Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Belman, William Charles 1860 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM CHARLES BELMAN.

    William Charles Belman, cashier of the First National Bank of Hammond, is
one of the leaders in business and financial affairs of this city. He is a
self-made man, and has been dependent on his own exertions since he was fourteen
years old. By hard labor and diligent application he became a successful
teacher, and for many years was at the head of the Hammond public schools. From
that profession he entered business, and for several years has taken an active
part in the financial matters of Hammond.

    Mr. Belman was born in Detroit, Michigan, May 1, 1860, a son of William F.
and Matilda H. (Sabine) Belman, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the
latter of Detroit. There was one other child of these parents, Lettie, wife of
C. E. Cummins, of Putney, South Dakota. Mrs. Matilda Belman died in Detroit in
1866, at the age of twenty-nine years. She was a member of the Methodist church.
Her father was John Sabine, a son of John and a native of England. He came to
America about 1827 and settled in Detroit, where he followed his trade of
harness-maker. He is still living at the age of eighty-eight years. By his wife,
Maria Hagell, he had nine children. The father of William F. Belman, John
Belman, was also a native of England, whence he became an early settler of
Pennsylvania and later of Detroit, where he spent the remainder of his life,
dying at the age of seventy years. He was a shoemaker. His wife was Hannah
Creighton, and they had nine children. William F. Belman learned the trade of
harness-maker, and when a young man moved to Detroit, where he lived for many
years and plied his craft. In 1869 he moved to Perry, Michigan, and bought a
farm, on which he still resides. He married for his second wife Amanda Rowell,
who died the following year. His present wife was Miss Elizabeth Gibbs, who is
the mother of six children: Stella, wife of W. A. Tucker, of Des Moines, Iowa;
Vidi, of Perry, Michigan; Burchel, of Perry; Sarah, of Perry; Job, of Perry; and
Bessie, of Perry. The parents of this family are both Methodists, and the father
is a Republican.

    Mr. William C. Belman lived in Detroit until he was ten years old, receiving
his first schooling there. At the age of fourteen he left his father's farm and
came out to Indiana, where for several years he was engaged in hard manual labor
on farms during most of each year, and at intervals attended the Valparaiso
College. He became a successful teacher, and for eighteen years previous to
accepting the position of cashier of the First National Bank he was
superintendent of the public schools of Hammond. He has held his present
position for the past three years. He is also secretary-treasurer of the Lake
County Savings and Trust Company and is president of the Hammond Building and
Loan and Savings Association.

    Mr. Belman is a Republican in politics. He is a Master Mason of Garfield
Lodge, F. & A. M., and also affiliates with Hammond Lodge No. 210, Knights of
Pythias, and with the National Union and Royal League societies. He and his wife
are members of the Methodist church, and he is a church trustee and steward and
for a number of years served as superintendent of the Sunday school. He resides
at 130 Ogden avenue, where he built his pleasant home in 1889.

    June 25, 1884, he married Miss Nettie Smith, a daughter of Thomas W. and
Sarah (McCabe) Smith. Mrs. Belman was also a Methodist. She died in July, 1897,
at the age of thirty-three, leaving two children, Charles and Edna. On August
10, 1899, Mr. Belman married Miss Emma Rork, a daughter of William Rork. They
have a son, Creighton, and lost a daughter in infancy.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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