Name: Horace Nathan TRUEBLOOD
Sex: M
Birth: 21 DEC 1861 in Howard County, Indiana
Death: 11 MAR 1964 in California
HORACE N. TRUEBLOOD. One of the definite and undeniably successful enterprises of Marion is the Marion Steam Laundry, established here in April, 1895, by him whose name introduces this brief sketch. Mr. Trueblood's rise in the laundry business has been steady, and has come from a beginning, modest in the extreme, but well conducted and prosperous since its inception. The force of workers in the laundry has grown from six to thirty-nine, and every phase of the work has advanced in accordance. The record of the place is all sufficient to firmly establish Mr. Trueblood among the successful and capable business men of the city, and his position is one that he amply deserves.
Horace N. Trueblood was born December 21, 1861, near New London, Howard county, Indiana, on the farm home of his parents, who were William and Ruth E. (Dixon) Trueblood, both natives of North Carolina. The mother was a granddaughter of Jonathan Lindley, who was chairman of the committee that established the site for the Indiana State University at Bloomington, receiving his appointment to that commission by President Madison. He was in his day a wealthy man and one of exceeding great prominence in his part of the state.
Horace N. Trueblood comes of fine old Quaker stock, both on the paternal and maternal sides, and the instincts and training of the faith have in a measure guided his life in its devious paths and have had much to do with the shaping of his career. The public schools of Kokomo, whither the family removed when he was but a small boy, provided him with his education chiefly, and after finishing his schooling he was for some years identified with the shoe business in the city. In April, 1895, when he was thirty-four years old, he came to Marion, and here, casting about for a suitable business opening for an ambitious and hardworking man, he chanced upon a small and then unsuccessful laundry business, the same having been established in the city by Ira Gage some six months previous. The place was known as the Marion Steam Laundry, and when Mr. Trueblood came into ownership of the plant, he continued its operation under the name by which the public had already come to be more or less familiar with it. The successive growth and development of the laundry to its present flourishing state would require more space than is available at this point, but it will suffice to say that the laundry today is one of the best equipped, best managed and best operated establishments of its kind in the city and county. The plant is thoroughly modern, with the most approved and intricate machinery for the minimizing of labor and the producing of high class work, and every facility known to the laundry business is here employed. The phenomenal growth of the business has been in accordance with the spirit of the manager and owner, and the laundry has a reputation for fine work and quick service that is one of its most valuable assets.
Mr. Trueblood was married on October 1, 1889, to Miss Anna M. Willette, the daughter of Peter Willette, who pioneered to California in 1849 in quest of gold and fortune. To them were born four children, namely: Fred W., now twenty-three years old, and a graduate from the Indiana State University at Bloomington; Ruth A., now nineteen years old, is a student at Purdue University, in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is in pursuit of a higher knowledge of domestic science; Mark Sherwin, aged thirteen, and Horace Dixon, now seven years old, complete the family roster, and are spending their days in school, preparatory to useful existences in the world in future days.
The family are members of the Congregational church. Mr. Trueblood is fraternally identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and his political tendencies are those of a Republican, although he is in no sense a politician, and has never held public office in all the years of his career thus far. His civic record for usefulness and loyalty is a fine one, and his citizenship is one of the highest order, and of which the community may well be proud.
Resourece: Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana A Chronicle of their People Past and Present with Family Lineage and Personal Memoirs Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of Benjamin G. Shinn Volume I Illustrated The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1914
Sex: M
Birth: 21 DEC 1861 in Howard County, Indiana
Death: 11 MAR 1964 in California
HORACE N. TRUEBLOOD. One of the definite and undeniably successful enterprises of Marion is the Marion Steam Laundry, established here in April, 1895, by him whose name introduces this brief sketch. Mr. Trueblood's rise in the laundry business has been steady, and has come from a beginning, modest in the extreme, but well conducted and prosperous since its inception. The force of workers in the laundry has grown from six to thirty-nine, and every phase of the work has advanced in accordance. The record of the place is all sufficient to firmly establish Mr. Trueblood among the successful and capable business men of the city, and his position is one that he amply deserves.
Horace N. Trueblood was born December 21, 1861, near New London, Howard county, Indiana, on the farm home of his parents, who were William and Ruth E. (Dixon) Trueblood, both natives of North Carolina. The mother was a granddaughter of Jonathan Lindley, who was chairman of the committee that established the site for the Indiana State University at Bloomington, receiving his appointment to that commission by President Madison. He was in his day a wealthy man and one of exceeding great prominence in his part of the state.
