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Indiana and Indianans

INDIANA AND INDIANANS

A HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AND TERRITORIAL

INDIANA AND THE CENTURY OF

STATEHOOD

JACOB PIATT DUNN

AUTHOR AND EDITOR

VOLU.ME III

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Elwood Haykes. There is a certain
class of pessimists who are forever dispar-
aging individual credit for great achieve-
ments. Such carping critics would say for
instance that if America had not been dis-
covered by Columbus it would have been
discovered anyway sooner or later. The
plays of William Shakespeare were not
written by Shakespeare but perhaps by an-
other man of the same name. Such per-
sons would not even "give the devil his
due." Fortunately these ingrates are few
in number, ilost people are willing to
concede praise when it is fairly earned.

Therefore, only here and there will be
heard a word of dissent when an Indiana
writer places the name of Elwood Haynes
of Kokomo along with Alexander Graham
Bell and Thomas A. Edison as one of three
great living Americans who have worked
the most astounding miracles of the mod-
ern age. Of the electric light invented by
Edison, the telephone invented by Bell and
the motor car perfected by Elwood Haynes,
it would be difficult to say which has con-
ferred the greatest benefit upon mankind.
Of the three men Elwood Haynes is an In-
dianan, and it is not likely that his fame
as an inventive genius will soon be ob-
scured.

Elwood Haynes is of as nearly undiluted
American stock as can be found. His first
American ancestor was an Englishman,
"Walter Haynes, who came to New England
in 1636. The great-grandfather, David
Haynes, fought as a soldier in the Revolu-
tionary w-ar. The grandfather, Henry
Haynes, was born in ^Massachusetts in 1786,
and was a maker of firearms during the
War of 1812. Henry Haynes followed
mechanical trades most of his life, and he
may have been responsible for some of the
mechanical genius of his grandson. He
died about 1864. He married Achsah
March, who was born in JIassaehusetts in

1792 and died in 1870. She was a relative
of Bishop Chase, the first Episcopal bishop
west of the Allegheny Mountains and an
uncle of Chief Justice Chase. One of the
twelve children of these industrious and
worthy parents was Jacob M. HajTies, who
achieved all the success of a good lawyer
and a thoroughgoing jurist in Indiana.
Judge Haynes was born in Hampden
County, Massachusetts, April 12, 1817, and
died in 1903. During his youth he assisted
bis father in the shop, lived several years
with an uncle on a farm, and his common
school education was supplemented by a
classical course at Monson Academy and
also by study in Phillips Academy at An-
dover, Massachusetts. He started the study
of law in Massachusetts, but in 1843 came
west and continued the study of law with
Hon. Walter March at Muncie, Indiana.
As a means of self support he also taught
school and was admitted to the bar in Mun-
cie in March, 1844. In the latter part of
the same year he removed to Portland and
soon afterward began practice. He was a
resident of Portland nearly sixty years,
and from that city his reputation as a
lawyer and citizen spread throughout the
state. He had many official honors, begin-
ning with school offices, and in 1856 was
elected a judge of the Common Pleas
Court. . He was again elected in 1860 and
re-elected in 1864 and again in 1868.
After the Common Pleas Court was abol-
ished he was made judge in 1870 of the
Circuit Court, embracing the counties of
Wayne, Randolph, Jay and Blackford.
After twenty-one years of consecutive serv-
ice he retired from the bench in 1877, but
some years later, when a separate district
was created of Jay and Wayne counties,
he was again called to the bench. Tie be-
gan voting as a whig, but was affiliated
with the republican party from the time
of its formation in 1856, and made many

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speeches during the war in support of a
vigorous policy of the administration. In
1875 he entered banking, and was presi-
dent of the People's Bank of Portland for
several years. He was very much inter-
ested in farming, and at the time of his
death owned 400 acres in Jay County.
Judge Haynes went abroad in 1886, and
then had the opportunity of visiting many
of the immortal shrines of his favorite au-
thors, including the homes of Scott, Dick-
ens, Shakespeare, and other great English
writers. He was a man of classical educa-
tion and one of the most broadly informed
men of his generation. On August 27,
1846, at Portland, Judge Haynes married
Miss Hilinda S. Haines. She was born in
Clinton County, Ohio, in 1828, and died
May 11, 1885, the mother of eight children.
The fifth of these children was Elwood
Haynes, who was born in Portland in Jay
County October 14, 1857. In a biograph-
ical work of the citizens of Jay County
published about thirty years ago, when El-
wood Haynes was himself thirty years old,
a very brief paragraph is sufficient to
enumei-ate his experiences and achieve-
ments. Mention is made of the fact that
while he was in the Portland public schools
he evinced a great desire for learning\ and
in later years especially for chemistry, and
was often found by members of the family
outside of school hours making practical
experiments and tests. He continued in
high school to the end of the second year
and in 1878 entered the Worcester Tech-
nical Institute at Worcester, ilassachu-
setts, where he graduated in 1881. On re-
turning home he taught a year in the dis-
trict schools and two years as principal of
the Portland High School. In 1884 he
entered Johns Hopkins University at Balti-
more, Maryland, taking post-graduate work
in chemistry and biology, and on returning
home was put in charge of the chemistry
department of the Eastern Indiana Nor-
mal School and Commercial College. From
that in 1886 he went to the position of
manager of the Portland Natural Gas and
Oil Company at Portland, and it was in
those duties that the biographical sketch
above mentioned left him without ventur-
ing even a prophecy as to the great place
he would subsequently fill in the world of
industrial arts and invention.

It should also be mentioned that as a
boy Mr. Haynes spent much of his time in

the woods, and through this experience he
became somewhat of a naturalist, learning
the ways of wild birds and animals and
acquiring considerable fir-st hand knowl-
edge of plant and insect life. As he grew
older he took a keen interest in books and
read when about twelve years of age
Wells' "Principles of Natural Philosophy"
and "Chemistry." It was in the latter
that he became most intensely interested,
as it gave him a preliminary insight into
the hidden mysteries of natural phenom-
ena and stimulated his curiosity to know
more about the fundamental properties of
matter.

He devised some crude apparatus by
means of which he was able to preJDare
hydrogen gas, as well as chlorine and oxy-
gen. He also took special interest in the
rarer metals, such as nickel, chromium, co-
balt, aluminum, and tungsten.

When about fifteen years of age he made
a furnace in the backyard and supplied
it with a blast of air from a home-made
blower which was constructed from a
cheese rim, two boards and some pieces of
shingle for fans. With this furnace he
succeeded in melting brass and cast iron,
but was unable to melt steel successfully on
account of the high temperature required.
He tried several times to alloy tungsten
with iron and steel, but was unable to do
so, owing to the limits of the furnace.

The district school which he taught after
returning from Worcester was five miles
from his home. For a part of the time
he walked the entire distance twice a day,
making a round trip of ten miles, besides
teaching from 9 o'clock in the morning
until 4 o'clock in the aftenioon. Mr.
Haynes continued as manager of the Port-
land Natural Gas and Oil Company until
1890. During that time he devised a
method for determining the amount of gas
flowing through apertures of various sizes
under various pressures. He also navented
in 1888 a small thermostat for regulating
the temperature of a room heated by nat-
ural gas. This apparatus worked perfectly
and he afterwards used it for about four-
teen years in his own home. It was so ar-
ranged that it maintained practically a
constant temperature in the room to be
warmed, no matter what the condition
out-of-doors.

In 1889 gas was piped from Penuville,
Indiana, to Portland, a distance of about

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ten miles. Mr. Hayues had charge gf the
constnietioii of this line, as well as of the
plant which had been previously installed
in the town of Portland. It was while
drivino- back and forth between Pennville
and Portland with a horse and buggy that
he conceived the idea of making a machine
that would travel on the road under its
own power. In 1890 he became field super-
intendent of the Indiana Natural Gas and
Oil Company of Chicago, with headquar-
ters at Greentown, Indiana. One of his
experiences in this position deserves some
special mention. The gas line from
Greentown to Chicago was completed in
1892, and the first thing that happened
was the clogging of the line by ice, which
formed on the interior of the pipes. The
condition had not been unforeseen, since
the gas, containing a certain amount of
moisture, was passing northward and
hence into a colder region. As soon as the
trouble occurred the president of the com-
pany sought ]\Ir. Haynes out and asked
him to solve the problem. Mr. Haj'nes
suggested as a method of preventing this
that the gas should be frozen or passed
over some hygroscopic material which
would extract the moisture from it before
being started through the pipe line. The
company placed the matter in his hands.
After a number of exi^eriments he decided
on the method of extracting the moisture
by freezing the gas. Accordingly a re-
frigerating plant was set up at the Green-
town pumping station, and by this means
about eighteen barrels of water per day
were extracted from the gas, with the re-
sult that the trouble occasioned by the
freezing of the gas in the line was entirely
eliminated. Since that time the method
devised by Mr. Haynes has been used not
only for refrigerating gas, but also for drj'-
ing air. The work of operating the pump-
ing station and gas line took up most of
his time for a year after he moved to Ko-
komo, which was in 1892.

During the delay in the work of con-
structing the pipe line .iust referred to,
Mr. Haynes was again called upon to do a
great deal of driving, and during those
drives thought again and again of the
problem of a better means of locomotion
than by horse and buggy. The story of
how he built the first automobile has been
so well told by 'Slv. Havnes himself that

his words may be given preference at this
point.

"I accordingly laid plans for the con-
struction of a mechanically propelled ve-
hicle for use on the highways. I first con-
sidered the use of a steam engine, but made
no attempt to build a car of this descrip-
tion for the reason that a fire must be kept
constantly burning on board the machine,
and with liquid fuel this would always be
a menace in case of collision or accident.
Moreover, the necessity of getting water
would render a long journey in a car of
this description not only troublesome, but
very irksome as well. I next considered
electricity, but found that the lightest bat-
tery obtainable would weigh over twelve
hundred pounds for a capacity of twelve
horse hours. As this showed little prom-
ise of success, I gave it no further consid-
eration, and proceeded to consider the gas-
oline engine. Even the lightest made at
that time were very heavy per unit of
power, and rather crude in construction.

"Mv work was confined to Greentown
in 1890 and 1891. In the fall of 1892 I
moved to Kokomo and the following sum-
mer (1893) had my plans sufSciently ma-
tured to begin the actual construction of
a machine. I ordered a one-hoi-se power
marine upright, two cycle, gasoline engine
from the Sintz Gas Engine Company of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. This motor
barely gave one brake horsepower, and
weighed a hundred and eighty pounds.
Upon its arrival from Grand Rapids in
the fall of 1893, lacking a suitable place,
the motor was brought direct to my home
and set up in the kitchen.

."When the gasoline and battery connec-
tions were installed the motor, after con-
siderable cranking, was started and ran
with such speed and vibration that it pulled
itself from its attachments. Luckily, how-
ever, one of the battery wires was wound
about the motor shaft and thus discon-
nected the current.

"In order to provide against vibration,
I was obliged to make the frame of the
machine much heavier than I first intended.

"The horseless carriage was built up in
the form of a small truck. The frame-
work in which the motor was placed con-
sisted of a double hollow square of steel
tubing, .joined at the rear corners by steel
castings, and by malleable castings in
front. The hind axle constituted the rear

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member of the frame and the front axle
was swiveled at its center to the front end
of the hollow square. This arrangement
permitted the ends of the front axle to
move upward and downward over the ine-
qualities of the road without wrenching
the hollow square in which the motor and
countershaft were placed.

"At that time there were no figures ac-
cessible for determining the tractive resist-
ance to rubber tires on ordinary roads.
In order to determine this as nearly as
possible in advance, a bicycle bearing a
rider was hitched to the rear end of a light
buckboard by means of a cord and spring
scale. An observer seated on the rear end
of the buckboard recorded as rapidly as
possible 'draw-bar' pull registered by the
scale, while the buckboard was moving at
the rate of about ten or twelve miles per
hour on a nearly level macadam street.
The horse was then driven in the opposite
direction at about the same speed, in order
to compensate for the slight incline. This
experiment indicated that about 1%
pounds 'draw-bar' pull was sufficient to
draw a load of one hundred pounds on a
vehicle equipped with ball bearings and
pneumatic tires. With this data- at hand
it was an easy matter to arrange the gear-
ing of the automobile so that it would be
drawn by the motor. Crude though this
method may appear it shows a striking
agreement with the results obtained to-
day, by much more acevirate and refined
apparatus.

"The total weight of the machine when
completed was about 800 pounds. July
4, 1894, when ready for test, it was hauled
about three miles into the country behind
a horse carriage and started on a nearly
level turnpike. It moved off at once at a
speed of about seven miles per hour, and
was driven about one and one half miles
into the country. It was then turned
about and ran all the way into the city
without making a single stop.

"I was convinced upon this return trip
that there was a future for the horseless
carriage, although I did not at that time
expect it to be so brilliant and imposing.
The best speed attained with the little ma-
chine in this condition was about eight
miles per hour."

A rare interest attaches to this pioneer
automobile, and it is most fitting and ap-
propriate that the old car, built twenty-

five years ago, is now owned by the Gov-
ernment and has a permanent place in
the great halls of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion at \Yashingtou. At another part of
his narrative ilr. Haynes describes some
other interesting features of his inventive
work as applied both to automobile and
to other metal industries:

"While perfecting the horseless carriage
I had never lost my interest in metallurgj'
and introduced aluminum into the first
automobile crankcase in 1895. The alloy
for this crankcase was made up for the pur-
pose and consisted of ninety-three per cent
aluminum and seven per cent copper.
This was. I believe, the first aluminum
ever placed in the gasoline motor, and as
far as I am aware in an automobile. More-
over, this particular composition has be-
come a standard for all automobile motors
at the present time.

"At about the same time (1896) I also
introduced nickel-steel into the automo-
bile, and at a later date I made a number
of experiments in the alloying of metal,
and succeeded in making an alloy of nickel
and chromium containing a certain amount
of carbon and silicon, which, when formed
into a blade, would make a fairly good
cutting edge. The metal would tarnish
after long exposure to the atmosphere of
a chemical laboratory.

"Later, in 1899, I succeeded in forming
an alloy of pure chromium and pure
nickel, which not only resisted all atmos-
pheric influences, but was also insoluble
in nitric acid of all strengths. A few
months later I also formed an alloy of co-
balt and chromium, and an alloy of the
same metals containing a small quantity
of boron. These latter alloys were ex-
tremely hard, especially that containing
boron.

' ' In 1904 and 1905 I made some further
experiments upon the alloys of nickel and
cobalt with chromium, with a view to us-
ing the alloys for electric contacts in the
make-and-break spark mechanism, and in
1907 I secured basic patents on both of
these alloys.

"And so it has gone. Naturally and
necessarily, once the automobile began to
gain favor it was necessary to enlarge our
organization. Today the Haynes car is
made in a big factory — a striking contrast
to the time when my first car was made
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the mechanics who were hired to assist in
the building of it, according to my plans,
at the rate of forty cents an hour.

"Frankh', I did not realize on that
Fourth of July, when I took the first ride
in America 's first car, that a score of yeai"s
later everj- street and highway in America
would echo the sound of the horn and the
report of the exhaust. I am gratified too
that it has been my good fortune to wit-
ness the automobile's entrenchment in the
world's business life. Just as my first
horseless carriage was designed with a view
to facilitating my duties, so is the automo-
bile today contributing beyond all power
to realize to our every-day business life."

j\lr. Haynes continued as field superin-
tendent of the Indiana Natural Gas and
Oil Company until 1901. But since 1898
has also been president of the Haynes
Automobile Company. There is a long list
that might be appended of his experiences
and inventions. ■ He discovered tungsten
chrome steel in 1881, and the theme of his
graduating address from the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute was "The Etfect of
Tungsten on Iron and Steel." In 1894
he invented a successful carburetor and
the first automobile mufBer. In 1895 the
Chicago Times Herald prize was awarded
his horseless carriage for the best balanced
engine. An event widely celebrated at the
time was making the first thousand mile
trip in a motor car in America, when Mr.
Haynes drove one of his cars from Kokomo
to New York City. He was accompanied
by Edgar Appei-son. who was one of his
associates at that time. In 1903 he in-
vented and built a rotary valve gas engine.

In 1898 the Haynes-Apperson Company
was formed for the manufacture of auto-
mobiles. In 1902 Elmer and Edgar Ap-
person withdrew and started a corporation
of their own, while the name of the Haynes-
Apperson Company was shortly afterward
changed to the Haynes Automobile Com-
pany and has so continued to the present
time.

In 1899 Mr. Haynes discovered an alloy
of nickel and chromium, and shortly after-
ward an alloy of cobalt and chromium.
These alloys were produced only in very
minute quantities at first, and as his time
was fully employed in the Haynes Auto-
mobile Company he gave them little atten-
tion until 1907, when patents were taken

out covering their manufacture and use.
A paper was read in 1910 before the Amer-
ican Chemical Society at San Francisco
describing these alloys and their proper-
ties. Shortly afterward Mr. Haynes dis-
covered that by adding tungsten or molyb-
denum to the cobalt-chromium alloy a still
harder composition could be produced. In
1913 patents were issued for those com-
positions. A little while before the patents
were issued he erected a small building
in South Union Street, Kokomo, for their
commercial manufacture. Between the
time of the allowance of the patents and
their issue he completed the building and
sold about $1,000 worth of metal.

The alloys quickly proved to be a prac-
tical success for lathe tools, and the busi-
ness of their manufacture as commercial
products grew rapidly. Near the end of
the third year the business was organized
into a corporation consisting of three mem-
bers, Richard Ruddell, a banker, and James
C. Patten, a manufacturer, both of Ko-
komo. becoming associated with Mr.
Haynes in the concern. The European
war made a great market for its product.
It has been stated on good authority that
fully half of the shrapnel for the allies
was made with Stellite tools. He also gave
to the world "Stainless Steel," a rustless
steel which is now used in the manufacture
of valves for the Liberty ilotor and wires
of aeroplanes, and in normal peace times
this riTstless steel will certainly be extended
in use to thousands of manufactured tools
and products whei'e the elimination of rust
is a long felt want. Since 1912 Mr. Haynes
has been president of the Haynes Stellite
Company.

Mr. Haynes is a member of a number of
organizations more or less directly con-
nected with the automobile business, in-
cludinsr the Iron and Steel Institute of
Great Britain, American Chemical Society,
International Congress of Applied Chem-
istry, Society of Automotive Engineers,
American Institute of iletals, Chicago
Automobile Club, and the Hoosier Auto-
mobile Club. Mr. Haynes is a Presby-
terian and is a prohibitionist. On Octo-
ber 21, 1887, he married Bertha Beatrice
Lanterman, of Portland, Indiana. They
have two children, a son and a daughter,
both of whom assist their father in his ex-
tensive laboratory work.

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Richard Ruddell. Continuously since
it was organized in 1889 Richard Ruddell
has been president of the Citizens National
Bank of Kokomo. His business record in
that city goes even further back, and
through it all Mr. Ruddell has been one of
the strong men financially in promoting
the industrial growth and prosperity of the
city, and in upholding all those activities
by which a city's consequence is measured.
' Mr. Ruddell was born August 31, 1850,
in Rush County, Indiana, a son of George
and Elizabeth (Bever) Ruddell. George
Ruddell was a livestock dealer. Wlieu the
son Richard was a year old the parents re-
moved to Wabash County and the father
continued business there for many years.
Richard Ruddell attended public school in
Wabash County, and as soon as his school
days were finished he took up some em-
ployment that would furnish him a living.
He finally became clerk in a store at Wa-
bash. After six years there he engaged in
the boot and shoe business on his own ac-
count, and here his enterprise and his
ability to get large results were demon-
strated. He kept broadening his estab-
lishment until he had what might be called
a complete department store, handling dry
goods, boots and shoes and other wares.

In 1882, having sold his Wabash store,
Mr. Ruddell came to Kokomo and bought
the old established dry goods house of
Haskett & Company. He was proprietor
of this business for six years. Then, asso-
ciating himself with other local business
men, he organized the Citizens National
Bank, the organization being perfected on
October 8, 1889. He has been its presi-
dent ever since. The Citizens National
Bank has an enviable record of strength
and resources. It has capital stock of
.$2.50,000, its surplus is still larger, and its
deposits aggregate over $3,000,000. Mr.
Ruddell is president, C. W. Landon is vice
president, and Frank McCarty is cashier.

JMr. Ruddell has been interested in a
number of other business enterprises. He
was one of the most prominent in promot-
ing the Kokomo Steel Wire Company, and
his name is connected with a number of
other industries of lesser importance. He
is president of the Globe Stove and Range
Company and a stockholder and vice pres-
ident of the Ilaynes Stellite Company.
He is a large stockholder in several local
business houses. Mr. Ruddell has served
nine vears on the Kokomo Citv School

Board, and three terms as secretary-treas-
urer and three times as president.

In Wabash, Indiana, Mr. Ruddell mar-
ried Miss Rose McClain, daughter of Judge
McClain of Wabash. They have three chil-
dren, Ruth, Raymond, and Fred. Ruth
married J. C. Patten, of Kokomo, and they
have one son sixteen years old. J. C. Pat-
ten was a lieutenant in the Tank service
during the war. Fred, the younger son, is
general manager of Globe Stove and Range
Company.

Horace P. Biddle. noted among the
early Indiana lawyers, was born in Fair-
field County, Ohio, about 1818. After
studying law he was admitted to the bar
at Cincinnati in 1839 and located at Lo-
gansport, Indiana. During 1846-1852 he
was presiding judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit, was a member of the Indiana Con-
stitutional Convention in 1850, and seven
years later, in 1857, was elected supreme
judge, but not commissioned. Outside of
the strict line of his profession Judge
Biddle translated from French and Ger-
man posts, and was a contributor to nu-
merous periodicals.

Chalmer Lennox Bragdon for a man of
thirty-five has had a volume of experience
and activity such as come to few men
many years his senior, and while he has
seen the ups and downs and vicissitudes of
existence he became successfully estab-
lished in the automobile and tractor agency
at Anderson, becoming sole proprietor of
the C. L. Bragdon Sales Company, agents
for the Chevrolet and Monroe cars and the
Moline Universal Tractor.

ilr. Bragdon was born on a farm near
Lawrence in Marion County, Indiana, No-
vember 18, 1882, son of James H. and
Jennie (Murphy) Bragdon. He is of
Scotch-Irish stock, and the family have
been in America for manj' generations.
His father followed farming during most
of his life, but in 1888 moved to Ander-
son and established a grocery store in the
Hickey Block on South Sleridian Street.
In 1893 he sold out and moved to Pendle-
ton, where he was a grocer from 1894 until
1901. In the latter year he retired to
his farm and is now living at Oklahoma
City.

C. L. Bragdon gained his early education
in the public schools of Anderson and
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to work assisting his father and doing every
kind of service required in a groeerj' store.

In 1901 Jlr. Bragdon married Muriel
B. Ellington, daughter of Chalmus G. and
Emma (Fisher) Ellington, of Pendleton,
Indiana. They have one child, Glenna
Frances, born in 1903.

After his marriage Mr. Bragdon worked
at different occupations at Anderson and
Pendleton and finally became a clerk in the
office of the superintendent of motive
power for the Union Traction Company
at Anderson. He was there until 1906,
when on account of failing health he spent
seven months recuperating at Houston,
Texas. On returning to Indiana he located
at Pendleton and for several years was a
motorman with the Union Traction Com-
pany. He became actively interested in
organized labor and being very popular
with his fellow T\-orkmen was elected presi-
dent of the Anderson branch of the Amal-
gamated A.ssociation of Street and Elec-
trical Railway Employes. Upon Mr.
Bragdon devolved the responsibility of
calling the strike which almost I'dinpli'tel.y
paralyzed interurban transpmiai khi nver
the Union Traction Lines for three iiiDiiths
in 1910. The events of the strike arc still
familiar history in the minds of all the
residents of Anderson, Muneie and other
cities. The militia was finally put in charge
of the situation, and after three months
the strikers lost their cause and Mr.
Bragdon as one of the strike leaders was
of course summarily dismissed from the
service of the company. Following that
he returned to Lawrence, Indiana, his
birthplace, and afterward did contract
work at Fort Benjamin Harrison and also
at Lawton, Oklahoma. For a time he sold
cigars in Southern Oklahoma, and then
became manager of a cigar store in Okla-
homa City. After a year he returned to
Pendleton, Indiana, and for two years was
associated with the Dishler Company Cigar
Store. He resigned and bought a cigar
store in Pendleton, operated it three years,
and in 1915 established himself in the
automobile agency business, representing
the Chevrolet car in IMarion County. Later
he secured the agency for the southern
half of Madison County and in April, 1917,
returned to Anderson and opened his place
of business at 1921 Central Avenue and
109 East Ninth Street. He became one of
the principal automobile distributors in
Eastern Indiana and conducted a prosper-

ous business with the several eai-s and tract-
ors he represented. Mr. Bragdon is a
republican in politics and a member of
the Methodist Church.

On April 9, 1918, after settling his busi-
ness affairs, Mr. Bragdon answered the call
of his country and was sent to Jefferson
Barracks, Missouri. From there he was
sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia, and from
there to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where
he sailed for France after being in the
service one month. In October he was
gassed while lost in the Argonne forest
and was sent into the Alps mountains to
recuperate. After regaining his health he
was promoted to ordnance sergeant the
highest rank given in the Ordnance de-
partment. Oi-dnance Sergeant Bragdon
has been in France over a year.

Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice president of the United States, was
born near Unionville Center, Union
County, Ohio, Jlay 11, 1852, son of Loris-
ton Monroe and Mary Adelaide (Smith)
Fairbanks. His first American ancestor
was Jonathan Fa.yerbanck, who landed in
Boston in 1633 with his wife Grace Lee.
He was a native of Sowerby, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire and a Puritan of the
extremest stamp. Not liking certain ways
of the church in Boston, he pushed on to
Dedham, ^Massachusetts, where he erected
a large house of massive oaken timbers,
which is still standing. Charles Warren
Fairbanks is the ninth descendant from
Jonathan. His grandfather, Luther, was
born at Swansey, New Hampshire, and his
father, Loriston Monroe, was born at
Barnard, Vermont (1824), but made his
way to Central Ohio in 1837 where he en-
gaged in farming and wagon-making. The
l)oy was a strong and vigorous youth with
a predominating love for books. At the
age of fifteen he was ready to enter the
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware,
and was graduated there in 1872. With
the help of his uncle, William Henry Smith,
who was general manager of the Western
Associated Press, he secured a position as
agent of the press association at Pitts-
burgh. Penn.sylvania, and later at Cleve-
land, Oliio. Here he found ample time
while agent to pursue tlie study of law, and
after sjiending one term in the Cleveland
Law School, was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874. He began

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the pi-actice of his profession in Iiuliaii-
apolis, which has ever since been his home.
He is said to have had but one criminal
ease during his whole law experience, his
conspicuous bent being: in the direction of
industrial, transportation and commercial
affairs. Large institutions in Indiana and
the surrounding states became his clients
and he conducted their suits and guided
their operations with wise and farseeing
judgment. For some time he kept aloof
from politics, except to take part in the
caucuses and movements of his party in his
immediate neighborhood, but in 1888 he
took charge of the presidential campaign
of his friend, Walter Q. Gresham. At this
time Indiana had two candidates for the
presidency — Judge Gresham and Gen. Ben-
jamin Harrison, and one of the most
strenuously contested state campaigns fol-
lowed, the result being that the Indiana
delegates voted for General Harrison.
Judge Gresham in the meantime had se-
cured enough delegates in other states to
give him second place when the balloting
opened in the republican national conven-
tion at Chicago, John Sherman of Ohio
leading. James G. Blaine had the next
largest following, which was thrown to
Harrison to prevent the nomination of
Sherman and controlled the nomination.
Mr. Fairbanks was an influential partici-
pant in every campaign of his party since
that time. He was a delegate to all of the
national conventions since 1896, except
those of 1908 and 1916, when he was a
candidate for the presidency. He secured
the Indiana delegates for McKinley in 1896
and at the latter "s personal request was
made temporary chairman of the St. Louis
convention, at which McKinlej- was nomi-
nated, and delivered what is known as the
"keynote" speech of the campaign. In
1892, in a speech before the Indiana state
convention, Mr. Fairbanks warned his
party and the country against the tendency
of both parties toward free silver, and in
1896 he prepared and pushed through the
convention of his state one of the first anti-
free silver platforms adopted in this eonn-
trj'. The party leaders attempted to in-
duce him to omit any reference to silver,
fearing that an anti-silver plank would de-
feat the ticket, but he carried it to a deci-
sive victory, recovering the Legislature of
his state from the democrats and receiving
the election to the United States Senate on

January 20, 1897, bj- the unanimous vote
of the republican members. He took his
seat while ilajor McKinley was being
sworn in as President, and alwa\\s re-
mained a firm supporter of the national
administration. In the convention which
met in Philadelphia in 1900 he was made
chairman of the committee on resolutions
which reported the platform on which Mc-
Kinley was renominated and re-elected by
a triumphant majority. In 1902 he was a
candidate to succeed himself and carried
the Legislature by the largest majority but
one in its histoiy and was unanimously
re-elected on January 20, 1903. In the Sen-
ate he served as chairman of the committee
on immigration and on the committees on
census, claims, geological survey and pub-
lic buildings and grounds until 1901, when
he was made chairman of the committee
on public buildings and grounds and a
member of the committees on the judiciary.
Pacific Island and Porto Kico, i-elations
with Canada, immigration and geological
survey. In 1903, while continuing as chair-
man of the committee on public buildings
and grounds, his other assignments were
changed to the judiciary, foreign relations,
Canadian relations, coast and insular sur-
vey, geological survey and immigration.
His first speech in the Senate was in oppo-
sition to Senator Morgan's resolution di-
recting the President to recognize the bel-
lisereney of the Cuban insurgents. In 1902
when tiie French "West India Island of
Martinque was devastated by the terrible
eruption of ]\Iount Pelee he presented a
resolution of appropriation for the relief
of the suft'erers, which was promptly
passed by both houses and for which serv-
ice he received the thanks of the French
republic. When the bill that provided for
constructing the Panama Canal was under
consideration he gave it his earnest sup-
]xirt, and offered an amendment which pro-
vided for the issuance of bonds to partially
defrav tlie expense of the enterprise, there-
by, eliminating the danger of having to
suspend the work of construction for the
want of ready funds and spreading the cost
over the future instead of loading the en-
tire burden upon the people of today.
Under the protocol of May, 1898, a joint
high commission was to be appointed by the
United States and Great Britain for set-
tling the Alaska boundary dispute and
eleven other matters that had been irritat-

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ing- the two countries, such as the fur seal,
Northeastern fisheries, reciprocal mining
rights, bonding goods for transit through
each other's territory, the Rush-Bagot
agreement of 1817 restricting armed ves-
sels on the Great Lakes, reciprocity, etc.
President McKinley appointed Senator
Fairbanks a member and chairman of this
commission. The other members of the
commission were, Nelson Dingley, John W.
Foster, John A. Kasson, Charles J. Faulk-
ner and T. Jefferson Coolidge. Numerous
sessions were held both in Quebec and
Washington in 1898, 1899, 1901 and 1902.
The commission tentatively agreed upon
many of the questions in dispute but the
British commissioners refused to settle any
without an ad.]'ustment of the boundary
question. They proposed that that subject
he submitted to arbitration. Upon such an
agreement they would proceed to close
definitely the questions which were practi-
cally agreed upon. In opposing this propo-
sition Senator Fairbanks observed: "We
cannot submit to a foreign arbitrator the
determination of the Alaska coast line
under the treaty between the United States
and Russia of 1867. That coast line was
established by the convention of 1825 be-
tween Great Britain and Russia. This line
has been carefully safeguarded by Russia,
and the United States has invariably in-
sisted that it should not be broken. Its
integrity was never questioned by Great
Britain until after the protocol of ^lay,
1898. Much as we desire to conclude the
questions which we have practically detei--
mined, we cannot cousent to settle them
upon the condition that we must abandon
to the chance of a European arbitrator a
part of the domain of the United States
upon which American citizens have actually
built their homes and created industries
long prior to any suggestion from Great
Britain that she had anv claim of right
thereto." In 1899 President McKinley
sent Mr. Fairbanks to Alaska to ascertain
any possible facts which might have a bear-
ing upon the interpretation of the boun-
dary dispute. 'Sir. Fairbanks proposed on
behalf of the American commission that a
joint tribunal composed of three jurists of
repute from each country be vested to
determine the boundary, a decision of a
majority of the commissioners to be final.
Great Britain declined this proposition and
the commission adjourned subject to recall.

Subsequently the method of settlement pro-
posed by Mr. Fairbanks was agreed upon
by the two countries through direct nego-
tiation and after an elaborate hearing the
contention of the United States was sus-
tained, one of the British commissioners,
the Lord Chief Justice of England, having
concurred in the contention of the Ameri-
can commissioners. In the republican
party convention of 1904: Mr. Fairbanks
was unanimously nominated vice president
as the running mate of Theodore Roose-
velt. He was elected by a large plurality
and discharged the duties of his office
with dignity and a true sense of fairness.
In 1908 his name was prominentl.v men-
tioned for the presidential nomination.
After his retirement from office, accom-
panied by IMrs. Fairbanks, he made a tour
of the world. In 1916 he was again nomi-
nated for vice president on the ticket with
Judge Charles E. Hughes. The election
was unusually close, but President Wilson
was returned to office.

Mr. Fairbanks was a trustee of Ohio
Wesleyan University, De Pauw University
and the American University. Ohio Wes-
lej'an conferred upon him the degree LL.
D. in 1901. He received the same degree
from Baker University (1903), Iowa State
Universitv (1903) and Northwestern Uni-
versity (1907). Until a short time before
his death he was president of the ]\Iethodist
Episcopal Hospital of Indiana, the Indiana
Foresti-y Association and a regent of the
Smithsonian Institution.

Mr. Fairbanks married in 1874 Cornelia,
daughter of Judge P. B. Cole of ^Marys-
ville. Ohio. She was a graduate of Ohio
Wesleyan L'niversity, an active worker in
the affairs of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and
its president for two terms, 1901-1905; a
promoter of the Junior Republic movement
and prominent in benevolent activities.
She died in 1913.

During the early summer of 1918 the
American people followed for several weeks
with much anxiety the continued reports
of Mr. Fairbanks' illness and decline. He
died at his Indianapolis home June 4, 1918.
Sober thinking Americans regard his death
the more keenly because he had apparently
not yet exhausted his powers and his op-
portunities for great national usefulness.
And such men as Charles W. Fairbanks
are needed now and will be needed in the

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next few years until the ship of state has
regained the quiet harbor of peace. It was
his great misfortune and that of the Ameri-
can people generally that he could not live
to see the end of the tragic period in the
midst of which his death came.

The above paragraphs were written while
Mr. Fairbanks was still living. Those who
regard his life as one big with achievement
and yet incomplete because he died so
soon, will often ask themselves the question
as to what his attitude and action would
be in the subsequent stages of American
national affairs. Those questions can never
be answered and yet it is peculiarity ap-
propriate to inquire as to his attitude and
opinions regarding national and interna-
tional problems in the months preceding his
death.

The best information obtainable on this
matter is found in the review of his life
wi'itten by his former private secretary,
George B. Loekwood. Jlr. Lockwood
wrote :

"During the last two or three troubled
years those associated with Mr. Fairbanks
know that the" greater part of his waking
hours were devoted to anxious thought as
to national affairs. He regarded with great
apprehension the drift of the country
toward the brink of war from the begin-
ning of the European struggle. There was
no more whole-hearted supporter of the
national cause when the participation of
the United States in the war became inevi-
table. He was exceedingly proud of his
son Richard who entered the army and
was advanced to the post of cap-
tain and acting major, through merit
and who served in France. Mr. Fair-
banks believed that the most important
period in our national historj% next to
the present vital emergency, would be
that immediately following the war when
the problem of reconstruction would occupy
the attention of the whole world. He was a
strong advocate of the reduction of arma-
ment and the establishment of the policy
of internationally enforced arbitration of
disputes among nations. His ardor in this
cause was made greater hy his visits to the
capitals of Europe ten years ago. He came
home believing that the arming of nations
against one another, which he saw on every
band, pointed inevitably toward a general
European war.

