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A FEW WORDS ABOUT THIS BOOK 
 
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 HIS portfolio of little cartoons, slmciiig ■'Some Fort IVayue Phizes" Ims 
 no mission zcliatsoezrr except to prcrcidc a little eutertaiuweut for those 
 w leho examine its pages, and, incidentally, to assist llic man icl/o piib- 
 
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 neitlier a instorv nor a bnncli of biographies. IVe ba-een't pried into ILv 
 
 faniilv affairs of tLv people herein presented, hformation of that kind is carefully 
 recorded in family Bibles and the county clerh's boohs: -zee leould suggest that you 
 intervieie the neighbors if you want to pind out their faults. 
 
 In the preparation of the articles accompanying the pictures, we have had 
 the valuable assistance of our ncicspapei associates leho hnoie "all about every- 
 bodv" in Fort IVayne. The .pictures, both snapshot and zeord. are as inoffensive 
 as zee could make them, and if you — an inhabitant of this sorrowful old zeorld— 
 can hnd auvlhing to smile at. surely the effort has not been entirely in vain. 
 
 Fort IVavne. Iiidijiia. Septei>ibi.-r. 11)04. 
 
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 Aud foolish notion. 
 
 — Bobbie Burns. 
 
HENRY C. BERGHOFF 
 
 A FEW years ago — not many — a German emigrant 
 train bound for Chicago pulled into a Fort Wayne 
 station. Among the weary passengers who peered 
 through the dingy windows of the coaches was a 
 husky, liarefooted hoy with a round face composed 
 largely of ruddy cheeks. As he looked, he saw a drug 
 store on the corner of Calhoun and Chicago streets, and 
 without much hesitation he hurried out of the car, ran 
 over to the store and asked for a pretzel, for he was 
 hungry. The proprietor asked him a few idle questions, 
 during which he became interested in the lad. 
 
 •'I want a boy like you to run my soda fountain," 
 he said, in German. 
 
 "How much will you pay?" inquired the lad. 
 
 "Six dollars a week," returned the druggist. 
 
 Without making reply, the boy bounded out of the 
 store, dropping the unfinished fractional portion of his 
 pretzel in his haste, and disappeared into the coach, 
 while the druggist stood looking after him in wonder- 
 ment. Directly, the boy reappeared, dragging after him 
 all of his persona! effects wrapped up in two large 
 market baskets. 
 
 Silently, and with a trace of tears in his eyes, he 
 watched the train disappear, and then he said. "I'll 
 take the job." 
 
 As we have noted, he was barefooted, but ever since 
 then Henry C. Berghoff has been putting on things. 
 One of the things he did in his early Fort Wayne career 
 was to put on American airs, and later a course in school 
 and a law college. Then he got into the garb of City 
 Comptroller for Fort Wayne, and still later, in 1901, he 
 put on the best suit we have to offer— the mayoralty. 
 Since then, he has been getting into a variety of things, 
 from city water to hot water. 
 
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 ROBERT S. TAYLOR 
 
 ROBERT S. TAYLOR is the modest way the '"Judge" 
 writes it. Without the handle, few know which 
 Taylor it is and with it ever\- liody knows that Fort 
 Wayne's big electrical patent lawyer who won the tight 
 of the Independents against the Bell Telephone monopoly 
 is meant. The Judge's success is due to his power of 
 concentration of mind. It is related of him. by a Fort 
 Wayne business man. that meeting him on one occasion 
 on a train, a topic of large international interest was 
 mentioned. The judge had not heard (jf it. When wonder 
 was expressed he said he had been so engrossed in a 
 law suit for si.x weeks that he had not looked at a news- 
 paper in that time. He draws big fees for that kind of 
 service to his chents. 
 
 Judge Taylor is a public speaker who gives his audi- 
 ence a logical argument, without invective or abuse, 
 e.tpressed in the tinest of literary form and embellished 
 with bright gleams of humor. His special fitness for a 
 great national work brought him the appointment by 
 President Garfield in 1881 of member of the Mississippi 
 River commission, through the influence of his close 
 friend General Benjamin Harrison, afterwards president. 
 He still holds the office. His hair is silvered now with 
 his 67 years but his tongue was silvered with eloquence 
 before he was gr,iduated from the college his reverend 
 father taught in Jay county. His persuasive powers 
 won the heart of his classmate Miss Fannie Wright and 
 they gave their friends a surprise by being united in 
 marriage on the college stage. His title of judge was 
 fairly won by being appointed to the local bench in the 
 '6o"s by the governor. He built the Elektron block in a 
 manner to endure for centuries. He was born in Chilli- 
 cothe. Ohio, but has been always a loyal and devoted 
 citizen of the city of his early adoption. On the other 
 hand there is no itizen in whom the people of Fort 
 Wayne take a higher pride or hold in greater esteem. 
 
SAMUEL M. FOSTER 
 
 MR. FOSTER is, perhaps, the most contrary person 
 in Fort Wayne. This peculiar trait cropped out 
 several years ago at the time he decided to discontinue 
 the profitable business of selling dry goods, to launch 
 out into his present line of industry. His solicitous 
 friends, fearing he was making a grave mistake, called 
 on him and deposited this bit of sage advice: 
 
 •■Be careful, now, not to let your money go to waste." 
 
 As mi.ght have been expected of a man of his dispo- 
 sition, he immediately disregarded the well-meant in- 
 junction and proceeded without delay to let a large 
 portion of his capital go to "waist." The result is one 
 of Indiana's biggest industries, one which furnishes to 
 the sensible women of the nation the most becoming and 
 comfortable article of apparel yet devised. Mr. Foster 
 makes thousands of these every week. It must not be 
 understood, however, that he does all of the work him- 
 self. No, he has a few hundred assistants and they 
 help him quite a bit. 
 
 Mr. Foster has two hobbies besides shirt waists. One 
 is the making of Hope Hospital into a blessing to the 
 afflicted of the community, and the other is the dissemi- 
 nation of good cheer in other ways such as the shirt 
 waists and the hospital may not be able to reach. He is 
 a Yale graduate, a Mason and an Elk. a popular after- 
 dinner speaker, a leader in the splendid efforts of the 
 Commercial club and a lovely vocalist when it comes to 
 singing the praises of Fort Wayne. 
 
 Mr. Foster is a native of Coldenham. New York. His 
 successful business career was begun in that state. For 
 a few minutes he was a newspaper man at Dayton, 
 Ohio, before hnally settling in Fort Wayne. To enumer- 
 ate the big things he has done to assist in the develop- 
 ment of this city, or even to mention the commercial con- 
 cerns in which he is a leading light would require many 
 times the amount of space we lune to spare. His new- 
 est important \ enture is in connection with the German- 
 American National Bank of which he is the president. 
 
WILLIAM P. BREEN 
 
 HAD the snapshot heen made a half second later, the 
 scene would have been wholly different. The 
 ball, for instance, would be entirely out of sight, cutting 
 swiftly through the atmosphere of the farm adjoining 
 the Kekionga links. Dr. Breen is about to swat it. We 
 are aware that isn't the correct word to use. but we 
 newspaper folks are too busy to learn the game— to say 
 nothing of learning golf terms— so that descriptive word 
 must suffice to tell what is about to happen. By the 
 way. this gentleman is the only lawyer in Fort Wayne 
 who has the title of "Doctor'' as a prefi.x to his name. 
 To him. although not a practicing physician or a doctor 
 of divinity, it rightly belongs. He is a Ph. D.. a doctor 
 of philosophy, the degree having been conferred upon 
 him by the Notre Dame University, of which institution 
 he is a graduate. It is an honorary mark of distinction 
 fittingly bestowed, for in literary attainments he is far 
 advanced. 
 
 Dr. Breen was chosen president of the Indiana Bar 
 Association, to which office he was elected in July of 
 1903. holding that honorable position one year until the 
 the meeting of the association was held in this city last 
 July. As a lawyer he ranks among the leading practi- 
 tioners of the city and state. He came to Fort Wayne 
 from Terre Haute when a lad five years old. This has 
 been his home since. His father had been engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. These, however, were not to the 
 son's liking. He preferred the professions, and. after 
 attending the Brothers' school in this city and graduat- 
 ing from Notre Dame in 1877, he studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in this city in 1879. He is a polished 
 orator. On public occasions, when a scholastic address 
 is to be delivered, he is one of the men in Fort Wayne 
 most frequently selected, and he is never disappointing 
 to his audience. 
 
 He has been president of the Kekionga Golf Club, and, 
 as you see, thoroughly enjoys the game. 
 
G. WILLIAM WILSON 
 
 HERE is a "Major" who has never been at the 
 ■• front." It is an even wager, however, that he 
 has never been found in the rear. He is always right 
 there with the goods. He does not hke to be called 
 " Majah." He says it sounds to much like a mint julep 
 tastes. He was a major on the staff of the late Gover- 
 nor Hovey and went with that distinguished statesman 
 on his tour through Me.xico. 
 
 Billy Wilson went into politics early and was chair- 
 man of the Allen county Republican central committee at 
 so tender an age that he was thought precocious, but he 
 soon proved himself a general. He is known in politics 
 throughout the state and has an acciuaintance all over 
 Hoosierdom. He is also conspicuous in Masonic circles 
 of the state and is a noted Elk. He is past exalted ruler 
 of the Fort Wayne Lodge of Elks and in this body he has 
 made a reputation for himself as an orator. He has been 
 toastmaster at more Elk banquets and social sessions 
 than all other Elks put together. He is called upon to 
 officiate as symposiarch just because he knows e.xactly 
 how to do the trick gracefully and with keen wit and ex- 
 cellent good humor. 
 
 The snapshot of him taken as toastmaster is not true 
 to life in one particular. Billy always turns his glasses 
 down at a banciuet like the late President Hayes. The 
 glass in front of him belongs to the next cover north. 
 The Major's oratory sparkles like champagne, but he 
 doesn't know it. His eloquence (lows too easily for him 
 to appreciate its true worth. This is one reason that he 
 never responds to a toast unless called upon to do so. 
 He is Past Grand Trouble Maker for the Sublime Order 
 of Keyholes and other side lines. At present he is In- 
 diana agent for the Barber Asphalt Paving Company 
 and has served his company thoroughly. Billy has 
 many friends socially and in business circles and they 
 all like him. 
 
JAMES M. ROBINSON 
 
 THIS cartoon, entitled -Robinson Crew-So" appeared 
 in the Daily News the evening after the November 
 election in 1902. when, for the fourth time, the Hon. 
 James M. Robinson was elected to congress from this 
 district. It is the democratic rooster that perches on his 
 hand. For his personal victories, it is the sixth time 
 this fowl has flopped its wings and sent forth its trium- 
 phant "cock-a-doodle-do" for -'Jim." In 1886 and 1888 
 he was elected prosecuting attorney of this county and 
 in 1896, 1893, 1900 and 1902 he was elected congressman 
 from this, the Twelfth congressional district. For each 
 of these offices he was nominated unanimously as he 
 was June 17, 1904, for a fifth term In 1892. at the age of 
 thirty, he was a candidate for congress and came within 
 four delegate votes of receiving the nomination, which 
 four years later was given him unanimously. 
 
 .Wr. Robinson is a graduate of the University of 
 •■Hardknocks." He is an Allen county boy. He was 
 born in Pleasant township in this county in 1861 and 
 came to Fort Wayne, with his mother, when he was ten 
 years old and educated himself and supported his mother. 
 At the age of ele\ en he was a newsboy on the streets of 
 Fort Wayne and at fourteen was a collector for the Daily 
 News. When he was fifteen years old he took employ- 
 ment as a machine hand and, until 1881. pursued his 
 studies during leisure hours from work. He quit the 
 shops when he was twenty years of age and, having 
 previously studied law, was practicing in the courts for 
 si.x months before his admission to the bar and while he 
 was yet under twenty-one. He passed his examination 
 and was licensed to practice law in the United States 
 and ;the state courts in 1882. In fourteen years from 
 that time he was in congress, but no honor bestowed 
 has changed the social side of "Jim,'' as he is familiarly 
 called. 
 
GEORGE W. STOUT 
 
 HHRH we see Mr. Stout doing Ills illustrateJ song, 
 ••Bringing in the Thieves." However only one 
 thief is shown in the view. He is a horse-thief, and 
 Mr. Stout usually brings them back in bunches when he 
 goes after them. 
 
 Sheriff Stout will not be Sheriff Stout after the first 
 of the year, because an unwritten law says a man can't 
 hold the office more than one term no matter how good 
 he is or how much good he has done for the people 
 whose interests he is hired to protect. He isn't a 
 candidate, anyway. 
 
 Mr. Stout is a Buckeye. Carroll County, Ohio, is 
 the place of his birth. He made his advent in 1846. 
 Though only sixteen years of age when the war broke 
 out. he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-sixth Ohio, 
 and was a busy man in Uncle Sam's employ for over 
 two years and a half. His ready musket did active 
 service at the battles of Champion Hill, Grand Gulf and 
 the engagements of the siege of Vicksburg. In 1865 he 
 received his honorable discharge at Columbus. Ohio. 
 
 Then Mr. Stout became a Hoosier. He came to Allen 
 county in 1867 and settled on a farm in Monroe town- 
 ship, three miles east of Monroe\ille. For thirteen 
 years, while following his occupation of farming, he 
 dressed and cleared timber and did a good business in 
 shipping poultry to the New York market. 
 
 When Edward Clausmeier became sheriff of Allen 
 county eleven years ago. Mr. Stout was appointed one 
 of his deputies, a position he continued to hold under 
 Sheriff Melching. It was this long experience that fitted 
 him for his two terms in the sheriff's office. He has 
 always been a staunch Democrat. He is an active 
 member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a 
 splendid all-round citizen. 
 
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 JOHN MOHR, JR. 
 
 I T is altogether pruhable that there isn't a man in Fort 
 i Wayne who has handled more money than John 
 Mohr, Jr.. the cashier of the Hamilton National bank. 
 If he was the owner of all the money he has counted he 
 would be able to live in a house built of gold. The wealth 
 of Croesus, the Vanderbilts. the Rothschilds and the 
 Goulds wouldn't compare with his. And there isn't a 
 man in Indiana who can count money faster. He can 
 almost do it with his eyes shut. At least, even with his 
 eyes shut, a counterfeit bill or coin couldn't impose itself 
 on him. He can tell either by the feel of his fingers. 
 
 Nor are Mr. Mohr's abilities to count money rapidly, 
 add long rows of figures and calculate interest and dis- 
 counts his only superior qualifications. He is a musician. 
 Music with him is not a profession, but an accomplish- 
 ment. He is a skilled organist and pianist. There are 
 few better. When he is at the keys, the instruments 
 send forth their sweete.st and most harmonious notes. 
 He is a scholar. Literature and art and science have 
 received his study. He is a traveler. He has been over 
 England, down the Rhine, up the Alps and through 
 Italy. He is a politician — not in the sense of seeking 
 office, however. He understands men and affairs and the 
 art of government. Official positions of honor and 
 responsibility have come to him unsought. Twice has 
 this been the case. From 1882 to 1886 he was a member 
 of the city council and again from 1894 to 1898. the latter 
 years as councilman-at-large. During both terms he 
 served his constituency with distinguished ability. And 
 to what has been said of this man in the picture it might 
 be added that John Mohr. Jr.. is public-spirited and 
 companionable, immensely so. 
 
EDWARD C. MILLER 
 
 HERE is a man who sells business blocks and tine 
 residences each work day in the year— a brick at 
 a time. Edward C. Miller is the manager of the Fort 
 Wayne Brick and Tile Company. 
 
 When Ed was a small boy, he always wanted cake 
 with thick frosting, even in his mud-pie days. But he 
 did not like crust. Now he is as busy as he can be hunt- 
 ing for crust. What he needs is good hard crusts of 
 clay. Then he begins his mud-pie days again and makes 
 the finest mud ever mixed. He bakes it till it is red. 
 He likes thick walls in buildings if they are made of 
 brick and he don't care how high up a skyscraper goes. 
 Ed wears a hat just because he is also engaged in the 
 tile business ; and this is no joke. 
 
 Ed wasn't born last week but he happened in New 
 Haven. Indiana, and this, of course, is about the same 
 thing. His father came to Fort Wayne when Ed was 
 small and he seldom mentions New Haven. He is now 
 enthusiastic for the growth of Fort Wayne. The faster 
 the town grows the more important Ed feels. He meas- 
 ures his pleasure at the rate of a brick at a time. Ed's 
 father was .at one time publisher of the Daily Journal 
 but with keen foresight Ed knew that there was more 
 money in dirt, sunburned, than in printers' ink that was 
 black in the face — of the type. 
 
 Before settling down to a clay basis, Ed traveled for 
 a wholesale hardware house of Cleveland and was a 
 most successful salesman. He sold hea\y hardware 
 and wanted lighter work. He got right down to hard- 
 pan at once in the brick business and says he is glad of 
 it. Soci.iUy Ed is a popular fellow. He is a very prom- 
 inent Elk and a Scottish Rite Mason. For two terms he 
 was a member of the city council from the Eighth ward. 
 As a municipal statesman he was useful and orna- 
 mental. 
 
NEWTON W. GILBERT 
 
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR GILBERT, whom the Re- 
 publicans have named as their candidate for 
 congress, seems always to have been a busy man. 
 
 In 1862. he was born in the little town of Worthing- 
 ton. Ohio, where his father conducted a country store. 
 It was here and on the farm that tlie future statesman 
 ■was introduced to that which makes for good quality of 
 manhood— hard work. He was able, however, to go 
 through the common schools, and then, in order to get 
 the means to attend the Ohio State University, he learned 
 the printers' trade, worked as a book agent and later 
 taught school in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. He gave all 
 his spare time to the study of law. In 1886. he was ap- 
 pointed county surveyor of Steuben county. Indiana, 
 where he had settled as a school teacher. He was twice 
 elected to this office and in 1890 began the practice of law. 
 This initial public honor was followed by his nomination 
 for prosecuting attorney of the thirty-fifth judicial 
 circuit. In 1896 he was elected state senator for the 
 Steuben-Lagrange district. His work in the senate 
 gave him a state reputation which brought about his 
 election as lieutenant-governor in 1900. In this import- 
 ant position, his popularity increased greatly and he 
 became prominently mentioned in connection with the 
 Republican nomination for governor, but declined. He 
 was then made the nominee of his party for congress. 
 
 Mr. Gilbert, as captain of Company H. One Hundred 
 and Fifty-Seventh Indiana Volunteers, led his company 
 to the south at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
 war. As president of the Indiana commission to the 
 Saint Louis Exposition, he is taking a place of promi- 
 nence in the state's affairs at the great show. He is a 
 member of the important law firm of Gilbert, Berghoff & 
 Wood. 
 
JAMES B. WHITE 
 
 THE lay of the minstrel song bird is sweet music to 
 the ears of many of our citizens. Whenever a 
 rooster crows and a bunch of hens begin to cacttle like 
 women at a missionary tea then James White pricl<s up 
 liis ears and smiles. He is one of the greatest and most 
 successful chicken fanciers that ever stepped into a 
 hencoop. He organized the poultry association which 
 has given such successful shows in Fort Wayne and 
 has been instrumental in increasing the interest in 
 poultry raising in northern Indiana. He raises the best 
 single combed White Leghorns that ever scratched 
 oyster shells. His coops are lined with prize ribbons. 
 His pigeon lofts attract attention all over America. 
 
 Jim began to eat chickens at the home of his father 
 in Fort Wayne about thirty years ago. He has liked 
 chickens ever since. After eating enough chickens to 
 make him grow some, he went through the Fort Wayne 
 public schools. Later he went to the O.xford, Ohio, 
 University. Then he got a setting or two of brass 
 buttons and went to the Chester, Pennsylvania, 
 Military School. He came out with a sword in each 
 hand and honor straps on each shoulder. He was ready 
 for the business struggle and entered the store of his 
 father, the late Hon. James B. White, and has risen 
 rapidly in mercantile pursuits. His old play-ground was 
 Barr street and the vacant lots near the city building. 
 He has seen the aforementioned play-ground develop 
 into usefulness and he has made continuous strides with 
 the march of its progress. He is popular and active in 
 the social, political and business world. 
 
ALBERT E. CARROLL 
 
 T T ERE is the happy phiz of the man whu has charge 
 ^ ^ of the hig state institution located in Fort Wayne, 
 the Indiana School for Feehle-Minded Youth. You will 
 notice that he has the place well in hand. 
 
 Mr. Carroll is a man young in years for the holding 
 of such a responsible position, hut he makes up for it 
 and more too in e.xperience and thorough knowledge of 
 the important duties which the state of Indiana has en- 
 trusted to him. He is a Hoosier. having first seen the 
 sun's brilliant rays streaming across a stretch of farm 
 land in Jennings county. At the age of four, he was 
 taken to Kentucky by his parents, where he stayed five 
 years. Removing to Indianapolis he attended school 
 awhile and then entered the claim department of the 
 Railway Officials' and Employes' Accident Association. 
 Here he developed into an expert accountant. In July, 
 1893. he gave up the place to come to Fort Wayne to 
 begin his career at the State School in the capacity of 
 bookkeeper. Through his continued good efforts he rose 
 to the positions of head bookkeeper, steward, assistant 
 superintendent and overseer of industries. For seven 
 years before his appointment as superintendent to suc- 
 ceed Ale.xander Johnson, resigned, he had been in close 
 touch with all departments of the institution, so that 
 while the new place brought greater responsibilities, 
 they came to a man thoroughly competent to deal with 
 them. Mr. Carroll has the confidence of the large corps 
 of instructors and attendants at the institution, and 
 the work has progressed splendidly under his direction. 
 Mr. Carroll is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a lively 
 member of the Commercial Club. 
 
JOSEPH L. SMITH 
 
 ONCE upon a time Dr. Smith took it upon himself to 
 reach out and feel the public pulse. .At that time 
 he lived in Madison township. He diagnosed the case 
 at once and decided that the public needed his services 
 as auditor of Allen County. He then asked the public 
 to show its tongue. The tongue also seemed to say that 
 the doctor was wanted in the auditor's office. Then he 
 e.xamined its heart. That, too. appeared to heat warmly 
 for him. And so he came out as candidate for auditor 
 on the democratic ticket in igo2, and was elected. Since 
 then, he has given his professional services to the county 
 in watching carefully the condition of the records of the 
 other county officials whose work must pass under his 
 gaze. And that's why Smith left home. He dreamt he 
 dwelt in marble halls and it became a reality. 
 
 The doctor came to Hoosierdom in 1873, but he wasn't 
 a doctor then. He was born fifty-two years ago in 
 Dayton, Ohio, the town to which our ball players now 
 go at irregular intervals and liven up things for the 
 e.xcitement-loving Buckeyes. One day he decided to 
 become a physician so he went to Cincinnati and entered 
 a college of medicine. In 1878 he came forth from the 
 institution and returned to Indiana to follow his profes- 
 sion. His fondness for his farm, however, has kept him 
 there much of the time. 
 
 When Dr. Smith came to join the court house crowd 
 he proved to be a jolly contribution to that lively com- 
 pany. He enjoys his work immensely, takes a little 
 hunting jaunt when work is light and often goes out to 
 his farm to do enough of the chores to keep in practice. 
 
CHARLES B. WOODWORTH 
 
 MR. WOODWORTH was born in our midst a little 
 over a half a century ago and has been in our 
 midst ever since. At present he is a little more so. He 
 is now a republican member of the Fort Wayne council 
 from the Fifth Ward. In addition to this trouble he is 
 secretary of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy. These two 
 are the only public offices he holds. 
 
 After being graduated from the Fort Wayne High 
 School he never imagined he would have two political 
 plums at the same time, so he started in to study phar- 
 macy even before soda water was an attraction for the 
 modern girl. Hisstudiesbeganby the washing of bottles 
 in the Wagner drug store. After learning a few things 
 behind the prescription case he secured a position with 
 J F. W. Meyer, the pioneer druggist of Fort Wayne. 
 He not only learned how to give his customers a bitter 
 pill to swallow but he mastered other things in pharma- 
 ceutical pursuits. He then went out on the road as a 
 drummer for the Meyer Brothers Company. He played 
 the "snare" drum. The rural druggists liked his music. 
 He put this drum away and purchased the corner drug 
 store in the New Aveline block a little over a tjuarter of 
 a centur\- ago. He has a happy smile for his customers 
 and in consequence his business has increased with the 
 growth of Fort Wayne. His popularity as a business 
 man has caused him to he showered with political honors. 
 He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
 His ancestors were builders of the republic and Charley 
 is pleased with their work. He has the grip of the Scot- 
 ish Rite Masons and of the Order of Foresters and he 
 also sells medicine for the grip. 
 
CHARLES M'CULLOCH 
 
 HERE IS a man who was one of the first raisers ot 
 shorthorn cattle in the UniteJ States. Since Mr. 
 McCulloch started in the lianUin.e; business he has been 
 raising the surplus of the Hamilton National bank. 
 However, although he is president of the Fort Wayne 
 College of Medicine with doctors all about him, he has 
 not had much success at raising hair on his cranium. 
 
 Out on his large farm west of the city on the prairie 
 Mr. McCulloch raises pop corn, umbrellas and the 
 salaries of his employes. He is not really the man with 
 the hoe but he is the man behind the man with the hoe. 
 
 He was born in Allen county in the city of Fort Wayne 
 and believes that his parents made no mistake in the 
 location. He says that the reservoir is not a relic of the 
 mound builders because he remembers when it was built. 
 He has been a member of the board of water works 
 trustees and firmly believes in water. He does not float 
 loans with watered stock as security but he waters his 
 stock to the limit on the farm. Mr. McCulloch was a 
 member of the Fort Wayne city council several years 
 ago and always "points with pride" to the fact that he 
 was never defeated for office. He made a good council- 
 man. He was never spanked and put to bed once while 
 he was a member of that body. He is now president of 
 the Hamilton bank, and a director of the Pittsburg, Fort 
 Wayne & Chicago railroad. He has holdings in most of 
 Fort Wayne's important corporations and does not need 
 to farm for a living. He is interested in many things 
 and. as a result, he is handed interest. It is the interest 
 that makes the hoe go on the farm. 
 
 Mr. Mcculloch's father, the late Hon. Hugh McCulloch, 
 was secretary of the treasury under President Lincoln. 
 
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ALBERT H. MACBETH 
 
 DR. MACBETH has what the base hall fans call an 
 elegant eye. By getting this optic in conjunction 
 with the business end of a microscope, he can 
 tell the difference between a streptococcus and a coma 
 bacillus as easy as a farm hand can distinguish between 
 a fringe-footed Clydesdale and a muley cow. Dr. A\ac- 
 beth is on intimate terms of acquaintance with devil bugs 
 whose names would give a Russian regiment an epidemic 
 of tetanus. In bugology he is past grand master and 
 when he is armed with a formaldehyde syringe the little 
 fellows that cause the ills of humanity flee before his 
 presence or die in their tracks. Before Dr. .Macbeth 
 came to Fort Wayne to practice medicine and to be City 
 Health Commissioner he pursued the various sorts of 
 devil bugs "deadly and benign," through four or five 
 medical colleges in this country and Europe. He has 
 made life so hot for them that it is now practically ad- 
 mitted that it was a microbe that suggested to Bill 
 Shakespeare the line : 
 
 "Macbeth doth murder sleep.'' 
 The only kind of a bacteria that ever came out first 
 best with him is the bacillus automobilensis with which 
 he has been severely afflicted since the advent of the 
 motor car. Besides the elegant eye Dr. Macbeth has a 
 nose of such peculiar construction that he is always 
 able to tell when the garbage man has failed to visit 
 any part of the city for three or four weeks The doctor 
 has one curious fad. He believes in vaccination. The 
 tyrant Nero wished that all Romans had but one neck 
 that he might chop all heads off at once but Dr. Macbeth 
 wants all mankind to have but one arm that he may 
 apply the vaccine virus to the whole community. 
 Strangely enough he thinks, with the other masters of 
 medicine, that this helps prevent small-po.x. The worst 
 thing that can be said about the doctor is that he is a 
 bacteriologist. 
 
LOUIS M. BECK 
 
 THE picture shows Mr. Beck in the act of asl<ing for 
 fifty cents. The fact is that the money belongs 
 to him as he has already earned it. Don't you thinl< 
 that any man who has the skill to fix up an old, back- 
 number watch so it will tick-tick just as good as new, 
 deserves that much for his services ? Why, of course, 
 you do. Well, you see, Mr. Beck is an expert fixer of 
 watches and clocks and knows a lot more about his busi- 
 ness than many other jewelers do. He has also the ability 
 to select the finest kind of silverware, jewelry, rings, 
 and so on, and if you want to see just how he goes 
 to work to dispose of them, step in and ask him to show 
 you. Mr. Beck came here in 1S97 from Peru. Indiana, 
 where he served a complete apprenticeship under one of 
 the finest watchmakers of Switzerland. 
 
 Along with all the other things which he does. Mr. 
 Beck contributes continually to the general happiness 
 of folks by supplying them with whatever they may 
 need in the camera line — kodaks, plates, films, tripods, 
 chemicals and all that sort of thing. It seems very 
 likely that if we were to take a popular vote as to what 
 particular invention had lent the most pleasure to the 
 present generation and those to come, we would find 
 that the modern kodak had carried not only its own 
 ward but all the outlying precincts. How we treasure 
 the old faded tintype of grandmother or the defective 
 daguerreotype of great-grandfather, although neither 
 conveys a definite impression of the faces of those whose 
 memories we cherish! How different it will be for those 
 of the future who wish something definite by which to 
 recollect our departed faces— the kodak will have pre- 
 served them in all their various moods and expressions. 
 Mr. Beck, remember, can tell vou all about them. 
 
JAMES M. M'KAY 
 
 HERE we see Mr. McKay pushing a truck laden 
 with coffee and a few other varieties of breakfast 
 necessities. This httle act is in keeping with 
 his past history- which has been one continuous round 
 of push. 
 
 Mr. McKay came to the United States from Canada, 
 but his name traveled all the way from honnie Scotland, 
 whence it was brought by his father. The McKays 
 seem to have become tired of Ontario, as they crossed 
 the border in 1864 and four years later were numbered 
 among the citizens of Fort Wayne. If anyone is sorry 
 they stopped here and decided to stay, we haven't 
 heard them mention it: while on the other hand, we 
 know of a good many who are glad they did. and this 
 includes the McKays. 
 
 Mr. McKay is a member of the large wholesale 
 grocery house of G. E. Bursley & Co. He has been 
 so established for twenty-four years, during which time 
 that concern has done some good, steady growing, until 
 today the aroma of its coffees, its cheeses and its fruits 
 hlls this enlightened portion of our commonwealth. 
 Much of this is due to the aforementioned pushing 
 qualities of Mr. McKay. 
 
 As you may rightly judge, the development has not 
 been of the mushroom kind, and yet this Mr. McKay 
 is a connisseur of mushrooms. He had to learn this 
 outside of business hours. From his cellar where he 
 cultivates these delicacies have come many a succulent 
 dish to gladden the palates of his numerous friends. 
 Who wouldn't be a close friend of a generous man who 
 knows how to raise mushrooms ? 
 
 Mr. .McKay has taken an active interest at all 
 times in the growth of Fort Wayne. Among the 
 concerns with which he is actively identified is the 
 People's Trust Company, of which he was one of the 
 organizers. 
 
JOHN W. WHITE 
 
 IF you want to know how Mr. White would look fixed 
 up in dudish togs, just take a look. Ordinarily, he 
 doesn't dress thusly, but we tried them on just to see 
 how he would appear in them. 
 
 Mr. White is one ol our most progressive, and, at the 
 same time, conservative, hnanciers. He is president of 
 the White Nation.il bank which he founded with his 
 f.Tther in 1892. Mr. White has done other things besides 
 founding a big financial institution. After leaving col- 
 lege he returned to Fort Wayne and was soon made 
 manager of the White Hub and Spoke factory. The 
 factory flourished and greatly increased the value of 
 east side property. The White bank has grown in im- 
 portance and financial worth under his management. 
 After the death of the late R, T. McDonald, Mr. White 
 assumed the management of the financial affairs of the 
 Fort Wayne Electric Light & Power Company. He 
 brought order out of chaos and success out of what 
 threatened to be financial failure. His conservative 
 management triumphed. In his business affairs he has 
 retained all of the friends who were so intimate with his 
 father, the late Hon. James B. White, and has made 
 many new ones. 
 
 In social life he is also popular. He is president of 
 the Caledonian club, the Fort Wayne Scotch society, 
 and is a member of the Sons of Veterans. The local 
 camp was named after his distinguished father. 
 
 On the links of the Kekionga Golf club he requires 
 the services of an active caddie. Mr. White has not 
 broken as many records on the links as he has sticks, 
 but he plays the game not only because he is a Scotch- 
 man by birth but because he needs the exercise and gets 
 tired counting money all day. He plays golf for the change. 
 
CHARLES A, WILDING 
 
 M", 
 
 WILDING is an author. He has written and 
 published a number of books on how to get rich, 
 tlie moral of which is, "Save your money." The appli- 
 cation of the moral is to put it into one of the several 
 companies of which Mr. Wilding is the boss and permit 
 him to pay interest on it. Mr. Wilding is so willing to 
 part with his spare change in this manner that he 
 Joe<;n't hesitate to let people know about it. 
 
 The discovery of natural gas in Indiana is largely ac- 
 countable for his becoming a financier. At that time, he 
 was a bookkeeper for his father in the coal business. 
 Mr. Wilding lost his job when gas was struck and about 
 that time he became secretary of the newly organized 
 Tri-State Building and Loan Association. The assets of 
 that concern have since increased to nearly four million. 
 
 At about the same time, the Fort Wayne Land and 
 Improvement Company was organized. Mr. Wilding 
 became its secretary and treasurer and immediately got 
 busy at building Lakeside. 
 
 During the period of which we have been speaking. 
 Mr. Wilding has acquired a line of titles which would do 
 credit to an officer in the Cuban army. He is secretary 
 of the recently organized Tri-State Trust Company, sec- 
 retary of the Lindenwood Cemetery Association, a 
 director in the First National bank; he is, in fact, con- 
 nected in some way or other with most of the solid 
 financial institutions of the city. In spite of his busy 
 life, he has found time to devote to Masonry, and has 
 been favored with the thirty-third degree. Mr. Wilding 
 is a living illustration of his valuable books and his 
 judgment on affairs that affect the city's welfare is re- 
 spected by the substantial men of the community. 
 
WILLIAM L. MOELLERING 
 
 "H 
 
 ELLO, HELLO. Yes, this is Mr. Moellering talk- 
 ing. What's that ? What ? Want a sketch of 
 my life ? What for ? For a book ? Aw. come off ! 
 Did you say everyliody else has given you his history ? 
 O. well, then, go ahead with your questions. 
 
 ■■ Yes, I was born here in Fort Wayne. When ? 
 Wait a minute till I figure it out. Let's see. Forty- 
 hve, forty-si.x, forty-seven years ago in October. 
 School? Yes, I graduated from St. Paul's Lutheran 
 School, then spent a year at Clay School, then a year 
 in a business college, and hnished my education in a 
 drug store. What's that? Yes, I worked for another 
 man a couple of years and then, when 1 was twenty, I 
 started in for myself. I stayed there until I was forty 
 years old and then sold out. Successful ? You bet I 
 Since then — that is, since i8qg — I've been wrapped up in 
 the telephone business. Yes, I've been secretary and 
 manager of the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company . 
 and since 1901 have held the same job with the National 
 Telephone and Telegraph Company. 
 
 " How many subscribers has the Home Company ? 
 Well, sir, it runs away above the three thousand mark 
 now. We employ something over a hundred people. 
 
 " Yes, you see, the National Company owns the toll 
 lines running out into every direction from Fort Wayne, 
 as well as the local exchanges at Kendallville, Auburn, 
 Sturgis, Mich., New Haven and other points. These 
 two companies, you know, represent an investment of 
 over half a million dollars. Their business has doubled 
 since 1899. 
 
 "What else do I do? Nothingmuch. Gotafeweasy 
 jobs, such as president of the People's Trust and Savings 
 Company; president of the Fort Wayne Building, Loan 
 and Savings Association, and treasurer of the Archer 
 Printing Company; but that's about all. Good-bye." 
 
F. WILLIAM URBAHNS 
 
 FREDRICK WILHELM URBAHNS is a name that 
 might do for one of the kingly courtiers to the Sul- 
 tan of Sulu. Billy is a kingly fellow all right, but not 
 because he has the prologue and frontispiece to his 
 name. Even in his rag doll days he was never called 
 Fredrick WUhelm. 
 
 Billy has no excuse to offer for being born in Val- 
 paraiso. The town is all right Normally and otherwise. 
 Two railroads pass through Valpo and they both come to 
 Fort Wayne. When Billy got old enough to know, he 
 got on to a Nickel Plate train and came to Fort Wayne. 
 He owed so much money to the road for that trip that he 
 started to work for it. In the telegraph department of 
 the road he arose till he was the top insulator on the 
 highest pole. When he retired as train dispatcher to 
 enter the insurance business for himself he was held in 
 high esteem by the company. The insurance business 
 seems to have been too much like work so he went into 
 politics. He entered the race as the republican candi- 
 date for city clerk. He tripped at the third quarter, but 
 finished in fine form without throwing a boot or break- 
 ing a hopple. The tickets on him were torn up. He 
 was elevated to the position of e.xalted ruler of the Elks 
 and held the position two consecutive terms. His brand 
 of ginger for a goat is the best. Now he is secretary of 
 the board of water works trustees. The picture shows 
 how he does his work. At first glance, the lively-look- 
 ing objects proceeding from the faucet may easily be 
 mistaken for a new species of bacteria. They're not. 
 They simply refer to another kind of back — greenbacks. 
 
 Billy is popular in every position he has ever occu- 
 pied and as a public officer is thoroughly efficient. 
 
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ROBERT J. FISHER 
 
 M 
 
 R. FISHER is the man who peddles the car wheels 
 for the Bass Foundry and Machine Works of 
 this city. When he came to Fort Wayne in i8ni, 
 he was a bookseller. But he was not of the kind that you 
 want to kick out of the door. He embarked in the book 
 business, although he was never " stationary." Later 
 he was employed in the Reed & Wall drug store. He 
 did not like soda water, so he quit and began work for 
 the Bass manufacturing institutions. He was soon 
 elevated to the responsible position of treasurer. While 
 counting the money at the Bass works he was elected a 
 member of the city council on the democratic ticket. 
 He was a councilman-at-large but knew absolutely 
 where he was all of the time. He was right on all 
 public questions and was left on any graft that might 
 have been floating around. He believed in honest 
 government and honest car wheels. He sells car wheels 
 but has gone out of the honest government business. 
 He was one of the honored presidents of the Fort Wayne 
 Club and his personality made the club popular socially. 
 He spends most of his time now in palace cars calling 
 on the railway magnates of the I'nited States. He 
 shows his wheels to his customers. Millionaires don't. 
 as a usual thing, deal with men who have wheels, but 
 they are compelled to give attention to Mr. Fisher's 
 kind, and he probably sells more than any other man in 
 the world. He is one of Fort Wayne's most progressive 
 and most active business men. 
 
 Tlie car wheels made at the Bass works in this city 
 carry thousands and thousands tons of freight annually 
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the car wheel product 
 of Fort Wayne is now disposed of by Mr. Fisher who 
 devotes all of his time to the railroad affairs uf the Bass 
 Foundry and Machine Works. The fruits of his labors 
 give employment to hundreds of men in the shops of 
 Fort Wayne. 
 
ALLEN ZOLLARS 
 
 THE ancestors of Jud^e Zollars must have been a ro- 
 bust, sturdy lot of people. They were willing to 
 leave their native land of Prussia and brave the 
 dangers of the uninviting shores and still more forbid- 
 ding inland portions of America at a time when nothing 
 but strong bodies and stout hearts were proof against 
 the foes that lurked therein. This element of substan- 
 tiality of character has been continued through the 
 generations since those days. 
 
 Judge Zollars is the son of a father who. while still 
 in good health at the age of eighty-si.x, assembled about 
 him his children, his grand-children, his great-grand- 
 children and one great-great-grand-child— five genera- 
 tions. This father was a man remarkable not only for 
 his physical strength, but for his strong mental develop- 
 ment, and to his children he granted all he could for 
 their future betterment. So Allen Zollars had a good 
 beginning. After passing through the common schools 
 of Licking County, Ohio, the place of his birth, Mr. 
 Zollars attended a private academy and there prepared 
 to enter Dennison University, at Granville, Ohio, which 
 he did, graduating in 1864. At that time he received the 
 degree of A. B., and three years later the university 
 conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. .\\., and in 
 1888 the degree LL. D. Then came the series of events 
 through which Mr. Zollars ruse to heights of honor and 
 responsibility. From the University of Michigan, where 
 he graduated from the law department in 1S66, he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL.B. He came directly to Fort 
 Wayne. Two years later he was elected to the State 
 legislature on the democratic ticket. From then forward 
 his rise was rapid. As city attorney of Fort Wayne, as 
 judge of the Superior Court of Allen County, as judge of 
 the Supreme Court of Indiana, and in the various places 
 of prominence in which he has been subsequently found 
 he has attained a wide reputation for his remarkable 
 ability. At present. Judge Zollars is president of the 
 Allen County Bar Association. 
 
LOUIS F. CURDES 
 
 MR. CURDES is a real estate man who finds time 
 also to do some business on the side in the way 
 of loans and insurance. The picture shows him holding 
 up a house and lot. Some real estate men hold up the 
 purchaser; Mr. Curdes doesn't. He hasn't learned that 
 trick of the trade yet and thinks he's too busy to take 
 it up. 
 
 "Louie" came from Germany. Tliat was when he 
 was sweet sixteen. He had heard all about mone\ 
 growing on the trees in America and greenbacks scat- 
 tered over our landscape and that's probably the thing 
 wliich finally turned his mind to the real estate busi- 
 ness. He has found the vision true, as he has picked 
 up many a cool hundred from the ground and growing 
 things while letting them pass through his hands 
 as middleman in the pursuance of his business. 
 
 On coming to this country, Mr. Curdes went to 
 Defiance. Ohio, where his brother lived. He showed up 
 in Fort Wayne in 1879. A' first he learned to sell hooks 
 and wall paper and ink and mucilage and foolscap for 
 Siemon & Brother. Then he learned to tune pianos and 
 organs and for eleven years turned discord into har- 
 mony for the Packard Company. 
 
 Twelve years ago he branched out into the business 
 which now engages his attention. When he meets a 
 man who doesn't see a proposition just as he does, he 
 applies his knowledge of harmonics and lo ! they are 
 agreed and it is Louie's note that the other strikes. 
 As a member of the Linden Quartet, Mr. Curdes has 
 figured prominently in Fort Wayne musical circles. 
 
JOHN L. VERWEIRE 
 
 THE City Packard Band is a "peach," and John L. 
 Verweire is its leader. If music hath charms to 
 
 transform a savage into a respectable citizen, 
 what, then, must be its influence over an active, wide- 
 awake, enlightened community like ours? Why, it 
 simply makes us more so. Shakespeare gets off the 
 following: 
 
 " The man -who hath no music in himself 
 
 And ts not moved hv concord of sweet sounds 
 
 Is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils ; 
 
 The motions of his spirit are as dull as night 
 
 /Ind his affections dark as Erebus ; 
 
 Let no such man be trusted." 
 So, you see, to what e.xtent we should be grateful to 
 Mr. Verweire who has done so much to implant within 
 us this rehning and saving element and has sa\ed us 
 froiii being traitors and strategists and spoilers. 
 
 Take a look, if you please, at Mr. Verweire's mus- 
 tache. You may think it is composed of Belgian hairs, 
 just because he was born in Ghent, but that isn't so. 
 He got it after he came to America. However, it isn't 
 an important matter. It is sufficient to know that 
 during his early years Mr. Verweire spent his time in 
 the Royal Conservatory at Ghent, and there began his 
 musical education under Sauveur. the eminent cornist. 
 He was an accomplished artist by the time he came from 
 Belgium to America in 1S84. and was soon connected 
 with the First Cavalry Band of the Illinois National 
 Guard. He left this organization to join the Watch 
 Factory Band at Elgin. 111., and remained there until the 
 City Packard Band of Fort Wayne engaged him as its 
 leader. That was six years ago. Under his direction, 
 this band, which has always been a credit to Fort 
 Wayne has risen to a high standard and is counted one 
 of the foremost organizations in the middle west. 
 
ROBERT B. DREIBELBISS 
 
 MR. DREIE 
 Hunting 
 
 IBELBISS came from the small town of 
 ngton, Indiana, to preside over the muni- 
 cipal court of the big city of Fort Wayne. 
 
 Bob happened just at the time the civil war broke 
 out. In fact, he also was busy breaking out — with the 
 measles and hives. When Bob's family came to Fort 
 Wayne he tagged along. He has been here ever since. 
 He has studied law and written abstracts till he knows 
 more about the municipal court of Fort Wayne than any 
 municipal judge the city of Fort Wayne ever had. Gov. 
 Durbin appointed Mr. Dreibelbiss the first presiding 
 officer of the Fort Wayne municipal court. He is the 
 only person who ever filled the bench. For awhile a 
 usurper rattled around in the chair behind the bench, 
 but Bob got his legal thoughts to working overtime and 
 he went before the Indiana supreme court to find out 
 where he was at. This court located him back in the 
 chair and he has stuck there ever since. 
 
 He has seen more men fall from the water wagon 
 than any other jurist in the city and he prescribes the 
 water cure for more ebullient internal troubles than an> 
 practicing physician in town. He knows a headache 
 the very minute he sees it. As soon as court is ad- 
 journed he rushes to his abstract office and dives into 
 the law. He is not too busy to be polite and hospitable 
 to his large clientile, however, and to look at him with 
 his jolly forgiving smile and hearty hand shake, one 
 could never imagine that he can .say, "Eleven days," 
 and "Fifteen days" in such harsh, grating tones. Be- 
 sides attending to his many professional duties. Judge 
 Dreibelbiss devotes much time each campaign on the 
 stump for the republican party. 
 
CHARLES M. MILLS 
 
 AN Indiana author this, whose writings you have 
 read: he never makes up fiction, but gives the 
 facts instead. His works are all in season, they're 
 never out Qf date. For timeliness he's noted, so that all 
 he writes is "late." 
 
 When spring comes gently seeking to drive the cold 
 away, he writes of all her beauties, and especially 
 in May. He tells in pretty language to the ladies, plain 
 and (air, just how to look their very best — just what 
 they ought to wear. 
 
 When summer's heat distracts us and we seek in 
 vain for rest from the sultry, murky weather, 'tis then 
 he does his best to help us suffering creatures so the 
 heat may be endured; he tells where nice, cool garments 
 may always he secured. 
 
 When the beauteous autumn days arrive and nature's 
 looking gay, 'tis then we long to look as well as she in 
 her bright array. Our author then with ready pen tells 
 how with silk and fur, that we may ti.x ourselves up 
 right to harmonize with her. 
 
 Wlien winter's blasts and drifting snows and winds 
 from frigid zones come sweeping down upon us and 
 freeze our very bones, 'tis then our friend the author, 
 comes, protecting us from harm; he tells us where to go 
 t(] get the things to keep us warm. 
 
 And so he goes on aiding all upon their toiling wa\ ; 
 suggesting here and helping there, he brightens up each 
 day. He helps the men and hoys and girls — his words 
 with them suffice; but the ladies read his writings, too, 
 and heed his sound advice. 
 
 In short, his widely published works are helpful to us 
 all; we read them daily all the year, from winter months 
 till fall. Who is this busy author, then? His name is 
 Charles M. Mills. He writes the ads for the Rurode 
 store, and the place of manager fills. 
 
ERNEST W. COOK 
 
 KING SOLOMON, or Ben Franklin, or some other 
 reliable manufacturer of old saws, once remarked 
 that a superabundance of culinary artists is fatal to the 
 successful preparation of the consomme: in other words 
 that "too many cooks spoil the broth." 
 
 But there are cooks and Cooks. Fort Wayne, or 
 any other city for that matter, would be spoiled by a 
 large supply of the sort of Cooks of which the subject 
 is a representatative. Mr. Cook used to be a Hawkeye: 
 he was also once a newspaper man, but he reformed, 
 and is now making money. For a considerable period 
 he handled the financial end of the business of the Fort 
 Wayne Sentinel and later of the local office of the Wabash 
 Railroad Company. Then he became secretary of the 
 Allen County Loan and Savings Association where he 
 did things so nicely that he was asked to act in the 
 same capacity for the Citizens Trust Company when 
 that institution sprang into e.\istence. He said he would 
 do it provided he could also hold onto the other place; 
 so the two enterprises moved into the same building 
 with only a glass door between, and Mr. Cook can easily 
 keep his watchful eyes upon the affairs of both con- 
 cerns, no matter in which office he happens to be. This 
 is certainly a handy arrangement. 
 
 So you see he is kept pretty busy during the day- 
 time, and his loyal membership in about a dozen secret 
 orders doesn't give him much quiet between the supper 
 and breakfast hours. 
 
 Sometimes Mr. Cook enlists in the combats waged 
 on the sea of politics. He is not, however, the noisy, 
 blustering battleship which puts up the spectacular 
 show; he is. rather, the submarine torpedo boat which 
 glides quietly beneath the surface and gets in its work 
 on the adversary where its demonstrative brother could 
 never have done it. 
 
WILMER LEONARD 
 
 IN speaking of a tirm it is always proper to designate 
 the senior and junior member. It would be a game 
 of chance in regard to the Leonard twins unless you 
 saw the letterhead first. Wilmer is the senior member 
 of the firm by a very narrow margin. Wilmer Leonard 
 was born in Delaware County. Indiana, near Muncie. 
 It makes him smile whenever he hears the slang phrase, 
 •■Were you ever in Muncie?" Ever since he knew 
 better he has been in Fort Wayne. He came here with 
 his parents in 1871. The father started the manufacture 
 of brick two miles north of the city on the Leo road. 
 Wilmer is tall and lanky and this is the reason he was 
 sent to school in Fort Wayne. It was a long distance 
 but he walked it easily. 
 
 He was graduated from the high school in 1883 and 
 and then took a law course in Ann Arbor. He lost no 
 time in beginning the practice of law. He was not as 
 liusy when he started as he is now. Today he has a 
 large and lucrative practice. In early days he liked to 
 make mud pies but never cra\ed to get at real work 
 with mud in making brick. He thought that it would be 
 easier to practice law. He has worked hard in the legal 
 profession and has earned all of the laurels achieved. 
 He never gets stage fright before a jury and can make 
 a speech that is as full of excellent good law points as 
 it is of eloquence. He knows when to put a dam in his 
 flood of oratory and lie knows enough not to dam too 
 much. 
 
 In politics he has been an active Republican and has 
 been a forceful speaker on the stump. He takes an 
 interest in public affairs and is one of the prominent 
 younger members of the Allen County bar. 
 
FRANK W. EDMUNDS 
 
 MR. EDMUNDS is said to have made the remark 
 once that electricity is no joke, even if a lot of 
 folks do make light of it. 
 
 As you will observe, he made the remark only once: 
 the person to whom it was addressed fell in a faint and 
 he hasn't dared to risk it again. 
 
 Frank is an electrician. He has been that way for 
 quite a number of years and will probably never get over 
 it. He has helped to brighten as many homes and busi- 
 ness houses in this community as any one man could 
 possibly do. Just as likely as not you were pushing one 
 of Frank's electric bells when you made that call last 
 evening; it's more than likely that the lights in the home 
 were fi.\ed there by him. 
 
 Mr. Edmunds has lived in Fort Wayne all his life and 
 isn't ashamed to admit it. .After attending the public 
 schools, he was graduated from the Methodist College, 
 then an important institution of learning. He then 
 entered the employ of the Fort Wayne Electric Works 
 and remained for three years. During that time, he 
 picked up a whole lot of information concerning the 
 business which will mainly occupy his attention during 
 the remainder of his days. For a short time, then, he 
 was in Chicago during the Worid's Fair year working for 
 the Central Electric Company, an off-shoot of the local 
 concern. Then he returned to engage in the electrical 
 construction and supply business in partnership with 
 Herbert J. Law. They continued together for three years, 
 at the close of which time the Edmunds Electric Con- 
 struction Company was organized. He is the active 
 head of the concern. 
 
 Mr. Edmunds is president of the Fort Wayne Poultry, 
 Pigeon and Pet Stock Association, and his game fowls 
 have gobbled up blue and red ribbons wherever they 
 have been exhibited. 
 
FRANK C. TOLAN 
 
 As soon as Frank Tolan was old enough to learn to 
 walk, he looked out of the west window of the 
 humble home and regretted. He has been regretting 
 ever since. As a child, he stood there and wished that 
 he had been born over on the ne.xt farm to the westward 
 instead of the place where the event really occurred. 
 The reason for this was that the farm of his nativity 
 was located just over the Ohio line, while the next farm- 
 house to the westward was in Indiana, and the regret 
 of the life of this man is that he isn't a natural born 
 Hoosier instead of a Buckeye. But he has done the 
 best he could to overcome the fact, by removing to 
 Indiana to stay just as soon as he had learned how to 
 set type and "kick" a job press in an Ohio printing 
 office. 
 
 During this same preparatory period, too. he took 
 upon himself one of the qualifications needed to perfect 
 himself for the presidency of the Union, should that 
 honor be thrust upon him— he spent many days driving 
 a mule or two attached to one end of a long rope, the 
 other end of which was tied to a boat on the Miami and 
 Erie Canal. It was after this that he learned to be a 
 printer, and, as his chances of becoming president didn't 
 seem to improve, notwithstanding his special prepara- 
 tion for it, he continued to follow the trade, until now 
 he is identified with "the art preservative of arts" in 
 the capacity of man on the road for the American Type- 
 founders Company, of Chicago, and has been for eight 
 years. This is the largest printers' supply house in the 
 world, handling everything that enters into the equip- 
 ment of the complete printing plant. The picture shows 
 him displaying a Whitlock printing press. 
 
 Mr. Tolan travels the northern half of the State of 
 Indiana and he has the pleasure of knowing and feeling 
 the warm association of many staunch and loyal friends 
 in his district. 
 
 36 
 
CHARLES W. MINER 
 
 A MAN who persistently takes things is not neces- 
 sarily a kleptomaniac. Charley Miner is taking 
 things daily and never gets into trouble. He knows how 
 to take. 
 
 He was born in Columbia City but never did anything 
 else there to speak of. He left that city when he was 
 fourteen years old and when he was seventeen he 
 started out as a traveling photographer. He took views 
 through Canada and in the lake regions. He developed 
 into a landscape artist of no mean ability while still a 
 lad, as his views found a ready sale. Just at the close 
 of the civil war he was born with the united republic. He 
 has grown up with it. He came to Fort Wayne fourteen 
 years ago and likes the place. He began to display his 
 taking ways as soon as he arrived. He formed a part- 
 nership with Mr. De.xter and the photographic studio of 
 Miner & De.xter was opened. In three years Mr. Miner 
 bought his partner out. For eleven years he has 
 watched its business grow constantly. He now has a 
 studio built for him according to his own plans, ec|uipped 
 with all of the most modern appliances and conveniences. 
 He can take a wrinkle and make it resemble a smile. He 
 can grow hair on a bald head tjuicker than the entire 
 bunch of Sutherland sisters working in concert. Socially 
 Mr. Miner is just as popular as he is in business. He is 
 an Elk, an Eagle and also a member of the Pythian 
 Knights. In this order he is very prominent in the 
 uniformed rank. As a sportsman he is one of the best 
 hunters in this neck of the woods. He always has a 
 high bred hunting dog trailing at his heels, and he is 
 humanely interested in the happiness of the animals 
 which lend excitement to the sport. His game bag is 
 usually well laden when he returns home from the hunt. 
 
GLEN W. MILLS 
 
 No man should be roasted for believing in airs if he 
 was born at Galesburg, Michigan. It is nearly 
 fifty years ago that Glen Mills felt the first breath of 
 life at Galesburg. He was educated in Kalamazoo, then 
 went with his family to Kansas City. The air did not 
 suit him there so he moved back to the celery-scented 
 atmosphere of Kalamazoo. He could not keep out of the 
 state that is all cut up by lake breezes. In 1875 he went 
 to Detroit to go into the air business. He became a 
 successful music dealer and then entered the services of 
 the Packard Company of Fort Wayne, selling their 
 pianos and organs. 
 
 In 1892 when the company established its Fort Wayne 
 retail branch and wanted a general salesman, Mr. Mills 
 was transplanted to this city. He thinks that no air is 
 good unless it comes from a Packard instrument. This 
 is one reason that he had the name of the City Band 
 changed to the City Packard Band. Now he likes the 
 airs better. He is one of the enthusiastic promoters of 
 popular band concerts in Fort Wayne and deserves much 
 praise for his work. 
 
 Just because he was born at Galesburg, he does not 
 put on airs. He is a popular fellow and has made many 
 friends in the city of his adoption. 
 
 He does not care how many of the citizens of Fort 
 Wayne play or how much they play, providing they play 
 the airs he dispenses. He likes the notes of the Uncle 
 Sam persu.ision when they are coming his way in ex- 
 change for notes from his store. 
 
 Glen likes music so well that he confidentially states 
 that he could exist on note meal. 
 
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WILLIAM J. LENNART 
 
 THERE is no danger of Will Lennart getting lost in 
 Fort Wayne. He was born in this city about 
 forty years ago and is perfectly contented. He was 
 graduated from the Brothers School to enter a business 
 career. He did not career much but he has transacted a 
 vast amount business. He has had a most thorough 
 schooling in the business world and as an insurance 
 and real estate man he has few, if any, superiors. 
 
 He began business with A. C. Greenabaum, one of 
 the pioneer insurance and real estate men in this city. 
 Then he was with Edsall & Son. For three years he 
 was private secretary to Superintendent C. D. Law of 
 the Pennsylvania, and also private secretary to Super- 
 intendent of Motive Power G. L. Potter of the same 
 company. Then he entered the insurance office of the 
 late S. C. Lumhard, another e.xcellent business man. 
 He mastered the art of bool;keeping by thorough 
 practical training and has been considered one of the 
 very best expert accountants in the city for several 
 years. Will has straightened out many sets of 
 books. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Lumbard, Mr. Lennart started 
 in business for himself, and now the firm of Lennart & 
 Ortlieh is one of the leading insurance and real estate 
 firms of the city. On real estate values Mr. Lennajt is 
 accurately posted. As a citizen Mr. Lennart is thor- 
 oughly active. He was elected as a Republican council- 
 man from the Seventh Ward, overcoming a Democratic 
 majority of at least two hundred. This shows his popu- 
 larity among his neighbors. He lives up near the reser- 
 voir and is not afraid of water in other ways; he is city 
 broke. He ran for county auditor on the Republican 
 ticket and his following of friends was so strung that 
 he was defeated by only a few votes. Will has a 
 faculty of retaining friends once made and this attests 
 fur his popularity. 
 
CHARLES G. GUILD 
 
 TTeRE is Mr. Guild in the role of Ben Franklin, the 
 ■* ^ man who first punctured the clouds with the 
 pointed end of a kite and let the electric fluid leak out. 
 
 In this age of enlightenment and progress we are 
 always looking for the man who does not hide his light 
 under a bushel. Charley Guild does not hide his light 
 anywhere. He has light to sell and for si.xteen years as 
 secretary and manager of the Fort Wayne Electric Light 
 and Power Company he has made much of an endeavor 
 to turn night into day in Fort Wayne. You don't need 
 to light a match to find your nose even on a sombre 
 evening. Charley does not like dark methods, and this 
 is the reason he came to Fort Wayne from Chicago. 
 
 He was born on Lake Michigan on the spot where 
 Chicago now stands. The town was there when Charley 
 was born and he left it there. This was awfully close to 
 forty years ago. It was in 1882 that we find Charley in 
 a back seat at the Fort Wayne High School looking out 
 of the window for freedom. 
 
 For four years he helped to tell Mr. John Bass how to 
 run the foundry and machine works. Then he thought 
 that the plumbers were making more money than any 
 one else and he became secretary of a local plumbing 
 establishment. He learned to know a lead pipe cinch 
 when he saw it and leaped into the electric lighting 
 business when it was yet young. He has grown with 
 the business and sheds his radiance about eveni'where. 
 
 He likes to play golf so well that he is planning a 
 system for lighting the links. 
 
