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Standard History of Adams & Wells Counties, Indiana – 1918
Tyndall & Lesh, Pages 483 & 484
ADOLPH LEIMGRUBER
Education and financial assistance are very important factors in achieving success in the
business world of today, where every faculty must be brought into play, but they are not
the main elements. Persistency and determination figure much more prominently, and a man
possessed of these qualities is bound to win a fair amount of success. Adolph Leimgruber,
whose name forms the caption for this article, is self-educated and during the latter
years of his life he has climbed to a high place on the ladder of achievement. For the
past two years he has been a resident of Bluffton, where he is engaged most profitably in
the manufacture and distribution of ice, his plant being known as the Bluffton Pure Ice
Company.
Adolph Leimgruber was born in Perry County, Indiana, December 30, 1864, and he is a son of
Sebastian and Julia Ann Leimgruber, both natives of Switzerland. As a boy Mr. Leimgruber
attended the public schools of Tell City and he resided in that place until his marriage
in 1889, when he located at Greensburg, Indiana, where he was successfully engaged in the
ice business for a period of nineteen years. In 1908 he moved to Attica, Indiana, there
erecting an ice plant, which he disposed of four years later. He then settled in London,
Ohio, whence he came to Bluffton in November, 1915. Here he purchased the site of the old
washing-machine factory from the Mike Long estate and on the same erected a substantial
and up-to-date building for the manufacture of ice. The company, of which he is head, is
known at the Bluffton Pure Ice Company and it is more than a local enterprise, as ice is
shipped to many of the towns and cities adjacent to Bluffton. The plant runs day and
night !
and has an output of twenty-five tons in twenty-four hours. During the short time he has
been a resident of Bluffton Mr. Leimgruber has gained a reputation for square and
straightforward business methods and his enterprise is a welcome adjunct to the other
industries of this section.
In 1889, in Tell City, Indiana, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Leimgruber to Miss Ann
Fromer, who was born in Ripley County, Indiana, and educated in the local parochial
schools. Sever children were born of this union, one of whom, a son, is deceased.
Following are the names of the other children: Herman, Lillian, August, Lawrence,
Christena, and Geraldine.
Mr. Leimgruber believes in the principles set forth by the republican party, but in voting
maintains an independent attitude, preferring to give his support to the man rather than
to the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Catholic Knights of America and the
Greensburg Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are devout
communicants of the Catholic Church, in which faith they have reared their children. Mr.
Leimgruber is a man of marked enterprise and his success in life is due to his own
well-directed endeavors. He is warm hearted and generous in disposition, is fond of home
life and is held in high esteem by all who know him.