bankand Trust Company, which ceased operation several years ago and in which theIndiana Department of Financial Institutions has to date recovered 64 per centof deposits and asseets, announced yesterday the sale of the remaining assets ofthe bank for $7,775.
Carl Quick, local stock buyer, made the purchase taking all real estate,mortgages and judgments held as assets by the closed bank.
The sale made yesterday is the last move to close the liquidation. The transferand payment is subject to the approval of Judge Robert Miller in the circuitcourt and the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, February 4, 1939]

FINAL DIVIDEND TO BE PAID BANK DEPOSITORS
Approximately 2,000 depositors of the former United States Bank and Trustcompany, now the Farmers and Merchants Bank, received a Christmas present whenJudge Robert Miller in the Fulton circuit court granted the prayer of ThomasYater, of Logansport, receiver of the closed bank, to pay the final dividend tothe depositors.
Mr. Yater's petition to the court shows that the final payment will be theequivalent of a dividend of .016 per cent of the amount each depositor had ondeposit with the bank when it closed in 1933.
The depositors of the United States Bank and Trust company have, during the timeof its liquidation, received six other dividends which totaled about 72 percent.
Mr. Yater will announce later when and where the depositors of the closedRochester bank may receive the final dividend payment, which was authorized tobe paid.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 19, 1942]

U. S. TIRE SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
[see Sims' Tire Store]

ULERY & URSCHEL HARDWARE [Rochester, Indiana]
SHOUP HARDWARE STORE TRADED FOR 160 ACRES
John Shoup has traded his hardware store here to A. L. Ulrey and A. I. Urschel,North Manchester bankers, for a 160 acre farm south of Roann, it has beenannounced.
Possession will be granted immediately following the completion of an invoice tobe made this week.
Mr. Shoup, formerly of west of Laketon, acquired the stock of what had been theShepherd hardware store from John McClung and his associates less than a yearago.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Wednesday, July 29, 1925]

BUCHANAN BUYS ULREY-URSCHEL HARDWARE SHOP
James "Buck" Buchanan, experienced hardware man formerly employed hereby Stehle and Shively, lately of Burnettsville, has purchased the Ulrey andUrschel hardware store at 721 Main street, and will continue its operation.
The store will be closed for invoice the first of the week.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 25, 1925]

UMBRELLA VILLAGE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Lawn chairs, bridge chairs, beach umbrellas, - - - - baby rocker, awnings- - - - UMBRELLA VILLAGE, Tim Baker Lot on East Ninth Street. Fred Shobe,Proprietor. Free Horseshoe Courts in Rear.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, August 5, 1938]

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD [Union Township]
See: Ball, ancil B.
See: Essick, Michael L.
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND FULTON COUNTY
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
A 140-y6ar-old farmhouse south of Rochester is to be demolished any day now andwith it will go a bit of unusual national history.
The main, gabled portion of the house was in the 1850s a station on the famousUnderground Railroad that secretly guided runaway slaves from Southern states tosafety on the free soil of Canada.
In 1925 Henry Sherrard Sr. moved his family into the house that is located justnorth of the Green Oak intersection on Old U.S. 31. In homes beside it todaylive his daughter, Mrs. Lowell .(Betty) Thousand, and his son Weldon Sherrard.
Henry recorded the house's distinctive histoty in a 1971 memoir. The escapingslaves were brought under the cover of night and were rested and fed during theday in the basement. The next night they, were escorted by their Abolitionistguides to another stop on their way north. This particular trail continuedthrough Plymouth or sometimes through Mentone.
The leg of their trip to Green Oak started from a daytime sanctuary in a brickhouse on the north side of Mexico, wrote Sherrard, quite likely the one thatstill is there today.
There was but one entrance to the basement of the Green Oak house and its doorcontained a peephole for security against unwanted callers. There also was ahole bored in the livirig room floor above the basement. It was covered by a rugduring the day, uncovered when owners of the house wanted to communicate withthe fugitives below.
The floorboard containing the hole and the peepholed door are being
retained as valued family artifacts by Henry Sherrard's granddaughter, MaryannaThousand.
This Green stopover was one of two known Underground Railroad routes through
Fulton County in those years of sectional agitation over slavery.
The other path reached this area by way of Wabash and Gilead, traversing FultonCounty through Akron. The Gilead station was operated by Samuel Essick, anavowed Abolitionist who secreted the runaways under straw at the stables of histannery. About 11 o'clock at night, Michael Essick later reported, he and fatherSamuel led them by a trail in the woods to Akron where they were housed anotherday by Dr. Joseph Sippy, founder of that village.
Samuel and Michael Essick were great-grandfathers of Vivian Wagoner Overmyer ofRochester.
This manner by which slaves could escape their bondage was created byAbolitionists and Quakers after the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was passed byCongress. That statute provided for the return of runaway slaves who moved fromone state to another and imposed heavy penalties on anyone who aided in theirescape or interfered with their recovery.
Abolitionists rejected the law out of hand and determined to oppose it by everymeans. Some Northern state legislatures even passed laws to penalize any stateor local offitial who obeyed the fugitive slave decree.
Thus was the stage set for the informal, volunteer Underground Railroad system.Although estimates vary as to how many slaves reached Canada by this method, itlikely was several thousand. Other major routes on the Railroad were throughPennsylvania and Ohio.. In those years before Civil War broke out in 1861,sentiment for runaway slave ran high in Northern states.
Recalling the history of this ancient Green Oak house reveals some of thecharacter of the pioneer Fulton County citizens who preceded us. Harboringescaped slaves was both dangerous and illegal but they considered it a moralimperative and went ahead willingly and with verve. The nation was immeasurablymagnified thereby.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 28, 1997]
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The section of land (southwest corner of 400S and 500W) on which Tom and JaneMogle lived was considered safe for hiding runaway slaves prior to and duringthe Civil War. There was so much wilderness and so many isolated sections. Oneof the main routes of the Underground Railroad crossed the southeastern part ofthis area. Tom and Jane Mogle kept many a slave hidden in their attick by day,fed them and started them on by night. When they reached the Michigan line theywere safe. Calvin, Michigan, was the end of the line.
[Rev. Jesse Sparks, Mildred Sparks Tomlinson, Fulton County Folks, Vol. 1,Willard]

Dr. Joseph Sippy and John Ball, who lived northwest of Akron, both hadstations in the Underground Railroad and helped Negroes escape north throughFulton County to Canada.
[Dr. Joseph Sippy Family, Velma Bright, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

Christopher Campbell was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1831 and came to FultonCounty in 1853. He was known as a "Black Republican" because of hissympathy for the colored people and help with the underground railroad throughFulton County.
[Christopher Campbell Family, Mary Campbell Gynther, Fulton Co Folks, Vol 2,Willard]

UNION BAKERY & EATING SALOON [Rochester, Indiana]
Widner & Co. Proprietors of the Union Bakery & Eating Saloon, No. 1Mammoth Building . . . Rochester, Oct. 7, 1868.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, October 22, 1868]

UNION BAND [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rannells, William W.

UNION COMMITTEE [Fulton County]
The Union Committee of Fulton County is requested to meet at the ChronicleOffice, in Rochester, on Tuesday, Aug 12th, 1862, for the purpose of filling thevacancy in the Union Ticket occasioned by the declension of John McConnehey . .. John Elam, Chairman Pro Tem Union Com.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 7, 1862]

Our friends will notice that the Union Committee have placed the name ofJacob Smith, Esq., of Wayne Township, upon our ticket for the office ofCommissioner . . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 28, 1862]

UNION CONVENTION [Fulton County]
Union County Convention . . . met in mass convention, in this place, on Saturdaylast . . . called to order by Dr. S. S. Terry, and organized by choosing thefollowing officers: President, Hon. K. G. Shryock. Vice Presidents, PaulStockberger, I. Krider, James Palmer, E. M. Jewett, John McConnehey, Jas. Maxey,Wm. Spencer, Wm. Ream, Jas. Carter, Jacob Smith, D. Irving, Wm. Reid and JohnCrum. Secretaries, C. E. Fuller and P. M. Bozarth . . . resolutions committee,Dr. S. S. Terry, John S. Mow, David Pugh, H. McAfee, C. E. Fuller, O. P. Dillon,D. C. Buchanan and C. Campbell . . . Messrs Davis, Fuller and Wilson wereappointed a Committee to apportion the relative vote of the several townships inthe Convention . . .
-- The Union, County Convention, held at this place on Saturday last, was adecided success . . . Mr. Hoppe is entitled to credit for refusing to sellliquor on the occasion. We have heard of no fights, and drunken men were scarce.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, July 31, 1862]
Union Convention. Pursuant to the call of the Union Central Committee, aconsiderable number of the Union men of the County met, on the 8th inst., inthis place; and organized by appointing Jacob Whittenberger Chairman and C. E.Fuller Secretary. After remarks as to the objects of the meeting, the followingpersons were elected delegates to the Union State Convention: S. S. Terry,Vernon Gould, C. E. Fuller, Isaiah Hoover, John Elam, Christopher Campbell, B.Lawhead, Young Ralstin, Dudley H. Wells, Isaac E. Andrus, James Palmer, RobertAitken, David Mow and Jacob Whittenberger.
On motion, the following Central Committee was appointed for the present year:C. E. Fuller, B. Lawhead, K. G. Shryock, Christopher Campbell, I. W. Krider, lI.E. Andrus, D. H. Wells, J. S. Mow, D. Mow and S. S. Terry. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, January 14, 1864]

Proceedings of the Union Convention, Fulton County.
The assembly was called to order at 11 o'clock a.m. by C. E. Fuller, Chairman ofthe Central Committee, and on motion, William Mackey was chosen President, andP. M. Bozarth, Sec'y.
. . . . a committee of one from each township was appoointed to apportion thevote in the Convention, which committee reported as follows: . . .
A committee on nominations was then appointed, consisting of three from eachtownship, as follows: Rochester, D. W. Lyon, Wm. Hill, L. W. Shelton. Richland,Young Ralstin, David Mow, N. Loomis. New Castle, John Lisle, Wm. Peck, JeffersonRhodes. Union, Jesse Sparks, Jas. A. Carter, Robert Allen. Aubbeenaubbee, S. J.Rarrick, Christopher Campbell, Solomon Miller. Wayne, Isaac Eggman, AlmonPackard, Joseph S. Horn. Henry, S. S. Terry, R. M. Pollock, Jacob Whittenberger.Liberty, I. W. Krider, Salmon Collins, Richard Reid.
On motion of C. E. Fuller, Sidney Keith, P. G. Kelsey, James Keely and T. J.Holcomb were appointed a committee on Resolutions . . .
. . . the committee on nominations reported as follows: For RepresentativeRobert M Pollock. For Sheriff, Capt. David Rader. For Treasurer, Isaiah W.Krider. For Commissioner, James Keely.
The report of the committee was accepted and concurred in by three rousingcheers . . . [Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, July 7, 1864]

Union Convention. The Union Convention of Fulton County met at Rochester, onthe 10th day of February 1866. . . [names mentioned]: John Beeber Esq'r., M. L.Essick, Hon. Stephen Davidson, E. Calkins Esq'r., Hon Schuyler Colfax, K. G.Shryock, Pres't., M. L. Essick, Sec'y.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, February 15, 1866

UNION CORNET BAND [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rannells, William W.

UNION DELIVERY SERVICE [Rochester, Indiana]
THE UNION DELIVERY IS SOLD
The union delivery system, owned by J. S. Dunham and managed by his son, Floyd,was Monday sold to Ranson Dull of Monroe, Mich., who will arrive here thisevening to take charge.
The Dunhams started the first successful delivery system in Rochester lastJanuary. Floyd Dunham, who has been in charge here, will leave soon for hisformer home in Birmingham, Mich. The new owner will be in charge herepersonally. He is a young unmarried man and has had two years experience in thebusiness.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 20, 1915]

CLARY BUYS UNION DELIVERY
A deal was announced Wednesday whereby E. E. Clary, well known liveryman, nextMonday becomes the owner of the Rochester Union Delivery system, havingpurchased the equipment of H. A. Dull, who has had it for some time. Mr. Dullcame to the city from Michigan and has conducted the delivery in a mostsatisfactory manner, pleasing both grocers and patrons. He has stated that hewill probably remain in Rochester, engaging in business here.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, May 31, 1916]

GROCERS PLANNING DELIVERY TO LAKE
A number of Rochester business men -- Joe Ewing, Arlie Morris, Frank Marsh, E.V. Sheets, Val Poffenbarger, Cecil Snapp, Ed Smith -- met with Harvey Clary,owner of the Union Delivery service in this city, Monday evening to map outplans for the establishment of delivery services to the lake this summer. Thishas been a long felt need at the lake and the local men who attended themeeting, and who will probably be joined by others, plan to establish a regulardelivery service not only for groceries and meats, but also general parcelservice. The service would be similar to that now enjoyed by city residents andwhile it has not been definitely decided to go ahead with the project, itappears to have been tentatively assured.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 27, 1924]

UNION LEAGUE [Fulton County]
Pursuant to public notice, a large number of the citizens of Fulton county, metat the Court house in Rochester, on Saturday, May 2d, 1863, for the purpose oforganizing a Union League. J. B. Van Dean was chosen Chairman, and Captain P. G.Kelsey and L. J. Brown, Secretaries.
On motion, C. E. Fuller, P. G. Kelsey and S. Keith were appointed a committee toreport a pledge as a basis of such league . . .
The League then elected the following officers: J. B. Van Dean, President. B.Lawhead, C. Campbell, A. C. Hickman, Andy Strong, Fred Peterson, I. E. Andrus,J. S. Mow, Jas. A. Carter, Vice Presidents. C. E. Fuller, Secretary.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, May 7, 1863]

UNION MEETINGS [Fulton County]
The people in mass met at the Court House in Rochester on Monday evening last,to take into consideration the present condition of our country.
T. H. Howes was chosen President, Wilson Alexander and J. New Vice Presidents,and J. H. Stailey and J. W. Walker Secretaries (Mr. Walker was not present).
After the object of the meeting being stated by the Chair, Hon. K. G. Shryockoffered the following, which was adopted without a dissenting voice: . . . Thatwe are for the Union of these States, for the Constitution and the full andcomplete enforcement of the laws of the Congress of the United States, in everypart of the Union, North as well as South.
Speeches were made by Shryock, Lawhead, Keith, Rev. Mock and Stailey, afterwhich the meeting adjourned to meet on Thursday evening , 25th.
---Thursday Evening, April 25 . . . Speeches were made by Lawhead, Brackett, Mr.Foot, of New York, Rev. Stallard, Calloway, Yost and Stailey.
The following resolutions were adopted unanimously: . . . . That we will use ourbest endeavors to support the families of those who are enlisting to defend theConstitution and the flag of their country. After which three deafening cheerswere given for the Stars and Stripes . . .
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, April 25, 1861]

Union Meetings at Akron . . . held in the school house at Akron on Wednesdayevening May 1st. The object of the meeting being stated, Mr. G. McCloud wasappointed Chairman, and P. F. G. Kelsey Sect. Mr. C. E. Fuller of Rochester thenaddressed the meeting with a strong Union speech -- after which C. Brackett alsoof Rochester, addressed the meeting on the subject of raising Volunteers.
Akron, May 4th. The people without regard to party, assembled at the MeetingHouse in Akron, from all parts of the surrounding vicinity. Dr. S. S. Terryaddressed the meeting. . . The meeting was also addressed by Jacob Whittenberger,A. B. Ball and others. By request the Glee Club sang the Flag of our Union . . .
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, May 9, 1861]

The Union Men of Fulton County, irrespective of party, will meet in MassConvention, at Rochester, on Saturday next (Aug 31st). Ex Gov. J. A. Wright,Col. Lew Wallace, Hon. R. J. Ryan, Hon A. L. Osborn, lHon. C. W. Cathcart, Hon.S. L. lMcFadin, Hon D. D. Pratt and Hon R. P. DeHart are expected to be present,and address the meeting.
All persons, who indorse the sentiment of the immortal Andrew Jackson, "TheUnion, it must be preserved," are invited to participate in the convention.[NOTE: around one hundred local names listed. WCT]
[Rochester Mercuty, Thursday, August 29, 1861]

Union Mass Meeting. Pursuant to the call published by us last week, a largeand harmonious mass meeting was held in this village last Saturday.
On motion of James A. Carter, B. Lawhead, Esq., was called to the chair, andmessrs James A. Carter, William Ream, W. F. Squires and John Crum chosen VicePresidents, and C. E. Fuller and P. M. Bozarth, Secretaries.
On motion, Messrs S. Keith, N. C. Hall, Robert Aitken, T. W. Barnett, I. E.Andress, J. Stockberger, (-----) Spangler, A. C. Hickman and B. Stamm wereappointed a Committee on Resolutions.
The meeting then listened to remarks from the Chairman and K. G. Shryock. . . .
[Rochester Mercuty, Thursday, August 29, 1861]

UNION SALOON [Rochester, Indiana]
Union Saloon - Austin Bates, . . .under Wallace's Hall. . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 22, 1859]

UNION SPY [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rochester Union Spy; Rochester Sentinel.

UNION STOCK YARDS [Rochester, Indiana]
The Rochester Union Stockyards, located on the Lake Erie right of way off 11thstreet, has been condemned by the City Board of Health, according to a statementissued by Managers Pownall and Gray and will be abandoned. Lee M. Pownall andAncil C. Gray, who opened the yards here some time ago, are at presentnegotiating with the Erie and Lake Erie for a location just outside the citylimits.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 30, 1922]

UNION STEAM MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
See Wallace's Steam Mill.

UNION TICKET [Fulton County]
For Clerk, Robert Aitken; For Commissioner, 2d District, James Keeley; ForSurveyor, Vernon Gould; For Coroner, William Townsend.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, October 3, 1861]

For Representative, Banner Lawhead. Auditor, Dudley H. Wells. Treasurer,Jacob Whittenberger. Sheriff, John Rannells. Commissioner, John McConnehey.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, July 31, 1862]

Union Ticket: For Recorder, John M. Spencer. For Appraiser of Real Estate,Thomas W. Barnett. For Commissioner, James Wright. For Surveyor, Presley M.Bozarth. For Coroner, William Hill.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 13, 1863]

UNION TOWNSHIP [Fulton County]
EARLY SETTLEMENT
Prior to the year 1837, the territory now constituting this township remained inpossession of the Indians, and no white man had come to invade their huntinggrounds, or sound with an ax or maul the keynote of an advancing army whosepurpose was the improvement of the country, the cultivation of the soil, and theupbuilding of homes and farms in a region peopled by a race to whom industry andprogress are unknown. That year, however, usherd in the dawn of civilization,and with it began the era that has borne its fruit in the intervening years, infine farms and happy homes. John Troutman was the leader of the pioneer forces.He purchased a tract of Government land in Section 28, on the 25th of October,1836, and on the 28th of September, 1837, came with his family to occupy hisland and begin the labor of converting it into a farm. He was accompanied hitherby his elder brother, Michael Troutman, and Thomas Barnett and Isaac Cannon. Alllocated on land near each other, forming a little neighborhood, and bendingtheir energies unanimously toward the accomlishment of the purpose that hadlured them higther. Then there were others who came immediately afterward tojoin hands with them, or at least to unite with them in a common cause, thoughquite unaware, at the time, of the presence of those we have mentioned. Thesewere Stephen Bruce, Sr., and his sons, Abraham Bruce and Stephen Bruce, Jr.,with their families. From the confines of the "black swamp" inNorthwestern Ohio, they started westward in the fall of 1837, reaching theshores of Kewanna Lake in the same season. Here, while building their cabins,they found shelter under the canvases that had covered their wagons in thejourney from Ohio, having converted them into tents. They were long identifiedwith the history and progress of the township, and were recognized always asgood citizens.
In the meantime (later in 1837), another citizen took up his abode in thetownship. This was Frederick Mohler, who located upon a tract of land about amile northeast of the present site of the town of Kewanna. He was ignorant ofthe fact that he had neighbors near at hand, and it is hard to guess how long hemight have remained thus ignorant had not the crowing of a rooster arrested theattention of John Troutman, who detrmined to follow the sound, and by actingupon this impulse found a neighbor, who was gladly welcomed to the fratrnity ofthe pioneers. It is believed these were all who came in 1837, and of this numberall are now deceased save Isaac Cannon, who at a recent date, was linving in theState of Delaware.
In March, 1839, William Troutman came to the township, and to his accuratememory we are largely indebted for our data relative to the early settlement. Henow lives in the town of Kewanna, in a hale old age, enjoying the prosperity andprogress for which he and his early associates prepared the way. He firstlocated a mile and a half northwest of the present site of Kewanna, and at thattime was accompanied by his brother Ambrose. Jesse Barnett came a little laterin the same year, and was identified for a number of years with the history ofthe township, but latterly removed to Kansas, where he died. Joel H. Davis andJunia Lathrop came in 1839, and Greenup Troutman came later in the same year.William G. Lear, David Lough and Lewis Mitchell came in 1839. Mr. Lear enterd atract of land in Section 12, and improved a farm upon which he resided until hisdecease. Mr. Lough still resides upon his farm, while Mr. Mitchell died in Ohio.Jacob Maxey entered a tract of land in Section 3 in 1838, and came to thetownship with his family in 1839. He was, like his neighbors, an industriouscitizen, and cleared and improved a farm, upon which he resided until death. Inthe township records we find his name mentioned as one of the district schooltrustees for 1840.
Closely following the arrival of Mr. Maxey came Vincent McCoy, who was the firstJustice of the Peace elected in the township. He entered a tract of land inSection 14, from which he developed a good farm, and remained in the townshipuntil death. Joseph Clayton, Jacob Curtner and John Shoup were among thesettlers of 1839, and each served on the board of district school trustees in1840. Lewis Bailey came in 1840, and located upon a trract of land which he hadentered the preceding year, and James, Joshua and Isaiah Ball came early in thesame year. Mark B. Moore came about the same time, and located in the northernpart of the township, where he cleared and improved a farm, which is now ownedand occupied by his son William. Choral G. Roberts came in 1840, and Hardy Caincame in the preceding year. Mr. Cain was a local preacher of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, and was identified for many years with the history ofMethodism in this township. Mr. Roberts located in Section 9, and cleared andimproved a farm, upon which he resided until his decease. John Kelley came in1841, and located near William Troutman. In later years, he removed to Winamac,Ind., where he still resides. Thomas Hogan came in the same year, remaining inthe township until his decease. James Dempsey and family came in 1841, andresided here a number of years, but finally removed to Kansas. Michael Morrissycame in 1843, and located upon land that he had entered in 1837. He removed toanother locality after a few years. James A. Carter came in 1841 with hisfamily, and David Obermyre came in 1843, locating upon the farm where he stillresides. James O'Neill, an unmarried man, came in the same year, and remained onhis farm until death. John Wallace came in the same year, and cleared andimproved a farm, upon which he resided until death, Eli Rodgers came in 1844,and William Ferguson came in the same year, locating upon land where he stillresides. Thomas Hurst came in 1845, and purchased land in Section 29, upon whichhe resided until death. James Heddins came in 1846, but sold his property ashort time afterward and moved away. Hiram Jackson came in 1846, and cleared andimproved a farm, upon which he resided until death. William Bennett and JacobEvans were also among the settlers of 1846, and John Young and Julius P. Collinscame in 1847. George W. Horine entered a tract of land in Section 20, in 1840,but did not come to live in the township until several years later--perhaps1845. Solomon Jackson came in 1846, and entered land in Section 22, upon whichhe still resides. William Williams and Isaiah Slick were among the settlers of1848, and each entered land from which they developed good farms.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, pp. 53-54]

SCHOOL HOUSES ARE SOLD BY UNION TWP. TRUSTEE
Mrs. Thomas Reed, Kewanna, township trustee, during the past few days hasdisposed of all the country school houses in Union township with the exceptionof the Bruce Lake Station building. The buildings are rapidly deteriorating andit was thought best to dispose of them at this time.
The building at Prairie Grove, which was a frame structure, was bought by HowardMutchler for $66.
To Build Home
The Monger school, which was perhaps the best building in the township, beingbuilt of hard brick, was sold to Ray Lough for $85.00. Mr. Lough plans toremodel the structure and make a dwelling.
The Lake school was sold to Mrs. Mettie Ackerman for $50.00. Mrs. Ackerman hasnot fully decided what she will use the brick taken from the building for, butis considering at this time the rection of a cottage on the north side of Brucelake.
The Jubilee building went to S. S. Collins for $10.00 and the Russell school onroad 14 was sold to the Sam Smith heirs for $10.00.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, December 14, 1934]

UNION WAGON SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
H. S. Farrington . . . has purchased (Heffley's) Wagon and Carriage Shop. UNIONWAGON SHOP . . . Wagons, Lumber wagons, Spring Carriages, Shovel Plows . . .Repairing. Rochester, April 9, 1863.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 9, 1863]

Wanted! Two wood Workers and one Blacksmith, at the Wagon & CarriageFactory of the subscriber. Steady work and good wages. None but good workmenneed apply. H. S. Farrington, Rochester Aug 13, 1863.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, August 13, 1863]

UNIQUE BAKERY [Rochester, Indiana]
MOVING NEW BAKERY
Vincent Mathia of Plymouth, who has announced that he will open a new bakery inthe Robbins room of this city, today was moving a large amount of equipment intothe room he has leased. Mr. Mathia last week opened a new bakery at Plymouth.This is said to be one of the most modern bakeries in this section of the state.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 23, 1933]

NEW BAKERY TO OPEN IN THIS CITY, SOON
A new business will open in this city next Thursday, it being a modernup-to-date bakery, owned and operated by Ernest Mathia, an experienced baker ofPlymouth. The new shop which will be known as the Unique Bakery will be locatedin the Robbins building in the 700 block of this city.
The new baker, who with his family have already taken up permanent residency inRochester, stated that he would make all kinds of pastry and baked goods, freashdaily and would also take orders for special parties, church affairs andfraternal festivities.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 17, 1933]

[Adv] OPENING, Saturday, March 25 of the Unique Bakery, 708 Main St.- - - -UNIQUE BAKERY, E. Mathia, Prop.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 24, 1933]

UNIQUE BAKERY OPENS AN ICE CREAM PARLOR
Ernest Mathia, proprietor of the Unique Bakery, this city, has opened an icecream department in connection with his bakery. The ice cream service will bestarted Saturday morning and over 15 varieties of Fleming ice cream will becarried at all times. The cream will be served at the counter or also in cones.A large advertisement announcing the opening of this new and attractive icecream parlor appears elsewhere in this issue of The News-Sentinel.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 27, 1934]

[Adv] GRAND OPENING Saturday, April 28th. Fleming's Ice Cream New Departmentof Unique Bakery, 708 Main Street. - - - - -.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 27, 1934]

UNITED PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF ROCHESTER [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rochester Electric Light, Heat & Power Co.
__________

NAME CHANGES
One of the last vestiges of the Rochester E.L.H. & P.Co., disappearedThursday, when workmen painted out the huge sign at the power house preparatoryto painting on the new name, United Public Service Co.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 4, 1917]

CHANGES IN OFFICES FOR TWO LOCAL FIRMS MADE
The Beyer-Brown Co. offices on East Ninth St., are being moved into new quartersin the creamery building on No. Madison St. To accommodate the large incomingoffice force in the creamery building, the present space is being enlarged toabout double the former size.
The United Public Service Co. will move from their present location on Main St.to the building formerly occupied by Beyer Bros. on Ninth St. The Main St.building will probably be rented. It is likely that the firms will not besettled permanently in their new quarters for several weeks.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 21, 1917]

OFFERS POWER PLANT TO CITY
"If the city will agree to look after the interests of the minoritystockholders, I will, without hesitation, sell my controlling interests in theUnited Public Service Co.," said J. E. Beyer Tuesday to a SENTINELrepresentative.
"The impression that I am married to this business is absolutely unfounded.A am satisfied that I could induce the stockholders to sell and no one would bemore welcome to the property than the city of Rochester. In fact, I will sell myinterest to the city $5,000 cheaper than to any other comany or person. I willalso agree to assist the city in financing the proposition."
Speaking of the fuel situation, Mr. Beyer said, "It is a great problem forthe entire community and everybody should aid in saving coal. Everybody, whocan, should burn wood. The U. P. S. Co. has done everything possible to savefuel, but we are now entering upon that time of the year when we must use coalin large quantities. I will welcome any suggestions concerning the saving ofcoal."
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 6, 1917]

U. P. S. CO. WOULD ISSUE $35,000 IN GOLD BONDS
The United Public Service Co., of Rochester, has filed with the Public ServiceCommission of Indiana a petition for authority to issue $35,000 par value offirst and refunding mortgage six per cent gold bonds of which $17,500 matureJune 1, 1930 and $17,500 mature June 1, 1935, said bonds to be sold at 90 andaccrued interest, and secured by a mortgage on the company's property.
These bonds are to be issued to reimburse the treasury in part for extensionsand improvements to the company's property which have been made since March 31,1916 amounting to $36,542.52, and to reimburse the treasury for a bond of thecompany which matured on May 1, 1917, $2,500 and to pay an equal amount of firstmortgage six per cent bonds due May 1, 1918.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, January 22, 1918]

U. P. S. PLANT VALUE $383,062
E. E. Murphy, city attorney, has received a copy of the report just completed bythe engineers employed by the Public Service Commission to appraise the propertyof the United Public Service Co., of Rochester in which it is stated that thepresent value of all of the company's property is $383,062.
The cost of reproducing the entire plant is placed at $453,773. The presentworth of the Rochester plant is fixed at 337,847, the ice plant at $82,762,while the Bourbon plant value is $45,215. The commission will fix the localrates for light, heat and power upon the above values after the hearing inIndianapolis, March 12th.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 1, 1918]

UNITED STATES EXPRESS COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
After July 1st there will no longer be a United States Express company inRochester and in its place will come the American Express company. The changewill be made because the American Express company has a contract with all thedivisions of the New York Central System, and the Lake Erie lately became a partof that system, so the United States Express company was ordered to move out.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 27, 1907]

UNIVERSAL SAFETY CORPORATION [Rochester, Indiana]
SAFDICATOR TO BE MADE HERE
That Rochester is soon to have a new industry has been made certain by thesigning of agreements between the sales and manufacturing companies for theSafdicator, an automobile traffic safety device, and the Farmers and MerchantsAssn., of Rochester.
Dr. J. B. Blair, inventor of the contrivance and head of the manufacturingcompany, J. W. Hawley, head of the sales company, and C. B. Conn, salesman, withtheir wives, are in Rochester and will secure permanent residences at once. Assoon as a factory site is secured, the plant will be moved here from Decatur,Ill. Several locations are available.
The F. & M. Assn directors have written the following letter for the public:
"The Universal Safety Corporation, at present located in Decatur, Ill., hasfurnished this Association complete detailed information relative to itsorganization, financial condition, manufacturing plans and capital requirements,all of which have been carefully investigated by the directors of theAssociation, and have been found to be satisfactory in every way.
"The company in question purposes [sic] to locate its manufacturing plantin Rochester, and to that end, is offering a limited quantity of its capitalstock for sale. The proceeds of this stock are to be used for the purchase ofthe manufacturing building, additional machinery, materials, payrollrequirements and other expenses incident to the establishment of this factory inRochester.
"This Association does not guarantee nor assume liability for any sum orsums invested in this or any other enterprise. It does, however, take pleasurein recommending the Universal Safety Corporation, as being in the opinion of theofficers and directors of this Association, a responsible legitimate enterprise,organized and conducted along sound business lines, and recommends that thepeople of this vicinity extend their cooperation and support to theestablishment of the factory of this company in Rochester.
Farmers & Merchants Assn
J. Gordon Martin, Pres
Jas. R. Moore, Secy
Approved and authorized by Board of Directors
Farmers & Merchants Assn."

URBIN, EMANUEL JOSEPH [Wayne Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Emanuel Joseph Urbin, farmer and citizen of Wayne township, was born inFairfield county, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1854. His parents were John and ------ (Poff)Urbin. They were born in Germany, but married in Ohio. They came to Fultoncounty in the spring of 1864, and settled where the subject of this sketch nowresides and owns sixty acres of land. They both died in the year 1876, when shewas sixty-one years of age and he seventy-one. They were members of the GermanReform church, and were highly respected. The subject of this sketch began lifefor himself at the age of eighteen, by working out as a farm hand. In 1876, whentwenty-two years of age, he married Harriet J., daughter of A. J. Toner, Esq.Unto the marriage the following children have been born. Elsie Floyd, MirtieFay, Bessie May, deceased; Toner Lee, Ernest Guy and Victor Joseph. Mr. Urbin isa progressive and representative citizen; is prosperous and has a fine farm.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 140-141]

URBIN AUTO CO., GUY [Kewanna, Indiana]
Guy Urbin became a Chevrolet dealer in 1927 at Kewanna. His son, John Urbin, wasassociated in business with his father for many years. When we were married[Ruth Nellans and John Urbin] we moved into the apartment above the businesswhich was then in an old building. The present business building was built in1948.
John was associated with his father in the business until Oct. 5, 1957, when,after a lengthy illness, Guy Urbin passed away. At that time John became thedealer, lwhich he continues to be.
John William (Jack) Urbin graduated from Bethel College and taught socialstudies at Caston School for three years, 1973-76, and entered the business withhis father, John Urbin.
[John Urbin passed away in 1995, and Jack is now operating Guy Urbin Auto Co.]
[Nellans & Urbin Families, Ruth Nellans Urbin, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2,Willard]

UTTER, CEDRIC D. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Cedric D. Utter)

UTTER, RUSSELL D., REV. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Churches - Methodist Church [Rochester, Indiana]

FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA
HANDBOOK

V. F. W. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Veterans of Foreign Wars

VAMPNER RESTAURANT and BOARDING HOUSE [Rochester, Indiana]
YE HUNGRY
Know ye that John W. Delp has purchased and refurnished and refitted the Vampnerrestaurant and boarding house, and is prepared to furnish day or week boarderswith the best edibles the market affords. Call on him and you will find the bestof fare and the very lowest prices.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 2, 1885]

VAN DIEN, James [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From James Van Dien)

VAN DIEN BAKERY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester, Indiana [Historical Review]

VAN DUYNE, JOE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Joe Van Duyne)

VAN DUYNE, ROBERT R. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Robert R. Van Duyne)

VAN DUYNE, VIRGIL R. (Rochester, Indiana)
See: Service Men,World War II, Letters (Letter From Virgil R. Van Duyne)

VAN DUYNE BLACKSMITH [Bruce Lake Station, Indiana]
Operated by Donald Van Duyne, a third generation blacksmith, in business for 60years in Fulton County.
VAN DUYNE BLOCK AND GRAVEL COMPANY [Rochester Township]
Leroy Joe Van Duyne was a co-founder, with Robert Ray Van Duyne, of the VanDuyne Block and Gravel Company, located at Mt. Zion, Rochester Township.
Robert Dean Macy, nephew of the above founders, now operates the plant.
At Mt. Zion, where the old church stood serene and stately on the hill, lwiththe big oak trees in the foreground and beside the winding creek, where churchcongregations sometimes held baptismal services, we see and hear the hustle andbustle of present day activity and modern industry.The hill has been dug away bythe Van Duyne Block and Gravel Company.
[Van Duyne - Shelton Families, Fred Van Duyne, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

VAN HOUGHTON, E. P. [Rochester, Indiana]
MATTRESS WORKS IN LANGSDORF BUILDING
Although in a small way and, at present, employing only a few hands, themattress factory recently located here has begun work and is located in theLangsdorf building north Main street. The factory is owned and operated by E. P.Van Houghton. Mr. Van Houghton has moved his family here from Chicago, andintends to make this city his home. He is a mattress maker by trade and hasfollowed the business for a number of years.
The capacity of the plant at the present time is about two dozen mattresses aday, which retail from three to ten dollars each. The mattresses are shipped allover the state, having a market in Peru, Logansport, South Bend, and a greatmany other towns. Local dealers are also handling the mattress and all say theyare a superior article.
It is the intention of Mr. Van Houghton to make his business grow and he hopesto be able to increase his enterprise into large factory proportions within afew years.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 14, 1907]

WILL REOPEN MATTRESS FACTORY
E. J. Van Houghton, formerly of this city, has returned to Rochester from Tampa,Fla., where he spent the winter with his family. The Van Houghtons havere-established their home in this city and Mr. Van Houghton has decided tore-enter the mattress factory business. When he was located in Rochester vbeforehe operated a like industry and for some time made a success of the business.However, he removed from this city to locate elsewhere and then went to Florida.He has not decided on a room for his factory, but has several in view andprobably will be at the business within the next couple of weeks.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 1, 1912]

VAN METER AND MOORE DISSOLVE PARTERSHIP
The firm of Van Meter & Moore, farm implement dealers at Rochester andKewanna, has been dissolved. Charles Van Meter will continue handling theInternational Harvester line in Kewanna and Lon Moore announced today he hadcontracted the agency for John Deere tractors, implements and repairs. Mr. Moorewill keep his store in its present location at 828 Main street.
The Van Meter & Moore firm was recognized as one of the biggest implementdealers in the state in volumee of sales.
Mr. Moore announced today that Carl Harvey would be associatedwith the new firmas a salesman and D. S. (Ribbie) Rans will be in the repair department.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 3, 1939l]

VAN METER SAWMILL [Grass Creek, Indiana]
Operated by John Van Meter.

VAN METER & MOORE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Announcing Partnership Formation by VAN METER & MOORE, Tractors, FarmMachinery and Motor Trucks. McCormick Deering Line; International Motor Trucks.Service and Repairs at Rochester and Kewanna. Rochester business located at 114West 9th Street. Rochester Phone 47. Kewanna Phone 37.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 11, 1935]

VAN METER AND MOORE DISSOLVE PARTERSHIP
The firm of Van Meter & Moore, farm implement dealers at Rochester andKewanna, has been dissolved. Charles Van Meter will continue handling theInternational Harvester line in Kewanna and Lon Moore announced today he hadcontracted the agency for John Deere tractors, implements and repairs. Mr. Moorewill keep his store in its present location at 828 Main street.
The Van Meter & Moore firm was recognized as one of the biggest implementdealers in the state in volumee of sales.
Mr. Moore announced today that Carl Harvey would be associatedwith the new firmas a salesman and D. S. (Ribbie) Rans will be in the repair department.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 3, 1939l]

VAN STUDDIFORD, GRACE [North Manchester, Wabash County]
OPERA SINGER BANKRUPT
Grace Van Studdiford, the opera singer whose home is in North Manchester, hasfiled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, giving her liabilities as $20,901.10with assets at $10, which amount is deposited with the Hudson Trust Company.This sad condition of the state of the star's financial affairs will come asmore or less of a surprise to her many friends and admirers in this city.
She owes John W. Thompson of St. Louis, $16,000, secured by a mortgage on twoacres of land, buildings and live stock, located in St. Louis county, worth$30,000, and ninety-eight shares of the common stock of the Grace Van StuddifordAmusement Company; Reginald de Koven, $250.25 balance of royalties due on"The Golden Butterfly," and Charles Bradley, of Wanatah, L. I., $420salary as business manager.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 17, 1910]

TOO SLOW FOR GRACE
Grace Van Studdiford, well known in this city, was interviewed in New Yorkrecently, as to the wont of theatrical celebrities, and passed out the following"knock" for her home town of North Manchester:
"I was born in North Manchester, and my father and mother still residethere."
"The Wabash runs right by the town," volunteered Miss Van Studdiford'smaid.
"If you could see the town you wouldn't blame it," said the acresswith a smile. "Everything else runs right by it, too. I ran right by it assoon as I was big enough."
"Not very enthusiastic about the sycamore scenery, eh?"
"Yes, I am, but it's such a sleepy little place. Honest, it's so still itsounds noisy. I spend a week or two there every summer. Along about May I beginto feel that there is no place like home, and the minute my season closes I takethe first train for North Manchester. After I'm there a few days I begin to feelthat there is no place like New York and back I come."
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 30, 1911]

VAN TRUMP, HAROLD [Rochester, Indiana]
HAROLD VAN TRUMP WILL HEAD A LaPORTE PAPER
Announcement has been made in LaPorte that a new republican newspaper will bestarted there October 1st, with Harold Van Trump, former editor of the DailyNews here at Rochester, as publisher. Associated with Mr. Van Trump, will beStephen Chase and Bert Sheppard of LaPorte who have operated a job plant in thatcity for some years. Mr. Sheppard formerly lived here also. The company will docommercial printing in connection with their newspaper. The name of thenewspaper has not as yet been decided upon. For the last year LaPorte has hadonly one newspaper, the Harald-Argus, which came as a result of the Heraldbuying the Argus. The new firm bought some of its equipment of TheNews-Sentinel.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, September 2, 1925]

HAROLD VAN TRUMP, RELENTLESS FOE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
When the Ku Klux Klan rose up in ulton County In the early 1920s, the aders ofRochester society reacted to it in rious ways. Some became active memers-,others joined but kept their distance, Some refused to join yet tolerated itsexistence; others opposed it and kept a susptcious eye on its progress. ,
Among them was Harold Van Trump, known as Herd, a newspaperman who quicklyanointed himself as the Klan's worst enemy and became its constant gadfly. Heinstantly recognized the Klan for what it was, an abomination, and he fought itsprogress in the columns of his newspaper with relentless vigor and journalisticcunning.
The Van Trumps were an old-line Rochester family. Herd and his brother Pete hadbeen in the publishing and printing business here since their youths. By thetime the Klan appeared, Herd was editor of one of the city's two newspapers. TheDaily News, a Republican organ that then occupied the same Eighth Streetbuilding as does The Sentinel today.
Through his newspaper, Herd pounced upon the Klan as soon as it began to spreadthrough Indiana. He denounced its evil premises, warned that it was coming toFulton County and published the first accounts of its local organizing efforts.In regular editorials, Van Trump revealed that the Klan was nothing more than anelaborate scheme to enrich its leaders in Georgia and Indianapolis, condemnedits opposition to Catholics and Jews, many of whom have dwelt long and honorablyamong us, and scoffed as absurd and unconstitutional its plans to supplycitizens with better law enforcement than that being provided by legally electedofficers.
Thus attacked, the Klan struck back. At the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eveof' 1923, a band of 41 robed and hooded Clansmen marched from the Courthousesquare onto Eighth Street. They formed a circle around an 18-foot cross in frontof the Daily News building, set the cross afire, sang "America," andoffered a loud prayer that the editor would see the error of his ways.
It bothered Herd not at all. He published a story about it at the top of pageone, noting that "few Rochester Kluxers took part. . . .most came from thewestern (Kewanna) part of the coun-ty."
As the May 1924 primary elections approached, Van Trump advised his readers thatthe Klan was seeking to control both Republican and Democratic parties in thecounty. Men never before active in politics were filing for precinctcommitteemen and as state convention delegates, he announced.
Suddenly, a means to oppose this insidious plan fell into his hands: a copy ofthe Klan's secret local membership list.
It seems that an active member of the Klan, a man named Hiatt who recently hadmoved to Rochester, needed money. He offered the list of 583 members for sale at$1 per name. Herd raised the cash, bought the list and granted Hiatt his requestfor a three-hour head start out of town before the sale was made public. Hiatt,it was said, already had his household goods packed when he got the money. Withthis weapon at hand, Editor Van Trump resumed his battle against the Klan inearnest. He published the primary election ballot and placed a star beside everycandidate he now knew was NOT a Klan member. An unstarred candidate who wishedto gain a star beside his name in subsequent publications had only to make apublic disavowal of the Klan to the editor. A few did just that and were grantedthe distinctive emblem
At this time also, a group calling' itself the Citizens' Horse Thief DetectiveAssociation suddenly appeared. Its officers requested that county commisstonersdeputize 70 of its members, granting them police powers and the right to carryguns. Van Trump expressed his horror at the thought pf officially arming thesemen as a kind of vigilante force. He declared almost all them were Klansmen andpublished their names. Commissioners never responded to the request.
In the May primaries the Klan scored impressive victories throughout Indiana,but not in Fulton County. All Klan candidates for state delegates but one weredefeated by decisive votes here; In every contest in which a Klan candidatesought to be a precinct committeeman, the anti-Klan candidate won.
For his strident opposition to - their attempt at a political takeover, Klansmenpaid Van Trump a second nocturnal visit. Knights of the Invisible Empireappeared at 9 o'clock the night after election and burned another fiery cross,this time in a vacant lot across from his. residence at Pontiac and 13thstreets, vanishing quickly afterward. Herd published an account of this eventtoo, under the heading "Editor Signally Honored." Obviously, he wasenjoying the attention.
Before the general election of November, 1924, Van Trump once more repeatedlypublished a copy of the ballot with antiKlan candidates starred. And, onceagain, Fulton County voters showed they were not swayed by KKK propaganda. Klancandidates for treasurer, sheriff and surveyor all lost. In the race for6oroner, where both hopefuls were identified with the Klan, 553 voters refusedto vote for either man.
Even though the Klan elected its candidate, Ed Jackson, as governor of Indiana,Jackson could not carry Fulton County, losing here by 63 votes. The Klan and itsracist philosophy had been declared persona non grata at the local polls.
Afterward, Van Trump wrote that he was sorry he did not support the entireRepublican ticket but he believed "the constitutional rights of the peoplewere more important than party solidarity." He congratulated the people ofFulton County "on the intelligence and honesty which directed theirvotes.æ
Congratulation4 also were due Told Van Trump, along with some admiration. Hiswas the only newspaper voice raised publicly against the Klan's threat to FultonCounty life and to its government. The Sentinel in general had been content tocover Klan activities only as ongoing news events. While Herd's editorial voicesometimes reached fever pitch, it never lost its wisdom, persistence norcourage. The county's people were well served by his words and obviously agreedwith their fact and logic.
The 1924 election was Herd's valedictory to Rochester. On December 1, 1924, TheDaily News merged with The Sentinel to form The News-Sentinel. Not being a partof the onsolidation he moved on to newspapers in Marion, Wabash, LaPorte andFlorida before returning to Rochester, where he died in 1932 at age 56.
When D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan, entered prison in 1925as a convicted murderer and when afterward some of the officials. he had electedwere convicted of bribery and corruption, the Indiana Klan he had created wasdisgraced, and fell into gradual decline. It existed awhile as a novelty but itsreach for acceptance and political power was ended.
By, the close of the 1920s this second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan haddisappeared almost everywhere in Indiana, remaining only as a bad memory mosteveryone would pr6fer to forget.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, December 14, 1999]

VAN TRUMP, JACOB [Rochester, Indiana]
WILL LEAVE ROCHESTER
A deal has been all but consummated by which Jacob Van Trump disposes of all ofhis property holdings in Rochester and becomes the owner of a fine new flouringmill at Mexico. The papers are being made out and as soon as the present ownerof the mill can move his effects out of a tidy home near the mill site, andwhich is a part of the property, Mr. Van Trump will move with his family to hisnew home, and take personal control of the mill.
Mr. Van Trump is an old time miller and understands the business thoroughly andwill make a success of the milling business at Mexico if it is possible for anyone to do it. The many friends of Mr. Van Trump and his family will be sorry tolose them from local social and business circles but will bid them goodby withthe hope that his new environments will be pleasing and profitable to them.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 7, 1903]

NEWS OF THE DAY
A letter from Jacob Van Trump, of Mexico, says the high waters have washed hismill dam out the third time and he has decided to not put another dollar inrepairs.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 6, 1904]

PERSONAL
Jacob Van Trump is here from Mexico today, arranging to move his family back tothis place.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 6, 1905]

VAN TRUMP, REUBEN [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Downs Sawmill

VAN TRUMP PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT [Rochester, Indiana]
GOOD TOWN FOR PRINTERS
If Rochester has any business men who hold the idea that prices on Job printingin this city are exhorbitant they will welcome the competition which will resultfrom an over-supply of printing establishments. Carl Van Trump recently resignedhis position with The Sentinel and will soon open an exclusive job shop over theHub shoe store and I. C. Meyer is the latest to enter the printing field.
Mr. Meyer has a well established raffle card business and has decided to equiphimself to do his own printing and take such other work as may come his way. Mr.Meyer will be located over the Wile dry goods store, and Mrs. Meyer, who at onetime, was connected with The Sentinel, will have charge of the printing.
The Sentinel has reason to believe that the printing business is a veryprofitable line of work, and anticipates that four job printing establishmentswill find plenty of work at profitable prices.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 18, 1912]

[Adv] ANNOUNCEMENT. I herewith announce to the public that I am now fullyprepared to promptly execute all kinds of up-to-date job printing. I have sparedno little expense in equipping my shop with the latest improved machinery andalso a fine assortment job type. If you admire neat and artistic printing, itwill be to your benefit to place your order with the CARL VAN TRUMP COMPANY. JobPrinting. Over the Hub Shoe Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 3, 1912]

EDITOR J. C. JESSEN RETIRES
A deal was closed today by which J. Carl Jessen disposes of his interest in theKewanna Herald, the Van Trump Company, of this city, being the purchasers. Mr.Jessen has been in charge of the Kewanna Herald for the past three years andduring that time has greatly improved the paper from both the news and businessstandpoints. His work attracted the attention of the Logansport Reportermanagement and he has accepted a position as business manager of that paper andwill at once take up his residence in Logansport.
Fred A. Taylor will succeed Mr. Jessen as manager and editor of the Herald, andbeing a newspaper man of wide experience, will doubtless keep the paper at thehigh standard of excellence established by his predecessor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 20, 1912]

ANOTHER PAPER FOR ROCHESTER
On the first of January The Sentinel will pass from the hands of The Van TrumpCompany to Dean L. Barnhart, son of Congressman Henry A. Barnhart, who willbecome managing editor and sole owner of the business.
Dean Barnhart is a graduate of Indiana University, where he was a student ofjournalism, and for the past two years has been engaged in editorial work onSouth Bend newspapers, where he has demonstrated marked ability in his chosenwork. He will undoubtedly improve The Sentinel from a journalistic point of viewand the readers will lose nothing by the change. Associated with Mr. Barnhartwill be a business manager of large experience and a force of experiencednewspaper workers.
The Van Trump Company will continue in the printing business in Rochester,having established a profitable trade in job printing not only among the localbusiness men but in distant cities. While special attention will be paid to theprinting business from a manufacturing standpoint, an independent weeklynewspaper will be established immediately after the first of the year. The newpaper will not fight the battles of any political organization, but will beabsolutely fair and fearless in the presentation of the news as it happens. Thesame policy which has governed The Sentinel during the four years it has beenunder the Van Trumps will be followed in the conduct of the new paper, exceptthat a broader and more liberal editorial policy will be adopted. The Van TrumpCompany already own a fine printing plant equipment and to this will be added astandard linotype and other modern machinery making one of the best newspaperplants in this section of the state. A competent organization will be securedand the business will be launched promptly with the opening of the new year.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, November 18, 1912]

[Adv] Just a Newspaper - Not an "Organ" - an Independent Weekly --THE FULTON COUNTY SUN. "Not afraid of it's Shadow" Out January 9th,1913 - - - - THE VAN TRUMP COMPANY, Office after January 1st, Corner 8th andMadison Sts. Northern Corner Public Square.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 18, 1912]

CAPITAL INCREASED
Special to the Sentinel
Indianapolis, Ind., June 6 -- The Van Trump Co., of Rochester has increased itscapital stock from $10,000 to $50,000.
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The company recently purchased the defunct Wickizer-McClure plant at Argos ata price said to be about $7,500.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 6, 1917]

PLANTS WILL BE COMBINED
According to an anouncement made this Saturday, the Van Trump Co. will movetheir Argos printing plant to Rochester in the near future and install it in anaddition which is now under course of erection at the rear of their present shopin the Moore Bros. building on East Eighth St.
The building, which is to be 40 by 60 and one story high, will be built ofcement blocks by Marsh Hill. Al Myers has the contract for the wood work. TheArgos plant consists of three Michle presses, a linotype, power cutter, powerbinder, power stitcher and other machinery and equipment. It has been used forthe past 10 years to print the National Hardware Bulletin and has recentlyprinted the Chester White Journal. The change will bring several families tothis city. The high overhead incident to maintaining two plants is the chiefreason for the move.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 23, 1918]

SUN IS MOVING
The Sun Publishing Company is moving into its new quarters in the garagebuilding at the rear of the Clinton Hardware. The office will be retained in theVan Trump Company building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 26, 1922]

Announcement was made Tuesday of the purchase by Fred Richie of Harold VanTrump's interest in the Van Trump printing establishment here. This corporationwas organized some time ago by the Van Trump brothers. Harold Van Trump owned 50per cent of the stock, which has been purchased by his son-in-law, Richie.Richie takes possession at once. Van Trump, who was out of the city whenannouncement of the change in ownership was made, it is said, plans to continuewith the bueiness in a more or less active participation for the next sixmonths, but his plans after that time are indefinite. He is withdrawing from thecorporation on account of his eyes, which have given him considerable troublerecently.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 6, 1923]
VAN TRUMP SAWMILL [Rochester Township]
Located approximately SW corner of US-31 bypass and SR-25.
Owned by Reuben and Calvin Van Trump.
The mill was a Muley Mill, invented by a man named Muley and run by a steamengine. The saw stood upright and was a band or sash saw. In 1869 a new saw wasneeded. A circular one, called Wyandott Chief, made at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, wasinstalled.
An employee, William Downs, later bought them out.
[Downs Family, Ruth Downs Richardson, Fulton Co. Folks, Vol. 1, Willard]

Jacob Shafer will preach at the School House near Van Trump's Saw Mill, nextSabbath (March 16th) at 11 o'clock a.m., and at the School House in town at 3p.m.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, March 13, 1862]
Public Sale. Daniel Van Trump will offer for sale on Friday the 31st day ofMarch 1865, at the Van Trump saw-mill, one mile and a half south of RochesterInd. thirty head of sheep,.. two milch cows, and also his kitchen and householdfurniture.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, March 23, 1865]

VANATA, DALE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Chance, Archie B.

VANATA, LOFTLEE B. [Kewanna/Rochester, Indiana]
See: Vernon's Grocery
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MOVES STORE
Loftlee B. Vanata has moved his bargain store in Kewanna to Rochester and hasleased the room at 512 North Main street for many years occupied by Ellis Reedwho moved into the "loop" several weeks ago. Mr. Vanata deals in newand used furniture.
The News-Sentinel, Saturday, March 9, 1940]

VANBRIGGLE & BROTHER, IRA [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rochester Machine and Saw Works.

VANDERGRIFT, QUINCY A. [Rochester, Indiana]
SELLS HALF INTEREST
Bud Ware, who has operated the Rochester pop factory so successfully, hasdisposed of half the business to Quincy Vandergrift of this city, and the newfirm will at once begin enlarging their present large trade circle. Both the menwill go to Chicago Sunday morning to inspect several gasoline auto trucks withthe prospect of purchasing one for their pop delivery.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 29, 1911]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Ware & Vandergrift auto truck has been equipped with a hack top and willbe used each Sunday and other occasions as a hack.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 22, 1911]

BUYS POP BUSINESS
The firm of Ware & Vandergrift was dissolved this morning, when Mr.Vandergrift assumed complete control of the pop business, having purchased hispartner's interests. The new owner will continue in the manufacture of the highgrade soft drinks, which made the firm popular.
Mr. Ware will now devote his entire time to the promotion of his wholesale beerbusiness.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 4, 1911]

The Q. A. Vandergrift pop factory has been moved from its old location in theRobbins building back of the cyucle exchange to the Goss building on North Mainstreet. The room is one of the best equipped pop factories in the state andpreparations for a big increase in business have been made.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, September 1, 1914]

SELLS POP FACTORY
Q. A. Vandergrift, who for the past four years has conducted a soft drinkmanufacturing plant in Rochester, has sold the business to Calvin Spurlock ofGermany, who will move to this city and take charge of the plant at once. Mr.Vandergrift did not state what he intended to do in the future, but it is saidthat he is thinking of going West. Spurlock is also an automobile agent .
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 27, 1915]

VANDERKARR, JOHN D. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Crime
See: Rannells, WilliamW.

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MURDER IN ROCHESTER. Two Men Shot, at a House of Ill-Fame,
Kept by JOHN D. VANDERKARR and his wife SARAH.

