i. Wilhelmina Catherine Holthouse, born 25 Dec 1838 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 05 Sep 1864 in Decatur, IN; married Conrad Brake 29 Jan 1859 in Decatur, IN; born 30 Oct 1826 in Hemlingin, Hanover, Germany; died 20 Oct 1910 in Decatur, IN.

ii. Peter Holthouse, born 25 Oct 1841 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 01 Nov 1912 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; married Mary Closs 05 Nov 1874 in Decatur, IN; born 1838 in Adams County, IN; died 17 Jul 1893 in Adams County, IN.

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1880 United States Federal Census

about Lena Holthouse

Name: Lena Holthouse

Home in 1880: Decatur, Adams, Indiana

Age: 11M

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879

Birthplace: Indiana

Relation to Head of Household: Daughter

Father's Name: Peter

Father's birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Name: Mary

Mother's birthplace: Indiana

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Marital Status: Single

Race: White

Gender: Female

Household Members: Name Age

Peter Holthouse 39

Mary Holthouse 41

Gertie Holthouse 2

Lena Holthouse 11M

1900 United States Federal Census

about Gertrude Holthouse

Name: Gertrude Holthouse

Home in 1900: Washington, Adams, Indiana

Age: 22

Birth Date: Nov 1877

Birthplace: Indiana

Race: White

Ethnicity: American

Gender: Female

Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter

Father's Name: Peter

Father's Birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Birthplace: Indiana

Marital Status: Single

Residence : Decatur City, Adams, Indiana

Occupation: View on Image

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Household Members: Name Age

Peter Holthouse 58 Bn Oct 1841

Gertrude Holthouse 22 Bn Nov 1877

Lena Holthouse 20 Bn July 1879

Anthony Holthouse 16 Bn July 1883

1900 United States Federal Census

about Gertrude Holthouse

Name: Gertrude Holthouse

Home in 1900: Washington, Adams, Indiana

Age: 22

Birth Date: Nov 1877

Birthplace: Indiana

Race: White

Ethnicity: American

Gender: Female

Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter

Father's Name: Peter

Father's Birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Birthplace: Indiana

Marital Status: Single

Residence : Decatur City, Adams, Indiana

Occupation: View on Image

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Household Members: Name Age

Peter Holthouse 58

Gertrude Holthouse 22

Lena Holthouse 20

Anthony Holthouse 16

1910 United States Federal Census

about Gertrude Holthouse

Name: Gertrude Holthouse

Age in 1910: 32

1910 United States Federal Census

about Gertrude Holthouse

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878

Birthplace: Indiana

Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Father's Name: Peter

Father's Birth Place: Indiana

Mother's Birth Place: Indiana

Home in 1910: Decatur Ward 3, Adams, Indiana

Marital Status: Single

Race: White

Gender: Female

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Household Members: Name Age

Peter Holthouse 68

Gertrude Holthouse 32

Lema Holthouse 30

Anthony Holthouse 26

Amelia Tonnelier 33

More About Peter Holthouse:

Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery

1 iii. Anthony Bernard Holthouse, born 10 Apr 1844 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 31 Dec 1906 in Jonesboro, AR; married Margaret Schoen 24 Aug 1868 in Decatur, IN.

iv. Henry Gerald Holthouse, born 10 Jun 1848 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 02 Sep 1871.

v. Catherine Holthouse, born 10 Feb 1851 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 15 Nov 1927 in Decatur, IN; married Herman Heinrich Brake 06 Jun 1876 in Decatur, IN, St. Mary's Church; born 14 Apr 1847 in Bersenbruck, Germany; died 02 Sep 1909 in Decatur, IN.

vi. John Bernard Holthouse, Jr., born 27 Feb 1855 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; died 23 Jan 1916 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; married (1) Mary Sophia Gast 1880; born 23 Apr 1857 in Louisville, KY; died 21 Dec 1896 in Decatur, IN; married (2) Mary Teresa Rueland 15 Jan 1898 in Decatur, IN; born 16 Jun 1868 in Sauk, WI; died 18 Dec 1953 in Decatur, IN.