WILLIAM N. BALLOU 
 
 SINCE he became secretary of the Republican County 
 Central Committee, Mr. Ballnu has been an en- 
 thusiastic student of the king of the pachyderms — 
 namely, the G. O. P. elephant, You will notice he 
 handles the subject with dexterity and ease, which is a 
 tine accomplishment for one of such limited experience 
 in that particular line. 
 
 Professionally, Mr. Ballou is a good lawyer. The 
 pachyderm business is only a side issue. He's giving 
 it his attention just now in order to prepare for future 
 emergency calls if an experienced man is needed to care 
 for the •'critter'' in any way whatsoever. 
 
 Mr. Ballou came from .Michigan when he was a small 
 boy and spent the rest of his earlier years on a farm in 
 Perr\- Township, this county. His father was a Hunter- 
 town merchant, but conducted a large farm at the same 
 time. After leaving the country schools, young Ballou 
 went to Angola where he remained in attendance at the 
 Tri-State Normal School until the time of his graduation 
 from the classical course in 1897. Then he decided upon 
 a course in law. This took him to Ann Arbor where 
 he entered the University of Michigan. He graduated 
 in iQoo. 
 
 Of course Mr. Ballou selected Fort Wayne as the 
 best place in the universe to open a law office, so hither 
 he came and formed a partnership with William C. 
 Geake, but Geake secured the office of deputy attorney 
 general for Indiana and removed to Indianapolis to 
 remain during the period of his term. Mr. Ballou then 
 formed an alliance with E. G. Hoffman, who is also a 
 graduate of the Ann Arbor school. 
 
 Mr. Ballou has already mixed in politics to some 
 extent, having been at one time candidate for council- 
 man-at-large on the Republican ticket. 
 
HERBERT L. SOMERS 
 
 HERE we find Mr. Somers making a speech. The 
 picture doesn't say whether it is a discourse on 
 his record as a representative from Allen County to the 
 state legislature, or a talk before a drowsy jury. In 
 either event he is filled with his subject, because in the 
 one instance he is an.xious to win his point before the 
 twelve good men and true ; and, as to the other, he is not 
 averse to the acceptance of further political honors. Like 
 every other politician, who hasn't been long at the busi- 
 ness, he IS proud to review his past record. 
 
 Mr. Somers is a democrat and doesn't care who knows 
 it. He is an Allen County product, his existence dating 
 from 1874. Like most other native Americans who 
 amount to much, he served an apprenticeship husking 
 corn, pulling mustard out of the fla.x and driving the hogs 
 to market. After graduating from the farm, field and 
 fireside, he passed through the common schools and 
 entered the Valparaiso Normal School where he prepared 
 himself as a teacher. For four years he wielded the 
 spelling book, and boarded around, and then with the 
 proceeds, continued his studies at DePauw University 
 at Greencastle, Indiana, and the University of Indian- 
 apolis, He came forth from the latter university in May, 
 iQoo, having graduated from its law department. In 
 partnership with H. F. Kennerk he began the practice of 
 law, and his selection as a recipient of important political 
 honors two years later shows that he has stirred around 
 some. 
 
 In the fall of 1902, Mr. Somers was elected to a seat 
 in the legislature where he was honored by appointment 
 upon several important standing committees, including 
 the Judiciary, the Ways and Means, County and Town- 
 ship Business, Roads, and Insurance. 
 
JOSEPH V. FOX 
 
 EVEN if a man lias been a baker all of his life he still 
 needs the dough. 
 
 Joe Fox was bom in Fort Wayne about fifty-four 
 years ago. His father was a gardener, and, while he 
 was raising vegetables and Joe, the city grew out to his 
 farm and Mr. Fox, Sr., quit gardening. Then he started 
 the pioneer restaurant and bakery combined on East 
 Main street. 
 
 At the age of fourteen Joe entered this bakery, con- 
 fectionar\- and restaurant. Of course, he had been in 
 the place before, but had never drawn a salary. He had 
 simply taken the cake. From that time on he assisted 
 in the management for thirty-five years. 
 
 He got so familiar with dough in this East Main 
 street eating-house that when Mayor Berghoff was 
 elected to the head of the municipality, he selected Joe 
 to take charge of the city dough. He is now comp- 
 troller of Fort Wayne and continues to serve dough to 
 the "hungry" once a month. He is the most popular 
 man about the city hall on pay day. There are other 
 days when he is popular, but never quite so much so as 
 on the date mentioned. He looks after the finances and 
 not a penny can be appropriated unless he says so. He 
 serves his appropriation dishes just about the same as 
 he served the meals at his restaurant. He tries to have 
 all appetites appeased and always have enough to go 
 around. 
 
 He serves everything cold in the comptroller's office — 
 cold cash. In his restaurant everything was served cold 
 except the ice cream. 
 
 Joseph Fox is a hale fellow well met and from con- 
 somme to cafe noir he will always be found to be a 
 genial gentleman. 
 
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JUSTIN N. STUDY 
 
 MR. STUDY is the 
 public schools. ; 
 
 the man behind the Fort Wayne 
 public schools, and he is always busy pushing 
 them to the forefront in efficiency and thoroughness. 
 
 When, in 1896, a superintendent for the Fort Wayne 
 schools was sought, Indiana furnished the right man for 
 the place. 
 
 Mr. Study began life on a farm near Hagerstown, in 
 Wayne County. While he was still a youngster, the 
 family moved to town where the lad entered the public 
 school. After finishing the course, he went to Delaware, 
 Ohio, and in 1871 was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University located at that place. 
 
 Shortly after leaving the university, Mr. Study was 
 selected as superintendent of the schools at Anderson, 
 Indiana. Later he tilled a like important position at the 
 head of the Greencastle schools. He then went tn 
 Richmond, and it was while performing his duties there 
 that the Fort Wayne Board of Education recognized in 
 him the proper man to superintend the schools of this 
 city. 
 
 During the eight years of his work here. Superinten- 
 dent Study has witnessed a remarkable development in 
 the schools. At present, one hundred and sixty-eight 
 teachers are employed, an increase of forty-five during 
 his connection with the schools. The enrollment of 
 pupils is now over six thousand. There are, in all. 
 seventeen buildings, including the magnificent new high 
 and manual training school just finished at a cost of 
 S2so,ooo. Five ward buildings and the high school have 
 been opened for use during the past eight years. 
 
 Mr. Study is a Past Eminent Commander of Fort 
 Wayne Commandery No. 4. Knights Templar, and is an 
 active Scottish Rite Mason. 
 
FRANK V. CULBERTSON 
 
 IT is a splendid thing to have anybody speak well of 
 you: but in this part of Indiana it is a Klorious 
 thing for Frank V. Culbertson to write down in his little 
 reference book that you are O. K. Mr. Culbertson is 
 paid to look into ihe affairs of people and report to his 
 employers, R. G. Dun & Co.. of New York, who. in 
 turn, give the information to those who ask whether it 
 is safe to give you financial credit or not. So it is well 
 to have a stand-in with the man whose picture we see 
 here, and the only way to do it is to treat your neighbors 
 fairly, pay your debts promptly and go to church at least 
 once on Sunday. 
 
 When Mr. Culbertson removed from Wooster. Ohio. 
 til Orrville, the same state, he obtained a position with 
 a large transportation company, and stayed with it for 
 si.\ years, at the end of which time he took a position 
 with the Dun Agency at Cleveland, Ohio, as a clerk. 
 This was over twenty years ago. He must ha\e done 
 his work well because he soon found himself holding 
 the positions of chief clerk and assistant manager in the 
 Cleveland territory. In July, 1890, he was sent to Fort 
 Wayne to take the management of the agency located 
 here which has the oversight of eleven counties in 
 Northeastern Indiana. In this territory there are five 
 thousand active business concerns, over one thousand 
 of which are located within the city of Fort Wayne. Six 
 men besides the manager are rei.iuired to care for this 
 section. They give no attention to the commercial rating 
 of individual-;, except in response to special inquiries, 
 but keep a constant watch over the business affairs of 
 the eleven counties included in their territory, and it is 
 seldom that anything affecting the commercial welfare 
 of the community escapes their watchful eyes. 
 
CHARLES G. PAPE 
 
 IT was atout thirty years ago that Charley Pape used 
 to grab onto the fence around his father's home in 
 Bloomingdale and wonder if he would ever be able to 
 walk without holding on. Charley was a very small 
 youngster in those days. He began to stretch to see if 
 he could look over the fence and he stretched so hard 
 that he began to grow. He has been growing ever since. 
 Goliath would have to get on stilts to look in Charley's 
 eyes now. There may be taller men, but they don't live 
 around these diggings. Charley's father manufactured 
 road machines and operated a large phning mill, and the 
 boy liked to play in the sawdust pile. He hung around 
 so much thit to keep him out of mischief he was put to 
 work. He grew up in the business and has made a mark 
 as a manufacturer. He is still interested in his father's 
 enterprises. 
 
 Now he is interested in raising wind mills and single- 
 comb Black Minorca chickens. He has trained chickens 
 to lay eggs just whenever he wants them to. This is 
 what he tells the chicken fanciers who are hunting good 
 stock. He is so successful that he is able to laugh when 
 the butchers raise the price of meat. He just telephones 
 to his wife to fry two with the sunnyside up and he 
 drives home past the meat markets with a high and lofty 
 air of independence. Any short man might take a pointer 
 from Charley. See what eggs have done to make a man 
 of him. He is even more than that. He is almost two 
 men. Any one who has been initiated into the Fort 
 Wayne Lodge of Elks in the past few years believes that 
 Charley is about four regiments formed into a hollow 
 square not only ready for but already in action. 
 
 He is one of the promoters of the Fort Wayne poultr\- 
 show and this is one reason he does not eat all of the 
 eggs he gathers from his coops. 
 
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WILLIAM D. PAGE 
 
 THE gentleman in the picture is a lineal descenJant 
 of Luther Page, one of the earliest Pages of 
 American history. He was a British army officer and 
 came to American shortly after the Pilgrim Fathers haJ 
 cleared away some of the forest trees and made room for 
 their humble homes on the Massachusetts coast. 
 
 Our Mr. Page is the present postmaster at Fort 
 Wayne. When he was a lad of eight he started to 
 learn the printing business. It may have been in those 
 days, as he sat before the type-cases, distributing the 
 letters, that the idea came to him that he would one 
 day have something to say about the distribution of the 
 letters carried by Uncle Sam. 
 
 He is a native of Monroe, Mich., his birth occurring 
 in 1844. After his first ■■lesson" at type-setting, he 
 attended a grammar school at Ann Arbor at twelve, 
 and then returned to the printing business, locating at 
 Adrian. When the war broke out he also broke out of 
 the printing office and enlisted in Company B, Fifth 
 Wiconsin, but after participating in quelling the memo- 
 rable bank riots at Milwaukee, he was mustered out of 
 the service because of his youth. He ne.xt appeared at 
 West Rockford. 111., and graduated from the high school 
 there, and prepared fur college at Clinton, N. Y. He 
 was a student at Hamilton College, and, in 1865. at the 
 age of twenty-one he found himself editor and half owner 
 of the Adrian E.xpositor. Later, he went to Toledo, and 
 finally, in 1871, came to Fort Wayne to work on the 
 Gazette. In 1874 he established the Fort Wayne Daily 
 News, and continued its publication until it was sold to 
 the present owners, two years ago. 
 
 He was appointed postmaster of Fort Wayne by 
 President McKinley in 1897. 
 
SYLVANUS F. BOWSER 
 
 M"-, 
 
 BOWSER always believed that faith without 
 works is defunct. For fourteen years he was a 
 commercial drummer, and was the first man who dared 
 til undertake to sell oil tanks alone instead of carrying 
 them as a side line. It was right then that he had faith 
 to believe that the manufacture of an oil tank of the ri^ht 
 kind would be a first-rate venture. Now. if his efforts 
 had stopped there, the world would never have heard of 
 the oil tank which has made Fort Wayne famous: but 
 they didn't, and the world has learned a whole lot about 
 them. 
 
 The Bowser works were established in i88^. Pre- 
 viously, no one seemed to have thought of inventing a 
 self-measuring oil pump, and as this is the star product 
 of the concern there was a clear field ahead. Tha inven- 
 tion of a variety of oil handling devices and the placing 
 of them on the market far in advance of all others gave 
 the Bowser concern an opportunity to proceed without 
 hindrance. All this was done wisely and well and now 
 it requires seventy energetic traveling men to handle the 
 outside business. About two hundred and fifty men are 
 employed at the works, which nearly covers two solid 
 blocks of space. Branch houses are maintained at 
 Toronto and Boston. The volume of business done now 
 amounts to about half a million a year. 
 
 Lately, a system of advertising the business abroad 
 as thoroughly as at home, has been inaugurated, and 
 the old world will soon be using the Bowser product. 
 
 Mr. Bowser, during his long residence in Fort Wayne, 
 has been closely identified with the city's development. 
 His belief that faith without works is dead is ever mani- 
 fest, and crops out distinctly in his work as a Sunday- 
 school teacher as well as in his other activities as a 
 citizen of a livelv town. 
 
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ROBERT L. ROMY 
 
 No, this is not a modern Atlas. It is Mr. Romy. He 
 has the earth for sale— in small pieces. The pieces 
 don't all belong to him. He sells them for other people. 
 
 Mr. Romy was born in t8si, a few miles outside of 
 Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. When he was 
 three years of age. the family left Mother Earth's head- 
 iiuarters of mountain peaks, glaciers and music ho.\es. 
 and came to America. While Mr. Romy isn't at all put 
 out because they brought him to this land of the free and 
 home of the brave, he does sometimes wish they had 
 waited awhile. Just think ! How'd you like to be born 
 within sight of the Matterhorn. Jungfrau, or Lake 
 Geneva, with the lofty, glittering Alps and the Rhine 
 and the Rhone and a varied assortment of other natural 
 and historic scenery right under your very nose, as it 
 were, and then have your folks take you five thousand 
 miles away before you were hardly old enough to sit up 
 and notice things ? But then, what's the use of 
 regretting! 
 
 It was in 1806 that Mr. Rdiny came to Fcjrt Wayne 
 fmm Wayne county, Ohio. During the first few months 
 he found employment as a day laborer, and for twelve 
 years following he engaged in farming. And right here's 
 where we want to state that Mr. Romy ought to he 
 mighty glad he did his farming here instead of in the 
 land of his birth. Over there, one day a farmer was 
 plowing a field on a steep mountain side, when his hands 
 slipped off the plow handles and he fell completely off 
 the premises, landing on the adjoining farm. Mark 
 Twain, who tells the story, doesn't tell whether he got 
 well and came to America or not. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Romy opened his real estate, loan and 
 insurance agency and he has been remarkably suc- 
 cessful. 
 
FRANK ALDERMAN 
 
 CONUNDRUM: Why is the man in the picture like 
 the article he holds in his hand? 
 
 Answer: Because he is a bicycle crank. 
 
 We showed this joke to Mr. Alderman and asked him 
 if it was all right. He said he could stand it if the rest 
 of the folks could, so we decided to risk it and here it is. 
 
 The fact of the matter is that Mr. Alderman— who. by 
 the way, is the Alderman end of the Alderman & Stauli 
 bicycle firm — is not only proud of the fact that he is a 
 crank on bicycles, but is every day singing of the merits 
 of the very crank which he is here holding up for your in- 
 spection. The crank which he e.xhibits is taken from the 
 Racycle. and it is upon the merits of this part of the ma- 
 chine that the makers of this wheel base all. or nearly 
 all, of their claims for its superiority over other makes 
 They insist that their wheel has less friction on its crank 
 bearings than any other bicycle, so that the rider can 
 get there easier and swifter than when mounted on any 
 other make. 
 
 In his business Mr. Alderman is a natural lighter, 
 and this is probably due to his long service — nine years 
 —in the National Guard. Although he never engaged 
 in a serious scrap, he did get as far south as Chicka- 
 mauga during the Spanish-American trouble, and there 
 secured a g(iod view of the ground where the other fel- 
 lows fought and died two score years before. He was 
 then first lieutenant of the Twenty-eighth Battery. Indi- 
 ana Volunteers. Once before, during the Pullman strike, 
 in 1894, he got a good deal closer to real fighting, but 
 came home unscarred. After the trouble with Spain was 
 settled, so that things could be safely conducted without 
 his aid, he resigned from the Guards to enlist with the 
 Racycle battery. 
 
JAMES B. HARPER 
 
 THE president of the Allen County Bar Association 
 does not wear a white apron. James B. Harper 
 was born on his father's farm in Aboit township, a few 
 miles west of Fort Wayne, about hfty-six years ago. 
 The homestead was a log structure, cut from the forest. 
 
 His father came from a sturdy Pennsylvania family 
 to clear a farm in the west. James Harper ate his cold 
 piece of pie and lunch on school days in the old log school 
 house in Aboite. He studied there too. He began in his 
 early boyhood to prepare himself for the study of law. 
 He taught school and worked on the farm in vacation 
 and saved money sufficient to enter Roanoke Seminary 
 at Huntington. He prepared himself for the Indiana 
 University at the old .Wethodist college in Fort Wayne. 
 In 187s after a two years' course in the law department 
 of the Indiana University he graduated. He was the 
 honor student and the class valedictorian. He was a 
 brilliant speaker at the time of his admission to the bar. 
 This has been a wonderful aid to him in his practice. 
 For a short time the law firm of Harper & Baird existed, 
 and in 187S the firm of Robertson & Harper hung up its 
 shingle. This partnership existed until 188, when Mr. 
 Harper engaged in the practice of law alone. In 1894 he 
 was unanimously nominated by the Republicans for 
 judge of the Superior Court and ran several hundred 
 votes ahead of his ticket. He has frequentl\- declined 
 other political honors. 
 
 His eloquence makes him conspicuous in the annual 
 spring and fall convocations of the Scottish Rite Masons 
 of the Valley of Fort Wayne. He is prominent in the 
 affairs of the order. He is a Mystic Shriner and wears a 
 fez gracefully. Owing to his increasing practice he re- 
 cently admitted Attorney John W. Eggeman to partner- 
 ship in his law business. He is an active member of the 
 Sigma Chi fraternity and was enthusiastic in building a 
 •'frat." house at the Indiana University. 
 
JACOB FUNK 
 
 /\/l k. FUNK is one of Allen County's hired men. If 
 ' ^ you are unfortunate enougli to have anything of 
 value, you must go to liim and pay for the privilege of 
 retaining it. At least that's the way some folks look 
 upon the question of paying ta.xes. But that's not the 
 right way. of course. When you deposit your little 
 portion with the county treasurer, you are paying only 
 a small price for the privilege of living in a land of civil- 
 ization and culture, where the protection of life and 
 property and personal rights is assured, or else you have 
 the privilege of starting a row at once to know the 
 reason why. 
 
 In this populous county of Allen the office of treasurer 
 is an important one. Mr. Funk seems to be managing 
 it to the satisfaction of everybody, however. 
 
 Mr. Funk has skirmished around this country a good 
 deal, but he hasn't yet discovered any good reason why 
 Allen county doesn't e.\cel all other commuities as a 
 place to live. He began here and will probably remain 
 here all his days, especially now that the people of the 
 county have shown their good will towards him in his 
 election to one of the most important of the county 
 offices. 
 
 He was born in St. Joe township fifty years ago. He 
 worked on his father's farm and attended school as a 
 boy. When he got old enough to go it alone he pur- 
 chased land in the same township and made a success 
 of its cultivation. Although he still retains his rural 
 interests, he now resides in Lakeside. Fort Wayne. As 
 a Republican, he was elected treasurer uf Allen county 
 in the fall of 1902. 
 
MONROE W. FITCH 
 
 IT'S a wonder Mr. Fitch doesn't expire from nervous 
 prostration. He's the most agitated man in town 
 every time he hears the fire-bells or sees the department 
 come clattering down street. The reason for this is that 
 Mr. Fitch has so much of the property of Fort Wayne on 
 his insurance list that he's always afraid of a big fire 
 loss no matter in what part of town the blaze may be. 
 However, his continued long experience in the business 
 is teaching him to be calm, so that no dire results are 
 apt to come of the aforementioned agitation. 
 
 Mr. Fitch was born in Medina county, Ohio, and 
 spent his kidhood days there. After leaving the com- 
 mon schools, he entered Oberlin College and remained 
 for some time. For over twenty years thereafter he 
 conducted a stock farm, producing scores of tine horses 
 and cattle for the eastern market. 
 
 In 1892 he came to Fort Wayne and engaged in the 
 li\ery business. This he discontinued at the close of 
 one year to enter into partnership with his brother, C. 
 B. Fitch, he holding a half interest in the fire insurance 
 department of the business. In 1898 the partnership 
 was dissolved, and Mr. Fitch united his interests with 
 those of his sons, Delnier C. Fitch and Eugene M. Fitch. 
 At first, they were located at No. 80 Calhoun street, 
 where they remained until June. 1903, when they pur- 
 chased the Mrs. Mary B. Hartnett agency at the corner 
 of Berry and Clinton streets and removed their office to 
 that location. 
 
 They do a general business in all insurance lines 
 and have a real estate department of considerable im- 
 portance. 
 
WRIGHT W. ROCKHILL 
 
 THE ROCKHILL name has been associated with and 
 prominent in the history of Fort Wayne from the 
 time it was a village of less than 500 inhabitants until 
 the present. William Rockhill, the father of Wright 
 W. RiicUliill. whose face on this page is a familiar 
 one to almost everybody, came here as a pioneer 
 settler in 1823 and, until his death, was a leading man 
 in public affairs. He was one of our first county com- 
 missioners, first town councilmen and first school trus- 
 tees, and he represented this district in the Indiana 
 senate and afterwards was a member of congress. 
 
 His son Wright kept the family name prominent. As 
 a young man he evinced many of the sterling qualities 
 of the father. Before he was thirty-ttto years of age. 
 he was elected clerk of the city of Fort Wayne, holding 
 the office, by repeated elections, for eight years. After- 
 wards, during the second administration of President 
 Cleveland, he was the postmaster of the city. He served 
 as a member of the board of trustees of the city public 
 schools, being for most of the time its treasurer, and for 
 many years was the secretary of the Democratic county 
 central committee. In all these positions of trust and 
 honor his public duties were well performed, his ability 
 and worth being recognized by his repeated calls to 
 serve the people. For a number of years Mr. Rockhill 
 has been one of the publishers of the Fort Wayne Jour- 
 nal-Gazette. He assumed its control when it was a 
 party organ struggling for financial existence and has 
 made it the leading Democratic newspaper of Northern 
 Indiana and exerting an influence potent for the party. 
 the principles of which it advocates, and the city which 
 is his home. Prominent for so long in political and offi- 
 cial life and in the newspaper field, he is one of the best 
 known men in this section of the state. 
 
SOL A. WOOD 
 
 THERE are men so busy they have somethin}; on the 
 string all the time. Sol Wood has something on 
 his line now. He owns a portion of the great fishing 
 line running between Angola, Indiana, and Lake James. 
 This great line is three miles and a fraction long, with 
 the accent on the fraction. This line is not running on 
 a reel, but it is being operated on a trolley pole. Sol 
 Wood happened up near this line. 
 
 Ten days after April Fool day in i8s7 on a farm 
 near Metz, Steuben county. Indiana, a short distance 
 from the Ohio line, he was horn. This is the reason 
 that he is pictured on a line. Dr. Wood, his father, 
 moved to Angola and took Sol wilh him. He was grad- 
 uated from the Angola public schools and then from the 
 Fort Wayne College of Medicine with the title of 
 ■•Doctor" in 1880. He practiced one year in Angola, 
 but because he was born so near Ohio, he ran for county 
 auditor on the Republican ticket and was elected. While 
 serving a term of four years he studied law and went 
 fishing on Steuben county lakes. He was admitted to 
 the bar and formed a partnership with Judge Frank S. 
 Roby. He was chairman of the Steuben county Repub- 
 lican organization two years, and from 1894 to i8qo, 
 chairman for the Twelfth congressional district. Three 
 years ago he came to Fort Wayne to form the now well 
 known legal firm of Gilbert. Berghoff & Wood. Still 
 clinging to the line he has devoted much time of late to 
 the development of trolley lines In northern Indiana. He 
 retains farming interests near beautiful Steuben county 
 lakes and during the summer months takes to the tall 
 timber to bask in the smiles of the fish on the top of a 
 promontory, or wade neck deep in a marsh with a fishing 
 rod in one hand and a can of bait in the other. 
 
WILLIAM S. WELLS 
 
 HERE we see his o\eralls and Billy Wells. Mr. 
 Wells is a machinist. He works for the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company. Once, he pulled off his over- 
 alls and pulled on a pair of glad mitts and a snug-fitting 
 smile and got a job at Indianapolis as another kind of 
 machinist — political. But that job didn't last so very 
 long and he came back and got into his "bibs" 
 again. 
 
 Yes, Mr. Wells took a vacation from his place in the 
 shops and went to the capital as one of Allen county's 
 representati\es in the legislature during the sixty-third 
 session of the General Assembly. 
 
 "Billy" came to this city from Pennsylvania fourteen 
 years ago. He was born in Altoona in that state, and. 
 when a boy. with his parents, moved to Harrisburg. 
 where he attended parochial Lutheran schools and after- 
 wards graduated from the city high school. As an ap- 
 prentice machinist he began work in the Pennsylvania 
 railroad shops at Altoona, serving his time there and 
 working as a machinist until iSqo when he came to this 
 city and took a position in the Pennsylvania shops here. 
 He has been with the company continuously in their 
 Fort Wayne shops since. 
 
 As a Democrat he is one of the busiest men on the 
 job, and when the convention of that party was held in 
 1892 to nominate candidates for the county offices he 
 was selected as one of the nominees for members of the 
 legislature from this county. His election in November 
 followed. 
 
 Mr. Wells has always been identified with union 
 labor organizations and active in their affairs. It was 
 this fact, combined with his genial sociability, that led 
 to his nomination and election as a member of the legis- 
 lature. He is still active in union labor interests and 
 is at present one of the trustees of the Fort Wayne 
 Federation of Labor. 
 
WILLIAM J. VESEY 
 
 ANY one who has brandished the rod in Lagrange 
 county ought to be able to practice law in Allen 
 county. About forty-seven years ago Will Vesey began 
 to notice things in Lagrange county. His parents were 
 farmers. Besides raising crops they reared Will. They 
 were proud of their boy and sent him to school. He 
 liked it so well that after graduating he taught school 
 for .1 while himself. He studied law while teaching 
 school. 
 
 Then he came to Fort Wayne and was admitted to 
 the bar in Allen county. He was with Ninde & Ellison 
 and also with P. A. Randall. He practiced law in De- 
 catur for two years and then returned to this city. He 
 formed a partnership with Owen N. Heaton and was 
 appointed to the Superior Court bench in 1899 to till the 
 unexpired term of the late Judge Dawson. His career 
 on this bench was highly praised. Since then he has 
 been Judge Vesey. 
 
 He has always been active in Allen county and 
 Twelfth District politics. He has been chairman ot the 
 Allen County Republican Central Committee. Although 
 a busy man with his legal practice and interests in local 
 banking institutions and corporations, he has found 
 spare moments to build up one of the very finest green- 
 houses in Indiana. His chrysanthemums and carnations 
 have captured prizes at national flower shows and his 
 successful cultivation of blooming beauties has added 
 fame to Fort Wayne as a horticultural center. Since 
 the election of Judge Heaton to the Superior bench Mr. 
 Vesey has formed a partnership with his brother and 
 the hrm is now Vesev & Vesev. 
 
CHARLES W. ORR 
 
 IN this picture we have a full and unobstructed view 
 of the i^lad hand of ■■Charley'' Orr, together with 
 the appurtenance thereto belonging; namely, the smile 
 that won't come off. 
 
 This glad hand was busily employed for twenty- 
 seven years in giving greetings to those who called at 
 the Hamilton National Bank: during more than half of 
 that period its owner filled the position of assistant 
 cashier there. This hand was an important factor in 
 the establishment of that valued institution, as well as 
 to play a leading part in giving to Fort Wayne such 
 enterprises as the Citizens Trust Company, the Allen 
 County Loan and Savings Association, the Commercial 
 Club, and others. This hand is helping now to shape 
 the affairs of such as these, and of several large manu- 
 facturing plants, including those of the Fort Wayne 
 Iron and Steel Company and the Haberkorn Engine 
 Company. 
 
 But these various things, while important to the up- 
 building of Fort Wayne, are not monopolizing the atten- 
 tion of the owner of the glad hand. On the contrary, he 
 is giving the larger portion of his time to the extension 
 of the prosperity of the /Etna Life Insurance Company, 
 of Hartford. With this important concern, Mr. Orr holds 
 the responsible position of manager for the entire state 
 of Indiana. Through the agency of the glad hand here 
 displayed, this company not only collects \ast amounts 
 each year in premiums from its thousands of policy 
 holders, but has invested in Indiana farm mortgages 
 and municipal and county bonds nearly si.x millions of 
 dollars — besides expending hundreds of thousands each 
 year in salaries to its many representatives. 
 
 Mr. Orr is one of those q'jiet. unostentatious factors 
 in the development of a community whose accomplish- 
 ments are the result of a careful survey of present con- 
 ditions and the promises of the future. 
 
LEW. V. ULREY 
 
 WH have no desire whatever to discourage Mr. Lllrey 
 in his efiorts to rival Mr. RocUefeiler, hut we ask 
 leave to make the humble prediction that he never will 
 succeed in getting half as baldheaded as John D. 
 
 Kver since Mr. Ulrey was old enough to shake the 
 daylights out of a tin rattle box, he has led a strenu- 
 ous life. Unlike our more noted e.xample of the doctrine 
 of strenuousness, Mr. Ulrey doesn't hie himself to the 
 far West and shoot holes in the atmosphere and things; 
 rather he stays nearer home and puctures the eart!'. with 
 the oil well drilling machine. Then he pumps crude oil 
 out of the punctured places and totes it over to Mr. 
 Rockefeller, who pays him well for his trouble. It is on 
 his way home from these trips that he jingles the free 
 silver in the capacious pockets of his jeans, and smiles 
 broadly as he recalls those old school days at Franklin 
 when he couldn't raise a sufficient supply of currency to 
 buy an overcoat even after he had boarded himself a 
 long time on an allowance of a dollar a week, which he 
 earned doing odd jobs nights and Saturdays. 
 
 Mr. Ulrey was born in a one-room house on a farm 
 in Marion township; it was built of logs chinked with 
 mud to keep out the December zephyrs and wildcats. 
 He served a full apprenticeship at palling cows and 
 erecting rail boundary lines, and then went to college at 
 Franklin. At the normal school at Valparaiso where he 
 appeared later, he became noted as an orator. As a 
 solicitor for the Pathfinders after leaving school, Mr. 
 Ulrey was a great success. During 1896 his voice was 
 heard all over the state talking of that other boy orator, 
 he of the Platte. In 1902 Mr. Ulrey was elected to re- 
 present Allen County in the State Senate. 
 
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 ERNEST C. RURODE 
 
 SOME little time has elapsed since Mr. Rurode has 
 been found behind the counter displaying cambrics, 
 prints, satins and denims, hut it isn't because he doesn't 
 know how. For hfty years — ever since he came from 
 Germany in 1854— he has been in the dry goods busi- 
 ness, and such a lot he has learned during that long 
 stretch of time! 
 
 This city has much for which to be grateful to Mr. 
 Rurode. Ever since i860 he has been booming Fort 
 Wayne along with his efforts to better himself. In the 
 early days ot his work here, the store of Root & Com- 
 pany, of which he has since been the active manager 
 and tin.illy the owner, when the name was changed to 
 the Rurode Dry Goods Company — in the early days, 
 we say, the business was located on Columbia street, 
 and the importance of the enterprise in those years of 
 the early si.xties made Columbia street the principal 
 business thoroughfare. Then, when the establishment 
 was removed to its present location, many others fol- 
 lowed, transferring the retail business to Calhoun street, 
 which is now our leading business street. But still 
 another change is coming, and this. too. is due to the 
 work of Mr. Rurode. In 1882 he purchased the property 
 now occupied by the People's Store and the subsequent 
 transfer gave Berry street the start it now has toward 
 prominence in a business way. With the building of 
 "The Rurode" office building on Berry street, and the 
 erection of other large retail establishments thereon, it 
 seems that Berry street is destined to become a leader 
 in the retail trade. 
 
 Mr. Rurode came to Terre Haute from Hanover, 
 Germany, after receiving his early education in his 
 native land. He remained at Terre Haute until i860. 
 Since then he has been the active head of one of our 
 biggest and most valued institutions. 
 
CHARLES E. GRAVES 
 
 HERE we detect Colonel Graves in the act of having 
 just discovered something. He has made a light- 
 ning calculation and hnds that So-and-So. who owns a 
 large factory in Fort Wayne, has just made an alteration 
 in the plant which increases the danger of loss by fire. 
 Well, what does Colonel Graves have to do about it? 
 He immediately notifies the various insurance concerns 
 and up goes So-and-So's rate. Colonel Graves is paid 
 fordoingthissortofthing. He'stheinspectorof the Board 
 of Underwriters of the Fort Wayne District and it keeps 
 him busy looking after the changing of risks on property 
 known as "extra hazardous'' throughout Allen County. 
 
 The Colonel was born seventy years ago at Sunder- 
 land, Massachusetts. The old frame tavern in which the 
 event occurred was over a century old at the time of the 
 birth of Golonel Graves, and it still stands just as it 
 was at that time. Each year the Colonel takes a liitle 
 vacation and goes back to look at the old place. An ele- 
 ment of its vigor and substantiality seems to have been 
 imparted to him as he is as lively as a man of half his 
 age. 
 
 He lived in Sunderland until he was twenty-two, 
 having in the meantime attended schcjol and became an 
 e.xpert watchmaker. He came to Indiana in i8s'i but re- 
 turned shortly to Masachusetts. Back he came again 
 after three years, settling at Indianapolis. For sixteen 
 years he was a railroad man. Beginning as a freight 
 conductor, he was soon engaged as a freight solicitor 
 for the Baltimore & Ohio road. Coming to Fort Wayne 
 in 1879, he was the agent for the Empire Line, fast 
 freight. He gave up railroad matters on receiving his 
 appointment as inspector of the Board of Underwriters 
 in 1882. 
 
 Mr. Graves holds the important and honored oftice of 
 Colonel of the staff of Major-General James R. Carna- 
 han, of the Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias. 
 
EDWARD L. CRAW 
 
 IT is usually a display of poor taste to make public 
 any correspondence which is written for private 
 perusal only, hut we are going to risk censure for pre- 
 senting extracts from two letters which were written 
 several years ago. One read as follows; 
 
 "CLEVELAND, OHIO, December 15, 1859. 
 
 •■DEAR SISTER:— Eddie isn't at all well this winter. 
 He has the same old lung trouble and we are a little 
 anxious about him." 
 
 The other letter read as follows: 
 
 •■FORT WAYNE. IND., December 16. 1859. 
 
 ■■DEAR SISTER:— Send Eddie to Fort Wayne at once. 
 We have fever and ague out here and that may shake 
 the lung trouble out of him." 
 
 And so ■■Eddie" Craw was sent to Fort Wayne to 
 get cured of his lung trouble, and it was while he made 
 his home with his aunt that he fell in love with Fort 
 Wayne. Who wouldn't have a kindly feeling for such 
 a kind and successful nurse? He was thirteen years 
 old when he hrst came to town, and he returned to 
 Cleveland for only a short time. The year 1S62 found 
 him again in Fort Wayne and he has been here ever 
 since. 
 
 For twelve years, after leaving school, he was a 
 traveling salesman for the wholesale dry goods firm of 
 Evans. McDonald & Co., of this city, leaving their 
 employ to engage in the real estate and insurance 
 business which he did with success until he received 
 the appointment to the present position of importance, 
 that of assistant postmaster. 
 
 So. while it is seldom that sickness is of benefit to 
 anybody or anything, there are exceptions, and that 
 once case of lung trouble brought to Fort Wayne one 
 of its best citizens. 
 
ALBERT C. ALTER 
 
 A STRANGER, looking at the accompanying picture, 
 might get the idea that Mr. Alter is bigger than 
 his automobile. He would be very e.xcusable for 
 the entertainment of such a notion, because the picture 
 looks that way. But such is not the case. The snap- 
 shot was taken on Washington boulevard as the 
 machine was going at the rate of 397 miles an hour, and 
 this was the best we could do. The fact is that Mr. 
 Alter isn't much taller than the height represented by 
 the diameter of the hind wheel. He isn't simply "a" 
 little man— he's " the'' little man. If you doubt it, read 
 the sign painted in gold letters on his place of business 
 at the transfer corner. The court house is right across 
 the street from it. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is a living proof of the 
 falsity of the assertion that there's nothing in a name. 
 The verb "alter" according to wise old Noah Webster 
 and a few other authorities, means the same as 
 " change." and this tells in a word just the manner in 
 which Mr. Alter made his money. No, he didn't make 
 it on 'change, as many another man has done; he sim- 
 ply made it out of change — small change, pennies, 
 nickels, and dimes. He started in as a hustling, thrifty 
 newsboy, crying his wares on the very corner of which 
 he is now the boss, a splendid e.xample for the 
 " newsies " who congregate there daily and make life 
 interesting for those waiting for their cars. We hope 
 they'll all peruse this little story and proht thereby. 
 One day he found himself in charge of the Aveline news 
 stand. Gradually his prosperity increased until he was 
 able to open the present finely equipped cigar and news 
 stand on the busiest corner of the city. All of this and 
 his other evidences of prosperity — not e.xcepting the 
 automobile — have been accomplished because he has 
 tried to treat everybody right, not forgetting, of course, 
 Mr. Albert C. Alter. 
 
OWEN N. HEATON 
 
 HAVE yuu ever noticed that the elevation of a lawyer 
 to the judgeship at once invests him with all the 
 dignity and the air of authority which is characteristic 
 of the office? Of course, no material change comes 
 over the man or his attitude toward his fellows, so it 
 seems that the transformation takes place in our mental 
 view of him. Such has been the case with Owen N. 
 Heaton, whom, ever since his recent election to preside 
 over the Superior Court of Allen County, we have dis- 
 covered to possess a whole lot more of the aforemen- 
 tioned qualities than we ever noticed before. As the 
 uniform of the policeman, the soldier or the railway con- 
 ductor gives them an importance which they cannot 
 possess when not attired in these habiliments of author- 
 ity, just so the imaginary robes of justice produce a 
 change in our view of the man inside of them. 
 
 Judge Heaton was only seven months old at the time 
 of the attack on Fort Sumpter, so he has a good excuse 
 for not having a civil war record. He is a native of Allen 
 County. He began life on a farm in Marion township in 
 September, i860, and knows as much about cows and 
 rutabagas and Plymouth Rocks as he does about Black- 
 stone, He began his education in the common schools 
 and then spent three years in the Fort Wayne College. 
 Leaving the college in i88s, he became convinced that 
 he wanted to become a lawyer, so he began the stud\- 
 of the big, clumsy, leather-covered volumes in the office 
 W. P. Breen. and learned so rapidly that he was admit- 
 ted to practice the same year. Since then, he has risen 
 to a high place in the bar of Allen County and of Indiana. 
 In the fall of 1902. he was the Republican nominee for 
 Judge of the Superior Court, and was one of the com- 
 paratively few representatives of the party to receive 
 honors at the hands of the voters of the county. 
 
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WILLIAM C. BAADE 
 
 THERE'S no telling where a boy who drives a team ot 
 mules is apt to land. It is no easy task to get a 
 full day's work out of two stubborn representatives of 
 the genus hinny, and the lad who makes a success of 
 an attempt to do so is certainly made of good stuff and 
 is bound to go higher. That also is apt to happen to 
 the one who bungles the job. James A. Garfield was a 
 mule driver; Charle M. Schwab, the man who broke 
 Andy Carnegie's heart the same day that he broke the 
 bank at Monte Carlo, began life's activities by driving 
 a team of mules attached to a dray. So did William C. 
 Baade. That was in 'ig. From that humble yet ele- 
 vated position, the industrious lad who had shown a 
 spirit of perseverance in cont|uering the will of the dray 
 team, was given a job as clerk in the grocery with which 
 he was employed. 
 
 Then one day young Baade's ability was again 
 recognized and he received an appointment as a mail car- 
 rier from the Fort Wayne office. Leaving this employ- 
 ment at the end of two years, he took a place as clerk in 
 the Pittsburgh shops where he remained for some time. 
 He then returned to the service of Uncle Sam. taking a 
 place in the postofiRce as stamp clerk. 
 
 By this time. Mr. Baade had a notion that he could 
 safely engage in business for himself, and four years 
 ago he established the book and stationery store which 
 is still conducted by him. The business has run along 
 smoothly and he is glad he did it. 
 
 Upon the death of Councilman George Hench, Mr. 
 Baade was appointed by Mayor Berghoff to fill the va- 
 cancy, which he did very acceptably for six months un- 
 til the close of the term. 
 
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J. ROSS M'CULLOCH 
 
 THIS is a picture of a club man. John Ross McCul- 
 loch is entitled to the appellation. Ross is a 
 bachelor, has the inclination for club life and also the 
 money. He works for the Hamilton National Bank as 
 first assistant cashier. In club life he is active and use- 
 ful. Besides knowing just how to swing a club he is 
 vice president and a member of the house committee of 
 the Kekionga Golf Club and also a member of the board 
 of directors of the Anthony Wayne Club. He is devoted 
 to athletics and has a regular physical diet. He began 
 his muscular development in Fort Wayne in November. 
 1869. He got his early training in the Fort Wayne pub- 
 lic schools and the schools at Tarrytown. New York, 
 and finished his education in most advantageous sur- 
 roundings in Washington, D. C. 
 
 Magellan went around the world in 1519-1521. Ross 
 McCulluch followed him in 1893-1894. It only took Ross 
 sixteen months to make his trip and besides seeing the 
 sights and getting a full knowledge of the world's his- 
 tory he had some of the events not only indelibly en- 
 graved on his mind but also on his body. He is tho- 
 roughly posted iin travel. Ross came back to Fort 
 Wayne full of pigment punctures and ambition. He be- 
 gan his duties at the bottom of the ladder in his father's 
 bank, the Hamilton National, and has carefully worked 
 his way to the position which he now holds. While on 
 a recent trip to the British Isles. Ross was a guest at 
 Skibo Castle, the Scotland home of .Andrew Carnegie. 
 Ross saw Andy play golf for exercise. Since then the 
 Indian clubs at the McCulloch gymnasium have become 
 covered with cobwebs and Ross now gets the caddies 
 very busy at the golf links. He does not wear the same 
 golf suit Carnegie does but he plays just as good a game 
 and, at the time this was written, was the second player 
 on the club team. 
 
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 I 
 
ALEXANDER B. WHITE 
 
 A MAN who does not live farther away than three 
 blocks from where he was born can truly be called 
 a native. Alex White was inducted into the joys and 
 tribulations of this world on Barr street near the city 
 building. Now he lives on Clinton street a few blocks 
 away. In the past thirty-three years he has not com- 
 plained about Fort Wayne as a place in which to live. 
 After leaving the Fort Wayne public schools he went to 
 the University at Oxford, Ohio. What he did not learn 
 there he acquired later in the Pennsylvania Military 
 Academy at Chester. Pennsylvania. He marched home 
 from Chester to embark in the bicycle business. He 
 made the wheels go for a while and then sold out this 
 business to enter the White Fruit House with his father, 
 the late Captain James B. White. 
 
 When Alex left the military academy he thought the 
 sword was a mighty thing. Since he has become treas- 
 urer of the White Fruit House he is impressed with the 
 fact that the pen is mightier than the long steel knife. 
 Besides attending to his enormous duties in the busiest 
 retail house in the city he finds time to do other things. 
 At one time he served the Second ward in the council by 
 appointment from Mayor Henry P. Scherer. He nevergot 
 oratorical while in the council chamber but he looked at 
 all public guestions with a trained business eye. He 
 knows what is good for Fort Wayne and what is not. 
 That is why he goes to New York City every few weeks 
 to find out what is good for Fort Wayne. He is tho- 
 roughly progressive and can drive a bargain and also a 
 fine team of horses. He has not contracted the gaso- 
 line buggy fever yet because he admires horseflesh too 
 much and always has a fine team to hold the ribbons 
 over. He is always busy looking for a chance to boom 
 Fort Wayne and he usually finds the opportunity. 
 
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WILLIAM P. COOPER 
 
 A MAN to whom Mr. Cooper is a stranger, if such 
 there be in Fort Wayne, might ask, "Do what?" 
 But the person who knows him wouldn't have to guess 
 that he means simply this: "Lean on the New York 
 Life, as I do." 
 
 Mr. Cooper is the company's general agent for this 
 section of the state of Indiana, and he has not only done 
 the insurance people good service but has favored thou- 
 sands of policy holders and their dependents in getting 
 them to lean on a good company. 
 
 Mr. Cooper began his career in Fort Wayne, where 
 he was born on a summer's day in 1852. He was a 
 school boy during the troublous days preceding and 
 during the civil war. and graduated from the high 
 school of this city in the class of 1868. To still better 
 equip himself for life's battles, he entered Dartmouth 
 College, at Hanover. New Hampshire, and was gradu- 
 ated from that institution in 1873. 
 
 Mr. Cooper spent several years in the newspaper 
 business as a writer on papers in Fort Wayne, St. Louis 
 and New York, and as a correspondent for several 
 metropolitan dailies. His journalistic work was of an 
 attractive, clean-cut kind. 
 
 As president of the Fort Wayne Board of Education. 
 Mr. Cooper did much to maintain the high standard of 
 the schools. 
 
 At present he is a member of the Board of State 
 Charities, one of those positions which affords a lot of 
 worrisome labor without the accompaniment of a salary. 
 The cheerful perfnrmance of these duties, reveals a 
 prominent feature of his makeup. 
 
 Mr. Cooper has been connected with the .New York 
 Life Insurance Company forten years as agent and gen- 
 eral agent, and now is in charge of the company's 
 business in a considerable portion of Northern Indiana. 
 
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JOHN J. O'RYAN 
 
 HERE we see Mr. O'Ryan returning from a run on 
 the road. 
 
 This cool-headed man, besides attending to his daily 
 duties as a railroader, is one of the prominent members 
 of the city council of Fort Wayne. He is now hlling his 
 third term in that body as a representatilve of the Third 
 ward. 
 
 As you may have observed. Mr. O'Ryan is a passen- 
 ger engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad. He began 
 service as a fireman and won promotion on merit. At the 
 throttle almost every day of his life he holds the safety 
 of hundreds of lives in his hands, but with his cool head 
 and steady hand sending the steam locomotive over the 
 rails he carries his passengers to their journey's end 
 without accident. His has always been duty well per- 
 formed. Likewise, we haven't heard many kicks 
 against his official career in the city council, and his 
 popularity is attested by his repeated re-elections. 
 
 Physically he is the biggest man in the city council. 
 He is pretty big other ways. He has a big heart and a 
 big mind. These are the reasons of his personal popu- 
 larity. On his first election to the council he won the 
 nomination over half a dozen aspirants. He won at 
 the polls in his subsequent elections easily. Mr. O'Ryan 
 is now thirty-eight years old, a comparatively young 
 man yet. 
 
 He was born and always li\ ed in the ward which he 
 now represents in the council. He was educated in.the 
 city schools, and on the public questions of the day. 
 national, state, and municipal, keeps abreast of the 
 times. In his social life his pleasant ways have brought 
 him so many good friends that it is almost a relief to 
 get out on the road for a breathing spell. 
 
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AUGUST M. SCHMIDT 
 
 BUT for the location in this city of Concordia Col- 
 lege, the name of Fort Wayne's present city clerk 
 would not be August M. Schmidt. He came here from 
 Saint Louis, then his home, at the age of 15, to attend 
 this Lutheran educational institution and, immediately 
 after his graduation in 1880. determined to remain here, 
 accepting a clerical position with the hardware firm of 
 Prescott Brothers, hut resigned it a year afterwards to 
 enter the employ of the Wahash Railway Company as a 
 clerk in the freight department. His executive abilities 
 won for him rapid promotion and he rose to the position 
 of general yardmaster. remaining with the company 
 until i8gs when he embarked in the insurance business. 
 In May, 1896, he was appointed clerk of the municipal 
 boards of the city and held the position until the adop- 
 tion of the charter amendments legislated him out of 
 office. 
 
 But he soon returned to public position. When the 
 election of the spring of 1901 came on he was nominated 
 by the Democrats for city clerk, Henry C. Berghoff lead- 
 ing the ticket for mayor. It was a hotly contested 
 municipal campaign. Captain Charles E. Reese, a sol- 
 dier in the war with Spain, was the Republican candi- 
 date for mayor and F.Will Urbahns, a popular young 
 railroad man, for clerk. Mr. Berghoff and Mr. Schmidt 
 won. the latter's wide acquaintance and personal pop- 
 ularity being elements of strength to the ticket. He en- 
 tered upon the duties of the office and is the present city 
 clerk. 
 
 Mr, Schmidt has for many years been connected with 
 a number of local building and loan associations and 
 they have been largely benefitted by his e.xecutive abili- 
 ty and splendid business management. 
 
 Mr. Schmidt is one of the city's popular vocalists. 
 Here we see him singing his favorite solo. 
 
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HOMER A. GORSLINE 
 
 IN most cities a policeman is a never-present help in 
 time of trouble. It isn't so in Fort Wayne. Super- 
 intendent Gorsline has ordered otherwise, and as a 
 result there is nothing to be seen but a blue streak at 
 the very moment that a "troulile" call comes in to the 
 station; the sapphire-colored stripe through the atmos- 
 phere is simply the hurry-up glimpse that you obtain as 
 the brave officers get their legs busy carrying them to 
 the center of agitation. 
 
 Homer A. Gorsline. superintendent of the Fort Wayne 
 police department, has held that important office since 
 May. 1896, at which tune he was appointed by Mayor 
 Scherer. He has made a good record. He came to Fort 
 Wayne when he was twelve years old and attended 
 school several years. He was employed for a while in a 
 clothing store and later left the city for a time, going to 
 Decatur, Indiana, where he held the position of deputy 
 county auditor. He then went to Columbus, Ohio, and 
 enlisted in the regular army as a band musician. After 
 serving six years and rising to the sergeant-major^hip — 
 the highest non-commissioned office— he was honorably 
 discharged and returned to Fort Wayne. Again he 
 turned his attention to the clothing business and was 
 thus employed when he received his appointment as 
 superintendent of police. He is a staunch Democrat 
 and a warm friend of organized labor. 
 
 It is a noticeable fact that the daily police court 
 "grind " in Fort Wayne is as small, perhaps, as that of 
 any other city of its size in the country. Our people are. 
 of course, a good deal more decent than you'll find else- 
 where, but a large bit of credit is due to the well-man- 
 aged police department, which performs its double duty 
 of arresting offenders and keeping a watchful eye on 
 those who act as though they were about to commit acts 
 against the best interests of society. 
 
HENRY C. SCHRADER 
 
 MR. SCHRADER is from Germany— a long way 
 from Germany. He never lived there. His folks 
 dill, though. It was seventy years ago that the parents 
 of Mr. Schrader decided to forsake their native land and 
 come to America. Maybe they decided to come earlier 
 than that, but it was the year 1834 that saw them step 
 upon American soil. 
 
 They first settled in Hardin County, (Jhio, where the 
 subject of this sketch was born. He spent his boyhood 
 days there and at Logansport, Indiana, to which city 
 the family removed in iSqi. They later resided for a 
 time at Wabash. 
 
 Mr. Schrader came to Fort Wayne in 1866. He has 
 seen Wabash several times since then, but never wanted 
 to go there to live. It works that way with everybody 
 who once settles in Fort Wayne. The hrst thing he did 
 here after getting acquainted with the points of the com- 
 pass was to engage in the shoe business under the firm 
 name of Markley, Schrader & Company. 
 
 In 187^ he began his career in the insurance, real 
 estate and rental business. He has been so successful 
 that he hasn't even paused during the long period in 
 which he has transacted hundreds of thousands of dol- 
 lars' worth of business in these various lines, and he 
 hasn't any notion of even hesitating, as long as things 
 keep coming his way as they have since he wrote his 
 first insurance policy twenty-nine years ago. 
 
 In 1889, Edward M, Wilson became associated in 
 the business with Mr. Schrader and the firm has since 
 been known as Schrader & Wilson. 
 
 Mr. Schrader. during his long residence in Fort 
 Wayne, has always taken a great deal of interest in 
 public affairs, and has been identified in various ways 
 with the development of the city which adopted him. 
 
JOSEPH E. STULTS 
 
 THE word, coroner, probably comes from the French. 
 courre, meaning to run. In the first place, if you 
 want to be coroner, it is necessary to run for the office: 
 and after you've got it, it is required that you keep 
 yourself prepared to run immediately on the first call for 
 your services. The picture shows Dr. Stults on the run. 
 He's the coroner. 
 
 The coroner is the man who gets there after it's all 
 over and starts a guessing contest as to how it hap- 
 pened. Dr. Stults has been thus occupied quite fre- 
 quently during the two years he has been in office. He 
 didn't always live here, although he has lieen a Hoosier 
 all his life. He was born in Whitley county, in 1856, 
 his parents having removed from Stark county, Ohio, 
 to that place and settled on a farm in 1841. After a series 
 of prosperous years as a farmer, the father of Dr. Stults 
 went to Huntington county tolive. His popularity was 
 shown by his election to the office of county treasurer in 
 1880. Dr. Stults had, in the meantime, been attending 
 the public schools and later spent a period at Roanoke 
 Seminary to add to the store of knowledge he had gath- 
 ered on the farm and elsewhere; so he was well qualified 
 to take a position as deputy in his father's office. 
 
 Then he came to Fort Wayne and attended the old 
 Fort Wayne College several terms before entering upon 
 the study of medicine with two leading physicians at 
 Huntington. Returning to this city, he entered the Fort 
 Wayne College of Medicine and fitted himself to engage 
 in practice in 1886. 
 
 He was nominated for coroner by the Republicans in 
 the fall of 1902. and was one of the comparatively few 
 representatives of the party to win out in that memorable 
 campaign. He is again the party's candidate. 
 
JOSEPH A. BURSLEY 
 
 '' JOE" Bursley says he has come back to Fort 
 J Wayne to stay. He likes to be a university pro- 
 fessor pretty well, but Ann Arbor isn't halt as nice as 
 Fort Wayne. 
 
 Mr. Bursley ought to like Fort Wayne. It was here 
 he drew the first vital breath and Fort Wayne has been 
 just as good to him since then as she knows how to be ; 
 her latest beneficence was in the shape of a seat in the 
 Council Chamber. The sketch shows Mr. Bursley just 
 arisen from the seat for the purpose of presenting an 
 ordinance for the welfare of the city. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Bursley was graduated from the Fort 
 Wayne high school, and almost immediately afterward 
 he went to Ann Arbor and began his studies in the en- 
 gineering course of that institution. By the spring of 
 1899 he had learned it all and they gave him a nice 
 diploma with a gold seal in the corner and tied with two 
 yards of white satin ribbon. When he came home, he 
 showed the gold seal and the satin ribbon to the Penn- 
 sylvania Company and they hired him. For three years 
 he was employed in the motive power department of the 
 road, part of his duties keeping him in the shops, the re- 
 mainder being spent in experimental work in testing 
 locomotives. 
 
 For seven months, then, he was abroad enjoying the 
 historical and natural sights of the old world. For one 
 year after his return he was employed with G. E. Bursley 
 & Company, the wholesale grocers. 
 
 He was elected as a Republican member of the City 
 Council in 1902. His selection as a teacher in the me- 
 chanical engineering department af the University of 
 Michigan, has kept him out of town for some time, but 
 he returns to give his attention to local interests. 
 
SYLVANUS B. BECHTEL 
 
 IF this man should throw up his job and the Bowser 
 company decide to abandon the department which 
 he represents, it is safe to say that the aforementioned 
 concern would go "kertlummux." He is the advertising 
 man, the individual who is just now busy informing the 
 people of unenlightened Europe that the only real thing 
 in the oil tank line is manufactured in the city of Fort 
 Wayne, Indiana, U. S. A. Of course, everybody in 
 America, pretty nearly, knows it already, and Mr. Bech- 
 tel, while he is thoroughly In fa\or of giving America 
 the best of it in most instances, feels as though the folks 
 on the other side ought to be let into the secret. He is 
 just now very busy doing the letting. 
 
 As a consequence, the fame of Fort Wayne is being 
 still further spread abroad. 
 
 Like many of the other illustriuus sons of the repub- 
 lic. .\\r. Bechtel started in life as a farmer boy, his folks 
 li\ing near Middleville, Michigan. After leaving the 
 high school at Wayland. the same state, he trained the 
 minds of the younger generation in a country school for 
 three years. From there he went to Grand Rapids 
 where he handled the coin received over the counter of 
 the business office of the Daily Democrat. 
 
 Then he came here. It was in July, 1899. Starting 
 in as superintendent of collections, he illustrated the 
 fact that he was heartily interested in the welfare of the 
 Bowser company. So he was advanced to the position 
 of superintendent of salesmen, and one year later, 1902, 
 took his present position as manager of the mail order 
 and advertising department of that important institu- 
 tion. Incidentally. Mr. Bechtel finds time to act as 
 superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Baptist 
 church, and to officiate as president of the Fort Wayne 
 Advertising Men's club. 
 
WILLIAM C. RASTETTER 
 
 ONE can hardly imagine liow a man who is said to 
 have wheels and other buggy material could be a 
 companionable fellow to have about. Will Rastetter. 
 however, is one of the most popular young business 
 men in Fort Wayne today. Will has lots of wheels and 
 his buggy material does not need insect powder. 
 
 One cold winter day in January, thirty years ago, 
 Will Rastetter was born in this very city. Although he 
 IS not a very tall man, he was graduated from the Fort 
 Wayne high school with high honors in 1893. He went 
 into business at once with his father, the late Louis 
 Rastetter, one of the pioneer manufacturers of Fort 
 Wayne. In five years Will was able to step in and take 
 the entire responsibility of the Rastetter factory. He 
 has kept pace with the times. With the advent of bicy- 
 cles Will began at once to manufacture bicycle rims 
 extensively, and most of the noted manufacturers use 
 his rim. Now the automobile has pushed its way to the 
 front, and we find him making rims for the motor cars. 
 His factory, ever mindful uf the necessity of the horse, 
 has kept on making vehicle wood stock of all descrip- 
 tions. Like Helen's babies, he likes to see the wheels 
 go, but unlike most men, he enjoys seeing his own 
 wheels go. They go well, and the output of his factory 
 rolls all over the United States. A rolling wheel gathers 
 no moss, but it wears out in time, and Will is right on 
 hand with the goods when this happens. Besides being 
 very busy, he has time to be popularly sociable. Two 
 years ago he was Exalted Ruler of the Fort Wayne 
 lodge of Elks, and he is also a prominent Scottish Rite 
 .Wason, He is rapidly approaching the state of bachelor- 
 hood and up to date poses as a man who is heart-whole 
 and fancv free. 
 
FRANK J. BELOT 
 
 IT seems as though the man who makes the must tell- 
 ing gestures is the one who wins the debate, and 
 when we trace it back farther we find that a good many 
 forceful speakers, especially among the lawyers, learned 
 to use their arms pitching hay. There seems to be but 
 a step between stacking timothy and slinging rhetoric. 
 So it is with Mr. Belot. For years he performed heavy 
 work on the old Belot homestead in Perry township, 
 where he was born in 1863. and built the foundation for 
 a most successful after career. 
 
 His parents were French. After attending the coun- 
 try schools and completing their course of study, he 
 qualified as a teacher and spent some time — about five 
 years — presiding over schools in that part of the coun- 
 try. 
 
 In 1890, he was appointed deputy clerk, by Daniel 
 W. Souder, and he performed his duties so nicely that 
 County Clerk Metzger, who succeeded to the head of 
 the office, decided he couldn't keep ofticial house with- 
 out him. The people in general seem to have discovered 
 his good qualities and he was. in 1898. chosen to suc- 
 ceed Mr. Metzger. 
 
 During the time Mr. Belot was employed in the clerk's 
 office — both as deputy and as head of the department — 
 he devoted every spare moment of his time to the study 
 of law. In his earlier years he had learned to economize 
 the minutes and by the time he was ready to leave the 
 office he had not only the satisfaction of feeling that his 
 official duties had been well performed, but that he was 
 fully fitted to practice his profession. He was admitted 
 to the bar at once, and is now the law partner of Judge 
 John H. Aiken. 
 
