Henry W. Eversman

HENRY W. EVERSMAN, of New Knoxville, former manager of the plant of the Auglaize Tile Company of that place, formerly engaged in the retail meat business there and a substantial landowner of this county and former farmer, now living practically retired, is a "Buckeye" by birth and has lived in this state all his life. Mr. Eversman was born on a farm in Van Buren township, in the neighboring county of Shelby, December 24, 1866, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Wierwille) Eversman, both of whom were born in Germany and had come to this country with their respective parents in the days of their youth, the latter having been about fifteen years of age when she came here, a member of the well known Wierwille family, among the pioneers of the New Knoxville neighborhood. William Eversman was five years of age when he came here with his parents, Frederick Eversman and wife, the family settling on an uncleared woodland farm in Van Buren township, south of New Knoxville, in Shelby county. There he grew to manhood and it was in that same neighborhood that after his marriage he established his home on a farm, ninety acres of the old home place and on that place he continued to make his home until his retirement and removal to New Knoxville, where his last days were spent. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Anna and Elizabeth, and four brothers, Benjamin, Louis, Ernest and Herman. Reared on the home farm in Van Buren township, Henry W. Eversman received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and continued farming with his father until the time of his marriage, when he rented the place from his father and started in farming on his own account. Four years later he moved up into Auglaize county and rented a sixty-acre farm in Washington township and there established his home. Six years later he bought that farm and continued to farm the place until in 1908, when he became one of the organizers of the Auglaize Tile Company of New Knoxville, was made manager of that concern and moved to the village. For four years, Mr. Eversman continued engaged in the tile business and then he sold his interest in the company and bought the local meat market, which in association with his elder son he continued to operate until he sold his interest in 1917. It was in that year that he erected his present attractive and modern dwelling house at New Knoxville and he has since been living there practically retired from the active labors of life, though giving a good deal of personal attention to his old home farm, and is in a position to "take things easy," as the saying goes. Henry W. Eversman married Caroline Lutterbeck, daughter of W. H. and Elizabeth Lutterbeck of New Knoxville, and to this union five children have been born, three of whom are living, namely: Ferd, now living at Madison, S. D., who married Zella Fledderjohann and has one child, a daughter, Jeannette ; Julius, who married Selma Kuhlman and is now living at Lima, and Sylvanus Eversman, now deputy county treasurer of Auglaize county. Mr. and Mrs. Eversman are Republicans and are members of the Reformed church of New Knoxville, the congregation of which Mr. Eversman now is serving as a trustee, a member of the committee engaged in the remodeling of the church and as a member of the church council.