Biography of  Walter R. Hose, pages 707/708.  History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Walter R. Hose

It is an agreeable task for the biographer to contemplate the life 
record of a person who is making a success of life and who has won the 
confidence and respect of this fellow citizens.  Such is the record, 
briefly stated, of the well known agriculturist whose name appears 
above, than whom a more highly respected or popular man it would be 
difficult to find within the limits of the locality where he has his 
home and where he is held in the highest esteem by a large circle of 
friends and admirers. 	Walter R. Hose was born in DeKalb county, 
Indiana, on September 3, 1891, and is the son of Solomon and Ida 
(Swartz) Hose. The father was a native of Summit county, Ohio, and his 
father, also named Solomon, was a native of Maryland.  The subject’s 
father followed farming all his life and came to DeKalb county in an 
early day, settling in Wilmington township, where the grandfather died 
a number of years ago. The subject’s father, who died on May 30, 1908, 
gave practical evidence of his patriotism by enlisting during the war 
of the Rebellion in Company H, Eighty-eight Regiment Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry, with which he served during most of that struggle, giving 
faithful an valiant service to his country.  He was afterward a member 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics was a Republican. To 
him and his wife were born three children, George Ernest, Walter R. and 
Gladys Elizabeth.  Walter R. Hose was reared under the parental roof 
and early gave his father assistance it the operation of the home farm.  
He received his education in the common schools of his locality and on 
attaining mature years applied himself to agricultural pursuits, in 
which he is still engaged.  He now owns and operates the old home 
place, comprising eighty acres of land, practically all of which is 
cleared and under cultivation, and he is giving due attention to the 
maintenance of the fertility of the soil, with the result that, he is 
reaping abundant returns for his labor. 	On December 28, 1912, Walter 
R. Hose was united in marriage with Alta Farner, the daughter of Jacob 
and Roena (Treman) Farner, he a native of Wyandot county, Ohio, an she 
of DeKalb county, Indiana.  Mr. Farner, upon leaving his native state, 
first went to California, where he was for a time engaged in the lumber 
business, but eventually he returned to DeKalb county, Indiana, where 
he has since made his permanent home.  Politically, the subject of this 
sketch gives his support to the Republican part, in the success of 
which he is deeply interested, but he has not aspired to public office 
of any nature.  Though among the younger farmer of his community, Mr. 
Hose has already earned the confidence and esteem of his fellow 
agriculturists, for he has evinced those qualities which are bound to 
win success in any vocation.  Personally, he is genial and unassuming, 
a splendid companion and good conversationalist, and in the social 
circles in which he and his wife move they enjoy a well deserved 
popularity.



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