JORN WALLACE RECEIVES EIGHT BUCK-SHOT
NEAR THE REGION OF THE HEART,
AND DIES WITHIN TEN MINUTES.
Great Excitement.
The perpetrator of the Deed, and his Wife,
Arrested on the Charge of Murder in the First Degree.
The Woman Tried and Acquitted.
VANDERKARR IN JAIL!
The People are Divided in their Opinions as to the Degree of Criminality in theCase.
THE FUNERAL OF THE-MURDERED MAN.
The Testimony of the Witnesses.
JOHN D. VANDERKARR and his wife, SARAH VANDERKARR, for the past three years,have been keeping a house of ill-fame in the north-west part of Rochester, whichhas been the scene of much wickedness, fighting and shooting. On last Saturdaynight, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, AMOS SELBY, a noted fightingcharacter, JOHN WALLACE, son of ROBERT WALLACE, proprietor of the Wallace House,JAMES K. DEBOLT and KEN GREEN, drove around to the above named place, in asleigh. So far as we can learn from reports and the following evidence, theypresented themselves at the front door and demanded admittance. Vanderkarr fromwithin told them that they could not come in, when they threatened to break thedoor in, which was done by one or more of the party, at which Vanderkarr becameenraged and discharged one barrel of a double-barrelled shot gun at the group.Eight or nine buck shot entering the body of JOHN WALLACE, on the left side,near the region of the heart, and one buck shot penetrated the hip of AmosSelby. One rumorr says they were all in the sleigh when they were shot, butthere is nothing certain about their exact position or location. The sleigh wasdriven to the Wallace House with all possible speed, but John Wallace drew hislast breath just after he was carried into his home. Dr. ROBBINS was called inthe mean time, but no earthly physician could have rendered him any aid. Selbywas taken to his home where he is still confined.
Perhaps nothing ever occurred in the usually quiet town of Rochester thatcreated so much excitement and consternation as this shooting affray and deathof John Wallace. The word went from mouth to mouth during Saturday night andSunday morning until half the people in the county became apprised of theaffray, and a large number of country people came in to learn the particulars inthe case.
Constable STILES, with his posse, proceeded to the scene of the murder, andarrested John D. Vanderkarr, his wife, Miss HESTER WILSON, and Miss CLARA FUNK(Alias KATE FOSTER), and brought them before Justice HERMAN, from whence theyall were sent to jail to await the preliminary trial which was set for Monday atone o'clock at the court house. Threats of lynching were made, and for some timeit was feared violence would be used, but through the care of the officers, allpassed off peaceably.
The following is the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, held Sunday morning, E. R.HERMAN, acting Coroner:
We do find that the deceased came to his death by violence, and that said bodyhas upon it the following marks and wounds: Eight gunshot wounds in his leftside, and six in his left arm, inflicted by JOHN D. VANDERKARR. ISAAC GOOD, D.S. ROSS, JOHN Q. NEAL, J. F. COLLINS, A. A. LAWRENCE, B. J. CORY, F. RICHTER,BENJ. VAWTER, JACOB KING, A. L. GOODRICH, D. L. BECK, D. P. CARR.
The funeral of JOHN WALLACE took place at the M.E. church, on Monday last, atten o'clock, and quite a large concourse of relatives and friends were inattendance. The deceased was born in Rochester, December 4, 1853, and was aged21 years, 2 months and 16 days. He was large and portly for one of his age,generally affable and goodhumored; pretty well educated and considered by allwho knew him to be a jolly good fellow, and usually conducted himself in agentlemanly manner. Although he had many good qualities he was not every way anexemplary young man, but of the dead nothing should be said except that which isgood.
Long before the time set for holding the preliminary trial, the court house waswell filled by citizens of the town and county who were anxious to learn allthey could about the terrible tragedy. At 2 o'clock, His Honor, E. R. HERMAN,justice of the peace, called the trial and the prisoners were brought in. ENOCHSTURGEON and I. CONNER were engaged as prosecutors on behalf of the State, andH. B. JAMISON, E. CALKINS and J. S. SLICK on the defense. The attorneys for thedefense put in a plea of not guilty on the part of John D. Vanderkarr and waiveda preliminary examination. The Court remanded him to jail to await the sittingof the Fulton county Circuit court, which will commence the fourth Monday inMarch. Mrs. Sarah Vanderkarr was charged in the affidavit as being an accessoryto the murder, and the court proceeded with the investigation of the case.
Testimony of the Witnesses
Miss KATE FOSTER. My name is KATE FOSTER. I reside part of the time at Kewanna,in this county. For the past three weeks I have been stopping with Mr. and Mrs.VANDERKARR. It was at their house Saturday night last in the forepart of thenight. I have not been acquainted with Mrs. V. only for the past three weeks. Iwas at V's house when the shooting was done, in the bed room off the diningroom, near the center of the house. The door of my room was closed. I was in thebed room when the shooting occurred. Did not hear any conversation in frontroom, nor in the sitting room. I did not hear Mrs. V. say anything; she was inbed part of the time, but got up before the shooting, and spoke to the gentlemenoutside and said if they were gentlemen they would leave the yard. I waslistening to what was going on. There were four persons in the house at thetime, Mr. and Mrs. V., Miss WILSON and myself. This was about 10 o'clock. Iheard a person outside swear he would let their heart's blood out if they werenot permitted to come in. V. said they could not come in, the girls were all inbed. The door was kicked open; the shooting occurred in a second after. Mrs. V.said nothing at that time. I did not see the man when he kicked the door open. Idid not talk to anyone about what I should testify.
Miss ESTHER WILSON. My name is ESTHER WILSON. I reside at Oxford, Indiana; havebeen at V's three weeks to-dav. I am single. Aged 20 years; was acquainted withV's two years before I came here to live; got acquainted elsewhere. I was at V'slast night. No, after midnight I was in jaill (Laughter) I was at V's fromsundown till after the shooting occurred. Mr. and Mrs. V., Miss Foster andmyself were in the house at the time. There are six rooms in the house - diningroom, bed room, parlor and kitchen. Three beds in the house; one lounge in thesitting room. One spare bed. I was in bed. All were in bed two hours before theshooting. I was not asleep. Miss Foster retired at the same time. Neither of usslept. V. occupied the front room in spare bed, and had retired. The room theyoccupied was adjoining the room where the door was broken down. I heard thefirst disturbance about 11 o'clock. V. was at the door when they knocked. V.spoke to them through the hole in the side of the door. The bar was across thedoor at the time. V. gave the men a dozen warnings to go away. Mrs. V. came tothe door and said, "boys if you are gentlemen you will go away." Theysaid, let us in or we will let your heart's blood out. After the door was brokenV. snapped the gun, but it did not go off. The man outside said, shoot, you sonof a b --- h. Mrs. V. was at the window. She could not see out, the windowcurtain was dropped. The window blind was not up. V. kept his gun hanging on thewall near the door. Mrs. V. had nothing in her hands when I saw her. The doorwas broken very badly. It was split and swing out at the top. Can't say if barand irons were broken. The door was open so that a person could go out and in.Mrs. V. arose to her feet when the- door was broken, but said nothing to me orV. I had no acquaintance with John Wallace. I only heard Mr. and Mrs. V. speakof him. I knew none of the parties on the outside of the house. Mrs. V. was atthe window when the shooting took place, about three yards from Mr. V. Therewere no words spoken only what I have mentioned. She did not in any way persuadehim to shoot. Mrs. V. had not time to interpose, all was done in a moment.(JAMISON - "It was her business to get out of the way." Laughter) I donot know in what position V. held the gun. He took the gun down when they saidthey were coming in. He shot through the open door. I have had no conversationabout this matter with any one.
Through the kindness of Sheriff MOON we were permitted to interview Mr.Vanderkarr through the grate of his cell.
JOHN D. VANDERKARR'S STORY. -At the time the sleigh drove up we were all in bed.I got up and looked out of the window and inquired "who is there?"JOHN WALLACE answered, himself. DEBOLT, GREEN and a traveling man; we want in.What for? To have a little fun! It is too late, we are all in bed. We are boundto come in. Get off my premises and go away. Not till we get ready; open up thisdoor, for if vou don't it will be the worst thing for you. I can't do it. Wewill mash the door open and let the heart's blood out of you. They kicked thedoor in, and as it was about to fall I reached to my gun on the wall and pulledit on SELBY, but the first barrel was not discharged because the cap had droppedoff, or was missing. I immediately set the other lock and fired. By this timethey were all in the sleigh but Selby, who was in the act of getting in. I didnot know the result of my shooting. They were directly opposite my gate when Ifired. The bar sometimes put across the door was not in its place that evening.It is about fourteen feet from my door to the gate.
Tuesday we called on Mr. SELBY, at his residence, and found him in bed. He wasnot suffering any pain from his wound. The ball entered the fleshy part belowthe point of the hip, and striking the bone it glanced downward, and has notbeen extracted.
SELBY'S STORY. We were all in the sleigh taking a ride around the town. The boysproposed to go over to VAN'S; some objected, but we finally went. JOHN WALLACEgot out of the sleigh and went to the port hole and talked a good bit with V. ina low tone through the port hole. Then GREEN went also and talked with V. Iasked DEBOLT to go and ask V. for a match to light my pipe, but he didn't wantto go, and I said to him you hold the horse and I will go. When I got withineight feet of the door V. opened it and stuck his head and shoulders out, but asI made a step or two more he threw the door wide open and stood in the door withhis gun in his hands, holding it across his bosom. I saw him plainly andremembered what SHANNON MACKEY had told me about V. being well armed, and wouldkill me if I molested him, and I wheeled about and returned to the sleigh. Isaid to the boys that V. must want to shoot or scare somebody. John Wallace saidthe d ---- d old wh--- master, he wouldn't shoot nothing. I was opposite thesleigh, and as I got in, the horse started, and V. pointing the gun right at us,fired. I said, boys, I am shot; how are you all fixed? John Wallace said he wasshot through and through. KEN GREEN said Wallace was dying, for God's sake, whatshall we do? I said drive home to his folks as fast as God will let you go. Ihad drank but two glasses of liquor that day, and was not drunk. John Wallacewas not drunk. Green and Debolt had been drinking and were somewhat under theinfluence. I did not touch the door, and was not within six feet of it.
[Rochester Union Spy, Friday, February 26, 1875]

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY!
JOHN J. WALLACE KILLED INSTANTLY
AND AMOS SELBY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A BAWDY HOUSE HORROR!
Never in the history of Rochester were the citizens of this usually quiet andpeaceful place thrown into such a fever of excitement and confusion as they wereon last Saturday night, when the news, like an electric shock, spread all overthe town that JOHNNY WALLACE had been killed. Such a tragedy as had occurred wasan unusual affair for Rochester, and men ran hither and thither, conveying theintelligence and making inquiries as to the facts in the case.
It is a fact well known to nearly all the citizens of this county and many ofthe traveling public that Rochester has been cursed for several years with a lowgrade house of prostitution kept by JOHN D. VANDERKARR and his wife, SARAHVANDERKARR. In fact, so notorious is the name Vanderkarr that it is known farand wide among men who are termed "sports." This house, like all ofits kind, invited within its wall all classes of persons, irrespective of age orother conditions of life, and, naturally enough, many were the scenes of strifeand bloodletting among the motley crews that assembled there night after night.
On the night in question, at about the hour of 10 o'clock, JOHN J. WALLACE, AMOSSELBY, McKENDRY GREEN and JAMES DEBOLT repaired to that house, (which, by theway, is situated in the north-western portion of town, just within the corporatelimits,) in a sleigh, to which was attached a single horse. Arriving there, theyasked to be admitted, but were refused by the host. Vanderkarr remained withinthe house and communicated to those on the outside through a wicket or hole inthe wall near the door his determination to keep them out. But the party of fourhad come for some purpose known best to themselves and did not feel disposed toreturn until they had seen the inside of the house. They at last grew desperate,and Vanderkarr says that one of them remarked that if he did not let them inthat they would batter down the door and take his heart's blood. Nothingdaunted, he still refused them admission, whereupon, it is said, the door waskicked from its fastening and swung in. When that had been done, and as theywere hurriedly getting into the sleigh to depart, they were fired upon byVanderkarr with a double-barrelled shot gun, both barrels heavily charged withpowder and large buckshot. Fortunately, however, one barrel missed fire, theother taking effect in the bodies of Wallace and Selby. No cry of pain was heardas the horse bounded away with its load of wounded men. Wallace remarked that hewas shot through and through and asked to be driven home, which was but a fewblocks away. He was carried into his father's house and breathed his last inless than ten minutes after receiving his wound. Nearly the entire medicalfraternity of the place was immediately summoned, and an examination of hisinjuries proved that six balls had nearly rended asunder his left arm just abovethe elbow, and that eight had entered his left side between his hip and ribs.Selby had received one ball in the hip, the other two persons who were in thesleigh with them miraculously escaping unharmed.
All this occurred in a remarkably short space of time, and it was but a fewminutes thereafter until nearly the whole town was informed that a murder hadbeen committed. When Sheriff MOON learned of the disaster, he, with MarshalMACKEY, lost no time in wending their way to the late scene of the disaster,where they found Vanderkarr unconscious of the crime he had committed. He wassoon informed of it, likewise that he was a prisoner, as well as the otherinmates, which consisted at that time of Mrs. VANDERKARR, KATE FOSTER and HESTERWILSON. By this time a large number had gathered there to assist in making thearrests, if necessary. A large crowd of warm and excited friends had gathered atthe WALLACE HOUSE, where lay the dead and mutilated body of JOHN WALLACE. Ingoing to the office of Esquire HERMAN, where a preliminary examination was to beheld, the criminal and his women passed by the crowd at the Wallace House, and,as they were passing, fears were entertained that the prisoner would be takenfrom the hands of the officers and lynched, but wisdom characterized theiractions, and no violence was offered. The Justice's office was literally packedwith persons long before the prisoners arrived, all eager to gaze upon one whohad taken the life of a fellowman. Vanderkarr was quite nervous and was anxiousto be placed in a place of safety; accordingly he and the three women werelodged in the county jail until Monday at 1 o'clock, when they were to have apreliminary examination.
In the meantime a Coroner's jury was empaneled by Esquire HERMAN, actingCoroner, who returned a verdict in accordance with the facts. The following isthe report of the same jury:
STATE OF INDIANA, FULTON COUNTY:
The undersigned jurors, empaneled on the 20th day of February to hold aninquisition on the body of JOHN J. WALLACE, found dead in the township ofRochester, Fulton County, in the State of Indiana, do report that the true nameof said person is as above given, to-wit: JOHN J. WALLACE, that at the time ofhis death he was about 21 years old, that he had no valuables on his person asfar as we have been able to ascertain.
Given under our hands this 21st day of February, 1875. ISAAC GOOD, D. S. ROSS,F. RICHTER, D. P. CARR, BENJ. VAWTER, D. L. BECK, B. F. CORY, A. L. GOODRICH,JOHN Q. NEAL, JACOB KRIEG, A. A. LAWRENCE, J. F. COLLINS.
By the time the prisoners had been stored away in their cells, the pulse ofthose whose feeling of indignation and excitement ran highest, began to beatless frequent as the early hours of the Sabbath morn drew on, and many retiredto their homes to reflect upon the atrocity of the crime that had beencommitted.
On Sunday, all day long every street corner contained a group of men discussingthe proceedings of the past night. It was the all absorbing theme ofconversation and general interest. There was a perceptible falling off ofchurch-going people, as the many empty pews of the various churches alltestified. A cloud of gloom pervaded every circle, and caused a feeling ofsadness in the hearts of all.
Preparations were made for the funeral of JOHN J. WALLACE, to take place onMonday at 10 o'clock a.m. Many people in the country had learned of thecalamity, and at an early hour on that morning there was an unusual stir on thestreets, all anxious to see and hear concerning the tragedy. Rev. Mr. SAGE, aUniversalist minister from Logansport, had been engaged to preach the funeralsermon, and when the hour arrived, the funeral cortege, headed by the BrassBand, proceeded to the M.E. Church, which was soon filled to overflowing with alarge circle of mourning relatives and sorrowing friends. The sermon was amasterly effort, full of tenderness and consolation for the broken and bleedinghearts of a father, mother, three sisters and other relatives, but their tearswould not cease to flow and the anguish of their souls refused to be pent up.When they came to look for the last time upon the inanimate form of that son andbrother their grief knew no bounds, and the scene beggars description. As thefuneral procession proceeded to the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, the slow, measurednotes from the band impressed the crowds that thronged the streets with thesolemnity of the occasion.
The funeral rites had hardly been performed when the hour set for thePreliminary Trial of JOHN D. VAIMERKARR, charged with murder in the firstdegree, and his wife, KATE FOSTER and HESTER WILSON, as accessories, was called.The examination took place at the Court House and never was the temple ofjustice more densely packed with a living mass of humanity than at that time.The prisoners were conducted from the jail to the court room through the surgingcrowd, and took seats in a position so that the entire audience had a favorableopportunity of gazing upon them. The attorneys, consisting of I. CONNER, deputyProsecutor, and E. STURGEON, for the State, J. S. SLICK, E. CALKINS and H. B.JAMISON for the defense, arranged themselves on either side of a long table.Esquire HERMAN occupied the Judge's chair, and the trial began. At this junctureROBERT WALLACE, the father of the murdered young man, made his way to the sideof his attorneys, and the withering look he gave the slayer of his son, who saton the opposite side of the table, was more indicative of his feeling thanthough he had given audible expression to what he felt. VANDERKARR plead NotGuilty to the charge, waived an examination, and was remanded to jail. KATEFOSTER and HESTER WILSON were dismissed, while Mrs. VANDERKARR was held toanswer as being an aid and abettor to her husband in the killing of Wallace. Theonly witnesses that were examined were the two girls, who had been dismissed.KATE FOSTER swore that her home was at Kewanna, in this county, and that she hadbeen at VANDERKARR's but three weeks. HESTER WILSON swore that her home was atOxford, Ind., and that she had only been at VANDERKARR's three weeks. Thetestimony of both were to the effect that they were present at the time theshooting took place, but were in bed at the time the four persons madeapplication to be admitted to the house. According to their testimony there wereno persons within the house at that time but those who properly belonged there.They heard VANDERKARR tell those without that they could not come in, and theyheard the voice of one from without say that if he did not open the door hewould kick the door down and take his heart's blood. They further testified thatthe door was kicked or broken from its fastenings by those without, and thatimmediately thereafter VANDERKARR fired upon them. No information could beelicited from them by which the wife could be implicated as an accessory to themurderous deed. She was present and a passive spectator to all that occurred,but did not counsel or advise the act, nor did she remonstrate against it.
After a brief argument by the counsel the Court decided that there had not beensufficient evidence adduced to warrant him to hold her in custody, and thereuponshe was set at liberty.
The gun used by the defendant was exhibited in court, but there was nothingremarkable about it to distinguish it from other guns of its class, save that itwas weather-beaten and rusty. Both barrels were well charged at the time, havingbeen reloaded for further destruction if an occasion offered.
A brief sketch of the principal actors in this blood-curdling tragedy may notprove entirely uninteresting to our readers:
JOHN D. VANDERKARR was born on the Mohawk River, near Albany, New York, and willbe 39 years old on the 3rd of next June. His parents died while he was a youth,and soon after he made his home at Kankakee, Ill., where he married his presentwife in 1863. No children have been born unto them, which is truly a blessing.About six years ago they came to Rochester, and for a time laid some claim torespectability but after opening a house of prostitution he sunk to his properlevel. He is of medium hight, strong and robust, and weighs not less than 200pounds. He has a sallow complexion and a physiogonomy that does not impress anyone as being intellectual or at all pleasing.
SARAH VANDERKARR, his wife, is about three years his senior, and possesses ahard, grim visage that is extremely repulsive. Her maiden name was MILLER, and,from what we can learn, spent her earlier days in Miami County, where shemarried one BENJAMIN JOHNIGAN, who was soon after divorced from her on accountof her persistent loose and unchaste habits.
KATE FOSTER is a large, overgrown girl, of perhaps 22 vears of age, and not illlooking. Her parents, or her widowed mother rather, lives near Kewanna, andbears the name of FUNK. FOSTER is an alias assumed by Kate to conceal her truename. It is well known that a prominent citizen induced her away from hermother, and placed her at VANDERKARR's to advance his private interests. Thename of this ranting hypocrite, who maintains an air of sanctity, will bebrought prominently before the public in due time.
HESTER WILSON is a stranger here, of lighter build and feebler constitution. Sheis young in years but old in vice, and ought to be an inmate of some hospitalrather than to be plying her vocation.
JOHN JACOB WALLACE was born in Rochester, and has ever made his home with hisfather, who is the proprietor of the Wallace House. He had just attained hismajority two months ago, and was a young man of good physical proportions and inthe prime of his youth. He was somewhat reckless in some of his habits, yet hewas possessed of noble impulses and a kind, forgiving spirit. His fine socialqualities were admired by all and secured him many friends, who deeply regrethis early demise. His desires and willingness to accommodate and do the biddingof his friends is what at many times lead him from the path of rectitude. Histransgressions were more of the character of boys' pranks than of a premeditateddesire to do wrong, and had his life been spared a few years he would haveoutgrown his boyishness and have become an honored and useful member of society.He was an only son, loved and cherished by the whole family.
AMOS SELBY's name has appeared so frequently in print in connection with bloodynoses and broken heads, that he requires but little notice at our hand. Heclaims the championship of the county for a square knock-down, and we think heis entitled to the belt. He is perhaps 38 or 40 years of age, and has been"on his muscle" from our earliest recollection. When sober, he is aquiet and orderly citizen; but a few drinks makes a demon of him and nothing istoo daring for him to undertake. The buckshot wound received in his hip is quitea serious one, but he is in a fair way to recover.
McKENDRY GREEN is a resident of Liberty Township in this county. He frequentlyvisits this place, and when he does so, the company he keeps and the places hevisits has not given him a very enviable reputation among the people ofRochester.
JAMES DEBOLT is a young man, almost entirely unknown in this community, and fromhis gentlemanly appearance we would hardly have thought that he would be foundseeking admission to a house of the character of VANDERKARR'S. ... VANDERKARR issecure within the county jail, and employs his time in drawing discordant soundsout of an old violin....
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 27, 1875]

VANDERKARR DOOMED.
He is Registered for Twenty Years at Michigan City An Appeal to the SupremeCourt.
The third and last trial of JOHN D. VANDERKARR, for the killing of JOHN J.WALLACE on the 20th of February last, was brought to a close on Sunday morningabout 9 o'clock. The jury had retired for deliberation a few minutes beforemidnight, with little hope on the part of the general public for a speedyconclusion of their labors. The announcement that a verdict had been returnedwas made by the tolling of the Court House bell at about 8 o'clock in themorning, and in a few minutes thereafter the streets and courtyard presented alively throng of anxious and inquiring faces.
When Judge KEITH arrived and the doors of the court room were thrown open, itwas immediately filled with silent spectators. After the Sheriff called the rollof jurymen, the foreman handed to his Honor the paper containing the doom of thedefendant. The Court having adjusted his glasses amid the most profound silence,read:
"We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of manslaughter as charged in theindictment, and assess his punishment at twenty years imprisonment in thepenitentiary."
The jury was immediately interrogated by the attorneys for the defendant, andeach expressed himself satisfied with the verdict as it had been read. A motionfor a new trial was at once entered and time asked to procure affidavits showingthe prior expression of opinions by some of the jurors. Time being granted bythe Court until 9 o'clock on Monday morning, the work of getting affidavits wascommenced by the defense and continued up till that time, when (as some wouldhave it) eight or nine corrupt documents were presented and read in the hearingof an astonished audience, creating a manifest surprise. The State then askedtime to procure counter affidavits until Thursday morning, when the courtadjourned until that time.
The court again convened at the appointed hour and listened to the reading ofsome sixteen affidavits produced by the State. The principal part of suchaffidavits were directed to the impeachment of some of those dare devils who hadsworn for the defendant, the remainder to sustain the impeached jurors. At 1o'clock on Thursday afternoon, after listening to the argument of counsel, theCourt proceeded to review the facts and circumstances upon which the motion wasfounded, concluding by refusing the prisoner a new hearing, pronouncing judgmenton the verdict. and sentencing the defendant to the penitentiary in accordancewith the finding of the jury.
Considerable hot and unnecessary comment has been belched out concerning partiesdirectly interested in the case, and many harsh words have been uttered inmoments of passion that reflects but little credit on any one, and now, when theSupreme Court has passed on these questions, John D. Vanderkarr will be triedagain, or Fulton County will know him no more forever.

A BOLD STROKE FOR FREEDOM. The sentence of VANDERKARR to twenty yearsimprisonment in the State's prison was an event entirely unlooked for by theprisoner, and when it became forcibly impressed upon his mind that twenty yearsof his life must be spent in solitary confinement, he immediately began makingpreparation for his escape from the county jail, where he has been confinedsince February last. The JAIL of this county is not very pretentious inappearance, yet it is quite formidable and requires considerable skill and hardlabor to effect an escape. The walls of the jail are brick, and instead ofplastering on the inside, they are covered with a double coating of two-inch oakplank, in which heavy nails have been driven so close together that the point ofa knife can scarcely be stuck between them. An excavation of three feet was madein the ground and filled in with large round stone, on which was placed squaretimber lOxl2 inches, and these covered by ordinary flooring. Substantial cellsare constructed in the center of the large room with corridors running entirelyaround them. In one of these cells Vanderkarr was kept each night and allowedthe privilege of the corridors during the day.
By some means unknown he had come in possession of a hammer, an iron rod, suchas are used by butchers to pin meat to a block, a butcher's steel, and a longfile. During the day he occupied his time in drawing a staple to his cell door,so that when locked in at night he could remove it again without difficulty.
On Wednesday night he came out of his cell to the corridor, and after prying upthe floor, proceeded to burn off one of the heavy timbers beneath, which heaccomplished successfully by heating in the stove the iron rod in hispossession. It then only remained for him to remove the stone and dig out underthe foundation. He was making good progress on the way to liberty when he wasdiscovered by Sheriff MOON, who has kept an eagle eye on him ever since theverdict of the jury was known. A watch has been kept on the outside of the jailevery night, and while thus watching the sound of tools was heard within. Aninvestigation of the interior found the prisoner snugly ensconced in bed in thecell, but the aperture in the floor and his near exit to the outer world wasplainly visible. In another hour or two he would have been at liberty. An extraguard was then placed around him for the night and succeeding night.
Yesterday noon, manacled and well guarded, the prison doors opened and hestepped forth and to the depot, to take the train for his Michigan City home. Atthe depot a large crowd of people had assembled to witness his departure. Justprevious to the arrival of the train a double seated carriage arrived upon thescene containing three women, one the prisoner's wife, the others inmates of herhabitation. The farewell was an affecting one, the wife weeping bitterly andshowing a strong attachment for her husband. He (the prisoner) is a man of ironwill and nerve, and although deeply agitated and cast down, betrayed but littleemotion. The train bore him off and the crowd dispersed, and this is the closingscene of the great tragedy.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, October 16, 1875]

JOHN D. VANDERKARR DIES
DIED. -John D. VANDERKARR, known to many of our readers as the keeper of a houseof prostitution in this place for several years, and at whose hands John J.WALLACE, a promising young man received his death on the night of Feb. 20, 1875,is dead.
Convicted of manslaughter, he was sentenced to 20 years service in the Northernprison and began his term in October of the same year. Vanderkarr was nearly 39years old at the time he entered the prison and was at that time in robusthealth, but close confinement soon undermined his constitution and during thenearly four years that he has been there, he has rendered the State but littleservice. Last week he was taken with a congestive chill and died at an earlyhour Saturday morning. His wife who still remains at this place was notified ofhis death and went to the prison at once but did not remain for his funeralwhich occurred on Sunday in consequence of her own sickness. We are informedthat it is her intention to have his remains brought here for permanentinterment. Thus has another one of the evil doers paid the penalty of his badconduct.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 20, 1879]

THE SENSATIONAL MURDER OF JOHNNY WALLACE
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
The murder of Johnny Wallace and the subsequent trial and conviction of hiskiller, John D. Vanderkarr, has to be the most sensational criminal case ever tooccur in Rochester.
It took place in 1875 and contained all the lurid elements that arouse publicinterest in any age: illicit sex, a prominent victim, a cold-blooded, notoriouskiller, a threat of lynching, repeated trials to get a verdict and a finalattempt at a jail break.
Today's national media would have eaten it up, just as did the inhabitants ofRochester and Fulton County during the eight months required to mete outjustice.
The principals were well-known citizens of Roe hester, but for quite differentreasons.
Wallace was the only son of Robert Wallace, the respected proprietor of theWallace House hotel and entertainment center at Fifth and Main Streets. Johnny,who had just turned 21, was a handsome, popular leader among the town's somewhatreckless young sports.
Vanderkarr, 38, had come to Rochester with wife Sarah about 1869 from Kankakee,Ill., by way of Albany, N.Y. At first he was respectably employed, but for thelast three years he had been operating a whorehouse on the town's northwestedge. The Sentinel rated the brothel as "low grade" and wrote of manyscenes of strife and bloodletting among the motley crews that assembled therenight after night.
Prostitution was not uncommon in this place in the 1870s and was tolerated bythe local authorities. Indeed, as early as 1871 The Rochester Union Spy wrotethat the town had become "notorious as a city of refuge for fallen womenwho come here to escape the rigors of the law threatened in other places."
About 10 o'clock on Saturday night, February 20, 1875, Wallace was cruisingabout town in a one-horse sleigh with friends Amos Selby, a local boxer andbully; McKendry Green of Liberty Township and James Debolt, a just-arrivedtraveler. They pulled up to Vanderkarr's bawdy house, went to the door anddemanded to be admitted. Vanderkarr, speaking through a wicket near the door,said it was too late and refused them entrance.
The young men insisted and, when still denied, kicked the door from itsfastenings. Then realizing they'd gone too far, they ran for the sleigh.Vanderkaxr emerged from the house with a doublebarreled shotgun loaded withlarge buckshot and fired at the group. Only one barrel discharged, but it wasenough to kill Wallace and slightly wound Selby.
Within a few minutes, the entire town was alerted to these events.
Sheriff Sidney Moon quickly arrested Vanderkarr, who professed ignorance of theeffects of his shooting. Also arrested were Vanderkarr's wife and the two womenof the brothel, Kate Foster and Hester Wilson. By the time of the arrests, alarge number of citizens had gathered at the Vanderkarr house to assist, butwere not needed.
As the party of prisoners was marched by the Wallace House, where Johnny's bodyhad been taken, mutterings of lynching were heard among the huge number ofcitizens assembled there. Wisdom and Sheriff Moon prevailed, however, even asinterested townspeople multiplied at the Wallace House and at the justice courtwhere the prisoners were arraigned immediately'
Vanderkarr's wife and the two tarts were released without charges. He pleadednot guilty and was remanded to the county jail. where he began to pass the timeby "drawing discordant sounds" from a violin he had brought along.
The town was transfixed. Church attendance dwindled Sunday as people gathered ingroups to discuss the shocking event. Johnny's funeral procession to the IOOFcemetery on Monday, which was led by a brass band, passed throngs of citizenswhose number was swelled bv arrivals from the countryside.
Trying the accused for his crime proved no easy matter. The first trial in Marchended in a sentence of six years that was overturned on a technicality.
A second trial, begun in August, had to be canceled when a juror became ill.
Finally. on October 8 a third trial reached a verdict. But before it wasannounced, the Courthouse bell was rung and the populace given ample time toassemble to hear it. Tbe jury found Vanderkarr guilty of homicide and sentencedhim to 20 years in the Michigan City penitentiary.
There he was taken on October 15, just after discovery of the escape tunnel hehad nearly completed under the jail's foundation. At the state prison his healthsteadily deteriorated and there he died on September 13, 1879, nearly four yearsafter his conviction.
Mrs. Vanderkarr soon sold the couple's notorious house of ill fame and left forother parts. Her departure, wrote The Sentinel, gave the community "a senseof relief not felt for many years." Perhaps, but the town had yet to meetPatrick McGuire. You shall, next.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 1, 1997]

VANDERWATER, CHARLES
See: Patents and Inventions

VANKIRK, JOHN W. [Aubbeenaubbee Township]
BIOGRAPHY
John W. Vankirk, a thrifty and enterprising farmer of Aubbeenaubbee township,Fulton county, Ind., first saw the light of day on March 25, 1854. Mr. Vankirkwas born in Pulaski county, Ind., in which county his father settled at an earlydate, removing there from Pennsylvania, his native state. Mr. Vankirk was rearedon the farm and taught the valuable lessons of industry, perseverance andfrugality, and these he has crowded into his life. He remained with his fatheruntil he was twenty-four years of age, and then began life for himself.Selecting a wife in the person of Mary E. Wagoner, whom he married Dec. 22,1877, Mr. Vankirk started out in life by moving to one of his father's farms,where he farmed on the shares for seven years, at the close of which he removedon a farm of 55 acres, which his wife had inherited. Later he purchasedinterests of other heirs in sixty-three adjoining acres, and now Mr. Vankirkcontrols both tracts. Here he has resided for a number of years and diligentlyapplied his talents in the honorable calling of farming, growing prosperous andhighly respected. Though a strong republican in politics, Mr. Vankirk has neveraspired to office. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Vankirk has been blessed by thebirth of three children, George, Etta and Albert.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 141]

VAN SCOIK, GEORGE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands

VARIETY STORE, THE [Akron, Indiana]
A new business house is launched in Akron and is known as the Variety Store. S.A. Strong is proprietor and the stock consists principally of kitchen supplies.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 17, 1915]

VAUCHAN GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] LOOK HERE - Jay Vauchan, at Ward's old stand, is selling GROCERIES atRock-Bottom prices. Everything new, fresh and cheaper than the cheapest. Calland be convinced. Highest Prices paid for COUNTRY PRODUCE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesay, June 17, 1885]

VAUGHN & BLOK [Rochester, Indiana]
NEW PAINT CONCERN

Messrs Vaughn and Blok of Grand Rapids, Mich., have acquired the formerWilliam Maglecic painting plant on east Seventh street and will conduct abusiness here. They will do auto painting and furniture refinishing.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, January 25, 1926]

VAWTER, BERT [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Laundry

VAWTER, EDMUND [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hazlett Bros. [fire]
See: Rochester Laundry
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LOCAL NEWS
The Eagle Steam Laundry has been sold by Fred E. Robbins to J. D. McCoy ofPlymouth, who is interested in a laundry at that place, and Ed. Vawter ofRochester. These gentlemen are both practical laundrymen and will guaranteefirst class work. Have work ready Monday morning, as it will be called for.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 31, 1900]

VEIRS, CLARENCE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Anchor Milling Co.
See: Veirs & Wicks Grist Mill
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BIOGRAPHY
Clarence Veirs was born in Maryland, October 31, 1855, the son of Samuel Clarkand Hester (Whittaker) Veirs. The grandparents, Samuel Clark and Julia Ann Veirs,of the subject of this review, lived and died in Maryland. Samuel Veirs was avery successful miller, a trade which he followed throughout his life. To eachof his eight children he gave ten thousand dollars and to each of his forty-twograndchildren (seven of his eight children married) he presented twenty-fivedollars and a Bible. Samuel Clark Veirs, the father of our subject, engaged inthe milling and farming business during his entire life. He died in 1898 at theage of seventy-eight years and his wife died in 1904 at the advanced age ofeighty-four years. They had nine children, of whom two sons and four daughtersare still alive. Clarence Veirs was educated in Rockville, Maryland, attendingthe public schools there and the Rockville Academy for four years. He thenfollowed in the footsteps of his father and engaged in farming and milling. In1886, he came to Indiana and for four months was at Angola when he removed toAkron, Fulton county, Indiana. Here he engaged in the milling business with MarkWicks and remained in that town until 1907. In that year, he came to Rochesterand built a grist mill which was called the Anchor Milling company, one of theoldest in Indiana. In 1888, he married Tina Smith, the daughter of JeremiahSmith, of Fulton. To this union was born one son, Kenneth, who was educated inthe public schools of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin, from which hegraduated in 1910. At the present time he is working in South Americarepresenting the Swift Company. Mrs. Veirs died in 1893, and in 1896, Mr. Veirsmarried Ida Leonard, of Miami county, Indiana, and to them have been born twodaughters, Irene and Anabel-Lee. Irene Veirs was educated in the public schoolsof Rochester and then spent two years in Purdue Universit. She is the wife ofTheodore Coplen, the manager of the Woolworth store in St. Cloud, Minnesota, andshe has one child, Jean Veirs, born July 6, 1921. Annabel-Lee Veirs was educatedin the graded and high schools of Rochester and at the present time is attendingIndiana University. In fraternal circles, Mr. Veirs is a member of the Knightsof Pythias, and he is a member of the Baptist church, while his wife accepts thetenets of the Methodist Episcopal creed.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 292-293, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

VEIRS & WICKS GRIST MILL [Akron, Indiana]
See: Anchor Milling Co.
See: Manitau Flouring Mill
See: Veirs, Clarence

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Located in old building where the Akron light plant was later located, and itis now the Akron Locker Plant owned and operated by Byron Leininger since thedeath of his father, Ralph Leininger. The Akron grist mill made Lily Four, andquit operation about 1905 or 1906. They built a new building in Rochester andcontinued making the same Lily brand of fine flour.
I remember as a young boy saving empty Lily flour sacks until I had five. Thehousewives of that day baked their own bread. I was paid a vice-cent piece forthe five sacks taken to the mill, and this five cents then was good for a sackof candy at the Emahiser and Russell grocery store on the northwest corner wherethe Akron Exchange State Bank was until the new bank was built a half a blockwest in 1976.
[Thomas Carpenter Family, Walter F. Carpenter, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

VERNON'S GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store
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[Adv] VERNON'S GROCERY, 822 Main, Phone 63, successors to Cornell Grocery. -- - - - - .
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, November 19, 1937]

LEASES MEAT MARKET
George Fleegle who has been the meat cuttrer at the Berkheiser Grocery for thepast two years today resigned his position and has leased the meat market in theVernon Grocery. He has taken charge of the market he leased.
[The News=Sentinel, Tuesday, April 25, 1939]

RECEIVER IS NAMED FOR VERNON MARKET
Judge Robert Miller in the Fulton circuit court Saturday appointed LoftleeVanata as receiver of the Vernon market, 822 Main street. He gave bond of $2,000and is now in charge of the store.
The receivership was asked by Francis Rogers and named Virginia James (Engle) asdefendant. The plaintiff said the market owed him money and that the market wasinsolvent.
The defendant gave her a written consent to the appointment of the receiver. Thestore will be operated Saturday and will be closed Monday while an inventory ismade.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, April 26, 1941]

GROCERY STORE IS SOLD
The Vernon Market at 822 South Main street has been sold to Earl R. Townsend bythe receiver of the store, Loftlee Van Atta. The sale was approved in the Fultoncircuit court today by Judge Robert Miller. The Market was thrown intoreceivership on a suit filed by Francis Rogers against Virginia James (Engle).
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, May 7, 1941]

[Adv] CLOSING OUT SALE Starts Wednesday, July 23rd. All Stock MUST be ClosedOut Immediately. - - - - VERNON'S MARKET - - - -.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, July 21, 1941]

T. J. CRONIN TO OPEN PACKAGE LIQUOR STORE
Ike Onstott, owner of the store room which formerly was occupied by the VernonMarket, 822 Main street, this city, announced today that he had leased the roomto Timothy J. Cronin, of Lake Manitou, for the purpose of operating a packageliquor store.
Mr. Cronin has been a resident of Lake Manitou for the past four years and isthe owner of several cottages on the south shore of the lake. At the presenttime he is employed as a salesman for the Kiefer-Stewart Drug Company, ofIndianapolis.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, August 12, 1941]

VETERANS
See: Defense Enrollment

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS [Rochester, Indiana]
VETERANS FOREIGN WAR POST ORGANIZED HERE
At a meeting held in the city hall Sunday afternoon a Post for Veterans ofForeign Wars was organized under the supervision of Major H. A. Green. Othernotables of the organization, present for this special meeting, were Capt. FrankS. Clark, State Commander of the Indiana District of Foreign War Veterans Post,and Judge Advocate Ralph Green.
The charter papers for the local post will be sent in to National Headwuyarterson next Saturday, and any Fulton County veteran who desires to join thisorganization can have his name included on the original charter list for a feeof one dollar. Those interested are urged to see R. B. Richards, of this city.
On Thursday evening, 7:30 another meeting of the Foreign War Post will be heldat the City Hall. Anyone interested in this organization is urgently requestedto attend this meeting.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, May 15, 1933]

FOREIGN WARS POST IS NAMED FOR J. NICODEMUS
A Veterans of Foreign Wars post was organized here last night at a meeting whichwas held in the City Hall. A number of war veterans who have seen service inforeign fields have already signed as members of the new post. The charter isstill open to permit any other veterans who so desire to become members of thepost. At the meeting last night it was voted to name the post the John NicodemusPost in honor of John Nicodemus, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Nicodemus of thiscity. Nicodemus was one of the first enlisted men from Fulton county in theworld war who was killed in action in France. The new post will be installed onJune 4 at a public ceremony. State officers of the organization will have chargeof the work.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, May 19, 1933]

FOREIGN WAR VETERANS SELECT NEW POST NAME
Local foreign service veterans here decided to name their new post, now beingorganized here, Manitou Post, V.F.W., Benny Thomas, local spokesman for the neworganization announced today.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars, have on previous occasions attempted to establisha post in Fulton county, but to date, have not met with too much success. But ata meeting held last Monday evening, organization was stepped ahead to the pointof selecting a name. A meeting to follow next Monday evening at the city hall isdesigned to make plans for election of officers at a near future date.
These plans, it is understood, will include installation ceremonies for newlyelected officers, ritualistic work and other matters pertinent to organization.
Only men and women who have seen overseas service are eligible to membership,Thomas says.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, July 13, 1945]

V.F.W. WILL SET UP POST WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1
The newly-organized Manitou Post No. 1343, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will electofficers and be officially instituted Wednesday evening, August 1 at 8:00o'clock in the Eagles Hall. Officers from the Department of Indiana headquartersin Indianapolis, will have charge of the ritualistic and installationceremonies.
This local unit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was formed by men of thiscommunity who served overseas in the armed forces of the nation during theSpanish-American War, World War I and the present global conflict. The postnumbers among its members several recently discharged World War II veterans andmen who are still in active service in various theaters of operation.
In outlining the purposes backof the movement which establishes Manitou Post ofthe VFW in Rochester, Mr. Benny Thomas, local chairman, explained that prior tothe present war the number of overseas veterans residing in Fulton county wastoo limited to maintain an active, efficient chapter. One of the first aims ofthis new post will be to cooperate with all other civic, veteran and patrioticgroups in the development of post-war plans for the rehabilitation of the menwho will come home, according to Mrs. Thomas.
The charter will remain open for a 90-day period following institution of thepost and all honorably discharged veterans and members of the armed forces whohave had overseas service are urged to become charter members. Relatives canmake their father, husband, son or brother a member of the Veterans of ForeignWars if he is now overseas or aboard ship.
The public is cordially invited.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, July 30, 1945]

VETERINARIANS [Rochester, Indiana]
Dr. Henry Ward
Doc King (a fellow from Canada, not related to Dr. Milo King)
Dr. Theodore "Dode" Cook
Dr. Dow Haimbaugh, had his office at Wagoner's stable.

VICTORIA PARK [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Come out Sunday to Victoria Park and see the Most Sensational Real EstateProposition Ever Offered in Rochester. - - - - VICTORIA PARK is located on SouthMain St., right in the location of Rochester's best growth. The new electricline will pass this property and these lots are sure to increase in value. - - -- FULTON LAND COMPANY, Office over Bank of Indiana. N. M. Harrison, C. N. Lodge,Managers.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 28, 1906]

VICTORIA READING CIRCLE [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Mrs. Newton True and Mrs. P. M. Buchanan entertained the Victoria Reading circleat the home of Mrs. True Tuesday evening. Four new members were accepted withthe usual ceremony incident to such occasions. A two course luncheon was servedand the membvers were delighted with the evening's engagement provided by thehostesses.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 23, 1907]

VIGILANCE COMMITTEE [Rochester, Indiana]
THIRTY-THREE ARE ENLISTED IN BODY TO PROTECT CITY
Thirty-three citizens of Rochester exclusive of the members of the police force,were vested with full police powers at a meeting of the recently organizedvigilance committee held at the city hall Monday evening.
Each of the 33 men has a specific duty to carry out and the organization isexpected to have a decided effect on the moral status of the community.
An alarm signal has been arranged which consists of one long blast of the sirenwhistle. The whistle will be kept blowing for several minutes and there will beno blast of the waterworks whistle as in the case of fires so that there mightbe no confusion.
In the event of the alarm being sounded, the members of the committee are eachassigned to a post to guard the city. Twelve men have been selected to occupycentral stations guarding the main business center of the city. At thesestations rifles, shot guns, revolvers and two riot guns to be purchased by thecity will be kept in readiness at all times.
The balance of the men, three to a post, and each squad of these to be suppliedwith a motor car, are to go immediately to the exit from Rochester designated astheir post. Nobody is to be allowed to pass these exits and private citizens arewarned to not attempt to leave the city in the event of an alarm as the guardsmean business and will use any means they deem effective to stop outgoers.
Each of the squads to guard the exits will be equipped with proper arms andammunition. High powered rifles are somewhat scarce in a community of this kindand it has been asked that persons possessing weapons of this nature report themto the police authorities.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, January 4, 1921]

VIGILANTES' RIOT GUNS ORDERED BY AUTHORITIES
Two riot guns of heavy calibre short barreled shot guns that shoot buck shothave been ordered by the city for use by the local vigilance committee. A numberof high powered rifles have also been ordered, but still there are not enoughguns to supply all members of the organization. It has been asked that anypersons in the county having available arms for this purpose to report to thepolice authorities.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 6, 1921]

VILLAGE MARKET [Kewanna, Indiana]
Located -----, at the site of former Ralston Drug Store.

VIN FIZ [Akron, Indiana]
The first airplane to fly over Akron was piloted by Galbreath Perry Rodgers, whowas flying a cross-country flight in 1911. The name of the plane was the Vin Fiz,to promote a new soft drink put out by Armour & Co., who financed the trip,at a cost of $180,000, which was acknowledged to have greatly hastened theadvance of aviation.
I was standing with a crowd of people in the road at the Erie Railroad tracks bythe old Akron cemetery as he went past, following the tracks. He was soonfollowed by a train traveling at a fast rate of speed. His wife was on thistrain as also was the team of mechanics with spare parts, plus two completeextra planes.
The flight began at Long Island, N.Y., Sept. 19, 1911, and after 49 days with 68take-offs, 15 crashes and 4,321 miles, he made it. Five months after completingthis journey he lost his life when a sea gull flew into the controls of theplane, and he crashed into shallow water near Long Beach, Calif.
[Thomas Carpenter Family, Walter F. Carpenter, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

VINEGAR RIDGE [Rochester, Indiana]
Nickname by Michael Luther Essick for the area around 13th and Madison, wholived on Madison street, next door to Dr. J. C. Spohn home, which was on the NEcorner 13th and Madison.
Since the name, Essig, was of German origin meaning "vinegar," and hisresidence being near the top of a small rise in elevation, he called the areaVinegar Ridge.
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HOODOO GRIPS VINEGAR RIDGE
A hoodoo has been hanging over that part of southeast Rochester known as"VINEGAR RIDGE" during the past week, according to residents of thatneighborhood, who point to two deaths and three bad accidents in support oftheir contention.
On Sunday, September 14, John ANDERSON, corner Franklin Ave. and 13th streetdied; on Monday night, Hugh FOGLESONG, E. 14th street, was seriously, if notfatally burned; on Wednesday, Mrs. John WHEATLY, E. 14th street, fell and brokeher hip; on Friday, Hon. M. L. ESSICK, S. Madison street, passed away, and onSaturday, John LEWIS, E. 14th street, fractured his arm.
Residents of that neighborhood are seriously waiting to see if the run ofinjuries and deaths will continue this week, and are also looking for someone tochase away the "hoodoo."
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 22, 1913]

VIRGINIA SHOE STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
LOCAL and MISECELLANEOUS
Don't fail to take advantage of the closing out of the stock of the boots andshoes known as the Virginia shoe store. This is not a bait or advertisement, butplain truth. The Virginia will close up for all time, just as soon as thepresent stock is closed out. Come early before the goods are picked over.

[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 11, 1886]

[Adv] We have but 3 Weeks to stay - - - The goods must go - - - CHICAGOBANKRUPT CO., Old Virginia Shoe Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 13, 1886]

VOGUE SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
WILL HANDLE READY-TO-WEAR
E. Gross, of the firm of Gross and Gross, South Bend, Thursday evening completedthe purchase of the Harley Montgomery Sweet Shop, in the Arlington block, andannounced that he would open a first class ladies ready-to-wear store in thesame location by Feb. 1st. A five year lease has been closed for the room.
Mr. Gross, who is a brother of Joe Gross, Studebaker representative, well knownhere, has been in the business for some time in South Bend, but expects to makeRochester his home. He is a married man, with three children.
He is advertising for sale the stock and fixtures of the Sweet Shop, which he issaid to have bought for $600. Mr. Montgomery has made no announcement of hisplans.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 4, 1918]

[Adv] Grand opening of The Frances Shop in Rochester on Friday, February 22 -- - - Eugene Gross, Manager. Two doors south of the Post Office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 15, 1918]

TO RENAME THE FRANCES SHOP
Ignorance of the fact that the Frances Shop, of South Bend, is incorporated isclaimed by Herman Gross, also of South Bend, in explaining the fact that he hasgiven the new Rochester store the same appellation as that of a similarinstitution in South Bend.
A representative of Herman Gross Tuesday disclaimed any intention to steal theSouth Bend store's reputation, expressed his regret that the impression had beengiven that Rochester store was a branch of the South Bend Frances Shop, andstated that the store here would be renamed at once, altho the new title has notbeen decided upon. Norman Gross is the owner of the local business and is alsoconnected with Gross and Gross of South Bend, whose store was referred to in thelocal announcement.
Eugene Gross, a brother, who is the local manager, was in Chicago Tuesday.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, February 26, 1918]

[Adv] Many Thanks! - - - - The Gross Ready-to-Wear Shop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 27, 1918]

MILADY, MEET "THE VOGUE SHOP"
It is now "The Vogue Shop."
The new name for the "Frances Shop" recently established here byEugene Gross, of South Bend, was selected by the judges Wednesday when Mrs.Orbra Taylor won the waist for suggesting the best new name. So many good nameswere offered that a number were placed in a hat and the first one drawn was"The Vogue Shop." The name was changed as a result of a protest madeby The Frances Shop, of So. Bend.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 14, 1918]

The Vogue Shop has been sold again. The new owner is a Mr. Deuguid, of Ft.Wayne, who owns several ready to wear shops in northern Indiana. The formerowner, Marshall Smith, has already left the city and the new proprietor has notyet reached here so no particulars of the deal could be learned. It isunderstood, however, that Mr. Deuguid will continue to operate the store alongthe same lines as it has been in the past.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 24, 1920]

VOGUE SHOP THROWN IN RECEIVER'S HANDS
A complaint in which creditors of the Vogue Shop seek to have a receiverappointed for that place has been filed in circuit court and Judge Stevens,sitting on the bench at Plymouth has issued a summons for the parties interestedand an order turning the stock of the store over to a receiver.
The plaintiffs in the suit and their credits against the stock follow:
Aaron and Sherman, $216.06; Appelbaum and Stern, $416.25; Lilianthal and Berman,$464.21; E M. Glick and Company, $427.46 and H. D. Wuthowsky, $403.50.
The defendants in the action are Eugene Gross, Marshall Smith and E. C. Duguit.The latter is the present owner of the store, according to the complaint, havingpurchased it of Marshall Smith. Smith in turn purchased of Eugene Gross. Gross,according to the information filed contracts, the debts at issue and then soldthe store under the name of the "Vogue Shop" contrary to the statutesgoverning both sales.
Another point entering into the transaction is the fact that the place wasoperated under a name which had never been filed with the county clerk.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 29, 1920]

VonEHRENSTEIN, E. [Rochester, Indiana]
WELLS AND PUMPS
For the best and cheapest driven or tubular wells, be sure and call on E.VonEhrenstein, who has all the latest improved machinery for putting them down.Orders by mail promptly filled. Rochester, Indiana.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, May 23, 1888]

NEWS OF THE DAY
A petition has been filed in the Fulton circuit court by E. vonEhrenstein forthe taking out of naturalization papers. Mr. vonEhrenstein took out his firstpapers but these are the second and final ones.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 28, 1912]

VULCANIZING SHOPS [Rochester, Indiana]
See Anderson Vulcanizing Shop
See Alspach Vulcanizing Shop
See Hagan Bros.
See Creamer & Davisson

FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA

HANDBOOK

WCMA RADIO STATION [Culver, Indiana]
See Culver Military Academy
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CULVER BROADCASTS
Good results were accorded the first attempt of the Culver Military Academybroadcasting station. Reports have been received from twenty-five differentstates throughout the middle west. Major Eisenhard was well pleased with theresults. Many local radio enthusiasts were listeners-in when the program wasgiven. It is planned that regular concerts will be given from time to time.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, March 26, 1925]

CULVER RADIO STATION MAY BUY LARGER PLANT
Culver, Ind., April 5. - The success of the only Marshall county broadcastingstation is assured by the number of telegrams and communications received by thestation WHBH, located at the Culver Military academy.
A brilliant future for WHBH is assured if the plans to purchase the Mooseheartstation in Illinois, materialize. This plant, rated at 500 watts, would be fivetimes more powerful than the present plant. With this new broadasting unit andCulver's wealth of talent, WHBH should soon be among the best stations of thecountry.
In order to provide an outlet for the "local talent" which abounds inthe corps, a period from 9:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. each Wednesday night has beenset aside for the local artists. This program has been named the "TattooRelease" and will always be opened by the bugle call "tattoo," at9:15 p.m.
The glee club will present a program in connection with the "tattoorelease." Solos on a large set of chimes by Loftus H. Ward, director of theGlee club, will also make up a portion of the program.
These chimes were originally found in one of the cathedrals of the old world,and are particularly adapted to sacred music. They consist of a series of onehundred and seventy-six bell metal tubes plated with aluminum and are played byshaking the frames to which the tubes are hanging.
Major Eisenhard has rceived favorable reports from fans residing in all stateseast of the Rockies, except Florida, South Dakota and Montana. Leading in thenumber of requests is New York, followed by Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey,Indiana and Illinois respectively. The distance record is established by areport from Portland, Maine -- over 1,000 miles.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, April 5, 1926]

RADIO FANS TO HEAR CULVER BROADCASTING
Radio listeners in the middle west will soon hear WCMA over the air, coming instrong. With the completion of the installation of the new powerful broadcastingstation that is now in progress, the programs from the Marshall county stationwill be picked up by stations all over the United States from the Rockies east.
The station will broadcast regularly every Wednesday evening, at which time thedances of the Summer school students are held. The Bell Hops orchestra ofPlymouth will furnish the music and will be heard over the radio. The newstation will serve as an advertisement putting Culver and Marshall county on themap throughout the middle west.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, July 3, 1926]

CMA BUYS MOOSEHEART BROADCASTING OUTFIT
Culver Military Academy has bought the broadcasting outfit of Mooseheart, Ill.,and will soon have it installed at their place of learning.
The Mooseheart broadcasting outfit was of 500 volts strength and one which wasalways easy to get. It will be the strongest in Indiana and will thus be a notedaddition to the academy. Mooseheart is installing a 1,000 volt machine.
Col. Noble is in charge of the broadcasting and it will be perhaps a monthbefore the station is all ready for work. An invitation was extended by Col.Noble to Mr. Senour, speaker at the dairy show, to come to Culver and make anaddress to the farmers. Mr. Senour indicated that he would probably do this.
Culver Military Academy has a very fine military band which will give manyconcerts over the new station, which will be known as WCMA. Col. Noble says theyhave devised a plan whereby the drum of the band can be heard over the radio, athing which has not so far been accomplished. Indiana fans may expect some fineentertainment from WCMA this winter.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, August 28, 1926]

CULVER RADIO STATION NOW MORE POWERFUL
A new Indiana radio broadcasting station will go on the air, Monday night, whenstation WCMA, at Culver Military Academy, broadcasts its initial program on awave length of 258.5 meters.
Thirty numbers have been scheduled for the program which begins at 8:30 p.m.,Central standard time.
Students and officers at the military academy will furnish the larger part ofthe program and George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Will Rogers have been invitedto speak.
Station WCMA has been under construction for several months, and preliminarytests have shown remarkable power and clarity of transmission.
Congratulate Culver
Among telegrams received by Col. H. F. Noble, director of the station, was thisfrom Denver, Colo.:
"Your test coming through. Volume very good. You are the only station ableto clear through the powerful General Electric station, KOA, of Denver.Congratulations."
Other messages of congratulation have been received from Alaska and fromlisteners on both sea coasts.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, November 27, 1926]

CULVER RADIO STATION MAKING MANY RECORDS
Culver Military Academy's radio-casting station, WCMA, which went on the airNovember 29, has been heard in Alaska, New Brunswick, Kissamee, Fla., andVancouver Island. A Denver fan reported that the program came through with verygreat volume and that it was the only station he has been able to clear throughKOA in his home city.
The set has a generator that develops 1,600 volts. The towers are of standard150 feet type and the ground is through water pipes connecting with LakeMaxinkuckee, plus deep artesian wells in the immediate vicinity, which areimpregnated with iron.
The wave length is 253.8 meters, or 1,160 kilocycles.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, December 14, 1926]

HOWARD SYNCOPATORS TO BROADCAST FROM WCMA
The Howard Melody Syncopators announced Monday that they will broadcast Tuesdaynight between the hours of 11 and 12:30 from the Culver Military Academystation. The call numbers for this station are WCMA. This program is known asthe Arctic Circle Program and is given by the academy for the benefit of allpersons living in the Arctic Circle especially those along Yukon River inAlaska. The Howard Syncopators have often been on the air from the station atLogansport.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, February 14, 1927]

CULVER STATION WCMA GIVEN WAVE LENGTH 258.5
Culver, Ind., Sept. 29. - WCMA has adopted the wave-length of 258.5 meters and1050 kilocycles by permission of the Federal Radio Commission. During thewinter, the Monday and Wednesday evening programs from 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. willbe continued. Each afternoon during public service hour 3:00 to 4:00, (Sundaysexcepted), lectures and various programs will be broadcasted. However, from11:00 to 12:15 on Sundays, the regular chapel service will be on the air. Duringthe past year, WCMA obtained a remarkable record in the radio world, manyreports of successful rception having been received from all the United States.Undoubtedly equally as many favorable reports will be received this year.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, September 29, 1927]

QUARTET TO BROADCAST
The Manitou quartet, composed of Otto Sherbondy, Estil Rogers, William Hoffmanand Ray B. Fretz, will make their debut "over the air" next Mondayevening, on Station WCMA Culver, at 8 o'clock. This quartet has been singingtogether for the past 10 or 12 years and the close harmony which is so essentialin this class of music, is never lacking in its varied selections.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, October 14, 1927]

HOWARDS BROADCAST FINE PROGRAM WEDNESDAY NITE
Many Rochester and Fulton county radio fans Wednesday night listened to anexcellent program broadcasted from Station WCMA at Culver Military Academy bythe Howard Melody Syncopators who appear each Sunday night at the ColonialHotel. The reception was exceedingly good last night as there was little static.The Howards received many requests for special numbers one from a little girl ina sanitarium in Tennessee who wanted to hear "My Blue Heaven". Thisrequest was rather touching as the little girl has spinal trouble and has beensecurely tied on her back to a board for four years and outside of the whitewalls of her little room in the sanitarium the only thing she ever sees is theblue heavens through the window just above her head.
The Howards played a number of special numbers Wednesday besides some of theirown orchestrations. Several piano solos by Ayrton Howard was a feature. Thislocal orchestra will broadcast from the Culver Station a number of times duringthe coming winter.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Thursday, November 17, 1927]

RADIO STATION WCMA UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
Radio listeners in northern Indiana will be interested in knowing that radiostation WCMA, the Culver Military academy station, has been sold to the GeneralBroadcasting, Inc. This company is affiliated with the Curtis RadiocastingCorporation, an organization operating a group of stations in Indiana andIllinois.
WCMA will very shortly go on the air with a daily schedule from two to five inthe afternoon. For the present time, WCMA will continue to operate in itspresent location at Culver Military academy.
The station management is under the direction of Carl B. Watson of Indianpolis.Mr. Watson is well known in musical circles as a member of the IndianapolisMilitary band, the Murat Shrine band and other musical organizations. He hasbeen engaged in radio broadcasting activities almost from the beginning and hashad the pleasure of seeing many of his proteges rise to fame in the broadcastingfield.
Mr. Watson is desirous of getting in touch with those interested in broadcastingwork, as it is planned to use talent from the surrounding territory on theprograms.
Several changes in the transmitter of WCMA, originally built by the WesternElectric Company, are being made which will insure a much wider and betterreception.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, August 7, 1930]

STATION WCMA IS ON THE AIR WITH FINE PROGRAMS
Station WCMA at Culver Academy is again on the air. A regular feature on everyMonday, Wednesday and Friday from 3 to 3:30 p.m. is the Old Time Trio composedof Alspach, Lough and Alspach of Leiters Ford. Every Saturday afternoon at 2o'clock the editor of the Culver Citizen will give a feature to be entitled"The Newspaper of the Air". Interesting bits of news from towns inFulton, Pulaski, Starke, St. Joseph, Cass, Kosciusko and Marshall counties willbe broadcast. WCMA can be gotten at about 5 on the dial.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 5, 1930]

RECEIVER IS ASKED FOR CULVER RADIO STATION
Evansville, Ind., Aug. 6. - A suit asking that the Curtis Radiocastingcorporation, which operates radio stations in Evansville, Terre Haute,Indianapolis and Culver, Ind., and Decatur, Ill., will be placed in the hands ofa receiver was filed in probate court today by Frank O. Wilkins, ofIndianapolis, a minority stockholder.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, August 6, 1931]

CULVER RADIO STATION CLOSED AFTER SIX YEARS
Culver, Ind. - WCMA, Culver's radio station, was discontinued this week afteroperating for six years. The station has been sold, along with Station WKBF atIndianapolis, to a Chicago firm which will combine the time at the two stations.
The Culver station was established by Culver Military Academy and maintained byit for four years. It was then sold to the Curtis company of Indianapolis, whichmoved the equipment from the academy to the Indiana apartment building in thenorth part of Culver. Louis Lohr has been manager and engineer of the station.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, November 19, 1932]

CULVER DONATES STATION TO STATE RADIO SYSTEM
Indianapolis, Oct. 20. - (U.P.) - Acquisition of the Culvr Military Academyradio station at Culver as northwest unit of the state police radio system wasannounced today by Al Feeney, State safety director.
Feeney said use of the station had been donated to the state by academy officals.Experiments to determine what power will best serve at the station will beconducted as soon as a transmitter can be obtained, Feeney said.
He said that work on the central station of the system, to be located at theState Fair Ground here, will be started next week.
[The News-Sentinel, Satureday, October 20, 1934]

WLS HOME TALENT [Rochester, Indiana]
LOCAL TALENT TO BE HEARD OVER RADIO
Fulton County will be on the air at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 24.
Five local people have been invited to broadcast as a part of the WLS HomeTalent program on that day. These people are: Patsy Good of the Burtonneighborhood, Jane and Ellen Heater, Wayne township and Charles and KennethWilhelm of Argos.
They were selected as representative talent from the WLS amateur barn dance heldin connection with the Fulton County 4-H Fair.
In addition to appearing on the radio program, the Fulton County folks will beguests at the WLS National Barn Dance show at the Eighth Street Theatre,Saturday night.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, September 22, 1938]

W.P.A. [Fulton County]
See Toilets, Outdoor

WABASH-PERU-LOGANSPORT ELECTRIC RAILWAY [Rochester, Indiana]
A proposed line that never was built.
See Railroads
WADE, R. C. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Fix-It Shop

WADE, RUSSELL (BUD) [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Dyche Blue Drug Store
See: Baxter Drugs

WAGNER, GEORGE [Kewanna, Indiana]
[Adv] FURNITURE and UNDERTAKING. I have opened a new furniture and undertakingestablishment in Kewanna, opposite the grist mill - - - New furniture always onhand and old work repaired. FUNERALS attended promptly, and prices veryreasonable. GEORGE WAGNER.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 7, 1879]

WAGNER, JACKSON [Aubbeenaubbee Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Jackson Wagner, the son of Jacob and Rebecca (Hendricks) Wagner was born inSandusky county, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1843. Jacob Wagner was born in Perry county,Ohio, in 1812. Rebecca, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1823. The parents weremarried in Ohio and came to Indiana in 1850, and settled in Aubbeenaubbeetownship, Fulton county, Ind. The father was through life a very hard anddiligent worker and at the time of his death owned 139 acres of valuable land.He died July 20, 1880. The mother still survives and resides with herson-in-law, John Cohler. Unto Jacob and Rebecca Wagner were born the followingchildren: Jackson, Elizabeth, Noah, Emanuel, Mary, deceased; Jacob, deceased;Sarah, deceased; John, Ellen, deceased; Jonas and Jacob F. Jackson, the subjectof this sketch, remained with his parents until the age of twenty-one years. Hethen worked out as a farm hand for two years, was then a renter for two years,and finally, March 5, 1868, was married to Miss Mary Hood, the daughter ofFrederick and Mary Hood. To the marriage were born the following children:Arthur N., Ida, Captola, Elnora, Jacob F. and Lulu May, twins, one of the twins,Lulu May, is dead; George, deceased; Etta and Nanetta, twins. Mr. Wagner hasalways farmed, and at the present time owns some 187 acres of good land. Hereceived a small amount from home in 1888. He and his wife are members of theMethodist Episcopal church. He has always been a staunch democrat. He has been ahard and diligent laborer throughout his life.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 141-142]

