Carroll-Cass County IN Archives Biographies.....Studebaker, Joseph 1853 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOSEPH STUDEBAKER.

   Retired farmer, teacher and lawyer of Flora, Carroll county, Indiana, Joseph
Studebaker is one of the best known citizens of the county. In 1861 he suffered
a misfortune when working with a mowing machine and as a consequence of this
accident has been crippled practically all of his life. Notwithstanding his
infirmity, he was able, determined or destined to lead an active life for many
years and is still able to oversee the work on his splendid farm of two hundred
and fifteen acres in Carroll and Cass counties.

   Joseph Studebaker, justice of the peace of Monroe township and an
attorney-at-law at Flora, Indiana, was born in Cass county on May 27, 1853. His
parents were John S. and Elizabeth (Sandis) Studebaker, the former of whom was
born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was born in the
same county and state. Both grew to manhood and womanhood in the same community.
After their marriage they emigrated to Miami county, Ohio, and then to Delaware
county, Indiana, locating near Muncie, where John S. purchased one hundred and
sixty acres of timber land, and carved out a home in the wilderness. He was an
early champion of good roads and the pike, which passes by his old home in
Delaware county, is still known as "the Studebaker pike." After a time he sold
his farm and removed again to the woods of Cass county, Indiana, locating on
Deer Creek, where he built a small cabin and where in time he came to own four
hundred acres of land. A man of industrious habits, he was also thrifty and
became a very prosperous farmer. For more than forty years he served as a
minister in the church of the Brethren, without receiving any compensation. He
died in 1905 in his ninety-first year at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lydia
Wells, near Camden, Indiana. His wife had died nearly a half century previously.
She was the mother of thirteen children, ten sons and three daughters, four of
whom are now living, John, Amos, Lydia and Joseph. John is a resident of Kansas.
Amos resides in Indiana. Lydia is the wife of Edward Wells, of Carroll county.
Joseph is the subject of this sketch.

   Reared on a farm in Cass county, Indiana, Joseph Studebaker, when old enough
to do so, attended the pioneer public schools of the county. He was graduated
from the Indiana State Normal in 1899, but had been a teacher for twenty-five
years at Pittsburg, Rockfield, Burlington, Burrows, Radner, Deer Creek and
Flora. Mr. Studebaker studied law under Judge Charles R. Pollard, of Delphi,
Indiana, and then was admitted to the bar of Cass county, at Logansport,
Indiana, and practices in Cass and Carroll counties. He has served three terms,
of four years each, as notary public and is now on his second appointment as
justice of the peace in Monroe township, Carroll county.

   On November 29, 1883, Mr. Studebaker was married to Mrs. Katie J. (Gish)
Mummert, who was born in Carroll county, in 1850, the daughter of Elder Henry
Gish, a minister in the Church of the Brethren. Mrs. Studebaker, by her previous
marriage, had one son, John H. Mummert, who married Minnie A. Himes. She bore
him two children, Ralph I. and Mary G., both of whom are students in the Walton
high school, having recently graduated from the common schools.

   Mr. and Mrs. Studebaker have had three children, two of whom are living. One
died in infancy. The living children are Harvey E. and Lula A. Harvey E. was
educated in the public schools, at Purdue University and North Manchester
College. He married Audie Aetna Gee, the daughter of John T. Gee. Lula A., who
graduated from the common schools and pursued her education in North Manchester
College, is unmarried. She lives at home with her parents.

   The Studebaker family are all members of the Church of the Brethren and for
the past twenty years Mr. Studebaker has led the music at church conferences
held in Indiana and adjoining states. He is well versed in music and is a
capable and popular director. He votes the Democratic ticket.

   As one of the upright and honorable citizens of Carroll county, Joseph
Studebaker is well known to all the citizens of this county. Mr. and Mrs.
Studebaker spend most of their winters in Florida, because of the healthful
climate. They have lived together almost half a century, about thirty years of
their time in Flora, Indiana, where they have property interests, having
assisted many enterprises which have tended to make Flora the beautiful,
prosperous city it now is. Many of the good people of Flora have obtained their
homes through the influence of Joseph Studebaker, who has helped them to buy on
the instalment plan, instead of always paying rent He has some half dozen people
now paying for homes that way. He handles real estate, makes farm loans for the
North Western Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as special
loan agent, and writes his own insurance, using most of his time looking after
his own real estate interests, both farms and town properties.


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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

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