(from "History of Wabash County, Indiana" by Clarkson Weesner, pub. 1914)
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE
One of the old and honored families of Wabash county whose members have been identified with the commercial and industrial interests of this section for many years is that bearing the name of Whiteside, a worthy representative of which is found in the person of Thomas E. Whiteside. This highly respected citizen, now in the seventy-first year of his age, who with firm step and unclouded mind still walks the streets and attends to his daily routine of affairs, has, during his lifetime in Wabash, witnessed almost its entire development and borne a full share in the startling course of its progress.
Mr. Whiteside was born in Medina county, Ohio, March 23, 1843, and is one of the three children (all living) born to the marriage of William Whiteside and Lucy Buckingham, the former a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and the latter of Connecticut.
William Whiteside was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and his father was Thomas Whiteside, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served in the army of the United States during the second war with Great Britain. William Whiteside worked at his trade in and around Seville, in Medina county, Ohio, and was there married. In 1844, in company with a brother-in-law, John Johnson, he came to Wabash county, Indiana, and here entered 160 acres of land from the Government in Waltz township. He continued, however, to reside in Ohio until 1848, and then moved here and erected a round log cabin with stick-and-mud chimney, and lived in this during the winter of 1848 and 1849, his family having moved here permanently in October of the former year.
Mr. Whiteside was a hard-working man, sober, industrious and jovial, and by reason of his upright life was called upon to occupy local positions of trust. In the spring of 1849 he moved his family into Wabash, and here had a furniture store and cabinetmaker's shop, making by hand all of his goods. He became associated with Peter King in the manufacture of furniture in 1860, having converted the old King mill into a factory for this purpose. In this building they installed what was then the most modern equipment, and this was the first furniture factory in Northern Indiana. After about two years Mr. Whiteside continued the business with other partners, Mr. King having retired from the firm, but eventually, in the latter part of 1865, gave up furniture manufacturing. He then resumed the operation of a furniture store, but soon became interested in a furniture factory at Richmond, although he still resided at Wabash. The great panic of 1873 found Mr. Whiteside, like many other business men of his day, totally unprepared to face such a crisis and the company of which he was such a large owner failed. He suffered heavily, and was compelled to begin his business life all over again, which he attempted to do as a traveling salesman on the road. This he continued until he was unfortunate enough to lose his eyesight, when he was eighty-two years of age, when he was compelled to retire, and he did not long survive this misfortune, dying November 30, 1903, at the age of eighty-three years.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE was reared principally in Wabash, where he received his education in the public schools. He learned two trades, in reality, those of cabinetmaking and finishing, and was engaged in working at these until his enlistment, April 19, 1864, in Company P, 138th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career being passed in Alabama and Tennessee in doing guard duty. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and at once resumed the occupations of peace.
In 1866 he embarked in the buying and selling of lumber, an occupation which he followed until the latter part of 1867. At that time, in company with others, he built a tannery at Wabash, but a short time thereafter disposed of his interest therein to become a clerk in the store of Busick Brothers. He continued thus employed until February, 1874, when he embarked in mercantile pursuits at Lafontaine, and in 1879 he sold out and came to Wabash, where he established himself in a general merchandise business. He retired in 1911, after thirty-one and one-half years of successful operations. The prosperity which attended the conduct of his business attested the sagacity, foresight and financial skill of Mr. Whiteside, whose watchful care and fidelity built up and perpetrated his fortune. He was a merchant bred behind the counter, and although he was always ready to adopt modern ideas which promised to be beneficial he ever maintained his old-fashioned ideas as to the value of the strictest integrity and unassailable honesty and of practicality in all things. Although he is living retired from active pursuits, he has a number of business and financial interests, and is at this time a stockholder and director in the Wabash County Loan and Trust Company. Mr. Whiteside was a Republican until the campaign of 1912, at which time he gave his support to the new progressive party. In fraternal circles he is well known in the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Whiteside was married May 6, 1879, to Miss Hannah Lynn. While no children have been born to this union, they have an adopted child Essie M. Lynn, a niece, whom they have reared since she was eight months old. Mrs. Whiteside is a devout member of the Presbyterian church and has been well known in its work.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE
One of the old and honored families of Wabash county whose members have been identified with the commercial and industrial interests of this section for many years is that bearing the name of Whiteside, a worthy representative of which is found in the person of Thomas E. Whiteside. This highly respected citizen, now in the seventy-first year of his age, who with firm step and unclouded mind still walks the streets and attends to his daily routine of affairs, has, during his lifetime in Wabash, witnessed almost its entire development and borne a full share in the startling course of its progress.
