James Mayer Labach ¹

  General Notes:

James was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census in Hamilton Co., OH. James M. LaBach is listed in the 1900 Census for Hamilton County, Ohio, Miami township, page 84A, as a white male Presbyterian minister, age 54, born June, 1845. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Virginia. His wife is Cornelia E. LaBach, a white female, age 44, born in Indiana whose parents were also born in Indiana. She has been married 30 years and has had three children of which two are currently living. The couple is renting a home.

James was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census in Hamilton Co., OH. James M. LaBach is listed in the 1910 Census for Hamilton County, Ohio as a white male, minister of the Presbyterian Church, age 64, with wife Cornelia E., age 57, and son Paul M., civil engineer, age 36. James M. was born in Pennsylvania as was his father. His mother was born in Virginia. Cornelia E. was born in Indiana as was her father. Her mother was born in Kentucky. Paul M. was born in Indiana. James and Cornelia were married 39 years. Cornelia had 3 children with 2 living. The family was renting their home. James Mayer LaBach served in the Union Army from Pennsylvania during the Civil War with the rank of Sergeant and participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Antietam, South Mountain, Chancellorsville and others. After the Civil War he became a Presbyterian minister and served churches in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. He was the Pastor of the Crittenden Presbyterian Church in Grant County, Kentucky around the turn of the century. After the Civil War he changed the spelling of his name from Laubach to LaBach for reasons not now known. Copy of obituary notice. Publication and date unknown. Clipping in papers of Paul Mayer LaBach.

DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY

Rev. James M. LaBach, D.D., of Hanover, Ind., died on Nov. 1st, after several years of invalidism, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was born in Chambersburg, Pa., June 6, 1845, graduated at Lane Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1870 by the Presbytery of Whitewater. His charges were at Leavenworth, Ind., Morris, Ill., Amboy, Ill., Burlington, Kan., Geneva, O., Knoxville, Tenn., Crittenden, Ky., Cincinnati North Church, Cleves, O., and Montgomery, O. He married Miss Cornelia Riker, of Hanover, Ind., who, with two sons and a grandson, survives him. A few years since they went to Hanover to make their home, where, being disabled by a fall, he was laid aside from further active service. He was a lovable, evangelical, useful man and minister, held in high esteem for his faithful and successful labors, and beloved by all who knew him.

James married Cornelia Esther Ryker, daughter of Joseph Holton Ryker and Eliza Stuart McLelland, on 23 Jun 1870 in Jefferson County, Indiana, USA. (Cornelia Esther Ryker was born on 11 Dec 1852 in Jefferson County, Indiana, USA, died on 14 Sep 1925 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA and was buried in Hanover Cemetery, Hanover, IN.)