Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....O-Bear, Albert D. 1866 - ************************************************ 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 22, 2006, 1:58 am Author: John C. Odell (1916) ALBERT D. O'BEAR. The interest attaching to the history of a successful man reaches out generation after generation. Albert D. O'Bear stands today in the class of substantial and representative citizenship of Carrollton township, and owes his success to himself, alone, having struggled single-handed in his early business career, the experience of which has given him a view of all sides of human nature. Albert D. O'Bear, farmer, Carrollton township, Carroll county, was born on January 31, 1866, on the farm where he now lives, and is a son of Horace and Rachel Y. (Watson) O'Bear. His early education was received at the district schools, after which he entered the Danville Normal College, graduating July 27, 1892, in a class of ten, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He established himself at Warsaw, where he practiced law for two years, and then returned to take charge of the home farm. Politically, Mr. O'Bear is a strong sympathizer with the policies of the Progressive party, while his fraternal alliance is with the Free and Accepted Masons in Mt. Zion Lodge No. 211, at Camden, and Lodge No. 332, Knights of Pythias, also at Camden. Mr. O'Bear was elected president of the Deer Creek Cooperative Telephone Company in 1900, and served one year, and is serving his third term in that office, being called again on January 1, 1914, and also on January 1, 1915. He is serving his sixth commission as notary public of Carrollton township. Horace O'Bear, father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. He was a son of Ebenezer O'Bear. He engaged at an early age with his brothers in running a threshing machine, coming later to Carroll county, where he bought the present O'Bear place, and lived there until he died. His wife was Rachel Y. (Watson) O'Bear, daughter of Richard Watson. They were married at Columbus, Ohio, and were the parents of two children, Albert D. and James O. Ebenezer O'Bear, the paternal grandfather, was a shoemaker by trade and was an associate and life-long friend of old Nicholas Longworth and Bellamy Storer, and was one of the pioneers in his day in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, who in after years sold his business and, with his family, moved to Fairfield county, Ohio, and became the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of good land. In his declining years he sold his farm and moved to Potaskala, Ohio, where he died, at the age of eighty-four years. The maternal grandfather was Richard Watson, a resident of Perry county, Ohio, and owned a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of good land near Thomville, Ohio. He died at the age of thirty-six years, leaving a family of ten children. The mother of the subject of this sketch (a twin) was three years of age at the time of his death. Albert D. O'Bear was united in marriage on January 20, 1904, with Carrie E. Timberman, daughter of John and Ella Timberman, of Washington township, this county. Carrie E. Timberman was born on November 1, 1881, in Washington township and received her education at the public schools. To this union have l)een born five children, only three of whom are now living. Theodore died when two years old; Roscoe is living at home; Herbert O. died young; Byron K. and Harry H. Mr. O'Bear is a gentleman who has no idle time, his interests being divided between his law practice and his farm. He is a well-educated man and is a successful attorney-at-law, whose clientage consists of the best citizenship of Camden and surrounding community. 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/obear200nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb