Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Halfman, William 1875 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM HALFMAN.

    William Halfman, prominent farmer and cigar manufacturer, residing on
section 3, Ross township, is a native son of Lake county and has spent most of
his life in busy pursuits within its boundaries. He is a young man of progress
and enterprise, has never lacked plenty to do and has made money from boyhood
up, and has really only begun the career of activity which will result in
greater successes in the future.

    Mr. Halfman was born May 18, 1875, on the farm where he still resides, in
Ross township, Lake county. His father, Henry Halfman, was one of the old
settlers of Lake county. William was reared and educated in Ross township,
receiving his early educational training in the district schools. At the age of
sixteen he left home and went to Chicago, where for a time he was engaged in the
milk business, was conductor on the street railway, and was also connected with
the police force. He then returned to Lake county and began farming the old
homestead, where he has since centered most of his energies. He does general
farming, stock-raising and dairying and milk-shipping, and his place of over
three hundred acres is one of the best in Lake county, being a scene of business
activity and industry from one end of the year to the other. For about two
years, while still engaged in farming, he traveled through Illinois, Wisconsin,
Indiana and South Dakota as the salesman for the McCormick and Champion farm
machinery. In 1902 he began the manufacture of cigars, which he has made a very
profitable enterprise. His most popular brand is the "Halfman's White Ribbon," a
high-grade five-cent smoke.

    Mr. Halfman is one of the influential young Democrats of the county, and is
at the present writing a candidate for the office of township trustee. He has
always been interested in the public affairs and general welfare of his
community, and can be depended upon for his due share of assistance and
co-operation in all good works.

    Mr. Halfman married, in 1895, Miss Clara Klein, who was born in Grundy
county, Illinois, a daughter of Henry J. and Clara Klein. They have three
children: Clara, Edward and Marie.


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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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