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Star of the Masonic fraternity. He served as master of Center Point
lodge No. 597 for several years, and is a charter member of Brazil corn-
mandery and also of the blue lodge of Center Point. His religious affilia-
tions are with the Universalist church.
    Senator Moss was nominated by the Democratic party for congress-
man in the fifth congressional district May 26, 1908, and was elected in
November of the same year.

    Louis Schauwecker.-Occupying a place of importance among the
leading merchants of Harrison township is Louis Schauwecker, of Clay
City, the senior member of the firm of Schauwecker & Crabtree, dealers
in hardware, furniture, and implements. A man of tried and trusted
integrity, upright in his dealings, be is held in high respect throughout
the community in which be resides. A son of Jacob Schauwecker, be
was born August 30, 1851, in Coshocton county, Ohio, of German ancestry.
    Jacob Schauwecker was born, reared and educated in Wurtemberg,
Germany, and there served an apprenticeship at the tanner’s trade. He
afterwards went to France, and for a number of years followed his trade
in Paris. Then, accompanied by three of his brothers, be came to the
United States. Two of the brothers settled in New York, but the third
brother, Fred Schauwecker, located in Coshocton county, Ohio, where
Jacob joined him. Subsequently going to Bedford, Ohio, Jacob Schau-
wecker there took unto himself a wife, and for a few years worked at
his trade in that locality. In 1853, with his wife and children, be came to
Indiana, settling in Clay county. Here be bought forty acres of land,
upon which there was a clearing of two acres and a small log cabin, into
which the family moved. Soon afterwards be entered a tract of heavily
timbered government land, established a tannery, and for about twenty
years worked at his trade, and at the same time superintended the im-
provement of his homestead. He occupied the original log cabin but a
short time, replacing it with a substantial house made of hewed logs,
later building a commodious frame house. The last years of his life be
devoted his attention entirely to farming, the many valuable improvements
that he had made giving him all the comforts of an eastern home. He
lived to a good old age, passing away in 1885. His wife, whose maiden
name was Catherine Weinz, was born in Pennsylvania, of Dutch ancestry,
and died a year before be did, in 1884. They were the parents of six
children, namely: Mary. M., Louis, Louise M., Gotlieb, Saloma and
Matilda. Saloma married Frederick Burkey and moved to Missouri,
where a few years later her death occurred. The other children are all
married and reside in Clay county.
    But two years old when be was brought by his parents to Clay
county, Louis Schauwecker has no recollection of any other home than
this, his adopted one. The pioneer log house in which be attended school
was rude in construction, with a puncheon floor, slab seats without backs,
and no desks, a board placed against the wall serving instead, and the
scholars taking turns in writing upon it. It had no windows, a board
being raised to admit light. In his boyhood the family lived in true pio-
neer style, depending upon the productions of the soil and the game to be
found in the forest for their subsistence, and wearing garments made
by the mother from materials which she carded, spun and wove from either
flax or wool grown on the farm. Reared to habits of industry, Louis
began when a lad to assist in the tan yard, and afterwards on the farm.