David Woodling born February 20, 1815, in Union County, Pennsylvania;
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Jacob Theobald. For a number of years Jacob Theobald has been recognized as the leading contractor and builder of Peru and is one of the most prominent and influential citizen, taking an active part in municipal affairs. He was born in Bavaria on the 19th of August 1839, his parents being Peter and Catherine (Licht) Theobald. In 1849 the father accompanied by his wife and his four children, crossed the Atlantic to the New World, and after a residence of a few months in the city of Syracuse, New York, removed to Wisconsin, locating on a farm in the eastern part of Washington County, in the fall of 1849. Peter Theobald was an industrious and energetic farmer and highly esteemed citizen. In 1878 he and his wife spent several months in visiting at the home of their son Jacob in Peru, and when on the return trip in the fall of that year the father was taken ill. He never recovered, dying two weeks after reaching home. His wife survived him about five years and died in Brown County, Wisconsin. Adam Theobald, a brother of our subject, came to America prior to the emigration of the family, and engaged in contracting and building in Peru until his death, which resulted from a fall from a building in 1871. He left two children, a son and a daughter. The former, John Theobald, is a resident of Peru, and the latter, May, is now living in Illinois. Peter Theobald, who resides in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and Jacob, of this review, are the only surviving members of their father's family. There were also two sisters, Catherine and Margaret, but both have been dead for a number of years.
Jacob Theobald remained on the home farm until his twenty-second year, but from early boyhood had manifested special aptitude in the use of tools, and now turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, in which he soon attained a high degree of proficiency. After working at the trade for three years he began contracting and building on his own account, and since 1861 has been connected with the building interests of Peru. He has long been recognized as the leading contractor of the city and he has erected the greater number of the fine buildings on Broadway and on other streets under contract. He employs experienced and reliable workmen, always faithfully lives up the terms of the contract and has the confidence and therefore the liberal patronage of the public. Many of the best buildings of Peru stand as monuments to his skill and industry, and the pleasing appearance of the city is due in no small measure to his efforts. In connection with his building interests he is also President and the Chief Stockholder of the Standard Cabinet Manufacturing Company, extensive manufacturers of various forms of woodwork, including that for sewing machines and show cases. He is a man of resolute purpose and sound judgement, and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes; but not only does prosperity crown his efforts, for he has also manifested such trustworthiness and uprightness in all business transactions that he has the unlimited confidence of all with whom he has been brought in contact.
Mr. Theobald has been twice married. He first wedded Miss Mary Scheuerman, a native of Germany, who died in 1873. Three children were born in that union-Edward, Catherine and May, but the son died in infancy. The present wife of Mr. Theobald bore the maiden name of Martha C. Keyl, and is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but at the time of their marriage was living in Michigan. Four children grace this union: Ernest, Oscar, Clara and Martha, the last two being twins. They have a pleasant home at No. 203 West Third Street, and their circle of friends is very extensive.
In politics Mr. Theobald has always been a stalwart Democrat since casting his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas in 1860. Firm in support of the party principles he does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his party and is one of its leading members in Peru. He is now a member of the city council and is serving his seventh consecutive year in that body, while on two previous occasions he was also alderman. He is now chairman of the Tax Committee and for five years was chairman of the Finance Committee. In this official capacity he gives a zealous support to all progressive measures for the public good and his aid and influence have secured many needed and valued improvements in the city. Endowed by nature with a sound judgement and an accurate, discriminating mind, he has not feared that laborious attention to business so necessary to achieve success, and this essential quality has ever been guided by a sense of moral right which would tolerate the employment only of the means that would bear the most rigid examination, by fairness of intention that has neither sought nor required disguise.
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Marshall, a lady of remarkable talent residing on section 9, Washington Township, Cass County, near Logansport, has inherited a grand physical and mental constitution which has enabled her to endure an immense amount of trouble. Her husband died some years ago, leaving her ten children and a farm of eighty acres encumbered heavily with debt and even with adverse claims to the title; but with the business tract and heroism which characterized her noted father, she has been able to keep the farm and bring up her numerous children in good style. Like her father, also, she has an excellent voice, which, had it been cultivated by masters, would have made her a prima donna.
Her children are: Ida May, who is now the wife of Frank Morton, of Oklahoma, and has one child, named William Thomas; Charles D., of Logansport, who has one child, Raymond; George Dexter, who has two children-June and Mildred E., and lives in Logansport; Oliver, who also is a resident of Logansport; and Teressa, Mary Elizabeth, Francis A., William Oscar, Richard Henry and U. Valentine-all at their parental home.
David Woodling, father of Mrs. Marshall, was born February 20, 1815, in Union County, Pennsylvania; and his father, John Woodling, was a native of Germany who married Susanna Hendricks, a native of the Keystone State and also of German ancestry. David received a good school education and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he was an expert and made money. When twenty-four years of age he emigrated to Bucyrus, Ohio, where, March 22, 1827, he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Jane Aurant, also a native of Union County, Pennsylvania, born January 9, 1820. Her parents, Jonathan and Susan (Whittenmyers) Aurant, were natives of the same country and also of German ancestry. Removing to Crawford County, Ohio, in 1827, they passed there the remainder of their lives.
Mr. David Woodling after his marriage removed first to Darwin, Illinois, and soon afterward to Terre Haute, Indiana, where Mrs. Woodling built an excellent residence for the time, which is still standing upon the old farm. In this the family resided for a period of forty years, during which time not a death occurred in the family. The wilderness was cleared away by the vigorous hand of Mr. Woodling, whose industry and good judgement enabled him to "hew out a home" amid the surrounding wilderness.
Some time after his settlement here he purchased one hundred acres near the river on section 33, Washington Township, three miles from Logansport, to which point he moved in March 1878, and where he passed the remainder of his life, dying on the 16th of April 1882. He was a pious and prominent member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church who could give a good "reason for the faith that was in him." The church for some time held their meetings in the Woodland Schoolhouse, which was named after him. Having an excellent voice and being a good singer, he generally led in the musical devotions of the congregation and also taught singing-school. He was a gentleman of fine appearance, dressed well, and among strangers was sometimes taken for a clergyman. Being liberal, he also aided all the churches in his community, besides being the poor man's friend generally. His home was the headquarters for social gatherings and religious meetings, where everybody was welcome; and every one knew that at his house "the latchstring always hung on the outside of the door." Occasionally there would be as many as thirty at dinner at his house at one time, but the supply furnished by that liberal man seemed never to be exhausted. Politically he was strong Republican.
His wife survived until May 19, 1894, then passing away to the invisible world, a sincere and worthy member of the Lutheran Church.
The children of David and Margaret Woodling may be enumerated as follows: Thomas Jefferson, born June 28, 1839, now resides in St. Louis, Missouri; James Harvey, born November 14, 1841, lives in Tipton Township, Cass County; Reason L., born November 12, 1843, resides in Washington Township; Martha J., born February 27, 1846, died March 13, following; William F., born July 10, 1847, is now a resident of Washington Township; Ann Elizabeth, the subject proper of this sketch, born November 19, 1848; Maria S., born August 29, 1850, lives in Iowa; John I.., born August 19, 1852, died April 7, 1854; Henry D., born September 20, 1854, is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri; Sarah E., born August 27, 1856, is at the asylum; Samuel P., born May 25, 1858, occupies the old farm near the river; Mary Margaret, born June 2, 1861, is deceased; George Jonathan, born March 11, 1863, is a carpenter following his trade in Cass County; and Charles Ulysses, born May 21, 1867, is a resident of Jackson Township, Cass County.