Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Landis, Elias E. 1880 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 21, 2006, 2:27 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) ELIAS E. LANDIS. There is no positive rule for achieving success, yet in the life of the successful man there are always lessons which may well be followed. The man who is successful is the one who can foresee his opportunities. The essential conditions of life are ever the same, the surroundings of individuals differing in a minor degree. When one man passes another on the highway of life, reaching his goal before others, who perhaps started out before him, it is because he has the power to use advantages which come within the purview of those who compete against him. Today among the successful young business men of Flora, Indiana, is Elias E. Landis, a young man who is succeeding because he is using the native talents with which he was endowed. Elias E. Landis, a well-known hardware merchant of Flora, Indiana, was born on January 12, 1880, in Carroll county, Indiana. He is the son of David and Hannah E. (Eikenberry) Landis, the former of whom was born in Carroll county, Indiana, the son of Jacob Landis, who married a Miss Hamilton. Jacob Landis was a farmer and an active and devout member of the German Baptist church. By his marriage to Miss Hamilton there were seven children: Daniel, deceased; Henry, of Flora; Heil, of Monroe township; William, of Illinois; David, the father of Elias E.; Ira, of North Dakota, and Emily, the wife of a Mr. Woods, of Indianapolis. David Landis was reared in Carroll county, Indiana, and received his education here. He grew to manhood on his father's farm and was married to Hannah E. Eikenberry, also a native of Carroll county, and the daughter of Christopher and Susannah (Overholser) Eikenberry. The father of Mrs. David Landis was born in Virginia and her mother in Preble county, Ohio. Not only is* David Landis a successful farmer of this county, but he is also a well-known minister in the German Baptist church. By his marriage to Hannah E. Eikenberry there were twelve children born, qf whom two died in infancy and a daughter died later in life. Nine are living at the present time, Golda, the wife of Grant Renicker; Ora G., who married Addie Duddleston; Elias E., the subject of this sketch; Harley, a graduate of the common schools, who married Bright Alberts; Ira C, a graduate of the common school and the Camden high school, who was a teacher in this county for some time and is now principal of one of the ward schools at Riverside, California; Susie and Lenna, who live at home; Howard, a graduate of the Camden high school, who married Stella Yerkes, and Eva, who is at home. Reared on the farm and educated in the common schools of Carroll county, Elias E. Landis was later graduated from the Camden high school. He taught a district school for two years and then spent one year in Indiana State University at Bloomington, after which he taught for two more years in the district school. He was principal of the high school for two years at Culver, Indiana, after which he came to Flora, in 1906, and served for one year as assistant principal. During the next three years he was principal of the Flora high school and for the next four years was superintendent of the schools of Flora. Mr. Landis had an interest in the hardware business while he was superintendent of the local schools. He quit teaching in order to engage actively in the hardware business. On June 19, 1907, Elias E. Landis was married to Kathryn DeMoss, who was born and reared in Marshall county, Indiana. Kathryn DeMoss was a graduate of the Plymouth high school and was a teacher in the district schools of Marshall county and in the Culver school of Marshall county, as well as the grade school at Camden, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Landis are the parents of three children, Leonore, born on March 30, 1909; Robert, December 25, 1911, and Richard D., July 25, 1915. The Landis family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Flora. Mr. Landis is a member of the official board of the church and is superintendent of the Sunday school. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/landis152nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb