Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, May 21, 1923
William Jefferson LEITER, pioneer resident of Fulton county, who came here with his parents in a covered wagon in 1854, died at his home on West Eighth street Saturday evening following a long illness, which had confined him to his home for a number of weeks. Death was caused by old age and complications. He was 83 years of age.
Mr. Leiter was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 17, 1840. Five years later his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John LEITER, Jr., started westward and took up a homestead on the south bank of the Tippecanoe river near where Leiters now stands. The ford at the river here was given its name by Mr. Leiter's parents who built a rude shanty there shortly after arriving. They simply placed four posts in the ground and nailed the boards on them.
Later they constructed a second and more permanent home, building it of Tamarack logs. For many years it was known as the Tamarack Hotel and here Mr. Leiter as a young man worked on the farm helping to clear the land and make it tillable. He attended the district school and later went to Valparaiso College and upon returning spent several years teaching school in this vicinity. He was married on December 27, 1805, to Ellen A. HICKMAN, who was born in 1841 in Fulton county.
On January 21, 1877, along with Clark HICKMAN he took over the Potawatomie Mills in Rochester, which stood where the Erie Elevator is now located. Water power from the old canal was used and the mill soon became one of the best and largest in Northern Indiana. Frederick PETERSON later on bought out Mr. Hickman and the mill then went under the firm name of LEITER and PETERSON. In 1896 the building burned to the ground and for some time afterwards Mr. Leiter was interested in the bank which grew into the U. S. Bank and Trust Co. In 1898 he erected another elevator on the site of the old one and since that time has been active in charge until a few months previous to his death. Altogether he was in the grain business 46 years.
He was always active in other affairs being a lifelong democrat and as such served on the school board several terms and as many years on the town board. He was actively identified with the Methodist church in Rochester for nearly half a century. He first joined the church sixty-five years ago. He was a trustee of the church when the location was changed from Main street to its present location at Jefferson and Seventh streets. As a trustee he helped erect the building preceding the present one, the dedication of which occurred in 1881.
He remained a trustee with the present edifice and took an active part in its erection in 1917. Regretting to give up the old structure in which he had worshipped so long, nevertheless he gave hearty support to the new movement and was well satisfied with the results in the present beautiful and commodious structure. He had his regular seat which he occupied in the old and in the new, and was always present as long as health permitted. For twenty years he taught a class in the Sunday school without a break. No interest of the church was without his support.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leiter, two of whom, Clyde [LEITER] and Leslie [LEITER], with their mother preceded the deceased. Those who survive are William C. [LEITER], Fred [LEITER], Delia [LEITER] and Mae [LEITER] of this city; Charles [LEITER] of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs. Jennie GREENSTREET, of Louisville, Ind. Three brothers, Eli [LEITER], Franklin [LEITER] and Jeremiah [LEITER], have passed on and one sister, Mrs. Lydia BIDDINGER, of Tiosa, one half-sister, Mrs. Margaret BENNETT, of Kewanna, and one half-brother, John [LEITER], also of Kewanna, survive.
Funeral services at the Methodist church at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. F. O. FRALEY in charge, with burial at I.O.O.F. cemetery.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Tuesday, May 22, 1923
Presley COLWELL, of Three Rivers, Michigan, Rev. and Mrs. A. T. BRIGGS, LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. Gross BURKETT, Huntington, John GREENSTREET, Louisville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Frank BIDDINGER, Gas City, W. H. HAUCK, Mrs. Etta LEITER and Mr. and Mrs. Donald LEITER, of South Bend, were among the out-of-town people who attended the funeral of W. J. LEITER Tuesday.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1923
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Monday, May 21, 1923
William Jefferson LEITER, pioneer resident of Fulton county, who came here with his parents in a covered wagon in 1854, died at his home on West Eighth street Saturday evening following a long illness, which had confined him to his home for a number of weeks. Death was caused by old age and complications. He was 83 years of age.
Mr. Leiter was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 17, 1840. Five years later his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John LEITER, Jr., started westward and took up a homestead on the south bank of the Tippecanoe river near where Leiters now stands. The ford at the river here was given its name by Mr. Leiter's parents who built a rude shanty there shortly after arriving. They simply placed four posts in the ground and nailed the boards on them.
Later they constructed a second and more permanent home, building it of Tamarack logs. For many years it was known as the Tamarack Hotel and here Mr. Leiter as a young man worked on the farm helping to clear the land and make it tillable. He attended the district school and later went to Valparaiso College and upon returning spent several years teaching school in this vicinity. He was married on December 27, 1805, to Ellen A. HICKMAN, who was born in 1841 in Fulton county.
