Alvah Edmund Mogle, deputy state inspector of weights and measures, with home and headquarters at Terre Haute, is a man of varied and interesting experience, has been a farmer, has been in various lines of commercial endeavor and has given many years to public affairs in different county and municipal offices.

He was born on a farm in Fulton County, Indiana, July 16, 1864, a son of Thomas and Mary Jane (Sparks) Mogle. His grandfather, Jacob Mogle, spelled the name Mokel and was of German ancestry. The maternal line is of English ancestry. Thomas Mogle was born in Marion County, Ohio, and was brought to Indiana when a boy, while Mary Jane Sparks was born in this state, and her father, Rev. Jesse Sparks, was widely known as a pioneer Methodist Episcopal minister. Thomas Mogle and wife were married in Fulton County, located on a tract of unimproved land, which he cleared up and made into a farm, and was identified with its cultivation until his death in 1896. The mother passed away in 1913, at seventy-one. Of their five children three are living. Mary Frances is the widow of Adam Grube, of Fulton County, Indiana. Orpha, the youngest of the children, is the wife of Ernest Reimanschneider.

The boyhood days of Alvah Edmund Mogle were spent on the old farm in Fulton County. The training he received in the local schools was supplemented by a thorough course in the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute, and he also attended a business college. In 1883 he married Miss Mamie Miller, daughter of Elias and Amanda Miller, of Fulton County, Indiana. Mrs. Mogle is a graduate of the State Normal School of Terre Haute and has been very active in club and social life. She is state secretary of the Ladies' of the Grand Army of the Republic.

After his marriage Mr. Mogle took up farming and also taught school in Fulton County during winter terms. About 1890 he came to Terre Haute, taught school in this city one term, and then for fourteen years was in the local post office. He was also connected with various county offices, including the county treasurer, the county auditor, and the county assessor's offices. For one summer he was engaged in general construction and contracting work. Mr. Mogle was appointed to his present office of deputy state inspector of weights and measures in August, 1914, and brought to his duties unusual qualifications and has given exceptional service.

For twenty-seven years he has been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. and Mrs. Mogle have one daughter, Leila B., wife of Walter S. MacNabb. Mr. and Mrs. MacNabb are at present in India, where Mr. MacNabb is connected with the Tata Iron & Steel Company.

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This gentleman, who is the present very efficient Trustee of North Bend Township, Starke County, Indiana, may be justly regarded as one of the enterprising, reliable and substantial citizens of the county, in the affairs of which he has always shown a decided interest, and which he has aided, both by money and influence. He was born in Monroe County, Ohio, April 11, 1854, a son of Michael and Margaret (Baker) Exaver, who came from Germany to America many years ago, the father's attention throughout life being devoted to tilling the soil. George W. Exaver was a resident of his native county until he had reached the age of twelve years, when his parents removed to Indiana, settling in Fulton County, where George grew to manhood and learned the details of farming. He attended the common schools in the vicinity of his rural home for two or three months during the year, but as at that day, they were not conducted in a very commendable manner, his progress in the paths of learning was not as rapid as it otherwise would have been. In February, 1881, he moved and settled on a farm of eighty acres in North Bend Township, Starke County, Indiana, and on this farm he has since continued to make his home, although he has, through industry and good management, greatly improved it in the way of buildings, fences, etc., and put it in a high state of cultivation. In 1888 he was elected a Trustee of his township, and, at the expiration of two years, was re-elected for four years, which term will expire during 1895. He has been an efficient and competent official, as his long tenure of office would indicate, and has many friends among those who differ, as well as among those who agree with him politically. On the 24th of September, 1878, he led to the altar Miss Samantha Pontions, a native of Fulton County, Indiana, and settled on a farm in Fulton County, Indiana, and, on the 6th of February, 1884, bought land in and moved to Starke County, Indiana. By his wife he has six children, as follows: Mary A., George W., John A., Charles F., Frank L., and Philomena .J., the latter of whom died April 18, 1894. Mr. Exaver is a member of the K. O. T. M., at Monterey, Indiana, and is M. A. of Tent No. 69. The principles of the Democratic party have always found in him a warm and active supporter and he has always been a patron of causes calculated to benefit the section in which he makes his home. He and his wife are worthy members of the Catholic Church.

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