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Pe [Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, January 9, 1900] PEOPLES’ STORE [Rochester, Indiana] NEW STORE NOW OPEN The Peoples’ store, in the Holeman building, opposite the Arlington Hotel, is now open, and is a store Rochester may well be proud of, and give it patronage. The stock consists of a large assortment of dry goods, notions, shoes, mens furnishings, hats, caps, queensware and groceries, and in fact everything carried in an up to date general store. The proprietors Messers Riggs and Day are both young men. The formerly conducted a similar business at Converse until the gas gave out. They are thorough business men and the SENTINEL is sure the general public will be courteously treated by them. [Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, July 28, 1904] [Adv] [full page ad] THE PEOPLE’S STORE, Rochester, Ind. -- One door North Zook’s Hardware. [Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 14, 1904] [Adv] Are you feeling the pinch of the family shoe bill? - - - - THE PEOPLE’S STORE, Marsh & Belding, 828 Main Street. [The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, June 17, 1930] PERFECT INSULATOR COMPANY [Rochester, Indiana] Also see Rochester Insulator Company __________ SAMPLE ORDERS FOR PERFECT INSULATOR Tom McMahan and Arch Grove, of the Perfect Insulator Company, have returned from Lafayette, where they attended the state telephone convention. While there they displayed the product of the local corporation, a new style insulator, which they state took exceedingly well with the telephone men. They took a number of sample orders from representatives of companies over the state from which it is expected a good business will be derived later. [Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, April 6, 1922] PERKINS, PHILIP A. [Rochester, Indiana] See: Service Men, World War II, Letters (Letter From Philip A. Perkins) PERKINS, SI See: Fruit and Produce Stands PERRY, ARNOLD [Rochester, Indiana] Another murder was that of Arnold Perry, an old bachelor residing on a farm east of the village of Rochester. A nephew followed Mr. Perry into the woods and shot him in the back hoping to secure the farm in order to marry a neighborhood girl. [Earle A. Miller, The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, June 10, 1959] PERRY TOWNSHIP [Miami <strong>County</strong>] SETTLEMENT
Pe James Malcolm was the first white man to lead the march of civilization into what is now Perry Township. He came to the country as early as 1833, and obtaining a small log cabin from an Indian village soon after fixed his home on what is now known as the Jacob Wiles farm, not far from the southeast corner of the township. “He doubtless entered the deep forest, as did the majority of young pioneers, with exultant hopes, looking forward to the time when the dense woods should be cleared away, and when fine farms should appear in their stead.” He lived to see all these changes take place, but, contrary to his expectations, instead of accumulating a competency and living to enjoy the same, was compelled to pass his declining years in the county poor house, where he died a common pauper. The next man who sought a home in the new country was William Akright, who located in the southeast corner of the township, where Ananias Harmon now lives, some time in the year 1834. Mr. Akright was in the true sense of the word a pioneer, and, like his predecessor, was doomed to bitter disappointment, so far as the accumulation of property was concerned, dying in indigent circumstances in the year 1884. His son, John Akright, came the same time, figured as an early school teacher of the township, and later sold goods for a number of years in the village of Gilead. The same year Matthias Moyer settled near the eastern boundary of the township, where he cleared a good farm and set out one of the first nurseries in the county. “Benjamin Musulman and Jacob Gill were early settlers in the same locality, but did not purchase land at that time, both of them leasing a part of Mr. Moyer’s place.” During the year 1835, a number of substantial men were added to the population of the little colony, conspicuous among whom was John Rhodes, who entered a large tract of land near the central part of the township, upon which he lived the remainder of his life. Unlike the majority of settlers in a new country, Mr. Rhodes was a man of considerable wealth, by means of which he was enabled to secure a valuable property and live in comparative ease. His son, Adam E. Rhodes, accompanied him to this country and settled upon the present site of Gilead, of which village he was proprietor. He was a man of great energy and superior business qualifications, and ranked as one of the leading citizens of the county for a number of years. Another prominent settler of 1835 was Ira Mitchell, who located a short distance east of Gilead, on what is now the John Baker farm. John Close came the latter part of the same year and made an improvement near the eastern boundary of the township, and James Waddle is reputed to have been living on the Samuel Seidner place not far from Niconza, prior to 1836. Among others of 1835, were Peter Onstatt, two and a half miles southeast of Gilead; James Fiers, on the Tombaugh farm in the southeast corner of the township; Rev. Wesley Borders, a Methodist preacher and early Justice of the Peace, in the same locality; Joseph Wildman and his son Joseph, near the Keesling farm, southwest of Gilead; Alfred Doud, a half mile west of the village; Charles Cleland, in the vicinity of Dowd’s place; James Cleland, brother of Charles, and an early trader, about four miles southwest of Gilead; James Biggs, northwest of Gilead; Benjamin and David Marquis, on the Sickafoos farm; Willis Hill, on the Graft farm, in the southwest part of the township; Jacob Richard, son-in-law of Alfred, near the central part of the township; John Walters, on the Joseph Grogg farm; John Anderson and Matthias Bird, near Gilead; and James Bunton, who purcased land owned at the present time by Jacob Kessling and Fred Kircher, where he died within a short time after coming to the county. Prominent among the arrivals of 1836 was Peter Kessling, who, the previous fall, purchased the land where Willis Hill had settled, to which he moved his family the following spring. He was a prominent citizen of the township until his death in 1860, and can be appropriately classed with the early reprsentative men of Miami <strong>County</strong>. His sons, Jacob, Titus, Peter, James and Jackson, came the same year, and Samuel a little later. They were all substantial citizens and left the impress of their characters upon the communities in which they resided. Jacob Kessling, the only one of the brothers here at the present time, is one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of the township. Samuel Shoemaker settled in the southeast corner of the township in 1836, and before the close of that year the population had been increased by the following comers: Samuel Essick, on the Timothy Baker farm; Peter Sager, a short distance south of Gilead; Jacob Huffman, in the
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