WAGNER, NOAH [Fulton County]
BIOGRAPHY
Noah Wagner, the son of Jacob and Rebecca Wagner, and a brother of JacksonWagner, mentioned elsewhere in this work, was born in Sandusky county, Ohio,Jan. 14, 1847. He remained with his parents until the age of twenty-one, havingin the meantime received a common school education. Dec. 30, 1869, he wasmarried to Elizabeth Coon. At the time of his marriage he owned one horse andpossessed $15 in money. He began farming on the farm he now owns. The farm wasthen the property of his father-in-law. From time to time he purchased therights of his wife's brothers and sisters until now he is the owner of 160 acresof valuable land. He has been interested in stock-raising in connection with hisfarming. Unto him and his wife have been born eight children: Sarah Aletta,William Lee, Lizzie Jeanette, Rebecca Viola, deceased; Noah Harvey, Nellie Edna,Hetta Alma, and Netta Leona. He has always supported the democratic party. Heand his wife are members of the Methodist church, and are leaders in theircommunity.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 142]

WAGONER, BILL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage

WAGONER, E. M., MRS. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] ANNOUNCEMENT. I am pleased to announce a complete Fall showing of thefamous Talk-O-Town Dresses - - - - Mrs. E. M. WAGONER, 119 West 9th St.,Rochester, Indiana.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, October 18, 1929]

[Adv] Announcing a One Day Extraordinary Display of the Well Known"Talk-O-Town" Dresses at my home, Friday, November 22nd - - - - MRS.ELLSWORTH WAGONER, 119 W. 9th Street.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 21, 1929]

WAGONER, FRANK L. [Rochester, Indiana]
FRANK L. WAGONER (Biography)
A selfmade lawyer of the county is Mr. Frank L. WAGONER, of Kewanna. He camehere from his birth place in Starke county, Ohio, in 1874 and was principal ofthe Kewanna schools for two years. He then turned his attention to insurance,collections, etc., until ten years ago when he was admitted to the bar and hasever since been in the active practice of law. He has always been identifiedwith the progressive interests of Kewanna and is one of the substantial men ofthat excellent town. He married Miss Ida MURRAY in 1877 and their home isblessed with two children.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

WAGONER, FREDERICK [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Frederick Wagoner)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Frederick Wagoner]

WAGONER, JACKSON [Aubbeenaubbee Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Jackson Wagoner. - The subject of this sketch was born in Sandusky County, Ohio,January 2, 1843. He is the son of Jacob and Rebecca Wagoner. The former was bornin Perry County, Ohio, where he married and lived until he moved to FultonCounty, Ind. He deceased July, 1880, aged sixty-eight years. His wife stillsurvives him, and resides on the old home farm, in Section 9 of the above-namedtownship. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the subject is theoldest. He was united in marriage to Mary E. Hood, March 5, 1868. She was bornin Ohio June 21, 1845, and is the daughter of Frederick and Mary Hood. Theformer was born in Virginia in 1815, and deceased in August, 1855; the latterwas born in Ohio, and deceased March 3, 1866. Mr. and Mrs.Wagoner have eightchildren, as follows: Arthur N., born Fevbruary 13, 1869; Ida E., born May 26,1870; Captolia H., born February 7,1872; Rebecca A., July 30, 1874; Jacob F. andLula M., born March 22, 1876; Minnie D., born July 6, 1878; George, bornSeptember 17, 1880, died December 25, 1880. Mr. Wagoner came to Fulton Countywith his parents in 1849. He attended the common district school, from which hereceived a moderate education. By his industry and frugality he has been able topurchase a farm of 167 acres, and now has it under a good state of cultivation;all of which is he result of his own efforts. He enjoys the respect andconfidence of his neighbors, and is, in every way, a worthy man in hiscommunity.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 35]

WAGONER, P. H. [Monterey, Pulaski County]
[Adv] CHANGE OF FIRM. Having purchased the Undertaking business at Monterey,Ind., of Mr. Follman, I desire to announce that the store is better preparedthan ever to please all customers. Good Hearse, fine and medium Caskets andRobes and everything in the line of a complete Undertaking Establishment. PricesReasonable. P. H. WAGONER. Wm. ALLEN, Funeral Director. P. S. - All callspromptly attended to day or night.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 2, 1893]

WAGONER, ROBERT [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Robert Wagoner)

WAGONER, SOLOMON B. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Solomon B. Wagoner, farmer, P.O. Rochester, born in Sandusky County, Ohio, March11, 1830. He is a son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Stockbarger) Wagoner, who werenatives of Perry County, Ohio. Mr. Wagoner became a resident of Fulton County in1854. He was married May 18, 1856, to Sarah A. Gregson, who was born in OwenCounty, Ind., July 8, 1832. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Myers)Gregson, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Kentucky. Thisunion was blessed with four children, viz.: Mary J., born July 10, 1857; KalistaC., March 21, 1860; Harriet E., December 11, 1862, and Margaret R., August 10,1865. Mrs. Wagoner deceased April 16, 1872, and the subject of our sketch wasagain married December 10, 1879, to Mrs. Lydia Wiley, a native of Ohio, bornDecember 11, 1851. She is the daughter of Milton and Sarah (Lipencott) West, whowere also natives of Ohio. Mrs. Wagoner has two sons by her first husband, viz.:William H. Wiley, born September 19, 1869, and Charles T. Wiley, born September25, 1876. Mr. Wagoner resides in Section 34. His farm consists of 101 acres ofland, and is well improved.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, pp. 31-32]

WAGONER, W. S. [Rochester, Indiana]
See Rouch & Wagoner
See Shobe & Wagoner
W. S. WAGONER BECOMES SOLE OWNER OF AGENCY
W. S. Wagoner is now the sole owner of the Studebaker and Maxwell agencies aswell as proprietor of the Studebaker garage, his partner William ROUCH havingsold out his interests to him. The deal was completed Monday morning. Mr. Rouchwho made Wagoner a partner shortly after Ed Shobe went out of the firm, will nolonger have any connection with the business but intends to devote all of histime to his private interests which will be mostly in wood and lumber of whichhe has large holdings. Mr. Wagoner will continue the agency along the same linesas it has been conducted in the past.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 18, 1922]

WAGONER, WALLACE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Phone 90 for A HACK TO LAKE MANITOU. WALLACE WAGONER, Owner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 17, 1913]

WAGONER & ALSPACH [Rochester, Indiana]
FARMERS READ THIS
Thirty per cent saved by grinding your feed. We grind corn, oats and rye. Mixedfeed for sale constantly on hand. We take toll or cash for grinding. Come andsee us. WAGONER & ALSPACH, East of L .E. & W. R.R. at Cider Mill.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 12, 1888]

WAGONER & CO., S. [Rochester, Indiana]
S. Wagoner & Co. will pay cash for corn at the Distillery in Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 8, 1862]

WAGONER LIVERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 1010 Main
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GETS THREE CABS
Walter Wagoner, south Main street liveryman, has received three cabs fromToledo, O., and is now fully prepared to handle anything in his line ofbusiness. With the vehicles came full driver's livery, which will be aninnovation in the city.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 12, 1914]

WAGONER LIVERY & FEED BARN [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv} New livery & feed barn. I have moved nearly all of my horses to thefeed barn on east 9th st. formerly conducted by Charles Sisson. . . . Specialattention given to cab service for funerals, weddings, receptions and dances.Doctor Dow Haimbaugh will have an office at the new location. . . . WALLACEWAGONER.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, March 25, 1915]

WAGONER STATION [Wagoner, Indiana]
Consisted of the following no longer standing: John Jackson, Jake Petty logcabinWagoner Station ice house; Sam O. Wagoner's store with post office andgrange hall; Ira Hurst; Clint Strong store and residence - Shropshire movedbuilding to Green Oak in 1927 for Henry Michael's store; residence of loghauler, Arley Gilliland, Ed Lowe, Joe Shadel; Frank Van Duyne, Burkett Andrews;Frank Van Duyne blacksmith shop; Sam Oliver Wagoner farm home, Levi Baker;William Wagoner home; Hopewell school; LE&W freight office and mail bagplatform; Levi Baker house; Levi Baker's sawmill; Stockyards for shipping hogs,cattle, and sheep to Indianapolis and Buffalo, N.Y. [NOTE: see map Fulton CoFolks,Vol. 2, Willard, p. 593]
[Van Duyne - Shelton Families, Fred Van Duyne, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
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LOCAL NEWS - FRIDAY
Mr. Jesse Grimes an enterprising young man of Wagoners, has begun work on atwo-story building. He will occupy the ground floor with his store and theGrangers will have the second floor for a lodge room. A new blacksmith shop hasbeen built and Wagoners residents are looking forward to the stockyards, whichthe rail road company has promised to build in the near future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 20, 1902]

WAGONER
I. D. Hurst has been appointed ticket agent at Wagoner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 16, 1904]

WAGONER
Mr. Carvey has added a barber shop to his store and will also shoe shop in a fewdays.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, December 13, 1904]

WAGONER
Macy Monitor.
Ira A. Hurst purchased the general store at Wagoner last Thursday of A. E.Miller.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 21, 1906]

WAGONER STORE CLOSED
The passing of the cross roads store is already history in most cases, but ithas been within the last month that the one at Wagoner Station has closed itsdoors for good. The owner recently moved to Wabash and took his stock of goodswith him. The store had been closed at times before, but always reopened in timewith a new manager. It was a well known shop on the old Lake Erie and WesternRailroad for years.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, November 13, 1926]

H. M. MICHAEL BUYS STORE WILL MOVE TO GREEN OAK
H. M. Michael owner of the Green Oak store, has purchased the building atWagoner Station owned by Dr. C. Y. Andrews, of Peru, which for 22 years housed ageneral store there. Mr. Michael will move the structure, which is two storieshigh and measures 50 by 24, overland by means of tractors from Wagoners Stationto Green Oak a distance of 2 miles. Mr. Michael will erect the new store onground which he purchased of Ed Faurote six years ago in what is known as theGreen Oak schoolyard just north of the building which he will vacate.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Thursday, January 27, 1927]

WAIF, THE [Lake Manitou]
Should time drag heavily on your hands, try what virtue there is in a sail onLake Manitou, in that staunch little craft "Waif." Mr. Van Dean, theAccommodating proprietor, will be ready to do the honors at any time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 4, 1861]

The young folks of Rochester propose to have a Basket Picnic party, on theIsland in Lake Manitou, on Saturday next, (May 10). The Brass Band will bepresent. Mr. Vandean's sail boat "Waif" will be on hand to conveyexcursionists . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 3, 1862]

WAINSCOTT IMPLEMENT STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
IMPLEMENT STORE OPENS IN THIS CITY MARCH 2
A new implement store will hold its formal opening at 120 East 8th street, thiscity on Saturday, March 20th. This new business house, which will be known asthe Wainscott Implement Store, carries a complete line of farm machineryequipent and supplies.
G. C. Wainscott, the proprietor, is thoroughly experienced in this line ofbusiness, he having operated a farm equipment store in Royal Center for a longnumber of years. The main feature for the opening will be a complete showing ofOliver machinery.
Factory representatives from South Bend will be here to assist Mr. Wainscott indemonstrating the latest models of machinery
Special music, entertainment and lunches and coffee will be available to allguests throughout the entire day.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 28, 1935]

WAITE, EARL, DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
A GILEAD PHYSICIAN LOCATES
Rochester has a new physician in the person of Dr. Earl Waite, who has opened upan office in the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. I. L. Babcock, over the Americandry goods store. Dr. Waite, who is a brother of Harry Waite of this city, camehere from Gilead, where he has been practicing for the past several years andcomes highly recommended as a physician and citizen. He already has a wideacquaintance in this city and surrounding country and it is expected that hewill enjoy a lucrative patronage.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 7, 1912]

WAITE, JOSEPH H. [Perry Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
Joseph H. Waite, a prominent citizen of Perry Township, was born in what is nowAllen Township, March 6, 1839. He is the eldest of six children born to Sullivanand Margaret A. (Woods) Waite, who were natives of New York and Kentucky,respectively. They emigrated to Indiana and Miami County in 1838, settling onthe farm where our subject was born, and on which he was reared to manhood,receiving a common school education sufficient to enable him to teach. At theage of tweny-two, July 2, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, 26th Indiana Regimentof Volunteer Infantry, where he served with distinction until January 15, 1866,during which time he participated in a number of hard-fought engagements. May 2,1864, he was united in marriage to Marietta H. Wright, by whom he became thefather of the following named children: William S., Margaret, Joetta, Anna A.,Frank H., Henry E., Earle, Emma, Laura E., Carrie M., and Marietta. Mr. Waitemade farming his occupation until 1870. He then, for several years, divided hisattention between that pursuit and selling sewing machines. From 1876 until1885, he was engaged in saw-milling; at the latter date he embarked in themercantile business, and is now the proprietor of a fine store in the village ofGilead enjoying a thriving and remunerative business. November 28, 1881, he metwith the misfortune of losing his beloved wife. He is a member of the Masonicfraternity. Although not belonging to any church, he is a believer in the hopesof a Christian religion, and may always be found a faithful worker in theSunday-school. In politcs he is an ardent Republican, and was twice thesuccessful candidate of his party for the position of Township Trustee, fillingthat office in a very creditable manner, and to the entire satisfaction of hisconstituency.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. pp. 736-737]

WAITE, O. P., DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
The contract for building the new residence of Dr. and Mrs. O. P. Waite, on thenorthwest corner of Center and Jefferson streets, has been let to O. A. Baldwin,and the old house occupying that site is now being torn down ready for theerection of the new structure.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 24, 1905]

WAITE, SULLIVAN T. [Allen Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
Sullivan T. Waite, one of the prominent farmers of Allen Township, is a nativeof the township in which he now resides and was born August 14, 1850. He was theyoungest son born to Sullivan and Margaret A. (Woods) Waite, who emigrated tothis county from Champaign County, Ohio, in the fall of 1838. He located upon afarm in Allen Township upon which our subject was born. He attended the districtschool in which he received a good common school education. At the age ofnineteen he took up the vocation of a teacher and was thus successfully engagedfor eleven years. His vacations were generally spent working upon the farm. Hissuccess in the school room is evidenced by the fact that, during his wholecareer as a teacher, he taught in about four school houses. He located where henow resides November 14, 1876. September 28, 1876, he was married to MariaBaker, a native of Perry Township, this county, born February 28, 1855. She wasthe daughter of Timothy and Susan A. (Messinger) Baker, who were among the mosthighly respected citizens of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Waite have four childrn.Their names are Lillie M., Timothy B., Deborah E. and Charles F., all of whomare living. Our subject and his wife are both members of the M. E. Church.Politically, Mr.Waite is a Republican. They own a handsome farm of 240 acres,over half of which is in cultivation. Mr. Waite is an industrious and successfulfarmer and a first-class citizen.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. p. 533]

WAITE & WEILLS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] CLOSING OUT! For the purpose of closing out our entire stock of summerGoods, we will sell Ladies' and Misses Walking Shoes and Toe Slippers AT COST!Boots and shoes will be sold at greatly reduced prices for the next Thirty Days.We insure [sic] you bargains, WAITE & WEILLS, Shoe Emporium in Citizens'Block, South of Court House.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 19, 1885]

WALBURN, JEAN [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Jean Walburn)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Jean Walburn)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Third Letter From Jean Walburn)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Fourth Letter From Jean Walburn)

WALGAMUTH CEMENT PRODUCTS [Akron, Indiana]
FORT WAYNE MAN BUYS TATMAN CEMENT FACTORY
Akron, Ind., June 9 - Charles Tatman announced Thursday that he has sold hiscement industry, located in the north part of Akron, to Fred Walgamuth of FortWayne. It is understood that the deal took place several weeks ago. Mr.Walgamuth is said to be a man who well understands an industry of this sort,having had considerable experience in that line. The factory produces a line ofvaults, cement blocks, etc.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, Juna 9, 1928]

WALK COAST TO COAST
COAST TO COAST
Although but few Rochester people got a glimpse of him, John Borger, a25-year-old young man of Seattle, Wash., passed through this city about 7o'clock this morning on a cross-country hike, which he intends shall end at thecity hall in New York city at noon on Jan. 15.
Borger, who is of medium build, has light hair and wore a navy blue suit not somuch the worse for wear, arrived in this city Monday evening and not beingallowed to spend any money for anything but food, sought the shelter of aprotecting barn in the vicinity of the Lake Erie yards and there spent thenight. He was up bright and early this morning ready for the day's journey andbefore leaving gave a brief history of his cross-continent trip to eagerlisteners at the depot. Borger is doing the 4,000 mile hike from Seattle to NewYork city on a wager and left the starting point on Sept. 12. The 3,000 miles tothis city were covered in just three months and every mile of the distance wasfollowed down a railroad track, as he showed credentials to that effect frommayors of many of the cities through which he passed. He aims to make aboutthirty miles a day and at present is about two days ahead of his schedule. Whenhe left this city shortly before 7 o'clock he told his audience he expected towalk from here to LaPorte and there follow the Lake Shore tracks to hisdestination
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, December 12, 1911]

WALK FLORIDA TO AKRON
WALKS FROM FLORIDA
Maxwell Minnear, a resident of Claypool, arrived in Akron Tuesday evening afterwalking the entire distance from Deland, Florida. Mr. Minnear left Friday onFebruary 5.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, February 25, 1928]

WALK NEW YORK TO MINNEAPOLIS
FINISH WALK
Mrs. Marie Caster, of Middletown, N.Y., mother of ten children, three of whomaccompanied her, has finished in Minneapolis, a 1,500 mile walk. She left NewYork city on July 31, and spent fifty-three days on the road. A number ofbusiness men of Middletown agreed to rebuild Mrs. Chester's [sic] burned home atan expense of $4,000, provided she made the trip in sixty-five days. Mrs. Carter[sic] and three children, a girl and two boys, carried knapsacks with food andblankets. They passed through here some time ago.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 1, 1913]

WALK NEW YORK TO MINNEAPOLIS
EDWARD WESTON WILL VISIT CITY
Edward Payson Weston, the famous pedestrian, now 75 years of age, will passthrough Rochester, Friday, July 4, on his great New York-Minneapolis walk of1,500 miles in 60 days, during which he will follow the routes of the Erie andC. & N. W. railroads.
Weston, who left the College of the City of New York at noon, Monday, June 2, istoday walking in New York state and will spend the night in Goshen, N. Y. Heexpects to arrive in Minneapolis, Saturday, August 2, after having averagedbetter than 25 miles a day. He does not walk on Sundays and will spend Sundayfollowing the Friday he passes through here, in North Judson.
Purpose of Walk
He has covered thousands of miles on foot over the roads both in this countryand in England, but he has never engaged in a task exceeding thirty days intime, that the expenses that had to be met by his friends, and self, did notexceed over one $1,000 each month. His walks across the continent cost upwardsof $6,000 and he still owes nearly $4,000 of that amount. To repay that sum, andimmediately to earn a trifling amount to purchase a small farm, where he canrest for the remaining years of his life, and help others to maintain goodhealth, as well as give practical evidence of the value of walking as the bestexercise, he now proposes to walk 1,500 miles in sixty days.
The Route
Weston chose the Erie route, following a personal invitation from PresidentUnderwood, who assured him that he would meet with the most courteous treatmentall along the way. Upon arriving at Minneapolis, he will officiate at the layingof the cornerstone of the new Minneapolis Athletic club home.
It is not yet known at what time he will pass through here, but it is thoughtthat some sort of a reception will be tendered him.
Another Walker
Weston has a competitor, according to a New York dispatch, Tuesday, which reads:"Cheered by a big crowd John Ennis, aged 71, of Stamford, Conn., set outfrom City college at noon today to walk the 1,446 miles to Minneapolis. Ennismade the start one day later than did Edward Payson Weston, his ancientpedestrian enemy, in the hope of giving Weston a 24 hour handicap and stillbeating him into Minneapolis which is also Weston's goal."
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 4, 1913]

WESTON IS BEHIND SCHEDULE
Edward Payson Weston, the aged pedestrian now walking along the Erie railroadmay not be a guest of this city on July 4, after all. Word has reachedHuntington that he is twenty-four hours behind his schedule, the delay beingcaused by the extreme heat.
Weston was scheduled to cross the Indiana-Ohio line Wednesday and to reachHuntington some time late in the Evening, but if the pedestrian has beendelayed, it is probable that he will not reach Indiana until Thursday, puttinghim into Huntington on the 4th and here on the 5th.
When he reaches Rochester, he will have covered 899 miles of his 1,500 milejaunt.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 1, 1913]

WESTON IS MUCH DELAYED
Edward Payson Weston is doing most of his walking at night, according todispatches from the east, is more than 24 hours behind his schedule and willprobably not reach Rochester until late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.It is probable that he will remain here over Sunday, in such an event. The heatis the chief cause of his delay.
Weston left Marion, O., which is 169 miles east of here, at 12:30 Wednesdaymorning, due to reach Lima late the same day. According to his schedule heshould have left Marion last Monday morning. It is probable that he crossed theIndiana line today, and that he will reach Huntington late Friday, if theextreme heat does not interfere.
A dispatch indicates that Weston, who is now well advanced in years, is being"outhiked" in his memorable trip from New York to Minnesota by a youngrival named Samuel E. Debbs. Debbs left New York twenty-four hours behind Westonand now has forged to the front. He reached Lima, O., Tuesday night, fifty-twomiles ahead of E. Payson and declared he would be in Chicago in four days. He isdue here Friday.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 3, 1913]

COMPETITOR OF WESTON IN CITY
Bulletin
Huntington, Ind., July 7 -- Edward P. Weston, veteran hiker, who arrived hereearly this morning, left for Rochester and points west at 3:30 this afternoon.He will probably arrive in Rochester Tuesday morning and spend the day there,although his plans are not definitely known.
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Charles Debs, better known as "Hiker" Debs, who is trying to beatWeston's walking record from New York to Minnesota, arrived in Rochester Sunday,and claims that he left New York one week later than Weston who is now nearHuntington.
Debs was met Sunday by Marshal Chamberlain and a member of the local Commercialclub. He was first seen by Charles Hunneshagen, who saw the man coming intoRochester from the east. He informed the marshal that he wanted signed papersfrom some local men to the effect that he left Rochester Sunday at 12 o'clock ashe expects to be in Chicago today at one o'clock. Debs says that he expects tobreak the walking record from Rochester to Chicago, a distance of 100 miles.
Debs was given a suit of underwear by Sol Allman. Mr. Allman offered him adollar suit, but he said that a 25 cent one was good enough.
Weston Here Tuesday
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran walker, will probably be in Rochester Tuesday.
According to Mr. Weston's daughter, who travels ahead in an automobile, he willarrive in Huntington Monday evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock. He expects tospend the night there. There was no walking yesterday, Sunday being tabooed bythe veteran hiker.
When informed that "Hiker" Debs of New York, had been in the cityyesterday, crowing of his superior walking accomplishments, Miss Weston remarkedmerely that "there are many such so-called competitors of whom we knownothing. So far as Debs is concerned, we never heartd of him."
Weston now occupies a regular position on the train sheets in the dispatcher'soffice. He is reported as having passed sections exactly as all trains arechecked.
[Rochester, Monday, July 7, 1913]

WESTON TO REACH CITY THIS EVENING
Edward Payson WESTON, veteran pedestrian now on a tramp from New York toMinneapolis, is expected to arrive in Rochester not before eight o'clock thisevening, and probably later. At two o'clock this afternoon he was at Disko, 15miles east of here, and had averaged about three miles per hour since leavingHuntington.
At 5:30 this morning he was at Bippus, 33 miles east of here and two hourslater, he was at Servia, 26 miles east. According to reports he is not muchfatigued and seems to be holding up well despite the weather. No formalpreparations have been made to receive him here, but he will be well cared for,and will probably leave again early in the morning.
Four Days Late
Weston was due here July 4, and is consequently four days behind his schedule.When he reaches Rochester, he will have tramped 890 miles, and have three-fifthsof his 1,500 mile walk completed. He left Decatur early Sunday morning.
Weston is accompanied by representatives of the Hudson Motor Car company and hisdaughter, who travel in the auto.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 8, 1913]

ROCHESTER GETS VIEW OF WESTON
Accompanied by Mayor SMITH, who bade him good bye and God speed at the northcity limits, Edward Payson WESTON, the 75 year old PEDESTRIAN now on his wayfrom New York to Minneapolis, where he will lay the corner stone of theMinneapolis Athletic Association, on August 2, left Rochester at 10 o'clockWednesday morning going west via the river road. He rested nearly three hours inthis city.
Weston expected to reach North Judson, 31 miles west, by nightfall, his daughtergetting there by train to meet him. As he issued from the hotel, he was met by acrowd which demanded and heard a short speech, in which he paid tribute toFulton County and Rochester people. Dressed in a white cap and shirt, and khakitrousers and carrying a cane, he presented a unique figure, as he moved off downMain street, with his peculiar halting gait. He is now three days behind hisschedule, but expects to make it all up before he reaches Minneapolis. He willfollow the Northwestern route after leaving Chicago.
Arrives at 7:20
Mr. Weston tramped into the city at 7:20 oclock, and went directly to theArlington hotel, where he rested until he resumed his journey. While at thelocal hostelry, he was met by a Sentinel reporter.
"I used to think," said the walker, "that the most hospitablepeople in the world were to be found in New York and Ohio, but I find I must addIndiana to that list. Never have I been treated better. Last night, just beforethe storm came up, I stopped at the home of James Curtis, just this side ofAkron. He insisted that I stay all night, and I did. Never have I been treatedbetter, and I want you to say to the public that the Curtis family is of theright kind."
Four Miles Hourly
"I left the farm about 20 minutes of five, and reached here at seventwenty, taking about two and three quarters hours for the nine miles walk. I canaverage about four miles on a country road while on the railroad, I can only goabout three miles. That is the reason I avoid the right-of-way as much aspossible.
"Your farms in this county are great. Seldom have I seen better land andbetter crops. The people appear to be industrious and frugal. There is only oneobjection I have to them, that is those of them who ride motorcycles. Just atthe edge of the city, I was nearly run down by a reckless rider. Had it not beenagainst my principles to strike children, I surely would have struck that boy.He ought to be prosecuted."
Appeared Fresh
Weston appeared fresh, and ascribed his delay to the hot weather, saying thatbefore this week, he had been unable to travel between 10 and four o'clock inthe day. He was accompanied here by J. F. Schuman, who drives the Hudson car,which accompanies the walker, and by O. L. Enos, traveling passenger agent ofthe Erie, who is well known here. Weston eats only the food fed him by Mr.Schuman, from the car, and his fare includes eggs, beef, tea, cherry pop, andbreakfast food. Weston's daughter, Anna, who travels ahead of him by train,arrived in the city Tuesday night, and cared for her father while he was here.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 9, 1913]

WESTON PROGRESSES
Edward P. Weston, who left here about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, arrived atNorth Judson near midnight, and remained there until six this morning, when heresumed his journey. Shortly before noon, he was reported at Kouts. He expectsto remain tonight at Crown Point.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 10, 1913]

WORD FROM WESTON
According to a dispatch from Merrillan, Wis., Edward Payson Weston limped intothat village Thursday with a wrenched knee. He encountered bad roads for somedistance after leaving Black River Falls this morning, having been misdirectedat the latter point. The pedestrian went to bed upon reaching Merrillan, andafter a two hours rest resumed his journey. He is due in Minneapolis a week fromSunday.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 25, 1913]

WESTON ON TIME
Edward Payson Weston rested at Menomonie over Sunday, after completing all butseventy-seven miles of his trip of nearly 1,500 miles from New York toMinneapolis. Weston was annoyed when he read in the newspapers that a man whoclaimed to have walked with Weston years ago, would walk with him from St. Paulto Minneapolis. The veteran said he had never heard of the man. No one will walkwith him from St. Paul to Minneapolis, he announces, unless it be GovernorEberhart, if he wishes.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, July 29, 1913]

WESTON IN MINN.
Edward Payson Weston, lthe 75-year-old pedestrian on his way from New York toMinneapolis, Tuesday, was given an official greeting by Minnesota when hecrossed the Minnesota state line at Hudson,Wis., 10 miles from Minneapolis.Among those who greeted Weston were Governor Eberhart and members of hisexecutive staff and George P. Douglas and Charles H. Gerslinger, representingthe Minnesota Athletic Association. Weston probably will remain at Stillwaterfor a day or two.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 31, 1913]

WESTON FINISHES
Amid the roar of cannon, the clanging of bells and the tooting of whistles,Edward Payson Weston completed his tramp of more than one thousand five hundredmiles from New York City to Minneapolis, Sunday. The aged pedestrian by changinghis plans, after leaving the metropolis, has added one hundred miles to hisoriginal schedule and has walked 1,546 miles. Leaving New York on June 2, Westonwas due to reach Minneapolis on August 2, but when he reached Stillwater, Minn.,July 29, he was four days ahead of his scheduled time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 5, 1913]

WESTON, NOTED WALKER, FOUND DAZED IN N.Y.
New York, June 10. - Edward Payson Weston, who first won fame as a long distancepedestrian by walking from Boston to Washington to attend Lincoln's firstinnauguration, was found on the streets here early today in a dazed conditionand sent to Bellevue hospital.
Weston, who is 88, is poorly clad and unable to explain his presence to apatrolman who found him.
Clippings found in his pocket and dating back a half century identified him asWeston.
Weston said he could not remember anything that had happened to him sinceleaving his home in Philadelphia.
Notification was sent to Mrs. Anna Curtis, a sister in Provicence, R.I.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, June 10, 1926]

WALK ROCHESTER TO ATHENS
NEWS OF THE DAY
Lyle Pletcher walked to Athens last evening in fifty-one minutes, thus winninghis wager that he could do it in an hour. This is an average speed of six milesan hour and is a good gait for a pedestrian. Lyle was accompanied by severalboys on wheels.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 1, 1908]
WALK ROCHESTER TO GOSHEN, N.Y.
TWO LOCAL YOUTHS REACH GOSHEN N.Y. ON A HIKE
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Smith Monday afternoon received a letter from their son Fredwho left this city on Nov. 26 on a hike to Boston, Massachusetts with Clyde"Red" Eytcheson. The two lads are working in a Goshen, N. Y. lampworks. It had taken them just 10 days to walk that distance. Mr. Smith stated inhis letter that he and his companion had never slept in a building while on thehike but had found refuge in haystacks and hay mows. The young men were forcedto stop their hike because of the snow which at Goshen is 30 inches deep on thelevel.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, December 13, 1927]

WALK ROCHESTER TO BROWN COUNTY
BOY WALKERS AT CAPITOL
Howard Sterner and Donald Ruh, who left Rochester Tuesday morning on a walkingtrip to Indianapolis and Franklin, arrived in the Capitol city Friday morning at10 o'clock, according to a card received by Sterner's father. Of all thedistance to Indianapolis the lads only rode four miles and their largest day ofwalking was Thursday, when they covered thirty-two miles. The boys are feelingfine and in the best of spirits. They left today on the last lap of theirjourney to Franklin, where they will visit several days.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 10, 1911]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Howard Sterner and Donald Ruh, who walked from this city to Franklin, have leftthat city for a hike over Brown county, which is considered one of the mostbeautiful spots in the state.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 13, 1911]

ONE TRAVELER HOME
Howard Sterner, who, in company with Donald Ruh, left Rochester one week agoTuesday for a "hike" to Indianapolis and Brown county, arrived homeTuesday evening. Donald stopped off in Indianapolis for a short visit with hissister, Miss Lucy, who is attending summer school in that city.
The boys made the walk in record time and enjoyed the time of their livesalthough several times they "roughed it." Most of the time they soughtshelter in friendly straw stacks and once spent the night in a box car with thefloor for a pillow. After leaving Franklin they walked to Brown county, wherethey enjoyed the natural beauty of the unsettled country. While there theyvisited Bear Wallow, which is a cup shaped hollow on the summit of a high hill,where bears were at one time supposed to have wallowed. While wandering aroundin the thickets they became lost, but finally managed to right themselves andstarted for Martinsville, where they vbisited Fred Ruh, who is there at asanitarium taking treatment for rheumatism. The boys kept a diary and took manypictures, which will serve in after years to remind them of a joyous boyhoodstunt.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 14, 1911]

WALK ROUND TRIP ROCHESTER/BROWN COUNTY
TO TAKE LONG WALK
If present plans are carried out several Rochester young men will walk to BrownCounty and return, a distance of almost 400 miles starting about August 1st. Thepresent agitators of this endurance test are Vernie Plough, Walter Caffyn, S. M.Newby, Lyle Pletcher, and Hubert Douglas.
All who go must carry their blanket as the party will sleep out doors throughoutthe trip and will get their meals at hotels and restaurants along the way.
Arriving in Brown county the party expects to visit all the principal places ofthat unfavored hilly region, and spend one night in the jail at the county seat.
At this time the party has not decided how many miles they will try to make butwill decide to walk about thirty a day.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 22, 1908]

WALK ROUND TRIP NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO
ON LONG JOURNEY
A character of no little interest was in Rochester today in the person of oneJohn Walsh, of New York City, who is now on the greatest walk ever recorded.
On September 23d of last year Mr. Walsh left New York City on a wager of $25,000to walk to San Francisco and return which trip was to be completed in 180 days.The conditions of the trip were that he got the official stamp of the postmasterin every town which he passed through, that he return with $200, which he was toearn on the trip and that he get married enroute. A complete set of memorandumbooks show many stamps and signatures of postmasters as well as newspaper menand others. The $200 question could not be settled in this city as Mr. Walsh wasunwilling to talk on that subject. The third condition, that of being marriedenroute was accomplished at Hammond, when he made a Miss Eckert, of that city,who is the daughter of Erie Engineer Eckert his bride.
The pedestrian has already been to San Francisco and back this far having gonethe distance in 74 days and is now 23 days ahead of time. He arrived inRochester early this morning having walked from Crown Point to this city, adistance of 65 miles, Thursday evening. When he passed in front of the courthouse this morning he lifted his hat in reverence to Old Glory that waved fromthe G.A.R. flag pole.
Mr. Walsh is 52 years old and a grizzled veteran of Indian and Philippine wars.When the government was trying various mail routes in 1882, he carried 15 poundsof mail on his back from New York City to San Francisco in 72 days beating bothbicycles and horses, neither of which finished.
Speaking of his habits, Mr. Walsh stated, "I sleep only six hours eachnight, am in perfect health, smoke a pipe when resting and take a drink when Ifeel like it."
Mr. Walsh left Rochester this morning for Huntington, a distance of 40 miles,which trip he expected to accomplish in six hours.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 17, 1908]

WALKER, HARRISON [Richland Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Harrison Walker. - This esteemed citizen is a native of Erie County, Penn., bornApril 26, 1838. He came to this county, December, 1840, with his parents. He wasunited in marriage, November 16, 1866, to Amanda A. Runnells, who was bornNovember 4, 1842. Their children are Missouri, born January 2, 1869, andHarriet, born June 12, 1870. He was called upon to lose his beloved wife January2, 1878 [1879], and has since traveled life's rugged pathway alone. He alsoserved in the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers, but was discharged on accountof disability. Mr. W. is a worthy member of I.O.O.F., of Center Lodge, No. 435.Dean B. Walker, the father of H., was a native of Crawford County, Penn. Hemarried Anna T. Sterling, a native of New York. He held the office of Captain inthe Pennsylvania Militia. He came here in the year 1840, and was one of thefirst Justices of the Peace in this county, being commissioned by Gov. JamesWhitcomb April 18, 1845. He was born July 28, 1800; deceased September 2, 1851.His wife was a most worthy woman. She was born May 4, 1802; deceased July 11,1875.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 53]

WALKER, ISAIAH [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Isaiah Walker. Unobtrusiveness becomes a part of the make-up of some men, notfrom necessity so much as by the influence of circumstances. Forced intoactivity by surroundings, compelled to meet the demands of present need byhonest, hard labor of hand and brain they have gone beyond the medium of humanexertion and achieved some excellence above the ordinary. Thus situated in lifeand borne through long years of toil with none other than an honest purpose,Isaiah Walker has perhaps achieved success in one thing which places him aboveordinary men in that particular. He was born January 7, 1821, in Montville,Waldo Co., Me. He is he son of James and Lucinda Walker, natives of Marshfield,Mass. They moved from Maine to Richland County, Ohio, in 1834, and here thesubect of this sketch began his labors in higher education at the"Bellville High School," and afterward attended the Ashland Academy,during the years 1846, 1847 and 1848. He chose the study of law and read withJohn W. Rankin, of Ashland, for two years, and with Burnes & Dickey, ofMansfield, for some time, but was not admitted to the bar until in April, 1858.He was also a teacher in the schools of Ohio more or less from 1840 to 1856, inwhich work he was very successful. On the 5th day of June, 1849, he was unitedin marriage to Hulda Montgomery, a native of Richland County, Ohio, and bornMarch 7, 1829. She was the daughter of Jonathan and ----- Montgomery. Her motherdeceased many years ago, but her father finds a quiet home in his old age withher, and is numbered among the old men of Rochester. They have two childrenliving--Clara, born September 1, 1852, and Mary, born May 8, 1878. Soon afterbeing admitted to the bar, Mr. Walker concluded to move West, and he located atRochester, May 6, 1859, and in November of the same year he purchased theRochester Sentinel printing office, and published the Sentinel for nearly threeyears, during which time he took an active part in the politics of the county,district and State, attending many conventions, both Congressional and State.Having disposed of the Sentinel office, he was elected Trustee of RochesterTownship, in April, 1863, and in October of the same year was elected CountySurveyor, and re-elected in 1865 and 1867. He served as Deputy Clerk in 1874 and1875, and was appointed County Surveyor by the Commissioners, in March, 1876,and elected to fill the office in October of that year. It was in this positionthat he distingished himself and won the reputation of being a very efficientsurveyor and most careful and congenial business man. He waded swamps andtraversed streams, established lines and located corners, and to do his work hetraveled over nearly every section of the county and many parts of adjoiningcounties, and in all manifested his willingness to do his whole duty withoutcomplaint. His reputation as a surveyor was not confined to his own county. Hewas at one time appointed by Judge Osborne, of the Marshall Circuit Court, tomake a survey in that county on an appeal from the County Surveyor's work. Hesurveyed five sections in such a manner as to forever settle a long controversyabout corners and lines. He was also appointed by Judge Stanfield, of LakeCounty Circuit Court, for the survey of two sections, after two other expertshad spent several days and had failed in fixing any corners or lines. This hedid in such a manner as to settle all dispute. While serving as Deputy Clerkunder William Newcomb, he was nominaed by his party as Clerk of the FultonCircuit Court, and in October election of 1882 was chosen to fill that position,which he is now doing in a most efficient and masterly manner. He is adescendant of old English stock, and, true to his line of ancestry, possessessterling integrity and a disposition to do his duty in whatever position he mayoccupy. He and his most estimable lady are widey known and enjoy the fullconfidence and respect justly due them from so large circle of friends. He is amember of the F. & A. M., and received the degrees in Lodge No. 79, in 1865,and at different times has held the position in said lodge of W. M., for severalyears. He was exalted to the degree of R. A. M., in Rochester Chapter, May 11,1875, and as M. E. H. P. represented said Chapter in the Grand Royal ArchChapter of the State of Indiana, and received the degree of H. Priesthood inOctober, 1876.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 27]

WALKER & FORD [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Dawson, George V.
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WALKER & FORD
Drug Store
This is Rochester's oldest drug house, having been established in the year 1855by A. K. PLANK. Dr. Plank successfully carried on the business until his deathwhich occurred in March '87. The business was then conducted by his wife and sonuntil October when the stock and goodwill of the old firm was purchased by thegentlemen whose names head this article.
Mr. WALKER has been identified with our city's interests for the pasttwenty-eight years and has proven himself a worthy citizen in every respect. Mr.FORD moved to our county two years ago. He is an old physician having graduatedfrom the Weston Reserve Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1863. We speakwithout fear of contradiction when we say: That the old time honored drug houseof Dr. Plank could not have fallen into hands that were better calculated tomaintain its commercial honor than the gentlemen of whom we have made mention.
This house carries everything in the way of drugs, fine tinctures and a largelist of patent compounds, of standard and reliable makes is always in stock. Theselection of notions and druggists sundries is complete, while the paint and oildepartment shows everything in that line, including a large assortment of dyestuffs. Among the many brands of mixed paints carried by this house, we willmake mention of a few of the most prominent. Woodworth Howl & Co., Pratt& Lambert, Neals "Eureka" Carriage Paints, Chicago White Lead andOil Co's. paints. These paints have an enviable reputation, repeated tests haveproven them to be among the best on the market.
In compounding prescriptions this house uses the utmost caution and anyonetaking a prescription to the CENTRAL DRUG STORE to be filled can rely upongetting just what he calls for. They carry a fine line of tobaccos and cigars,the best brands always being kept in stock. In fact everything to be found in afirst class drug store. We ask our readers when visiting Rochester to give thishouse a call, you will be waited upon in the most genteel manner and receivevalue for value.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 29, 1888]

WALL, RICHARD [Rochester, Indiana]
Richard Wall, resident of this city, yesterday was appointed superintendent ofindustries at the Indiana prison at Michigan City. Warden L. E. Kunkle of thestate prison, announced the appointment. Wall will fill the position made vacantthrough the death of Lawrence F. Mutch, of Michigan City, who died in 1935.
The new superintendent, who is the son-in-law of State Senator A. L. Deniston,of this city, has a wide acquaintance in the business field thruout central andnorthern Indiana. Mr. Wall has been in the sales department of the state's penalinstitutions since 1930. Mr. Deniston served on the board of prison trustees fora number of years.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, May 26, 1937]

RICHARD W. WALL TO HEAD STATE PENAL PRODUCTION WORK
Richard W. (Dick) Wall, son-in-law of State Senator A. L. Deniston, and a formerresident of this city has been appointed superintendent of industrial productionfor the state's three penal institutions. The announcement of Mr. Wall'spromotion was made late Thursday by Thurman A. Gottschalk, of Indianapolis. Mr.Gottschalk is supervisor of state institutions and is also the public welfareadministrator for the State of Indiana.
The appointment completes centralization for co-ordinated state management ofprison industries and sales, Mr. Gottschalk stated in making the announcement ofWall's promotion.
The former Rochester citizen, who for the past several months has beensuperintendent of the State Prison industries at Michigan City, will haveoffices at 141 South Meridian street, Indianapois. Mr. Wall will have completesupervision of the production of industries at the prison, the IndianaReformatory at Pendleton and the State Farm at Putnamville.
The welfare administrator also announced that E. Tom Hannagan has been appointedas head of the industrial sales organization for the three institutions. Nosuccessor has as yet been selected to Mr. Wall's former position at the prison,but it was understood that for the next several months Mr. Wall will retain theduties of production manager of the institution as well as officiating in hisnew duties.
The former Rochester man, is a graduate of the Indiana University, and residesat Long Beach, Michigan City. For a number of years he was employed in the salesdivision of institution made products, during which time he resided inRochester.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, February 4, 1938]

RICHARD WALL TO HEAD STATE PLANNING DEPT.
Indianapolis, Oct. 1. (INS) - Richard A. Wall, 32, was appointed to take chargeof production and planning at Indiana state institutions.
Wall is the son of Claude Wall, Boone county farmer. He was graduated fromIndiana University in 1930 and married Dorothy Deniston, daughter of StateSenator A. L. Deniston, Rochester.
"The planning of truck garden production and canning plant schedules tomeet the food needs of the institutions will be one of Mr. Wall'sresponsibilities," said Thomas A. Gottschalk, supervisor of stateinstitutions.
State institutions have more than 10,000 acres of farm land and more than ascore of occupational industries.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, October 1, 1938]

RICHARD WALL NAMED NEAD STATE INSTITUTIONS
Indianapolis, March 14. - Richard A. Wall, assistant supevisor of stateinstitutions since 1938, yesterday was named supervisor of penal industriesunder a law created by the rcent General Assembly.
Appointment was made by a five-member committee chosen by superintendents of thestate's penal and benevolent institutions. They met yesterday in the office ofGovernor Henry F. Schricker.
The new law sets up a separate division of supervision of state farms and penalindustrial sales which will operate under the executive department of stategovernment. Thus it does not come under Republican control.
Will Serve Until July, 1942
Members of the five-men committee, who will serve until July 1, 1942, are Dr. W.C. Van Nuys of the Village for Epileptics at New Castle, Leslie A. Cortner ofthe Knightstown Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knightswown, WardenAlfred Dowd of the Indiana State Prison, A. E. Miles, superintendent of theIndiana reformatory at Pendleton, and Floyd Hemmer, superintendent of theIndiana State Farm at Putnamville.
Mr. Wall as director will receive a salary of not to exceed $4,000 a year. Hehas authority to employ subordinates, but their salaries are to be fixed by thecommittee. The committee also has general supervision over sales of prison-madearticles.
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Mr. Wall, who is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.Deniston, resided inRochester a few years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Wall maintain a summer home on the EastShore of Lake Manitou. The Walls have a wide acquaintance of friends in thiscommunity.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 14, 1941]

RICHARD WALL APPOINTED TO GOVERNMENT POSITION
Richard Wall, of Indianapolis, has recently been appointed Principal Consultantof Prison Industrial Operations Headquarters, with offices in Washington, D.C.and Indianapolis. The office carries no salary, other than traveling expensesand the former local man's duties will take him to all parts of the UnitedStates, it was stated.
The appointment was made by Maury Mavernick, of Washington, D.C., a member ofthe War Board, and Chief of State and Local Government Requirement Division. Theappointment to the U.S. government position will not affect Mr. Wall's stateposition as supervisor of state farm and prison industrial sales. Wall is ason-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Deniston of this city.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, July 17, 1942]

WALL IS NEW PRESIDENT OF PRISON INDUSTRIES
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23. - Gov. Henry F. Schricker announced today he hadbeen informed that Richard A. Wall, of Indianapolis, supervisor of the divisionof state farms and penal industries, was elected president of the penalindustries association.
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Mr. Wall, a former resident of this city, is the son-in-law of Mrs. A. L.Deniston and maintains a summer home at Lake Manitou. He has a wide acquaintanceof friends here.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, November 23, 1943]

RICHARD WALL HEADS U. S. PENAL INDUSTRIES ASSN.
Richard A. (Dick) Wall, former resident of this city, returned to his home inIndianapolis late Wednesday from attending a nation-wide conference of the PenalIndustries Association which was held in New York City. Mr. Wall, who issupervisor of the Indiana state farms and penal industrial sales was electedpresident of the Penal Institution association of America.
Mr. Wall became a member of the Indiana State Prison in 1931, where he was incharge of sales and in 1936 he was appointed superintendent of the penalindustries. In 1938 he was named assistant to Thurman Gottschalk, state welfareadministrator and placed in charge of the state's penal insitutional production;later Gov. Schricker appointed Wall supervisor of state farms and penalindustrial sales.
In addition to these duties the former Rochester resident has served since thefall of 1941 as consultant to the prison industries branch of the U. S. WarProduction Board. He in company with Lewis B. Laws, former warden of Sing Singprison made a survey of prison industries through the mid-west area. The formerSing Sing warden is also a member of the War Production Board.
Mr. Wall is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Deniston of this city. Mr. andMrs. Wall and their three children maintain their summer home on the east shoreof Lake Manitou and have many friends throughout this locality.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, November 26, 1943]

RICHARD WALL RESIGNS FROM STATE PENAL POST
Indianapolis, April 18 - Richard A. Wall has resigned, effective May 15, assupervisor of the division of state farms and penal industrial sales, a positionhe has held since 1941.
A past president of the American Penal Industries Association, he now ischairman of the association's executive committee. He also is a member of theboard of directors of the American Prison Association.
He was graduted from Indiana university in 1930 and in April of that year wasappointed superintendent in charge of manufacturing and sales at the IndianaState prison. In 1936 he was named superintendent of industries at the prison.
In 1938 T. A. Gottschalk, administrator of the State Department of PublicWelfare, appointed Mr. Wall assistant supervisor of state institutions. He heldthis position until June, 1941, when Henry F. Schricker, then governor, namedhim supervisor of the new division created by the General Assembly, the Divisionof State Farms and Penal Industrial Sales. His offices have been inIndianapolis.
Mr. Wall is married and the father of three children. His home is inIndianapolis.
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WALL STREET [Rochester, Indiana]
Nickname for small business area on E 9th street, from Monroe street ?? to theNickle Plate Railroad track.
See: Rochester, Indiana [Historical Review]
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"WALL STREET" SHARES IN CITY'S SUCCESS
By the Sage of Wall Street
No city ordinance has ever provided for it and no august body of municipal Pa'sor Grandpa's have ever sanctioned it, but we have it - have had it for many,many years, and although the time may come when it will be only a name in limnthe memory of the aged, that day has not yet arrived.
It's Wall Street!
Sometime in the musty past, before the "Monster" of Manitou was knownto be a myth, somebody changed the map of this fair city; filched a block offthe ten broad expanse of Pearl street and called it Wall.
And when so referred to, even in this late day, nobody who even professes toknow his or her Rochester need think twice to locate it, although Pearl streethas long since disappeared into the limbo of the lost or forgotten.
Wall street, then as now, officially begins at Monroe and streaks eastward,across the old Lake Erie tracks. Or in the memory of the old-timers, at BillRose's blacksmith shop to the east line of the Alexander's 'Last Chance" .. . unless one happened to be coming from the lake, in which case, the signread: 'First Chance."
And between those two sentinels to the Alpha and Omega of the street, he nodoubt recalls the eating emporium of the late Jess Burns, where delicious andsundry viands were served at a quarter the throw; of Lew Davidson and hisgrocery, or Bill Curtis and his boy Charlie, who furnished the brooms that keptFulton county spotless.
London's Piccadilly Circus, New York's Broadway, Berlin's Under den Linden allmay have produced bigger merchants, but none ever knew men of greater compassionor the joy of truer companions than Bill Demont and Columbus Richardson thegrocers, Jim Kepler and John Swartwood, dispensers of choice cuts of lamb, ram,sheep and mutton; nor would they boast of greater tonsorial prowess than thehand of John Dodge, the barber.
And they never knew better transportation service than that purveyed by TyneAdamson, the drayman.
Yes, it was a great street - the gateway to the east down which Elliott Baileyand Posey Johnson, Peter Weisener and a host of others who made colloquialhistory were familiar figures.
It's changed now, of course. Is soggy mud-holes are covered with the respiringsurface of paving bricks. Bill Ross's smithy shop is now the site of the EwingGrocery. The Demont Grocery, broom factory and Kepler's market locations beingat present preempted by the Miller Bros. Garage. The Burns eating emporium haslong since made way for Virgil Becker's filling station. The Snapp Grocery Co.sign now hangs where once the name of Lew Davidson held forth and the SwartwoodMarket, later rebuilt and operated by Vine Curtis, is known today as Johnson'sMarket. The Adamson barn, once the rendezvous of countless drays and nickeringhosses, later manicured by our fellow townsman Jimmy Coplen, houses the Johnsonpoultry market, while beyond the old established limits are the Carlton Ice andCoal Company yards, the Farm Bureau yards and warehouses, the fish hatchery,airport and the mercurial outline of the North Shore, familiar for its diningand dancing and the summer residence of many of our citizens.
The tonsorial honors of the street now go to Reuben (Bony) Thrush, who hasefficiently removed the never ending crops of hirstute 'embellishments, whilethe lusty appetites of the vicinity now find appeasement at the Manitou Cafe.
Only one landmark of the golden yesterdays towers its imposing prominence, nothere-to-fore mentioned - the Deniston Elevator, now the Wilson Grain and CoalCompany, without which Wall street might be known by the unromantic numeral itreally is - East Ninth.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Thursday, December 6, 1934, p. 14]

WALL STREET BARBER SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
BARBER SHOP SOLD
Roy Hill, Monday purchased the Wall Street Barber Shop, locatedin the 30 blockof East Ninth street, from Rufus Thrush. Mr. Hill has taken possession of theshop and will continue to operate the same. Mr. Hill has been a b arber for thepast four years and has been employed in tonsorial parlors in Logansport, Fultonand Rochester. Mr. Thrush, whlhas operated the shop for mahy years, is retiringbecause of ill health.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, April 8, 1941]

Robert Mills, formerly employed at the Wall Street Barber Shop here, haspurchased the Raleigh Bailey barber shop in Fulton and took possession thisweek.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, October 24, 1941]

WALL STREET CREAM STATION [Rochester, Indiana]
{Adv} An Unbelievable Dollar Bargain! 2 Gallons Enarco Separator Oil for $1.00Wednesday. Don't forget our $20 reduction on Climax Separators. Wall StreetCream Station, Clyde Towne.
[Rochester Sentinal, Monday, February 27, 1922]

WALL STREET MEAT MARKET [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] WALL STREET MEAT MARKET for Fresh Meat and Lard. JOHN B. SWARTWOOD,Proprietor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, December 14, 1906]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Vine Curtis has resigned his position with Yoder's north end meat market andwill open a market of his own at John Swartwood's old stand on Wall Street. Mr.Curtis is an experienced meat cutter and will doubtless build up a nice businessat his new stand.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 12, 1909]

TWO BUTCHER SHOPS CLOSE
There are two less butcher shops in the city today than there were last week,Vine Curtis and Frushour having closed their shops. Mr. Curtis was not in thecity today, but the Sentinel was informed that he closed u in order to go intosome other business, though exactly what he does not say.
Mr. Frushour stated that the business was so poor that he did not make enoughmoney to meet his obligations due mostly to the high cost of meat. Arepresentative of a Chicago concern came here Saturday and took back all thegood meat which was left.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 7, 1913]

BUTCHER SHOP OPENED
John B. Swartood has opened the butcher shop owned by Vine Curtis who closed upMonday, and is ready for business. Mr. Swartwood's long suit is cleanliness, afact which makes his restaurant so popular.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 10, 1913]

[Adv] Fish - Fish. First of the season. Strictly fresh from the icy waters ofthe lake to your table. Cleaned - ready for the pan.. . . Wall St. Meat Market.East Ninth Street.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 1, 1924]

Lawrence Remley of Logansport has leased the Vine Curtis Meat Market on Wallstreet. Mr. Remley is a butcher of 15 years experience both at outside killingand at fancy meat cutting. He will specialize in handling home killed meats. Theinitial add of the lessee appears in another column of the News-Sentinel. Mr.Remley has changed the name of the market from Wall Street to "The QualityMarket."
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, February 22, 1927]

REMLEY CLOSES WALL STREET MEAT MARKET
Lawrence Remley suspended operations of the Wall Street meat market Tuesdayevening, and with his wife and two sons, departed immediately for the home ofher parents, 0Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes, of Royal Center. The Remleys, who moved tothis city from Flora the latter part of last February and leased the Wall Streetmarket from Mrs. Vine Curtis, are alleged to have been slightly involved infinancial matters. Mrs. Curtis has several applications for the leasing of themarket and an announcement of the reopening of the business may be expectedwithin the next few days.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, August 10, 1927]

MEAT MARKET CLOSED
Walter McGuire, owner of a meat market, 316 East Ninth Street bearing the namewhich was formerly known as the Wall Street Meat Market was closed by its ownerSaturday night. Reporters for the News-Sentinel were unable to get in touch withMr. McGuire today.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, January 21, 1929]

OWNS MEAT MARKET
Mrs. Frances Curtis this morning stated that the meat market on Wall Street wasowned by her and had been under lease to Walter McGuire.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 22, 1929]

WALLACE, BENJ. [Peru, Indiana]
See: Flood of 1913
See: Wallace Livery Stable
__________

UNCLE BEN SELLS WALLACE SHOWS
The Hagenbeck Wallace show has been bought by the United States AmusementCompany. John O. Talbott, formerly of Indianapolis, is president of the newcompany, and Chas. S. Corey, of Peru, secretary-treasurer, a nephew of B. F.Wallace, now sole owner of the show, are the principal stockholders of the newcorporation. They will own half the stock. Cory is now manager of the show, andhe and Mr. Talbott wil have charge under the new ownership.
Among the other stockholders of the company, in addition to Talbott and Corey,are E. M. Ballard, of Chicago, who will be vice-president of the newcorporation; J. B. Warren, of Chicago, who is interested in Chicago theaters andan amusement park; Chas. Hagaman, of Kansas City, and W. H. Harrison, ofDavenport.
Was Newsboy
Talbott formerly was a newsboy in Indianapolis. Twenty-one years ago he firstwent out with a show, starting as a ticket seller with the McMahon show, a smallorganization that has long been out of existence. For ten years he was with theWallace shows as legal adjuster and business manager.
Mr. Talbott said the retirement of B. F. Wallace from the show business, afterthirty-one years, was not due to ill health on the part of Wallace, but was dueto Wallace's other business affairs. Wallace is the president of the WabashValley Trust Company, three-fourths of whose stock he owns, and is also theowner of 2,400 acres of farming land near Peru.
Wishes Name Perpetuated
It is Wallace's desire, said Mr. Talbott, that the Wallace shows continue to beoperated as in the past, and that his name be perpetuated in connection with theshows, hence his acceptance of an offer to buy from men who have long beenclosely connected with him in the past. The new corporation will take charge ofthe show in New York, June 30. Headquarters may be moved from Peru toIndianapolis.
0 [Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 10, 1913]

GOOD BYE, UNCLE BEN
The contract and bill of sale whereby Colonel B. E. Wallace for the sum of onehundred thousand dollars releases all his future connections with the big circusto the Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Show Company for a period of five years,has been filed with the Miami county recorder. In the bill of sale Mr. Wallaceagrees not to go into the circus business or to allow any other circus to usehis name for fifteen years.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 18, 1913]

BENJ. WALLACE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD MONDAY
The body of Benjamin F. WALLACE, 73 years old, pioneer circus man, who diedearly Friday morning at a hospital in Rochester, Minn., where he had beenundergoing treatment for six weeks, undergoing several operations, was broughtto Peru today and the funeral services and burial probably will be held nextMonday.
At his bedside when death came were Mrs. Wallace, the widow; Charles E. CORY, ofLafayette, a nephew, and Al MARTIN, a well known circus man, who hurried homefrom China when he learned of Mr. Wallace's illness. Mrs. Charles MURDOCK ofLafayette, a sister, and Bernard WALLACE, of Kokomo, a nephew, also survive.
Mr. Wallace was a native of Pennsylvania. After serving in the civil war, hecame to Peru, where he engaged in the livery business. in 1883 he entered thecircus business with William ANDERSON. They conducted an overland show for twoyears. Fire destroyed their menagerie in 1884 and they encountered manydifficulties during the first years of the business.
After two years a railroad show was put out and from then until five years ago,Col. WALLACE, as he was familiarly known, continued in the show business,becoming the greatest single owner of circuses in the country.
With the sale of the Wallace-Hagenback shows five years ago, Mr. Wallace turnedhis energies to banking and farming. His farms aggregate 3,600 acres of riverbottom land, and he has improved and beautified them until they are included inthe show places of this part of the state. He was president of the Wabash ValleyTrust Company, owner of the Wallace theater here and a heavy stockholder in theSenger Dry Goods Company.
Mr. Wallace was well known by many Rochester people and the following residentsof this city, George DAWSON, John SWARTWOOD, Foster HAZLETT, Robert WALLACE,George WALLACE and several others were related to him. According to some of theold residents here Mr. Wallace lived in Rochester before he settled permanentlyat Peru and conducted a livery barn here.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 9, 1921]

WALLACE, DAVE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] I am Saddest when I Sing - - - the Prices on my new Spring suits were solow that it made me sad. DAVE WALLACE, The Clothing man.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, April 25, 1904]

WALLACE, EDGAR [Rochester, Indiana
See: Hotels - Arlington
See: Rochester Bands

WALLACE, GEORGE H. [Rochester, Indiana]
LOOK HERE! As the old year is drawing to a close I would like to reduce my stockbefore invoicing - - - Package Coffee 22 cents; - - - - White sugar 7-1/2 cents;Prunes 5 cents; Raisins 10 cents - - - and all other goods in proportion. G. H.WALLACE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 19, 1888]

[Adv] CLEARANCE SALE. Having purchased Talbert Shore's big stock of groceriesI now have a double stock on hand and can't afford to pay rent for two rooms. -- - - GEORGE H. WALLACE, The Cheap Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 6, 1890]

[Adv] CHANGE OF FIRM! - - - - Having purchased the old reliable grocerybusiness of G. H. Wallace, I intend to sell groceries as cheap and even cheaperthan before. - - - - L. B. WALTERS, Successor to Geo. H. Wallace.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 10, 1890]

[Adv] GOING OUT OF BUSINESS - Owing to my numerous farming interests I havedecided to retire from the mercantile business and hereby announce a quitbusiness Sale of Sweeping Reductions in Prices - - - - GEO. H. WALLACE, SouthSide Court House.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, December 15, 1893]

[Adv] - - - - Prices on goods are as low as if closing out. For instance - -- - - - Come in and see WILL LOOMIS, Successor to Geo. Wallace.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 16, 1894]

[Adv] FARMERS STORE. We want your trade and will give you Bargains to holdit. - - - WILL LOOMIS, Successor to Geo. Wallace.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 30, 1894]

GEORGE H. WALLACE (Biography)
Geo. H. WALLACE is a native of Fulton county, having been born in Rochestertownship 45 years ago. He worked on a farm until he reached his majority when heengaged in teaching and followed that vocation for seven years. Then he engagedas a traveling merchant, driving over the country for ten years with a generalstore on a wagon. He then engaged in the grocery business for several years,changing from that to general merchandise and from that to a clothing merchantwhich line of trade he is very much infatuated with. His store is in theSentinel block and he has a trade which any man may be proud of. His longbusiness experience in town and country has given him a wide acquaintance and heenjoys universal confidence of the public as a business man and citizen. He ownsa beautiful home and some fine farm property and is one of the self-madecitizens Rochester may be proud of. He is married and has a family of fourchildren.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

{Adv] Here I am Again. - - - I have sold thousands of dollars worth of goodsin Rochester at bargain prices and I am going to do it again. Come and see theBig Store of Rochester, get my prices and you will buy of me. GEORGE H. WALLACE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 24, 1906]

STORE SOLD
It was somewhat of a surprise when it became known that George H. Wallace hadbought out the 4 Brothers general merchandise store. The transaction was closedwithin an hour, and the McMahan boys had no thought of selling out before. Mr.Wallace made them a good offer and it was taken up at once. The store is closedwhile they invoice. Mr. Wallace will conduct a sale to reduce the stock, andthen will move the rest of the goods to his big store north of the court house.
Tom McMahan will move to Peru, where he will take a position on the electric carline. Hugh McMahan, who is teaching school in Delong at present, will move on afarm in the summer. Ott and William, the other two members of the firm, have notyet decided what they will do.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 13, 1907]

NEWS OF THE DAY
George Wallace has purchased the cash carrier apparatus of E. H. Murray and willinstall it in his big store north of the court house.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 11, 1907]

THE BIG STORE SOLD
The Big Store owned by Geo. H. Wallace & Sons, has changed hands and Mr. MaxEichberg, formerly of South Bend who has invoiced the stock will open uptomorrow morning.
The Big Store has always done a big business. Mr. Eichberg is said to be ahustler, and with Harry and Charley Wallace remaining with him to help him getacquainted he will, no doubt, do a large business.
The transaction which gave Mr. Eichberg the store also gave him the building andMr. Wallace takes 720 acres of land near North Judson. Both men are highlypleased with their trade as Eichberg is at his best as a merchant and Wallacemakes lots of easy money in the land business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 1, 1907]

[Adv] The Leavitt Co, PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT STORE, has purchased the buildingand stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Carpets, Linoleums, Crockery, Tinware, Shoesand Clothing of the well-known firm of Geo. H. Wallace & Sons, THE BIGSTORE, North Side Public Square, Rochester. - - - PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT STORE, TheLeavitt Co., R. A. Leavitt, Manager. North Side Public Square - - - -
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 24, 1908]

WALLACE, GEORGE H. & SON [Rochester, Indiana]
NEW REAL ESTATE FIRM
George H. Wallace & Son is the name of a new real estate and insuranceconcern, which has opened offices in the Wallace building over Marsh's grocery.The firm is composed of George H. Wallace and son, Charles, and is well equippedto build up a prosperous business. George Wallace has the confidence and esteemof the community and is one of the best posted men in the community on realestate and real estate values. This knowledge and his large acquaintance in thecounty will be important factors in building up the business. The junior memberof the firm is a hustler and will doubtless do his share toward the success ofthe business.
0 [Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 11, 1909]

NEWS OF THE DAY
This is to certify to the public that I have formed a partnership with Wallace& Son in the insurance business and moved in with them, over Marsh'agrocery, where we are ready to give you the best possible insurances at alltimes, at the lowest possible rate. Come and see us. Respectfully, J. E.TROUTMAN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 12, 1910]

WALLACE, HARRY [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] - - - - The recent decision of a Chicago manufacturer to retire permits meto own a choice fall stock of correctly tailored men's and young men's suits andovercoats to be sold - - - - Best Bargains in Clothing and Shoes. HARRY WALLACE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 7, 1912]

TWO BUSINESS CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED IN CITY
Two business changes have taken place in this city during the past few dayswhich involve the changing of ownership of a variety store and a garage.
The Star Garage at 623-625 North Main Street, has been sold by Herb Shobe to W.E. Russell of Star City. Mr. Russell will change the name of the garage to thatof the Russell Garage and will maintain day and night service. A complete repairshop will also be operated in connection with the garage. Mr Shobe has leasedthe room at 610 Main Street and has moved his stock of auto acccessories there.
Harry Wallace has purchased the variety store at 816 Main Street operated forthe past year by Frank White. He will reopen the store next Saturday with a newstock of goods. Mr. Wallace has engaged the serviced of Cy Davis who is anexperienced operator of variety stores.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, October 2, 1930]

STORE IS SOLD
Harry Wallace Saturday sold his variety store at 818 Main street to J. M. Wilsonand L. P. Clamrock, of Logansport. The purchasers have taken possession and willdispose of the stock of goods.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, December 14, 1931]

WALLACE, JAMES [Rochester, Indiana]
HARNESS. If you want Hand Made Harness, or good substantial Robes, Whips, Etc.,go to JAMES WALLACE, the harness man who has few expenses and sells the best ofeverything the cheapest of any store in Rochester. Mann Building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 14, 1906]

WALLACE, JOHNNY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rannells, William W.
See: Vanderkarr, John D.

