Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

was declared the nomonee amid outbursts of enthusiasm. We copy the followng concnrnwig the nominee from “Biographical Sketches of Members the 1 diana State Government, 1885-

MARTIN T. KREUGER, Representative from Laporte, Was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, Nov. 10, D 53 His parents immigrated to America in 1864, ami settled in Michigan Citv, Laporte county, where they still reside. bringing with them their nine children. The parents being very poor and the family large, every child was obliged to work as soon asjable, and attend shool only when no work could be obtained. Martin left home to work for farmers in Laporte county when thirteen years of age, doing chores for his board and going to school during the winter months when he could get no work for pay. He afterwards worked in machine shops and on railroads in Michigan Gity until 1872, when he went to Ill! nois and resumed farming, working for fanners in Lasalle, Lee and Bureau counties; returning to Michigan City in the fall of 1877, when he engaged in the real estate and insurance business there, in which he is still engaged. Ho was elected City Clerk of Michigan City in 1879, on the Democratic ticket, over the incumbent of that offia , who was supported by the Republicans and bolting Democrats, by a majority of 236—a1l the other candidates on his ticket being beaten. He was re-elected in 1881 without opposition, and again elected in 1883 th’s time d-fe ting his fusion opponent by a majority of 781, th> largest majority ever given in Michigan City to any candidate for any office, again be mg -.he only candidate on the straight Democratic ticket who was elected. He was*for a time editor and proprie’or of theFreie Presse, a German paper pu lished in that city, but has since merged with another papei published in the county. He was elected as a Representative from Laporte county at the last election, in which capacity he has distinguished himself as being a young man of well marked ability; vhile not an eloquent debater, one of the wittiest