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Surnames: Quackenbush
Classification: Biography
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20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News. January 1st, 1900, page 54.
Clark Quackenbush, Ossian's enterprising baker, was born in 1863 in Union Township,
Wells Co. Indiana, the only son of Thomas W. and Phoebe Quackenbush, both of whom have
passed into the land of promise.
Mr. Quackenbush's ancestry was German, and moral and intelligent "stand-bys"
in the early history of pioneer efforts. The subject of this sketch received his
schooling at this place and at Milford; ill health obliging him to leave much unfinished
that would otherwise have been an ambition and pleasure to acquire. While at Milford,
Indiana, whence his father removed in 1880, the young man had the opportunity to learn the
trade which he has successfully followed all his life. It was at Milford in his
father's grocery and bake-shop that he acquired the taste which determined him in his
choice of a life-labor.
In the year 1880, the present business was established under the name Quackenbush &
Son, and for several years the senior member of the firm struggled on in a small shop
further up in the city. In 1882 the present bakery was erected, the oven built, and
preparations made for supplying the growing trade with fine breads, cakes, groceries and
confectioneries. From this time on the growth of the business was gradual and sure, and
for a number of years the Quackenbush bakery and restaurant was the only one in Ossian,
gaining trade because of its merit and reliability.
In 1899, the death of the senior member of the firm, left the business in control of the
subject of this sketch, and affairs are moving along in a prosperous way under his careful
management. A dwelling house was erected, in close proximity to the shop, by Mr.
Quackenbush, last year, and the property in other ways improved.
Taken all in all Mr. Clark Quackenbush is one of our most reliable, well-to-do business
men.