Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . business. He next bought out M. L. Barber, and atlength closed out his business and in 1867 retired to a farm about four milessouth of town. In 1871 he returned to the town and to business life. Heat last Avent to the A^/est and died there, a very aged man. He was rather low in stature and quite portly. A true man. He wasborn in Quebec, October 19, 1814, was married in Vermont in 1833, andlived to be eighty-two years of age. That Vermont wife, Mrs. McGlashon,is still living with an unmarried daughter in the West. Her great-grand
Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . business. He next bought out M. L. Barber, and atlength closed out his business and in 1867 retired to a farm about four milessouth of town. In 1871 he returned to the town and to business life. Heat last Avent to the A^/est and died there, a very aged man. He was rather low in stature and quite portly. A true man. He wasborn in Quebec, October 19, 1814, was married in Vermont in 1833, andlived to be eighty-two years of age. That Vermont wife, Mrs. McGlashon,is still living with an unmarried daughter in the West. Her great-grand-children live at Hammond, the children of Dr. Turner. Summers.—Among those who have aided largely in building up CrownPoint and the county the name of F. Summers is prominent. Hewas a son of Judge Benjamin Summers, of Ohio, and was born in Ver-milion, Erie county, Ohio. July iCi. 1829. He came to Crown Point, wherehe had several relatives, in November, 1854. He had received a goodbusiness education, which included also surveying and civil HERMAN C. BECKMAN HISTORY OF LAKE COUNTY. 109 In 1S55 and 1856 he assisted the county surveyor, Jolm Wheeler, wlio wasone of his relatives, and with him in 1857 bought out the Crown PointHerald and issued. August 4, 1857. the first number of the Crown PointRegister. He was elected count}- Clerk in 1859 and held that office till1867. He also held other offices, as school Examiner, town Trustee, andwas appointed real estate appraiser for the county. In 18^)5 he erected awarehouse near the railroad depot and commenced shipping grain. He alsoerected a grain building at Le Roy, then called Cassville. and bought andshipped grain. In this grain liusiness he continued until his death in had spent several months, probably in 1869 and 1870, as surveyor andcivil engineer, on the line of what was then called the Vincennes, Danville,and Chicago Railroad, a business for which he was well fitted. About onehalf of his life, nea
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