"Mr. Fairbanks always believed that the

Spanish-American war could have been
avoided if the people and congress had
not been too insistent upon war, and that
Spain woiild have peacefully withdrawn
from the western hemisphere if given an
opportunity to retire without too much
loss of face.

"His Americanism was undivided; his
prejudice against foreign factionalism of
any kind in the United States intense. He
did not confine his opposition to hyphe-
nated citizenship to German Americanism,
but believed that prominent propaganda
in behalf of any European nation or
against any nation with which we are at
peace was iinpatriotic. He resented the
crusade against Americans of German
stock merely because of their descent, in
case their loyalty was as unquestioned as
that of their neighbors of any other Euro-
pean strain. * * * j^o American
could be more bitterly opposed than was
ilr. Fairbanks to the type of Government
Prussia has proved itself to be in the pres-
ent war. His hope of good from the pres-
ent war was a treaty of peace which will
make unnecessary vast expenditures for
military and naval purposes, first of all be-
cause he believed that a failure to end this
system in Euroi^e would make necessary
its adoption in the United States as a
means of self preservation."

From the wealth of tributes that poured
forth from the press and distinguished men
of the country at the time of his death, one
of the most impartial and dignified was
that written by former President Taft,
with whose words this sketch may properly
conclude.

"Charles "Warren Fairbanks was an
able, industrious, effective, patriotic and
high-minded public servant. Few men
knew more of the practical workings of the
Government of the United States. For
years he served on the judiciary and the
foreign relations committees of the senate.
He was one of the working men on both.
Some men in congress neglect committee
work and seek reputation by the more
spectacular method of set speeches on the
floor. The real discussion and the careful
statesmanlike framing of messages takes
place in committee. Here ]\Ir. Fairbanks
applied himself most actively and rendered
distinguished service.

"A .successful practitioner at the bar, Mr.
Fairbanks had entered polities independent

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in means. No breatli of suspicion was as-
sociated with his fair name. One of hi.s
warm friendships was for Major MeKin-
le.y. When the latter ran for the presi-
dency and after he became President he
counted on the aid and advice of ]Mr. Fair-
banks and lie had them in rich measure.

"ilr. Fairbanks was a dignified, impar-
tial and courteous presiding officer of the
senate as vice president and his friends
were on both sides of the chamber. He
aspired to the presidency and he was right
in doing so, for his experience, his ability
and his public spirit would have enabled
him to discharge its duties most acceptably
and well. Few men could have been better
prepared. He was a party man and a loyal
republican. He was a wise counselor in
party matters and a real leader. No one
called on him for disinterested party serv-
ice in vain.

"He was better loved and respected in
his own state and city than anywhere else
because he was personally better known
there. He was said to be cold. This was
most un.just. He was genial, kindly, hospi-
table and human as his friends and neigh-
bors knew. Since Mr. Fairbanks' retire-
ment and my own I came to know him well
and to value highly his very exceptional
fpialities as a public spirited citizen and as
a man. I greatly mourn his death."

John H. Holliday. "While many im-
portant activities serve to link the name
John H. Holliday with the broader life of
Indiana, including his present position as
head of one of its largest financial organi-
zations, his biggest service was no doubt
the founding of the Indianapolis News,
over whose editorial management he pre-
sided for twenty-three years. While his
active connection with the News was sev-
ered a quarter of a century ago, much of
the vitality which he imparted to its busi-
ness conduct and the tone and character
he gave to its editorial columns still re-
main. Among the many newspaper men
who worked for the News when it was un-
der the direction of Mr. Holliday all have
a deep apjireeiation of the ideals he stood
for and inaintained and his influence as a
great newspaper man. John H. Holli-
day made the News a paper of intellectual
ditrnity, as well as a power in the political
life of the state and a molder of public

opinion and an advocate of righteous
causes.

His constant loyalty to Indianapolis and
Indiana has been that of a native son.
John Hampden Holliday was born at In-
dianapolis, May 31, 1846, a son of Rev.
William A. and Lucia (Shaw) Holliday.
His paternal grandfather, Samuel Holli-
day, came to Indiana Territory in 1816,
and by his labors a.ssisted in making In-
diana the habitation and home of civil-
ized men. Rev. William A. Holliday was
born in Harrison County, Kentucky, in
1803, and was for many years an able min-
ister of the Presbyterian Church. He was
a graduate of Miami University at Oxford,
Ohio, and of the Princeton Theological
Seminary. In 1833 he became pa.stor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Indian-
apolis and later served other churches.
For a number of years he was engaged in
educational work, being a professor in
Hanover College when compelled by sick-
ness to give up his activity. He died in
Indianapolis in 1866, at the age of sixty-
three. His wife, Lucia Shaw, was born
in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1805, and
died there in 1881, at the age of seventy-
five. One of their sons, William A., Jr.,
followed the example of his father and be-
came a prominent minister. A daughter.
Miss Grettie T., has been for many years
a laborer in the missionary fields of Persia.

John H. Holliday attended the common
schools of Indianapolis during the decade
of the '50s, spent four years in North-
western Christian Univer.sity, now Butler
University, and in 1864 graduated A. B.
from Hanover College at Hanover, In-
diana. Hanover College conferred upon
him the ^Master of Arts degree in 1867.
and for a number of years he has been one
of the college trustees.

Just before his gi-aduation he was in
the ranks of the One Hundred and Thirty-
Seventh Indiana Infantry and spent four
months with that organization in iliddle
Tennessee. It was a hundred days regi-
ment, and on the expiration of his "terai he
re-enlisted for three .vears in the Seven-
tieth Infantry, but was rejected by the
examining surgeon.

Newspaper work was Mr. Holliday 'sfir.st
love. In 1866 he was a member of the edi-
torial staff of the Indianapolis Gazette
and later worked for the Indianapolis

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Herald, the Indianapolis Sentinel, and was
local correspondent for the New York
Herald, the Journal and the Kepublican
of Chicago, and the Cincinnati Gazette.

Mr. Holliday founded the Indianapolis
News in 1869. It was the first permanent
afternoon paper and has a specially envi-
able distinction in being the first two-cent
paper established west of the City of Pitts-
burg. As Mr. Dunn in the History of
Greater Indianapolis said: "It's plain
makeup, condensed form, and refusal to
print advertisments as editorial matter
soon made it popular. It was well edited.
:Mr. Holliday 's editorials were plain, pithy
and to the point as a rule. His one fail-
ing was in not realizing how important
and valuable a paper he had established.
One element of the success of the News
was employing the best wTiters available
in every department. The News could al-
ways boast of being well written and well
edited, and that has been a large factor in
its success."

Mr. Holliday continued as editor and
principal owner of the News until 1892,
when impaired health compelled his re-
tirement. Many newspaper men graduate
from their profession into business and
politics, but with few exceptions newspa-
per life exercises a strong hold upon its
devotees even when they become engaged
in other fields. It was perhaps for this
reason that Mr. Holliday, in 1899, resigned
his position with the Union Trust Com-
pany and became associated with William
J. Richards in establishing the Indianapo-
lis Press. He was editor of the Press
throiighout its brief existence, until 1901,
when the Press was consolidated with the
Indianapolis News.

In May, 1893, :Mr. Holliday effected the
organization of the Union Trust Company
of Indianapolis. It was incorporated with
a capital of $600,000, and with its present
imposing financial strength it stands also
as a monument to the lifework of Mr. Hol-
liday. He was the first president of the
company, continued as a director while
he was as.soeiated with the Press, and in
June, 1901, resumed his responsibilities as
administrative head. In 1916 he became
chairman of the board.

:\Ir. Holliday is a director in a number
of financial and industrial organizations
in Indiana. He is a director of the Me-
Cormick Theological Seminary of Chicago,

trustee of the Presbyterian Synod of In-
diana, member of the Board of State Chari-
ties, president of the Indianapolis Charity
Organization Society, a former president
of the Board of Trade, and is one of the
oldest members of the First Presbj-terian
Church and has served as ruling elder
many years. He is a member of Thomas
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Com-
mercial Club, University Club, Indianapo-
lis Literary Club, the Phi Beta Kappa and
Phi Kamma Delta fraternity, and has at-
tained the Supreme Honorary thirty-third
degree in the Supreme Council of Scottish
Rite Masonry. In 1916 Wabash College
conferred on him the honorary degree of
LL. D.

November 4, 1875, Mr. Holliday mar-
ried Evaline M. Rieman, of Baltimore,
Maryland. She was born at Baltimore,
daughter of Alexander and Evaline (Mae-
farlane) Rieman. Her father was a Balti-
more merchant. The seven children of
Mr. and Mrs. Holliday are: Alexander
Rieman, a civil engineer and contractor,
widely known for his work in railroad and
bridge construction and in electric power
production; Mrs. Lucia Macbeth; Mrs.
Evelyn M. Patterson ; Lieutenant John H.,
Jr., a mechanical engineer who died in the
United States service; Mary E., who has
been engaged in Young Women's Cliristian
Association service abroad since 1917;
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hitz; and Mrs. Katha-
rine H. Daniels.

Thomas Riley ^Marshall. Of few of
the men upon whom the State of Indiana
as a whole has conferred distinguished pub-
lic honors could the record be stated so
briefly as in the case of Thomas Riley Mar-
shall. He was governor of Indiana from
1909 to 1913, and left that oflSce to become
vice president of the United States. These
are the only elective offices he has held
throughout the forty odd yeai-s since his
admi.ssion to the Indiana bar. The most
vaulting ambition has seldom been gratified
with such distinctive honors as have fallen
to the lot of this quiet, gentle mannered,
dignified and able Indiana lawyer.

He is in every sense an Indianan, "to
the manner born." His own career is an
honorable reflection upon the good blood
of his ancestors. His mother was a direct
descendant of the famous Charles Carroll
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signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The founder of the family in Indiana was
his grandfather, Riley Marshall, who about
the close of the second war with Great Bri-
tain came from Greenbrier County, Vir-
ginia, and located first in Randolph County
and later in Grant County, where he ac-
quired 640 acres of land, including the site
of the present City of ]\Iarion. Riley Mar-
shall was one of the fii"st Board of County
Commissioners of Grant County and first
clerk of the Circuit Court. The family
were long prominent at Marion.

One of his sons was Dr. Daniel M. Mar-
shall, father of the vice president. He was
born in Randolph Countj^ March 5, 1823,
was well educated for the profession of
medicine, and gave almost a half century
of devoted service in that capacity to the
people of Northern Indiana. Though a
democrat, he was an opponent of slavery
and a stanch Union man. For a year or
so before the outbreak of the war he en-
deavored to practice medicine at LaGrange,
Missouri, but his uncompromising attitude
toward slavery made his residence there
so unpleasant that he returned to Indiana.
At different times he maintained his profes-
sional headquarters at "Wabash, North
Manchester and Pierceton. He died in Co-
lumbia City, Indiana, October 10, 1892.
Doctor Marshal! married Martha E. Patter-
son, who passed away December 5, 1894.
Both were active members of the Presb.v-
terian Church. Of their children, a son
and daughter. Vice President Marshall is
the only survivor.

Thomas Riley Marshall was born at
North ^Manchester, Wabash County, In-
diana, JIarch 14, 1854. His early education
was unusually thorough. He attended
public schools, and from there entered old
Wabash College at Crawfordsville. where
he was graduated A. B. in 1873 and A. il.
in 1876. His alma mater honored him
with the degree LL. D. in 1909, and he has
had similar honors from Notre Dame Uni-
versity in 1910, University of Pennsylvania
in 1911, University of North Carolina in
1913 and University of :\Iaine in 1914.
While in college ilr. Marshall was made a
Phi Beta Kappa, a fraternity of which his
kinsman. Chief Justice John JIarshall, was
the founder.

Prom Wabash College Mr. :\Iarshall re-
moved to Fort Wayne and began the study
of law under Judge Walter Olds, who later

became a .iustiee of the Indiana Supreme
Court. He was admitted to the Indiana
bar on his twenty-first birthday, in 1875.
The previous year he had taken up his home
at Columbia City, where he still has his
legal place of residence. There for the next
thirty years he gave an undeviating atten-
tion to a growing practice as a lawyer. He
was a member of the firm Marshall & Mc-
Nagny from 1876 to 1892, and from the lat-
ter year until he was inaugurated gov-
ernor was head of the firm ^larshall, Me-
Nagny & Clugston.

An apt characterization of his work as
a lawyer and as a citizen was written about
the time he made his campaign for gover-
nor in the following words : ' ' His practice
now extends throughout northern Indiana.
He is a lawyer of note, who serves corpora-
tions and all other clients alike, but is not
of the sort that forgets principle and duty
to his fellow men in the furtherance of the
interests of a corporate client who seeks to
array greed against public interests. He
has been an important factor in many of
the most famous criminal trials in this part
of the state, and his pleading before juries
always attracts throngs to the court room.
He is well known as a political and court
orator. Mr. Marshall is associated in the
practice of law with W. E. McNagny and
P. H. Clugston. Mr. Marshall has been a
candidate only once before in his political
career. In 1880 he was induced to take
the nomination for prosecuting attorney in
what was then a strong republican district
and was defeated. As a party leader Mr.
^larshall has always been known for his
diligence. In 1896 and 1898 he was chair-
man of the Twelfth District Democratic
Committee and did much hard work for the
party, making speeches all over the north-
ern end of the state. He has always been
known for his liberality toward the other
fellow's campaign fund, but when it comes
down to his own campaign he stands
squarely on the platform of anti-currency.
He is called old-fashioned because of his
ideas about a campaign fund for himself,
but he declares it is a principle that is im-
bedded in his soul."

^Ir. Marshall achieved the distinction of
leading the democratic party to victory in
the State of Indiana in the campaign of
1908, and entered upon his duties as gov-
ernor the following January. It is sufifi-
cient to say that Indiana had a thoroughly

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progressive administration during the next
four years, and his record as governor not
only strengthened the party in the confi-
dence of the people so as to insure the vic-
tory of the state ticket in 1912, but it made
Thomas R. Marshall one of the dominant
figures iu the middle west, and as such his
selection as running mate of Woodrow Wil-
son was justified not only on the score of
political expedienc.y but by real fitness for
the responsibilities and possibilities of that
office. Slerely as a matter of record for
the future it should be noted that he was
renominated for the otBee of vice president
at the St. Louis Convention of 1916 and
his second term as vice president extends
from 1917 to 1921.

Mr. Marshall has for many years been
a trustee of Wabash College. He is a mem-
ber of the Phi Gamma Delta College fra-
ternity, of the Presbyterian Church, and
has attained the supreme honorary thirty-
third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.
October 2, 1895, Mr. Marshall married Miss
Lois Kimsey, of Angola, Indiana. Her
father. William E. Kimsey, was for many
years an influential citizen of Steuben
County and held various positions of pub-
lie trust.

Hon. Samuel M. R.vlston, the centen-
nial governor of Indiana, is a figure of
enduring interest to the people of Indiana
not only because of his services as chief
executive from 1913 to 1917, but also for
his rare and forceful personality and in-
dividual character.

His Americanism is a matter of intei'est-
ing record. His great-grandfather, An-
drew Ralston, was born in Scotland, Feb-
ruary 25, 1753, and when a very young
bo.v came with his parents to this country.
The family settled in Eastern Pennsyl-
vania. With the exception of Andrew and
his sister his father's entire family was
massacred by the Indians. Later he en-
tered the Revolutionary war and served
seven years and four months in the Conti-
nental army. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. He was
taken prisoner on Long Island August 27,
1776, and was wounded at the battle of
Brandywine.

After the war Andrew Ralston married
Sophia Waltemeyer. Among the children
born to them was David Ralston, who mar-
ried Sarah Wickard. While they were liv-

ing in Pennsylvania their sou John, father
of former Governor Ralston, was born June
8, 1811.

In the maternal line Governor Ralston is
a grandson of Alexander Scott, who was
born in Ireland in 1775 and came at an
early day to Pennsjdvania. He married
Gertrude Kerr, who belonged to a promi-
nent and talented family in Adams County,
Pennsylvania. Among the children born
to them was Sarah on March 31. 1821,
mother of Samuel M. Ralston. The latter
therefore is of Scotch-Irish blood, the blood
that has given to this country so many of
its great leaders.

David Ralston, with his wife and only
child, John, went to Ohio to live, and
shortly after making his new home iu the
woods he died, leaving John three years
old. The Scotts also became residents of
Ohio. It was in Ohio that John Ralston
and Sarah Scott married, and while they
were living on a farm near New Cumber-
land, Tuscarawas County, Samuel Moffett
Ralston was born December 1. 1857.

In 1865, when he was in his eighth year,
his parents moved to Owen County. In-
diana, where his father purchased and op-
erated a large stock farm and where he
lived until 1873. Financial reverses, re-
sulting from the panic of that year, over-
took his father, who had been a successful
farmer and livestock dealer, and served to-
deprive the growing boy, then sixteen years
old, of many advantages he otherwise
would have enjoyed.

His parents were Presbyterians, and a
religions atmosphere pervaded their home,
in which they had and reared eight chil-
dren, four bo.ys and four girls. The father
\\'as for more than forty years an elder
in the Presbyterian Church. His mother
was a most kind hearted woman, strongly
attached to her home, and always inter-
ested in the appearance and welfare of her
children.

Samuel knew trials and difficulties with-
out number, on the farm, in the biitcher
business and in the coal mine but he bore
them cheerfully and never ceased in his
efforts to fit himself for a higher calling.
For seven j^ears he taught school during
the winter mouths and attended school dur-
ing the summer. He was graduated August
1. 1884, in the scientific course of the Cen-
tral Indiana Normal College at Danville,
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While attending- school at Danville ilr.
Kalston made the acquaintance of ^liss Jen-
nie Craven, of Hendricks County, a woman
of great strength of character whom he
married December 30, 1889. Mr. and Mrs.
Ralston have three children : Emmet Grat-
tan, a graduate of Purdue University and
an electrical engineer; Julian Craven, a
graduate of Indiana University and an as-
sistant in the passport division in the office
of secretary of state at Washington ; and
Ruth, now a student at De Pauw Univer-
sity.

Their home has always been known for
its hospitality, amiability and cheer. As is
usual in such fortunate marriages, the su-
perior mental and moral endowments of the
wife are a constant source of encourage-
ment and inspiration to the husband. Mr.
Kalston experiences real pleasure in saying
he owes much to the good sense and gen-
uineness of her nature, and, above all, to
her high standard of life. Mrs. Ralston
is a much loved woman in Indiana. These
years of happy domestic life have fixed in
each the fundamental principles of sane
and sound living.

Mr. Ralston read law in the office of
Robinson & Fowler at Spencer, Owen
( "ounty, Indiana. He took up his legal
studies in September, 1884, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in the Owen Circuit
Court January 1, 1886. In the following
June he entered upon the practice of his
profession at Lebanon, Boone County, In-
diana. Here he enjoyed a paying practice
until he went to the governor's office.

Politically Mr. Ralston has always been
identified with the democratic party. He
was his party's candidate for joint senator
for Boone, Clinton and Montgomery coun-
ties in 1888, but went to defeat with his
party in a republican district. Twice he
was a candidate for secretary of state, re-
spectively in 1896 and 1898, and was de-
feated for the nomination for governor in
190S bv Vice President Thomas R. Mar-
shall.

In 1912 there were expressions all over
the state that now had come the time to
nominate "Sam Ralston" for governor. So
conclusive were the reasons that, though it
was well known that several able men were
ambitious to be honored with the nomina-
tion, when the convention assembled in
Tomlinson Hall March 17, 1912, no other
name than that of Samuel ^I. Ralston was
Vol. ni— 2

presented for governor, and his nomina-
tion followed by acclamation.

Something of an explanation of this evi-
dence of genuine popularity was furnished
by two unique demonstrations in Mr.
Ralston 's home town, Lebanon, partici-
pated in by all of Boone County. At one
of these gatherings' former Judge B. S.
Higgins, before whom Mr. Ralston had
practiced for six years and with whom he
had tried cases for many more years spoke
thus: "Mr. Ralston is the most courage-
ous man I ever knew. He is the fairest
man in debate I ever saw in court. His
magnanimity is as large as humanity.
Were I Mr." Ralston I should regard these
tributes from my friends and neighbors
spoken voluntarily and sincerely this after-
noon as a greater honor than any other
that could come ; greater than to be gover-
nor ; greater than to be United States sena-
Lor ; greater than to be the occupant of the
White House and wield the scepter over the
greatest of earth's republics; greater than
all these is it to have lived in the midst
of his neighbors in this little city and to
have won and to have deserved these words
of love and appreciation from those who
have known him longest and best."

More noteworthy, perhaps, was the meet-
ing held by the women of the same locality,
regardless of all political affiliations. They
said of him: "We, the women of Boone
county, appreciate to the highest extent the
honor that would be ours could we give to
our state her governor. Mr. Ralston came
to Lebanon a good many years ago, when he
was a young man. Here he brought ilrs.
Ralston a bride, and here their children
were born. So when we, the women of the
county, and more sti'ictly the women of Le-
banon, say that this meeting is an expres-
sion of our regard, we speak with under-
standing. We are here in great numbers as
a tribute to a friend of our homes, a friend
to our children, a friend to our schools, a
friend to our churches, a friend to the
friendless, a friend of the whole communi-
ty, and, if called to the governorship, as we
hope he will be, the great state of Indiana
will never have a more loyal or true friend
than Samuel M. Ralston."

It now remains to review some of the
outstanding facts of the service into which
he was initiated after the remarkable cam-
paign of 1912, when Mr. Ralston was
elected governor by an unprecedented plu-

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rality. The destiny of events made him
governor at the centennial of Indiana's ad-
luission to the Union, and it has been well
said that no other governor during the one
hundred years of statehood, with the single
exception of War Governor Morton, had
been so continnously confronted with sitna-
tions requiring the greatest of conrage and
strength than had the centennial governor.

Governor Ralston 's remarkable strength
of body and mind, his quick and sure in-
sight into the intricacies of civic machinery,
his readiness for instant action, gave him
a wonderful mastery over the details of his
ofSce and made him a most excellent judge
of state and economic problems. Courage
and determination marked his conduct
while in office. No selfish consideration
could persuade him from a judgment that
he pronounced sound and that called for
prompt and efficient action. The keynote
of his administration is doubtless found
in the inaugural address of January 13,
1913, in the course of which he said: "As
governor I shall have no favorites in the
execution of the law, and let it now be
understood that I shall hold that the mind
wliich devises a scheme that is in violation
of law is guiltier than the dependent hands
that execute the offense in obedience to
orders."

That Governor Ralston is a man pos-
sessed of real courage was strikingly illus-
trated during the great street car strike in
Indianapolis in October and November,
1913. The strike had, with premeditation,
been called on the eve of the city election
in the hope of embarrassing the executive
by the necessity of calling out the troops
to avert a riot and insurrection. The gov-
ernor had up to this time been unsuccess-
ful in effecting au adjustment between the
striking employes and the traction com-
pany. The mayor insisted that the gov-
ernor call a special session of the Legis-
lature and procure the passage of a com-
pulsory arbitration law. The ^Merchants
Association and business interests de-
manded that the governor call out the Na-
tional Guard to establish order. The union
men protested that such an act would pre-
cipitate riot and bloodshed such as had
never been seen before.

On the night of November 5th the gover-
nor called out the entire National Guard.
At noon on the following day many thou-
sands of the strikers and their sympathizers

gathered on the lawn about' the south door
of the State House, protesting against the
calling out of the troops. The cry was
started for the governor to address them.
Contrary to the solicitous advice of
friends the governor appeared on the State
House steps. Then followed a speech that
not only allayed fear and appi-ehension,
but broke the backbone of the strike. The
governor spoke without preparation, but
with profound thoughtfnlness, and the men
went away assured in their hearts that they
had a friend in the governor's chair; that
he knew their burdens and was willing to
share these with them. Capital knew that
he was a man who could not be stampeded
by shouts and demands. With the exercise
of keen personal judgment and rare
courage, Governor Ralston was able to
control the situation. He refused to put
the troops into the streets to force the im-
mediate action of the cars, but demanded
that the street ear company through him
treat with the strikers. His firmness won
the day. His services as arbitrator were
effective and the City of Indianapolis re-
turned to normal life.

Under the leadership of Governor Ral-
ston the Legislatures of 1913 and 1915
passed many acts for the protection of the
working man and the betterment of his
working and living conditions and the pro-
tection of society. Laws were passed pro-
viding for the prohibition of the sale of
habit-forming drugs, for the conservation
of our natural resources, development of
livestock industry, prevention of tubercu-
losis, for industrial aid to the blind, for the
regulation of hospital and tenement houses,
and for securing a supply of pure water
and the establishment of children's play-
grounds. In 1915 there was passed, with
the support of the governor, a law that
effectually stamped out the social evil and
abolished the redlight district. Two of the
outstanding pieces of constructive legisla-
tion of his administration were the Public
Utilities Law and the Vocational Educa-
tional Act.

The state educational institutions had for
years been embarrassed for the want of
funds. Governor Ralston favored putting
them on a safe financial basis, and this his
administration did. As governor he was
and as a private citizen he has always been
a strong advocate of popular education.

Governor Ralston favored the creation of

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a iion-pcilitical and non-salaried Centennial
Connnission of nine members. The purpose
was to provide for the celebration of the
One Hundredth Anniversary of the admis-
sion of the state to the Union. He also
advised that a considerable portion of the
appropriation made for that celebration
should be used in historical research and
in collecting and compiling historical docu-
ments which shall be a permanent contribu-
tion to the state's history.

For many years Indiana carried a heavy
debt. It had been an issue in every cam-
paign of more or less consequence for forty
years, but no party and no leader had been
Avilling to take a stand for its early liquida-
tion. Governor Ralston was, and "before his
administration closed the state paid the
last cent it owed, and for the first time in
eighty years was out of debt, with $3,755,-
997.98 in its treasury, when he went out of
otSce.

Realizing the important part good roads
play in our civilization, Governor Ralston
in 1914 appointed a non-partisan highway
commission, composed of five distinguished
citizens of the state. In the spring of 1915
he called a meeting of the governors of
seven states for the purpose of considering
the construction of a National Highway
from Chicago to Jacksonville, Florida, to
be known as the Dixie Highway. The meet-
ing was held in Chattanooga in April, 1915,
and is regarded as the greatest highway
meeting ever held both in point of attend-
ance and importance of the scheme under
consideration.

Under his administration a State Park
system was inaugurated and Turkey Run,
picturesque and beautiful, was saved to the
state and generations to come.

Early ^Monday morning, June 18, 1916,
the national government called the Indiana
National Guard into Federal Service on
account of the Mexican border trouble. In
response to this call the Guard was
mobilized, recruited to war strength, and
the regimental and brigade organizations
completed with dispatch and efficiency
through the assistance of the governor's
able ad.iutant general, Franklin L. Bridges,
and without any man's merits being disre-
garded through partisan prejudices.

This was the only time in Indiana's his-
tory that she furnished the federal govern-
ment a completed brigade organization.
The governor put it under the command

of Edward il. Lewis, a colonel in
the United States army, whom he named
for brigadier-general. Brigadier-General
Lewis was a graduate of West Point Mili-
tary Academy, and was the tirst brigadier-
general the state ever had in charge of an
Indiana brigade.

The One Hundredth Anniversarj' of
Perry's Victory and the Fiftieth Anniver-
sary of the battle of Gettysburg were cele-
brated, and the Panama-Pacific Interna-
tional Exposition at San Francisco was
held during Governor Ralston 's adminis-
tration. He represented his state and made
an appropriate speech on each of these
events. He was the friend of the old sol-
dier throughout his administration, and in
its report to him the commission that had
charge of the Gettysburg celebration says :
■'To your Excellency, who from first to
last has been the friend of this movement,
going with us to Gettysburg, staying with
us while there, coming home with us on our
return, and thus making yourself thor-
oughly one of us, the Commission cannot
adequately express its thanks."

Great as were the services he rendered
the state there was no bluster or pretense
about the centennial governor. He pursued
the even tenor of his way and his acts met
with the approval, with but few exceptions,
of the entire press of Indiana. The oppo-
sition with which he was met from the
press was due to political reasons and to
the fact that he would not receive his
orders from the editorial room of any news-
paper.

Governor Ralston in his final message to
the Legislature January 5, 1917, just be-
fore retiring from office as governor, rec-
ommended for passage a great number of
important bills. They were progressive
measures and showed him to be strong in
his sympathy with the people. One inter-
ested in state affairs will profit by reading
these messages.

Governor Ralston has an abiding faith in
the destiny of our nation and in its ability
to overcome all difficulties to which it may
be subjected. He proved himself strong,
efficient and faithful in guiding with a mas-
ter hand the affairs of the state that has
always been ready to do its share of the
nation's work.

As chief of the commonwealth he rose
to social eminence without forgetting the
humble homes. He was always careful to

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meet every father or mother who visited
the g-overuor's office in the interest of an
inmate of any of our institutions. Neither
power nor position has marred his innate
good will towards all mankind. And more
of the thoughtful good will of the people
was directed affectionately toward him
when he left office than when he entered.

Booth Tarkington. Of Indiana natives
^yllo have attained national distinction in
literature none is more thoroughly an In-
diana product than Booth Tarkington, the
novelist and dramatist. His grandfather,
Rev. Joseph Tarkington, a native of Ten-
nessee, came to Indiana with his parents in
1815, and located first at Harrison's Block-
house (now Edwardsport, Knox County)
and later in the wilds west of Bloomington.
Joseph Tarkington was converted at a
camp-meeting in 1820, and entered the min-
istry of the Methodist Church in 1824, be-
comuig in his long service one of the best
known of the Methodist preachers in In-
diana and Illinois. He man-ied Maria
Stevenson, of Switzerland Countv, and
their eldest son, John Stevenson Tarking-
ton, born at Centerville, Wayne County,
June 24, 1832, was Booth Tarkington's
father.

Judge John Stevenson Tarkington at-
tended the excellent schools of Centerville,
and then went to Asbui-y (now DePauw)
University, from which he graduated in
1852, receiving a Master's degree in 1855.
He read law, and engaged successfully in
practice. He was elected to the State
Legislature in 1863, served as captain of
Company A of the One Hundred and Thir-
ty-second Indiana Infantry in the Civil
war ; and was elected judge" of the Seventh
Judicial Circuit in 1870. Judge Tarking-
ton is known locally for his geniality and
as a student and a wit. His literary ven-
tures include a novel, "The Hermit of
Capri," and "The Auto-Orphan."

On November 19, 1857, Judge Tarking-
ton married Elizabeth Booth, also of an old
Indiana family. She was born at Salem,
Indiana, in 18.34. and was a sister of Sena-
tor Newton Booth of California, for whom
Booth Tarkington was named, though he
has dropped the "Newton" for literary
purposes. The Booths were an old Connecti-
cut family, Elizabeth being a granddaugh-
ter of Mary Newton, an early belle of

Woodbridge, and a lineal descendant of
Rev. Thomas Hookei*, who married Walter
Booth. It may be noted in passing that
Salem and Centerville were two of the
notable seats of culture in early Indiana,
and also that both Judge Tarkington and
his wife were prominent in the "talent"
of the amateur dramatic society organized
in Indianapolis during the Civil war to
raise funds for the Sanitary Commission.

Booth Tarkington was born at Indian-
apolis July 29, 1869. He went from the
public schools of the city to Phillips Acad-
emy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and then to
Purdue and to Princeton. In the class of
1893 at Princeton he was especially promi-
nent in literary, musical and dramatic cir-
cles. He decided on literaiy work, but had
many of the common disappointments of
young authors before he finally won his
spurs by ' ' The Gentleman From Indiana, ' '
first published in MeClure's Jlagazine in
1897. This was followed by his romance
"Monsieur Beaucaire," which was even
more popular in 1890, and from that time
on his work has been in demand from the
magazines and publishers. Both of these
stories were dramatized ; and ' ' Monsieur
Beaucaire," in whose dramatization Tark-
ington collaborated with E. G. Sutherland,
held the stage for months with Lewis Wal-
ler in the title role in England, and
Richard Mansfield in the United States.

Among the more important of his numer-
ous published works, in addition to those
mentioned, are "The Two VanRevels, "
1902; "Cherry," 1903; "The Beautiful
Lady" and "The Conquest of Can^aan,"
1905; "His Own People" and "Cameo
Kirby" 1907; "Guest of Quesnay," "Your
Humble Servant," "Spring Time," and
"The Man Prom Home" (wnth Harry
Leon Wilson), 1908; "Beasley's Christmas
Party" and "Getting a Polish" 1909;
"Beauty and the Jacobin," 1911; "A Man
on Horseback," 1912; "The Flirt," 1913;
"Penrod," and "The Turmoil" 1914;
"Penrod and Sam," and "Seventeen,"
]916; "]\Iister Antonio" and "The Coun-
try Cousin," 1917. His plays have been
very popular, and have been presented by
the most notable actors of the period —
William Hodge in "The Man From
Home," Nat Goodwin and Dustin Farnum
in "Cameo Kirby," May Irwin in "Get-
ting a Polish," Mabel Taliaferro in

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"Spring Time," Otis Skinner in "Your
Humble Servant," and James K. Hackett
in "A Man on Horseback."

Mr. Tarlcjngton was married June 18,
1902, to Laurel Louisa Fletcher, of In-
dianapolis, and to them was born one
daughter. He was elected to the Indiana
Legislature of 1903, and among other leg-
islative services nominated Charles W.
Fairbanks for senator. Much of his time
between 1905 and 1912 was passed abroad,
mostly at London, Paris and Rome. In
1912 he married Susanna Robinson, of
Dayton, Ohio, and since then has resided
at Indianapolis. He is a member of vari-
ous clubs in New York, Princeton, Chicago
and Indianapolis, was made a member of
the National Institute of Arts and Letters
in 1908; and honorary vice president of
the Authors' League of America in 1917.
He is robust in Americanism, and has given
forcible expression to his views during the
recent war on patriotic lines and in favor
of the League of Nations.

Mention of the literary quality of Mr.
Tarkington's work will be found in the
chapter of "Hoosier Character." It may
be worth while to add here a few words of
early appreciation and insight from the
issue of "Current Literature" for March,
1901; "Perhaps it is the strength of his
dramatic quality which calls for most ad-
miration in the reading of Mr. Tarking-
ton's stories. The characters live and act
and move much as if they were on the
stage : very likely the author creates them
and sets them playing in his fancy in just
this fashion. At any rate he makes one
feel the reality of his creations, and that
is the real art of the author as well as
of the dramatist. Mr. Tarkington is for-
tunate in possessing the qualities of both."

In his lines of work he has apparently
been influenced by reading as well as ob-
servation, and in the main he has worked
out his own salvation by steady and per-
sistent efifort. Of personal influence on his
writing probably the most important,
though no doubt unconscious to both, was
his early association with James Whitcomb
Riley, who was a frequent visitor at the
Tarkington home, and whose appreciation
of Indiana material could scarcely fail to
affect an impressionable youth of literary

SoLOJiON Claypool. At the time of his
death, wliich occurred in Indianapolis
:March 19, 1898, a speaker before the In-
tlianapolis Bar Association referred to
Judge Claypool as "a man against whom
no scandal or suspicion was ever known, a
gri^at lawyer, a good citizen, a pure and
spotless man." The facts of his life serve
to justify every word of this fair fame.

Solomon Claypool came of a long line of
ancestors who were men of affairs, and his
parents were pioneers in Indiana. His
father, Wilson Claypool, was a native of
Virginia and of an English colonial fam-
ily of that state. When he was a boy his
parents removed to Ohio, and near Chilli-
enthe in that state Wilson Claypool mar-
ried Sarah Evans.

The Evans family came originally from
Wales and settled in Maryland as early as
1720.

In 1823 Wilson Claypool and his wife
removed to Fountain County, Indiana, and
secured a large tract of undeveloped land
near Attica. There he spent the rest of
his life as a practical agriculturist. In
1824 Wilson Claypool erected the first
frame house in Fountain County, and it
stood in a good state of preservation for
nearly a century.

