Lake-Porter County IN Archives Biographies.....Chartier, Fred S. 1871 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FRED S. CHARTIER.

    Fred S. Chartier, the popular liveryman at Hammond, has been identified with
the business affairs of this city for the past five years and has gained the
esteem and high regard of all his fellow citizens through his fair and
progressive business methods and his own personal integrity of character.

    He was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, May 24, 1871, being a son of Jacob and
Emma Chartier, natives of Napierville, Quebec, and born, respectively, November
2, 1835, and October 19, 1845. The father of Mrs. Emma Chartier was a native of
Canada, whence he came to the United States and was one of the early settlers of
St. Ann, Illinois, where he died at the age of eighty-four years, having been
the father of a large family. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Chartier was of
French parentage but a native of Canada, and was a farmer by occupation. He died
at Valparaiso, Indiana, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. There were
eight children in his family.

    Jacob Chartier was eighteen years old when he came to the United States in
1853 and located at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he engaged in farming for a few
years. He then became a brick manufacturer, and continued that business up to
1897, since which time he has lived retired. He served as city councilman of
Valparaiso for several terms, and has otherwise been prominent in business and
public affairs. He and his wife are Catholics in faith. They had eleven
children, six sons and five daughters, and eight are now living: George, of
Stony Island, Illinois; Fred S., of Hammond; Leonie, of Valparaiso; Eliza, wife
of H. B. Blair, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Alfred C., of Hammond; Margaret, wife of
Clarence Dillingham, of Valparaiso; Stella, wife of David Lameroux, of Chicago:
and Peter, of Valparaiso.

    Mr. Fred S. Chartier was reared at Valparaiso, in which city he attended
both the parochial and the public schools. He undertook life's responsibilities
at an early age, and has since made his own way and gained by self-achievement
the prominent position in business affairs that now belongs to him. At the age
of fifteen he went to Michigan, where he remained for a year, and then went to
South Chicago, where he lived for eleven years. He followed railroading until
1894, and was then in the oil and gasoline and bottle-beer business. In
September, 1899, he came to Hammond, and for the past two years has been engaged
in conducting a first-class livery establishment, to which he has recently added
an undertaking business. He is a live, wide-awake business man, and understands
the art of gaining trade and retaining it by fair and honorable dealings.

     Mr. Chartier was married April 10, 1893, to Miss Catherine Young, a
daughter of Michael J. and Mary (Conway) Young. They have three children, Fred
Walter, Marie Agnes and Irene Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Chartier are members of the
Catholic church, and he affiliates with the North American Union, and with the
Independent Order of Foresters of Toronto. In politics he is a Democrat.


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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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