Notes for John Bernard Holthouse, Jr.:

Biography of John Bernard Holthouse

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Classification: Biography

Surnames: Holthouse, Gast, McMahan, Reuland

Biography of John Bernard Holthouse

From Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana

Tyndall & Lesh â€" 1918

John Bernard Holthouse was a citizen who established a reputation second to none in point of business success and integrity of character in Adams County. For many years he was a well known and popular druggist, the oldest man in the profession in point of years and experience. He was very popular with everyone who knew him and was regarded in the highest esteem by all and greatly admired for his manly and high ideals. For years he had been a leading figure about the city and on account of his safe and sound judgment his advice was sought on all sides. It was characteristic of him that he followed the light of his own counsels, and while never taking advantage of anyone succeeded in building up a considerable fortune and at the time of his death was one of the largest holders of real estate in the city. But with all his wealth he had always an open hand for the poor and needy, and donated liberally and delighted in seeing others not so fortunate as himself made happy.

John B. Holthouse was born February 27, 1855, on a farm two miles west of Decatur in Adams County. He lacked a month of celebrating his sixty-first birthday. His death followed a long and painful illness and occurred at his home on Third Street in Decatur, January 23, 1916. Mr. Holthouse belongs to pioneer stock in Adams County. His father Bernard Holthouse arrived in Adams County in 1837, and was one of the three or four pioneer Catholic settlers in the county, and one of the original members of St. Mary’s Church, with which the Holthouse family have for many years been identified and to which John B. Holthouse during his life was one of the most liberal contributors. Bernard Holthouse was a native of Hanover, Germany, and came to Adams County about a year after his arrival in this country. He died in Washington Township in 1871.

John B. Holthouse was educated in the district schools, and while his advantages in that direction were somewhat limited he had that intellectual curiosity which makes a man a student all his life and hardly a day of his life but he added something to his acquisition of learning and gained the reputation of being a man of mature wisdom.

At the age of sixteen he went to Decatur and began clerking in the drug store of Doctor Dorwin, one of Adams County’s best known early physicians. He set himself with enthusiasm to the task of learning the drug business, and mastered it and made it a profession. When Doctor Dorwin died Mr. Holthouse was in a position to succeed him in business, and he conducted the old store for many years with different partners. Later he owned and had other drug stores and at the time of his death there was still a Holthouse Drug Company, thought he had had no active connection with it for several years. He was a man of many and varied business interests, and everything he touched seemed to prosper. At Bluffington he started and developed a cement business, which after a few years he sold out at a large profit. He added several store buildings to Decatur, and put up one of the largest and best livery barns in the county on North Second Street. He owned a fine home on North Third Street, and at different times acquired several farm properties both in Ohio and Indiana. At the time of his death he owned a place of 240 acres a mile north of Monroe in Adams County. In polities Mr. Holthouse was a democrat, and was active in his church, and also in the Knights of Columbus and at the time of his death was deputy grand knight of the order.

The position he occupied so long in Decatur and the esteem in which he was held is well reflected in an editorial which appeared in the Daily Democrat at the time of his death. “The death of John B. Holthouse removes from this community a man who has been conspicuous in the banking and business life here for many years. (He was director and vice president of the First National Bank of Decatur.) He was industrious, careful and successful. He watched public officials, studied the workings of the local governmental machinery and had the courage, ability and took the time to advise and assist when and where he could. He accumulated much of this world’s good and while it may not have been generally known was one of the most liberal and charitable men of the city, giving to every worthy cause and always without blare of trumpet, his donation being usually sent in a blank envelope. He met death with the same fearlessness that he met life, realizing for several weeks that he would have time only to arrange his affairs before the summons would come, yet he did not complain and quietly and carefully prepared. There was much in his life to be admired and his death is mourned by many besides his near relatives. It is a fitting tribute that business in Decatur cease during the last services for this good citizen.�

In 1880 Mr. Holthouse married Miss Mary S. Gast of Louisville, Kentucky. She died in Decatur December 21, 1896. She was the mother of eight children, five of whom are still living: Louis, proprietor of the Holthouse Garage at Decatur, married and father of one son and two daughters; Clarence of Fort Wayne, who is married and has three daughters; May, wife of Robert McMahan of Chicago; Felix, who is a farmer east of Decatur and is married; Catherine, who took the veil in 1915 and is now known as Sister Mary Grace of the Order of St. Agnes, a teacher at Victoria, Kansas. On June 15, 1898, at Decatur Mr. Holthouse married Miss Mary T. Reuland, who was born in Sauk County, Wisconsin, forty-eight years ago. She had lived in Decatur for two years before her marriage.