WILBUR WYNANT 
 
 THIS young man is away up in the oil business. 
 7 hese are the steps by which he climbed the derricl< : 
 Mr. Wynant was born in a little log house in Jasper 
 county thirty-four years ago. He attended school in 
 Larwill and then taught in the country districts for seven 
 terms. In the between times he managed to attend the 
 Normal University at Ada. Ohio, using the earnings 
 from his work as a teacher. 
 
 Then he became interested in the insurance business 
 and started in to study human nature. During the time 
 of the Chicago World's Fair, he added to his stock of 
 experience as a railroad brakeman, running on both 
 freight and passenger trains. Then returning to the 
 insurance business he operated successfully in all the 
 large cities between Washington and Chicago, and then, 
 having framed the entire plan himself, set about to 
 organize the Fraternal Assurance Society, of America, 
 with headijuarters in Fort Wayne. To this he gave his 
 entire persona! attention until the development of the 
 Indiana oil fields succeeded in interesting him. He re- 
 signed his position as manager of the Fraternal on Jan- 
 uary I, 1904, but retains the office of Supreme Recording 
 Secretary, in order to give more attention to his oil in- 
 terests. 
 
 Mr. Wynant is oneof thebest organizers in the state. 
 He has successfully launched a large number of well- 
 established concerns, and has put about Sioo.ooo into 
 the development of the Geneva. Alexandria. Fairmont 
 and Johnesboro oil fields in the past year. 
 
 It may be of interest to know that Indiana leads all 
 other states in the production of oil. It has has now 
 9.439 wells owned by 2.507 different concerns or individ- 
 uals. The industry employs 1,462 wage earners at a 
 cost of Si .045.825 annually. 
 
 Mr. Wynant is president of the King Medical Insti- 
 tute and holds the office of director in eight important 
 business concerns. 
 
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JAMES C. PELTIER 
 
 IN this little sketch we gel a good view of a jolly 
 undertaker — a man whose life is necessarily sur- 
 rounded by other people's sadness, yet whomanagesto 
 keep smiling. Perhaps this is the result of the knowl- 
 edge that his life is not a fractional part as sad as it 
 might he. But why philosophize? It's sufficient to 
 say that Mr. Peltier is always good-natured. 
 
 When we think of the burial of the dead most of us 
 associate with it the Peltier name. This is because the 
 Peltiers, father and son. have been engaged in the 
 undertaking business in Fort Wayne since the early 
 pioneer days, when the father. Louis Peltier, conducted 
 the first undertaking establishment here. To this busi- 
 ness the son, James C, succeeded, and for years he has 
 been a leader in his business and is one of our repre- 
 sentative citizens. Mr. Peltier was educated in the city 
 schools and at Notre Dame University. He had been 
 attending Notre Dame for two years when the smell of 
 distant explosives in 1862 prompted him to give up his 
 studies and enlist as a soldier in tlie Twelfth Indiana 
 regiment. He was wounded hghting for the flag at 
 Richmond, Kentucky, and his injuries were of such a 
 serious nature that he was honorably discharged and 
 returned home. On his recovery from his wounds he 
 entered the undertaking business with his father. The 
 latter retired from the firm in 1882. and since then the 
 son has been conducting the business alone. With the 
 soldiers of the War of the Rebellion he has always been 
 popular, and for two years he was commander of the 
 Sion S. Bass Post, G. A, R., of this city. In business 
 progressive and an.xious to do the right thing by every- 
 body, and in social circles genial, he has made friends 
 everywhere. 
 
EDWARD J. EHRMAN 
 
 FhW men in T oi t Wayne are better knuwn than Mr. 
 Ehrman. We associate his name with the teii^ 
 graph and messenger service of the city, for lie is the 
 manager here of the Postal Telegraph Company and the 
 Fort Wayne District Telegraph Company, two corpora- 
 tions having much to do with our business and social 
 life. He was born at Monroeville. Ohio, and, with his 
 parents, when ten years old, came to this city. Here he 
 was educated in the parochial schools and leaving them, 
 entered busy life in which he has continuously remained. 
 During the first administration of President Cleve- 
 land he tooU gOiernment service in the Fort Wayne 
 postoffice as distributing clerk and assistant superin- 
 tendent of carriers under Postmaster Kaough. When 
 Mr, Kauugh retired from the postoffice and re-entered 
 the agricultural implement business Mr. Ehrman fol- 
 lowed him in his employ until iSqy when he took the 
 position of deputy township assessor with M. V. Walsh. 
 When Mr. Rohan was elected county treasurer Mr. 
 Ehrman accepted under him a deputyship in the office. 
 But his business .abilities and worth had attracted the 
 attention of others— the owners of the Postal Telegraph 
 Company and the Fort Wayne District Telegraph Com- 
 pany. They offered him the position of man.iger of 
 these companies, and, refusing the place with County 
 Treasurer Rohan, he accepted it. For five years. 1898, 
 until 1902, he represented his ward in the city council. 
 He gave municipal questions a close study and displayed 
 marked ability in their adjustment in that body. 
 
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CLEMENT W. EDGERTON 
 
 ONE day, twenty-five years ago, the quiet, peaceable 
 inhabitants of the little city of Fort Wayne were 
 thrown into a state of the wildest excitement and con- 
 sternation. The cause of it all was the appearance of a 
 strange being on the streets. One small b(iy who beheld 
 it burst in the door of his home, where he sought refuge, 
 exclaiming breathlessly: "Ma. ma! I've just seen the 
 devil! He was riding on a wagon wheel with another 
 littler wheel fastened to his tail!" 
 
 But it wasn't His Satanic Majesty at all. It was 
 ••Clem'' Edgerton astride a bicycle— the high kind— the 
 first bicycle ever seen in Fort Wayne and perhaps the 
 first to be brought to Indiana. Mr. Edgerton had read 
 an article in Scribner's describing the new invention 
 and decided to own one of the new-fangled contrivances 
 of locomotion. He bought it in Boston. Later, as others 
 purchased wheels, Mr. Edgerton organized our first bicy- 
 cle club with seven members. During the nine years he 
 rode his high wheel he never took a ••header;" but as 
 soon as he bought a safety he met with an accident 
 which laid him up for several weeks. A street car 
 motorman, while making goo-goos at a girl on the 
 street, let his car run into a team of mules, which in 
 turn ran over Mr. Edgerton. Luckily, the judge of the 
 superior court was a passenger on the car and wit- 
 nessed the whole pioceedings. The company paid the 
 damages. 
 
 Mr. Edgerton also enjoys the distinction of being the 
 original ••kodaker." He was for twenty years engaged 
 in the manufacture and sale of plows and agricultural 
 implements and is the inventor of a successful plow. 
 He was in the bicycle business for fifteen years. 
 
 Mr. Edgerton is a native of Fort Wayne. He has 
 traveled extensively in our own and foreign lands. 
 
W. OTTO GROSS 
 
 THE day that Virginia seceded from the Union in 
 1861 William Otto Gross made things very hvely at 
 his home in Richmond. Thecrywas " Onto Richmond," 
 but William Otto was bawling there. He made as much 
 trouble as 144 babies. He was a gross annoyance. 
 Virginia had lost her statehood, but the new arrival 
 made up for the loss. While the North was throwing 
 salt and pepper at Richmond, Otto was getting cream and 
 sugar. In 1867 the Rev. Karl Gross moved to Buffalo. 
 New York, and, of course, W. O, went along, taking a 
 straight cut from Richmond. He entered the public 
 schools and there joined the Buffaloes very early. Then 
 he entered the University. Among other things, he 
 studied medicine and for six years was in the drug 
 business there. 
 
 In 18S0 he came to Fort Wayne. In this city he first 
 worked in the Meyer Brothers drug store. In 1884 he 
 went to the New York College of Pharmacy, studying 
 chemistry under Prof. C, F. Chandler. After returning 
 to Fort Wayne in 1886 he purchased an interest in the 
 T, F, Thieme drug store and the firm for sixteen years 
 prospered. He disposed of his interests to enter busi- 
 ness for himself and now has a fine pharmicy at the 
 corner of Barr and Washington streets. Incidentally, 
 to keep up with his profession, he was graduated from the 
 Fort Wayne College of Medicine in 1893. Although Dr. 
 Gross' distinguished father is a preacher, Dr. Gross 
 does not practice. 
 
 When Mayor Oakley was at the head of the city 
 government he looked about for a chemist to serve the 
 city. Dr. Gross was the first official to act for Fort 
 Wayne in that capacity. This was in June, 1894. Ten 
 years later we have Dr. W. O. Gross as one of the public 
 school trustees of Fort Wayne. He is the first Republi- 
 can treasurer this board has had since this city was in 
 swaddling clothes. It is an honor that Dr, Gross will 
 wear well. 
 
CHARLES H. WORDEN 
 
 ONE day wlieii he w as a boy, Mr. Worden sat by 
 the kitchen tire watching the tea Uettle buil. You 
 will remember that James Watt did the same tiling and 
 the lesson he learned was that steam has great power: 
 the locomotive, the ocean liner and our great engines 
 are the result of his boyish observations. But the boy 
 Worden wasn't thinking about the power of the steam. 
 He continued to watch the kettle for some time and then 
 remarked: 
 
 "If a common, ordinary tea kettle can keep up a lively 
 song and dance even though it is in hot water up to its 
 nose. I know that 1, even if troubles do come, can 
 always keep smiling." 
 
 And that's what he has continued to do whether the 
 path ot life ran smoothly or not, and we believe he has 
 taught many others to do likewis". 
 
 Mr. Worden is purely a Fort Wayne product: born 
 in September, I8^q. He secured his schooling here and 
 at the University of Michigan, and afterward studied 
 law in the office of his father. In 1882, he entered the 
 law office of Judge Robert S. Taylor. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1883. In 1886. he formed a partnership 
 with John Morris, junior, which continued several years, 
 after which Mr. Worden continued to practice alone 
 until December. 1894. when the partnership with Judge 
 Allen Zollars was formed. Mr. Worden is a Democrat, 
 and his voice in behalf of party success has been 
 frequently heard. 
 
 On leaving the practice of law he became the manager 
 of the First National Bank, of which he is the vice-pres- 
 ident and acting president. He is actively interested in 
 the success of the Winona Assembly and was one of 
 the men who brought about its organization. 
 
 Mr. Worden is a member of the Haydn quartet— that 
 celebrated organization of sweet singers which has de- 
 lighted thousands for twenty-six years, without a 
 change in its personnel. 
 
 Mr, Worden is a good man and we like him. 
 
 
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R. G. THOMPSON 
 
 A battle cry. There is no better railroad man in 
 Indiana than ■•Dicl<," as he is called by his friends, and 
 he has a host of them. The newspaper boys always 
 put "Colonel'' in front of his name. And he would 
 have been a colonel if he had not been wearing frocks 
 during all the time that the War of the Rebellion was 
 going on. He is the district passenger agent of the 
 Wabash Railroad Company, with headquarters and 
 offices in this city. He has been a resident of three 
 states. Born in Iowa, he moved when a lad, with his 
 parents, to Reading, Michigan. There he was edu- 
 cated, leaving the high .schools well equipped mentally 
 for life's duties. In 1880, at the age of twenty years, he 
 began railroad work for the Fort Wayne & Jackson and 
 was sent to Waterloo, Indiina, as ticket agent. It only 
 took the company si.x months to find out that his abili- 
 ties were too big and liis services too valuable for a 
 town of that size, and they transferred him to the agency 
 at Fort Wayne. One road wasn't big enough for him, 
 and, in 1883, his road was merged with the Lake Shore, 
 and he was made joint agent. His abilities to get 
 business soon attracted the attention of the great 
 Wabash, and they got after him. The result was he 
 took service with them i:i 1888 as passenger and ticket 
 agent. He has been with them since. His jurisdiction 
 now extends to towns east and west on the main line 
 and also on the Detroit division. Everybody thinks 
 there is no better fellow on earth than genial "Dick" 
 Thompson. 
 
NEWTON D. DOUGHMAN 
 
 DID you ever stop to think that the largest number 
 of our foremost lawyers, like the prize pumpkins 
 and blue ribbon Jerseys exhibited at the county fairs, 
 come from the best farms ? Well, they do. Mr. Dough- 
 man, for instance, did; and he is certainly a member of 
 the profession to be proud of. 
 
 He is now the law partner of Judge Walter Olds, the 
 firm being among the ablest practitioners at the bar in 
 this city. Mr. Doughman was born in this county and, 
 until he left his country home to attend college, did his 
 share of the farm work. Acquiring the rudiments of his 
 education in the country district schools, he attended 
 the Methodist College in this city, from which he was 
 graduated. As the stepping-stone of so many of our 
 lawyers to their profession, he taught school for seven 
 years, four of which were as principal of the graded schools 
 at New Haven. He was thus well equipped for the study 
 of the law, which he pursued under the tutelage of Hon. 
 Henry Colerick. After his admission to the bar he 
 established himself in practice in this city. His abilities 
 as a speaker in the political campaign and his wide ac- 
 quaintance in the county secured him the nomination 
 and election as prosecuting attorney and this office he 
 held for four years. On his retirement from this position 
 he associated himself in practice with Senator R. C. 
 Bell and remained his partner until that distinguished 
 orator's death. Messrs. Olds cSi Doughman are attorneys 
 for the Fort Wayne & Southwestern Railroad Com- 
 pany. On the many complex questions arising out 
 of the building of the interurban line and its entrance 
 into this city Mr. Doughman was its spokesman in the 
 city council and in the courts. He is the company's 
 attorney now and also represents other railroads. 
 
ALLAN H. DOUGALL 
 
 THE subject of this sketch went to the Phihppines to 
 see if the constitution had really followed the flag. 
 Captain Duusall writes liome that he found a \ery 
 strong constitution. Although horn in Scotland and edu- 
 cated in Glasgow, he has ever since maturity been follow- 
 ing the American flag. When the Civil War broke out he 
 followed Sherman's colors to the sea. At the battle of 
 Resaca he was shot through the right arm and shoulder- 
 Although never able to draw a sword again, he remained 
 witli his regiment and was shot through the left leg at the 
 battle of Peach Tree Creek. Later, at the battle of Ben- 
 tonviUe. North Carolina, he was shot through the right 
 leg while saving his regimental colors. His constitution 
 was weaker than the flag when carried from the field. 
 Congress decorated him with a medal of honorforthis act. 
 
 When President Harrison wanted to know what the 
 flag was doing in Alaska he sent Captain Dougall up 
 there to nail flags on totem poles It took him si.\ 
 months to get the constitution walking around after tlie 
 flag. He labored for the Department of Justice. When 
 Garza, the revolutionist, needed attention on the Me.\- 
 ican border Captain Dougall was sent there incog on 
 secret business for the State and Justice departments. 
 He spent si.x months in Me.xico and Te.xas. following 
 Garza. President Diaz and President Harrison praised 
 him for his success. He has wonderful executive ability 
 in gathering valuable information and statistics 
 
 A cablegram called him to Manila about a year ago. 
 His first duty was a trip to the remote corner of Luzon to 
 confer with the Igorrotes, or head hunters of the Filipino 
 tribes. Recently he has been issuing the new Philippine 
 money and arranging to drive Spanish and Mexican 
 money from the island. His most cheering task is read- 
 ing a letter from home. He has traveled in even,' state, 
 territorial and island possession of the United States 
 except Cuba and Porto Rico, 
 
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DANIEL F. BASH 
 
 IT isn't very often that Dan Bash gets scared. But 
 there was once upon a time that he was nearly 
 frightened out of his boots, and he didn't get over it for 
 a long while. 
 
 It happened out in wild and woolly Wyoming while 
 Dan held the job of paymaster's clerk of the United 
 States army under his uncle, Major D. N. Bash. For 
 a long period Mr. Bash was stationed at San Antonio, 
 Texas, but the headquarters were transferred to Chey- 
 enne, Wyoming. Upon one memorable occasion a troop 
 of cowboys swooped down upon them, scooped up 
 87,350.90 worth of coin belonging to Uncle Sam and dis- 
 appeared with it in their sombreros. Then was when 
 Dan got scared. He and his uncle didn't feel like diving 
 into their jeans and making up the dehciency. so they 
 told Congress about it, and a bill was passed appropriat- 
 ing the needed amount. But Grover Cleveland refused 
 to sign the bill, and things looked gloomy again until a 
 new Congress convened. Mr. Harrison affi.xed his sig- 
 nature to a new bill, and all was lovely again. 
 
 Mr. Bash commenced his \-aried career in Fort Wayne. 
 After leaving school his health was not of the best, so 
 he was sent to Denver, Colorado, where he continued 
 his school work. For thirteen years he remained in the 
 west. For a year he studied law in Denver, but didn't 
 take kindly to that brand of e.xcitement. Then he busied 
 himself for a year raising sheep. From this outdoor life 
 he transferred his efforts to the conduct of a wholesale 
 notion store, which he discontinued after one year's 
 experience, and then for four years gave his attention 
 to mining. 
 
 Then he returned to Fort Wayne, where he expects 
 to sell turnip seed and otherwise promote the welfare of 
 S. Bash & Company for decades to come. 
 
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— '^^SSSSr' 
 
 LUTHER H. KEIL 
 
 MR. KEIL is a paper man, although not a newspaper 
 man. 
 
 In social affairs there are wallflowers, but in business 
 affairs Mr. Keil is not one of these. He believes in dec. 
 orating homes. He puts flowers on the walls in endless 
 variety. He began his early business career as circu- 
 lator on the Fort Wayne Gazette. He learned to draw 
 his salary artistically and later devoted much time to 
 art. He learned the distinction between a tintype and a 
 Rembrandt without the aid of glasses. He soon drifted 
 into the general decorating business. He has never 
 presided at a lynching bee, but can direct his men just 
 how to hang a curtain. He can aid you in selecting 
 beautiful designs for decorating the parlor walls. He 
 can even help you out in the dining-room. Just invite 
 him in and see. 
 
 Luther was born and reared in Fort Wayne, and he 
 seems to be proud of the city. He has remained at home 
 to help boom things. He has made many homes attract- 
 ive. He has many beautiful pictures to put on the walls 
 after the paper is up. There are landscapes in endless 
 variety and some pictures not so well clothed with foliage 
 or other decorations ; but the frames are all modest and 
 beautiful. Mr. Keil has artistic ideas, and his display 
 suits all tastes. He knows a good thing when he sees 
 it and keeps his many friends posted. He is a popular 
 young business man in every sense of the word, and his 
 customers are his friends. He does not own an auto- 
 mobile, but never misses a polo game or a baseball 
 game e.xcept on Sunday. The fact that he likes Fort 
 Wayne and remains in the city of his birth indicates 
 that he has good taste in selecting a home as well as 
 selecting beautiful pictures or blending colors to make 
 the interior of a home attractive 
 
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WILLIAM H. SHAMBAUGH 
 
 SO.MH men were born great, and a few others were 
 born in Cedar Creek township. City Attorney 
 William Henr\- Shambaugh belongs to the latter class. 
 All of the greatness he has acquired was accumulated 
 through hard work. He was born on a farm and lingered 
 there till he was graduated from the country schools. 
 Then he went from the pasture lot to the Indiana Uni- 
 versity at Bloomington. He concluded his law course at 
 the Lebanon. Ohio, Normal School. He then came back 
 to Allen county and entered the office of Judge Alden. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and opened a law- 
 office of his own. He aro.se to fame by being elected to 
 the Indiana legislature in 1887 and in 1889. He was the 
 father of the house appropriation bill which made it pos- 
 sible for Fort Wayne to get the Indiana School for 
 Feeble-Minded Youth. In 1891 he was appointed city 
 attorney for this municipality by the Democratic mayor, 
 and he has hung to this office with tenacity ever since, 
 e.xcepting the two years of Mayor Oakley's administra- 
 tion. Shambaugh was nominated by the Democrats as 
 a candidate for mayor, but the people wanted him as 
 cit\' attorney more than they wanted him as mayor, and 
 he took a back seat in the rear gallery of municipal stars 
 for two years. Again we find him running the legal end 
 of the city and telling the erstwhile statesmen where to 
 back into oblivion when he chooses to play a stellar 
 engagement before the municipal footlights. William 
 knows how to run his tongue to say things which are 
 pleasant, witty and interesting. He is not as silent as 
 some statesmen. He is an orator and is frequentlv- 
 heard at banquets. He has been toa.stmaster at Elk 
 functions, and his eloquence is often heard at public 
 gatherings. He has a silver tongue, but is a little 
 inclined toward golden thoughts. 
 
LOUIS A. CENTLIVRE 
 
 ANYONE who lives on Spy Run avenue is not in it. 
 That is, he doesn't Hve in Fort Wayne. This is 
 one reason that Louie Centhvre has to have a horse and 
 buggy to come to town. Louie is very much at home in 
 town, however, and some day he may not have to mo\e 
 to be right in it. Louie won't sell his horse then, because 
 he loves tine horses too well. He has had a hand in 
 making Fort Wayne famous for fast horseflesh. 
 
 Louie ought to be called "Major" — not because he 
 was ever a member of the Salvation Army, but because 
 he was a member of Governor Matthews' official staff. 
 Louie bought more gold buttons than a major-general ever 
 wore, and he had enough gold braid to put a gilt lining 
 on every cloud in the dome above on a sunless day. 
 Louie was born to command, but on the governor's staff 
 a "major" is about as high as a tray in a soiled decU 
 But Louie was the handsomest man on the staff, and on 
 dress parade he was the cynosure of all eyes. He was 
 the only man on the staff who knew how to pronounce 
 the French on a bill of fare, and in consequence always 
 had the place of honor next to the governor at all ban- 
 quets. He always carried on his conversation with the 
 governor in kitchen and parlor French. For some time, 
 whenever he spoke of himself and the governor he said 
 something which sounded like the editorial "we." 
 Louie says he will never forget when his friends here 
 gave him that S500 sword. He uses it to cut grass now. 
 His children use the brass buttons for marbles, and the 
 gold braid has been loaned to the Democratic party for a 
 platform lining. Since retiring from "office" Mr Cent- 
 livre has been doing duty as the president of the C. L 
 Centlivre Brewing Company His duties keep him 
 busily engaged, but he also has spare time to devote 
 his energies to other enterprises in which he is heavily 
 interested. 
 
CARL YAPLE 
 
 A .WAN horn in Michigan, as the old saying goes, is a 
 '^ Michigander. hut Attorney Carl Yaple left the flock 
 up north and came down to Fort Wayne to shed his 
 feathers. He was born at Coldwater, and although a 
 Michigander takes kindly to water. Carl left the pond 
 to seek knowledge in dry books. 
 
 He came out of the Coldwater high school with honors 
 and then went to Albion college. Later we find him 
 taking the literary course at the Ann Arbor university 
 After he got literary he did not come to Indiana to write 
 novels, but entered the law department of the Indiana 
 University In 1899 he began the practice of law 
 in the office of Vesey & Heatoii. Two years ago he 
 formed a partnership with Attorney Ben F. Heaton, and 
 this law firm has been eminently surcessful. 
 
 Mr. Yaple's father is an able Michigan jurist and has 
 occupied the circuit bench with honor, has been to Con- 
 gress, and not long ago was the Democratic nominee for 
 the governorship. 
 
 Carl has become active in Allen county politics and is 
 now vice-president of the Jefferson club. He is well 
 equipped mentally for a career at the bar. and b\- inher- 
 itance he possesses many of the traits which have made 
 his father an able man in the courts of Michigan. He 
 lives in Lakeside, near Delta Lake, and this is as near as 
 he could get to cold water and reside in Fort Wayne. 
 He likes Fort Wayne and her people, and he is well liked 
 by all who have had the pleasure to meet him. 
 
TOM SNOOK 
 
 WHEN Tom SnooU was a small boy he resembled 
 all other small boys in his fondness for stories; 
 and the tales which interested him most were those 
 which concerned that wonderful land on the opposite 
 side of the ocean, for it must be known that he was then 
 a subject of good Queen Victoria. 
 
 As the years passed and he learned in school of this 
 sreat America of ours, he began to entertain a longing to 
 know more about it. This desire ripened into a decision 
 to see it some day, and when the time came for him to 
 leave the army service of her majesty he boarded a 
 vessel and came across, landing at a Canadian port, for. 
 while he thought that the future might see him a full- 
 fledged son of Uncle Sam, yet he did not want to rush 
 hurriedly into the new condition. He remained loyal to 
 his sovereign by following there the trade to which he 
 had been apprenticed in England— carpentry. At a con- 
 venient time he left Canada and came across the border. 
 Mr. Snook doesn't know just what turn of fortune brought 
 him to Fort Wayne; but he's glad that it happened that 
 way, as he has found it to be a beloved spot, the exper- 
 ience of scores of others whom chance has seemed to 
 place in this locality, and who are now adding to the 
 charm and attractiveness of the city, which has a healthy 
 growth through that medium. 
 
 Mr. Snook, though a young man. is one of the lead- 
 ing building contractors of this section of Indiana. From 
 a comparatively small beginning he has. through upright, 
 frugal practices, grown to a place of earned prominence. 
 One of the newest products of his ability is the palatial 
 home of Mr. Paul Mossman on West Wayne street. Mr. 
 Snook has no fads, but he likes to sing and to drive a 
 sprightly horse. 
 
LEWIS P. SHARP 
 
 THf; man riding the G. O. P. elephant is Lewis P. 
 Sharp. He is appropriately thus pictured because 
 he is the Chairman of the Repulihcan County Central 
 Committee, and he knows how to guide the Republican 
 elepliant along paths of safety. He has been on its 
 back in political campaigns of the past and understands 
 its ways. He has been active and prominent in the af- 
 fairs of his party for years and it was his abilities as a 
 campaign worker and organizer that led to his selection 
 hy the Republicans for the position of county chairman. 
 
 Mr. Sharp is the chief deputy in the office of Counly 
 Treasurer Funk, a position he has held since that gentle- 
 man assumed his office last January. Fort Wayne has 
 not always been the home of .V\r. Sharp. He is a native 
 of the state of New York. There he was educated, 
 graduating from the St. Lawrence University and teach- 
 ing school during his college vacations. He was a 
 school teacher before he was nineteen years of age. 
 Educated for this profession, he came west as a young 
 man and located in this county, where he taught school 
 for several years and then followed the same occupation 
 in Iowa and Illinois. 
 
 In the latter state, at Rock Island, he engaged in the 
 queensware business and returning to Fort Wayne in 
 1890 conducted a large store of the same kind in this 
 city. Afterwards he engaged in the bicycle and sewing 
 machine business here. His last occupation before en- 
 tering the county treasurer's office was as traveling 
 salesman for the Fort Wayne Oil and Supply Company. 
 Mr. Sharp's profession as a teacher and his business 
 have given him a wide acquaintance throughout the 
 county. 
 
ISADORE MAUTNER 
 
 IN one peculiar respect, base ball differs from all other 
 lines of effort in which a young man may engage. 
 In everything else we aJvise the youth of our day to 
 strike out for himself— it's the road to success. In base 
 ball, the youth who "strikes out for himself" brings 
 forth such highly embarrassing remarks as these from 
 the grand-stand: "Rotten! Go hack to the farm!" etc. 
 
 Isadore Mautner, president of the Fort Wayne Base 
 Ball Association, which controls the aggregation of local 
 pennant winners, hasn't got a lot of hired men in his 
 employ who stand up as targets tor such comments. 
 No. he knows his business from A to Z. His team in 
 the Central League won the pennant in 1903, and every- 
 body knows what they did during the season just closed. 
 
 Mr. Mautner might not be able to take a "fly" in 
 the field. He might not be able to collar a "hot one" 
 at "short" or second base: he might "go down" at the 
 bat in the one, two. three order every day in the week: 
 he might make a failure as an umpire or as a field 
 captain: but as a base ball manager he is certainly a 
 success, and as such the base ball uniform fits him all 
 right. Perhaps it's the first time he has ever worn one. 
 
 Mr. Mautner. during the two seasons he has man- 
 aged the Fort Wayne team, has given the people of this 
 city good, clean ball. He has had a winning club, a 
 bunch of fast players, and made the game one that com- 
 manded and secured the patronage of its lovers and 
 won for it new friends. The national game is here to 
 stay as long as the Fort Wayne club is under his splendid 
 management. 
 
 Previousto taking charge of the ball club .Wr. Mautner 
 was in the clothing business as manager of the big and 
 well-known clothing house of Sam, Pete & Max. a firm 
 that did business here for many years. He became their 
 successor and, under the firm name of Mautner & Com- 
 pany, continued in business for himself for several years. 
 
E. GREGG DAVIS 
 
 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS was a discoverer of 
 note, but it is confidentially whispered that as a 
 discoverer of new additions E. Gregg Davis has Chris in 
 the last seat in the gallery behind a post. Chris sailed 
 across the big wide pond, while Gregg makes sales of 
 real estate and flies into business. Gregg was not born 
 in Italy. This is another thing in his favor. He was 
 born in Fort Wayne about twenty-seven years ago. 
 After a prolonged experience with the Fort Wayne public 
 schools he entered the Pennsylvania freight office and 
 held almost ever)- job in the place before he resigned, five 
 years ago. For two years he was with the Central 
 Traffic Association looking into rates and tonnage. 
 
 In .Warch, 1902, he embarked in the real estate busi- 
 ness. Like Columbus, he began making discoveries, 
 and Lawton Place addition, Oakhill Grove addition. 
 Nickel Plate addition, Huffman Place addition, Interurban 
 Acre addition, Morton Place addition and East Creighton 
 Avenue addition were put on the map. He planted E. 
 Gregg Davis banners on all these additions and began 
 to look about for natives with enough dough to invest. 
 
 While he has been doing this he claims to have dis- 
 covered the man who is building the new theatre and 
 "points with pride" to his ivork. Gregg's deals in dirt 
 are constantly increasing. He is daily working to get 
 real estate off his hands. Socially he is a popular young 
 business man. To look at him in his busiest hours one 
 would not imagine that he is a comedian and a singer. 
 He starred for one consecutive night with the Tippecanoe 
 club minstrel company and made a hit. He is an active 
 Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to all of the clubs 
 which are designed to improve the city of Fort Wayne. 
 He is thoroughly a Fort Wayneite, first, last and all of 
 the time. 
 
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 ROBERT L. FOX 
 
 IN a few years from the present, 1904, you may turn 
 the pages of this hook and at certain places where 
 now a laugh may be founJ. no humor will then be dis- 
 cernible: while on other pages an added smile may be 
 discovered, placed there by the changes which time 
 alone can bring. 
 
 One notable change will be the shifting of the places 
 of importance in the commercial and professional world 
 from the older to the younger shoulders. A number, in 
 ten or fifteen years, will have passed from the tieki of 
 activity and many of the young men, like Mr. Fox. for 
 example, who is just building his businees career, will be 
 occupying the center of the stage. Keep the book care- 
 fully and observe the truth of the prediction. 
 
 Robert L. Fox. whom we discover here displaying a 
 nobby piece of furniture, is a member of the important 
 house of Fox. Hite & Company. He was born here 
 twenty-six years ago. and when old enough to repeat 
 the alphabet he started to school at one of the parochial 
 institutions. Upon finishing the course, he entered 
 Notre Dame University and graduated in 1901. Thus 
 equipped in a general way for the solution of life's 
 problems, he took a course in a business college to fit 
 himself for a commercial career. It was after leaving this 
 school that he purchased G. W. Soliday's interest in 
 Soliday. Hite & Company. 
 
 This concern is a ■■booster," one of the big retail 
 houses of the city. They call it the "New" store because 
 the styles of their furniture and carpets and the other 
 various lines are never allowed to become old or out-of- 
 date. 
 
HERMAN T. SIEMON 
 
 HERE is a man who might be called ■■TeJdy" with 
 impunity. He is a big man. If you don't believe 
 it ask his tailor. He is not carrying these books and 
 ink to reduce his flesh, but to show them to a customer 
 in his big book store so as to reduce the stock of books. 
 
 Herman Theodore Siemon is a product of the Second 
 ward. He still lives in the ward. Mayor Berghoff, City 
 Clerk Schmidt and a large colony of Syrians also live in 
 this ward. H. Theodore Siemon is proud of his ward. 
 His father, the late August Siemon, and his father's 
 brother, Rudolph Siemon, founded the Siemon Brothers 
 book store on Clinton street in 184;. Later Rudolph 
 Siemon retired from the firm, and since the demise of 
 August Sieinon, the senior member of the hrm, the busi- 
 ness has been controlled by two of his sons, H. T. Siemon, 
 the subject of this sketch, and his brother, Henry R. 
 Siemon. The firm name has not been changed in all 
 these years. The firm has a good location on Calhoun 
 street in the very heart of the city. 
 
 Before Herman "Teddy" Sieinon began reading the 
 books in his own store he went to Saint Paul's Lutheran 
 school, the Fort Wayne high school and also Concordia 
 College. He learned to read early and keeps it up late. 
 •■Reading maketh a full man." and as Herman is con- 
 stantly surrounded by good books no wonder he is an 
 expansionist. His looks are not deceiving. He has 
 read everything from Joe Miller's joke book to the gold 
 plank in the Democratic platform. He does not believe 
 everything he reads in modern historical novels, but he 
 has a penchant for telling his legion of friends the names 
 of good stories when he locates them. If he should drop 
 the bottle of ink which he is carrying it would be the 
 only dark spot in his entire business career. 
 
GEORGE W. PIXLEY 
 
 IT is almost an even money wager that George W. 
 Pixley played with building blocks on the New York 
 farm ot his father, near Utica, in 1834 and 1835. In 
 mure recent years Mr. Pixley has been engaged in 
 building blocks. He was most active in the building of 
 the Masonic Temple in this city. He assisted in building 
 the Pi.xley-Long Block and has been president of the 
 Tri-State Building and Loan Association which has 
 erected so many substantial homes in Fort Wayne. No 
 wonder he was made a thirty-third degree Mason in 
 1889. He has been so busy building up Fort Wayne 
 since his arrival here in 1876 that he needed to be either 
 a Mason or a carpenter. 
 
 Mr. Pi.xley comes from good continental stock and 
 his great-grandfather raised and furnished a regiment 
 of his own for the Re\ olutionary war. He went to the 
 front with his Connecticut troops and placed the name 
 of Pi.xley on the pages of revolutionary history. After 
 the close of the war, his sons began the development of 
 middle New York. George W. Pixley was the son of 
 one of these sturdy settlers. He received his early 
 education in New York and came to Fort Wayne about 
 thirty years ago. His great-grandfather furnished a 
 regiment of soldiers. The subject of this sketch came 
 west to furnish the regiment of toilers and professional 
 men of Fort Wayne with clothing. The firm of Pixley & 
 Company owns many stores and the Fort Wayne branch 
 certainly does its share in keeping men well dressed. 
 In order that men in this vicinity would be compelled to 
 keep well dressed both night and day, Mr. Pixley was 
 one of the enthusiastic promoters of the Jenney Electric 
 Light and Power Company. He is .still the treasurer of 
 the local lighting company and has. in many ways, 
 assisted materially in clothing Fort Wayne with metro- 
 politan airs and her men and boys with suitable sur- 
 roundings. 
 
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CHARLES E. BOND 
 
 ACTIONS sometimes speak plainer than words. So 
 do facial expressions. In the sUetch we discover 
 Mr. Bond making the silent but nevertheless emphatic 
 announcement that he is about to get action, and if you 
 don't want to suffer personal injury you must stand aside. 
 
 Mr. Bond is not a professional golfer. He hasn't 
 fractured any of the Kekionga championship records. 
 He's like the true sportsman, who is willing to fish all 
 day long and come home weary hut satisfied even if he 
 doesn't get a bite. He plays golf because he likes it and 
 because a man who is conhned within doors during the 
 greater part of the day must have a good deal of out-of- 
 door exercise after working hours if he desires to remain 
 long as a happy resident of this earth. 
 
 ,\\r. Bond is the assistant cashier of the Old National 
 Bank. The Bond name — itself suggestive of the business 
 with which it has been so long associated in Fort Wayne 
 — has been connected with local banking institutions for 
 nearly sixty years. Although two of the men who have 
 kept it there during the greater portion of that time — 
 Messrs. S. B. Bond and J. D, Bond— are soon to retire 
 from active business lite. Mr. C E. Bond, through his 
 continued connection with the Old National Bank, will 
 keep the name prominent. With the extension of tlie 
 charter of the Old National, beginning with next Decem- 
 ber, the official personnel of that institution will be 
 revised; at that time will occur the changes suggested. 
 
 This bank had its beginning in the early thirties, 
 when it was organized as the State Bank of Indiana, 
 with Hon. Samuel Hanna as its president. The branch 
 of the State Bank of Indiana succeeded it, and in iSo:; it 
 was reorganized as the Fort Wayne National Bank, It 
 remained so until 1884, when the present house was 
 organized to succeed it. 
 
 Mr, Bond is a loyal and enthusiastic member of the 
 Commercial Club and of the Anthony Wayne Club, being 
 a director in and the treasurer of both organizations. He 
 is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Indiana 
 consistory, 
 
 LOfC. 
 
RONALD DAWSON 
 
 THE belief that a "a jack at all trades is a cracker- 
 jack at none' ' may have been all right when the 
 statement was orignally made l>ut there are exceptions 
 to it now, even in this day of specialists. 
 
 Take Mr. Dawson, for example: 
 
 He can get you a divorce or do you a dainty piece of 
 tatting. He can make a thrilling speech on democracy 
 or carve you a handsome library table. He can give you 
 a pleasing dissertation on the old masters or bake you a 
 luscious cherry pie. He can design a cozy town hous"" 
 or a unique summer cottage and speak German as well 
 as the mayor. He can prepare an exhaustive article on 
 "The Ichthyopterygium of the Ichthyosaurus" for the 
 Fortnightly Club or do you a pretty piece of pyrography. 
 Heain defend you in the courts of justice or prepare you 
 a variety of dainty dishes tit for a king. He can corner 
 enough votes in Allen County to make himself prose- 
 cuting attorney or plan a landscape garden as well as 
 anybody else. He can give a song and dance at the 
 Elks' Minstrels or — well, if there's anything you wish 
 done or want a suggestion as to how to do it. ask 
 Ronald. 
 
 Mr. Dawson is the young prosecuting attorney of 
 Allen County and has been renominated fur that office. 
 Like his grandfather and his father, both big men of 
 Indiana, he is a Democrat. He began his education in 
 the German schools of Fort Wayne and then at ended 
 Concordia College. He later graduated lioin PurJue 
 University and the Albany, New York, Law School. 
 After his a('mission to the bar h? became the partner of 
 Judge John H. Aiken until that gentleman's elevation 
 to the liench. Since then he has been affiliated with 
 Homer C. Underwood. 
 
 Mr. Dawson's cottage at Rome City— a rustic 
 creation— is one of the prettiest of the pretty summer 
 houses at that popular resort. 
 
JOHN F. WING 
 
 EVERY man is compelleii to be the architect of his own 
 future. A whole lot of us would come out more 
 successfully in the end if we could only sublet the contract. 
 
 Mr. Wing doesn't pose as a dealer in futures, but as 
 an architect of buildings he certainly occupies a prom- 
 inent seat in the front row. We asked him the other 
 day to give us a list of the principal buildings which had 
 been designed by the firm of Wing & Mahurin. He pulled 
 out a list about a rod and a half long, finely written, and 
 from that great array we copied the following: 
 
 The main buildings of the Indiana School for Feeble- 
 .Winded Youth; Indiana building at the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition: Hancock county court house: Starke 
 county court house: Ottawa county (Ohio) court house: 
 Jay county jail: Sullivan county infirmary: Kosciusko 
 county infirmary: Marshall county infirmary; Monroe 
 county infirmary; Wabash high school; Greenfield high 
 school; Saint Paul's Lutheran church. Fort Wayne; 
 Bloomington Baptist church; Noblesville Christian 
 church — in fact, there were so many big contracts in the 
 list that our eyes began to swim before he even com- 
 menced to show us the big list of magnificent dwellings, 
 so we cried quits. He did insist, however, on showing 
 us the picture of "Brookside." the beautiful home of 
 John H. Bass, built after the Wing & Mahurin plans, 
 and in this attitude we snapshot him. 
 
 Mr. Wing is a native of De.xter. Michigan He took 
 a classical course at Ann .Arbor, but studied architecture 
 out of hours. This was fortunate, for. on the death of 
 his father, he was compelled to leave school and begin 
 work, which he was able to do with a firm of Ann Arbor 
 architects. He was at Jackson for a time and came to 
 Fort Wayne in 187S. His partnership with M S Mahurin 
 dates from 1881. 
 
HENRY BEADELL 
 
 FORT WAYNE seems to have assemWeJ many of its 
 best citizens from the four quarters of the globe. 
 Mr. Beadell is an Enghshman. He was born in London, 
 and in that great city began his learning of the dry- 
 goods business which has enabled him to make such a 
 great success of the People's Store of today. 
 
 It was in 1882 that Mr. Beadell decided to come to 
 America. A peculiar incident of the trip was the fact 
 that one of his fellow passengers was Jumbo, the biggest 
 elephant that ever grew. The beast had just been pur- 
 chased by Barnum from the London Zoological Gardens, 
 and his importation attracted world-wide attention. 
 
 Upon his arrival in the United States Mr. Beadell 
 went to Norwich, Connecticut, where he remained a year 
 in the dry goods business before coming to Fort Wayne. 
 Here he formed a partnership with the late Thomas 
 Stewart and John Jameson, the firm being Stewart, 
 Jameson & Beadell. Upon the dissolution of this firm, 
 the business passed to Stewart & Hahn. Mr. Beadell 
 then remo\-ed to Lafayette and entered the employ of 
 the Boston Store. But in 1887, having learned to like 
 Fort Wayne during his brief residence here, he returned 
 and formed a partnership with Nolas Dodois. the firm 
 being known as Dodois, Beadell & Company, proprie- 
 tors of the People's Store. Two or three years later this 
 firm was succeeded by Beadell & Company, with Mr. 
 Beadell as the active head. The business was begun in 
 a room 4o.\6o feet in size. Just notice its growth: 
 Three \'ears ago the People's Store moved into its present 
 magnificent quarters occupying 44.000 square feet. An 
 a\erage of from eighty to one hundred people are con- 
 stantly employed. 
 
 Mr. Beadell is an e.\-president of the Commercial 
 Club and an active member of its board of directors. He 
 is a member of the board of directors of the People's 
 Trust Company, and has many other local interests. 
 
EDWARD G. HOFFMAN 
 
 THIS young man is a native of Allen County, and. 
 having been absent for several years to tit himself 
 for his life work he has returned to make his career in 
 the community of his birth. And if the reports which 
 echo from the schools indicate his ability, he is certainly 
 prepared to build well upon a sub.stantial foundation. 
 
 Mr. Hoffman is a lawyer. He was born on a farm 
 near Maysville, Springheld Township. After attending 
 the Maysville schools for some time, he took a course 
 in the Valparaiso College, giving special attention to 
 literary work. Here he showed marked ability as a 
 speaker and began the work that attracted to him the 
 honors which came through his later efforts when he 
 entered the University of Michigan to study law. At 
 the Ann Arbor school Mr. Hoffman was president of the 
 Class of '03, which graduated in June of that year. 
 During his stay in the school the University of Michigan 
 made a splendid debating and oratorical record, and 
 much (if this was due to Hoffman's ability and personal 
 efforts as a member of the cup debating team of that 
 institution. He held the important position of president 
 of the Central Debating League, composed of teams 
 representing the Northwestern tmiversity, the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, the University of Minnesota and 
 the University of Michigan. He thoroughly proved his 
 worthiness and title to the place, especially as the 
 leader of the Michigan team in its victorious bout with 
 the Pennsylvania University, and as the leader in the 
 celebrated Chicago-Michigan debate. While in the 
 school he officiated as an associate editor of the 
 Michigan Law Review. 
 
 On leaving the uni\ersity he came to Fort Wayne 
 and formed a partnership with W. N. Ballou, also a 
 Michigan graduate. Mr. Hoffman's voice has not often 
 been heard in public since he came to town to stay, but 
 he is young yet and the future is full of opportunities. 
 
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 GAYLORD M. LESLIE 
 
 IT is no crime to be liorn in Oliio, because many great 
 men originated in that state. Dr. Gaylord M. Leslie 
 first saw the light of Jay at Convoy, only a little way 
 from the Indiana line. When he began to see things 
 clearly, he yearned for Indiana, and he came down the 
 line. To cure himself of the Ohio habit he began the 
 study of medicine in the Fort Wayne College of Medicine. 
 He liked the cure and has never left Fort Wayne. He 
 was graduated in i8q8 and immediately began the prac- 
 tice of medicine. He was a deep student and rose rap- 
 idly in his profession. He devoted much attention to the 
 study of tubercular troubles. He became ill. and while 
 asleep one day the surgeons removed his appendix. 
 What was left ot him recovered, although he took a trip 
 to Arizona to recuperate. He left his heart in Indiana. 
 Since his marriage he has had much to do with the man- 
 agement of Brookside. the beautiful suburban home of 
 his father-in-law, John H. Bass. 
 
 Although his early life was devoted to the study of 
 the minutest germs, he is now able to tell the difference 
 between a Clydesdale and a Shetland, or between a Gal- 
 loway and a hairless Mexican dog. He made the Gallo- 
 way cattle and the Clydesdale horses of Northern Indiana 
 famous. Personally he is a delightful gentleman and a 
 most active young business man. He has shown him- 
 self thoroughly capable in all his undertakings and it 
 may be a good thing that he came down the Ohio line 
 into Hoosierdom. Convoy is a good place to come from. 
 We are all glad the doctor is here. 
 
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AUGUSTUS C. AURENTZ 
 
 GUS" AURENTZ is probably entitled to more 
 credit for the unusually larj^e number of happy 
 weddings among the young people of this community 
 than any other living person. TaUe for instance the 
 case of a young man who has hopes of winning the heart 
 and hand and millinery bills of the fairest damsel in the 
 adjoining ward. Suppose he doesn't come right out and 
 tell her what he's thinking about, but iiuietly takes her 
 to Mr. Aurentz's refreshment parlor and treats her to a 
 luscious Sundae, with cherries on it. Then suppo'-e he 
 repeats this program and varies the order, occasionally 
 taking away with them a box of Mr. Aurentz's hne bon- 
 lions and chocolates. And suppose some time when her 
 grateful little soul is longing for some expression of her 
 gratitude he takes advantage of the opportunity and 
 lovingly assures her that if she will only be his com- 
 panion through life their e.xistence will be one continuous 
 round of this sort of thing. Would she turn him down ? 
 Well, we guess not 
 
 And so we say that while Mr. Aurentz isn't conduct- 
 ing a matrimonial bureau he is doing a whole lot of good 
 in this direction. 
 
 "Gus" has always lived here. He attended the 
 Brothers' school and for six years carried newspapers. 
 When he was fifteen he entered the employ of the Fox 
 bakery and remained se\en year.s — first he was a receiv- 
 ing clerk, then house salesman, and then he sold crack- 
 ers and ginger snaps on the road. As an experiment, he 
 opened a small confectionery store at Calhoun and 
 Washington .streets, occupying the corner of a drug 
 .store. It panned out so well that he quit the place with 
 the Fox people and gave his whole attention to his new 
 venture. We all know how well he has succeeded and 
 why it was necessary- to secure larger quarters to ac- 
 commodate seekers after the best there is. 
 
JESSE BROSIUS 
 
 ALTHOUGH Jesse Brosius was horn on a farm, he is 
 opposed to farmiPK out municipal franchises for 
 long terms of years to private individuals. He has taken 
 an active stand against long term franchises since he 
 has been serving in the Fort Wayne city council as 
 one of the representatives from the Ninth ward. 
 
 About forty-one years ago he was born in Schuylkill 
 county. Pennsylvania. When he was ten years old his 
 parents settled on an Allen county farm, and he has 
 resided here ever since. When he quit using the gad 
 after the stock on the farm he took up the rod after the 
 children as an Allen county pedagogue. All of the time 
 he lived in the country he was never afraid of the cars. 
 He never was afraid of the big boys in his schools. This 
 gave him courage, and he entered the government rail- 
 way mail service, and for fourteen years he lived in 
 postal cars on the Pennsylvania railroad between Pitts- 
 burg and Chicago. He handled fast mail, but it never 
 encouraged him to fly at a fast clip himself. He has 
 been an honored and respected citizen of Allen county 
 and Fort Wayne for the past thirty years. 
 
 A little o\er two years ago he quit reading postal 
 cards and addresses and retired to embark in business. 
 He is now the head of the e.xtensive bicycle and carriage 
 tirm of Brosius & Brosius, on Clinton street. When his 
 Republican friends in the Ninth ward asked him to run 
 for councilman in a strong Democratic ward he at first 
 declined, but his popularity among his neighbors was 
 firmly established when he was elected b\- an o\erwhelm- 
 ing majority. His career in the city council has been 
 fearless, and he stands for honest legislation along pro- 
 gressive lines. Socially he is popular. In city affairs, 
 when he believes he is right, he has the courage of his 
 convictions. 
 
LEWIS O. HULL 
 
 MR. HULL was only thirteen when the war broke 
 out. hut he managed to enhst as a Llruiumer hoy 
 in Company B, One HunJreJ and Twentieth Ohio Volun- 
 teers, and was in the Army of the Gulf under Grant 
 during most of the period of nearly four years of active 
 service. He was in Sherman's attack on Vickshurg and 
 at the battle of Arkansas Post. When the transport 
 "Silver Wave," which was lashed to a gunboat of 
 Commodore Porter's fleet, ran the blockade of Vicks- 
 luirg on the night of April i6. 1863, he was on board; but 
 he slept soundly through the whole pandemonium of 
 battle and heard never a sound; the long march to reach 
 the boat had worn out the lad with the drum. Later, 
 his regiment was packed like sardines on the transport 
 ••City Bell," on Red River, enroute to Ale.xandria, when 
 a murderous fire from masked batteries and infantry at 
 short range was turned upon them. The vessel was 
 riddled and burned, only one hundred and thirty soldiers 
 escaping, the drummer boy among the number. He was 
 present at the siege of Vicksburg and the battles leading 
 up to it. under General Grant, and was on hand to wit- 
 ness the siege and capture of Blakely and Mobile. So. 
 for a period of nearly four years, he served his country 
 well and was honorably discharged at Houston, Te.xas, 
 October 14. 1865. 
 
 Mr. Hull came directly to Fort Wayne from Texas. 
 However, he is a native of Ohio, having been born at 
 Lucas, in Richland County. He engaged in the wall 
 paper business for himself in 1870. and has continued 
 very successfully ever since. His establishment, located 
 at 830 Calhoun Street, is a model of its kind. Mr. Hull 
 is not rich, nor does he desire to be. He believes that 
 the pursuit of wealth should not be sole aim in life, and 
 that real happiness is to be found between poverty and 
 riches. He believes also that no man should dress his 
 body in broadcloth and let his mind go in rags. 
 
THOMAS L. STAPLES 
 
 HERE is President Stav^les of the International Busi- 
 ness College, pointing out a truth. It may he a 
 hidden truth to many, but the man or woman who began 
 a successful business or commercial career as a sten- 
 ographer will read it and say. "Staples is right." 
 
 The International, located in the Elektron building, 
 has grown from an insignificant beginning, fourteen 
 years ago, to be the largest business college in Indiana. 
 At hrst it had an attendance of twenty-five: last year 
 the enrollment passed the five hundred mark. It is a 
 fully equipped, thoroughly efficient business training 
 school. President Staples has only one thing to worn,- 
 him — the number of applications received each year for 
 young men graduates of the stenographic department is 
 far in excess of the number who complete the course. 
 Here is a pointer for the boy who is wandering the 
 streets wondering what the future has in store for him. 
 
 Mr. Staples is a Canadian. He was born in Toronto, 
 where he had the advantage of the best of schooling to 
 fit him for his future work. He is a graduate of the 
 Toronto University and was the gold medalist of the 
 Canadian School of Commerce on the completion of his 
 studies there. For one year after coming to the United 
 States he conducted the International Business College 
 at Saginaw, .Michigan. He established the school in 
 Fort Wayne in 1890. .Wr. Staples, unlike the heads of 
 nearly all other colleges, spends most of his time in the 
 class room. He has a strong personality, and his stu- 
 dents all like him. It is probable that he has no superior 
 as a penman in the United States. He has surrounded 
 himself with a corps of competent instructors, who carry 
 on the work of the various departments under his gen- 
 eral super\ision. The International is an institution of 
 which Fort Wayne is rightly proud. Mr. Staples made 
 it worthy of that pride. 
 
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GEORGE W. BEERS 
 
 HERE is a man who has so many hnes out that he has 
 pulled himself away up in the telephone world. 
 
 George (not Washington but) Ward Beers was born 
 in Darke county, Ohio. He has climbed up in the telt^ 
 phone business so as to get in the light. In Van Wert 
 he began climbing at the age of seven years. He knew 
 every apple tree in the village. Then he began handling 
 timber for railroad supplies He first got the contract for 
 building the telegraph lines for the Cincinnati, Jackson 
 & Mackinac railroad. Just because you see him hanging 
 around the poles is no sign that he is a politician, 
 although it takes a man who knows how to pull the 
 strings just right to get franchises. After building inde- 
 pendent telephone exchanges in all of the small towns 
 around Van Wert. Mr. Beers came to Fort Wayne in 
 1893. He was one of the organizers of the Home Tele- 
 phone and Telegraph company. Then the conversational 
 powers of many cities and towns in this vicinity were 
 developed. The Western Union, the Postal and the 
 Bell companies refused to connect the independent 
 exchanges. Then he jumped into the missing link busi- 
 ness. The International Telephone and Telegraph com- 
 pany was organized, and now the whole of Northern 
 Indiana. Southern Michigan and portions of Ohio as far 
 east as Lima rejoice. Indianapolis was later developed 
 in the independent telephone business. Now Cincinnati 
 is to be improved in its talk. Mr. Beers has secured a 
 franchise there after a sixteen months' fight. The Queen 
 City Telephone company has been created by his hand, 
 and he will soon be stringing the residences and business 
 houses of that city on his lines. He predicts that it will 
 be one of the biggest telephone systems in the United 
 States. 
 
 While waiting for his talk to expand, Mr. Beers is the 
 active head of the Investment Company of Northern 
 Indiana. 
 
ARTHUR H. PERFECT 
 
 THE accompanying Jaguerreutype is a prevarication, 
 a misrepresentation, a falseliood and a libel It 
 pretends to show Mr. Perfect in an attitude of rest and 
 repose. We hasten to apologize for this, as he has 
 never been known to rest or take things easy except on 
 Sundays, and on those days he abandons all thoughts 
 of tomatoes and cheese and prunes. 
 
 This gentleman with tl-.e perpetual smile is the head- 
 liner of A. H. Perfect & Company, the large wholesale 
 grocers. When we stop to consider how nearly we came 
 to not getting him as a resident of Fort Wayne we 
 almost shudder at the thought. It happened in this 
 way— but let us tell the story from the beginning: 
 
 Mr. Perfect was born at Anamosa. Iowa. One of the 
 state prisons is located in this town, and when the lad 
 grew old enough to realize what a bad community he 
 had gotten into, he persuaded his folks to move away. 
 They went to Wilmington, Ohio, where, after leaving 
 school, Mr. Perfect began his business experience work- 
 ing in a dry goods store. Then the Perfects moved to 
 Springfield, Ohio. While spending his days selling rib- 
 bons and cambrics and all-over embroideries, he devoted 
 his evenings to the study of stenography. Later, he 
 got onto the application of business methods in two 
 large manufacturing institutions. His first business 
 venture was a Findlay. Ohio, where for six years he. in 
 company with a partner operated a wholesale grocery 
 house. Evans, Perfect & Company, with marked success. 
 He sold his interests to his partner and established a 
 grocery house at Madison, Wisconsin. One day, in 
 1896, while passing through Fort Wayne, he heard of 
 the closing of the wholesale grocery of McDonald & 
 Watt, and thought to purchase a portion of the stock 
 for the Madison house. The result was the buying of 
 the entire stock and the closing of the Madison venture. 
 That's how Mr. Perfect's name came near being left out 
 of our city directory. 
 
HARRY A. KEPLINGER 
 
 THERE IS no hoodoo attached to the number 13. Harry 
 Keplingerisa hving example of this assertion. He 
 was born on the thirteenth of March, forty-three years 
 ago. It was in the dark of the moon when e\erything 
 was still. This was in Fort Wayne. Harry had thirteen 
 playmates and went to the Fort Wayne schools thirteen 
 years. Harry kept busy all of this time, although when 
 he left school he went into the stationery business with 
 the firm of Keil & Brothers (thirteen letters). He 
 remained stationary with this firm for thirteen years, till 
 the White National (thirteen letters) Bank was estab- 
 lished, thirteen years ago. He has been the popular 
 cashier of this institution during its entire career. Harry 
 is so in the habit of signing his name to currency that he 
 writes his signature so fast that he cannot read it him- 
 self. Since he entered the banking business he learned 
 that it requires a man with a big deposit to buy spring 
 bonnets and fall bonnets and bonnets. A peep at the 
 checks about Easter time convinced him. This is the 
 reason he is a heavy stockholder and vice-president of 
 the C. T. Pidgeon Company, the wholesale milliners. 
 He gets part of the profits on the Easter bonnets now 
 and can afford to have his hat trimmed e.\travagantly, as 
 shown in the picture. Pidgeon-Turner has thirteen let- 
 ters in it, and it attracted him into the millinery busi- 
 ness. Since then, however, the name of the concern has 
 been changed. Harry can tell an ostrich tip from a tip on 
 the races any day in the summer. Besides being cashier 
 of the White Bank, he is a director in the Citizens' Trust 
 Company and also a director and treasurer of the Allen 
 County Building and Loan Association. He is a director 
 in four of our important business institutions and wants 
 to be a director in nine more, so as to make it an even 
 thirteen. 
 
FRANK L. TAFT 
 
 THE observer should not labor under the hypothesis 
 that a man who picks up pins is single and ready 
 to strut on the stage of life and yell, "My kingdom for 
 a button ! ' ' Frank L. Taft is not picking up pins because 
 he is a crusty old bachelor. He is not. He is a happy 
 married man. He is the chairman of the house com- 
 mittee at the Anthony Wayne Club House and on circus 
 days when boys cannot be found outside of a canvas. 
 Frank stoops to conquer and elevate the down-fallen 
 pin. Generally he abhors pins. He is the manager of 
 the S. M. Foster Shirt Waist Factory and manufactures 
 the daintiest kind of conceits for the fair sex and no 
 pins are needed to fasten them on. He dispises a 
 woman who is pinned together. It is the artistic effects 
 that the manager of the shirt waist factory admires. He 
 likes to see styles in design and arrangements even 
 if it is only setting up pins for next season's trade. 
 He likes to see beautiful things around a lady. He 
 labors enthusiastically to accomplish this. 
 
 Frank was not born yesterday. He came into this 
 world in Columbus, Ohio, where many noted events 
 have occurred within the past century. It was about 
 forty-five years ago that Frank hrst made his wants 
 known. He liked Columbus and remained there con- 
 tinuously till 1896. He found a better place then and 
 came to Fort Wayne to embark in business. He liked 
 his new home and seems to be a permanent fixture in 
 the manufacturing circles of this metropolis of Indiana. 
 He is active in all organizations which have a tendency 
 to improve Fort Wayne commercially and was very 
 enthusiastic in the reorganization and rejuvenation of 
 the Anthony Wayne Club, the most prominent social 
 club of the city. Mr. Taft does not play golf. He says 
 he is too busy. He is now writing a book of rules on 
 bridge whist which will be published in the next volume 
 of this book. 
 
WALTER R. SEAVEY 
 
 HERE is a man who is a Sucker; luit he don't look 
 like it. Walter was horn in Illinois hut as soon 
 as he knew how he left his neighboring Suckers and 
 landed in Hoosierdom. Since landing here he has not 
 iieen like a fish out of water. He has been right in the 
 swim all of the time. After taking a few dives in the 
 Ann Arbor University he swam back to Fort Wayne. 
 He is now at the head of the Seavey Hardware Com- 
 pany, the largest wholesale and retail hardware house 
 in Northern Indiana. 
 
