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Partner in Bowser, Prentis & Falls, machinery installers
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Daniel M. Falls was a son of Thomas and Barbara (Staufer) Falls, both natives of Germany; his father, a cabinetmaker, came to Fort Wayne in 1843. Daniel learned the blacksmith’s trade and worked at it about two years before becoming associated with the firm in which he eventually purchased an interest — Bowser, Prentis & Falls, installers of machinery, which Griswold calls one of the most important concerns of its kind in northern Indiana. The firm installed the machinery used at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 at Philadelphia, and Falls was in charge of that work. For some time he was also engaged in the rendering business, retiring from that field in 1905. He built his Fort Wayne home in 1863 and lived in it for the rest of his life. He married Margaret Gormely, a native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who died 22 February 1916. He was a charter member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Falls sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.