WALLACE, R. C. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] - - - - STATE SEAL FLOUR - - - - MANITAU MILLS, R. C. Wallace, Prop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, December 17, 1901]

WALLACE, SYLVIA MAY [Rochester, Indiana]
A NARROW ESCAPE
The city papers have the following New York special which will be of interest toRochester where one of the party shot at was once a well known woman:
"Two pistol shots fired from a box toward the players on the stage, causeda scene of panic in the American Theater, New York.
"The cause of the shooting is a mystery. The play, a melodrama, "Outof the Fold," had reached an intense situation. Theodore Babcock, as thehero, Nolan Crane, Sylvia Bidwell, as the heroine, Helen Grey, and HaroldHartsell, as the villain, John Lothrop, were in a group at the center of thestage.
"Suddenly and without warning a man in stage box C jumped up and leveled arevolver to the group. He cried out: "That's him," and fired twice.Then he ran from the box.
"Edward Cain, treasurer of the house, attempted to stop him, but wasknocked down. The fleeing man fired at him but missed. He then ran from thetheater and disappeared. The performers on the stage fled at first shot.
"Actor Babcock's wife, who is Lowetta McCaffery in the "Out of theFold" company, thought her husband had been shot and she fainted. MissBidwell and several other young women in the company were on the verge ofhysteria. Sixteen women in the audience fainted and a panic was narrowlyaverted."
Miss Bidwell will be remembered by many Rochester friends as Sylvia May Wallace,who formerly resided in this city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benson Bidwell.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 16, 1904]

WALLACE & BRO., J. [Rochester, Indiana]
Saddle & Harness Shop . . . in the building formerly occupied by J. Wallace& Bro., opposite Chamberlain's Hotel, on Main street . . . A. Renbarger,Rochester, March 1, 1860.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, March 1, 1860]

WALLACE & CHAPIN DRY GOODS & GROCERIES [Rochester, Indiana]
Wallace & Chapin. . . Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,Queensware, Groceries, Millinery Goods. . . Country produce taken in exchangefor goods. . . Rochester, November 3d, 1868.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, November 5, 1868]

WALLACE & CHAPIN STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
New Store. Mr. Grey formerly from Plymouth, has opened a very fine stock of DryGoods and Groceries in second room south of Wallace and Chapins Store inWallace's Block . . . [Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, March 8, 1866]

WALLACE & CHAPIN STEAM FLOURING MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
We have neglected heretofore to announce that our enterprising business men,Messrs. Wallace & Chapin are erecting a large Steam Flouring Mill in ourplace, which will give us three large Mills of this kind: more than can be saidof any other town the size of Rochester North of the Wabash. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, November 29, 1866]

Enterprise. Mr. I. T. Van Duzer, with the services of a number of workmen, isbusily engaged remodeling and fitting up his building commonly known as the"Mansion House," for the purpose of starting a hotel. With theprospects of our Railroads, and the central location of the house, we cannot seewhy the business could not be made a very profitable one. Rochester will thenhave three hotels, and three Flouring Mills; one (Wallace & Chapin) however,is not yet completed, but will be running in a few weeks. Fred Fromm, Sam Keeleyand the Cornelius Bro's intend erecting new buildings this summer. . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 4, 1867]

WALLACE & COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
D. O. WALLACE, P. H. GRELLE, THE CLOTHIERS believe that people read their adds.You are doing it now and if you have a boy from 7 to 14 who needs a new suit ofclothes bring him to us and we'll fit him out with a nice double breastedtwo-piece suit for only 90c. WALLACE & COMPANY
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, April 17, 1899]

[Adv] - - - Wednesday, May 24th - - - $25,000 worth of Clothing, Hats andFurnishing Goods, to be sold at 33 per cent less than their actual cost tomanufacture. Wallace & Co., Rochester's Greatest Clothiers entire stock - -- at retail - - - in our large building, Main Street, opposite the Court House,and will be sold at retail in 10 days. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
0 [Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 22, 1905]

WALLACE & GRELLE [Rochester, Indiana]
CLOTHING BUSINESS CHANGE
On next Monday the clothing store operated by Cy Davis for a year or more willbe invoiced to Wallace & Grelle who have bought it and will move it to theirpresent large quarters west of Court House.
"Cy" as he is widely known, has been in the clothing business inRochester since 1883 and he has made a fine record as a reliable, obliging, andenergetic business man. For a time he will be engaged in making someimprovements on his home but it is not likely that he will be out of theclothing business very long.
[Rochester Sentinel Tuesday, March 17, 1903]

WALLACE & RANNELLS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] New Firm! WALLACE & RANNELLS, Successors to P. F. Sarver in the NorthEnd and P.O. Book Stores.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, May 8, 1889]

WALLACE'S CHEAP GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] G. H. WALLACE'S - - - - and all kinds of Country Produce. WALLACE'S CHEAPGROCERY, Main Street, opposit the Court House, Sergeant Building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 7, 1888]

WALLACE CLOTHING & SHOES [Rochester, Indiana]
BUYS BIG STORE
Harry Wallace has purchased a stock of shoes valued at $1,500 of the HoweGeneral Merchandise store, of Denver, Ind. Mr. Wallace will add the new purchaseto his large stock of clothing and shoes in Rochester. Mr. Howe closed out hisstore in Denver to go into the dairy business. It is said that Mr. Wallacesecured a bargin in the goods which he bought.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 16, 1914]

WALLACE'S DRY GOODS, HARDWARE & GROCERIES [Rochester, Indiana]
N. G. Shaffer send you greeting, Having just returned from buying . . . At theHall of Robert Wallace . . . Dry Goods, Hardware and Groceries . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 25, 1858]

WALLACE GARAGE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage

WALLACE GROCERY, GEORGE [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 816 Main.
On the alley where now stands the Stinson Clinic (816 Main), the long-sincedeparted George Wallace sold groceries and a bit of general merchandise. It wasfirst and last a country store such as existed in that early day. Nobody helpedthemselves as now is the practice in food markets. George knew where every smallitem was located on the store's shelves and could pick it up in the dark withoutresorting to lighting the coal-oil lamp, the store's only means of illumination.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Monday, July 14, 1958]
The location was used by Drs. Dick and Dean Stinson when they constructed theirclinic.

WALLACE'S GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
300 pounds of sugar is sold at Wallace's grocery daily. Low prices, fair dealingand the purest and freshest brands of sugars gives the house these unprecedentedsales.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 25, 1886]

WALLACE'S HALL [Rochester, Indiana]
Christmas Ball at Wallace's Hall, December 24, 1858. Floor Managers, John H.Stailey, K. G. Shryock. Music by the Rochester Cotilion Band . . . $2.00 . . .R. Wallace, Proprietor.
[Rochester Gazette, December 9, 1858

Rev. A. Gorman, Universalist, will preach tomorrow, (Sunday) morning, at10-1/2 o'clock, in Wallace's Hall.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 8, 1859]

Miss C. E. Dinsmoor will open a Select School Monday Sept 5th next inWallace's Hall. . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 13, 1859]
Christmas Ball. There will be a Cotillion party given on Monday, Eve., Decemberthe 26th, at WAllace's Hall.
All are solicited to attend. Supper at the Western House. Tickets $2.00. R.Wallace, A. Chamberlain, Proprietors.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 17, 1859]

New Years Ball at Wallaces Hall, Friday evening, December 30, 1859. Music bythe Logan String Band! An oyster Supper at th Hall! Fare - $1.50.
---The scholars composing Prof. Kelley's Dancing School, will meet at Wallace'sHall tonight at 7 o'clock p.m.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 24, 1859]

Leap Year Cotillion Party, Thursday evening next, at Wallace's Hall. ByProfessor Kelly & Co. Fare: Fifty Cents.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 4, 1860]

The Rochester Brass Band. The members of this Band having at no small expensepurchased instruments, and devoted a considerable portion of their time andpatience to their practice, propose giving A Cotillion Party and Oyster Supperat Wallace Hall for the purpose of defraying a portion of their expenses andpurchasing new music &c. . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 25, 1860]

Prof. Baker will open a writing school in Wallace's Hall on Monday evening.The public are invited to attend. We have examined specimens and consider themhighly meritorious.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, March 17, 1860]

There is to be a grand Ball at Wallace's Hall on Monday Eve., which promisesto be the ball of the season. It is to be an affair in which all mayparticipate, without regard to political proclivities. The Peru String Band willfurnish the music and Prof. Barnett "does" the supper . . .
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 1, 1860]

Fourth Annual Fair Ball Given at Wallace's Hall on the evening of the FirstDay of the County Fair, Friday, October 12, 1860. Music by Reed's Band . . . R.Wallace, Proprietor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 29, 1860]

Select School. Miss L. Fairbank will open a Select School in Wallace's Hallin Rochester, on Monday, December 17th, 1860 . . .
--- Teachers' Convention, at Wallace's Hall in Rochester, on Saturday, the 29thday of December, 1860 . . . Teachers: James Wagner, Burr Oak, Roch'r Tp., F. B.Ernsperger, Mud Creek, Roch'r Tp., J. S. Rannells, Walton, Roch'r Tp., F. M.Ernsperger, Sand Ridge, Roch'r Tp., Rufus McClung, (-----), Roch'r Tp., J.McClung, Mt. Zion, Roch'r Tp., E. R.

Rannells, Centre, Newcastle Tp.\
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 15, 1860]

Social Hop! There will be a Hop at Wallace's Hall on Wednesday Eve., Jan 9th,1861. All are respectfully invited to attend. Music by the "Orpheonists."Committee: A. H. McDonald, John Beeber, V. O'Donnell, Jim A. Smith, A. Sheppard,John Elam, Jr., George E. Smith, Wm. Osgood.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 5, 1861]

Firemen's Dance. The First Annual Ball of the P.H. and L. Company, will takeplace at Wallace's Hall on Thursday Eve, July 4th, 1861 . . Music by theOrpheonists.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 29, 1861]

Notice. German Ball. Dance to be given at Wallace's Hall, Thursday, Jan. 9,1862. Dances to include: cotillions, schottishes, and contra dances. Music bythe "Orpheonests."
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 4, 1862]

Notice. Social Hop. We would say to those who love to trip the "lightfantastic toe" that there will be a "Social Hop" at Wallace'sHall, next Thursday Eve.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 25, 1862]

There will be a masquerade Ball given on Friday evening, the 21st inst., atWallace's Hall . . . Admittance 25 cents. Floor Ticket (including refreshments)75 cents. R. Wallace, Prop'r.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, February 13, 1862]

J. H. Kelly has started a dancing school at Wallace's Hall, twenty-five centseach evening.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 13, 1864]

We understand that a Military Ball will be given at Wallace's Hall nextWednesday Eve.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 23, 1864]

Firemens Dance! There will be a Firemen's Dance given at Wallace's Hall, onThursday eve., Jan. 12th, for the benefit of the Fire, & Hook and LadderCompany . . . Managers: E. B. Chinn, S. C. Jewel, Charles Cavin, A. J. Davidson,Rolla Phelps, A. D. Hoppe. Floor Managers: M. R. Smith, J. H. Beeber.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, January 12, 1865]

Fourth of July Ball! There will be a dance given at Wallace's Hall,Rochester, Indiana, on Tuesday Evening, July 4th, 1865 . . . R. Wallace, Prop'r.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, June 29, 1865]

WALLACE LIVERY STABLE [Rochester, Indiana]
Livery Stable. J. C. & B. E. Wallace formerly from Peru, have opened a veryfine Livery Stable in this place, they are promising young men. . They keep thebest of riding and driving horses and have just received a splendid lot ofbuggies you can always find them at their Stable East of the Rail Road office. ..
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, May 24, 1866]

Livery & Sale Stables, J. C. & B. E. Wallace . . . 1st door East ofPost Office, on Washington st . . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, May 24, 1866]

BENJ. WALLACE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD MONDAY
The body of Benjamin F. WALLACE, 73 years old, pioneer circus man, who diedearly Friday morning at a hospital in Rochester, Minn., where he had beenundergoing treatment for six weeks, undergoing several operations, was broughtto Peru today and the funeral services and burial probably will be held nextMonday.
At his bedside when death came were Mrs. Wallace, the widow; Charles E. CORY, ofLafayette, a nephew, and Al MARTIN, a well known circus man, who hurried homefrom China when he learned of Mr. Wallace's illness. Mrs. Charles MURDOCK ofLafayette, a sister, and Bernard WALLACE, of Kokomo, a nephew, also survive.
Mr. Wallace was a native of Pennsylvania. After serving in the civil war, hecame to Peru, where he engaged in the livery business. in 1883 he entered thecircus business with William ANDERSON. They conducted an overland show for twoyears. Fire destroyed their menagerie in 1884 and they encountered manydifficulties during the first years of the business.
After two years a railroad show was put out and from then until five years ago,Col. WALLACE, as he was familiarly known, continued in the show business,becoming the greatest single owner of circuses in the country.
With the sale of the Wallace-Hagenback shows five years ago, Mr. Wallace turnedhis energies to banking and farming. His farms aggregate 3,600 acres of riverbottom land, and he has improved and beautified them until they are included inthe show places of this part of the state. He was president of the Wabash ValleyTrust Company, owner of the Wallace theater here and a heavy stockholder in theSenger Dry Goods Company.
Mr. Wallace was well known by many Rochester people and the following residentsof this city, George DAWSON, John SWARTWOOD, Foster HAZLETT, Robert WALLACE,George WALLACE and several others were related to him. According to some of theold residents here Mr. Wallace lived in Rochester before he settled permanentlyat Peru and conducted a livery barn here.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 9, 1921]

WALLACE MANUFACTURING CO. [Rochester, Indiana]
RADIO PRECISION PLANT OPENS HERE ON TUESDAY
The William T. Wallace Manufacturing Company, of Peru, has opened a plant inRochester that will manufacture radio crystals and do assembly work, it wasannounced today. The plant is the second one of the company. The concern isusing the Kepler building, 120 East Eighth street, where they will do 100% warwork.
Mr. Wallace has been engaged in manufacturing and production for many years andis well known in the middlewest as one of the leading manufacturers of radioparts. Manager of the new bsiness will be Harry Ward.
Any women between the ages of 18 and 35 interested in this type of work areasked to contact the local U. S. Employment Office or Mr. Ward.
Any further information regarding the employment, or other details, may beobtained by calling Harry Ward at 35.
The plant will begin operation tomorrow Ward stated.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, August 4, 1943]

WALLACE MFG. CO. TO OPEN NEW PLANT INTHE I.O.O.F. BUILDING
The William Wallace Manufacturing Co., which recently opened up a branch of thePeru, Ind., factor in the Kepler building, 122-24 East 8th street, this city,has leased the entire first floor of the I.O.O.F. building [NW] corner Main and9th streets, for the duration.
The company plans to begin the manufacture of crystal discs for government radiosets on or before September 7th. An official of the company stated thatemployment would be given to approximately 140 girls or women and a few men. Itis the desire of the management that no applications be made from anyone alreadyemployed in essential war defense work, in the city or immedite vicinity.Transfer of machinery and equipment for the new industry was being made todayfrom Peru.
New Families To Reside Here
The new plant will be under the supervision of Merrill Personett, an official ofthe main factory at Peru, Ind., at least for the duration and possibly longer.Four or five families from Peru will take up their permanent residency in thiscity.
It was learned today that the payroll of the East 8th street branch of thefactory is now exceeding $4,000 per month, and it was estimated that when thenew industry is in full swing in the Main street location, the payroll willaverage around $12,000 per month.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, August 31, 1943]

WALLACE MENSWEAR, H. O. [Rochester, Indiana]
H. O. WALLACE TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS - BIG SALE
H. O. Wallace, one of Rochester's well known merchants who has been in businessin various locations in this city for years announced today that he waspreparing to close his store. He is advertising a gigantic sell out sale andwill dispose of all merchandise on his shelves as well as all of the fixturesHis sale which is being widely advertised will start Saturday morning and willbe handled by an expert from Chicago who is directing the work. Mr Wallace didnot state just what he expected to do after closing up his present line ofbusiness. His store is located in the north end just across the street from theFulton County Motor Company.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 15, 1927]

[Adv] CLOSE-OUT Quitting Business SALE. Starts Tomorrow, Saturday, 9:00 a.m.sharp. - - - - - H. O. WALLACE, Menswear. 502 Main St. - Formerly 702 Main St.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 15, 1927]

WALLACE MILLINERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Mrs. E. M. Wallace oppened new Millinery Establishment in this place and invitesthe ladies to view her entirely new stock of Spring & Summer goods. Bonnetsmade to order.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday May 21, 1864]

WALLACE'S STEAM MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
Union Steam Mills. Rochester, Ind. John Wallace informs the citizens of FultonCo. that he is now ready to do all kinds of milling.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 7, 1860]

The engine &c., having undergone a thorough repairing, the Mill is now inthe best of order to do all kinds of Grinding . . . John Wallace, Rochester,August 9, 1860.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, August 23, 1860]

Wallace's Steam Mill. New Arrangement. Falls & Phelps would respectfullyinform the public that they have rented the above mill, where they will at alltimes be prepared to serve customers.
Grinding of all kinds done on short notice, or grain taken in exchange for Flouror Meal. We warrant satisfaction to our customers. Rochester, May 9th, 1861.
[Rochester Mercury, Thursday, May 9, 1861]

Tally & Phelps would respectfully inform the public that they have rentedthe Wallace's Steam Mill . . . Rochester.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, April 10, 1862]

Wanted! I will pay $3.00 per cord for timber suitable to make shingles outof. Apply at my planing mill in Rochester, just west of Wallace's steam gristmill. D. R. Martin.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 23, 1864]

Steam Mill. William Wallace is putting into his mill a new and excellentengine and boiler, all of the most approved style, and from this cause the millhas not been running for a few days past, but we believe he expects to be readyfor business again next week.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, July 21, 1864]

Martin & Wagner the Rochester Furniture men, have moved their splendidFurniture Store into their own new building, immediately west of the WallaceSteam Mills . . .
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, December 28, 1865]

WALLE, GERALD F. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Walle the Jeweler

WALLE, THE JEWELER [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv} Christmas Gifts That Last, Elgin, Waltham and Hamilton Watches. Watch andJewelery Repairing. Quick Service Reasonable Prices. WALLE, THE JEWELER, CornerMain and 9th Sts., Rochester, Indiana.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 18, 1940]

LOCAL FIRMS TO MOVE INTO ONSTOTT BUILDING
G. F. Walle, local jeweler, announced today that he has leased the Ike Onstottbuilding, 824 Main street, formerly occupied by the Hill Hardware. Walle is nowlocated at the Rochester 5 and 10 Cent Store, 830 Main street, owned by AldenLichtenwalter, and it was stated that both firms will move into the new buildingwithin the next rtwo weeks. The building now occupied by the two firms is ownedby the local I.O.O.F. lodge.
The Onstott room is now being redecorated, preparatory to occupation.Lichtenwalter announced that he plans to expand his stock after moving to thenew building. Walle has been at his present location for five years, while theRochester 5 and 10 Cent Store has been in existence for the past year.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 14, 1941]

LICHTENWALTER 5 & 10 SOLD TO MRS. WALLE
Mrs. Gerald Walle, this city, has purchased the Lichtenwalter Variety Store, 824Main street.
The store will not be open for business until Saturday, according to Indianabulk law. However, the jewelry shop in the front of the establishment will beopen as usual.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, July 21, 1943]

WALLER, GRANT [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Grant Waller, of this city, is the founder of a fraternal and social order knownas the "Companion Circle" and is meeting with success in launching theenterprise. The plan embraces fraternal principles, with many improvements, andprovides for a club room with various amusements. He has been successful inestablishing a chapter at Logansport.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 23, 1909]

WALLING, FRANK [Rochester, Indiana]
FRANK WALLING WILL OPEN HOTPOINT STORE
Frank Walling, for the past ten years associated with Phelps-Dodge Company, Ft.Wayne, as a construction electrician and trouble-shooter, announces the openingof his new Hotpoint Store on the south side of the courthouse square.
The new store will feature a full line of electrical appliances, includingelectric refrigerators, ranges, washers, kitchen sanitary units, sweepers, waterheaters, and scores of small appliances. Mr. Walling plans to do electricalcontracting work and will give day or night service on all kinds of electricalwork.
He has had a wide experience in farm power and light wiring and he carries anendorsement of Carl Evans, REMC inspector and deputy fire marshal.
Paul Hayden will assist Mr. Walling in the operation of the store. Mr. Haydenand Mr. Walling will move their families to Rochester soon, to make their homes.
In the past several months, Mr. Walling has done considerable wiring inRochester and Fulton county.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, July 21, 1939]

WALNUT, INDIANA [Marshall County]
WALNUT
Argos Reflector.
00 The postoffice at Walnut, Marshall county, will be discontinued on March 15,and superceded by rural free delivery service. Mail goes to Argos.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 24, 1906]

A. H. Albright has sold his restaurant at Walnut to Mrs. Ona Hagenbush, whohas taken immediate possession.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 19, 1921]

WALNUT GENERAL STORE [Walnut, Marshall County, Indiana]
STORE CHANGES HANDS
The general store at Walnut has passed into the hands of Reuben McKesson, forsome time of Plymouth and formerly of Tyner. E. W. Washburn of Plymouth took thestore over on a trade some time ago and has been running it since. He traded itto Mr. McKesson and will return to Plymouth to make his home.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, May 5, 1921]

WALSH, JOHN
See: Walk Round Trip New York/San Francisco

WALSH, KYRAN [Wayne Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Kyran Walsh, son of James and Margaret Walsh, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, inNovember 1829; sailed for New Orleans November 7, 1848, landing there January14, 1849. He came over on the ship Thames, which started with a passenger crewof 900, of whom but fourteen landed alive, owing to ship fever and otherdiseases originated at sea. Mr. Walsh started from New Orleans to Cincinnati,where he arrived in the midst of the cholera, from which there were 100 deathsper day at that time. He there went into dairying, which he faithfully followedfor six years, when his property was destroyed by fire, making him incur a lossof $3,000; but determined on success, he removed to Dayton, where he commencedlife again as a farmer, at which occupation he had been raised, and remainedthere until January, 1859, when he moved to Fulton County, locating on the farmof William Dickey, in sight of where he now resides. He worked as a renter until1862, when he purchased eighty acres for a home in future years, to which, byindustry and integrity, he has added 320 acres, making him at present 400 acresof land, finely located in Wayne Township, and which will be one of thehandsomest farms in the northern part of the township when he has completed thefine residence, barn and other farm buildings upon which he is at work atpresent. Mr. Walsh is the father of eight children, the fruit of his marriage toNancy Hoynes, the oldest daughter of Patrick and Margaret Hoynes. Of thesechildren, named respectively Margaret, James, Patrick E., Mary Ann, John J.,William W., Joanna and Edward, all are living but Patrick E. Mr. Walsh statesthat 10 cents would liquidate each and all of his and his five sons' tobacco andwhisky bills from their cradles up to the present time. This is something thatnot every family of that size can say, and is a compliment to Mr. Walsh'ssterling good sense. In politics, he has always indorsed Democratic principles,and was elected Justice of the Peace two different times by an overwhelmingmajority. He received but a limited education, and was strictly raised in theRoman Catholic faith, of which church he is still a member.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 62]

BIOGRAPHY
Kyran Walsh, one of the most successful farmers and one of the highly respectedcitizens of Fulton county, was born in county Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov. 7, 1830.His parents were James and Margaret (Gaul) Walsh, both of whom were natives ofcounty Kilkenny, Ireland. Mr. Walsh's paternal grandfather was Kyran Walsh, andfor him Mr. Walsh was named. The Walsh family, like many other Anglo-Normans,adopted an Irish surname and title, and was known for ages as "Branach,"which signifies in Irish a Welchman. At an early period it had extensivepossessions in Waterford and Kilkenny. For four centuries it was only inferiorin estate and power to the Butlers and Graces. Thus the subject of this personalmention is a descendant of one of Ireland's oldest and most prominent families.In the schools of Ireland he gained the rudiments of a common school education.Throughout life he has been a close observer and an extensive reader. Hence heis a well informed man, and being a man of foresight and wisdom he stands as aleader among his fellow-citizens. He came to America on the ship Thames, landingin New Orleans Jan. 14, 1849. His ship set sail for America with a passengercrew of 900, of whom but about sixty landed alive, owing to ship fever and otherdiseases which originated at sea. From New Orleans Mr. Walsh went to Cincinnati,where he arrived in the midst of the cholera, from which there were many deathsdaily at that time. Mr. Walsh landed in Cincinnati May 13, 1849, and thereengaged in the dairy business. Six years later he removed to Dayton, Ohio, wherehe took up farming, at which occupation he had been reared. In January, 1859,Mr. Walsh landed in Wayne township, Fulton county. Here he has since resided. Oncoming to the county, he was a very poor man, but, determined on success, hebegan farming as a renter, and continued as such until 1862, when he purchasedeighty acres for a home in future years, to which, by industry and integrity, headded other acreage, until he has become the owner of nearly 400 acres, a partof which has been divided among his children. He has improved his farm and madeit one of the best in the county. He has a good and substantial frame residence,which he built. A few years ago a very fine barn of his was burned, causing hima loss of about $2,900. In 1854, Mr. Walsh was fortunate in securing in holymatrimony the hand of Ann Hoynes, a native of Ireland, also. She is the oldestdaughter of Patrick and Margaret Hoynes. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Walsh has beenblessed by the birth of the following children: Margaret, James, Patrick,deceased; Edward, deceased; Mary Ann, deceased; Mary Ann deceased [sic]; JohnJ., William W. and Hannah, deceased. Mrs. Walsh is a most excellent lady, afaithful wife and loving mother. The entire family belong to the Roman Catholicchurch, and is one of the leading families of the community. In politics Mr.Walsh has always been a staunch democrat, and was twice elected justice of thepeace with overwhelming majorities. He has led a consistent life, dealt honestlyand kindly with his fellow-man, reared a respectable family, gained the esteemof his neighbors, and won from reluctant fortune a good estate, and today standsas a representative and progressive citizen.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 142-143]
HOME TOWN TALES
By "Pioneer"
The biggest farmer of his day in Fulton County, was the late Kyran Walsh. Bornin County Cork, Ireland, Mr. Walsh retained a brogue both interesting andoriginal.
Aside from farming, raising one of the largest families in Wayne Township, towhom every member was given a large tract of rich farming land, Mr. Walsh tookan active part in politics. He was a Democrat of the old school.
Time came when Mr. Walsh decided that the Democrat party owed him some rewardfor long service and donations to campaign funds. So he asked that his nameappear on the ticket as a candidate for the office of Joint Representative."It is not for the money," he backed his demand to the party leaders."It's for the honor."
During the period of this story, mass meetings, selected and filled the partytickets. Mr. Walsh was nominated by a large majority. The meeting was held inthe Academy of Music. Immediately following Mr. Walsh's nomination, some onefrom the gallery shouted, "Speech-Speech", and the obliging KyranWalsh, strode down the aisle to the front of the theatre.
"I am no speech maker, gentlemen, but I want to thank yeese all, for thegreat honor you have conferred on a humble Irishman from County Cork. Mind yousethis - if I am elected next November, and I take me place in the legislature ofthe great state of Indiana, if anything comes up for the welfare of the most ofthe people, I will fight for it with the ta-nacity of a bull dog."
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, February 16, 1935]

WALTERS, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
This estimable gentleman is the son of John and Magdaline Walters, the former anative of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Virginia. He was born in FairfieldCounty, Ohio, February 14, 1820. He received a very ordinary education, in thecommon schools of his native State, and at a very early age chose the trade ofcarpentering, which he has followed more or less all his life.
In 1850, he moved to Muncie,Ind., and was there engaged in the work of his tradefor four years. From there he moved to Clinton County, where he engaged infarming for nine years, then went to South Bend, wher he resided till 1867, whenhe became a resident of Fulton County, residing in Rochester for two years andengaging in the work as carpenter; then he purchased a farm a short distancesouth of town, on the Michigan road, in Section 34, where he now resides.
He was married December 14, 1844, to Catharine Lamb, daughter of William andCatharine (Cupp) Lamb. She was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 10,1827. This union has been blessed with seven children, viz.: Minerva A., bornDecember 18, 1846; Leander, born February 27, 1849, and deceased March 23, ofthe same year; William, born April 30, 1850, and deceased August 6, 1851; Belle,born October 29, 1853; Francis M., born April 24, 1860; Lovell B., August 25,1862, and Estelle G., September 5, 1865. Minerva was married to Sidney R. MooreAugust 13, 1867, and Belle to Burt H. Slusser, March 18, 1875.
Mr. and Mrs. Walters are both worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,and are highly respected by all who know them. They have long since passed themeridian of life, and in the decline have an abundance of this world's goods,and the well-wishes of many friends, and justly deserve the well-earned positionthey hold in the social circle.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 31]

WALTERS, L. B. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands
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[Adv] CHANGE OF FIRM! - - - - Having purchased the old reliable grocerybusiness of G. H. Wallace, I intend to sell groceries as cheap and even cheaperthan before. - - - - L. B. WALTERS, Successor to Geo. H. Wallace.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 10, 1890]

[Adv] COMPELLED TO SELL. On account of having to close up my store and movemy goods in order to repair the room, I am forced to sell my entire stock ofQueensware, Glassware, Wood and Tinware, knives and spoons, etc., and we willsell the whole outfit for cost for the next 60 days. GROCERIES TOO MUST BE SOLD.- - - Come early and get first choice. Produce taken at market prices.Positively no credit. L. B. WALTERS..
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 18, 1895]

[Adv] INTRODUCTORY! I have come to Rochester to do a first-class business andthis is my formal bow to the people of Rochester and Fulton County. I havepurchased the Walters' Grocery - - - F. M. JAQUES. P.S. Special Low Prices onSHOES to close them out.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 1, 1896]

[Adv] FORCED SALE. As the room has been sold I am compelled to close out myentire stock of shoes. - - - - L. B. Walters, South Side Court House Square.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, February 27, 1922]
NEW GROCERY
Rochester has a new grocery store located on West Fourth street under theownership of Henry Walters. Mr. Walters has a complete stock of all staple andfancy groceries and also has a delivery system. He moved to Rochester from thecountry about a year ago.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 25, 1921]

[Adv] 40c to 75c ON THE DOLLAR SHOE SALE - - - - L. B. WALTERS, South SideSquare.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, December 17, 1925]

[Adv] GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. L. B. Walters Shoe Store to be Closed OutStarting Saturday Morning, Mar. 9 at 8 o'clock - - - - L. B. WALTERS SHOE STOCKAND FIXTURES, - - - - - - South Side of Squart

WALTERS, NORMAN [Rochester, Indiana]
ROCHESTER'S YOUNGEST BUSINESS MAN
* * * * Photo of Norman Walters * * * *
Through the courtesy of the National Kiwanis Magazine, The News-Sentinel isgiven permission to publish an interesting article and picture concerning thecity's youngest business man. The following story with the accompanyingillustration also appeared in a recent issue of the Hoosier Kiwanian.
"Norman Walters, a popular and mentally alert youth, physically handicappedall his life, is now the sole owner and manager of 'Norman's Carmelcrisp Shop'in Rochester. The plan used to establish him in business was something like this- A velosipede had been presented to Norman so that he might better get about.Members of the Rochester club then went his securityy for the purchase of moderncarmelcrisp equipment, his mother making the carmelcrisp and Norman, using hisvelosipede, selling it on the streets. Winter came on and the growth of Norman'sbusiness gave the club's Child Welfare Committee the idea of a little businessroom for him. This plan became a reality, as the accompanying photographreveals. Again some of the Kiwanians went his security for the construction ofhis place of business.
"The people of Rochester and the adjoining community are justly proud ofNorman's determination to make good in his business venture and are enthusiasticin his behalf. In addition to the carmelcrisp which his mother makes and sacksfor him daily, Norman sells candies, chewing gum, etc. The Rochester club writesthat Norman's keen interest in civic enterprises and high school activities, hisenthusiasm for all kinds of athletics even though he is unable to take an activepart in them, and his genuine optimistic outlook on life are something thatshould be a challenge to all good Kiwanians. The club invites all Kiwaniansgoing through or visiting Rochester to get acquainted with Norman at his placeof business, located in the [NW] corner of Seventh and Main."
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, July 13, 1937]

Norman W. Walters
June 5, 1919 - Feb. 29, 2000
Norman W. WALTERS, 80, formerly of 1701 Madison St., died at ExtendaCare at 5a.m. today.
Born June , 1919, in Indianapolis, to Alvah A. and Lenna E. WILSON WALTERS, hemarried Lydia ANDRADE on April 9, 1955 in Rochester. She survives, atExtendaCare.
Walters, born with cerebral palsy, started his business career in 1934, at theage of 13, when Kiwanis Club members convinced Rochester businesses to donatemerchandise for him to sell. Within two days he had earned enough to purchase atricycle and began selling caramel corn door-to-door. He opened Norman's TinyShop at Seventh and Main Streets and sold ice cream and sundries. With aspecially built motor scooter he sold ice cream products throughout town,eventually opening Norman's Catering Service. In 1970 he and Lydia, alsohandicapped, opened Nor-Wal Sales in their home, selling Bibles, book marks andother religious items until their retirement.
He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, the Rochester and Lake ManitouChamber of Commerce, the Lions Club and the Rochester I.O.O.F. Lodge.
Surviving with his wife are several cousins.
Funeral service is at 2 p.m. Thursday at Zimmerman Brothers Funeral Home withRev. Rick TAYLOR officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery.Visitation is from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Grace United Methodist Church or the Cerebral PalsyFoundation.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, February 29, 2000]

WALTERS, RAYMOND D. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Raymond Walters)

WALTERS, SAM [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Downs Sawmill

WALT'S PLACE [Lake Manitou]
Also, and better, known as Walt's Chili Parlor
__________

[Adv] Bar-B-Q Eats. Sandwiches of all kinds. Best Chili in the State. IceCold Drinks. WALT'S PLACE. North Shore Drive.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 17, 1929]

BULLETIN
Charles and Goldie Talbert, who were arrested here on August 27 by a squad offederal dry agents from South Bend working under the direction of Major HowardLong, federal prohibition administrator for the Northern Indiana District,appeared before Judge Slick in the United States Court at South Bend thisafternoon at 3 o'clock for sentence as each had pleaded guilty Monday to liquorlaw violation charges filed against them.
Charles Talbert was given a fine of $200 and costs and three years in thefederal prison at Fort Levenworth, Kans., while his wife, Goldie Talbert, wasgiven a fine of $50 and costs, and a four months sentence in the St. Josephcounty jail at South Bend. The sentence in both cases against the Talberts wassuspended during good behavior.
The case against Walter V. Sipe, who was arrested at the same time as theTalberts had not been called at 4 o'clock this afternoon and it is hardlyprobable judgment will be passed before Wednesday. Mrs. Sipe pleaded not guiltywhen arraigned Monday and will stand trial before a jury in the federal court atSouth Bend, later in the month of October.
Each of the defandants had been charged with the sale of liquor in two counts,possession of liquor and with maintaining a public nuisance, in indictmentswhich had been returned against them by the federal grand jury which functionedin South Bend in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Talbert are the owners of the Talbert Inn one and half miles eastof this city on the Barrett cement road while Mr. and Mrs. Sipe are theoperators of the Walts Chili Parlor which is located one-half mile east of theTalbert Hotel on the Barrett road.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 7, 1930]

MOVING BARBEQUE STAND
Walter Sipe, owner of Walt's Chili Parlor, one mile east of this city on theBarrett cement road is moving the stand from its present location to a lot whichhe recently purchased near his home which is east and south of the site formerlyoccupied by the barbeque stand.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, March 4, 1931]

[Adv] New Years' Eve Opening. WALT'S CHILI PARLOR. Free Dancing. The home ofgood Bar-B-Q Sandwiches, Hamburg, Country Sausage and Hot Shots. Best Chili andVegetable Soup in the State. Dance and Eat. Two nights a week for private cardand dance parties. Call 689-W for dates. W. Sipe, Proprietor. On N. Shore ofLake.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 30, 1931]

PURCHASES CHILI PARLOR
Lawrence Babcock has announced that he has purchased the building which wasformerly on the north shore of Lake Manitou, known as Walt's Chili Parlor and isintending to move it to the Babcock boat landing. The building, which waspurchased from George Pollock, is to undergo redecoration and will be openedthis summer on the new site, Mr. Babcock stated today.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, April 7, 1943]

WALTERS BARBER SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Good Barbering at low prices is hard to get -- but that is just what youget here. Hair cut, 15 cents. Why not save on you bill. WALTERS BARBER SHOP. G.Garner, Mgr., D. Kilmer, Asst.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 23, 1910]

WALTERS & GOSS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Cheap Notion Store, North of Central Hotel.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 13, 1893]

WALTON, JAMES [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From James Walton)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From James Walton)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Third Letter From James Walton)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Fourth Letter From James Walton)

WALTON LEAGUE, IZAAK [Akron, Indiana]
WALTON LEAGUE CHAPTER IS ORGANIZED AT AKRON
A delegation of twelve members of the Rochester Izaak Walton league chapter wentto Akron Friday night, where an Akron chapter of the sportsmen-conservationists'league was organized. The meeting was in the Akron library. Harvey Arter waschosen president of the chapter.
The purpose of the league is to stock the lakes, protect the farmers duringhunting season and save the vanishing out-of-doors.
Senator L. G. Bradford, of South Bend, president of the Izaak Walton League ofIndiana, was one of the main speakers of the evening together with Cal Johnson,president of the South Bend Belt company and noted writer for out-doormagazines. The Akron chapter considered itself fortunate in having been able toobtain these men. Other speakers were Andrew E. Bowden of Marion, Indiana, andGrover Walters of Bremen, Indiana.
Nearby chapters, including Rochester, Mentone, Silver Lake and Tippecanoe, wereinvited to Akron.
This is the first chapter organized in Akron.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, April 3, 1926]

WALTON ORCHARD [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] The time for buying your APPLES is here right now - - - - BILLY WALTON'SBIG ORCHARD on the Winamac road, Rochester, Ind.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, September 14, 1925]

DAL BLACK, PAT McMAHAN BUY "WALTON" ORCHARD
A real estate transaction completed two weeks ago was made public Monday. TheWilliam Walton orchard west of this city has become the property of Dal Blackand Pat McMahan. Mr. Black has been the manager of the orchard for the pastthree years.
The purchasers intend to operate the orchard in the same manner as has Mr.Walton.
The Walton orchard is the south 35 acres of the old Spohn orchard. Some of thefinest apples in the state of Indiana re picked from the trees in the Waltonorchard. Mr. Walton will devote his entire time to the management of anotherorchard which he owns near LaPorte.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, February 8, 1926]

WALT'S CHILI PARLOR [Lake Manitou]
"Walt's Chili Parlor," well known eating and dancing place on theconcrete road at Lake Manitou, which seems to be enjoying an increasingpopularity among residents and visitors has just had installed an expensiveSeeburg Electric Piano which will be run in connection with his dance floor.Walter Sipe, the owner, claims that he has the "best small dance floor inthe state" and invites the public to come out and try his sandwiches andchili. Whenever anyone drops a dime in the piano everyone is invited to dance asthere is no charge. Mr. Sipe says his place will be kept open at all hours andwill cater to parties very highly after the dancing pavilions close. His parloris open the "year around."
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Friday, April 22, 1927]

WALTZ GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
BUYS GROCERY
Robert "Bob" Waltz, former salesman for Armour & Co., haspurchased his fathr', Ort Waltz, grocery on East Fourth street, this city, andhas already taken possession of the business. Mr. and Mrs. Waltz will resideinEast Rochester.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 8, 1945]

WALTZ REAL ESTATE, ORT [Rochester, Indiana]
BUSINESS REVIEW OF ROCHESTER MERCHANTS
In this day and age when conservative men are constantly seeking investmentswhere they are not only assured a permanent source of income but a reasonablecertainty of increase in value, the real estate dealer is doing more than hisshare to meet the demands of such men. This locality is indeed fortunate inhaving in its midst such a man as this which is wideawake and not onlyadvertises the property and farms listed with him for sale, but goes out andgets the prospective purchasers, brings them in and shows them what he has inthe above line to offer.
He has for years been closely affiliated with the growth and expansion of thissection and has made a close study of real estate conditions so that he canoffer both the buying and selling public the very best of service. He has on hisbooks a large list of most desirable farms and city property at prices and termsthat cannot fail to be attractive to the intending purchaser.
He has made it a point to not list farms or city property for more than theirtrue value, and this is where the close study of local conditions makes himauthority on values, for he knows what true values are in all transactions hisword is as good as his bond, and people have come to look to him when seeking adesirable medium through which they may dispose of their farms and property. Hewill be pleased to talk real estate to you.
We take great pleasure in the "Business Review" of referring this manto all our readers. Such a person as this aids materially in the growth andexpansion of the community.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 17, 1922]

WAR CASUALTIES FULTON COUNTY [Fulton County, Indiana]
See: Civil War
See: Revolutionary Soldiers
See: Spanish-American War
See: War of 1812 Veterans
See: World War I
See: World War II
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THE COST IN LIVES TO FULTON COUNTY
Civil War - 150
World War I - 22
World War II - 63
Korea - 11
Vietnam - 14
TOTAL - 260
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-1783
[none]

WAR OF 1812, 1812-1815
[none]

MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1848
[none]

CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
* - Killed in Georgia at the Battle of Chichamauga, September 19-20, 1863.

** - Killed in action elsewhere.

Others died of disease, from battle wounds or in Confederate captivity.

David J. Barrett
J. R. Bell
*Franklin Bennett
Louis Berry
John Biggs
Thomas Blacketer
**Henry Blosser
William Brockers
John Burton
Jewell Califf
Daniel Cannon
Greenup Cannon
**William Cannon
Oliver Carpenter
Alfred Carter
Isaiah Carter
James Carter
John Carter
William Cherry
**Jonas Clark
James Clayton
Daniel Clise
Elijah Clise
William Cole
Allen Collins
Joseph Collins
**Josephus Collins
Marinius Collins
Parke Collins
Jesse Coon
David Craft
John Cripe
Dennis Cuberly
Eli Detrick
Jacob Dipert
William Dixon
James Duff
Benjamin Evans
*Jacob Evans
*William Ewer
*Simon Fall
John Ferrell
James Foudray
John George
Christopher Gould
Charles Groat
Milton Hall
Franklin Hamlet
David Marsh
**Henry Hazen
Henry Hecathorn
John Heckert
John Hendricks
William Herrill
Daniel Herrold
Alfred Hizer
Newton Hoak
William Hoover
*John House
Henry Hudkins
*Lewis Hughes
**William Irvin
Asbury Johnson
**William Johnson
Nathan Julian
John Keel
John Kelly
Peter Kreighbaum
Christian Krider
John Mackey
Absalom Macy
**John McClung
Benjamin McKelfresh
Benjamin Miller
George Miller
John Minton
James Moore
William Moore
James Mou
Simon Myers
John Newby
John Oakman
Phillip Obermayer
Jeremiah Ormsby
*James Osborne
Charles Pearson
William Pentz
William Polke
Daniel Porter
George Pownell
*Amos Prince
William Prince
James Quigg
J. P. Ream
Otho Rhodes
Andrew Richardson
H. S. Ritchey
Jacob Robbins
Harper Rodgers
Frederick Rowe
*Fredus Ryland
Edward Sanders
**T. W. Scott
**David Shelton
John Sherman
George Sherwood
William Shields
Jasper Shore
**Orton Shore
Rufus Shores
Nelson Sippy
Carrington Slight
*Aaron Smith
Dennis Smith
*Ellison Smith
*Franklin Smith
Jesse Smith
*John Smith
Robert Smith
Stephen Sparks
Adam Spotts
I. W. Stringham
William Strong
William Sutton
William Swartz
**Carson Swisher
Isaac Townsend
*Robert Tribbett
Darius Troutman
Orlando Troutman
Newton Wade
John Walts
Sylvester Warkinger
Ephriam Warrick
George Washington
**Isaiah Webb
John Weidner
**Seymour Wertz
John Whittenberger
Bruce Whittington
Timothy Williams
Cline Wilson
William Worden
Henry Yoke
David Zartman
**Elias Zolman

[The News-Sentinel,
Saturday, May 27, 2000]

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898-1902
Fulton County was represented by Company B of the 156th Indiana Infantry duringthe Spanish-American War.
Two officers and 102 men were inducted at Indianapolis and spent the duration ofthe war at Chickamauga Park, Georgia.
No deaths were reported in the Company
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]

WORLD WAR I, 1917-1918
Clarence Oren Benge, 24, Akron, died September 19, 1918, of pneumonia in France.
John Black, 24, died November 25, 1918, of spinal meningitis while in camp.
Ernest Burns, 20, Grass Creek, killed while serving aboard USS Delaware, nocause or date known.
Claud Everett Clymer, 21, Talma, died October 7, 1918, at Camp Taylor, Ky.
Jacob Golub, 25, Rochester, killed in action July 18, 1918.
Benjamin Hartz, 28, Delong, died of wounds in France, October 15, 1918.
Fred Hartz, 21, Delong, died of pneumonia October 23, 1918, at Fort BenjaminHarrison, Indianapolis.
Frank William Huffman, 21, Grass Creek, died October 1, 1918, of pneumonia.
Martin Irvine, 24, Rochester, died of pneumonia October 18, 1918, at Fort Wood,New York City.
Earl Koester, 21, Wayne township, died May 11, 1919, in hospital at CampSheridan, Ill., following appendectomy.
Clarence Verl Madary, 22, Rochester, killed in action, no date.
[NOTE: Jean C. & Wendell C. Tombaugh, Fulton County Cemeteries, FultonCemetery, Liberty Township: Verl Madary, d. in Service, Oct. 14, 1918, ae 22y]
Otto Medary, 27, born in Fulton county, died of wounds in Argonne offensive,November 5, 1918.
Adolph Merley, 21, Akron, died of pneumonia in France, December 25, 1918.
Dean Wilbur Mikesell, 21, Rochester, died September 22, 1918, of pneumonia.
Raymond George Murphy, 20, Rochester, died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, May 21,1917.
John Nicodemus, 17, Rochester, killed in Battle of Argonne, October, 1918
[NOTE: Jean C. & Wendell C. Tombaugh, Fulton County Cemeteries, Rochester,I.O.O.F.: John A. Nicodemus, Ind. Pvt 26 Inf 1 Div, 1900 - Oct. 6, 1918]
George Parrish, 22, Rochester, killed while giving medical aid to wounded inFrance, October 15, 1918.
Omer Guy Reish, 30, Leiters Ford, died of pneumonia at Camp Jackson, S.C.,October 27, 1918.
Leroy Shelton, 32, Rochester, killed in action in France, August 10, 1918.
Jesse Leroy Snyder, 21, Rochester, died at Camp Taylor, Ky., no date.
Frank Van Meter, 20, Kewanna, died of influenza at Columbus, N.M., 1918.
William Van Valer, 21, born in Akron, died of pneumonia in France, September 29,1918.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]

WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945
Eldon Abbott, 24, Fulton, killed in action in France, June 23, 1944
Norman Baldwin Jr., Talma, pilot of troop transport shot down over Groesbeck,Holland, September 17, 1944.
Louis Ball, 26, Rochester, killed in action over Southwest Pacific April 9,1944.
Norval Ball, 28, Rochester, killed in action over Guadalcanal January 6, 1943.
Paul Baumgartner, 22, Kewanna, killed in action at sea, Battle of Leyte Gulf,Nov. 29, 1944.
Jack Beall, 27, Rochester, killed in action over Italy, October 1, 1943.
John Bell, 28, Rochester, killed in action in France, November 19, 1944.
Ora Bolinger, 20, Argos, killed in action in Belgium, January 14, 1945.
Harry Button Jr., 21, Kewanna, killed in action at Okinawa, June 16, 1945.
Willard Chamberlain, 34, Rochester, killed near Strasbourg, Lorraine, France,November 20, 1944.
Dale Clark, Leiters Ford, killed in action in France, November 8, 1944.
Charles Coplen, 21, Rochester, killed in airplane accident while in training inGeorgia, July 16, 1943.
Oscar Corsaut, 26, Kewanna, died of wounds in Germany, May, 1945.
Devon Crabb, 23, Kewanna, killed in action in Italy, May 12, 1944.
Kenneth Craig, 19, Rochester, killed in action in Germany, February 17, 1945.
Robert Dague, 21, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, April 14, 1945.
Ben DuBois, 27, Rochester, killed in action over Germany, November 21, 1944.
Chester Freel, Kewanna, killed in action in Italy, March 7, 1945.
George Gault, killed in action in France, September 6, 1944.
Joseph Gilbert, 25, Rochester, killed in action at sea, December 7, 1944.
William Gilliland, Plane lost while flying hump with supplies to China, early1944.
Clifford Gray, 24, Akron, killed in action in France, September, 1944.
Raymond Gunter, 19, Marshtown, killed in action in Germany, April 1, 1945.
Edward Hardin, 41, Kewanna, killed in plane crash near Kewanna, May 14, 1943.
Cecil Harman, 19, Akron, killed in action in France, December 25, 1944.
Norris Harshbarger, Kewanna, killed in action over Germany, April 11, 1944.
Raymond Hartle, Leiters Ford, killed off Leyte in Battle of Philippine Sea,October 24, 1944.
Walter Hauser, 21, Grass Creek, killed in air crash in North Africa, December 8,1943.
Louis Heckathorn, 20, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, February 4, 1945.
Edgar Herrell, Rochester, died of wounds in Army hospital in Germany, 1944.
Howard Hoge, 21, Rochester, killed in action in Normandy, August 12, 1944.
Joseph Huffman, 27, Kewanna, killed in action in Germany, November 16, 1944.
Merle Hunt, 22, Grass Creek, killed in action in Leyte, Philippines, November19, 1944.
Raymond Jones, Akron, died in Battle Creek, Michigan, May 21, 1945.
George Kahler, 22, Kewanna, died of wounds in Germany, April 18, 1945.
John Klise, Akron, killed in Germany, September 11, 1944.
Frank Kralis, 20, Rochester, killed in action in France, November 14, 1944.
Richard Long, Kewanna, died of wounds in New Guinea, September, 1944.
Clyde Lownes, 29, Rochester, died of natural causes in Texas, March, 1943.
Norman McColley, 25, Akron, killed in action in Germany, December 11, 1944.
Omer Eugene McIntyre, 24, Rochester, killed in action over Italy, July 16, 1943.
Rolland Meyer, 23, Rochester, killed in action in Belgium, January 15, 1945.
Guy Murfitt, 24, Leiters Ford, died of wounds in Luxembourg, January 5, 1945.
Theodore Myers, Rochester, died of wounds received in action in English Channel,June 9, 1944.
Dwight Pollock, 20, Rochester, died of wounds in Italy, April 19, 1945.
Ralph Potter Jr., Rochester, died of wounds in Italy, August 27, 1944.
Leland Reynolds, 46, Rochester, killed in aircraft accident at Clinton, Ill.,January 6, 1943.
Robert Robbins, 25, Rochester, killed in action over Pacific Ocean, April 1,1944.
Robert Rose, 20, Rochester, killed in plane crash in Africa, January 26, 1943.
Wilbur Rouch, 26, Fulton, killed in action in France, December, 1944.
Wayne Scott, 22, Rochester, killed in action in Belgium, December 17, 1944.
Wendell Sedam, 20, Grass Creek, killed in action in Belgium, December 29, 1944.
L. V. Teeter, Fulton, killed when fighter plane shot down in China, early 1945.
Clarence Thomas, 27, Rochester, killed in action in France, June 6, 1944.
Norman Paul Thomas, 25, Delong, killed in action in Luzon, Philippines, January13, 1945.
Harold Thornburgh, Rochester, killed in action at sea, September 21, 1944.
Emerson Towne, 23, Rochester, killed in action in France, October 2, 1944.
Earl Townsend, 21, Rochester, killed in action over English Channel, March 16,1945.
Frederick Van Dien, 23, Rochester, killed in action over Italy, September 23,1944.
Arthur Wentzel, 23, Rochester, killed in action over Pacific Ocean, April 21,1942.
Robert Whybrew, 23, Fulton, killed in action in France, November 16, 1944.
William Willard, 20, Rochester, killed in action at Leyte, Philippines, November4, 1944.
Raymond Wise, 22, Leiters Ford, killed in action in Germany, April 17, 1945.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]

KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953
Wilbur Abbott, Fulton, killed November, 1951.
Lloyd Alderfer, Richland Center, killed December 30, 1951.
Paul Burns Jr., Rochester, killed January 22, 1951.
Freddie Campbell, Leiters Ford, killed March 27, 1951.
Dean Crabb, Bruce Lake, date of death not listed.
[NOTE: Jean C. & Wendell C. Tombaugh, Fulton County Indiana Cemeteries,Bruce Lake Cemetery, Union Twp.: Dean Crabb, 1929-1952, Korea.]
Robert Helt, died June 4, 1951.
William Marshall, Rochester, died May 17, 1953.
James Palmer, Richland Center, killed November 13, 1951.
Jack Schindler, Rochester, killed October 9, 1951.
Paul Spice, Akron, killed August 18, 1952.
Obed Nelson Steininger, Rochester, killed December 30, 1950.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]

VIETNAM WAR, 1964-1975
James Ameigh, 26, of near Akron, killed while piloting helicopter, Junee 24,1969.
James Bellinger, 21, Rochester, killed by mortar fire, January 31, 1968.
Dennis Fairchild, 20, Akron, killed in action, January 20, 1969.
Lawrence Gibson, 31, Rochester, died of wounds, February 14, 1968.
Robert Jernigan, 41, Rochester, died January 20, 1974, of heart illnesscontracted in Vietnam.
Carl David Johnson, 20, Kewanna, killed in military truck crash, February 11,1972.
Neil McKinney, 30, Akron, lost on air reconnaissance mission, September 2, 1963
Audley (Bill) Mills, 36, Rochester, killed by booby trap, Ocober 11, 1971.
Joe Nunn, 21, Leiters Ford, killed on combat mission, April 25, 1970.
George Packard, 22, Rochester, died of wounds from land mine explosion, June 1,1968.
Timothy Roe, 18, Rochester, died of injuries received while working on tank,February 26, 1970.
James Talbott, 21, Kewanna, killed in action, August 6, 1969.
James Utter, 21, Talma, killed while on patrol, April 15, 1967.
Marvin White, 20, Newcastle township, died from grenade wounds, April 29, 1967.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000]

WAR OF 1812 VETERANS [Fulton County]
See: Civil War
See: Revolutionary Soldiers
See: Spanish-American War
See: War Casualties Fulton County
See: World War I
See: World War II
__________

Constant Bowen, 1850-1928, bur Omega Cem, Henry Twp.
David Bright, d. Mar. 19, 1870, ae 74y-6m-10d, bur Citizens Cem, Akron.
Alexander Chamberlain, d. Jan 9, 1869, ae 80y-9m-11d, bur Citizens Cem,Rochester Twp.
Jacob Hoffman, , bur Mr. Zion Cem, Rochester Twp.
Daniel Hughes, d. Dec 16, 1860, ae 33y-3m6d, bur Mt. Zion Cem, Rochester Twp.
James Porter, d. June 5, 1858, ae 63y-5m-10d, bur Mt. Zion Cem, Rochester Twp.
William Reid, Sr., d. Jan 5, 1856, bur Citizens Cem, Rochester Twp.
Jacob Sippy, d. May 29, 1855, ae 52y-8m-7d, bur Citizens Cem, Akron.
Samuel St. Clair, d. Dec. 28, 1939, bur Citizens Cem, Akron.
Asher Welton, d. Aug 1838, bur Whittenberger Cemetery, Akron.
Christopher S. Wood, d. Nov. 19, 1855, ae 83y-7m-1d, bur Hoover's Cem, Athens.