On January 21, 1877, along with Clark HICKMAN he took over the Potawatomie Mills in Rochester, which stood where the Erie Elevator is now located. Water power from the old canal was used and the mill soon became one of the best and largest in Northern Indiana. Frederick PETERSON later on bought out Mr. Hickman and the mill then went under the firm name of LEITER and PETERSON. In 1896 the building burned to the ground and for some time afterwards Mr. Leiter was interested in the bank which grew into the U. S. Bank and Trust Co. In 1898 he erected another elevator on the site of the old one and since that time has been active in charge until a few months previous to his death. Altogether he was in the grain business 46 years.
He was always active in other affairs being a lifelong democrat and as such served on the school board several terms and as many years on the town board. He was actively identified with the Methodist church in Rochester for nearly half a century. He first joined the church sixty-five years ago. He was a trustee of the church when the location was changed from Main street to its present location at Jefferson and Seventh streets. As a trustee he helped erect the building preceding the present one, the dedication of which occurred in 1881.
He remained a trustee with the present edifice and took an active part in its erection in 1917. Regretting to give up the old structure in which he had worshipped so long, nevertheless he gave hearty support to the new movement and was well satisfied with the results in the present beautiful and commodious structure. He had his regular seat which he occupied in the old and in the new, and was always present as long as health permitted. For twenty years he taught a class in the Sunday school without a break. No interest of the church was without his support.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leiter, two of whom, Clyde [LEITER] and Leslie [LEITER], with their mother preceded the deceased. Those who survive are William C. [LEITER], Fred [LEITER], Delia [LEITER] and Mae [LEITER] of this city; Charles [LEITER] of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs. Jennie GREENSTREET, of Louisville, Ind. Three brothers, Eli [LEITER], Franklin [LEITER] and Jeremiah [LEITER], have passed on and one sister, Mrs. Lydia BIDDINGER, of Tiosa, one half-sister, Mrs. Margaret BENNETT, of Kewanna, and one half-brother, John [LEITER], also of Kewanna, survive.
Funeral services at the Methodist church at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. F. O. FRALEY in charge, with burial at I.O.O.F. cemetery.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Tuesday, May 22, 1923
Presley COLWELL, of Three Rivers, Michigan, Rev. and Mrs. A. T. BRIGGS, LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. Gross BURKETT, Huntington, John GREENSTREET, Louisville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Frank BIDDINGER, Gas City, W. H. HAUCK, Mrs. Etta LEITER and Mr. and Mrs. Donald LEITER, of South Bend, were among the out-of-town people who attended the funeral of W. J. LEITER Tuesday.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1923
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, May 21, 1923
William Jefferson LEITER, pioneer resident of Fulton county, who came here with his parents in a covered wagon in 1854, died at his home on West Eighth street Saturday evening following a long illness, which had confined him to his home for a number of weeks. Death was caused by old age and complications. He was 83 years of age.
Mr. Leiter was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 17, 1840. Five years later his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John LEITER, Jr., started westward and took up a homestead on the south bank of the Tippecanoe river near where Leiters now stands. The ford at the river here was given its name by Mr. Leiter's parents who built a rude shanty there shortly after arriving. They simply placed four posts in the ground and nailed the boards on them.
Later they constructed a second and more permanent home, building it of Tamarack logs. For many years it was known as the Tamarack Hotel and here Mr. Leiter as a young man worked on the farm helping to clear the land and make it tillable. He attended the district school and later went to Valparaiso College and upon returning spent several years teaching school in this vicinity. He was married on December 27, 1805, to Ellen A. HICKMAN, who was born in 1841 in Fulton county.
On January 21, 1877, along with Clark HICKMAN he took over the Potawatomie Mills in Rochester, which stood where the Erie Elevator is now located. Water power from the old canal was used and the mill soon became one of the best and largest in Northern Indiana. Frederick PETERSON later on bought out Mr. Hickman and the mill then went under the firm name of LEITER and PETERSON. In 1896 the building burned to the ground and for some time afterwards Mr. Leiter was interested in the bank which grew into the U. S. Bank and Trust Co. In 1898 he erected another elevator on the site of the old one and since that time has been active in charge until a few months previous to his death. Altogether he was in the grain business 46 years.
He was always active in other affairs being a lifelong democrat and as such served on the school board several terms and as many years on the town board. He was actively identified with the Methodist church in Rochester for nearly half a century. He first joined the church sixty-five years ago. He was a trustee of the church when the location was changed from Main street to its present location at Jefferson and Seventh streets. As a trustee he helped erect the building preceding the present one, the dedication of which occurred in 1881.
