Rev. A.M. Hootman
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The following unidentified newspaper article (ca. 1904) was found in a scrapbook owned by Betty Burton of Lowell:
- Rev. A.M. Hootman of Logansport delivered two sermons at the Christian church Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Hootman is a good speaker and his sermons were well received.
The following information came from the Souvenir Album of Lake County, 1906, found at the Lowell Public Library
A.M. Hootman was born in Jeromeville, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1857. During his infancy his parents moved to Defiance County, Ohio, where young Hootman grew to manhood amid the forest, on the farm and in the blacksmith shop. At seventeen years of age, he taught his first school. He attended a select school, Hicksvills high school, Bryan College and Valparaiso University, graduating in two courses.
He married Miss Carrie Elliott of Defiance, Ohio, in 1883, that year teaching at Aurora, Ill., in Jenning's Seminary. His first wife bore him one child, Claudia, and after four years of married life died. He was again married to Miss Delia Simpson, a teacher in Eureka, Ill., now the mother of his four children. Mr. Hootman was a teacher seven years in the Metropolitan Business College of Chicago. He served four years as police judge of Western Springs; two years as secretary of the Board of Education of that village in Cook Co., Ill. He was pastor and evangelist at Valparaiso two years; pastor at Lowell, Ind., four years; at Union City, Ind. four years; at Towanda, N.Y., Broad Street Church, two and one-half years; at Logansport, Ind., three years; he was president of the State Missionary Society in New York two years; president of the Second, Fourth and Sixth districts in Indiana. He is a graduate of Welmer's School of Suggestive Therapeutics, and is at present secretary and director of the South Bend Life Insurance Company at South Bend, Ind.
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