Lemont Weekly Observer from Lemont, Illinois • 12

LEMONT OBSERVER SOUVENIR EDITION. lime-stone, well suited for all kinds of work, being easily cut and hardening rapidly upon exposure to the Michael F. Girten. NE of the bright and promising vouna- men of Lemont is Michael LKMONT BTATK BANK. IU Remarkable Showing Throughout a Season of Extreme Financial Depression.

weatner. fj F. Glrten. His parents were Peter The company originally operated six quarries at Lemont, 111., and one and Annie Maria Girten, the former of whom died in 1875. Michael F.

was The Western Stone Company. bf UK WESTERN BTONE was J. organized in the fall of 1889 and purchased the entire plants, including real estate, buildings, machinery and implements of the following companies: The Singer and Tel-cott Stone the Excelsior Stone the Chicago Lemont Stone theCorneau Stone Bodenschatz Earnshaw Stone the Lockport Stone Co. born in Lemont on Sunday, August 80, at Lockpojr, but lias since made two large purchases of quarry property, the first being the valuable lands The German Lutheran Church. tTYIIE German Evangelical Luther-Mfe an St.

Mathews Congregation, of Lemont, waa organised In 1870. but had no place of worship for their own till 1878, when the present church site waa purchased from Singer A Tal-cot or the sum of 91,600. The building which now standi in the rear of the church on the alley, and which had been built for a school house, was then remodeled into a church. In 1874 Rev. W.

Uffenbeck was called YTf HE Lemont State Bank was open W.edfor buiineu Sept. 14. 1891 wXr and since that time ita volume of bnrfneu baa proven bow great was the need of ancb an institution in Lemont. It waa organized chiefly aa the belonging to Horace M. Singer, adjacent to the quarry No.

5. This property of about 280 acres was bought in July 1891 and includes, within it bounds, several fine buildings and a large amount of good farming land. Finding it an advantage to be The company was capitalized for remit of the active effort of cashier 92,000,000 ana commenced active C. G. Birth, whose wi.ie experience business operations on October 1st, and ability ai a financier at once corn minded the confidence of thoae to whom the matter of organization waa nreaented.

and the patronage of the business men of Lemont when the bank waa opened for actual business. The remit waa that atock waa sub scribed for by citizens of Lemont shifts follow: II. B. Morton, r. J.

uuaton, 8. W. Norton, Juliet B. Norton, May R. Norton, J.

G. Bodenschatz, J. McCarthy, II. W. Martin, N.

Eulert, 8. Bhattuck. Peter Fiachbach, F. Nelaon, Jno. 8, Bkarin, Peter Maday, Joaenh Gerhars.

John Btarshak, H. Theii. K. Bnacxkiewicz and 8. Mar- kiewics.

Other and heavier stock-holders are C. O. Berth, cashier; W. G. Press, of Chicago: W.

C. D. Gran nie, Pres. Atlaa National Bank, of Chicago and Hiram Higgins, director of a bank at Galva. IU.

The bank's MICHAEL T. GIHTKN. officers are: J. G. Bodenschatz, president; W.

G. Press, vice-presi dent; C. G. Barth, cashier. 187,1, and at the age of Ore or six years was sent to St Alphonsus school, where he remained for some time, after which he was sent to the Polish school of the Sisters of St Felix near Stevens Point, Mr.

Barth waa born fifty-three years ago in New York city. When the civil war broke ont he waa a resident of St. Joseph, Michigan, and by presidential appointment, an appointment that ream red confirmation by the United States Senate, waa made a staff officer, in which capacity he serv at different times with General Sickles, General Pieraon, General Chamberlain and General Russell, Ilia services were in the fifth and sixth army corps and extended over a period of four years. After four years' faithful aervice aa a staff officer and while at home on an order to GERMAN LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH, to the pastorate. During this period a 1889.

being for the consolidation of await further orders, he waa mustered ont by a special order from the war department. One of the relics of the rebellion, of which Mr. Barth may justly feel proud, is his officer's commission, bearing the signature of Abraham Lincoln. This interesting' document of war bangs over Hart h's private desk in For twenty years Mr. Batfb'has been in the brokerage busineaa and for five years previous to his, coming to Lemont he waa actively connected with one of the leading' national banka of Chicago.

