Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . around the south border of the great lake. He came intoLake county in 1840 and became a resident or a visitor long enough, to be-come deeply interested in a Lake county girl, ^liss P. .\. Flint, a member ofthat large IMethodist Flint family, yet to he mentioned, of South East Grove,whom he married, two ^Methodi^^t ministers selecting wives also from thatlarge cluster of attractive girls. He went back with his ynung wife to Portercounty l)ut became a resident of Crown Point in 1840. That young wife soonpassed away from him and we
Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake County, Indiana . around the south border of the great lake. He came intoLake county in 1840 and became a resident or a visitor long enough, to be-come deeply interested in a Lake county girl, ^liss P. .\. Flint, a member ofthat large IMethodist Flint family, yet to he mentioned, of South East Grove,whom he married, two ^Methodi^^t ministers selecting wives also from thatlarge cluster of attractive girls. He went back with his ynung wife to Portercounty l)ut became a resident of Crown Point in 1840. That young wife soonpassed away from him and went o\er the unseen river. leaving him withsome young l)ovs that needed care and training. About 1852 he married awidow, Mrs. M. ]\I. Mills, and until 1854 kept the hotel then known as theMills and afterwards as the Rockwell house. The second wife proved to bea good mother for his own and for other motherless children. In i860 he was elected county Auditor aufl held the office for eightyears. His material interests prospered year by year and he at length became. JAMES H. LUTHER HISTORY OF LAKE COUXTY. 95 one of the capitalists of Crown Point. He was a g-enerous. kind-hearted refined feehngs and sympathies, a man also of good judgment, a man tomake an excellent member of any organization, and one to he selected as agood neighbor and friend. For some reason or for no reason that could benamed, from the tirst time that they met as strangers to each other in 1853,when he did a large kiiiflness. until the \ery last year of his life in 1803, ^^seemed to take, amid all the changes of forty years, a large and peculiar in-terest in the welfare of the writer of this memorial record. And this friend-ship as marked bv deeds was the more singular on account of the great differ-ence between the two in their religious beliefs. An earnest, active member of the Old Settler and Historical , for some years its Treasurer, James Henry Luther was in his eightiethyear when he passe
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