Henry C. Paul and Samuel M. Foster — the organisers

1871 · 1886 · 1905

Some founders are remembered as the second name on the charter: Henry C. Paul co-founded the Horton Manufacturing Company in 1871 with John Claus Peters — Peters is profiled in the People sections; Paul is not — and Horton built the first contained washing machine into a national brand. Paul appears again in this record as president of the Fort Wayne Electric Works in 1899, in the Jenney Electric succession. Samuel M. Foster organised on two fronts: he was one of the local stockholders who incorporated the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company in October 1886 — his fellow promoters were Charles S. Bash, who is profiled in the People longtail, William J. Vesey, Charles McCulloch, George W. Beers and Christian Hettler — and in 1905 he co-founded the German American National Bank on Court Street with the Ohio banker Theodore Wentz, the bank that renamed itself Lincoln National Bank in 1918. One Allen County Genealogical Society page dates the bank's charter 1906; the bank's own 1906 book and the tower histories give 1905, and both dates stand in the Business record.

Sources:

1. Businesses — "Horton Manufacturing Company" (the 1871 co-founding; Paul's 1899 Fort Wayne Electric Works presidency, via the Jenney Electric entry), "Home Telephone and Telegraph Company" (the 1886 promoters) and "German American National Bank" (Foster and Wentz; the 1905/1906 charter dates stated side by side).
2. Notable People — the Charles S. Bash profile, cross-referenced.