Mrs. Holthouse is of German ancestry. Her father, John Reuland, was born in Luxemberg, Germany, and when twelve years of age was brought to the United States by his parents who located as pioneers in Sauk County, Wisconsin, where they spent the rest of their years and where John grew to manhood and became a farmer. John Reuland married Barbara Liken, who was born in the city of Chicago when that metropolis was chiefly a small rural village surrounded Fort Dearborn. When she was very young her family removed to Southern Wisconsin and her parents spent the rest of their active lives as farmers in Sauk County. John Reuland and wife were Sauk County farmers and he died at the age of seventy and his wife at forty-five. They were very active members of the Catholic Church.

Mrs. Holthouse besides rearing and looking after her large family has done much work in St. Mary’s Church, is a member of the Red Cross Society and is active in St. Vincent de Paul Society. She became the mother of eight children and the six still living are Jessie, John, Margaret, Hugh, Helen and Robert, the last now four years of age. Jessie was educated in the local parochial schools and St. Mary’s College at Notre Dame. John is now a student in St. Joseph College at Rensselaer, Indiana. The other children except Robert are students in the parochial schools.

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1910 United States Federal Census

Name: John B Holthouse

Age in 1910: 55

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855

Birthplace: Indiana

Relation to Head of House: Head

Father's Birth Place: Germany

Mother's Birth Place: Germany

Spouse's Name: Mary T

Home in 1910: Decatur Ward 3, Adams, Indiana

Marital Status: Married

Race: White

Gender: Male

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Household Members: Name Age

John B Holthouse 55

Mary T Holthouse 40

Felix Holthouse 16

Katherine Holthouse 14

Jessie Holthouse 10

Johnnie Holthouse 9

Margaret Holthouse 6

Hugh Holthouse 4

Helen Holthouse 2

More About John Bernard Holthouse, Jr.:

Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery

Notes for Mary Teresa Rueland:

1900 United States Federal Census

Name: Clarence Holthouse

Home in 1900: Washington, Adams, Indiana

Age: 15

Birth Date: Dec 1884

Birthplace: Indiana

Race: White

Ethnicity: American

Gender: Male

Relationship to head-of-house: Son

Father's Name: John B

Father's Birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Name: Mary Born June 1869

Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky

Marital Status: Single

Residence : Decatur City, Adams, Indiana

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Household Members: Name Age

John B Holthouse 45 Born Feb 1855

Mary Holthouse 30

Louis Holthouse 17 Born Jul 1882

Clarence Holthouse 15 Born Dec 1884

Mary Holthouse 13 Born May 1887

Frances Holthouse 9 Born Feb 1891

Pheylic Holthouse 6 Born Jul 1893

Catherine Holthouse 4 Born 1896

More About Mary Teresa Rueland:

Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery

2 i. Johan Bernard Holthouse, Sr., born 05 Aug 1812 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; died 26 Oct 1870 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; married (1) Joanna Catherine Mescher 09 Sep 1837 in Ft. Wayne, IN; married (2) Anna Rolth Brake 13 Oct 1868 in Decatur, Adams Co, IN.

ii. John Herman T. Holthouse, born 24 Mar 1814 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; married Gertrude Lnu; born Abt. 1817.

