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Surnames: SCHEETZ, Wetli, O’Brien, McLaughlin, Fitzgerald, Bonner, Alerding, Barrett,
Noll,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: SCHEETZ, Wetli, O’Brien, McLaughlin, Fitzgerald, Bonner,
Alerding, Barrett, Noll,
REV. LEO A. SCHEETZ has made a record of earnest and constructive service in the
priesthood of the Catholic Church and is now director of Catholic charities in the Diocese
of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with headquarters at Fort Wayne. Father Scheetz was born on the
parental home farm near Earl Park, Benton County, Indiana, July 15, 1896, and is a son of
John B. and Mary G. (Wetli) Scheetz, the former of whom was born at Upper Sandusky, Ohio,
June 20, 1856, and the latter in the Earl Park community of Benton County, Indiana, March
19, 1864, their marriage having been solemnized November 10, 1882, and their home being
now maintained at 713 North Street in the City of Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. Of the
children the eldest is John B., Jr., who was born November 11, 1884, and who is now a
substantial farmer near Camden, Carroll County. In August, 1912, he married Miss Margaret
O’Brien, and their children are: John B. III, Leo, Mary, Joseph, Monica, Eva and Paul.
William L. wa!
s born May 11, 1886, and is now a prosperous farmer near Plymouth, Marshall County, his
marriage to Miss Edith McLaughlin having occurred in 1914 and their children being Mary,
Teresa, Catherine and William L., Jr. Joseph, who was born September 7, 1888, is a farmer
near Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. February 22, 1922, marked his marriage to Miss Nellie
Fitzgerald and they have two children, Mary Helen and Dorothy Marie. Eva, who was born May
10, 1890, is now Sister M. Genevieve of the Order of Sisters of St. Francis, with
headquarters at Lafayette, Indiana. She entered this Catholic sisterhood in 1908 and
professed in 1915. She has received college degrees and is well equipped for her present
service in normal teaching, she being now assigned to such service at Gallup, New Mexico.
Helen, who was born in 1892, entered the convent of the Sisters of St. Francis, at
Lafayette, in 1912, has received collegiate degrees and is now a teacher in a church
school in Omaha, Nebraska. C!
harles A., who was born in 1894, engaged in farm enterprise in Alberta, Canada, in 1915,
and is now a resident of the City of Vancouver, he being still a bachelor. Rev. Leo. A.,
of this review, was next in order of birth. Catherine P., who was born April 11,
1898, is an office employee in Lafayette, where she remains at the parental home.
Genevieve L., born June 5, 1900, remained a member of the parental home circle and
was employed as an insurance adviser until her marriage to Joseph F. Bonner, of Lafayette,
in November, 1930. It has already been noted that Rev. Leo A. Scheetz was born on a farm
near Earl Park, Benton County, in the year 1896, and in the spring of 1900 the family home
was established on a farm near Fowler, the county seat. In 1901 he became a student, with
his older brothers and sisters, in the Catholic parochial school at Fowler, and daily
trips were made to and from the home farm, four miles distant. After he had completed the
work!
of the grades and had received one year of high school training the ambitious young
student was, through the instance of the parish priest, Father Dhe, sent to St. Joseph’s
College at Rensselaer, where he continued a student during the period of 1911-15 and made
a record of completing the work of the first and last college years within the four years,
two years less than the prescribed period. In September, 1916, he entered Mount St. Mary’s
Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he completed his philosophical and theological courses
under the direction of some of the most able of Catholic educators. May 21, 1921,
Father Scheetz was ordained to the priesthood, at the hands of Rt. Rev. H. J.
Alerding, D. D., in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne, Indiana. He
read his first mass in St. Boniface Church, Lafayette, and thereafter he served as
assistant to Rev. Father Barrett of All Saints parish, Hammond, Indiana. A few months
later!
he was appointed chaplain of the Fort Wayne Orphan Asylum, where he remained three years
and did his part in effective improvements in buildings and service. At the expiration of
the period noted Rt. Rev. J assigned him. F. Noll, D. D., L. L. D., newly consecrated
bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne, to the position of pastor of the parish at Auburn,
Dekalb County, and that of resident chaplain of Sacred Heart Hospital at Garrett, the
latter incumbency having been retained by him and his consecrated service being
supplemented by the deep human sympathy and helpfulness that the nature of his position
involves up to August, 1930. At that time Father Scheetz relinquished the parish and
hospital work in order to take up postgraduate work at the Catholic University of America
in preparation for the new assignment as director of Catholic Charities in his home
diocese. The children of the family of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Scheetz, Sr., have all
accounted well for themselves in the !
varied spheres of service in which they have directed their service, and all were reared
in a home atmosphere of deep religious faith that of the great mother church of
Christendom. The parents sold their farm near Fowler and in the spring of 1919 established
their residence in Lafayette, where they now enjoy the gracious rewards of former
years of earnest endeavor. The son Joseph was in service in the United States Army
in the period of the nation’s participation in the World war, and was assigned to
duty at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, where special attention was given to the manufacturing
of poison gas for war use. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Scheetz are justly proud of the record of
their family, which despite the large number of children, nine, the youngest of whom is
thirty-one, all together with the parents, are enjoying good health, the blessing of hard
work and daily devotion to their Catholic religion.