 There is no tempest in the teapot he is holding up in 
 the picture. There's money in it for Walter if he can 
 sell it. He likes to see business at the boiling point 
 and is on his way to put the pot on the stove. Walter 
 usually has a funny sign in the window of his store but 
 when he has to sign a check he does not think the sign 
 is so mirth provoking. Walter recently responded to a 
 toast at a Masonic banquet and, though he delivered 
 the peroration first, he thoroughly impressed upon his 
 auditors that he was a silver-tongued orator. He is 
 prominent as an Elk but makes his star plays on the 
 golf links. There is usually three up and the devil to 
 play, /'. «., two hands and the golf stick up and the 
 caddies with search warrants trying to locate the ball. 
 He trys to play golf just the same way he transacts 
 business, with considerable drive and force. All he 
 wants, however, is the exercise, and he does not care 
 what his score is so long as his muscles do not get 
 rusty. After walking up and down the ailes of his store 
 twenty hours per day he feels he is entitled to spend the 
 remaining four in the much needed e.xercise of meander- 
 ing over the green sward. 
 
JOHN N. PFEIFFER 
 
 MR. PFEIFFER was a farmer boy. You can't tell 
 him anvlhing about pailing cows. He's been 
 there. His folks lived in Marion Township. At the age 
 of thirteen he found it necessary to leave the rural 
 school and assist in the farm work. Then he was a 
 carpenter for several years, working with several leading 
 contractors here. With his earnings he paid his tuition 
 while attending the Methodist College. In 1886 he took 
 a position in the meat market of Rosseau Brothers, on 
 Harrison Street, to learn practical business methods. 
 He bought an interest in the store and that marked the 
 beginning of his upward career in business. The place 
 was sold after a period of ten months, and a new market 
 opened on West Berry Street. In the spring of 1893 the 
 firm ]->urchased the grocery store of H. W. Carles and 
 merged the two enterprises. From 1896 to 1900 Mr. 
 Pfeiffer conducted the business alone. In April of the 
 latter year he obtained an interest in the Greatest 
 Grocery and consolidated his business with it. He 
 made it one of the hnest grocery stores in the state of 
 Indiana. In May, 1904, his place was sold to the White 
 Fruit House. 
 
 Mr. Pfeiffer holds the position of supreme guard in 
 the Fraternal Assurance Society of America; is an Odd 
 Fellow, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is 
 also an enthusiastic member of the Commercial Club. 
 
 In the councilmanic election of 1903 he received a 
 plurality Republican vote of 72 in the First Ward which 
 had given a Democratic plurality of 196 on the last 
 previous city election. So, you see. he's a popular 
 man. He lives in Lakeside. He has been an active 
 man in the council and at present is chairman of the 
 committee which is endeavoring to get a tunnel or track 
 elevation at the Pennsylvania and Wabash crossings. 
 
CHARLES A. DUNKELBERG 
 
 "TJORSEBACK riding," says Mr. Dunkelherg. 'Ms 
 1 1 the fondest thing I'm of." In fact, he doesn't 
 dare to try any new kind of diversion for fear lie'll find 
 something he likes hetter; in which case, there would 
 he danger of a fatality from over-enjoyment. He does 
 enjoy, keenly, the pleasures of horseback riding, and 
 can often he seen riding on his handsome Kentucky 
 thoroughbred. "Di.xie." 
 
 Mr. Dunkelberg holds the dual position of secretary 
 and treasurer of S. F. Bowser & Co. During the 
 hve years he has been connected with this concern, he 
 has done a great deal to assist in its prosperity. Mr. 
 Dunkelberg is a native of New York, but his early boy- 
 hood was spent in Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of 
 the Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Like 
 most successful men. in his early career, he had various 
 business experiences. He did not idle away his time 
 like most boys, who work all day, but spent his evenings 
 studying the hooks and crooks of stenography. Did 
 you ever stop to think how many successful men and 
 women have used these •'curiy-cues" as stepping- 
 stones to something bigger and better? Well, that is 
 what Mr. Dunkelberg did. 
 
 From Pennsylvania he went to New York and took a 
 position with E. C. Benedict & Co., bankers and brokers. 
 From there he went to Chicago and entered the employ 
 of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, iron merchants. While 
 thus employed, he received the appointment of steward 
 to the Hospital for the insane at Logansport. Indiana, 
 a position which he held for five years. Remaining at 
 Logansport he engaged in the wholesale and retail 
 gueensware business for three years. 
 
 About five years ago he came to Fort Wayne to take the 
 position of head bookkeeper for S. F. Bowser & Co., of 
 this city. His promotion to the position of superintendent 
 of salesmen was followed by a later advancement to that 
 of secretary and treasurer of this important C(}ncern. 
 
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WILLIAM F. RANKE 
 
 JUST as the civil war was on its last legs Will Ranke 
 happeneJ. He occurred in Fort Wayne and has 
 been here ever since. His parents were pioneer settlers. 
 Will, after leaving the schools here, went to Ann Arbor 
 and was graduated in pharmacy in i88;. Then he 
 entered the Meyer Brothers drug store where he was 
 prescriptionist until 189s. Then he started in the retail 
 drug business and is now at the head of the firm of 
 Ranke & Nussbaum handing out pills to sick friends. 
 
 Bullets and pills look so much alike that Will leaped 
 into the Indiana National Guard and from 1894 to 1898 
 he was captain of the Zollinger Battery. He wore his 
 shoulder straps better than he rode his horse, but he 
 improved as an equestrian. When the war with Spain 
 broke out the Zollinger Battery became the Twenty- 
 eighth Indiana Battery in the United States Volunteers, 
 and Will Ranke was commissioned captain. He went 
 to the front with his company. When the battery was 
 mustered out of service he was appointed by President 
 McKinley as captain in the Thirty-ninth Regular United 
 States Infantry for duty in the Philippines. He held 
 this commission for two months but resigned before 
 joining his regiment owing to business reasons. Then 
 he was elected secretary of the Fort Wayne Lodge of 
 Elks. He cannot keep honors from being thrust upon 
 him. He was recently nominated on the Allen County 
 Democratic legislative ticket, and he has already begun 
 the rehearsal of speeches he expects to deliver during 
 the sessions of the legislature at Indianapolis. 
 
 He is a popular young business man and can mix in 
 social circles with just as much success as he mixes 
 drugs into pills, perfumes and powders. 
 
AL HAZZARD 
 
 HERE we get a passing glimpse of Mr. Hazzard doing 
 a seemingly risl<y act. However, all of his acts 
 are necessarily Hazzardous, so this is not to he consid- 
 ered an exception. Al is an enthusiastic Eagle, and 
 that fact coupled with the information conveyed hy the 
 picture, might lead you to believe he is a high flyer: it 
 isn't so. He is simply displaying the high quality of his 
 goods. 
 
 Mr. Hazzard is a cigar manufacturer, and he does a 
 big business. He is a native of Fort Wayne. When he 
 left school at the age of thirteen, he sauntered up the 
 street one day and noticed a sign reading : 
 
 WANTED A BOY TO STRIP 
 
 He applied for the job and learned how to strip to- 
 bacco. He liked it so well that he decided to go into 
 the business for himself by the time he had accumulated 
 a sutificient quantity of money and years. That time 
 arrived in 1893. At present he gives steady employment 
 to thirty-five people, and his place of business on East 
 Wayne street, is one of the busiest in town. His lead- 
 ing brands are " Gold Seal " and " National." 
 
 Here is an interesting illustration of the amount of 
 business done by Mr. Hazzard's factory during the past 
 year: Take a map and draw a straight line from Fort 
 Wayne to Cincinnati, representing a distance of about 
 one hundred and thirty-three miles. If you could take 
 all of the cigars manufactured in one year by Mr. Haz- 
 zard— that is counting only 313 working days— you 
 would have enough if laid end-to-end to almost cover 
 this entire distance. The present output is 6.000 cigars 
 daily. 
 
 Mr. Hazzard is a member of the Masonic order, a 
 Knight of Pythias, and as we have mentioned, an en- 
 thusiastic member of the Order of Eagles. 
 
JOHN FERGUSON 
 
 M 
 
 R FERGUSON is an example of the force of the 
 words of Ben Frankhn when he wrote in his 
 Poor Ri. hard's Almanac: 
 
 "/ ne'cer saw an oft removed tree, 
 Nor vet an oft removed family . 
 That throve as u-ell as those that settled he." 
 
 He came here fifty years ago, and, hy refraining from 
 rolling, has managed to gather a few bushels of "moss." 
 For many years Mr. Ferguson was one of the prominent 
 lumber manufacturers of Indiana, and. although still 
 extensively interested in that line of industry, he has 
 lately given his attention to some other kinds of activity. 
 You will notice by the picture that he was very busy 
 when the snapshot was made. He was so thoroughly 
 occupied that day he couldn't even hesitate long enough 
 to let us make the picture. So we had to capture him 
 as he was— shirt sleeves, mortgages and all. He has 
 always been just that busy ever since 1834. It was in 
 that vear: on June 24, that he was born near Quebec. 
 His father was a native-born Scotchman, and his mother 
 came from Ireland. They bad come to Canada in 1829. 
 John Ferguson remained on the farm for several years 
 after their death, until he had reached the age of twenty, 
 when, in 1855, he came to Fort Wayne. In 1861 he 
 engaged in the lumber business and became one of the 
 largest manufacturers in the middle west. 
 
 In politics. Mr. Ferguson is a Republican. .'\s presi- 
 dent of the Citizens Trust Company, he is at the head 
 of one of the city's soundest financial institutions. He 
 is a member of the Caledonian Club, a Scottish Rite 
 Mason and an Odd Fellow. 
 
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JAMES M. BARRETT 
 
 HHRE is a man born in Illinois who has every symp- 
 tom of being a native of Ohio. James M. Barrett 
 is an elotiuent orator and a finished politician, and knows 
 how to till offices to good satifaction. 
 
 His parents were natives of Ireland but came to 
 America early in the last century. They later settled on 
 a farm in LaSalle county, Illinois. Here is where James 
 first got busy. In the search for knowledge he entered 
 the country schools and then Mandota College in Illi- 
 nois. In 1875 he was a graduate from the Michigan 
 University. He came to Fort Wayne in 1876 to practice 
 law after stopping to get a cup of coffee and a sandwich 
 in Chicago. He did not like the coffee nor the sandwich 
 and this is one of the reasons why he came here. 
 
 His career at the Allen county bar has been eminently 
 successful. He is at present the senior member of the 
 firm of Barrett & Morris. He was a member of the state 
 senate in 1886 and as Senator Barrett he fathered the 
 bill in the upper house for the location of the Indiana 
 School for Feeble Minded Youth in this city and was 
 victorious. His force in debate was established in the 
 legislature. The Barrett law for street improvements is 
 one of the important acts which he originated. Since 
 then he has been almost continuously county attorney 
 or had the office in his firm. The building of the county 
 court house came under his direction. Recently he con- 
 tracted the Carnegie habit of spending leisure moments 
 on the gulf links. He has traveled abroad e.xtensively 
 and keeps himself thoroughly abreast of the times. He 
 is connected with all of the prominent social clubs and is 
 a Scottish Rite Mason, an Elk and a Mystic Shriner. 
 That means that he is a really good fellow and a promi- 
 nent citizen. 
 
WILLIAM LAWSON 
 
 THE subject of this sketch didna ken when he left 
 Scotland to gang awa to America that he was 
 coining for "cod." Well, William Lawson did not. He 
 came here for bass, trout and suckers. He is a mer- 
 chandise broker and a successful one. This is one 
 reason that he has no trouble in landing the last-named 
 variety. A great many men from Scotland are dubbed 
 "Sandy." Mr. Lawson is not so recognized. He is 
 sometimes red-headed, but only in the summer time. 
 The sun will tan a man's hands and arms but when it 
 takes a chance at a man's head it usually makes it red. 
 Mr. Lawson fishes better with his hat by his side. In 
 getting a sucker on the string he generally lands them. 
 His bait is usually sugar, rice, sardines, salmon and all 
 kinds of canned goods. 
 
 Mr. Lawson is a great curler but does not cut much 
 ice on the lakes in the summer time. He is devoted to 
 all athletic sports which are popular in Bonnie Dundee. 
 He can throw a hammer, liut is not a knocker; he can 
 pitch quoits but does not put any curves on; he can 
 cling to a rope in a tug-of-war hut never chews the lint; 
 he can run in a sack race but never holds the bag. In 
 Caledonian Club circles he is a most active member and 
 is a leader in its out-of-door sports and social events. 
 
 In commercial circles William Lawson is prominently 
 identified with the wholesale and jobbing business. He 
 has been a resident of Fort Wayne for a long time and 
 has traveled over Northern Indiana many years as a 
 grocery salesman. He is, in short, one of our mo.st 
 successful and substantial business men. 
 
HARRY A. PERFECT 
 
 IF it is the duty of every man to uphold the family 
 name, think of the undertaking this young man has 
 continuously before him! Of course, he was Perfect 
 when he started out in life: it was a good beginning 
 and he has succeeded in keeping so, up to the present. 
 The future prospects are encouraging. 
 
 Harry Perfect was born at Stanwood, Iowa. When 
 he was old enough to walk, he came away. He was 
 three years old when, in order to make him any Christ- 
 mas gifts it was necessary- to send them to Wilmington. 
 Ohio. Until he was eight years old, he attended school 
 there, scrapped with his classmates, learned the rud- 
 iments of fishing and otherwise indulged in the popular 
 mental and physical culture fads of the early ages: and 
 then his folks left Wilmington and went to Springfield. 
 Here he resumed his work in the public schools, hut 
 that didn't seem to consume much of his time as he was 
 found busy selling newspapers and working as a carrier 
 boy for a dry gooJs store. These early straws indicated 
 which way the wind was blowing, and it is the spirit of 
 push and hustle that has made him successful. While 
 still in school he was employed as an A. D. T. messen- 
 ger. Outgrowing his uniform, he worked in a shoe 
 store, then a hardware store, and lastly, before leaving 
 school, was a helper in a plumbing establishment. 
 
 In order to still better prepare himself for a commer- 
 cial career, he attended a business college and studied 
 bookkeeping. He then secured a position with the large 
 publishing house of the Crowell & Kirkpatrick Company 
 (now the Crowell Publishing Company i, publishers of 
 the Woman's Home Companion, and remained there five 
 years. Upon leaving them, the gentlemen composing 
 the firm of A. H. Perfect & Company, wholesale grocers, 
 planned to locate at Madison, Wisconsin, but decided 
 upon engaging in business here. Harr\- A. Perfect is 
 one of the partners in this important concern. 
 
HUGH G. KEEGAN 
 
 M", 
 
 KEEGAN is a lawyer. He is also an attitudi- 
 narian. An attitudinarian is one who assumes 
 attitudes or postures for the purpose of adding emphasis 
 to spoken words. Webster says: 
 
 "An attitude, like a gesture, is suited, and usually 
 designed to e.xpress. some mental state, as an attitude 
 of wonder, etc : a posture is either not expressive or is 
 less dignified and artistic." 
 
 So we see here Mr. Keegan in the act of striking an 
 attitude, also a law book. But this is only one 6f several 
 kinds of attitudes of which he makes a specialty. All 
 of them are artistic, therefore they cannot be designated as 
 postures. A favorite attitude in the good old summer time 
 is usually assumed by him about an hour after sundown 
 at some lonely spot on a country road. If some chance 
 should take you there, you would discover him, crawled 
 under his automobile, monkey-wrench in hand, fixing 
 things. As Webster says, "an attitude is usually 
 designed to express some mental state." There is no 
 need of asking Mr. Keegan what emotion he is endeavor- 
 ing to illustrate. Incidentally, you will observe that an 
 attitude is sometimes employed to add emphasis to 
 unspoken words. 
 
 Mr. Keegan is purely a Fort Wayne man. He was 
 born here one score and twelve years ago. Like most 
 of our other progressive citizens, he is a graduate of the 
 high school. Following his work in the public schools, 
 he went to Ann Arbor and entered the University of 
 Michigan, taking the law course. He began the practice 
 of his profession here in 189^ in partnership with Edward 
 Woodworth, now residing in Colorado. He later formed 
 a professional alliance with Thomas E. Ellison with 
 whom he continued very successfully. The partnership 
 was recently dissolved. 
 
HARRY P. FLETCHER 
 
 HARRY FLETCHER is a natural-born jollier. The 
 other day, while in a reminiscent mood, he was 
 telling about the Michigan town in which he was born. 
 
 "It's a strange thing that the hotels and restaurants 
 there refuse to serve boiled eggs, isn't it?" 
 
 "They don't, do they?" 
 
 "Sure, they do." 
 
 "I wonder why." 
 
 "O, they can't boil eggs in Coldvvater. you know. 
 It's a beautiful day, isn't it?" 
 
 It certainly was a lovely day, and we hastened to 
 agree with him in order to get the conversation twisted 
 into a new channel. It's this sort of thing that makes 
 Harry popular with the throngs of people who visit the 
 Patterson store, but that isn't the quality that makes 
 him an expert clothing buyer. It's the e.xperience he has 
 had and his natural fitness for that kind of work. As 
 we have noted, he is a native of Coldwater. There he 
 attended the public schools and was just about to grad- 
 uate when the schoolhouse burned, and Harry didn't 
 have a chance to startle the world with his lofty ideas 
 and flights of oratory. He's keeping the manuscript and 
 will be glad to show it to anyone who wants to see it 
 real badly. He began work in a clothing store at Cold- 
 water, remaining two and a half years. Going to Stur- 
 gis, Michigan, he was employed for two years with F. 
 L. Burdick. At that time R. S. Patterson traveled for a 
 large clothing house, and Sturgis was on his route. He 
 was so well pleased with Harry's abilities as a buyer 
 that he assured him that he wanted his services, if he. 
 Patterson, should ever go into business Mr. Patterson 
 "went." and Mr. Fletcher "Kime." to Fort Wayne 
 in iSq^. 
 
JOSEPH HENRY ORR 
 
 W 
 
 THAT'S in a name?" With a banker it is every- 
 thing. By the sign, the banker knows his 
 customers. Here is a banker who practically has no 
 name. Joseph Henry Orr, assistant cashier of the First 
 National Bank, is popularly known both in Fort Wayne 
 business and social circles. He does not part his name 
 nor his hair in the middle. He does not use the appel- 
 lation of the man with a coat of many colors nor does he 
 employ the name which is often heard in connection with 
 the poultry business. He is known in the bank and in 
 business and private life as Harry Orr. He got this 
 n.ime while playing with his companions around the old 
 swimming holes in this city after 1863. 
 
 He was born in the nineteenth century at Fairview. 
 Ohio, and came to Fort Wayne, while a mere boy, with 
 his parents when the civil war was raging. He was 
 kept busy battling with the hives, whooping cough, 
 measles and colds. He got through the Fort Wayne 
 public schools all right. Then he entered the Fort 
 Wayne National Bank as a messenger boy. This was 
 in 1871. He was not the slow messenger of the present 
 day. He was rapidly promoted and in 1S82 the First 
 National Bank wanted a general bookkeeper and the 
 services of Harry Orr were secured. He has been 
 actively interested in this bank ever since and is 
 now the popular man behind the bars at the assistant 
 cashier's window. Not all men are popular behind the 
 bars but Harry is a genial and accommodating man in a 
 bank window. When not counting money in the bank 
 in the summer he is counting the hours he can spend 
 happily at his pleasant home at Rome City. 
 
 He counts greenbacks in the bank and searches for 
 greenbacks (frogs) on the hank around Sylvan Lake. 
 He is not afraid of drafts at his summer residence. 
 
JAMES J. WOOD 
 
 THIS man uf genius has haJ an interesting career. 
 At the age of eleven he removed with his family 
 from New York to BranforJ. Connecticut, where the lad 
 entered the employ of the Branford Lock Company. He 
 was soon at the head of an important department. 
 While yet a boy he completed a working model of a 
 steam engine and boiler. The spring of 1874 found him 
 in Brooklyn employed as an apprentice by the Brady 
 Manufacturing Company. Within three years he was 
 in charge of the plant. While yet in their employ he 
 designed and built the machinery for the construction of 
 the main cables of the Brooklyn bridge. 
 
 At this time he met J. B. Fuller, one of America's 
 pioneer electrical engineers. He made all of Fuller's 
 e.xperimental apparatus and also a great deal of the 
 e.xperimental apparatus for Sir Hiram Ma.xim. In May. 
 1879. Mr. Wood completed the design of his first electric 
 machine and lamp, for which machine he recei\ed a 
 medal of superiority from the American Institute held 
 in New '/ork: also medals and honorable recognition 
 wherever the machine has been exhibited since. This 
 particular machine is now on exhibition at the St. Louis 
 fair. The sale of the patent gave him his first capital. 
 Since that time he has taken out upwards of two hundred 
 patents in this country and abroad. 
 
 He became connected with Mr. McDonald and came 
 to Fort Wayne in 1S90 to take charge of the Fort Wayne 
 HIectric Company's works in the capacity of chief 
 engineer. At the death of Mr. .WcDonald, when the 
 works were sold and the owners threatened to move them 
 from Fort Wayne. Mr. Wood prevented such a disaster 
 by refusing to turn over his inventions to the new owners 
 unless they would agree to maintain the works in this 
 city. Mr. Wood's services as manager were engaged 
 for a term of at least ten years. 
 
WILLIAM P. BECK 
 
 RIP VAN WINKLE'S "Mein dog Schneider" is men- 
 tioned frequently on the stage, but the canine in 
 reality is not seen by the audience. With Billy Beck's 
 Irish terrier, "Jack," it is different. No one ever says 
 anything about the cur but he is always at his master's 
 side under the limelight of public gaze. The picture is a 
 contrast. Billy is so handsome and the ragged dog is 
 so homely that it excites comment. Billy Beck is not as 
 old as Rip Van Winkle but he has been right in town for 
 about forty-one years. The civil war was raging in 
 August of the year he was born. The dog days were 
 ripe this month and this is the reason Billy is so partial 
 to his beautiful dog. Billy Beck was born at the corner 
 of Main and Harrison streets where his late father con- 
 ducted a grocer.-. He was so close to the court house 
 that he could hear the town clock tick but he was able to 
 sleep between the ticks. 
 
 After leavingthe Fort Wayne high school, Billy worked 
 for a year in a stave factory piling staves. This was 
 too much like labor and he then began his duties about a 
 quarter of a century ago as office boy in the DeWalddry 
 goods store. He liked this work and was enthusiastic 
 for the success of the business. The managers realized 
 this and Billy was promoted from one position in the 
 office to another until he was able to buy his dog a gold 
 collar and locket. The DeWald company had a disas- 
 trous fire and was reorganized as a wholesale dry goods 
 house. Mr. Beck was taken into the new firm, known 
 as the George DeWald Company, and was made secre- 
 tary and treasurer, a position he fills with credit. He 
 has seen the business grow and has grown with it and 
 is now one of the city's substantial young business men. 
 
DALLAS F. GREEN 
 
 A YOUNG man boarded a train at Bryan, Ohio, one 
 morning in 1878. It was a Lal<e Shore train 
 bound for Fort Wayne. The young man was also bound 
 for this city, but he got off at EJgerton, Ohio, and decided 
 to walk the rest of the distance, about twenty miles. The 
 reason he made this decision was not that he enthused 
 over that kind of e.\ercise. It was because he knew the 
 conductor would pass through the coach after it left 
 Edgerton and would say to him. "Ticket, please." 
 Then he would be compelled to say, "1 haven't any." 
 Then the conductor would reply, "Cash fare, please." 
 And then the young man would he obliged to say. 
 ■•please. Mister Conductor. I have only sixty-five 
 cents in my clothes, and I shall need that to buy feed 
 with." Then the conductor would grow indignant and 
 perhaps say saucy things. Dallas Green, even in those 
 days, never liked to provoke people to say saucy things, 
 so he didn't stay on the train. On his way from Edger- 
 ton to Fort Wayne he stopped at various points, hxing 
 the farmers' clocks and watches to pay for his board and 
 lodging, and finally he showed up here and asked 
 fur a job. 
 
 He had been born and reared at Bryan and knew a 
 good deal about the watchmaking and jewelry business. 
 But he failed to find steady work. Shaking the dust 
 from his boots, he departed for Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
 and there met with better success. He remained at 
 Grand Rapids from 1878 until 1890, and then went to 
 Port Huron. He came to Fort Wayne in 1894 to again 
 try his luck and purchased the store located in the 
 Arcade, His ability and his knowledge of the jewelry 
 and watchmaking business made the venture a success 
 from the start, and now he has more case space for the 
 display of his immense stock than any other dealer in 
 Indiana. 
 
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PETER E. PICKARD 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON was buried in Mount 
 Vernon. Virginia, liut Peter Edgar Pickard was 
 born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Every school boy and 
 girl knows that George Washington passed away long 
 ago and every housewife in Fort Wayne knows that 
 Mr, Pickard is very much alive. He is alive in many 
 ways to the wants of Fort Wayne homes. 
 
 When his parents brought him to Fort Wayne in i8,8 
 Peter Pickard was only eleven month old. He did not 
 object to being brought to this city and he says that he 
 has never regretted it. He never knew anything about 
 Mount Vernon so he had nothing to forget. He was 
 graduated from the Fort Wayne public schools one Fri- 
 day in June, 1876, and the following .Monday began work 
 in the stove foundry owned by T. R. Pickard & 
 bons. He was one of the sons. He wanted to make 
 things hot for Fort Wayne at the start and the following 
 year opened a retail store to sell the product of the foun- 
 dry in this vicinity. He has been the cause of many a 
 man arising early on a frosty morning to split kindling 
 wood. When the stove foundry was closed down in 
 1883 the retail store was made larger and Mr. Harry R. 
 Pickard became a partner in the retail store of Pickard 
 Brothers on We.st Columbia street. This store has grown 
 to immense proportions and now handles not only stoves, 
 but furniture of all kinds and descriptions, and china- 
 ware in endless variety and varying in price to suit all 
 tastes and desires. 
 
 In the picture Peter Pickard is seen showing a cus- 
 tomer a chair. He does not want to have a customer's 
 way in his store rocky, but it is a habit he has of e.xtend- 
 ing hospitality and making visitors at his store feel at 
 home. His store is so busy that there is no danger of a 
 customer going to sleep while calling, so he does not 
 hesitate to show easy chairs. He has high chairs for 
 short people and low chairs for high people. 
 
HENRY G. FELGER 
 
 WHEN you were a small boy in McGuffey's Third 
 Reader, and the teacher compelled you to stand 
 in the corner the rest of the afternoon, just because 
 you made those goo-Koo eyes or blew a few paper wads 
 against the ceiling, my, how you wislied there was some 
 way — any way — to get even with that schoolma'am for 
 her harsh treatment of an innocent, well-meaning 
 cherub. O, if you had only been in the place which this 
 man Felger occupies! For, just think, he is the boss of 
 one hundred and ninety schoolma'ams in Allen county. 
 He's the superintendent of the county schools, and. 
 they do as he wants them to, provided, of course, that 
 their wishes coincide with his. 
 
 Mr. Felger is a young man to tackle so important a 
 piece of work, hut he seems to be master of the situa- 
 tion, and the quality and quantity of the output of the 
 rural schools has kept up to the standard since he took 
 his official position. 
 
 .\\r. Felger was born and reared on a farm in Lake 
 township, Allen county. This was thirty-one years ago. 
 After leaving the common schools, he took a course in 
 the Normal school at Valparaiso. Indiana. Then for a 
 period of two years he attended the Indiana State Normal 
 school at Terre Haute, equipping himself as a teacher. 
 Nine years he trained the young minds in his own and 
 Adams townships. At this time his capabilities attracted 
 attention, and there was a loud acclaim that he was just 
 the man needed in the office located in the southeast 
 corner of the court house, main floor. He was elected 
 county superintendent June i. 1903. 
 
 At present there are one hundred and seventy-ti\ e 
 school buildings in the country districts; the total valu- 
 ation of the rural school property is Sjio.ooo. The 
 enrollment at the close of the last school year was over 
 four thousand. 
 

 ROBERT A. BRADLEY 
 
 MR. BRADLEY expects, of course, to make his mark 
 in the world. It ought to be a good long mark, 
 as he has a reach of about three feet more than the 
 ordinary man. He's young, too, and maybe he hasn't 
 quit growing yet. The business of the architect consists 
 largely of making marks anyway and we see no reason 
 why Mr, Bradley shouldn't leave his shorter limbed 
 brethren far in the wake in that respect. 
 
 Mr. Bradley is a Michigander and was born in 
 Detroit, the center of the duck region. While still a child 
 he was taken to .Adrian where he attended school and 
 grew up. He didn't grow much in any other direction. 
 He wasn't built on the broad plan — physically. 
 
 The year i88b found him a resident of Fort Wayne. 
 He busied himself in various ways and finally turned 
 his attention to architecture, entering the office of a 
 local firm of architects to carry out his designs— or 
 rather to carry in his designs. They were carried out — 
 some of them — when he made his e.xit and opened an 
 office of his own. During the time of his studies and 
 preparatory work he showed unusual talent and his 
 subsequent experiences prove that he has well chosen 
 his life work. 
 
 During the time since he launched out in business 
 for himself, Mr. Bradley has secured a satisfactory 
 share of the important work of the community. One of 
 the newest products of his think-box and ink-bottle is 
 the splendid new high school building at Warsaw, 
 Indiana. Mr. Bradley occupies a suite in the Elektron 
 building. 
 
OLAF N. GULDLIN 
 
 M", 
 
 GULDLIN may seem to be in haste, but he 
 isn't. He is one of those men who have to move 
 lively to keep up with their active minds. You'll tinJ 
 him so whether he's guiding his meteoric automobile or 
 directing some new feature of the great works of the 
 Western Gas Construction Company, of which he is the 
 energetic head. 
 
 In the selection of his parents Mr. Guldlin displayed 
 great wisdom as he chose a family in Cliristiana, Norway, 
 noted for its longevity. As a result he has lived longer 
 than most men, considering his years. He's built that 
 way . 
 
 Beginning his technical education when he was twel\ e 
 years old. he rapidly developed as a mechanical engineer 
 and graduated from a technical college when he was 
 nineteen. He added experience and training by attend- 
 nig the Polytecknikum in Munich and by a practical 
 application of his studies in a machine shop in his own 
 city. 
 
 But the new world had been teasing him in some 
 mysterious way to cross the ocean and seek larger suc- 
 cess in America. 
 
 His tir.st employment was as a draughtsman with the 
 Baldwin Locomotive works, at Philadelphia, where he 
 arrived in 1880. He ad\anced rapidly, and after a brief 
 visit to his old home, returned to America to stay. 
 
 He turned his attention to gas engineering when, in 
 1882. he left the Baldwin works. In 1884, at a conven- 
 tion in Washington, Mr. Guldlin met A. D. Cressler, of 
 Fort Wayne, and the result was that he arrived in this 
 city in iSS;;. it was .some time after coming to Fort 
 Wayne that Mr. Guldlin with several ambitious associ- 
 ates decided to try their hands at the gas construction 
 business. Beginning in a small way and encountering 
 difticulties sufticient to frighten his partners, Mr. Guldlin 
 took upon him.self the sole conduct of the business, but 
 proved himself fully equal to the task, with the result 
 that the Western Gas Construction Company is now the 
 largest concern of its kind in the entire country. 
 
FRANK M. RANDALL 
 
 IF the man pictured here was monarch of all he ever 
 surveyed he would be much more important than 
 the sultan of Sulu or the king of Siam. As it is. 
 Frank M. Randall can give ever>'body in Fort Wayne 
 a straight tip. He was never burned at the stake, but 
 he swears by the stake. He has lines in all parts of the 
 city, but does not drive a horse. He is the city civil 
 engineer and is a most popular fellow indeed. 
 
 He was horn at the corner of Lafayette and Berry 
 streets, at the Randall homestead, before the civil war 
 disturbed the quietude of this country. His estimable 
 father was mayor of this municipality. Frank did not 
 assist in tearing down the old fort, but he tramped all 
 over the trails left by Tecumseh and Little Turtle and 
 used to hear the Indian stories told around the home 
 fireside. Frank was never scalped, but he dreamed 
 about it so much that he really believes he was. 
 
 After getting through the Fort Wayne public schools. 
 Frank went to the coal fields of Southern Ohio with an 
 engineering corps. He used to carry tine stakes. This 
 is where he cultivated a taste for porterhouse. When 
 he came home from Ohio for two years he was assistant 
 engineer on the Nickel Plate railroad. Then he was for 
 three years an engineer on a Michigan line. He got all 
 of the curves out of the road and came back home to 
 serve for four years as deputy county surveyor under 
 Henry Fischer. Ever since then he has been engineer for 
 the city of Fort Wayne. He confidently believe he could 
 not get lost in this city or Bloomingdale. He can shut 
 his eyes and see the network of sewers under Fort 
 Wayne. Then he opens his eyes so he will forget what 
 is in them. In the picture he is seen giving orders in 
 regard to the new track elevation for Fort Wayne. 
 
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THEODORE G. SEEMEYER 
 
 THERE was an olJ woman who lived in a shoe, but 
 this isn't she. No. this is a young man who 
 doesn't hve in a shoe. He does make his living out of 
 shoes, however, as he is president of the Wayne Shoe 
 Company, which is one of the most successful of the 
 city's newest wholesale industries. 
 
 ■Vou will notice that the shoe seems to tit Mr. See- 
 meyer first-rate, that's a peculiarity of the goods sold 
 by this concern and that in addition to their good quality 
 and style, explains why they are so popular. 
 
 Mr. Seemeyer was born in Fort Wayne not so very 
 long ago. He attended the common schools and the 
 high school, and, before he reached the sheepskin period 
 of a school career, he turned his attention to calfskin, 
 kangaroo, cowhide and vici kid. In other words, he 
 quit his books to enter the employ of the wholesale shoe 
 house of the W. L. Carnahan Company. For fourteen 
 years there he made a careful study of the business, ris- 
 ing from the position of office boy up to the most respon- 
 sible place within the gift of the concern. 
 
 The Wayne Shoe Company was organized about five 
 years ago. The other officers of the company are W. F. 
 Moellering. vice-president, and Robert Millard, secretan.- 
 and treasurer. The beginning was comparatively small, 
 but the management has been of the wide-awake, sensi- 
 ble kind, and the concern has always lived up to its 
 adopted motto. "The Progressive Shoe House." It has 
 demonstrated that the shoe field is not covered so thor- 
 oughly but that a local house may find a ready market 
 for first-class goods. At present the company keeps five 
 salesmen on the road. The lines carried are shoes, boots 
 and rubbers. The house does an exclusive jobbing busi- 
 ness in these lines. The business is located at No. 123 
 West Columbia street. 
 
GEORGE F. TRIER 
 
 ON looUing up the derivation uf the word telephone 
 we tind that it comes probably from the English 
 /■■//, meaning to talk, and the Greek phonos, meanimg 
 murder; a contrivance in which talk is murdered. But, 
 of course, the name was applied to the telephone when 
 it was very young and hadn't developed into its present 
 high state of perfection. It's an easy matter to misname 
 things while they are too young to show what they will 
 be when they get older. For e.xample, the parents of 
 E.\-Senator Hill, of New York, named him David. Now 
 the name David means"beloved, "and everybody knows 
 Mr. Hill's folks made a miscalculation there. For further 
 proof, drop a line of intiuiry to Dick Croker. 
 
 Mr. Trier has done his share to make the independ- 
 ent telephone systems of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan 
 what they are today. Had others undertaken some of 
 the things he has done it is probable that the telephone 
 business would have gone into the hands of receivers. 
 As it is. he has fi.\ed it so the telephone receivers are 
 constantly going into the hands of the people while their 
 talking apparatus is busy at the transmitters. 
 
 Mr. Trier has been in the telephone business for eight 
 years. He began his work as secretary, general man- 
 ager and member of the board of directors of the National 
 Telephone Company, building and operating long dis- 
 tance lines. Two years ago he resigned to take a place 
 as secretary of the Gas Belt Construction Company, a 
 place he held until the company completed its work and 
 disbanded. He has recently become identified with an 
 electrical supply company, in all his e.xperience he has 
 been engaged in the active management and financial 
 development of the various undertakings. Through his 
 efforts, the telephone maps of Indiana, Ohio and Mich- 
 igan are made to look like crazy quilts. 
 
EMMETT H. M'DONALD 
 
 IT will come as a surprise to the host of friends of 
 Emmett H. McDon»ld, the well Unown secretary of 
 the Fort Wayne Trust Company, one of the strongest 
 financial institutions of our city, to he tolJ that he passed 
 four years of his early life in the jail of the county. Yet 
 such was the case. His father. William H. McDonald, 
 a prominent farmer, was elected sheriff of the county, 
 and for four years, from i8so to i8s3, his family, as is 
 the rule with sheriffs, made their home in the jail build- 
 ing. Emmett was then a young lad, and his four years 
 among the criminals were undoubtedly eventful and not 
 unpleasant ones. 
 
 With his father, after the e.xpiration of the term of 
 official service of the latter he returned to his country 
 home, taking up again the duties common to the farmer 
 lioy. His few years in the city, however, had left their 
 impress and. doubtless, shaped his future life. At any 
 rate, after securing a good education, as a young man 
 he was back in the city again employed as a bookkeeper, 
 advancing in mercantile pursuits until he became senior 
 member of the great wholesale grocery house of McDon- 
 ald, Watt & Wilt, which for years did a good business 
 throughout Northern Indiana. Then he became propri- 
 etor of the City Trucking Company, and three years 
 ago took his present position, that of secretary of the 
 Fort Wayne Trust Company, 
 
 Twice has Mr. McDonald been called into public offi- 
 cial positions. In 1894. as a a candidate on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, he was elected one of the five councilmen- 
 at-large. At the same election the Republicans elected 
 their candidate for mayor. Colonel Oakley, and their 
 candidate for city clerk, Mr. Jeffries. Despite this fact. 
 Mr. McDonald and his four associates were elected by 
 decisive majorities, a proof of the confidence that the 
 people had in their business worth and fitness. He was 
 afterwards, in 1896. elected one of the three water works 
 trustees, managing during his term of office the business 
 affairs of this important department of the city. 
 
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AUGUST BRUDER 
 
 GERMANY has contributed largely to the citizenship 
 of Fort Wayne. In looking over this book you 
 will discover here and there a native of England or Ire- 
 land, occasionally a Scotchman, or a Hollander, or a 
 Swiss, or a Frenchman, but the Fatherland has given us 
 the largest number. 
 
 Of these, August Bruder is one of our best citizens. 
 .Mr. Bruder was born in Baden. He obtained his early 
 schooling there and for four years was able to study the 
 jewelry and watchmaking business, one year of which 
 time he was under the instruction of one of Germany's 
 best watchmakers. Like thousands of other Europeans 
 who have laid the foundations for success by completing 
 an apprenticeship in an honorable calling he came to 
 America to seek his fortune. He arrived in 1873 and 
 came directly to Fort Wayne where he was given em- 
 ployment with Trenkley & Scherzinger. jewelers. It 
 was an acquaintance with Mr, Trenkley that brought 
 him to this city. Mr. Bruder has not been a rolling 
 stone since then. He has stayed and worked and ac- 
 cumulated a portion of this world's goods which has 
 hnally enabled him to maintain one of the finest jewelry 
 and watchmaking establishments in Indiana. 
 
 Tlie business was started in a small way in 1885 on 
 the west side of Calhoun street between Wayne and 
 Washington streets. Its removal into the present 
 splendid quarters occurred in 1890. Since then the busi- 
 ness has grown steadily and continuously. Mr. Bruder 
 gives close personal attention to his affairs and is the 
 master spirit of the place. At present eight e.\pert 
 watchmakers are employed. A jewelry and repair de- 
 partment is also maintained. A splendid line of silver- 
 ware, cut glass, etc.. is carried. Mr. Bruder has 
 charge of the regulation of the watches carried by the 
 emploves of the Pennsylvania, the C, H. cS; D., the 
 Wabash, the Nickel Plate, the L. E. & W. and the L. S. 
 & M. S. railways and thus are they assured of accuracy 
 of time in the performance of their important duties. 
 
CLARK FAIRBANK 
 
 HERE is a man who thinks that the Penn is mightier 
 than anything else. He never carried a sword, 
 but has been a newspaper man and indulged in many 
 battles in which printer's ink was the dismal weapon. 
 
 Clark Fairbank was born among the hills of New- 
 Hampshire. After sliding down these hills for a few- 
 winters, he went with his parents to Lowell and finally 
 to Boston. Massachusetts, where he engaged in the 
 printing and publishing business. After he had been in 
 Boston a few- years he decided to come west. In i86q he 
 arrived in Fort Wayne. He came here to officiate at the 
 birth of the Fort Wayne Journal. He nursed that weekly 
 Republican paper under the firm name of C. Fairbank & 
 Company until 1878. In that year he dropped his edi- 
 torial pen to accept the general agency of the Penn 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia for 
 Northern Indiana. He dropped one pen to take up 
 another, so he felt familiar with the work at the start. 
 With his new Penn he began to write insurance. He 
 has been most successful in building up a large business 
 for his company in this part of the state. He thinks 
 that health should always be held at a premrum. and 
 this is one reason so many healthy, able-bodied men are 
 being constantly reminded by him of the premium. He 
 never gives premiums. He does not believe in trading 
 stamps. There are other premiums in which he is more 
 actively interested. He is an enthusiastic friend and 
 yearns for long life and prosperity for all his friends. 
 
 Socially, Mr. Fairbank is a popular citizen. He is a 
 member of the .Anthony Wayne Club and also an 
 enthusiastic member of the Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution. His ancestors among the White mountains of 
 New Hampshire did about as much with the sword as 
 Mr. Fairbank is now doing with the Penn. 
 
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JOHN M. LANDENBERGER 
 
 IF Mr. Landenberger could only have his way ahout it. 
 every mile of highway in this happy land would be 
 as smooth as a parlor floor. What a blessing that 
 would be! How joyful the autoist and the horse which 
 hauls the heavy loads from the farm to the market — 
 everybody and everything who or which uses the country- 
 roads. It would bring free delivery to thousands of un- 
 reached homes, because Uncle Sam won't allow his mail 
 to be carried over rough or poorly kept highways. 
 
 Mr. Landenberger is so enthusiastic over this idea 
 that he is making hundreds of machines each year to be 
 handed out all over the country to make the roads what 
 they ought to be. He is secretary and treasurer of the 
 Indiana Road Machine Company, and their products 
 have for years made smooth the ways of the weary 
 draught animals and abolished the boneshaking qualities 
 of many hundreds of miles of highway in all parts of the 
 United States. 
 
 Mr. Landenberger is a native of Philadelphia, born 
 in 1863, his parents having immigrated from the land of 
 the Kaiser in their youth. After securing a common 
 school education at Philadelphia, Mr. Landenberger 
 came to Fort Wayne in 1875, and for three years was a 
 student at Concordia college. Later he returned to the 
 City of Brotherly Love to attend a business college. 
 Mr. Landenberger is a Republican and cast his first bal- 
 lot for Jim Blaine. He lost it, but isn't ashamed of the 
 record. 
 
 He was in 1888 made secretary and treasurer of the 
 Indiana Machine Works, but now gives his attention 
 chiefly to the position referred to above. By the ab- 
 sorptfon of the Fleming Manufacturing Company, the 
 industry was enlarged considerably. 
 
 He is one of the popular business men of Fort Wayne 
 —of the kind that makes other cities move lively to keep 
 abreast of the commercial times. He is an enthusiastic 
 Rome Cityite and has a pretty cottage there. 
 
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PETER GORDON 
 
 HERE we see a native ot China and a native of Scot- 
 land. The former is being carried by the latter. 
 The name of one is Oolong; the other, Gordon. 
 
 Peter Gordon is the energetic manager of the Grand 
 Union Tea Company. 
 
 We, in these days, don't appreciate the great privi- 
 lege we liave of obtaining all the splendid l<inds of tea at 
 only a few cents a pound. Just think! In the middle of 
 the seventeenth century the queen of England was 
 almost tickled to death on being presented with two 
 pounds of tea by the East India Company. She certainly 
 ought to have been delighted, as tea sold for fifty dollars 
 a pound in those days. Mr. Gordon sells it for a whole 
 lot less than that. 
 
 Mr. Gordon, as we have observed, came from Scot- 
 land, but he doesn't wear a kilt any longer — in fact, 
 Scotch kilts are never worn very long, anyway. He was 
 only thirteen when he came to America and settled at 
 Springtield, Massachusetts. That state is the head- 
 quarters of learning in the east and is consequently 
 inhabited largely by maiden ladies, who pore over 
 their books until it is too late to be considered matri- 
 monially eligible. Old maids consume large quantities 
 of tea, and when Mr. Gordon got a job in a grocery 
 store he observed the great demand for that beverage. 
 He noticed it still more when he opened up a store of his 
 own at Holyoke. Thus it was that he became so inter- 
 ested in the subject that he connected himself with the 
 Grand Union Tea Company ten years ago. After man- 
 aging their store at Holyoke awhile, he was transferred 
 to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and after four years was 
 assigned to the management of the Fort Wayne branch. 
 The Grand Union has now i8o stores in all parts of the 
 country. It was started in 1882 by three wide-awake 
 brothers named Jones. Today it has a rating of a million. 
 
SAMUEL H. BAKER 
 
 ONE strange thing about a dentist is that he's hap- 
 piest when he's looking down in the mouth. It's 
 because he earns his living that way. 
 
 Doctor Baker is a painless dentist; it doesn't hurt 
 him a bit to put a tine edge on your incisors, to fi.x your 
 canines so they won't wabble, fill a few cavities in your 
 bicuspids or place a shining crown on your molars. 
 This faculty of resisting discomfort has come through 
 years of practice. After all, the man who sits down in 
 a dentist's chair feeling that it's all over now and won- 
 dering if it would not have been better to have dictated 
 his will before taking this important— perhaps final- 
 step, has already passed through nine-tenths of the 
 trouble that really comes to him. It is one of those 
 cases where anticipation is a whole lot worse than the 
 thing that arrives. If it is a gold filling or crown that 
 happens to him he gets his money's worth in real pleas- 
 ure during the years that follow by standing before his 
 private mirror and viewing his smiling, sparkling reflec- 
 tion therein. It is then that he loves the dentist. 
 
 Doctor Baker is from Iowa, whence came Senator 
 Allison, Secretary Shaw, Congressman Dolliver, Speaker 
 Henderson and the Cherry Sisters. After graduating 
 from the high school at Keosaqua. he entered the State 
 LIni\ersity of Iowa, at Iowa City, and went from there 
 to Chicago, where he took a complete course at the Chi- 
 cago College of Dental Surgery and graduated in 1892. 
 In school he was a member of the Delta Sigma Delta 
 fraternity. 
 
 He came to Fort Wayne in 1899 and formed a part- 
 nership with Dr. Burkett which lasted two years until 
 the latter removed to Oklalioma Cit\-. His present 
 place of business is in the Arcade, where he has a com- 
 pletely equipped suite for the conduct of his professional 
 work . 
 
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ROBERT W. T. DEWALD 
 
 ALTHOUGH Robert Wade Towiiley DeWalJ was 
 horn on the site of the present postoffice there 
 was not the sign of a cancelled postage stamp visible 
 on him the date of his arrival. He must have escaped 
 Uncle Sam's notice. 
 
 Boh got forced out into the suburbs by the encroacli- 
 ment of the government on his father's preserves. He 
 has never let that worry him as he has been right in 
 town ever since. After he left school he entered the 
 store of his father. George DeWald & Co.. and began 
 to climb the ladder. Boh impressed upon his father that 
 it would be a great thing to have a wholesale depart- 
 ment in connection with the hrm's large retail business. 
 .V\r. DeWald, St., gave his son full sway and twenty- 
 two years ago the wholesale business was launched. 
 Bob has been the head of this business ever since. The 
 firm was visited by a destructive fire and the retail 
 store was abandoned. In its place the George DeWald 
 Company, a mammoth wholesale .store, has arisen. 
 This business enterprise occupies the large DeWald 
 block at the corner of Columbia and Calhoun streets, 
 utilizing hve floors and a basement. It is one of the 
 very important wholesale houses of Indiana in the dry 
 goods line. Bob is president of this company and al=o 
 vice-president and director of the People's Trust 
 Company. 
 
 There are better golf players than Mr. Robert DeWald. 
 In fact, he is a one-hundred-to-one shot on the links. 
 The reason he is presented in this costume is because 
 we happened to catch him trying one of these suits on. 
 A traveling man was endeavoring to induce him to han- 
 dle a full line of golf suits as a specialty in his wholesale 
 dry goods store, but the suit did not seem to ht. 
 
WILLIAM B. PAUL 
 
 IT is a remarkable coincidence that the name of Paul, 
 the Insurance Man. is closely connected with Craw- 
 fordsville, known as the " Athens of Indiana." just as 
 the name of that other Paul is so intimately associated 
 with the old Athens in Greece. Both are noted for their 
 success in making converts to their views affecting the 
 welfare of their hearers. 
 
 Mr. Paul was born at Crawfordsville which has pro- 
 duced a number of other men who have startled the world 
 of letters, just as this man is doing in the world of insur- 
 ance. 
 
 But how has he done it? Simply this way : By care- 
 fully stud\ing the insurance business from the ground 
 floor to the roof garden while yet a boy, he has mastered 
 it so thoroughly that the Equitable Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of New York has honored him with a position of 
 importance held by no other man of his years in their 
 employ. Mr. Paul is only twenty-seven years old, but 
 despite his youth he is the manager of the district of 
 Northern Indiana for this big concern. He has a large 
 territory and many agents to look after, but he's doing 
 it without any trouble. 
 
 He secured his schooling and preliminary training 
 before coming to Fort Wayne in 1902. and began work 
 for another life insurance compiany As an agent, he 
 was singularly successful and received frequent promo- 
 tions. .After si.x months service with this company, he 
 took the management of the Equitable for this district. 
 
 Under his control, the society has written more busi- 
 ness than was secured during all its previous efforts in 
 this district. 
 
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FRANK R. GARRISON 
 
 THE man in the picture, holding a freight car in his 
 hands, apparently as easily as if it was a toy, is 
 A\r. Frank Garrison. Handling freight cars is his husi- 
 ness. He represents the freight traflic interests of the 
 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, a system whicli 
 covers four states and sends its passenger and freight 
 traffic over one thousand miles of its own tracks. Mr. 
 Garrison is the general agent for the Fort Wayne-Findlay 
 branch of this railroad system, controlling all its busi- 
 ness between these two cities and having his offices and 
 headquarters in Fort Wayne. 
 
 He has been in charge of the company's business in 
 this city for nearly four years and has made a wide circle 
 of friends by his pleasant business methods and com- 
 panionable ways. By birth he is a Michigander. begin- 
 ning his railroad life as a mailing clerk in the general 
 offices of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, at Grand 
 Rapids when he was a boy of sexenteen, working up the 
 ladder to more responsible positions in the service of 
 this company. 
 
 His abilities .ind hustling qualities soon attracted 
 the attention of other railroad officials and they laid their 
 hands on him, offering him the position of chief clerk in 
 the general freight offices of the old Findlay , Fort Wayne 
 & Western road, at Findlay, Ohio. He accepted and 
 went there. In 1900 when the Cincinnati, Hamilton & 
 Dayton company secured possession of the Findlay-Fort 
 Wayne line, Mr. Garrison was sent to this city and given 
 general charge of the company's entire freight traffic 
 between the terminals of the branch line, Findlay to Fort 
 Wayne. This position he has since held. His offices 
 are the only first story down town railroad offices in the 
 city. They are finely furnished and equipped. 
 

 FRED. S. HUNTING 
 
 HUNTING is an excellent name for this man. The 
 firearm used during the years he has been Hunt- 
 ing — which, of course, includes his whole life — is a 
 double-barreled affair, one side of which is labeled push 
 and the other ability. He usually tires both at once and 
 brings down success. 
 
 Mr. Hunting is the treasurer and manager of the Fort 
 Wayne Electric Works, one of the country's greatest 
 manufactories of electrical machinery and supplies. He 
 grew into this important office from a minor position 
 which he took with the company si.xteen years ago. He 
 seems to have aimed high with the above mentioned 
 tirearm and brought down many splendid prizes. 
 
 East Templeton. Massachusetts, is the native town 
 of Mr. Hunting. He was born there thirty-seven years 
 ago. After attending the common schools, he entered 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which school 
 he graduated in 1888, and came to Fort Wayne in Octo- 
 ber of the same year. He began his work with the Fort 
 Wayne Electric Company as a draughtsman. Two years 
 later he was advanced to the position of assistant to Mr. 
 M. M. Slattery, who was then chief electrician. In 1892 
 his ability was again recognized in his appointment as 
 assistant to C. S. Bradley on e.xperimental work with 
 multiphase machinerv'. In the following year he became 
 chief engineer of the engineering department of the Fort 
 Wayne Electric Company, and later kept the same posi- 
 tion with the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation. In Jan- 
 uary, 1899. he was made vice-president and sales man- 
 ager of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation. In May 
 of the same year he received the appointment of treasurer 
 and sales manager of the works. 
 
 In addition to holding these important positions, Mr. 
 Hunting is treasurer of the Fort Wayne Electric Light 
 and Power Company, and is a director of the First 
 National Bank, the Tri-State Trust Company and the 
 Tri-State Building and Loan .Association. 
 
HARRY R. PICKARD 
 
 |\ To man in America has more praise for the horseless 
 '^ ' carriaKe than His Excellency President TheoJore 
 Roosevelt. Harry Pickard feels much the same, only in 
 a different way. Harry is a bachelor. He sells horse- 
 less carriages without lienzine attachments and in cim- 
 seLiuence is anxious that his friends should think as 
 President Roosevelt does. In the picture Harry is decid- 
 edly in it. He would like to sell his buggy, as he now 
 has no use for it. He would much prefer to sell a matri- 
 monial fruit basket than a carpet sweeper. There is 
 more dust, of course, in a carpet sweeper, but there is 
 much more real li\e interest in a baby buggy. 
 
 Harry likes real live interest in his business. He is 
 the junior member of the firm of Pickard Brothers, furni- 
 ture, stoves and chinaware dealers. No one in the city 
 is more pleased to have natural gas fail in Fort Wayne 
 than Harry. He likes to see a fire in a stove. The good 
 old-fashioned fires inspire his admiration. He is not 
 always wishing for unfortunate occurrences, however. 
 He has a genial, kindly disposition. Look at that face 
 in the carriage. It is innocent simplicity personified. 
 and then some. He is sitting there just waiting for 
 some one to come along and give the carriage a shove, 
 so that he can put on the automatic brake, gaze at the 
 pneumatic wheels and say. •■Rubber." To look at him 
 in his carriage, the reader might imagine that he might 
 be made up to pay an election wager. This is not so. 
 Harry does not bet on the losing candidate. He is not 
 built that way. He knows a sure thing when he sees it 
 and is one of those boys who usually looks in the right 
 direction. 
 
EDWARD M. WILSON 
 
 TT ERE we get a view of Mr. Wilson in the act of ex- 
 ••■ -^ plaining something. Those who know him. Jon't 
 have to be told that he is describing the good qualities 
 of some insurance company which he represents and 
 telling you how it will help you out if a stray bolt of 
 lightning happens to land on your kitchen roof, or if your 
 mice have a fondness for chewing parlor matches. 
 
 Mr. Wilson began his earthly career at Wabash. 
 Indiana. He spent the early portion of his boyhood days 
 coasting in the winter and playing two-old-cat in the 
 good old summer time. In school he studied hard, while 
 some of the other boys studied hardly, the result being 
 that he and a few others graduated from the high school 
 one eventful year, and the other boys who might have 
 done so, didn't. Then he went to Ann Arbor. Michigan, 
 and entered the high school there, again having an op- 
 portunity to work off his graduation oration. We don't 
 know whether he made the same speech or not. Then 
 he spent two years in the University of Michigan, leav- 
 ing in 1889 to come to Fort Wayne. Here he entered into 
 partnership with H. C. Schrader in the conduct of a fire 
 and casualty insurance business, the buying and selling 
 of real estate, loans and rentals. Mr. Wilson is chosen 
 by his companies frequently to adjust fire losses in 
 various parts of Indiana. 
 
 In addition to attention to his business, Mr. Wilson 
 finds ample time to give to his duties as a member of the 
 board of trustees of the Indiana School for Feeble Minded 
 Youth, to which important position he was appointed by 
 Governor Durbin. 
 
 He was one of the founders of the Commercial Club, 
 and is a loyal member of the lodge of Elks. 
 
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PETER D. SMYSER 
 
 I UST because a man wears a long linen duster when 
 '-' he is at work it is no sign that he is a seeJy man. 
 Peter David Smyser is a seedy man just the same. There 
 are different kinds of seedy men. " Uncle Pete," as he 
 is famili.irly known to his legion of friends has more to 
 do with seeds than any other man in Fort Wayne. He 
 can tell a turnip seed from a cabbage seed, or a wild 
 mustard seed from any other member of the mustard 
 family, without consulting Papa or .Wama Mustard. 
 Without depending on wireless telegraphy or a telescope 
 he can tell a cucumber seed from a muskmelon seed and 
 not sidestep to get away from the facts He is on famil- 
 iar terms with most of the seedy families. He has a 
 speaking acquaintance with Pansy, Glory, Violet, Rose, 
 Lily, and other fair beauties too numerous to mention. 
 Then he can play Dr. Jeckyll with Mr. Hyde. He is 
 versed in hides. It is a step from the sublime in nature 
 to the ridiculous, but Mr. Smyser takes this step without 
 tripping. He is a partner in the firm of S. Bash & Com- 
 pany and is a practical man in every department of the 
 business. 
 
 He was born in Wayne county, ()iii'i. in 1847. Like 
 many other good Ohio men he came across the line into 
 Indiana. In 1867 he found himself in Fort Wayne. He 
 finished his schooling at the Fort Wayne high school 
 and after spending a year in the White Fruit House be- 
 came interested in the business affairs of S. Bash & 
 Company. In 1874 he was admitted to a partnership in 
 the firm. He Is one of the sturdy, progressixe business 
 men of Fort Wayne and one who has been closely iden- 
 tified with its rapid commercial as well as material 
 growth. 
 
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EDWARD WHITE 
 
 HtRE is a man who believes in looking right into 
 things. He strives to get at a legitimate business 
 basis anj to conduct affairs along that line. Edward 
 White seems to know how, too. He is one of Fort 
 Wayne's most active and thoroughly energetic business 
 men. He is popular personally, and his recent election 
 to the position of water works trustee, when he led the 
 municipal ticket several hundred votes, indicates clearly 
 his popularity and the extent of his circle of friends. 
 Although the youngest member of the board, he was 
 honored by being elected its president. He is president 
 of the White Fruit House, president of several other 
 corporations, a director in the White National Bank, 
 and has varied and extensive real estate interests in 
 Fort Wayne. 
 
 Just now he is busy trying to solve the water works 
 problem for the city. It will be safe to predict that if 
 legitimate and honest business methods are of avail in 
 his practical investigations there need be no fear that 
 the water will become contaminated. Already his busi- 
 ness ability has become thoroughly apparent in a sur- 
 prising augmentation in the receipts of the water works 
 treasury without an increase in the water rents. 
 
 Besides e.xamining water for germs, Ed frequently 
 e.xamines water for things which do not need a magnify- 
 ing glass to locate. He usually drops a line into the 
 water with a bait on it, and his piscatorial accomplish- 
 ments are said to be Waltonian in style. Every busy 
 man requires some recreation, and Ed likes to get into a 
 boat with rod and reel to angle for the game members of 
 the tinny tribe. His game bag usually smells of fish, 
 even if he has to carry a herring from his grocery store. 
 
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KENT K. WHEELOCK 
 
 IT used be to said of the H(in. R. C. Bell, the former bril- 
 hant Fort Wayne lawyer and Indiana statesman, 
 that as a toastmaster none could e^iual him, and there 
 were few notable public banquets held that he was not 
 called upon to act in this capacity. When Senator Bell 
 died one of the men upon whom his mantle as a toast- 
 master fell was Dr. Kent K. Wheelock. His talent 
 in this role was discovered at the banquets of the 
 alumni of the Fort Wayne Medical College, of which he 
 is one of the professors, and since then he has been 
 forced into service as toastmaster at other public banquet 
 occasions, particularly when the medical men gather 
 around the festal board, and at Knights of Pythias 
 gatherings, of which fraternity he is a past chancellor. 
 
