OREWiler~IHistory of northeast IN : LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties
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Vol. II
ADAM OREWILER is one of the representatives of the prominent family of that name identified with Steuben County since pioneer days, and like most of the name his work and chosen vocation has been farming.
Mr. Orewiler was born on the orewiler homestead just across the road from where he now lives in Scott Township, February 25, 1859, and is a son of David and Lucy Orewiler. Other reference to the family is made in other pages of this publication. Adam Orewiler grew up on the home farm, had a public school education, and has steadlily devoted himself to agriculture for forty years. He still retains and manages a good fam of eighty acrews and has given forty acres to his son. Mr. Orewiler is a republican without official aspirations and is a member of the Christian Church.
In 1884 he married Miss Hattie Tarr, of daughter of John and Sophia Tarrof Agnola. Her mother is still living.
The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Orewiler is Roy, born in 1885. He supplemented his pubic school education with a course in the Tri-State Normal College, and is making a good record as one of the younger farmers of Scott Township. He married Miss Mellie Maxton, of Steuben County, and t hey have two sons, Russell Dale and Keith Raymond.Page 31.
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Page 202
ELMER E> OREWILER
is a member of a family that has been identified with Steuben County since early days. He himself has played a varied role in the life of the county, as ateacher, farmer, public official and for half a dozen years has been an active business man of Angola.
He was born in Scott Township in Steuben County, March 2, 1861, son of David and Lucy (Masters) Orewiler, the former a native of Richland County and the latter of Crawford County Ohio. The Paternal grandfather, Adam Orewiler, was a native of Pennsylvania. David Orewiler received a [ublic school educatin in Ohio, and came to Scott Township in Steuben County and acquired a tract of land that was largely covered with timber and brick. He spent a number of years clearing up this land, and in company with a brother-in-law acquired a large farm of 180 acres. His share of this roperty when it was divided was 160 acres, comprising a valuable farm upon which he spent the rest ofhis life. He served ten years as trustee of Scott Township and was an active member of the Church of Christ. He and h is wife had six children, and their names are Allice, Adam, Elmer, Mellisa, Alta and Jesse.
Elmer Orewiler grew up on his father's farm and attended public schools of Scott Township, also attended school at Angola and took his commercial course at Hillsdale College, Michigan. Althogether Mr. Orewiler taught school through seven winter terms. Besides teaching he was also engaged in farming, and until 1902 lived on a farm of forty acres in Scott Township. That year he removed to Agola, and for four years served the office of county surveyor. Mr. Orewiler engaged in the coal business in Angola in 1913, and was one of the leading coal dealers of the county until 1918. In August of the latter year he started a feed mill, and has a business htat now supplies ground grain products over a large part of Steuben County.
Mr. Orewiler married Bertha Holdridge, and they have one daughter, Ver a. Mr. and Mrs. Orewiler are members of the Christian Church and he is affiliated with the hKnigthts of Pythias.
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HON. CYRUS CLINE, who ably represented the Twelfth Indiana District in Congress from 1909 to 1917, the Sixty-First to the Sixty-Fourth Congresses, inclusive, has been a member of the Angola bar for over thirty-five years.
He was born in Richland County, Ohio, July 12, 1856, a son of Mmichael and Barbara (Orewiler) Cline. His parents who were natives of Ohio, moved to Steuben County in 1857 and settled on a farm five miles northeast of Angola. In 1873 the family moved to angola, where the father died February 28, 1878, at the age of forty-nine. Mr. Cine's mother passed away August 5, 1918, aged eighty-eight Michael Cine was a democrat up to 1860and after that a republican. He filled the office of county commissioner in Steuben County and at the time of his death was township trustee of Pleasant Township. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church. Their family consisted of Cyrus; Melissa, wife of O. F Rakestraw; Esther, widow of John Zabst; Alvisa, wife of Amos Cory; Elizabeth, wife od Ezra L. Dodge; Nancy, wife of David Wood; Virgil, an Angola photographer; and Grace, wife of J. L. Machin.
Cyrus Cline was educated in Steuben County, taking his high school work at Angola. After a year or so of teaching he entered Hillsdale College, Michigan, in 1873, and was graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in 1876 and two years later received his Master of Arts degree. Mr. Cline served as county superintendent of schools of Steuben County from 1877 to 1883. In the meantime he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and has since been engaged in a general law practice at angola. He was elected amember of the Sixty-First Congress in November, 1908, and his service of eight years involved a critical and vital period in our national history.
Mr. Cline was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Angola in 1903, and served as its president for seven years. He is still one of its directors and is also a director of the First State Bank of Pleasant Lake, which he also helped organize. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and in 1906 was illustrious grand master of the Grand Council. He attends and supports the Congregational Church.
October 6, 1880, he married Jennie Gibson, a native of Vermont. She was born in 1858. They have one daughter, Carrie, who is a graduate of the Tri-State College and the University of Chicago, and has beeen an instructor in the Angola High Schoo.