Mr. Whiteside was born in Medina county, Ohio, March 23, 1843, and is one of the three children (all living) born to the marriage of William Whiteside and Lucy Buckingham, the former a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and the latter of Connecticut.
William Whiteside was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and his father was Thomas Whiteside, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served in the army of the United States during the second war with Great Britain. William Whiteside worked at his trade in and around Seville, in Medina county, Ohio, and was there married. In 1844, in company with a brother-in-law, John Johnson, he came to Wabash county, Indiana, and here entered 160 acres of land from the Government in Waltz township. He continued, however, to reside in Ohio until 1848, and then moved here and erected a round log cabin with stick-and-mud chimney, and lived in this during the winter of 1848 and 1849, his family having moved here permanently in October of the former year.
Mr. Whiteside was a hard-working man, sober, industrious and jovial, and by reason of his upright life was called upon to occupy local positions of trust. In the spring of 1849 he moved his family into Wabash, and here had a furniture store and cabinetmaker's shop, making by hand all of his goods. He became associated with Peter King in the manufacture of furniture in 1860, having converted the old King mill into a factory for this purpose. In this building they installed what was then the most modern equipment, and this was the first furniture factory in Northern Indiana. After about two years Mr. Whiteside continued the business with other partners, Mr. King having retired from the firm, but eventually, in the latter part of 1865, gave up furniture manufacturing. He then resumed the operation of a furniture store, but soon became interested in a furniture factory at Richmond, although he still resided at Wabash. The great panic of 1873 found Mr. Whiteside, like many other business men of his day, totally unprepared to face such a crisis and the company of which he was such a large owner failed. He suffered heavily, and was compelled to begin his business life all over again, which he attempted to do as a traveling salesman on the road. This he continued until he was unfortunate enough to lose his eyesight, when he was eighty-two years of age, when he was compelled to retire, and he did not long survive this misfortune, dying November 30, 1903, at the age of eighty-three years.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE was reared principally in Wabash, where he received his education in the public schools. He learned two trades, in reality, those of cabinetmaking and finishing, and was engaged in working at these until his enlistment, April 19, 1864, in Company P, 138th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career being passed in Alabama and Tennessee in doing guard duty. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and at once resumed the occupations of peace.
In 1866 he embarked in the buying and selling of lumber, an occupation which he followed until the latter part of 1867. At that time, in company with others, he built a tannery at Wabash, but a short time thereafter disposed of his interest therein to become a clerk in the store of Busick Brothers. He continued thus employed until February, 1874, when he embarked in mercantile pursuits at Lafontaine, and in 1879 he sold out and came to Wabash, where he established himself in a general merchandise business. He retired in 1911, after thirty-one and one-half years of successful operations. The prosperity which attended the conduct of his business attested the sagacity, foresight and financial skill of Mr. Whiteside, whose watchful care and fidelity built up and perpetrated his fortune. He was a merchant bred behind the counter, and although he was always ready to adopt modern ideas which promised to be beneficial he ever maintained his old-fashioned ideas as to the value of the strictest integrity and unassailable honesty and of practicality in all things. Although he is living retired from active pursuits, he has a number of business and financial interests, and is at this time a stockholder and director in the Wabash County Loan and Trust Company. Mr. Whiteside was a Republican until the campaign of 1912, at which time he gave his support to the new progressive party. In fraternal circles he is well known in the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Whiteside was married May 6, 1879, to Miss Hannah Lynn. While no children have been born to this union, they have an adopted child Essie M. Lynn, a niece, whom they have reared since she was eight months old. Mrs. Whiteside is a devout member of the Presbyterian church and has been well known in its work.
