Howard-Franklin County IN Archives Biographies.....Klum, Edward W. 1859 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

EDWARD W. KLUM.

   Howard county has been especially honored in the character and career of one
who has forged his way to the front by a strong inherent force and well directed
intelligence and judgment and who stands today among the representative men of
Kokomo. Few men in this locality occupy a more honored place in the estimation
of his fellow citizens than the subject of this sketch.

   Edward W. Klum, deputy postmaster of Kokomo, was born in Franklin county.
Indiana, in 1859, the son of Hiram and Mary F. (Webb) Klum, people of influence
and sterling worth.

   The subject was ten years old when he came with his parents to Kokomo, and
after attending the public schools where he received a good text-book training
which has been greatly increased by years of home reading and habits of
observation. Mr. Klum secured employment as an accountant which work he has
followed all his life, becoming an expert at this very exacting profession.

   He was appointed assistant postmaster in 1906 and is still serving in this
capacity (1908), giving entire satisfaction to all concerned, being peculiarly
fitted for this kind of work.

   Mr. Klum was united in marriage with Purcella Gammons, a native of Floyd
county, this state, the ceremony having been performed at Kokomo. She is a
representative of a highly honored and well known family. Two bright and
interesting children have been born, to this union.

   The subject has been identified with the musical interests of Kokomo in
different lines all his life, being regarded as an authority in this branch of
the esthetics and well known to the city and community by virtue of this talent.

   Fraternally Mr. Klum is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. Uniform
Rank: also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his
daily life would indicate that he lives up to the noble ideals set forth by the
creeds of these orders. In politics he is a stanch Republican and has always
been an active worker for his party, making his influence felt in local
conventions and elections, lending his influence and time to place the best men
in the city and county offices.

   The subject is a consistent member of the Christian church at Kokomo, and he
is known to be a man who is upright and scrupulously honest in his intentions
and he is a highly respected citizen of Kokomo where he has spent nearly all his
active and useful life.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)


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