It was in that somewhat pretentious home
for pioneer days that Solomon Claypool
was born August 17, 1829. Though his
early life was spent practically in a fron-
tier community, he received excellent train-
ing both under home influence and in school
and college. With his brothers he attended
Wabash College at Crawfordsville, gradu-
ating with the class of 1851. He was a
member of the Phi Gamma Delta frater-
nity. He began the study of law with the
office firm of Lane & Wilson at Crawfords-
ville, but completed his preparatory work
under Judge Samuel B. Gookins of Terre
Haute, where he was admitted to the bar.
After a brief practice at Covington in
Fountain County he returned to Terre
Haute in 1855, and in that city laid the
foundation of his gi'eat work as a lawyer.

The honors of his profession and of poli-
tics came to him in rapid succession. He
was always an ardent democrat. In 1856
he was elected to the State Legislature from
A'igo County, and attracted much attention
in .spite of his youth. It was his work as a
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ai)point him. without any solicitation, to a
\ acaney on the bench of the Sixth Judicial
Circuit, composed of Vigo and seven other
counties. The next year Judge Claypool
was elected for the regular term of six
years. Thus at the age of thirty-five he
iiad enjoyed seven years of capable service
on the bench and his name had become
familiar to the members of the bar through-
out the state. His work on the bench has
been characterized as that of a "clean,
strong man, and an able and impartial
judge." His career as a public official may
be said to have closed when he left the
bench. However, in 1866 he was nomi-
nated by acclamation as democratic candi-
date for Congress, and in 1868 was again
an unsuccessful candidate with his party
f(ir the office of attorney genei'al.

For several years Judge Claypool prac-
ticed law at Greencastle in his former cir-
cuit, but in 1873 became the head of the
law firm of Claypool, Mitchell & Ketcham
at Indianapolis. In 1876 he removed the
family to Indianapolis, and that city was
his home for the last twenty-two years of
iiis life. During those years he was em-
ployed on either one side or the other in
nearly all the great legal battles of the
state. Someone said of him, "When there
was a struggle of right or wrong, when a
man's character or fortune was at stake,
then it was that Judge Claypool stood at
the head of the bar of Marion County. ' '

His position as a lawyer and his char-
acter as a man justify the following esti.-
mate made of him some years ago: "He
was a terror to his opponents, who took
good care not to arouse the reserve strength
of which he was possessed. His brilliant
mind and his powerful method of present-
ing his side of a case before court or jury
called his services into requisition in many
parts of the state when trials of importance
were in progress."

During his active career at the bar he
had and well deserved the reputation of
lieing one of the very strongest advocates
in the state. He was known for his rugged
honesty and his inviolable devotion to prin-
ciple. "He was a strong member of a
great profession and honored and dignified
the same by his services." He was always
ready to combat with evil wherever he saw
it. Right was right, and wrong was wrong
with him; here was no compromise with
expediency, he knew no middle ground.

To those who were in any waj- weaker than
himself he always extended a willing, help-
ing hand. Pew who heard him making a
strong plea for a cause in court, where the
vital points of the case absorbed his atten-
tion, could realize that he was a man of
intrinsic reserve, even diffidence, and that
he had no desire to be in the limelight.
Consequently his charities and benevolences
were never known to the public. He "re-
membered those who were forgotten." His
gifts to others were made in his own mod-
est way, a loving word, a kind look, his
time or a substantial sum when it was
needed.

"Strong, powerful and aggressive in his
defense of right and justice, in personal
character he was gentle and sweet-spirited
as a child. Whatever ma.v have been his
attitude to the work in the sacred pre-
cincts of his home, his true and noble finali-
ties illumined and pervaded the entire at-
mosphere, and to his wife and children he
was all in all, as were they to him. Judge
Claypool was a man of attractive and im-
pressive appearance. He was nearly six
feet in height, well proportioned and
weighed 250 pounds. He had thick, black
hair, which covered a broad, fair brow, and
his keen blue eyes often twinkled with
amusement or looked with tenderest sjmi-
pathy or flashed with indignation at a
wrong. While in Wabash College he be-
came the subject of earnest religious con-
victions, and was ever a steadfast upholder
of church and morality, being a member
of the Presbyterian denomination.

In Terre Haute in September, 1855,
Judge Claypool married iliss Hannah JM.
O.sborn. She was the daughter of John W.
Osborn, whose conspicuous services as an
editor and abolition leader are told on other
pages of this history.

Solomon Claypool and wife were the par-
ents of seven children : Anna C, who mar-
ried George W. Faris and died August 31.
1909 ; John Wilson ; Hannah M., who mar-
ried Thomas H. Watson ; Ruby S., wife of
Chester Bradford, now deceased ; Mary
Alice, who married Ridgely B. Hilleary : •
Lucy Gorkins, who died in 1890, and Eliza-
beth Caroline.

John W. Claypool has been a member
of the Indianapolis bar more than thii'ty-
five years. His individual services have
been in effect a continuation of the eminent

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career of his honored father, Solomon Clay-
pool, who in his time enjoyed an unequivo-
cal position among the leaders of the In-
diana bar.

Xothing less than worthy afhievenient
and services could have been expected of
John Wilson Claypool, and in his individ-
ual career he has justified his honored par-
entage and ancestry.

He is the only sou of Solomon and Han-
nah (Osborn) Claypool and was born in
Terre Haute October 19, 1858, and lived
there until he was eight years of age. In
the meantime he attended a private school.
The family removed to Greencastle in 1866,
whei-e after finishing the public school
course, he entered Asbury, now De Pauw,
University, continuing his studies for sev-
eral years.

He came with the family to Indianapolis
in January, 1876, and entered his father's
law office. By reason of the thoroughly
]iractical training he received under his
fatlier he was unusually well qualified for
practice when he was admitted to the bar
in September, 1881.

After a few years he became the junior
member in the law firm of Cla.vpool i&
Claypool, and until its dissolution at the
deatli of Solomon Claypool this was one
of the leading firms of Indiana.

Mr. ChiypDiil pdssi'sses many of the char-
acteristii-s wlin-li mide his fathei' great.
His personal integrity, tenacity of purjidse,
and his absolute fearlessness, together
with his well known fidelity to the inter-
ests of his client, have won for him an
cnvialile position at the bar.

Probably the case which has brought
him most prominently before the public
was the Rhodius case. This case, involv-
ing tlie administration by Mr. Claypool
of an estate of about $1,000,000, in which
the weak-minded heir fell victim to a
shrewd and designing woman, presented
many unusual features of intrigue, and
was undoubtedly one of the most notable
chancery cases ever tried in Indiana. Mr.
Cla.vpool 's course in this ease was highly
commended.

Rhodius left large sums to the city and
its charities. At the time of the settlement
of the estate one of the Indianapolis news-
papers suggested editorially that the
beneficiaries "pause and give expression to
their gratitude not only to George Rhodius
Init to J. W. Claypool. who had counseled

him so wisely and who had so steadfastly
fought at the risk of great personal loss
that right might prevail."

Mr. Claypool has given his time to his
profession to the exclusion of politics,
though nut withijut active and influential
participatidu in matters associated with
liis home city and state. He is a member
of the Indiana Democratic Club and the
Second Presbyterian Church, and a num-
ber of social and civic organizations. He
is unmarried.

Henry Studebaker. one of the founders
of the great vehicle industry of the Stude-
baker Brothers jManufaeturing Company,
was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
October 5, 1826, a son of John Studebaker.
When the son Henry was but a lad the
family migrated to Ashland County, Ohio,
making the journe.v in a wagon which the
father had built. In 1850, with his brother
( 'lenient, he came to South Bend and estab-
lished the small blacksmith shop which has
developed with the passing years into the
wdi'ld renowned plant. But iu 1858 Henry
Studebaker, on account of ill health, was
dl)ligeil to retire from the business, and
buying a large tract of land adjoining
South Bend he continued its cultivation
and improvement until his death March
12. 1895.

;\Ir. Studebaker was twice married, aud
was the father of nine children.

j

Cr.EMEXT Stcdebaker was born near
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 2. 1831,
and at the age of four years moved with his
parents to Ashland Count.v, Ohio. In his
father's wagon shop there he laid the foun-
dation for his future sii.cess in the Stude-
baker Brothers ;\laimfaet miiig Company.
In 1850 he came tci S.mth I lend, spending
the first two years here as a teacher, and
then with his oldest brother opened a small
blacksmith shop. This little shop has de-
veloped into one of the largest plants of its
kind in the world, and its products are dis-
tributed throughout the civilized globe.

'Sir. Studebaker also became one of the
leading republicans of his state, and was
twice a representative in national conven-
tions. He also served in other high official
positions in this country and abroad. He
married Mrs. Ann (Milburu) Harper, a
datighter of George ililburn, a pi-omineut
wagon manufacturer of Mishawaka.

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Stoughton A. Fletcher. The history
of Indiana and Indianapolis in particular
contains no more distinguished name than
that of Fletcher. The name Stoughton
appears representing three successive gen-
erations. This hranch of the family has
been especially active and prominent in
the banking life of the state, and the pres-
ent Stoughton A. Fletcher, who for sake
of distinction is often referred to as
Stoughton A. Fletcher II, is president of
the Fletcher American National Bank of
Indianapolis, and though a man still un-
der forty occupies the front rank among
Indiana's financiers.

The American ancestry of the Fletcher
family goes back to Robert Fletcher, who
was born in northern England and settled
at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1630. He
died there April 3, 1677, at the age of
eighty-five. Through his four sons, Fran-
cis, Luke, William and Samuel, are de-
sceiided most of the Fletchers who claim
New England ancestry.

In a later generation was Timothy
Fletcher, who lived in Westford, Massa-
chusetts. His son, Jesse Fletcher, was
born in that town November 9, 1763. Tim-
othy Fletcher was the father of several
children who became noted. One was Rev.
Elijah Fletcher who was pastor of a church
in New Hampshire from 1773 until his
death in 1786, and whose second daughter,
Grace, was the first wife of Daniel Web-
ster.

Jesse Fletcher had his early studies di-
rected by his brother Elijah, but left hi-s
books to join the Revolutionary army and
served in two campaigns toward the close
of the war. In 1781, when about eighteen,
he married Lucy Keyes, who was born
November 13, 1765. About 1783 they
moved to Ludlow, Vermont, where they
were among the first settlers. From that
time until the day of his death in Febru-
ary, 1831. Jesse Fletcher lived on the same
farm. He was the first town clerk of Lud-
low, was a justice of the peace, and the
second representative to the General
Courts from Ludlow. In that town all his
fifteen children, except the oldest, were
bom. His widow died in 1846. Among
the children of Jesse and Lucy Fletcher
were at least two who became conspicuous
in Indiana affairs. One of these was the
noted Calvin Fletcher, who came to In-
dianapolis at the time it was made the

capital of the state and for forty years
was one of the most eminent lawj-ers and
financiers of Indiana, until his death May
26, 1866. A son of Calvin Fletcher was
the late Stoughton A. Fletcher, who was
known as "Junior" to distinguish him
from his uncle Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr.

Another child of Jesse Fletcher, and the
youngest of the family, was Stoughton A.
Fletcher, Sr. He became one of the first
bankers of Indianapolis, taking up his
home in the capital city in 1831, and in
1839 established the private bank from
which has since grown the Fletcher Amer-
ican National Bank.

Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr. was bom at
Ludlow, Vermont, August 22, 1808. From
his parents he received not only much
early instruction but also those lessons in
self reliance and integrity of purpose '
which enabled him to solve the successive
problems of life as they came.

He was twenty-three years of age when
in 1831 he came to Indianapolis, where his
older brother, Calvin, had already gained
distinction in the law. His first position
in the capital city was as clerk in a general
store. Later he opened a stock of goods of
his own, and was one of the pioneer mer-
chants of Indianapolis. After eight years
he opened a private bank in a small room
on Washington Street, and by insistence
upon banking methods which were not
then generally pi*acticed he steered a
straight course through the devious ways
of early finances and laid sound and se-
cure the foundations of a bank which to-
day is the largest in the State of Indiana.

He gained a fortune as a banker and
business man, and that fortune was gen-
erously used to promote the welfare of his
home city and there has never been a name
that has meant more to Indianapolis in a
business and civic way than that of Stough-
ton A. Fletcher, Sr. He was never in
polities, never held office, and the chief
monument to his character and activities
today is the Fletcher American National
Bank. He died in his seventy-fourth year
March 17, 1882.

He was three times married. His first
wife was Maria Kipp, who left him with
two daughters, Mrs. Laura K. Hyde and
Mrs. Maria F. Ritzinger. For his second
wife he married Julia Ballard, a native of
Massachusetts. Of the five children born to
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For his third wife Stoughtoii A. Fletcher,
Sr., married ilrs. Julia A. Johnson.

Stoughton A. Fletcher, president of the
bank which was founded by his honored
grandfather, was born in Indianapolis No-
vember 24, 1879, a son of Stoughton J. and
Laura (Locke) Fletcher. He was edu-
cated in the public schools, is a graduate
of Princeton University with the degree
A. B., and returned from college to begin
his business career with the Fletcher Na-
tional Bank. He was made assistant cash-
ier, later vice president, and since Janu-
ary, 1908, has been president, ilr.
Fletcher has numerous connections with
other important business concerns at In-
dianapolis, including the management of
a large family estate, but he is most widely
known as a banker and is undoubtedly one
of the youngest men ever chosen to direct
the destinies of an institution with re-
sources of over $35,000,000.

Mr. Fletcher is a republican, a member
of the Commercial and Columbia clubs,
and with all his heavy responsibilities has
found time and made opportunity to iden-
tify himself closely with the important
civic movements of his home city. In 1900
he married Miss May Henley.

Archibald C. Graham. When Archi-
bald C. Graham located in St. Joseph
County in 1896 he was a young, practically
unknown and untried lawyer. In subse-
quent years he has achieved all the dignity
associated with the abler members of his
profession, and is one of the ranking law-
yers of the South Bend bar. He is one of
four Graham brothers who have been iden-
tified with St. Joseph County, one as a
physician at Mishawaka, another as a drug-
gist of South Bend and the other as a
South Bend banker.

Mr. Graham was born on a farm in
Eckfried Township, Middlesex County, On-
tario, Canada, September 1, 1871, son of
John and Rebecca (]McClellan) Graham.
His father was born in the north of Scot-
land in 1823. Grandfather William Gra-
ham brought his family to America in 1837,
and after a long voyage of nine weeks on
the ocean landed at Quebec and by river
and lake traveled to Hamilton, Ontario,
and thence went into the woods of Elgin
County. He acquired a tract of heavily
timbered land. Years of hard and continu-
ous labor brought many acres under culti-

vation, and he developed it as a farmer and
stock raiser and lived there until his death
at the advanced age of ninety-eight. He
married Catherine McDougal and their
four children were John, Archibald, Wil-
liam and Catherine.

John Graham was fourteen years old
when he came to America, grew up on the
farm and in the woods of Ontario, and
finally bought a farm of his own in Eck-
fried Township of Middlesex County. He
inherits much of his father's vitality and
vigor and is still living at the age of ninety-
six. Ilis career has been entirely identified
with his farm and his interests as a live-
stock man. His wife, Rebecca McClellan,
was born in Ontario, daughter of Angus
and Flora (McLaughlin) McClellan, both
natives of Scotland and also pioneers of
Middlesex County, Ontario. Mrs. Rebecca
Graham died at the age of fifty-five, the
mother of ten children.

Archibald C. Graham attended the eom-
' mou schools, the high schools at Dutton
and Glencoe, and for three years was a
Canadian teacher. He took up the study
of law privately and afterwards entered
the Detroit College of Law, where he was
graduated LL. B. in 1896. He at once
came to Mishawaka, Indiana, and practiced
there until August 1905, when he formed
a partnership in South Bend, under the
firm name of Brick and Graham, with the
late Hon. A. L. Brick, member of Con-
gress from the Thirteenth Indiana District
from 1896 until his death in 1908. Since
the death of his partner Mr. Graham has
handled a large general and corporate prac-
tice alone.

January 4, 1904, he married Miss Har-
riet Crane. She was born at Syracuse,
New York, daughter of Charles Crane, a
native of Massachusetts who lives in Elk-
hart County, Indiana. Mr. and ilrs. Gra-
ham have three children : Helen, Jean and
Archibald J. "

Incidental to his law practice Mr. Gra-
ham has taken an active part in republican
liolitics. Pie has served as chairman of the
Republican Executive Committee of St.
Joseph County and as a member of the
RejMiblican State and District Committees
and as a delegate to many conventions.
During the greater part of his residence
at Mishawaka he served as city attorney.
He is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch
Chapter and Council of ^lasonry at ]\Iisha-

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waka. with South Beud Commandery No.
82, Kuights Templars, with Mishawaka
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, aud with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
at South Beud. He is also a member of
the Ivnife and Fork Club, of the St. Joseph
Valley Country Club, a member of the In-
diana Club, and during the war was a di-
rector of the War Chest.

Olh-er Peret Jones. With his home at
Crawfordsville, Oliver Perry Jones is
spending his active life as a scientitie
farmer in Whitley County. The Jones
family established themselves in a pioneer
district of Whitley County seventy years
ago. They belonged to the territorial fam-
ilies of Indiana, their first home having
been established in Wayne County, Indiana,
in 1810. The following family record is
given at length because of the prominence
of many individuals and the historical cir-
cumstances connected with the various re-
movals and incidents in the Jones history.

In colonial times the first American
Jones came from Wales and settled in
Culpeper, Virginia. In that county John
Jones was born, and was a gallant soldier
with the colonists in the struggle for inde-
pendence. He participated in one of the
most decisive battles of the western fron-
tier, the Battle of Point Pleasant, on the
western slope of the Alleghenies at the
junction of the great Kanawha and Ohio
rivers. He established his permanent home
in Kanawha County, Virginia, in 1797, and
owned large tracts of land there, includ-
ing the site of Grafton. John Jones mar-
ried Frances Morris, daughter of Levi
Morris of Virginia. She was an aunt of
Thomas A. Morris, who later became a
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Of the children of John Jones and wife
William, Edmund, Thomas, John and Levi
M. all Ipcated in Wayne County, Indiana.

Levi ]\Iorris Jones, grandfather of Oliver
Perry Jones, was born on a farm in Cul-
peper County, Virginia, October 10, 1785,
and was twelve years old when his parents
moved to what is now West Virginia. In
Kanawha County he married Mary
Thomas. She was born in Buckingham
County, Virginia, February 7, 1784. They
were married in 1806. The father of IMary
Thomas, Joseph Thomas, was born in
Buckingham County, Virginia, August 3,
1759, and also took his family to Kanawha

County in October, 1797. Joseph Thomas,
who died in 1839, was a Revolutionary sol-
dier directly under the command of Gen-
eral Washington. His father, Henry
Thomas, was born in Wales in 1728 and
came to Virginia soon after his marriage.
Joseph Thomas married in 1781 Rebecca
Tindal, who was born in Fauquier County,
Virginia, November 5, 1763. The Thomas
children were Lewis, Mary, Washington,
Henry, Thomas M., Rebecca Tindal, Sarah,
Dolly H., Janie Pleasant, Norburn and
Helena. Several of the sons were magnifi-
cent specimens of physical manhood and
the pioneer instinct in them was strong.
Lewis Thomas at the age of sixty-six
started for the gold fields of California
and died of typhoid fever en route.

Levi M. Jones after his marriage con-
tinued farming in West Virginia until
ilarch, 1815, when he started for Wayne
County, Indiana. He joui-neyed down the
Ohio river on a flatboat to Cincinnati, and
then drove across country to Wayne
County. He first located at Old Salisbury
and a year later bought 160 acres in Cen-
ter Township of Wayne County. Two
years later he sold that property and
bought lots in Centerville, where he built
a hotel, and in 1819 constnicted the first
brick house in the town. This brick house
became associated with many important
events in the history of Wa.yne County.
Levi M. Jones also took the first contract
to carry mail from Centerville to Indianap-
olis, and his son Lewis was the carrier,
making the trip of sixty-five miles with-
out any stop. Levi M. Jones was not only
a man of much business enterprise but of
generosity and confidence in his fellow-
men that was frequently betrayed, and
security debts swept away most of his es-
tate. He died October 5, 1823, honored
and respected, but left his family iii
straightened circumstances. It was his
wife, a noble woman of the pioneer type,
who came to the rescue of the family for-
tune. One of her sons speaking of her
later said: "Thinking over the past and
of the early history of my mother's family,
my mind runs back nearly sixty-one years
to the scene of the Town of Centerville,
Wayne County. I fancy I see a little
group of ten children and a mother and
other relatives mourning over the loss of
a dear father and a loving companion.
The prospects for keeping the family to-

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12.39

gether and rearing those children would
he a very gloomy one under the circum-
stances to my mother's friends. After a
consultation about the matter the friends
advised my mother to put the children
'out,' as they did not think it possible for
her to keep them together and raise
them. She listened to and thanked her
friends for their advice but to them she
said, 'nay, as long as I have a finger to
scratch, these children shall never be sep-
arated.' And they never were separated
except as they reached maturity and were
married. The last thing we children would
hear at night when we went to bed was
the wheel or loom, and it was the first
thing in the morning. It seemed as though
she never slept. Oh, for such courage, for
such a wjW to do, and for such economy
as she used in raising her children. Would
that there were more mothers in this pres-
ent day who possessed the will and courage
that she did. I will venture the assertion
that in the first ten years after my father's
death there was not a bill of $10 run by
the family at any store. If ever a mother
did her whole duty in raising a family of
fatherless children my mother was such a
one. After living to see them all grown
and married except one she departed this
life for a better home." She died Decem-
ber 20, 1848.

The children of this noble woman were :
Lewis, born in Kanawha County March
26, 1807, died at his home near Center-
ville April 3, 1877. He first married Caro-
line Level, and his second wife was Ruth
Commons. Sallie Jones, born November 6,
1809, was first married in 1831 to John
Boggs, and in 1854 became the wife of Rob-
ert Franklin. Oliver Tindal Jones, born
September 19, 1810, died at his home near
Centerville December 16, 1874, his wife
having been Mary King. He was a large
land owner and farmer and also a banker at
Centerville. Norris Jones, born August 19,
1811, and died at Connersville, Indiana,
March 22, 1881, married Sabra Jenkins.
Llarrison Jones, born Mav 10, 1813, died
at Centerville August 13," 1844. His wife
was Eliza Bundy. Rebecca Jones, born
March 15, 1815, and died in Wayne
County August 7, 1866, was married to
Daniel S. Shank. The next in age in the
family was Washington Jones, whose
career is taken up in following paragraphs.
Eli Reynolds Jones, born in Waj-ne

County, Indiana, JIarch 17, 1818, also lived
in Whitley County, Indiana, and married
Ann Crowe. Ann Jones born in Wayne
County June 14, 1821, died at Indianapolis
November 21, 1883, wife of Stephen Crowe.
Levi ilorris, youngest of the children, was
born April 4, 1823, and died on his farm
in Wayne County ilay 13, 1876. He mar-
ried Matilda Jane Brown.

Washington Jones, father of Oliver
Perry, was the first of the family born in
Wayne County. His birth occurred De-
cember 8, 1816, at the old homestead a mile
north of Centerville. He lived at home to
the age of eighteen and worked for his
three older brothers, who were managing
the farm for their mother. He then con-
tracted for the purchase of 160 acres in
Madison County for the sum of $280, and
paid for it at the rate of $9 a month. It
is said that he lost but two days' work
until the land was paid for. Later he
bought eighty acres in Tipton County, In-
diana, for $200, paying for this at the
rate of $11 a month. He also improved
a lot in Centerville, but sold that at a
sacrifice in order to invest $150 in 160 acres
of wild land on section 28 of Etna Town-
ship, Whitley County. To this land, im-
proved with a log cabin 14x18 feet, he
moved his family September 8, 1848. On
that farm he did his real work in life, and
kept his possessions growing until he had
nearly 700 acres, most of which was di-
vided among his children. The home farm
proper contained 200 acres. He was a
nmn of much skill and of good education.
At the age of ten years he had begun
working in brick yards, and put in twenty
sunnners in Wayne County at that employ-
ment. That gave him a practical knowl-
edge of brick making and he used this to
make all the brick which entered into the
construction of his fine country home in
Whitley County. He began the construc-
tion of this building the same week that
Fort Sumter was fired upon and it was
completed January 17, 1863. At that time
it was regarded as one of the finest homes
in the county. Though he had meager op-
portunities to secure an education, he made
diligent use of every opportunity, and at
the age of twenty-one attended both day
and night school under the instruction of
his brother 0. T. Jones. At the age of
twenty-two he taught a school, and later
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County. One of his pupils was Lucinda
Burbank, who afterwards became the wife
of Indiana's great war governor, Oliver
P. :Morton.

Washington Jones evidently used a great
deal of judgment and enterprse in select-
ing his land in Whitley County. A large
part of it was- covered with heavy black
walnut timber, and in 1870 he sold a lot
of that wood, valued at about $8,000.
There was also a grove of hard maple trees,
and maple sugar and syrup manufacture
was a part of every year's program. He
also developed a large orchard. Washing-
ton Jones began voting as a whig and after-
wards was an active republican. He held
many of the minor posts of responsibility
wherein local affairs are administered, such
as justice of Jhe peace, township assessor
and trustee. He was a member of the
Baptist Church.

After a long life, deserving of every
encomium that could be paid it, Washing-
ton Jones passed awav at his country es-
tate in Whitley County June 23, 1903.

January 20, 1845, he married Catherine
Hunt. She died November 6, 1852, the
mother of two children : Mary Jane, who
was born February 20, 1846. and died Octo-
ber 18, 1855, and Hannah Eliza, born Octo-
ber 8, 1848, died April 27, 1874, the wife
of Jesse ililler. On October 2, 1853, Wash-
ington Jones married a sister of his iirst
wife, Mrs. Frances Mary Hart, widow of
William Hart. She died September 6,
1873, mother of the following children:
Levi Monroe, born Julv 22, 1854; Wash-
ington Thomas, born March 26, 1858 ; Oli-
ver Perry, born March 23, 1865. October
8, 1874, Washington Jones married Mrs.
Samantha Caroline (Palmer) Trumbull,
widow of Lewis il. Trumbull and daugh-
ter of Samuel and Sallie (Palmer) Skinner.

Membership in such a family constitutes
a badge of honor and a constant stimulus
to the best attainments in life. Oliver
Perry Jones was born in the old home in
Whitley County ]\Iarch 23, 1865. His
father saw to it that he had ample oppor-
tunities as a youth, and in addition to the
public schools near the old home he at-
tended Earlham College at Richmond. His
training as an engineer he utilizes largely
in following his chosen vocation as an agri-
culturist, and for twenty-five years he
managed with a high degree of skill and

art a fine farm in W^hitley County. Wlien
he left the farm he sought the cultured at-
mosphere of the old college center of Craw-
fordsville.

December 21, 1886, he married Miss
Elsie E. Barber. She was born in Whitley
County November 15. 1868, daughter of
Frederick and Lucy J. (Barnes) Barber,
who were also natives of Indiana. Mrs.
Jones finished her education at Larwill
Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two
sons and one daughter. Mark Barber, born
January 20, 1888, in Whitley County, is a
graduate of the Columbia City High School
and finished his college work in Wabash
College with the class of 1911 and the de-
gree of Mining Engineer. After leaving
college he had a most interesting and
fruitful experience, being selected as mem-
ber of a staff of mining engineers b.v the
Oriental Consolidated ^Mining Company,
and in that capacitj^ he spent two years
in Japan and Korea. Since returning from
the Orient he has been engaged in the lum-
ber manufacturing business at Cuyahoga
Palls, Ohio. He Quarried Miss Nellie R.
James June 14, 1915. She is a native of
Ohio and received a college training, being
a graduate of Buchtel College.

Walter Paul Jones, born August 22,
1891, in Whitley County, graduated from
Wabash College with the class of 1913,
having specialized in English. He has
been an instructor in different colleges and
universities and in 1918 was chosen to
the chair of English in the LTniversity of
California. He married Miss Mildred
Demaree August 30, 1916. They have one
child, Elsie Barbara. Both sons are mem-
bers of the Phi Beta Kappa.

The daughter is Frances D 'Claris, born
October 17, 1897, in Wliitley County. She
is a graduate of Crawfordville High
School with the class of 1915, and also of
the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music.
April 26, 1916, she became the wife of
Buren A. Beck. They have two sons,
Buren, Jr., and Charles Oliver. Mr. Beck
is now in the dairy business at Hammond,
Louisiana.

Mr. Oliver P. Jones is a Master Mason
and Odd Fellow, a republican and a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church.

Judge Samuel E. Perkins. Perkins is
one of the names most suggestive of the

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honorable traditions and acliievements of
the Indiana bar, to which the services of
three generations have been given.

First in time, and because of his posi-
tion as a justice of the Supreme Court per-
haps most widely known, was Judge Sam-
uel E. Perkins, whose life bulked large in
the affairs of Indiana during the middle
decades of the last century. He was born
at Brattleboro, Vermont, December 6,
1811, the second son of John Trumbull
and Catherine (Willard) Perkins, both of
whom were natives of Hartford, Connecti-
cut. His father was also a lawyer, but had
little opportunity to influence the mind of
his son, wlio was only five years old when
the father died.

Thereafter until he was twenty-one
Judge Perkins lived on the farm of Wil-
liam Baker near Conwa.v, Massachusetts.
The liberal education of his mature life
was the result of studies largely self-di-
rected and from schooling the expenses of
which he had paid by teaching and other
employment. He read law in the office of
Thomas J. Nevius at Penn Yan, New York,
and in 1836, at the age of twenty-five,
started west from Buffalo on foot to seek
a location. Eighty years ago there were
few spots in the Middle "West which had
outgrown the spirit and habits of pioneer
days. It was in one of the thriftier towns
of Indiana, Richmond, that Judge Perkins
made his first location. The winter follow-
ing he did office work for his board, and
in the spring of 1837, after examination,
was admitted to the bar.

While his entrance into the profession
as into this state was attended by modest
circumstances, his sterling abilities soon
manifested themselves and his practice was
as large and important as almost any of his
contemporaries enjoyed. Incidentally he
became interested in journalism, and at
oTie time waS' editor and publisher of the
Jeffersonian. By appointment of Governor
Whitcomb he became prosecuting attornev
of the Sixth Judicial District in 1843. In
1844 he was one of the electors who cast
the vote of Indiana for James K. Polk.

In 1844 and again in 1845 he was ap-
pointed by Governor Whitcomb to a seat
on the Supreme bench of Indiana. Neither
appointment was confirmed, but during
adjournment of the Legislature he was once
more appointed, and served without con-
firmation one year. He was extremely

young for such honors and responsibilities,
being only thirty-four when he went on
the bench. After a year he was renomi-
nated for the bench, and the senate con-'
firmed him by a two-thirds vote. Under
the new constitution the office of supreme
judge became elective, and he was chosen
by popular ballot in 1852 and in 1858.
Altogether his services to the Supreme
Court of Indiana covered nineteen vital
and progressive years in the state's life.
He retired from the bench in 1864.

In the meantime, in 1857, he had become
professor of law in Northwestern Christian
University, now Butler College, and from
1870 to 1872 held a similar office in the
Indiana State University at Bloomington.
As a contributor to legal literature he pre-
pared "Indiana Digest" in 1858, and "In-
diana Practice" in 1859. In 1868 he
turned from private practice to assume the
heavy and taxing responsibilities of edit-
ing the Indianapolis Herald, formei'ly and
afterwards the Sentinel. In 1872 Governor
Baker appointed him to fill a vacancy on
the Superior bench in Marion County, and
in 1874 he was elected to this office without
opposition. Then in 1876, at the age of
sixty-five, he was again elected a judge of
the Supreme Court, and he was a member
of that court when he was called to the
Great Assize on December 17, 1879. His
fellow justices prepared an appreciation
and estimate of his work and character
which is found in the Sixty-eighth Indiana
Reports. All that was said of him was
well deserved. He was a great lawyer, a
great jurist and a great man.

Judge Perkins married in 1838 Amanda
J. Pyle, daughter of Joseph Pyle, of Rich-
mond, Indiana. Ten children were born to
them.

The oldest son, Samuel E. Perkins II,
was born at Richmond September 2, 1846.
The year following his birth his parents
moved to Indianapolis in order that his
father might attend to his duties as Su-
preme jiidge. In the capital city he spent
his boyhood and youth, finishing his school-
ing in Northwestern Christian University,
now Butler College. Under his father he
guided his mind in its first acquisition of
legal knowledge, and subsequently was a
student in the law school founded by Judge
Perkins and Hon. Joseph E. ]VIcDonald.
He and his father, during the few years
when the latter was not on the bench, were

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actively associated in practice, but upon
the death of Judge Perkins his son sought
no further opportunities to build up his
clientage and found his time well taken up
by managing the various property interests
he had acquired. He was more widely
known as a counsellor than as a court prac-
titioner. He had a thorough knowledge of
the law and was wise in its application.
Perhaps his chief characteristics were his
industry and his love of home. He was
universally respected for his upright life
and for the general good he did in the com-
munity. He had a well rounded and use-
ful life, though he did not attain the age
of three score and ten. He died April 8,
1915.

On July 11, 1877, he married Susan
Elizabeth Hatch. She is still living in In-
dianapolis, and her marked literary talents
have brought her much esteem in literary
circles. She is the mother of two sons,
Samuel E. and Volney. The latter died in
1900, while a student at Purdue Univer-
sity.

Samuel E. Perkins III, whose secure po-
sition in the Indianapolis bar serves to con-
nect the present with the older generation
distinguished by his grandfather, was born
at Indianapolis May 8, 1878. After at-
tending private and grade schools in In-
dianapolis he entered Wabash College,
from which he graduated Bachelor of Arts
in 1900. The Indiana Law School gave
him his LL.B. degree in 1902. and since
that year he has been steadily winning the
honors of his chosen profession.

On September 11, 1901, he married ;\Iary
F. Milford at Crawfordsville. They have
two children, a daughter Susan L., fifteen
years of age, and the son aged ten bears
the name Samuel E. IV and represents
the fourth generation of this honored name
and family in Indiana.

George Lemaux. This is a name well
known in several parts of Indiana and at
Indianapolis it is associated with one of
the important and thriving industries of
the city the Indianapolis Brush and Broom
Manufacturing Company, a business which
Mr. George Lemaux has developed to
highly' successful proportions.

He is a son of George Lemaux, Sr., who
died at Ridgeville, Indiana in April 1913.
He was born at Terre Bonne, Canada, in
1838, of French ancestry. It is said that

one of his ancestors lived at the French
City of Limoges the great center of porce-
lain and textile manufacturing, and the
name of the city was the original waj' of
the spelling of the family name. The
father of George Lemaux, Sr., brought the
family to America and settled in Canada.

George Lemaux, Sr., was a cooper by
trade. In 1864 he moved from Canada to
Noblesville, Indiana, and there engaged
in the manufacture of .staves. In 1868 he
moved to Lebanon, Indiana, and from there
to Ridgeville in 1872. Later he was a re-
tail grocery merchant and was honored
both in the business life and citizenship of
the Ridgeville community. He was noted
particularly for his unostentatious charity
and for his quiet, unassuming career as an
upright man. He was a Presbyterian in
religion and after acquiring American
citizenship was a republican voter. He
married Marilla Irving. They had three
sons, two now living, William. Frank and
George. Frank who died at Ridgeville at
the age of twenty-seven married Carrie
Eubanks and left one son, Claude. The
.son William is now in the grocery business
at Ridgeville.

George Lemaux, Jr., who was born at
Tyrone, Canada, June 19, 1862, was
brought to Indiana in early infancy and
lived with his parents until he at-
tained manhood. He gained most of
his education in the public schools of
Ridgeville and while there learned the
trade of handle turner. This was an
occupation for only a brief time, until
he entered the grocery and produce busi-
ness, and in that he laid the foundation
of his competence. He was a merchant for
twenty-two years. In April, 1902, Mr. Le-
maux moved to Indianapolis in order to
take charge of the Indianapolis Brush
Works a plant which he had acquired two
years previously. Under him the business
was reorganized as the Indianapolis Brush
and Broom Manufacturing Company, and
he has been its president and directing
head ever since. It has grown rapidly, is
an industry that furnishes employment to
from 90 to 100 workmen, and its product
is distributed over many states.