WARD, ALBERT [Peru, Miami County, Indiana]
WARD ASSUMES DUTIES OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Indianapolis, March 2 -- (By I.N.S.) -- Albert Ward, former judge of the Miamicircuit court, today took over the reins in the U. S. District attorney'soffice, having been appointed to succeed Homer Elliott, who resigned severalmonths ago.
Mr. Ward was at his office in the state house early, welcoming attaches andreceiving their congratulations. Alexander Havens will continue as assistantdistrict attorney.
Governor Jackson appointed Hurd J. Hurst, of Peru, to fill the vacancy in theMiami circuit court. Hurst, attorney, was to take the oath of office today.
__________

Hurst took the oath of office Monday morning, and was on the bench today.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, March 2, 1925]

ALBERT WARD WILL GO INTO PRIVATE PRACTICE SHORTLY
Indianapolis, Mar. 10. (I.N.S.) - U.S. District Attorney Albert Ward appointedby President Coolidge Mar 1st, 1924, has sent his resignation to AttorneyGeneral Sargent it became known here today. The resignation is effective Mayfirst.
Ward confirmed the news by stating he wished to enter the general practice oflaw in Indianapolis.
During his incumbrance he prosecuted several famous cases including the HawkinsMortgage Co. Mail fraud and the Jack Daniels distillery bankruptcy case.
Ward formerly was judge of the Miami county circuit court.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, March 10, 1927]

JUDGE WARD TO BECOME A LAW FIRM MEMBER
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21. - Albert Ward, United States district attorney forthe last four years, will become associated with the law firm of Slaymaker,Turner, Merrel, Adams & Locke, at the close of his term March 1, it wasannounced yesterday. The new firm will be known as Slaymaker, Merrel, Ward &Locke and will maintain offices at 751 Consolidated building. Mr. Ward forwardedhis formal resignation to the United States attorney general's office Tuesdayevening. He served as judge of the Miami Circuit court at Peru several yearsbefore resigning to take the Federal appointment, and spends his summers at hiscottage near the West Side Hotel at Lake Manitou.
Appointment of a successor to Mr. Ward is said to be under consideration atWashington. Leading contenders are understood to be John K. Ruckelshaus,Indianapolis attorney, and Judge Cleon W. Mount of the Tipton Circuit court atTipton.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 21, 1929]

WARD, HENRY H. [Rochester, Indiana]
HENRY H. WARD (Biography)
Among the natives of Fulton county few men are more widely known than Dr. HenryH. WARD. Born in Rochester, the only son of Del. WARD, in 1856, he was given theadvantage of a city school education. On reaching his majority he served asDeputy Sheriff for four years, two under his father and two under Sidney MOON.Then he entered mercantile life and followed it for five years. But he lovedhorses and decided to turn his attention to Veterinary Surgery. Accordingly hetook up the study and graduated from Toronto Veterinary College in 1886. He atonce commenced the practice of his profession here in partnership with hisfather and has been very successful. A natural politician, he came within a veryfew votes of being nominated for county Clerk two years ago and yet was in therace but a few days. He is now also half owner of the brick livery barn and hasa nice business. He married Miss Ray SAMUELS and they have one son, Del. [WARD].
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

FURNITURE STORE SOLD
A transaction was completed Wednesday evening whereby Dr. H. H. Ward, ex-countyclerk, became sole owner of the John A. Braman & Son furnitue store, onNorth Main street, and took possession at once.
Mr. Ward at present, proposes to conduct the store in the room it occupies atthe present time. Although not an old experienced man at the business Mr. Wardwill undoubtedly make a great success of it. He is genteel and accommodating,and it is safe to predict that his army of loyal friends throughout Rochesterand the county will give him their patronage. He expects to carry a full line offurniture, carpets, stoves and general furnishings.
[Rochester Sentinel,Thursday, February 16, 1905]

NEWS OF THE DAY
L. R. Linkenhelt has returned from the Toronto Veterinary College where he hasjust graduated, and has formed a parnership with Dr. H. H. Ward for the practiceof Veterinary work. The firm will have an office at the Ward & Huffer liverybarn, where one of its members can always be found ready to give intelligenthelp to the suffering members of the animal kingdom.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 21, 1905]

LEO ZIMMERMAN BUYS BUSINESS
Through a deal which was completed this morning, Leo Zimmerman, late of the V.Zimmerman's Sons' furniture establishment, became the sole owner of the H. H.Ward furniture store, this city. Mr. Zimmerman took possession of his newbusiness this morning and at once set about the task of rearranging the stock tohis taste. The new owner is a well known and industrious business man andthrough his long association with the furniture business is admirably fitted tobuild up a most lucrative patronage.
Mr. Ward, the retiring owner, has not fully decided on his future course ofbusiness, but at present will probably follow his profession as a veterinary.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, December 18, 1911]

IN NEW LOCATION
Henry H. Ward, who recently sold his furniture business to Leo Zimmerman, hasrented the business room south of the court house recently vacated by HedgeBros., and will fit it up nicely as an office, where he will continue hispractice as a veterinary surgeon.
Mr. Ward is one of the most successful veterinarys in northern Indiana, and haskept in touch with his profession during the years he served as county clerk andwhile engaged in business. Mr. Ward retains his furniture lease accounts, all ofwhich may be settled as they come due at his office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 20, 1911]

WARD, HOMER [Perrysburg, Miami County, Indiana]
See Fruit and Produce Stands

WARD, WILLIAM ADELMAN "DEL" [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
William A. Ward. - This gentleman, better known as "Del Ward," is theson of Ebenezer and Rachel Ward, and a native of New York, born February 26,1829. He immigrated to Fulton County in 1831 with his parents, and received acommon school education in the rural schools of his adopted county, and by hisindustry and fidelity soon won the respect of his fellow-citizens. On January 3,1853, he was united in marriage to Miss Adaline H. Howes, who was born atMadison, Ind., January 21, 1835. One child survives this union, Henry H., whowas born April 17, 1856. Mr. Ward labored on a farm for a number of years, andin 1876 he was nominated by he Democratic party for Sheriff and was triumphantlyelected at the following October election. He served two years in that capacityand retired from the office with the good will and approbation of his numerousfriends. His father, Ebenezer Ward, is of Scotch descent, born in New York in1785. He married Rachel Spencer of his native State. They came to this county in1831, when the Indian wigwam was the only sign of civilization, and the pathlesswilderness was the abode of the wild, untutored savage. The companiuon of hisjoys and sorrows not being accustomed to the hardships of pioneer live, found anearly grave near her Western home, August 20, 1838. Not discouraged by his earlybereavement, he toiled on in his endeavors to sustain himself, and rear thelittle family which had been intrusted to his care. On March 18, 1847, at theage of sixty-two years he slept the sleep that knows no waking, surrounded bynumerous friends and acquaintances. He was one of the Associate Judges of theCounty, when these were acting, and took sick while on the bench, dying after anillness of five days. He was the father of eleven children, four sons and sevendaughters. Thomas H. Howes was the father of Mrs. Ward. He was a native of NewYork, and born December 5, 1805. He was a physicain of some note and came tothis county in 1847. He was married twice, and left two daughters and one son.He deceased March 19, 1864.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 27]

BIOGRAPHY
William A. Ward, Rochester, Ind. - To have lived in Fulton county continuouslysince 1832 and to have been twice honored with the office of sheriff and now,March 11, 1896, to be only one of two living persons who came here in that earlyyear, is sufficient to make a man honored. "Del" Ward, as he isfamiliarly known, was born in the state of New York, Feb. 26, 1829, and is theson of Ebenezer and Rachael (Spencer) Ward, who were natives of the same stateand who came to Fulton county, Ind., in 1832, bringing with them their family ofseven children, of whom the subject of this review is the only one living. Themother died in 1841, and the father in 1847. The father was a farmer byoccupation. He was a man of good education and in the early part of his manhoodhe gave some of his time to the ministry. Upon coming here he taught the firstschool in Fulton county, and this school was attended by "Del" Ward.His brother, John B. Ward, was the first lawyer to hang out his shingle for thepractice of law in Rochester. The earlier years of Mr. Ward were devoted tofarming, but later he turned his attention to the business of veterinary surgeonand livery. For nearly fifty years he has been known as a reliable surgeon inthis line. He was engaged continously in the livery business in this city formore than eighteen years or until 1871. In politics he has always beenidentified with the democratic party and in 1876 was elected sheriff of Fultoncounty and re-elected in 1878 by the magnificent majority of 465. He was one ofthe best sheriffs the county ever had. In 1895 he again engaged in the liverybusiness and now, with his son, Dr. Henry Ward, continues the same. Mr. Ward wasmarried in 1853 to Miss Adeline H. Howes, who was born in Johnson county, Ind.,and died in Rochester in 1890, at about fifty-seven years of age. Mr. Ward is amember of the Masonic fraternity and is a man of unquestioned character and oneof the best known men in Fulton county. Of three children born to the subject ofthis sketch only Dr. Henry Ward is living. He was born in Rochester in 1856, waseducated at the schools of Rochester and in 1887 graduated from the Ontarioveterinary college at Toronto, Canada, and since that time has been engaged inthe practice of his profession. He was married in 1878 to Miss Ray Samuels, anative of Ohio. To this union is one child, Adelman. He is a democrat inpolitics, a Mason, a member of the I.O.O.F. and K. of P.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 143-144]

Uncle Del Ward is surely the pioneer liveryman in this section, if not in thestate. He was running a livery stable in Rochester 46 years ago and is still inthe same business. And, by the way, he is one of the most reliable men in thebusiness and has a wide acquaintance among horsemen.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 23, 1901]

HAPPY OLD TIMER
Today is the 75th birthday of ex-Sheriff William Adelman Ward, known to almosteverybody as "Del" Ward. And notwithstanding his age he was at hisplace of business apparently the liveliest and most interested man of all ofthem.
Del Ward came to Fulton county in 1831. He was but a little child then but hedistinctly remembers that the settlers were all Indians and half breeds excepttwo, viz: George Bozarth and Wm. Ramsey, both long since dead. At that timethere was no suggestion of a town where Rochester now stands. But later theMartins, Shields and other families came in and when Del was twelve years old hehelped to carry the surveyors chain in "laying out" Rochester, deerbeing as plentiful then as cattle were later.
When twenty-four years old Mr. Ward opened a sort of combined livery stable andcombined long distance hack line which did not operate on exact schedule time.They traveled then when the roads were passable and there was anyone who wantedto go.
In 1871 he moved on a farm and four years later, he was sent back to town asSheriff of the County, which office he held most popularly for two terms. Laterhe was elected town Marshal, was in the grocery business a few years and thendrifted into the business he liked best -- liveryman and veterinary surgeon, andin which he is still engaged.
Therefore Del Ward is the earliest settler of Fulton County now living and it isnot extravagant to say that he has been the most widely known and popular manthat ever lived in the county. At one time it is said he could recognize andcall by name 90 per cent of the residents of the county and there is not anotherman living in the county, today, so widely known as "Uncle Del Ward."And he made his hosts of friends by honesty and good fellowship. Although ahorseman all of his life he never deceived in selling or tradng horses, and as apublic officer and business man, no man could ever say that Del Ward did nottreat him square.
He is now making his home with his son, Dr. H. H. Ward, and the shower ofcongratulations and presents which he received in honor of his birthday made hima deservedly happy old man. May he live and enjoy life many years yet.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, February 26, 1904]

DOINGS IN FULTON COUNTY
By William A. Ward
As I go back in memory, over my long and somewhat eventful life, it is almostimpossible to realize that it has been my good fortune to see this part ofIndiana change from unbroken forest, filled with wild game and inhabited byIndians, to a highly civilized land of cities, fertile farms and comfortablehomes. Neither can our boys and girls in this thriving age of education andcompetition in the affairs of men, understand anything of the hardships enduredby the brave men and women who left their kith and kin in other states, came toa strange country, built homes and blazed a way for coming generations to findcomfort and competence.
It is not my intention to relate any historical data of those early days, whenRochester did not exist, even in fancy, but to tell some of the incidents whichare indelibly stamped on my memory, and acquaint a modern public with mattersthat are of importance to me.
When a mere babe, two and one-half years of age, my parents, Ebenezer and RachelWard, with their seven children, left their home in New York, and journeyed, byslow degrees, to Indiana, arriving here in about four months. I was too young toremember incidents in the overland trip, but recall that my parents frequentlytalked of the journey, and said that not far distant from this place, we staidthree nights at one house, yet traveled every day, the ground being so soft thatour teams and horses were nearly lost in the mire. It was hitch and unhitch, theadvance being slow indeed. After a long and patient struggle we reached ourdestination and became citizens of the Hoosier state.
To go into the details of constructing a home, clearing land and the manyprivations sustained by my people, would lengthen this effort too much. Sufficeit to say that the only whites here in those days, which I think was in 1831,were George Bozarth, William Lindsey, Joseph Truckey, Thomas Robb, DeClair, ahalf Frenchman, and "Friend" Johnson, who was the Indian gunsmith. Wesoon made friends with the red men, and as I grew in size and age, I became theinterpreter for the whites. As time went on, the pale faces became morenumerous, and stores and houses were built. Among those early store keepers, Irecall the names of Johns and Dave Holland, the store standing on what is nowthe corner of Main and Third streets. James Moore was also a store keeper andheld forth in a log building, where he sold whiskey by the barrel, receiving$125 per barrel, the same being purchased by the Indians. The story went thatMoore sold the liquor straight until the Indians were drunk, then watered thewhiskey, and they would drink until they were sober. Discovering the deception,they would pour the remainder on the fire with the comment, "Too muchbish."
About this time Benjamin Benjamin put in an appearance and erected the firstframe house of any consequence. It still stands, a monument to the enterprise ofthe builder, and may be inspected by any citizen. I refer to the first housesouth of the Barcus lime house on Main street. It was in this house that thefirst tragedy occurred among the white settlers. Margaret Reese, who lived therewith her husband, decided that she wanted to get rid of her spouse, and dailyadministered broken doses of arsnic, the man dying in two weeks. Dr. Howes andDr. Chas. Brackett removed the stomach of the dead man and took it to LaPorte,where it was analyzed by Dr. Meeker, who could not tell whether the poison hadbeen administered before death or had been dropped in the bottle containing thestomach on the way to LaPorte. Mrs. Reese was acquitted and allowed to go herway.
Another incident that may be of interest now comes to my mind. A band of thievesbegan to make life miserable for the settlers. Houses, stores, mills and stockreceived visits from the band, the territory of their operations reaching as faras Ft. Wyne, Lafayette and Logansport, Forrest mills, near the latter placelosing heavily. The headquarters of the band was an old house which stood a milesouth of what is now Fulton, on land owned by William Wright. The band wascomposed of two Murdock brothers, Wright boys, Kingsley and Stotenburger. Allefforts to capture the thieves and bring them to justice seemed of no avail.
I have passed over the time when the settlement had attained to the dignity of avillage, and Fulton county had been organized. James Gregory had been electedsheriff, and had left nothing undone to bring about the arrest of the offendersof the law, accomplishing but little. The following men then decided they wouldcapure the outlaws and laid plans which were successfully carried out: Dr. LymanBrackett, Eli Clifford, Luke Ward and William Spencer. Men were stationed at thesouth end of the village, others at the north end, where the stage, which wasdriven by Henry Barcus, always stopped. When all was ready the above named menrode boldly to the rendexvous of the robbers, which they surrounded. Wm.Spencer, who was the leader, knocked at the back door, and was met by a crossdog, which he promptly dispatched with a club, then hearing some one within,without further ceremony, broke in the door, coming face to face withStotenburger, the most desperate of the gang. It was a hand to hand fight, andSpencer surely would have lost his life had he not called for the others to cometo his aid, for Stotenburger, who was a strong man, was slowly, step by step,forcing Spencer backward to a table on which laid a long knife. The front doorwas soon demolished, others of the band captured and Spencer freed from hisdangerous position. A search was made of the upper floor. Here a bed was foundthat seemed empty and smooth. A grab at the cover though, revealed another ofthe thieves, who was soon tied to the rest and the coterie marched to town. Asan example to the rest, Stotenburger was tied to a tree and lashed until hisbody was a mass of cuts and bruises. The thieves were then put in safe keeping,tried before Judge Wright and sentenced to prison. The prisoners were to betaken to Jeffersonville, the journey being made in an open wagon. Is there anycause for astonishment when I say all escaped save one, and he was too sick tomake the attempt? He died soon after reaching prison. For several years afterbreaking up this band, dress goods, silks, satins, groceries, flour and moneywere found in hollow trees and various places where the thieves had concealedtheir spoils.
Another tragedy that occurred at a somewhat later day, but still an incident ofthose primitive times, was a cold-blooded murder east of town, and thecircumstances may be remembered by one or two still living. Arnold Perry, an oldbachelor, resided on a farm with his sister and nephew, Jackson Clemens. The ladwanted to secure the farm and marry a girl of the neighborhood, so followed hisuncle to the woods where he was clearing the land, and deliberately shot him inthe back, killing him instantly. All night neighbors searched for the missingman, finally finding the body and gave it burial, then turned their attention tolocating the murderer. Old Man VanLue openly accused the boy of killing hisuncle and he confessed to the crime and the motive The criminal was brought totown, a preliminary hearing given him and he was bound over to circuit court.Rochester could not boast of a jail, so Clemens was kept in the County Auditor'soffice in the old court house, during the day, and taken to the court room atnight, where he was chained to the floor. Abel Greenwood was sheriff and he andI watched Clemens night about. The night before the trial, Greenwood suggestedthat he stay with the prisoner while I take a rest. I am not prepared to say thesheriff planned the escape of the murderer, but the facts are that when daybreakcame the bird had flown, no one knew where. He had broken his chains, burned theboards from the windows and departed for parts unknown. Long afterward, I heardthat he had settled in Nebraska, changed his name to Jackson Burse, married andprospered. I offered to bring him back, on learning his whereabouts, but theauthorities seemed to think the expense would be greater than the benefitderived to the county, so Clemens died a free man as far as that crime isconcerned. I realize these crimes I have related, are nothing compared to theawful tragedies occurring all about us in these modern times, but coming inthose early days, when every man was a law unto himself and each feeling theresponsibility of the well being of the community, they struck the inhabitantswith horror, which was only appeased when we felt that justice had been meted tothe law breaker.
One of the most pleasing things I recall of my early experience, was myassociation with the Indians. Perhaps the readers of this sketch will beinterested in knowing something of the customs of those children of nature. Theburial of the dead was in some respecrts peculiar. The deceased was tied in asitting posture against a tree, all his personal belongings, tomahawk, arrows,gun and blankets were laid around him. A screen of brush was then put around thecorpse, and he was visited each day by members of the tribe until the law ofdisintegration resolved the form back to nature. The tribe were honest with eachother, and had great respect for their dead, touching nothing that belonged tothem lest when they came to die the Great Spirit would refuse them entrance tothe Happy Hunting Ground. I saw the remains of two Indians receive the lastrites as above described. Only once to my knowledge did they go on the war pathduring my association with them. That was when they refused to accept the amountof money agreed upon in the treaty with the government, in exchange for theirland. So unruly did they become, a message was sent to Logansport for the troopsstationed there. Well do I remember what an imposing sight I thought thesoldiers presented in their uniforms, brass buttons and stripes, as they came inand wheeled into line. The Indians were gathered at Pottawattomie mills, nearthe lake, where a wagon laden with silver money stood to pay each red man hisclaim. The interpreter for the government spoke, explaining the meaning of thepresence of the sodiers, after which each Indian speedily took his money and thetroops returned to Logansport. Not a shot was fired on either side.
Tradition says the red men buried money at different points in the county. Ibelive this is true. Indians owned the land which is now the farm of Mrs. EdithCowgill-Bryant, north of town. I am almost positive money is buried on thatland, and in large quantities. Some day it will be discovered, buried in an ironkettle, and the coin in gold. Years after the Indians had gone from among us, ayoung brave returned, staid at the Wallace house several months and employedAndy Edwards to turn over the soil on that land. He said that the oldest man inthe tribe had told of the buried gold, and said it was hidden so many feet underground, between three trees. The ground had been cleared, however, the treesremoved and the soil under cultivation, so the search was fruitless. I alsobelieve money is buried in the field east of what was the Duke Kilmer farm. Itwas here DeClair, the half-breed lived many years in a little cabin, burying hismoney after the custom of his tribe, and died with the secret untold.
As a general thing the red men were peacable, although they had a fondness forthe white men's "fire water." We-we-see was very firm with the tribeand demanded fair conduct of his subjects. It was no uncommon thing for Poor Loto imbibe freely, lose his blanket and have to buy it back from somenimble-fingered white man, after sobering, always paying a good big price forthat which was already his own property. Several of these shtewd fellows piledup a nice competence as a result of the red man's ignorance. It was not oftenthat my people had trouble with them, but my mother, who was a slender littlewoman, once whipped one until he was glad to cry for mercy. He had beendrinking, and answered her rudely. She knocked him over with a stick, then useda small whip. He finally crawled off into the bushes and sobered up. He thenreturned and begged mother to keep the matter secret from the chief, who surelywould have put him to death. We raised corn, turnips and other vegetables forthe Indians, they refusing to take anything with paying well for the same.
Living was very cheap. We need not go one hundred rods from our door to bringdown a deer or squirrel. I have seen deer in herds of great numbers, but strangeas it may seem, when the Indians went away, they also disappeared, none knowingwhere they went.
I could go on with many legends of the lake and river, but will only relate onethat came under my personal observation. DeClair was paddling about the lake inhis log canoe, one eveing, when he observed something he thought to be a log. Hegave it a push with his paddle, when, to his astonishment, it turned, gave aswish with a mighty tail, which nearly spilled the Indian-Frenchman into thewater. It did not take him long to put for shore, relate the facts to theIndians, who at once built big fires, danced around it and called to the GreatSpirit for protection from Manitou. For many years Lake Manitou was called"Devil's Lake," because DeClair had seen the "Evil Spirit."
I shall never forget with what deep regret I witnessed my red brethren bunchedtogether and driven like cattle from their native land, to a place selected forthem by the Government, beyond the "Father of Waters." Among them weremy boyhood playmates and staunch friends, whom I regarded with brotherlyaffection, and who held a friendship for me equal to kinship. Out of theirkindly disposed feeling for me, they had offered me gold and enough land to makeme a wealthy man, had I taken advantage of them, which I am glad to say Irefused to do, notwithstandind that I was repeatedly urged to accept theirgenerous offers. They were gathered together, --the chief, braves, sqwaws andold men--some walking, some on ponies, some in wagons because too old to walk,and started westward on their long journey. For more than a mile I followed themout of town fully determined that I would go with them, my mother folowing andas much determined that I should return home. She won the victory, but afterseveral years I had still further proof of their loyalty to me, as they sentword that if I would pay them a visit they would agree to give me large tractsof land.
Lot M. Bozarth at one time held three county offices,--clerk, auditor andtreasurer. John Davidson was the first sheriff of the county. My father was thefirst justice of the peace, and held a number of responsible positions. He alsodelivered the first 4th of July oration in Rochester and Fulton county. In fact,to read the history of the county, and of Rochester, is to read the history ofEbenezer Ward and several of his children. My brother John was the first man toprctice law in the town, and my sister Mary Jane was first school teacher. To myknowledge, there are but two persons still living who are connected with theperiod I have given some history of, and those persons re C. A. Mitchell and hismother, Mrs. Jane Smith, the latter being ninety-four years of age. Two others,now deceased, were Jesse Shields and James Martin. There is not one personliving who attended my wedding, when I married Adaline Howes. I remember threeyoung ladies who were present,--Ann, Eliza and Amanda Burroughs, but these too,no doubt, are numbered with the dead.
I was elected sheriff of Fulton county in 1876 and served two terms (fouryears). It was during this time that I helped to break up a gang ofcounterfeiters which were operating in the county. I became acquainted with thefacts of their existence, through an attempt to locate a band of horse thieves,who were stationed some place in Marshall county. Letters began to come, hintingthat spurious money was in circulation and they put me on the trail of thecounterfeiters, who occupied a house beyond Glaze Hill, north of town. I spentmany a night in the woods, near the house occupied by Langdon and Ferdone, andafter some time succeeded in getting some of the dies they used. George W.Holman and I then sent a letter to the United States Secret Service Commission,to send a detective, but heard nothing in reply for a long time afterward. Onday, during court, I was told that a stranger wished to speak to me, and to mealone. I went into the corridor of the old court house and found a large man,who introduced himself by name of Brooks, and that he had been sent by theSecret Service Commission. I appointed a time to meet him in my office, andafter satisfying myself that he was all that he represented himself to be, Ishowed him the dies and told him what I knew. Shortly afterward the house wassurrounded, the outlaws captured, taken to Logansport, then to Indianapois,where they were tried in Federal Court and sentenced to prison. Thecounterfeiters were located at different points in the county, one at Fulton,who was arrested at Logansport. In all, seven men were made to feel the ironhand of the law. There were several man in Rochester at that time, who mighthave told what they knew of the circulating of the money made by thecounterfeiters, but they kept quiet, and having no positive proof, thought bestto let the matter drop.
I am eighty years of age, still in reasonably good health, and enjoy life andthe pursuit of business. The past years have been actively spent, much of thetime out doors, to which I believe is largely due the ripe age I have attained.On the whole the world has been exceedingly kind to me, and while theexperiences have been varied and such as falls to the lot of many who are rearedin a new country, still I am thankful that it has been my privilege to help make"the desert blossom as the rose," and out of the semi-savage state Ihave lived to enjoy the blessings of refined civilization, the acquaintance ofcountless friends, and retain the memory of the days which were thehistory-makers of Fulton county, for hard as those days were, they containedmuch of pleasure, of loyal friendship and constant devotion to the principleswhich denominate this country as the grandest exponent of freedom on the blobe.
[Marguerite L. Miller, Home Folks, Vol. I, 1910, pp. 1-7]

WARD & HUFFER LIVERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located N side E 7th, E of alley.

WARD LIVERY STABLE [Rochester, Indiana]
Bill Holeman has purchased Del. Ward's Livery Stable.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, December 24, 1868]

WARE, "BUD" [Rochester, Indiana]
TAYLOR WILL OPEN MEAT SHOP
The many friends of Charles Taylor of this city will be somewhat surprised tolearn that he is to re-engage in the meat market business in Rochester. Sometime ago he sold his business at the corner of Main and Ninth streets to L. C.Kistler and went on the road as a traveling salesman for a Chicago meat packingfirm. However, after a few weeks he found that the work did not agree with himand he resigned. Now he has purchased the Jacob Karn meat shop in the north endand will move the fixtures to the room south of the court house which wasformerly occupied by the "Bud" Ware wholesale liquor house. Mr. Tayloris well known in the local business world in the meat business and will, nodoubt, prove as successful this time as he has heretofore.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 13, 1912]

BUYS RESTAURANT
Akron News.
Stant THOMPSON surprised himself the other day, as well as the rest of us byselling his restaurant stock and fixtures to Bud WARE, of Rochester. Thepurchaser took possession Thursday morning and Stant has no job. He retains hisbusiness room and his residence, but has nothing in view for future businessactivity, but is alert to any opening that may fall his way. The new owner hassome acquaintance here, but is practically a stranger.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 31, 1913]

SHOW TROOP STRANDED HERE
The old saying that it is always darkest before the dawn was demonstrated fullyto the West and LaPearl Stock company this morning when they found that theywere stranded in this city without money to pay hotel bills or even car fare toanother town. But they found a friend in "Bud" Ware, bartender forJesse Chamberlain, who advanced enough money to pay hotel bills and carry thetroupe to South Whitley, where they are billed for three nights. Mr. Ware willaccompany the show and take charge of the receipts for a few days.
The troupe appeared at the Academy of Music for three nights in melodramas andgave just fair entertainments. But the box receipts met but a few of the billsand this morning they were short about $40 with the baggage in the hands of thedrayman whom they had failed to pay.
Eleven people are in the troupe, including a woman with a baby seven months old.Many telegrams were sent by the company Wednesday night asking for assistance.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 11, 1913]

WARE, JAMES [Wayne Township]
BIOGRAPHY
This man is the son of Samuel and Mary Ware, both of whom were natives ofVirginia, the former born in the year 1801, and deceased while a resident ofthis county in 1858; the latter was born in 1808 and deceased in Warren County,Ind., in 1846. The father was a school teacher most of his life, being preventedfrom doing manual labor owing to an injury rceived early in life. His laborswere confined to the pioneer life and the log schoolhouse, with meagerappliances common to that time. James was the second of a family of fivechildren. He was born in Johnson County, Ind., January 21, 1828, and with a verylimited education, he early began the struggle of life upon his ownresponsibility, going with his parents from one place to another until finally,in 1851, he located in this county, where he has since resided. He purchased asmall tract of land, and began life as a farmer. From time to time, by industryand economy, he has added to his original purchase of land until now he has 320acres, over two hundred of which are under cultivation. It is situated in thenorthern part of Wayne Township, and the manner in which it is cultivatedreflects the sturdy character of the owner. On the 27th dy of January, 1853, hewas married to Mary Bowman, a native of Somerset County, Penn. She was thedaughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bowman, both natives of Pennsylvania, but at thetime of the above-mentioned marriage were residents of this county, where theyhad settled in 1842. To Mr. and Mrs. Ware have been born twelve children, sixsons and six daughters--Louisa J. (deceased), Greenville, Henry M., George W.,James F., Mary E., Martha A., Samuel (deceased), Ezara L., Ada E., Nettie M. andDora E. Mr. Ware, though a farmer most of his life, and taking an active part inevery enterprise for the development of the county and the welfare of all goodenterprises, yet, like all such men of sterling qualities, has been sought byhis people to fill positions of trust. He has been honored by the people of histownship by being elected Trustee for a number of years, and, in the election of1882 was chosen as Treasurer of the county, which position he will take inOctober, 1883. He is universally respected, and widely known as one of God'shonest men, and certainly the title does not fall amiss. Himself and wife areworthy members of the Presbyterian Church, and the good people of Rochester maywell welcome the day when they shall become residents of the town.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 62]

WARE & PERSCHBACHER [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
The Ware & Perschbacher firm, pop manufacturer, who have been occupying theCornelius building on north Main St., are getting ready to move into newquarters. The Robbins Garage in the rear of Elliott & Bailey's Cycleexchange is being fitted up with all modern improvements of the pop makingbusiness and the firm will continue to make their famous brands of soft drinks.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 24, 1909]

WARE & VANDERGRIFT [Rochester, Indiana]
SELLS HALF INTEREST
Bud Ware, who has operated the Rochester pop factory so successfully, hasdisposed of half the business to Quincy Vandergrift of this city, and the newfirm will at once begin enlarging their present large trade circle. Both the menwill go to Chicago Sunday morning to inspect several gasoline auto trucks withthe prospect of purchasing one for their pop delivery.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 29, 1911]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Ware & Vandergrift auto truck has been equipped with a hack top and willbe used each Sunday and other occasions as a hack.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 22, 1911]

BUYS POP BUSINESS
The firm of Ware & Vandergrift was dissolved this morning, when Mr.Vandergrift assumed complete control of the pop business, having purchased hispartner's interests. The new owner will continue in the manufacture of the highgrade soft drinks, which made the firm popular.
Mr. Ware will now devote his entire time to the promotion of his wholesale beerbusiness.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, September 4, 1911]

WARING GLOVE CO. [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 120 E 8th.
See: Culver Manufacturing Co.
See: Rochester Commercial Club
See: Rochester Glove Corporation
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CONTRACT IS MADE
The final steps in the procuring of a glove factory for Rochester was takenThursday afternoon, when a contract was entered into with Messrs. Warring andLafferty of the Huntington and Decatur glove factories, for the establishment ofa like institution in this city.
The Commercial club committee, who dealt with the visitors found them fair andreasonable in every respect and at the same time were able to get terms thatinsures the city absolutely against any chance of loss.
The matter of a proper location for the factory was taken up at once after thecontract was signed and after looking the ground over thoroughly the Denistonbuilding on East Eighth street, known as the Manitou hall was decided upon.Sufficient money to purchase the building will be collected at once and work onthe remodeling will follow immediately. The cost of remodeling the building intoa factory will cost about $1,500 to $2,000, which will be paid by Messrs.Warring and Lafferty.
The concern will occupy both the first and second floors and the basement willalso be utilized. At the present time the building will be extended to the northover the entire plat of the lot which space will be needed to take care of thework.
The factory will be in operation July 5 and on the opening day all the women andgirls of Rochester and surrounding towns and country, who apply will be givenpositions. Not only will this be done on the opening day but every daythereafter as all the women and girls who apply can be readily used. Themanagers of the factory and the Commercial club members stand united in thestatement that any woman or girl who works in the factory may do so in perfectassurance that she will be treated and respected as every lady should be andthat there will not be the slightest disruption in their present social standingfor having been a worker in the factory.
Concerning the wages to be paid there is little to say excepting that afterworking a couple of months those employed will be able to make $7 to $8 perweek. Of course, when they first start in they will not be able to earn much buttheir wages will advance according to their work.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 6, 1910]

GLOVE FACTORY
The sound of hammer and saw in the Centennial block each day tells its own storyof the rushing to completion of the Deniston building for the new glove factory.A force of carpenters have been busy remodeling the interior of the building forthe past ten days and a vast change has been made over the former appearance.The second floor has been removed and a number of skylights installed nowfurnish light from above. The building will be laid off in handy and commodiousrooms and when finished will be a first class factory building. All conveniencesare being planned as well as the safety of the employes.
It is thought that the carpenters will finish their work in about one week andthen all will be readiness for the installation of machinery.
The glove company expects to have the factory running by July 5, if nothingunforeseen happens and they will need a large force of girls to begin with.However, it may be that the factory will not open promptly on July 5 as thecompany's contract calls for the factory to be in operation by July 31. But thefirm wants to begin work as soon as possible. And, no doubt, it will be runningas near the fifth as possible.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 7, 1910]

GIRLS WANTED
This is to inform the women and girls of Rochester and vicinity who wishemployment in the Waring glove factory, that the forelady, Miss Alta Dibble, isat the factory ready to assign machines for you to begin work Monday morning,July 11. Call at the factory this week for all particulars. WARING GLOVE CO.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 6, 1910]

NOT DISCOURAGED
It has been reported by various parties that the Waring Glove Company wasdiscouraged with their plant in this city and thought of closing it. Nothingcould be further from the truth.
D. E. Lauferty states that the business is necessarily slow at the start, andthat the company is in no way discouraged with the prospects here. He feelscertain that as soon as the girls now employed become more proficient in theirwork and are able to earn good salaries there will be no difficulty in securinghelp, on which the success of the industry depends.
Twenty-five girls are now employed and those who are sticking to the businessare already making from $2.50 to $5.50 per week. It requires from three to sixmonths to become proficient at mitten making, and proficient operators averagefrom $7 to $7.50 per week, while experts at the other plants of the companyoften draw as high as $12 working at the same scale of wages paid here.
Mr. Lauferty says that the difficulty here has been that many of the girlsexpected to make big money right from the first day, a thing which is obviouslyimpossible, but which has been experienced at the start of every other plantowned by his concern. He says that they will employ as many girls as can besecured here, and believes that before many months the force will graduallyincrease until a full 100 girls are at work at wages which will be highlysatisfactory to themselves.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 16, 1910]

GLOVE FACTORY RECORD BROKEN
Miss Minnie Alexander, who has held the record for one day's work at the glovefactory, made an increase, Friday, from thirty-one and one-half dozen tothirty-three dozen pair, or a total of seven hundred and nine-two gloves. Thismeant an average of about one and one-third gloves per minute for ten hours, andonly lacking three cents of making three dollars for her day's wages. In makingone complete glove, four different pieces of material are used, palm, thumb,finger and hand, and each glove is handled six times.
The usual method is sew thumbs in a dozen pair and clip apart, then the fingersand clip apart. Then two other seams make two more clippings, which are brokenapart as banded and finally packed. Add to this an occasional thread break, achange of bobbin from two to three times each dozen and changing and counting ofboxes which never contain more than twenty-two dozen (and many less) and you canget some idea of the skill, accuracy and speed required to accomplish such aday's work. For in the thirty-three dozen pair are 792 gloves, 3,168 pieces ofmaterial, and by actual measurement 52 inches of stitching in each glove or1,144 yards in all.
Many of the girls can make thirty dozen pair in a day and but very few who havesewed any length of time fall below twenty.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 21, 1913]

A BIG ROCHESTER CONCERN
Another enterprise in Rochester which deserves mention is the Glove factorywhich was established through the efforts of the Commercial Club about fiveyears ago. It is owned by a Mr. Leffel, of Decatur. The institution employsabout eighty people, seventy of whom are women and many are highly efficient.Mrs. Minnie Barger and Mrs. Cecil Hart hold the record as stitchers, and theirspeed at the buzzing machines is not much short of wonderful. Fred B. Jones issuperintendent.
The output is approximately 700 dozen pairs of gloves per day. Several millionpairs will be manufactured during the summer and stored for the winter season.-- Adv.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 17, 1914] [sic]

GLOVE FACTORY TO RESUME OPERATIONS
After a shut-down of over five months the Waring Glove factory is again toresume work with a force of about forty employes and will increase the number to75 or more as fast as help applies.
D. E. Lefferty, who is one of the owners, has just returned from Chicago wherehe has been looking after purchasing of materials and supplies, says that theoutlook for the future of the concern is now brighter than at any time in thehistory of the organization.
The growing popularity of the Waring Glove has inspired the manufacturers to putinto them the best material that can be had. A large shipment of the materialhas already been received and under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burrell,the factory will be opened Monday, June 5th - - another big step in thedirection back to normalcy in Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 29, 1922]

GLOVE FACTORY NEEDS MORE GIRLS AND ROOM
Who doubts that business in Rochester is looking up? A look at the Waring GloveFactory's ad on another page of this issue of the Sentinel will effectivelyremove all such doubt and show that at least one concern in this city isexperiencing the greatest prosperity it has enjoyed since the World War.
The owner of the factory, L. C. Waring and D. E. Lauferty were in the cityFriday evening going over the situation with the local managers of the plant,Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burell, and imparted the information that they were totalyswamped with orders and that it would be necessary to take on all the help theycould get at once. The augmented help will necessitate more floor space whichWaring and Lauferty declare they must have even if it is necessary to build anaddition to the present factory, or perhaps another building in which to housethe additional machinery and help to cope with the situation.
Employment in the glove factory is of the most desirable sort, as the workingconditions are most ideal and women are able to earn good wages after a briefperiod of apprenticeship. Moral conditions are also of the highest order, eachemploye being under the watchful care and supervision of Mrs. Burell, who haswon an enviable place in the hearts of the local factory girls. Within the next30 days Rochester will see a real awakening in the industrial field and theglove factory will be prominent if not first among the local industries ifRochesterites will only rally to the call and lend the support, in the form ofworking girls and women, this organization deserves and has every right toexpect.
It is stated on good authority that if this support is forthcoming, the WaringCo. will furnish employment for many more than the 300 asked for in theirtoday's advertisement. "Get me the girls," said Mr. Lauferty,"and I will furnish room and work for them."
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 15, 1923]
WARING GLOVE FACTORY SUFFERS LOSS OF $1,000.00
The sewer in the basement of the Waring Glove Factory on East Eighth streetbecame clogged in some unknown manner late Saturday night the water backing upand flooding the basement causing damages to material and stored glovesestimated by Manager Richard Burrell at $1,000. The gloves will have to be soldas seconds by the company. The plant has been closed until after repairs can bemade to the sewer. A large shipment of material to replace the damaged goods wasreceived Tuesday at the plant. D. E. Lafferty, of Huntington, president of thecompany, was in this city Tuesday inspecting the damge done by the water andmaking provision for the shipment of the gloves.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, December 9, 1924]

GLOVE FACTORY IS A WHOLESOME PLANT
Rochester residents are probably unaware of what an industry the Rochester GloveFactory, owned by Waring & Lafferty of Huntington and Decatur, has grown tobe during its several years existence here. A Sentinel representative who wasrecently shown through the factory on West 8th street, was surprised to findsuch a busy and going institution right in the downtown district.
About 40 girls and three men are employed in the factory. Up until the presenttime these workers have been kept exceedingly busy at the machines turning outcotton gloves. The plant is now closed for the holiday vacation. However, thereare forty more machines in the place that the management hopes to have inoperation when it opens up again about the middle of January.
The wholesome condition all thru the factory is well worthy of mention. As aresult the employees are found to be happy and satisfied with their work whichis not at all irksome. The pay roll of these people runs over $500 each week,all of which goes to people living in this city.
Dick Burrell is the manager of the plant, while the girls in the plant are underthe supervision of Mrs. Burrell, and they have developed the plant andindividuals to a high state of efficiency so that the speed with which the workis carried on is really amazing. A visit to the factory on the part of localpeople would be well worth while.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 24, 1924]

GLOVE FACTORY OFFICIAL EXPIRES AT HUNTINGTON
David Edward Lauferty, aged 56, formerly associated with L. C. Waring of Decaturin the ownership and management of glove manufacturing plants of the WaringGlove Company at Rochester, Decatur and Huntington, died at 1:20 p.m. Sunday atthe Huntington county hospital after an illness of 48 hours of hemorrhagicpancreatitis. He was taken ill at the Huntington Elks Club rooms Fridayafternoon.
As the result of his death, the local factory will remain closed until Thursdaymorning. Mr. Lauferty had much of the responsibility of the buying and generalmanagement of the factories.
Mr. Lauferty was born March 16, 1876 to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lauferty at Auburn,Ind., and 15 years ago came to Huntington from Fort Wayne.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Lou Manhiem of Santa Monica, Cal., and threecousins who live in Boston. The sister is confined to a hospital at Santa Monicaand will be unable to attend the funeral services.
Mr. Lauferty was a prominent member of the Elks lodge in Huntington and waswidely known thruout the state and in wider business circles. His partner, Mr.Waring, said Monday, that he felt the loss of Mr. Lauferty very keenly.
The body will lie in state at the residence, 200 Oak St., until the hour offuneral services to be conducted there by the Elks Tuesday morning at 10:30. Thefuneral party will leave the residence at 11:30 for Fort Wayne, where serviceswill be held at the Achduch Voshiem temple at 2 o'clock by Rabbi Markovitz.Burial will be made in Lindenwood cemetery at Fort Wayne.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, July 28, 1925]

GLOVE FACTORY TO HAVE A SUSPENSION PERIOD
The Waring Glove Factory which employs 50 women will be closed down indefinitelyThursday evening. Superintendent Richard Burrell received the order to close theplant Tuesday from the Decatur office of the concern. Mr. Burrell statedWednesday that he did not believe the plant would be closed for a very longperiod.
A story was circulated in this city Wednesday, probably based on the suspensionorder, that the Waring company had gone into the hands of a receiver. This storywas declared false.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Wednesday, February 24, 1926]

GLOVE FACTORY OPENS
After being closed down for several months the Waring Glove Factory gave noticeMonday morning that it would resume work again and has advertised for girls toreport for work. There are enough orders on hand now Manager Dick Burril said torequire work about three days a week but that gradually they would work back tothe full week's time.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, October 18, 1926]

GLOVE FACTORY RESUMES WORK - 40 ARE EMPLOYED
The local branch of the Waring Glove Company resumed operation this morning with40 girls being given employment. The plant has been shut down for the past sevenmonths due to an over supply of gloves on the market. Manager Richard Burellstated today that he believed steady employment would now be given throughoutthe coming year. The greater number of girls who were hired today had beenprevious employees of the company.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, October 17, 1927]

LOSS OF MATERIAL WILL CLOSE GLOVE FACTORY
A notice was posted Friday morning at the Waring Glove Factory on East NinthStreet that just as soon as materials now on hand were worked into gloves theplant would be closed down. The reason for the closing of the plant at this timeManager Richard Burell stated is because of the loss in transit of a shipment ofcanvas which is used in making gloves. Every effort has been made by the companyand by railroad tracers to locate the canvas shipment but all efforts haveproved unavailing. The glove factory here has been in operation for the pastthree months during which period steady employment has been furnished to 40women and men. At the present time 25,000 dozens of gloves are in storage at theplant.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, January 6, 1928]

WARING GLOVE FACTORY WAS SOLD ON TUESDAY
Stock, machinery and equipment of the Waring Glove Company of Decatur was soldyesterday by L. C. Waring, the owner of the company, to J. C. Bernstein, Garyand H. H. Sobol, Indianapolis. Mr. Waring is the owner of the glove factory onEast Eighth Street in this city bearing his hame. No word has been received hereas to whether the local glove factory was included in the transaction. The newmanufacturers have announced that they will continue to operate the plant inDecatur which gives employment to 75 people. Mr. Waring established the plant inDecatur in 1903. He will continue to reside in that city.
[The News-Sent inel, Wednesday, April 6, 1932]

PLANT NOT INCLUDED
L. C. Waring, of Decatur, has informed business men of this city that the localplant of the Waring Glove Company was not included in a transaction last weekwhereby Mr. Waring leased his plant at Decatur to Indianapolis and Gary men. Mr.Waring stated that he tried to have these men lease the Rochester plant andoperate it but they stated that they did not feel that they were in a positionat present to do so.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, April 12, 1932]

WARING GOLVE CO. REOPENS 25 GIRLS ARE GIVEN WORK
Here's a bit of news that should be most pleasing to the people of thiscommunity.
Twenty-five Rochester girls were given active employment today at the WaringGlove factory located on East Eighth street this city. This business which wasclosed a little over four years ago by the same management, resumed operationsearly today with an abundance of orders on hands which will assure plenty ofwork for the local people for some time to come.
The factory is under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burrell, of thiscity who supervised the work during the operation of the company several yearsago. The re-opening of the factory by the owners, Messrs. J. S. Bernstein, ofGary, and H. H. Sobel, of Indianapolis, came voluntarily on their part and nooutside financial assistance was given.
All of the employees which were given work today were thoroughly experienced andif orders for the canvas and jersey gloves keep pouring in like they have forthe past five weeks another group of girls will undoubtedly be given employment.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, October 5, 1932]

LOCAL GLOVE COMPANY INCORPORATED MONDAY
The Rochester Glove Corporation was granted papers to incorporate by Secretaryof State Frank Mayr Monday. The capital stock is to be 100 shares at $10 each.The object of the company is to manufacture gloves. The incorporators are H.Sobel, Jacob S. Bernstein and M. Clyde Brown. The company several weeks ago tookover the assets and equipment of the Waring Glove Factory plant on East Eighthstreet in this city.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, October 12, 1932]

WARNER, J. H. [Rochester, Indiana]
BLACKSMITHING AND WAGON WORK
Call at my shop on North Main street for blacksmithing and wagon making andrepairing. lJ. H. WARNER.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 21, 1899]

WARREN, ADRIEL M. [Richland Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Adriel M. Warren, born September 11, 1863, was schooled in this county, and,although a young man, has managed the farm well since the death of his father.His mother, Jennette Warren, was born in New York City January 11, 1824. She wasmarried to Mr. A. M. Warren April 10, 1843. He was born September 15, 1816.Their children are Rheuamma S., born February 22, 1844; Margaret J., born June28, 1846; Julia E., born March 19, 1849; Mary L., born Ocober 6, 1850; Agnes M.,born January 7, 1858; Eldora J., born August 23, 1860; and Lura T., born May 24,1867. The father of Mrs. Warren was Thomas Shake, a native of Scotland. Hemarried Margaret Foot. They came to America in 1823, and finally settled in thiscounty. Mr. P. Warren, the father of A. M. Warren, Sr., was a native of NewYork. He married Miss B. Benson. They settled in Noble County at an early date.He deceased there 1844; she deceased in this county April, 1863.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 53]

WARRINER, ALFRED S., REV. [Rochesrter, Indiana]
See: Churches - Methodist Church [Rochester, Indiana]

WARSAW ROAD
Presently SR-25 from Rochester toward Mentone and Warsaw.

WASHAM, JOHN [Mentone, Indiana]
Special to the Sentinel:
Mentone, Aug 8, 4 p.m. -- This town is in the throes of a most deplorablesensation -- a social scandal that has resulted in a murder. Sometime agoliveryman Jim COX, who is a married man, met John MILLER's wife, of this town,at Alexandria, where they registered at a hotel as man and wife. Their conductarounsed suspicion and they were arrested and fined $35 each for adultry. Thisscandalous news reached Mrs. Miller's brothers, the WASHAMS, who are farmers,living near here, and they made threats of dire vengeance against Cox. In turnCox publicly stated that he had $50 to "put up" that he could whip anyWasham that ever lived. Jim WASHAM accepted the challenge and came to townSunday evening, accompanied by his brothers, John and Lewis [WASHAM]. Jim Coxdenied making the challenge when Lew Washam called him a liar and Cox struckhim. John and Bob COX, brothers of Jim, here came up and took a hand. John COXthumped Lew Washam and then went to the aid of his brother Jim Cox, striking JimWasham with a pair of "knucks" and knocking him down. Here the deadlywork began. Jim Washam jumped up, drew his revolver and commenced firing. BobCox also pulled his gun and seven or eight shots were exchanged, as the fistfight waged horribly.
Jim Cox was struck by two bullets, one in the muscle of the arm and the other inthe fleshy part of the breast neither wound being necessarily dangerous. JohnWasham received one ball in the abdomen from Bob Cox's gun and the doctors sayhe must die. Bob Cox had a ball lodged in his hip and thigh which makes himquite lame but he says he doesn't care so much for that as for the damage to hisSunday breeches. When John Washam fell the firing ceased and he was carried intoa room where he lay in a dying condition when his wife and mother arrived. JohnCox skipped and has not yet been apprehended. Bob Cox is held without bail. JimWasham is under $1000 bond and the Prosecuting Attorney is working on otherindictments. Bob and John Cox are single men while all the others implicated aremarried and the heads of families. Some of the men had the reputation of being a"little tough," but none were thought to be vicious or capable of suchoutlawry.
LATER: Authentic reports from Mentone announce that John Washam died of hiswounds Monday evening.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 10, 1892]

WASHBURN, E. P., M.D. [Kewanna, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
E. P. Washburn, M.D., one of the prominent physicians of Fulton county, is anative of Cass county, Ind. He was born Jan. 24, 1842. His parents were WilliamW. Washburn and Jane Calvin, both of whom were born and reared in Brown county,Ohio. They were married in Cass county, Ind., but soon afterward moved intoPulaski county, where they reared their family of six children, of which thesubject of this biography is the eldest. Dr. Washburn gained a fair commonschool education, and was nineteen years of age when the civil war broke out.October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in company H, Forty-sixth Indianainfantry. In February, 1863, he re-enlisted in the same company. With hiscompany he aided in the work of opening the Mississippi river from Columbussouth. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, and was on the Red riverexpedition, a difficult and disastrous one, in which his regiment was reduced toabout 200 soldiers. The doctor was discharged Sept. 10, 1865, at the close ofthe war. Then his return home followed, and for five years thereafter the doctorwas engaged in farming, a calling never in keeping with his choice. The practiceof medicine he wished to follow, and first preparing for the profession bystudying under a practicing physician as preceptor, he then took a course inmedicine in the medical college of Indiana at Indianapolis. Locating at Linden,Ind., he took up the practice of the profession. Subsequently he returned to themedical college of Indiana, whence he graduated March 3, 1881. He continued inactive and successful practice at Linden till 1890, in which year he removed toKewanna, Fulton county, where he now resides and has a large and remunerativepractice. In the year 1859, Dr. Washburn was united in marriage with RebeccaReichard, of Pulaski county, Ind. Mrs. Washburn was born in Darke county, Ohio,Nov. 16, 1839. The union has been blessed by the birth of the followingchildren: Isabella J.; Newton E., deceased; John M.; Blanche A.; and Burt H. Thedoctor is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternal organization, the GrandArmy of the Republic and Knights of the Maccabees and a republican in politics.John M. Washburn, M.D., a son of Dr. E. P. Washburn, and associatd with hisfather in the practice of medicine, was born in Marion county, Ind., Dec. 6,1867. He was given a good common school education. He learned telegraphy and wasa railroad operator for five or six years; then studied medicine under theguidance of his father. He then spent three years in the medical college ofIndiana, whence he graduated March 29, 1895, since which time he has practicedhis profession in association with his father. He was married June 11, 1894, toMiss Matie Sears. He is a member of the Masonic order; of the Sons of Veterans,and Knights of the Maccabees.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 144-145]
WASHBURN, JOHN M., M.D. [Kewanna, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
John M. Washburn, M.D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Kewanna, was bornin Augusta, Marion county, Indiana, December 6, 1867, the son of Dr. E. P. andRebecca (Reichard) Washburn, both natives of Ohio. Dr. E. P. Washburn was bornin Ohio, January 24, 1842, and studied for the profession of medicine. He was inactive practice for forty years. He died on April 1, 1922, and he is buried inClark cemetery, his wife being buried in the I.O.O.F. cemetery of Kewanna, she,who was born on November 16, 1839, having died April 16, 1915. John M. Washburnreceived his early education in the public schools of his home community, and hethen took up the study of medicine at the Indiana Medical College, ofIndianapolis, being graduated from that institution in 1895 with the degree ofDoctor of Medicine. He began active practice immediately upon the completion ofhis studies and his work has been accompanied by marked success. He was marriedto Mary Sears, and to this union have been born four children: Marjorie, Helen,Harold, and Herbert. Dr. Washburn holds membership in the Indiana State MedicalAssociation to better keep in touch with the important medical and scientificquestions of the day and to insure himself and his clients against mal-practice.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, p. 293, Dayton Historical PublishingCo., 1923]

WASHBURN CAFE [Kewanna, Indiana]
RESTAURANT SOLD
Thursday of last week the Washburn Cafe was purchased by Ralph V. Johnston, whois now in charge. Mr. Johnston contemplates making some changes in the serviceand we hope will meet with success. Mr. Washburn at present is in Rochester withhis wife, but what his future plans are we are not advised.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, February 2, 1926]

CAFE SOLD
The Washburn Cafe at Kewanna has been sold by Ralph V. Johnston to E. J.Blosser.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, April 3, 1926]

WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONUMENT SOCIETY [Fulton County]
The undersigned has been appointed County Treasurer of the "Ladies'Washington National Monument Society," for the County of Fulton . . . Mrs.A. F. Smith, Rochester, June 22, 1860.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 23, 1860]

WATSON, W. P. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] LADIES TAILORING. - - - W. P. Watson has opened a Ladies' Tailoring Parlorin rooms Five and Six over Stockberger & Hisey's Store. - - - W. P. WATSON,The Tailor.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 4, 1902]

[Adv] Trousers that Fit. Trousers that Wear. - - - W. P. WATSON, The Tailor.Over Keith's Drug Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, August 3, 1903]

SELLS OUT TO PARTNER
A deal was consumated Monday, whereby W. P. Watson becomes the sole owner of thedry cleaning and pressing establishment on west Ninth street, formerly owned byWatson and Timbers, Mr. Watson buying Arch Timbers interest. Mr. Timbers decidedthat the work was too confining and desired more work in the open. Mr. Watsonthe present owner, has had many years of experience in this line of work and isquite prepared to take charge of a large business.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 12, 1913]

WATSON & STAHL, MISSES [Rochester, Indiana]
SELLING OUT AT COST
We want to sell at cost our large stock of millinery goods, all ladies that arein need of a Bonnet, Hat or childrens' Hats, Caps, and babies' Lace Bonnets,will get a bargain by giving us an early call. We must and will sell out by thefirst of June. MISSES WATSON & STAHL, Opposite Central House.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 1882]

WAY GROCERY, B. M. [Rochester, Indiana]
GROCETERIA DOORS ARE LOCKED THIS MORNING
S. M. Friend, manager of the B. M. Way grocery store in this city, received atelegram Monday morning from the main offices of the company at Chicagoinstructing him to lock the doors of the store and turn the keys over to theUnited States Bank & Trust Company.. There was no word of explanation withthe telegram, and the local man has no idea as to what may be happening asregards the groceteria.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 16, 1921]

B. M. WAY STORES SOLD BY COURT ORDER
The chain of nine grocery stores, one of them in this city, operated by the B.M. Way Stores Company, an Illinois corporation, have been ordered sold indistrict court in Chicago, the location of the central headquarters of thecompany. The Rochester store has been closed for several weeks and indicationspoint to bankruptcy. The other stores are located at Chicago, Dixon, Amboy,Polo, Mt. Carroll, Geneseo and Ohio Illinois and Argos, Indiana.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 2, 1921]

WAYMIRE, HARVEY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Patents and Inventions