 Physicians, as a rule, are not born orators, nor, as a 
 rule, do they ever become orators. They cut and slash 
 too much. They administer too many unpleasant doses. 
 People submit to what they do and taUe what they give be- 
 cause they think they havetodo so. In Dr. WheelocU's 
 case, birth had something to do with his ability as a 
 speaker. His father, a distinguished physician of his 
 time, was a brilliant extemporaneous orator, a man who 
 in this respect was without a peer in this county. And, 
 then. Dr. Wheelock, when he is officiating as a toast- 
 master doesn't cut and slash, nor does he give nauseating 
 doses. His bitter pills are always sugar coated, and this 
 is why he is popular as a toastmaster. 
 
 Dr. Wheelock has always lived in this county. He 
 completed a course at the University of Michigan and 
 graduated at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of 
 New York. He located in this city in the practice of 
 medicine in 1880. was coroner of the county from 1882 to 
 1884. and for years has given his special attention to the 
 surgery of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He took a five 
 months' course of study in this practice at the University 
 in \'ienna. 
 
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THOMAS J. LOGAN 
 
 DURING twenty-one eventful years, Mr. Logan has 
 been practicing law. ever inspired by the hope 
 that some day the perverse members of society would 
 agree to live in peace and harmony, seemingly uncon- 
 cerned that when the millenium arrives lawyers will be 
 out of something to do. The milk of human kindness 
 flows from the heart of Mr. Logan, and when he is called 
 upon to compose human differences he does it, not be- 
 cause there is a fee in it. but because he wants the 
 brethren and sisters to dwell together in concord and 
 amity. 
 
 It must not be supposed, however, that he's a milk- 
 and-water sort of lawyer. Not a bit of it. To hear him 
 in one of his masterly speeches, full of fire and force, you 
 can get an insight into his earnestness when called upon 
 to tight a wrong, social or political. 
 
 Mr. Logan was born in Kosciusco county, Indiana, 
 and stayed on the farm until he was nearly twenty-two 
 years old. He is an example of the fact that it's good 
 for a boy to remain an associate of the cornfield until his 
 character is pretty well formed. He began his education 
 at the district school and then went to Valparaiso to at- 
 tend the Normal. Coming to Fort Wayne in 1880, he 
 entered the law office of Coombs, Morris & Bell. Three 
 years later he had completed the course and was gradu- 
 ated from the law department of the University of Mich- 
 igan. For a number of years he was official court 
 reporter; later came his appointment as a deputy clerk 
 of the United States court, in Fort Wayne, and then as 
 United States Commissioner. Mr. Logan's popularity 
 was shown in 1900, when, as Republican candidate for 
 prosecuting attorney, he ran four hundred votes ahead 
 of his ticket. 
 
CHARLES M. GILLETT 
 
 \ \ /hen one thinks of the keeper of records and seals 
 ' ' his mind floats reminiscently to the funny man 
 in the comic opera — a lord high chancellor of wit. gro- 
 tesque and official liumor. Charles M. Gillett, the pop- 
 ular recorder of Allen county, is nothing like a comic 
 opera comedian. When one meets him in his ofificial 
 capacity he is a pleasing, good-natured, sensible official. 
 He knows almost everyone in .Allen county. 
 
 He was born in Milan township in 1841. He lived on 
 his father's farm, getting a common school education, 
 until the outbreak of the civil war. Then he broke 
 away from home ties. He became a portion of the 
 Twenty-third Indiana Battery, but he was neither pitcher 
 nor catclier in this battery. He was a sergeant and 
 helped hurl the balls, but at no time was he on the 
 receiving end. He got onto the curves early and was 
 able to duck and keep right on firing. This is one reason 
 he was able to return home, to join the Union Veteran 
 Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, and be 
 elected recorder. A few years ago some one told him he 
 could do better in the state of Washington in the far 
 northwest, and he hiked to the tall and massive timber. 
 He liked it so well that he came home for his wife and 
 family. For eighteen months the family lingered in the 
 state washed by the waters of the Pacific and then 
 returned to good old Milan township, sprayed by the 
 gentle ripples of the placid Maumee river. He continued 
 to reside in Milan township until si.x years ago when he 
 was elected recorder. Mr. Gillett has been keeper of 
 records and seals ever since. He can lift a heavy 
 mortgage as easily as he does a light one. 
 
JOHN E. BEAHLER 
 
 A LL men have liobhies and here we see John E. Beahler 
 '^ riding his insurance hobby to the rescue of his 
 friends whom he would protect against loss by fire and 
 accident. He also makes it a duty to have his friends 
 thoroughly protected in case of death but not against 
 death. 
 
 He knows all about his hobby. It is not afraid of the 
 cars and will stand without hitching. It is a good thing 
 to drive along and hold the reins over. John Beahler 
 got used to holding the reins on his father's farm down 
 in Illinois where he was born just as the civil war closed. 
 He remained on the farm riding the horses and cows and 
 watching things grow till his hobby began to grow. He 
 went to school in Lexington, Kentucky, and also attended 
 the Westfield College in Westfield. Illinois. Just as soon 
 as he left the farm he stepped into the saddle of his hob- 
 by and has lieen riding ever since. While in school it 
 seems that he did not learn to spell correctly, as he has 
 two insurance companies, one of which is called the 
 Pheni.x and the other the Phtenix. It is hard work to keep 
 these two companies straight on his books, but when he 
 writes either one he presents the name of a reliable tire 
 insurance company. In 1890 after a sojourn of three 
 years in Cincinnati, he came to Fort Wayne and began 
 to ride his hobby here. He grooms him down with the 
 National, the Orient and the Travelers' Life, accident and 
 employers' indemnity, just to suit his tastes. 
 
 Mr. Beahler was a pioneer settler in Lakeside. He 
 was one of the first residents of this pretty suburb and 
 he has resided there ever since. He is one of the tew 
 insurance men who do not dabble in real estate. He 
 is too busy with his hobby. 
 
E. RALPH YARNELLE 
 
 IT'S a risky thing in these days to strew comphments 
 aliout promiscoiisly. It used to be that kind and 
 tlatterinj; words were appreciated by everybody. How- 
 e\er. a modern compiler has spoiled it all by issuing a 
 dictionary in which he assumes to give the accurate 
 etymology of the words which we have stolen from the 
 Europeans and the Asiatics. This writer says: Tlie 
 word compliment is from the English coii. hot air. and 
 the Latin, plco. to fill ; hence, to hll with hot air. 
 
 We feel, however, that Mr. Yarnelle. the young man 
 displayed in a pushing occupation, will recognize our 
 earnestness, and therefore believe us sincere and pos- 
 sessing no desire to fill him with superheated atmos- 
 phere, when we say that in this snapshot we caught him 
 in the midst of one of the kindest acts on record. 
 
 As everyone knows, it's good luck to pick up a horse- 
 shoe mot referring to the bad luck of the one who has lost 
 it) and in order that good fortune shall be widespread, 
 it is not only necessary that the stock of horseshoes shall 
 be sufficient for all, but that the same supply of ei.|uine 
 footwear shall be scattered all over this broad land. Mr. 
 Yarnelle is here engaged in scattering them. This con- 
 signment is probably addressed to the Mikado of Japan. 
 The next may be sent to the Czar of all the Russias. 
 
 Ralph is one of the pushing young men at the e.stab- 
 lishment of Mossman, Yarnelle & Company, dealers in 
 heavy hardware. He originated here, and after he had 
 graduated from the high school, went to Williamstown, 
 Massachusetts, to attend Williams College, This cele- 
 brated institution was opened in 1791; it had been in 
 operation a few years before Ralph showed up for ma- 
 triculation. He has always been popular here at home; 
 he comes from a musical family and sings like a bird, 
 figuratively speaking. He's always happy. 
 
WILLIAM F. MYERS 
 
 You will notice without having your attention called 
 to tlie fact, that Dr. Myers is an artist. He can 
 draw horses ahiiost as well as they can draw him. He 
 can also draw horses' teeth— painlessly . It doesn't hurt 
 him a hit. We see him in the sketi-yi having just com- 
 pleted a lightning portrait of an old friend, one who can 
 always be depended on to furnish a surprise, no matter 
 which way you wager your coin. 
 
 The doctor is a D. V. S. (Drives Vivacious Steeds). 
 It's a difficult matter to get a real good look at him as 
 he is usually flying through the atmosphere holding onto 
 the ribbons attached to a fast stepper. When not so 
 engaged, you're liable to find him in the office of the Fort 
 Wayne Fair Association, in the court house, where he 
 is busy preparing for the next great event no matter how 
 far distant the date may be. He is the lively secretary 
 of that organization. He has a large veterinary hospital 
 at his Webster street place. 
 
 Doctor Myers was born in Fort Wayne at the corner 
 of Douglas avenue and Webster street thirty-nine years 
 ago, in the very house in which he still lives. He 
 gazes out through the same windows that he did when 
 a child, though of course the landscape has changed 
 a good deal in almost two-score years. 
 
 After attending the German schools here, he entered 
 the Chicago Veterinary College, graduating in 1889. 
 The man who loves horses has a warm spot in his heart 
 for every living thing. Such a man is Dr. Myers. He 
 has a lot of loyal friends and this accounts largely for 
 the great success which has accompanied his efforts to 
 revive the Fort Wayne Fair. This he undertook to do 
 three years ago, and whatever Doctor Myers starts to 
 accomplish is done, or there is a good and unforseen 
 reason why. 
 
MAURICE L. JONES 
 
 THIS is Admiral Jones, the first man to lead the Rome 
 City fleet to a successful conquest of the hearts of 
 admiring thousands who gathered on the occasion of the 
 initial Venetian night parade on Sylvan Lake — the be- 
 ginning of a series of brilliant water carnivals which have 
 made the lal<e famous. 
 
 But here we see him engaged in other pursuits. He 
 is explaining the latest in kodakery — the most recent 
 improved camera and the developing machine. It keeps 
 one hustling to be posted on what's going on in the 
 photographic field; but Jones can tell you. He keeps 
 at the front of the procession and knows all about it. He 
 conducts a large photographic supply house and for 
 fifteen years it has been one of the leading institutions 
 of its kind in this part of the country. 
 
 Mr. Jones is a native born Hoosier. He happened in 
 1848, at North Manchester. When the war began he 
 became a part of Company H of the One Hundred and 
 Eighteenth Indiana Infantry, and afterward served inthe 
 Thirty-ninth Regiment and the Eighth Cavalry, until the 
 close of the war. winding up with the march with Sher- 
 man to the sea. Perhaps that sight of the ocean led up 
 to the Rome City incident. Anyway he came home and 
 was graduated from a business college at Indianapolis 
 in 1867. For three years he was in the lumber business 
 with his father, at Bunker Hill, Indiana. Then he sold 
 Howe sewing machines at Peru, for four years. It was 
 then that he began his career as a photographer, which 
 led up to his present enterprise. In 1876 he came here, 
 opened a studio and enjoyed a splendid success. He 
 gradually grew into the photographic supply business. 
 
 Mr. Jones is a prominent Mason and a member of 
 several other orders. He has a fine cottage at Rome 
 City and operates one of the sleekest little motor boats 
 you ever saw. 
 
EDMUND H. COOMBS 
 
 HERE is Mr. Coombs making a frantic en,- for 
 hellup. And we Jon't blame him one bit. Even if 
 he is a big man. that's no sign he should consent with- 
 out objection to shouldering a piece of bar iron weighing 
 nine hundred and thirty-six pounds when there are a lot 
 of hired men around who are paid for doing that very 
 thing. Hence our commendation of him in refusing to 
 do the lifting all alone. 
 
 Mr. Coombs is the active head of the Edmund H. 
 Coombs Company, which carries one of the heaviest 
 stocks of merchandise in this city. This merchandise is 
 composed of such items as anvils, horseshoes, massive 
 chunks of iron and all such things as are used by the 
 village blacksmiths and all other blacksmiths. It is one 
 of the city's most important wholesale establishments. 
 
 Mr. Coombs is a Fort Wayne man. He tried to live 
 for a while in Michigan and in New York when he was a 
 youngster, but it didn't work, and he came back. After 
 leaving the Fort Wayne public schools, he went to Pon- 
 tiac. .Vlichigan, at the age of hfteen. where he attended 
 the Michigan Military Academy for a couple of years. 
 Then, for two years, he was a student at the Peekskill 
 Militapi- Academy in New York state. At the close of 
 this period he returned to Fort Wayne and entered the 
 employ of Coombs & Company, of which his father was 
 the active head. Here he learned the heavy hardware 
 business, not only as a house employe, where he 
 remained si.x years, hut as a salesman on the road. He 
 visited the trade for eight years, at the end of which 
 time he engaged in business for himself. One year ago 
 the concern was incorporated under the name of the 
 Edmund H. Coombs Company. 
 
 The company conducts an e.xclusive mail order trade, 
 chiefly with blacksmiths, and is the pioneer in this method 
 of handling the heavy hardware business. 
 
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CHARLES B. FITCH 
 
 THE first Fitch to land in America was a tire insurance 
 man— that is. a preaclier of the old school who 
 insured the people of the colony of Rhode Island against 
 those tlames about which we learn so much in Reve- 
 lation. This tends to prove the theory of the inheritance 
 of the traits of our ancestors. This early arrival, the 
 Reverend James Fitch, came from England in 1637 and 
 was one of the founders of Rhode Island. At one time 
 he sold li.ooo acres of land in .\\assachusetts for ;£i2^. 
 so it seems he operated a real estate business on the 
 side. His descendants are united in the belief that this 
 was alto,a;ether too cheap. Nine generations of Fitches 
 since then, are easily traceable. 
 
 Mr. C. B. Fitch was born in Medina County. Ohio, 
 and came to Fort Wayne in 1873. At the age of seven- 
 teen he began teaching school in this county to enable 
 him to complete his high school course. Later he spent 
 three years in the mercantile and grain business at 
 Avilla, Indiana. In 1882 when the Fort Wayne Jenney 
 Electric Light Company was organized he accepted a 
 position with it as assistant manager, remaining 
 with that company until 1891 when he embarked in the 
 insurance business as general agent of the National Life 
 Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vermont, for North- 
 eastern Indiana. A little later he engaged in general 
 insurance and his agency is now composed of a number 
 of the strongest and best companies. Mr. Fitch is well 
 posted on insurance matters, having had two years' 
 experience as actuary of the insurance department of 
 Indiana under State Auditor William H. Hart. 
 
 Mr. Fitch is a prominent Mason, having held higli 
 positions in several Masonic lodges, and being at the 
 present time eminent commander of Fort Wayne Com- 
 mandery No. 4. Knights Templar. He is a member of 
 the Sons of American Revolution, having proved his 
 eligibility to such membership through hve different lines 
 of ancestors. 
 
ClRCL>LnT(OI<l\ 
 
 CLARENCE F. BICKNELL 
 
 IN this picture we have a good view of the fire Jepart- 
 ment of the Fort Wayne Daily News. It is here that 
 the boys who work on the paper go to get fired when 
 tliey are bad or do not perform tlieir duties properly. 
 
 Mr. Bickneli came to Fort Wayne one hot day in the 
 summer of 1902 and bought a newspaper. He then 
 walked out onto the street, got acquainted with the doc- 
 tors, the lawyers, the merchants, the politicians, the 
 shop men and everybody he could meet, and by the 
 time he had finished the rounds knew pretty well 
 what sort of a newspaper would be popular in Fort 
 Wayne. The Daily News was removed from its back 
 street location into the magnificent Y. M. C. A. building 
 which was entirely remodeled and fitted with all the 
 equipments for the publication of a modern newspaper. 
 To some wise ones the venture, demanding, as it did, 
 the outlay of a large amount of capital, appeared an un- 
 promising experiment ; but everyone in Fort Wayne 
 knows how successful has been the result. This out- 
 come is traceable to Mr. Bicknell's knowledge of men as 
 well as of the newspaper business. Reared on a farm 
 near Bickneli. Indiana, he knows what the farmers and 
 the other .sons of toil like to read in a newspaper: edu- 
 cated in the State University of Indiana he is acquainted 
 with the likes and dislikes of the student and the bright 
 young minds of the community, his nine years in the 
 employ of the Burlington railroad— four of which were 
 spent in the office of the general passenger department 
 at Omaha — gained for him a thorough knowledge of the 
 ins and outs of commercial and business experience. 
 Beginning then by the purchase of the Gas City, Indiana, 
 Journal, he was soun owner of the Terre Haute Tribune 
 which grew in popularity to be one of the foremost news- 
 papers of Indiana. The success of the Fort Wayne Daily 
 News is due to the application of the knowledge gained 
 while taking these preliminary steps 
 
 '53 
 
AMOS R. WALTER 
 
 A .WAN with a name like this must certainly succeed. 
 If you will look carefully into their signiticance 
 you will find that Amos means strong and courageous, 
 while Walter means "ruling the host." Of course this 
 latter refers to Mr. Walter's charge over the large force 
 uf employes in the Keystone grocery. 
 
 Mr. Walter was a farmer boy. reared in the Ohio 
 county named for ".Wad Anthony" Wayne. Itwas very 
 natural, then, that on reaching the age of twenty-four 
 and desiring to try his luck in "the city," he should 
 conje to the town which is named in honor of the same 
 illustrious Indian fighter. He arrived in 1869. 
 
 His first employers were Stoner, Wygent & Company, 
 wholesale grocers, who occupied the old Randall hotel 
 building. At that time it stood on the bank of the canal, 
 that busy highway of traftic which made Fort Wayne an 
 important point on the map. Then he became an em- 
 ploye of the United States Express Company, but re- 
 signed when the carrier system was instituted at the 
 Fort Wayne post office. August i, 1873. Mr. Walter 
 was one of the five men first appointed to this duty. 
 .All the others have passed away. 
 
 In order to enter upon his first business venture, he 
 resigned in 1881, but after trying the experiment for a 
 year, he sold out and accepted a deputyship under Sheriff 
 W. D. Schieffer. Upon the change of administration, 
 he became a Knight of the Grip for the wholesale grocery 
 house of Skelton. Watt & Wilt, and later for Berdan & 
 Company, of Toledo. Quitting the road, he took a 
 financial and personal interest in the Fort Wayne Ga- 
 zette, but decided to undertake the establishment of a 
 first class grocery house, and so, in 1897. the Keystone 
 was opened. It has had a most successful history. Mr. 
 Walter is one of the oldest Masons in Fort Wayne. In 
 the G. A. R. he has figured prominently as a member of 
 the Council of Administration, and otherwise. 
 
PATRICK J. M'DONALD 
 
 MR. McDonald doesn't work in the water wurks 
 office now. but a bunch of his admirers asked us 
 to make this sketch in order that they may forever pre- 
 serve this recollection of him : so we gave in and did it 
 to please them. Had we pictured him as he appears to- 
 day we would have placed him behind the lattice-work 
 in the office of the People's Trust and Savings Company 
 with his glad hand out and a si.\-inch smile on his face. 
 If some of us tried to smile as much as Mr. McDonald 
 does we'd certainly crack our complexions; but he's 
 used to it. He learned the trick first as deputy in the 
 office of the city clerk, a position he held from 187:; to 188 ? 
 —eight years— and later for fifteen years, beginning witli 
 1S88, as secretary of the city water works board. Dur- 
 ing those years. Mr. McDonald made the aci-iuaintance 
 of everybody in Fort Wayne, and his personal friendships 
 are a great factor in building up the financial institution 
 of which he is now the active head. 
 
 Mr. McDonald's parents came from Irelandat an earh 
 date, and he was born here. He began his early educa- 
 tion in the Brothers' School in this city and later went tj 
 Notre Dame University. After serving eight years as 
 deputy in the office of the city clerk, he spent a short 
 time in the west before beginning his duties in the city 
 water works office. 
 
 When the People's Trust and Savings Company was 
 organized. Mr. McDonald became its secretary. He is 
 also a director and stockholder in that institution. He 
 is interested in the Kaough Coal Company and other- 
 wise connected with local commercial concerns. 
 
 Mr. McDonald has a cottage at Rome City and the 
 finny tribe thereabouts don't like him a little bit. He 
 tries to be sociable by dropping them a line occasionally 
 but thev don't seem to consider him in the swim at all. 
 
COONY BAYER 
 
 IT was thirteen years a^o that Coony Bayer, then a 
 boy of twenty, borrowed fifty dollars and got a little 
 backing to go into thecigarmaUing business for himself. 
 For three years he worked hard day and night and suc- 
 ceeded in doing fairly well, but not well enough to sat- 
 isfy a man of his energy and ambition. So he decided to 
 shake from his shoes the dust of Fort Wayne (we weren't 
 so well paved then) and transferred himself to Memphis, 
 Tennessee, where he started in to cut a wider swath, 
 leaving his brother Will here in charge of their little 
 factory. But alas I Coony miscalculated, jusf as others 
 have done who thought they had performed their final 
 dust-shaking act with reference to the city of Mad An- 
 thony. Like the proverbial feline, he "came back" a 
 year later with, as he expresses it. "a terrible more 
 knowledge of the cigar business and a whole lot less 
 coin "than when he went south. Some other fellows 
 might have thrown up the sponge, but Coony didn't. 
 What he did was to start in making the now famous 
 '■Coony's Little Havanas." and— but you know the rest. 
 
 Not very long ago Coon\' went to Cuba where he pur- 
 chased the stock which enters into the making of the 
 new ten-cent cigar called LaRienta. He says its the 
 best that grows on the island and he sniffed around a 
 good deal and picked out what he thought was a little 
 superior to all the rest ; so that if he makes up his mind 
 to put something else new on the market we wouldn'tbe 
 surprised to see him skimming across the ocean after 
 something good to make it out of. 
 
 A year or so ago. when Mr. Bayer's brother was 
 taken into the concern, the Cooney Bayer Cigar Company 
 was incorporated. The factor>^ one of the largest in 
 the state, is located in an especially construced orna- 
 mental building at the corner of Barr and Clinton streets. 
 
CHARLES L. OLDS 
 
 IN this little landscape we discover Mr. Olds in the 
 act of shoveling dirt. In reality, Mr. Olds doesn't 
 have a great deal to do with the actual handling of the 
 earth during the progress of a job for which he secures 
 the contract; what he really does is to attend to the 
 important preliminaries and then handles the "dust" 
 which accumulates as a result of discreet and sensible 
 attention to the business in hand. 
 
 Mr. Olds is president of the construction company 
 bearing his name. He is a good citizen, and an album 
 assuming to hold the portraits of Fort Wayne's leading 
 men of affairs would come short of its avowed claim did 
 it not contain, somewhere between its covers, a likeness 
 of the man with the spade. Mr. Olds came to Fort 
 Wayne as a lad of six years; at the time he appeared. 
 Fort Wayne was but a modest village and the hoy him- 
 self was the essence of modesty. The town has long 
 since outgrown that characteristic, but Mr. Olds is just 
 as modest as ever. He has made a great success of his 
 business, even in the face of the mighty competition 
 presented by gigantic corporations operating on similar 
 lines throughout the country, but he is not enrolled with 
 that class of succes.sful men who win fortune by freaks 
 of fate. No, he hasn't taken any chances with luck, 
 but has been content to await the slow but sure returns 
 of the intelligent application of principles of scientific 
 discovery to the demands of modern commercial and 
 domestic life. 
 
 As a member of the Haydn Quartet during the many 
 years which that organization has spread melody 
 throughout the land of the Hoosiers, Mr. Olds is widely 
 known outside of the ordinary circles which have won 
 him many friends. 
 
CHARLES S. BASH 
 
 T UST because you see Mr. Bash with a bunch of di- 
 '-' plomas under his arm it is no sign that he is envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to any court. 
 He is diplomatic but he is not a diplomat. A diplomat 
 does not deliver addresses on international doctrines in 
 his shirt sleeves, yet all diplomats do not know how to 
 orate. They can get pointers from observing the presi- 
 dent of the board of trustees of the Fort Wayne public 
 schools. 
 
 Charley Bash wore his first shirt in Roanoke, Indiana, 
 just a few miles west of Fort Wayne. This was fifty- 
 one years ago. He wore shirts there one year, then 
 came to Fort Wayne. The dots on the shirt he wore 
 when the snap-shot was taken of him are not done in 
 waltz time. They are polka. When the shirt gets older 
 they will be in "rag." He got into the habit of cooling 
 off in hot political debates and he does not desire to cul- 
 tivate any other habit. He elegantly and eloquently 
 clothes his political arguments. He is one of the best 
 posted men in Indiana on the political issues which are 
 of interest to the business communit\' of the central 
 west. He is an ardent Republican and is a power in 
 local, district and state politics. His election to the 
 Fort Wayne school board was not only a recognition of 
 his services but also an honor bestowed on account of 
 his thorough training for the position. He was a mem- 
 ber of the high school class of 1872 and he delights in 
 pushing the schools to the front. He will be an earnest 
 supporter of the new high and manual training school. 
 
 He is vice-president and general manager of the large 
 wholesale grain and commission house of S. Bash & 
 Company and is interested in numerous other important 
 business ventures. 
 
DAVID S. ECKERT 
 
 ALL last season it was a real pleasure to attend the 
 Central League polo teams, if only to see Da\e 
 Eckert smile. He usually stood at the door to accept the 
 tickets anj was so happy that he said "thank you" to 
 everybody just as sweetly as he knew how. Even to 
 those who presented "comps" he made the same glad 
 remark. Dave wasn't thinking about the stream of cur- 
 rency pouring in through the ticket window. Oh. no! 
 He was happy because he knew he had at last found for 
 the people of Fort Wayne a brand of sport which every- 
 body enjoyed, and that he had succeeded in getting 
 together one of the fastest hunches of athletes that ever 
 carried a pennant fastened to a crooked stick. Dave has 
 decided to do tlie same thing this year, and if he provides 
 as good a quality of clean sport as he did last winter the 
 people will certainly save up their pennies and nickels 
 and dimes and hurry over to deposit the same in his 
 capacious hands. But this is only a side issue of Dave's. 
 He has other important affairs. 
 
 The golden days of the old Forty-niners are now only 
 memories of the dim and distant past. But the golden 
 days of Dave Eckert, the "Thirty-niner," are things of 
 the lively present. No one who has learned anything 
 about Fort Wayne's cigar manufactories, past and pres- 
 ent, needs to be told that the "39" cigar is one of the 
 things which has made Fort Wayne famous. Of course, 
 the Eckert factory turns out other brands of popular 
 ■•smokes," but this one has had a good name since the 
 Eckert factory was established, thirty-five years ago. by 
 Dave's father, the late John C. Eckert. 
 
 Dave is a Fort Wayne boy by birth. While yet a lad 
 be entered his father's employ. He succeeded to the 
 management and has done his work well. 
 
 ■ 64 
 
WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN 
 
 WE asked Mr. Griffin to take off his goggles long 
 enough to let us make this little snapshot. The 
 south wind kindly removed his cap so we also get a view 
 of his broad e.xpanse of brow as he glides over the as- 
 phaltum. You notice we don't say heglides noiselessly; 
 far from it. Even if his motor car failed to make a sound, 
 the rapidity with which he is whizzed through the at- 
 mosphere would produce a sound very like the swish of 
 a blacksnake in the hand of Legree. When made up for 
 one of his two hundred and eighty-seven mile spurts 
 into the country. Mr. Griffin strongly resembles a deep 
 sea diver. He hasn't his full rigging on in this picture. 
 Mr. Griffin has an incurable attack of automobilensis. 
 and has thus far refrained from trying any of the rem- 
 edies for it prepared by the medical institute for which 
 he is the secretary. He thinks his is a hopeless case, 
 but fears that a cure might be found. 
 
 Mr. Griffin is a Hoosier by birth, his voice being hrst 
 heard by the people of the thriving village of Brimfield, 
 in Noble county. He frequently went fishing for shiners 
 in the Elkhart river, and engaged in the elevating pas- 
 time of hitching ticktacks to the neighbors' casements, 
 but managed to find time to absorb the vast quantity of 
 information offered by the schools of his native town. 
 He later taught in the country schools of Noble county. 
 At the time the Spanish-American trouble came on, he 
 was at Kalamazoo. Michigan, where he joined Company 
 C, of the Thirty-second Michigan Volunteers and en- 
 joyed a six months' vacation in the south. After his 
 return, he took a position with the State Medical Insti- 
 tute, of Fort Wayne — now the J. W. Kidd Company — 
 and is at present secretary of that large concern. 
 
 .65 
 
JOHN DREIBELBISS 
 
 IF we should tell you that a cow brought John Dreibel- 
 biss to Fort Wayne, and then stop without telling 
 the remaining portion of the story, it wouldn't be at all 
 fair; so we will proceed immediately to relate the rest 
 of the tale of the cow. Some folks were brought to Fort 
 Wayne by a team of oxen, and one might think at first 
 that this was the method employed to transport Mr. 
 Dreibelbiss to our city; but not so. The story is of 
 another sort. 
 
 John Dreibelbiss was born here in 1853. His first 
 employer was Mason Long, who was then in the grocery 
 business. When he reached the age of fourteen he 
 entered the employ of the White Fruit House, at that 
 time conducted by the elder J. B. White. At the age of 
 ele\en he went to Chicigo to work for a wholesale tea 
 house, and right there's wliere the the cow story begins. 
 In 1872, .Mrs. O'Leary's bovine quadruped kicked over 
 the lamp which started the Chicago tire. Theconflagration 
 swept away the tea house where John Dreibelbiss had 
 been accustomed to draw his salary un Saturday nights: 
 it also swept the young man back to Fort Wayne. So, 
 as we remarked before, it was a cow that brought John 
 Dreibelbiss to Fort Wayne to make his home. 
 
 He was employed at farming and floriculture for 
 some time and then for si.x years was a grocery clerk. 
 Twenty years ago, he began the tedious, yet important, 
 labor of perfecting a new method of working up abstracts 
 of title. His system is a model, covering every inch of 
 ground in Allen county so completely that its entire 
 histop,- may be laid bare in a few moments. Mr. 
 Dreibelbiss is the author of a work entitled "Start 
 Right," which unfolds to the uninformed in entertaining 
 narrative style the intricate details of the abstract 
 business. 
 
CHARLES E. ARCHER 
 
 HKRE is an Arclier who seems to have become expert 
 in striking the bullseye of the target of success 
 every time lie has maJe the attempt. At any rate, if 
 he made failures along with his successes, they Jid not 
 discourage him, hut rather intensified his earnestness 
 and sharpened the keenness of his desire to become more 
 expert with the bow of endeavor and the arrow of enter- 
 prise. 
 
 Mr. Archer's first experience in the line ot work allied 
 to his present business was during his connection with 
 the Fort Wayne Gazette with which lie was employed 
 as circulator. While performing his duties in that capa- 
 city he got the idea tliat a job printing office which ca- 
 tered only to the finest class of patronage, doing a high 
 grade of work for a correspondingly substantial price, 
 would be a welcome addition to the list of commercial 
 establishments of Fort Wayne. With that idea in mind, 
 he purchased the job department of the Gazette, and 
 continued for ten years to operate it in accordance with 
 the views he had previously formed, at the end of which 
 time the Archer Printing Company was formed. With 
 the same idea before it, the new company started in a 
 comparatively small way, but before much time had 
 elapsed it found its business so enlarged that a much 
 more commodious building was needed. The present im- 
 mense factory is the result. Sixty persons are given 
 employment, and the annual business of the Archer 
 Printing Company now amounts to over Sioo.ooo. A 
 large share of its output is in the shape of tine cata- 
 logues, booklets, periodicals and the finer grades of 
 printing. A complete electrotyping and engraving plant 
 and bindery are operated in connection. Its patrons are 
 scattered all over the union and through the medium of 
 this concern the good name of Fort Wayne is spread 
 broadcast. Such is the enterprise that has blossomed 
 from the ideas and labors of Charles E. Archer. 
 
 167 
 
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON 
 
 WHEN the ice breaks up in Delta Lal<e and the win- 
 ter's snows in Swinney Park fade away before 
 the gentle sunshine of the early spring, the crocus lifts 
 its delicate head to bow a perfumed welcome to the ver- 
 dure that appears as if by magic to spread itself over the 
 landscape. The welcome of the crocus is cheery and 
 sweet, but it isn't in it with the welcome that County 
 Clerk Johnson carries with him wherever he may wan- 
 der. Mr. Johnson has a face that seems to be built for 
 smiling purposes. 
 
 Of cour.se, there are times when he smiles more than 
 at other times. In the sketch we see him handing out a 
 document designed to bring gladness to the hearts of the 
 recipients. Since he took his office in the court house 
 January i. 1903, he has passed out about 1,450 marriage 
 licenses, and from this statement you may get a slight 
 idea ot the amount of bliss he is dispensing through this 
 one channel alone. 
 
 Mr. Johnson was born in Eel River township. When 
 a boy he attended the country school and did chores. He 
 also went hshing in Eel River and sometimes hauled out 
 a good-eel. Thus he kept busy until he was old enough 
 to go to Churubusco to enter the high school. He was 
 graduated therefrom, and for some time engaged in 
 teaching school. 
 
 Mr. Johnson ran for the office of trustee of Eel River 
 township, and. although the community was then 
 strongly Republican and he just as strongly a Democrat, 
 he won out ahead of his opponent. Such incidents tell 
 whether or not a prophet is without honor in his own 
 country. For six years he was a member of the Allen 
 County Democratic Central Committee from his township. 
 He was nominated in 1902 by his party as their candidate 
 for county clerk and was chosen by a pleasing majority 
 vote. Since making his home in Fort Wayne Mr. Johnson 
 has added a good many names to his long list of friends. 
 
DANIEL B. NINDE 
 
 MR. NINDE. Republican canjidate for prosecuting 
 attorney, is stuck on the law business. The 
 picture shows him in that interesting attitude. 
 
 Dan has always liked Fort Wayne. This fondness 
 began even earlier than those good days when every 
 barefoot boy in the school room was more adept in the 
 practice of wireless telegraphy than Marconi can ever 
 hope to be. Do you — we are now speaking to those 
 who once had boyhood days— remember that thrilling 
 message which consisted of the uplifted hand with only 
 two hngers standing up stretched wide apart which 
 flashed the exciting inquiry: ••Goinswimminwithus?" 
 And then you looked to see if the teacher was watching 
 and then bobbed your head, returning the answer: 
 "Betcherlife!" Well, it was in those good old days 
 that Dan Ninde learned to love Fort Wayne so well. 
 He left the high school prepared to enter the United 
 States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was appointed 
 a cadet in 1887. Four years ago he graduated close to 
 the head of his class and everything looked rosy for a 
 bright naval career. But Dan thought of Fort Wayne, 
 and remembered that Uncle Sam's boats are too big to 
 sail the Maumee. Therefore he resigned and decided to 
 become a lawyer — a Fort Wayne lawyer. He attended 
 Harvard one year, by way of preparation, at the end of 
 which time he returned home and studied law in the 
 office of his father, the late Judge L. M. Ninde. Then 
 he went to Ann Arbor and took a complete course in the 
 law department of the University of Michigan, gradu- 
 ating in 189^. He has been in practice here ever since, 
 excepting during a brief period when he resided in 
 Colorado. 
 
 Mr. Ninde was largely instrumental in the organ- 
 ization of the Fraternal Assurance Society of America, 
 with headquarters in Fort Wayne, and holds the office 
 of supreme chancellor of the order. 
 
 169 
 
ORA E. SEANEY 
 
 MR. SEANEY is certainly a brave young man. While 
 the rest of us are howling about the ladies invad- 
 ing our sphere — while we are kicking vehemently be- 
 cause they don't attend solely to their duties as home- 
 makers and followers of the trades and professions for 
 which we declare Nature has designed them— what does 
 Mr. Seaney do? Why, he simply gets even by breaking 
 into their sphere, not temporarily, in order to cause them 
 to mend their ways, but permanently. He's there to 
 stay. He's the " man milliner." and as such is known 
 throughout the country as well as on the other side of 
 the pond where he stirred up things on his visit to Paris 
 in 1897. 
 
 ^\r. Seaney was born at Ridgeville, Indiana, and at- 
 tended the public schools there. 
 
 His first employment was in a grocery store where 
 he showed his ability at decorating the windows artis- 
 tically with celery, radishes, roasting ears, squashes, 
 canned tomatoes, pippins, ruta-bagas and holly branches. 
 It was his first lesson in trimming and it attracted at- 
 tention. He then demonstrated his ability and taste by 
 adorning the bonnets of his relatives and friends and 
 soon, in 1888 was holding a place in a large millinery 
 store at Richmond. Then he went to Cincinnati, New 
 York and elsewhere, finally coming to Fort Wayne, where 
 he has remained since 1890. The present large retail 
 business was established thirteen years ago at No. 1114 
 Calhoun street and continued there until the summer of 
 the present year, when it was removed to No. 924. the 
 same street. -Mr. Seaney has written several hooks on 
 millinery and is a contributor to all the large millinery 
 trade journals. 
 
 The picture .shows him at work on a bonnet for Mrs. 
 Leslie Carter which was presented on her recent visit to 
 Fort Wayne. Mrs. W. J. Bryan's "silver cross" turban, 
 made by Mr. Seaney in 1896, is one of the hats which 
 has attracted much attention. 
 
ASA L. KNIGHT 
 
 THE man who selected this gentleman to look after 
 the interests of the Mutual Benefit Lite Insurance 
 Company in this section of the world must have just 
 finished reading "When Knighthood Was in Flower." 
 We are led to this conclusion from the fact that while 
 the company's local business tried hard to burst forth 
 into the beauteous blossoms whose petals are silver 
 certificates, whose stamens are dollar signs, and whose 
 foliage is composed of greenbacks— it did not succeed in 
 so doing until Mr. Knight came to give it proper care 
 and nurture. This blossom, then, might, in a way— a 
 far-fetched way, perhaps— be called a Knight-blooming 
 serious affair. 
 
 To be more explicit, this company has been repre- 
 sented in Fort Wayne off and on for the past thirty- 
 eight years with indifferent success on the part of the 
 several gentlemen who have had its interests in charge. 
 Mr. Knight took the district agency in 1902, and since 
 then he has written nearly twice as much business as 
 was done for tlie company during the preceding years 
 of effort in this city. 
 
 Mr. Knight came to Fort Wayne in the autumn of 
 1882. He took a complete course in the International 
 Business College, and graduated in June, 1898. At that 
 time Weil Brothers & Company were in need of a first- 
 class office man and he located with them for fifteen 
 months, going from there to the employ of the Belden- 
 Larwill Electric Company. Then he became interested in 
 the insurance business and began work for one of the old 
 line companies, later taking the agency referred to 
 above. He has leased a suit in the "Rurode" office 
 building to be erected at the corner of West Berry and 
 Harrison streets. He says he expects within the next 
 year to he producing an average of two hundred thousand 
 dollars insurance a year. 
 
A. ROGGEN 
 
 MR. ROGGEN is a photographer. If you call at his 
 studio and ask if you may have your picture 
 taken, he will give you his answer inthe negative. Nev- 
 ertheless, the picture will be finished and you will like 
 it, too. 
 
 One day Mr. Roggen was on hoard an ocean liner 
 hound from Germany to America. He hadn't been over 
 there on a visit ; he was born there and was coming to 
 America with his parents who had decided to cast their 
 lot in the land of the free. At that time the photographer- 
 to-be was ten years old. The family went directly to 
 Chicago where the boy was placed in school. 
 
 When Mr. Roggen reached the age of seventeen he 
 went to Texas and for five years enjoyed the hilarious, 
 free, out-door life of a cowboy. One day, however, it 
 occurred to him that it might be a good deal easier to cap- 
 ture a wild steer or a frisky broncho with a snap-shot 
 camera than with a lasso or lariat, and he immediately 
 tried the experiment. It worked lovely and he adopted it 
 permanently. He located in business at Galveston, but 
 later removed to Deadwood, South Dakota, at a time when 
 that town with a cemetery-like name was anything but 
 dead. The first railroad was being built into Deadwood 
 at that time and it was the wildest, woolliest and warmest 
 spot on the continent. 
 
 Mr, Roggen, when the excitement died dow n at Dead- 
 wood, located a studio in Chicago, and was later in busi- 
 ness at points in Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio. He came to 
 Fort Wayne four years ago. He declares nothing short 
 of an earthquake can jar him loose from this burg. He 
 likes it. He is president of the Turnverein Vorwaerts 
 and an active member of several other societies. 
 
MARSHALL S. MAHURIN 
 
 MR. MAHURIN is here shown tightly holding onto 
 the Indiana builJing at the World's Fair. He's 
 proud of that building, because he. with his partner, J. 
 F. Wing, designed it. Every other structure at the great 
 show is jealous of the Hoosier headquarters, for it is a 
 little beauty show of itself. The state of Indiana chose 
 the Fort Wayne architects from among a large number 
 as having furnished the best and prettiest building in 
 which to let the tired folks from Indiana feel at home. 
 But our master builders didn't get swell-headed over 
 that honor at all. No, not a little bit. They're used to 
 it. At another place in this book we have something to 
 to say about A\r. Wing. It is there that you may easily 
 find out why the receipt of recognition of ability and 
 worth has long since ceased to make it impossible for 
 Messrs. Wing & Mahurin to wear the same size of hat 
 the year round. 
 
 To the careless thinker it sometimes appears that a 
 successful architect is the heartless individual who 
 merely makes hard labor for the other fellows, while he. 
 himself, captures the bulk of the credit; but to the care- 
 ful thinker he is the commanding general who marshals 
 the forces of lumber and mortar and marble and human 
 muscle and directs them against the enemies of the 
 beautiful and the magnificent. 
 
 Mr. Mahurin is that sort of a man. He knows how. 
 He learned how here in Fort Wayne by close application 
 and up-to-dateness. He was born in 18^7, and after 
 attending the public schools for a time began his study 
 of architecture with George Trenani, who then conducted 
 an office here. His partnership with Mr. Wing dates 
 from 1881. Together they have designed hundreds of 
 the finest structures in the central states. 
 
BYRON D. ANGELL 
 
 IT IS hard for us who have hved in Fort Wayne only a 
 few years to reahze that once the only commercial 
 outlet of this thriving village was a busy canal. In these 
 days there is no evidence of the existence of such a 
 thing, at most there is very little left to remind the old 
 settler of those interesting days. But there are many 
 who carry the picture of the old times very plainly in 
 their minds, and one of these is B. D. Angell. who for a 
 long time was employed as captain on a packet, or pas- 
 senger boat, running between Lafayette and Toledo, the 
 entire length of the Wabash and Erie canal. It was 
 necessary at that time to bring in enough supplies dur- 
 ing the summer to last through the long winter, so there 
 was employment for many an industrious youth. 
 
 Mr. Angell came here from Little Falls, New York, 
 when he was seventeen years old. His father operated 
 a stage line lietween here and Sturgis. Michigan, the 
 nearest point to which a railroad had been built connect- 
 ing with the east. The lad drove one of these stages in 
 the winter over the long, dreary route, and in the sum- 
 mer was employed on the canal. At that time a passen- 
 ger took a stage here in the morning and arrived at 
 Sturgis in time to catch a train which landed him in Buf- 
 falo the next morning. Such was the lieginning of our 
 rapid transit. But the railroads began coming in and 
 gradually thecanal and the stage lines became numbered 
 among the things that were. 
 
 ^\r. Angell has been closely identified with the city's 
 growth HI many ways. As one of the founders of the 
 city 'bus and transfer line he had a part in establishing 
 an important business enterprise. For nine years he 
 was secretary of the Gas Company. For the past eight 
 years he has been giving his attention to the merchant 
 brokerage business. 
 
THEODORE F. THIEME 
 
 IF anyone "attends to his knitting" mure closely than 
 this man does, we'd Iil<e to hear about it. 
 
 Some people thought Mr. Thieme had put his foot in 
 it when he decided to establish a knitting mill in Fort 
 Wayne to compete with foreign manufacturers; but 
 instead of that, nearly everybody else is now putting his 
 foot into the product of the great factory which is the 
 outgrowth of Mr. Thieme's farsightedness, for the 
 "Wayne Knit" goods are now the favorite the world over. 
 
 It is said that when Theodore's folks pulled onto his 
 squirming little feet the first pair of stockings he ever 
 wore — that was in 1857 — he cried and tried to get them 
 off again. It was clear that he didn't fancy them, but 
 not until he was able to talk could he e.xplain that he 
 was simply objecting to the make. He wanted only 
 American-made goods and was bound to have them. 
 This idea seemed to stay with him all the time he was in 
 the local schools and college; it clung to him up to the 
 time of his graduation from the New York College of 
 Pharmacy; it was there while he conducted a drug store 
 in New York and later in Fort Wayne. So, finally he 
 went abroad, in 1890. to investigate some of the indus- 
 tries made more attractive to Americans by the enact- 
 ment of the McKinley law. He became interested in the 
 hosiery industry in Chemnitz, Germany, and spent a 
 winter there becoming acquainted with it. In 1891 he 
 organized a company in Fort Wayne under the name of 
 the Wayne Knitting Mills with a capital of S30.000, and 
 returned to Germany for the machinery and twenty-five 
 expert knitters. From this small beginning has grown 
 an immense industry which is known tlie world over. 
 Fort Wayne owes more than it can ever pay to Theodore 
 F. Thieme for his contribution to its commercial welfare. 
 
NAT BEADELL 
 
 IF a gentleman invites you to liis home, it is strictly 
 proper to visit iiim tliere; if he has plenty of oppor- 
 tunities to invite you and doesn't do so, then there is 
 some question as to the propriety of going. 
 
 It's just so in the mercantile world. If a merchant, 
 through the columns of the newspapers or by the use of 
 some other medium, invites you to his store, go. If he 
 doesn't, stay away. It would he very improper to visit 
 him there unless you receive a formal request to do so. 
 
 The People's Store is always inviting everybody to 
 make a call. The gentleman here shown is chairman of 
 the invitation committee. Nat Beadell, besides attend- 
 ing to the ad. writing for Beadell & Company, is a buyer 
 for several of the big store's many departments. 
 
 Mr. Beadell is an Englishman. He was born in 
 London, and spent his childhood and youth in the 
 world's metropolis. He served his apprenticeship as a 
 printer on the London Times. At the age of seventeen 
 he sailed for America, his first stopping place being 
 Norwich, Connecticut. This was in 1883. At Norwich he 
 became employed in the dry goods business and con- 
 tinued but a year, when he came to Fort Wayne and 
 secured employment in the same line. Desiring to 
 return to his old trade, however, he went to Lafayette 
 in i88s and took a position in the mechanical depart- 
 ment of the Journal. But he had gotten a taste of Fort 
 Wayne and wanted to come back. The Sentinel offered 
 him the opportunity and for six and a half years he was 
 employed in the mechanical department of that paper. 
 
 His employment with Beadell & Company dates 
 from 1895. 
 
 Nat has one hobby — photography. He's one of the 
 best amateurs in the city. 
 
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GUSTAVE W. BOERGER 
 
 T T is forty years since Gustave W. Boerger began to 
 ^ notice things ahout him in Fort Wayne. He has 
 been very busy around here ever since. After he got 
 through the playing age out of doors, he started in with 
 putty ball in the public schools. Now he is busy telling 
 the children just how good a boy he was and laughs in- 
 ternally as he thinks of some of his boyish pranks about 
 the eastern part of the city. 
 
 After leaving the public schools, he began actively in 
 the wholesale leather business in this city. In 1894. 
 after retiring from the leather business, he opened an 
 insurance and real estate office in this city. He started 
 in during the hard times but weathered the conditions 
 and built up a safe and substantial business. He has 
 been active in the insurance field and his ability in insur- 
 ance matters has been recognized by the Western 
 Underwriters who frequently send him out to neighbor- 
 ing cities to adjust losses. His office at 120 West Berry 
 street is a busy one indeed and his success has been 
 well marked. Socially he is popular and for years has 
 been prominent in the affairs of Harmony Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows, is a past officer and at present is its financial 
 secretary. He is also an officer in the Indiana Grand 
 Lodge. 
 
 Of course, after retiringfrom the leather business, he 
 found some tough leather in the insurance business, but he 
 has a faculty of making the best of everything and he 
 has tanned the insurance policy so that it is pleasing to 
 handle. He makes his clientele think so at least. It is 
 never tough leather on premium day when Mr. Boerger 
 calls. He knows just how to make a business call and 
 his greeting is a happy one. 
 
HENRY R. FREEMAN 
 
 ]\ T EARLY every man has a fad. Mr. Freeman almost 
 ^ ^ has one, but not quite. Now this seems strange, 
 liut it's true nevertheless. 
 
 •• I was in Colorado once," he said, while discussing 
 this queer state of affairs. '• and took my first lesson in 
 trout fishing in Wagon Wheel gap. Well say! I had 
 caught muskellunge and bass and pickerel and blue-gills 
 in the northern lakes, but never have I enjoyed such a 
 time as I had out west. Even if there wasn't any fish 
 to catch, it would be the liveliest kind of sport. Yes, 
 sir, if I were ever to adopt a fad it would be fishing for 
 mountain trout. But you see my business won't let me 
 get away as I'd like to, so 1 have done very little of it." 
 So. while he is a Freeman he isn't a free-man to such 
 an e.xtent that he is permitted to follow an alluring, fas- 
 cinating pastime. Unfortunately there are no trout in 
 Saint Joseph's river; if there were he could easily 
 catch a string every day by hanging a pole out of the 
 kitchen window of his pretty Spy Run avenue home 
 which overiooks the stream. 
 
 However it's only a step from currents to currency 
 and if Mr. Freeman can't stand in the one and practice 
 his desired fad. he can certainly handle the other to his 
 heart's content in his work as the efficient cashier of the 
 First National Bank. He has held this important place 
 since 1902, when he succeeded the late L. R. Hartman. 
 Beginning as a messenger in 1873, he has, by doing just 
 what a boy and a youth and a man ought to do, arisen 
 to his present place of trust. Mr. Freeman was born in 
 Fort Wayne, and. after leaving school was employed as 
 a bill clerk and cashier in the Root & Company dp,- 
 goods house, before beginning his service with the First 
 National. 
 
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CHARLES T. STRAWBRIDGE 
 
 It was with the tick uf the telegraph instrument in 
 •I- the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
 at Bucyrus, Ohio, that Charles T. StrawbriJt;e, now vice- 
 president and secretary of the great Bass Foundry and 
 Machine Works in this city, began his career. There he 
 learned telegraphy, and at the age of 17 was an operator. 
 He was born in Bloomingrove, Ohio, but had moved to 
 Bucyrus when a lad, with his parents, finished his 
 education in the high school there, and at once took to 
 the handling of the keys that send their lightning words 
 along railroad lines and around the world. 
 
 Mr. Strawbridge early developed into an expert oper- 
 ator and took service with the Pennsylvania Company. 
 During the first part of his career he was sent to different 
 places along the railroad's line and was finally stationed 
 at his home town, Bucyrus. From that city he came to 
 Fort Wayne, in 1S77. and took a position as telegraph 
 operator in the general offices of the company here, where 
 he remained for two years. 
 
 In addition to his telegraphy he learned stenograpliy, 
 and possessed fine clerical abilities. These qualifications 
 attracted the attention of the officials of the Bass works, 
 and, in 1879, they secured his services. He accepted a 
 position as stenographer there. Repeated advancements 
 in office positions came to him. and in 1900 he was made 
 secretary of the works. Now his official title is vice- 
 president and secretary. He is also secretary of the 
 Fort Wayne Foundry and the Chicago Car Wheel & 
 Foundry Company. His sterling business qualities and 
 pleasant, social ways have made his services invaluable 
 to the companies with wliich he is connected. 
 
ROBERT MILLARD 
 
 IF it is true that "Order is heaven's first law" and 
 is essential to the very existence of the universe, it 
 is just as true that orders and lots of them are essential 
 to the existence of a wholesale grocery house. The 
 picture shows Mr. Millard with a fistful of these 
 essentials. He is the Millard end of the large house 
 of Moellering Brothers & Millard. ■•We should eat to 
 live, not live to eat:" is a quotation Mr. Millard learned 
 when a small boy in school, and it set him to philoso- 
 phizing. Fashions may change, and customs become 
 revised, said he; inventions may revolutionize some 
 existing conditions and drive prosperous manufacturers 
 and jobbers into bankruptcy— but there is no immediate 
 prospect that anyone will devise a means of pre- 
 serving life without eating. Several have tried the 
 food-in-tablets scheme and it won't work. Therefore, 
 the man who busies himself at providing food for the 
 multitudes is pretty certain of always having something 
 to do. 
 
 Mr. Millard originated at Adrian. .Wichigan. and lived 
 there until he was seventeen. He lived for a period of 
 exactly the same length at Toledo, Ohio, where he was 
 employed with the wholesale grocery- house of Secor, 
 Berdan & Company, and later with the Toledo Spice 
 Company. Afterward he engaged in the merchandise 
 brokera.ge business. He came to Fort Wayne in iSqi 
 and followed the last-named line of business, and then, 
 in 1894, formed a partnership with Messrs. William F. 
 and Henry F. Moellering, in their present enterprise. 
 As showing his connection with leading public and 
 private local enterprises, it may be said that he is the 
 president of the Anthony Wayne Club, president of the 
 Commercial Club, and is financially interested in the 
 Fort Wayne Iron and Steel Company, the Wayne Shoe 
 Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer; the 
 People's Trust Company, and others. 
 
 180 
 
WILLIAM F. GRAETER 
 
 FORT WA^NE has a host of great men. but this man 
 is still Graeter. He is the senior proprietor of the 
 Indiana Furniture Company, and. without making any 
 play on words, it may be truly said that there are no 
 greater furniture establishments in Fort Wayne than the 
 Indiana Furniture Company, which, with Mr. ,1. V. Reul 
 now his partner under the firm name of Graeter & Reul, 
 he started in this city in 1888. 
 
 Mr. Graeter is a Hoosier boy. He was born at Madi- 
 son, on the banks of the Ohio river. He started out in 
 life for himself early, drifting over into Kentucky, where, 
 at Louisville, he was engaged as a pattern maker in a 
 manufacturing establishment. In iSSahe was back again 
 into Hoosierdom and. at Indianapolis, was a salesman 
 for the Metropolitan Manufacturing Company, advanc- 
 ing to the position of manager for the company in that 
 city, which he held for eleven years. 
 
 In 18S8 Mr. Graeter came here and the Indiana In- 
 stallment Company was organized, which in 1892 was 
 incorporated as the Indiana Furniture Company, with 
 Graeter and Reul as the incorporators. This partner- 
 ship they have maintained ever since. Now they have 
 two big stores, one occupying the three-story building 
 at 112 Calhoun street and the other a large building at 
 121 and 123 East Main street. Together they ha\e a 
 floor space of over 60,000 stiuare feet, covered with one 
 of the largest and finest .stocks of household goods in 
 Indiana. 
 
 Mr. Graeter is a progressive, representative, and 
 public-spirited citizen. From its organization, he has 
 been one of the directors of the Fort Wayne Commercial 
 Club. He was the first president, and has been contin- 
 uously so since its organization, of the Commercial Land 
 and Improvement Company, a body of business men who 
 secured for Fort Wayne its great iron and .steel rolling 
 mills and the Knott-Van Arnam Company in the south- 
 western part of the city, and who have done so much 
 for our industrial progress in other ways. 
 
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CHARLES H. RAWLINS 
 
 THE business men of Fort Wayne have the reputation 
 of l<nowing a good thing when they see it. One 
 day a committee of them from the Commercial Club went 
 to Muskegon. Michigan, on business concerning the 
 removal of a large iron and steel plant from that city to 
 Fort Wayne. They were accompanied by Mr. Charles 
 H. Rawlins, an expert iron man. who e.xplained why 
 Fort Wayne should have the mill, and it was immedi- 
 ately settled that although they were anxious to secure 
 thebig factory, it was equally desirable that Mr. Rawlins 
 be engaged to manage it. They got him. As Mr. 
 Rawlins e.xpresses it. "I had met committees of busi- 
 ness men from other cities before, but never was I so 
 favorably impressed as by the men from Fort Wayne." 
 
 This, then, is the man who manages the plant of the 
 Fort Wayne Iron and Steel Company and ofTiciates as 
 its vice-president. He is also a heavy stockholder in 
 the venture. 
 
 Mr. Rawlins' father was a worker in iron who con- 
 ducted many experiments in a Chicago mill. The son. 
 though a small lad. took a natural interest in the busi- 
 ness and preferred to "hang around'' the mill rather 
 than spend his time in idle sport, although he never had 
 any intention of becoming an "iron" man. 
 
 School days ending, he drifted into railroad work, 
 being connected with several prominent systems in the 
 middle west, including the Northwestern, the Santa Fe. 
 the Big Four, the A\onon. and the Wabash. Later he 
 acted as sales agent for several of the largest coal 
 companies in the west. But during all this while — 
 although he had been signally successful in all his 
 ventures — his mind frequently rexerted to the old days 
 when he watched his father at work in the steel mill, 
 and one day. four years ago, he awoke to the knowledge 
 that he was cut out to follow the steel industry. His 
 success has been more than remarkable. 
 
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CHARLES E. BARNETT 
 
 T F you want to see a typical bachelor's den, ask Doctor 
 ^ Barnett to show you his. Usually you'll find a con- 
 genial hunch of medical students gathered there, filling 
 the air with nicotine aroma and jolly bits of shop talk as 
 they lounge at ease: but they also meet there to make 
 laboratory experiments and investigations which they 
 trust will result in untold benefits to future generations 
 of suffering fellow creatures. On the walls of this den 
 are pictures of outing life, hunting scenes and the like, 
 and a few views suggestive of the strenuous life of the 
 modern physcian, all of which betray the fads and pro- 
 fession of the occupant. From an elevation, looking 
 down upon you with a friendly grin, is an old weather- 
 beaten, discolored skull. It is that uf Indian and was 
 unearthed near Swinney Park. Who knows but that its 
 owner was felled by one of Mad Anthony's sharpshooters? 
 On this question the skull refuses to be interviewed. 
 But the chief feature of this den is the accumulation of 
 Turkish rugs which cover the floor. The doctor is a 
 crank on rugs, and while you and we might think some 
 of them unlovely because they are dingy and devoid of 
 brilliant colors, he loves them the more for that very 
 reason. 
 
 Dr. Barnett is a native of Kentucky, the state which 
 produces colonels, feuds, blue grass and corn extract. 
 He holds the chair of anatomy and surgery in the Fort 
 Wayne College of Medicine, and during the recent quar- 
 rel with Spain was a surgeon with our boys. He has a 
 slow way of speaking and moving— a very slow way, in 
 fact — but you don't notice that peculiarity while he is 
 doing a piece of surgical work or chasing the elusive 
 quail, or as he drives or rides his fractious steed over 
 the smooth streets of our municipality. 
 
HENRY P. SCHERER 
 
 WOMEN have not inherited the peremptory right to 
 change their minds. The snap shot of Former 
 Mayor Henry Scherer indicates that he has retired from 
 politics, Imt on closer obser\-ation you can see that he 
 still has a string attached to it. Here is a man who may 
 at this very moment have the voters of Fort Wayne on 
 the string. He used to he a carriage and wagon maker 
 and he has no trouble in getting a vast number of voters 
 on his wagon. Don't think that he has entirely retired 
 from the wagon business just because he is now a highly 
 prosperous real estate and insurance man. He is a 
 charter member of the City Packard Band and played 
 solo alto for many years, Whileheisnottooting hisown 
 horn at this critical juncture he may be busily engaged 
 in fitting up seats on a band wagon. 
 
 It is just fifty years ago that Mr. Scherer began yelp- 
 ing for a rattle bo.x and tin whistle. He has been playing 
 a successful tune in life ever since. He was elected 
 councilman from the Eighth ward in 1888, and while 
 serving in the council was elected by his colleagues to 
 fill out the unexpired term of Mayor Zollinger until May, 
 1893. Mr, Zollinger's death having occurred while in 
 office. He then retired from politics just as he has now. 
 In 1896 he was elected mayor for two years and at the 
 expiration of the term was elected for a term of three 
 years. He was so popular with the Democratic party 
 that he was made county chairman until he retired, 
 Henry Scherer is not of a retiring disposition, however, 
 and he may be in a dark brown study now. to determine 
 whether to reach over and pull the string or not, Henry- 
 is a very prudent man. He does not butt into danger 
 for the purjiose of advertising his braver\'. While he 
 does not attempt to trace his ancestry to the three wise 
 men he usually knows which side his bread is buttered 
 on. He never gets his feet wet unless he is out in the 
 rain. 
 