He remained a trustee with the present edifice and took an active part in its erection in 1917. Regretting to give up the old structure in which he had worshipped so long, nevertheless he gave hearty support to the new movement and was well satisfied with the results in the present beautiful and commodious structure. He had his regular seat which he occupied in the old and in the new, and was always present as long as health permitted. For twenty years he taught a class in the Sunday school without a break. No interest of the church was without his support.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leiter, two of whom, Clyde [LEITER] and Leslie [LEITER], with their mother preceded the deceased. Those who survive are William C. [LEITER], Fred [LEITER], Delia [LEITER] and Mae [LEITER] of this city; Charles [LEITER] of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs. Jennie GREENSTREET, of Louisville, Ind. Three brothers, Eli [LEITER], Franklin [LEITER] and Jeremiah [LEITER], have passed on and one sister, Mrs. Lydia BIDDINGER, of Tiosa, one half-sister, Mrs. Margaret BENNETT, of Kewanna, and one half-brother, John [LEITER], also of Kewanna, survive.
Funeral services at the Methodist church at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. F. O. FRALEY in charge, with burial at I.O.O.F. cemetery.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Tuesday, May 22, 1923
Presley COLWELL, of Three Rivers, Michigan, Rev. and Mrs. A. T. BRIGGS, LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. Gross BURKETT, Huntington, John GREENSTREET, Louisville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Frank BIDDINGER, Gas City, W. H. HAUCK, Mrs. Etta LEITER and Mr. and Mrs. Donald LEITER, of South Bend, were among the out-of-town people who attended the funeral of W. J. LEITER Tuesday.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1923
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Monday, May 21, 1923
William Jefferson LEITER, pioneer resident of Fulton county, who came here with his parents in a covered wagon in 1854, died at his home on West Eighth street Saturday evening following a long illness, which had confined him to his home for a number of weeks. Death was caused by old age and complications. He was 83 years of age.
Mr. Leiter was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 17, 1840. Five years later his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John LEITER, Jr., started westward and took up a homestead on the south bank of the Tippecanoe river near where Leiters now stands. The ford at the river here was given its name by Mr. Leiter's parents who built a rude shanty there shortly after arriving. They simply placed four posts in the ground and nailed the boards on them.
Later they constructed a second and more permanent home, building it of Tamarack logs. For many years it was known as the Tamarack Hotel and here Mr. Leiter as a young man worked on the farm helping to clear the land and make it tillable. He attended the district school and later went to Valparaiso College and upon returning spent several years teaching school in this vicinity. He was married on December 27, 1805, to Ellen A. HICKMAN, who was born in 1841 in Fulton county.
On January 21, 1877, along with Clark HICKMAN he took over the Potawatomie Mills in Rochester, which stood where the Erie Elevator is now located. Water power from the old canal was used and the mill soon became one of the best and largest in Northern Indiana. Frederick PETERSON later on bought out Mr. Hickman and the mill then went under the firm name of LEITER and PETERSON. In 1896 the building burned to the ground and for some time afterwards Mr. Leiter was interested in the bank which grew into the U. S. Bank and Trust Co. In 1898 he erected another elevator on the site of the old one and since that time has been active in charge until a few months previous to his death. Altogether he was in the grain business 46 years.
He was always active in other affairs being a lifelong democrat and as such served on the school board several terms and as many years on the town board. He was actively identified with the Methodist church in Rochester for nearly half a century. He first joined the church sixty-five years ago. He was a trustee of the church when the location was changed from Main street to its present location at Jefferson and Seventh streets. As a trustee he helped erect the building preceding the present one, the dedication of which occurred in 1881.
He remained a trustee with the present edifice and took an active part in its erection in 1917. Regretting to give up the old structure in which he had worshipped so long, nevertheless he gave hearty support to the new movement and was well satisfied with the results in the present beautiful and commodious structure. He had his regular seat which he occupied in the old and in the new, and was always present as long as health permitted. For twenty years he taught a class in the Sunday school without a break. No interest of the church was without his support.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leiter, two of whom, Clyde [LEITER] and Leslie [LEITER], with their mother preceded the deceased. Those who survive are William C. [LEITER], Fred [LEITER], Delia [LEITER] and Mae [LEITER] of this city; Charles [LEITER] of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs. Jennie GREENSTREET, of Louisville, Ind. Three brothers, Eli [LEITER], Franklin [LEITER] and Jeremiah [LEITER], have passed on and one sister, Mrs. Lydia BIDDINGER, of Tiosa, one half-sister, Mrs. Margaret BENNETT, of Kewanna, and one half-brother, John [LEITER], also of Kewanna, survive.
Funeral services at the Methodist church at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Rev. F. O. FRALEY in charge, with burial at I.O.O.F. cemetery.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Tuesday, May 22, 1923
Presley COLWELL, of Three Rivers, Michigan, Rev. and Mrs. A. T. BRIGGS, LaPorte, Mr. and Mrs. Gross BURKETT, Huntington, John GREENSTREET, Louisville, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Frank BIDDINGER, Gas City, W. H. HAUCK, Mrs. Etta LEITER and Mr. and Mrs. Donald LEITER, of South Bend, were among the out-of-town people who attended the funeral of W. J. LEITER Tuesday.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1923
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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