As a side line, though an interest by no
means to be despised either from the point
of view of personal profit and recreation
and value to the world at large, ]\Ir. Le-
maux is a practical agriculturist, owning

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1243

two fine farms, one of 202 acres in Jay
County and one of 210 acres in Hendricks
County.

In polities Mr. Lemaux is a republican.
He has been keenly interested in the politi-
cal life of the state and nation since he
attained manhood. For years he was a
party committeeman in Randolph County.
In January, 1918, he was appointed by
Mayor Jewett as a member of the Board
of Public Works of Indianapolis.

Mr. Lemaux is a member of the Colum-
bia and Marion clubs of Indianapolis, the
Board of Trade and for three years was a
director of the Chamber of Commerce. He
is affiliated with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of
Red Jlen, the ilasons and the jModern
"Woodmen of America at Ridgeville.

On May 28, 1885, he married Miss Nora
Ward. They have one son, Ir%'ing Ward,
now associated with his father in business.
Irving Ward Lemaux is also a member and
president of the Marion County Council.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Lemaux are members
of the Broadway ilethodist Episcopal
Church.

William F. Piel. Beginning about 1848
Indianapolis became the home of thousands
of high minded and industrious German
citizens, constituting an element which
has always been considered one of the most
valuable in the makeup and development
of the city. While as a distinct element
the Germans were not a notable group of
the population prior to 1848, a few had
already transplanted their homes and affec-
tions from the fatherland to this city, and
one of these was the late William F. Piel,
who remained for sixty years one of the
most honored and substantial figures in
the commercial and civic life of Indianap-
olis.

He was born in Prussia in 1823 and was
eighty years of age at the time of his death
in February, 1903. In his early life he
had the environment of the German farm,
and had only a common school education.
In order to get the larger outlook and op-
portunities of the world he came to this
country in 1843, crossing the ocean on a
sailing vessel and coming direct from the
Atlantic seaboard to Indianapolis. Twenty
years of age at the time, he possessed
neither the capital nor the influence that
made his advent an event of special impor-

tance in the city. He began industriously
working at the trade of cooper, and sub-
sequently opened a shop of his own at Lib-
erty and North streets. This be conducted
for a number of years, and from that en-
gaged in the retail grocery business.

In a business way the principal associa-
tions that gather around the name Piel
are with the starch industry. William F.
Piel established the first starch factory in
Indianapolis in 1867. His plant was lo-
cated at Pogues Run and New York Street.
The first starch was manufactured in 1868.
Despite a fire in the fall of that year which
destroyed the plant, the building was im-
mediately restored, and was continued in
operation until 1872. In 1873 a new plant
was built at White River and Dakota
streets. From that time forward, under
the management of William F. Piel, the
industry continued to grow and prosper.
In 1890" the Indianapolis plant was consoli-
dated with others under the corporation
National Starch Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Piel continued as superintendent in
charge of the Indianapolis industry until
1902, when, already venerable in years, he
retired from the most active cares of life.

He possessed and expressed in his daily
life the best ideals of the business man, a
sound judgment, industry and indomitable
will and enterprise. The injunctions and
advice he gave his sons were all along the
line of emphasizing business integrity, to
the point of keeping business engagements
thoroughly sacred and ordering every ac-
tion and affair with strict regard to what
was honorable and just. But his most
marked characteristic was his domestic na-
ture and his love of home. With all his
industry he always kept in mind the wel-
fare of those near and dear to him. His
last years were made happy with the knowl-
edge that his example and teaching bore
fruit in the happiness and prosperity of his
children gi-own up into ideal American cit-
izens. He was especially fortunate in his
wife. She was a loyal helper in his early
struggles to build a home worthy the name,
and above all was a loving, tender mother,
ready to sympathize with the little prob-
lems and troubles that seemed then so big
to her children, and remained their true
ad\nser through their later years. She
reared her children with the gentleness
and love of a real mother, and her kindly
spirit, expressed in so many deeds of love

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and afTcetioii, is one of the cherished mem-
ories of her own descendants and also of
her many close and intimate friends.

William F. Piel was a member of the
German Lutheran Church and in politics a
democrat. He once served as an alder-
man, but he accepted the ofSce because ho
deemed it his duty to devote some time to
municipal mattei-s and not because he was
enamored of political life. He helped
found the Orphans Home, of which he was
for years treasurer and a liberal patron.

William F. Piel married Eleanor Wisch-
meyer. She came to America from Ger-
many when she was a young ^irl, and her
father was a pioneer of Indianapolis. With
all her devotion to her children and home
she did much for charity, but it was a
charity exemplified in the true Christian
spirit, so that her deeds went unheralded
and with no other thought in her mind
than that the memory of them would cease
when the benefaction reached its intended
object. Of the seven children born to Wil-
liam F. Piel and wife six grew to maturity,
William F., Henry W., Charles F., Amelia,
now Mrs. Henry Melcher, Lena, Mrs.
Charles W. Voth, now deceased, and Mary,
Mrs. Frank Sudbrock.

William F. Piel, Jr., oldest of the three
sons, was born at Indianapolis December
25, 1851. He was educated both in public
and parochial schools and later attended
the old Northwestern Christian Univer-
sity, now Butler College. In early youth
he became associated with his father in
business, and now for many years has not
only directed the interests established by
the elder Piel but has developed many of
his own initiative. He was president of the
National Starch Manufacturing Company
and later of the National Starch Company
until 1902. He is now president and
treasurer of the Piel Brothers Starch Com-
pany, and is a director of the Fletcher
American National Bank and the Kipp
Brothers wholesale house of Indianapolis.

In politics he is a republican, is a Ger-
man. Lutheran and a member of the Col-
umbian Club. In 1874 he married Eliza-
beth :Meyer. Of their eight children four
arc living, Alfred L. ; Elmer W. ; William
W. ; and Edna, wife of Alexander Metzger.

The late Henry W. Piel, second of the
sons of William F. Piel, Sr., was born at
Indianapolis in December, 1854. Though
he died in 1904, at the age of fifty, he had

accomplished those things which constitute
an honorable and successful career. As a
boy he attended Lutheran parochial schools
and a business college in Indianapolis, and
from early youth throughout his adult life
was associated in the business founded by
his father. In fact he inherited to a re-
markable degree the industry and methodi-
cal character of the Elder Piel, and was
able to supply these elements in generous
measure where they were most needed to
insure the success of the business. Al-
together he lived a clean, honorable, up-
right life and his death at an early age
was counted a great loss not only to his
business and family but to the entire city.
While he was essentially a business man
he possessed natural aptitude as an artist,
and many of his offhand drawings are
still preserved in the familj-. Henry W.
Piel married ]\Iiss Mary Ostermeyer. He
left three children : Laura, Mrs. Charles
Koelling; Gertrude, Mrs. Alva W^song,
and she died April, 1918; and Lillie, Mrs.
George Sehwier.

Charles F. Piel, youngest son of the late
William F. Piel, was born at Indianapolis
March 8, 1856. His education came
through the German Lutheran schools, pub-
lic and private schools and the business col-
lege. Growing up in the industry founded
by his father, he learned its technical proc-
esses from every angle and for a number
of years he has handled business interests
of large scope and importance. He is
president of Piel Brothers Manufacturing
Company, vice president, secretary and su-
perintendent of Piel Brothers Starch Com-
pany, treasurer of the Pioneer Brass Works
and vice president and director of the
wholesale establishment of Kipp Brothers.
Politically he is an independent republican.
In local affairs he has studiously voted for
men and measures rather than party can-
didates. In religion he is a Lutheran.
Charles F. Piel married in 1880 Helena
Straub. They are the parents of four chil-
dren: Carl W., Alma, Selma and Her-
bert. The daughters are twins, Alma be-
ing now the wife of Walter Sudbrock,
and Selma is Mrs. Harry Brinkmeyer.

Fr.vncis L. Atwood is a veteran of the
profession of mechanical engineering and
has been an engineer and business execu-
tive with a number of large manufactur-
ing corporations both east and west. For

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1245

the past five years he has been factory man-
ager and a stockholder in the Remy Elec-
tric Company of Anderson. The high
standing of this corporation in the indus-
trial world is sufficient of itself to speak of
Mr. Atwood's efficiency as an industrial
manager and engineer. In August, 1918,
Mr. Atwood became vice president and
director of manufacturing of the Midwest
Engine Company of Indianapolis, the new
company having been fonned by a merger
of the Lyons Atlas Company of Indianapo-
lis and the Hill Pump Company of Ander-
son, Indiana,

He comes of an old New England family
of French and English stock. He was
born at Belehertown, Hampshire County,
ilassachusetts. May 8, 1867, a son of Al-
bert Augustus and Sarah Jane (Shuni-
way) Atwood. His mother's people have
lived in Ma.ssachusetts since about 1700.
His grandfather, Albert Atwood, and his
father were both carriage makers at Beleh-
ertown and spent their lives in that in-
dustry and in that locality. The gi-and-
father died at the advanced age of ninety-
nine. Albert Augustus Atwood died in
1897, aged seventy-two, while his wife sur-
vived him until March, 1917, and was then
ninety-two years of age.

Francis L. Atwood attended public
school at Belehertown and for a year and
a half pursued a special course in me-
chanical engineering at Lowell Institute,
in Boston. His first engineering experi-
ence was with the Blake-Knowles Steam
Pump Company at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts. He was with that industry twelve
years, part of the time as general iforcman
and superintendent. He also did some
government work and for three years was
general superintendent of The "Wonder
Working Machinery Company of Lynn,
Massachusetts. .

Mr. Atwood came to Anderson from Day-
ton, Ohio, where for two and a half years
he was factor}' manager of the Dayton
Recording and Computing Machine Com-
pany. On July 1, 1913, he accepted the
responsibilities as factory manager for the
Eemy Electric Company. Since coming to
Anderson he has invested in local real es-
tate and has some other business interests.

In 1887 he married Miss Atteresta
Thatcher of Great Barrington, I\Iassachu-
setts. Two children were born to their
marriage: Rena Jane and Mildred. The

former finished her education in Wellesley
College and is now office manager at Day-
ton for Schinck & Williams, architects.
The daughter Mildred married Dallas
Sells, of Anderson, and is the mother of
two children, Frances, born in 1915, and
Virginia, born in 1917.

Mr. Atwood is affiliated with the various
branches of York and Scottish Rite Ma-
sonry, including the Shrine at Dayton,
Ohio. He is a member of Anderson Lodge
of Elks, and is a charter member of Lodge
No. 42 of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows at Springfield, Vermont. He is
a republican, a member of tlie Columbian
Club of Indianapolis, of the Anderson
Country Club, the Dayton Bicycle Club,
the Mystic Club of Dayton and the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Anderson. The family
are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Gilbkrt De La JIatyr, congress-
man, was bom in Pharsalia, New York,
June 8, 1825, and was of Huguenot de-
scent. He was self-educated. He worked
with his father as a carpenter until he
was twenty-three years of age, but had
been licensed to preach, by the Methodist
Church, at the age of twenty.

His ministerial work was interrupted by
the Civil war. In 1862 he helped organize
the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, and
went out as its chaplain for the remainder
of tlie war. After the war he resumed
preaching, having charges at Brooklyn,
Omaha and Kansas City. In 1874 he came
to Roberts Park Church, Indianapolis;
and, after the full three years there, was
ti-ansferred to Grace Church, Indianap-
olis.

On July 24, 1878, he was nominated for
Congress by the national party of the In-
dianapolis district; and on August 30 was
nominated by the democratic party for
the same office. The district had been
strongly republican, but he was elected,
and served in 1879-81. He was not elo-
quent in the ordinary acceptation of the
word, but was convincing by his intense
earnestness.

Mr. De La Matyr married I\Iarietta Os-
liorn, of Mount Morris, New York, in 1877.
After his term in Congress he M-as called
to Denver, Colorado. He was transferred
from Colorado Conference, after serving
at Denver for three years, to Northeast
Ohio Conference; and died at Akron,

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Ohid, May 17, 1892, and was buried at
Albion, New York. A sketch of his early
life will be found in "Representative Men
of Indiana," Seventh District, page 29.

WiLLi.Ud M. JiLLSON during his active
career contributed materially to the indus-
trial affairs and prosperity of Indianapolis,
and his is one of the outstanding names
in that city during the last half century.

The Jillson family is undeniably Scotch
but the date of the coming of the ancestors
to this country is unknown. Mr. Jillson 's
father was Samuel Tower Jillson. He was
a New Englander, at one time was super-
intendent of a mill at Stafford Springs,
Connecticut, and finally owned and oper-
ated a woolen mill at South Wilbraham,
Massachusetts. He exemplitied much of
that intellectual power and versatility and
mechanical genius for which both the New
England Yankee and the Scotch are fa-
mous. He had very superior ability in
mechanical lines. During the war his fac-
tory was employed in manufacturing for
the Government what was known at Cadet
cloth. He invented many appliances that
later became familiar features in woolen
manufacture. He married Maria Douglas,
and they both died in Massachusetts. They
were the parents of four children.

William M. Jillson was born at Vernon,
Connecticut, November 9, 1843. He grew
up in [Massachusetts, and received his edu-
cation in the historical red sehoolhouse
of the New England hills. At the age of
fourteen his studies were ended and he was
put to work in a woolen factory. The recol-
lection of this phase of his youth was not
altogether pleasant. He began work before
breakfast and averaged about fourteen
hours every day of hard and unremitting
toil. His youthful spirit and ambition
could not long confine themselves to such
a dull and monotonous routine. At the
age of eighteen he left the factory and
went to Springtield, Massachusetts, and
for a time was employed in operating a
drill press in a machine factory. Later,
at Providence, Rhode Island, he was with
a factory making arms for the government.
From there he went to New York City
and later to Ilion, New York, where he
worked with the Remington Arms Com-
pany. By putting in extra time he earned
as high as $5 a day, a very high wage for
the munition worker of that dav. He con-

tinued his employment with munition
works until the close of the Civil war.

After the war his home was at Seneca
Falls, New York, where he soon went on
the road as a traveling salesman. In this
work he found verj- congenial occupation.
He was fond of travel and had the quall-
tications that make the successful sales-
man and traveling man. He was on the
road up to 1872, and in that time visited
every considerable town in the United
States and Canada.

From 1872 Mr. Jillson "s home was at
Indianapolis. For a time he operated a
coal mine and later founded a steam water
and gas supply house, which was eventu-
ally incorporated as the Knight & Jillson
Company. This grew and prospered and
liecame one of the important industries of
Indianapolis. At one time, during the
natural gas era, its annual business aggre-
gated nearly .$1,500,000. Mr. Jillson re-
tired in 1909, and was afterward busied
only with his private affairs and interests.
He was a democrat in politics but never
sought any public office and as a member
of the Woodstock Country Club he was
frequently found during the summer en-
joying a game of golf.

In 1876 he married Mary Cook Clip-
pinger. Her father was a well known
physician of Indianapolis. They had two
children, Douglas Clippingcr and Anna
Louise. The death of William M. Jillson
occurred on the 15th of December, 1918.

Thomas A. Wynne. A detailed story of
the experience of Thomas A. Wynne at
Indianapolis during the last thirty years
would reflect all the important history
in electrical development and application
to modern uses. ]Mr. Wynne engaged in
the electrical business when he was a boy
about the time Thomas Edison brought out
his first crude incandescent light.

lie was born August 31, 1866, in Otta-
wa, Canada, son of Thomas N. and Cath-
erine (Copeland) Wynne. Thomas N.
Wynne was born in County Kilkenny, Ire-
land, and came to America about 1835 with
his father, James Wynne. James Wynne
located on a farm near Ottawa, Canada,
and spent the rest of his life in that part
of the country. He was a successful
farmer, and was interested in local affairs,
especially in educational matters. At one
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publiL- schools in Canada. He was a mem-
ber of the Episcopal Church and possessed
marked literary tastes. He died in his
ninety-ninth year. The Wynne family in
fact are particularly long-lived. Mr. Thom-
as A. Wynne's grandmother lived to be a
hundred and seven years old, and both his
father and mother are still living at the age
of eighty-five.

Thomas N. Wynne, one of a family of
seven children, vi-as educated in the public
schools of Canada, and in early life took
up the manufacture of furniture. He was
in that business in Ottawa, also in Vermont,
and at Port Henry, New York. In 1875 he
went to ilinneapolis, and was in the furni-
ture and lumber business there for fifteen
years. Since then he has lived in Essex
County, New York. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church, has been deeply inter-
ested in community affairs and politics but
has never sought office.

Thomas A. Wynne was third in a family
of seven children. His early education was
accpiired in the common schools of New
York and Minnesota. When he was twelve
years old he went to work for the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company,
and was with that corporation about four
years. In the meantime he had become
keenly interested in the rapid progress of
adapting electricity to economic and indus-
trial purposes, and he was one of the first
men in the Middle West who had some ex-
pert knowledge of the electrical appliances
of thirty or thirty-five years ago. He in-
stalled apparatus for the first electric light-
ing plant in Minneapolis, and also worked
for a time in St. Paul. Then in 1887 he
came to Indianapolis to take a position with
the Jenny Electric Company, builders of
electrical machinery. ]\Ir. Wynne's part
was to install the machinery, and during
1888 he was engaged in installing machin-
ery at the Union Station during the presi-
dential campaign of General Harrison.

Later in 1888 he became identified with
the Marmon & Perry Company when they
started a central station in Indianapolis.
Mr. Wynne was superintendent of the com-
pany and has been with that firm and its
successors continually now for thirty-one
years. He was in the central station busi-
ness with Marmon & Perry, then with their
successors, the Indianapolis Light and Pow-
er Company, and still later with the Indi-
anapolis Light & Heat Company, the prin-

cipals in all these firms being practicallj'
the same people who were in the business
at the outset in 1888. Mr. Wynne became
vice president and treasurer of the Indian-
apolis Light & Heat Company about ten
years ago, and still occupies that position.

The first central station was established
in the rear of the old Sentinel Building,
opposite the present Traction & Terminal
Building, with a small generator for the
production of about 25 hocsepower. Today
the Indianapolis Light & Heat Company
develop a capacity of 70,000 horsepower,
and this increase in a sense measures the
remarkable increase of applied electricity
during the last thirty years. The first
building to be lighted from the central sta-
tion of Indianapolis was the old Park
Theater, then owned and operated by Dick-
son & Talbott. Since then the service has
been extended to almost the entire city
and county. The equipment in the same
time has changed so radically that an early
piece of apparatus would not be recognized
to day by the modern operators. The
prime mover has evolved from an old slide;
valve engine to the very latest type of what
is called turbine generator. The last piece
of apparatus installed in Indianapolis —
the largest in Indiana — takes up about the
same room as that taken by the first piece
installed in 1888. The distinction is not
in size but in the difi'erence of work be-
tween the two pieces, this difference being
measured by 30,000 horsepower.

The officers of the Indianapolis Light &
Heat Company at the present time are
Charles C. Perry, president, Thomas A.
Wynne, vice president and treasurer, and
Walter C. Marmon, secretary.

While this business has been well cal-
culated to absorb the chief energies and en-
thusiasm of Mr. Wynne during all these
years, it is not his only concern and posi-
tion in Indianapolis life and affairs. He is
vice president of the Farmers Trust Com-
pany, vice president of the West Sido
Trust Company, a director of the State
Savings and Trust Company, and his name
appears in connection with a number of
other business enterprises. He is a mem-
ber of all the ^Masonic bodies, the Improved
Order of Red ]\Ien, the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks and the Knights of
Pythias. His name is on the rolls of mem-
bership, of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Club, Athenaeum, Maennerchor, Independ-
ent Athletic Club, Indianapolis Athletic
and Canoe Club, Herron Art Institute, Ro-
tary Club, Advertisers' Club, and other or-
ganizations. He is a republican in polities
' and served one term with the City Council.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church.

In 1886, at Minneapolis, Mr. Wynne
married Miss Mary Neil, daughter of Thom-
as and Mary Neil. Their happy married
life was terminated by her death in 1891.
Two sons were Leslie B. and Thomas Neil.
Leslie, born June 6, 1888, was educated at
Cornell University, graduating in 1913. He
is a mechanical engineer by profession and
for several years has been connected with
the General Electric Company and the In-
dianapolis Light & Heat Company, and
during 1918 was in the aviation department
of the Government. Thomas Neil, born
June 24, 1890, was educated in the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, graduating in 1913,
and is also a mechanical engineer in the
service of the Indianapolis Light & Heat
Company.

William T. Young. While his perma-
nent home has only been in Indianapolis
since 1910, William T. Young has a fine
practice as a lawyer and is one of the prom-
inent and public spirited figures in the life
of the capital city. He is a man of broad
experience in the legal profession, which
he has practiced for a quarter of a century.

Mr. Young was born at Jackson, Ten-
nessee, a son of M. C. and P. H. (Stephens)
Young. He grew up in his native city, and
in 1889 was graduated from Union Uni-
versity of Jackson. He then pursued the
study of law and in 1893 was admitted
to tiie bar at Jonesboro, Arkansas. Mr.
Young before coming to Indianapolis was
in practice at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and en-
joyed a successful business as a lawyer
there until 1910. During that time he
served as city attorney of Pine Bluff.

Mr. Young was one of the organizers
and was the first president of the Southern
Club of Indianapolis, which was organized
in ]\Iarch, 1916. It contains in its mem-
bership about 100 native sons of the South
who have found a home in this city. He
continued as president of the club until the
spring of 1918.

Mr. Young married Miss Eddine Hud-
son, of Tennessee. They have two sons.
Lieutenant William T., Jr., and Collier H.

Young. William T. Young, Jr., saw active
military service on the Mexican border as a
member of the First Indiana Regiment,
Field Artillery. He is now a lieutenant of
Company C, One Hundred and Forty-Sev-
enth Field Artillery, and went with that
regiment to France in the famous Rainbow
Division. For some weeks he has been on
the battle front.

RussEL M. Seeds, president of the Rus-
sel M. Seeds Company, general advertising
agency at Indianapolis, was in early life a
newspaper man. He was one of the first
men in Indiana to make a commercial suc-
cess of a general advertising agency, and
achieved that in face of considerable diffi-
culties and obstacles.

Mr. Seeds was born at Shadeville, Frank-
lin County, Ohio, not far from Columbus,
October 12, 1865, son of Robert and Har-
riet (White) Seeds. He was left an or-
phan when a child and grew up in his na-
tive county and lived there until about the
age of sixteen. He was educated in the
public schools of Columbus and took his
college course at Ann Arbor, in the Uni-
versity of Michigan, graduating in 1886.
After a few months ' trip abroad he went to
work as newspaper reporter on the old Col-
umbus Times. He later bought an interest
in the Champion City Times at Springfield,
Ohio. Here he lost all his savings and for
a few months was again a journeyman
newspaper reporter on the Kansas City
Times.

Mr. Seeds came to Indianapolis in 1889
and for a time was state editor on the
Journal and five years city editor. He
served as secretary of the Republican State
Central Committee in 1894. He then es-
tablished a news correspondence bureau,
which he continued about three years. Part
of that time he also served as chief clerk
in the office of secretary of state. These
I'clations he finally gave up to become sec-
retary of the ^Monetary Executive Com-
mittee, an organization for the purpose of
educating the public on the gold standard
basis of finance. At the end of this serv-
ice he became advertising manager of the
Atlas Engine Works.

With a varied experience in general pub-
licity covering nearly twenty years, in 1904
he established his present business, a gen-
eral advertising agency. As already noted,
he was one of the first to make this par-

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ticular line of endeavor a financial suc-
cess. j\Ir. Seeds all this time has been iden-
tified with different public affairs. He is a
member of the Columbia Club, and a re-
publican in polities.

In 1887, at Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Seeds
married Caroline Douglas. By that union
he has one daughter, Marjorie, now Mrs.
I\Iathews Fletcher. In 1907 Mr. Seeds mar-
ried Miss Nettie Brinkman, of Indianapo-
lis. Their two daughters are Marian and
Virginia.

W.vLTER Bernard Hatden, manager of
the Menter Company, Men's and Women's
Clothing, of Indianapolis, is a merchant
and mercantile manager of long and va-
ried experience, and is a veteran business
man though by no means as old in years
as his record might otherwise indicate.

He was born May 9, 1876, at Chicago,
Illinois, a son of William Pearce and Mary
(Gaul) Ilayden, both of whom are now de-
ceased. For many years their home was in
Illinois. The father came from Ireland,
was a farmer before he went to Illinois,
was at one time connected with the old Tre-
mont Hotel in Chicago, and afterwards was
a sergeant with the South Park police of
Chicago. Walter B. Hayden is the young-
est of nine children, three of whom are
still living.

He attended public school at Enfield,
Illinois, also the Southern Illinois College
and the State Normal at Carbondale, Illi-
nois. He obtained his first experience in
business as clerk in a country store at En-
field. Seeking broader and larger oppor-
tunities, he found an opening with the John
Gately Company, one of the largest con-
cerns of its kind in Chicago. He was with
that house for fifteen years and eventually
was made credit manager of the Chicago
general office, serving in that position on_e
year.

On April 23, 1910, Mr. Hayden came to
Indianapolis to manage the Indianapolis
store of the Gately Company at 42 South
Penn Street. Later he was transferred to
the Gately Company's branch at Terre
Haute, where he remained a year and a
half. Returning to Indianapolis, he was
with the People's Credit Clothing Com-
pany for a year and a half, and then on
January 29, 1913, assumed the position
of general manager of the The Menter
Company.

This business was started by ^Ir. IMen-
ter and Mr. Rosenbloom about 1889, as a
partnership, under the name of Menter &
Rosenbloom. The cash capital with which
the business started was $250, and a store
was operated in the City of Rochester,
New York, selling men 's clothing on credit
payments. They made little money and
opened another store and continued ex-
panding, opening about one store a year
until the Spanish war broke out in 1898, at
which time they were obliged to stop their
expansion. After the close of the war, they
took in Mr. Michaels as a new partner in
1899, and with the boom in business sub-
sequent to the Spanish war they expanded
very rapidly until in 1904 they operated
forty-two stores. In that year the company
was incorporated with a capital paid in of
$300,000. Their expansion continued after
that until in 1906 the company was oper-
ating fifty-seven stores. At that time Mr.
Michaels sold his interest to ]\Ir. Brickner,
and the business continued to run along
under the same management until January,
1914. In July, 1913, Mr. Rosenbloom died
and in July, 1914, Mr. Menter died. On
account of the death of these two men,
and neither of tliem leaving any successor
who could conduct the business, it was re-
organized in 1914 and the present owners
and officers took charge of it. Their names
and the office which they hold are as fol-
lows: David M. Brickner, president; Sol
Solomon, vice president. T. J. Swanton,
vice president ; M. 0. Brickner, secretary ;
H. P. Swanton, treasurer ; and E. ]\I. Wei-
dert, assistant treasurer, and they also con-
stitute the Board of Directors.

Having spent nearly all his life in his
particular line of business, Mr. Hayden
has a knowledge of it which only one of
such experience can have. There is prob-
ably no man in Indiana who has made a
better success of sollinsr clothing on th" in-
stallment plan than Mr. Hayden. It is
liis knowledge of credits and the liberal pol-
icy which he has instituted which have
been the foundation of the remarkable
success of the Jlenter Company. When he
became connected with this company's
.store at Indianapolis he found a very small
enterprise. In four years the business has
grown in volume of sales over 300 per cent.
The company now occupies the entire sec-
ond floor of the Vajen Block at 120 North
Penn Street. This is one of the oldest build-

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ings in the business district of Indianapolis.
It is modernly equipped for merchandis-
ing, giving the customers the best possible
service. The liberal terms extended by The
Menter Company enable its patrons to buy
clothing for the whole family where it
would be impossible for many working peo-
ple to buj' otherwise.

Mr. Hayden is a democrat in politics and
has been quite active in the affairs of his
party and his community. He is a mem-
ber of the Catholic Church. June 12, 1907,
at Washington, Indiana, he married Miss
Florence May Mills, daughter of Alouzo
Mills of Washington. They are the parents
of two children: Bernard, born November
21, 1908, and Aletha JIarv, born September
11, 1910.

Joseph Dickinson. The records of en-
lightened and useful Indiana citizenship
could hardly present a fairer page than
that on which is told the career of Joseph
Dickinson, a prominent business man,
stanch Quaker, friend of education and of
freedom. His American life was spent
chiefly in Wayne County, Indiana.
, He was born June 6, 1820, at Broughton,
England, son of Jonathan and Alice H
Dickinson and of a long line of Quaker
ancestry. The family moved to Sheilield
when Joseph was a boy and he there grew
to man's estate and served an apprentice-
ship of seven years at the plumbing trade.
He had but limited opportunities to get
an education and these opportunities were
derived chiefly from the Ackworth School,
which he attended to the age of fourteen.
After serving his apprenticeship he worked
at his trade for about two years.

In the meantime his father had died,
leaving the family in straightened circum-
stances. With a younger brother, George,
in 1842 he took passage on a cotton freight-
er bound for New Orleans, loaded only with
ballast. In the United States the boys
hoped to establish homes for their widowed
mother and the other children. After six
■weeks they reached New Orleans, and from
there worked their way by boats up the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati,
and from there by canal to Milton in
Wayne County, Indiana. Thus the entire
distance from England to this part of the
Central West had been covered entirely by
water. Undoubtedly the influence which
attracted them to Wayne County, Indiana,

was its prominence as one of the largest
and oldest centers of Quaker settlement in
the Middle West.

In Wa.yne County Joseph Dickinson be-
gan making wooden pumps. From the
hewed timber, bored by hand, were pro-
duced a crude pump of that period. Later
horse power was used for boring and finally
lathes were installed. The business grew
and the Dickinson pumps had a demand
over a large section of territory. A birth-
right Quaker and a devout adherent to its
tenets, Joseph Dickinson was from the first
prominently identified with his chui'ch.

At Milton, Indiana, October 17, 1844,
he married Mrs. Esther G. (Hiatt) White,
a widow with one son, Oliver Wliite. Her
father, Bena.jah Hiatt, on account of his
antipathy to the institution of Iniman slav-
ery, drove by wagon over the mountains
from North Carolina to Wayne County,
Indiana, in 1825. Benajah Hiatt was one
of the leading men of his community, well
known for his upright life and his influence
for good.

In 1849 Joseph Dickinson removed to
Richmond, Indiana, which city remained
his home the rest of his days. He contin-
ued manufacturing pumps, and inciden-
tally as Richmond grew to a city he found
opportunity to engage again in the plumb-
ing business. In 1869 he established a busi-
ness which is now rounding out a half
century of successful existence, in the
handling of farm mortgages and loans.
This is one of the largest, most reliable and
best known of the various concerns of its
kind in Indiana.

In all respects Joseph Dickinson was an
ideal citizen. In the language of one who
knew him intimately he was a "stanch,
sturdy Englishman, thoroughly American-
ized." He was a devout churchman and
for more than thirty years he was pur-
chasing and distributing agent of the Cen-
tral Book & Tract Committee. As an offi-
cial of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of the
Society of Friends he helped establish and
maintain South Land College at Helena,
Arkansas, for the benefit of colored people.
Prior to the Civil war he became prominent
in the operation of the underground rail-
way, and later was active in the Freed-
man's Bureau. He was one of the original
members and organizers of the Friends
Boarding School at Richmond, which was
an important nucleus of the present Earl-

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ham College. Joseph Dickinson served as
treasurer of the college for fifteen years.
He was particularly active in educational
and religious work. He possessed a keen
mind and his natural abilities enabled him
to acquire a fortune by legitimate means.

He died August 5, 1895, his wife hav-
ing passed away February 2, 1891. They
had four children : Hannah D., widow of
Charles A. Francisco ; Samuel, deceased :
ilaria D., wife of Paul Washburn, of Se-
attle, Washington ; and Joseph J., senior
member of the firm Dickinson & Reed,
mortgage loan agents of Indianapolis.

Fr.vnklin Monroe Boone. Among the
men whose abilities have been recognized
by election to pasitions of importance in
business and financial enterprises at South
Bend during recent years, one who has
attained more than ordinary distinction is
Franklin Monroe Boone, treasurer and
financial secretary of the South Bend
Building and Loan Association. Mr.
Boone is a product of Saint Joseph County
and ha.s passed his entire business career at
South Bend, where his advancement has
been steady and consistent, culminating
in his election to his present position among
the officials of the oldest building and loan
association in Northern Indiana.

Franklin RI. Boone was born on a farm
four miles northwest of South Bend, in
Saint Joseph County. Indiana, March 28,
1874, and is a son of Daniel W. and Catha-
rine (Dressier) Boone. The Boone fam-
ily originated in England, from whence
its members came to the Colony of Vir-
ginia prior to the Revolutionary war, and
among its most noted representatives was
the famous Daniel Boone, the pioneer of
Kentucky, who may be said to have ex-
plored and aided in the settlement of the
country from the Allegheny Mountains to
the frontier of Rlissouri. The paternal
grandfather of Franklin RI. Boone was
Philip Baltimore Boone, who was born near
Indianajiolis. and tiecame an early resi-
dent of Saint Josei:)h County, for many
years carrying on farming on the home-
stead northwest of South Bend. He was
a successful agriculturist, and in his de-
clining years retired to South Bend, where
he died in 1899. First a whig and later
a republican in politics, he was a man of
influence and prominence in his secticm.
and served for some rears as trustee of

German Township. Originally he was a
member of the United Brethren Church,
but later transferred his membership to
the RIethodist Episcopal Church, in the
faith of which he died. He married Su-
sanna Rliller, a native of Saint Jo.seph
Count.v, whose death occurred at South
Bend.

Daniel W. Boone, father of Franklin RI.
Boone, was born RIarch 4, 1848, on the
homestead place in Saint Joseph County,
and was there educated in the public
schools and reared to the vocation of farm-
ing. Like his father, he was a man of
ability and industry and succeeded in the
accumulation of a valuable property, upon
which he continued to carry on operations
until his retirement in 1900. At that time
he removed to Buchanan, Rlichigan, where
he now makes his home. He is a republi-
can, but his only share in polities has been
the easting of his vote in support of the
candidates and policies of his party. Mr.
Boone married Catharine Dressier, who
was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania,
in RIarch, 1855, and they became the par-
ents of the following children: Franklin
RIonroe: Edith, who is the wife of Wil-
liam Dempsey, formerly a farmer and now
connected with a flour and feed mill at
Buchanan. Rlichigan; Philip B., who has
charge of a flour and feed mill at
Buchanan, Rlichigan; Robert RI., who is
manager of his father's farm two miles
south of Buchanan; Hallie, who resides
with her parents ; and George RI., who is a
student of dentistry at the University of
Rlichigan, Ann Arbor.