(from "History of Wabash County, Indiana" by Clarkson Weesner, pub. 1914)
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE
One of the old and honored families of Wabash county whose members have been identified with the commercial and industrial interests of this section for many years is that bearing the name of Whiteside, a worthy representative of which is found in the person of Thomas E. Whiteside. This highly respected citizen, now in the seventy-first year of his age, who with firm step and unclouded mind still walks the streets and attends to his daily routine of affairs, has, during his lifetime in Wabash, witnessed almost its entire development and borne a full share in the startling course of its progress.
Mr. Whiteside was born in Medina county, Ohio, March 23, 1843, and is one of the three children (all living) born to the marriage of William Whiteside and Lucy Buckingham, the former a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and the latter of Connecticut.
William Whiteside was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and his father was Thomas Whiteside, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served in the army of the United States during the second war with Great Britain. William Whiteside worked at his trade in and around Seville, in Medina county, Ohio, and was there married. In 1844, in company with a brother-in-law, John Johnson, he came to Wabash county, Indiana, and here entered 160 acres of land from the Government in Waltz township. He continued, however, to reside in Ohio until 1848, and then moved here and erected a round log cabin with stick-and-mud chimney, and lived in this during the winter of 1848 and 1849, his family having moved here permanently in October of the former year.
Mr. Whiteside was a hard-working man, sober, industrious and jovial, and by reason of his upright life was called upon to occupy local positions of trust. In the spring of 1849 he moved his family into Wabash, and here had a furniture store and cabinetmaker's shop, making by hand all of his goods. He became associated with Peter King in the manufacture of furniture in 1860, having converted the old King mill into a factory for this purpose. In this building they installed what was then the most modern equipment, and this was the first furniture factory in Northern Indiana. After about two years Mr. Whiteside continued the business with other partners, Mr. King having retired from the firm, but eventually, in the latter part of 1865, gave up furniture manufacturing. He then resumed the operation of a furniture store, but soon became interested in a furniture factory at Richmond, although he still resided at Wabash. The great panic of 1873 found Mr. Whiteside, like many other business men of his day, totally unprepared to face such a crisis and the company of which he was such a large owner failed. He suffered heavily, and was compelled to begin his business life all over again, which he attempted to do as a traveling salesman on the road. This he continued until he was unfortunate enough to lose his eyesight, when he was eighty-two years of age, when he was compelled to retire, and he did not long survive this misfortune, dying November 30, 1903, at the age of eighty-three years.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE was reared principally in Wabash, where he received his education in the public schools. He learned two trades, in reality, those of cabinetmaking and finishing, and was engaged in working at these until his enlistment, April 19, 1864, in Company P, 138th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career being passed in Alabama and Tennessee in doing guard duty. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and at once resumed the occupations of peace.
In 1866 he embarked in the buying and selling of lumber, an occupation which he followed until the latter part of 1867. At that time, in company with others, he built a tannery at Wabash, but a short time thereafter disposed of his interest therein to become a clerk in the store of Busick Brothers. He continued thus employed until February, 1874, when he embarked in mercantile pursuits at Lafontaine, and in 1879 he sold out and came to Wabash, where he established himself in a general merchandise business. He retired in 1911, after thirty-one and one-half years of successful operations. The prosperity which attended the conduct of his business attested the sagacity, foresight and financial skill of Mr. Whiteside, whose watchful care and fidelity built up and perpetrated his fortune. He was a merchant bred behind the counter, and although he was always ready to adopt modern ideas which promised to be beneficial he ever maintained his old-fashioned ideas as to the value of the strictest integrity and unassailable honesty and of practicality in all things. Although he is living retired from active pursuits, he has a number of business and financial interests, and is at this time a stockholder and director in the Wabash County Loan and Trust Company. Mr. Whiteside was a Republican until the campaign of 1912, at which time he gave his support to the new progressive party. In fraternal circles he is well known in the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Whiteside was married May 6, 1879, to Miss Hannah Lynn. While no children have been born to this union, they have an adopted child Essie M. Lynn, a niece, whom they have reared since she was eight months old. Mrs. Whiteside is a devout member of the Presbyterian church and has been well known in its work.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE
One of the old and honored families of Wabash county whose members have been identified with the commercial and industrial interests of this section for many years is that bearing the name of Whiteside, a worthy representative of which is found in the person of Thomas E. Whiteside. This highly respected citizen, now in the seventy-first year of his age, who with firm step and unclouded mind still walks the streets and attends to his daily routine of affairs, has, during his lifetime in Wabash, witnessed almost its entire development and borne a full share in the startling course of its progress.
