Standard History of Adams & Wells Counties, Indiana – 1918
Tyndall & Lesh, Pages 483 & 484

ADOLPH LEIMGRUBER

Education and financial assistance are very important factors in achieving success in the business world of today, where every faculty must be brought into play, but they are not the main elements. Persistency and determination figure much more prominently, and a man possessed of these qualities is bound to win a fair amount of success. Adolph LEIMGRUBER, whose name forms the caption for this article, is self-educated and during the latter years of his life he has climbed to a high place on the ladder of achievement. For the past two years he has been a resident of Bluffton, where he is engaged most profitably in the manufacture and distribution of ice, his plant being known as the Bluffton Pure Ice Company.

Adolph LEIMGRUBER was born in Perry County, Indiana, December 30, 1864, and he is a son of Sebastian and Julia Ann LEIMGRUBER, both natives of Switzerland. As a boy Mr. Leimgruber attended the public schools of Tell City and he resided in that place until his marriage in 1889, when he located at Greensburg, Indiana, where he was successfully engaged in the ice business for a period of nineteen years. In 1908 he moved to Attica, Indiana, there erecting an ice plant, which he disposed of four years later. He then settled in London, Ohio, whence he came to Bluffton in November, 1915. Here he purchased the site of the old washing-machine factory from the Mike Long estate and on the same erected a substantial and up-to-date building for the manufacture of ice. The company, of which he is head, is known at the Bluffton Pure Ice Company and it is more than a local enterprise, as ice is shipped to many of the towns and cities adjacent to Bluffton. The plant runs day and night and has an output of twenty-five tons in twenty-four hours. During the short time he has been a resident of Bluffton Mr. Leimgruber has gained a reputation for square and straightforward business methods and his enterprise is a welcome adjunct to the other industries of this section.

In 1889, in Tell City, Indiana, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Leimgruber to Miss Ann Fromer, who was born in Ripley County, Indiana, and educated in the local parochial schools. Sever children were born of this union, one of whom, a son, is deceased. Following are the names of the other children: Herman, Lillian, August, Lawrence, Christena, and Geraldine.

Mr. Leimgruber believes in the principles set forth by the republican party, but in voting maintains an independent attitude, preferring to give his support to the man rather than to the party. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Catholic Knights of America and the Greensburg Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are devout communicants of the Catholic Church, in which faith they have reared their children. Mr. Leimgruber is a man of marked enterprise and his success in life is due to his own well-directed endeavors. He is warm hearted and generous in disposition, is fond of home life and is held in high esteem by all who know him.