Biography of John Wagner, page 87.  History of Northeast Indiana; LaGrange, 
Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial supervision 
of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. McIntosh.  
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   John Wagner has been a resident of DeKalb County for over half a century, 
spent many industrious years as a farmer and is now enjoying his well merited 
comfort and retirement on his home place in Franklin Township.
   He was born in Germany October 8, 1842, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Jacobs) Wagner.  His parents on coming to America spent a short time in 
Ohio and then settled in Indiana, north of Waterloo, and their last years 
were spent in Franklin Township.  They were buried at Hamilton Indiana.  
Both were active members of the Reformed Church, and the father voted as a 
democrat.
   John Wagner is the only one of eight children still living.  He was 
twelve years old when he came to this country and received most of his 
education in common schools of Germany.  He began earning his own living 
as a youth in DeKalb County and has pursued a straightforward and 
industrious career.
   In 1869 he married Catherine Anthony, who was born in Stark County, 
Ohio, and was educated in the district schools there.  After their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wagner settled on a farm in DeKalb County, and their 
home life uninterrupted until her death more than thirty years later, 1901.  
Mr. Wagner still lives on the home farm of eighty acres. 
   There were seven children, six of whom are still living: Sarilla, wife 
of John Timbleson; Lewis, Minnie E., wife of William Sanders, of Fort 
Wayne; Charles; Clarence, who married Lottie Walter and has five children, 
named Homer, Frank, Bessie, John and Dorothy; and Vernie wife of Glenn 
Moughler, of Wilmington Township.  Mr. Wagner is a democrat in politics 
and has served as a member of the Township Advisory Board of Franklin 
Township.

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