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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ANDREW W. WOLEVER.

   Forty-one years of continued success as the proprietor of Delphi's leading
photographic studio, is the record of Andrew W. Wolever, a native of Lebanon
county, Pennsylvania, who learned photography at Lafayette, after coming to
Indiana in 1867, and shortly thereafter, in 1874, established a gallery in the
county seat of Carroll county. He has achieved eminent success as a photographer
and has won for himself an enviable place among the leading professional and
business men of the county honored by his residence.

   Andrew W. Wolever was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, on August 12,
1852, and is the son of Peter and Catharine (Weidel) Wolever, who were natives
of the Keystone state. Peter Wolever was a butcher by trade. In 1873 he
emigrated from Pennsylvania to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and settled in
Lafayette, where he died, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife had died
several years previously, in 1859, at the age of forty-five. Both were members
of the Lutheran church. They had a family of ten children, as follow: Andrew W.,
of Delphi; Peter, of Lafayette; Elias, of Brookston; Kate, deceased, who married
William Wetzel, both of whom died in North Dakota; Susanna, deceased, who
married Franklin Steiner; Mary, deceased, was the wife of Christopher
Summerstadt; Lavina, deceased, was the wife of George Apple; Edward died in
Macon county, Missouri; two died early in life.

   Mr. Wolever's paternal grandparents had only one son, Peter, and two
daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth, who died in the Keystone state.

   The maternal grandparents reared a large family of children, Daniel,
Catharine, William and others whose names are lost. The history of the maternal
grandparents is also missing.

   On November 16, 1880, Andrew W. Wolever was married to Mary A. Tutwiler, the
daughter of John and Clarissa (Dewees) Tutwiler. Four children have been born to
this union, Florence, Larrey, Lucy and Gertrude. Florence married John L.
Dawson. They live in Peru and have one child, Mary Louise. Larrey is a fireman
on the Wabash railroad and lives at Fort Wayne. He and his wife have one child,
Marjorie. Lucy married J. R. Starks. They live in Taylor, Texas, and have one
child, Mary Thelma. Gertrude married Stewart Walker. They live in White county,
near Bernard's creek, and have five children, Harry, Emma, Catherine, Ruth and
Mary Belle.

   Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever was born in Delphi, Indiana, on February 2, 1851. Her
father, John Tutwiler, was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Gettysburg, and
died on October 6, 1860. Mrs. Wolever's mother, Clarissa P. (Dewees) Tutwiler,
died on Friday, November 11, 1892. In her death the community lost a noble
woman, one who had spent almost sixty years in this county. She was born in
Guilford county, North Carolina, on January 1, 1829. When she was four years of
age, her parents, Elijah and Elizabeth Dewees, moved to Marion county, Indiana.
In April, 1834, they removed to Carroll county and settled at the mouth of
Mitchell creek. Two years later her mother died, leaving seven children. The
family scattered, the father going to Arkansas, where he died in 1846. Clarissa
found a home with Dr. J. N. Ewing and here grew to womanhood. She was married to
John Tutwiler on March 25, 1847, and eight children were born to this union,
three boys and live girls, one boy dying in infancy. Three of the children
survive, namely: Mrs. Inglee, Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever and Mrs. John K. Kerlin.
Shortly after her marriage, Mrs. Tutwiler united with the Methodist Episcopal
church. She was by nature timid and retiring in her disposition, but grace had
wrought such a perfect work in her heart that she was bold for Christ. Her
pastor, the Rev. John A. Maxwell, paid her this tribute: "I do not think it will
detract from the faithfulness or usefulness of any member of the church to say
that no one will be missed like Sister Tutwiler. If she was absent from the
prayer-service, I always said to myself, 'Mrs. Tutwiler is either sick or absent
from town or attending someone that is sick or needy.' Hers was a warm heart and
a willing hand. For the first two years that I was her pastor she was seldom
absent from any service. But during the past year she has been rapidly failing
in health. Her last sickness has been long and severe. But one day before her
death, as I stood by her bedside and as I knelt in prayer, she prayed for her
children and grandchildren and quoted the scriptures, and praised her Savior. We
shall greatly miss her. While we mourn, she rejoices. God has taken His own. She
fell quietly asleep on Friday, November 11, 1892, at one o'clock a. m. She was
the kindest of neighbors, the most helpful of friends, a faithful wife and a
devoted mother. More and more will her children think of this—and withal an
earnest Christian."

   Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Wolever is a trustee and has been a steward. Fraternally he is a member of
Carroll Lodge No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as well as the
encampment and Rebekah branch of the Odd Fellows. He was made an Odd Fellow on
January 7, 1875. Mr. Wolever is now district deputy grand master of district No.
8 of the Odd Fellows. He is also a member of Delphi Lodge No. 80, Knights of
Pythias. A Republican in politics, Mr. Wolever served two terms as mayor of the
city of Delphi, between 1887 and 1891. Few men are more widely known and
certainly none is more highly respected in Delphi and Carroll county than Andrew
W. Wolever.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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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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