Franklin RI. Boone was educated in the
imral schools of Saint Joseph County, sup-
plementing this with a commercial course
at the South Bend Business College, which
he left in 1893. He next read law for three
years in the law ofBce of J. D. and Joseph
Henderson, but gave up his legal studies
to accept a position as accountant with
the Birdsell Rfanufacturing Company.
While he has never practiced his profes-
sion, it has been of great value to him in
the various positions which he has held.
After two years with the firm above named
he was made deputy county auditor, spend-
ing four years under Auditor John Bro\vu.
Next he became identified with the Tribune
Printing Company, and spent ten years
ill that concern's service as an accountant,
Init resigned August 1, 1913, when he was

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elected treasurer and financial secretary
of the Building and Loan Association of
South Bend, in which be also holds a di-
rectorship. This is the oldest building; and
loan association in Northern Indiana, hav-
ing been incorporated July 5, 1882, and
has enjoyed a steady and continuous
growth, its present authorized capital be-
ing $2,000,000. Its officers are: Elmer
Crockett, president; William R. Baker,
vice president; F. M. Boone, treasurer and
financial secretary; W. A. Bugbee, secre-
tary; and directors, Elmer Crockett, Wil-
liam R. Baker, F. M. Boone, W. A. Bug-
bee, W. 0. Davies, Donald MacGregor,
H. S. Bodet, H. G. Schock and C. E.
Crockett. Mr. Boone's abilities have been
largely instrumental in continuing the
success of this pioneer association, and his
associates place unquestioning confidence
in his foresight and .judgment. He is pres-
ident of the State League Building and
Loan Association and has other business
interests, in addition to which he is the
owner of valuable realty at South Bend
and a handsome farm of 164 acres, located
in Laporte County, Indiana. His stand-
ing in business circles of the city may be
inferred from the fact that he was secre-
tary of the South Bend Chamber of Com-
merce in 1916 and that he is now a direc-
tor and one of the working members of
that organization. Mr. Boone holds mem-
bership in the Northern Indiana Histori-
cal Society, the Indiana Orange, the Knife
and Fork' Club and the Rotary Club. He
is a thirty-second degree ilason and has
been prominent in this order, belonging
to Portage Lodge No. 675, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, of which he is a
past master, having been master in 1913 ;
South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch
Masons ; South Bend Commandery No. 13,
Knights Templar, of which he has been
recorder for many years ; South Bend
Council No. 82, Royal and Select Masters;
Fort Wayne Consistory, Scottish Rite Ma-
sons ; and Mizpah Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Fort
Wayne. With his family he belongs to
the Presbyterian Church, and is now serv-
ing as secretary of the board of trustees.
One of the leading republicans of his city
and county, he is trea.surer of the Saint
Joseph County Republican Central Com-
mittee and vice chairman of the Republi-
can Central Committee of South Bend,

also a member of the Board of Public
Safety of the city. Altogether, he is a man
who touches and improves life on many
sides.

In August, 1902, at Union Mills, Indi-
ana, 'Mr. Boone was married to Miss Clara
Learn, who was born at that place, and
they are the parents of one child, Edgar
R., born September 7, 1907. The modern
and attractive family home is located at
No. 815 Park Avenue.

John Purdue, philanthropist, was born
in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, Oc-
tober 31, 1802, at the Village of Germany.
His father was a poor but industrious Ger-
man pioneer. At the age of eight John
was started to a country school, where he
applied himself so diligently that while
still in his "teens" he was made teacher.
He removed west with his father's family,
locating first in Ross County, and then
at AYorthington. He taught school from
1826 to 1830 at Piqua.

In 1839 he located at Lafayette, Indiana,
and formed a business partnership with
Moses Fowler, which business with sev-
eral changes in the firm, was continued
until 1855, when ilr. Purdue engaged in
the commission business in New York City.
Here he was phenomenally successful, and
in 1865 returned to Lafayette with a large
fortune. He resided in Lafayette until his
death resulted in September, 1876, from
a stroke of apoplexy.

In 1865 Indiana accepted the provisions
of the acts of Congress of 1862 and 1864
for grants of land to states for the estab-
lishment of agricultural schools, but the
school was not located until 1869. In that
year it was established at Lafavette, as
the result of an offer of $150,000 from
John Purdue if located there and named
for him, supplemented by a further offer
of $50,000 from Tippecanoe County on like
conditions. IVIr. Piirdue was interested in
the work through his o\ra experience as a
teacher, and as a farmer between school
seasons. He served as a trustee of the in-
stitution until his death. Its development
into one of the gi-eatest technical schools
of the country is a part of the history of
the state.

Jacob Edg.\r Mechling, now of Indian-
apolis, is a man of special distinction be-
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tions as a practical railroad man, and for
over thirty j-ears he has been connected
with some branch of the great Pennsyl-
vania system. He is now superintendent of
motive power for the Pennsylvania lines.

Mr. Meehling was born in Butler Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1863, and
represents old Colonial and Revolutionary
stock of Pennsylvania. His first American
ancestor came from Rotterdam, Holland,
in 1828, and landed at Philadelphia in
September of the same year. Jacob Mech-
ling: is a great-great-gi'andson of Jacob
Mechling, who was boni in 1746 and died
November 1, 1824. His wife, Catherine
Mechling, was born in 1748 and died in
August, 1832. He saw service in the Rev-
olutionary war as a soldier in "Washington's
army. The great-grandfather was Jacob
Mechling, who was bom December 8, 1770,
and died January 10, 1860. He married
Marv Magdaline Drum, who was born
March 20, 1777, and died May 14, 1852.

The grandfather was another Jacob
Mechling. born October 20, 1795, and died
March 8, 1873. He married Jane Sander-
son Thompson, who was born September
22, 1796, and died May 14, 1872.

The father of Mr. Mechling was Joseph
Buffington ilechling, who was born Feb-
ruary 28, 1838, and died ]\Iay 4, 1910. He
was a man of considerable prominence in
Western Pennsylvania, had a liberal educa-
tion, for several years was a teacher and
for two years was principal of the high
school at Butler. He was also a lawyer and
.a farmer, and shared in the confidence
and respect of all who knew him in a
business or social way. He married Mar-
garet A. jMcQuistion, who was born October
29, 1839, and is still living. Her grand-
father, John jMcQuistion, came from Ire-
land in 1794 and located in Wlestmoreland
County and later in Butler County, Penn-
sylvania.

Jacob Edgar Mechling is the oldest in a
family of nine children, eight of whom are
still living. As a boy he attended the
grammar and liigh schools of his native
town and in 1880 went to work as a ma-
cliinist 's apprentice with the H. A. Porter
Locomotive Works at Pittsburg. In
April, 1882, he first entered the service of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburg
as a special apprentice. The following
year, however, he entered the employ of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,

and was with them until May, 1886. Since
then his work has been continuous with
some branch of the Pennsylvania system.
After three months he was promoted to
gang foreman of the erecting shop at Pitts-
burg, later became assistant foreman in the
shop where he was fir.st employed and still
later was foreman of the new engine house
at Wall, Pennsylvania, where he remained
until May, 1902. At that date he became
assistant master mechanic of the Pittsburg
division, with headquarters at Pittsburg,
but two years later was sent West and
made master mechanic of the Vandalia line,
with headquarters at Terre Haute. Mr.
Mechling continued a resident of Terre
Haute for fifteen years. On July 1, 1918,
he was given his present duties as superin-
tendent of motive power of the western
lines of the Pennsylvania and now has his
headquarters in the Majestic Building at
Indianapolis.

Mr. Mechling still retains his member-
ship in Lodge No. 45 of the Masonic order
of Pittslnirg, is also a Knight Templar
and in January, 1919, was installed as
commander of the Commandery at Terre
Haute. He is also a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Indiana Consistory Mason
and Shriner, is an Elk and is a vestrj'man
in St. Stephen's Episcopal Clnireh at Terre
Haute. In politics he is a republican. Jlr.
Mechling married at Pittsburg in May,
1886, Miss Ida May Bailey. They are the
parents of one son and three daughters,
Edgar B., Lillian M., Margaret E. and
Lois R.

Robert P. Zorn represents a family that
has been identified with Michigan City for
over fortj--five years. Mr. Zorn is vice
president of the Michigan City Trust &
Savings Bank, and at different times has
found opportunity willingly and gladly to
assist in many forward movements and un-
dertakings in his home community.

He was born at Blue Island in Cook
County, Illinois. For many generations
his forefathers lived at Wuerzburg, Ger-
many. His great-grandfather, Adam Zorn,
was a farmer in that community and spent
all his life there. Philip Zorn, Sr., the
grandfather, was a brewer, a business he
followed in Germany until his death in
1849, at the age of fortj'-one. His widow,
IMargaret, survived him until 1879, pass-
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The late Philip Zorn, who founded the
family at Michigan City, was born in the
City of Wuerzburg, Gennany, February
21, 1837, being one of ten children. He
attended public schools and later the Agri-
cultural College of Nuremburg, Germany,
and in 1854, at the age of sixteen, came to
America. After one year in New York
City he went west to Blue Island, Illi-
nois, and managed a brewery in that Chi-
cago suburb until 1871. He then estab-
lished a brewery at Michigan City and
gradually built up a large institution, and
after taking in his two sons, Charles and
Robert, in the business with him organized
the Zorn Brewing Company, of which he
was president at the time of his death. He
was also a man of various interests, having
been one of the promoters and organizers
of the Merchants ]\Iutual Telephone Com-
pany and was a member and served at one
time as president of the Indiana Brewers
Association. He was also the first vice
president of the Citizens Bank of Michigan
City. He was a democrat, served a term as
councilman in Michigan City, and also held
local offices at Blue Island, but on the
whole was too busy to care for the honors
and responsibilities of politics. He and his
wife were members of the Lutheran
Church. Philip Zorn married in October,
1856, Miss Sophia Miller, daughter of
Christian Miller. They were the parents
of seven children: Charles, long associated
with his father in business ; Amelia ; So-
phia ; Leonard, who died at the age of two
years; Robert: Herman, who died at the
age of sixteen; and Louisa. The mother
of these children died in 1897, aged fifty-
eight.

Robert P. Zorn grew up in Michigan
City, attending the public schools, and then
entered his father's brewery and had a
large share in its management and opera-
tion. Since his father's death the busi-
ness has been sold and Mr. Zorn now gives
his time to his private interests. He mar-
ried Miss Flora Kneller, a native of Mich-
igan City and a daughter of Lewis and
Mary Kneller. Mr. and Mrs. Zorn have
three children, ]\Iarie, Philip and Lewis.
They are members of St. John's Lutheran
Church and Mr. Zorn is affiliated with
Michigan City Lodge No. 432, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and ]\Iich-
igan City Aerie No. 1228, Fraternal Order
of Eagles.

George Irving Christie was the man
largely responsible for changing the atti-
tude of the agricultural department of
Purdue University from a passive to an
active one. In other words, he was founder
of the agricultural extension department
and has been its superintendent since this
department was organized. However great
and valuable an institution may be, its
benefits are limited as long as it remains
stationary, pursuing merely a policj' of
waiting for students to come to it. Pro-
fessor Christie has carried the college
courses, material and instruction to the
most remote corners of the state. Thou-
sands of worthy Indiana farmers have nev-
er seen the inside walls of any technical
institution, and because of natural inertia
and other laws and conditions governing
human beings in general a large proportion
of them never would avail themselves of
such opportunities as are extended by Pur-
due University. But when Purdue Uni-
versity is put on wheels and carried into
the individual agricultural districts, it has
been proved every year since Professor
Christie began running his educational
trains through Indiana that even the most
backward and unprogressive rural districts
turn out large numbers to see, be enter-
tained and, incidentally, be instructed and
get vital inspiration for better work ever
afterward.

Mr. Christie is a Canadian by birth,
born at Winchester, Ontario, June 22,
1881, a son of David and Mary Ann
(House) Christie. He acquired a good
training in the schools of his native place,
and represented the progressive farming
element of the province. In 1898 he en-
tered Ontario Agricultural College at
Guelph, from which he was graduated in
June, 1902, with the degree Bachelor of
Scientific Agi-ieulture. While in college he
displayed his rapidly maturing abilities
and gained no little prominence as a judge
in agricultural contests at Ottawa, Canada,
and also in the International Livestock Ex-
position at Chicago. It was his work at the
International which attracted to him the
attention of the Iowa State College at
Ames. That institution succeeded in. get-
ting the brilliant young Canadian as assist-
ant in agronomy, a department in which
he served from 1903 to 1905. In 1903 he
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the degree Bachelor of S/jientific Agi'icul-
ture.

On July 1, 1905, ilr. Christie came to
Purdue Universitj' as assistant in soils and
crops, and in the following year he
founded and was put in charge of the ag-
ricultural extension work, which under his
energetic direction has become perhaps the
most valuable department of the Univer-
sity. The department grew rapidly in
scope and volume of its work and at the
present time its staff consists of more than
two hundred and fifty trained men and
women, experts in the various lines of sci-
entific agriculture and home economies who
reach more than one million people on the
farms annually.

In 1905 he sent out his first special edu-
cational train, and since then has utilized
twelve lines of railway in reaching directly
all the farmers of the state. From these
trains have been distributed thousands of
copies of station bulletins, while the direct
contract between University men and the
practical stay-at-home farmers has resulted
in untold benefits and has scattered the
seed of knowledge and encouragement
broadcast all over the state. The establish-
ment of hundreds of corn clubs and other
rural life organizations is directly trace-
able to the forces set in motion by Mr.
Christie's Extension Department.

When war was declared by the United
States in April, 1917, Indiana's war gov-
ernor, James P. Goodrich, recognizing the
Extension Department as a great factor in
food production, appointed its superintend-
ent state food director, ilr. Christie's ef-
forts in this capacity resulted in Indiana
increasing her corn acreage 10 per cent ;
the wheat acreage 25 per cent; doubling
tlie number of back yard gardens; pork
production was greatly increased and in a
drive for 10,000 silos in 1918, Indiana went
"over the top." Not a request came from
Washington for the increased production
of food that was not more than met. These
results in Indiana attracted Secretary
Houston's attention, and when he decided
to place a man in charge of the farm labor
work, one of the most difficult problems
confronting the nation, he selected Mr.
Christie. He also had charge of the work
of distributing funds provided by the
President for farmers in drouth-stricken
areas of Montana, North Dakota and Wash-
ington. That he was equal to this ta.sk has

been demonstrated by the fact that Presi-
dent Wilson placed upon him still larger
respon.sibilities by appointing him assistant
secretary October 1, 1918.

In this capacity he is playing an impor-
tant part in the nation's reconstruction ac-
tivities. To him was assigned the task of
preparing the food production program
of the United States for 1919. This pro-
gram has recently been published and is
considered one of the most complete and
lielpful ever given to American farmers.
At the request of Secretar.y of Agriculture
Houston, Mr. Christie has undertaken the
re-organization of the office of farm man-
agement of the Department of Agriculture,
with the assistance of leading agricultural
economists and farm management men of
a number of state colleges. A program
of work has been outlined, projects agi'ced
upon and the work established. Assist-
ance has also been given to the States Re-
lations Service in the better organization of
the extension forces of the country.

Mr. Christie has served as secretary of
the Indiana Corn Growers' Association
since 1906 ; secretary of Indiana Commis-
sion for the National Corn Exposition;
advisory member of the Indiana Vocational
Education Commission, 1911-1912; direc-
tor of the National Corn Association ; su-
perintendent of Indiana Agricultural Ex-
hibit, Panama Pacific Exposition ; chair-
man of the Agricultural Committee Indi-
ana Centennial Celebration, 1916 ; member
of the National Country Life Association ;
member of the National War Labor Poli-
cies Board ; director of Purdue University
Summer School for Teachers, 1912-1917;
and is an associate member of the Cosmos
Club, Washington, D. C, and member of
Rotary Club, Lafayette, Indiana.

He is the author of the following publi-
cations: LT. S. Department of Agriculture
Bulletin 255, "Educational Contests in Ag-
riculture and Home Economics;" Agri-
cultural Extension Bulletin No. 1.5, "An
Act Providing for Ao-rieultural Extension
in Indiana;" pamphlet, "Education for
Country Life;" pamphlet, "The New Ag-
riculture:" pamphlet, "Agricultural Ex-
tension Work;" booklet, "Indiana Agri-
culture," for Indiana Exhibit, Panama
Pacific Exposition; United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture publication, "Sup-
jjlying the Farm Labor Need;" United
States Department of Agriculture publica-

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tion, "Farm Labor." He is joint author
of Purdue University, Agricultural Experi-
ment Station Circular No. 18, "Corn
Shows and Selecting, Preparing and Scor-
ing Exhibits;" Agricultural Extension
Leaflet No. 23, "Examine the Condition
of your Seed Corn."

June 27, 1906, Mr. Christie married
Ethel ilaria Carpenter, of Des Moines,
Iowa, daughter of Truman and Ermina
(Moore) Carpenter. They have one daugh-
ter, Ermina Margaret Christie, born Au-
gust 10, 1908.

Martha V. Thomas, M. D. Among In-
diana women who have gained distinction
in the professional field, a long and active
service as a physician is placed to the cred-
it of Dr. Martha V. Thomas at South Bend.
She has spent most of her life in Indiana,
but was born at Granville, Morrow County,
Ohio.

Her family contained numerous men and
women of the highest worth and character.
Her grandfather, Rev. John Thomas, a
native of Wales, came to America in early
manhood, locating at Granville, Ohio, and
for many years was pastor of the Baptist
Church in that eommunitj^, living there
until his death. His wife, Leanna Davis,
also of Wales, came to America with her
parents who settled in Indiana County,
Pennsylvania.

Rev. Zachariah Thomas, father of Doc-
tor Thomas, was also bom at Granville,
where he received his early education. He
graduated in theology from Dennison Col-
lege, Granville, Ohio, and not long after-
wards succeeded his father as pastor of the
Baptist Church at Chesterville. In 1865 he
removed to Albion, Indiana, where he was
busied with his congenial and fruitful
labors as pastor of the Baptist Church until
his death at the age of sixty-eight.

Doctor Thomas' maternal ancestry goes
back to William and Charity (Dye) Bruce,
natives of Scotland who became colonial
settlers in Prince William County, Vir-
ginia, where their son Joel was born and
spent his life as a slaveowning planter.
Joel, the great-grandfather of Doctor
Thomas, was a Revolutionary soldier. His
wife was Nancy Dowling. Elijah Bruce,
their son, had a similar position as a "Vir-
ginia gentleman and planter. He married
Melinda Browning, a native of Rappahan-
nock County. Her father, John Browning,

a native of the same locality, served on the
staff of General Washington, afterwards
was a planter, and married Elizabeth
Strother.

The mother of Doctor Thomas was Eliz-
abeth Bruce, a daughter of Elijah and Me-
linda (Browning) Bruce. She survived
her husband and spent her last years at
South Bend, where she died at the age of
eighty-one. Her six children were named
Melinda, Jennie, Bruce, Mary, Lucy and
Martha V.

Doctor Thomas received her early educa-
tion in the schools of Albion and also grad-
uated from Shephardson College for
Women. For several years she gave most
of her time to the care of her invalid
father. Her preliminary medical studies
were pursued for one year under the direc-
tion of Doctor Reiff of Albion. She then
entered Hahnemann ]\Iedical College, from
which she gi-aduated in 1896. The same
year she began practice at South Bend,
and for many years has shared in the best
honors paid the medical fraternity. She is
a member of the Indiana State Institute
of Homeopathy, Illinois State Homeopathic
Association, and American Institute of
Homeopathy. She is a member of the Bap-
tist Church.

George Wyman. The character of tre-
mendous enterprise and M'holesouled gen-
erosity and pviblic spirit which has dis-
tinguished so man.y successful Americans
was thoroughly shared by the late George
Wyman of South Bend. He was for fifty
years a merchant building up and direct-
ing a magnificent place of trade. That was
his life work, yet with equal seriousness
he gave his time and means, especially
in later years, to many noble charities that
are destined to stand as permanent memor-
\ah to the name.

Of New England and Yankee ancestry,
he was born at Painesville, Ohio, January
27, 1839, son of Guy and Rebecca (King)
Wyman. the former a native of Vei'mont
and the latter of Connecticut. On leaving
public school at the age of fourteen George
Wyman spent one year as clerk for a
Painesville merchant, and made such good
progress that he was then assigned to the
responsibilities of managing a small store
in the same section of Ohio. By the time
he was twenty-one years old he had ac-
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merchandising, and had also supplemented
his early education by a course in a Mil-
waukee business college.

On leaving Painesville he came to South
Bend in 1860. In August of that year he
opened a small hut well selected stock of
dry goods on North Michigan Street. In
January, 1865, he formed the firm of
George Wyman & Company. For eighteen
years he and Capt. G. E. Rose were busi-
ness partners and associates. In the mean-
time the business had grown, necessitating
two changes of locations, and after 1883
several building additions were made to
furnish space for the expanding activities
of the firm, so that Mr. Wyman came into
the present century at the head of one of
the largest merchandise stores in Northern
Indiana.

Mr. Wyman hardly relaxed any of the
vigilance and energy that had made him
supreme in mercantile affairs until his
death, which occurred in 1913. At that
time he was mourned not merely as a
business man, but as one of the citizens
who had been constructive in South Bend 's
progress towai'd the realization of the
broader and better ideals of community
life. The one institution that more than
any other stands as a monument to his
generosity is the Young Women 's Christian
Association Building, which he and his
wife built and equipped in 1906. In the
daj'S of his prosperity he did not forget
his native town, and presented the Paines-
ville Young Men's Christian Association
with a well equipped gymnasium. The last
months of his life he was planning and
working out the details of a plan whereby
he intended to effect the distribution of
a sum approximating $150,000 among his
faithful employes, friends and charitable
institutions. Mrs. Wyman had shared his
confidence in these plans, and when death
laid its hand upon him she gave practical
effect to his wislies. As a result, besides a
number of individuals, several South Bend
institutions found their possibilities for
usefulness greatly extended through the he-
quests of Mr. Wyman, including the Ep-
worth Hospital, the St. Joseph Hospital,
the Orphans Home and the United Chari-
ties.

Mr. Wyman 's first wife was Lizzie Rose,
who died in 1880. The wife of his second
marriage, who survives her honored hus-
band and continues his influence, was be-

fore her marriage, Clara Lovett. She was
born at Charlottesville, New York, daugh-
ter of Rev. Noble and Marion (Peck) Lov-
ett. Her father was for many years a
faithful laborer in the New York Confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John A. Swyg.vbt. The Swygart fam-
ily had been a prominent one in South
Bend for over sixty years. While the ca-
reer of John A. Swygart is and has been
connected with the city in many important
ways, including his present ofiScial service
as city comptroller, the record of which
he is most proud was his long and efficient
employment /in the various operating
branches of railroading. He was in his
time connected with several of the larger
railroad systems of the Middle West and
South, and on returning to South Bend
to make it his permanent home resigned his
position as general superintendent of a
road in Louisiana.

Mr. Swygart was born on Euclid Aven-
ue in Cleveland, Ohio, February 23, 1855.
His great-grandfather was a Virginia plant-
er and slave owner, but later moved from
Virginia to Pennsylvania and bought a
home near Reading, where he spent his last
years. Mr. Swygart "s grandfather was
Benjamin Swygart, probably a native of
Virginia. One of his seven sons was the
late George W. Swygart, who was the
founder of tlie family at South Bend.

George W. Swygart was born near Read-
ing, Pennsylvania, and as a boy served a
seven years apprenticeship at the trade of
stone, brick and plaster mason. He then
worked as a journeyman and in 1848 re-
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he en-
gaged in business as a contractor and build-
er. In 1857 he made a prospecting visit to
Illinois, and while in Chicago was awarded
a contract to erect a building. The owner
asked him to take as part of his payment
five acres of land now included in the "loop
district." George W. Swygart, though in
later years regarded as one of the most
competent judges of real estate, preferred
the money in hand to the doubtful value of
Chicago real estate. He did not remain
long in Chicago, and on again coming west
in 1858 .settled at South Bend. Here he
engaged in a successful business as a con-
tractor and builder, and put up many of
the structures still standing in the city." He
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Bend, and practiced his faith by liberal in-
vestment in local real estate. He bought
sixty acres of land south of Sample Street,
later owned by the Studebaker Manufactur-
ing Company. On West Washington Street
he erected what was at that time regarded
as the finest private residence in the city.
He also bought and improved the site now
occupied by the Oliver Hotel, and at his
death he left a large estate, represented by
many holdings in and around the city. He
died at South Bend at the age of seventy-
nine. He was a republican, and an active
Presbyterian and erected one of the early
Presbyterian Churches in South Bend.
George W. Swygart married Carolina M.
Moyer, who was born and reared in Penn-
sylvania and died at the age of seventy-
four. Her father, John Moyer, was a na-
tive of Berlin, Germany. Her grandfather
served for some years as an officer in the
German army. He was a man of liberal
mind and temper, and after leaving the
army he had some differences with his asso-
ciates over political affairs and he sought
a home in free America, locating near
Reading, Pennsylvania. His liberal means
were invested in biisiness there and he was
a pioneer in the iron industry of Pennsjd-
vania. His son, John Moyer, continued
this business after his father's death, but
finally moved to Lee County, Illinois, and
bought a large tract of land near Dixon,
where he gave his time to the breeding
and raising of fine horses and cattle. He
died there at the age of eighty-six. Mr. and
Mrs. George W. Swygart had eight chil-
dren, named William, Clementina, John A.,
George, Ella, Edward, Lillie and Eva.

John A. Swygart was about two years
old when his parents came to South Bend.
He had only a common school education
and when about fourteen entered railroad-
ing, having served a six months' appren-
ticeship at telegraphy in the offices of the
Lake Shore Company. After a brief ex-
perience as an operator he became a brake-
man and then conductor on the Wabash.
Leaving the ^liddle West, Mr. Swygart
went to Texas and joined the International
and Great Northern Railway, at first as
a yard engineer, then in the machine shops
as shop foreman, as traveling road en-
gineer and finally was put in charge of all
the trains and engine men during the con-
struction of a branch of the road to Aus-
tin, Texas.

On leaving the International and Great
Northern Jlr. Swygart gratified his desire
to see more of the world. He visited Vera
Cruz and Jlexico City, Bluefields in Cen-
tral America, and also sailed over the
waters of the Gulf to Havana and various
points in the West Indies. After seven
months of travel and recreation he re-
turned north and became an engineer with
the Wabash Railroad Company. This was
the beginning of eighteen years of con-
tinuous service with the Wabash, and for
twelve years he was engineer on the Royal
Blue Limited out of St. Louis. Later he
became road foreman in charge of the en-
gineers and firemen, for three years was
trainmaster, and in 1898 he became super-
intendent of the Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway. In 1902 he resigned to
accept the position of vice president and
general manager of the Louisiana Rail-
waj' and Navigation Company, with head-
quarters at Shreveport, Louisiana.

I\Ir. Swygart finally gave up railroad-
ing, a work in which his talents had such a
congenial sphere, in order to return to
South Bend and perform his duties as exe-
cutor of his father's estate. Railroading
still exercised a strong fascination over
him, and in 1909 he became superintend-
ent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail-
way, with headquarters at Watertown,
South Dakota, but after a year returned
to South Bend and has since devoted his
time to his private affairs. He was ap-
pointed city comptroller in 1918.

In 1887 Mr. Swygart married Miss
Martha J. Hollyman, who was born at
Hannibal, ^Missouri, daughter of John and
Emma (Bird) Hollyman, natives of Ken-
tucky. Mr. and Mrs. Swygart have one
daughter, named Jlildred. The family are
members of the Presbyterian Church. He
is affiliated with South Bend Lodge No.
29-4, Free and Accepted ]\Iasons, the Coun-
cil No. 82, Royal and Select :\Iasters, Chap-
ter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, Command-
ery No. 13, Knights Templars, and he is
also a member of the social organization
known as the Knife and Fork Club.

Edwin E. Thompson. When in 1918
the democratic party of Marion County
chose as their nominee for the office of re-
corder Edwin E. Thompson there were a
immber of qualifications coiLspicuoiis in
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litioal value. For one thing Mr. Thomp-
son is a thoroughly trained lawyer, but
even more important, as relates to the
office for whieh he became a candidate,
is a real estate man of wide and thorough
experience and his knowledge of land and
property values in Marion County would
of itself prove his fitness for these official
responsibilities.

Mr. Thompson is a man of interesting
experience and attainments. He was born
February 22, 1878, in Smith's Valley in
Johnson County, Indiana. His paternal
grandfather, a native of Virginia, came
west about 1820 and was a pioneer in Mor-
gan County, Indiana, where he cleared up
land and followed the vocation of farm-
ing during his active life, and when the
work of the week was done he spent most
of his Sundays and other days besides in
spreading the Gospel as a local preacher
of the Methodist faith. He died about the
time of the Civil war.

Among his six children was James M.
Thompson, who was born in 1847 at Cope
in Morgan County. His early education
was obtained in schools that bore little re-
semblance to the modern public schools of
Indiana. Only a month or two every win-
ter he attended a session of school held in
a log cabin, with wooden slab benches for
scats, and with all the simple parapher-
nalia and equipment of such schools. He
became a farmer, was a hard worker in
that occupation, and about 1885 engaged
in the general store business, which he con-
tinued until 1908, when failing health com-
pelled him to desist. He was a lifelong
democrat, and held the offices of justice of
the peace and other minor township offices.
He was also a devout member of the ]\Ietho-
dist Church. When about twenty-tive
years of age he moved from Morgan Coun-
ty to Johnson County, living in Smith's
^'alley until 1891, and then moved to
(ilenn's Valley in ]\Iarion County, where
he had his home until his death February
16, 1913. James M. Thompson married
Lovina Teet, who, with her three children,
is still living. The oldest child, Emma
Lee, is the wife of Harry E. Fendley of
Indianapolis. Jlrs. Fendley was born Sep-
tember 15. 1875. The second child is Ed-
win Elbert, and the youngest is Earl Henry
Thompson.

Edwin E. Thompson was educated in
the common schools of Johnson and Mar-

ion counties, graduating from the Glenn's
Valley common schools in 1893, from the
Southport High School in 1896, and re-
ceived his A. B. degree from Butler Col-
lege with the class of 1900. He then en-
tered the University of Chicago, where
after nine months of residence he was given
the degree of Ph. B. in 1901, and continu-
ing post-graduate work received the de-
gree Master of Philo.sophy in 1902. Be-
sides these evidences of a liberal educa-
tion Mr. Thompson graduated in law with
the degi-ee LL. B. from the Indianapolis
College of Law in 1907.

In the meantime he wa.s a successful
teacher and in.structor of science in high
schools five years. He entered the real
estate business and studied law while in
that line, and since his admis.sion to prac-
tice has combined those two vocations very
.successfully. As a lawyer he has been
employed in a number of important civil
cases. One that attracted much attention
was the matter of the heirs of the Lovina
Streight estate, for whom he acted as at-
torney. Lovina Streight was the widow
of Col. A. D. Streight. Mr. Thompson
was appointed by the court to sell the
Streight homestead on East Washington
Street.

ilr. Thompson since early manhood has
been interested in democratic successes,
and he was one of the local democrats of
Indianapolis who brought about the pur-
chase of the Indiana Democratic Club
home. He was on the board of directors
of this club for several years. He is also
a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce, the Hoosier Motor Club, is a
Mason, and i.s a member and past master
of Southport Lodge No. 270, Ancient Free
and Accepted ilasons, and is affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
at Smith's Valley. As a real estate man
Mr. Thomp.son platted and sold the Lone-
acre Addition to Indianapolis, other ad-
joining tracts, and in that part of the city
he has Iniilt and sold sixty homes.

June 25, 1913, at Spring Green, Wis-
consin, Mr. Thompson married Miss Ethel
Jane Hickcox. ]\Irs. Thomp.son is herself
a thoroughly capable business woman. Her
mother, Mary Parr Hickcox, traced her
descent back to the same family which pro-
duced the famous Ann Parr," one of the
wives of King Henry VIII. of England.
^Irs. Thompson was educated in the public

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schools of Wisconsin, and befoi-e her mar-
riage was head of the office force and office
manager for the Hart-Parr Company of
Charles City, Iowa, this company being
the pioneers in tractor manufacturing in
America.

Rev. Myron W. Reed was bom at Brook-
field, Vermont, July 24, 1836. After at-
tending the common schools, he continued
his education at St. Lawrence Academy, at
Potsdam, New York, until he rebelled
against parental authoi-ity and started out
for himself to encounter hardship and pri-
vation that were finally overcome by his
indomitable will. His first employment,
taken almost in desperation, was on a fish-
ing vessel on the Newfoundland banks;
next as canvassing agent for the Republi-
can Central Committee of New York ; then
as reporter on the Buffalo Express.

Drifting west, he had experience as a
school teacher, a farm laborer, a law stu-
dent, a theological student, and a preacher.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he en-
listed in the Eighteenth Michigan Regi-
ment as chaplain, but two months later re-
signed this position to become captain of
one of the companies. He served through
the war, and when mustered out was chief
of scouts under General Thomas. He then
turned again to the ministry, and gradu-
ated from the Chicago School of Theologj'
in 1868.

His first charge was at a small town in
Michigan; then four years at a non-secta-
rian church in New Orleans; then four
years at the Olivet Congi-egational Church
of Milwaukee; then from October 4, 1877,
to April 1, 1884, at the First Presbyterian
Church at Indianapolis, whre he left a
lasting impress on the city and the state.
He resigned to go to the First Congrega-
tional Church of Denver, where he served
for eleven years, resigning on account of
differences with his board on social and
economic questions. His friends and ad-
mirers then established the Broadway
Temple for him, and until his death, on
January 30, 1899, he made it the most
popular church in Denver.

Leaving Indiana a republican, he was
nominated for Congress by the democrats
of the Denver district in 1886, and al-
though the district was overwhelmingly re-
publican, was defeated by only 803 votes.
In 1892 he was tendered the congressional

nomination by the people's party, but de-
clined in favor of Lafe Pence, an Indiana
man, who was triumphantly elected. His
resolute stand for human rights, in all
matters made him the most loved man in
Colorado. It was estimated that 10,000
people came to the city for his funeral,
which was conducted bj' the ministers
of the Methodist and Congregational
churches, a Jewish rabbi, and a Catholic
priest.

While at New Orleans, ^Mr. Reed mar-
ried Louise Lyon, a young lady who had
gone south to teach negroes. She survived
him, with two sons, Paul L., an engineer,
and Ralph W., a lawyer, and a daughter,
Mi-s. Leslie 0. Carter, of Indianapolis. A
volume of his Denver sermons was pub-
lished at Indianapolis in 1898, under the
title "Temple Talks." A memorial sketch
was published after his death by Wm. P.
Fishback, an Indianapolis friend, with
whom and James Whitcomb Riley ilr.
Reed had made a trip to Europe.

Samuel W. Baer, il. D. A physician
and surgeon whose work has attracted fav-
orable attention for a number of years at
South Bend, Dr. Samuel W. Baer, a na-
tive Indianan, was a successful educator
for a number of years before he took up
the profession of medicine.

Doctor Baer was born on a farm near
Columbia City, Indiana, a son of Andrew
and Lydia (Doll) Baer and grandson of
David Baer. His father spent all his life
in an agricultural atmosphere and finally
bought a farm near Columbia City in
Whitley County, where he was busily en-
gaged until his death, when about fort.v-
five years of age. His wife, Lydia Doll,
■was born near Canton, Ohio, and after the
death of her husband she returned to that
state and spent her last days there.

Doctor Baer was one of a family of nine
children. He was quite young when his
father died, and he then went to live with
an uncle, Moses Baer, in Harrison Town-
ship of Elkhart County. There he re-
ceived his early advantages in the district
schools. He was nineteen when he taught
his first term of school, and it was by
teaching and attending school alternately
that he completed his higher academic edu-
cation and laid the basis for his profes-
sional career. In 1893 he received the Ph.
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Greencastle, aud in 1S9S the same institu-
tion awarded him the degree Master of
Arts. For three years he was instructor
in German at DePauw University. His
longest worli as an educator was done at
Nappauce, where for ten years he was
superintendent of schools. Even while
there he gave much of his time to the
study of medicine and then entered the
medical department of the University of
Illinois, where he completed two years of
his medical course, followed by one term
at Rush i\Iedical College, Chicago, and in
1906 took the degree of JM. D. from Illinois
Jledical College, Chicago, Illinois. The
following year he spent in practice at
Nappanee, but in 1907 moved to South
Bend, where he has enjoyed a large clien-
tage. He is a member of the St. Joseph
County, the Tri-State and the Indiana
State Medical societies and the American
Medical Association. Doctor Baer has cul-
tivated fraternal connections and is a
member of Lodge No. 294, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Crusade Lodge No. 14,
Knights of Pythias, Putnam Lodge No.
445, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
at Greencastle, Indiana, and is also a mem-
ber of the Woodmen of the AVorld and the
Modern Woodmen of America.

In 1883 Doctor Baer married Naomi
Culp. She was born in Harrison Town-
ship of Elkhart County, daughter of John
and Sarah (Wisler) Culp, natives of Ohio
and among the early settlers of Elkhart
County. Doctor and Mrs. Baer have two
daughters, Grace and Hilda. The former
was married to F. A. Boulton, who is a
graduate of Wabash College, Crawfords-
ville IndiauR. He is now associated with
the Timpkin Detroit Axle Company. The
latter was married to Henry ^Maust, of
Nappanee, Indiana. Mr. Maust is a suc-
cessful commercial artist. He is chief ar-
tist with the Crafton Studio, Chicago,
Illinois.