WAYMIRE, NELSON B. [Rochester, Indiana]
STRANGER TO ARISTOCRACY
By Nelson B. Waymire
I do not know as there is anything out of the ordinary in my life that willinterest the public so very much, as hundreds had about the same experiencesthat come to every one born in the pioneer days, but some incidents come to menow that are a heap of interest to me and might help to pass away an hour or sofor the readers thereof.
Will say in the beginning, that I was born in the time when lickin' and learnin'went hand in hand, and the boy who did not get his pantaloons dusted at leastonce a day, was dull indeed.
I first saw the light of day December 18, 1845, and the event took place twelvemiles west of Frankfort, Clinton county, Ind., my parents being Enoch andHenrietta Waymire. They were the parents of six children, I being the fourth,the oldest a girl, who burned to death at the age of six years.
Our home was like those of other settlers, a log cabin; and like all otherchildren we climbed a ladder to bed, slept between feather beds, ate bread thatmother baked in the fire place, and crowded more real happiness into each hour,than children of the present time have in a day. My brother John and I wereinseparable, and what he did I imitated, and if one was trounced the other wastickled with the same switch.
How well I remember the way that old home place looked, with the spring branchbetween the house and barn, where we played, swam and enjoyed ourselves, friskyas untamed colts.
Once having the privilege of a spring house, who could ever forget the pleasurea boy got from seeing the long rows of crocks, pails and pans of rich milk, wihtheir floating islands of yellow cream, set in a stream of cool, rnning water.To slip in on a hot, sultry day, with a big chunk of warm bread, dip it up anddown until it was soaked with cream, then eat until your waist band was so tightyou felt like another bite and it must part company. Ah! That was a pleasure towhich the town dude with his standup collar, green trousers and pickadillyshoes, will ever be a stranger, since the late fad of a cream separator andselling milk straight from the cow to the creamery has put the spring house outof business.
As I hinted in the beginning, my father was handy with a gad, so when John and Itook the partitions out of the watering trough, to make a toboggan slide, it isno stretch of imagination to say we got a dose of hickory oil that left animpression for days to come. Pap was a very strict man, and wanted to raise hischildren to be models of goodness, therefore, I never heard him use profanity inany form and he lambasted me more for that one thing than anything else, for asall know I would work off a few furbelows by way of embellishment to my speech,and sometimes add a frill or two yet, which comes from long practice.
I began my education at four years of age, my first teacher a German who alsotaught English. I did not learn very much of him, but became an expert inthrowing paper wads and doing other deviltry, giving him an opportunity todevelop the muscles in his good right arm.
That same year, my parents sold their home and moved three miles east ofPerrysburg, Miami county, the transfer being made in wagons, four horses hitchedto each of them. We moved again into a log house and set about making apermanent home. The country was very wild, and game plentiful, bear, venison,wild turkey and rabbit seeming to await the hunter's rifle. I recall one Sundaymorning when I stepped into the yard and found four deer browsing. I called Papand he ran out, killing one, and later succeeded in bringing home the otherthree.
Grandpap Kline, mother's father, lived with us and Pap and mother left uschildren in his care, while they went back to Clinton county aftr a supply ofapplebutter and other things we did not have in our new home. Grandpap was quitea timid man and very easily frightened, so it did us a world of good to scarethe old man. One night I heard him put his head out of a loft window, then callto John and Will, who slept with him, to get up, there was a fox after thechickens, but they pretended not to hear him. Then he called me. I was sleepingdown stairs in the trunnel bed. Oh how I snored, fairly shook the house, and hecalled in vain. As he was afraid to go out himself, and the boys were too soundasleep (?) to waken, the fox got the chickens. Shortly afterward I killed myfirst deer.
One evening I was sent to the field to get corn for the cattle, and took a riflewith me. Parting a shock, I saw the ears of a deer not far away. I raised thegun and fired, and found I had made a good shot, for after a kick or two, Mr.deer shuffled off. The next thing was to get him home. I pulled and tugged, butcould not budge him an inch. Knowing I would be laughed at and disbelieved, if Iwent back home and said I had killed a deer, I took out my jack knife and cutoff an ear, and like Joshua and Caleb, took something back to prove the truth ofmy story. Pap hurried out, after seeing the ear and dragged the deer to thehouse. When weighed, we found it tipped the scales at one hundred pounds. Fordays I walked on air, for had I not done a big thing for a kid?
One of our duties was to keep the wood box replenished. My sister and I carriedwood about forty rods from the house. I had heard a good deal about the devil,how I was likely to be nabbed without time for argument, and had considerablefear as well as curiosity concerning him. One evening at dusk, we made our usualtrip, and there in a tree, saw two big round eyes and heard a mournful hoot. Myfirst thought was, that I was the next candidate of the place I had heard somuch about, and Sister and I fell over each other seeing who could get into thedoor first. I dold Mother "the devil is out there," but she sent usright back. I grew bolder, investigated, and found the "Devil" wasonly a hoot owl. Since then I have not taken much stock in such stories.
Pap prospered and after a time built a new house, a little south of where theold one stood. It had several rooms and unlike other houses in that vicinity,was plasterd. When completed we moved in. I asked my brother if he thoughtHeaven was anything like that, for it was the finest house I had ever seen.
We went to school in the winter time. One of the teachers was Oscar Piper, whoboarded around among the patrons of the school. He passed for a scholar, was areader of Tom Paine. He and Pap often set up at night to argue whether we wereor were not free moral agents. Finally he became spiteful and took his anger outon Sister and I, in the school. After an unusually strong tilt with Pap, hecalled Sister and I up for imaginary offense, put a cap on her head and asunbonnet on me and told us to stand up before the school. I jerked the cap offher head and the bonnet off my own cranium, and started for home at a livelypace, with Piper close to my heels. We ran across the field as if possessed bythe "old Harry," I reaching the stake and rider fence a little inadvance of the teacher, who was puffing like an engine, his long hair flying inthe wind. I ran in the house, got Pap's gun and met the schoolmster with itcocked. Well I did not shoot, just put up a bluff and what I said was not readin the scriptures. That night he and Pap had an understanding which ended by himtaking a summersault out the door and his Sunday clothes flying out after him.
My next teacher was Miss Jane Hill, sister of Dr. William Hill of this city. Igot along better with her and, by the way, it might be well to say that shefigured as a prominent party in the first wedding I ever attended, being abridesmaid.
The couple married were my cousin, Mary Ann Waymire, and Henry Ream, Rev. J. H.Lacy officiating, Jane Hill bridesmaid and John Hoover best man. The weddingtook place at our house in the presence of many people. Such a lot of cookingand fixing as went on for days before the wedding, but the day came at last, thefolks began to arrive and at the time appointed, the bridal party walked out,all in their fine toggery. You bet that was a sight for Nelson. Brother and Igot in the corner and I whispered: "John, does a fellow have to go throughall that tom foolin' to get married?" "Of course, you fool you,"he answered. "Then," said I, "danged if I will ever getmarried." "Yes you will," he insisted, and we argued the pointuntil time to eat. He proved to be a prophet, for I committed matrimony twice asall know, and if single would be on the market again.
There was not much style in the days of which I write. Of course we were taughtto have company manners, and behave a trifle better on those occasions, but if aboy wanted to lick his knife from the handle to the "pint," pour hiscoffee into the saucer, drink clear around the rim and smack his mouth like apig drinking buttermilk, there was no particular damage done and he was not aptto get a lickin'. The table was long and broad, not built for beauty, but tohold the "grub," for every thing was put on at one time, and a fellowcould sit up and help himself to what he liked best. In place of serving thedinner in courses, each course only enough to smear the mouth of a katydid, thewhole family sit down at once, the food passed and by the time we were ready toeat, each plate looked like it was filled with the leavings of a charity supper.Meal time was the hour of good cheer, and the way us boys stored the thingsaway, cracked jokes and laughed, was conducive to good health if not to goodmanners.
Our house was headquarters for preachers, those traveling the circuit andvisiting each neighborhood about once in three or four weeks. As my parents werevery religious, and I might add tried to live what they believed was right, theyalways welcomed those of their faith and gave them the best their meansafforded. My mother was an excellent cook, and prided herself in providing themost toothsome food for her family, and doubly so when the man of God put in anappearance, for she had learned that a man's appetite was not disturbed by hisreligion, in fact the more religion he had the bigger his appetite seemed to be.One man, Elder Lakin, came every three weeks. His home was in Peru. That mancould eat everything in sight, then look hungry. He never failed to complimentmother on her splendid cooking and he also usually passed some remark about me.
One day, at the dinner table, he looked up at my mother and said, as he helpedhimself to another piece of pie: "Sister Waymire, I like to stop at yourhouse, you are such a good cook, and I tell you what, your boy Nelson is goingto make a mighty good preacher some day." It riled me some, and I answered:"Not by a darn sight. But if I could hug the sisters as well as you, Iwould be one now." The meal was finished in silence, for I had hit thebull's eye.
Previous to this time, however, the first sermon I remember of ever hearingpreached, was by Rev. Sam McCarter, who was on Mexico circuit. He was the kindof a preacher who took a fellow by the seat of the pantaloons and the hair ofhis head and held him over the firey pit until the congregtion smelled smoke.After one of these sermons, I would be afraid to go to bed, and would jump intobed and pull the cover over my head. Father got religion in one of thosemeetings, and after that we had family prayer twice a day. Those were the dayswhen people got the "power" and would run, jump, and shout until youcould hear the converted a mile. One woman, Maria Davis, who was of excitablenature, would jump up and down and shout, was especially pleased with JakeRannells when he "received the blessing," for she came teetering downthe middle of the meeting house on the tips of her toes, until she reachedJacob, brought a brawney hand down on his back like a sledge hammer as shehallooed: "Praise God, the biggest rascal in the country is on the Lord'sside."
Preachers were not paid much money. Rev. Samuel Woolpert got the magnificent sumof $100 per year, and whatever else the members of the church wished to givehim, in the way of provisions--sidemeat, ham, sausage, flour or meal. None ofthem parted their hair in the middle, or put perfume on their 'kerchief to makethem smell good. Times have changed, and perhaps it is well that they have.
As a general thing, the early minister was an honest, earnest man, and was notafraid to soil his hands with hard work. So, when they happened around and therewas extra work, they pitched in and made a "hand," especially at thetable.
There is another thing, connected with those early days, that ligers in mymemory and I hope never to forget, and that is hearing my mother pray for me asshe kneeled by her bed in he loft. I would lay in my bed and listen as she askeda special blessing for her wayward boy Nelson, and alhough I was full ofmischief, at other times, I never felt like laughing, for those gentle prayerswere fraught with a solemn meaning to my young mind, although that meaning I didnot understand. The years have passed, and I have experienced some of themisfortunes common to the lot of man, I have had much pleasure and not a littlesuccess in worldly things, but there are times, even yet, when I would give allI have or hope to have, to go back to that little bed under the clapboard roofand hear my dear old mother say, "God bless my boy."
As I grew in size, I also learned a few things that still stick to me like aporous plaster, one of them being to learn how to spell. I went to all thespelling schools in Union township, and earned the reputation of being the bestspeller in the neighborhood. I knew every word in the Elementary spelling book,and they could not stump me, try as they would. One time, all the schools in thetownship gathered at the Weesaw church, to contest for a prize, a nicely boundWebster's dictionary. Two of the best spellers in each school were selected, andI was one of them out of the Weesaw school. We were to be given but one trial ateach word and a girl and I were fnally left to face the music alone. We spelledeverything pronounced, and when there was no hope of losing out, the judge said:"Give them a word out of the dictionary." The chosen word wasScheneedochee. The girl missed and I spelled it by the skin of my teeth and gotthe prize.
I will now pass on to the time when the war began and I with my brothersenlisted, I going much against the wishes of my father. I belonged to the statemilitia two years and thought it nice to be a soldier. Joined Company L, 12thInd. Cavalry and staid in service until Nov. 10, 1865.
Never will I forget the day we started to the war. Mother followed as far as thebend in the road, and after kissing us goodby, said, between sobs, as the tearsran down her cheeks: "Be good soldiers, and obey orders and if shot inbattle, let it be with your faces toward the flag." That advice followed methrough many a conflict, and helped to put courage into my heart.
The first battle I was in was at Murfreesboro and the first man I saw woundedhad his chin shot off. I am free to confess that my hair stood up stiff on mykoko, and when the comrade by my side lost his arm, I thought things weregetting pretty d---d hot in my vicinity. But then I was only eighteen years ofage and felt a little squeemish. I soon got over that, and took to shootin' likea duck to water.
My father wrote us letters from home each week and that helped us immensely, forwe were always glad to hear from the old folks at home. Our family, Waymire andStaley, sent twelve soldiers to the front. Two lost their lives on southernbattle fields and all the rest were wounded.
I might go on and tell of the battles I was in and the many privations enduredfor my country, but what's the use, the war is over, the last gun fired and hopeit will never again be my lot to see our glorious flag wave in another bloodystrife. Therefore will only relate an incident or two that occurred while I laysick in Cumberland Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.
There were many men in the hospital who had lost limbs, and some who would neveragain see the light of a northern sky. Consequently, the place was not as livelyas a German Sunday school picnic, in fact it was a place of gloom most of thetime. There were a few soldiers who could see the funny side to every thing, andthey were ones who kept life in the poor homesick lads, who wanted nothing somuch as to see their mothers and eat some of the food prepared as only a motherknows how.
One fellow we called Jimmy, because we did not know his other name, had bothlegs off at the knees and the right arm off at the elbow. Even that could notdampen his spirits, and as soon as he could get out of bed, he fastened leatherstumps on his legs, then with the aid of a board, came stumping into our wardand would go through such antics and say such comical things, the boys wouldlaugh until they cried. I often said "If that dern fool could be happy withhis legs and an arm off, I ought to be with mine all on."
I was so sick my father came to see me and it was a proud moment when I heardCaptain Thornton say I was a brave soldier and had not flinched when on thefiring line.
I was fearfully afflicted with stomach trouble, so all I was given to eat, inthe hospital, was toast and blue milk. I grew to dispise toast and begged forfruit. Shortly after, I was sent home on a furlough. When I got off the train atPeru, and started home, my legs wabbled so from weakness that I could only walka short distance, then rest. It was ten o'clock at night when I reached myfather's door. Mother did not know me, for I was so poor there was but littleleft but bones with the skin drawn over them. The hospital doctor had sent aletter to Pap, telling him what I should and should not eat. One of the thingsto eat was toast. I kept asking for fruit, and they kept wanting to give metoast, so I had about concluded to go back to the army, when the country doctoroffered me half of a peach. Finding that did me no injury, I went out to theorchard, filled my hat with apples, peaches and pears, ate as long as I couldhold, waited, then ate some more. For three weeks I lived on fruit, followed mybrother around the field as he plowed, eating as I walked. That convinced methat nature knew more about what I needed than the doctors who looked so wiseand tried to stuff me on baby food.
I went to the front a Republican and came out more firm in that political faiththan when I went, grew stronger as I increased in age, and, I trust, in wisdom.I cast my first vote for Gen. U. S. Grant for president, and every ballot sincethen has been for the Grand Old Party.
In those days I would fight at the drop of the hat, and gave a trouncing to aDemocrat I once met in the road, who first insulted me, then wanted me to halloo"hurrah for Hell," meaning the Republican ticket. I said "Allright; every man for his own country," and by that time I had him in thedust and left the print of my fist on his anatomy until he looked like a spottedpup. His name was Eugene Benedict and, if living, I warrant he feels sore inspots to this day. Those were hot times and I had my share of the fun both goingand coming.
I was twenty-four years of age when I married Mary Ann Stubbs, a Fulton countygirl, and we lived together sixteen years on the old home place, and then movedto Liberty township, Fulton county, where she died. Later, Miss Mary Ann Burnsbecame my wife, and for the first two years lived on the John Gottschalk place,in Rocheser township. One day my wife said she would buy ten acres of ground ifI would put up a house and in this way have our own home. I agreed. We put up ahouse, built a barn, put in a well, and about Christmas time moved in. That yearwe cut eighty cords of wood and fence posts, planted a good orchard, had agarden and numerous other things. In this she helped me, working faithfully bymy side.
The greatest surprise of my life came while I was working on the John McKinneyfarm. I had heard that my uncle, John Kline, of Kentucky, my mother's brother,had become a wealthy man, but never thought about his money doing me any good.When my cousin, Harrison Kline, came out to the McKinney farm and told me that Iwas one of my uncle's heirs, I did not say much but kept up a devil of athinking and felt good all over. I only about half believed that anything sogood could come to me, and concluded to keep mum and wait. When the estate wasfinally settled, my share was a little over eight thousand dollars, but it didnot give me the big head, for money or no money, was still "Old DadWaymire," plain and homespun, like my daddy before me, yet honest with myfellow man.
I did not buy diamonds, or finery for my wife, or fool money away, but I did buya comfortable home and a good buggy, and try to take a little pleasure and do alittle good as we pass along toward the sunset of our journey, which can't be somany years to come. I have been a hard worker, so has my faihful companion, andwe hope to spend our remaining days in peace with the world and all mankind.
[Marguerite L. Miller, Home Folks, Vol. I, 1910, pp. 77-84]

WAYMIRE GARAGE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv. - Open for Business - The Waymire Garage - Located One Mile North ofRochester, on Michigan Road. We make a specialty of repairing cars of any andall makes, will call for and deliver them without extra charge. Gasoline - Oil -Accessories. Low Overhead Means Moderate Prices. Harvey Waymire.]
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 25, 1923]

WAYNE TOWNSHIP [Fulton County]
EARLY SETTLEMENT
At this late day, and in view of the meager data we have been able to obtain, weare not prepared to state positively who was the first white settler within thepresent townsip of Wayne. It is believed, however, that John Fetcher was one ofthe first. He located in the southeast part of the township, near the lake thatstill bears his name, as early as 1832 or 1833. Although he was a cripple, hedid a large amount of work, clearing and cultivating a small farm and devoting alarge share of his time to the pursuit of the wild game then so abundant. JohnG. Treen located at the east end of the lake, on land adjoining Fletcher, sometime between 1833 and 1835. He cleared and improved a portion of his land, andwas prominently identified with the earlier history of the township. In lateryears, however, he removed with his family to Cass County, where he remainedtill his death. Thomas Whalen, Felix McLaughlin, "Jack" Smith andJacob Smith were also among the advance guard of the pioneers. They settled inthe southern part of the township within the period intervening between 1834 and1837, and bore well their parts in the develoment and improvement of thetownship. Michael Troutman came in 1837, and in February, 1838, David Marshentered the farm which he still occupies, in Sections 19 and 30. Shortlyafterward, however, he returned to Ohio, and came back to live upon his farm inthe spring of 1844. His wife, it is believed, was the first white girl whosettled in the township. Her father, John Hall, settled in Cass County, Ind., in1827, and died there, and in 1835 his wife removed with her family to thistownship, locating near the lake. Mrs. Marsh was then a girl, eleven years old,and has a distinct rcollection of the Indians, who were almost her onlyneighbors, and the pleasure she experinced when white peope would visit thatregion in quest of land.
In the fall of 1841, Jacob Hendrickson came with his family from Ohio andlocated upon the farm where he now resides, in Section 16. "At the time ofmy arrival here," said Mr. Hendrickson, "There were seventeen oreighteen families living within the present bounds of Wayne Township. There wereNathan McCumber and family, Elias Gandy and family, Peter F. Brunck and family,Robert and William Torrence and their families, Frederick Long and family, JamesCallahan and family, Cornelius Coovert and family, Frank Huff and family, JacobSmith and family, Jack Smith and family, Moses McElhany and family, ThomasWhalen and family, Felix McLaughlin and family, Samuel Custer and family,Benjamin Adair and family, Maurice Fitzgerald and family, Abraham Sutphen andfamily, Joseph Horn and family, Michael Wilson and family, and others."Aaron and John Heiser, Mr. Nicholls, Thomas Burk, James Lamb and Michael Wilsoncame during the year 1840. Samuel Stroub, Henry Bowman, Joseph Hendrickson andothers came in the year 1841. William Van Meter came in the spring of 1842, andJohn R. Schenck, ----- Camlin and others came later in the same year. FrederickHuffman and Robert Holliday were among the settlers of 1843, and John Teegarden,Isaac Egman, John Matthews, Samuel Lyon, James Van Blaricum, William Phillipsand Thomas Phillips were among those who came in 1844. John Hume came in 1845,and during that year the settlement received the addition of several otherfamilies, whose names cannot now be obtained. John R. Smalley came in 1847, andlocated on the land where he still resides, in Section 20. James Thrush cameabout two weeks later, and located about a mile west of Mrs. Smalley. JacobPownall came in the same year, and located about a mile north of the Smalleyfarm; he now lives in Liberty Township. Between the years 1847 and 1851, newfamilies came to the settlement with greater frequency than in the earlier days,and it would not be possible to give a complete list of all who came within thatperiod. Among this number, however, we may mention the names of Martin Friedner,Daniel Bishop, Ephraim Bishop, Robert McLaughlin, David McGaughey, RobertBeattie, Samuel Beattie, Daniel Rush, Samuel Ware, Peter and Abraham Lane,Alfred McDonald, and others. From this time on, the settlement of the townshipprogressed rapidly.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 60]

WAYNE TOWNSHIP FIRE STATION [Grass Creek, Indiana]
See Grass Creek Fire House.

WAYSIDE INN [Akron, Indiana]
Located on Rochester Street in Akron, owned and operated by Sterling Crosby. Itwas a log cabin.
Sterling Crosby and wife Lucinda Sippy Crosby married in Medina County, Ohio,Sept. 15, 1833. The Crosby family was supposed to have come to Akron in 1837from Medina County, Ohio. He was the first shoemaker in the settlement. In 1837the Crosbys erected a cabin on Rochester Street where the old Palace Garage isnow located a block west of the stoplight. They kept open house and many wearytravelers found comfortable lodging and a good meal at this Wayside Inn whichwas the first boarding house of the village.
[Dr. Joseph Sippy Family, Velma Bright, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

WE-LIKE-IT TRAILER COURT [Lake Manitou]
Located on SW corner of SR-14 at the entrance to Colonial Condominiums.
Started by Walter House.

WEASNER, PETER [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester, Indiana [Historical Review]
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LOCAL NEWS
Peter Weasner has rented the old Langsdorf meat market stand on north Mainstreet. Mr. Weasner is now proprietor of two meat shops, one being on Wallstreet. Frank Rannells will have charge of the new shop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, October 5, 1901]

WEATHER WARNING FLAGS [Rochester, Indiana]
Rochester is to be provided with a Signal Service station. A wire stretchedacross Main street from the Central Block to Shields' building was put inposition yesterday on which to display the signal flags. When you see the flagindicating that an able-bodied cyclone is coming, it will be time to hunt yourholes. Joking aside, the service, if properly conducted, will be of incalculablebenefit to the public. Mr. J. W. F. Smth will receive the reports and displaythe signals.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 21, 1886]

WEATHERFORD, FRANK [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington

WEBER, CHARLES F. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Charles F. Weber, farmer, P.O. Rochester, son of Nathaniel and Susan (Downey)Weber, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. The subject of oursketch was born on the farm where he now resides, September 12, 1856, and waseducated in the schools of the county. His farm consists of 116 acres, and iswell improved. He resides in Section 24, and is a young man of energy andability, with a good prospect of long years of usefulness before him.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 32]

WEEKS, SELDON [Akron, Indiana]
See: Home Bakery

WEILLS & PETERSON [Rochester, Indiana]
{Adv] NEW HARDWARE STORE by a new firm. - - - - Hardware - - -Building Materialand Agricultural Implements - - - Prices Low. - - - WEILLS & PETERSON,Commercial Block, on North Main Street.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 23, 1881]

WEILLS, PETERSON & WEBBER [Rochester, Indiana]
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing betweenWeills, Peterson & Webber, in the hardware trade, has been dissolved bymutual consent, M. S. Weills retiring from the firm. The books and accounts arein the hands of the remaining partners for settlement. WEILLS, PETERSON &WEBBER, Dec 24th, '84.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, December 27, 1884]

WEISE, CHAS., MRS. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington

WELCH, CON [Rochester, Indiana]
Another business change is the north end livery stable. Enoch Mow has sold outto Con Welch, the well known Newcastle township farmer, and, in part payment,took the showy team of heavy draft dapple greys heretofore driven by Mr. Welch.Con will sell his personal property at public sale and then move to town.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 5, 1897]

WELCOME INN [Grass Creek, Indiana]
Restaurant operated in building just north of the elevator, by Mrs. Sommers, thewife of the elevator owner.

WELLS AND WIND MILLS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] FARMERS, ATTENTION! Wells and Wind-mills. Having over ten years experiencein the Well and Wind Mill business we are now selling the old reliable PerkinsWind Mill, and respectfully solicit your orders for wells and wind mills inMarshall and Fulton counties. Prices on application. Orders left with P. M.Shore will receive prompt attention. Work warranted. J. A. MATHENY, Argos, Ind.LEVI STAHL, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 2, 1890]

WELLS FARGO EXPRESS COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
The local Wells Fargo agency has been furnished a new horse to replace "OldJoe" that dropped dead several days ago after a good many years of faithfulservice.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 20, 1908]

Rochester friends are in receipt of word of the death Saturday at Ashland,Ohio of C. B. WHITE a former resident of this city. Whe he lived in Rochester,White was the local agent for the then Wells Fargo Express Company. He was theexpress agent at Ashland, where death occurred.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 29, 1923]

EXPRESS AGENCIES CONSOLIDATE
Beginning June 1st, the two express companies of this city, the American and theWells Fargo, will consolidate their business in this city. Two wagons will beoperated, as in the past, but the office work will be in charge of W. C. Smith,the present Wells Fargo agent.
Offices of the two companies have consolidated in many other cities for years.It is the present plan to make the action effective over the United States.
It is not known what E. H Mattice, the American agent, will do, but it ispossible that he will be transferred to some other ciy.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 15, 1914]

EXPRESS AGENCIES ARE UNITED
The Rochester Wells Fargo and American Express agencies were united today(Monday) the offices of the companies to be in the room on west 8th streetformerly occupied by the latter. W. C. Smith, Fargo agent, is now agent for bothcompanies.
The business of the two companies will be kept entirely separate, two sets ofbooks being maintained for that purpose. Both wagons will run as formerly. E. H.Mattice, former American agent, will not continue in the service. Several menhave applied for the place as driver of the American wagon. Will Delp willcontinue on the Fargo wagon.
This change has been made in many places to reduce office expenses and does notmean that the companies are merged. In many cities the United States Co., ismerging with one or the other of these companies.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, June 1, 1914]

WENTZEL, EDWARD [Union Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Edward Wentzel was born in Northumberland county, Pa., Nov. 21, 1830. Hisparents were Christophal and Leah (Adams) Wentzel. They were natives ofPennsylvania and of German parentage. They had twelve children, all of whom grewto manhood and womanhood. The subject of this sketch remained at home with hisparents until 1855, when he was married to Elizabeth Schwartz, a native ofPennsylvania, of German origin. In the spring of 1858 Mr. Wentzel came to Fultoncounty and settled on his present farm in Union township, where he now owns 340acres of land. He has been a successful farmer, and has reared a good family.Unto him and his wife the following children have been born: Nathaniel, whomarried Ida Bitterling, and is now a farmer; Julia Ann, who is the wife of Rev.A. E. Gift; and Jesse, who married Ruth M. Singer, and is now a farmer. Nov. 29,1864, Mr. Wentzel became a private in company E, Ninth Indiana infantry. He wasdischarged by reason of the close of the war, Oct. 18, 1865. He is a member ofthe Grand Army of the Republic. He and his sons are republicans in politics. Thewhole family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,p. 145]

WENTZEL, NATHANIEL S. [Union Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Nathaniel S. Wentzel was born in Sunbury, Northumberland county, [Pennsylvania],February 27, 1856, the son of Edward and Elizabeth (Swartz) Wentzel. EdwardWentzel came from Pennsylvania to Logansport, Indiana, by train, and from therehe came to Union township, Fulton county, Indiana. He bought land here andfarmed it, increasing his possessions until at the time of his death he hadthree hundred acres of land. He made his home on this farm for over forty years,and died in 1917, his wife having preceded him in death in 1910. They had threechildren: Julia, Jesse and N. S. Nathaniel S. Wentzel was educated in the publicschools of his home community and since the completion of his studies, he hasengaged in farming. He inherited one hundred acres from his father and seventyacres which he earned himself. He has never cared to confine his attention toany particular branch of agriculture, preferring to carry on general farming. Hewas married to Ida Bitterling and to them have been born five children: Bertha,Edna, Esther, Charles, and Arthur.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 293-294, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

WERNER, J. C. [Rochester, Indiana]
SECURES POSITION IN COLLEGE
Prof. J. C. Werner, former county superintendent, has accepted a position asdirector of corresnpondence in the extension department of the Kansas StateAgricultural college at Manhattan, Kan., and will leave the first of the week totake up his new work. His family will go later.
Mr. Werner began his teaching in Aubbeenaubbee township and later changed toGilead. In 1905, he finished a course at Indiana univdersity and was given anA.B. degree. In 1906, he was made county superintendent, an office he held forsix years, making a splendid record. At the close of his term, he had charge ofthe Rochester college for one year, then went to Chicago university, where hethis year received his Master's degree.
The Kansas college has an annual attendance of about 3,000, with a facultynumbering 200, and as Prof. Werner has always been ambitious to attain a collegeposition, he is to be congratulated on securing such an enviable place.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 20, 1913]

WERNER, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
JOHN WERNER AGAIN TO HEAD GRAIN DEALERS
John J. Werner, who is manager of the Rochester Co-Operative Elevator, wasre-elected president of the Farmers Grain Dealers Association at their annualmeeting which was held at Purdue University Thursday.
Mr. Werner has served as president of the association during the past year andwas very reluctant to accept the presidency for another year.
Other officers of the association who have served with Mr. Werner during thepast year were re-elected.
These officers are: H. O. Rice, Huntington, first vice president; Walter Penrod,Medaryville, second vice president; W. L. Woodfield, Lafayette, secretary andtreasurer.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, March 1, 1935]

WERNER NAMED SECRETARY
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Rochester Farmers Mutual InsuranceCo. held in this city today, John Werner was elected as Secretary to fill thevacancy in this office which was incurred by the death of Edwin C. Mercer. Mr.Werner will serve until next October.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, April 4, 1935]

WERNER, MARVEL E. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Marvel E. Werner)

WERT BROS. [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Wert Bros. has a full line of cigars and Tobacco, candies and fruits. One doorsouth of Emrick and Metcalf's millinery store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 3, 1904]

The Wert Bros. billiard and cigar business will move into the room nowoccupied by the Ditmires.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 30, 1904]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Ira Wert has disposed of his interest in the firm of Wert Bros. and will go toPeru Monday, where he has accepted a postion in the shoe department of Hale'sstore.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 13, 1904]

WERTS' CASH SHOE STORE [Rochester, Indiana]
{Adv] TAN SHOES! Our line of Tan Shoes for Ladies, Misses and Men, surpasses anyand all lines in this market in style, quality and price, and we sell them atgreatly reduced prices. Call and see them. WERTS' CASH SHOE STORE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 30, 1897]

[Adv] WAIT FOR US! WATCH FOR US! Stock is on the Road. - - - I have boughtthe Big Cooper stock at North Manchester, the heavy Smith stock of Dunkirk andthe F. J. Fowler stock at Logansport. Think of it! Three big stocks added to mystore. More shoes than all the rest together and at prices that talk. - - -Don't buy shoes until we open, Friday, April 29. - - - - S. I. WERT, The CashShoe Store Man, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 29, 1898]

[Adv] CLOSING OUT SALE of Boots and Shoes. Sale opens Saturday, March 9th,everything must be sold by March 27th. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS - - - WERT'S CASHSHOE STORE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 8, 1901]

LOCAL NEWS
S. I. Wert, who is now closing out his stock of shoes, will go to Delphi, thelatter part of next week. He will engage in the same business there, and alreadyhas a store nicely arranged.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 18, 1901]

WERTZ, MISS M. E. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] LADIES, The place to get all the late style MILLINERY, at the lowestprices, is at the millinery establishment of MISS M. E. WERTZ - - - Shop 1stdoor south of Commercial block, Rochester, Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, October 28, 1885]

WERTZBERGER, HOWARD [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Howard's Variety Store

WERTZBERGER, MEL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Howard's Variety Store
MRS. WERTZBERGER BUYS THE RENBARGER GROCERY
In a business transaction consummated today, Mrs. Mel Wertzberger, proprietor ofthe Howard's Variety store, located on the corner of Main and 9th streets,became the owner of the C. E. Renbarger Grocery, which is adjacent to theVariety Store.
According to Mrs. Wertzberger the store will continue to operate under the nameof "Renbarger's Grocery." The new owner also stated today that FredShobe will be retained as manager and Ernest Bonine as his assistant. Thistransaction was incurred through the death of C. E. Renbarger. Mrs. Renbargerplans to reside in Galien, Mich., and will remove to that city in the nearfuture.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 29, 1936]

WERTZBERGER, W. J. "BILL" [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Bill Wertzberger)

WESLEY, INDIANA [Henry Township]
See: Akron, Indiana

WESLEY POSTMASTERS [Akron, Indiana]
Alfred T. Welton, Aug 9, 1837, William Culver, Sep 30, 18 [??]
Hiram L. Welton, - - - - - - [?], Jacob Whittenberger, Jan 28, 1846.
[Name changed to Akron, Jan 6, 1853.
[F.C.H.S. Files]

WEST, BENJAMIN ODEN [Rochester, Indiana]
B. O. WEST (Biography)
For thirteen years the traveling public has met B. O. (Ben) WEST at the ticketwindow of the C. & A. Ry. depot. Mr. West was born and raised at Washington,D.C., where he was educated in the city schools and at Maryland Agriculturalcollege. He came west in 1880 as civil engineer for the Mutual Union TelephoneCo. and the C. & A. Ry. construction company. In all of the thirteen yearsof his railway agency here he has taken but three vacations from office duty andhe has always been an enthusiast for the interests of his road. He married MissJennie HELVIN, of North Carolina, and their family consists of two children,Irene and Charley [WEST].
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

BIOGRAPHY
Benjamin Oden West. - This gentleman is a representative of the Chicago &Erie railway, and agent for the Wells-Fargo express company, at Rochester, Ind.He is a native of Washington, D.C., born Jan. 9, 1858. He is a son of BenjaminOden and Helen West, whose maiden name was Williams. The father of Mr. West wasborn in Maryland and his death occurred in Washington, D.C., in 1858. The motherof our subject with her daughter (Helen Oden) now resides with her son inRochester. Mr. West first attended a private school in the city of his nativity,and later was for four years a student at the Maryland agricultural college,where he succeeded in acquiring a good education. In 1881 he entered the employof what was then the Mutual Union telegraph company of New York city, but whichhas since been absorbed by the Western Union company. Here Mr. West continueduntil June, 1882, when he entered the employ of what was then the Chicago &Atlantic railway company, now the Chicago & Erie line, in the capacity ofcivil engineer and this trust he held until the completion of the line toChicago. Mr. West came to Rochester March 27, 1883, and since that time he hasbeen the Chicago & Erie's agent at this place. He has been the agent for theWells-Fargo express company here since 1886. He is a man in whom the companieshe represents and the people of his adopted city have implicit faith andconfidence. In 1879 he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Helvin, a nativeof North Carolina. They have two children, viz.: Irene O. and Charles W. Inpolitics Mr. West is a democrat and cast his first presidential vote forHancock. He is a memberr of Fredonia lodge, No. 122, K. of P., and Mrs. West isa member of the Episcopal church. They are among the highly respected citizensof Rochester.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 145-146]

ROCHESTER MAN TELLS OF LINCOLN'S MURDER
An interesting letter was received at the News-Sentinel office today from B. O.West, of this city, who is spending the winter season at Winter Haven, Fla. Mr.West having read the recent articles appearing in the paper about those who hadseen the dead Abraham Lincoln was living in Washington at the time the Civil Warpresident was assassinated and relates the following facts concerning thetragedy:
"I was living in Washington, D. C. at the time President Lincoln waskilled. We lived only two blocks from Fords theatre when Mr. Lincoln was shot.We kept a horse and carriage in the same alley where Booth came in at the rearof the theatre. I also knew at that time the boy who held Booth's horse while hewent into the play house to kill the president."
The former Chicago & Erie ticket agent added that the weather had been idealat Winter Haven and at the present time Mr. Geo. W. Holman and daughter,Lucille, Mrs. Katherine Brackett, all of this city, and Mrs. Rome Stephenson ofSouth Bend were guests at his home.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, February 20, 1930]

WEST & CO., IRENE [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] Saturday, Sept. 19, the 5 & 10 Cent Store WILL OPEN. - - - No articlein stock will be paid for more than ten cents or less than five. - - - IRENEWEST & CO., Opposite Zimmerman's Furniture Store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 19, 1903]

WEST SIDE, THE [Lake Manitou]
See Lake Manitou Boats

WESTFALL & WALKER
See: Dawson, George V.

WESTERN OIL COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
WESTERN OIL COMPANY WILL BUILD A STATION
Rochester will now have another filling station. This became true Thursday whenthe Western Oil and Refining Company, 310 North Meridian street, Indianapolis,purchased the old Reece property at 318-320 North Main street of the Reeceheirs. C. V. Kindig and Sons contractors were given a contract Friday for theerection of a modern filling and service station, which will be housed in a 22by 60 brick structure which will have crushed rock approaches. The Western OilCompany has as their trade mark the work "Target" on all theirproducts. No local manager has as yet been named by the company.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, July 9, 1927]

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: West, Benjamin Oden
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LOCAL NEWS - FRIDAY
The Western Union telegraph company will abandon the old B. & O. telegraphline which runs along the Michigan road in the near future, and the wires andpoles will then be removed.
Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 18, 1902]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Newt Canaday, the Western Union telegraph agent who has had charge of thebusiness here for two or three years, has been promoted to a better position inthe main office of the company at Indianapolis where he will commence work nextMonday. He will be succeeded by Willis Coplen, and Mrs. Canaday will remain herea couple of months and assist in the business of the office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 2, 1903]

POLES TO COME DOWN
A gang of fifteen men in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company, cameto Rochester, yesterday evening, to commence the work of moving the throughwires, running from Chicago to Indianapolis, from the Michigan road to theVandalia right of way, and to remove the poles from Main street and place themin the alleys.
The work of removing the poles in Rochester will not be commenced until thelatter part of next week and at present it is not known whether an undergroundcable will be laid or the poles put up again.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, October 25, 1904]

FULTON NEWS
From the Leader.
A gang of men passed through this place the first of the week and removed thewires from the old Western Uion poles and placed them on the Vandalia railroadpoles.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 31, 1904]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Western Union Telegraph Co. will run a line into Chas Mitchell's cigar storeelection night and bulletins will be received there.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 4, 1904]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The old telegraph line along the Michigan road is now a thing of the past.Linemen are now taking down the poles and the gang passed through Rochestertoday, going north and lowering the poles as they went.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 15, 1904]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The Western Union Telegraph company is erecting a new line from the Lake Eriedepot to their office on Washington street. When the poles were removed from theMichigan road it left their office cut off from the service and it becamenecessary that they should connect with the Lake Erie wires.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 8, 1904]

COPLEN MISSING
After making out his monthly report, buying an express money order for theamount due the company, and taking care of the work of the office up to 6o'clock last Friday evening, Willis Coplen, the operator at the local WesternUnion Telegraph Co's office, suddenly disappeared, and dispite telephone,telegraph, and special delivery mail efforts to find him, all the attempts havebeen futile.
Coplen has not been feeling well for several weeks, and has eaten very little.At times he has acted very strange, and United States Express Agent A. C.Mitchell, who has his office with Coplen, says he acted very queer Fridayevening. Mitchell was the last man to see Coplen, who attempted to converse withhim at their office at six o'clock. Mr. Mitchell says he did not talk distinctlyand would only utter sylables of words; that he could operate the wire allright, and that he was perfectly sober.
After supper Friday evening, as Coplen could not be found, Floyd Mattice tookcare of the business. On the desk of the office was found a number of letterswritten by Coplen. They were written in a good hand, but like his speech hadbeen while talking to Mr. Mitchell, were unintelligent. In the notes, which wereall addressed to Cashier O. B. Smith, of the First National Bank, who is one ofCoplen's bondsmen for the position held with the Western Union, Coplen had triedto thank Mr. Omar Smith for the kindness shown him.
At 6:30 o'clock Coplen called up Miss Grace Harrison, a hello girl of theRochester Telephone company, and telling her that he was going north, bid herboodbye. Since then it has been learned that he was at Elkhart Sunday morning,but had left there. It is now thought that he is in Chicago where he has asister, Mrs. Nora Draper, and where he formerly worked.
An examination of all his books show that he did not take any of the company'smoney. He had made out his report, signed it, collected all that was due forlast month's messages and purchased an express money order for the amount duethe Western Union people. He had also paid the rent for his office, and allother expenses.
Up until this morning, an attempt had been made to keep the news of Coplen'sdisappearance from the officers of the Western Union, but this morning, theSuperintendent was written concerning the matter. An attempt was made topersuade that official to allow Floyd Mattice to continue in charge of theoffice until Coplen could be found. The fact that his whereabouts were not knownhere was not revealed, but instead the officer was told that Coplen was sick atthe home of his sister in Chicago.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, January 9, 1906]

NEWS OF THE DAY
It is rumored that Willis Coplen, the mysteriously missing telegraph operatorhas been located in Chicago where he is reported very sick. It is expected thathe will return to his work here if he recovers and Floyd Mattice has been giventemporary charge of the Western Union office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 10, 1906]

WILLIS COPLEN FOUND
Relatives have received word from Mrs. Frank Draper, of Chicago, who writes thather brother, Willis Coplen who disappeared mysteriously from here over a weekago, is at her home and may be able to come to Rochester the latter part of thisweek.
The letter did not say what he was sick with or what was the cause of hisillness. Neither did it say that his mind was allright, or what had been thecause of his sudden disappearance. it did, however, say that he would beallright, and there was no danger, and that if he continued to improve, thisweek as he did last, he would be well enough to come to Rochester Saturday.
There are other rumors to be heard about Rochester, to the effect that Coplenwill not return to his old position, but these the relatives say, have nofoundation.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 15, 1906]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Diestrict Supt. J. F. Wallick of the Western Union Telegraph Co., came toRochester, last evening, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of formermanager Willis Coplen. After learning the particulars of the entire case theSuperintendent, this morning, said, "The Rochester office will continue tobe conducted by the present manager, Floyd Mattice, and Mr. Coplen will go toIndianapolis to work.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, January 25, 1906]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The new observatory time electric clocks installed in connection with theWestern Union telegraph service are now in several Rochester business places.The places possessing one of these clocks are the postoffice, Gilliland's cigarstore, Dawson's, Brackett & Co., Newby's and Wolf & Howard. Each day ateleven o'clock the time flashes over the Western Union wire and if the clocksare off the least bit the minute hand jumps to exactly eleven o'clock. They arealso self winding and are all in all a very handy and reliable time piece.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 5, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
The office of the Western Union Telegraph Company will be a very busy sceneTuesday evening, and all men who can operate the telegraph key will be pressedinto duty. Special wires will be installed to the Armory hall, where therepublicans will hold forth, the democratic headwuarters at the Kai Gee theatreand Rochester Cigar store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 3, 1908]

NEW SERVICE
Commencing at 6 o'clock this evening, the Western Union Telegraph Company willinaugurate a new service which will be of great benefit to the public. Messagesof fifty words can now be sent for the usual day rate for ten words, whichmessages will be sent after 6 o'clock p.m., for delivery the next morning atdestination. These messages are known as "Night Letters," and areexpected to prove very popular with the public. Over and above fifty words therate is to be one-fifth of day rate for each additional ten words or fractionthereof. These "Night Letters" may be telephoned to the company'soffice, or collected by messenger, and will be delivered by messenger asordinary telegrams now are, and may be sent either paid or collect.
A telegram of fifty words to Chicago , to New York, or other Eastern points,fifty cents.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 7, 1910]

NEW TELEGRAPH SERVICE
Commencing Wednesday morning the Western Union Telegraph Company will inaugurateanother service similar to the now popular "night letter" plan. Thenew service is known as "day letters," and under this system messagesof fifty words can be sent anywhere in the United States for one and one-halftimes the amount formerly charged for ten words. For each ten words or fractionthereof over fifty words an additional charge of one-fifth the initial charge ismade. One can now send fifty words to Chicago or to any point in Indiana, exceptthe southern end of the state, for 38 cents, whereas at the old rates such amessage would cost $1.05. Fifty words to New York and other Eastern cities maybe sent for 75 cents. The only distinction made between this service and theusual day rate telegrams is that regular day messages have the firstright-of-way over the wires, but no considerable delay will occur to any"day letter." This in connection with their "night letter"and "ocean mail" service will, no doubt, prove quite convenient to thepublic. Special blanks printed in blue for the new service have been receivedfor use at the local office.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, February 28, 1911]

NEW WESTERN UNION MANAGER
The vacancy in the management of the local office of the Western Union TelegraphCompany made by the resignation of F. J. Mattice, has been filled by FredScholder, who resigned his position with the Lake Erie to take up his newduties. Mr. Scholder is an experienced operator, having worked in that capacityfor the Western Union and, although the duties of the management are intricateand many, it is presumed he will be able to master them.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, May 22, 1911]
WESTERN UNION TO MOVE
Another occupant-to-be of the new A. J. Dillon building now under construction,became known this morning when it was announced the Western Union TelegraphCompany will have its office in the front section of the second story.
For many years the company has occupied the brick building on East Seventhstreet and besides the inconvenience of being located on a side street, thebusiness has so increased as to demand more commodious quarters.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 16, 1911]

BUILDING TO BE READY
The new building being erected by A. J. Dillon is nearing completion and it isnow announced that it will be ready for occupancy by March 1. The work ofplastering is finished with the exception of a small part on the second floorand the interior decorations will be a matter of small consideration. The bigdrawback has been the absence of the flooring and word has been received thatthat material is on the way from Michigan. At the same time the plate glass forthe front windows will arrive and be installed at once.
The main floor will be taken over by Stoner & Black for their hardware stockand the display of automobiles. This firm will also use the third floor, wherethey will exhibit farm machinery and other hardware. The second floor will bepartially occupied by the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and theremaining rooms will be rented to professional men. The basement will be turnedover to Hartung's tailor shop and a barber shop, the latter proprietors notbeing named.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 10, 1912]

NEW WESTERN UNION MANAGER
Owing to the fact that Fred Scholder of this city, who has had charge of thelocal office of the Western Union Company, has resigned, Special Agent Nusam ofthe company is here and he has selected Harvey Waymire as Mr. Scholder'ssuccessor. Mr. Waymire has been in the employ of the company at theCrawfordsville office and formerly was employed as operator in the Rochesteroffice. He is a capable operator and it is thought he will succeed as manager.The retiring manager will hereafter devote his entire time to the plumbingbusiness with which he has been associated for some time.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 28, 1912]

YOU CAN NOW DO MOST ANY OLD THING BY WIRE
The Western Union Telegraph Co., announces another innovation for the benefit ofits patrons. Heretofore, the senders of money by wire have not been permitted toinclude in the transfers any communication of a business or personal characterto the payee, such information being req uired to be sent by separate message.Under the new arrangements, however, transfers between points in the UnitedStates may include such information and the same will be delivered to the payeeat the time the transfer is paid.
Thru this service, people will be enabled to transmit money quickly with properinstructions to meet banking obligations, pay insurance policies, guaranteepurchases, accompany bids, purchase railroad, steamship and theater tickets, paytaxes, assessments and bills of all descriptions, make remittances to travelingsalesmen and pupils attending distant schools, etc. There is practically nolimit to the purposes for which this service is available.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 15, 1916]

WESTERN UNION TO MOVE
The large room, opening on Eighth St., formerly occupied by the Racket clothingstore, has been rented by the Western Union Telegraph Co., for a new localoffice. The change will be made from the present location December 1st. AgentHarvey Waymire says that the new office will be modern in every way, newfixtures having been ordered which will give the public better service.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 8, 1917]

NEW W. U. OFFICE READY SOON
J. G. Hunter and J. W. Meek, of the Plant Dept. of the Western Unionheadquarters at Chicago, are in the city installing the fixtures for the newoffice on 8th St., just east of Main. The men state they expect to finish theirwork within two weeks, when the city will have a complete and modern telegraphoffice, of the W. U. type, standard all over the U. S. It is said that more than$600 is being spent in the improvement.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 17, 1918]

WAYMIRE IN CHARGE AGAIN
Harvey Waymire, recently discharged from the service, who had charge of theRochester office of the Western Union Telegraph Co. for years, has once moretaken over the managership in this city. W. L. Emerick, who recently replacedJohn Slaybaugh, left Tuesday for Kokomo where he will remain for a short timebefore taking over the office at North Manchester. Mrs. Emerick accompanied herhusband.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 11, 1919]

WESTERN UNION REPAIR GANG LEAVES ROCHESTER
Western Union wire repairing gang which has been operating along the Erierailroad from Rochester, west to North Judston for the last three months, lastFrday moved from this city to North Judson and will operate from there west.This outfit had four cars in which they lived. Two of the cars contained theirsupplies, one was constructed very much like a modern dining car and the othercontained the sleeping quarters of the crew. A Victrola was in evidence herewhich according to the boss served to liven up the long winter evenings spent intowns. This is the second Western Union gang which has operated in this countywithin the past six months, the other working out of Fulton county following theC. & O. railroad.
The Western Union men along the Erie have lowered every pole with the lowest ofthe thirty different wires thru this city is not more than six feet off theground at any point, except where there is a road crossing.
The poles were formerly set 120 feet apart but are now twenty feet closerbecause of the increased number of wires which they are supposed to carry. Bysetting the poles closer to the ground the men say that it will enable repairmen to save much time which formerly was taken in climbing. The reason forlowering the poles was the fact that they are very hard to obtain. By cuttingoff the part of the pole that has been in the earth at the grass line they wereable to use the upper parts. These were first treated with a preparation ofcreosote to keep them from rotting and also to keep insects from them.
All of the wires from the city have been repaired and the two lead wires havebeen restrung and copper ones installed. The lead wires were strengthened so asto enable them to conduct electricity better. This will enable the operatorsalong the line to send faster and clearer. Less maintenance will be the resultof this improvement it is said.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 23, 1920]
WESTERN UNION OFFICE FORCE REDUCED MONDAY
The Western Union Telegraph Company in Rochester has been compelled to reduceits force to one man by orders from headquarters, according to Harvey Waymire,in charge of the local office. Beginning Monday noon the services of themessenger boy, Rue McKee were dispensed with and hereafter there will be nocalling for messages. They will have to be brought to the office by the sender.
Messages will still continue to be delivered but those far from the office willbe sent by taxicabs for which expense the local office is allotted $5.00 permonth. Telegrams sent by individuals over the telephone and told to be chargedwill no longer be received as the agent will not have time to collect for them.Charge accounts and telephone service will still be continued for businesshouses.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 16, 1922]

W. U. TELEGRAPH OFFICE HAS A NEW MANAGER
The Western Union Telegraph office in this city is now under the management ofMiss Wilma Rehard who comes here from Lebanon to fill the vacancy left by theresignation of Mrs. E. A. Caldwell.
Miss Rehard, who is twenty years old, was transferred here from the WesternUnion offices at Lebanon. She has been a certified operator for the past twoyears.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 26, 1924]

WESTERN UNION CREW WORKING AT ROCHESTER
The Western Union Telegraph work crew which is installing new poles and linesbetween Indianapolis and Michigan City, are now as far north as Rochester. Thecrew, comprising eighteen men, live in three Pullman type cars, a work car, acombined cooking and dining car and a sleeping car which has also an office forthe road foreman. They expect to remain here for about two weeks before movingto Plymouth. The living conditions provided for the Western Union men are ideal.In fact, the W. U. is the only company that employs Pullman cars for housingtraveling work crews.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 6, 1924]

WESTERN UNION LEASES THE A. D. ROBBINS ROOM
Harvey Waymire, local manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, thismorning announced that his company had leased the A. D. Robbins room at 717 Mainstreet for a term of 10 years and would move the company's office from itspresent location at 110 East Eight Street to the new location by December 1. Themove is in line with the policy of the Western Union Company that of placingtheir offices on the principal streets of every city in whch they engage inbusiness. The new local office will be the finest telegraph office in thissection of the state, Mr. Waymire stated, and will include a ladies rest room.The new furniture for the office has already arrived. The Western Union Companyhas occupied the room in the Holman and Stephenson building for the past 15years. Only the front 40 feet of the Robbins room was leased. A partition willbe built dividing the Robbins room.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, October 26, 1929]

TELEGRAMS CAN BE SENT BY PHONE AFTER JAN. 1ST.
An agreement has been completed here it was announced today between the WesternUnion Telegraph Company and the Rochester Telephone Company whereby telegramscan be sent and received by telephone. The new arrangement will be effectiveJanuary 1st. This will be a big benefit to business men and others who wish tosend and receive telegrams at hours when the telegraph office is closed.
All patrons of the Rochester Telephone Company can phone in their telegrams andhave the charge added to their monthly phone bills. Such charges, itemized, willbe included with the statements sent out by the phone company at the end of eachmonth.
During Closed Hours
During the hours of day and night, Sundays and holidays when the telegraphoffice is closed, subscribers can phone in their message and give it to the longdistance operators. The message will be immediately transmitted assuring rapidservice. Incoming messages received at hours the telegraph office is closed willbe telephoned to the addressee without delay and on the following day aconfirming typewritten message will be delivered from the telegraph office.
This agreement will end the inconvenience undergone in Rochester for years bypersons wishing to send telegrams at odd hours as they were forced to go inperson to the railroad crossing switch tower in East Rochester. Also previouslytelegrams coming in to Rochester were never delivered until the followingmorning.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, December 9, 1933]

'PHONE COMPANY'S OFFICE IS MOVED TO NEW BUILDING
The Rochester Telephone Company business office is being moved today into thenew telephone building on [West] Eighth street, Roscoe Pontius, manager,announced today. Long distance booths in the new building will also be inoperation.
Beginning Nov. 1 the Telephone Company will act as sole agent for Western UnionTelegraph Company in Rochester. During business hours, telegraph business willbe handled through the commercial office by means of a teletypewriter. Afterbusiness hours and on Sundays and holidays the long distance operator willhandle telegrams through the switchboard.
Better Service
"By a unification of the telephone and telegraph services we will be betterable to serve people of this vicinity," said Mr. Pontius regarding thecombination of the two services.
"We're realizing a dream of many years in operating in a new building. Wewill be in a position to give better service to patrons and we will feel moresecure when our equipment is housed in a thoroughly modern, fireproofbuilding," he added.
To Hold Formal Opening
Installation of new equipment will begin soon under the direction of expertengineers from the Stromberg Carlson Company, of Rochester, N. Y. In about twomonths work will be completed.
As soon as every piece of equipment is in its place the company will hold aformal opening and open house for interested persons. Until that time workmenwill be busy with installation work, and will not have time to show peoplethrough the plant even though they'd like to.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, September 28, 1938]

WESTERN UNION OFFICE MOVES TO NEW TELEPHONE BUILDING
Operation of the local office of the Western Union Telegraph Company jointlywith the Rochester Telephone Company was begun today. R. D. Pontius, generalmanager of the telephone company, will be joint manager of both the telephoneand telegraph service here.
The Western Union office on Main Street was closed last night. WilliamLeischman, manager, had been transferred to another assignment.
A modern telegraph typewriter, working direct with the Chicago office of thetelegraph company, has been installed at the telephone building, 117 West EighthStreet. This, according to Western Union, brings to Rochester the most modernfacilities the communication field has to offer.
Complete Wire Service
A complete telegraph service will be continued in the community, including allclasses of day and night messages, telegraphic money orders, time service andmessenger service. Standard delivery service will also be available.
To assist during the transition period, Roger P. Graybiel, instructor for thetelegraph company, will be assigned at the new quarters for a period of severalweeks. He will instruct the personnel of the telephone company in all phases ofWestern Union's work and routine.
How Machine Works
The telegraph messages which will be received at the telephone building, eitherover the counter or by telephone, will be transmitted by an automatic telegraphtypewriter printer. This is a long-distance typewriting machine, resembling atypewriter in appearance and weighing 70 pounds. The impulses produced as thewords are written by depressing the keys, record the words upon the dry side ofgummed paper tape in the office in Chicago. At the same time, a duplicate of themessage is typed upon paper emerging from the machine here.
The process will be reversed when incoming messages are received here. Toprepare messages for delivery, all that must be done by the local operator ispaste the gummed tape upon which the telegram is printed upon a telegram blank.The message is then ready for delivery by messenger.
24 Hour Service
Residents of Rochester will be provided with telegraph service 24 hours each daythrough the telephone company.
Western Union and the Rochester Telephone Company today issued an invitation toall persons interested, to call at the telephone building and see the telegraphtypewriter in operation.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, November 2, 1938]

WESTFALL, MRS. [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] New Goods! - - - - Hats & Bonnets, handsome ribbons, feathers, also afull line of laces, veils, ties, ruching, collars, cuffs, combs, canvas,zephyrs, fancy card board, floss, and everything pertaining to Needle Work.South Room, Danziger's Block.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, September 20, 1879]

WESTRICK, K. [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
A deal was closed yesterday by which Crate Anderson became the owner of theRochester bottling works, formerly owned by K. Westrick.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 16, 1905]

WESTWOOD BARBER SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
Located basement 112 E 8th.
Formerly the Tipton barber shop.
See Rochester High School Basketball.

WEWISSA RESERVE [Newcastle Township]
See: Goss, Emanuel
See: Swonger, David C.

