Township History
Exchanging Yarns of Yesterday on Cedar Creek Township Farm
The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Monday, August 20, 1917, page 8.
Three of the township’s oldest settlers — Henry Disler and the brothers Dr. John L. and Harrison Kryder — photographed at a reunion on the Kryder farm.
Transcription
Unofficial transcription, prepared from the archive scan for ease of reading, copying, and searching. The printed page is authoritative. Original spelling, punctuation, and paragraphing are preserved. Nothing has been corrected or modernized.
Exchanging Yarns of Yesterday on Cedar Creek Township Farm
[Photograph: three elderly men seated in chairs on a porch against a clapboard wall; the man in the center has his feet drawn up on the rung of his chair.]
Three of the oldest settlers of Cedar Creek township held a little reunion a few days ago at the home of Harrison Kryder, the only one still living near the scene of their boyhood pleasures. The accompanying photograph shows Henry Disler, who lives with a daughter, Mrs. Moses E. Horn, at 1425 Sherman street, this city, at the left Dr. John L. Kryder, a successful practictioner of Kansas City, Mo., is in the center and Harrison Kryder, his brother, is on the left.
One would scarcely suspect that Dr. Kryder is the oldest of the trio and that he is past 84 years. The little trick of his of sitting with his feet on the top round of his chair frequently is difficult for many men thirty years his junior. Mr. Disler is 79 years old and Harrison Kryder is in the 74th year.
It is needless to mention that reminiscences of their boyhood days on Cedar Creek township farms was the principal topic of their conversation although they have kept in touch with each other through all their lives.
Notes
- Who is where. The caption puts Henry Disler “at the left” and then Harrison Kryder “on the left” too. Read with the photograph, the likeliest intent is Disler at left, Dr. John L. Kryder in the center (the man with his feet on the chair rung, as the text describes), and Harrison Kryder at right. The second “left” is almost certainly a typesetter’s slip for “right.” The transcription keeps the text as printed.
- “practictioner” (for “practitioner”) and “reminiscences … was” are as printed.
- The 1911 Good Roads Movement article mentions “Clyder Kryder’s corner” on the Leo-Auburn road. Harrison Kryder belongs to the same family; whether “Clyder” is a relative or a misprint for “Clyde” is not known.
About this clipping
- Source
- The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana), August 20, 1917, page 8.
- Archive
- Newspapers.com, image 29226174 (subscription site). The images and transcription on this page are complete and free to use.
- Copyright
- Published in the United States before 1931 and in the public domain.
- Images
- Cleaned from the archive scan for legibility. The photograph was processed separately, with only a gentle contrast adjustment, so that its tones are preserved.
- Transcription
- Prepared by Robert J. Pfister, October 2026, and checked word by word against a magnified view of the scan.