The Arc Of Lagrange County Thrift Store

Samuel Spero married Frances Deal, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Deal, who came from County, Ohio, to LaGrange. In 1904 he returned to Orland, bought a farm adjoining that town, where he has since lived, and has carried on extensive operations as a farmer, as a breeder of blooded Holstein dairy cattle and is, like his father, a stock dealer. Stallman had four children: Mabel L., who died June 29, 1919, was the wife of A. Phillips; Aclelia A., who married Fred Vol. One of them is J. Cox, who however, was born and reared on a farm in Salem' Township, and after spending two decades at the pamter's trade bought back a portion of the property on which he spent his boyhood and is now success- fully engaged in raising corn and hogs and other crops. The widowed mother brought her chil- dren to LaGrange County about 1850, and in 1851 she became the wife of Hugh Caldwell, a well known pioneer character. In the spring of 1919 he left his farm and established his retail dairy busi- ness at Angola.

Perry W. Bowerman was sixteen years old when his parents came to Steuben County. In 1891 he married Miss Minnie Swain, of La- Grange County. Which was his home locality until the spring of 1918. Nov- ember 24, 1896, he married Miss May McNett.

Samuel, who was born December 15, 1902, is a senior in the LaGrange High School". One of the members of the Chadwick family liv- ing m Steuben County is Fred Chadwick, who owns eighty-seven acres of farm land in Steuben Town- ship. Llen County, Indiana, at the same time with Thomas Barnctt, and settled on English Prairie. His father was a native of New York state, where the paternal grandparents both died. The well-directed labors of Charles Wolf, one of the progressive and energetic representatives of LaGrange County, is represented in the ownership of a handsome property in John- son Township, all of which stands as a monument to his hard work and his career, which he began as a farm hand and continued as a renter until he was able to become a land owner. Lincoln's maternal grandparents were Jonas and Melinda Twitchel, who were likewise identified with the early settlement of Jackson Township. Herbert H. Wildman has spent all his life in the village of Wolcottville, began his career there as a merchant but for ever thirty-five years has been identified with banking, and is now president and principal owner of the Wildman State Bank. She was a daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Celinda Morley, the former born in Connecticut April 26, 1792, and the latter in Vermont in 1707.

Six children have been born to their marriage: Ralph, the old- est, married Ruth Harper. The Sheets family have been very^ success- ful as farmers, the homestead now comprising 598 acres of very valuable land in the vicinity of Crooked Lake" While Mrs. John Stoner came to LaGrange County when a young man. Early in the war he joined the Medical Reserve Corps, was commissioned a first lieutenant, and on August 7, 1917, reported for duty at Fort Doug:las, Utah. His father was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1817, and in 1849 he came alone to America, and the following fall arrived in Steuben County, In- diana. Al- though he had left home and become self-supporting when only thirteen years old, he prospered and became a man of considerable means, at his death, September 14, 1909, owning two farms of 140 acres HISTORY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA 273 of land and property in Angola. While in college he l)elonged to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and also to the honorary law fraternity. She was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Wright) Ringer, whose family his- tory in DeKalb County goes back to 1853, when they came from Stark Count}-, Ohio. In 1899 he married Belle Wise, who died in 1902. The paternal grandparents were Aaron and Christina (Reid) Hanselman, the latter born in 1813. He and his wife were consistent members of the United Berth- ren Church, and active in its good work. Patrick Keagy was born in No- vember, 1822, and was married in Ohio to Magda- lena Long. 1910; Orley M., born May 6, 1913; and Marcelia, born December 30.

They settled in DeKalb County in 1846. Three generations of the Stukey family have played their part well in Greenfield township, LaGrange county. Darius Sams died in 1915, at the age of eighty-si. She was the mother of two children: Clarence W., cashier in Campbell & Felters Bank at Kendallville, and Bertha, wife of Clyde Bowman, a resident of Chi- cago. Since leaving school he has fol- lowed farming as his chief occupation. Her father was born on the west side of Lake Gage in that county in 1848. a son of Jacob and Mary McNett, who came from Ohio in pioneer times. Coy Myers, attending to that for him. He also attended as a delegate the Progressive National Convention at Chicago in 1916.

His parents lived on their farm near Scott about eight years, and then went to St. Joseph. Who has practiced his pro- fession as a veterinary surgeon at Spencerville for the past ten years, is one of the best qualified men in this profession in Northeast Indiana. The offices of honor and trust he has filled in his township and county show that, while his farm is a model in arrangement and business like effi- ciency. Luse are members of the Christian Church. Keep Lemmon grew up on the farm of his father in Otsego Township, acquired a good education in the district schools, and during his life has ac- tively prosecuted his business as a farmer. Borntragcr are members of the Mennonite Church.