ABRAHAM R. GARVER, a leading business man of Tippecanoe City, carrying on a large manufacturing enterprise, is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Tipp Furniture Company. He was born on a farm nine miles west of Springfield, Ohio, and is a son of Benjamin C. and Ruth Garver.

Abraham Garver, the paternal grandfather, came to Clark County, Ohio, from Maryland, in 1831. By trade he was a farmer. At that time his son, Benjamin C., was a child of two years. He was reared in Clark County and continued to reside there until 1885, when he moved to Harper County, Kansas, which continues to be his home.

To Benjamin C. Garver and wife were born eight sons and three daughters, and of this family but two are deceased, Elizabeth and Ruth. The survivors are; John N., residing at Springfield, Ohio, where he is engaged in the real estate business; Abraham R., of Tippecanoe City; Frank R., who is an electrical engineer with the Westinghouse company at Pittsburg; James L., who carries on an insurance business at Richmond, Indiana; Walter D., residing also at Richmond, engaged in the flour and feed business; Edward: L., who is interested in lumber in Minnesota; George G., who is a farmer and stock dealer in Harper County, Kansas; Clara E., who is the wife of Ora J. McDowell, of Shattuck, Oklahoma; and Arthur C., who is a farmer residing near Shattuck.

Abraham R. Garver obtained his education in the public schools, Wittenburg College and Nelson's Business College, after one year of commercial training, in 1883, accepting a position as traveling salesman for the U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Company. He left the road in 1888 in order to enter into the manufacturing business at Troy, Ohio, and from there came to Tippecanoe City in 1889, since when he has been officially identified with the Tipp Furniture Company. This concern is a stock company, having a capital of $20,000, and is one of the most prosperous and important business enterprises of Tippecanoe City. The well equipped manufacturing plant utilizes a large brick structure and occupies 25,000 square feet of floor space and gives constant employment to a skilled force of some forty--five men. The output is bed room suits, dressers, chiffoniers and wash stands. Mr. Garver has been a very active business citizen for the past twenty years and is financially interested in other enterprises than the one mentioned, and is a director in the Citizen's National Bank of Tippecanoe City.

In 1887 Mr. Garver was married to Miss Ida Rohrer, who is a daughter of Jacob Rohrer, of this city, and they have three children: Ruth E., Karl R. and Jacob C. He belongs with his family, to the English Lutheran Church and is a member of the church council. In his political views he is a Republican but has never been willing to assume the duties of public office. He is prominent in Masonry, belonging to Tippecanoe Lodge No. 174, F.& A.M.; Reed Commandery No. 6; Franklin Chapter No. 24; and Antioch Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Dayton.