Public Officials
I continue to find relatives who filled various public official positions. They will be added as time permits.
Anthony KELKER
Great-great-granduncle Anthony KELKER was a late 19th century city councilman
in my home town Fort Wayne, Indiana. With his brother Samuel KELKER,
a Civil War veteran, they were part of the late 19th century community drive to
establish memorials honoring local military heros in city parks. Both were mentioned dozens of times in turn of the century newspaper
articles concerning their adventures as early railroad engineers serving around 50 years. Their father, my great-great-grandfather, David KELKER
ran boarding houses helping feed the laborers as they built the railroads from Pennsylvania to Fort Wayne. Anthony (mispelled)
KELLER is listed on a May 30, 2006 stone plague in the former North Side Park, on the eastern side of Spy Run Creek now a part
of Lawton Park which has a newer Skatepark.
The stone memorial honored Anthony's work establishing the Civil War Memorial at the original October 10, 1894 ceremony representing
the Fort Wayne Park Department. Anthony was recognized as a talented local horticulturist of early 20th century Fort Wayne and
judge of school children's flower shows.
I am working on a paper and PowerPoint presentation to correct his lack of credit in the Fort Wayne park history
as the first parks department commissioner. I found Tramp Art
in New York on their Rustic Art web page has Anthony's photograph
in his turn of the century garden in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Jacob FALLIS
4th great-granduncle Jacob FALLIS was an early 19th century city councilman in Peru, Miami County, Indiana. He was only
42 years old when he died in a tragic accident falling off a roof. Apparently, he continued a sad family legacy of Jacob FALLIS'
who died by their 50's as his father Jacob FALLIS and his uncle, my 3rd great-grandfather, Jacob FALLIS
both died after the 1820 Greene County, Ohio census, with no additional census, land deed, or other documentation appearances.
Jacob's grandfather, my fifth great-grandfather, Jacob FALLIS of Shenandoah County,
Virginia died by his 50's in 1797. The mystery's of these other Jacob FALLIS' causes of death and burial locations may never be
known.
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