Biography of Edward O. Little, pages 486/487/488. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914. Edward O. Little was born in Auburn, Indiana, on March 1, 1879, and is the son of Henry E. and Sylvia (Orr) Little. Henry E. Little was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Andrew Jackson and Amanda (McDowell) Little. Amanda McDowell, who was born at Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Robert and Mary (Roth) McDowell, and accompanied her parents on their removal to Columbia and thence to Williamsport, where her marriage occurred. Andrew Jackson Little was a native of Columbia, Connecticut. After his marriage he remained at Williamsport for some years, being engaged in his young manhood as a teacher in the college at that place. During the same period he devoted all his leisure time to the study of law, acquiring a fine legal education. He was admitted to the bar and developed into a most successful lawyer, practicing extensively in the Pennsylvania supreme court. He was a man of force and strong personality and was especially strong as a pleader before court and jury. He practiced for many years in Pennsylvania, but in 1860 he was induced to go to Coldwater, Michigan, where he met with great financial reverses. Soon afterward he moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil war, when he moved to Auburn, continuing in his law practice there. About 1880 Mr. Little suffered an attack of typhoid fever, from the effect of which his health was permanently injured and there after he relinquished his law practice, living retired until his death, which occurred in 1884. He left a widow and four children: Andrew Jackson, William, Henry and John Conger. Henry E. Little, after completing his common school education, learned the printing trade at Auburn and accepted a position in the office of the Auburn Courier, of which he became foreman at the time when the office was owned by James Barnes. Later Mr. Little bought a paper at Hicksville, but soon afterwards sold out and he and his brother, Andrew Jackson Little, started the Garrett Clipper. He was a strong and forcible writer and a courageous newspaper man and was not afraid to speak the truth regardless of fear or favor. He and his brother developed the paper into one of the best newspapers of the community, with a large circulation, but they eventually sold the paper, though later Henry and his son, Tracy Little, bought it back and ran it until Henry Little’s, death which occurred on July 27, 1905. Sylvia (Orr) Little, wife of Henry E., was the daughter of Edward and Rachel (Updike) Orr. Rachel Updike Orr was born in 1833 and traced her ancestry back to Louis Jansen op Dyck, a Hollander who came to America before 1653, and located at Albany, New York. He was descended from the nobility in Holland and through them from the ancient races that warred with the Romans, his ancestry being traced to Henric, who was born in 1261 of a knightly family. Rachel Updike Orr’s father was John Updike, who was the son of George Updike, a son of Esquire Luther Updike, the latter a justice of the peace in Kingwood, Alexandria and Hunterdon counties, New York, and for fifty years was an associate judge of the common pleas court, and was an ensign in the war of Revolution, having served through the greater part of that struggle. He was a man of ability, prominently connected with public affairs, well to do in his finances and a successful and popular preacher in the Baptist church. An uncle of Rachel Orr, George Updike, was a prominent man in New York city, and was active in procuring Lincoln’s nomination, he himself being elected mayor of New York city. Sylvia (Orr) Little died at Auburn, Indiana, May 14, 1910. Edward O. Little was reared in Auburn and graduated from the high school in 1897. During the following five years he served an apprenticeship to the jeweler’s trade under the direction of D. A. Hodge, at that time a jeweler in Auburn. Mr. Little then engaged in business on his own account in a small way at Garrett, where he remained nine months, and in 1903 removed to Auburn, opening a store in a small frame building on Main street between Seventh and Eighth streets. He prospered in his venture and in the following March he moved his store to his present place of business on the north side of Seventh street, just west of Main, where he has been in business ever since. He carries a large and well selected stock of jewelry and altogether has a store that is a credit to the city. He is a good workman and has always enviced a desire to thoroughly please his patrons. Mr. Little is a Democrat in politics and to him belongs the distinction of having served in an elective public office longer than any other person served in Auburn up to this writing. He was elected city clerk of Auburn in the spring of 1904, and has been twice elected to succeed himself. The discharge of his important duties has been characterized by the utmost faithfulness and ability and he has been repeatedly urged to stand for re-election, but had refused to allow his name to be used again. He has been prominent in local political affairs, and for four years, from 1904 to 1909, he served as secretary of the Democratic county committee and for the last four years has been a member of the executive committee of the organization. Fraternally, he has been a member of the Knights of Pythias since 1900, and has held various official positions in the order, having served as past chancellor, keeper of records and seal and master of work. He is also a member of the Masonic order, in which he has attained every degree up to the fifteenth degree of the Scottish Rite. Mr. and Mrs. Little are members of the Presbyterian church. On October 21, 1903, Mr. Little was united in marriage to Gertrude C. Caruth, the daughter of Davis E. and Cornelia C. (Lockwood) Caruth, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Little was born at Walkerton, Indiana, on September 1, 1879, and in her childhood accompanied her parents on their removal to Auburn, where she has lived ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Little are the parents of two sons, James Edward, born April 21, 1906, and Robert Henry, born December 23, 1908. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com