STEPHEN MORRIS 
 
 WHEN Stephen Morris was a yciiinK lad he somehow 
 got a notion hxed in his mind that it wasn't a 
 SOod thing to tell whoppers or steal. He reasoned in 
 a youthful but sturdy way that if he didn't dare to do 
 right and dare to be true, he never would amount to 
 much. He saw other boys who didn't dare to do right, 
 and observed that they were bad boys. So while the 
 other boys ran away from school to go fishing in the 
 canal feeder he took home his reward-of-merit card. 
 When the other boys climbed fences into orchards to pick 
 up worm-stung and windfall fruit, Stephen remained in 
 the liighway and looked wistful. When his folks had 
 company in the parlor he never would creep into the 
 pantry to try the steaming hot fried cakes that had been 
 placed there to cool, although he would rivet a longing 
 look upon them. When the cider-barrels were placed 
 in the cool basement in the early autumn he would 
 never insert a straw in the operture through which the 
 froth oozes and create a connection by suction with the 
 juice of the apple. Not a bit of it. 
 
 And what has been the result? For twenty-nine 
 years, beginning when he was a boy, Mr. Morris has 
 held an honored position with one of Fort Wayne's 
 oldest and most substantial financial institutions — the 
 Old National Bank. When he entered the place as a 
 messenger, it was known as the Fort Wayne National. 
 He has held several positions of trust and is now the 
 hank's note teller. 
 
 Mr. Morris is a son of Judge John Morris, and was 
 born at Auburn. Indiana. He was brought to Fort 
 Wayne in i8^6 when only si.\ months old. After a 
 course in the pulilic schools, he attended the Methodist 
 College before beginning his long service in the bank. 
 
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WILLIAM V. DOUGLASS 
 
 IT is an interesting fact that nearly all men. even the 
 most successful and seemingly contented, will tell 
 you. when questioned, that they had other plans for 
 life than those which they finally adopted. 
 
 Here's Mr. Douglass, for example, one of our most 
 respected, always-smiling fellosv townsmen, who carries, 
 buried away down deep in his heart, a regret— not large 
 enough to sadden his life at all. but nevertheless a re- 
 gret which comes forth occasionally and demands atten- 
 tion 
 
 Now what do you suppose is the cause of this regret? 
 simply this: Mr. Douglass wishes he were a railroad 
 man. This is the story: 
 
 He came from New Hampshire to Fort Wayne in 1863. 
 In those days of his youth he was employed in various 
 ways. For some time he worked in the large clothing 
 house of Woodward & Young, and then in N. B. 
 Stockliridge's book store. It was about this time that 
 his health showed signs of failing, and physicians in- 
 sisted that he engage in some kind of work which would 
 keep him from the indoor life to which he had been 
 devoted. His father. W. B. Douglass, was one of the 
 best-known conductors on the Pennsylvania Line— was 
 employed in that capacity for a i|uarter of a century— 
 and it was decided that the son should spend a time on 
 the same road as a passengerbrakeman. He started in, 
 and became so enthused over railroad life that he decided 
 to adopt it. provided he could soon rise to the position of 
 conductor. But. although he was in a direct line for ad- 
 vancement, he did not receive the assurance of promotion 
 until he had decided to go into the grocery business here 
 with a partner: the firm was known as Anderson & 
 Douglass. Then the announcement of the promotion 
 came, but it was too late. Sometimes a little thing only 
 is needed to change one's life history. 
 
 Mr. Douglass, in 1882. engaged in the real estate and 
 fire insurance business and has been e.xceptionally 
 successful. 
 
JOHN M. E. RIEDEL 
 
 I F the heathen of our land fail to become converted, the 
 ' fault cannot be laid at the door of Mr. Riedel. That 
 door, by the way, is on the third floor of the Schmitz 
 block; take elevator. We repeat: Don't, for goodness' 
 sake, blame Mr. Riedel if the people of our land refuse 
 to turn from their wicked ways and walk in that straight 
 and narrow path which leads to everlasting blessedness. 
 
 We say this hecau.se when we called on Mr. Riedel 
 to invite him into this book he told us he was just finish- 
 ing plans for the thirty-ninth church which he has been 
 called upon to design. Perhaps lie has drawn .several 
 since then. These temples of worship are .scattered over 
 the area touched by Rhode Island on the east. Wiscon- 
 sin on the north. Louisiana on the south and Nebraska 
 on the west. 
 
 Mr. Riedel was born in St. Louis, but he didn't stay 
 long enough to see the World's Fair. Coming to Fort 
 Wayne, he attended Concordia College for a time, and 
 then entered the office of T. J. Tolan & Sons, architects. 
 After working their a while and learning the principles 
 of the business, he transferred his labors to the office of 
 W. H. Matson. 
 
 In 1889 he opened an office for liimself. and later 
 formed a partnership with B. S. Tolan. They later dis- 
 solved the alliance, and Mr. Riedel has successfully 
 continued the business with the help of competent as- 
 sistants. 
 
 Among the local structures of importance which are 
 the product of his hands and brains, are the remodeled 
 Concordia College buildings, the Sunset Cottage and 
 others at the Indiana School for Feeble-minded Youth ; 
 engine houses Nos. 7 and 8, the Foellinger block and 
 others. 
 
CHRISTIAN C. SCHLATTER 
 
 IT is somewhere written that the noblest work of tlie 
 Creator is an honest man. There are pessimists 
 who aJhere to the claim that none of these specimens 
 now remain, while others, more liberal in their views, 
 express the belief that the spscies, like the giraffe and 
 the buffalo, is slowly but surely reaching the stage of 
 entire extinction. But we insist that there are vast num- 
 bers of this sort of bric-a-brac adorning the world today 
 and that many are to be found in Fort Wayne. If we 
 were asked to pick out one of these and Mr. Schlatter 
 happened to be one of the first men to appear, we would 
 spot him in a minute. 
 
 Perhaps he got a good start in that direction while 
 working on the farm in Cedar Creek township where the 
 first sixteen years of his life were spent. At any rate, 
 Mr. Schlatter seems to have made up his mind that if he 
 ever became a merchant he would provide the farmer 
 with the best of tools and implements to make his labor 
 as agreeable as possible, and to furnish the rural house- 
 wife with just the kind of utensils needed to make her 
 work light and pleasant. This he is now doing every 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Schlatter went to Wooster, Ohio, when he was 
 eighteen years of age to attend school, and began his 
 experience in the hardware business working in a store 
 there. After two years he came to Fort Wayne where he 
 spent ten years in the employment of Morgan & Beach, 
 so that when he embarked in trade for himself in part- 
 nership with Henry Pfeiffer, he knew the business thor- 
 oughly. About five years ago the wholesale and retail 
 house of C. C. Schlatter & Company, with Mr. Schlatter 
 as president and treasurer, was incorporated. 
 
 Mr. Schlatter is a great lover of music and his fine 
 orchestra, maintained at his personal expense, is one of 
 the valued musical organizations of the city. 
 
HARRY W. SOMMERS, JR. 
 
 HARRY SOMMERS is the young man who has kept 
 the Anthony Wayne Club moving in tlie path of 
 prosperity since "Sam" Foster and a few associates liftej 
 up tlie faltering organization and set it on its feet. 
 
 Mr. Sommers is a natural burn good fellow, and that's 
 what has made him a successful hotel and club man. It 
 is this quality that brought him into the important place 
 lie now occupies, that of manager of one of Indiana's best 
 and largest social organizations — the Anthony Wayne 
 Club, of Fort Wayne, which is now in a better condition 
 than ever before in its history. 
 
 When Mr. Sommers came to taUe the management of 
 the club it had just been revived with a membership of 
 one hundred and sixty, with no enrollment fee to hinder 
 those who desired to come in. Now, a suitable fee is 
 required and the club membership limit of three hundred 
 is full, with scores of applicants standing in line waiting 
 for vacancies. 
 
 When he was si.xteen, Mr. Sommers removed with 
 his folks from Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, to 
 Chicago, where he was initiated into the mysteries of 
 the hotel business as steward. He was employed under 
 his father, an experienced hotel man, in such important 
 hostelries as the Virginia and the Metropole. When he 
 was nineteen the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad 
 made him superintendent of its dining car service be- 
 tween Chicago and Terre Haute. Later he was con- 
 nected with the Kimball House, at Davenport, Iowa. 
 Then he took charge of the Hotel Sommers, at Moline. 
 Illinois, and made a success of it, continuing until the 
 property was sold. He then opened a fine European 
 hotel at Rock Island, Illinois, and the success of his 
 venture marked him as the man wanted by the Anthony 
 Wayne Club in its time of need. He has been here since 
 March. 1903. 
 
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 F. WILLIAM ORTLIEB 
 
 THIS youn^ man was born in the fall but he has been 
 rising ever since. Frederick William Ortlieb began 
 life in Fort Wayne in September, twenty-eight years ago. 
 He let his first name fall early in life anJ he has been 
 pushing his middle name forward. Although he is very 
 popular he never has been called "Bill." He is known 
 as Will. Will is not so near like money as •• Bill," but 
 he lets it go at that. He devoted his early moments to 
 getting through the Lutheran and the public schools, 
 and went to business college. 
 
 First he thought he would be a machinist in a plumb- 
 ing shop. His job was not a lead pipe cinch and he did 
 not like the work; then he entered a drug store until he 
 suffered from ennui handing out the directory, selling 
 postage stamps and lifting flies out of the soda water. 
 Then he began work in a hat store. He got so tired 
 saying 'Anything else please?" dispensing nose nap- 
 kins, neck nooses and tiles that he sought a business 
 that satisfied him. For a while he was secretary to 
 Mr. George W. Beers and later in the Jenney Electric 
 Light office before he found something to suit him. He 
 went into the insurance business with Glutting, Bauer & 
 Hartnett and remained with this firm through all of its 
 changes, and was finally a member of the firm of Bauer 
 & Ortlieb. 
 
 About a year ago he retired to form a partnership in 
 the insurance and real estate business with Mr. Lennart. 
 The firm is now known as Lennart & Ortlieb. Mr. 
 Ortlieb has had great experience, not only in general 
 insurance business, but is one of the best posted real 
 estate men in the city on values. His firm has already 
 been interested in many important deals in dirt. 
 
 Will is a prominent Elk and a jolly good fellow every 
 day. 
 
FREDERICK H. BOHNE 
 
 THE tailor may make the man, but the haberdasher 
 puts on the trimmings which make him a welcome 
 member of society. Mr. Bohne is engaged in the pleas- 
 ant occupation of making the men of Fort Wayne look a 
 whole lot handsomer than they would otherwise appear. 
 Who knows but that some of those handsome ties deco- 
 rating the bosoms of his customers were the attractions 
 which have led to happy matrimonial alliances? A girl 
 doesn't like a sloppily attired man, and it's right there 
 that Mr. Bohne hurries to his relief with all that's neces- 
 sary- to make up the deficiency. Just so, too, the ill-clad 
 applicant for a position is judged by his appearance, and 
 many a competent man has lost out because he forgot to 
 throw his old hat away and get a new one in its place, 
 or to discard his 1895-style collar and tie and supplant 
 them with something up-to-date. This wise generation 
 reads a man's character even in the socks he wears and 
 in the shirt which enwraps his form. Of course, it is 
 often mistaken, but it reads it just the same. 
 
 Mr. Bohne is an Allen county boy, born in Adams 
 township. He didn't get old enough to do chores or 
 husk corn before his folks moved to Fort Wayne, and 
 he's glad of it. He attended the Emanuel Evangelical 
 Lutheran school and graduated in 1870. We didn't 
 believe it when Mr. Bohne said so. but he turns out to 
 be somewhat older than he seems— all due to his tasty 
 wearing apparel, which preserves his youthful appear- 
 ance. For a while after leaving school he was em- 
 ployed with Golden & Monahan, and then for seven 
 years with William Meyer & Brother. Seven years 
 ago he opened his present store at No. 1412 Calhoun 
 street, and four years later purchased the business of 
 William Meyer & Brother at No. 824 Calhoun street. 
 Since then his brother, Louis, has been a partner in the 
 business. 
 
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GEORGE J. PARROT 
 
 THIS man loves children. To him their laughter is 
 the sweetest music, their smiles the brightest 
 sunshine, their frowns the passing clouds which make 
 happier the tranquil moments. Mr. Parrot is by profes- 
 sion a photographer who would rather make pictures of 
 children than anything else. His studio ofttimes resem- 
 bles a nursery, for he first makes the boys and girls feel 
 entirely at home, and tlien, when the feeling of strange- 
 ness has disappeared— children are soon contented in 
 new surroundings if playthings are plentiful— he captures 
 their poses in the truth-telling negative. 
 
 Mr. Parrot will devote the remainder of an active life 
 to the promotion of a most excellent idea which has con- 
 trolled his efforts since he first became intere.sted in the 
 photographic art. That endeavor is simply to assist in 
 elevating photography to the place it deserves among 
 the fine arts. The day is coming, thinks Mr. Parrot, 
 when people will buy fewer pictures and those of finer 
 quality than they have in the past. At housecleaning 
 time nearly ever\' housewife comes across a bushel or 
 two of old photographs of friends thrown carelessly 
 together, which she keeps in some out-of-sight place for 
 two reasons: First, because the workmanship on them 
 is common and ordinary, and, second, because they are 
 so numerous as to litter up the home if pkaced on display. 
 In the future there will be less promiscuous giving of 
 pictures, and those presented will he highly treasured, 
 because of their value as works of art. 
 
 Mr. Parrot is a native of Fort Wayne and has spent 
 all his life here, excepting five years while he was in 
 business at Warsaw. 
 
 He is prominent in the work of the Indiana Photo- 
 graphers' Association, having been thepresident and sec- 
 retary of that organization. He was the leading spirit 
 in the location of the Daguerre Memorial building at 
 Winona Lake, in wliich will be displayed the world's 
 masterpieces of photography. 
 
ALLEN HAMILTON 
 
 THIS gentleman is photographed in the very act of 
 working for his hoard— the school hoard. If this 
 picture had heen made at any other time during the past 
 five years, it would have been just the same, for he 
 is one of the men whose thoughts have heen on the 
 welfare of the schools even while engaged in his daily 
 occupation for which he draws a salary from the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Company; and he hasn't slighted his 
 every-day work, either. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton is the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
 cation. He was selected as a member of the board 
 five years ago and is now serving his second term. 
 We see him here with an armful of blue-prints showing 
 the details of the construction of the magnificent new 
 S250.000 high and manual training school building. He 
 and these sapphire-colored drawings have been almost 
 inseparable since the work was commenced. But that's 
 about over now. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton first heard the ting-a-ling of cow-bells 
 on his father's farm in Washington township; he has 
 always lived in Allen county, and most of the time in 
 Fort Wayne. He attended the Jefferson school in this 
 city and then the Methodist College. His first "job" 
 was in a planing mill, and then, it seems, he became 
 fascinated with the sight of wheels going around. 
 He's been watching them revolve ever since, for it was 
 directly afterward, in 1809, that he entered the employ 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a machinist 
 apprentice. He has been with the same employer thirty- 
 five years, and is one of the most valued men in the 
 local shops. 
 
 Since his election as a member of the Board of 
 Education, many important problems have presented 
 themselves for solution. Mr. Hamilton has always 
 heen on hand with a readiness to share his portion of 
 the labor and responsibility. 
 
ROBERT LEARMONTH 
 
 ROBERT LEARMONTH. chief clerk to Supt. J. B. 
 McKim, of the Fort Wayne Division of the Pitts- 
 burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, got tired of 
 Wheeling West Virginia early in life, although he thor- 
 oughly familiarized himself with transportation .affairs. 
 He quit Wheeling the town of his birth to go to Alliance. 
 Ohio, to learn telegraphy. The Pennsylvania officials 
 knew that Bob had completed the task of Wheeling West 
 Virginia successfully and also that he had learned to 
 handle lightning with dispatch at Alliance. Owing to 
 his alliance with transportation affairs early in his career 
 they knew that he would make a good railroad man. He 
 was sent to Fort Wayne to become a clerk in the main- 
 tenance of way department of the Pennsylvania Com- 
 pany in 1879. 
 
 He has become a permanent fixture here where he has 
 a happy home and spends many leasure hours telling 
 his son what makes the wheels of commerce go. The 
 boy has got past the point where he wants to see the 
 wheels go round for he really has a penchant for making 
 the wheels go himself. Besides teaching his son how to 
 grow, Mr. Learmouth outgrew the maintenance of way 
 department and is now in the transportation depart- 
 ment. His early job of wheeling has served him advan- 
 tageously. He has deserved all of his promotions. He 
 can run a division just as well as he can write a pass. 
 Mr. Learmonth is not afraid of the cars and not infre- 
 quently takes trips over the road to familiarize himself 
 with every branch of the railroad work. He can pick out 
 as good a hunting or fishing ground along the right of 
 way as any general manager who ever stepped into a 
 private car. In every way he is one of the best posted 
 young railroad men in this big railroad town. 
 
GEORGE L. DEWALD 
 
 WHKN you see a man liehinJ a gun it is not always 
 necessary to presume that he means war. 
 George L. DeWald is not a warrior. He enjoys goint; 
 hunting for small game for pleasure. Now and then he 
 hikes to some quiet spot by a hillside there to shoot at 
 clay pigeons. He usually seeks the protection of a 
 clay hill so that when he misses the clay as it springs 
 from the trap he hits the clay background. When he 
 misses the clay he hits the clay, paradoxical as it may 
 seem. He likes a target as fine as a hair, for there are 
 times in the year when hare hunting is his sole pleasure. 
 Tlie game he is hunting for when this snap shot was 
 taken is such a fine hare that he cannot see it. 
 
 George does other things besides hunt. He has a 
 summer cottage at Rome City and his angling triumphs 
 have been published in the neighborhood gossip around 
 Sylvan Lake for many years. He has old man Walton 
 beaten a block. He feeds all of the dog fish he lands to 
 his hunting canines and he has some fine animals. 
 
 Thirty-five years ago George did not go hunting to 
 any alarming extent. He went about in a horseless 
 carriage and the streets of Fort Wayne were not as well 
 paved as they are now. He got a good many bumps in 
 consequence and he has been the better able to cope 
 with bumps in later life. He went directly into his 
 father's dry goods store after leaving school and has 
 been in active business ever since. At present he is 
 the vice-president of the George DeWald Company, one 
 of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the west. 
 His particular line is the handling of the gentlemen's 
 furnishings in the store. He can tell whether a man's 
 hat is on .straight or not at a glance. If you catch him 
 looking at your necktie grasp his hand and smile. He 
 can't help it. 
 
FRANK E. STOUDER 
 
 MR. STOUDER is the wonder of Fort Wayne. How 
 any man can keep looking as pleasant as he 
 Joes and continue year after year as the manager of the 
 Temple Theatre— or any other playhouse, for that matter 
 — is heyond our understanding. Did you ever stop to 
 think what a strenuous life the manager of a theater 
 must lead? No? Well, just stop a minute and think. 
 
 In the first place, he must adapt himself to the whims 
 of unreasonable patrons who demand a front-row seat 
 in the parguet. notwitlistanding ever>- seat is sold, or 
 insist on a rail roost in the balcony when the "standing 
 room only" sign is displayed. Then he is, by many 
 patrons, held personally responsible for the badness of 
 every production, while the actors get credit for all the 
 commendable features. He must be able to deal out 
 suave talk to pleaders for ••comps" who base their 
 claims on every sort of ground, from the fact that their 
 mothers were acquainted with John Drew's second 
 cousins down to the claim that they are chore boys in 
 newspaper offices. And all this must be done just right 
 or the house and the manager become unpopular. But 
 these are only a few of the things which confront him on 
 the one hand, and we shall not enter upon a discussion 
 of the trials and tribulations which come to him in his 
 dealings with the show folks, who are all out for the 
 money and have little regard for the welfare or peace of 
 mind of the local manager. 
 
 But we have ever\- reason to know that Mr. Stouder 
 is happy. He looks it. His voice betrays it. whether 
 the information comes in its ring of jovial laughter or in 
 its beautiful tones of song which the people of Fort 
 Wayne have learned to know and to enjoy so long and 
 so well. 
 
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GEORGE W. M'KEE 
 
 A FTEK being business manager of the Fort Wayne 
 '^ Daily Gazette for over three years. Mr. McKee 
 entered the real estate, loans, and insurance business, 
 in which he has been enKat;ed in this city for several 
 years. 
 
 Mr. McKee is a Muncie product. There he spent his 
 boyhood and young manhood years. He graduated at 
 the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and 
 for three years attended the Methodist College of Fort 
 Wayne. His first business occupation was that of a 
 school teacher, which he followed before and after leav- 
 ing college. In this, as he has been in his real estate 
 and insurance business, he was a success. He knew 
 how to "teach the young idea how to shoot." He 
 taught school in this county for four years and after- 
 wards was principal of a ward school at Salt Lake City. 
 Utah. He then traveled out of Denver. Colorado, for a 
 wholesale business house and. returning to Fort Wayne, 
 took the position of city circulator and afterwards ad- 
 vertising manager for the Fort Wayne Daily Press, a 
 newspaper conducted here for a few years by Mr. 
 Wendell, of Columbus, Ohio. He went with Mr. Wendell 
 to Ohio's capital, remaining there for awhile in his news- 
 paper employ and returning to Fort Wayne took a posi- 
 tion as advertising manager for the Daily News, from 
 which paper he went to the Gazette, which at that time 
 was owned by Mr. Leonard. In this position he secured 
 a wide acquaintance among our merchants and business 
 men and was successful. In 1894 Mr. McKee abandoned 
 the newspaper business and entered the real estate, 
 loan, and insurance business for himself in which he 
 has since been engaged, his offices being in the In- 
 state building. 
 
WALLACE E. DOUD 
 
 THEY used to say that a boy or girl who had a 
 name the initials of which would combine to spell a 
 word, was certain of a successful life. Believers in this 
 theory might point to the illustrous names of Francis E. 
 Willard. James A. Garfield. Alexander Hamilton. Charles 
 A. Dana. Adna R. Chaffee. Stephen A. Douglas, or even 
 to that most successful of all family men. Brigham 
 Young, as shining examples. Perhaps that's why Mr. 
 Doud is so successful, but we don't believe a word of 
 it. He's successful because he pulls off his coat and 
 goes at the real estate business in the same manner that 
 he would if he had secured the contract to bore seven- 
 teen hundred post holes. 
 
 Although Mr. Doud claims no knowledge of the dress- 
 making business, he must admit that he has done some 
 splendid work on the outskirts of Miss Fort Wayne. 
 The Commercial Addition. Riverside Addition, and 
 Lawton Place Addition — in which S65.000 worth of lots 
 were sold within ti\e weeks — are examples of his ability 
 to do things. 
 
 Mr. Doud was reared on a farm in Defiance county. 
 Ohio. He attended the country schools and then a nor- 
 mal school at Bryan. Ohio, returning then to his native 
 county where he taught for some time. He was later in 
 charge of the schools at Sherwood. Ohio. After spending 
 some time in a jobbing house, at Defiance, he drifted 
 into the insurance business. He didn't drift long. He 
 was soon a general agent for the Union Central Life 
 Insurance Company, but came here eleven years ago to 
 sell houses and lands. We all know how the venture 
 turned out. 
 
 Mr. Doud is a director in the Citizen's Trust Company, 
 in the Allen County Loan and Savings Association, and 
 in the Commercial Club. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, 
 a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
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FRED D. HOHAM 
 
 FRED HOHAM is not what you would call a revolu- 
 lutionist. but he always did like to see the wheels 
 go 'round. Even in the old days, when he drove a 
 delivery- wagon with a team of Texas ponies hitched to 
 it. no other wheels in the town revolved half as fast as 
 Fred's, and the patrons of the store for which he worked 
 always found their goods delivered before they had time 
 to return from their marketing. Today he is interested 
 in other kinds of wheels— the wheels on the Haberkorn 
 steam engines, which are made in Fort Wayne, but 
 which keep things moving in various parts of the coun- 
 try. Mr. Hoham is the secretary of the Haberkorn 
 Engine Company, which has grown to be one of Fort 
 Wayne's best manufacturing industries. 
 
 The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock in 1020 
 and set up their homes in the wilderness. Fred Hoham 
 landed at Plymouth, Indiana, about two hundred and 
 hfty years later and set up a howl in Hoosierdom. The 
 Pilgrims fought off the cunning Redskin, while Fred 
 only courted that brand of Trouble by assuming a lovely 
 coat of red skin while making frequent and prolonged 
 sojourns at the old swimming hole. 
 
 He came to Fort Wayne when he was nineteen and 
 learned how to roll pills behind the case at George H. 
 Loesch's drug store. He liked the work and shortly 
 went to Chicago and took a complete course at the 
 Chicago School of Pharmacy. Then he came back and 
 has been here ever since. After seven years' e.xperience 
 with Mr. Loesch, he went into business for himself and 
 for si.xteen years has been very successful. 
 
 He became interested in the Haberkorn engine wliile 
 the model was on exhibition in his place of business, and 
 was instrumental in the organization of the concern 
 which is now manufacturing it. He is an energetic man. 
 but finds time to handle his two important interests. 
 
LOYAL P. HULBURD 
 
 WHENEVER you 'phone 141 and say you have a 
 package to go out ot town by either the American 
 or the National Express line, Mr. Hulburd will respond 
 by sending one of his wagons post-haste after that 
 package. He was always that way— prompt in respond- 
 ing to hurry-up calls. Take it away back in the sixties, 
 for instance. In response to the first call of President 
 Lincoln for 75.000 volunteers, the first man to sign his 
 name on the roll of the compan\- recruited at Waterville, 
 Vermont, was Daniel C. Hulburd. The third was his 
 son, Loyal P. Hulburd. now the general agent for the 
 American and National Express companies in Fort 
 Wayne. The son was then seventeen years of age. He 
 was a farmer's lad and had attended school at Waterville. 
 He was chosen as the second corporal ot his company, 
 which was assigned to the Second Vermont regiment. It 
 went into service in the Army of the Potomac, and with 
 it Loyal P. participated in every engagement from the 
 hrst battle of Bull's Run until the trenches at Petersburg 
 were reached in July of 1804— thirty-eight battles in all. 
 Just before the battle of Antietam he was appointed 
 orderly sergeant of his company. In the battle of the 
 Wilderness, on June 12, 1864, he was struck over the 
 heart by a sprint shell, and when he was carried off the 
 held it was thought he was dead. It was found, how- 
 ever, that lie had only suffered a broken breast bone. 
 He was taken to the hospital and in a short time was 
 able to rejoin his regiment. 
 
 After leaving the army, Mr. Hulburd went to 
 Cleveland, Ohio, and there, in September, 1864, he took 
 employment with the American Express Company. He 
 remained with the company in that city for twenty-seven 
 years, filling every position in its offices up to that of 
 agent. The last six years of his ser\ice at Cleveland he 
 was city agent of the company. On January i, 1891, he 
 was sent to Fort Wayne and given the general agency 
 here of both the American and the National express com- 
 panies. Here he has remained continuously since and is 
 now nearing the close of his fortieth year's service with 
 the companies he represents. 
 
L. C. HUNTER 
 
 SOMEONE gives this Jefinition : "A mine is a hole 
 in the ground owned by a liar." 
 
 Now. this isn't so at all. and we can prove it. Mr. 
 Hunter owns a mine and it isn't a hole in the ground, 
 and that statement from his lips proves that he is truth- 
 ful because you can see for yourself. Mr. Hunter's 
 mines — for he has several of them — are located out in 
 California and are of the placer variety. He went out 
 there lately to soak afewtonsof gold out of the side hills. 
 which he may ship back home in flat cars. Flat cars 
 filled with gold would still be flat: it isn't so with pocket 
 books. 
 
 We hope Mr. Hunter will do well out there, but we 
 don't want him to stay away because we miss him very 
 much. He was born in Allen county, near Huntertown. 
 but has lived in Fort Wayne for twenty-one years. He 
 came here as deputy in the office of County Auditor 
 Griebel in 1882. Then began a series of events which 
 kept him in the court house for eighteen years, all but 
 two of which were spent in the treasurer's office. In 
 1884 he went into the treasurer's office as deputy with 
 John Dalman, and served in the same capacity with 
 Isaac Mowrer and Edward Beckman. who succeeded Mr. 
 Dalman. 
 
 In 1896 he was elected treasurer of Allen county and 
 was honored with re-election two years later. Upon 
 leaving the treasurer's office in 1900 he engaged in the 
 manufacture of duplicating books with the Archer- 
 Sprague-Vernon Company, which recently closed its 
 factory here on consolidating with the National 
 Duplicating Book Manufa;turing Company, now known 
 as the Merchants' Salesbook Company. He declined to 
 accept an important position with the new concern, 
 though he retains an interest in it. 
 
 His California mining property is located in Calaveras 
 county. 
 
FRANK S. LIGHTFOOT 
 
 IF tliedollars handled even.- montli by Frank S. Lightfoot, 
 as treasurer of the Bass Foundry and Machine Works, 
 were as big as the car wheels his company manufactures, 
 locomotives and trains of cars would have a sorry time 
 getting them to the hank, for its business runs into mil- 
 lions. Fortunately, Uncle Sam hasn't got the air-wheel- 
 sized dollar yet. and Mr. Lightfoot is saved the study of 
 the solution of this imaginary problem. 
 
 Here we see him reading an essay on "A Few Remarks 
 on Wheels," Just what is in that essay will never 
 be known. It might say that the Bass works is the 
 largest manufacturer of car wheels in the world, that it 
 turns out three hundred car wheels each day, sending 
 them into every state and territory, and that all the 
 great trunk line railro.ids of the country run their trains 
 on Bass Works' car wheels. All this would be the truth, 
 for the fame of the Fort Wayne car wheels is world-wide. 
 They are the greatest and the best, as are also its cast- 
 ings, its Corliss engines and its other products. 
 
 For the transaction of all this great business Mr. 
 Lightfoot handles the cash. He is the treasurer of the 
 works. He won his way to this responsible v^osition on 
 merit and through sterling worth. Born at Falmouth. 
 Kentucky, he came here at the age of twenty and took a 
 place as clerk in the ofiices of the Bass works, rising in 
 time to the position of general bookkeeper. For several 
 years he was private secretary for Mr. John H. Bass, 
 and when the Bass works was incorporated four years 
 ago as the Bass Foundry and Machine Works, he returned 
 to the general office work, and three years ago was 
 elected the treasurer of the great establishment. This 
 position he has since held. While a native of the Blue 
 Grass State, born below the Mason and Dixon line, his 
 twenty-four years' residence in Fort Wayne has Hoosier- 
 ized him. and he is a true Northerner. Fort Wayne is 
 glad to have him as "one of us." 
 
ALLEN J. VESEY 
 
 ALLEN J. VESEY is a pnnhict of Lagrnnj^e county 
 where he grew tall and ruggeJ like some of the 
 sycamores along the shores of its numerous lakes. As 
 a hoy he caught fish, and " chiggers " and perhaps an 
 occasional "lickin'" at school, but never complains 
 that he got a lick amiss. 
 
 When he reached his si.x feet of height at twenty 
 years he was far enough along mentally to go to 
 Michigan University to study law and there he spent a 
 year with Blackstone and quizzes. When he returned 
 to his native county, he settled in the town of Lagrange 
 to practice law. Some profitable deals in lumber came 
 his way and he found himself willing to take an honest 
 risk when it seemed to promise something " net." Then 
 followed some years of hard work on larger deals that 
 5 ielded an empty " net." It took a great many years of 
 plucky pursuit of the "nimble" to get out of the en- 
 tanglements of those efforts . and part of them took him 
 to Chicago. 
 
 After he had settled in Fort Wayne and became a 
 partner in the law firm of Vesey & Heaton, the head of 
 which was his brother, the Judge, he forsook bachelor 
 ways and liecame a benedict. That was the making of 
 him. He is now the junior member of the firm. Judge 
 Heatim having been called to the superior bench. His 
 hours are busy with the real estate end of the firm's 
 large business. He is by no means a politician but likes 
 to attend caucuses and state conventions. The other 
 fellows always find him companionable and square 
 whether at home or at a state convention. He has 
 never forgotten how to fish and loves to visit the lakes 
 for that purpose but his reports of his "catch" are never 
 beyond belief. He is a lawyer who can be believed, 
 even in the telling of a fish story. 
 
ALEX H. STAUB 
 
 ONE day last winter, a salesman in Mr. Staub's 
 place of business was displaying the merits of 
 one of his tine steel ranges. On opening the oven door, 
 a defenseless little mouse hopped out and ran toward 
 the proprietor. 
 
 "Throw something at him!" cried the customer. 
 
 •'It won't do any good," replied Alex, "he's out of 
 my range." 
 
 And then Alex laughed heartily, and the mouse 
 escaped. That's what makes Mr. Staub so fat — he 
 laughs so much. It seems also to have a good effect 
 on everybody with whom he associates. Mr. Staub is 
 a charter member of the Don't-Worry Club. He is con- 
 stantly adding new members to that delightful order. 
 This is one way he takes to shed warmth abroad — the 
 warmth of fellowship. Then he has another way of 
 dispensing warmth — that warmth which keeps the 
 physical man comfortable when it's cold enough without 
 to freeze the flame in a gas street lamp, or that warmth 
 which is needed to prepare his food. In other words. 
 Mr. Staub sells stoves and ranges; not all kinds, but 
 just the best kinds. He is one of Fort Wayne's pro- 
 gressive business men. and has been for many years. 
 
 Mr. Staub was born in Cincinnati hut that was the 
 only remarkable thing that happened to him there, as 
 his folks removed to Indianapolis in 1854 when he was 
 tliree years old. If we allow three years of grace, 
 which is a reasonable length of time, Mr. Staub is a 
 native-born Hoosier. He attended Croll's Academy at 
 Indianapolis, and the Northwestern University (now 
 Butler College) in the same city. He came to Fort Wayne 
 first in 1871 and was then for a period in Huntington. 
 He came back in 1879 to remain, and engaged in the 
 business which now occupies his attention. 
 
 Mr. Staub is a thirty-second degree Mason and a 
 Knight Templar. 
 
ELMER LEONARD 
 
 THERE are some men wlio du not believe in following 
 a profession. They sincerely are inclined to catch 
 up with it. That is what Elmer Leonard lias done. He 
 is right there when the train starts. While he is the 
 junior member of the firm of W. & E. Leonard he is the 
 larger member. Heis too large to wear his older brother's 
 clothes. This is why he always has a smile on his face. 
 They couldn't drop any cut-down and made-o\er gar- 
 ments to him. 
 
 After graduating from Ann Arbor lie returned to Fort 
 Wayne with his brother and hung out a shingle. This 
 is not the shingle his father formerly used in making sad 
 impressions. Elmer has never thought that he knew 
 all about the law and this is the reason he has been 
 studious and has climbed to the top of the profession. 
 He never believes in doing things by halves. He is am- 
 bitious in all his endeavors. When he .started to play 
 in the riffles in St. Joe river, near his father's farm, it 
 was not long before he sought water where he had to 
 swim. He has been in the swim ever since. A few 
 years ago he was elected chairman of the Republican or- 
 ganization in Allen county. He was so active in this 
 office that he was later made chairman of the district 
 Republican organization. Now he is active in the coun- 
 cils of the party in the state of Indiana. 
 
 Recently he thought he was not feeling well and he 
 took a trip to Chattanooga and spent some time on the 
 top of Lookout mountain. It is possible that he was 
 looking out for something higher. Elmer knows how to 
 climb and he usually has his spurs on for the fray. He 
 is one of the most active and energetic of the younger 
 practitioners at the Allen county bar. He is also highly 
 popular both in and out of his profession. 
 
SAM WOLF 
 
 T T HRE stands Mr. Wolf at the entrance ol the mag- 
 ^ *■ nificent new Wolf & Dessauer store welcoming 
 the throng of visitors and assisting in directing them to 
 the numerous departments. Within, are one hundred 
 and fifty happy, good-natured salesmen, who. alone 
 are well worth going to see. A tour of the big store and 
 a view of so many pleasant faces will drive away any 
 case of the blues. 
 
 Mr. Wolf is purely a Fort Wayne product. After 
 attending the public .schools, he served as a clerk in the 
 office of City Clerk W. W. Rockhill, and. after this ex- 
 perience in official city affairs, he hired out to Uncle Sam 
 as stamp clerk in the Fort Wayne postottice. Then he 
 began his e.xperience in the dry goods trade. He found 
 employment in the Louis Wolf store and there stored 
 away enough knowledge to enable him to undertake the 
 important step of establishing, with Myron E. Des.sauer, 
 the large concern which has grown in nine years to be 
 one of the biggest dry goods houses in the state. At 
 the time the store was opened on Calhoun street, it was 
 the only dry goods salesroom south of Berry. 
 
 For many months the people waited for the com- 
 pletion of the big Barnes Building, on West Berry street, 
 which was erected for the use of Wolf & Dessauer, It 
 is now one of the busiest spots in the city. The store 
 has a floor space of 54,000 feet, making it one of the 
 largest retail business houses in the state. The comfort 
 of the public is looked after in the maintenance of free 
 resting rooms and reception rooms, and everyone may 
 have the tree use of the telephones installed for the 
 exclusive use of patrons. Altogether, the Wolf & 
 Dessauer store has no superior in Indiana. 
 
ELMUS R. GESAMAN 
 
 IN this material world, wliere the processes of wear 
 and decay are continuously at work, nature is 
 kept busy making repairs. Everything needs "fixing." 
 Even dates, according to Mr. Gesaman should he fixed. 
 One way to fix them is to take each one separately and 
 cut a slit in the side, removing the seed or stone. In its 
 place, insert the meat of an almond from which the skin 
 has been removed. After you have done this to the 
 whole supply on hand, roll them in powdered sugar. 
 The\- don't look very nice, hut they taste pretty good 
 and are guaranteed to assist any case of indigestion. 
 
 But that's the kind of date-fixing that Mr. Gesaman 
 refers to. He wants you to fix the date, naming the 
 hour if possible, on which he can come over and see you, 
 or when you can go over to see him. about that life in- 
 surance matter. Fix it, please. 
 
 Mr. Gesaman was born just a month after the battle 
 of Gettysburg. Figure out his age, if you care to. This 
 event occurred in Noble county, Indiana — not the battle, 
 but the birth. Most of his early life was passed on the 
 farm, but he was so situated as to enjoy the advantages 
 of the Albion high school. Before leaving the old home- 
 stead, he taught a rural school several terms. After 
 1885, he was variously engaged as a traveling salesman, 
 until 1894 when he went to Toledo, Ohio, to enter the 
 employ of a wholesale grocery. Then he turned his at- 
 tention to life insurance, taking the agency for the Con- 
 necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, in Fort Wayne, 
 at the beginning of the year 1890. 
 
 Mr. Gesaman has always been active in church 
 affairs. For several years he was district secretary of 
 the Fort Wayne Christian Endeavor I'nion, during which 
 time he published the Christian Endeavor Unifier. 
 
 Remember that suggestion to "fix the date." 
 
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WILLIAM E. JENKINSON 
 
 IF Necessity is tlie mother of Invention, who is the 
 papa? Why, the inventor of course. 
 
 While Mr. JenUinson was in charge of the office of the 
 Jenney Electric Light and Power Company he discovered 
 that the prevailing methods of handling small accounts 
 with hundreds of patrons was sadly in need of fixing. 
 He looked ahout to find something which would improve 
 the condition of things, and failing to hnd it. invented 
 an entirely new method, which is now patented and 
 called the "Jenkinson System of Accounting and Filing." 
 This system has been revised and adjusted to meet the 
 needs of physicians, dentists, gas and electric light 
 companies, newspapers and others who have a multi- 
 tudinous quantity of small accounts. It is being adopted 
 wherever introduced. 
 
 Mr. Jenkinson was born at Lake Minnetonka, near 
 Minneapolis. His folks were Quakers and came west 
 from Philadelphia on account of his father's ill health. 
 They got as far as Richmond. Indiana, and there took 
 up their residence for a time in that Quaker community, 
 but found it necessary to go farther in the direction of 
 the setting sun. Lake Minnetonka was selected. They 
 purchased quite a tract touching the lake and there 
 settled down to enjoy life and reco\-er health. But when 
 the war broke out the Indians swooped down upon the 
 defenseless farmers and the little family barely escaped 
 with their lives by fleeing to Fort Snelling. The farm 
 buildings and crops were all destroyed. 
 
 They returned east in 1868. Mr. Jenkinson was em- 
 ployed for a time as a traveling salesman for a whole- 
 sale grocery house at Richmond, and later engaged in 
 the bakery business. Coming to Fort Wayne in 18S0. 
 he was employed for a time in the construction depart- 
 ment of the Fort Wayne Electric Works, and went from 
 there to the office of the Jenney Electric Light and Power 
 Company, where he acted as manager under C, G. 
 Guild. 
 
MARTIN J. CLEARY 
 
 1 N putting base ball toggery on him, we have certainly 
 ^ caricatured Martin J. Cleary, of the artistic job 
 printing firm of Cleary Si Bailey, for as a base ball man- 
 ager he is well and popularly known throughout Northern 
 Indiana, Southern Michigan and Northwestern Ohio. 
 He is the manager of the Shamrocks, the semi-profes- 
 sional base ball team that has the honor of being com- 
 posed of the champions of Indiana. This club, made up 
 of players all of whom are week-Jay workers in mechan- 
 ical and business pursuits in Fort Wayne, he has man- 
 aged for several years. They are first class base ball 
 players and wherever they go they make friends. They 
 know how to play ball — clean ball and good ball — and 
 combine with it the art of always being gentlemen. This 
 is why the Shamrocks have a reputation that is peerless 
 in the semi-professional base ball arena of the country. 
 But it could hardly be .said that managing a base ball 
 club is Mr. Clear\-'s business. More properly might it 
 be called one of his accomplishments. He loves the 
 American game and that is the reason he has his own 
 club to play it, most of his dates being fixed on the holi- 
 days. Mr. Cleary is a printer. He has followed the 
 occupation in this city since he was a boy, working in 
 every department of the trade, and there isn't a better 
 job printer in Fort Wayne. He is now, and for some 
 years past has been, associated in business with Thomas 
 E. Bailey. Both are practical job printers. They have 
 a finely equipped office, do all kinds of artistic printing, 
 and have an extensive business among our merchants 
 and the people generally. Their offices are at 912 
 Calhoun street. 
 
WILLIAM GEAKE 
 
 THIS gentleman with the mall and chisel is celebrated 
 for the fact that he is continuously making work 
 for the Masons and for the masons. 
 
 In the great secret order of Masonry he holds the 
 highest office in the state of Indiana, being an active 
 thirty-third degree member and deputy for Indiana of the 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite body. From this 
 place of honor and trust much of the activity of the great 
 body of Masonry in Hoosierdom is directed. 
 
 And, too, in his every-day efforts at the head of a 
 large stone-cutting concern, he prepares the material to 
 keep hundreds of stone masons from idleness. Nearly 
 all of the substantial buildings in Fort Wayne and a 
 large number of those in many of the cities and larger 
 towns of Ohio. Michigan and Indiana are constructed of 
 stone from the Geake stone works. 
 
 Mr. Geake ould never be president of the United 
 States, because he was born in England. The event 
 occurred in Bristol, in June, 1849. He came with his 
 parents to Canada in 1854. but their love for their native 
 land was so strong as to forbid them to remain, so they 
 returned four years later. Our Mr. Geake. however, 
 wanted to try it again, this time coming to the United 
 States in May, 1868. After a brief stop at Oswego, New 
 York, he went to Toledo, where he learned the stone- 
 cutting trade. He then spent si.x years following the 
 business in Boston, Chicago and various other cities, 
 and in 1873 began contracting in cut-stone work with 
 J. J. Geake, with whom for a number of years he was 
 later in partnership. From Toledo he went to Petoskey, 
 Michigan, where he took up a homestead of one hundred 
 and sixty acres of land and was one of the first white 
 settlers in that region. After passing si.\ years there he 
 came to Fort Wayne to remain. He has worked hard to 
 build up the substantial business which we now see. 
 
MAXIMILLIAN J. BLITZ 
 
 IT IS a fortunate thins for us that the surname of this 
 \oung man is not as elongateJ as the baptismal 
 appellation, otherwise there wouldn't have been room 
 enough in the allotted space above to accommodate it 
 all, and this subject might necessarily have been omitted 
 from the book. Mr. Blitz's father was a great admirer of 
 Ma.ximillian of .Wexico and grieved over the death of the 
 unfortunate leader when he was shot as a traitor. His 
 son was so named as an evidence of that admiration. 
 And so, liearing this illustrious name, "Ma.x" Blitz 
 invaded Fort Wayne in 1890, just as the other "Ma.x" 
 entered A\exico in 1864 — twenty-six years previous— but 
 our "Max" has been decidedly more successful in 
 accomplishing the object of his invasion than was his 
 noted example. Of course, they weren't seeking the 
 same sort of thing. The Mexican invader was after a 
 throne and waged an unsuccessful tight against the 
 republicans. The Fort Wayne invader sought success 
 first as city ticket agent of the New York, Chicago & St. 
 Louis railroad and manager of Kinner's ticket oflice. 
 Whatever sort of business insurgents were encountered, 
 he seems to have met and vanquished them, for he soon 
 owned the Kinner business, and in 189:; added an insur- 
 ance department. 
 
 Ill the following year he was given charge of the 
 interests of the Preferred Accident Insurance Company, 
 and in numerous cases since then he has been in charge 
 of the entire agency force. This company, through the 
 efforts of Mr. Blitz, has in Fort Wayne alone nearly eight 
 hundred policy holders. Mr. Blitz handles also a gen- 
 eral line of other branches of insurance. In connection 
 with his insurance business Mr. Blitz now conducts an 
 extensive wholesale and retail cigar and tobacco estab- 
 lishment, his store being located in the busiest section 
 of Calhoun street. 
 
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 HERMAN L. ROLF 
 
 WHRE It not for the plumbers, the funny papers 
 would have to go out of business, liecause the 
 chief source of their jokes would have disappeared. If 
 one man has shed bitter tears on receiving the proverb- 
 ially fatal plumber's bill, then a thousand have laughed 
 themselves into hysterics over that single incident when 
 portrayed in picture and word on the printed page. So. 
 you see, we are largely indebted to the plumber for much 
 of the jollity and good nature which is spread abroad in 
 this great world of tears. And, too. think how his occu- 
 pation is giving work not only to hundreds of thousands 
 of men employed in the manufacture of the materials he 
 uses in his work, but also to the army of joke writers 
 and comic artists who would otherwise be unemployed 
 wanderers on the face of the earth. 
 
 And now. having forced aside all possible prejudice 
 against plumbers in general and thus prevented a riot, 
 we beg leave to introduce !Ar. Herman L. Rolf, one of the 
 star actors in the Fort Wayne bunch of lead-pipe 
 cinchers. When we talk of ■•plums." political or other- 
 wise, we refer to something of considerable value and 
 much desired. A plumber is one who gets the plums. 
 In the box are the tools with which Mr, Rolf wrenches 
 them off. He is thoroughly competent, and his profes- 
 sional knowledge of joints ought to entitle him to a job 
 on the police force. 
 
 Mr. Rolf spent his boyhood days on a farm in Dear- 
 born county. Indiana. At the age of ten he was brought 
 to Fort Wayne, and here he attended the Lutheran and 
 the public schools. In 1897 he, with his brother, Albert, 
 established the present plumbing business on Broadway. 
 It is one of the hnest in the city. They carry a full line 
 of everything in the way of water, gas and electric ti.\- 
 tures and connections, bathroom supplies and all that 
 sort of thing. 
 
GUSTAVE A. RABUS 
 
 \ A /HENEVER Mr. Rabus suits a man he gets a fit, 
 ' ' That is to say his customer gets the fit. 
 Don't think that because Gust Rabus was born in 
 BloomingJale some time during the latter half of the 
 last century that it is proper to say that he comes from 
 the flowery kingdom. Bloomingdale is not a kingdom 
 but Gust is a kingly good fellow all right. Since grow- 
 ing up. Gust has come over the river into Fort Wayne. 
 His father, John Rabus, is one of the pioneer merchant 
 tailors of northern Indiana. He came Tiere when Fort 
 Wayne was a village and has grown with the city. 
 In later years he turned his extensive tailoring busi- 
 ness over to his sons — Gust, George and Charles. 
 Gust is the oldest son and is in active charge. When 
 he is not charging, his brothers are and then the 
 proverbial story about a man's tailor bill is revived. 
 It is an easy task, however, to do business with Gust 
 Rabus. He does business in a business-like way. He 
 goes east each spring and fall to look over the styles as 
 they arrive from London and Paris. Then he comes 
 home and whenever it rains in London he rolls his 
 trousers up. When it stops raining he takes them off 
 and puts on a new pair. He believes that men ought to 
 ha\'e their trousers creased. Nobody other than a good 
 tailor knows just how to crease a pair of trousers. Not 
 everything with Gust has a silver lining. He'uses any 
 kind of lining his customers desire. He firmly believes 
 in a man pressing his suit but not too strenuously in 
 leap year. He likes to tackle a bride-groom and get 
 him ready despite the fact that nothing is ever said in 
 descriptions of weddings about the poor neglected 
 groom's garments. 
 
G. MAX HOFMANN 
 
 ALTHOUGH educated for mining engineering, Mr. 
 Hofmann liuis gone into the air frequently instead 
 of into the earth. It would seem, therefore, that his 
 place is in the earth, hut you can't keep a good man 
 down. To hear some of the consumers talk you would 
 think that the Kas business is all air Mr. Hofmann is 
 also a director in all of the independent teleph(jne lines 
 about Fort Wayne. All these lints are in the air. 
 
 Max was born in Germany about forty-seven years 
 ago and went to Dresden to college. This is where the 
 chinaware comes from. Ma.x is partial to china, but has 
 taken no decided stand in the Japan-Russian war. In 
 1883. after receiving a thorough education in mining 
 engineering, he came to America. He became a draughts- 
 man in the Pennsylvania shops here and later went to 
 the .Alabama iron ore fields of the Bass foundry of this 
 city. When the natural gas struck Pittsburg he went to 
 the Pennsylvania gas field as an e.xpert. He was later 
 with the Indianapolis Consumers Gas Company for three 
 years before returning to Fort Wayne, in 1889, as expert 
 and superintendent for the Fort Wayne Gas Company. 
 
 This snapshot was taken of him while he was on his 
 way to test the capacity of one of the modern gas wells. 
 He is not carrying a German pipe. It is a gas meter. 
 While not looking for air that will furnish light and heat 
 he acts as president of the Western Engineering and 
 Construction Company and also of the National Steel 
 Casting Company, of Montpelier. Although a very busy, 
 as well as a hi.ghly prosperous, business man, he is not 
 too much engaged to greet his friends with a smile and 
 a hearty handshake. He is thoroughly popular. He is 
 a member of the A. O. U. W., the Elks and the Scottish 
 Rite Masons and is a Mystic Shriner. 
 
ROBERT B. HANNA 
 
 BOB" Hannci was so young when they elected him 
 to a seat in the city council that he had to be 
 provided with a dictionary to sit on. That was in 1889. 
 Ever since those days Boh has been a hustler. It was a 
 beginning to be proud of. and there's nothing like a good 
 start-off. Recently he was chosen to be the secretary of 
 the Commercial Club and here he is doing a good deal for 
 the welfare of Fort Wayne. 
 
 If you should take a complete history of Fort Wayne 
 and turn the pages carefully, marking with a blue pencil 
 the name Hanna wherever it occurred, you would have 
 at the finish a badly mutilated volume. The name bobs 
 up everywhere, beginning with the city's early history. 
 The grandfather of Mr. Hanna was a man of much prom- 
 inence in the early development of the state, and his 
 father. Henry C. Hanna. was one of the most prominent 
 citizens and land-owners in Allen county. "Boh" is one 
 of the wide-awake present day representatives of the 
 family. He was born in .Allen county in 1868. He at- 
 tended the public schools and after graduation from the 
 high school decided to become a lawyer. He did it. He 
 began by studying in the office of his brother. Henry C. 
 Hanna. The brothers practiced as partners for several 
 years. 
 
 •■Bob" was twenty-one when the voters of his ward, 
 which was strongly Democratic, made him a member of 
 the city council. Again, in 1894. as a candidate for state 
 senator, he ran 2.300 votes ahead of his ticket. In 1900 
 he was the nominee of the Republicans as their candidate 
 for congress. He developed much strength and gave his 
 opponent a decidedly close shave. Since then Mr. Hanna 
 has paid pretty close attention to the practice of his pro- 
 fession. He has been prominent in many of the various 
 kinds of activity which go to make up a lively city. 
 
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 HENRY J. HORSTMANN 
 
 IN the toggery whicli adorns him in this sketch and 
 with the implement of hard manual labor in his 
 strong right fist. Mr. Horstmann may not look entirely 
 natural to his many friends. The garb fits him perfectly, 
 however, as he has worn it and wielded the hammer 
 many a day in the times gone by. 
 
 Mr. Horstmann is the master mechanic of the Bass 
 Foundry and Machine Works. Fort Wayne's largest 
 manufacturing establishment. It gives employment to 
 a thousand men. It makes more car wheels than any 
 other company in the world. It is a large manufacturer 
 of many kinds of factory machinery, engines, boilers, 
 castings, forgings. etc. It is of the latter, or the mech- 
 anical department, over which Mr. Horstmann has 
 general superintendence, a position he has held for the 
 last three years and for which, by his education and 
 e.xperience. he is finely equipped. There was a time 
 when he wore the apron and used the mechanic's tools 
 daily. That was during his early career. Born at 
 Newark, New Jersey, after receiving a good education, 
 he attended a technical college and began work as an 
 apprentice machinist at Philadelphia. He served his 
 time and became a ■■full fledged" machinist, working at 
 the trade as machinist and foreman until he went to 
 Providence. Rhode Island, as superintendent of the 
 Corliss Engine Works of that city. He remained in that 
 position for two years and then went to Rome, New- 
 York, where he had meclianical charge of the Consoli- 
 dated Street Railroad company's lines. 
 
 It was while serving in this latter position that his 
 mechanical skill and ability attracted the attention of 
 the officials of the Bass works and they offered him in- 
 ducements which brought him to this city. The years 
 that he has been here have proven the wisdom of their 
 choice. His high mechanic.il and e.xecutive abilities ha\ e 
 made his services invaluable. Mr. Horstmann is popu- 
 lar with the officials and men at the works and our 
 citizens generallv. 
 
WILLIAM M. LEEDY 
 
 M' 
 
 R. LEEDY stayed on the farm until lie was olJ 
 enough to vote. He voted to leave the farm, and 
 the propo<;ition was carried unanimously. This farm 
 was in Kosciusko county. Priibably it is there yet it 
 someone has not cut it up into building lots. 
 
 So. at the age of twenty-one. he departed from the 
 scene of his birth and started out as the representative 
 of a publishing house— not a book agent, mind you, but 
 a ••solicitor." Later he was promoted to the position of 
 general agent. After working this business awliile. he 
 became connected with the circulation department of the 
 Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. As the middleman between 
 the publisher and the subscribers, he was a sort of cir- 
 culating medium. He then took a similar position with 
 the Wabash Plaindealer and later with the KendallviUe 
 Standard. 
 
 Then he came to Fort Wayne. His hrst job was with 
 the Sentinel. That was in 1887. His knowledge of the 
 newspaper circulation and advertising business made 
 him a valuable man, and he spent a portion of his time in 
 the advertising department of the Indianapolis Sentinel, 
 which was then allied with the Fort Wayne paper on 
 which he was employed. He was then offered a place 
 with the Fort Wayne Journal and was with that paper 
 for ten years. 
 
 Since leaving the Journal he has been one of the 
 foremost insurance men in Fort Wayne, carrying a gen- 
 eral line and representing some of the best companies in 
 the country. He deals also in real estate. In his work 
 Mr. Leedy has an ableassistant: it is a large, soft, warm 
 right hand, which is commonly known as a representative 
 of the ■•glad" variety. It has grasped a good big share 
 of business which would have been lost but for its loyal 
 attention to duty. 
 
 Mr. Leedy lives in Lakeside and is proud of it. Ask him. 
 
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 EDWARD F. YARNELLE 
 
 WE suppose that even those who are quite intimately 
 acquainted with ^\r. Yarnelle will be surprised to 
 be told that he is the president of a railroad. It's a fact, 
 thouKh. The name of the railroad is the Lake Erie & 
 Fort Wayne. At present the road is two miles long and 
 operates one locomotive. Quite a portion of the tiack- 
 age is in the yards and under the roofs of the Fort 
 Wayne Iron & Steel Company. The road now has a 
 switch connection with the Pennsylvania road and 
 has secured a right-of-way to the tracks of the Wabash. 
 The plan is to construct a belt line about Fort Wayne, an 
 undertaking which will be a splendid lift to the city's 
 commercial interests. 
 
 However, this railroad isn't taking much of A\r. 
 Yarnelle's attention. You will observe that he is 
 engaged in the \ery commendable occupation of singing. 
 When he isn't busy at this he is occupied at his desk in 
 the large wholesale hea\y hardware house of .Wossman. 
 Yarnelle & Company, in which he is a partner. He is a 
 native of Springfield. Ohio. When he was fifteen hfs 
 folks removed to Illinois and settled on a farm. After 
 three years he went to Pana. Illinois, to learn to sell dry 
 goods. In 1877 he came to Fort Wayne to take a posi- 
 tion with the heavy hardware firm of Coombs & Company. 
 He just seemed to ht the place and grew to like the busi- 
 ness so well that he decided to go into it for himself. In 
 1882, in company with Frank .Alderman, he purchased the 
 heavy hardware business of A. D. Brandriff. W. E. 
 Mossman afterward secured Mr. Alderman's interests, 
 and the firm of Mossman. Yarnelle & Company was 
 formed. In 1893 they bought out Coombs & Company 
 and consolidated the two concerns. 
 
 Mr. 'larnelle is president of the Fort Wayne Iron & 
 Steel Company, a director in the First National Bank 
 and, as we have noted, president of the Lake Erie & Fort 
 Wayne Railroad. 
 
 As a member of the Haydn QU'irt^t. Mr. Yarnelle has 
 contributed melody to listening thousands for the past 
 twenty-six years. 
 
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CHARLES D. TILLO 
 
 IF you are ill here is a man who can cure you. Charles 
 Tillo can sell you the best patent insiJes you ever 
 saw. He can make you looU fresh and attractive with 
 new outsides. Dowie is left at the post when it comes 
 to making you new. Charley can take a country news- 
 paper and give it an air of metropolitanism that almost 
 turns the paper yellow. He knows just exactly how. as 
 he has grown up in the business and has progressed 
 with the times. Busy as he is, he finds time to play golf. 
 .A little over a halt a century ago he was not playing golf. 
 He was then even too small to be a caddie. He was 
 picked up when he bawled. 
 
 The town of Clyde, in Wayne county. New York, was 
 the first place that ever knew Charley. If he had been a 
 day sooner he w^ould have been a New Years' gift. He 
 has never been a day late since. 
 
 .After leaving school he went to New York City and 
 learned the printing trade. Then he came west and 
 secured a position on the Citizen, at Jackson, Michigan. 
 After a while he assisted in founding the Jackson News, 
 the second penny paper in the state of Michigan. The 
 late Governor Blair, of .Wichigan. was interested in the 
 paper. Mr. Tillo retired and went back to the Citizen 
 until he located in Battle Creek, where he was interested 
 in the Sunday Tribune. Just a quarter of a century ago 
 he became connected with the Chicago Newspaper Union. 
 He was so successful in Michigan that he was given the 
 management of the Fort Wayne branch nineteen years 
 ago. He has been the head of the concern ever since. 
 He has done much to advertise Fort Wayne and to boom 
 its enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Wayne 
 Club and is active in the affairs of the Kekionga Golf Club. 
 
CHARLES R. LANE 
 
 IF the noisy telegraph instrument in the editorial room 
 of the Fort Wayne Daily News should suddenly 
 quit business, you would yet find the stillness of things 
 interfered with by a buzzing, clicking noise emanating 
 from the southwest corner of that same room. This 
 peculiar sound is sent out from Charley Lane's thinU- 
 box, and the louder it grows the heavier is the editorial 
 that's being ground out by the mechanism i}f his cere- 
 bellum. In the picture we find him handing to the copy- 
 boy a complete treatise on " How to Exterminate the 
 Democratic Donkey." 
 