Clement Smogob is one of the most
active young business men of South Bend,
a lumber merchant, has built up a large
organization for supplying the demands
of his trade, and has also identified him-
self with many of the movements and
undertakings intimate to the city's prog-
ress and welfare.

^Ir. Smogor has spent most of his life in
South Bend but was born in Poland. His

father, Anthony Smogor, after attending
the schools of Poland served an apprentice-
ship to the blacksmith's trade and in 1881
came to America in search of better op-
portunities for himself and family. For
ten months he worked at farm labor near
Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then came
to South Bend where his wife and children
joined him. For a number of years he
was employed as a machinist by the JNIillen
Portland Cement Company, later for a
time was in the construction department
of the Northern Indiana Interurban Rail-
way, and eventually engaged in the retail
coal business, which he contiinied until his
death when about seventy years of age.
He married Mary ]Myszka, a native of
Poland and now living at South Bend. Her
father, Michael ]Myszka, spent his last years
in South Bend. Anthony Smogor and wife
had six children: Casimier T., Frank A.,
Clement S., Vincent, John and Pearl. The
last named is the wife of Dr. Peter ^Slakiel-
ski.

Clement Smogor attended the parochial
schools of South Bend, spent three years in
the preparatory course at Notre Dame Uni-
versity and later had a commercial and
business course. For a time he was a
teacher in the parochial schools, but en-
tered the lumber business as an employe
of Dresden & Stanfield. In 1910 he suc-
ceeded to this business, and has since had
the satisfaction of seeing it grow and pros-
per as one of the leading concerns of its
kind at South Bend.

Mr. Smogor is a republican in politics
and has served as a member of the city
executive committee and was on the board
of public safety during Mayor Keller's ad-
ministration. He was vice president of the
Indiana Delegation to the Polish National
Convention held at Detroit, Michigan. He
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Knife and Fork Club, is a Knight of
Columbus, and is affiliated with South
Bend Lodge Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.

In August, 1899, Mr. Smogor married
Mary Rafinski. She was born at Haver-
straw, New York, daughter of Mr. and
~Slrs. Francis Rafinski, both natives of
Poland. The four children of Mr. and
Mrs. Smogor are Eugene, Gertrude, Louis
and Jeanette. Mr. and Mrs. Smogor are
members of St. Hedwig Catholic Church.

INDIANA AND INDIANANS

Col. Eli P. Rittee was for over forty
years a prominent Indiana lawyer, served
as a soldier and officer in the Union army,
and played an effective and forceful part
in civic affairs, though mainly restricted to
limited fields, particularly the advocacy
of temperance. He might be properly
pamed among the pioneers of that move-
ment which eventually brought Indiana in-
to the group of prohibition states.

He was born on a farm in Guilford
Township of Hendricks County, Indiana,
June 18, 1838, son of James and Rachel
(Jessup) Ritter. His parents were both
born in North Carolina and were Friends
or Quakers in religion and helped make up
that large and influential colony of Friends
who left North Carolina in the early half
of the nineteenth century and settled so
numerously in Indiana. James Ritter died
in 1859 and his wife in 1874. He was a
■whig in politics and later a republican.

The late Colonel Ritter was the youngest
sou in a family of seven children. He at-
tended the common schools of Hendricks
County and entered Asbury College, now
DePauw University, at Greencastle as
member of the class of 1863. He left col-
lege to enlist April 14, 1861, as a private
in Company K of the Sixteenth Indiana
Infantr.v. He was in practically continu-
ous service until getting his honorable dis-
charge June 6, 1865, more than four years
later. He was transferred to the Seventy-
Ninth Indiana Infantry, and most of his
service was with the Army of the Cumber-
land. He participated in three great cam-
paigns, one in Tennessee which culminated
in the battle of Stone River, that in East-
ern Tennessee and Northern Georgia
marked by the historic conflicts of Chicka-
mauga. Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face
Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kene-
saw Mountain, the siege and battle of At-
lanta and Love.ioy Station, and finally in
the pursuit of Hood's army back through
Tennessee, concluding with the battles of
Franklin and Nashville. He served as ad-
jutant in his regiment and later rose to the
rank of captain. His title of colonel was
di;e to three years of service as colonel of
the First Regiment of the Indiana National
Guard. He was appointed by Governor
Porter upon the organization of the Na-
tional Guard in 1883. He was also a mem-
ber of George H. Thomas Post, Grand
Army of the Republic. From 1903 to 1909

he served as a member of the board of
trustees of the Indiana Soldiers Home.

After the war DePauw University
granted him a diploma as a member of the
class of 1865. He also took up the study
of law and was admitted to the bar in the
spring of 1866, and soon afterward located
at Indianapolis, where for over forty years
he commanded a large and important prac-
tice in both the State and Federal courts.
He was especially able as a trial lawyer.
He was author of "Moral Law and Civil
Law, Parts of the Same Thing," a book
in which he argued the thesis that social
morality is the fundamental principle of
the common law and of all statute law.
Fully fifty years ago, early in his career
as a lawyer. Colonel Ritter allied himself
with the temperance forces and never lost
an opportunity to put a check on the licjuor
traffic, and was connected as an attorney
with many trials in the lower and higher
courts to enforce all the regulatory laws
afl-'ecting that subject in Indiana.

Politically Colonel Ritter was an inde-
pendent republican. He and his wife were
members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. July 15, 1866, he married Miss
Narcie Loekwood. She was born at Paris,
Kentucky, daughter of Benjamin and Re-
becca (Smith) Loekwood, who spent their
last years with their daughter in Indianap-
olis. The children of Colonel Ritter and
wife were : Halsted L., who has followed
the same profession as his father ; Herman
B., who died at the age of twenty-one;
Roseoe H., a physician ; Mary B., who
married Charles A. Beard, former profes-
sor of Columbia University at New York
and regarded as one of the foremost leaders
of progressive opinion in America ; Dwight
S., now city purchasing agent of Indianap-
olis ; and Ruth, wife of Edgar V. 0 'Daniel.

Dwight S. Ritter. Though the process
has been a slow one, and only accelerated
by the necessities imposed through years
of extraordinary public and private econ-
omy resulting from the war, there is an
increasing tendency for the administi'ators
of public business to adapt and adopt the
methods which have proved efficient in
private industrialism. Never again prob-
ably will public waste and extravagance
be regarded with cynical indifference and
as a matter of no particular consequence.
An encouraging example of this new spirit

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ill municipal administration has recently
been aflforded by a report from the city
purchasing agent of Indianapolis, Dwight
S. Ritter.

Mr. Ritter is an Indianapolis man by
birth, though he obtained his chief busi-
ness experience elsewhere. Since he left
college his specific work has been the hand-
ling and buying of large quantities of
materials for big industries imder private
ownership. The work of a "purchasing
agent is in fact a great profession, requir-
ing almost as much detailed knowledge as
a railway tariff expert, and furthermore
a tact and a promptness of decision that
are pre-eminent qualities in the business
executive.

It was solel.v on the basis of his previous
experience and demonstrated fitness that
Mayor Jewett sought the services of Mr.
Ritter for the position of city purchasing
agent in January, 1918. The new office
and honors came to him as an office seek-
ing the man rather than the man the office,
and political considerations figured hardly
at all in the choice.

Thus ]\Ir. Ritter took up his duties at
the beginning of the year 1918, and has
been busy ever since building and making
this, the most important department of the
city government, one of thu most efficient,
best organized and most economical organ-
izations of its kind among America's muni-
cipalities. Through the city purchasing
agent all the supplies for every depart-
ment of Indianapolis are purchased. Un-
derstanding how much of a metropolis In-
dianapolis is, how many institutions it has,
how many departments of public adminis-
tration, including public works, parks, hos-
pitals, sewer and paving and engineering
activities, public buildings and accounting
and clerical divisions, it is readily seen
that tlie vohune of business transacted by
the purchasing agent not only involves sev-
eral hundred thousand dollars annually,
lint includes an astounding magnitude and
variety of materials and commodities. Pre-
(|uently a city administration committed
to a program of economy has sought to
restrict re(|uisitions for materials, with a
result too often of handicapping and im-
peding work that must be done and secur-
ing economv at the expense of efficiency. A
nearer approach to the desired ends is
found in concentrating responsibility for
purchases under one head, thus gaining the

economy that results from doing business
at wholesale rather than by loose and un-
systematized buying.

What Indianapolis has gained through
Mr. Ritter 's administration of the city pur-
chasing agent's office is well set forth in
an editorial that appeared in The Indianap-
olis Star commenting upon his first report
for the semi-annual period from January
to July, 1918. An important feature of
the report, emphasized in the editorial,
was the fact that the cost of the depart-
ment was less than two per cent on the
total volume of business it handled for the
city. The most important economy fur-
thermore was reducing the number of
emergency orders, which in the previous
year had amounted to sixty-six per cent of
the total supplies, whereas in the first re-
port of Mr. Ritter they were reduced to
only fourteen per cent. Other large sav-
ings were made by checking and rearrang-
ing the city's telephone service and by
lu'ompt discounting of the city's bills. A
summary of the benefits derived from Mr.
Ritter 's administration is contained in the
following quotation from the editorial just
mentioned :

■'Anyone familiar with business methods,
particularly the public's business, will
recognize what opportunities for economy
ai'e presented to a well conducted purchas-
ing department. When the cost of that
agency is less than two per cent of the
purchases the saving through efficiency
and intelligent supervision is bound to be
important. The agency has systematized
the city's purchasing until it now buys
all materials for all city departments, hav-
ing included such accounts as telephones,
electric lights, gas, contract steam heat-
ing, insurance, repairs to buildings and
some other items that were not formerly
handled by the purchasing agent.

"A further improvement in the sj'stem
has been made by which a daily record of
each fund is kept and thus avoiding over-
running appropriations. Mr. Ritter hopes
to work out some plan by which depart-
mental purchases of any given article may
lie hiniped to get l)etter prices by buying
in (|u:i)ititics, as for example coal used in
the various rity departments. He proposes
to institnt(> l)nsiness system and efficiency
wliei-ever that may be done."

Dwight S. Ritter is an Indianapolis man,
born in the city in 1878, a son of the late

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Col. Eli Ritter, whose interesting career
is reviewed elsewhere. Dwight S. Ritter
was educated in the public schools, in the
Shortridge High School of Indianapolis,
and graduated in 1900 from DePauw Uni-
versity of Greencastle. For a number of
yeai's after leaving college he was con-
nected with a large manufacturing con-
cern at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1913 re-
turned to Indianapolis and took the posi-
tion of purchasing agent for the Nordyke
& Marmon Company, one of the largest
automobile factories in the country. It
was with that corporation he demonstrated
the efficiency and knowledge and skill in
purchasing materials which were recog-
nized when Mayor Jewett sought his serv-
ices for the office of city purchasing agent.
Mr. Ritter married Miss Edna Taylor,
and they have two children, Gordon T.' and
Wayjie L. Ritter.

George Robert Wilson. Some of the
worthiest services and experiences of life
have been credited to George Robert Wil-
son, now a resident of Jasper and India-
napolis and a leading insurance man. By
profession he is a surveyor and civil en-
gineer, and for many years was county
superintendent of schools in Dubois
County.

He was born at Cannelton, Indiana.
August 15, 1863. He is the eldest son of
Michael and Elizabeth (Chilton) Wilson.
His parents are English, and he is the
first of tlic family on either side born with-
out the folds of the British flag. Michael
Wilson, only son of Anthony and Anna
(Pratt) Wilson, was born in Rainton Gate,
not far from Durham, England, October
3, 1834. He came with his father, An-
thony, to America in 1854 from Shield's
Harbor, England, on the good ship Jose-
phine Hardin, and arrived at the port of
New York August 11, 1854. From New
York they went to Hawesville, Kentucky,
on tiie Ohio River, opposite Cannelton, In-
diana, and there located, removing later to
Cannelton. Michael Wilson's wife was
born in England October 13, 1844. daugh-
ter of George and Margaret (Bruce) Chil-
ton who came to America in June, 1848,
on the ship :Mary Matthews and landed at
Philadelphia. The family settled at Can-
nelton, and there on November 1, 1862,
Elizabeth Hutchinson Chilton became the
wife of Michael Wilson.

In 1868 the Wilson family moved from
Perry County to Dubois County, and there
George R. Wilson was reared and spent
many years of his life. At eleven years
of age he went to work in the coal mines
near Jasper. Ambitious beyond the or-
dinary, he devoted himself to study at such
intervals of leisure as he could command
during the four years he spent in the coal
mines, and- at the age of fifteen he was
possessed of a good English education. He
then secured a position as teacher in Bain-
bridge Township, in the meantime taking
a practical course in civil engineering, un-
der the direction of !Major Stiles, the cele-
brated author of "Stiles' Curves and
Tables." In all Mr. Wilson taught school
for nine years, during the last two of which
he was principal of the high school at
Ireland.

In the intervals between teaching he
served for three years in his father's office
as deputy surveyor of Dubois County, and
for four years as county surveyor. His
father and also his uncle, George Chilton,
were civil engineers and served as sur-
veyors of Dubois and Perry counties.

In 1889 Mr. Wilson's eminent qualifica-
tions as an educator were recognized by
his appointment to the position of county
.superintendent of schools. His work in
this position was so thorough and striking
in character as to have attracted attention
in educational circles all over the state.
Briefly referred to, his record as superin-
tendent is summarized as follows: The re-
organization of the school system of Du-
bois County, comprising the introduction
of uniform courses of study and the classi-
fication of schools throughout the county;
the introduction of a system of bi-monthlj-
examinations of pupils, a system which has
since been adopted by the state; the intro-
duction of a uniform set of examination
papers for pupils in all the county schools ;
the organization of the Teachers' Reading
Circle, of Dubois County, which for years
stood first in the State of Indiana; the
organization of the Young People's Read-
ing Circle in Dubois County : the introduc-
tion of common school commencements in
every township in Dubois County, and the
reduction of township institutes to a s.vs-
tem. In addition to this creditable work
Mr. Wilson prepared an excellent map of
Dubois County. He also collected and ar-
ranged the exhibit of the Dubois County

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school ohiklren at the World's Fair at Chi-
cago, which was awarded two diplomas
and one medal.

Mr. Wilson did much to advance the
educational interests of the state. He
served on many state committees, in all
of which he was a leading spirit. He
served as president of the Indiana County
Superintendents' Association, having pre-
viously filled the offices of secretary and
vice president of the same organization.
He also served as chairman of the executive
committee of the Indiana Teachers' Asso-
ciation. Mr. Wilson was identified with
almost every educational project in the
state. He has the degree of Bachelor of
Laws, but never practiced law.

In 1903 Mr. Wilson refused a unanimous
re-election as county superintendent, and
associated himself with the State Life In-
surance Company as its Indiana manager,
which position he now holds, and is one
of that company's best managers. Mr.
Wilson is a graduate of the New York
Insurance School. He helped reorganize
the Indiana Association of Life Under-
writers, and became its president.

During his spare time, and as a source
of pleasure, Mr. Wilson wrote a history
of Dubois Count.y, now classed as one of
the best county histories in Indiana. In
1916, as a favor to his county, he resur-
veyed a part of the Freeman lines, on
the south side of the Vincennes tract in
Dubois County, so as to mark it with
proper historical markers. This was a part
of Dubois County's contribution to the
state's centennial celebration of 1916. Mr.
Wilson was commissioned by Governor
Ralston to make this survey. He has made
a thorough study of pioneer trails and sur-
veys, and has written many articles on
that subject for historical societies and
magazines. He is considered an authority
on pioneer surveys in Indiana, and pre-
pared a pamphlet on that subject for the
Indiana Historical Society publications.

In 1893 Mr. Wilson married Miss Caro-
lina L. Kuebler. They have one daughter.
Miss Roberta. Mr. Wilson has been very
successful in all his business undertakings.
He is public spirited, liberal, progressive
and energetic, a gentleman of kindly and
courteous demeanor and of great popu-
larity throughout the state.

Charles S. Buck has been an Indianap-
olis business man for over a cjuarter of a
century, and during that time an im-
mense volume of business has been trans-
acted through his personal agency as a real
estate broker. He is now proprietor of the
C. S. Buck Land Company, specializing
in fami lands and city property, with
offices in the Law Building.

Mr. Buck was born in Greene County,
Ohio, June 14, 1866, son of Charles J. and
Julia (Campbell) Buck. His father, also
a native of Ohio, was self educated, but
qualified himself as a school teacher .in
early life and served throughout the Civil
war with an Ohio regiment, and on his
return home engaged in the real estate
business at Xenia. In 1879 he removed to
Indianapolis and continued a factor in lo-
cal real estate circles until in 1885 he re-
turned to Xenia. He was a republican.
In his family were five children, four
daughters and one son.

Charles S. Buck, the youngest of the
family, has two sisters still living. He
received his education in the public schools
of Xenia, Ohio, and after coming to Indi-
anapolis took a business college course. His
first regular employment was as a press-
man in the Indianapolis Journal office.
Later he worked as a pressman for the
Journal in the morning and the Indianap-
olis News in the afternoon. After this ex-
perience he returned to his old home at
Xenia. Ohio, and owned a fnrm and was
identified with several lines of employment.
An accident temporarily disabled him for
further active pursuits, and in 1901 he re-
turned to Indianapolis and engaged in the
real estate brokerage business. Besides
farm lands and city property he also acts
as a general intermediary for business op-
portunities of all kinds, and has built up
a large and successful business. Mr. Buck
is a republican. On November 8, 1888, he
married Miss Hattie Ridell, of Xenia, Ohio.
They have one daughter, Margaret.

Jacob Woolverton. The men who have
won their way to success in the financial
world have come from no one particular
walk of life. Many of them have had their
training in the surroundings in which they
now find themselves; not a few have grad-
uated from commercial, mercantile and in-
dustrial affairs to the handling of mone-

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tary matters as repositories of the public
trust, while a large number have had their
beginning in life amid the atmosphere of
the farm. In the last-named class is found
Jacob Woolverton, president of the Saint
Joseph County Savings Bank and vice
president of the Saint Joseph Loan & Trust
Company, of South Bend.

Mr. Woolverton belongs to a family
which originated in England, where the^
Town of Woolverton is named in its honor,
but his ancestors have resided in America
from colonial days. His paternal grand-
father, John Woolverton, was the owner
of a farm just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio,
at Bond Hill, now a part of the corpora-
tion of Cincinnati, six miles from the court-
house. He died there and was buried in
the vicinity, but the gi-aveyard has since
been built over. The father of Jacob Wool-
verton, Charles Woolverton, came from the
above-named farm to Indiana in 1831, and
after stopping for a time in Decatur and
Parke counties, moved on to the historic
region of Chain-0 '-Lakes in Saint Joseph
County, where he settled on a quarter sec-
tion of land. The old homestead is now
owned by the son, who bought out the other
heirs and added forty acres to the prop-
erty. During the early days cranberries
were abundant on the low lands in the vi-
cinity of Chain-0 '-Lakes, and the young
pioneer marketed some of them in Cincin-
nati. It was while on the way to the Ohio
metropolis with a wagon-load of this fruit
that he met Jane Lawson, who afterward
became his wife, slie lieing the daughter of
one of the numerous tavern-keepei's then
operating establishments on the great state
highway, the IMichigan Road. This tavern
was near Greensburg, and young Woolver-
ton stopped there for rest and refreshment
while on his way to Cincinnati. So well
pleased was he with his entertainment
that he again stopped at the Lawson tav-
ern on his return, and these two first visits
and the acquaintance formed ripened into
a love match that culminated in a mar-
riage in 1840. Following their union the
young people started housekeeping on the
Chain-O '-Lakes Fann. which is now one
of the most attractive places on the Lincoln
Highway west. Five children were born
to them, of whom three, two sons and a
daughter, grew to maturity. The daugh-
ter died in her young womanhood^ but the
two sons survive: Jacob, of this notice;

and Charles, a resident of Edwardsville,
Illinois. Charles Woolverton, the elder,
was not only a skilled and energetic farmer,
but also opei-ated quite extensivelj^ in f ai-m
lands, buying and selling, and it is possible
that the operation of this side line had an
amount of influence upon the elder sou,
Jacob, whose tastes turned decidedly to
commercial pursuits rather than to farm-
ing. Farm life did not agree with the son,
and as it was not congenial, he decided to
cast his lines in other directions. His sub-
sequent success shows that even at an early
age he gave indications of the excellent
judgment and foresight which have since
characterized and moulded his life.

Jacob Woolverton was seven years of
age when his father died, and his mother
subsequently remarried. As is not infre-
quently the case, the stepfather and step-
son did not harmonize in their relation-
ship, and when the youth was only sixteen
years of age he left his home to shift for
himself. The older man freely predicted
that he would soon return, but he under-
estimated the youth's spirit and initiative.
During the summer of 1861 he worked on
the farm of James Ray, receiving a wage
of $11 per month, and in the next summer
on the Ashbury Libdley farm, his salary
having been iuci-eased "to $15 per month,
as his abilities were recognized. During
the winter months he accepted such hon-
orable employment as came his way, in
this way earning his board and being able
to attend school. The rudiments of an
education secured in this way were sup-
plemented by further study at the old
Northern Indiana College at South Bend,
which occupied the original building of
the South Bend Chilled Plow Company's
plant and which he attended in 1863. In
his vacation period he spent his time in the
office of Francis R. Tutt, deputy revenue
collector, but before engaging actively in
business took a course in Eastman's Com-
mercial College at Chicago, which was then
one of the famous in.stitutions of the West.
After graduating there he was associated
witli William L. Kizer, his boyhood friend,
schoolmate and college chum, as a clerk in
the revenue office, first imder ilr. Tutt,
deputy collector, and subsequently under
Colonel Norman Eddy, district revenue
collector, whose appointment brought the
district office from Logansport to South
Bend. The two clerks. Kizer and Wool-

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vertou, eliecked up the office at Logansport
and superintended tlie transfer to this city.
After leaving this office Mr. Woolvertou
was for a time a traveling representative
for a Cleveland oil house. However, he
realized that he had not yet found his true
vocation and gave that position up to take
a clerical post with Studebaker Brothers.
During a long period he, with William
Mack and Clem Studebaker, did all the
office work for this concern, he and Mr.
Mack looking after the books and accounts
and Mr. Studebaker attending to the cor-
respondence. The company's office was in
a small frame building on South Michigan
Street, opposite the present site of the
Auditorium. When he left this office Mr.
Woolvertou drifted into the real estate
business with his former fellow-clerk, Mr.
Kizer. It happened that Andrew Ander-
son was at that time operating the abstracts
of title now owned by W. A. Bugbee. He
offered Mr. Woolverton an opportunity
to conduct the real estate end of his ab-
stract business, but Mr. Woolverton was
drawing $75 per month at the Studebaker
office and thought that it was too good a
thing to give up for an uncertainty. He
suggested to Mr. Klizer, who was traveling
for the Aetna Life Insurance Company
and was not enamored of his position, that
he take the place in the Anderson office
and that if the business showed itself profit-
able he would leave Studebaker 's and go
in with him. This resulted in Mr. Kizer 's
trying the proposition, and his success was
so immediate and assured that Mr. Wool-
verton resigned his position, and, June 10,
1869, became one of the members of the
partnership of Kizer & Woolverton. This
is still in exist. Micf ;iftcr a period of more
than forty-cit:lii \ rars. and the firm's office,
in charge of Ivobcrt Kizer, is in the same
place that it was in tlie beginning, although
in- a new building. The success of the firm
encouraged the partners to enter other
fields. They were instrumental in organ-
izing the Malleable Steel Range Manufac-
turing Company, to which Mr. Kizer 's and
Ml'. Woolverton 's sons now direct their at-
tention, and of which Jacob Woolverton is
vice president and treasurer. In 1882 he
became interested in the Saint Joseph
Comity Savings Bank, which was founded
December 8, 1869, by J. M. Studebaker,
J. C. Knoblick and T. J. Soixas, the last-
named being tlie prime mover in the or-

ganization and secretary and treasurer for
a number of years prior to his death. Mr.
Woolverton was elected president of the
institution in 1895, and has since been re-
elected every year. The other officers are :
Benjamin F. Dunn, vice president; Rome

C. Stephenson, vice president; George U.
Bingham, secretary and treasurer ; Harriet
E. Elbel, cashier; Charles A. Burns, as-
sistant cashier; and Elmer E. Rodgers,
assistant cashier; the trustees being Jacob
Woolverton, B. P. Dunn, W. A. Bugbee,
W. L. Kizer, Elmer Crockett, W. A. Funk
and R. C. Stephenson. At the close of
business, August 20, 1917, the Saint Joseph
County Savings Bank i.ssued the following
statement : Resources, loans and discounts,
$2,027,919.96; municipal bonds, $487,-
906.68 : cash on hand and due from banks,
$938,100.68; liabilities, due depositors,
$3,089,337.91; surplus, $325,000.00; inter-
est, etc., $39,589.41. Mr. Woolverton is
also vice president and the largest stock-
holder of the Saint Joseph Loan & Trust
Company, a brother bank, and has been
since its organization, in which he was the
main factor, in 1900. The other officials of
this bank are: Rome C. Stephenson, presi-
dent ; Willis A. Bugbee, vice president ;
George U. Bingham, secretaiy and treas-
urer; Harriet E. Elbel, cashier; and
Charles A. Burns and Elmer E. Rodgers,
assistant treasurer and assistant secretary,
respectively. The directors are; J. M.
Studebaker, Jacob Woolverton, W. L. Ki-
zer, F. S. Fish, W. A. Bugbee, L. Le Van,

D. E. Snyder, R, C. Steiihenson and G. IT.
Bingham. The ^ta1^lll,.|l1 of this bank at
the close of business Au-ust 20, 1917, was
as follows: Resourci's, loans and discounts,
$1,838,434.44; bonds, $1,068,097.32; cash
on liand and due from banks and trust
companies, $584,342.19; trust securities.
$1,454,562.66; real estate, .$4,000.00. Lia-
bilities: Capital stock, $200,000.00; sur-
plus, $100,000.00; undivided profits, $184,-
169.55; depo.sits, $2,893,858.05; due trust
department, $1,571,409.01. The combined
resources of tliese two institutions amount
to $8,403,363.93.

Mr. Woolverton 's familiarity with realty
and conditions pertaining thereto in North-
ern Indiana and Southern Michigan is
probably unsurjjassed. He is regarded a.s
an authority in such matters, a prestige
ac(|nired through his long a.ssoeiation with
till' liusiness and his banking experience.

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He himself is the owner of a number of
business buildings and dwellings at South
Bend, including his own home at 313 La-
fayette Avenue, which was originally built
in" 1877 and remodeled in 1893; and also
has two farms in Saint Joseph County, one
situated four miles from the courthouse
on the Lincoln Highway west, consisting
of 157 acres, and the other a 200-acre tract,
being located two miles further from the
city. ^ _

While a student at Northern Indiana
College Mr. Woolverton became acquainted
with Miss Alice M. Ruple, daughter of
John J. Ruple, one of the pioneer farmers
of the countv, and October 6, 1870, they
were married. To this union there were
born four sons : Earl, a young man of great
promise who died a few years ago ; John J.,
residing at No. 807 South Lafayette
Avenue, South Bend, assistant treasurer
and manager of the Malleable Steel Range
Manufacturing Company ; Howard A., also
a re^sident of South Bend, who is sales
manager for that company ; and Hugh L.,
who was formerly purchasing agent for the
same concern, now a resident of Washing-
ton, D. C, where he is connected with the
quartermaster general's department as
purchasing agent of hardware and steel for
the United States Government. The Wool-
verton family, including the sons and their
families, have a summer home at Sandy
Beach, Diamond Lake, where they spend
much time together and maintain the affec-
tionate home associations of earlier years
when the sons were children. Mr. Wool-
verton is an active member of the South
Bend Chamber of Commerce and of the
Rotary Club and is a leader in many move-
ments having for their object the better-
ment of business and financial conditions.
He belongs also to the Country Club and
the Knife and Fork Club, and has showai
a great and helpful interest in the work
of the Young Men's Christian Association,
of which he has been a generous supporter.
With his family, he belongs to the Presby-
terian Church." In his political v-iews Mr.
Woolverton is a republican, but public life
has not appealed to him, and politics has
attracted his attention only insofar as it
has affected the welfare of the country and
it« people. During the half a century in
which he has been engaged in business at
South Bend he has built up a reputation
for unquestioned integrity in business, for

honorable participation in public-spirited
movements, and for probity in private life.

Hon. Rome C. Stephenson. The extent
and importance of the interests with which
Hon. Rome C. Stephenson has been identi-
fied within his career, and particularly
since locating at South Bend in 1908, stamp
him as one of the leading of the city's
financial representatives. A lawyer by
profession, and at one time a member of
the State Senate, he gave up his profes-
sional vocation for the field of finance, and
at this time is president of the Saint Jo-
seph Loan & Trust Company and vice pres-
ident of the Saint Joseph County Savings
Bank, brother banks of South Bend with
combined assets of more than -$8, 000, 000.

Mr. Stephenson was born at Waba.sh,
Indiana, Februar.y 19, 1865, and is a son
of Hugh M. and Maria J. (Thompson)
Stephenson. He is a member of a familj^
which had its origin in the north of Ire-
land and which first emigi^ated to Maryland
and subsequently went to Carolina during
colonial days. Hugh M. Stephenson w^as
born December 29, 1818, in Iredell County,
North Carolina, and when he was a youth
was taken by his parents to Indiana, where
he was educated in the public schools and
reared to manhood. There he also met and
married ilaria J. Thompson, who was born
May 22, 1825, near Paris, Bourbon County,
Kentucky, and some time later thej' re-
moved to Rochester, Indiana, where they
rounded out their lives, Mr. Stephenson
dving April 25, 1889, and Mrs. Stephenson
November 8, 1913. The father followed
the business of abstracting titles, and was
accounted a business man of shrewdness
and ability, with a reputation for absolute
integrity. A republican in his political
views, lie was interested in the success of
his party, and at various times was elected
to ofifices of a public nature, being at one
time in the early days sheriff of Wabash
County. He and Mrs. Stephenson were
members of the IMethodist Episcopal
Church. They had the following children:
Amos L., who for year,s practiced dentistry
and is now a retired resident of Wabash ;
William H., who was a retired dental prac-
titioner, and died at Marion, Indiana, in
1913 ; Joseph T., who was a printer by vo-
cation and died at Rochester, November
8, 1893 ; Frank M., a resident of Indianap-
olis, who has been probation ofifieer of the

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Juvenile Court of that cit_y sinee its organi-
zation ; and Rome C.

Rome C. Stephenson received his early-
education in the public schools of Wabash
and Rochester. He chose the vocation of
law for his life work, and began the study
of his profession in the law offices of
George W. Holman, an attorney of Roches-
ter, being duly admitted to the bar May 1,
1886. He began practicing the first day
of the following year, and was associated in
partnership with his preceptor until No-
vember, 1914, when he retired from the
practice of his calling. In the meantime,
in November, 1908, he had removed from
Rochester to South Bend, and the latter
city has .since been his home and the scene
of his activities and success. On coming to
this city he became vice president of the
Saint Joseph County Savings Bank, of|
which he was also treasurer, and took like
positions with the Saint Joseph Loan and
Trust Company. His duties with these
concents rapidly grew in scope and impor-
tance until finally he found that he could
not serve two masters, and in November,
1914, ceased the practice of law to give his
entire time to his banking duties. On May
1, 1916, he was elected president of the
Saint Joseph Loan and Trust Company,
succeeding J. M. Studebaker. This bank,
■which was organized in 1900, is one of the
strongest institutions of the state, and with
its brother bank, the Saint Joseph County
Savings Bank, has combined resources of
$8,403,363.98. The latter institution, of
which Mr. Stephenson is vice president,
was established in 1869 and is also one of
the best known banking houses in Indiana.

In his political views Mr. Stephenson
is a republican and for some years was a
more or less important figure in the ranks
of his party. In 1904 he was the success-
ful representative of his ticket for the State
Senate and subsequently served in the ses-
sions of 1905 and 1907 and the special ses-
sion of 1908, representing Wabash and
Fulton counties. He was one of the ener-
getic and working members of the Senate,
and in the session of 1905 was chairman
of the committee on insurance and of the
.I'udiciary "A" committee. In the session
of 1907 he was on the committees on corpo-
rations, telegraph and telephone, railroads,
and codification of laws. Senator Stephen-
son is a member of and elder in the Presby-
terian Church. He is prominent frater-

nally, belonging to South Bend Lodge No.
394, Ancient Free and Accepted ^lasons;
South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch
Masons, and Indianapolis Consistory, thir-
ty-second degree of Masonry; also to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
Crusade Lodge No. 14, Knights of Pythias.
He also holds membership in the Indiana
Country, Rotary and Knife and Fork
clubs and in the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Stephenson was married October
16, 1889, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to Miss
Ella J. Maxwell, daughter of Joseph J. and
Martha (Edwards) Maxwell, both of whom
are now deceased. Mr. Maxwell was for
many years a dry goods merchant at Upper
Sandusky and later cashier of the First
National Bank of that place. Mr. and Mrs.
Stephenson are the parents of two chil-
dren : Joseph M., a resident of South Bend
and a rising young journalist, being man-
ager of the South Bend News-Times; and
Hugh R., who is an ensign in the U. S.
Navy. The Stephenson family resides in
a handsome modern residence at No. 201
North Shore Drive. In addition, Mr. Ste-
phenson is the owner of a handsome farm
located three and one-half miles northwest
of South Bend, on the Portage Road. This
consists of 200 acres in an excellent state
of production, the property being culti-
vated by the latest approved methods and
with the most up-to-date machinery manu-
factured.

John B. Dillon, historian, was born in
Brooke County, Virginia, in 1807; and
while he was a small child his father re-
moved to St. Clairsville, Belmont County,
Ohio. Here his father died when John
was a lad of ten years, and the orphaned
boy went to Charleston, West Virginia,
where he learned the printer's trade. In
1824, at the age of seventeen, he went to
Cincinnati, and became a compositor on
the Cincinnati Gazette. In this paper
his first literary ventures were published,
but Cincinnati was then the literary center
of the Ohio Valley, and the merit of his
work gave him the entree to The Western
Souvenir, Flint's Western Review, and the
Cincinnati Mirror. He wrote poetry at
that time, and his "Burial of the Beauti-
ful" and " Orphan '.s Harp" deservedly
gave him lasting recognition.

In 1834 he removed to Logansport, In-
diana, where he read law and was ad-

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mitted to the bar ; and where he also wrote
the first volume of his "History of In-
diana," which was published in 1842. The
fame of this work caused his election as
state librarian in 1845, which position he
held for six years. In 1851 he was ap-
pointed assistant secretary of state, and
continued in this office for two years. He
also served as secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture in 1852, 1853, 1855, 1858,
and 1859. In 1853 he published for some
months a semi-monthly agricultural maga-
zine called "Farm and Shop." In 1863 he
was appointed a clerk in the Department
of the Interior, serving as superintendent
of documents and librarian of the depart-
ment. He resigned this position in 1871,
and became for two years clerk of the Com-
mittee on Military Affaire of the House.
In the spring of 1875 he returned to In-
dianapolis, where he resided until his death
on February 27, 1879.

Mr. Dillon .joined the Indiana Historical
Society in 1842, and was its only secre-
tary from 1859 until his death. He always
continued his historical researches, and in
1859 published his "History of Indiana,"
which was an extension of his original vol-
ume. His other publications were "The
National Decline of the ^Miami Indians,"
read before the Indiana Historical Sociefv
May 23, 1848, and published in Vol. 1 of
the society's publications; "Letters to
Friends of the Union," 1861-2; "Notes
on Historical Evidence in Reference to Ad-
verse Theories of the Origin and Nature
of the Government of the United States,"
New York, 1871 ; and ' ' Oddities of Colonial
Legislation in America," published in
1879, after Mr. Dillon's death, with a
memorial sketch by Ben Douglass. An-
other sketch will be found in Vol. 2 of the
Indiana Historical Society Publications.

