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Biographical on Joseph H. ShirkHistory of Miami County, Indiana : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1914,) pgs. 543 Joseph H. Shirk, son of the late Milton Shirk, and grandson, of Elbert H. Shirk, was born in the city of Peru, Jan. 6, 1881. He spent his early boyhood in Peru, attended local public schools and then studied four years at Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts From that preparatory school he entered Harvard in 1898, and in 1902 was graduated with A.B. twenty-one years of age at the time he left college, he immediately returned to Peru and entered upon a business career in the large field which the activities of his grandfather and father had prepared for him. He became teller in the First National Bank, and when a year, later his father died, he became assistant cashier and at the same time was made president of the Peru Mercantile Company and vice-president of the Indiana Manufacturing Company. Mr. Shirk for ten years has been one of the most vigorous factors in commercial and financial affairs of this city. In January 1911, he became president of the Peru Trust Company, of which he had been a director since its organization in 1904. Mr. Shirk was married November 16, 1909 to Miss Helen Royce of Lafayette, Indiana. They have one daughter Royse, who was born February 25, 1911. Mr. Shirk is a Republican in politics, and with his family is a member of the Baptist church. Helen Royse Shirk ...was born August 20, 1885, at Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana: was married to Joseph Henry Shirk of Peru, on November 16, 1909; and is the daughter of Frank Royse, late of Lafayette, Indiana, (born May 26, 1861, died February 18, 1904) and Mary Agnes Subline, (born June 4, 1860) who were married June 25, 1884. Peru Mount Hope Cemtery 411 North Grant Street [Peru Twp., Miami Co.] Peru, Indiana SHIRK Joseph Henry 1881 1953 SHIRK Helen Royse 1885 1966   |
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