Biography of M. F. Long, pages 765/766.  Memorial Record of Indiana; The 
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1896.

	M. F. Long, County Clerk of De Kalb county, Indiana, is a native of 
Auburn, this State, born June 4, 1849.  His father Michael Long, was a 
native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was a butcher by trade.  From 
Pennsylvania he emigrated to Wayne county, Ohio, an some years later 
crossed the line into Indiana, locating in Auburn, De Kalb county, where 
he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1879, at the age of 
sixty-three years.  He established at Auburn the first meat market in the 
county and conducted the same for a number of years.  The mother of our 
subject, whose maiden name was Catherine Baird, was also a native of 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  She survived he husband only two weeks, and her 
great grief at his loss undoubtedly caused her death.  She left two 
children,---Henry J., a resident of Kendallville, Indiana; and M. F., 
whose name heads this article.
	Our subject received his education in the public schools of his 
native towns and assisted his father in the meat market until he was 
seventeen years of age.  He then engaged in teaching for several terms in 
a district school, and the next three years were employed in the public 
schools of Auburn. From the school-room he turned his attention to dealing 
in musical instruments and for three years represented an organ and piano 
firm, after which he accepted a clerkship in the general store of McQuiston 
& Ralston, of Auburn, serving in that capacity for two years.  He was next 
appointed United States mail agent on the Air Line of the Lake Shore 
Railroad, a year later was transferred to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 
and on resigning his position  purchased an interest in the business of 
McQuiston & Ralston, his former employers, with whom he was associated as 
partner during the next three years. After disposing of his interest in 
this establishment he removed to Butler, in 1885, and for three years 
carried on a meat market, at the end, which time he sold out to Capp 
Brothers and began dealing in ice, making an artificial pond for the 
purpose of furnishing an ice supply. In the meantime he associated himself 
with Messrs. Brown, Culbertson & Boland in the agricultural implement and 
hardware business of Butler, under the firm name of M. F. Long & Company, 
in which line he is still doing a successful business, carrying a well 
selected stock of implements and hardware.
	In 1880 Mr. Long was a candidate for County Surveyor, but was 
defeated by a very small majority. In 1894 he was a candidate on the 
Republican ticket for the office of County Clerk and was duly elected, his 
term to begin October 25, 1896. Fraternally he is identified with both the 
Knights of Pythias and Masonic Societies.
	Mr. Long was married October 8, 1871, to Miss Vianna Stonebreaker.  
After a few brief years of happy married life she was called to the home 
of beyond the river of death, January 17, 1882, at the age of thirty-one 
years.  In the family were four children, three of whom survive the mother, 
namely: Blanche A., wife of Charles H. Felske; Susie Lenore, and Lousie G.  
George M., the fourth born, was drowned while fishing April 17, 1893. On 
the 28th of March, 1885, Mr. Long married Miss Eva Shair, and they have 
one son, Frank E.

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