 Mr. Lane has had charge of the editorial page of the 
 Daily News since its purchase by the present owners 
 two years ago. He is an experienced newspaper man 
 and one whose political work has counted heavily in the 
 battles of the Republican party in Indiana. 
 
 Charley Lane began at about the same time the 
 civil war did, but he has lasted a good deal the longer. 
 However, like all other mortals, he must sometime .go 
 the way of all mankind because, you know, it's a long 
 Lane that knows no turning, and there can never be a 
 mortal quite so long as eternity. He was horn at Oxford, 
 Ohio. His father owned and operated steamers on the 
 Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Although Charley was 
 orphaned when a boy, he managed to obtain a good 
 education. He was graduated from Earlham in 1884, 
 and immediately began his newspaper experience on the 
 Richmond, Indiana. Palladium. In iSgo he went to 
 Indianapolis, and for seven years was connected with 
 the Journal. He left that paper to become private secre- 
 tary to Congressman Charles L. Henry. On returning 
 from Washington in 1897. he was elected secretary of 
 the state senate. He then purchased an interest in the 
 Fort Wayne Gazette, of which he was the editor. In 
 1899 he was appointed Deputy State Supervisor of Oils 
 for the Twelfth district. Mr. Lane takes much interest 
 in the Fortnightly Club and was its president ni 1903 
 and 1904. 
 
CHARLES T. PIDGEON 
 
 EVEN those wliij are bitterly uppose>1 to the use ot 
 birds in the adornment of ladies' bonnets are en- 
 thusiastic over PidKeon trimmings — in fact, they consider 
 Mr. Pidgeon a bird when it comes to the production of 
 beautiful and dainty thinjjs \n all the various lines of 
 millinery. 
 
 Some hateful man, probably the helpmeet of a super- 
 extravagant wife, describes a lionnet as "a female head 
 trouble which is contracted the latter part of Lent and 
 breaks out on Easter." Many of these outbreaks may 
 be rightly considered as "rash," but not so with the 
 thousands of Pidgeon bonnets which present their 
 beautiful plumage and foliage at the happy Eastertide 
 and at all other times between the annual recurrence of 
 this spring bonnet festival day. 
 
 The C. T. Pidgeon Company— for as such the present 
 Pidgeon-Turner Company will be known after the begin- 
 ning of next year — is one of Fort Wayne's big wholesale 
 and manufacturing concerns. Its object is to spread 
 beauty everywhere, carried by the fair representatives 
 of our race. 
 
 Mr. Pidgeon began life in Ohio, at the town ot 
 Wilmington. He attended school there and later took a 
 course at Earlham College. After leaving school, he 
 entered the railway mail service and continued tor four 
 years as one of Uncle Sam's hired men. In 1888 he 
 turned his attention from mail matter to female matters, 
 having taken a position as traxeling salesman for the 
 Adams & Armstrong Co., wholesale milliners. His terri- 
 tory was in Michigan. He was a dandy at the business, 
 and continued it until three years ago. Upon the reorgan- 
 ization of the house as the James A. Armstrong Company, 
 he became its vice-president, and held that position until 
 he purchased Mr. Armstrong's holdings in the establish- 
 ment. He then became president of the house which 
 changed its name to the Pidgeon-Turner Company. 
 
WILLIAM C. GEAKE 
 
 BOBBY BURNS once said uf Captain Grose: "A 
 cliiel's amang ye tatcin' notes, and. faith, he'll 
 prent it." In the picture of Will Geake he is not taking 
 that kind of notes. You can't bank on the notes he has 
 under his arm. either. "Sweetest melodies are those 
 that are by distance made more sweet," and it is a cred- 
 ible assumption that the further the average person can 
 keep away from the notes Will is carrying the more 
 enchanted he will be. Will now holds the honorable 
 position of assistant to the attorney-general of Indiana, 
 and he is busy delivering the goods. Fort Wayne and 
 William C. Geake were both born on the Maumee river. 
 I'ut Hot in the same place nor at the .same time. Will 
 came later, at Toledo. This was about thirty years ago. 
 He came to this city when seven years old. After .going 
 to the public schools he attended Taylor University. 
 Then he went to Ann Arbor, and in 1900 was graduated 
 from the law department. He formed a partnership with 
 William N. Ballou, one of his classmates, and began the 
 practice of law in this city. The young firm built up a 
 lucr.Ttive practice 'and continued until Mr. Geake's 
 removal to the capital. 
 
 Will is an orator and a thorough student. He takes 
 an active part in politics, and when Attorney-General 
 Miller was inducted into office, about two years ago. 
 Will was made his assistant. He has been highly com- 
 plimented for the e.xcellency of his work. Although pos- 
 sibly the youngest attorney in this position, he has been 
 one of the best. Like his father, he is active in Masonic 
 circles and is a member of Summit City lodge and also of 
 the Scottish Rite bodies. His elociuence has been enjoyed 
 at some of the Scottish Rite banquets held in this city. 
 He still retains his residence in Fort Wayne, although 
 at present occupied with his professional duties in 
 Indianapolis. 
 
EUGENE WYNEGAR 
 
 THE typewriter is the vehicle by which many a person 
 has been carried to a splendid success. Every little 
 while we read of some plain, demure stenographer suc- 
 ceeding in capturing her wealthy employer for a husband. 
 Evidently these young ladies get tired of being dictated 
 to by a horrid man and know that this is the only way 
 to get a chance to turn the tables. There are several 
 reasons for all this. Take, for instance, an old bachelor, 
 too much wrapped up in his business to go out into 
 society or in other ways to mingle with the fair se.x. 
 Shut in his private room, a frown upon his brow he 
 dictates: "John Jones & Co., New Ycrk. Gentlemen: 
 
 We have yours of what was the date of their letter. 
 
 A\iss Brown?" sternly addressing the girl with the 
 machine and notebook. 
 
 '" The sixteenth, sir." she replies sweetly. 
 
 He is looking directly into her deep, brown eyes, whose 
 long, dark lashes droop as they meet his changed expres- 
 sion. He had never seemed to look at her before. To 
 him she was suddenly transformed into a radiant, beauti- 
 ful being, too heavenly, too precious to hear another 
 word about John Jones & Co.. or any other commonpl.ace 
 mortals, it is the beginning of the end. Soon a new 
 girl is at the typewriter. Perhaps she will capture the 
 chief clerk or the janitor. 
 
 Mr. Winegar is the man who is back of all this sort 
 of thing in Northeastern Indiana, as he is the representa- 
 tive of the Remington Typewriter Company for twehe 
 counties. Born and reared in North Judson. Indiana, he 
 later resided at several points in the state, hnally landing 
 in Indianapolis, where he learned all about typewriters. 
 The Remington Company sent him to Fort Wayne about 
 eighteen months ago and he has done wonders here. 
 The click of five hundred Remingtons may be heard here 
 any day except Sundays and holidays. 
 
EDWARD A. K. HACKETT 
 
 IN the newspaper field the Sentinel, of which E. A. K. 
 Hackett is editor and proprietor, is the oldest publi- 
 cation in Fort Wayne. It dates its existence from i8?3. 
 its tirst issue being on July oth of that year, when the 
 town had less than four hundred inhabitants. It became 
 a daily on January i, 1861. Mr. Hackett became its 
 proprietor on August i, 1880. and has continued as sole 
 owner since. 
 
 Under his energetic manaj^ement its circulation and 
 business grew to proportions which made it the leading 
 Democratic paper in northern Indiana. Its editorial and 
 local columns are ably edited. It is a clean family 
 newspaper, championing principles which its editor and 
 proprietor believes to be right. Mr. Hackett has shaped 
 its policy and course. 
 
 He is a practical and successful newspaper man. 
 He was born and reared and educated in Perr>- county. 
 Pennsylvania. As a boy he was "a printer's devil" in 
 the office of the Perry County Democrat and worked at 
 the case as a compositor and afterwards as advertising 
 man.ager for a state paper. He drifted to Indiana and in 
 Wells county at Bluffton. from his own earnings, pur- 
 chased the Banner. This he conducted successfully for 
 several years before coming to Fort Wayne to assume 
 the ownership of the Sentinel. With the late Hon. 
 S. E. Morss. he was at one time part owner of the 
 Indianapolis Sentinel. He also conducted here for 
 awhile the American Farmer, a state agricultural 
 paper. 
 
 Mr. Hackett never sought political otfice. He never 
 held any e.xcept that of trustee for the Indiana School 
 for Feebl^.Winded Youth. His appointment to the 
 responsible position was made by the governor of the 
 state. He held the office under several state adminis- 
 trations and its duties he performed faithfully and well. 
 
CHARLES R. WEATHERHOGG 
 
 MR. WEATHERHOGG figured it this way: "Here 
 in England," said he, "there are one hundred 
 and thirty of us to the square mile, and the number 
 is increasing all the while. Now, over in America there 
 are only twenty or so to a like area. If I stay here and 
 engage in designing big structures, the time will come 
 when there will be an insufficieat amount of room for my 
 buildings. I'll go tu America, where the out-of-doors is 
 a good deal bigger and there's no danger of crowding." 
 And so he came over, bringing with him all his archi- 
 tectural apparatus and a headful of ideas. He came 
 from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, where he had attended the 
 Art Institute and mastered his life worU. Donington. 
 the town of his birth, was not far distant. Mr. 
 Weatherhogg has never regretted that he cast his lot 
 among Uncle Sam's folks. And, -of course, he's glad he 
 finally landed in the Summit City, for his has been the 
 e.xperience of the scores of other foreign-born residents 
 of Fort Wayne: you couldn't chase him out with a gat- 
 ling gun. His tirst residence in the United States was at 
 Chicago. After spending a year there, he came to Fort 
 Wayne in 1892 and has been one of the busiest men in 
 town ever since. Magnificent monuments to his genius 
 and ability are scattered all over this part of the country. 
 Our latest and finest is the new S2;o,ooo high school 
 building. Another, just completed, is the plant of the 
 Perfection Biscuit Company. He designed the splendid 
 Jasper county court house, and they liked it so well they 
 wouldn't let him go until he had prepared plans for their 
 Carnegie library. The high school building at Peru 
 is his design. The prisoners in jail at Kankakee are 
 safely housed in .1 building erected after his ideas. So. 
 you see, he knows his business and does it well. 
 
 
BENJAMIN F. HEATON 
 
 A LITTLE turn of fortune changed Ben Heaton from 
 breeder of fancy stock into a lawyer. When he 
 was a hoy Mving on the farm in Marion township, he 
 assisted in raising some beasts and fowls which brought 
 fancy prices wherever they were presented for sale. 
 Everything looked rosy, and the lad's trousers pockets 
 began to take on a silver lining. He had settled in his 
 mind the question of a life occupation. He would be a 
 prosperous farmer; what was to hinder? 
 
 But one day something happened. One by one the 
 creatures of which he was so proud and upon which he 
 had set his hopes, drooped and died. A fatal and resist- 
 less epidemic attacked the flocks and herds, and there 
 was gloom on the Heaton farm. This not only occasioned 
 a large financial loss, but seemed to show that a worse 
 calamity might result with the investment of a greater 
 sum in the enlargement of the business. Ben changed 
 his mind. He had been attending the country schools. 
 He entered the Tri-State Normal at Angola, and on leav- 
 ing that institution took a course in a Fort Wayne busi- 
 ness college. He had by this time made up his mind to 
 become a lawyer and began his studies in the office of 
 Vesey & Heaton. where he was employed as a clerk. 
 In 1900. at the age of twenty-two, he was admitted to the 
 practice of law. He was then made a mebmer of the firm 
 of Vesey & Heaton and continued in the partnership until 
 the fall of 1902, when the present alliance with Carl Yaple 
 was made. Of these two young and progressive mem- 
 bers of the profession it is said that the sunshine reflected 
 from their countenances has had such a happy influence 
 over many litigants who have called for advice that they 
 voluntarily dismissed their cases, thus cheating the 
 attorneys out of several prospective fat fees. 
 
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ALBERT E. BULSON, JR. 
 
 THE commercial importance of a city is revealed in its 
 factories, its railroads and its business houses; 
 its culture is told in its schools, its churches, its libraries 
 and its galleries of art. Few cities of the dimensions of 
 Fort Wciyne are so fully developed in all the elements 
 which make an ideal commonwealth, and the thing usu- 
 ally missing is the presence of a suitable place for the 
 display and study of art. Dr. Bulson and a few others 
 equally interested, made up their minds that Fort Wayne 
 should not he lacking in this important respect, since all 
 other departments of municipal development have been 
 so carefully attended to. So the Fort Wayne Art School 
 association was organized with Dr. Bulson as its presi- 
 dent. The Kiser homestead was purchased as a home 
 for the association and the school, and Fort Wayne is 
 now recognized as one of the important art centers of 
 middle west. In addition to the maintenance of a well 
 equipped art school, the people of Fort Wayne are fre- 
 quently treated to loan e.xhibits of the products of the 
 country's foremost arti.sts. 
 
 But this is only a side issue — though a very import- 
 ant one — of the doctor's. As professor of ophthalmology 
 in the Fort Wayne School of Medicine : as oculist and 
 aurist to St. Vincent's and the Allen County Orphan 
 asylums, St. Joseph hospital and the United States 
 Pension Bureau for Northern Indiana and Ohio ; as 
 editor and manager ot the Fort Wayne Medical Journal- 
 Magazine ; as secretary and treasurer of the council of 
 the Indiana State Medical Association; as a member of 
 several of the large national medical associations — we 
 say that as he has all these and many other important 
 interests, one would hardly think he'd have time to get 
 much pleasure out of life, but it is a fact that that big 
 automobile of his holds a man who finds plenty of time 
 to get out into the atmosphere and see all there is in 
 nature to enjoy. 
 
FRED H. ASH 
 
 FRED ASH is an old-fashioned sort of a boy who isn't 
 carried away liy the automobile, except occasionally 
 when a friend invites him to go along. He doesn't own 
 one. The fad hasn't .struck him yet and he has less 
 trouble dodging it than he dues the automobiles them- 
 selves. He .seems to be contented with the old reliable 
 gasolineless carriage with a sleek horse hitched thereto, 
 and in this class of turnouts he keeps up to date Hi-; 
 horse doesn't like automobiles any better than its owner 
 and whenever it sees one it outstrips it in speed just to 
 show its contempt for the new tangled and so-called 
 competitor. 
 
 But there isn't very much exerci-;e in carriage driving, 
 and Fred is obliged to get the other kind of recreation 
 elsewhere. Usually, in his leisure hours, he can be 
 found "driving" on the golf links. It didn't take him 
 long toget onto the golf terms, though at first he thought 
 it was merely an old maids' game when someone used 
 the word •• tee" and another referred almost simultane- 
 ously to the " caddie." Fred coupled the two into "te.a- 
 caddy." the spinster's friend. But he soon learned 
 differently, and now such expressions as ■ • mashie " and 
 "brassey " are as familiar as stove-pipe and mica, which 
 he hears every day while laboring in the stove depart- 
 ment of his father's store. Fred is an expert on stoves 
 and is most willing to exchange information about checks 
 and drafts for checks and drafts or any other kind of 
 currency. His busy season is just beginning. 
 
 Fred has always lived in Fort Wayne. He goes out 
 occasionally to see what there is beyond the city limits, 
 but none of it looks good to him so he comes back. He 
 attended the public schools. St. Paul's Lutheran School 
 and Concordia College, and went from the latter into the 
 H. J. Ash establishment, where he has developed into 
 one of our likeliest young business men. He is an 
 enthusiastic Elk and is a star performer at their annual 
 minstrels. 
 
WILLIAM F. MOELLERING 
 
 IT must have been awfully Jiscouraging to Moellering 
 Brothers & Millard, the wholesale grocers, to receive 
 a visit from the fire fiend on the very first year of the 
 establishment of their wholesale grocery business. If 
 they shed tears over the event they tjuickly dried them 
 and began anew by opening a large store room on 
 Columbia street and remodeling the damaged buildings 
 at the corner of Lafayette and Montgomery streets into 
 capacious warerooms. They now have one of the most 
 important houses in Indiana. 
 
 .V\r. W. F. Moellering. who sits nearest the door of 
 their Columbia street office and whose glad hand you are 
 likely first to encounter, is shown here as a sort of pin- 
 nacle to a collection of the company's numerous varities 
 of cheese. Mr. Moellering has no particular connection 
 with the cheese end of the business— he knows just as 
 much about teas and coffee and spices and canned goods 
 and everything else— but these make a good pedestal, so 
 he posed thereon while we took a snapshot with our 
 little paint brush. 
 
 Like many of our successful men of affairs, Mr. 
 Moellering has risen to a prominent place in the city of 
 his birth. He has found no good reason to go elsewhere 
 to meet the sort of success he has wished. This is no 
 criticism of people who do move away from their native 
 towns in search of something better — provided their 
 native town is somewhere else and they come here to 
 find something better. 
 
 Mr. Moellering's first business venture was in 1876 
 as a retail grocer. This grew, as time went on, and 
 finally resulted in the formation of the house of Moellering 
 Brothers & Millard. It has prospered well. 
 
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 CHEE5E_ 
 
ED. PERREY 
 
 IF it is true that humanity shoulJ be under great obli- 
 gations to the man who causes two blades of grass 
 to grow where only one has hitherto sprouted, what sort 
 of praise and adoration is due to the individual who 
 causes a smile to accumulate upon the features of a per- 
 son who has never before been known to stretch his 
 face into jolly dimensions? Ed. Perrey's "Now 
 look pleasant," has accomplished this thousands of 
 times. He has done as much as any living being to 
 brinK permanent brightness to the faces of the people of 
 northeastern Indiana. To him. on thisaccount. we owe 
 much more than we can ever pay. We defy him to col- 
 lect it. 
 
 Mr. Perrey hrst opened his eyes upon a Fort Wayne 
 landscape. Like all other lively youngsters, he went to 
 school, played hookey, patronized the old swimmin' hole 
 on Saturday, went to Sabbath school on Sunday morn- 
 ing and played two-old-cat in the afternoon. Then he 
 went at work. His first employer was F. R. Barrows, 
 the photographer. He was with Mr. Barrows one year 
 and then witli John A. Shoaf for eight years, and. long 
 before the end of that period, he knew pretty nearly all 
 there was to learn up to that time. Since then, photo- 
 graphy has taken many forward strides ; Ed has con- 
 tinued to tag along and keep pace with its progress. 
 After leaving Mr. Shoaf. he went on the road for the 
 llotype Company, of Binghamton, New York, to show 
 the photographers of the county how to use that con- 
 cern's new products. He located here permanently at 
 the corner of Calhoun and Berry streets, eight years 
 ago. As showing his ability, he has a bunch of medals 
 for superior work, one received at Indianapolis in 1897. 
 one at Winona Lake in 1902, and two at the recent ex- 
 hibition at Winona — in fact he's becoming very, very 
 medalsome. 
 
GOTTLIEB H. HEINE 
 
 WHILE the prescriptionist behinj the case at the 
 Meyer Brothers drug store is handhiig chloride 
 of gold, Mr. Heine is manipulating the real article of gold 
 and storing it away in the company's strong-hox. He 
 is the treasurer of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company 
 and it keeps him pretty busy taking care of the stream 
 of coin flowing into the coffers of that large house, as 
 well as of the smaller stream flowing out. His duties 
 are to increase the former and lessen the latter. Mr. 
 Heine looks after all the fuiancial ends of the Meyer 
 Brothers concern, manages the advertising department 
 and puts in good long hours earning his salary. 
 
 He is of the younger element of business men who 
 are to keep the Fort Wayne of the future prominent 
 among the live cities of America. 
 
 Mr. Heine takes a big.ger view of his surroundings 
 than most m^n. This is because he is built on the tall. 
 slim plan and can see farther. He was born in Fort 
 Wavne and attended the Emanuel Boys' School. After 
 graduating from the course there provided, he entered 
 Concordia College for the purpose of adding to his store 
 of knowledge and to better tit himself for a business 
 career. He first learned to sell cheese and prunes and 
 herring and eggs at a local grocery, but resigned his 
 position as a provider for the inner man in order to 
 become a decorator of the outer man. This he did by 
 becoming a salesman in a gents' furnishing house. 
 
 His final change came with the reorganization of the 
 Meyer Brothers Drug Company when he was chosen 
 treasurer of that concern. This important house is now 
 over half a century old. having been established in 18^2 
 by C. F. G. Meyer, now president of the Meyer Brothers 
 Drug Company of Saint Louis, and J. F. W. Meyer. 
 president of the local house of the same name. 
 
SAMUEL L. MORRIS 
 
 No wonder Fort Wayne is such a peaceable, tranquil 
 community. In this pretty little city of sixty 
 thousand people we have, according to the most recent 
 directory, one hundred and two full-tledged, active, 
 learned followers of Blackstone. which gives us one 
 lawyer to each six hundred population. Of course, it is 
 the chief effort of these splendid citizens to preach con- 
 tinuously the doctrine of brotherly love wherein we all 
 should dwell together without getting huffy at every little 
 thing that happens. Occasionally, our natural mean- 
 ness breaks out, and then the ever faithful expounder of 
 the law rushes in to fix up the breach. But he always 
 does his best to avoid this latter calamity by the applica- 
 tion of preventive remedies. His life is one continuous 
 round of personal sacrifice in the interest of peace. Mr. 
 Morris is one of our busiest peace commissioners and 
 has for years been a leading light of the bar of Allen 
 county and of Indiana. We see him in the sketch mak- 
 ing a hearty appeal in the interest of quietude and 
 tranquillity. 
 
 Mr. Morris was eight years old when he came to Fort 
 Wayne. He got this start-off at Auburn, but his father, 
 the venerable Judge John Morris, brought the family to 
 this city in 1857, and here they have remained and 
 become valuable citizens. Mr. Mcjrris received his pre- 
 paratory education in the public schools, graduating from 
 the high school in 1868. He then entered Princeton Col- 
 lege. New Jersey, and in 1873 went forth as a graduate 
 of that institution. He then began reading law in the 
 office of Withers & Morris, and in 1875 was admitted to 
 practice. For six years he was a partner of Judge R. S. 
 Taylor, and since then has been associated with W. H. 
 Coombs and R. C. Bell, and now with James M. Barrett. 
 This law firm is one of the most prominent in the state 
 of Indiana. 
 
JOHN W. SALE 
 
 Two years ago, after a long perioJ of activity, Mr. 
 Sale decided to retire from business and pass the 
 rest of his days in a restful . quiet way. He drew out his 
 coziest Morris chair, selected a comfortable pair of house 
 slippers and settled down to enjoy in tranquillity and ease 
 the fifty or sixty remaining years of his life. He was 
 surely entitled to this rest and he meant to avail himself 
 of the privilege. 
 
 But he no sooner got settled down than he happened 
 to think of something. That "something" was simply 
 this: That a man of Mr. Sale's push and energy can 
 never keep out of active life as long as health and strength 
 are his. And directly he was enwrapped body and mind 
 in the affairs of the Fort Wayne Iron and Steel Company. 
 The sketch depicts him shouldering his portion of the 
 responsibility of the management of that large concern. 
 On the organization of the enterprise he was made a 
 director and treasurer, and as such is an executive officer 
 who is aiding in the successful development of this vast 
 enterprise. 
 
 Mr. Sale was born in Warren county, but for twent\- 
 eight years has been a resident of Fort Wayne. He was 
 for twenty-fi\e years the junior member of the firm of 
 Hoffman Brothers and the Hoffman Lumber Company, 
 which had large interests in a dozen states. 
 
 Besides his rolling mill connections Mr. Sale is also 
 largely interested in the independent telephone systems 
 of the central part of the state. He is one of the pioneers 
 in this business, the development of which has become 
 such a great benefit to the people at large. 
 
 Mr. Sale enlisted early in the civil war and served 
 three years in the Twenty-fourth and Sixty-seventh 
 Indiana Volunteers, during which time he rose from the 
 ranks to a line officer, having served with credit. He 
 was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war. 
 
 Mr. Sale is a staunch Republican and was the nominee 
 of his party for state senator in 1902. 
 
JESSE H. YOUNG 
 
 TWICE ill his life Mr. Young shed bitter tears. Per- 
 haps he did so more times than these, but twice we 
 know about. Once was when he fell off a railroad turn- 
 table and broke his leg, and the other time was on the 
 morning after burglars had raided the jewelry store con- 
 ducted by his father and himself and carried awav every- 
 thing e.xcepting the show cases and the proprietors. We 
 mention these two incidents, as they have a considerable 
 influence upon the history of Mr. Young. He dried his 
 tears quickly after each experience and buckled into the 
 fight again as soon as the first shock was over. He is 
 now one of Fort Wayne's successful business men, hav- 
 ing a finely stocked jewelry and optical goods store in 
 one of the best of locations. 
 
 Mr. Young is a native of Tiffin. Ohio. Perhaps that's 
 the reason he chose a "Tiffany" line of business. He 
 attended the high school and then Heidelberg College at 
 Tiffin, taking a commercial course at the latter institu- 
 tion. It was while in school that he and some other 
 lads were "monkeying" around the aforementioned 
 turn-table. The accident, which resulted in a broken 
 leg, shortened his school days, and he started in to learn 
 the jewelry business with his father at Tiffin. They 
 locked the store up as usual one night. The next morn- 
 ing when they opened for business they found that e\ery 
 piece of their stock had been carried away by burglars. 
 This broke up the business, and Mr. Young came to Fort 
 Wayne in 1883. He was first employed as a stamp clerk 
 in the postolfice under Postmaster Keil. Then, until 
 1890. he was engaged in the jewelry business, having 
 purchased the Caps store. He sold the stock to Dallas 
 F. Green and became connected with J. L. Sievert's 
 establishment, remaining seven years. Several months 
 ago he opened his present fine place on Calhoun street. 
 
OTIS B. FITCH 
 
 IF you take the map of Oliiii and put your linger on 
 Cleveland and then let it glide southward for twen- 
 ty-five miles and stop, it will cover the place where 
 O. B. Fitch made tracks in the sand with his •' 'ittle 
 tootsies." and manufactured mud pies when he was in 
 kilts, and earlier.. It was in those days on the farm that 
 he didn't take nearly the interest in footwear that he 
 does now. Even when he got to he i.|uite a lad. he fol- 
 lowed the example of the poor benighted Hindoo, who 
 continued to let his skin do. in place of boots or shoes. 
 
 But there came a time when things took upon them- 
 selves a change, and the boy began to take on airs by 
 pulling on a pair of cowhides and later some dainty 
 specimens of congress shoes. From that time since, he 
 has kept up with the styles. 
 
 It was in 1873 that the family came to Fort Wayne. 
 Mr. Fitch began activity here as an employe at the Olds 
 Wheel Works, and did so well at the business that he 
 stayed three years. Then he took a position with the 
 Wabash Railroad Company as a hreman and continued 
 for three years helping to dri\ e the iron horses over that 
 sy-.tem. 
 
 By this time. Mr. Fitch had a pretty good iJea of 
 humanity and he decided to test the strength of that 
 idea by engaging in business. He opened a store fur 
 the sale of hats, caps and general furnishings and did a 
 good deal toward increasing the attractiveness of the 
 attire of the men of Fort Wayne. After nine years 
 in this line, he launched out, fourteen years ago, 
 in the retail shoe business. His store is known as 
 the Hoosier. a name which sounds warm and pleasant 
 and homelike to every true son and daughter of Indiana, 
 real or adopted. 
 
JOHN H. AIKEN 
 
 HAVE you ever noticed that many of our best lawyers 
 passed through the Hoosier schoolmaster period 
 before they finally chose their profession? It seems that 
 when a young man succeeds in convincing a roomful of 
 odds and ends of households that the world isn't flat 
 and that the cube root hasn't any connection with bot- 
 any, he rightly thinks he is pretty well equipped to con- 
 vince a jury on almost any proposition which could pos- 
 sibly bob up for solution. That was the way with Judge 
 Aiken. He taught the \oungsters in varijus Allen 
 county schools before entering a law school to finish his 
 legal education, and had certainly gotten a good start 
 on his successful way before taking the latter step. 
 
 Judge Aiken was born in Lafayette township. He 
 came to Fort Wayne when a lad and attended the 
 Alethodist College. In 1889 he entered the University of 
 Michigan and was graduated from its law department 
 with the class of 1891. He came to Fort Wayne in the 
 same year and began practice in partnership w ith M. V. 
 B. Spencer. These gentlemen continued together until 
 Mr. Spencer's appointment as state pension agent, which 
 took him to Indianapolis. 
 
 Judge Aiken has thrown his able influence upon the 
 side of the Democratic party and has been honored in 
 turn by being elected to the superior judgeship of Allen 
 county. 
 
 During the first term of N. D. Doughman, Judge Aiken 
 acted as deputy prosecutor. In 1890 he was elected judge 
 of the superior court to succeed the late C. M. Dawson. 
 He was renominated for the same office in 1902. 
 
 Judge Aiken w-as a delegate from .Mien county to the 
 recent state convention of his party, and led the fight 
 against instructing for any candidate for president. At 
 present many of his friends are urging his Candida y for 
 one of the county judgeships. 
 
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EMIL M. HOEFEL 
 
 THIS handsome young man is Mr. Hoefel. the staff 
 artist of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, with 
 whose features you may not he famihar. but whose faces 
 you have frequently seen. 
 
 The first thing Mr. Hoefel ever Jrew for a living was 
 a long breath of air. This was in Mainz, Germany. 
 While yet a baby he drew himself together and went with 
 his folks into the domain of pretty Queen Wilhelmina, 
 although it wasn't hers then. Here he was reared and 
 educated. He managed to thrive well in the land of wind- 
 mills and dikes and wooden shoes, and when he was old 
 enough to hold onto a piece of charcoal and a handful of 
 brushes and a palette he was sent to the Academy of Arts 
 at Rotterdam. After spending some time there he was 
 drawn to the sea and for two and a half years was a jolly 
 tar before the mast, his principal object being to study 
 the ocean in all her moods in order to reproduce her on 
 his canvasses. His cruises carried him to France and 
 Portugal and around Africa to the Dutch East Indies and 
 the West Indies. His marines weree.xhibited in Holland 
 and at the New Orleans and Saint Louis Expositions. 
 At the end of his sea experience he landed at New Orleans 
 and first began work with a decorator. At that time, too. 
 he made his first acquaintance with newspaper illustrat- 
 ing. He soon had a position on the Times-Democrat as 
 general illustrator; but the swamp fever caught him and 
 he had to dig out of New Orleans. He went to Saint 
 Louis, where he was employed by the leading German 
 paper, Westliche Post, as a cartoonist and general 
 artist. When the crookedness of Saint Louis began to 
 crop out Hoefel got disgusted and came away to a decent 
 town — to Fort Wayne. 
 
 In addition to his daily work, which is certainly of 
 uniform cleverness, Mr. Hoefel is the instructor of a 
 class in the manly — and womanly — art of fencing. 
 
WILLIAM E. MOSSMAN 
 
 IWlR. A 
 / T 1 wl 
 
 MOSSMAN is one of those unusual individuals 
 vlio have contracted an incurable case of youth- 
 fulness. We are willing to wager that if he gets to be 
 a hundred and thirteen years old. he will be just as 
 young in spirit as he was a score of years ago or is now. 
 We wish that more of us could calch the infection. We 
 notice that we say he has contracted a case of this kind; 
 this is an error. He was born that way and never got 
 over it. What a splendid thing it is to be able to stay in 
 one's youthood I 
 
 Mr. Mossman cut and sawed his way to success. He 
 was one of the pioneer lumbermen of this portion of the 
 country, and. although he has added some other lines of 
 business to take a portion of his attention, he is still 
 wrapped up in the manufacture of lumber. He was born 
 on a farm near Coesse, in Whitley county. Indiana, 
 sixty-one years ago, and stayed there until he reached 
 his majority. It was then that he tried the e.xperiment 
 of manufacturing hardwood lumber, opening a mill at 
 Coesse. The venture was a complete success and 
 opened the way to the establishment of a number of 
 other mills in southern Indiana and Kentucky. These 
 are still among the most important in this portion of the 
 country. Mr. Mossman came to Fort Wayne from 
 Coesse. after the mill there had proved to be a success. 
 
 In many ways. Mr. Mossman has assisted in the 
 upbuilding of the city of his adoption. In addition to 
 his connection with the wholesale hardware tirm of 
 Mossman. Yarnelle & Company, he is vice-president of 
 the Tri-State Loan and Trust Company, vice-president 
 of the Wayne Knitting Mills, and a director in the Fort 
 Wayne Loan and Trust Company and the Fort Wayne 
 Windmill Company. 
 
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RUSELLES S. VIBERG 
 
 You wouldn't think, to survey his good-natured phiz, 
 that this youns man leads a hand-to-mouth exist- 
 ence: would you? Well, he does. He's a dentist. 
 
 Politics make strange bed-fellows, they say. It also 
 does many other queer things. Notwithstanding the 
 fact that Doctor Viberg is not a politician— although a 
 man with such a "pull" as his ought to be an expert at 
 that profession— it was politics that brought him to Fort 
 Wayne. It happened in this way: He was born in 
 Cedar Creek township, and there did all the remarkable 
 things which char.icterize the rural life of a boy. His 
 father became the nominee of the Democrats as sheriff of 
 Allen county. He was elected, and. of course, the family 
 was brought to Fort Wayne; that was in 1888. Thus it 
 was that politics brought Doctor Viberg to Fort Wayne. 
 Of course, at that youthful age he had no idea of becom- 
 ing a fixer of human chewing apparatus, but began .at 
 once a course in the city high school. Finishing his 
 work there, he spent three years in Purdue University 
 at Lafayette. Then he took up his dental studies in the 
 Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis, graduating 
 therefrom in March, i8g6. Doctor Viberg, because of 
 his special fitness, was placed in charge of the clinic of 
 the college during its first summer session, and then, 
 during the following winter, acted as assistant demon- 
 strator in the operating department. At the completion 
 of his work at Indianapolis he came to Fort Wayne, 
 where he has been decidedly successful. He will occupy 
 a suite in "The Rurode," being the first man to sign a 
 lease for office quarters there. 
 
 Doctor Viberg is an enthusiastic Elk and held the 
 chair of exalted ruler in 1901 and 1902. He is a member 
 of the K:ippa Sigma fraternity and of the Masons. 
 
GEORGE P. EVANS 
 
 THEY tell the stor>- of a deaf old lady, who, with her 
 daughter, happened to be aboard a railroad train 
 which jumped the track and jumbled the passengers 
 together in heaps. The two ladies were rescued unin- 
 jured and assisted to a grassy knoll, where they were 
 left to recover from their shock, while the rescuers 
 turned their attention to more serious cases. Among 
 the passengers was a kindly-disposed elderly gentleman 
 who passed from one group to another seeking to com- 
 fort and reassure the distressed. On reaching the two 
 referred to he said gently, as he placed his hand sooth- 
 ingly upon the mother's arm: 
 
 '•Have courage, ladies, and remember that a kind 
 heaven bends over all." 
 
 Turning quickly upon the daughter, the mother asked 
 in jerky syllables: 
 
 ••What's that old fool saying about men's overalls?'' 
 
 Ot course, it would have been foolish to discuss such 
 a subject at such a time: however, if George P. Evans 
 had been there it wouldn't have been astonishing to hear 
 him broach the subject, even under such unfavorable 
 conditions. This is because overalls are his hobby. He 
 doesn't think a person can get too old to wear "bibs." 
 He is the treasurer of the Hoosier Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, which makes many carloads of these necessary 
 outer garments each year. We don't know much about 
 Mr. Evans' political views, but he seems to be strongly 
 in favor of protection for the workingman. 
 
 Hillsboro. Ohio, is Mr. Evans' native town, but he 
 has been here since i860. In 1878, after deciding that 
 overalls and blouses were a staple necessity, the busi- 
 ness of making these garments was begun in the building 
 on Clinton street now occupied by the Fort Wayne 
 Newspaper Union. In 1882 the Hoosier Manufacturing 
 Company, which now has large quarters on East Berry 
 street, was incorjiorated. 
 
CHARLES H. WINDT 
 
 THIS younj; man is one of the most matter-of-fact 
 individuals that ever occurred. When he was a 
 smaM lioy in school at Jackson. Michigan, the teacher 
 asked the youngsters to learn a "memory gem" to be 
 repeated at roll-call each Friday morning. Charley 
 selected this old favorite and sprung it one day: 
 ■•Always take things by the smooth handle." 
 
 And then he began to worry. How, he asked him- 
 self, can all the folks take things by the smooth handle 
 when there aren't enough handles to go around? He 
 resolved to remedy the difliculty, and as soon as he 
 graduated from the Jackson High School he entered the 
 employ of the Withington & Cooley Manufacturing 
 Company, makers of forks, hoes and rakes at that 
 place. He developed a great deal of executive ability 
 and in the spring of 1900 was assigned to the care of 
 the Fort Wayne branch of the business, known as the 
 Withington Handle Company, exclusive manufacturers 
 of handles. He was treasurer of the concern. The sale 
 of the Withington Handle Company to the National 
 Handle Company took place in June. 1903. and Mr. 
 Windt was retained as manager. While still holding 
 this important position, he was chosen assistant secre- 
 tary of the National Handle Company — which is the 
 largest manufacturer of handles in the world — and he is 
 also auditor and traffic manager of the division of the 
 various plants north of the Ohio ri\ er. 
 
 The output of the combined factories is fifty thousand 
 handles per day. The shipments in ;ind out of the Fort 
 Wayne facton.- amounted to seven hundred cars last 
 year: and a Siso.ooo business was done here alone. 
 Filty men are given employment. The plant is now 
 being greatly enlarged and will eventually be the largest 
 of its kind in the country. 
 
 So, you see. Mr. Windt is doing all he can to assist 
 in the observance of his ■•memory gem."' 
 
 He is a prominent Mason and club man. 
 
 
VAN B. PERRINE 
 
 DON'T think Van has a lumbering gait just because 
 you see him with a jag on— that is. of course, a 
 jag of lumber. He is always in condition to walk a 
 plank and likewise knows a plank when he sees one. 
 He sees a great many. 
 
 Van was born in Kingston, New York, and went to 
 Brooklyn to get an education and planked shad. This 
 is where he got familiar with plank. He found himself 
 in the lumber business in Brooklyn when he was twenty- 
 three years old, and he has not been lost in the lumber 
 business in Fort Wayne for eighteen years. He repre- 
 sented a California firm upon his arrival from Brooklyn. 
 In a very short time he started a large hardwood lumber 
 factory at Huntington, the Lime City of Indiana. He 
 thought that it would be kilning to live in the Lime City, 
 so he CdUtinued to reside here and work at his mill 
 between times. The Perrine-Armstrong Company moved 
 its saw-mill to Fort Wayne later and now the facton,- on 
 Winter street is the largest hardwood saw-mill in the 
 state. Wagon and hardwood lumber of all kinds is 
 made there. Nearly one hundred men find employment 
 at this factory the year round. Mr. Perrine is also the 
 owner of large factories at Lafayette and Indianapolis: 
 but resides here. Van makes dust even it wet weather. 
 You never saw such dust; but he surely saws such dust. 
 Then the portions of timber not used for lumber are 
 sawed into stove wood. This wood is sold in the city. 
 He never hears the cry over the telephone that the gas 
 is low but in the winter people want to know why the 
 wood is not delivered. He doesn't mind what people 
 say over the telephone, as he was born near Hellgate. 
 
 Van is a Shriner and an Elk, and, of course, besides 
 being a good fellow, knows a thing or two. 
 
DAVID N. FOSTER 
 
 IT is Jifficult tu put the slor>' of the hfe of David N. 
 Fosterwithiiitlielimit of the four straight lines which 
 surround this type. As a lad fourteen years uld he was 
 a bundle boy in a store in New York City, KOing there 
 trom his native town in Orange county of that state. At 
 eighteen he was a partner in the dry goods business with 
 his brother. A little later he was a student in an acad- 
 emy at Montgomery, New York, ei]uipping himself for 
 the profession of the law. At twenty he was a soldier in 
 the war of the Rebellion A few years afterward he was 
 back into business again, first at New York City and 
 later at Terre Haute. At thirty-two he was editor of a 
 newspaper at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and at thirty- 
 seven, in 1878, was in Fort Wayne conducting one of the 
 branch stores in several cities of the Foster Brothers. 
 He is now the president of the D. N. Foster Furniture 
 Company in this city, one of the largest establishments 
 of its kind in Indiana. 
 
 When the war broke out he was attending college. 
 In April of 1861, the morning after Lincoln's tirst call for 
 75,000 volunteers, the citizens of the town were raising 
 a flag. Mr. Foster was the orator and he closed his 
 speech by announcing that he had already enlisted in tlie 
 Ninth New York regiment and would leave at noon on 
 that day to join the regiment as a private. He was pro- 
 moted to second lieutenant in December ol 1862, liis 
 commission reaching him while he was lying dangerously 
 wounded in the hospital on the battle ground at Fred- 
 ericksburg. Soon after the battle of Gettysburg he was 
 promoted to a captaincy. His wounds, however, com- 
 pelled him to leave the service and he returned home, 
 re-entering commercial pursuits. 
 
 Mr. Foster has always been prominent in G. A. R. 
 circles. In 1885 he was commander of the department of 
 Indiana and was one of the original movers in the es- 
 tablishment of the soldiers' home at Lafayette. 
 
THOMAS F. BRESNAHAN 
 
 iTwuuld seem, un careful cunsiJeration of tlie facts, 
 '^ that this harmless-louking young man ought to be 
 arrested and punished for committing the unpardonable 
 act of cruelty to animals. For ten long years, ever since 
 he came to Fort Wayne, he has busied himself hurling 
 the harpoon into the thick hide of the G. O. P. elephant. 
 During the early part of that period, this harpoon was 
 shaped ver>' much like a lead pencil, and his onslaughts 
 wore away the point many times a day ; later, with the 
 improvements in methods, he has used the tvpewriter. 
 and thus are his attacks machine-made. The fact is. to 
 speak plainly, that Tom Bresnahan is the city editor and 
 political writer of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, and 
 he is one of the tireless workers for the Democratic party 
 in the Twelfth district By being tireless, he is neces- 
 sarily puncture-proof, a very necessary qualification for 
 a newspaper man who gives his attention to pohtics. 
 
 In addition to his newspaper work in the interest of 
 the party, Tom has for two years been the secretap.- of 
 the Democratic county central committee. This year, 
 some of the candidates teased him to become chairman 
 of the committee, but he shook his head ; he's too busy. 
 Tom originated at Columbia City thirty-three years 
 ago. The family came to Fort Wayne in 1880. He en- 
 tered the Cathedral school and came forth a graduate 
 from its classical course. Going then to Mount Calvary. 
 Wisconsin, he put the finishing touches to his education 
 at Saint Lawrence seminary. He speaks German and 
 French equally as well as English, and he certainly 
 slings English to the queen's taste. Coming to Fort 
 Wayne to stay, he tied himself to the Journal and hasn't 
 vet become untied. 
 
JOHN MORRIS, JR. 
 
 MR. MORRIS is one of our liveliest members of the 
 bar. On page 276, section 13, of the heavy mo- 
 rocco hound volume which he holds in his hand, is just 
 the point he has been looking for. He has found exactly 
 the right authority that's needed to win his case, and we 
 behold him here telling the jury all about it. He has a 
 faculty of being pretty sure of his grounds before going 
 ahead. 
 
 Mr. Morris is a native-born Fort Wayneite. He came 
 in March, i860. He is the son of Judge John Morris, one 
 of the most eminent jurists Indiana has ever known. His 
 good traits have been taken up by his son. of whom we 
 write. When Mr. Morris was a youngster he wasn't 
 very strong physically, so that much of his education 
 was received at home, a circumstance which was not as 
 unfortunate as it would have been for many another boy 
 deprived of a complete course in the public schools. H(]W- 
 ever. he passed the final examinations of the high school 
 and entered the University of Michigan in 1879. He was 
 graduated therefrom in 1883. He immediately entered 
 the law office of Coombs, Morris & Bell, remaining three 
 years. In 1884 he was appointed by Noble C. Butler as 
 deputy clerk of the United States Court in Fort Wayne, 
 serving until 1893. In 1886 he was admitted to practice 
 in the supreme court of Indiana and in the United States 
 Courts. He formed a partnership with Charles H.Worden 
 and continued until 1893. when the present alliance with 
 William P. Breen was formed. 
 
 Althciugh Mr. .Worris has never sought political honors 
 he has always helped to boost the interests of the Repub- 
 lican party, and is an important factor in district affairs. 
 As showing his popularitv among his brother attorneys 
 it may be said that he recently received the unanimous 
 endorsment of the Allen County Bar to be judge of the 
 circuit court of Indiana. 
 
 He is a prominent Mason and otherwise actively 
 identified with local and state interests. 
 
I F we slKJuM tell a stranger that Percy Olds gains his 
 lixelihood by digging in the earth, or. rather, by 
 watching and directing the other fellows while they do 
 it, he might get the idea that he is either a miner, or an 
 oil speculator, or a gas man. or an artesian well driller, 
 or a farmer, or one of a dozen other kinds of workmen 
 whom that e.xpression would quite accurately describe. 
 But he isn't. True, he was a minor until he reached his 
 majority, but then he quit off short. Percy is connected 
 with the large concern known as the C. L. Olds Con- 
 struction Company, of which his father is the head, and 
 to him falls a great deal of the work of superintending 
 large contracts at various points in this portion of the 
 country. Their operations are chiefly in the line of in- 
 stalling water works and sewer systems, electric lighting 
 plants, etc. The company is constantly busy handling 
 big contracts of this kind. and. as a consequence, Percy 
 has to keep moving. We ought, perhaps, to sav that 
 the result of his lively moving and hustling qualities is 
 the securing of many of these contracts, because good 
 work alwa\'s begets more of them for the concern which 
 performs it. 
 
 Percy is a Fort Wayne product. He went through 
 the public schools and graduated therefrom in 189:;. For 
 a year he was employed by the Fort Wa\ne Electric 
 Works, but he decided to enlarge his education, and this 
 was done by taking a course at Princeton University 
 the school in which Grover Cleveland holds down the 
 chair of Izackwaltonism. likewise a few easier chairs. 
 
 Returning home, he entered the emplov of the con- 
 struction company in 1898. He is well liked in business 
 circles and socially he is popular everywhere. 
 
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ALFRED M. CRESSLER 
 
 WHEN Alfred Cressler came home from college two 
 years ago he immediafely gave liis best thought 
 to the commendable work of shedding light abroad. He 
 has been shedding ever since. This little sketch shows 
 how he does it. He sits at a desk in the ulifice of the 
 Kerr-Murray manufactory and figures out contracts and 
 specifications for big gas holders — those immense round 
 tanks which usually stand on the outskirts of the towns 
 and are generally visible for miles before you get within 
 the city limits. Notwithstanding their immensity, in 
 some cases your nose is ..juicker than your eye in locat- 
 ing them. Well, that's what Mr. Cressler is figuring 
 on. These tanks contain hundreds of thousands of 
 Si)uare feet of gas and the gas makes brightness which 
 drives away the darkness. And in this way Mr. Cressler 
 is seeking to shed more light abroad. 
 
 Just at present he is giving some time. too. to the 
 installment of a new system of keeping tab on the per- 
 centage of profit or loss in each subdivision of the 
 various departments of the plant — a harmonizing and 
 equalizing scheme now being applied to the workings of 
 all large factories, made necessary by advancement in 
 methods along all other lines. 
 
 Mr. Cressler is a Fort Wayne boy and has been here 
 all his life, excepting during seven years spent in school 
 and college. After a brief attendance at a private school 
 here, he went to Pottstown. Pennsylvania, to attend 
 the Hill school, a preparatory institution, and then 
 entered Yale. Here he made a splendid record in his 
 academic work, and was honored in being selected to edit 
 the book review department of the Yale Literary Maga- 
 zine. At the close of his four years' course, he was 
 graduated in 1902. Since then he has been connected 
 with the Kerr-Murray Manufacturing Company. He is 
 popular socially, and is one of Fort Wayne's rising 
 young business men. 
 
ALBERT E. MELCHING 
 
 DURING all his early private and political life Mr. 
 Melching was successful in everything he unJer- 
 took, so it isn't surprising that he's a successful under- 
 taker now. 
 
 Like a large number of good men, Mr. Melching came 
 from Ohio. He was horn on a farm in Mahoning county. 
 Ohio, but. as soon as he was old enough to toddle, his 
 folks held him by the hands to see if he could walk as 
 far as the nearest railroad station. He could, so they 
 all got aboard the hrst train and came to Allen county. 
 where they located at Williamsport. Five years later, 
 in 1861. they came to Fort Wayne. "Al." as he is 
 familiarly known throughout the county, attended the 
 parochial school of the Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, 
 after leaving the public schools, and then, at the age of 
 fourteen, with a widowed mother to care for, he secured 
 employment in the spoke factory of Breckenridge & 
 Taylor. Later he had like employment with Ranke & 
 Yergens. Then he learned to be a harnessmaker in the 
 shop of Cooper & Neireiter, and later with Louis Traub, 
 Thus he continued until 1886 when he opened an equine 
 restaurant — in other words, a feed yard — on North 
 Harrison street. Perhaps it was while caring for the 
 wants of the noble animals left in his care that Mr. 
 Melching had his attention drawn to the needs of the 
 Democratic quadruped. At any rate, it was then he 
 became a candidate for sheriff, and, in 1896. was elected 
 by a good, large majority. His popularity was again 
 demonstrated by his re-election two years later. During 
 his official career, Mr. .Melching was a faithful servant 
 of the county. Twice, during his work as sheriff, was 
 he obliged to make flying trips to the Indian Territory and 
 once to Texas, to carry out the demands of justice. In 
 1903 A\r. Melching was made city chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 He is now a partner with Robert Kl.aehn in the under- 
 taking business. 
 
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PAUL MOSSMAN 
 
 ONCE upon a time. Mr. Mossman spent a year and 
 a half making footprints on tlie sands and muddy 
 spots of Europe, .Asia and Africa, and the one thing 
 among the thousands that he learned was that the 
 United States is the garden spot of the world with Fort 
 Wayne as its beautiful and attractive center. He likes 
 our city better than any other place he has seen, and 
 that is saying a good deal for the opinion of a man who 
 has traversed the countries of Europe from North Cape, 
 the most ncjrtherly settled spot in Norway, to the most 
 southerly point of sunny Italy, and who has journeyed 
 through Palestine and the states and principalities of 
 northern .Africa. 
 
 Mr. Mossman is one of Fort Wayne's most progres- 
 sive young business men. If he hadn't suddenly changed 
 his mind one day, this sketch might have described him 
 as one of the most successful members of the Allen coun- 
 ty bar, because he at one time, after returning from his 
 foreign trip, thought seriously of becoming a lawyer. 
 But he didn't. He took an interest in the large whole- 
 sale heavy hardware business of Mossman, Yarnelle & 
 Company and has continued very successfully as a 
 member of that important firm. He is a native of Fort 
 Wayne, and graduated from the high school here in 1886. 
 Going then to Ann Arbor, he entered the University of 
 Michigan and graduated in 1891. He then took the 
 foreign trip referred to above. Re-entering the Ann 
 Arbor school, it was his intention to study law, but in 
 1893 he became interested in the concern with which he 
 is still connected. 
 
 Mr. Mossman is concerned in several other important 
 local institutions, including the First National Bank, the 
 Fort Wayne Iron and Steel Company and the Fort Wayne 
 Windmill Company, in each of which he is a director. 
 He is also vice-president and a director of the Commer- 
 cial Club, 
 
FRANKLIN A. EMRICK 
 
 /yi R. EMRICK is another country- boy who has risen 
 ^ ' 1 to success in the city. He is the same old illus- 
 tration of the advisability of keeping the bovs in the 
 corn-fteld until they are old enoush to begin their 
 collegiate, commercial or professional «ork. We have 
 such examples all about us in Fort Wayne. 
 
 Mr. Emrick is the young man who came pretty close 
 to landing the Democratic nomination for prosecuting 
 attorney at the county convention last June It was so 
 near that we shall, no doubt, hear more about him 
 politically in the future. During the four vears of the 
 terms of his brother. E. V. Emrick. as 'prosecuting 
 attorney, he acted as deputy and got next to a whole 
 lot of the methods of handling criminal prosecutions 
 
 Mr. Emrick had his beginning in Pleasant township 
 from whence have come quite a bunch of our good 
 people. He served a complete apprenticeship in the art 
 of husking corn, milking the mild-eved kineand taking 
 his best girl to the ice cream festivals at the district 
 school house. 
 
 After attending the country school until he had 
 earned all there was to learn, he went to Ann Arbor 
 to take a literary course in the Universitv of Michigan 
 At that time he decided to become a lawyer, and from 
 the literary work he turned his attention to the law 
 course. Then, displaying a large amount of good 
 ludgment and common sense, he came to Fort Wiyne 
 to begin his career as an attorney. He was admitted 
 to practice m ,899, and immediatelv formed a partner- 
 ship with his brother. His venture has been markediv 
 successful. 
 
 I ,n ?'';»,""','"' " "^ "'^'"^'^' °' ""^ ^"'"'"'^ Oi-der of 
 United Workmen, the Pathfinders, the Fraternal Assur- 
 ance Society, and the Eagles. 
 
HENRY F. MOELLERING 
 
 IT isn't at all difficult to find a man with a cigar be- 
 tween his lips, but here's a man who has the entire 
 tobacco industry at his tongue's end. He can tell you 
 that the annual yearly crop of the weed in the United 
 States amounts to six hundred million pounds ; that a 
 law passed in 1600 and never repealed, forbids its cult- 
 ure in Great Brittain ; that its name comes from the to- 
 bacco pipe used in San Domingo: that its botanical 
 name, nicotiana, was given in memory of Jean Nicot. 
 who first carried the seeds to France : that it is a native 
 of America and was never heard of until the discovers- of 
 the new world, and so on indefinitely. He has to know 
 a whole lot about tobacco because he's the buyer in that 
 important department for the wholesale grocery house 
 of Moellering Brothers & Millard, of which he is an act- 
 ive member. 
 
 But Mr. Moellering does a good deal more than this 
 fiir his house. He's active in many of its other interests 
 and has especial charge of its city trade. 
 
 Fort Wayne owes much of its commercial importance 
 to the boost given it by its manufacturing and jobbing 
 houses. The hundreds of traveling salesmen going out 
 from these busy centers carry to the outside world the 
 daily information that Fort Wayne is a live city. 
 Moellering Brothers c& Millard, through this one channel 
 alone, are helping constantly to boom Fort Wayne in a 
 substantial way. 
 
 Mr. Moellering is a native Fort Wayneite. He se- 
 cured his early educateral training in the parochial 
 schools and then took a course in Concordia College. 
 In 1879, he joined his brother, William F. Moellering in 
 a retail grocery venture which had been launched two 
 years previously. On April 23, 1894, the partnership of 
 Moellering Brothers & Millard was formed. It has had 
 a most successful history. 
 
 
 iv§no'5'iKS 
 
MARTIN W. KEMP 
 
 THH man of pluck is pretty apt to get on in this world 
 regardless of inconveniencing obstacles. Mr. Kemp 
 was liorn in Madison township, this county, and had 
 just fairly begun to learn things in the country school 
 when he was left an orphan at the age of twelve. Then 
 began, his real battle with the world. He worked on 
 farms in the neighborhood of his home until he attained 
 the age of manhood, when he came to Fort Wayne in 
 1882 and entered the employ of Hoffman Brothers, who 
 conducted a saw mill. He was with them a year and a 
 half when he again turned his attention to farming, this 
 time in Milan township, where he operated a place for 
 himself. 
 
 He secured a job with the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company, however, and returned to Fort Wayne to take 
 it. beginning as a laborer in the yards. Through good 
 work and increasing competence he gradually arose to 
 the responsible position of foreman of the lumber yards 
 in this city in 1890. 
 
 Mr. Kemp is an enthusiastic lodge man. Asa Knight 
 of Pythias he has occupied all the chairs and represented 
 the home lodge at the grand lodge session. He is one 
 of the supreme officers of the Fraternal Assurance Society 
 of America. He has held at various times all the offices 
 in the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and has repre- 
 sented the local lodge in the grand body. He is a charter 
 member of the home lodge (jf Pathfinders and is now 
 serving his hfth term as its presiding officer. He has 
 had a good deal of e.xperience in drilling teams for lodge 
 floor work. 
 
 Mr. Kemp has made quite a reputation as a public 
 speaker, one of his recent notable efforts being the speech 
 at the Republican congressional convention which placed 
 Newton W. Gilbert before that body as a candidate for 
 congress. 
 
FRANK P. WILT 
 
 FOR a dozen years Mr. Wilt sang lustily that 
 rollicking "flour" song: 
 "Happy is the miller -who lives by the mill: 
 The zclieel goes 'round with a right good will; 
 One hand in the hopper and the other in the bag; 
 IVhen the wheel goes 'round he cries out grab!" 
 But he was a jolly miller in those days, and when he 
 abandoned the business and began to sell codtish and 
 tobacco and sugar to the retail dealers he had to get a 
 new song. This is what he sings now. using the same 
 tune: 
 
 "Happy is the groeer who sells by the gross; 
 He ships lots of goods though the margin's close; 
 One hand counting coppers while the other holds 
 
 the bag; 
 For while folks eat the sales can't lag." 
 Mr. Wilt was born in Fort Wayne and grew up here. 
 He also grew out — considerably so. After attending the 
 public schools a while, he entered the Miami Valley 
 Institute, an industrial school located near Cincinnati. 
 He was fifteen when he came home and found employ- 
 ment in th^ Esmond flouring mill on the Saint Mary's. 
 During the twelve years of his experience there, the 
 mechanical part of the milling business was wholly 
 revolutionized. He became financially interested in the 
 mill, but sold his interests and entered the wholesale 
 grocery house of SUelton & Watt as a bookkeeper. He 
 was soon a partner in the business, the Arm being then 
 known as McDonald, Watt & Wilt. He sold out in 
 1894, and started in the wholesaling of teas, cigars and 
 tobaccos. Two years ago. the present company, with 
 Mr. Wilt as president and treasurer, was incorporated 
 as a wholesale grocery house. 
 
 Mr. Wilt is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a 
 thirty-third degree Rome Cityite, being one of the 
 pioneer cottagers at that popular resort. 
 
FREDERICK J. THIEME 
 
 MR. Ttiieme says the s 
 strictly in it and ce 
 
 ■ stocliing outloul< is tine. He's 
 ctly in it and certainly ought to know. 
 
 Stockings are commonly supposed to he the ladies' 
 popular depository for money, and yet we are assured 
 that Mr. Thieme has secured a good deal of coin out of 
 his own hosiery. 
 
 It was he, you will rememher, who organized in 1898 
 a concern known as the United Knitting Mills, the huild- 
 ing being located on the ground with the Wayne Knitling 
 Mills. They were operated under different managements. 
 When the year 1901 arrived both institutions had grown 
 to large proportions, and although the two were making 
 different lines of goods and sold their products together, 
 they had become formidable rivals in the knitting busi- 
 ness. What should lie done? Should they continue as 
 competitors, or should one absorb the other? If so. 
 which should go out of existence? It was an important 
 time in the history of the two industries and the boards 
 of directors of each were brought face to face with a 
 serious problem. It was finally decided that the two 
 should consolidate under the name of the Wayne Knitting 
 Mills, and this was done. 
 
 Mr. Thieme was retained as superintendent of the 
 combined industries and has especial charge over the 
 manufacture of children's and infants' hose and seamless 
 goods. He has done much to preserve to Fort Wayne 
 this great manufactory. Since its assured prosperity no 
 one in America has an e.\cuse for going sockless or 
 hoseless. But there were dark days in the history of 
 the Wayne Knitting Mills, days which cause a shudder, 
 even now. to cume over those ;oncerned who happen to 
 think of it. In brief, the mills were scheduled to close 
 one Saturday night, but a check brought by the mail 
 carrier that morning was the bridge over the chasm of 
 failure and all has been solid traveling on the other side. 
 
WALTER OLDS 
 
 LIKE the proverbial feline. Judge OIJs came back. 
 He went from Indiana to Chicago and there prac- 
 ticed his profession with marked success; but he had 
 once lived in Indiana, and that settled it. When he 
 returned to the state he came to Fort Wayne. 
 
