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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FREDERICK LASH.

    Frederick Lash, the popular and successful proprietor of the Erie Hotel and
Restaurant at Hammond, Indiana, has been numbered among the business men of this
city since 1890. He has lived in the state of Indiana since the late sixties,
taking up his residence here after a brilliant record as a soldier in both the
volunteer and regular forces of the United States, and in his private career
since that time he has been as successful, as enterprising and public-spirited
as when he followed the flag of the nation. He has a permanent place in the
regard of the citizens of Hammond, and has never been known to shirk the
responsibilities of private, social or public life.

    Mr. Lash was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1843, being
the only son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hummel) Lash, natives of Germany. His
paternal grandfather, John Lash, was a native of Germany, was a baker by trade
and also served in the regular army, and died in that country at the age of
ninety-five years, having been the father of a good-sized family, mostly sons.
Benjamin Lash was also a baker by trade, and followed that pursuit after
emigrating to America and taking up his residence in Berks county, Pennsylvania.
He died there in 1849, aged seventy-five years. His wife's father Hummel died in
Germany, and that part of the family history is lost.

    Mr. Frederick Lash was reared in Berks county, Pennsylvania, on a farm, and
the school which he remembers having attended was in a log cabin. He was at home
until the summons of war went out through the land, and as a boy of about
seventeen he enlisted, in 1861, in the First New York Artillery. He was in the
conflict from almost the very beginning to the end, and entered as a private and
was gradually promoted to the captaincy of his company, being of that rank at
the close of the war. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Fredericksburg,
Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness, and was all through the Atlanta
campaign. He was slightly wounded at Vicksburg. After the war be served three
years in the regular army, being stationed most of the time in the eastern
states, principally in New York.

    Following his army service, he came to Indiana and engaged in the restaurant
busines [sic] in Lafayette for some years. He conducted a restaurant, bakery and
confectionery establishment at Attica, Indiana, until 1890, and in that year
came to Hammond, where he has been in the restaurant and hotel business ever
since, for the past twelve years having had charge of the Erie Hotel, one of the
most popular public houses of the city, owing all its prosperity to the
excellent management of Mr. Lash.

    Mr. Lash was married in March, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Lahr, a daughter of
Ulrich and Julia Lahr. There were two children of this union, William and
Frederick, the former being a clerk in Hammond and a married man, while the
latter is single. Mrs. Elizabeth Lash died April 8, 1899. On May 2, 1900, Mr.
Lash married Miss Elizabeth McIntyre, a daughter of James P. and Eliza Jane
(Forrest) McIntyre. Mr. and Mrs. Nash are Episcopalians in faith, although not
identified with any church. He is a Republican in politics, and is alderman from
the Third ward. He affiliates with Garfield Lodge No. 569, F. & A. M., with
Hammond Chapter, R. A. M., and Bethlehem Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Chicago,
and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star. He also belongs to Moltke
Lodge, I. O. O. F., and to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a member
of the William H. Calkins Post No. 549, G. A. R. For ten years he was commander
of the Indiana State Guard, and was elected colonel of the Lake County Brigade,
G. A. R., in 1900. He is the owner of several houses and lots in Hammond, and
his material prosperity has come to him as the results of his own efforts. He is
a self-made man, and well deserves the place of esteem which he has gained by a
life of endeavor.

    Mrs. Lash's grandfather, James McIntyre, was of Irish lineage, but was born
in the north of Scotland. He married Mary Booth, of pure English stock, and they
had eleven children. He came to America in young manhood and settled in
Vermont., where he died at the age of seventy-three years. His father, also
named James, died in Ireland. Mary (Booth) McIntyre died in Vermont at the age
of seventy years.

    The parents of Mrs. Lash were natives of Vermont, and lived at St. Albans
Bay. They had two children: Elizabeth and Edgar Forrest McIntyre. James P.
McIntyre, her father, was a molder by trade, and had a business of his own. He
settled in Jackson, Michigan, at an early day, and thence moved to Athens, and
from there to Three Rivers, in the same state, where he had a large plow
factory. He returned to Vermont, but later came to Baldwin, Wisconsin, and from
there to Stillwater, and thence to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he had extensive
plow works. He later took up his residence in Chicago, which is his present
home. His wife died in 1869. She was a member of the Methodist church. Her
father, William Forrest, came to Vermont from Canada, and he and his wife Eliza
had a large family. Mr. McIntyre was a soldier in the Civil war, belonging to
Company I, Vermont Infantry, and served four years, having been enlisted as a
private and mustered out as a colonel. He was once wounded in the forehead by a
shell. He married for his second wife Louisa Amelia Stannard, and they had nine
children, five sons and four daughters, the five now living being Frank E.,
James H., Archie R., Sarah J. and Belle, all of Chicago.


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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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