WHALEN, THOMAS [Wayne Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Whalen, of Irish descent, was born in Pennsylvania August 7, 1833, andwas but six years of age when his parents settled on the place where he nowresides. His sister, Joanna, married William Kelley, of Union Township, while hewas married, January 27, 1875, to Bridget Hoson, a native of Ireland. Thiscouple have but one living child. Mr. Whalen owns 100 acres of land, and hasbeen elected Township Assessor once. He and his whole family are members of theCatholic Church.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 62]

WHARTON, BESSE EMRICK [Rochester, Indiana]
FORMER ROCHESTER GIRL IS REAL STAR
Rochester people may not generally be aware of the fact that Mrs. Leo D.Wharton, wife of the man who is now producing the famous serial "Romance ofElaine," in his studio at Ithaca, N.Y., is Besse Emrick, daughter of Mrs.Alice Emrick of Rochester, and formerly of this city.
Some photographs of her and her home, now on display at the SENTINEL, have beenreceived by Mrs. Emrick, together with a newspaper clipping which says in part:"Fifty Ithacans participated in a "Lawn fete" given by theWhartons near the moving picture studios at Renwich Park yesterday afternoon.The local talent that participated in the affairs, which will be a scene in the"Romance of Elaine" series, seemed prone to be in the same picturewith Lionel Barrymore, Pearl White, Craighton Hale and other screen favorites.
"The character work of Bessie Wharton, wife of Leo D. Wharton, one of theproducers, is one of the most interesting features of the picture taking, fromthe spectator's viewpoint. Mrs. Wharton yesterday took the part of a gypsyfortune-teller and she had 'some' makeup. In fact, her character makeups arevery well done."
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 30, 1915]

BESS EMRICK WHARTON TALKS ON MOVIE LIFE
Mrs. Leo D. (Bess Emrick) WHARTON, of Ithaca, N.Y., who is now the guest of hermother, Mrs. Alice Emrick, and who plays big parts with the Wharton Film Co.,says that the moving picture game is a life of constant hardships and does notadvise girls to enter into this work, unless they have plenty of endurance, andpatience and are sure that they are fitted in every respect.
Mr. and Mrs. Wharton, who have been in the game eight and six yearsrespectively, have succeeded to such an extent that, together with Mr. Wharton'sbrother and brother-in-law, they own and operate one of the largest and bestfilm producing plants in the country. They are employing at the present timesuch stars as Burr McIntosh, Max Pigeman, Lolita Robertson, Bruce McRay, ReillyHatch, Creighton Hale, Pearl White, Kate Kathew, Harry Robinson, Dorothy Morton,Miss Edney, Thurlow Bergen, Elsie Esmond, Lottie Alter and Miss Winthrop. Theseplayers are all drawing salaries from $1,000 to $5,000 weekly. Besides theartists mentioned, 100 people are employed on the regular staff. The groundsowned by the company cover an area of 43 acres and on them are two immensestudios, which are in use at the present time, and another under construction, alarge carpenter shop, offices, dressing rooms and work rooms of alldescriptions. All the scenery used is built on the grounds by the company's ownworkmen, who are so efficient that they build boats, cars, etc. Only stars areused in the pictures produced by the Whartons and the films are contracted forby the Pathe Feres people, who release one feature film, consisting of fromthree to six reels and one episode of a serial, which consists of two reels,each week. The Whartons have been producers for the past two years but have onlyhad the complete immense plant they now own for a year. They are influentialenough to be able to use large railroads' fast trains and government troops,stations and forts, in return for which no money is asked, as these thingscannot be bought. The plant is located at beautiful Cayuga lake near Ithaca andis situated in one of New York's wonderful scenic districts.
Mrs. Wharton does not do any directing herself, but her husband is the managingdirector and has under him several assistant managers. She was employed by thePathe people six years ago, when she broke into the movie game, where she metMr. Wharton. After a strenuous courtship, she married him about two years ago.She has played, in six years, in 25 different parts and in one part she appearedin 72 reels. She has written several scenarios, which were produced by the PatheCo., and has one complete now which her husband will produce soon. She is notplaying in the Wallingford serial, now being shown here, as she was ill when thepiece was started, but has just finished parts in two feature films, "TheCity" and "The Lottery Man," in which she starred. Mr. Whartonwill arrive in the city Saturday and will be only too glad to tell people of hiswork. It is very interesting and but few understand how the films they see everynight are produced.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 18, 1915]

GOING TO CALIFORNIA
Among the film celebrities who passed in Chicago with Mrs. Vernon Castle, dancerand movie star, was Mrs. Bessie Wharton, wife of the Pathe director and daughterof Mrs. Alice Emrick of this city. Mrs. Wharton has a prominent part in Mrs.Castle's new vehicle "Patria," now being taken in California.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, December 1, 1916]

4 RAVENCROFTS DIVIDE HONORS WITH MRS. CASTLE
The first installment of the serial picture, "Patria," shown at theParamount Monday evening, was well received by several capacity crowds. Afeature of the picture, which is produced by the Whartons of New York, is theappearance of Mrs. Vernon Castle with the former local girl, Mrs. Bess EmrickWharton. The four Ravencrofts, an added feature, were highly entertaining intheir singing act and received numerous encores. They rendered classical as wellas popular selections. Special mention is made of the ukulele imitation.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, April 3, 1917]

WHARTON PHOTOGRAPHER [Rochester, Indiana]
New Picture Gallery. John Wharton, formerly from Wabash, this State, has rentedthe new rooms up stairs in Doctor Hill's Building and is now ready to takePictures. It must be recollected that Mr. Wharton received the Premium at theState Fair as the best artist in the state.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, December 19, 1867]

WHEADON, VOLNEY [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Volney Wheadon)

WHEATLEY, EARL EDWARD [Leiters Ford, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters [Letter From Earl Edward Wheatley)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Earl EdwardWheatley)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Third Letter From Earl Edward Wheatley)

WHIPPOORWILL CORNERS [Richland Township]
See Berthiesville

WHIPPOORWILL TELEPHONE COMPANY [Fulton County]
See Rochester Telephone Company
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IS NOW PLANT'S SOLE OWNER
Mrs. Lee Jamison, formerly of Tiosa, now of Claypool, is now sole owner of theWhippoorwill Telephone Co., having acquired the half interest held by the TalmaTelephone Company.
The Whippoorwill exchange, which has 145 patrons, is said to be valued at$4,000, and is a good paying business, but its distance from Talma made it hardto handle. Mrs. Jamison will continue William Wynn, it is believed, as manager.S. Y. Grove is president of the Talma company, which is also in a flourishingcondition.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 3, 1915]

WHIPPOORWILL 'PHONE SOLD
The Whippoorwill rural telephone plant has been sold by "Billy" Fosterto Charles and Chauncy Hiatt. The new owners will rebuild the plant into amodern exchange and hope to enlarge the business by improving the service. Theplant is located about seven miles northwest of Rochester and has a hundredsubscribers.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 16, 1922]

WHITCOMB, PAUL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: World War II
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OFFICER PAUL WHITCOMB SERVED IN 5TH DIVISION
Police Officer Paul Whitcomb received considerable of a thrill Wednesday whenthe Fifth Division troops passed through Rochester, for he directed traffic atSeventh and Main and assisted in the passing of his old regiment, the 21st FieldArtillery.
Whitcomb joined the division at San Antonio in February, 1918, and accompaniedit to France where, equipped with 4.7 in. guns the regiment participated in manyof the battles of the World war.
A division normally at that time consisted of 28,000 men but due to thenecessity of losses required replacements in France the Fifth division, the veryorganizsation passing through this city, lost 2,120 men killed and 6,996 died ofwounds.
This is in itself a testimonial of the combat record of the division. Whitcombwas discharged from the organization at Camp Sherman, Ohio, after its return tothe United States. This is the first time he has seen the organization sincethat time.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, May 21, 1941]

WHITE, DR. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester, Indiana [Historical Review]

WHITE, FRANK W. [Rochester, Indiana]
CY DAVIS VARIETY STORE IS SOLD TO FRANK WHITE
The Cy Davis Variety Store at 816 Main Street was sold today to Frank W. Whiteof Fairmount, an experienced variety store man who will reopen the store withina few days. Several months ago Ostinell A. Davis, brother of Cy Davis founder ofthe store petitioned the court in a friendly suit asking the appointment of areceiver for the store stating his brother because of his ill-health could nolonger manage. The request was granted by Judge Hiram Miller who appointedOstinell Davis as receiver. The sale of the store to Mr. White was approved thismorning by Judge Miller. The sale price was $525 in cash.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, September 17, 1929]

TWO BUSINESSD CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED IN CITY
Two business changes have taken place in this city during the past few dayswhich involve the changing of ownership of a variety store and a garage.
The Star Garage at 623-625 North Main Street, has been sold by Herb Shobe to W.E. Russell of Star City. Mr. Russell will change the name of the garage to thatof the Russell Garage and will maintain day and night service. A complete repairshop will also be operated in connection with the garage. Mr Shobe has leasedthe room at 610 Main Street and has moved his stock of auto acccessories there.
Harry Wallace has purchased the variety store at 816 Main Street operated forthe past year by Frank White. He will reopen the store next Saturday with a newstock of goods. Mr. Wallace has engaged the serviced of Cy Davis who is anexperienced operator of variety stores.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, October 2, 1930]

WHITE, JACK [Lake Manitou]
See: Hotels - Fairview
See: Howard & White

WHITE, JOHN [Fulton, Indiana]
CHEAP LUMBER
For good second class lumber at $7.00 per thousand go to John White, at Fulton.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, December 10, 1897]

WHITE, LESTER [Rochester, Indiana]
LESTER WHITE BUYS JOHNSON GROCERY STORE
Lester White, who has been employed at the Armour plant in east Rochester forthe past two years, Tuesday purchased the J. C. Johnson grocery at 517 EastFourteenth St. Mr. White is well qualified to operate the grocery as he has hadmany years experience in this line of work. Mr. White, who will operate hisstore on a cash and carry basis, has already assumed management. He will carryonly standard brands of foods.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 20, 1928]

[Adv] PUBLIC SALE OF GROCERIES. I will sell at auction at my store at 517 E.14th Street Rochester, Ind., on Thursday 24th at 12 o'clock, all of my stock ofgroceries, showcases, paperracks and refrigerators. This is your opportunity tolay in your groceries at your own price. LESTER WHITE, Owner. Ira Bastow, Auct.,H. L. Coplen, Clerk
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 22, 1929]

WHITE, RALPH [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Leter From Ralph White)

WHITE BREEDERS COMPANION [Rochester, Indiana]
Printed at the office of The Fulton County Sun, 130 E 8th.
See Chester White Journal
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ANNOUNCE A CHANGE OF NAME
Moore Bros. Co., of this city, have announced that beginning with the Julyissue, the White Breeders' Companion, their monthly publication, will be knownas the Chester White Journal. The issue will bear a cover design by RussellParker, of this city.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, June 11, 1918]

WHITE CITY [Lake Manitou}
Located at the NE corner of the lake on the last bend in the Barrett Road.[Longbeach?]
A group of Indianapolis people built White City with swimming pier and slides,also concessions, at the northeast corner of the lake on the last bend in theBarrett Road. This was somewhat popular with visitors for a while butprofit-wise it was not self-sustaining and after the marathon dancing craze wasover in the late 1920's, it fell into discard.
[Hill Family, Clarence F. Hill, Fulton Co. Folks, Vol. 1, Willard
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DANCE AT WHITE CITY
Lora Tharp, who has promoted the dances given by the Moose Lodge during the pastwinter, announces that next Sunday evening there will be a dance at the WhiteCity pavilion at the lake. The music will be furnished by the Lang orchestra ofPeru. They play for both round and square dancing.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, May 2, 1924]

WHITE CITY GROUNDS NOW BEING PREPARED FOR CAMP
Arrangements were completed Tuesday afternoon whereby the White City site willbe made suitable for the Camp Gridley sailors who will come to Lake Manitou nextSunday for a week's stay. Workmen are now busy getting the grounds in shape andwhen the 110 youngsters and their instructors arrive they will find a large,clean camp ground with big airy frame buildings ready to house them.
Captain Burton and Lieut. Knackle, naval heads of the camp, were in RochesterTuesday accompanied hy two of their youthful sailor students, and after making anumber of suggestions as to changes and improvements put their O. K. on thelocation and site.
They announced that their outfit will arrive on the Nickle Plate next Sundaymorning and that they will go to the camp grounds at once to get all located andeverything in shape at once. They will depart the following Sunday afternoon.They are bringing one large sea going boat with them for use in drills andpleasure sailing.
Charles Allen, who is operating the skating rink at White City, very generouslyagreed to close his place for the week so that the entire grounds could be underthe jurisdiction of naval officers and so that outside influences would notinterfere with the schedules which are never deviated. The rink will be closedafter next Sunday afternoon and will open again the following Sunday night forthe remainder of the summer.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, July 17, 1928]

IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING MADE AT AMUSEMENT PARK
E. C. Mesle, proprietor of the Saginaw, Mich. Amusement park, who recently tookover the White City Park, Lake Manitou, is making some extensive improvementswhich should make this location one of the busiest spots around the lake thisseason. A gang of workmen have been busily engaged for the past three weeksputting the park in shape for the big opening on Sunday, June 14th.
Among the major improvements made by Mr. Mesle was the remodeling andrefurnishing of the large bath house; the installation of a Safe-T rail tobogganslide, 128 feet in length and 40 feet high; the building of a sand play beachfor the bathers and a large number of outboard motor boats, fishing boats andsail boats. A new departure for anglers will be found at this resort, where anenormous stock of gold fish minnows will be available for use in bass fishing.
Marathon Starts Sunday
The large dance hall is being re-arranged with box seats, bleachers, dressingrooms preparatory to the starting of a Marathon dance on Sunday. Ten couplesfrom nearby cities and possibly two or three local couples will start on thegrilling grind. Glen Norris and his "Rhythm Boys" music-makers fromthe Ohio State University will furnish the music for the dancers.
The contestants in the Marathon dance 40 minutes out of each hour and rest 20minutes. During the rest period special feature numbers will be presented andthe audience may have the use of the dance floor. Dick Edwards, co-partner withMr. Watson, of the Edico Hotel and miniature golf course, whose property joinsthe park will have charge of the marathon. Edwards has conducted these endurancedances throughout many of the larger cities in the midwest states throughout thepast two years.
The park will be open to the public at all times and the management especiallyurges picnicers, fraternal organizations and family groups to make use of thebathing beach, picnic tables and the thousand and one little conveniences whichare erected for the use of the public, free of any charge.
High Powered Speed Boars
Two Criss-Craft speed boats, equipped with the high powered motors will beavailable for taxi and pleasure use at all hours of the day and night. Thesecraft are said to be the very last word in speed boat construction and arecapable of doing 40 miles per hour.
All of the stands shooting gallery, power plant, fencing, in fact every buildingin the park have been repainted and re-furnished throughout, presenting a mostattractive appearance. The Edwards property immediately south of the park hasalso undergone several improvements. The hotel which was repainted this springhas been equipped with attractively striped awnings, hot and cold water systeminstalled and all rooms furnished with Simmons beds and furnishings.
The Edico miniature 18 hole golf course is now equipped with original Texascotton seed greens and will undoubtedly receive a big play from the many put-putfans who will visit the amusement park. All in all, the new White City AmusementSpot adds greatly to the assets of the lake resort and it is believed the newforms of amusement will be instrumental in bringing a new group of visitors tothe lake.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, June 11, 1931]

MARATHON CONTEST ENDS, CAREDIO-LUDWIG WINNERS
The White City Marathon dance contest came to an end at 12:30 Tuesday a.m. whenDennis York was disqualified for getting out of position with his partner, Mrs.Elmer "Spark Plug" Dupree. This automatically gave first place toLarry DeCaredeo and his partner Hilda Ludwig.
The contest which started on June 14th was nearing the 2,100 hour mark when themarathon judge brought it to a close. The winning couple who are professionaldancers appeared to be in excellent condition and could have probably lastedseveral days. Gilford Bowers of this city and Peggy O'Day of Kokomo who droppedout several days ago finished in third position.
Dick Edwards who managed the marathon will soon start another such contest atMilwaukee and practically all of those who took part in the White City ParkMarathon have signed up for the Milwaukee grind.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, September 8, 1931]

WHITE CITY BAR [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Carpenters were at work today on the P. M. Shore building formerly occupied bythe White City bar, putting in a stairway so that the upper rooms may be reachedfrom the street.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 21, 1908]

WHITE HOUSE INN [Lake Manitou]
[Adv] The White House Inn, North Shore Drive - Chicken, steak and fish dinners.Parties a specialty. Also board and room by week, day or meal. Phone 1186-W.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, June 15, 1931]

WHITED, RODERICK [Argos, Indiana]
FORMER ARGOS YOUTH IS CALIFORNIA MANUFACTURER
Argos Reflector:
Roderick Whited, a graduate of Argos high school, who left here 10 years ago, isthe developer of a plastic art novelty industry in Escondido, Calif., accordingto word received here.
The industry employs nine persons in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Whited. He is hisown representative to retailers, and approximately 600 stores in southernCalifornia handle the novelties.
The articles are made of art plastic, which is less brittle thanplaster-of-paris and takes less time for setting. Ash trays and wall plaques areamong the principal items. A plaque illustrating the song "South of theBorder" was so much in demand that the plant could not keep up with orders.Mr. Whited creates most of the designs himself, and the plant produces between40 and 50 items.
Most of the numbers are copyrighted. Three men operate the moulder, which iscapable of turning out approximately 2,000 pireces before it needs to bereplaced. The design is cast and set in five minutes, after which it must dryfor five days before it is shellacked and painted.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, June 29, 1940]

WHITMER, ABRAHAM L. [Rochester, Indiana]
Since it was definitely determined that Prof D. P. Powers would retire from thesuperintendency of the Rochester schools, the school board has been diligent ininvestigating the standing and qualifications of the fifty or more applicantsfor the position. Great pains were taken in the matter by the board to get theright man, and it is believed that it has been eminently successful. At itsmeeting, held last evening, Prof. A. L. Whitmer was chosen as the one believedto be the best fitted for the place.
Mr. Whitmer is a native of South Bend and comes to us highly recommended by menof exalted rank in educational matters. He has been the Principal of theWalkerton schools and served six years as the Superintendent of the schools atSpencer. He has been given two degrees by the Indiana University and for thepast year he has been at the Harvard University where he will continue hisstudies until near the time for engaging in his work here. Mr. Whitmer is intown at present and will remain for a few days forming acquaintances and assistin the selection of teachers and organization of the schools for the comingschool year. He is a gentleman of fine appearance, is 37 years of age, married,and has a son five years of age. It is hoped that he will receive a cordialwelcome from our citizens and second his efforts to keep our schools at theirpresent high standard of excellence.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 26, 1907]

BIOGRAPHY
Abraham L. Whitmer, the superintendent of the Rochester schools, was born in St.Joseph county, Indiana, April 1, 1869. He received his elementary education inthe graded and high schools of his home community, and he then attended theCentral Normal College and Indiana University, being graduated from the latterinstitution and receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.After leaving Indiana University, he served as the principal of several highschools and later as the superintendent of schools at Spencer, Indiana. He thentook a post graduate course at Harvard University, and since the year 1906, hehas been the superintendent of schools of Rochester. Under his efficientmanagement, the Rochester school system has been greatly developed, many newcourses being instituted and the new high school building being erected. Mr.Whitmer was married in 1898 to Maude Fulmer, of Mishawaka, Indiana, and to thisunion one son, Orville F., has been born. Orville F. Whitmer was grduated fromPurdue University in Mechanical Engineering in June, 1923. He participated incollege athletics and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 294-295, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

PROF. WHITMER RESIGNS AS HEAD OF SCHOOLS
COMPLETES 31 YEAR RECORD; PROF. RANKIN IS SUCCESSOR
* * * * Photos * * * *
Nearing the completion of his 31st year as Superintendent of the Rochester Cityschools, Prof. A. L. Whitmer, on April 9th, submitted his official resignationto Dr. Chas. L. Richardson, president of the Rochester City School Board.
Meeting in special session late Wednesday, the School Board accepted Mr.Whitmer's resignation and selected Prof. Fred W. Rankin as Mr. Whitmer'ssuccessor, with duties of his new office becoming effective as of June 1st, thisyear
Efficient Record
Prof. Whitmer's long tenure of office sets a new record in the schoolsuperintendency regime in the Rochester City schools and perhaps may also be astate record. The retiring superintendent came to Rochester in the year of 1907from the Spencer, Ind. schools. In his long tenure as head of the city schoolsMr. Whitmer was responsible for many marked improvements, both educationally andmaterially in the school system. The retiring superintendent who was seriouslyinjured in an auto accident in Ohio last winter, has not as yet, definitelydecided on his plans for the future, it was stated today.
Prof. Rankin, the newly appointed superintendent, came to Rochester in the fallof 1922 and was employed as an instructor of physics and mathematics. In theyear of 1929 he was advanced to the principalship of the Rochester High school,in which capacity he has served most efficiently.
The new superintendent is a graduate of Hanover Colleg. He holds master degreesin Mathematics, Science and Education from Hanover, and in October of 1933, hereceived his master degrees of Science and Education with a first gradeadministrative's license from Indiana University.
Prof. Rankin is a member of the Rocheser Kiwanis Club, the Northern IndianaPrincipals Club, the National Educational Association, the Athletic Council ofthe I.H.S.A.A. and is president of the Athletic Conference of the CentralIndiana H. S. Conference. Mr. Rankin is a member and elder of the FirstPresbyterian Church of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin reside in their own property at 418 West 7th street. Theyare the parents of two children, Suzanne,aged 8, and David, aged three.
A. Vernon Purdue was appointed by the Board to succeed Prof. Rankin to theprincipalship of the Rochester High school. Mr. Purdue has been the assistantprincipal of the High school for the past nine years.
Prof. A. V. Purdue, the new principal, became associated in the Rochesterschools in the year of 1925. He obtained an A. B. degree from Central NormalCollege in 1929 and his M.S. degree from Purdue University in January, 1938.Upon completion of his college course, Prof. Purdue taught for five years inrural schools in central Indiana. He was principal of the Columbia grade school,this city, for four years and became assistant principal of the R.H.S. in 1929.
The new R.H.S. principal is a member of Rocheser Masonic Order, the MethodistChurch and the Kiwanis Club. Mr. and Mrs. Purdue reside at 500 West 9th street.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, May 12, 1938]

A TASK WELL DONE
(front page editorial)
Irrespective of the fact that Professor Abraham L. Whitmer, through his 31 yearsof continuous service as the guiding director of the Rochester City Schools hasunquestionably well merited retirement from the multi-duties of this importantpost, the citizens of Rochester and his legion of friends throughout the entirecounty will sincerely regret his withdrawal from the activities of the city'seducational field.
Professor Whitmer assumed his duties as head of the city schools at a time whenthere was much work to be done. The older citizens who have followed theretiring school head's remarkable career, will well remember that while thestaff of instructors were on a par with those in adjoining county centers, thebuildings, their accommodations, the range of educational facilities, in thoseearlier years, were indeed limited.
Regardless of how great the task may have appeared to the then young ProfessorWhitmer, he proceeded quietly, gradually and methodically to build up a modernand highly efficient educational system from which graduates of today are on apar scholastically with those from any city in the state.
At no time during the continuous progress which was being made in the city'sschool system, did Mr. Whitmer bid for a fanfare of praise for theseachievements. He serenely pursued his ideals until they were formed intorealisms. His judgment in decisions for the general welfare of his schoolchildren was as infallible as the law of gravity itself; and, it may be saidthat at no time during his record-breaking span of tenure in the office ofSuperintendent were there any factional disturbances in the city's educationalgoverning branches, nor any signs of discord or discontent among the hundreds ofstudents and teachers who were under the supervision of Professor Whitmer.
Such an official, a friend and truly worth-while man, is in reality aninstitution within himself, and his retirement, though well earned, must besincerely deplored.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, May 13, 1938]

WHITMER GYMNASIUM [Rochester, Indiana]
CITY TO GET NEW BUILDING
AUDITORIUM AND GYMNASIUM FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS
Assurance of the erection of an addition to the Central school building to beused not only for a gymnasium for physical training for the school children ofthe city, but also as an auditorium and community building, was given followingaction of the city council in session Tuesday evening in endorsing a resolutionof the school board to build.
The members of the school board, A. L. Deniston, Dr. Harley W. Taylor and HarryWilson, appeared before the council with the resolution to build, and after theentire proposition had been presented the council, on motion of CouncilmanBarcus, unanimously placed its stamp of approval on the project, thus removingthe last semblance of an obstacle, a number of which had already beenencountered and overcome by the board.
The building is to be of brick of one-story height and 83 by 124 feet on theoutside, to be erected on the northwest corner of the Central school buildinglot [SE corner of Sixth and Fulton]. Facing north is the entrance with a smalllobby and ticket selling booth. On the inside on the north, east and west sidesare bleachers with a capacity of 1,000 and on the south side is a stage 43 feetin width and 20 feet deep. This stage also can be used for seating capacityduring athletic contests. The gymnasium floor is 54 by 80 feet with a 22 footoverhead clearance.
At the rear of the stage and on each side are locker rooms, toilets and showersfor the men on one side and for the women on the other and space is alsoprovided for a furnace room, coal bins and ash bins. The building is offireproof construction with metal sashes thruout and is to be heated by hot-airfactory type furnace, the latest approved method for open buildings of thisnature.
Used as an auditorium for public meetings or stage productions such as thatstaged by the high school each year, the building offers a seating capacity of2,500 persons.
As a gymnasium for physical training the floor space offers adequate provisionfor the classes of the common schools and high school pupils, and the boardstressed the fact that while physical training was instituted in the schoolshere last fall, it was found necessary to give it up at least for the time beingbecause of lack of proper facilities.
Besides the previously mentioned advantages to be secured by the building,additional room in the high school building is thus provided. The high schoolbuilding is no longer entirely adequate there being a lack of space for propermanual training, domestic science, typewriting and bookkeeping class rooms andlaboratories, to say nothing of lack of space in the assembly room.
The old high school gymnasium [located basement Joint High School] wouldconsequently be converted into manual training class rooms, profiding additionalspace for iron working, which is in demand and will be instituted in anotheryear.
This gives more assembly room space up stairs and also provides facilities forlarger domestic science laboratories. Already the class has outgrown thefacilities offered and many pupils have been turned down for lack of facilitiesto handle larger classes.
The school board estimates the cost of the building at $23,000. Other schoolsover the state have built even more costly structure of this nature and bytaking over the handling of funds derived from them have made the buildingsself-supporting. One feature of the proposed building is contained in theannouncement that it would be rented out for public gatherings, thus filling along felt want of the community in this respect.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 26, 1922]

GYMNASIUM CONTRACT TO ROCHESTER FIRM
The contract for the construction work of the new high school gymnasium andauditorium to be erected on the north school building lot during the summer soas to be ready for the opening of the school season in September, was letThursday afternoon by the city school board to the Rochester ConstructionCompany, with a low bid of $18,074. The plumbing contract was let to JamesDARRAH for $3,500 and the electric wiring and fixtures to the Hawkins-MyersElectric Company, of Wabash, for $354. This brings the total cost of thebuilding to $22,528. On the two smaller items there were but the one biddereach.
Other bidders for the construction work were E. A. Carson, of Logansport,$22,444; Stephen Parcell,Rochester $29,404; Milo Cutschall, Akron, $25,682;Wabash Construction Company, Wabash, $25,362 and Ertle and Wolf, Logansport,$27,000. The latter bid was not considered, having been delayed past the hour oftwo o'clock. The firm that secured the contract is composed of Ben Hatfield,Heber Dunlap and Carl Keel. It is expected that actual construction work will goforward as soon as the bonds are sold.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, June 1, 1922]
CONTRACTORS ON SCHOOL BUILDING REFUSE TO BUILD
Just as the point was reached by the city school board where all was believedclear sailing for the construction of the proposed city school auditorium andgymnasium, the Rochester Construction Company threw a monkey wrench into thewheels of the smoothly revolving machinery and turned the whole affair topsyturvey by refusing to enter into the contract with the board to startconstruction.
The local contractors refused to complete the contract according to their bidson the grounds that they had made an error in estimating the cost ofconstruction and would lose money if they built the structure at the bid priceof $18,674.
Just what this action on the part of the contractors means is a matter yet to bedetermined. There are several means of solving the difficulties precipitated,but the school board has not yet decided which course to pursue. If it ispossible under the law, the board may accept the next highest bid offered at theletting several weeks ago. This bid, which [is] approximately $22,000, is butvery little higher than the bid offered by the local people. In the event thatthis cannot be done, it is possible that the job will be re-advertised and thewhole procedure repeated.
The Rochester contractors may be forced to forfeit their good will bond, whichwas in the form of a certified check for five per cent of the contract price,altho it was not stated definietly that this would be the case.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, June 14, 1922]

HAMMOND FIRM GETS H. S. GYM CONTRACT
McClay and Brady, general contractos of Hammond, were awarded the contract forerecting the new high school auditorium and gymnasium when the bids were openedby the school board at the high school building Thursday afternoon. Their bid of$22,658 was the lowest of the four made for the building.
James J. Darrah, plumber of Rochester, was awarded the work for the plumbingfixtures and installation at $3,299.26 the specifications calling for Clowfixtures.
The Lige Heating and Ventilating Company of Auburn had the low bid for heatingand ventilating installation at $2,860.
There were more bids on all of the work than at the former letting which wasawarded to the Rochester Construction Company, which defaulted making secondletting necessary. The bids were somewhat lower and much closer than at thefirst awarding.
Other bidders on the building were Milo Cutshaw, Akron, $25,565; G. O. Sharp,Camden, $23,637, and E. A. Carson, Logansport, $31,894. The Carson bid includedall of the fixtures, plumbing, lighting and heating. There were eight firms bidon the plumbing, heating and ventilating while only one firm, the Levitt Mfg.Co., bid on the bleachers alone.
While the school board was in session a telephone message was receivedannouncing that the Fletcher Trust and Savings Bank of Indianapolis had approvedthe sale of the bonds for the buiding. They were bought through the agency ofthe U. S. Bank and Trust Co. This insures the construction of the gymnasiumstarting at once.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 13, 1922]

GYM FOUNDATION HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETED
Work on the foundation of the new high school gymnasium and auditorium on thenorth school building lot has been completed and masons are already at worklaying the walls. The supplies for the new structure, however, have been delayedto such an extent that it is now believed that instead of the building beingfinished by October 15, according to contract, it will take at least a monthlonger. The building, however, will be ready for the opening of the 1922-23basketball season, it is confidently expected.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 17, 1922]

NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING AMONG FINEST IN STATE
Work on the new high school gymnasium and auditorium is rapidly nearingcompletion and there is now no doubt whatever that the building will be readyfor occupancy in time for the Tipton-Rochester game here.
A visit to the new structure is a delight and revelation to the athletic fans asthere will not be a better building of its kind in any city of near the size ofRochester in the state, and for the purpose for which it is intended, no cityregardless of size can boast of a better building.
The basketball floor, of hardwood laid on concrete, is 50 x 74 feet with eachside for out-of-bounds playing. The beams are 22 feet from the floor and 12 feetabove the baskets, which gives sufficient space for an arc shot from any placeon the floor. This has been the big factor, it is believed, that has heldRochester back in basketball championship matches.
The bleachers, which have a seating capacity of 1,500 persons, are beinginstalled by the manual training class of the high school and will be ready byFriday. Besides the 1,500 that can be seated in the bleachers there will bespace on the stage which altogether will permit 2,000 people to witness athleticevents in the building.
There are three entrances, the main entrance facing the north. A wing has beenbuilt out here providing a ticket booth and small lobby. From this point theperson entering the building steps through a second door, where tickets aretaken, immediately into the hall. The other two entrances are on the east andwest sides. Besides the three entrances, there are two other exits at the rear,one on each side of the stage.
The building is absolutely fire-proof in its structure and all inside wood workis being painted so that a pleasing color scheme will be presented.
At the south end of the building is a 30 foot stage, also with a hard-woodfloor, laid on concrete. There are two doors, one at either side of the stage,one leading to the girls' and the other to the boys' locker, shower and toiletrooms on each side of the building. At each side of the stage are drinkingfountans, one of the popular finishing touches that have been added to the wholestructure and its equipment.
The building is heated by two large hot air furnnaces which are now installedand in operation. The heat is sent out over the building by a mammoth hot aircirculating fan, which throws fresh hot air on one side and draws out the oldair on the other, thus providing the finest kind of ventilation.
Taken as a whole the building is very complete and when the general public hasbeen admitted to see and admire, the already numerous compliments received bythe school board which made it possible is expected to be buried under a delugeof congratulations.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, November 29, 1922]

SENTIMENT GROWS FOR NAMING SCHOOL "GYM"
Since it has been in use three or four years, the gymnasium of the schools hereshould no longer be called the "new gym," sport fans of the city aresaying and a movement is on foot to have it given another name. "WhitmerGymnasium," honoring Mr. Whitmer, 19 years superintendent of the cityschools, has been suggested and has many proponents. It is expected the fans andcitizens will consider the matter and take some action shortly.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, October 12, 1925]
ROCHESTER TO BE SCENE OF REGIONAL BASKETBALL MEET
Rochester for the first time in basketball history will be the seat of aregional tourney this year. As usual it will also have the sectional tourney.Announcement of the assignments was made last night by A. L. Trester,commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association.
The national tournament will be played here in the Whitmer gymnasium on March 6and 7 and the regional will follow a week later in the same place on march 14.The same dates will prevail for all 64 sectionals and 16 regionals to be held inIndiana. The final state tourney will be held in the Butler University fieldhouse at Indianapolis on March 20 and 21.
Four Teams to Be Here
The winners of four section tourneys will come to Rochester for the regional.They will be the victors from Elkhart, Mishawaka, North Judson and Rochester.This region contains a number of strong teams and Rochester fans will see somebasketball at this tourney.
In the section there will be eight teams from Fulton county which includesKewanna, Akron, Fulton, Grass Creek, Leiters Ford, Talma, Richland Center,Rochester and four teams from Marshall county including Culver, Argos,Tippecanoe and Bourbon.
Tech of Indianapolis lost the local regional to Anderson, where winners fromDanville and Tipton also will compete. The East side school, however, again ishost to the sectional tourney.
Washington, Gary, Frankfort, Martinsville and Mishawaka also lost regional meetsbut in each instance were awarded sectionals.
Evansville, Valparaiso, Lafayette, Bloomington and Rochester are the other newregional centers in addition to Anderson. All staged sectional meets last year.
Ticket Information
Commissioner Trester also announced that for the final tourney at Indianapolisall schools will be limited to tickets for only 6 per cent of their enrollmentas filed with the inspection office of the state department of publicinstruction last September for the school years 9, 10, 11 and 12.
If all tickets are not sold in this manner they will be offered to schoolsasking for more than their allotment and if some still remain unsold they willbe available at the fieldhouse on the days of the games.
High school principals will be in charge of the ticket sales at their respectiveschools and they must mail their orders to Commissioner Trester after Monday,March 9 and before Tuesday, March 17. Sixteen blocks of "ringside"seats with 280 in each block, will be reserved for regional winners.
The board of control has designated the association co mmissioner as manager ofthe final tourney with Fred Gorman of Tech and K. V. Ammerman of Broad Ripple ashis assistants.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, January 17, 1931]

WHITTENBERGER, DANIEL [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Whittenberger. - Daniel Whittenberger, the fifth son of William, Sr., andJoanna Whittenberger, was born in Beaver County, Penn., April 24, 1825, and withhis parents immigratd to Indiana, and arrived in the vicinity of Akron July 1,1836. His educational advantages were of a necessity very meager, there being noschool at all for a year and a half after their settlement in this county; Thefirst schoolhouse in their vicinity, and perhaps the first in the township, waserected in the autumn of 1838, and during the following winter the first schoolwas taught by William Culver, at which the subject of this sketch was anattendant; and where he used his best energies to obtain an education. Heafterward worked on the farm in summer seasons and went to school in winters,improving his time so that he became one of the foremost teachers of his day,and which occupation he followed for a number of winters. In his early manhood,he served an apprenticeship at carpentry, and for a number of years followed theoccupation of builder, erecting many of the buildings in and around Akron. Formany years, however, he has confined himself exclusively to farming. By hisindustry, economy and good management, he has succeeded in accumulatingconsideravble wealth, owning at present some 400 acres of land in the vicinityof his home, and 320 acres in Arkansas, and one of the most pleasant homes inthe county. On the 2d of February, 1850, Mr. W. was united in marriage to MissFannie McCloud, a native of Ohio, born in 1833. Of this union were born threechildren--Charles A., Allison S. and Laura B., all of whom are living. Mr. andMrs. W. have for many years been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church atAkron, and are highly esteemed as upright and exemplary citizens. Mr.Whittenberger having for many years filled the positions of class leader andSabbath School Superintendent.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 41]

BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Whittenberger is one of Fulton county's most honored pioneers, having formore than sixty years been identified with its interests. He was born inPennsylvania, April 24, 1825, a son of William Whittenberger, deceased, thefirst settler of Akron. Daniel was a lad of eleven years when his parentsstarted for the then far West, in company with nine families, who sought homeson the frontier. They traveled from the 1st of June until the 4th of July, whenthey pitched their tent on the present site of Akron, about where the town pumpnow stands. During the last ten miles of their trip they had to cut their waythrough the forest. The father entered a quarter section of timber land, twomiles southwest of the village, and there made his home for forty-two years,when in 1878 his life labors were ended and he was called to the home beyond.Daniel Whittenberger spent his minority with his parents and acquired sufficienteducation to enable him to teach a district school, so that for several years hewas the "master" in a little log school house, located on the farm nowbelonging to Reuben Whittenberger. Going to Warren county, Ohio, he beganlearning the carpenter's trade, which he completed in Cincinnati, and on hisreturn he followed that business in Henry township for thirty years, erectingall of the more substantial buildings in Akron in that early day. Successattended his efforts and on his marriage he bought a small tract of landadjoining Akron and began farming. Today he is the owner of 557 acres of richland near the town, besides other valuable property, which has been sdecuredentirely through his own labors, guided by sound judgment. Mr. Whittenberger wasmarried Feb. 2, 1850, to Fannie McCloud. Her father, George McCloud, was born inOntario county, New York, Dec. 18, 1801, and wedded Polly Lowe, by whom he hadfour children--Mrs. Jacob Whittenberger; George, who died of cholera on theplains; Sarah, deceased wife of Dr. S. S. Terry; and Mrs. Daniel Whittenberger.Our subject and his wife have three children--Charles A., born in 1850, marriedNancy Gatrel, and has a son, Merrill; Allison S., born in 1853, and now a farmerof Kosciusko county, married Annie Slaybaugh, and their children are Theodosia,John O. and Asy, aged respectively seventeen, twelve and two years; Laura B. isthe wife of Charles Vickery, a farmer of Kosciusko county, and has two sons,Walter and Earl. Mr. Whittenberger is a staunch republican in politics and as acitizen seeks to advance the interests of good government and to promote thewelfare of his resident community. He and his wife are highly esteemed for theirgenuine worth and their long residence in the county thoroughly entitles them topersonal mention in this volume.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 146-147]

WHITTENBERGER, GEORGE H. [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
George H. Whittenberger, the son of Reuben and Esther (Miller) Whittenberger,was born on his father's farm in Henry township on June 30, 1866. He waseducated in the home schools and has spent the major part of his life in thesame place. At present his residence is in the fine brick house which is fatherbuilt in 1877. He has greatly improved the place, being a carpenter by trade,built new buildings and calls it "Homestead Dairy Farm." His specialtyas farmer is the raising of full blood Holstein cattle and is also in the dairybusiness. He has a hundred and thirty-three acres in pasture and fields. In 1890he married Miss Martha Personett, of Kosciusko county. Mr. and Mrs.Whittenberger have a daughter, Hazel, whose husband, Harley L. Rodgers, helpshis father-in-law with the farm. Samuel W. Miller, the maternal grandfather ofour subject, was an early settler in Henry township. He was at one time anofficerin the state militia and his sword is still in the possession of hisgrandson, the subject of this sketch. On the paternal side of the family we findthat Daniel and Mary (Davis) Whittenberger came to Fulton county from Ohio asearly as 1837, when the father of George Whittenberger was only four years old,cleared eighty acres and built his home. He was a prominent man for the timesand we learn that the first township election was held at his house. He died in1844 and his widow married twice afterward, always living in the same community.The subject's father lived in several places but eventually settled down on thefarm his son now occupies. He paid $400 for it in the beginning. It is now worthmany times that amount. The children in this family were: Laura and an infantson who died; Miller H.; Amanda; George H.; Luella; and Samuel R.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, p. 297, Dayton Historical PublishingCo., 1923]

WHITTENBERGER, H. J. [Rochester, Indiana]
H. J. WHITTENBERGER OPENS PAINT STORE
H. J. Whittenberger today announced opening Saturday of his O'Brien PaintCompany agency at 508 North Main street in connection with the Major ZimmermanFurniture Store.
Mr. Whittenberger will feature a full line of inside and outside paints, andvarnishes. In the future he plans to have a full line of wallpaper and glass.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, July 14, 1939]

WHITTENBERGER, JACOB, REV. [Akron, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
As the Whittenberger family were among the first to make settlement in HenryTownship, and as they have ever been a prominent and well-known family in thehistory of the township, the writer thinks proper in this connection to give ashort history of their ancestry. The paternal grandfather's name was also JacobWhittenberger, born of German ancestry in Eastern Pennsylvania, about the year1759. Was one of the sturdy yeomen who went forth in the revolution to battlefor those rights so dear to all freemen. Shortly after the war, he was united inmarriage to Miss Catharine Engle, in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where theyresided until about the year 1803, when they removed and located in BeaverCounty, in Western Pennsylvania, about fifty miles from Pittsburgh. This journeywas made in wagons over the mountains, and to accomplish it required weeks ofconstant traveling and incessant toil. This gentleman was twice married, and wasthe fathr of eighteen children, of whom William, the ninth, was born in BedfordCounty, Penn., March 28, 1795, and at the age of eight years removed with hisparents to Beaver County where his father had purchased a large tract of land.Here, on the 12th of Sepember, 1816, he was united in marriage to Joanna Sippy,daughter of Joseph Sippy. Mr. Sippy was born in France in the year 1754, andwhen the American colonies were struggling for freedom, he was one ofLaFayette's number that participated in that great strggle, obtaining for usthat priceless boon of which we are so proud. In 1786, Mr. Sippy was united inmarriage to Lucretia Johnson, a native of Virginia, born June 20, 1769. To thisunion were born eighteen children, of whom Joanna was the fourth born, December23, 1793. William Whittenberger remained in Beaver County, Penn., until 1831,when he removed to Medina County, Ohio, where he remained until 1836, when heremoved to Fulton County, Ind., in company with the families of Joseph Sippy,Asher Welton, Henry Bristol, Uriel Bragg, Nathaniel Cogswell and Moses Worden,consisting in all of forty-seven persons. They drove with them their cattle,hogs, sheep and other domestic animals, and the journey required one month toaccomplish it. William and Joanna Whittenberger were the parents of ten sons andone daughter, all of whom are yet living, and are respected and influentialcitizens. Of these, Jacob, the subject of this sketch, was the second, born inBeaver County, Penn., April 5, 1819. He worked with his father on the farm untilhe was seventeen years of age. Living on the frontier, his educationaladvantages were limited and his education was, to use his own language, verycommon. In 1836, at the age of seventeen, he began an apprenticeship at thecabinet trade in Cleveland, Ohio. After some time, he went to Muskingum County,where he was occupied at his trade, and where, on the 30th of June 1840, he wasunited in marriage to Mary Supinger, a native of Virginia, born in 1820. Fifteendays after this event, he loaded his tools and other effects in a one-horsewagon, and with his wife turned his face toward the setting sun, determined tostake his fortune with that of the now great State of Indiana. He came by way ofLebanon, Ohio, from which place he went on horseback to Cincinnati. Thence onhis return from Lebanon to Indianapolis, and finally to Akron, in this county,where he landed on the 6th of August, 1840. Here he at once began his trade on acash capital of $3. In the following year, Mr. W. purchased eight acres of land,where his present residence is located, and built himself a cabin. Now he couldsay that he had a home of his own, and here he reared his fmily. Of the union ofhimself and lady were born six children, three of whom lived to reach manhoodand womanhood, but two of these have since passed away, leaving but oneson--Charles L., the youngest. The names of these children are Harriet J., JohnBruce, Mary Joanna, Laura L., James W. and Charles L. Bruce served as Sergeantin Company K, Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was a gallant,efficient officer and soldier, but was stricken down by disease and died atMemphis, Tenn., October 7, 1862. Mrs. W. was a dutiful wife, a kind andaffectionate mother and a faithful Christian woman, a member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, highly esteemed by her acquaintances. She departed this lifeNovember 27, 1855. Mr. Whittenberger was again married April 10, 1856, to Mrs.Mary Shelt. Of this union were born two daughters--Ella A. and Ina M., the elderof whom is married, but the younger is yet enlivening the home circle. Mr. W.has added to his first purchase of land, and by hard labor has steadily grown inwealth, until he is at present the owner of more than four hundred acres of fineland and much other valuable property. He is a man of much influence and greatintegrity. He served for many years as Justice of the Peace in his neighborhood;was Postmaster in his adopted village for about eight years. In 1874, he wasappointed to fill a vacancy in the office of Township Trustee, to which officehe was elected in 1876 and re-elected in 1878. He filled this position withhonor to the people that placed him there and with great credit to himself. In1837, at the age of eighteen, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, towhich he has ever since belonged. He has always been one of the foremost men inthe church of his choice, and for near a quarter of a century has been aminister of the Gospel. On the 8th day of April, 1866, he was ordained asDeacon, and by his administration of the office has shown that the confidence ofhis brethren in the church was not misplaced. While the writer speaks highly ofhim and his many good qualities, he does not pretend to say that he is perfect,for all human beings have their faults; but his life has been one that will bearinspection, and in which there have been many acts worthy of imitation. One towhich the rising generation can look for an example that they can safely follow.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, pp. 41-42]

BIOGRAPHY
Rev. Jacob Whittenberger. - A long and honord identification with the history ofFulton county has connected the name of our subject inseparably with itshistory. He has been prominent in business life and has been an earnest laborerin those interests calculated to advance the general welfare and over the recordof his long residence here there falls no shadow of wrong. Mr. Whittenberger wasborn in Beaver county, Pa., April 5, 1819. His grandfather, also named Jacob,was of German lineage, and was born in Eastern Pennsylvania, in 1859. Havingaided the colonies in their struggle for independence, he was married insoutheastern Pennsylvania to Catherine Engle, and in 1803 removed to Beavercounty. He had eighteen children by two marriages. William Whittenberger, thefather of our subject, being the ninth. The latter was born in Bedford county,Pa., March 28, 1795, and was married in Beaver county, Sept. 12, 1816, toJoanna, daughter of Joseph and Lucretia (Johnson) Sippy. Her father was born inFrance, in 1754, and with Gen. LaFayette's forces aided in the establishment ofthe American republic. In 1831 William Whittenberger removed with his family toMedina county, Ohio, and five years later came to Fulton county. His childrenwere William, Jacob, Joseph, Daniel, Stephen and Thomas, in Fulton county; Johnof LaCrosse, Kan.; Abraham, of Kosciusko county; Isaac, of South Whitley, Ind.;Hiram, of Whitley county; and Mrs. Dr. Harter, of Akron. At the age of seventeenJacob Whittenberger began an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker in Cleveland,Ohio, and later worked as a mechanic in Muskingum county, Ohio, until 1840, whenon June 31 [sic] he wedded Mary Supinger, who was born in Virginia, in 1820.Fifteen days later they started by wagon for Fulton county, reaching Akron onAug.6. Mr. Whittenberger bought a small tract of land and erected a cabin, wherea few years later he built his present residence, the only Indiana home he hasever known. From 1855 until 1870 he was a prosperous merchant of Akron, andsince has been successfully engaged in farming. Mrs. Whittenberger died Nov. 27,1855, and her six children are all now deceased. On April 10, 1856, Mr.Whittenberger married Mrs. Mary Shelt, and they have two daughters--Ella A.,wife of L. M. Noyer, of Akron, and Ina M., wife of George K. Brundige, countyrecorder. For twenty-three years the father has been an Odd Fellow, and hasseveral times been a representative in the grand lodge. For many years he servedas justice of the peace, was postmaster of Akron for eight years, and for anumber of years was township trustee, discharging all his public duties withmarked fidelity and promptness. In politics he is a stalwart republican. Heunited with the Methodist church in 1837, was ordained a deacon in 1866, servedas secretary of the quarterly conference for twenty-five years, and forthirty-five years has been actively engaged in the work of ministry.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 147-148]

WHITTENBERGER, JOHN [Rochester, Indiana]
LOCAL NEWS - THURSDAY
The Rochester flouring mills, which for a number of years, have been under theproprietorship of John Whittenberger, have passed into other hands. The firm ofCaffyn & Deniston has leased them and will take possession December 1st. Mr.Caffyn and Roy Deniston will be the managers and the force of workers now therewill be retained. The lease is for a period of three years.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 21, 1902]
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In 1897 John Whittenberger sold the farm, bought a half interest in theRochester Flour Mill and the family moved to Rochester. John was so worn outwith grief [sickness and death in the family] and worry over his business, whichhad gone sadly downhill during his illness, that he became deeply in debt.
Things were so bad that John sold the mill and went to North Dakota andMinnesota.
[Leininger-Krause Family, Charles Daniel Smith, Faye Leininger Smith, KateMorris Jennens, and Violet Titterton, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

WHITTENBERGER, MARY [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Mrs. Mary Whittenberger. - The subject of this sketch was born in Medina County,Ohio, February 25, 1827, oldest daughter of George and Mary B. McCloud. Heradvantages of school were not very great, but through industry she obtained afair education and became a great reader, from which art she has constantlygained knowledge. Being naturally of a religious turn, her great delight hasbeen to keep well-posted in the history of the church and what has beenaccomplised by the religion of Jesus Christ. On the 11th day of September, 1842,she was united in marriage with William Shelt, in Summit County, Ohio, of whichunion were born four children--Elmore, Elbridge, Mary E. and Sarah E. Five yearsafter her marriage, she, with her fmily removed to this county and located inAkron, where, in 1853, death deprived her of the companion of her youth. Againshe was united in marriage April 10, 1856, to Jacob Whittenberger, of whichunion two children were born--Ella A. and Ina M. Her father, George McCloud, wasborn of Irish parentage in Ontario County, N.Y., December 18, 1801. Emigrated toOhio in 1819, and was united in marriage in Medina County in 1820, to Mary B.Low, a native of New York, born October, 19, 1805. Came to this State in 1847,where Mrs. McCloud died September 24, 1870, followed by her husband January 3,1882. Elmore Shelt (the eldest son of Mrs. W.) served four years and sevenmonths in Company K, Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and participated inmany hard-fought battles, and was taken prisoner on the 8th of April, 1864, onBank's expedition up Red River, and suffered for several months at Tyler, Tex.,and other rebel stockades. Elbridge, the second son, served in the One Hundredand Twenty-eighth Indiana from its organization to the close of the war. Mrs. W.is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an exemplaryChristian lady.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 41]

WHITTENBERGER, MERRILL [Akron, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
Merrill Whittenberger is one of the men of Fulton county who has devoted hisefforts to the improvement and cultivation of the soil, with excellent results,and at the same time he has invested heavily in different financial andindustrial enterprises of Akron, where he maintains his residence. A man ofpublic spirit he has served the public capably, and is recognized as one of therepresentative citizens. He was born on the site of his present home in Fultoncounty, July 13, 1884, son of Charles A. and Nancy Whittenberger, the former anative of Fulton county, the latter of Wabash county, where she was bornSeptember 27, 1859. She died January 27, 1913, having been a devoted wife andmother, and a devout member of the Christian church, to which her husband alsobelonged. He, too, is deceased, and they are interred in the Odd Fellowscemetery, a monument of appropriate design marking their last resting place.When he was seventeen years old he went to Sevastapool, Indiana, and was thereengaged in clerking, but his health was poor, and with the hope of bettering itwent to Kansas, where, in the vicinity of Great Bend, he entered one hundred andsixty acres of land from the government on which he remained long enough tosecure his title, and then returned to Indiana. Subsequently he traded that farmfor fifty-two acres of land in Fulton county, now owned by his son, and on it heerected a dwelling. While he was a stanch Republican, and an ardent admirer ofAbraham Lincoln and James G. Blaine, he never was an office seeker. A man ofhigh moral character, he exerted a good influence in his community, and wasgenerous in his benefactions, especially to churches. Merrill Whittenberger hadtwo years' work at the Akron High School before he began the serious work oflife. That he displayed wisdom in adopting agriculture as his calling, hispresent prosperity proved, for he owns one hundred and seventeen acres of veryvaluable land in Fulton and Kosciusko counties, and stock in the Akron StateBank and the basket factory, both of which concerns he is serving as a director,and the Akron Co-operative Supply Company. For eight years he has served on thetownship advisory board. April 12, 1905, he was married to Miss Ada Thompson,and they have five children, two sons and three daughters: James E., who isattending the local high school, class 1924; Charles B., who is in the eighthgrade; and Helen, Georgie and Joanna, all of whom are bright, intelligent youngpeople, and a credit to their parents. Mrs. Whittenberger was born in Fultoncounty, July 5, 1886, daughter of Isaac and Rosetta (Halderman) Thompson,natives of Henry and Fulton counties, resspectively. A successful agriculturist,he is still living on his fine farm in Fulton county. The Republican party hashis support. His wife died when Mrs. Whittenberger was eight [sic] years old,and her grave is marked by a monument that is an ornament to Omega cemeterywhere she lies. The Progressive Brethren church had in her a devout member. Boththe Whittenberger and Thompson families are well known and honored in NorthernIndiana, and their members are numbered among the constructive citizens of thedifferent communities in which they are now found.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 298-299, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

WHITTENBERGER, MILTON [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Louderback Garage

WHITTENBERGER, WILLIAM, JR. [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
William Whittenberger, Jr. - The gentleman whose name appears as the subject ofthis sketch, was born in Beaver County, Penn, June 7, 1817, and was the eldestson and first child of William, Sr., and Joanna Whittenberger, a sketch of whoselives appears elsewhere in this work. In the early part of the year 1836, Mr. W.came with his parents to this county, which was then a wilderness. Having beenbrought up as a farmer in he wilds of Pennsylvania and Ohio, he was wellcalculated to battle with the hardships common to the pioneers of Indiana; and,together with those that came with them, he went to work with a will that ischaracteristic of the Whittenberger family, and assisted in the erection of thecabins in which those pioneers began life in this new country. In the year 1837,these pioneers did not raise corn on which their animals and themselves couldsubsist for a year. So in January, 1838, Mr. W., in company with one McFarland,went to Leesburg, a distance of some thirty-five miles, to purchase corn. Whilethere, the Tippecanoe River rose and the water spread out over a prairie of sometwenty-five rods extent. Upon their return, the water being frozen, theyattempted to cross on the ice; after proceeding about twenty rods, the horsesand sled which Mr. W. was driving broke through and precipitated him into thewater to his waist. Here they were compelled to unhitch their teams and unloadtheir corn on the ice in order to get the sled out of the water. While at this,three other men came with six yoke of oxen, which were not shod. These men allassisted in getting Mr. W. and companion out of their trouble, after which theyassisted them across the ice and were compelled to pull the oxen and sleds, oneat a time, across by hand, because the ice was so smooth that the oxen could notstand up. This kept them hard at work until dark, their accident having occurredabout sunrise, before they had eaten their breakfast. During this day theysuffered much, it being so severely cold that there was frost continually in theair. They were compelled to leave their corn here and walk some two and a halfmiles to obtain lodging for the night. The writer relates this that the readermay know what the pioneer had sometimes to endure to obrtain the necessaries oflife. Mr. Whittenberger was at the first prayer meeting held in Henry Township,held in July, 1836, at the residence of Asher Welton, who presided. Those whoparticipated were Asher Welton and wife, Joseph Sippy and wife, Joseph Terreland wife, Josiah Terrel and Susan Stradley, William Whittenberger, Sr., H.Bristol and wife and Adaline Welton. In the autumn of the same year, Rev.William Fraley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, preached the first sermon inthe township and organized a society at the same residence. On the 8th of April,1838, the subject of this sketch became a member of this society, of which he isyet a member, having been a communicant for more than forty-five years. Mr.Whittenberger was present and assisted in the organization of Henry Township atthe first election held in it on the 2d day of April, 1838, at which there wereeighteen votes cast. There are but three of the men who votes there nowliving--Charles J. Stradley, Isaiah Hoover and Mr. Whittenberger. On the 7th ofDecember, 1837, Lot N. Bozarth was married to Miss Melissa Welton in the houseof which which Mr. W. afterward became the owner, and in which he yet resides.He yet has in his possession the written invitation to the wedding. Mr.Whittenberger has been twice married; first to Mrs. Elsie M. Welton, February18, 1845, with whom he lived for more than twenty-two years, when she was takenfrom his side by death. The second marriage occurred on the 11th of May, 1868,to Miss Hannah Strong, a native of Ohio, born May 28, 1836. Of this union wasborn one daughter--Orla, June 26, 1873. Mrs. W. with her husband, is a member ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron. Mr. Whittenberger is highly esteemed asa gentleman of integrity and a man of many sterling qualities.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 41]

WHITTENBERGER CHAIR
In October 1979 Sylvia Noyer, widow of Don Noyer a grandson of JacobWhittenberger, gave a chair to the Fulton County Historical Society museum thatwas brought to Akron by the Whittenberger family. George Washington sat in thechair when he came to visit Joanna Whittenberger in Pennsylvania sometime before1799.
[Jacob Whittenberger Family, Velma Bright, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
See Winona Interurban; Erie Railroad.

WHITTENBERGER FLOUR MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
The new 20x40 story addition to the old Whittenberger flour mill on East 8thstreet is being rapidly pushed to completion and when finished Mr. Boelter, thenew proprietor expects to enlarge his business to such an extent as to meet allcompetition.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 16, 1908]

WHITTENBERGER GROCERY [Rochester, Indiana]
Located N side of street at 328 West 13th.
Operated by Victoria Chastain [Mrs. Milton] Whittenberger, 1937-50.
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PURCHASED GROCERY
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Whittenberger have purchased the Reub Hendrickson grocerystore in East Thirteenth street and have taken possession. The Whittenbergerswill live in the Mackey property at Thirteenth and Monroe street which is on thesame lot with the grocery store building.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, April 21, 1937]

WHO-DA-THOT-IT [Lake Manitou]
[Adv] Fried Chicken Dinners $1.00 Plate. Stewed Chicken Dinners 75¢ Plate.WHO-DA-THOT-IT. "Fish and Chicken Dinners". North Shore Lake Manitou.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, June 14, 1924]

WICKS, MARK [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Anchor Milling Co.
See: Veirs & Wicks
See: Viers, Clarence
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Wicks was born in Penbrook, Niagara county, New York, August 7, 1844, theson of George W. and Susan (Brayley) Wicks, the former being born inMassachusetts. Baobour Wicks, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was anative of that state and served during the entire Revolutionary war, beingwounded in action. After the cessation of hostilities he removed to a farm inwestern New York and remained there for the rest of his life. It was on thisfarm that George W. Wicks was reared, and he left it to learn the milling trade,which he pursued at Lockport, New York; Middleport, New York; and Toronto,Canada. He then went to Niles, Michigan, where he made his residence for nineyears and left there to enter the John Carlisle mill at Indianapolis. In 1860,he removed to Madison county, Indiana, and from there he went to Tuscola,Douglas county, Illinois. He and his wife, who was three years his junior, bothdied in 1895 at the ages of seventy-six and seventy-three years, respectively.They left five children: Mark, the subject of this review; Madora; Luke; andJennie, the wife of Charles Hewitt, of Los Angeles, California, and John, whodied in infancy. Mark Wicks came to Fulton county in 1887 and settled at Akronwhere he formed a partnership with Clarence Veirs. In 1905, he removed toRochester and bought out the milling business of Robert C. Wallace. His mill wascompletely destroyed by fire in 1910, but undaunted by this misfortune, herebuilt it immediately and since then has continued to operate the mill. OnSeptember 22, 1868, he was married to Elenora Pugh, the daughter of Meads andMary A. Pugh, of Tuscole, Illinois. To this union were born two sons: Earl andSeth, the latter of whom died in 1920. Mr. Wicks supports the Republican partyand during Lincoln's second term of administration was postmaster. He served inCo. K, 14th Illinois Infantry, during the Civil war and since the organizationof the Grand Army of the Republic he has been a member of that body.Fraternally, he holds membership in Masonic Lodge No. 79, the PlymouthCommandery at Plymouth, Indiana, and the chapter at Rochester.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 299-300, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

WIDEMAN, EDWARD [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Edward Wideman

WIDEMAN, HENRY [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Henry Wideman. - This industrious gentleman was born in Canada A. D. 1818. Hisancestors are mentioned elsewhere in this work. He immigrated to Ohio in 1826,where he obtained a limited education in the rural schools of that early day. In1843, he was united in holy wedlock with Miss Elizabeth Lowe, also a native ofCanada. In the autumn of 1846, he came to Fulton County, Ind., and located inthe northwestern part of Henry Township, where he began in the woods and cleareda farm. In 1867, he disposed of this property and purchased his present home,where he erected a residence in 1871. His farm consists of 90 acres, which, withhis personal property, have all been secured by his own industry. He is anacceptable member of the Church of God, as was also his wife until her death,which occurred in 1878. To Mr. and Mrs. Wideman were born nine children, of whomfive daughters and two sons are living--Barbara L, Julia A., Sarah, Mary,Almeda, William and Alexander, all of whom reside in Fulton and adjoiningcounties.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 42]

WIDEMAN, JOSEPH [Henry Township]
BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Wideman was born in Canada Aughst 29, 1823. His father, John Wideman, wasunited in marriage with Barbara Kisinger. Both were natives of Pennsylvania andof German descent. They immigrated to Ohio in 1826, where Joseph was united inmarriage with Barbra Fritz, December 9, 1846, this lady having been born in1827. They came to Indiana in 1867, and located on their present homeastead, afarm of 105 acres of land. To the wedded life of this couple have been borntwelve children, ten of whom are living--Barbara, Philip E., Thomas C., WilliamH., Mary L., Henry E., Joseph C., James T., Elmer E. and Sarah, all of whomremain at home but Barbara, who is now the wife of George Bryant. Mr. W. is asuccessful farmer and a genial gentleman. He served in the One Hundred andForty-fourth Ohio Infantry.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 42]

BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Wideman was born in Canada in 1829, the son of John and Barbara(Geisinger) Wideman, both natives of Pennsylvania who moved to Canada and thenceto Ohio, where they remained until their death. He was educated in Ohio, and in1865, he came to Henry township, Fulton county, Indiana. He had been preceded tothis section of the country by two brothers, Henry and Jacob, who in the earlyforties came to Indiana either on foot or on horseback and settled in thewilderness that then existed. In 1866, Joseph Wideman bought eighty acres ofland in Henry township, and this farm is now the home farm of the Widemanbrothers. He, with the aid of his sons, cleared most of this land in addition toanother eighty-acre tract which he had acquired later, situated across the roadfrom the original farm. He lived here until his death. To him and his wife wereborn twelve children: Philip E., deceased; Thomas C., deceased; Barbara E., Mrs.George Bryant; W. H.; Frank, deceased; Mary Ida; Frances E., deceased; Henry E.;Joseph C.; James T. S.; Elmer E.; and Sarah Evelyn. Henry E., W. H., Joseph C.,James T. S., and Elmer E. operate the home farm under the style of WidemanBrothers, and their industry and application have enabled them to increase thesize of the farm to two hundred and fifty-nine acres. They have improved theland by the construction of modern homes on both farms and by the erection oftwo circular barns, seventy feet and sixty feet in diameter, the latter beingplaced on the property across the road from the original farm. Elmer E. Widemanwas married to Lola Kindig, of Henry township, and they make their home on thelast mentioned farm. To Mr. and Mrs.Wideman have been born three children:Russell, Ruth, and Marie. Mr. Wideman takes an active interest in politics andhas served on the township advisory board. The Wideman brothers are widely knownthroughout the county for their pure Poled Durham cattle, to the raising ofwhich they have confined their attentions for some time, and in this they havebeen eminently successful.
[Henry A. Barnhart, Fulton County History, pp. 300-301, Dayton HistoricalPublishing Co., 1923]

WIDNER & CO. [Rochester City]
Widner & Co. Proprietors of the Union Bakery & Eating Saloon, No. 1Mammoth Building . . . Rochester, Oct. 7, 1868.
[Rochester Union-Spy, Thursday, October 22, 1868]

WIKEL & RICE [Akron, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Akron News.
We are pleased to note that the Akron creamery is re-opening. John Wikel and aMr. Rice of Logansport, will be the new firm and it will be styled Wikel &Rice. New butter machinery has been installed, and a little later one, if thesweet milk can be had, cheese will be manufactured.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, July 9, 1910]

WILBURN, ALICE [Rochester, Indiana]
SOCIAL CLUB SOLD
Florian Dovichi today purchased the City Social Club, 711 Main Street, of Mrs.Alice Wilburn. The purchaser has taken possession and will continue the club inoperation. Mr. Dovichi has named Otto Weimer manager.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, October 14, 1935]

WILBURN, ED [Rochester, Indiana]
ED WILBURN TO OPEN BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Ed Wilburn, Tuesday announced the establishment of a broom factory and up todate auto laundry at the rear of the Kilmer and Son filling station at thecorner of Franklin and Ninths.
Mr. Wilburn has had 25 years experience as a broom maker and for many years wasthe head of the broom making department of the Progress Wholesale House. Broomsmade by him have taken many prizes in shows. Mr. Wilburn's new venture will makethe second auto laundry in the city and the only broom making establishment.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, August 25, 1925]

POOLROOM IS SOLD
Ed Wilburn has purchased the fixtures of the Gilliland poolroom at 502 Mainstreet of the heirs of the late Reuben Gilliland. He will reopen theestablishment after he has redecorated it.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, July 12, 1930]

WILDER, FRANK [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Patents and Inventions

WILDER, JAMES S. [Rochester, Indiana]
BIOGRAPHY
James S. Wilder, who for the past twenty-five years has been a successful farmerof this county, was born in Monroe county, Mich., Oct. 21, 1846. He was educatedsparingly in the country schools of his county, and before reaching the age tobegin civil pursuits independent of parental sanction, he allowed his patriotismto draw him into the struggle of the United States to put down the southernrebellion. He enlisted at Toledo, Ohio, in company F, Fourteenth Ohio volunteerinfantry, before he was eighteen years old. He was mustered in at Cleveland andwas sent to Chattanooga, through Nashville and on to Ringgold, Ga., where he wasdoing guard duty until he was taken down with the measles. He was not able forduty again for some weeks. When he became convalescent he returned to Nashvilleand was furloughed home. He returned to the field in twenty-eight days and atNashville was attached to the First Tennessee light artillery for a short timeand later to the Forty-fifth New York. He was assigned to a detachment of theFourteenth corps at Chattanooga and participated with it in annihuilating Hood'sarmy at Nashville. The second day he was ordered to report at Gen. Steadman'sheadquarters and for the following two weeks acted as an escort to that officer.He left this service at Chattanooga and took boat at Nashville for Parkersburgon the way to Washington, D.C. He was ordered South and went by boat fromAlexandria, Va., to North Carolina, and joined his regiment ner Goldsboro. WhenJohnston had surrendered all were joined to Sherman's army and set out forWashington to participate in the grand review. The war being over, Mr. Wilderwas mustered out of the service at Louisville, Ky. On his return home he wasoccupied on the farm one or two seasons, and then secured work in a sawmill. Twoyears later he came to Indiana and to Rochester, and learned the baker's tradewith an uncle, J. W. Wilder. He followed this two years and then began hiscareer as a farmer in this county. He owns a farm of 100 acres near Rochester,besides two smaller tracts near town. He has just completed a cozy and handsomeresidence in Rochester. Mr. Wilder was married Feb. 14, 1871, to Hester A.Mackey, a sister of H. C. Mackey, of Rochester. Their children are: Frank, bornAugust, 1872, and Mary, born May 21, 1881. Mr. Wilder is a republican inpolitics, a successful man in business, and an exemplary citizen.
[Elia W. Peattie, Fulton County History, National Publishing Co., Chicago 1896,pp. 148-149]

WILDER & MACKEY [Rochester, Indiana]
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
The partnership of Wilder and Mackey has been this day dissolved by mutualconsent. Mr. Wilder will continue business at the old stand. All persons knowingthemselves indebted to the firm will please call and settle before August 6th.After this date all accounts not settled will go into the hands of a collector.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, July 26, 1899]

WILDERMUTH, JOSEPH M. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Joseph Wildermuth)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From Joseph Wildermuth)

WILDERMUTH, WILLIAM [Liberty Township]
BIOGRAPHY
William Wildermuth was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, on the 7th of October,1844. In February, 1864, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Seventeenth OhioInfantry, and was mustered out of the service in August, 1865. His parents, inthe meanwhile, having come to this county, he followed them, and became engagedin the profession of teaching, which he followed for four years. April 23, 1806,he married Miss Lucinda Zabst. This union was blessed with two children, of whomEdith is still living. Mr. W. when young united with the EvangelicalAssociation, and in 1871 was licenced a minister, in which relation to thechurch he served about seven years in the itinerancy, after which he located.Lucinda, his wife, was born October 7, 1845, in Fairfield County, Ohio, and cameto this county with her parents in 1846. She is at present a cripple, from theeffects of being thrown out of a buggy by a runaway team, which broke her leftarm and injured her hand.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 44]

