Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1899 — A Good Piece About the Honan Boys. [ARTICLE]

A Good Piece About the Honan Boys.

From the Master Hand of Congressman Charley Landis. Delphi Journal’s Man on the Corner. Ed P. Honan, of Rensselaer, has been visiting old friends in Carroll county for several days, spending most of his time with his aunt, Mrs. Ed Honan, south of town. Mr. Honan has just graduated from the Indiana Law school, and will carry with him to his home in Rensselaer a sheepskin of whioh he may well feel proud. Ed Honan and his brother "Jim,” as he is familial ly known here, are two boys whose careers have been watched and will continue to be watched by the people of Delphi with more than usual interest. Both were born in the humblest circumstances. Ed first saw the light of day in a little house in the bottoms near the Deer Creek bridge. Jim was born in the old Delphi house, which is known as Jim Lunney’s stave factory. Ed learned telegraphy and spent three years in railroading. He saved his dollars, and finally located in Rensselaer and engaged in mercantile business. He married and has one child. He secured the confidence of his neighbors, and during the last Cleveland administration served as Postmaster, and at nights and at odd moments when he wasn’t stamping letters or licking postage stamps, he was reading law. A year ago he went to Indianapolis, matriculated, entered the law sohool and won his diploma in a year. And to emphasize his success he was elected class marshal and class orator and delivered the class oration at the alumni banquet at the English hotel in Indianapolis last week. He will hang out his shingle either in Rensselaer or Indianapolis, and he hasn’t a friend who is one bit uneasy as to his suocess. James H. or “Jim” as he is known here, worked on a farm, sold books and fruit trees and pursued whatever honest avocation would bring in the most dollars. He went to Toronto and graduated from a veterinary college, practiced in that profession for two or three years, taking a post graduate course in iJew York, was appointed inspector at the Hammond stock yards in ’93, read medicine and attended lectures in Rush Medical college, Chicago, and graduated from that institution in 1895. He practiced in Hammond for a year. On the morning of April 4, 1896 he married Mary McMahan, principal of the high sohools at Warsaw, and on the afternoon of the same day he and his bride started for Berlin. They both entered the University of Berlin. The lectures as well as the 'text books were in German, but Jim mastered German as well as medicine and in ten months he secured a diploma from that institution, something no other American boy has ever done. His wife has since graduated from the institution in art and letters. He has opened an office in Berlin and has practiced medicine in that city for two years. Among his patients are Ambassador White and others prominent in the American colony. He still pursues his studies, however, and has now had three years under Virchow. He has especially fitted himself for a chair in some good institution and as he expects to return to America he will be known in his profession on this side of the Atlantic and no where will he be watohed with more interest or more pride than by the people of Delphi. Six fine, full blood, Poland China boars, for sale.

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F. W. BEDFORD.