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1880 United States Federal Census Richmond, Wayne Co, IN

about Barney Holthouse

Name: Barney Holthouse

Home in 1880: Richmond, Wayne, Indiana

Age: 30

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850

Birthplace: Indiana

Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)

Spouse's Name: Minnie

Father's birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Name: F. Gertrude

Mother's birthplace: Indiana

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Occupation: Retail Grocer

Marital Status: Married

Race: White

Gender: Male

Household Members: Name Age

Barney Holthouse 30

Minnie Holthouse 28

Gertrude Holthouse 5

Caroline Holthouse 3

Nora Holthouse 1

F. Gertrude Holthouse 63

iii. Catherine Grethe Holthouse, born 04 Mar 1816; died Abt. 1845.

iv. Anna Maria Gertrud Holthouse, born 14 Nov 1817.

v. Gerd Anton Holthouse, born 09 Jan 1820.

vi. Johan Dirk Holthouse, born 27 Feb 1822.

vii. Mary Elizabeth Holthouse, born 25 Oct 1823 in Bersenbruck, Hanover, Germany; died 30 Dec 1907 in Covington, Kenton Co, KY; married Herman Hericus Anton Overmann 27 Jul 1845 in Old St. Mary's Church, Cincinnati, OH; born 11 May 1817 in Wehbergen, Bersenbruck, Hanover, Germany; died 11 Sep 1888 in Covington, Kenton Co, KY.

Marriage Notes for Mary Holthouse and Herman Overmann:

Marriage

Mary ELIZABETH Holthaus & Herman Henricus ANTON Overmann

Date

example: 12 Apr 1945

Location

City, County, State, Country

Source citations

1835

4 May Age: 11 Immigration

Bremen to New York, NY

1907

30 Dec Age: 84 Death

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky

1908 2 Jan

Burial

Mother of God Cemetary, Kenton County, Kentucky

Cause of Death

Cardiac Aristhima

viii. Maria Catharine Holthouse, born 08 Sep 1826; died 27 Apr 1897 in Decatur, Adams Co, IN.

ix. Mary Anna Holthouse, born 16 Apr 1830.

3 i. Joanna Catherine Mescher, born 15 Feb 1813 in Hertmann/Quadenort, Bersenbrueck, Osanbruck; died 21 Feb 1868 in Washington Township, Decatur, Adams Co, IN; married Johan Bernard Holthouse, Sr. 09 Sep 1837 in Ft. Wayne, IN.

i. Herman Holthouse, born Abt. 1769 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck.

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1850 United States Federal Census Decatur, Adams, IN

about Bernard Henry Holthouse

Name: Bernard Henry Holthouse

Age: 68

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1782

Birth Place: Omdburg

Gender: Male

Home in 1850(City,County,State): Adams, Ripley, Indiana

Household Members: Name Age

Anna Isabel Holthouse 61

Bernard Henry Holthouse 68

Herman Holthouse 81

ii. Maria Catharina Holthouse, born 09 Jul 1770.

4 iii. Johan Herman Bernard Holthouse, born 08 Jul 1772 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; died 11 Dec 1840 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; married Anna Maria Catherina Henrietta Stolle 15 Oct 1811 in Bersenbruck, Osnabruck, Germany.

5 i. Anna Maria Catherina Henrietta Stolle, born 14 Feb 1778 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; died 07 Dec 1840 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; married Johan Herman Bernard Holthouse 15 Oct 1811 in Bersenbruck, Osnabruck, Germany.

6 i. Johann Herman Zuhoene Mescer, born 17 Apr 1765 in Quadenort, Bersenbruck; died 31 Mar 1819 in Quadenort, Bersenbruck; married Maria Catherine Gertrud 22 Jan 1799.

7 i. Maria Catherine Gertrud, born 11 Jun 1782 in Hertmann/Quadenort, Bersenbruck; died 10 Mar 1841 in Bersenbruck; married Johann Herman Zuhoene Mescer 22 Jan 1799.

9 i. Anna Maria Hussman, born 11 Dec 1748; died 07 May 1820 in Hastrup, Parish Bersenbruck, Osnabruck; married Gerd Heinrich Holthuss Jan 1765 in Bersenbruck, Osnabruck.

10 i. Joannes Bernardus Sandbrink, married Maria Catherina Adelheidus Stolle.

11 i. Maria Catherina Adelheidus Stolle, married Joannes Bernardus Sandbrink.