WILDMAN, JAMES [Perry Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
James Wildman, an old and respected citizen oif Perry Township, was born inJefferson County, Indiana, April 15, 1817, the eldest in a family of eightchildren born to Joseph and Mary (Underwood) Wildman, who were natives ofVirginia and Kentucky, respectively. They emigrated to Miami County in 1838. Twoyears later they pre-empted a tract of land in Perry Township, where they liveduntil their deaths. The immediate subject of our sketch has always lived at theold homestead. The opportunities for acquiring an education were in those daysvery limited, and his help, which was needed in clearing away the forest andputting the land in a state to cultivate, kept him from taking advantage of thefacilities that were afforded, hence he obtained no education. October 25, 1866,his marriage with Anna E. Carlisle was solemnized. To their union these threechildren have been born: Carey, born August 6, 1868; Leroy, born October 20,1870, and Alta, born November 23, 1872. Mr. Wildman is a successful farmer, andthe owner of 120 acres of land in good condition. He and wife are members of theBaptist Church. Politically he is a Republican.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. p. 737]

WILDMAN CREAMERY [Akron, Indiana]
Located S side of W. Rochester Street (site of David Kruger residence in 1974)
Business was operating in 1910 when Jay Emahiser was employed there. [probablyout of business in mid-twenties. WCT]

WILE, ARTHUR [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store
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Plymouth Independent.
Art Wile, of the Bee Hive, has gone to Rochester to manage the store of M. Wile& Son at that place for a week, during the absence of his brother, who is inNew York buying goods for the store at Rochester and also the Bee Hive atPlymouth.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, August 13, 1907]

BUYS BOURBON STORE
Bourbon News-Mirror.
The A. L. Turner store in Bourbon has been sold, the new proprietors being M.Wile and son Arthur, the latter of whom has been with the Bee Hive in Plymouthuntil his interest was recently purchased by Mr. Glass. The senior Mr. Wile is abusiness man in Rochester, having quite a large store and a good business there.The son, desiring to enter into business at Bourbon, chose the Turner stock andthe deal was consummated last week, the invoice taking place this week. The newproprietors have the reputation of being business getters, and as the field islarge about Bourbon, we trust they may find things as they desire and that theymay be permanent citizens. In the deal Mr. Turner comes into possession of landnear Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 18, 1909]

WILE, BLANCHE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store

WILE, IKE M. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: First National Bank
See: Hotels - Fairview
See: Louderback Garage
See: Wile Department Store

WILE, LEE [Rochester, Indiana]
ROCHESTER'S NEW CLOTHIER
The purchase of the Wallace clothing store by Lee Wile puts a very progressiveyoung man into Rochester business circles. The new merchant is a son of M. Wileand his business schooling has been of the kind that guarantees straightforwardand progressive methods in all his business transactions. He is a young man ofgood taste in the clothing line, he is polite and affable, and his success isonly a question of time necessary to show the public his up-to-date ideas in theclothing and gents' furnishing line.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, June 29, 1906]

[Adv] Invitation to New Store of The Wile Clothing Company - - - - West sideof Public Square. THE WILE CLOTHING COMPANY.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 27, 1906]

CLOTHING FIRM TO CLOSE OUT
On another page of this issue will be found an advertisement by the WileClothing Co., announcing a gigantic sale previous to their going out ofbusiness, word of which created considerable surprise in business circles today.The move means a discontinuance of business by one of the largest and best firmsof the city and is brought about by several considerations, chiefly, the failinghealth and desire to cease active business of Joseph Levi, the senior member ofthe firm, and the plans of Lee Wile, the junior member to go into business witheastern capitalists. The sale will commence next Wednesday, and continueindefinitely. It's close means that the city loses a live business concern. Theexact future plans of the owners has not been divulged.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 17, 1913]
WILE, MATTIE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store

WILE, MEYER [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store

WILE, ROSE [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Wile Department Store

WILE DEPARTMENT STORE, [Rochester, Indiana]
Located 820 Main.
Founded by M. Wile. Store known as M. Wile & Sons.
M. Wile, a name of long and respected standing in the annals of Rochesterbusiness, proudly exchanged general merchandise for the coin of the realm withperhaps a trade arrangement for a load of country sawed fire wood.
[Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Monday, July 14, 1958]
Sold to Fred Senger, owner of Senger Dry Goods Co., at Peru.
Later moved to Arlington Hotel building [701 Main].
Building destroyed by fire in 1975.
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[Adv] Stop and See Us - - - Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and Capts, Boots andShoes and Groceries - - - Bring your Produce to the Balcony Building. M. WILE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, February 17, 1877]

[Adv] A new departure at the store of Myer Wile - THE CASH SYSTEM ADOPTED! -- - - Next door to Mercer's Hardware Store. MYER WILE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, April 12, 1879]

[Adv] NOTICE THIS DROP! Having decided to do a strictly cash business in thefuture, I have marked all goods down to Farmer's Alliance rates, and quote thefollowing sample prices - - - - M. WILE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 18, 1891]

[Adv] WILE'S QUIT BUSINESS SALE. - - - - I am going to quit business. M.WILE.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 18, 1895]

A BUSINESS STORY
A writer of this paper caught an old citizen in a reminescent mood the otherday, and talk drifted to business men and business methods, past and present.The citizen was Myer Wile, who located in Rochester in 1869, just 34 years ago,and embarked in the grocery business in an old frame building where the Academyof Music now stands. Of the various men in business here then Mr. Wile is theonly one remaining who is still actively engaged in commercial pursuits, and hisrecollections of the past would make an interesting story. The room in which Mr.Wile started his business career was lacking in many conveniences, but boastedof good ventilation at least, having holes in the floors through which acareless shop keeper might easily have fallen into the cellar beneath.
The Cornelius Block, in the north end, was the most imposing business structurein this section of the country at that day, and in it the Cornelius Brothers -Gus and Henry - Flourished as the merchant princes of pioneer Rochester - - -Jesse Shields erected the first brick building and for years conducted a generalmerchandise business in the room now occupied by the Bank of Indiana. Prominentamong the commercial pioneers of Rochester were Lyon & Kendrick, the GouldBrothers, Marion Ernsperger, L. Holman, J. Holtzman, Mercer & Shepherd, WillDeniston, Cal Van Trump, Fred Fromm, Dr. Plank, Ches. Chamberlain, E. Kirtlandand others, but the only one who has remained in business ever since, and isstill among us is Myer Wile, who developed and grew with the town until now itis doubtful if any store in Rochester can boast of larger trade or sounderfinancial standing.
Mr. Wile says the chief reason for his success, is the fact that he always triedto do what was right by his customers and as proof that he has succeeded, hesays that among the throng of people who come to his store are many who tradedwith him when he first located here, and have given him a large share ofpatronage ever since. This he considers an excellent testimonial as to hisbusiness methods and as a substantial token of the confidence of the people.
Mr.Wile recently established a store in Battle Creek, Mich., where his son Leerepresents his interests, and this was an important move in the interests of hispatrons, for the reason that the Battle Creek store is one of a chain of sixteenlarge stores that buy their goods in common, enabling them often to take theentire output of a factory, and securing prices that an ordinary firm cannotcompete with. The Battle Creek store handles house furnishings and buys for thestore here such goods as carpets, curtains, window shades, etc., at such pricesas to defy competition in these lines.
While Mr. Wile may safely lay claim to being the pioneer merchant of Rochester,he is not a back number and no business methods of the past cling to him; he isprogressive, and alive to the wants of the people, as his steadily increasingtrade will testify.
In order to celebrate the 34th anniversary of his business career, the Wilestore will commence a great sale on Monday, April 20th, to continue one week,during which profits will be reduced to the minimum and in many cases entirelywiped out. Mr. Wile wants to make this the banner week of business history, andyou can save money by helping him do it.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 16, 1903]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Omer Ross has resigned his position at Marsh's dry goods store, and has accepteda position as stock keeper and salesman with M. Wile & Son, where he willhave entire charge of the stock. Mr. Ross has a well earned reputation as one ofthe best stock keepers in Rochester.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, April 3, 1905]

WILL HAVE THREE FLOORS
Rochester's big store, owned by M. Wile & Son, is again to be improved andenlarged -- this time the basement will be put in the best condition and severalnew departments added to the already mammoth stock. The present plan is to put aconcrete floor in the basement and there have the linoleums, mattings, and otherdepartments
When the basement is completed it will make three floors to the store. Thepresent ones are now completely filled and in each case crowded shelves reach tothe ceiling. The stock is without a doubt the largest in the county and the firmattributes their mammoth business to their low prices and the SENTINELadvertising columns.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 5, 1905]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Miss Claudie Kirkendall has moved her milliner shop to the Wile Dry Goods storewhere she and Luella Mackey will be found with a full line of up-to-date andfashionable hats etc.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 3, 1908]

WILES BUY THE FAIR STORE
An important business deal, which has been pending for the last few days, wasclosed this morning and as a result the Fair store is now the property of M.Wile & Sons, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Franklin retiring.
The business has grown from a small beginning into one of the best localbusiness institutions, and enjoyed a large patronage. On account of Mrs.Franklin's ill health, and a desire to change their place of residence, theFranklins decided to dispose of the business.
In acquiring the business, the Wiles have not definitely decided as to whetherthey will continue the Fair store as a separate business or combine it with thepresent Wile store. At any rate, the Franklin stock will be placed on sale assoon as an invoice is taken and after the stock is reduced the future policy ofthe business will be disclosed. The stock is one of the best in the city and thesale will afford buyers an unusually good opportunity to buy goods cheap.
Mr. Franklin has not decided upon his future business program.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 4, 1912]

FAIR STORE HAS NEW OWNER
M. Wile & Sons have disposed of The Fair Store, which they recentlypurchased from Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Franklin. J. E. Hall of Knox is the new owner,having traded lands in Starke county for the store and fixtures. Mr. Hall is anexperienced merchant and will continue the business. He will replenish the stockand promises the citizens of Rochester an up-to-date mercantile establishment.The Fair Store has always enjoyed a splendid business and will doubtlesscontinue to do well under the new management.
Arthur Wile, who has had charge of The Fair Store, will devote his attention tothe Wile store in the future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 29, 1912]

IKE WILE BUYS DEPT. STORE AT BOURBON, IND.
Ike WILE, representing the M. Wile and Sons department store on Monday purchasedthe Harrold Department store at Bourbon at a receivers sale. The Harrold storein Bourbon is one of the oldest dry goods and general merchandise establishmentsin Marshall county. It was forced into the hands of a receiver several monthsago because of new management, it is said. Over 30 buyers were present to bidfor the store. Mr. Wile stated today that he would re-open the store within aweek and continue it in operation.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, November 2, 1926]

WILES NOW SOLE OWNERS OF BIG FRANKLIN STORE
M. Wile & Sons announced today that they closed a deal last week wherebythey are now sole owners of the Wile-Cassady ready-to-wear and dry goods storeat Franklin, Ind.
The business change was made necessary through the illness of Mr. Cassady. Thefirm of Wile and Cassady has been in operation at Franklin for over 14 years.Mr. Wile stated today that he already had employed an experienced manager, whois now in charge of the store and several improvements would be made in thebuilding and in the merchandise stock.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, April 23, 1928]

HISTORICAL REVIEW OF CITY'S PIONEER BUSINESS CONCERNS
M. WILE & SONS
"Every honest business man will make a success unless he develops a costlyhobby."
"Work never killed anybody - it's what you do after working hours thatmakes or breaks you."
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These two axioms originated over three score years ago by Meyer Wile, founderof the M. Wile & Sons department store, of this city, we believe, will provejust as effective today as guide posts to a successful business career as theyhave done for the Wiles.
To obtain a more or less authentic resume of the early history of M. Wile &Sons, the writer solicited the aid of Ike M. Wile, senior member of the firm.While Ike frankly admits his faculty of remembering exact dates is a bit faultythe following narrative is, in essence, a true summary of one of the community'soldest business firms.
Sailed For U.S. In 1853
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, in the year of 1838, Meyer Weill, a lad of 15years sailed for the United States in the year 1853. The destination of thesailing vessel was Boston, however, the ship encountred such heavy storms duringthe voyage that its course was altered to the southward, and it made dock at NewOrleans. Young Weill, who made the trip alone, was nine weeks in crossing theAtlantic.
Soon after his arrival in New Orleans, Mr. Weill was forced to change his nameto Wile as there was a confliction with the names of Weill in that city. He wasemployed in the southern city until he was conscripted into the service of theConfederate army. In the latter years of the Civil war he was taken prisoner andwas confined in a southern prison until the close of the conflict.
Gets Work In Cincinnati
Following the war, Mr. Wile went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he found employmentin a clothing store. While there he was united in marriage with Miss AmeliaRosenburg. Several months later Mr. and Mrs. Wile took up their residency inPlymouth, Ind., where Mr. Wile was given employment by a Mr. Lauer, who was acousin of Mrs. Wile's.
The next business move brought the Wiles to Rochester, where Meyer was employedin the Levi Heilbrun general store. This business was located in a framebuilding where the Evergreen Sandwich shop is now located. In a brief time hewas taken in as a partner in the business. In 1870, the partnership with Mr.Heilbrun was dissolved and Mr. Wile opened a store of his own. The stockconsisted of groceries, boots and shoes, dry goods, ladies' and mens's wear. Thestore was lighted with coal oil lamps and heated by wood burning stoves.
In the summer months Mr. Wile would make trips to various parts of the county onhorseback, where he made trades for beans, tallow, dried apples, hides, wool andfurs. The final deals were consummated when the farmers had completed theirharvest and summer work.
Ike well recalls his father telling him about one of these horse-back trips hemade in the vicinity of Leiters Ford, in which he experienced one of the worst"scares" of his career. The elder Wile had completed a day's tradingin that community and started on his return ride to Rochester around eight ornine o'clock in the evening. He had traveled but a couple of miles when thehorse became sick and laid down. The narrow dirt road at this point was bankedby heavy woods. While Meyer was ministering to the sick animal he heard awailing and moaning noise which caused his hair to stand on end. These weirdnoises became more audible, and as they did so, the merchant abandoned his sickmount and hid in the woods.
Interspersing the moaning and groaning were occasional shouts of"Hallelulah" and a moment or so later he saw the tall form of a manplodding along the road, who was the cause of the weird noises. Later, Mr. Wilelearned the shouting and moaning was done by a well-meaning religious fanatic ofthat area.
After the "scare" was over the merchant smmoned help from nearbyfarmers and it was well after daylight of the following day before either Meyeror the horse could resume their homeward trek.
Former Employees
Among the clerks who were employed by Mr. Wile during the operation of the storein the southern section of the town were Henry Morrison, Cal Knaupp, JakeRosenburg, Sam Aikens and Albert Richter.
In the late '70s the store was moved into new brick building which was erectedby a Mr. Moore. The south half of the store today still utilizes this samebuilding. Duringthe same period of improvement, Dr. Hecktor built the buildingwhich now is tenanted by the Vernon Grocery and the building to the south of theMoore's was built by Henry Meyer, Sr.
Upon resuming the business, in the new home, Mr. Wile discontinued the handlingof groceries, shoes and men's clothing and carried a most replete stock of drygoods, floor coverings, and ladies' and children's ready-to-wear garments.
I. Wile Starts Career
It was along in this period that Ike Wile, then 16 years of age, went to Chicagoto obtain his business experience. He was employed in the Carson, Pirie, Scottstore for a few months. After losing this job Ike accepted work in the Frenchbuilding at the old World's Fair and remained there until the close of theexposition. He then returned home for a brief period and later left for Chicagowhere he spent a year in the study of a business course.
Meyer Wile, it was stated, was a personal friend of Robert Scott, of the Carson,Pirie, Scott firm and also of Marshall Field the 1st of Chicago.
Completing his course, the younger Wile returned to Rochester where he wasemployed by his father. After a few months' tutelage Ike ws promoted to amanagerial position in the store and made frequent buying trips to the New Yorkmarkets. (This practice he is still continuing today; in addition he is also therepresentative buyer of a chain of Indiana mercantile firms.)
During the busiest years of Meyer Wile's career he established other departmentstores in northern and central Indiana. Stores were located in Plymouth, Tiosa,Bourbon and Franklin, Ind.
A. Wile Starts In Plymouth
Arthur Wile, the junior member of the firm of M. Wile & Sons began hisbusiness career in the Plymouth store which was operated under a partnershipwith Albert Richter. Prior to the establishment of the Plymouth business Mr.Richter was associated with Meyer Wile in a store which was located in thecorner room of the old Academy of Music building, [SW] corner of Main and Fifthstreet. The sign "Wile & Richter" is still visible today on thenorthern side of the building.
Arthur Wile and Mr. Richter's store was successfully operated for several years.A number of years ago, however, the partnership was dissolved and Arthur Wilewent to Buffalo, N.Y. where he opened up a Kay Jewelry store and several branchstores.
In the meantime, the Rochester store and the branch stores were experiencing adecided step-up in business. The main home store had purchased the Moorebuilding and secured a long-time lease on the Meyer property, thereby doublingthe space of the business. It was during this boom era that Arthur Wile returnedto Rochester to take over co-managerial duties in the business.
Although the founder of the Wile store lived to see his establishment become oneof the foremost business firms in the county, he did not survive to experiencethe accelerated business expansion which came for his firm during the war andpost-war periods. Meyer Wile passed away at his home here in Rochester on March7th, 1912.
One Son In East
Another son, Lee Wile, although receiving early training in his father's store,selected the East for his field of business acrtivity. Lee is engaged in the KayJewelry store chain and is managing the main store of this chain at Springfield,Mass., today. Prior to his entry into the jewelry business Mr. Wile wasassociated in the Hadley Furniture business for several years. Lee Wile alsoserved in the World war, and at the close of the conflict was a lieutenant.
On the feminine side of the Wile family, two daughters of the store's foundersurvive: Mrs. Mattie Radel, of Vincennes, Ind., and Mrs. Maurice (Blanche)Yuster of Columbus, Ohio.
The first lady clerks employed by the local firm were the daughter, BlancheWile, Almetta Reed, of Tiosa; Mrs. Ross Metzler and Mrs. Ella Hoover. Rose Wile(now deceased), another daughter of Meyer Wile, also assisted at the store inthe earlier days.
The owners during the interview stressed the importance of Lake Manitou tradeand stated that in thair estimation the sales during the summer months aresteped up between 25 and 30 per cent of what they were before the resort was sothickly poplated.
Present Day Personnel
The personnel of the Wile store today is comprised of the following: VirginiaPleasants, Betty Bryant, Miriam Kennell, Hattie Parcel, Bess Shelton, GeraldineDay, Frances Haggerty, Kathryn Riley, Frances Van Deren, Golda Ambler, ErdineO'Blenis, Bess Keel, Eva Smith, Ferris Hatfield, Eva Quackenbush, LillianFenstermaker, Agnes Kimmell, Belle Fenstermaker, Lottie Jennens, Rhea Dielman,Floyd Kindig and Clem Bowen.
Both Ike and Arthur Wile have taken a most active interest in the community'scivic, industrial and charitable projects, and the business establishment of M.Wile & Sons is held in highest esteem throughout the mercantile field of thestate. Ike Wile resides in the home place, a two-story brick residence situatedat the [NE] corner of Main and Eleventh, and Mr.and Mrs. Arthur Wile arecomfortably located in a two-story bungalow type residence on the southwestcorner of Main and Thirteenth streets.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 18, 1941]

WILE & RICHTER [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! Low PRICES! WILE & RICHTER, would respectfullyinform the public that they have purchased the stock of goods known as"CHAPIN'S STORE," kept in the corner room of Davidsons Academy ofMusic. They have made large additions to STAPLE DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCERIES,BOOTS AND SHOES - - - Produce taken in exchange for goods.
PS - To all my friends who have so liberally patronized me during the past fiveyears, I beg leave to state that I will be found at the old stand, as I havebeen employed by Messrs. Wile & Richter - - - -J. S. CHAPIN.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 12, 1883]

[Adv] CLOSE OUT AND QUIT BUSINESS SALE. Wile & Richter's FarewellBargains! Owing to the fact that the junior member of our firm has decided tolocate in the West our entire stock of general merchandise - - - - Dry Goods,Ladies' Wraps, Carpets, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Glass and Queensware, &c.will be closed out, commencing Monday Feb. 13th - - - -WILE & RICHTER,Academy of Music Building, North End.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, February 10, 1893]

WIL-WOOD CAFE [Leiters Ford, Indiana]
Located W side of 750W across from the triangular lot.
The old Overmyer-Anderson store building was abandoned, and in 1954 was razed byFred and Paul Stayton and some material from it was used in construction of thepresent restaurant building at the same location.
In 1955 Woodie and Wilma McGlothin from Rochester purchased the restaurant andbuilding and opened Wil-Wood Cafe. Being friendly, likeable people, and thecordial welcome and friendly atmosphere created by them, together with theirobvious hard work preparing and serving delicious home cooking and baking,brought the restaurant good business. In 1966 they completed and opened anadditional, beautiful and well furnished larger dining room where they were thenable to serve groups, special meetings and parties.
They sold out and the new owners converted the business into a tavern.

WILHOIT [Akron/Rochester, Indiana]
See Madeford & Wilhoit

WILHOIT, JOE [Akron, Indiana]
AKRON GARAGE WAS SOLD TUESDAY TO ROY SHEETS
A business transaction took place at Akron Tuesday night, when the Hattery andSecor garage owned by Ralph Hattery and Daniel Secor was sold to Roy Sheets, whois, at the present time, employed at the Palace garage.
Mr. Sheets wil take possession Monday. The garage will be known as theHudson-Essex garage and Joe Wilhoit will have charge of the sales dapartment.
Mr. Sheets has had 14 years of experience in the garage business and he is alsopreparing to do welding in connection with the garage work. Floyd Fitton, whohas been employed by Hattery and Secor will remain as an employee under the newownership.
Mr. Hattery and Mr. Secor state they have no plans for the future.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, March 19, 1927]

JOSEPH WILHOIT CLOSES HIS AUTOMOBILE AGENCY
Joseph B. Wilhoit, operator of the Hudson-Terraplane Sales Agency, 116 EastNinth Street, on the south side of the public square today announced that he wasgoing to close the auto agency and retire from business.
Mr. Wilhoit has had the local agency of the Hudson, Terraplane and Oldsmobileautomobiles for several years. He came to this city from Akron where he alsooperated an auto agency.
Mr. Wilhoit stated today that he has no immediate plans for the future.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, October 7, 1936]

JOSEPH WILHOIT WILL CONTINUE AUTO AGENCY
Joseph Wilhoit stated today that he will continue in the auto business inRochester and will operate his sales room on the south side of the public squareat 116 East Ninth Street.
Mr. Wilhoit in the past has operated his auto agency under the name of theHudson-Terraplane Sales. He has been the agent for not only Hudson andTerraplane autos but also Oldsmobiles.
Mr. Wilhoit has operated an auto sales agency in Rochester for the past fiveyears moving here from Akron where he was engaged in a similar line of business.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, October 8, 1936

WILHOIT & HOFFMAN MEAT MARKET [Akron, Indiana]
One of the early businesses in Akron was the Wilhoit and Hoffman Meat Market,located on the street north from the Emahiser and Russell Grocery. They builtthe new brick building that went from the corner north for a whole half block.
[Thomas Carpenter Family, Walter F. Carpenter, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
"Owned by Bill Wilhoit and his brother-in-law, Joseph Hoffman. It was agreat place for stockbuyers to congregate. They'd select someone to go toChicago to buy cattle and sheep and divided up the shipment. Men and boys cameto town in their buggies to drive their stock home. It sometimes took all day,but no one minded. If it was dinner time, you didn't hesitate to sit down atanyone's table. There was always enough food for one or two extras.
"They never sold shipped-in meat in the shop. It was all butchered here.They used to kill the pigs in a barn that stood out back. Dad always gave awaythe heart, liver and cracklings.
"There were several ice houses in town. Dad and Uncle Bill had their ownfor the shop. They'd cut ice out of Town Lake in the winter and store it insawdust for use in the summer. But later they were the first ones in town tohave their own refrigeration system."
[Ruby Dawson Remembers Akron, Ann Kindig Sheetz, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2,Willard]

J. WILHOIT SELLS MARKET
Joseph Wilhoit has sold his butcher shop and Meat Market to Chris Fleck ofMentone. Mr. Fleck formerly resided in this community and is well known, and oflate has been operating a meat market in Mentone. This is the first time theWilhoit Meat Market has changed names for approximately sixty years, having beenrun by William Wilhoit and Joseph Hoffman, and later by Joe Wilhoit, who boutMr. Hoffman's share. -- Akron News.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, June 26, 1926]

WILKINSON, ANDERSON [Allen Township, Miami County]
BIOGRAPHY
Anderson Wilkinson, one of the old pioneers of the county, and one among thefirst settlers of Union Township, was born in Ross County, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1813.He was the second son born to John and Delila (Stinson) Wilkinson, both nativesof North Carolina. Our subject spent his boyhood and youth in his native countyworking upon a farm. He, in company with his wife, father, mother, threebrothers and two sisters, came to this county in 1836, and located in that partof Union Township that has since been changed to Allen Township. He was then amarried man, so, on arriving here, he immediately set up for himself. He locatedupon a tract of fifty-six acres just north of the present site of Macy. Here hehas resided ever since. During his entire life his occupation has been that of afarmer. He has since added to his farm eighty acres more, making in all onehundred and thirty-six acres. He has since, however, sold from his farm sometown lots, so that his farm, at present, consists of but one hundrd and twelveacres. When he came to the county he located in the woods, and to develop a farmout of the wilderness naturally devolved upon him a great deal of hard work. Hechopped, grubbed, burned brush, rolled logs, plowed and, in fact, did all kindsof hard work which the development of a new country necessitates. He had erecteda log cabin in the summer of 1837, and the structure, with additions, thoughnearly fifty years old, still stands to shelter its occupants. Sept.1, 1836, hewas married to Hannah Rains, who died April 24, 1854. Dec. 14, 1854, he wasmarried to Mrs. Martha Sutton. She died March 1, 1876, and, on the 25th ofJanuary following, he was married to Mrs. Hannah Baker. In all, Mr. Wilkinson isthe father of ten children: George, John D., Andrew J., Charles A., William F.,Allen S., Margaret J., Benjamin F.; the next was an infant son that died ininfancy unnamed; then Azro H. and Mary C. The first eight were by his first wifeand the last two by his second wife. Of those named, Charles A. and Benjamin F.are deceased. Mr. Wilkinson is a member of the Church of God and a Democrat inpolitics. He has held the office of Township Trustee three terms. As such, hedischarged his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. Onthe 24th of March, 1886, he had the misfortune to lose his left hand--the resultof an amputation caused by a cancer that had afflicted him three years. He isnow in the 74th year of his age and is enjoying good health. He has been aresident of Miami County over fifty years, and is one of her most highlyrespected citizens.
[History of Miami County, Indiana, 1887, Brant & Fuller. pp. 533-534]

WILLARD, WM. AND LON [Rochester, Indiana]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Wm and Lon Willard have bought out Mart Richter, the well driver, and areprepared to promptly look after all business given them. Work guaranteed.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 5, 1905]

THE WELL BUSINESS
This is to inform the public that the undersigned have entered a co-partnershipin the tubular and driven well business and the firm will be known as Shelton& Willard. All our work will be guaranteed to give satisfaction and allorders will receive prompt attention. Patronage respectfully solicited.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 30, 1908]

NEWS OF THE DAY
Horace Shelton has disposed of his interest in the Shelton & Willard welldriving business to Lon Willard. Hereafter the firm will be known as Willard& Willard. Mr. Shelton will now pay his entire attention to his plasteringtrade.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 26, 1910]

[Adv] ROCHESTER TUBULAR WELL WORKS, Successors to Willard Bros. Phone 296-01.1201 Bancroft Ave. H. H. MUTCHLER, S. S. MUTCHLER. Wells, Wind Mills, Tanks,Pumps and Supplies. All kind of wind mill and pump repairing.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, January 14, 1911]

WILLARD, WILLIAM C. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From William C.Willard)

WILLARD BATTERY AND RADIO SHOP [Rochester, Indiana]
WILLARD SHOP WILL CHANGE ITS LOCATION
The Willard Battery and Radio Shop owned by Owen and Harold Davisson will onOctober 27 be moved from the rear of the Charles Kepler service station to thecity building on Main street occupied by the Theatre Lunch which closes itsdoors Saturday night. The Davissons plan to remodel their new quarters and buildan addition to the east end of the building to house machines while battery,wiring troubles are being adjusted. A radio salesroom will be operated in thefront part of the building. The chevrolet firm will occupy the room vacated bythe Willard shop.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, October 20, 1924]

WILLARD & STAHL [Rochester, Indiana]
Willard & Stahl, Carpenters and Builders. Shop opposite the Bank, on MainStreet, Rochester, Ind. Will furnish material and do all kinds of work in thebest manner on short notice.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, June 27, 1867]

Carpenter Shop. Willard & Stahl have erected a new carpenter shop on thelot opposite Truslow's Clothing store which they intend to occupy themselves,and where they expect to continue to work for their customers.
[Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, December 12, 1867]

WILLIAMS, DAVID [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Fairview

WILLIAMS, F. J.
See: Patents and Inventions

WILLIAMS, JAMES [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From James Williams)

WILLIAMS, JIM [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Jim Williams)

WILLIAMS, LORIN "LARRY" [Rochester, Indiana]
See Larry's Furniture-Appliances

WILLIAMS, MARJORIE [Rochester, Indiana]
MISS MARJORIE WILLIAMS TO TAKE IMPORTANT PLACE
Miss Marjorie Williams, who for the past two years has been connected with theY.W.C.A. in New York City, and is now Asst. Educational Secretary of the Centralbranch there, left today (Wednesday) for a short stay in Gotham, after which shewill take up her new work as General Secretary of the Springfield (O.) Y.W.C.A.the last week in January. Miss Williams, whose home is really here, was highlyrecommended by the national headquarters, and her new position is one ofconsiderable importance. She has probably had the most interesting career of anyRochester young woman, having taught in Porto Rico, as well as here. Her work inNew York has been most fascinating.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 30, 1914]

HONOR FOR ROCHESTER GIRL
Miss Marjorie Williams, formerly of Rochester, and for several years secretaryof the Springfield, O., Y.W.C.A, has been granted a six weeks leave of absenceto help raise Ohio's $36,000 war work quota, with headquarters at Cincinnati. ASpringfield paper contains a striking picture of Miss Williams, together with aflattering article concerning her work there. Miss Williams is a sister of Mrs.Fred Ruh, of this city.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, November 29, 1917]

EDITS NEWSPAPER
Miss Marjorie Williams, formerly of this city, and who is at the head of theY.M.C.A. at Springfield, Ohio, is now the general manager of a newspaperpublished by the above organization in that city. The paper is a four page oneand is full of good news, well written and has plenty of "pep." Amongthe stories carried is one about Miss Williams, which tells of her giving anaddress in which she stated among other things that "the Y.M.C.A. is a verydemocratic organization." When the findings of the conference were beingread this item appeared: "Miss Williams said the Y.W.C.A. was first adoptedin Boston and it came from the Democratic party."
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, February 10, 1921]
ROCHESTER GIRL DINES WITH MARY PICKFORD
Miss Clara Mae Robbins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robbins of this city,who has moved to California, writes to Rochester friends that she recentlyattended a luncheon for eight at Hollywood, where she makes her home. Includedamong the guests at the luncheon were Mary Pickford Fairbanks, famous motionpicture star, whom Miss Robbins describes as being exceedingly brilliant as wellas beautiful. Miss Robbins has come to know many of the big people in the motionpicture work thru her association with Miss Marjorie Williams, also a formerRochester resident.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 9, 1923]

RADIO FANS CAN HEAR LOCAL LADY TONIGHT
Radio fans will have an opportunity to hear Miss Marjorie Williams, formerly ofthis city and now of Hollywood, California, give a talk on the Y.W.C.A. if theywill tune up their instruments to the proper distance. Miss Williams is incharge of the Hollywood Studio Club, the Y.W.C.A for motion picture actresses.
She will speak tonight from the Los Angeles Herald broadcasting station K.F.I.between the hours of eight and nine, Western time, which will be between ten andeleven o'clock here. Miss Williams will talk in connection with a campaign toraise $150,000 for the Y.W.C.A. on the western coast. She is being assisted inthe drive by Miss Clara Mae Robbins of this city.
When the campaign was opened the main speakers of the evening were DouglasFairbanks, Mary Pickford, Rujert Hugres [sic] and the mayor of Los Angeles, andMiss Williams. To date the drive has been a wonderful success and gives everyindication that the quota will be raised.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 14, 1923]

ROCHESTER GIRL IS TO OPEN TEA ROOM
Miss Clara Mae Robbins, formerly of this city, who is now aiding Miss MarjorieWilliams, of Hollywood, Calif., in a $50,000 Y.W.C.A. drive on the westerncoast, plans to open a tea room in Hollywood, according to word received byfriends in this city.
While complete details of her plans have not been received in this city, MissRobbins intends to enter a partnership with another California girl, lwho is nowemployed in another enterprise, and who would continue with her presentoccupation, lwhile Miss Robbins would act as manager in the new venture.
It is also understood that Miss Robbins has sent for Miss Ida Anderson f thiscity, to take charge of the kitchen in the new shop. It is not believed that thetea room will be opened immediately, kas it is understood that Miss Robbins willcontinue her assistance in the Y.W.C.A. drive now in progress until it has beencompleted.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, March 20, 1923]

LOCAL GIRL TO HEAD BIG Y.W.C.A. BUILDING
The announcement coming from New York that Will H. Hays, movie czar, has raised$102,000 from producers to help erect a new gigantic Y.W.C.A. in Hollywood as ahome for movie struck girls will be of particular interest to local people inthat this new building is the result of the work of a former Rochester girl,Miss Marjorie Williams, now in charge of the Studio Club, the Y.W.C.A. ofHollywood.
Miss Williams by leading a drive during the early part of the year raised$90,000 about Los Angeles which was $40,000 higher than the quota set for herorganization, which will be added to the Hays fund and all of it be used toenlarge the present building which will be called the Greater Studio Club. MissWilliams will be the director of the large building and will be in charge ofthose who stay there. She is coming to Rochester to visit next week.
The new home will this summer care for thousands of filmstruck girls who are nowmaking a concerted march on the movie center of the world. Mr. Edward M.Townsend, business head of the Y.W.C.A. said that when the enlargement is made100 girls will be cared for every two weeks, while they wait for funds to takethem back home. The place will be more of a roundhouse than a boarding house,she said.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, July 9, 1923]

SIDELIGHTS ON HOLLYWOOD HEARD BY AUDIENCE HERE
An audience that filled the First Baptist Church last evening received muchdirect information concerning Hollywood, the movie center of the world, fromMiss Marjorie Williams, director of the Studio club, the Y.W.C.A. of theCalifornia city, who is now on vacation in Rochester, her former home.
While Miss Williams devoted most of her time in the Studio Club, a home forgirls ambitious to appear on the screen, she was warm in her defense ofHollywood which she said is a city of 76,000, much like other communities ofsimilar size, in spite of the fact that fully half of the population is engagedin the movie industry. She praised the churches, the school system, the artcenters, the library system, the community plays and choruses and various othercivic enterprises. She set forth that all of Hollywood's notables are not motionpicture people, naming Carrie Jacobs Bond, Charles Wakefield Cadman,"K.A.H." and others whose names are household words the nation over.
She devted some time to a description of the city, paying particular attentionto the score or more of studios, the homes of the famous players, the beauty ofthe town, located within sight of mountains and ocean and the other attributesthat make Hollywood attractive.
Miss Williams' remarks concerning her own work made up the most interesting partof her talk. The Studio club, which she directs, houses about 20 girls atpresent, all in movie work or anxious to get there. The influx of screen-struckgirls into the city has made imperative the need for larger quarters - - hence acampaign for $150,000 to build an addition to accommodate 80 or 100 persons.Most of this amount has been raised, $50,000 by Hollywood and the remainder bythe picture interests, who are being asked for $120,000. In connection with thecity campaign, Miss Williams was lavish in her praise of the work being done byMiss Clara Mae Robbins, another Rochester girl who now has a tea room in CulverCity. Miss Robbins was in charge of the office work during the drive andaccording to Miss Williams, was so successful in handling the temperamentalcampaigners that all trouble was averted, the $30,000 quota was nearly doubledand a banker has offered Miss Robbins an attractive position. Mrs. Carl Jessenand Mrs. W. A. Banta, former Rochesterites, were also workers in the campaign.
With the enlarged facilities for housing, Miss Williams is anxious to widen thescope of her work especially along the lines of securing employment for girls,some of which work she has already done. Her remarks concerning the movienotables whom she met during the campaign and her experience with her own girlswere most interesting. Her board of directors, she said, includes among others,Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Cecil de Mille and her work hasthrown her into contact with scores of other notables, well known on the silverscreen to every Rochester fan.
In concluding, the speaker expressed her appreciation of the opportunity to helpin any activity of the church which has meant so much to her. The appreciationof her hearers was indicated by the enthusiasm of their applause. A collectiontaken after the lecture was for the purpose of helping defray expenses of twogirls recently sent by the church to Atlantic City convention. A total of $30.50was given.
H. A. Barnhart, presided at the gathering and vocal numbers were rendered byMrs. Maria J. Souers and a quartette composed of Mrs. Howard Shafer, Mrs.Charles Pyle, Mrs. Effie Brackett and Miss Edith Chestnut, with Miss MargaretBryant at the piano.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, August 10, 1923]

MAY ENTER MOVIES
Betty [YOUNG], small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry YOUNG, former residents ofthis city but now of Logansport, may soon be taken to California for a try outin the movies according to the word reaching here. Miss Marjorie WILLIAMS,secretary of the Studio Club at Hollywood, also a former resident who has knownthe little Miss in Rochester since infancy, has written Mrs. Young that hertalented daughter is a perfect screen type. Betty is quite accomplished as adancer and has all of the talents necessary to succeed on the screen.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, September 11, 1924]

PICTURES IN THE POST
In this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post appears a picture of"extra girls" in the movies at Hollywood which is taken in front ofthe Studio Club there. In the center of the group is Miss Marjorie Williams, ofthis city, who is at the head of the club, and at the right hand side standsMiss Clara Mae ROBBINS, also of Rochester, who assists Miss Williams. Thepicture appears in connection with an article on the movies and life about theLos Angeles studios.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Friday, September 24, 1926]

MOVIE STORY FEATURES MISS MARJORIE WILLIAMS
Miss Marjorie Williams, former resident and high school teacher of Rochester anda sister of Mrs. Fred RUH of this city, is one of the leading characters in afeature story appearing in this month's Photoplay magazine.
The authoress in her story goes from New York to Hollywood to break into themovies as an extra girl and secures a room at The Studio Club there which isoperated by the Y. W. C. A. and is presided over by Miss Williams. Naturally thestory includes much of Miss Williams and her work and also the studio club andthe girls who live there.
A large picture is carried of Miss Williams as well as smaller ones of TheStudio Club and the surroundings. The article will be continued in followingissues.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Tuesday, November 16, 1926]

MISS MARJORIE WILLIAMS HAS PROMINENT PART
IN MAGAZINE STORY OF VISIT TO HOLLYWOOD
Miss Marjorie Williams, former resident of this city and sister of Mrs. FredRuh, once more takes a prominent place in a story on Hollywood, the world'smovie center, when Mrs. Frederick Parkinson Keyes glowingly described "AHoliday in Hollywood" for the Delineator magazine in its January issue. Theauthoress told of visiting with the motion picture stars and of her visit to theStudio Club where Miss Williams presides. Incidentally she made an error as tosome of the facts in Miss Williams' life such as her birthplace and where sheobtained her schooling, but local people will be interested in the descriptionof the work of the former Rochester girl. The part of the story covering thevisit to the Studio Club follows:
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The first invitation which reached me after my arrival was one for dinner atthe Studio Club. I have always felt the deepest interest in this organizationsince I first heard a report of its activities, given, a number of years ago, ata meeting of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A. in New York. TheStudio Club is owned by the "Y", but it is managed by a local board ofHollywood women which the "Y" appoints, and this committee includes inits leadership such well known persons as Mrs. Cecil B. DeMille, Miss LouiseDresser, Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn, Mrs. Jesse Lasky, and Miss Mary Pickford. Itserves as a residence and home center for girls working in the moving pictureindustry in any capacity which means a great many more than those acting in themovies; and while it was formed primarily for them, girls with other alliedinterests such as music, painting, literature, dancing and the drama, areextremely welcome.
The Studio Club so rapidly proved its usefulness in the community that it haslong since outgrown its original headquarters - a large house with whitepillars, more Virginian than California in appearance; and it is now establishedin a spacious, beautiful building of the Spanish type, with patio and loggia,which provides not only "the four C's necessary to the happiness of everynormal girl - comforts, convenience, counsel and comradship," as one memberhas cleverly put it - but an atmosphere of culture and loveliness.
The predominating colors used in its decoration are soft green, coral rose, andtan; and these restful tones are brightened here and there by touches of lightershades. Many of the rooms have been built by famous actors and directors, byDouglas Fairbanks, for instance, who gave a suite in memory of his mother, byMary Pickford and Harold Lloyd and Gloria Swanson and Cecil De Mille - tomention only a few. Other rooms have been furnished by Marion Davies, IreneRich, Frances Marion, Hope Loring, and Louise Dresser - place has a studio, astage and a gymnasium; rest rooms and writing rooms and make-up rooms. And theClub is the scene of all sorts of festivities - Sunday teas and "stuntnights" (when amateur talent develops in startling ways!) and bridgeparties and dinners; in short, it fulfills in every way the ideal expressed byMrs. Cecil De Mille, vice-chairman of the governing committee, when she says,"We with it to be a place where all meet on an equal footing - where thosewho have come to Hollywood and hope to succeed may meet those who havesucceeded. I am sure it will become a powerful institution and assist in thedevelopment of all the arts. But above all, we earnestly desire to supply thecharm of a real home to those girls again to mention only a few. The [sic] inthe motion picture industry and out of it who have a longing for the beauty andcultural phases of life."
Arriving at this pleasant place for dinner, I was cordially greeted by a numberof friends, among them Miss Marjorie Williams, the resident director. She wasborn in Indiana, chose teaching as her profession and went to Porto Rico, andnow is thoroughly acclimated to Hollywood. Her present duties are not onlyexecutive, diplomatic and sympathetic; she also instructs the club members incostuming and make-up, stage-setting, fine quilting, and many other things. Sheis a delightful person, as merry and attractive as she is understanding andexperienced; and as I took my place beside her in the charming dining room, Iknew that the most agreable meal imaginable was ahead of me.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, January 24, 1929]

MARJORIE WILLIAMS ON AIR THIS EVENING
Mrs. Edith Ruh today received a telegram which will be of interest to the manyfriendsof Miss Marjorie Williams, former Rochester high school teacher. Themessage follows:
"This is to let you know that Marjorie Williams is to be on the Lux RadioTheatre hour on Monday, November 29th at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Coast Time.Interviewed by Cecil B. DeMille at the end of the hour."
The Lux program is broadcast over a national hook-up and may be heard over mostany of the larger stations.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, November 29, 1937]

MISS WILLIAMS ADDRESS NATIONAL YWCA MEETING
Miss Marjorie Williams, supervisor of the Hollywood Studio Club, who has beenvisiting her sister, Mrs. Edith B. Ruh in this city, was one of the featuredspeakers on the program of the National Y. W. C. A. Convention which was held inColumbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Another lady sharing the lecture platform honors with Miss Williams was MissMargaret Bonfield, a member of the British Parliament, of London. Miss Williamstold the convention members of her work at the Hollywood Club. Over 3000 Y. W.C. A. members were in attendance.
Mrs. Ruh, who accompanied her sister to Columbus, returned home yesterday, whileMiss Williams well remain in the East for several days, before starting on herreturn trip to the west coast.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, April 23, 1938]

AMERICAN MAGAZINE ARTICLE FEATURES MARJORIE WILLIAMS
A former Rochester lady and her unique work provided the foundation of atwo-page, illustrated featured article which appears in the October issue of theAmerican Magazine.
The former local person is Marjorie Williams, of Hollywood, Calif., a sister ofMrs. Edith B. Ruh, of this city.
The article deals with Miss Williams' work as House Mother of the Y.W.C.A.Studio Club of Hollywood. Miss Williams, who was placed in charge of the studioclub a score of years ago has served as chaperon to over 3,000 girls between theages of 18 and 35 years.
Among some of the club girls who have made good in the movie world are LindaDarnell, Janet Blair, Maureen O'Sullivan, Phyllis Brooks, Zaza Pitts and manyothers. The illustrations accompanying the article shows the various forms ofrecreation which the Studio Club provides for the scores and scores of ambitiousmovie-struck young ladies and also an attractive likeness of Miss Williams.
The Studio Club hostess who was a guest of her sister, Mrs. Ruh, for a week orso a little over a month ago, was a former member of the RHS faculty.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, September 8, 1942]

THREE MORE OF OUR TALENTED BUT FORGOTTEN WOMEN
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
Today concludes your introduction to six Fulton County women who achievedprominence far afield but mostly have been forgotten in their homeland.
Marjorie Williams

A native of Rochester and onetime German and Latin teacher at RHS, Marjoriefound herself in Hollywood in 1922. Although she never appeared in a movie, inthe next 24 years she became a prominent and respected figure there.
From 1922 to 1946 Miss Williams was director of The Hollywood Studio Club,sponsored by the National YWCA as a home for aspiring young actresses betweenthe ages.of 18 and 30. While trying to break into the movies, these women for amodest fee received secure housing and two meals daily, Hundreds took advantageof the offer during Marjorie's 24 years as director and although only a fewreached stardom, some who did were Maureen O'Sullivan, Donna Reed, Janet Blair,Barbara Hale, Marilyn Monroe, Linda Darnell and Gale Storm.
When Marjorie arrived in Hollywood, the club could house but 22 women. She wasput in charge of fund raising that in 1926 brought into being a three-stotyMediterranean villa with space for 94. For the next 20 years Marjorie ruled theclub as its beloved overseer, displaying talents of "diplomacy, financialwizardry, impeccable poise and grooming, worldly wisdom, sincere spirituality,tirelessness, sympathy and humor," to paraphrase one newspaper's account.Among her Studio Club board members were director Cecil B. DeMille's wife andMary Pickford Fairbanks.
This teacher turned social worker was an RHS and Denison (O.) Universitygraduate. She left the RHS faculty after six years to teach history and civicsin Puerto Rico, then entered YWCA work in 1912 at New York City. Two years latershe became director of the YWCA in Springfield, Ohio, directing anothersuccessful expansion. Her father, William, had been superintendent of Rochesterschools; her mother was Rosanna Brackett. A sister, Edith, was the write oflocal druggist Frederick Ruh.
Retirement from the Studio club did little to slow down Marjorie. She remainedin Hollywood and until her death was much sought after as speaker, as social andcivic agency board member and for emergency service as director of the actors'retirement fund and the Oakland (Cal.) YWCA.
Marjorie never lost touch with her Rochester relatives and friends. She oncereturned to tell of her Hollywood experiences before an overflow crowd at theFirst Baptist Church.
Last week: Margaret Ernsperger, Bess, Emrick, Freeda Sullivan.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, October 19, 1999]

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I came to Los Angeles on a visit; I fell in love with the state and became aresident. Marjorie Williams, my Latin teacher in the Rochester High School, wasdirector of the Hollywood Studio Club, a home for girls in motion pictures andthrough her I was hired to help raise money for the new Studio Club residence.At the end of three months I had met everyone in motion pictures from DouglasFaairbanks and Mary Pickford, the Hollywood's king and queen, to CharlieChaplin. -- Clara Mae Robbins.
[Daniel Robbins Family, Ervan Mark Robbins, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]

WILLIAMS, MEL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington

WILLIAMS, RUSSELL F. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Russell Williams)
WILLIAMS GARAGE [Leiters Ford, Indiana]
[Adv] Why Firestone Tire Dealers Serve You Better - - - - JESSE WILLIAMS GARAGE,Leiters, Ford, Indiana.
[The News-Sent inel, Monday, May 10, 1926]

WILLIAMS GROCERY & MARKET [Rochester, Indiana]
See South Side Grocery.
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CORNELL GROCERY SOLD TO ROY WILLIAMS
P. O. Cornell and son have sold their South Side grocery to Roy Williams, whowill take possession soon. The meat market, formerly operated by Wm. Cornell,has been purchased by Berlin Paschall, who will be open Saturday, ready to dobusiness. Mr. Williams will move from his farm, near Rochester. The Cornellshave not stated what they intend to do in the future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 26, 1921]

[Adv} Saturday Bargains - - - - Williams' Grocery, Phone 122 - UnionDelivery.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 20, 1922]

[Adv] Demonstration of Pillsbury Flour, Pancake Flour, Health Flour - Get 'emwhile they're hot! ---- R. H. Williams Grocery and Meat Market. Phone 122.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 6, 1922]

ORA CLAYTON PURCHASES AKRON GROCERY STORE
Ora Clayton, who came here from Roann some time ago and purchased the Earl Adamsgrocery store on the corner of Main and Fifth streets, which he later sold toRay Williams, has purchased the Lautzenhiser grocery store at Akron. Clayton hasalready taken possession of the store at Akron, where he plans to make hisfuture home.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 10, 1922]

[Adv. - Easter Specials, For Your Saturday Shopping They'll All Save YouMoney . . . . . . . Williams Grocery, Phone 122 - Union Delivery]
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 30, 1923]

[Adv. - . . . . Fruits and Vegetables. . . . Staple and Fancy Groceries, R.H. Williams...]
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, July 27, 1923]

[Adv] SOME OF OUR CLOSING OUT PRICES!! - - - - Everything in the Store MarkedDown. R. H. WILLIAMS, (Corner Main and Fifth Streets)
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 4, 1924]

WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM "BILLY" [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington
See: Rochester Bands
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PIANO TUNING
William Williamson has resumed his work of piano tuning in this city, and isready to respond to all calls in a prompt and satisfactory manner.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, September 27, 1899]

KNEW MURDERESS
Wm. W. Williamson, the well known piano dealer, of this city, who is a native ofNorway has revealed a most interesting story of his youthful days in his homecountry, since it has direct connection with the childhood history of the womanwho later was destined to startle the whole world in the role of Mrs. Gunness,of the LaPorte murder farm.
Mr. Williamson was born in Christiana, Norway and when about sixteen years ofage removed to Frederickstad, a small city of that country. While there he was amember of an orchestra that played in public and while so engaged was employedby one Peter Poulson, who owned a small show. The show appeared in that placeabout twice a year and each time Mr. Williamson played in the orchestra. One ofthe features of the show was Poulson's daughter, a ten years old miss who donethe tight and slack wire walking. At each performance the large crowds, whoattended wildly applauded this young and daring Miss, who often had the wirestretched far above the ground.
The same girl came to America after her father retired a few years later fromthe show business and developed into the Mrs. Gunness, who set the universetalking of her awful, bloodthirsty murders, the victims of which were thenburied on her farm near LaPorte.
Mr. Williamson recalls the scenes of that little show in far off Norway nearlyforty years ago quite vividly and wonders how one so young and attractive coulddevelope into such a human tigress.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, May 19, 1908]

WILLIAMSON ORCHESTRA [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Hotels - Arlington
See: Williamson, William "Billy"

WILLIARD SALOON [Grass Creek, Indiana]
Operated in 1897 by John Williard.

WILSON, BENJAMIN C. [Fulton County, Indiana]
See: Myers, Jonas
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BIOGRAPHY
Benjamin C. Wilson. - It often happens in the scope of human experience thatcircumstandes and surroundings favor some men, and others must exist seeminglyby greatest effort. But the man whose name heads this sketch, was not a creatureof circumstances nor was he bowed down by the force of fate. He passed throughthe years of his life with a smile for every one, and appropriated from the vaststores of the world's goods sufficient to make life worth the living. He was anative of Indiana, born in Fayette County, January 28, 1809. His father, JamesWilson, was a native of Virginia, born January 16, 1779. He was a carpenter andship-builder by trade, and died February 5, 1824, from the effect of a bite of acopperhead snake. Nancy Wilson, his wife, and the mother of Benjamin, was anative of Kentucky, born February 24, 1785, and died in the winter of 1878, atthe remarkable age of ninety-two years. "Uncle Ben," as he was calledby every one who knew him, passed his early years in acquiring a very commoneducation along with his labors on the farm, and when not otherwise engaged heassisted his father in the work of his trade. He was a pioneer by birth and hiswhole life was mainly given to the labor of clearing the forest and making amark from which civilization took its name. He was united in marriage, January12, 1832, to Rose Ormsbee, a native of Indiana, and came to Fulton County inApril, 1835. Every one who is conversant with the history of the county willknow that this was one year prior to organization of the county, and with itssubsequent history he had much to do. Being of a thoroughly wide-awake nature,he eagerly grasped every opportunity to further the prosperity of his adoptedhome. He settled in the district now known as Richland Township, where theIndians far outnumbered the whites, and began life in a house made of poles. Butthe energy and industry, which always characterized his every act, led him on inthe line of improvement, while the forest gave way under the stroke of thewoodman's ax and the Indian found his happy hunting ground transformed intofields of beauiful waving grain. Other settlers came and new farms were made.The county must have officers, the people must have leaders. In the community hewas the man to whom others came for advice. In the county he served his peopleas an efficient officer. He was chosen Sheriff of Fulton County August 20, 1845,being the sixth sheriff of the county, and the successor of Gilbert Bozarth. Ofcourse the business of the office was not so extensive as now, but the limitedfacilities, coupled with the wildness of the country, made it very tediouslabor. The prisoners under his charge were confined in a jail made of logs, andnearly every school boy knew something of the more than practical tricks playedon him by some of the prisoners. After the division of the county intotownships, he was chosen and re-chosen as Justice of the Peace of his township;he also served as Trustee of the same. We must not neglect to speak of hisfamily, which consisted of five children--Lucretia A., now marrieed to HughLucas, and living in Missouri; Horace O., married to Caroline Hoover, February24, 1868; Kline S., died December 6, 1864, near Savannah, Ga., while onSherman's march to the sea; Marietta; and Fredius C, now Recorder-elect ofFulton County. While he was a farmer and one of the old settlers of the county,he was a constant reader, thoroughly alive to the interests of every goodmovement, generous and kind, courteous and affable, an inveterate joker, thelife of every gathering of the people, whether a log-rolling, a public speaking,or a gathering of the church people. In the later days of his life, ill-healthand age debarred him from hard manual labor, but his interest in the welfare ofhis community never waned. He was a local writer of some note. In March, 1875,he began a series of articles under the title, "Fulton County--What I knowabout its early settlements." This series continued through twelve issuesof the Rochester Union Spy, and contain much valuable information to everyresident of the county. He died October 29, 1878, from injuries received byfalling from a wagon loaded with hay, thus ending a life made bright andglorious by deeds long to be remembered by those who came after him. He willalways be remembered as no one but Uncle Ben Wilson, and as having lived to seethe bow and spear of the red man supplanted by the plow and reaper; and more, helived to see education and progress made the watchword of his people. Those leftof his family are now numbered among the good people of Rochester, where theyare greeted by many friends, not alone for their true worth, but for the honorof him who added luster to the name of the Wilson family.
[T. B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A. L. Kingman, 1883, p. 27]

MEET UNCLE BEN WILSON
AND HIS WAYWARD JAILHOUSE KEY
Considered Comment
Jack K. Overmyer
Benjamin C.. Wilson was one of Fulton County's earliest settlers, became thecounty's sixth sheriff and lived in the Mt. Nebo neighborhood of RichlandTownship, north of the present Historical Society museum.
B.C. or Uncle Ben, as the locals knew him, first ventured into Fulton Countywhen it was little more than a wilderness. He had vivid memories of those earlydays and three years before his death he recalled some of them in a series ofarticles published by The Rochester Union Spy, the, town's Republican-orientedweekly newspaper.
His recollections, rediscovered after being forgotten for over a century, areworthy of retelling.
In the spring of 1835, at age 26, Wilson decided he would have a better futureby claiming land in the thinly-settled northern part of Indiana. So he packed upwhat little worldly goods his family possessed and left Shelby County with fourother families. They headed for northern Cass County and that brought them up inwhat would become Fulton County when it was created the next year by thelegislature.
The journey was a frightful one on a road that often disappeared into swamps.quagmires, marshes, ponds and running streams. Twelve miles was considered agood day's progress.
The Wilson party was traveling on the three-year-old Michigan Road extendingfrom Indianapolis to Michigan City and when they arrived here, they found mainlyIndians. These were the indigenous Potawatomi, most of whom in another threeyears would be removed to
Kansas. At the time of Wilson's appearance, he found the natives plagued by thewhiskey provided by incoming whites who then shamelessly cheated them out oftheir valuables. "Alcohol," wrote B.C., "was the cause of morecrimes, murders, wickedness generally than all other agencies combined."
Three of the four families accompanying Wilson on this arduous trek remainedhere: those of James and Robert Ormsbee and of Jonah Bassett. The fourthcontinued on to LaPorte County.
The. land they found was deep woods; not a foot had becn clcarcd. They lived infloorless pole cabins, until September when they finally got better log housesbuilt from the surrounding trees. In the following spring they began the tiringtask of clearing for their crops. B.C. remembered that 11 days were spentrolling logs and brush into piles for burning; he wished he had the moneyrepresented in those fires.
Often large droves of hogs would appear on the Michigan Road, being driven fromsouthern Indiana to market in Michigan. Wilson bought some for stock orslaughtering for $10 per hundred, the same high price then being asked for flourand other necessities.
Emigration picked up rapidly in all parts of the county after the Wilsonsarrived and B.C. remembered it as a good time. Society still was devoid ofchurches, but settlers' families coming led frequently in peace and harmony. Onesuch gathering, he recalled, was for the county's first wedding of David Shoreand Susan Ormsbee, held just south of Rochester.
Upon the county's organization in 1836 Wilson gave up the sheriff's job which hehad held for four months until John Davidson won the first election for the job.But in August, 1845, B.C. returned to the post after his own election, being thesixth so chosen. And thereby hangs a tale: how he became a prisoner in his ownlog jail.
It seems that In 1848 he incarcerated horse thief Richard Eno in the undergroundcell used for such desperadoes in the county's first hoosegow. Eno was let outfor meals, however, and one day while unattended he found the prison door ajarduring the sheriff s meal preparation. Eno walked out, locking the door behindhim and taking the key.
Wilson said he "yelled like an Indian to arouse the neighbors." Enohiked for the woods, quickly leaving behind his only pursuer, a barefoot one atthat. The sheriff finally had to be chopped free by townfolk. With a $100 rewardposted, Eno eventually was captured. The key, strangely enough, turned up 24years later and was returned to B.C. as a keepsake of his one-timeembarrassment. Know where the key is now? It's in the cornerstone of theRochester postoffice, having been placed there in 1925.
Uncle Ben remained a prominent citizen of these parts until Oct. 31, 1878, whena wagon load of hay tipped over and killed him. He was 69.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, September 23, 1997]

WILSON, CHARLES A. [Rochester, Indiana]
C. A. WILSON, M.D., Northwest corner South and Jefferson Streets, Rochester,Ind.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 20, 1893]

CHARLES A WILSON (Biography)
Although not a native of Fulton county, Dr. Charles A. WILSON resided inRochester long enough to gain a wide circle of friends and still regards it ashome. Dr. Wilson is now proprietor of the Wilson Surgical Institute, anorthopedic hospital located at 81 West Ohio street, Indianapolis, and is meetingwith merited success. He has had years of experience in this specialty, hisconnection with surgical institute work beginning in 1871. In 1879 he wasawarded the Faculty prize, a gold medal, by the Medical College of Ohio. Sincethen he has been associated with his father, Dr. C. L. WILSON, in the managementof the Surgical Institute of Atlanta, Ga., and Indianapolis, and has earned thegratitude and confidence of his patients by his skill and devotion to his work,the cure of deformities and diseases causing deformity.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]

WILSON, DAVID A. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From David A. Wilson)
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Second Letter From David A. Wilson)

WILSON, E., MISS [Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] MILLINERY OPENING April 4, 5 and 6, '95. MISS E. WILSON, South of Hoover'sfurniture store.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 29, 1895]

[Adv] BARGAIN SALE OF MILLINERY. Having purchased the millinery store of MissWilson I have concluded to sell the goods in stock at prices never before quotedin Rochester. - - - - LILIAN CRAWLEY.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 6, 1895]
Mrs. Hughston will remove her millinary store to the room recently occupied byMiss Wilson, one door south of Hoover's furniture store, next Monday. All oldpatrons and many new ones are invited to call and see me in the new quarters.Mrs E. A. Hughston.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, January 17, 1896]

WILSON, ED [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (