Bass, John H
soldier, business man, financier, was born Nov. 9, 1835, in Salem, Ky. During the war he served the union cause in the thirtieth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. Heestablished the Fort Wayne Machine works, and in 1869 extended his operations by founding the St. Louis Car Wheel company, of which he was president. Since 1880 he has owned a plant for the manufacture of pig iron in northeastern Alabama, whence that commodity is shipped to his establishments in Fort Wayne, Chicago, and St. Louis. He is the president of the old national bank of Fort Wayne; owns the Brookside farm; and nearly twenty thousand acres of valuable mineral land in Alabama. In 1888 he was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention, and was the same year nominated one of the presidential electors.