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Charlotte and Marjorie. On December 24, 1890, he was united in marriage with Jennie McMillan, born in Scott Township, Steuben County, a daughter of George and Mar- garet Jane (Magers) McMillan, the former born in Livona, Cattaraugus County, New York, March 7, 1831, and the latter born in Marion County, Ohio, March 23, 1832. He married Mil- dred Gilhams, daughter of Clarence Gilhams, and they have a son, James, born in February, 1918. He sold the farm in 1905, and after that lived with his children until his death in December, 1916. Thomas Clark Benson was born in Warren County, Indiana. A number of his children became well known and prominent in this part of Northeast Indiana. He is, like his father, a republican and a member of the Grange.

April 2, 1892, Mr. Rohrabaugh married Abbie U. Latta. He was born on the farm where he lives today, August 29. He married Amy A. Gordon and has one child, Hugh G., born November 15, 1918. She is a daughter of Frank and Martha (Robeck) Bevington, now of Shipshewana. Her father for a time rented the Wash Greenfield Farm and then bought twenty acres in Milford Township, moving to that place in 1862. Later he sold it to his son Frank, and he spent his last days at Pleasant Lake, where he died October 6. i8Sj. Nearly fifty years ago he bought a stock of merchandise in the old village of Lima, and has ever since busied himself with the management and expansion of his business and the task of affording a completely adequate mer- chandise service to the community. He had first come west in 1835, in company with Colonel Aaron Thompson and George Thompson, making the journey as far west as Ann Arbor, Michigan, on horseback and returning to New Jersey in the same way. 729, Free and Accepted Masons, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge and has been a member of the Grand Lodge. She was also born near Scott in LaGrange County and had the benefit of a grammar and high school education.

His wife died in 1884. Garlets was born and received his early education partly in Ohio and partly in Indiana, being a youth when his family came to LaGrange County. Frank C, Ijorn August 27, 1887, was educated in the Spring- field Township High School, is a farmer by occupa- tion but is now a salesman for the LaGrange Auto Company. Their oldest child, Caroline Elizabeth, married for her first hus- band Charles Mayers, by whom she had three chil- dren, Etta, Letha and Virgil. For two years, 1906-08, he lived with his mother in Angola, but with that exception has spent all his life on the home farm. His grandfather, Peter Grube, was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 26, 1804, and in 1835 married Elizabeth May, who was born in Bavaria in l8ll. He was his father's partner from 1900 until 1914, and has since been active head of the business. He grew up there and had such limited advantages as the local schools could furnish. They were the parents of six children: John, who served with honor in the Union army during the Civil war, Elizabeth, Anna, Mary Jane, S. and Jeremiah. Lantz are members of the Methodist Church. His own enterprise as a farmer and stock man in Salem Township has been greatly prospered, and his individual career reflects credit upon the record of his ancestors. In 1864 he went to Scioto County, Ohio, and for many years lived in the west, having varied experiences in the Black Hills country in and around Denver and Phoenix,.

In June of that year he went into the regular army with the Reserve Medical Corps, was stationed at Washington for a time and in July, 1918, went overseas to France. She was born in Van Buren Township and is a graduate of the LaGrange High School. There were nine chil- dren in the family, seven of whom reached maturity, and the three living today are: John W., of Syra- cuse; Julia A., unmarried and living at Syracuse; and Elmer, also of Syracuse. 4 district school in that township, and was well trained in habits of industry, his father keeping him busy in the fields when he was not in school. He cleared up the place, built a good house, and became one of the substantial farmers of Jackson Township. August 27, 1908, he married Miss Eva Tubbs, a native of Branch County, Michigan. Rudolf Yunker found work at his trade and always fol- lowed that occupation, though owning farms and living on them, allowing his sons to till the fields. He and his wife are Congregationalists. Baker have one daughter, Florabel. 1908, was looked upon as a calamity and the end of a career which could be ill spared. He brought his wife to the United States in 1838, and after some months in New York City came west as far as Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life, being en- gaged in business as a shoe merchant.