L. A. Snidek, a mechanical engineer of
many years successful experience and now
a partner of the firm of Snider & Rotz,
consulting engineers, with offices in the
Merchants Bank Building at Indianapolis.

Mr. Snider was born in Marion County,
Indiana, December 17, 1883, a son of Theo-
philus and Fanny C. (Center) Snider. The
Snider family was one of the first to estab-
lish homes in Putnam County, Indiana.
His great-grandfather, Jacob, took his fam-
ily, including his son Lewis, grandfather of
L. A. Snider, and traveled by wagon from

Tennessee to the midst of an unbroken
wilderness in Putnam County, Indiana, es-
tablishing their home six miles north of
Greencastle. Jacob Snider spent all the
rest of his days on that farm. He came
to Indiana at such an early time that the
party was attacked by Indians while en
route. He was a farmer, hunter and trap-
per and a splendid type of the rugged pio-
neer settler. Theophilus Snider, who died
in 1908, was born at Greencastle, Indiana,
and spent all his active career as a rail-
road man. He became a brakemau, later a
conductor, and was finally made a yard-
master with the Big Four Railway Com-
pany. He was at first with the Peoria
Division, afterwards was made yardmaster
at Terra Haute, and at the time of his
death had given thirty-seven years of faith-
ful work to the Big Fout- Railway Com-
pany, being regarded as one of its most
trusted employes. He was a member of
the ilasonic order for many years. In the
family were four childi'en, all of whom
are still living.

L. A. Snider, oldest of these children,
was educated in the public schools of Terre
Haute, attended high school at Indianap-
olis, and took his professional course in the
Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute.
He graduated Bachelor of Science with the
class of 1905 and then spent another j-ear
of post-graduate work, receiving the degi-ee
blaster of Science in Mechanical Engineer-
ing in 1906. Since then he has given all
his time to professional work. In 1912 he
was granted the degree of ilechanical Engi-
neer because of his professional record.
For a year he was with the Fairbanks and
jMorse Company, assigned to duty at Beloit.
Wisconsin, and after that was employed
as a mechanical engineer and traveled over
several states for the Fairbanks and Morse
people. Later he had full charge of the
mechanical ecfuipment and engineering
work of Paul Kuhn and Company
throughout Indiana and Illinois, with head-
quarters at Terre Haute. After three
years he resigned and on March 1. 1910,
became connected with IMclMeans and Tripp
as their mechanical engineer. Some years
ago Mr. Snider formed his present partner-
ship with J. M. Rotz, and as consulting en-
gineers they have handled many important
contracts. Their chief specialty is heat-
ing and ventilating, and they have done
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tiis aud ill drawing plans for heating and
ventilating systems in school buildings
thronghout Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Ohio.

Mr. Snider is a Mason, is independent in
politics, and a member of the Presbyterian
Church. January 17, 1909, he married
Bessie Modesitt. " They have three chil-
dren: Harriet Jane, born April 14, 1912;
Albert Howell, born December 24, 1916;
and Hugh Modesitt, born Januarv 27,
1918.

Col. Robert R. Stewart. No more than
at any other time Indiana honors its men
of military genius and service. Such a
time brings into striking relief and a bet-
ter appreciation some of those who served
their country so valiantly in former Ameri-
can wars.

One of these was the late Col. Robert R.
Stewart. He was born in Indiana and his
father, Matthew Stewart, was one of the
early landlords and tavern keepers at old
Terre Haute. Colonel Stewart grew up
in the lively atmosphere of Western Indi-
ana along the Wabash Valley, and was only
a boy when the war with Mexico broke out.
He became infected with the fever of mil-
itary preparation, and his admiration for
Philip Kearny, the dashing young soldier
of Terre Haute, knew no bounds, and he
practically ran away from home to join the
dragoon company raised by Captain Keai'-
ny in and about Terre Haute. That was,
by the way, the beginning of Colonel
Kearny's career as an American military
figure. Later in the Civil war Kearny rose
to the rank of major general. Robert Stew-
art was in Kearny's cavalry company and
rose to the rank of lieutenant by reason
of his personal prowess and bravery. At
the end of the war he was congratulated
for his services by an autograph letter
from President Polk.

Early in 1861 an independent cavalry
company was organized at Terre Haute,
which subsequently became Company I of
the First Cavalry, Twenty-Eighth" Regi-
ment. Robert R. Stewart was its first cap-
tain and later he was made lieutenant col-
onel of the Second Cavalry and subsequent-
ly a.ssisted in organizing the Eleventh Indi-
ana CavMlry, of which ho became cnlonel.
His brother, James W. Stewart, succeeded
him as colonel of the Second Regiment.
General Stewart by his dashing bravery

and niilitar\- exploits won admiration.
"Bob" Stewart was a popular man both in
camp and as a citizen. A part of the time
he commanded a brigade in the war, but
refused any advancement in title and rank.
In Western Indiana in particular Colonel
Stewart was idolized as a typical soldier.

In 1862 his personal friend, J. C. Men-
inger, dedicated to him "Colonel Stew-
art's Parade March." In the Memorial
Building at Terre Haute his portrait with
those of other Civil war heroes is placed
in enduring memorj^ in one of the win-
dows.

During his service Colonel Stewart was
captured by the enemy and for a period
of seven months suffered incarceration in
Libby prison at Richmond. The hard-
ships of this period together with the ex-
posure of camp and battle experience un-
dermined his health, and only a few years
after the war he died.

Colonel Stewart married Flora Sullivan,
who after his death became the wife of
Emil Wulschner, long prominent in the
music business at Indianapolis. Mr.
Wulschner died April 9, 1900. Mrs. Wul-
schner was a prominent figure in Indianap-
olis. She was chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Indiana Orphans Home As-
sociation. She died at Rome, Italv, April
14, 1909. Her father, William Sullivan,
was also a resident of Indianapolis.

Alexander il. Stewart, only son and
child of Colonel Stewart, was born at Terre
Haute March 4, 1867, and has lived in In-
dianapolis since 1869. He became inter-
ested in the musical merchandise business
through his stepfather, and for many years
has conducted a store that is a noted cen-
ter of musical goods all over the state.
He is the only jobber in Indiana for the
Victor Talking Jlachines. He has also
acquired some extensive interests in real
estate and is identified with many of the
representative civic and social organiza-
tions of Indianapolis. He is a member of
the Loyal Legion, is a Scottish Rite IMason
and Shriner, a member of the Columbia
Club and other organizations.

ilr. Stewart married in 189.3 ]Miss
Georgia Toms, of St. Louis, Missouri. She
died August 9, 1906, and was survived by
two sons, George E. and James T. In
1911 Mr. Stewart married Miss Marie Iv.
Lee, and their son is Alexander il., Jr.

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James H. Lowry is superintendent of
parks at Indianapolis. To this position and
all the responsibilities which it implies Mr.
Lowry has brought the qualifications of
the thoroughly trained civil and construc-
tion engineer, and also a natural taste and
inclination for this class of public serv-
ice. Mr. Lowry has fitted in well with the
plans and aspirations of the present park
board. These plans contemplate a park
system which will make Indianapolis the
envy of the larger cities in the country.
Members of the board and Mr. Lowy have
made a thorough and systematic study of
all the park systems of the leading eastern
cities, and thus they have a broad vision
and high ideals to guide them in all their
work. The superintendent of parks de-
pends not only upon the special organiza-
tion and facilities placed under his control,
but is doing much to arouse the interest
and co-operation of all citizens of Indianap-
olis in a general plan for beautification of
the city. This means not only the public
parks but the individual grounds and sur-
roundings of homes. The service of the
park system is available to private citi-
zens in the selection and planting of proper
shade trees and shrubbery on private
grounds and adjacent to the street. The
city is to be congratulated upon having
such a thoroughly qualified man as Mr.
Lowry for the position of park superin-
tendent.

He was born in Cass County, Michi-
gan, ]\Iay 2, 1881, son of Franklin E. and
Laura Bell (Parsons) Lowry. His father
is sixty-five and his mother is sixty, and
both parents are still living, residents of
Granger, St. Joseph County, Indiana. His
father in his younger days was a teacher,
afterwards a country merchant, had a com-
mon school education plus some normal
training, and is now conducting a store at
Granger. He has always been interested in
politics and in the success of the demo-
cratic party. He is a Mason and his wife a
member of the Christian Church. Ances-
trally the Lowrj's are Scotch-Irish. There
were three children : James H. ; Mabel, who
is the wife of Albert Daehler, professor of
English at Purdue University; and Mil-
dred, a teacher living at home with her
parents.

James H. Lowry attended the graded
schools of St. Joseph County, Indiana,
graduated from the high school at Niles,

Michigan, at the age of eighteen, and dur-
ing the following two years taught school
in his native County of Cass in Michigan.
He also taught for two years in Harrison
Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Teaching, was the means of earning the
money which enabled him to take part of
his course at Purdue University. Besides
teaching he did every other sort of em-
ployment which would pay some of his ex-
penses, including tutoring and some of the
menial branches of service around the Uni-
versity. At Purdue he pursued a technical
course, civil engineering, and during his va-
cations worked on railroads, the Lake Shore
and the Nickel Plate lines, and spent one
year out of Norfolk, Virginia, on the Tide-
water System of the late Henry 0. Rogers.

]\Ir. Lowry graduated from Purdue Uni-
versity in 1908. The next year he was
connected with the Indiana Mausoleum
Company, doing concrete construction and
design work, and acting as superintendent
of construction. He then returned to his
alma mater, Purdue, as instructor in civil
engineering, and was there four years.

In 1912 he came to Indianapolis as ex-
ecutive officer of the Board of Park Com-
missioners and was promoted to his present
duties as park superintendent in 1915. Mr.
Lowry is also president of the National An^-
ateur Baseball Association. In the winter
of 1918 the secretaiy of the War Recreation
Social Service Bureau accepted his offer in
behalf of the association to arrange games
of baseball between teams of soldiers at the
cantonments and amateur teams from cities
near the cantonments, and this is one of Mr.
Lowry 's positive interests and services in
the great war in which America is now em-
barked. Mr. Lowry is a member of the Tri-
angle Engineering Fraternity, is affiliated
with Mystic Tie Lodge of the Masonic or-
der, the Indianapolis Rotary Club, and in
politics is non partisan.

In 1910 he married Miss Bessie May
Leamon, daughter of Mrs. Cordelia Lea-
mon. ilrs. Lowry is a graduate of high
scliool and is a thoroughly trained mu-
sician, having attended Winona Conserva-
tory of Music and finishing in the Chicago
Conservatory. They have one son, James
Edson Lowry.

Clarence W. Nichols. Of lawyers who
have had much to do with the important
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courts in recent years, the name of Clar-
ence W. Nichols has been prominently iden-
tified.

Mr. Nichols was born in Indianapolis
July 8, 1873, son of Willard C. and Louise
(Spiegel) Nichols. His maternal grandfa-
ther, August Spiegel, was a native of Ger-
many, and came to America with his par-
ents when an infant and located at Law-
renceburg, Indiana, where he learned the
cabinet making trade. He moved to Indi-
anapolis and was a pioneer in the furniture
manufacturing business.

Mr. Nichols' paternal grandfather was
born in New Jersey of Scotch-English an-
cestry. He was a printer by trade and
was connected with several of the Indian-
apolis local newspapers, including the
Journal. Willard C. Nichols has for over
forty years been in the office of the clerk
of tiip United States Court.

Clarence W. Nichols was the second of
three children. He was educated in the In-
dianapolis public schools, also by private
tuition, and read law six years. While
still reading law in 1898 he was appointed
clerk to the United States attorney, and
served in that position until 1909. After
he was admitted to the practice of law he
was appointed assistant United States dis-
trict attorney for the District of Indiana,
and for seven years handled many of the
federal cases in the courts of this state.
Since January, 1914, he has conducted a
successful private practice, his offices being
in the Lemke Building. Wliile in the em-
ploy of the Federal Department of Justice
he handled many important cases and pros-
ecuted many prominent criminals in the
Federal Court. He was an assistant United
States attorney at the time the famous dy-
namite cases were tried. He has had a
generous share of the legal practice in the
courts of Indianapolis and over the state.

Mr. Nichols is a republican, active in his
party, a member of the Indianapolis Bar
Association, and the Episcopal Church. On
September 8, 1898, he married ]Miss Nellie
Johns McConney. They are the parents of
three sons : Rowland Willard, born Janu-
ary 11, 1900; Clarence Porter, bom Febru-
ary 8, 1902; and Bernard Gardiner, born
December 11, 190.5. Tlie son Rowland was
one of the youngest volunteers to go into
the army from Indianapolis. He was edu-
cated in the common schools and the Short-
ridge High School, and at the outbreak of

the war with Germanj- enlisted as a private
in Battery A of the First Indiana Field
Artillery, afterward mustered into Federal
service as the One Hundred and Fiftieth
Artillery, and was attached to the famous
Forty-Second Division, known as the Rain-
bow Division. He was with that division
throughout the war in France and with
the Army of Occupation in Germany.

William Wallace Leathers, who prac-
ticed law at Indianapolis from 1860 until
his untimely death in 1875, gained many
distinctions in his calling and was a most
worthy representative of one of Indiana's
historic families.

He was born in Morgan County, Indi-
ana, September 17, 18.36. He grew up on
the old homestead of his parents in Morgan
County. So effectively did he use the ad-
vantages of the common schools that he
qualified as a teacher in early life, and was
one of the earliest educators of Morgan
County. His higher education he pursued
in the old Northwestern Christian Univer-
sity, now Butler College, at Irvington, In-
diana. He took the literary and law
courses at the same time, and in 1860 was
graduated A. B. and LL. B. He at once
began the practice of law in Indianapolis,
and quickly gained recognition for his
sound learning and ability. In 1861 he was
elected prosecuting attorney of Marion
County, and filled that office two successive
terms. The responsibilities of the office
were all the gi-eater because of the Civil
war then in progress. Among his contem-
poraries he was regarded as an unusually
keen and resourceful criminal and civil
lawyer, and was one of the leaders of the
state bar when death rudely interrupted
his promising career on December 17, 1875,
at the age of thirty-nine. Members of the
profession who were associated with him
recall his conscientious devotion to the law
as a great and noble profession, and his
strict observance of professional ethics. In
politics he began voting as a democrat, but
was converted to the republican ranks at
the time of tlie war and at one time was
chairman of the Republican Central Com-
mittee of Marion County.

William W. Leathers married in 1860
Miss Mary Wallace. She was a cultured
woman of beautiful personality, had com-
pleted her education in the Northwestern
Christian ITniversity, and was a member of
a family noted in Indiana for its devotion

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to literature, art and social reform, and
herself possessed many of the family tal-
ents. She died at the early age of thirty-
three March 4, 1870. She was a daughter
of Governor David and Zerelda (Gray)
Wallace. Governor Wallace by a previous
marriage was the father of Gen. Lew Wal-
lace and also of William Wallace. Gov-
ernor Wallace at the time of his marriage
to Miss Gray was lieutenant governor of
Indiana and from 1838 to 1840 was gov-
ernor of the state, also served one term in
Congress and for a time was judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Marion Coun-
ty. Zerelda Gray Wallace, who died in
1904, is one of the greatest of Indiana
women. She was one of the pioneers in the
woman's suffrage cause, equally noted as
a worker in behalf of temperance, and for
years she continued as an outspoken advo-
cate of these reforms, having been heard
on the public platform in many states and
was also a regular contributor to the press
and periodical literature. A more adequate
sketch of her life and also of Governor
David Wallace will be found on other pages
of this publication.

Judge James IMadison Leathers, who
for twelve years was one of the judges of
the Superior Court of ]\Iarion County, is
a son of the late William W. and Mary
(Wallace) Leathers and through his mother
is a grandson of Governor David Wallace
and Zerelda (Gray) Wallace.

He was born at Indianapolis August 31,
1861, and was nine years of age when his
mother died and fourteen at the time of his
father's death. On the death of his moth-
er he was taken into the home of his grand-
mother Zerelda Wallace, and in his per-
sonal career he owes much to the beauty
and nobility of the character and influence
of his grandmother. He learned his first
lessons at his grandmother's knee, attended
the public schools at Indianapolis, and at
the age of sixteen was qualified to enter
Butler College, the institution which had
graduated both his father and mother. He
remained there four years, and his student
record showed a marked proficiency in mod-
ern languages, in logic, rhetoric, literature
and history. He graduated with honors
from Butler College in 1881, at the age of
nineteen, being president of the senior
class.

So many of his familv having achieved

distinction in the law and public affairs.
Judge Leathers' choice of any other pro-
fession would alone have seemed strange.
He first studied law in the office of his
uncle, William Wallace, and later under
William A. Ketcham and Addison C. Har-
ris, all of them prominent members of the
Indianapolis bar. In 1883 he graduated
from the Central Law School of Indianapo-
lis with the degree LL. B.

Judge Leathers began practice at Indi-
anapolis in the fall of 1884 and in 1885
entered a partnership with Hon. John W.
Holtzman under the name Holtzman &
Leathers. This firm enjoyed a large share
of the legal business of the Indianapolis
bar for thirteen years. The partnership
was terminated in 1898, when ]\Ir. Leathers
was elected a judge of the Superior Court
of ]\Iarion County. While it was as a per-
sonal sacrifice of his material interests that
he accepted this position, tlie state and
county profited in proportion as he yielded
personal consideration for the benefit of the
general welfare, and it has been given him
to uphold and add to the dignity and wel-
fare of one of the most important courts
in Indiana. His well known legal attain-
ments, coupled with his long service as a
lawyer, his fairness, and his conservative
habits eminently qualified him for his high
position.

Since early youth Judge Leathers has
been a consistent member of the republi-
can party, and is affiliated with the Marion
Club, the Columbia Club, and numerous
other civic and social organizations. His
religious experience is best told in a paper
which he prepared and read some years
ago under the title "Ideals of Liberal Chris-
tianity." In the course of his address he
says : " I was reared in an orthodox church ;
and it was indeed as liberal and progressive
as a church could be that assumed to be
orthodox. In youth I listened to its teach-
ings ; and it would have been a source of
peace and comfort and happiness if in good
faith my mind could have yielded assent
to its essential doctrines. But my reason
absolutely refused to yield an honest ac-
ceptance to the creeds of the Orthodox
faith. If one should become a member of
a church whose teachings were opposed to
his convictions and discredited by his rea-
son, he woidd not be true to himself. For
many years I drifted aimlessly upon the
sunless sea of agnosticism. I was uncon-

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seiously prejudiced against the Unitarian
Churoli and indeed all liberal religion, such
prejudice being no doubt heritage of earlier
years. At last I resolved to take a definite
positive attitude toward the creeds of the
Orthodox Church. I was convinced that
one should resolutely face the great prob-
lem and persistently seek the truth, in a
spirit of love and patience and tolerance.
* * * My growth into the liberal faith
and its appeal to my reason and conscience
may be distinctly traced to the study of
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I learned to love
and revere Emerson, one of the loftiest
and purest souls in history. * * * But
more immediate and practical in its influ-
ence and effect was a little pamphlet en-
titled 'Progi-ess.' The issue of December,
1905, fell into my hands. It contained a
clear and vigorous statement of the pur-
poses and ideals of the Unitarian Church.
It made instant appeal to my reason. At
the beginning of this pamphlet in large
type were those words which have been in-
scribed upon the wall behind the pulpit of
this church and which fittingly occupy so
conspicuous a place: 'Love is the spirit of
this church, service its law. To dwell to-
gether in peace, to seek the truth in love
and to help one another — this is our cov-
enant.' " Thus it is for the past ten
years Judge Leathers has been a prominent
member of All Souls T'nitarian Church at
Indianapolis.

George R. Elliott. The name Elliott
lias been one of honorable distinction and
association with the business and civic life,
of Indianapolis through three successive
generations. One of the prominent men in
public affairs in Marion County diiring the
Civil war period was William J. Elliott.
The late Joseph T. Elliott gained distincn
tion as a soldier of the rebellion, and foi;
a half centur\- was one of the foremost
business men of the capital city, where his
son, George B. Elliott, continues many of
the activities established by his father and
has other intei-ests that identify him with
the community.

The founder of the Elliott family in
America was a Scotch-Irishman, a pioneer
in the colony of Pennsylvania. Some of
the family were soldiers of the American
Revolution. A later generation was repre-
sented by James Elliott, who moved from
Pennsvlvania to Ohio in 1799 and was one

of the first settlers of Butler County. He
spent the rest of his honored life in that
county.

William J. Elliott, above mentioned, a
son of James Elliott, was born in Butler
County, Ohio, August 27, 1810. He pos-
sessed unusual qualities of leadership
among men. In 1844 he was elected and
served two terms as sheriff of Butler
County. In 1849, soon after the death of
his wife, he removed to Cincinnati, but
the next year came to Indianapolis, where
until 1863 he was in the hotel business, eon-
ducting two or three of the leading hotels
of the city at that time. He and many
other local business men suffered financial
disaster during the panic of 1857. Until
the opening of the Civil war he was a
stanch war democrat, but then transferred
jiis allegiance to the republican party. He
voted for Lincoln in 1864. In 1863, as a
republican candidate, he was elected re-
corder of Marion County, and by re-elec-
tion filled the office with credit for eight
.vears. He was a per.sonal friend and active
supporter of Governor IMorton! and did
mucli to strengthen his administration dur-
ing the perilous period of the Civil war.
After leaving the recorder's office William
J. Elliott was active in business affairs for
a number of yeai-s, and continued to live
in Indianapolis until his death in 1890, at
the age of fourscore. He married Mary
Taylor, a native of Preble County, Ohio,
who died in Butler County in that state
in 1849.

The late Joseph Taylor Elliott, who died
at Indianapolis August 4, 1916, was born
in Butler County, Ohio, January 24, 1837,
and was about thirteen years of age when
his family came to Indianapolis. He be-
gan life with a common school education,
and his first experience was as clerk in his
father's hotels. In 1859, actuated by the
spirit of adventure and enterprise, he
crossed the western plains to Pike's Peak,
Colorado, and spent several months in a
futile attempt to mine gold. In the course
of his travels he became clerk of a hotel in
^Montgomery, Alabama, in 1860. He soon
discovered that this southern city was no
congenial place for a young man of pro-
nnunred Union sentiment and hostile views
to tlic institution of slavery.

Retui-ning north, he responded to Lin-
coln "s first call for volunteers, enlisting
April 19, 1861, as a private in Company

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A of the 11th Indiana Zouaves. Robert S.
Foster wa-s captain of Company A, and the
regiment was commanded by Col. Lew Wal-
lace. It was a three months' regiment and
Mr. Elliott was discharged August 4, 1861.
January 5, 1864, he enlisted in Company
C, under Capt. David D. Negley, in the
One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Indiana lu-
faiitrj', the successive colonels of which
were James Burgess and J©hn H. Ohr.
Mr. Elliott was in the Atlanta campaign
until the fall of Atlanta and Jonesboro,
and on September 1, 1864, was commis-
sioned second lieutenant. His regiment
was a part of Ruger's Brigade, Cox's Di-
vision of the Twenty-Third Army Corps,
commanded by General Schofield. During
the retrogressive campaign into Tennessee
in pursuit of Hood's army Mr. Elliott and
some of his comrades were captured near
Spring Hill November 30, 1864, following
the battle of Franklin. He was a prisoner
of war first at Columbia, Tennessee, and
after the battle of Nashville was taken
with the Confederate forces to Corinth,
Meridian, and finally to Montgomery, Ala-
bama, where he had been a hotel clei'k be-
foi'e the war. He also spent several months
in the notorious pi'ison pen at Anderson-
ville, Georgia. He was released on parole
the latter p^rt of March, 1865, and was
sent by rail through ^Montgomery and
Selma to Meridian and then on foot to
Vieksburg. While there waiting for ex-
change the news of the a.ssassination of
President Lincoln came. Mr. Elliott was
one of the last survivors of that tremendous
catastrophe wherein upwards of 2,000
Union soldiers lost their lives in the burn-
ing and sinking of the ill-fated Sultana.
This "wa.s the gi-eatest marine disaster in
American annals, and it is said that only
in four great battles of the Civil war were
more Union men killed than in the sinking
of this Mississippi steamboat. While the
boat was conveying its passengers up the
river, near Memphis, one of the boilers
exploded April 27, 1865. Mr. Elliott made
his own escape by throwing himself over-
board into the icy waters of the river. He
assisted others in procuring a foothold on
precarious refuge of floating wreckage, and
then he swam along, clad only in his under-
clothing, to a portion of the floating stairs
of the wrecked steamer. On this he and
three comrades floated down the river.
Two of the men finally transferred them-

selves to a large tree. The other compan-
ion was finally exhausted and sank to a
watery grave. Mr. Elliott drifted for
about fourteen miles, and finally when
about three miles south of Memphis was
rescued by a boat sent out from a gunboat.
He was carried more nearly dead than alive
to the deck of the boat, was wrapped in a
blanket and laid in front of the boilers
near the furnace fire. Finally some Sistere
of Mercy provided him with a suit of red
flannel, and with a pair of trousers and a
jacket given him by an officer of the gun-
boat he landed at ^Memphis. While walk-
ing barefooted and bareheaded through the
streets a local merchant handed him a hat
and he was provided with shoes and stock-
ings by attendants at the Gayoso Hospital.
On arri\ang at Indianapolis he was per-
mitted to remain through the intervention
of Governor Morton, and was mustered
out of service and received his honorable
discharge August 31, 1865.

In 1866 Joseph T. Elliott engaged in
the abstract business at Indianapolis. For
thirty-four years, until 1900, he continued
this work, and his firm developed the lar-
\?est business of the kind in Marion County.

In 1899 Mr. Elliott was elected president
of the ]\Iarion Trust Company, and filled
that office until 1904. At that date he
became senior member of the firm Joseph
T. Elliott & Sons, conducting a large busi-
ness in stocks and bonds and other high
grade securities. The firm later merged
with Breed & Harrison, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and became Breed, Elliott & Harri-
son, and Mr. Joseph T. Elliott was vice
president of the firm at the time of his
death.

The late Mr. Elliott was always a stanch
republican, though his name never ap-
peared in connection with candidacy for
public office. However, he was thoroughly
public spirited and did much for the com-
munity in various ways. Januarv 1. 1906,
he was appointed a member of the Board
of Public Works of Indianapolis and filled
that office four years, part of the time as
president of the board. He was a member
of the Loyal Legion of George H. Thomas
Post No. 17, Grand Army of the Republic.
He worshiped in the Meridian Street Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.

May 15, 1867, Joseph T. Elliott married
Miss Annetta Langsdale. She was born in
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Joshua M. W. Langsdale. Her father Was
a native of Kentucky and came to Indian-
apolis in the early '30s, and for many
years was prominent in real estate circles.
He died in 1891 at the age of seventy-
eight. To the marriage of Joseph T. Elli-
ott and wife were born three sons and one
daughter: George B., Joseph T. Jr.,
Charles Edgar and Florence. The daugh-
ter died at the age of three years and nine
months. The sons George B. and Charles
Edgar became actively associated with
their father in the business conducted as
Joseph T. Elliott & Sons.

George B. Elliott was born at Indianap-
olis February 29, 1868, oldest of the sons of
Joseph T. Elliott. He was educated in the
grammar and high schools of Indianapolis
and his first business experience was ac-
quired at the age of eighteen as assistant lo-
cal ticket agent for the Rock Island Railway
at Kansas City, Missouri. Later he wa.s
transferred to St. Joseph, Missouri, but
after about a year of railroading he re-
turned to Indianapolis. Here he w«nt to
work for Elliott & Butler, the abstract
firm of which his father was senior partner.
Mr. Elliott continued to be actively identi-
fied with the abstract business until 1898,
in which year he was elected county clerk
of Marion County. That office he filled
with credit and efficiency for four years.
He has long been prominent in local public
affairs and in 1896 was elected to the
State Legislature from Marion County.
Soon after retiring from the office of clerk
in January, 1903, he became associated
with his father in the stock and bond tiusi-
ness under the name of Joseph T. Elliott
i*c Sons. As stated above Joseph T. Elliott
it Suns merged with Breed & Harrison of
Cincinnati, in 1912. and the corporation of
Breed, Elliott & Harrison was organized.
George B. Elliott is one of the vice presi-
dents of this company.

Mr. Elliott was one of the early presi-
dents of the ilarion Club and is also a
member of the Columbia Club. On June
4. 1902. he married IVIiss Mary Fitch Sew-
all, daughter of Elmer E. and Lucy
(Fitch) Sewall, of Indianapolis. Two
children were born to them, George, who
died in infancv. and Sewall, liorn August
18, 1905.

Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Reynolds was
born at Plemingsburg, Kentucky, January

4, 1822. He attended the common schools
of that place until his parents removed to
Lafayette, Indiana, when he entered Wa-
bash College. Before gi-aduating he was
appointed to West Point. He graduated
from the United States Military Academj-
in 1843, in the same class as General Grant,
and served in the artillery until 1847, when
he was promoted first lieutenant and ap-
pointed assistant professor of natural and
experimental philosophy at West Point.
He held this position until 1855, when he
was stationed in Indian Territory-. He re-
signed from the army in 1857 to take the
chair of mechanical engineering in Wash-
ington 'College, St. Louis.

In 1860 he returned to Lafayette and
engaged in business with his brother, but
on the coming of the Civil war tendered
his services to Governor Morton, and was
made colonel of the Tenth Indiana Regi-
ment. He was commissioned brigadier-
general on ]May 10, and served with dis-
tinction in West Virginia until January,
1862, when he was forced to resign by
business complications at home. After ad-
justing his business affairs, he again ten-
dered his services, and in September, 1862,
was again appointed brigadier-general,
and two months later promoted major gen-
eral. He served with distinction through
the war, and at its close was made a colonel
in the regular army, and assigned to the
Twenty-sixth Infantry. At the same time
he was brevetted brigadier general for
services at Chattanooga, and major general
for services at Missionary Ridge.

From 1867 to 1872 he commanded the
military district of Louisville and Texas,
and while in this position was tendered by
Texas a seat in the United States Senate,
but declined. He was next assigned to the
Department of the Platte, and continued
there until his retirement in 1877. He
died at Washington Citv, Febniarv 26,
1899.

Amos N. Foorman-. One of the oldest
families located around the historic Town
of Eaton in Delaware County is that of
Foorman. Some of the Foorman family
were the first officials of the tomi corpora-
tion of Eaton. In the surrounding vicin-
ity they have been prominent as farmers,
land owners, capitalists and men of affairs,
always ready to promote any worthy in-
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One of them is Amos N. Foorman, who
has lived in that vicinity over sixty years.
He was born in Cass County, Indiana, Jan-
uary 5, 1849, son of Frederick and Sarah
(Newcomer) Foorman. In the fall of
1851, when he was two years old, his par-
ents moved to Delaware County and set-
tled in Niles Township, buying 140 acres.
At that time land could be secured in Del-
aware County for -111.25 per acre. Fred-
erick Foorman was a man of much busi-
ness enterprise and a mechanical genius.
In early life be had followed the trades
of millwright and carpenter, and on com-
ing to Delaware County he erected a saw-
mill on his land and operated it in addi-
tion to cultivating the crops. He continued
milling as long as it was possible. When
he came to Delaware County there was not
a single line of railroad in this vicinity of
Indiana. He experienced many of the
hardships and inconveniences of an era
that lacked transportation. An incident of
his career that might be recalled with profit
is that in 1852, the year the Bellfontain
Railroad, now the Big Four, was under con-
struction through the county he sowed a
crop of wheat, and when it was harvested
he sold it in local markets for 37I2 cents
a bushel. Even then he had to take half
the pay in store goods. He was a member
of the Lutheran Church and a stanch Doug-
las democrat.

Amos N. Foorman was sixth in a fam-
ily of ten children, four of whom are still
living. He had rather meager educational
opportunities, and was only a boy when he
seriously went to work to make his own
way. His fii'st experience was as butcher
boy in a shop at Eaton, and for some years
he dealt rather extensively in cattle and
was one of the leading shippers from this
vicinity. He began his farming career as
owner of eighty acres, and his holdings in-
creased until he had 600 acres of choice
land in Delaware County, the value of
which property today is conservatively es-
timated at over $100,000. Some of this
land is in the corporate limits of Eaton.
]\Ir. Foorman has kept his individual im-
provements apace with the rising standard
of facilities in the agricultural districts of
Indiana. He and bis family live in a hand-
some home, where they enjoy practically
all the conveniences and comforts of city
dwellers. His house is surrounded by an
ample lawn, has garden, shade trees and

practically every want supplied. In his
garage is a fine motor car that enables
the family to enjoy distant friends and ac-
quaintances, and thi-ough the use of this
car Mr. Foorman gains his most decided
contrast with past times. There was a day
not so far back in his recollection when
it meant a day's journey to go and come
from the county seat, whereas now he can
drive to IMuncie and back in a couple of
hours. Mr. Foorman has used his means
and opportunities to upbuild his home
town, erected the principal hotel of the vil-
lage, and owns considerable other improved
real estate. He was one of the founders
and organizers of the old Eaton glass fac-
tory, which was one of the important in-
stitutions of Eaton in the days of natural
gas. He is also a large stockholder in the
Farmers State Bank of Eaton.

The Foorman family have long been
identified with the Metliodist Episcopal
Church, and he has given liberally to
church causes. Mr. Foorman began voting
as a democrat, but after the nomination
of Horace Greeley in 1872 he changed his
allegiance to the republican party and has
been active in support of its principles.

His first wife was Estelle Bundy, who
lived only five months after their marriage.
Later he married ]\Iiss Catherine Bowsman.
They had two living children. Onie I\Iaud
and Frank B. Frank now owns 240 acres
and is one of the leading farmers of Niles
Township.

~Sl. V. ]\IcGiLLiARD — Indianapolis Boys'
Club. As an institution is but the length-
ened shadow of a man, it is singularly ap-
propriate to link the name of M. V. :\IcGil-
liard with one of Indianapolis' best insti-
tutions, the Indianapolis Boys' Club. ;\Ir.
McGilliard was founder of that club, and
of all the experiences and achievements of
a long life surely none could furnish him
more enduring satisfaction than this one
work.

Jlr. McGilliard has been a resident of
Indianapolis for half a century. He has
always been interested in church and gen-
eral philanthropy, but it was one of the
small incidents of every day life that turned
his efforts into a new channel and brought
about the founding of the Boys' Club.
During the political campaign of 1891 he
one day made a speech, at the request of
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ing of business men on Pearl Street. After
the meeting adjourned he went around to
the postoffiee and on the way passed a small
group of newsboys and bootblacks on Penn-
sylvania Street. He had seen the same
boys or boys of their type many times
before, but for some reason the sight of
these street children, the condition of
their clothing, their dirty feet and faces,
produced such an impression that he did
not shake it off throughout the entire day
and the following night he remained awake
for hours. After midnight he got up and
sat in a chair by the window, and pon-
dered over the entire problem of the appar-
ent inadecpiacy of schools, churches and
other public organizations for doing all that
was demanded in behalf of the poor and
neglected, and those without normal op-
portunities. It was the same question that
recurs again and again to evei-y conscien-
tious man, no matter what his affiliations
or success in life, and like many others who
had pondered the problem ilr. McGilliard
had to confess that in spite of all his ac-
tive co-operation with churches and benevo-
lent institutions, his efforts fell far short
of an ideal realization of benefits.