Mr. Whiteside was born in Medina county, Ohio, March 23, 1843, and is one of the three children (all living) born to the marriage of William Whiteside and Lucy Buckingham, the former a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and the latter of Connecticut.
William Whiteside was a carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade, and his father was Thomas Whiteside, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served in the army of the United States during the second war with Great Britain. William Whiteside worked at his trade in and around Seville, in Medina county, Ohio, and was there married. In 1844, in company with a brother-in-law, John Johnson, he came to Wabash county, Indiana, and here entered 160 acres of land from the Government in Waltz township. He continued, however, to reside in Ohio until 1848, and then moved here and erected a round log cabin with stick-and-mud chimney, and lived in this during the winter of 1848 and 1849, his family having moved here permanently in October of the former year.
Mr. Whiteside was a hard-working man, sober, industrious and jovial, and by reason of his upright life was called upon to occupy local positions of trust. In the spring of 1849 he moved his family into Wabash, and here had a furniture store and cabinetmaker's shop, making by hand all of his goods. He became associated with Peter King in the manufacture of furniture in 1860, having converted the old King mill into a factory for this purpose. In this building they installed what was then the most modern equipment, and this was the first furniture factory in Northern Indiana. After about two years Mr. Whiteside continued the business with other partners, Mr. King having retired from the firm, but eventually, in the latter part of 1865, gave up furniture manufacturing. He then resumed the operation of a furniture store, but soon became interested in a furniture factory at Richmond, although he still resided at Wabash. The great panic of 1873 found Mr. Whiteside, like many other business men of his day, totally unprepared to face such a crisis and the company of which he was such a large owner failed. He suffered heavily, and was compelled to begin his business life all over again, which he attempted to do as a traveling salesman on the road. This he continued until he was unfortunate enough to lose his eyesight, when he was eighty-two years of age, when he was compelled to retire, and he did not long survive this misfortune, dying November 30, 1903, at the age of eighty-three years.
THOMAS E. WHITESIDE was reared principally in Wabash, where he received his education in the public schools. He learned two trades, in reality, those of cabinetmaking and finishing, and was engaged in working at these until his enlistment, April 19, 1864, in Company P, 138th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career being passed in Alabama and Tennessee in doing guard duty. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and at once resumed the occupations of peace.
In 1866 he embarked in the buying and selling of lumber, an occupation which he followed until the latter part of 1867. At that time, in company with others, he built a tannery at Wabash, but a short time thereafter disposed of his interest therein to become a clerk in the store of Busick Brothers. He continued thus employed until February, 1874, when he embarked in mercantile pursuits at Lafontaine, and in 1879 he sold out and came to Wabash, where he established himself in a general merchandise business. He retired in 1911, after thirty-one and one-half years of successful operations. The prosperity which attended the conduct of his business attested the sagacity, foresight and financial skill of Mr. Whiteside, whose watchful care and fidelity built up and perpetrated his fortune. He was a merchant bred behind the counter, and although he was always ready to adopt modern ideas which promised to be beneficial he ever maintained his old-fashioned ideas as to the value of the strictest integrity and unassailable honesty and of practicality in all things. Although he is living retired from active pursuits, he has a number of business and financial interests, and is at this time a stockholder and director in the Wabash County Loan and Trust Company. Mr. Whiteside was a Republican until the campaign of 1912, at which time he gave his support to the new progressive party. In fraternal circles he is well known in the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council of the Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Whiteside was married May 6, 1879, to Miss Hannah Lynn. While no children have been born to this union, they have an adopted child Essie M. Lynn, a niece, whom they have reared since she was eight months old. Mrs. Whiteside is a devout member of the Presbyterian church and has been well known in its work.
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