Horace N. Trueblood comes of fine old Quaker stock, both on the paternal and maternal sides, and the instincts and training of the faith have in a measure guided his life in its devious paths and have had much to do with the shaping of his career. The public schools of Kokomo, whither the family removed when he was but a small boy, provided him with his education chiefly, and after finishing his schooling he was for some years identified with the shoe business in the city. In April, 1895, when he was thirty-four years old, he came to Marion, and here, casting about for a suitable business opening for an ambitious and hardworking man, he chanced upon a small and then unsuccessful laundry business, the same having been established in the city by Ira Gage some six months previous. The place was known as the Marion Steam Laundry, and when Mr. Trueblood came into ownership of the plant, he continued its operation under the name by which the public had already come to be more or less familiar with it. The successive growth and development of the laundry to its present flourishing state would require more space than is available at this point, but it will suffice to say that the laundry today is one of the best equipped, best managed and best operated establishments of its kind in the city and county. The plant is thoroughly modern, with the most approved and intricate machinery for the minimizing of labor and the producing of high class work, and every facility known to the laundry business is here employed. The phenomenal growth of the business has been in accordance with the spirit of the manager and owner, and the laundry has a reputation for fine work and quick service that is one of its most valuable assets.
Mr. Trueblood was married on October 1, 1889, to Miss Anna M. Willette, the daughter of Peter Willette, who pioneered to California in 1849 in quest of gold and fortune. To them were born four children, namely: Fred W., now twenty-three years old, and a graduate from the Indiana State University at Bloomington; Ruth A., now nineteen years old, is a student at Purdue University, in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is in pursuit of a higher knowledge of domestic science; Mark Sherwin, aged thirteen, and Horace Dixon, now seven years old, complete the family roster, and are spending their days in school, preparatory to useful existences in the world in future days.
The family are members of the Congregational church. Mr. Trueblood is fraternally identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and his political tendencies are those of a Republican, although he is in no sense a politician, and has never held public office in all the years of his career thus far. His civic record for usefulness and loyalty is a fine one, and his citizenship is one of the highest order, and of which the community may well be proud.
Resourece: Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana A Chronicle of their People Past and Present with Family Lineage and Personal Memoirs Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of Benjamin G. Shinn Volume I Illustrated The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1914
Name: Horace Nathan TRUEBLOOD
Sex: M
Birth: 21 DEC 1861 in Howard County, Indiana
Death: 11 MAR 1964 in California
HORACE N. TRUEBLOOD. One of the definite and undeniably successful enterprises of Marion is the Marion Steam Laundry, established here in April, 1895, by him whose name introduces this brief sketch. Mr. Trueblood's rise in the laundry business has been steady, and has come from a beginning, modest in the extreme, but well conducted and prosperous since its inception. The force of workers in the laundry has grown from six to thirty-nine, and every phase of the work has advanced in accordance. The record of the place is all sufficient to firmly establish Mr. Trueblood among the successful and capable business men of the city, and his position is one that he amply deserves.
Horace N. Trueblood was born December 21, 1861, near New London, Howard county, Indiana, on the farm home of his parents, who were William and Ruth E. (Dixon) Trueblood, both natives of North Carolina. The mother was a granddaughter of Jonathan Lindley, who was chairman of the committee that established the site for the Indiana State University at Bloomington, receiving his appointment to that commission by President Madison. He was in his day a wealthy man and one of exceeding great prominence in his part of the state.
Horace N. Trueblood comes of fine old Quaker stock, both on the paternal and maternal sides, and the instincts and training of the faith have in a measure guided his life in its devious paths and have had much to do with the shaping of his career. The public schools of Kokomo, whither the family removed when he was but a small boy, provided him with his education chiefly, and after finishing his schooling he was for some years identified with the shoe business in the city. In April, 1895, when he was thirty-four years old, he came to Marion, and here, casting about for a suitable business opening for an ambitious and hardworking man, he chanced upon a small and then unsuccessful laundry business, the same having been established in the city by Ira Gage some six months previous. The place was known as the Marion Steam Laundry, and when Mr. Trueblood came into ownership of the plant, he continued its operation under the name by which the public had already come to be more or less familiar with it. The successive growth and development of the laundry to its present flourishing state would require more space than is available at this point, but it will suffice to say that the laundry today is one of the best equipped, best managed and best operated establishments of its kind in the city and county. The plant is thoroughly modern, with the most approved and intricate machinery for the minimizing of labor and the producing of high class work, and every facility known to the laundry business is here employed. The phenomenal growth of the business has been in accordance with the spirit of the manager and owner, and the laundry has a reputation for fine work and quick service that is one of its most valuable assets.
