Biography of Solomon R. Heberling, pages 880 / 881.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Solomon R. Herberling, dealer in agricultural implements, sewing-machines 
and musical instruments, Auburn, Ind., was born near Somerset, Perry Co., 
Ohio, Feb. 7, 1838, the third son of Jacob and Susannah (Wymer) Heberling.  
His mother died when he was eight years old, and his father soon after moved 
this family to Fremont, Ohio, where he was reared on a farm, attending 
school only five months in his life.  He assisted his father till nearly 
twenty-two years of age, when, in the fall of 1859, he left home and with 
eight others went to Tennessee as agents of Dr. Gunn’s medical work.  They 
divided the territory, and he and three others commenced work in Obion 
County.  The John Brown trouble at Harper’s Ferry had just taken place, and 
there was a strong prejudice in the South against Northerners, and when 
about to deliver the books they had sold in Jacksonville, one man raised a 
mob and demanded their departure.  Their gentlemanly bearing won them many 
friends, and after some excitement they were allowed to remain three weeks, 
and during that time many who were bitterly opposed to them, became their 
warmest friends.  Their party disbanded, and with one associate he returned 
to Indiana, arriving at Evansville, March 1, 1860. While traveling through 
Kentucky, they paid their expenses by selling fluid lamps.  Finding no 
territory in Indiana, they went to Missouri, but there met with the same 
opposition as in Tennessee, and, not wishing to pass through the same 
trouble, returned to Indiana penniless.  He worked a month on a farm near 
Evansville, and then engaged in book canvassing in Vanderburg and Pose 
counties and in three months sold between $1,700 and $1,800 worth of books, 
receiving half as his commission.  In August he went to Vernon, Ind., where 
he was taken with typhoid fever and was sick ten months.  He had but $100 
left, when he started for his father’s house, and all but $15 of this was 
taken from his pockets while on he way.  He was taken with a congestive 
chill on the boat and was unable to proceed.  Finally he reached his 
uncle’s at Lima and remained there three weeks, arriving home Jan. 21, 
1861.  Oct. 21, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Seventy-second Ohio 
Infantry, for three years, but was discharged July, 1862, on account of 
disability.  He participated in the battle of Shiloh.  He returned to 
Fremont, and after his recovery bought a farm and remained on it till 
1871, when he began traveling for J.I. Case & Co., of Racine, and was in 
their employ till November, 1883, having charge of Ohio, Indiana and 
Kentucky.  He was then employed by the Snyder Wagon Company till March, 
1884, when he became established in his present business in Auburn.  Mr. 
Heberling was married Dec. 4, 1881, to Mrs. Sophronia Alderman, of Van 
Wert County, Ohio.  He is a member of the City Council of Auburn.  He is a 
prominent Odd Fellow, a member of Helena Lodge, No. 592, and Thompson 
Encampment, No. __, Helena, Ohio.  He is also member of De Long Post, No 
67, G.A.R.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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