History of Auburn, (DeKalb County) Indiana United States of America

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Horace Addison Hoffman, educator, was born at Auburn, Ind., July 30, 1855: Son of Joshua Josiah and Caroline Catherine (Imhoff) Hoffman. He attended the country schools, summer normal schools at Waterloo and Auburn, and the Auburn high school; taught scholl, 1872-77; and was graduated from Indiana university in 1881. He was a graduate student in classical philology at Harvard, 1883-85, was elected professor of Greek in Indiana university in 1885, and dean of the departments of liberal arts in 1894. He was married, June 13, 1888, to Anna Harriet Bownlan, of Monticello, Ind. He was elected a member of the American Philological society in 1880. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Harvard university in 1884. He travelled and studied in Greece in 1890, and prepared with David Starr Jordan a catalogue of the fishes of Greece, with notes on the names now in use and those employed by classical authors, which was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1892).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles A. O. McClellan, representative, was born in Ashland, Ohio, May 25, 1835; son of William and Eliza (Wiggins) McClellan, natives of New Jersey, and of Scotch-Irish descent. He attended the district schools and in 1856 removed to Auburn, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1860 and engaged in practice at Auburn. He became connected with the banking business in 1868, and was elected president of the First National bank of Auburn and of the De Kalb bank of Waterloo. He was judge of the 40th circuit court of Indiana, 1887-89, and was a Democratic representative from the twelfth Indiana district in the 51st and 52d congresses, 1889-93. He died at Auburn, Ind., Jan. 30, 1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor