This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography: Hess, DeHoff, Dosch, Dean, Homshire, Mulford, Ellenwood, CHARLES F. HESS is one of the progressive businessmen of the younger generation in Fort Wayne, where he was manager of the Select Tire Service, Inc., the well-equipped headquarters of which are established at the corner of Wayne and Clay streets. Mr. Hess was born at Avilla, Noble County, Indiana, November 12, 1890, and is a son of Adam and Emma (DeHoff) Hess, the former of whom was born in that county, January 21, 1854, and the latter of whom was born at Swan, that county, February 28, 1865. Adam Hess, whose death occurred in the City of Kendallville, Noble County, April 8, 1915, was reared on the old home farm in that county and received the advantages of the public schools of the period. In his youth he learned the trades of carpenter and cabinetmaker, which he first followed at Avilla and later in the City of Kendallville, where he was associated with the McCray Refrigerator Company during a period of about twenty years. His five children survive him. His first marriage was with Miss Amelia Dosch, who died at the birth of her only child, and subsequently was solemnized his marriage to Miss Emma DeHoff, who survived him by nearly fourteen years, her death having occurred February 26, 1929. Adam Hess was a son of George and Magdalene (Dean) Hess, who were born in Germany and whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania. George Hess was reared and educated in his native land and was about nineteen years of age when he came to the United States and established his residence in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Indiana in 1848 and gained pioneer honors in Noble County, where he became a substantial farmer and where he remained until his death, in 1889, the death of his widow having occurred in 1894, and both having been earnest communicants of the German Lutheran Church. Mrs. Emma (DeHoff) Hess was a daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth (Homshire) DeHoff, whose marriage occurred in Ohio, whence they came to Noble County, Indiana, in the early ‘60s. Mr. DeHoff was born in Pennsylvania and his death occurred on his farm in Noble County, Indiana, in 1876, his widow having survived him by many years and having been of venerable age at the time of her death, in 1900, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The early education of Charles F. Hess was acquired in the public schools of Avilla and Kendallville, Noble County, and after completing his studies in the high school in the latter city he was a student two years in Northern Ohio University, at Ada. There after he passed two and one-half years as a traveling salesman for the H. K. Mulford Drug Company, and gave eighteen months of similar service in connection with the drug department of the Armour Packing Company, Chicago. In 1917, shortly after the nation entered the World war, he volunteered for service in the United States Army and was given assignment to the aviation corps, with which he was in service at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, when the armistice brought the war to a close, he having received his honorable discharge November 25, 1918. There after he passed a year in Akron, Ohio, where he pursued a course of study and had practical experience that gave him authoritative knowledge of the automotive tire business. March 15, 1920, he came to Fort Wayne and engaged in the tire business, under the title of Charles F. Hess Company, and January 1, 1929, he organized and effected the incorporation of the Select Tire Service, of which he continued, general manager until January 1, 1931, and which is one of the leading concerns of this kind in this part of Indiana, its substantial business being based on effective and invariably reliable service. The handsome headquarters of the corporation are established in an attractive building of white brick and here 11,400 square feet of floor space are utilized. The concern is represented in membership in the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Hess has membership in the exchange Club. Mr. Hess is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party and was city manager of the Hoover campaign in Fort Wayne in the national election of 1928, while in 1929 he was made representative of the Eleventh yard on the Republican city committee of Fort Wayne. He was nominated in May 1929 and elected Councilman of the Eleventh ward, being one of two Republicans out of nineteen members on the city ticket elected. On September 3, 1929, he was appointed supervisor of the census for the Third Indiana Census District, which is the Twelfth Congressional District, covering six counties. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Hess is a past master of Home Lodge, No. 342, A. F. and A. M., his maximum York Rite affiliation with the Fort Wayne Commandery of nights Templars, and he has membership in Cadessia Grotto of the Veiled Prophets, of which he was Monarch in 1930, besides being affiliated with the American Legion of which he is Past Commander of Murchland Post No. 320 at Monroeville, Indiana. December 13, 1917, marked the marriage of Mr. Hess to Miss Clare Ellenwood, who was then a teacher of art in the Fort Wayne public schools, and the two children of this union are Joan, born December 21, 1920, and James C., born February 18, 1927. The family home is maintained at 3321 Hoagland Avenue.