 Judge Olds is a native of Ohio, that great state 
 which rears good men and sends them elsewhere to 
 shine. He was born in Morrow county in 1846, and 
 spent his youth on a farm. The war came on at a time 
 when he should have been in school, but he enlisted and 
 was for two years engaged in defending the stars and 
 stripes. On returning home he attended an advanced 
 school and read law in the office of his brother. Major 
 James Olds, at Mount Gilead," Ohio. In January. 1809, 
 he was admitted to the bar, and in the same year 
 located at Columbia City, Indiana, and began the prac- 
 tice of his profession. He was soon counted among the 
 foremost attorneys of Northern Indiana. 
 
 In 1876 as a candidate on the Republican ticket, he 
 was elected state senator and served in the sessions of 
 1877 and 1879. In 1884 he was elected circuit judge for a 
 term of six years. In 1888 he was elected supreme 
 judge and resigned his seat on the circuit bench. He 
 took the higher office in January, 1889. He was, at the 
 time, the youngest member of the court, and one of the 
 youngest men ever elevated to the supreme bench of 
 Indiana. He filled the place with credit and honor for 
 four and one-half years, and then resigned to go to 
 Chicago to re-engage in the practice of his profession in 
 partnership with the Hon. Charles F. Griffin, formerly 
 secretary of state of Indiana. 
 
 Judge Olds came to Fort Wayne in March, 1901, after 
 which the partnership with Newton D. Doughman was 
 formed. 
 
JOHN W. EGGEMAN 
 
 M' 
 
 R. EGGEMAN has uiily one serious fault — he in- 
 sists on lonl<ing Jnwn on his neighbors. He 
 declares Nature built him that way and if the rest of the 
 people insist on remaining sawed-off. why they'll just 
 have to look up to him. that's all. As a matter of fact 
 he's one of the big men of Fort Wayne in a couple or 
 three ways of looking at it — a first-class specimen of 
 physical and other kinds of manhood. In college he was 
 the terror of many football teams which tackled Notre 
 Dame, and now that he's out of school he continues the 
 same methods in carrying his legal football to goal. 
 
 Mr. Eggeman is a lawyer, a partner of James B. 
 Harper. Hewas oornhere. After attending a parochial 
 school until he had finished the course, he attended 
 Taylor University for a time, and then entered Notre 
 Dame University. From this institution he graduated 
 in 1900. A year later he received from the University 
 the degree of Master of Arts. 
 
 Mr. Eggeman was an ambitious youngster when he 
 reached the age of thirteen and began the study of sten- 
 ography. He made good use of it in the time that fol- 
 lowed, and it helped him through school by enabling him 
 to earn the necessary coin. At Notre Dame he was 
 prominent in athletics, being especially fitted by Nature 
 to engage successfully in college sports. The revenue 
 received from his work in this line, helped also to pay 
 his way through the University. As center rush for the 
 Notre Dame Iniversity he made a great record for him- 
 self and the team. But this was only a side issue : he 
 was there to learn and he did it. 
 
 Mr. Eggeman was one of the founders of the Black- 
 ford Law Club. Judge O'Rourke of the Circuit Court 
 recently appointed him to the important office of probate 
 commissioner. 
 
 256 
 
ROBERT P. WHITE 
 
 WHEN he was a boy in school, Doctor White 
 received many a spanking for drawing cari- 
 catures of his room-mates. Even now he finds much 
 pleasure in sketching his friends. Here we catch him 
 at it. 
 
 Dr. White used to like to hunt pretty well: hut in 
 recent years he has grown so fat that the sport is too 
 much like work and it has lost its charms for him. The 
 result is that his faithful old shotgun stands in the 
 corner hidden under cobwebs, its stock worm-eaten and 
 the barrel decaying with rust. He likes hshing better, 
 now. because it doesn't retjuire half the exertion to 
 obtain results if they are obtainable at all. But best ot 
 all. the doctor enjoys music. Bank notes are worthless 
 to him as compared with musical notes. It is said that 
 Doctor White loves band music so well that when the 
 City Packard Band used to hold its practice rehearsals, 
 he would perch himself on a neighboring root and drink 
 in the sweet harmonies. Once, in the midst of one of 
 these seasons of musical bliss, he dozed and fell asleep. 
 On being awakened the ne.xt morning he told his story, 
 and the bandmen on learning of it, thought he would be 
 just the kind of an enthusiast to enroll among their 
 number. He joined and is now one of the most valued 
 members of that superb organization. 
 
 Doctor White was born at Lancaster. Pennsylvania, 
 hut his folks took him to Ashland. Ohio, when he was a 
 child. He attended Ashland College, and graduated from 
 the University of Pennsylvania in the medical course in 
 1886. Since then he has taken many special courses to 
 perfect himself in his profession. He began a general 
 practice of medicine at Warsaw. Indiana, in 1886, but 
 after taking special courses in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, 
 at Will's Eye Hospital and at the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, he came here in 1900 and opened his office for the 
 treatment ot ailments of the eye. ear. nose and throat. 
 
GEORGE H. LOESCH 
 
 MR. LOESCH is a good mixer. That's what makes 
 liim a successful druggist — likewise a good poli- 
 tician. There are two ways to mix things. One is to 
 take a number of different ingredients and mingle them 
 into a hopeless, chaotic tangle. The other way is to 
 take a variety of elements and combine them into a 
 harmonious whole. While studying pharmacy George 
 learned just what harmonizing ingredients to put into a 
 mixture of repellant chemicals to make them blend peace- 
 ably and beautifully. He applies the same principles now 
 at tlie gatherings of the county council when discordant 
 opinions refuse to be good and get together. And that's 
 about as far as he goes toward mixing business with 
 politics. 
 
 Mr. Loesch spent his boyhood days on a farm in 
 Marshall county. Indiana, so it seems there are but few 
 steps between pharmacy and farmer — see? When he 
 was ten the family removed to Plymouth, Indiana, where, 
 after attending the public schools. George took his first 
 lessons in drugs at a store in his hometown. After a 
 two years' apprenticeship he went to Chicago to take a 
 course in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. He was so 
 young that the faculty refused to allow him to graduate, 
 so he filled in one whole year very advantageously study- 
 ing in the Chicago College of Medicine. He graduated 
 in pharmacy in 1876. 
 
 He came to Fort Wayne on the advice of a traveling 
 man. Three cheers for drummers who quietly do more 
 to boom a good town than do the majority of men who 
 live in it! He was first employed by G. B. Thorp, and 
 in 1878 bought out his employer. 
 
 Mr. Loesch has always been an active Republican. 
 He was a member of the city council from 1894 to 1896, 
 and in 1902 was elected to a seat in the county council. 
 He is a Knight Templar, a Mystic Shriner and a Thirty- 
 second degree Mason. 
 
 358 
 
PERRY A. RANDALL 
 
 You see Mr. Randall in tlie circumstance of lia\ ins 
 just completed one of those elongated, voluminous 
 legal literary efforts misnamed briefs. To judge from 
 his e.xpression and attitude we think he has won his 
 case already. 
 
 Mr. Randall has been a successful lawyer and 
 business man in Fort Wayne ever since he came back 
 from Ann Arbor over thirty years ago. He is pre- 
 eminently and triumphantly a lover of Fort Wayne and 
 it is doubtful if any other man has done more to make 
 this city what it is today. Has someone a suggestion 
 to improve Fort Wayne as a city of homes? Perry 
 Randall is the man to help it along. Is there a plan to 
 build up and enlarge its commercial welfare? He is 
 there with a strong arm to boost. Sometimes these 
 things, however well planned, have not turned out as 
 successfully as they promised, but losses have never 
 discouraged Perry Randall. 
 
 Mr. Randall was born in 1847 at Avilla. Indiana, but 
 he has lived here so long that he seems always to have 
 been a Fort Wayneite. His father came to Noble county 
 from New York as eaily as 1836. Perry had the advan- 
 tage of attending the Fort Wayne public schools and 
 was graduated from the high school in 1867. He went 
 directly to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and finished the 
 classical course of the state university in 1871. He 
 remained there, however, and took the law course, 
 graduating in the spring of 187^ He has been in Fort 
 Wayne ever since. In i88i he formed a partnership 
 with W. J. Vesey which continued for several years. 
 
 Mr. Randall has been a director in the Commercial 
 Club since its organization, and served for one year as 
 its president. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, is 
 president of the Smith & Randall Lumber Company 
 and a director in the Tri-State Building and Loan 
 Association. 
 
LOUIS FOX 
 
 THERE are men by the millions who just hate parrots. 
 Mr. Louis Fo.x doesn't care how many parrots 
 there are. They all need crackers. Mr. Fox is Fort 
 Wayne's cracker man and he is a cracker jack. Most 
 drivers have crackers on their whips to snap over the 
 horses, hut Mr. Fo.x keeps his crackers and snaps in 
 the wagon. He has something there now for Polly. 
 
 Just about half a century ago Louis Fox was born in 
 Adams township, this county. His parents soon realized 
 that he was not cut out for a farmer. They brought him 
 to the city. He went through the local schools and was 
 given a thorough commercial education after that. His 
 first business venture was one of push. He propelled 
 a cart in Huestis & Hamilton's wholesale grocery. In 
 1877 he enterred into the manufacture of crackers and 
 confections. From 1883 until 1886 Mr. Fox conducted 
 the factory alone. Business began to expand under 
 his skillful management and in 1886 he took his brother 
 August, into the firm. It was then known as the Fox 
 Bakery and Confectionery. In 1889 there was a fire 
 which practically wiped this factory out of existence. 
 The factory arose out of the ashes larger and better than 
 ever. Today the Fox crackers have a wide reputation. 
 The plant is now a branch of the National Biscuit Com- 
 pany of which company Mr. Fox is a heavy stockholder 
 and a director. He has retired from the active manage- 
 ment. He is interested in many Fort Wayne business 
 and financial institutions. He has served with distinc- 
 tion in the city council and has repeatedly declined the 
 namination for mayor of Fort Wayne. He does not 
 cherish political honors but seeks to be free to enjoy the 
 pleasures of life. He has made several extended Euro- 
 pean tours and trips through Mexico. He enjoys travel 
 and when not away is frequently seen driving with his 
 family behind a handsome team of horses. 
 
 260 
 
ALFRED D. CRESSLER 
 
 HERE is the beginning of all the truuhle. The scene 
 is laid in the fuundry department of the Kerr- 
 Murray Manufacturing Company. The principal actor 
 is Mr. A. D. Cressler. He is detected in the act of 
 pouring molten iron into a mould. When cooled and 
 shaken out of black sand a queer-shaped piece of steam- 
 ing cast iron will he found. This is taken to the machine 
 shop, run through the lathes and polishing apparatus 
 and when finished is assembled with a lot of other pieces 
 of cast and wrought iron to form a gas-making machine. 
 This is then sold to somebody who is putting in a city 
 gas plant. In the course of time the homes and shops 
 are piped, meters put in and the gas turned on. The 
 man comes to read the meter, and then the consumer 
 runs up against the proverbially fatal gas bill. 
 
 But, as we remarked before, the trouble begins away 
 back at the scene of the sketch. However, as none of 
 the complaints reach this source. Mr. Cressler keeps 
 happy. 
 
 Mr. Cressler is the president of the Kerr-Murray 
 Manufacturing Company, one of the city's largest and 
 most important factories. It's product is confined to 
 machinery used in the manufacture and storage of illum- 
 inating gas. 
 
 Mr. Cressler is a native of Lucas. Ohio. His father, 
 George H. Cressler was a railroad contractor. Alfred 
 D. Cressler came to Fort Wayne in 1870 and entered the 
 employ of the Kerr-.Wurray Manufacturing Company 
 shortly afterward. In 1881, on the incorporation of the 
 company he was made its president. Under his admin- 
 istration, the policy of the company has been essentially 
 conservative, following the original plans of its founder, 
 Kerr Murray. 
 
 Mr. Cressler is a great lover of fine driving horses. 
 He is also fond of rare books and his library contains 
 hundreds of priceless volumes. He is one of Fort Wayne's 
 valuable citizens. 
 
JOHN T. DOUGALL 
 
 THI: true artist admires curved lines, and in the case 
 of Mr. Dougall we don't get as many of them in 
 this picture as there would have been in the full front 
 view. His figure is artistic in the extreme — that is. in 
 the nether extremity. Those who were there deny that 
 the lower limhs of our subject were warped while he 
 passed over the burning sands enroute to the Mystic 
 Shrine. Others believe the condition is the result of 
 turning corners too suddenly while chasing the elusive 
 news item. However, while the origin is a matter of 
 dispute, the fact remains that Mr. Dougall has never 
 won honors at a greased pig catching contest. He knows 
 better than to try it. 
 
 John was born at New Haven and was seven years 
 old when he was brought to Fort Wayne to stay. He 
 was a member of the high school class of 1884 and after 
 graduating, attended a business college. While in school, 
 he conducted the society department of the Fort Wayne 
 Gazette over the )ioni de plume of "Jenness Dee." His 
 work attracted attention and he became connected with 
 the Gazette as telegraph editor in 1884. In 1887. after 
 a year's connection with Carnahan. Hanna& Company, 
 he went to the News, and has been with that paper con- 
 tinu(jusly, excepting two years spent with the Journal. 
 Mr. Dougall as city editor of the Daily News is a hustler. 
 He is an entertaining writer and has the reputation of 
 being able to cover as much news territory daily as any 
 other man in Indiana. Everybody likes him. 
 
 His ability as an after-dinner speaker has made him 
 popularattheban>.iuetsof the .Wasonic bodies and others. 
 He is a thirty-second degree .Wason and a Mystic Shriner. 
 and is a member of the lodge of Elks and of the "Keep 
 Happy" club. He is a wide-awake Republican. He was 
 the first president of the Tippecanoe club and issued the 
 call for the meeting at which it was organized. 
 
JOHN B. REUSS 
 
 Up in tlie northwestern part of Bavaria, in Germany. 
 is tlie pretty little town of Kissingen. made famous 
 chiefly through its medicinal springs which buliMe up in 
 sparl<ling profusion from nature's laboratory for the pur- 
 pose of curing various human ills. Here it was that Mr. 
 Reuss. who is now connected with another laboratory 
 which also produces a profusion of sparkling liquids. 
 was born. 
 
 In 1865, just at the close of the American Rebellion. 
 Mr. Reuss came to the United States, and located in 
 Cincinnati. Here he found employment at his trade as 
 an expert watchmaker; he had learned the business be- 
 fore leaving his native land. In 1874, became to Fort 
 Wayne and entered the employ of George J. E. Mayer, 
 then one of Fort Wayne's leading business men. He 
 was with him for several years, when, in 1891, he be- 
 came interested in the Centlivre Brewing Company. 
 Upon the incorporation of that concern in 1895, he was 
 made its secretary. Much of the success of the enter- 
 prise is due to the effort of A\t. Reuss. whose wide ac- 
 quaintance has been an important factor. During his 
 long residence in Fort Wayne, Mr. Reuss has had much 
 to do with the development of the city's various inter- 
 ests. His prominence commercially is best illustrated 
 by mentioning his membership in such enterprises as the 
 Hamilton National Bank, the Home Telephone Company, 
 the Fort Wayne Trust Company, the Haberkorn Engine 
 Company, the Commercial Land and Improvement Com- 
 pany and a number of other important institutions. 
 
 Mr. Reuss has traveled e.xtensively, and there are 
 very few points of interest in the civilized portions of the 
 globe that have not been visited by him. He is an en- 
 thusiastic member of the Fort Wayne Lodge of Elks, and 
 is one of the (jidest members of that lively bunch. Mr. 
 Reuss' fad is floriculture. Here we see him among his 
 favorite flowers. 
 
 
 26) 
 
WILLIAM KAOUGH 
 
 OLD KING COLE was a mem- old soul. All of the 
 children know that. Now William Kaough, the 
 Coal King of Fort Wayne, is also merr>-. Every one 
 who has had the pleasure of coming in contact with him 
 knows that. Although he was born in Allen county 
 sixty years ago and is still a bachelor, he has a tender 
 heart and his kindly offices have frequently been felt. 
 He never forgets a friend. He has within the past few 
 years gone on the bonds of men when their closest 
 friends had failed in time of need. 
 
 ■■Billy'' Kaough (everybody knows him as ■•Billy.'') 
 stayed on the farm until 1872 before he dared to become 
 city broke. He has never been broke at that. He 
 started in the agricultural implement business when 
 farmers were almost afraid of the '■infernal" machines. 
 He was agent for S. S. Smick, the firm of Shordan & 
 Swan, and later started in the agricultural implement 
 business for himself. He made friends all over Allen 
 county, and owing to his popularity was three times 
 made county chairman of the Democratic party. He was 
 made district chairman for his party in the successful 
 Cleveland campaign. For his excellent work he was 
 appointed postmaster for Fort Wayne. He managed 
 the affairs of the office with business tact. Then he 
 removed his political crown and resumed the habiliments 
 uf a coal baron. Since then the Kaough Coal Company 
 has been an important business enterprise in Fort 
 Wayne. While posing as a coal baron his coal yards 
 have never been barren. As seen by the snap shot of 
 him he picks out good coal. His black diamonds shine 
 on the Kaough coal wagons. They are red hot stuff in 
 a furnace or a grate, and are best served when the 
 mercury is shrinking into its smallest proportions. 
 
 264 
 
SAMUEL M. HENCH 
 
 JUDGE HENCH is here displayed in the proper pose- 
 that of a public speal<er— for as such he is familiar- 
 ly known to the people of Allen County. As a lawyer in 
 the courts, as a speaker during the political campaigns, 
 and as an orator on varied public occasions, they have 
 often heard his voice. And his abihties have won him 
 honors. He has been prosecuting attorney of the coun- 
 ty, judge of the county criminal and the superior courts, 
 chief of the law division in the go\ernment treasury 
 department at Washington, representative in the Indiana 
 legislature, and for years one of the leading attorneys at 
 the bar in this city. 
 
 During the first year of the war of the Rebellion. 
 Judge Hench was a student at Airy View Academy in 
 Pennsylvania, near his home. Port Royal, in Juniata 
 county. While under the age of sixteen years he left 
 school and entered the army, enlisting early in the year 
 of 1862 in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsyl- 
 vania"volunteers. In December of that year, at the bat- 
 tle of Fredricksburg, he was seriously wounded. With 
 his regiment he was mustered out of service in 1863. In 
 September of that year he came to Fort Wayne and 
 worked on a farm near the city until 1864, when he re- 
 enlisted in the Eighty-third Indiana and served until the 
 close of the war. co ming afterwards to Fort Wayne. 
 
 With the view of entering the law as a profession, 
 he then began efforts to complete his education, attend- 
 ing commercial school and taking private instruction, 
 paying his way by teaching school during the winter 
 months. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 at Council 
 Bluffs. Iowa, and returning to Fort Wayne in 1872 he 
 began practice here. This has since been his home. 
 Judge Hench is recognized as one of the ablest criminal 
 lawvers in the state. 
 
 265 
 
CHARLES C. F. NIESCHANG 
 
 No, kind reader, this gentleman is not a taxidermist. 
 And no, alas, the bird is neither an owl, a pea- 
 cock, a woodpecker nor a flamingo. It is an eagle — a 
 bird of prey. The parrot prays so you can hear it. hut 
 the eagle does his preying without saying a word. But 
 to return to the man. A taxidermist preserves things 
 that are dead. This man preserves things that are alive 
 and tries his level best to keep them in the land of the 
 living. He is a doctor — to be more explicit, he is Doctor 
 Charles Christopher Francis Nieschang. (The second 
 and third sections as given are mere guess-work on our 
 part, but it is the best we can do in the absence of fuller 
 information.) Doctor Nieschang is one of the lively 
 charter members of the local eyrie of Eagles; hence the 
 sketch. He's a royal good fellow and popular every- 
 where. 
 
 This book contains the stories of many Fort Wayne 
 men who were born in foreign lands and were brought to 
 America in their youth. In the case of Doctor Nieschang 
 the order was reversed. He was born in Detroit. Michi- 
 gan, and while yet a small child his mother took him to 
 Europe, where, in France and Switzerland, he received 
 an important part of his schooling. When he was thir- 
 teen the family returned to America and settled in Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. On deciding to become a physician he studied 
 in the medical colleges of Pittsburg. New York, Chicago 
 and Fort Wayne. He began the practice of his profession 
 herein 1882. Doctor Nieschang is the inventor of several 
 standard electrical instruments used in the practice nt 
 medicine and surgery. 
 
 Before he became so busy that he hasn't the time to 
 devote to their aire. Doctor Nieschang's fad was the 
 possession of tine horses. As reminders of those days 
 his walls display the pictures of some of his old favorites. 
 
SAMUEL A. KARN 
 
 THE slang expression, •■That's a liorse on you," is 
 usually spoken in connection with some joke or 
 other unimportant matter; hut it was different in the 
 case of Mr. Karn. Once, there was "a horse on him," 
 and it was certainly a most serious affair — important 
 enough to change the entire course of his life. It 
 happened when he was eighteen. Through a youth of 
 out-dour activity, Mr. Karn had grown to a strong, 
 health sample of physical young manhood, but one day 
 while preparing to drive to the school he was teaching, 
 his horse slipped and fell, crushing Mr. Karn beneath 
 the weight of its body. When recovered it was found 
 he had been badly injured, and for a long time his death 
 seemed certain. His recovery was so slow that all his 
 plans for the future were revised. While walking for his 
 health one day he heard the notes of a piano. He 
 followed them up and found a man who wanted to 
 engage him as a salesman. From thence forward he 
 gave his attention to musical matters, not only as a 
 salesman of pianos and organs but as an instructor in 
 vocal music. He came to Fort Wayne in 1883 and 
 eng.aged in business. He has always carried a high- 
 grade of instruments, and one of these, the Karn piano, 
 manufactured for him by the Krell-French Piano Com- 
 pany, of Newcastle, Indiana, and built after Mr. Karn's 
 especial idea of what constitutes a perfect instrument, 
 is a splendid product of the art of piano making. 
 
 Mr. Karn is a Buckeye, born at Miiford. His father 
 was a Dunkard preacher and brought his family to 
 Dekaware county, Indiana, in 1865. They cut a place in 
 the forest for their home fronting on the Mississinewa 
 river, and there lived for many years. Mr. Karn 
 attended the Jonesboro schools and later taught in 
 Delaware county. 
 
WILLIAM F. BORGMAN 
 
 HERE we see a policeman stopping a team of horses. 
 The picture isn't wide enough to show the horses. 
 Perhaps you wonder why the officer doesn't look excited 
 while performing such a deed. Tlie solution is simple: 
 The officer is Captain William F. Borgman, and the team 
 referred to is attached to one of the trucks of the Brown 
 Trucking Company. The team isn't running away — on 
 the contrary it is walking slowly along the highway. 
 Why, then, is the policeman stopping the horses? 
 Simply because Captain Borgman is the president of the 
 Brown Trucking Company and he has merely asked the 
 driver to hesitate for a moment while he tells him to be 
 careful not to work too hard. So you see a policeman 
 though he may appear to have a stern, stony exterior. 
 can possess a warm heart and the tenderest sympathy. 
 
 Captain Borgman is one of the most popular officers 
 that ever donned a policeman's uniform. When he 
 started in as a patrolman in 1890, he made up his mind 
 that he would always be found where he was most 
 wanted, and he has stuck to that idea ever since. That 
 old joke about a policeman's uniform being the synonym 
 for "invisible blue" has never been applied to him. 
 Captain Borgman's father was a policeman as early as 
 1869, so he might be described as having been born in 
 the service. He's a policeman because he likes to be. 
 Twice he tried to C]uit, even after he had risen to the 
 position of captain, but he got lonesome and went 
 hack. 
 
 The captain is a native of Fort Wayne. His first 
 home was a stone structure standing on the bank of 
 the canal. The building is still there, but the canal first 
 flowed away, and now has flown away. At any rate, 
 it's gone. The elder Borgman was a boatman on the 
 canal before enlisting in the city police force. 
 
HUBERT BERGHOFF 
 
 IT is iiur Iiumble upiiiidii that ;i new orJer of things 
 uught to prevail. For instance, eggs should be sold 
 by weight and not by the dozen, because in some dozens 
 there's twice as much raw breakfast material as there is 
 in some other dozens. Just so, a small man ought not 
 to pay as much railroad or car fare as a big man. In 
 fact, we think Hubert Berghoff ought to be considered as 
 two men because he's twice as big as the ordinary man. 
 The people who publish the city directory seem to agree 
 with us. as his name appears twice on page 136 of the 
 latest edition, and it isn't an error either. See if you 
 don't find it so. We don't expect the populace to rush 
 madly to our support in this honest expression of belief, 
 but we feel better now that we have expressed it and 
 gotten it out of our system. 
 
 Mr. Berghoff is the vice-president and manager ol 
 the Berghoff Brewing Company. He was born in Dort- 
 mund, Germany, and there attended the common schools, 
 following with a course in the industrial schools of the 
 town. 
 
 His brothers, Herman and Henry, had previoush 
 gone to America, and their letters finally caused Hubert 
 to believe that there was more to work for on this side 
 of the Atlantic. He was seventeen years old when, 
 in 1880. he set his foot squarely on American soil. He 
 came to fort Wayne just as fast as the transportation 
 lines could get him here, and ever since then he has 
 stayed fast. You couldn't drive him out if you tried. 
 He was first employed in the wholesale grocery house 
 of A. C. Trentman. In 1889, with his brothers, he formed 
 the Berghoff Brewing Company which has proven a 
 paying venture. 
 
 26y 
 
JOSEPH A. SULLIVAN 
 
 THE importance of Fort Wayne as a manufacturing 
 and jolihing center makes the freight branch of the 
 railroad business here an immense affair. Hundreds of 
 thousands of tons of freight pass into and out of Fort 
 Wayne every week and the matter of systematizing the 
 handling of this vast work falls heavily on each of the 
 roads entering this city. But here is Mr. Sullivan who 
 lias charge of the freight departments of two important 
 roads— the Wabash and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & 
 Dayton— and he seems to perform his heavy duties as 
 easily as falling off a log. We always find him good- 
 natured and never too much occupied to give at least a 
 pleasant "howdy" to everybody. 
 
 Although a youngster as compared with many of the 
 important railroad men of Fort Wayne. A^r. Sullivan has 
 been in the employ of the Wabash road nearly twenty 
 years. 
 
 He was born on the spot around which the town uf 
 Rich Valley, in Wabash county, has since grown. He 
 always liked to watch the trains come in, and one day 
 he boarded a Wabash-bound freight and on arriving in 
 the metropolis asked for a job. It came, after he had 
 taken a series of years of study in the Wabash schools. 
 In i88t, he entered the employ of the Wabash as a clerk. 
 They liked him so well he was soon promoted to a 
 position at Toledo, where he developed so .satisfactorily 
 that he was returned to Wabash in 1890 as the agent 
 of the company. He was promoted to the important 
 position of freight agent of the company in Fort Wayne 
 in 1900. The acquisition of new lines, the building of 
 the Butler branch of the Wabash, and the natural growth 
 of the business has greatly increased the responsibility 
 of Mr. Sullivan's work since he came here four years 
 ago. 
 
ASAHEL S. COVERDALE 
 
 T^HEV say there's very little profit in sugar for the 
 1 retail dealer, and yet we see here that Mr. Cover- 
 dale smiles as happily when he sells.only a little order of 
 saccharine crystals as he would if the order included a 
 wagon load of the things on which there is the greatest 
 profit. And he isn't in business solely tor his health, 
 either. He smiles for his health, though. It's a great 
 cure for almost anything from the blues to an epidemic 
 of mosguitoes. 
 
 Mr. Coverdale is the senior member of the grocery 
 firm of Coverdale & Archer, one of the city's important 
 retail houses. He spent the hrst twentv-eight years of 
 Ins life in farming; that is. of course, after he was old 
 enough to commence by hunting eggs in the hayloft 
 There's where a farmer boy's education always begins. 
 After that, the hard labor comes on so gradually that he 
 doesn't notice it, and when he reaches maturity he has a 
 pliysigue which e.xcites the envy of the city boys. After 
 he had worked on the home farm for several years Mr 
 Coverdale taught school and accumulated enough to 
 enable him to rent a farm. Later he purchased land and 
 began business for himself. Then in 1882. he brought 
 his physique to Fort Wayne. He opened his grocery 
 business in the location which he still occupies having 
 been there continuously for twenty-three years excepting 
 at one time when illness made it necessar>- to ease 
 up for awhile. During his residence here, Mr. Coverdale 
 has taken a lively interest in everything pertaining to 
 the city's welfare. He is interested in the Commercial 
 club, the Fort Wayne Iron and Steel Company, the 
 Logansport and the South Bend telephone systems, the 
 Tri-State Trust Company, the Fort Wavne Trust Com- 
 pany, the Commercial Land and Improvement Company 
 and many other concerns. He has acted almost continu- 
 ously for ten years as superintendent of the Wayne 
 Street Methodist Sunday School. 
 
CHARLES A. ASTERLIN 
 
 THE first love and the only love, in a business way, 
 of Mr. C. A. Asterlin, was and has been the 
 Nickel Plate Railroad. He has obeyed the orders of no 
 other boss, yielded service to no other employer. Since 
 he was i8 years of age he has been in its continuous 
 service, and when it is stated that he was born at 
 Monroeville, Ohio, during the last month of 1869, the 
 length of time he has been with the company and his 
 age at the present time will not be difficult to compute. 
 
 Immediately after leaving the public schools at Belle- 
 vue, Ohio, to which place he went with his parents 
 when he was a toddling infant, he took employment 
 with the Nickel Plate in his home town as baggage 
 smasher. He "smashed" trunks so adeptly that the 
 company soon made him a caller of the train crews at 
 Bellevue and afterwards clerk in the yards. All these 
 promotions came to him within a year. Then he went 
 into the freight office as a clerk and before he was 
 twenty-four years of age. May 28, 1893, he was ap- 
 pointed ticket agent for the company at Bellevue. his 
 commission coming to him on the day the Nickel Plate 
 opened through service to Boston and New York. 
 
 Five years afterward, on November 8, i8g8, he was 
 appointed traveling passenger agent for the company 
 and he came to Fort Wayne, this city being the location 
 of his offices and headquarters. His jurisdiction is over 
 the company's lines from Chicago to Cleveland. In 
 ever\' instance promotion came to him unsolicited. He 
 went up the ladderon merit rounds. Efficient, energetic, 
 always courteous in official duties, Mr. Asterlin makes 
 friends and retains them. Although' this city has been 
 his home but a few years, he is well known. He is a 
 Mason and a member of the Commercial Club. 
 
DANIEL F. HAUSS 
 
 FOR nearly a score of years, A\r. Hauss has been 
 making it warm for the people of Fort Wayne. 
 He installs hot water heating plants, does steam fitting 
 and otherwise helps to drive the cold from the interior 
 of our homes and offices and shops. 
 
 And, too, he's the man who introduced the ordinance 
 in the city council which makes it warm for the coal 
 man who doesn't deliver two thousand pounds when a 
 ton is ordered, and thus he helps to make it warmer for 
 the purchaser in proportion to the amount of money 
 expended. This ordinance provides that the driver of 
 the coal wagon shall meander back to the scales and 
 weigh his load if you insist on it. If it is short, the 
 dealer not only has to fill out the load to its proper 
 proportions, but must stand the cost of weighing and 
 lost time, while, if the original load is of full weight the 
 purchaser must pay the costs. Quite a sensible idea, 
 don't you think? .Wr. Hauss picked up this idea, no 
 doubt, while discussing the heating problem with his 
 customers. 
 
 Mr. Hauss has always been a resident of Fort 
 Wayne and is one of the city's successful business 
 men. That he is not a prophet without honor in his 
 own countrj' was shown when his neighbors of the 
 Fourth ward selected him to represent them in the city 
 council. It was a Republican year. too. He is a life- 
 long Democrat, and was chosen in the spring of 1903 as 
 a member of that body. 
 
 Mr. Hauss learned his business through a long 
 association with A. Hattersley & Sons— eighteen years 
 in all. A year and a half ago he launched out for him- 
 self, and since then has been as busy as the proverbial 
 cranberrv merchant. 
 
WALTER W. BARNETT 
 
 IF you shoulJ asU Dr. Barnett this L|uestJon, •■Wliich 
 would you rather do or go hunting?" he would yell 
 at the top of his voice. "Play ball!" 
 
 He is a great lover of the national game, and has 
 good reasons for it. because it was base ball that furn- 
 ished the money, or a big part of it for his college train- 
 ing. While attending Wittenberg College, at Springfield, 
 Ohio. Doctor Barnett was captain of the college team 
 and his work on the diamond was of such a character 
 that he was asked to act as substitute player in the 
 Springfield league team when that famous aggregation 
 played on the home grounds. 
 
 "I'll ne\er forget the first time 1 ever saw 'Grandpa' 
 .Anson,'' said Doctor Barnett, while recounting old base 
 ball days, "At that time we used a live ball. Anson 
 came up to bat and basted the first ball up. I was in 
 center field, and we had what we called the carriage 
 field, allowing spectators to drive out around us to view 
 the game. Well, that ball went so high in the air that 
 it looked like a little walnut. And then it came down 
 slowly, away out beyond the carriages. It seemed as 
 though I ran a mile. It took four long throws to get it 
 back into the diamond." Although Doctor Barnett is 
 out of the game he will never succeed in getting the 
 game out of him, and he is ■■there" rain or shine. 
 
 Doctor Barnett is the son of a Lutheran minister, 
 and was born at Lewisburg, Ohio, The family lived for 
 a while in DeKalb county and later in Kentucky. The 
 lad received his education at theConstantine, Michigan. 
 High School, and Wittenberg College at Springfield. 
 His medical studies were begun in the office of an uncle 
 at Butler. Indiana, and were completed in the Fort 
 Wayne College of Medicine, from whence he was grad- 
 uated in 1886. 
 
 As the Democratic candidate, he was elected coroner 
 of Allen county in 1898. 
 
DELMER C. FITCH 
 
 IF Dell Fitch coiiki lia\ e his way, he would make health 
 catchiiiK anJ disease a myth. The world would be 
 all sunshine and life and there would he a shuffling off 
 of this mortal coil only when the individual had ceased 
 to be worth while. No other man in Fort Wayne takes 
 a keener interest in the health of the community; no 
 other scans the mortality reports with greater regularity. 
 Mr. Fitch is the local representative of the John Han- 
 cock Mutual Life Insurance Company — or rather, his 
 firm is. and he attends chiefly to this branch of the busi- 
 ness. It takes a good man to write even a small policy 
 in these days of competition, but Dell has landed some 
 big ones of late ; the demise of any of these policy hold- 
 ers, making necessary the payment of their claims, 
 would punch a large, irregular hole in the John Han- 
 cock's bank account. 
 
 Dell is a natural-born solicitor and has been remark- 
 ably successful. His experience in the insurance busi- 
 ness commenced when he took a position as assistant 
 superintendent for the Prudential. He had come from 
 Medina county, Ohio, the place of his birth, in 1891, and 
 for a year and a half worked in the Hoosier shoe store 
 for his uncle, O. B. Fitch. On leaving the store, he took 
 a business college course and then became connected 
 with the Prudential. He then engaged in the business 
 with another agency, but left the work to spend a cou- 
 ple of years with Max Blitz in his ticket brokerage busi- 
 ness. In 1898. he, with his father and brother, Eugene, 
 formed the firm of M. W. Fitch & Sons. Until the 
 Hartnett agency was purchased, Dell gave his entire 
 attention to the life insurance end of the business, but 
 now he'll talk fire insurance or real estate with any to 
 whom those topics are agreeable. 
 
 He is an Elk, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the 
 .Anthony Wayne Club and of the Nocturne Society. 
 
ALFRED L. RANDALL 
 
 THE father of "Larry'' Randall was a pioneer of 
 Fort Wayne. It was a physical impossibility for 
 "Larry" to be one of the first settlers, so he looked 
 around for some other way of being a pioneer. He 
 found it. He became one of the earliest dealers in 
 bicycles in Fort Wayne — in fact there was but one man 
 ahead of him. and as the latter has passed away Mr. 
 Randall enjoys the distinction of being the longest in 
 the business. 
 
 Now. however, he doesn't give much attention to 
 the bicycle end of his affairs. Automobiles have come 
 in to take his attention and he is certainly carried away 
 with them— and by them. 
 
 "Larry" frequently takes a spin out on West Wayne 
 street and cuts through that portion of the city which 
 was once the campus of the old Methodist College 
 where he used to have a good time in other ways before 
 that institution passed away and before the chug-chug 
 of the auto was even dreamed of. It was directly after 
 the close of his school days that Mr. Randall entered 
 the employ of the Kerr-Murray Manufacturing Company 
 as a bookkeeper. He remained there four years and 
 then transferred his attentions to the business affairs of 
 the Seavey Hardware Company, with which he was 
 employed as cashier for several years. It was in 1893 
 that he engaged in the bicycle business and devoted his 
 efforts to popularizing several of the best lines of 
 wheels. Upon the perfection of the automobile. Mr. 
 Randall became interested in it and is now as well in- 
 formed on the subject as any man in Indiana. In 1901 
 the Randall Wheel Company was incorporated. It car- 
 ries not only automobiles and bicycles but boats and 
 athletic goods. In the present year the Randall Motor 
 Car Company was incorporated. Mr. Randall is the 
 secretary and manager of both concerns. 
 
 276 
 
ALFRED L. JOHNS 
 
 WHAT on earth," asks somebody who knows 
 him well, "is Mr. Johns doing?" Nearly 
 everybody in Fort Wayne — and for that matter the same 
 may be said of hundreds of dealers throughout this part 
 of the country — knows that Mr. Johns has been for 
 many years the city's big manufacturer and wholesale 
 dealer in harness and saddlery hardware, so the picture 
 is apt to e.xcite such a question as that quoted above. 
 
 To explain: Mr. Johns is a philosopher. He has 
 things for sale. Sick people have no use for the things 
 he makes and sells. To increaseand preservehis patron- 
 age, he tries to keep everybody in good health. How. 
 thought he, can I do this in the broadest possible way? 
 He found, on investigation, that three-fourths of the 
 human anatomy is water, and that good health depends 
 largely on the kind of water that is taken into the 
 system. So he has undertaken to distribute among the 
 people a water still which removes every impurity. Of 
 course, he doesn't Jo this without cost to the consumer, 
 because he has to pay for them himself, but he does 
 claim that in view of the necessity of pure drinking 
 water, it would be impossible for you to spend your 
 money in any more advantageous way. Perhaps you 
 would like to ask him about it. 
 
 Mr. Johns was born in Fort Wayne and has always 
 lived here. He received his education from the public 
 schools and the Methodist College. Then he entered 
 the harness store of his father, who had been a resident 
 of Fort Wayne since 1837 when he came here from 
 Pennsylvania. In 1874. the business had increased to 
 large proportions, and it was decided to devote the 
 energies of the hrm to a wholesaling business. The 
 father continued as a member of the firm until 1884, 
 since which time Mr. Johns has been alone in the enter- 
 prise. The business is housed in one of the hnest 
 business blocks in Fort Wavne. 
 
ALBERT F. DORSET 
 
 I 'Ht; iinly time Bert Dcrsey gets real liomesJcU for his 
 '■ native town i<. when he opens a pail of fresh oys- 
 ters at the wholesale grocery house of the F. P. Wilt 
 Company. He is from Baltimore. He usually lets some- 
 one else handle the oysters, however, and, as they are 
 on the market during only eight months of the year, he 
 is generally found in a happy, contented frame of minJ. 
 Even a load like that in the sketch doesn't seem to 
 weigh him down. Dcjn't you think he looks happy? 
 
 As we have remarked, Mr. Dorsey was horn in Bal- 
 timore, but that was before the big fire. Just as soon as 
 he was old enough to walk by holding onto the furniture, 
 his folks packed his playthings and took him with them 
 to Lima, Ohio. Here he used to cultivate a little garden 
 b.ack of the hou.se after school hours, and planted it en- 
 tirely in Lima beans, thus showing loyalty to the town 
 of his adoption. 
 
 He got so accustomed to preparing things for people 
 to eat that when he went to Findlay. Ohio, at the age of 
 seventeen, he naturally drifted into the employ of a 
 wholesale grocery house. The firm with which he be- 
 came connected was Evans. Perfect & Company. Mr. 
 A. H. Perfect, now of Fort Wayne, was a member of this 
 concern, and when he came to this city to engage in busi- 
 ness. Mr. Dorsey came also. He was connected with 
 Mr. Perfect in a business way for twelve years. 
 
 Two years ago. on the organization of the F. P. Wilt 
 Company, Mr. Dorsey became its secretary. 
 
 Bert is one of the hustling young business men of 
 Fort Wayne, and his long experience in the wholesale 
 grocery trade enables him to contribute materially to the 
 success of his house. 
 
 J78 
 
SAMUEL L. NELSON 
 
 HERE is Mr. Nelson spiking down another electric 
 railroad. He strikes the thing right on tlie dot 
 e\ery time. Mr, Nelson's luisy life has been made up 
 of dashes and dots— mostly dashes — ever since he began 
 to learn telegraphy when he was a hoy. 
 
 He is the vice-president and general manager of the 
 Fort Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company, but 
 this doesn't tell much of what he has done for the cause 
 of electric railway building in this"part of the country. 
 Born in DeKalb county, he trudged to >chool.two miles 
 from home and thus developed a good understanding lor 
 whatever physical duties were to come to him in after 
 life. Before he was hfteen he began railroading by car- 
 rying water for and brushing the mosquitoes off a con- 
 struction gang on the Baltimore & Ohio right of way. 
 Then he learned telegraphy at Edgerton, Ohio, and 
 worked at it all over this broad land until 1884. 
 
 At the inception of the telephone business he jumped 
 ni and built the first toll lines in the interior of Illinois. 
 In 1885 he connected himself with W. B. McKinley, of 
 Champaign, Illinois, in the e.xtensive construction of 
 electric lighting, gas and water works plants and electric 
 railroads. Lighting and water systems were first con- 
 structed at Champaign and Urbana. and later a horse 
 car line between the two cities was bought and con- 
 verted into an electric connection. 
 
 Later, the McKinley syndicate, as it is known, wiih 
 Mr. Nelson as the active man, purchased or construc- 
 ted plants or electric lines at McPherson, Kansas : 
 Dehance, Ohio; Springheld, Ohio; Joliet, Illinois; 
 Quincy. Illinois: Galesburg. Illinois; Wichita, Kansas, 
 Danville. Illinois, and elsewhere. In 1902 the Fort 
 Wayne & Southwestern interurban line was purchased. 
 Mr. Nelson says the secret of success in the operation 
 ul enterprises in which the public is interested lies in the 
 abandonment of the "public be hanged'' policy which 
 now governs most large concerns. 
 
FAY P. RANDALL 
 
 A FEW years ago, wiien the toboggan craze swept 
 over the country, they used to describe the sport 
 in this apt phrase: "Zip. and \vall< a mile." Now 
 that the automobile (from the English, ought to, and the 
 French, mobilis, mo\e) has come in, we have the same 
 expression, enlarged a little to describe an auto ride in 
 the country: "■Zip. and walk hfty-nine miles.'' 
 
 Fay Randall is perhaps the most enthusiastic follower 
 of this latest pastime. The sketch shows him illus- 
 trating the latter part of the above quoted phrase. The 
 zip portion of it is all out and over. His companions 
 have gone in the opposite direction, toward Chicago. 
 With his faithful guide book, however, he never gets 
 lost. There was some fear that when the automobile 
 came into general use we would become a generation of 
 weaklings because everybody would ride and thus be 
 cheated (jut of needed exercise. Fay says he sees no 
 immediate fulfillment of the prediction. 
 
 Mr. Randall is one of the wide-awake real estate 
 men of Fort Wayne and he is out in the country a good 
 deal with his machine to display farm lands to prospect- 
 ive purchasers. Don't think for a minute that his 
 parties always pedesrianize back. It's only in the 
 exceptional cases that this happens — only, in fact when 
 the walking is good and when the nice weather causes 
 the automobile to feel frisky and acrobatic. 
 
 Mr. Randall was born in Fort Wayne in 1878. He 
 secured his early education from the public schools and 
 went to New York City to enter the Halsey Collegiate 
 School. He graduated in 1897, but remained to take a 
 post-graduate course the following year. Returning 
 home in 1899, he opened his real estate and loan office. 
 He is the president of the Randall Wheel Company, 
 president of the Randall Motor Car Company, is in- 
 terested in Indiana oil, and is a director in three oil 
 companies. 
 
EUGENE M. FITCH 
 
 To avoid a misunderstanding of the attitude of Mr. 
 Fitcli, we hasten to say that he isn't the least 
 liit stucft up. although the view may lead you to believe 
 that he is. Heis simply following the custom which has 
 prevailed for centuries of making proclamations from 
 the house-top. The Mussulman proclaims thusly. but 
 Gene isn't making any such announcement as his 
 heathen friend does. He is simply telling you that the 
 house under his shoes is for sale. 
 
 Gene is a member of the wide-awake insurance and 
 real estate firm of Monroe W. Fitch & Sons. He is a 
 hustler and has been on the move ever since he was 
 turned loose on a two hundred and fifty acre farm in 
 Ohio. He spent twenty years of his life on this farm, 
 where he helped his father and brother in the raising of 
 tine horses and conducted a large dairy and cheese 
 factory. His physical culture treatment in those days 
 consisted of a tive-mile walk to the high school at 
 Medina. The year 1892 found him in Fort Wayne. 
 After taking a business course, he engaged in the 
 insurance and real estate business with his father and 
 brother, the firm being known as Monroe W. Fitch & 
 Sons. This was in 1898. 
 
 Then, after helping to get things running smoothly. 
 Gene packed his telescope one day he hied himself to 
 Oklahoma and drew one hundred and si.xty acres of 
 land in Uncle Sam's lottery, he stayed there two years 
 and talked insurance successfully to the people of 
 Lawton, Anadarko and Oklahoma City. However, he 
 liad not cut loose from the business here, and after 
 disposing of his farm he came back and has been a busy 
 boy ever since. He gives most of his time to the real 
 estate branch of the business, but never forgets to 
 remind people that his hrm not only sells the earth but 
 insures evervthing on it. 
 
 
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 281 
 
NELSON L. DEMING 
 
 T T ERE we net two views of Doctor Deming — exterior 
 ^ A and X-ray. His own apparatus for looking through 
 follis helped us to get the latter picture. Unlike the fads 
 of others, the doctor's fad is closely connected with his 
 profession : in fact its an important part of it. While 
 attending to his e.xtensive duties he has found time to 
 keep up with every improvement which has followed the 
 Roentgen discovery, and probably few physicians have 
 kept so fully informed on the X-ray subject. 
 
 Doc'.or Deming was born in Danbury, Connecticut, 
 and lived there until he was fourteen, having attended 
 the schools of his native city. Going to New York, 
 then, he remained four years. 
 
 As a preparatory step to entering college, he enrolled 
 in the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven. Con- 
 necticut. He subseiiuently entered Yale University and 
 graduated from that great seat of learning in i8qo. 
 
 It was after securing this general foundation, that he 
 began his medical studies, at the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, in New York, which is the medical de- 
 partment of Columbia University, and graduated three 
 years later. 
 
 The proficiency shown during his school days at once 
 commended him to attention which came in the form of 
 an oppointment as a resident physician to the city hos- 
 pital of New York. At this time, also, he did special 
 work with Prof. T. M. Prudden and filled various despen- 
 sary appointments. He is a member ot the American 
 Medical Association and the Tri-State and the Allen 
 County Medical Societies. 
 
 For eight years he has been a leading physician of 
 this city. 
 
MYRON DOWNING 
 
 HERE we see Myrun Downing. To be more explicit, 
 we see Myron downing a good-sized cracker. He 
 tliinks you should have plenty of this sort whether 
 Uneeda biscuit or one of these queer-shaped Fox crack- 
 ers. If you are looking for a snap, he'll tell you where 
 to find plenty of them, fresh from the oven. 
 
 Mr. Downing was recently elevated to the position 
 of manager of the Fox bakery, which is now one of the 
 important branches of the National Biscuit Company. 
 However, from this new elevation he never looks down 
 nn his associates any more than he did when he put in 
 his first day's work there seventeen years ago. at which 
 time he wasn't a fractional part as important as he is 
 now. 
 
 Mr. Downing was born at Sandusky, but came to 
 Fort Wayne in i8oi when five years old. He went back 
 into the Buckeye state long enough to absorb a supply 
 of learning from Heidelherg University, at Tiffin, and 
 then for four or five years was a Hoosier schoolmaster 
 and taught the boys and girls of Allen county how to 
 mind their P's and Q's after they had learned their A-B- 
 C's. In 1887 he began work for the Fox bakery, then 
 conducted by Louis Fox & Brother, and for years was 
 one of the most popular traveling salesmen to cover the 
 territory of any local house. Thus he continued until 
 the business was absorbed by the United States Baking 
 Company, now the National Biscuit Company. He was 
 then made manager of the sales department and assist- 
 ant manager of the plant. More recently his worth has 
 been recognized by his promotion to the position of 
 manager. 
 
 Mr. Downing is a Mason and an Elk and a memlier 
 of the Anthony Wayne Club, of which latter he was 
 one of the original stockholders. 
 
 285 
 
HENRY J. ASH 
 
 PEOPLE get ashes from furnaces. They also get 
 furnaces from Ash's. It is necessarj- to take the 
 ashes from the furnaces, hut it isn't necessary to take 
 furnaces from Ash's. However, a very large number Jo. 
 and there's a reason for it. Mr. Ash has the reputation 
 of being one of the best informed men in the state on the 
 question of hot-air heating, and that's why. 
 
 Mr. Ash was reared on a farm near Walpole, New 
 Hampshire. He always remembered how cold it was in 
 those bleak winter days in New England. The problem 
 of chill-blains and frost-bitten ears came early in his 
 e.xperience when the frigid zephyrs swept down from the 
 snow-capped White Mountains. So it is quite natural 
 that he should drift into the hot-air business. 
 
 He left the east and settled in Cincinnati, where, 
 from i8;6 to i860, he learned the tinners' trade. In the 
 latter year he came to Fort Wayne. Here he opened a 
 tinware store, and took in E. Agnew as a partner. They 
 continued for five years, when Mr. Agnew sold his 
 interest to Fred H. McCulloch. At the e.xpiration of 
 three years Mr. Ash gave up his business and sold to 
 his partner in order to travel as a salesman. He was 
 on the road two years, but returned to re-engage in 
 business on a larger scale. On the ist of August. 1871, 
 he opened his wholesale and retail establishment, carry- 
 ing furnaces, stoves and tinware. By close attention 
 and untiring energy he has always had a splendid 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Ash has done a good deal to bring comfort into 
 the homes of Fort Wayne. It is only when the mercury 
 creeps down and tries to get out of the cold into the bulb 
 that people begin to appreciate their good fortune in 
 having secured the proper kind of a furnace, installed 
 by a man who knows his business and does it well. 
 
 284 
 
HENRY COLERICK 
 
 HAD A\r. ColericU tried never so hard, he couldn't 
 have avoided it. Avoided what? Well, in the 
 first place, he couldn't have helped being a lawyer, even 
 if he had striven with might and main to be something 
 else. Several of the ancestral Colericks were disting- 
 uished lawyers, three of his mother's brothers were 
 lawyers : his father was one of the foremost members 
 of the Indiana bar. and all of his ti\e brothers made their 
 mark in the world as successful practitioners of the same 
 profession. So the germ seems to have been born with 
 him. 
 
 And then, secondly, he couldn't have avoided being a 
 tighter even if he had tried still harder to escape that 
 trait. And why? Simply because that characteristic 
 came hand in hand with the other. His grandfather, a 
 distinguished Irish patriot, fought with Robert Emm>-t 
 in his great struggle for the liberation of Ireland. This 
 trait has been handed down to the Colericks of today, 
 and Henry got his share. It is while attacking some 
 principle which he believes is wrong that Mr. Colerick 
 displays his title to the oft-applied appellation of " The 
 Little Giant." 
 
 Mr. Colerick was born in Fort Wayne in 1847, and 
 has lived here continuously. He began his legal practice 
 in 1872 and has been a prominent tigure ever since. 
 
 For fourteen years, beginning with 1877. he was the 
 city attorney of Fort Wayne. His early practice was 
 applied chiefly to criminal law cases and he has partici- 
 pated as counsel in thirty-nine murder trials — a remark- 
 able record. 
 
 His prominence in Democratic ranks is illustrated by 
 the statement that he was a delegate to the national 
 conventions of 1884. 1896, 1900 and 1904. 
 
 In nineteen years he has missed attendance at only 
 one state convention— then he was ill. 
 
 Mr. Colerick is an orator of the strenuous type and 
 whatever he thinks comes out in the shape of verbal 
 hreworks and he isn't at all partictular where the 
 sparks land. The only thing to do is to dodge. How- 
 ever, only the guilty are scorched. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 
 
 
 P.\GE 
 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Uken, John H. ... 236 
 
 Boerger, Gustav W. . . . 177 
 
 Dorsey Albert F. 
 
 
 278 
 
 \lderman, Frank 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 Bohne, Fredrick H. . 
 
 
 
 191 
 
 Doud, Wallace E. 
 
 
 198 
 
 \lter, Albert C. 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 Bond, Charles E. 
 
 
 
 99 
 
 Dougall, Allan H. 
 
 
 86 
 
 \ngell, Byron D. 
 
 
 
 174 
 
 Borgman, William F. 
 
 
 
 268 
 
 Dougall, John T. 
 
 
 262 
 
 \rcher, Charles E. 
 
 
 
 167 
 
 Bowser, Sylvanus F. 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 Doughman, Newton D. 
 
 
 85 
 
 \sh, Fred H. 
 
 
 
 228 
 
 Bradley, Robert A. 
 
 
 
 130 
 
 Douglass, William V. 
 
 
 186 
 
 \sh, Henry J. . 
 
 
 
 284 
 
 Breen, William P. 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 Downing, Myron 
 
 
 283 
 
 \sterlin, Charles A. 
 
 
 
 272 
 
 Bresnahan, Thomas F 
 
 
 
 244 
 
 Dreibelbiss, John 
 
 
 166 
 
 \urentz, Augustus C. 
 
 
 
 105 
 
 Brosius, Jesse 
 
 
 
 106 
 
 Dreibelbiss, Robert B. 
 
 
 31 
 
 Baade, William C. 
 
 
 
 65 
 
 Bruder, August 
 
 
 
 136 
 
 Dunkelberg, Charles .\. 
 
 
 115 
 
 Baker, Samuel H. 
 
 
 
 140 
 
 Bulson, Albert E., Jr. 
 
 
 
 227 
 
 Eckert, David S. 
 
 
 164 
 
 Ballou, William N. 
 
 
 
 41 
 
 Bursley, Joseph A. 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 Edgerton, Clement W. 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 Barnett, Charles E. 
 
 
 
 183 
 
 Carroll, Albert E. 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 Edmunds, Frank W. 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 Barnett, Walter W. 
 
 
 
 274 
 
 Centlivre, Louis A. 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 Eggemann, John W. 
 
 
 
 256 
 
 Barrett, James M. 
 
 
 
 119 
 
 Cleary, Martin J. 
 
 
 
 209 
 
 Ehrman, Edward J. 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 Bash, Charles S. 
 
 
 
 163 
 
 Colerick, Henry 
 
 
 
 285 
 
 Emrick, Franklin A. . 
 
 
 
 250 
 
 Bash, Daniel F. 
 
 
 
 87 
 
 Cook, Ernest W. 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 Evans, George P. 
 
 
 
 240 
 
 Bayer, Coony. 
 
 
 
 161 
 
 Coombs, Edmund H. 
 
 
 
 156 
 
 Fairbank, Clark 
 
 
 
 137 
 
 Beadell, Henry . 
 
 
 
 102 
 
 Cooper, William P. 
 
 
 
 68 
 
 Felger, Henry G. 
 
 
 
 129 
 
 Beadell, Nat 
 
 
 
 176 
 
 Coverdale, Asahel S. 
 
 
 
 271 
 
 Ferguson, John . 
 
 
 
 118 
 
 Beahler, John E. 
 
 
 
 152 
 
 Craw, Edward L. 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 Fisher, Robert J. 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 Bechtel, Sylvan us B. 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 Cressler, Alfred D. 
 
 
 
 261 
 
 Fitch, Charles B. 
 
 
 
 157 
 
 Beck, Louis M. . 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 Cressler, Alfred M. 
 
 
 
 247 
 
 Fitch, Delmer C. 
 
 
 
 275 
 
 Beck, William P. 
 
 
 
 126 
 
 Culbertson, Frank V. 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 Fitch, Eugene M. 
 
 
 
 281 
 
 Beers, George W. 
 
 
 
 109 
 
 Curdes, Louis F. 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 Fitch, Monroe W. 
 
 
 
 53 
 
 Belot, Frank J. . 
 
 
 
 77 
 
 Davis, E. Gregg 
 
 
 
 95 
 
 Fitch, Otis B. 
 
 
 
 235 
 
 Berghoff, Henry C. 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 Dawson, Ronald 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 Fletcher, Harry P. 
 
 
 
 123 
 
 Berghoff, Hubert 
 
 
 
 269 
 
 Deming, Nelson L. 
 
 
 
 282 
 
 Foster, David N. 
 
 
 
 243 
 
 Bicknell, Clarence F. 
 
 
 
 158 
 
 DeWald, George L. 
 
 
 
 195 
 
 Foster, Samuel M. 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 Blitz, Maximillian J. 
 
 
 
 211 
 
 DeWald, Robert W. 1 
 
 
 
 141 
 
 Fox, Joseph V. . 
 
 
 
 43 
 

 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Fox, Louis 260 
 
 Horstmann, Henry J. 
 
 216 
 
 Fox, Robert L. . 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 Hulburd, Loyal P. 
 
 200 
 
 Freeman, Henry R. 
 
 
 
 178 
 
 Hull, Lewis O. . . . 
 
 107 
 
 Funk, Jacob 
 
 
 
 52 
 
 Hunter, L. C. . 
 
 201 
 
 Garrison, Frank R. 
 
 
 
 143 
 
 Hunting, Fred. S. 
 
 144 
 
 Geake, William . 
 
 
 
 210 
 
 Jenkinson, William E. 
 
 208 
 
 Geake, William C. 
 
 
 
 222 
 
 Johns, Alfred L. 
 
 277 
 
 Gesaman, Elmus R. 
 
 
 
 207 
 
 Johnson, William A. . 
 
 168 
 
 Gilbert, Newton W. 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 Jones, Maurice L. 
 
 155 
 
 Gillett, Charles M. 
 
 
 
 151 
 
 Kaough, William 
 
 264 
 
 Gordon, Peter 
 
 
 
 139 
 
 Karn, Samuel A. 
 
 267 
 
 Gorsline, Homer A. 
 
 
 
 71 
 
 Keegan, Hugh G. 
 
 122 
 
 Graeter, William F. 
 
 
 
 181 
 
 Keil, Luther H. . 
 
 88 
 
 Graves, Charles E. 
 
 
 
 61 
 
 Kemp, JIartin W. 
 
 252 
 
 Green, Dallas F. 
 
 
 
 127 
 
 Keplinger, Harry A. 
 
 111 
 
 Griffin, William M. 
 
 
 
 165 
 
 Knight, Asa L. 
 
 171 
 
 Gross, W. Otto . 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 Landenberger, John M. 
 
 138 
 
 Guild, Charles G. 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Lane, Charles R . 
 
 220 
 
 Guldlin, Olaf N. 
 
 
 
 131 
 
 Lawson, William 
 
 120 
 
 Hackett, Edward A. I- 
 
 
 
 224 
 
 Learmonth Robert 
 
 194 
 
 Hamilton, Allen . 
 
 
 
 193 
 
 Leedy, William M. 
 
 217 
 
 Hanna, Robert B. 
 
 
 
 215 
 
 Leonard, Elmer 
 
 205 
 
 Harper, James B. 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 Leonard, Wilmer 
 
 34 
 
 Hauss, Daniel F. 
 
 
 
 273 
 
 Lennart, William J. 
 
 39 
 
 Hazzard, Al. 
 
 
 
 117 
 
 Leslie, Gaylord M. 
 
 104 
 
 Heaton, Benjamin F. 
 
 
 
 226 
 
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