Dirrim received his education in the public schools of Otsego Township, He began as- sisting his father on his present farm in section 35 when a youth, and during his individual manage- ment and ownership has erected all the substantial buildings on the land. He was a republican and very active in the party and he and his wife were members of the Christian Church, formerly identified with the New Light branch of that church. Souder was fourteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Richland County, Ohio, and he acquired most of his education in a German school in Pennsylvania. He is very active in his church, and is a democrat in politics. Krueger buried twin children. His grandparents, John and Anna (Clark) Maxton, spent most of their lives in Green County, Ohio. In that time three generations have contributed to the improvement and advance- ment of this section of Northeast Indiana. Crandall was born in Courtland County, New Vork, July 29, 1853, a son of Cordial and Charlotta (Cutler) Crandall, who were natives of Vermont. He built his modern home in 1903, and has one of the valuable estates of the county and also an ideal home for his family.

602, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a democrat in politics. McClue married Flora E. Mallory, of Steuben County. Colorado; John R. ; and Jennie M., wife of Charles Hammer, of Canton, Ohio. Hill is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees Tent No. Russell Brown, grandfather of Frank M. Brown, was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York, January 24, 1805. With a capi- tal of only $100 he began renting the homestead HISTORY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA 261 and after his father's death he bought 320 acres. He married in 1830, Martha Ann Forder, who died in 1859. Haskins was born in Springfield Township 14, 1843, a son of Willis and Jane (Jackson) Haskins. Campbell owns eighty acres, and this land was part of the tract entered by her father eighty-five years ago, in 1834. Rhodes is president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Spencerville, and has long been identified with that community as a practical farmer, and owns part of the noted Rhodes homestead, which has been in the possession of this family continu- ously since earliest pioneer times. 267 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Masonic Order of Cromwell, and politically is a democrat.

Stead is a republican in politics. His father, the Rev. He was a stanch and steadfast republican in politics. His name is widely known over Kendall County as a leader in democratic politics. Of Vicksburg, Michigan. He owns 285 acres, all joining and in one farm.

He served as a drummer boy in the War of 1812. In 1902 he bought his present well improved farm of thirty- one acres in Clay Township and established him- self there in September of tliat year. Jacob McClaskey, paternal great-grandfather of Robert William, was born on the Juniata River, in Perry County, Pennsylvania. To their marriage were born four children: John S., Rowena, who died March 5, 1919, Franklin S., who died May i, 1914, at the age of six months, and Linnie Lucile. Charles C. Weincart has been a factor in the business and civic life of Noble County for a long period of years. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Angola, is a Baptist, and a Mason and Knight of Pythias. Jones died February 11, 1871, at the age of forty-seven. September 20, 1891, Mr. Rich married Ida A. Zinn. Thrift store maryland area. Cook grew up in the home of his stepmother and has for her memory only praise and gratitude, since she was in every respect a good and kind mother to him. She was born in Ohio February 15, 1840, a daughter of John and Eliza Johnson. Alvison, of Jamestown Township in Steuben County, is a prosperous citizen who has raised himself into the class of independent farm owners though he began life with practically no capital and has shown a degree of enterprise, initia- tive and judgment that are sure to reward any man who keeps working steadily along one line.

Its buildings and improvements rep- resented his management and labor. His farm consists of eighty acres. Christian Stukey was born November 7, 1825, and about 1858 he located in Greenfield Township of LaGrange County. Lura Badger is the wife of Ford Klcckner and has two children. He served in the Indiana Legis- lature in 18=6-57 and in 1847 he was a delegate to the River and Harbor Convention at Chicago, and was twice a delegate to republican national conventions. Five of their chil- dren are still living: Abraham, of Perry Township, Noble County; Angelica, widow of Hiram B. Smith; James, of Wexford County, Michigan; Elijah P., of Topeka, Indiana; and Elias C. Wemple was eighteen months old when his parents came to LaGrange County, and he grew up here and was educated in the common schools.