Mr. Trueblood was married on October 1, 1889, to Miss Anna M. Willette, the daughter of Peter Willette, who pioneered to California in 1849 in quest of gold and fortune. To them were born four children, namely: Fred W., now twenty-three years old, and a graduate from the Indiana State University at Bloomington; Ruth A., now nineteen years old, is a student at Purdue University, in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is in pursuit of a higher knowledge of domestic science; Mark Sherwin, aged thirteen, and Horace Dixon, now seven years old, complete the family roster, and are spending their days in school, preparatory to useful existences in the world in future days.
The family are members of the Congregational church. Mr. Trueblood is fraternally identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and his political tendencies are those of a Republican, although he is in no sense a politician, and has never held public office in all the years of his career thus far. His civic record for usefulness and loyalty is a fine one, and his citizenship is one of the highest order, and of which the community may well be proud.
Resourece: Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana A Chronicle of their People Past and Present with Family Lineage and Personal Memoirs Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of Benjamin G. Shinn Volume I Illustrated The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1914
Sex: M
Birth: 21 DEC 1861 in Howard County, Indiana
Death: 11 MAR 1964 in California
HORACE N. TRUEBLOOD. One of the definite and undeniably successful enterprises of Marion is the Marion Steam Laundry, established here in April, 1895, by him whose name introduces this brief sketch. Mr. Trueblood's rise in the laundry business has been steady, and has come from a beginning, modest in the extreme, but well conducted and prosperous since its inception. The force of workers in the laundry has grown from six to thirty-nine, and every phase of the work has advanced in accordance. The record of the place is all sufficient to firmly establish Mr. Trueblood among the successful and capable business men of the city, and his position is one that he amply deserves.
Horace N. Trueblood was born December 21, 1861, near New London, Howard county, Indiana, on the farm home of his parents, who were William and Ruth E. (Dixon) Trueblood, both natives of North Carolina. The mother was a granddaughter of Jonathan Lindley, who was chairman of the committee that established the site for the Indiana State University at Bloomington, receiving his appointment to that commission by President Madison. He was in his day a wealthy man and one of exceeding great prominence in his part of the state.
Horace N. Trueblood comes of fine old Quaker stock, both on the paternal and maternal sides, and the instincts and training of the faith have in a measure guided his life in its devious paths and have had much to do with the shaping of his career. The public schools of Kokomo, whither the family removed when he was but a small boy, provided him with his education chiefly, and after finishing his schooling he was for some years identified with the shoe business in the city. In April, 1895, when he was thirty-four years old, he came to Marion, and here, casting about for a suitable business opening for an ambitious and hardworking man, he chanced upon a small and then unsuccessful laundry business, the same having been established in the city by Ira Gage some six months previous. The place was known as the Marion Steam Laundry, and when Mr. Trueblood came into ownership of the plant, he continued its operation under the name by which the public had already come to be more or less familiar with it. The successive growth and development of the laundry to its present flourishing state would require more space than is available at this point, but it will suffice to say that the laundry today is one of the best equipped, best managed and best operated establishments of its kind in the city and county. The plant is thoroughly modern, with the most approved and intricate machinery for the minimizing of labor and the producing of high class work, and every facility known to the laundry business is here employed. The phenomenal growth of the business has been in accordance with the spirit of the manager and owner, and the laundry has a reputation for fine work and quick service that is one of its most valuable assets.
Mr. Trueblood was married on October 1, 1889, to Miss Anna M. Willette, the daughter of Peter Willette, who pioneered to California in 1849 in quest of gold and fortune. To them were born four children, namely: Fred W., now twenty-three years old, and a graduate from the Indiana State University at Bloomington; Ruth A., now nineteen years old, is a student at Purdue University, in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is in pursuit of a higher knowledge of domestic science; Mark Sherwin, aged thirteen, and Horace Dixon, now seven years old, complete the family roster, and are spending their days in school, preparatory to useful existences in the world in future days.
The family are members of the Congregational church. Mr. Trueblood is fraternally identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and his political tendencies are those of a Republican, although he is in no sense a politician, and has never held public office in all the years of his career thus far. His civic record for usefulness and loyalty is a fine one, and his citizenship is one of the highest order, and of which the community may well be proud.
Resourece: Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana A Chronicle of their People Past and Present with Family Lineage and Personal Memoirs Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of Benjamin G. Shinn Volume I Illustrated The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1914
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