Adam J. Endly
Squire Adam J. Endly died at an early hour this morning at his lodgings in College Place. Squire Endly some time ago was seized with an attack of paralysis from which after many weeks he apparently recovered and for a month past he had been able to be about and attend to the duties of his office. Sunday he was seized with a second attack and the announcement this morning that this venerable man had departed from the world's toils and cares was quite unexpected, for Squire Endly was about the streets in apparent good health Saturday. Adam J. Endly was born near Connersville, Pa., July 12, 1815. He was a son of John Endly, who removed to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he permanently resided. At the age of ten years the deceased began working in a dry goods store owned by his uncle, George Endly, at New Lisbon. In 1832 he engaged in the dry goods business with his brother, Henry Endly, at New Lisbon, and at the expiration of four years he sold his interest and with his uncle, George Endly, engaged in the hardware business. In 1844 Mr. Endly came to Mansfield and being impressed with the thrift and growth of the town located here in November of that year and opened a hardware store in the Teegarden block and continued in that business until overtaken by financial reverses in 1865. In 1874 he was elected a justice of the peace of Madison Township and being a man of fair and honest judgment he was re-elected at the expiration of each term and continued in the office until his death. Back in the forties Mr. Endly was for four years treasurer of Madison Township, in the fifties served four years in the city council and helped lay out Central Park which was then called the Public Square. Mr. Endly was a delegate to the convention at Baltimore when Henry Clay was nominated for president and coming from the Whig school he became a Republican and always believed in the principles of that party, although he was not a rabid partisan. He was twice married, his second wife surviving him. His three surviving children are Anthony B. Endly of Hastings, Neb., Mrs. E.E. Tanner of Pittsburg, Pa., and Mrs. F.S. Pershing of Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa. Funeral services at College Place Wednesday at 4 p.m., burial private.
From RICHLAND SHIELD & BANNER: June 1, 1895, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 3