Heifstill a member of the large number of German Lutherans settled in Lemont. In 1875 the congregation bought ground for a cemetery south possessed of lailroad facilities which could not be secured at either Lemont or Lockport, the company arranged for ita second large purchase which it consummated in securing the lands, quarrying machinery and implements of the Joliet Stone and the Crescent Stone of Joliet, 111., which west of the village. The parsonage waa the prqierties bought, one of the largestiitone companies and quarry ownerslo the United States. The Irst president of the company was C.l. Kiinbell, a man who had won a l-putation aa an officer of the Singer 1 Talcott Stone Co.

The active managAient of the company was 4 built in 1877. Since 1884 the building of a new church was discussed renatedly, but before definite steps werPHaken properties were immediately classed, Mraf jracfSa of PhiraiTO. and also JAXS8 IIENXEBBY. Moore, for many years ttft1 fell Lumimt tn tela as quarry Ho. 8 and 8.

Tuts purchase. a member of the Cuicago Mock Ei- ed with the Excelsior Stone added largely totne-fpi arrri n-prti isejf 4 charge of the new Lutheran church on Kimbell was soon compelled Wis. lie staid there long enough to-master the Polish language, and, return 81st and Illlmann St in Chicago. Rev. erty of the company and was.

effect at a cost of $800,000. unt of poor health to give up eVas president, retaining -bow ls interests in the company, and chatige. Mr. Barth's rank in the army was that of a Major. In 1889 he was recommended for appointment as consul to the U.

S. consulate at Chemnitz, Germany, and that he ocenpiea a high place in the esteem of leading business men and men of high official rank in the state and nation, is evidenced by endorsements that were presented in his behalf to the then Secretary of State, James Blaine. One of the docu Charles Koch from Wheaton, 111, succeeded him, in 1880. The building of a larger church having become a necessity the work was commenced early in 1887, in Jan. 1888 the church was dedicated.

The cost of the new church, including church fixtures, bell and moving the old church building, amounted to nearly $10,000. Rev. Koch died here on the 80th of March 1894. The original property of the company was possessed of unexcelled facilities for canal transportation with a fleet of 83 canal boats, stesmers, barges, and, with the added facilities for car business afforded by the Joliet purchase the company is able to take up anything in the atone business, which may offer with a feeling of as-! surance as to it ability to furnish the material. occupying up to the present time a position fj director.

The Company immediately entered upon a successful business experience commending itself to the patronage of therbnilding community for its readyKtentinnto the wants of its cus ing to Lemont, spent one year in the public schools. After this he studied two terms at Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, and came home in 1887. During his school days Mr. Girten was employed in the vacations of three years and for two years thereafter as clerk for Tedens and in this way was enabled to acquire a thorough knowledge of practical business af tomers and its large facilities for pro ducing any kind of stone desired, ments read as follows: "To the Honorable, The Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

Sir: We, the undersigned business men of the city of Chicago, respectfully recommend the appointment of C. G. Barth as consul to Chemnitz." The list of signers is headed by Lyman J. Gage and among the other signers are: C. L.

Hutchinson, Geo. M. Howe, J. fairs. In 1889 the business of Theia St Stare hak was opened on Main street, where Mr.

Girten accepted a position as book-keeper and where he has since remained and is at present engaged. Mr Girten is a notary public, a dealer in city realty, farm lands and insurance. He is also a correspondent of the City Press association, of Chicago. lie speaks English, German and Polish fluently and is a companionable and pleasant gentleman to whom a bright and successful future is assured. Hobbs D.

II. Lincoln, John R. Bens- ley, John H. Dwight, W. 8.

Seaverns, Jas. T. Healey, A. C. Helenholtz, John T.

