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A. R. GARVER A. R. Garver, one of the leading and influential business citizens of Tippecanoe City, was born at New Carlisle, Ohio, in 1860, a son of B. C. and Ruth (Rohrer) Garver. After attending the public schools of his native place, he pursued a course at Wittenburg College, and then began traveling through the West in the interests of the United States Engine and Pump Company. At the end of four years he settled at Tippecanoe City, where he engaged for some years in the manufacture of furniture, and in 1910 organized the Garver Lumber Company, of which he is treasurer and manager, operating in this connection a sawmill at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. Garver is also widely known in financial affairs, and is president of the Citizens National Bank of Tippecanoe City. At present he is chiefly engaged in a business way with the affairs of the Northern Manufacturing Company, of which concern he is president. Mr. Garver has long been identified with public matters, and has been one of Miami county's leading Republicans. In 1914 he was elected to the State senate on the ticket of his party and served capably in that body, and at present is a candidate for nomination for Congress in his district. A progressive and public spirited citizen, he has the interests of his community at heart, and his demonstrated ability, large capacity for executive accomplishment and soundness of view upon questions of public importance have gained him the confidence and support of the people. As a fraternalist he is prominent in Masonry, being a. member of the various Masonic bodies. Mr. Garver married Miss Ida Rohrer, of Tippecanoe City, and three children have been born to this union: Karl R., who is associated with his father in some of his farming and stock raising enterprises in Kansas; Ruth E., the wife of Benjamin Hayward, at El Paso, Tex.; and Jacob C., who was a student at the University of Pennsylvania when he enlisted in the Transportation Corps of the United States Army, trained at Fort Niagara, where he received his second lieutenant's commission, and subsequently saw active service in France. He is. now connected with the Northern Manufacturing Company of Tippecanoe City. Return to the Biography Index Copyright © 1999 by Computerized Heritage
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