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    JOHN HENRY POHLMAN


    During a period covering a quarter of a century, John Henry Pohlman has been identified with business affairs at Tippecanoe City, where he is now the proprietor of the leading dry goods establishment. Mr. Pohlman was born at New Bremen, Auglaize County, Ohio, May 15, 1857, a son of Henry Herman and Mary (Goke) Pohlman, farming people who passed long and honorable lives in Auglaize County, where they were known as honest, God-fering residents and kind and faithful friends. They were the parents of nine children, of whom five survive: Josephine, the widow of Mr. Juneman, making her home with her brother, John H.; Fred Benjamin, a retired resident of Tippecanoe City; Henry L., formerly a merchant, and now living retired here; Ferdinand, who is engaged in the confectionary business at Knoxville, Ohio; Levi, a resident of Xenia, Ohio, and John Henry. John Henry Pohlman attended the public school at New Bremen, following which he worked on the home farm with his father until he reached the age of twenty years, at that time going to Kansas, where he remained about six months, working as a farm hand. His next location was in Nebraska, where he lived for seventeen years, during the greater part of his time being a general merchant, with stores in several different communities of that state. He returned to Ohio in 1895 and, locating at Tippecanoe City, embarked in the dry goods business, with which he has been connected ever since. He has developed this concern through constantly advancing stages into the largest and best enterprise of its kind at Tippecanoe City and has a large, representative and constantly-increasing patronage. Mr. Pohlman has various other connections of a business nature, and is a Director of the Citizens National Bank of Tippecanoe City, and of the Monroe Building and Loan Association, of this place. As a citizen he has been a supporter of all worthy movements, particularly during the war period when he contributed liberally to the various movements promoted by the Government and local organizations, and the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow-citizens is shown in the fact that he held the office of town treasurer for eighteen years. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Order of the Eastern Star and the Masons, in the latter of which he has attained to the Knights Templar degree, and in all of which orders he is very popular and has numerous friends. Mr. Pohlman’s first wife was Alvina, daughter of C.H. Kuenning, of New Bremen, Ohio. She died March 20, 1900, leaving two children: Roy H., who is assistant cashier in the Citizen’s Bank of Tippecanoe City, and Ethel Louise, the wife of Prof. E.C. Rowe, a well-known educator of Elkhart, Ind. Following the death of his first wife, Mr. Pohlman was united in marriage with Anna, daughter of Thomas Grant, of Tippecanoe City. Mr. and Mrs. Pohlman have had no children of their own, but have reared Mrs. Pohlman’s niece, Dorothy Beel Wagner, who entered their home at the age of three months and who is, at this time, seventeen years of age and completing her education. Five of Mr. Pohlman’s nephews were in the United States forces during the World War.

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