Rawleigh and J. B. Dutch, all of whom are well known gentlemen of the highest business standing Another document pertaining to the i i it same uusincss, is signed oj r. Zm. Studebaker, C.

B. Farwell, Shelby Cullom and William E. Mason and still another was signed by A. L. Pieraon, late Brevet Major General of the United States Volunteers.

Among other endorsers was II. G. Sickle, late Brevet Major General of the United States Volunteers. These endorsements and all the documents connected with Mr. Barth's application for the consulship went into the hands and were in the keep ing of Mr.

Walker Blaine, Ass't Bee, of State and but for bis untimely, in opportune death, the appointment would certainly nave been made. The directors of the Lemont State Bank are: II. 8. Norton, P. A.

Nel son, J. G. Bodenschatz, C. G. Barth, J.

W. McCarthy and T. J. Huston, of Lemont and W. G.

Press, of Chicago, The able management under which it 13 the business affairs of this institution James Hennebry. CTOMEBODY uid: "You may 7S know of the prosperity of a Lit community by the diameter and size of its meat markets' If this be true then must we judge that the people of Lemont are in an extremely prosperous condition for leaving out the consideration of a half dozen other smaller concerns the market of James Ilennebry is in size large-enough to supply five thousand" people with meat. Mr. Hennehry' market is, by considerable, the largest in the city anil is always sup-. plied with a stock of juicy tenderloins, luscious steaks, tender roasts, fish, fowl and the full line kept only by markets of the fiit class.

Mr. Ilennebry was born in Du Page county three miles northeast of Lemont, in 1868. Nine years ago he came to Lemont and purchased the market then owned by J. II. Laughlin, which he has owned and conducted since that me.

He has served as president of the village board one year, and at the last spring election was elected village treasurer, in which capacity ho still His business is located on Lawrence street Kxtra Copies. No doubt many subscribers of the Obsikvkr will want extra copies of this edition, which may be procured at this office. If you want your friends to know something of Le uiont, send them a copy. have been conducted, has madts it i financial concern of unusual strength Tne official report of Feb. 19, 1894, INTERIOR OF LEMONT STATE BANK.

shows a paid "up capital stock of cash on hand in bank of $36,158.14. with resources of $88, 722.60. In view of the universal financial depression that baa prevail ed for the past year and the compare tively short time that the Lemont State Bank has been in existence, it is At the time of the Joliet purchase, the capital stock of the company was increased from $3,000,000 to $2,850,000 which is the present capitalization of the company. The present officers of the company are B. 1.

Moore, president; M. R. Madden, vice-president; H. L. Draper, secretary.

B. B. Spence is superintendent of the quarries at Lemont and Lockport and George M. Campbell i managor of the Joliet department Persons desiring a tint class loca- cither rough or dressed. The chesper grades of stone produced are the rubble and rough dimension stone, including piers and footings and rough street curbing, of which thousands 'of feet are used yearly by Chicago and neighboring cities and towns.

The higher grades of stone are those which are dressed, including planed flagging and vault covers for sidewalks, sawed ashlar, machine-dressed street curbing, eugine-beds. bond-stones, monument at bates, coping, hitching posts, window sills, carriage steps, caps and beitcvurses. The stone is a magnesian Rev. B. Burfeind, the present pastor came here as his successor from the town of Rich, in this county in May 1889.

Since that time the number of German Lutherans in Lemont and vicinity has rather decreased than increased. There are about 150 German Lutheran families connected with this church. The number of communicants is somewhat over 400. During the last year (1803) 61 children were baptized, 16 confirmed, 9 couples married, 80 persona buried, The perochial school is presided over by l'rof. E.

Petzold and numbers nearly 100 scholars. an excellent showing. The value of such an institution to the citizens and merchants, is slmost beyond computation and that the efforts of Mr. Barth were successful in establishing in this city a bank carefully and intelligently, conducted and worthy of every confidence is a fact that has added greatly to the commercial interests of Lemont. ou for business or factory, address lie Obkkkvkh..