There finally came into his mind what he
had read or heard concerning boys' clubs
and newsboys' homes organized and main-
tained in other cities. To carry out some
definite and practical plan of the same na-
ture in Indianapolis seemed to him an ur-
gent and a vital necessity. The next day
he called an informal meeting of bTisiness
men, including among others T. C. Day, E.
G. Cornelius, Col. Eli Kitter and Charles
E. Reynolds. They were in conference for
several hours, and each man expressed a
willingness to lend co-operation in the or-
ganization of a newsboys' home, provided
llr. IMcGilliard would take the initiative
and the entire management of the enter-
prise, even to the furnishing and equipping
of the property necessary for such a home,
and looking after the personnel of the
management. The meeting also commis-
sioned him to go to Chicago and make prop-
er investigations preparatory to carrying
out the plan. Mr. McGilliard made this
journey to Chicago at his own expense,
and had a long interview with the presi-
dent and superintendent of the Newsboys'
Home in that city. While there it was rec-
ommended that he should secure as super-
intendent of the home at Indianapolis, pro-

vided it was established, ]\Ir. Norwood, one
of the workers in the Chicago Home. Af-
ter these preliminary steps and investiga-
tions, the consummation of the project at
Indianapolis was not long delayed. The
Boys' Home was organized, with the above
named gentlemen as directors, with Mr.
^McGilliard as president, and with ]Mr. Nor-
wood as superintendent. A large, two-
story brick residence on North Alabama
Street, between Ohio and New York streets,
was leased for a term of years. The ma-
tron selected was Mrs. Harding of Indian-
apolis.

Six or eight months later Mr. ;McGilliard
realized that his plan was not working out
all the results ancl benefits he had expected.
The vital defect seemed to be that the
Home was an institution, a public charity,
and its privileges of lodging, food and rec-
reation were not being taken advantage of
by those most worthy and self respecting,
while the Home was being gradually filled
with tramp boys from this and other cities.

About this time ]\Ir. McGilliard met Miss
Mary Dickson, who under the direction of
one of the city's noble citizens, Mr. George
Merritt, proprietor of the woolen mills, had
formed a class of boys and was teaching
them in a night school. After a series of
consultations with Miss Dickson Mr. ^IcGil-
liard brought about a combination of her
class with his own organization, forming
what was thereafter and has continued to
be known as the Boys' Club of Indianap-
olis. In this re-organization the features
of a club were emphasized and those of a
home or charitable institution were elim-
inated as far as possible. About 100 boys
went on the roll as original members of
the club. Through the advice of ^Ir. Mc-
Gilliard ^liss Dickson became superintend-
ent of the new organization. The head-
quarters were in a building on Court Street,
very close to the place where Mr. McGil-
liard had stumbled over the bootblacks and
newsboys and received his first inspiration
to the enterprise. The first floor of this
building was fitted up as a gymnasium and
the second floor as a reading room, and
rooms for various recreations. Some light
provisions were served to the boys at about
cost, but there was little or nothing to sug-
gest the idea of charity to the participating
members. The club was successful from
the very start, and has since grown into an
organization of which every Indianapolis

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citizen is proud. In the fall of 1894, on
account of the illness of her brother, Miss
Dickson resigned, but Mr. McGilliard was
fortunate in securing to take her place the
services of Jliss Alice Graydon, who proved
to be one of the most competent and effi-
cient workers in boys' work Indianapolis
has ever had. After several years with the
club Miss Graydon was selected to be
assistant to Judge Stubbs in the Juvenile
Court.

As will be noted, the founding of this
club was almost coincident with the incep-
tion of one of the greatest financial pan-
ics the United States has ever known. His
individual resources and the time he could
spare from his own business became so lim-
ited that Mr. McGilliard had to seek other
services and financial help in order to main-
tain the club. At that juncture came a
happy surprise in the form of a gift of
$1,000 from Mrs. John C. Wright, and that
sum was really the salvation of the club.
About 1894 or 1895 Mrs. John C. Butler,
widow of a former prominent attorney of
Indianapolis, gave the club a gift of $10,000
in the name of her son, who had been a
cripple for a number of years before his
death. This hand.some donation enabled
the club to purchase a two-story brick
building at the comer of South Meridian
Street and Madison Avenue. That has
since been the home of the club. The
building was fitted up with a large gym-
nasium, reading room and school room, and
here are the main offices and gymnasium
and school room of the Boys' Club, while
the Lauter Memorial Building and GjTii-
nasium and the George W. Stubbs Memo-
rial Building in different parts of the city
are larger and better buildings, and all
owned and used by tl>e Boys' Club.

The Indianapolis Boys' Club is the larg-
est and most notable boys' club in the
United States. It has property valued at
over $100,000 and its officers and directors
are drawn from some of the most distin-
guished of Indianapolis citizens. Its super-
intendent, Mr. Walter Jarvis, is probably
the best equipped man in the country for
that special line of work. As the founder of
the club and its first president, Mr. Mc-
Gilliard is now an honorary life trustee.

After the permanent home was acquired
and equipped IMiss Graydon propo.sed the
idea of a Mothers' Club to work in con-
nection with the Bovs' Club. This ]\Ioth-

ers' Club has been hardly secondary in
importance as a source of invaluable serv-
ice to the community. Mrs. Elizabeth
Lloyd McGilliard was selected as the first
president of the Mothers' Club and she re-
mained very active and untiring in time
and devotion to that field of work until
ill health caused ilr. McGilliard to accom-
pany her to another part of this fair land.

M. V. McGilliard was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1842, a son of John S. and Abigail
(Preston) IMcGilliard. The McGilliard fam-
ily is of French Hugenot origin. In
France the name was spelled Gilliard. Af-
ter the persecution of the Hugenots the
Gilliards left France and went to Scotland,
where during several generations of resi-
dence they acquired the familiar Scotch
prefix.

When Mr. McGilliard was eight years of
age his parents moved in 1850 to Liberty,
Indiana, and in 1858 established their home
at Kewanee, Illinois. In those communi-
ties M. V. McGilliard was reared and ed-
ucated, and in 1863, at the age of twenty-
two enlisted as a private in Company H of
the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Illi-
nois Infantry. He saw upwards of one
year of active service, participating in cam-
paigns in Kentuckj-, Tennessee, Missouri
and Arkansas. As participant in a war in
which freedom was a conspicuous factor,
he is significantly an interested witness in
the present great struggle, where the all
dominant issue is a new freedom and new
ideals of democracy.

At the close of the war Mr. McGilliard
entered the fire insurance business, and
soon afterward located at Indianapolis as
special agent for an insurance company.
He has been a resident of this city ever
since with the exception of the four years
from 1902 to 1906 when he had his offices
and headquarters at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. He is a special agent and adjust-
er, of fire insurance, and that service, con-
tinued for fifty-three years, makes him
one of the oldest men in fire insurance cir-
cles in the country. During his residence
in South Dakota he was president of the
State Sunday School Association, and at
no time in his mature life has he ever
failed to keep up a keen interest in church
and Sunday school work.

At Indianapolis he has served as elder of
the ^lemorial and Tabernacle Presbyterian
Churches and in fact has assisted in or-

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ganizing four different churches of that de-
nomination in Indianapolis. He was prac-
tically the founder of the Tabernacle
Church which was organized in his home.
He has been a leader in extending Sunday
school influence, conducting mission Sun-
day schools and otherwise working as a
pioneer in that field. He was superintend-
ent of the East Washington Street Mission
of the Presbyterian Church, of the West
Washington Street Jlission, now known as
the Mount Jackson Methodist Church, and
in this work and related interests he has
always had a close and devoted associate in
Mrs." McGilliard and latterly in their
daughter. Mr. McGilliard is also associated
with the ^lasonic Order, the Grand Army
of the Republic and the First Presbyterian
Church.

Mrs. McGilliard before her marriage was
Miss Elizabeth Lloyd. She is also a native
of Cincinnati. The only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. McGilliard is Edna il., wife of
Dr. Wilmer F. Christian, brief reference
to whom will be found on other pages as
one of the leading physicians of Indian-
apolis. Mrs. Christian, like her mother, is
a leader in philanthropic and welfare
work. Especially within the last year or
so she has become prominent in Red Cross
and other forms of war activities. Her
interests and efforts have been especially
aroused and enlisted in looking after the
welfare of those thousands of young women
who are now employed in the industries,
many of them as substitutes for men called
to the front. ^Irs. Christian is also a
leader in the Women's Franchise League
of Indiana, being president of the Indian-
apolis branch of the same.

Orange G. Pfaff, M. D., F. A. C. S. Of
Indiana men who have achieved national
distinction in the field of surgery, there is
perhaps none whose attainments have had
a wider and more beneficent influence upon
the profession at large than Dr. Orange
G. Pfaff of Indianapolis.

He was born at Westfield in Hamilton
County, Indiana, April 28, 1857. His an-
cestry is interesting. He is descended from
Peter Pfaff, a ^Moravian who came from his
native land to North Carolina in 1741. He
was one of the founders of the Moravian
Church and community in Porsythe Coiin-
ty. the activities of which centered around
Salem, now a part of the modern industrial

city of Winston-Salem. The community
where the Pfaff family settled, about twelve
miles west of Salem, became known as
Pfafftown. The Moravians have always
been the chief religious and social influence
of that section of North Carolina, and they
established at Salem a school that yet re-
mains one of the most notable educational
institutions in America.

Doctor Pfaff is a son of Dr. Jacob L.
and Jane (Wall) Pfaff. His father was
born at Pfafftown in North Carolina and
came to Indiana in the late '30s, locating
first at Mooresville in Morgan County and
later removing to Westfield in Hamilton
County. He was a pioneer physician in
those localities. He died in 1859. Orange
G. Pfaff came to Indianapolis with a mar-
ried sister, 'Sirs. George Davis, whose hus-
band was a wholesale shoe dealer here. He
was then six years of age, and practically
all his life has been spent in the capital
city. The Pfaff home in former years was
on Pennsylvania Street between Market
and AVkshington, where the When depart-
ment store now stands, in the heart of
the business district.

Doctor Pfaff received his preliminary ed-
ucation in the public schools and high
school. He studied medicine in the Indiana
]Medica] College, graduating M. D. in 1882.
After a year or two of hospital work he
engaged in general practice. He has taken
post-graduate work in New York and at the
University of Berlin, and in 1907 Wabash
College honored him with the degree A. M.
About 190.3 he discontinued general prac-
tice to engage in surgery exclusively. He
has been a specialist in gjaiecological sur-
gery, and in that field has achieved well
earned distinction and is honored by the
profession throughout the country.

During 1882-84 Doctor Pfaff was resi-
dent physician of the Marion County In-
firmary. He has long been identified with
the faculty of the Indiana University
School of Medicine, lecturer and clinical
professor of Gynecology, 1890-91, and pro-
fessor of gynecology since 1892. He still
holds this chair. He is gynecologist for
the Indianapolis City Hospital and St.
Vincent's Hospital.

Doctor Pfaff is a member of the Indian-
apolis and Indiana State Medical societies,
tlie Mississippi Valley Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, the Ameri-
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eologists, and is a Fellow of the American
College of Surgeons. He was president of
the Indianapolis Medical Society in 1907.
Doctor Pfaif is a republican, a member of
the Phi Chi college fraternity, and belongs
to the University, Columbia and Country
clubs.

He was a member of the old Medical Re-
serve Corps of the United States army, in
wliich he held a commission. When the
war started between the United States and
Germany in April, 1917, he was one of the
first surgeons to receive the commission of
ma.jor and for several months was actively
engaged in the work of Base Hospital No.
32 at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

November 25, 1885, Doctor Pfafif married
Mary A. Alvey, of Indianapolis, daugh-
ter of James H. Alvey. They have a sou,
Dudley A. Pfaff, a young mau of exception-
ally brilliant promise. He was educated
in the famous Hill Preparatory School at
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for five years,
also in Yale University, has done special
work in Indiana University and is a mem-
ber of the class of 1920 in Harvard Medi-
cal College. Doctor and ilrs. Pfaff re-
side at 1221 North Pennsj'lvania Street.

David E. Watson. The law has claimed
the energies and talents of David E. Wat-
son for a full quarter of a century, and as
a lawyer he is well known over his native
state. Mr. Watson for several years has
been located at Indianapolis, where he is
legal counsel and trial lawyer for the Indi-
anapolis Traction & Terminal Company.
His offices are in the Traction Terminal
Building.

He was born at Eminence in Morgan
County, Indiana. February 4. 1870. a son
of John and Belle (Brazier) Watson. His
father was born on a farm in the same
county in 1842. His grandfather, Simon
Watson, was an early settler in Morgan
County, locating there in 1836 and taking
up land for which he secured a patent from
the C4overnment Land Office. He improved
this land to some extent and then traded
for another farm ad.ioining. He lived there
until his death at the ripe age of eighty-
seven in 1895. He had a large family of
eleven children, nine sons and two daugh-
ters, and seven of the sons and one of the
daughters are still living. Simon Watson
was a fine type of the pioneer Indiana
citizen, a devout Baptist, a democrat in

polities, and a member of the Masonic
Lodge at Eminence.

John Watson, who was second oldest of
his father's children, had a common school
education and was one of the boy soldiers
of the LTnion army. He enlisted in 1861
in the Fifty-Ninth Indiana Infantry and
was in service three years and eight months.
He fought at Shiloh and in many of the
campaigns led by General Grant in the ]Mis-
sissippi Valley until 1864. For a time he
was an orderly. He received his hon-
orable discharge in 1865, and returning to
jMorgan County took up the trade of house
painter, which he followed at Eminence
and in the surrounding district for a num-
ber of years. Later he engaged in the hotel
business, and kept hotel at Eminence until
1910. He is retired at the age of seventy-
six. He has always been active in the in-
terests of the democratic party and is aflil-
iated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He and his wife had four chil-
dren.

The only surviving child is David E.
Watson, who grew up in Morgan County
and attended the grammar and high schools
there. Later he entered DePauw L^niver-
sity at Greeucastle, where he first took the
teachers' course and in 1892 graduated
from the law department with the degree
LL. B. I\Ir. Watson practiced at Green-
castle from 1892 until 1896, and then re-
moved to Martinsville, where he accumu-
lated a large clientage and was busily and
successfully engaged until July, 1912. At
that time his duties as attornev for the
Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Com-
pany brought him to Indianapolis, where
he has since had his home. Mr. Watson is
affiliated with the Masonic Order, ^lodern
Woodmen of America, and bestows his
franchise with the democratic party. Sep-
tember 25, 1893, he married iliss Effie
Foster.

Jacob Taylor Wright was one of the
distinctively useful and prominent citizens
of Indianapolis during the last century.
He represented the pioneer element, was a
leader in the Quaker Church, and for many
years had an influential part in local and
state politics.

He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1816,
son of Joel and Elizabeth (Taylor) Wright.
He was a descendant of William Wright,
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1690 with King William's army, was
knighted for bravery, and given a grant of
land in Ireland. His grandfather, Jona-
than Wright, settled in Philadelphia and
afterwards near EUicott's Mills in Mary-
land. He was a millwright by trade. He
finally went to Cincinnati, and established
the first Quaker Church in that city and
was one of its pastors.

When Jacob Taylor Wright was a child
his parents moved to Fayette County, In-
diana, where his father was a Government
surveyor. During his youth he learned
the trade of millwright, and at the age of
twenty-one left the farm to establish a mill
at South Richmond. On the invitation of
Robert Underbill he finally came to Indi-
anapolis to take charge of the foundry and
flour mill here. He became prominent in
local industries, establishing the first roll-
ing mill at Indianapolis, known as the Indi-
anapolis Rolling Mills. Later he was in
the real estate business, and he built a num-
ber of houses in this city. Mr. Wright re-
tired from business in 1873, and the next
five years he lived in Kansas, giving his
leisurely attention to a sheep ranch. He
then returned to Indianapolis, and was re-
tired until his death in 1879.

In 1861 ilr. Wright was called from the
operation of the mill and foundry to the
duties of public office, being elected audi-
tor of Marion County. He held that office
two successive tenns, being elected on the
republican ticket. During the war he was
also chairman of the State Central Com-
mittee. He was one of Governor Morton's
most active and useful lieutenants in rais-
ing funds and recruiting men during the
early days of the war. He also had a per-
sonal acquaintance with President Lincoln.
It was largely through Mr. Wtt'ight's un-
tiring efforts that Governor Morton was
finally sent to the United States Senate.
Mr. Wright stood high among his fellow
citizens, was a recognized leader in power
and capabilities, and yet during his youth
he had a vers- meager common school edu-
cation. Much of his knowledge was ab-
sorbed in the home library which his moth-
er had gathered together. In the early
days it was' eustomarj' for the people of the
neighborhood to come into the Wright home
and read.

Jacob Taylor Wright married for his
first wife ilatilda Butler, of Fayette Coun-
ty, Indiana. Her people came originally

from Lynchburg, Virginia. She died soon
after removing to Indianapolis. Her chil-
dren were Benjamin C. and Granville S.
In 1861 i\Ir. Wright married Sallie Anne
Tomlinson, who was born in 1828 on a farm
south of Indianapolis. Mi-s. Wright, who
is still living, is doubtless one of the very
oldest natives of Marion County, and the
City of Indianapolis had been established
only two or three years before her birth.
She is now living with her only daughter,
Anna M. Wright, at 4150 Central Avenue.

Alva Charles Sallee has been the
means of giving a great deal more pub-
licity to other men and to institutions than
to himself. He is by training and experi-
ence and by profession a publicity expert,
and has long and active experience as an
advertising man. ;\Iuch of his work has
been done in the realm of politics, and for
fifteen years he has been a figure in the
Indiana democratic party.

]Mr. Sallee was born at one of the most
interesting old towns of Southern Indiana,
Carlisle, Sullivan County. His life be-
gan there in 1881. His parents, William
H. and Rebecca (Ford) Sallee, are both
now deceased. His paternal grandfather
was a native of France, and on coming to
America first located in Illinois and after-
wards moved to Sullivan County, which
was primarily a French settlement, though
ven- few of that original stock still re-
main there.

Alva Charles Sallee was eleven years old
when his father died. That loss undoubt-
edly had much to do with his sulisequent
experiences. In fact it threw him upon his
own resources, and the possiliilities and op-
portunities of success and sei'vicc he has
earned one by one. He educated himself
and after he was twelve years of age re-
moved from Carlisle to Evansville, attend-
ing public school and commercial college
there. His business career began at Ev-
ansville as a stenographer with a local man-
ufacturing concern, and during the four
years' connection with this firm he took up
the study of advertising. He moved to
Indianapolis in 1902 and became interested
in newspaper and publicity work, serving
as special correspondent for Chicago, Louis-
ville and Indianapolis papei-s.

It was his abilities in this field which
brought him into touch with Mr. Thomas
Taggart, who had just come into posses-

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sion of the great French Lick Springs Ho-
tel and associated properties. Mr. Sallee
had considerable to do with the early pub-
licity methods which brought these prop-
erties to nation wide appreciation having
assisted in devising and preparing the orig-
inal literature and general publicity tech-
nie. Mr. Taggart made a new use of Mr.
Sallee 's services as his secretary, and in
that capacity many arduous duties were
assigned to "him during the presidential
campaign of 1904, when Mr. Taggart was
national chairman. He has been more or
less associated with this great democratic
leader and organizer since that time, and
his own entry into polities and campaign
management is largely due to that associa-
tion.

Since 1911 Mr. Sallee 's home has been in
Indianapolis. Here he has conducted a suc-
cessful advertising and mail order business.
He was assistant secretary to the Demo-
cratic National Committee in 1908 and has
served as secretai-y to the Indiana Demo-
cratic State Committee for three consecu-
tive terms, having been chosen first in
1914 and re-elected again in 1916 and 1918.
Mr. Sallee is also chairman of the Seventh
Congressional District Committee.

Mr. Sallee married in 1905 Miss Mabel
Lett, of Evansville. He is a member of
the Masonic order, the Elks, the Indiana
Democratic Club, Indianapolis Athletic
Club and other civic and social organiza-
tions.

Rt. Rev. John H.\zen White, D. D.,
whose episcopal residence is at South
Bend, is the Fourth Bishop of Indiana
and the First Bishop of Northern Indiana,
and has given over forty years of his life
to the consecrated service of the Protestant
Episcopal Church and the cause of hu-
manity.

While the record of his career is an
impressive one in itself, it also stands as
evidence of the sturdy qualities of the old
American stock. Bishop White is in the
ninth generation of the White family in
America, and it is fitting that some record
of the other generations should precede the
story of his own life.

He is a direct descendant from William
and Mary White. Tradition says that
William White came from County Norfolk,
England. He was born in England in 1610
and landed at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in

1635. In that year the General Court or-
dered the bounds of Ipswich and Quasa-
cunquin (now Newbury) to be laid out
when some of the chief people of Ipswich
desired to leave to remove to Quasacun-
quin to begin a settlement. This petition
was granted them. Among those who re-
moved to Newbury were Rev. Thoma.s
Parker, Nicholas Noyes, Henry Sewell,
William White, William Moody and Rich-
ard Kent. In 1640 AVilliam White moved
to Haverhill, where he was one of the first
settlers and one of the grantees of the
Indi'ni deed of Haverhill dated Novem-
ber 15, 1642, which instrinnent was, it is
said, both written and witnessed by him.
He acquired a large estate there and the
Haverhill town records show that he held
a very respectable position among the early
settlers. He died in 1690.

His only child was John White, born
about 1639 and died at Haverhill at the
age of twenty-nine. He married Hannah
French of Salem.

Their only child, also named John
White, was born in 1663-4 and died in
1727. He was a man of much consequence
both in civil and military aflfairs of the
colony and as a merchant and land owner.
He married Lydia Gilman, daughter of
Hon. John Gilman of Exeter, New Hamp-
shire, and granddaughter of Edward Gil-
man, who came from Norfolk, England,
and settled first at Hingham and later at
Ip.swich.

The fourth generation was represented
by Deacon William White, born in 1693-4
and died in 1737. He was a clothier at
Haverhill, was also a captain and justice
of the peace, axid is said to have planted the
first potato crop in that town. He married
Sarah Phillips, daughter of Samuel and
Mary (Emerson) Phillips of Salem, a
granddaughter of Rev. Samuel Phillips of
Rowley and great-aranddaughter of Rev.
George Phillips of Watertowni.

In the fifth generation was John Wliite,
who married Miriam (Hoyt) Hazen and
both lived at Ha^..hill. Massachusetts. A
son of this couple was Ma.i. ]\Ioses White of
Rutland, who for several years was a clerk
in the store of Joseph Ha;^en of Haverhill,
the father of his mother's first husband.
At the age of twenty he entered the army
and became the aide of Gen. Moses Hazen
and served through the Revolutionary war
with untarnished character. He married

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Elizabeth Amelia Atlee, eldest daughter of
William Augustus Atlee of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. One son of Major Moses
White was William Augustus, who was
sailing master on the frigate Chesapeake
and was killed in the great naval battle
with the Shannon.

The grandfather of Bishop White was
John Hazen White, of the seventh genera-
tion. He married Roxana Robinson, of
Watertown, Massachusetts, and they spent
all their married life at Lancaster, New
Hampshire, rearing a family of nine chil-
dren.

Ma.j. Moses Hazen White, father of
Bishop White, was a graduate of Dart-
mouth College and became prominent in
educational circles in Cincinnati. He also
made a distinguished record as a soldier
in the Civil war. He married Mary Miller
Williams, of Rutland, Vermont.

While this is a very brief ancestral rec-
ord, it cannot but serve to indicate some of
the sources' and character and strength
from which Bishop White has derived his
own character. Bishop White was born at
Cincinnati March 10, 1849, and was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native
city, graduating from Woodward High
School in 1867. After two years of busi-
ness experience he entered Kenyon College
in 1869, graduating A. B. in 1872. He took
his theoloarieal course at Berkeley Divinity
School, receiving his Bachelor of Divinity
degree in 1875. He was ordained a deacon
June 4, 1875, and a priest May 28, 1876.
He was assistant at St. Andrew's Church
in Meriden, Connecticut, 1875-77. vice rec-
tor and instructor in St. Margaret's School
at Waterbur>% Connecticut, and a.ssistant
to St. John's Church 1877-78, rector of
Grace Church at Old Savbrook, Connecti-
cut, 1878-81; rector of Christ Church,
Joliet. Illinois, 1881-89; rector of the
Church of St. John the Evangelist at St.
Paul, Minnesota, 1889-91 ; and warden of
Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Min-
nesota, 1891-95.

May 1, 1895, he was consecrated Bishop
of Indiana at Indianapolis, and on the
division of the dioceses April 25, 1899, he
took the northern portion of the state,
with the title Bishop of Michisran Citv.

April 23, 1879. Bishop White married
Marie Louise Holbrook, vonnsrest daughter
of D. C. and Mary Ann (May) Holbrook,
of Dcti-oit, Michigan. To their union were

born seven children, briefly noted as fol-
lows : Howard Russell, a chaplain in the
United States Army in France; DeWitt
Holbrook, deceased ; Mary May, unmarried,
and a Red Cross nuree ; Charlotte Strong,
who is in the United States Army Nurses
Corps; Elwood Sanger, manager of the
LaDew Belting Works at Glencoe, New
York; Walker, a farmer at Gates Mill,
Ohio ; and Katharine, unmarried and in the
United States Army Nurses Corps at Bor-
deau, France. The tifth child, Elwood
Sanger White, married Luella Perin. of
Lafayette, Indiana, daughter of W. H. and
;\linnie (Weaver) Perin of Lafayette.
They have two children, ilary Perin and
John Hazen. Tlie son Walker White mar-
ried Beatrice Buttolf, of Indianapolis, a
granddaughter of Charles A. and Nancy
Sudlow of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs.
Walker White have three children, Bea-
trice, Walker and Nancy Sudlow.

Bishop White i.s a member and chaplain
general of the Order of Cincinnati. He
belongs to the University Club of Chicago
and University Club of South Bend, the
Knife and Fork Club, Auten Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and in Masonry is
affiliated with Portage Lodge No. 675, Free
and Accepted Masons, South Bend Chap-
ter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, is past il-
lustrious ma.ster of South Bend Council
No. 13, Royal and Select Masons, and a
member of South Bend Commandery No.
82, Knights Templar, and also belongs to
the Scottish Rite Consistory.

Mrs. Emma N. Carleton, author, was
born at New Albany, Indiana. August 4,
1850. She is a daughter of John Robert
and Avesta (Shields) Nunemacher, and
was christened Emma Shields Nnnomacher.
She was educated in the New Albany pub-
lic schools, Tousley's Academy and De-
Pauw College, and, in 1874, married Philip
Jones Carleton, who died three years later.
Mrs. Carleton became widely known as
a contributor to New York, Chicago, De-
troit and Indianapolis papers, the Youth's
Companion, and various magazines, in a
wide variety of short poems, humorous
sketches and articles on the collection of
antiques of various kinds. At tlie same
time she developed a trade in antiques,
chiefly old books. Her father had a book-
store in New Albany for many years, and
she was well acquainted with literature

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from the mercantile side as well as the lit-
erary side. She called her establishment
■"The Un-Beknownst Book Shop." Mrs.
Carleton had one son, who died in child-
Iiood. She resided in Indianapolis for
some twelve j-ears after her marriage, but
since 1888 has lived at New Albany.

Perry Harris Blue. It was with some
of the pioneer railroad building and also
with the general development of natural
resources and business enterprises that the
name of Pen-y Harris Blue is chiefly asso-
ciated, and as such deserves more than pass-
ing mention in the history of the state.

Mr. Blue, who was born on a farm near
Chillicothe, Ohio, November 12, 1851, and
died in Indianapolis November 20, 1915,
compressed a great deal of strenuous activ-
ity and performance into the sixty-four
years of his life. His parents were William
Haynes and Sarah (Harris) Blue. Of
their six children three are still living.
When Perry H. Blue was a small child his
parents moved overland across the country
by wagon to Sullivan County, Indiana. It
was in that interesting county of Western
Indiana that PeiTy Harris Blue grew to
manhood. While a boy he attended the
common schools and also had the benefit of
instruction in a local academy. He read
law with Judge Buff in Sullivan County,
and at the age of twenty-one was elected
"to the office of count.y prosecutor. How-
ever, office holding was an honor for which
he had little inclination, since the main bent
of his life and energies was toward con-
structive enterprise, but he took much in-
terest in polities and public afi'airs as a
democrat.

In Sullivan County he was the first to
advocate the laying of gravel and stone
roads. Finally, in order to overcome prej-
udice and opposition, and to secure a fair
trial of this type of road construction, he
personally stood sponsor financially for a
selected piece of highway. Sullivan Coun-
ty now ranks high among the counties of
Indiana in the matter of good roads, and
many miles of improved road surface turn-
pike are in a sense a monument to the en-
terprise of Mr. Blue.

Dur.ing the early stages of his practice as
a lawyer at Sullivan ilr. Blue was prepar-
ing to go abroad and pursue further stud-
ies as a lawyer at Edinburgh. Scotland.
About that time he was met with a flatter-

ing offer from eastern capitalists to become
manager of a railroad line through Sullivan
County which for years has been the sub-
ject of much ridicule and altogether was
a property that had become notorious, not
only for its material dilapidation but on
account of its trials and vicissitudes finan-
cially and iu the records of the courts.
At different times the road had been known
under different ambitious titles, such as the
Cincinnati, St. Louis Straight Line, and
later as the Indiana & Illinois Southern. It
was built as a narrow gauge, and probably
no man ever tackled a harder task of rail-
way reconstruction than Mr. Blue when he
took charge of the property and its man-
agement. He showed a vigor and determin-
ation that overcame all obstacles. He
changed it from a narrow to a standard
gauge, and developed the property and the
business and financial affairs of the road
until it was self supporting. It is now
known as the Indianapolis Southern Rail-
way, a branch of the Illinois Central Sys-
tem. Mr. Blue remained manager of this
road until it was sold to the Illinois Cen-
tral. As engineer he bad charge of the con-
struction of the bridge over the Wabash
River.

Jlr. Blue for a number of years enjoyed
high standing among Indiana business men.
Some of his interests were represented as
follows: He was half owner of the Grand
Hotel at Vincennes: he developed the best
sand and gravel pits along the Wabash Val-
ley and personally owned 1,500 acres of
land adjoining these properties ; was inter-
ested in gravel pits near Eagle Creek;
owned a large hardware store in Sullivan;
was interested in a railway supply house
in Chicago ; and developed some of the im-
portant stone cjuarries at Spencer, Indi-
ana.

Mr. Blue was a delegate to a national
democratic convention, and he twice re-
fused nomination for Congress, the nom-
ination in his home district, including Sul-
livan County, being equivalent to election.
One important public service was rendered
by him when he was appointed in 1890 as
one of the Board of Trustees of the South-
ern Hospital for the Insane at Evansville.
He was a member of the board when it took
the management of the institution from the
hands of the Construction Board, and su-
pervised the completion of the work at
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affairs, landscape gardening, and many
■other departments connected with the
Southern Hospital, and that institution as
it stands today is in many respects a mon-
iimeut to his vigilence and public spirit.
He served his full six years legal limit as
a member of the board, and after he re-
tired he was again and again called into
consultation by the members of various
■succeeding boards.

A lawyer by training and profession, ilr.
Blue was possessed of a wonderful busi-
ness .judgment that gave him first rank as
a business lawyer in his home state, and he
was frequently entrusted and enjoyed the
complete confidence of men of wealth and
leadership in corporate and other busineas
affairs. Though always very active,, he
was by nature una.ssuming and his best
qualities were appreciated by a limited
circle of close and admiring friends. He
is remembered as a splendid story teller
and he showed a keen interest in the success
of young men struggling, as he had done,
to attain the first rungs on the ladder of
success. His benevolences were many. At
Indianapolis he was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Democratic Club, and frat-
ernally was a Knight Templar ilason and
a Knight of Pythias.

On September 18, 1890, Mr. Blue mar-
ried Lulu Isabel Thompson, daughter of
Dr. Peter Sperry and Lydia Isabel
(Rankin) Thompson. Her father was a
native of Virginia and her mother of North
Carolina. Her parents married in Mississ-
ippi, and while the Civil war was still in
progress. they came to Indiana. Mrs. Blue
was one of seven children, only two of
whom survive. Mrs. Blue resides at 1801
North ^Meridian Street in Indianapolis.
She is the mother of one child, Laura ilae,
a graduate of Smith College.

John T. Beeson is senior partner of
Beeson & Son, real estate, loans and in-
surance, with a large and complete organi-
zation for handling these lines of business
in Newcastle.

'Sir. Beeson is a man of wide experience
and of diversified knowledge of the coun-
try. He was born at Bloomingsport in
Eandolph County, Indiana, June 23. 1879.
son of Isaac M. and Martha E. (Bales)
Beeson. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry,
and his first forefathers in America settled

in North Carolina in colonial days. He is
also cf Quaker stock. His father was a
merchant, and in the store John T. Beeson
acquired his first knowledge of business
atfairs. He attended public school to the
age of fourteen, and after leaving his
father's service he went to work at Lynn,
Indiana, as clerk for S. C. Bowen at four
dollars and a half a week. He was with
Bowen six years and his wages at the end
amounted to ten dollars and a half a week.
Mr. Beeson married Mary A. Longfellow,
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Thorn)
Longfellow. On account of his wife's fail-
ing health ilr. Beeson moved west to Can-
yon City, Colorado, worked IVo years with
the Galley Shoe Store and IV2 years with
Baker and Biggs, becoming manager and
buyer of the latter establishment. After
three years in the invigorating climate of
Colorado ^Ir. Beeson returned to Rich-
mond, Indiana, spent one year with a shoe
company, then entered the service of the
Prudential Insurance Company, and for
three years was located at Winchester,
Indiana, as buyer and manager in the shoe
department of" the W. E. Miller Company.

Mr. Beeson came to Newcastle in 1915,
and for a brief time was connected with the
Elwood Lawson shoe store, then for a short
time was with the Burgess Realty Com-
pany, and formed the partnership of Rat-
clifl:"e & Beeson to engage in the real estate
business. Six months later he sold his
interests there and since then has been in
business for himself with offices at first
over the Farmers Bank and for the past
year and a half in the New Burr Building.
He handles real estate of all kinds, makes
loans, and does a large insurance brokerage
business.

Mr. and Mrs. Beeson have three chil-
dren: Basil Earl, born in 1899, Gladys,
born in 1902, and Robert Neravan, born in
1907. The son Basil Earl graduated from
Newcastle High School in 1918, and on
June 28, 1918. .ioined the Coast Artillery
at Jeft'erson Barracks, ^Missouri, being a
member of Battery A, Thirty-fourth Regi-
ment. He is also the son in the company
name. Beeson & Son. and his father keeps
his share of the business intact while lie
is awa.v in the army. The son is affiliated
with the Kappa Alpha Phi, is an active
member of the Christian Church and
organized the Bible Class in that church.
Mr. Beeson is a republican in politics, and

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is one of the straigrhtforward and energetic
citizens of Newcastle.

John Fee has been a business man at
Kokomo for a long term of years, and is
now head of the firm John Fee & Son, pro-
prietors of the City Feed Store at 48
Union Street.

ilr. Fee is a native Indianan, born in
Marion County September 21, 1856, son of
David Fee and Nancy Kate Fee. His
father, a native of Ohio, grew up and
married there, and on coming to Indiana
first located on a farm two miles east of
Castleton in Marion County, and a short
time later on another farm in the same
county. Later he moved to Howard
County, and bought a fai-m and spent the
rest of his life in cultivating his acres and
in producing abundant crops. He was an
enthusiastic agriculturist, knew the busi-
ness thoroughly, and through it rendered
his best service to the world and provided
for his family. Of his five children four
are living John being the youngest.

The latter while living on and helping
on the farm also worked in a saw mill,
and had eleven years of practical training
and experience in that line before he
reached his majority. He then entered the
ice business at Kokomo as an employe of
J. W. Jones, and was with him six years.
He then went into business for himself,
establishing in 1884 what was known as
the "Centenniel Feed Yard." He was the
head of that enterprise until 1902, when
he enlarged his business and removed it
to his present location, and is now handling
a general line of feed, flour, poultry and
produce, his establishment being one of
the chief concerns "of its kind in Howard
County.

Mr. Fee is an Odd Fellow and a member
of the Modem "Woodmen of America. He
married Miss Isabelle Heaton. They have
three sons: Lewis Fred, secretary and
treasurer of the Kokomo Supply Companv,
Willard D. and A. C. Fee.

Nathan Speier. In the field of mer-
chandising as in other lines many are called
but few are chosen to pasitions of leader-
ship and real success. Most of the men
who call thems:plves merchants are really
storekeepers. Of the Indiana men concern-
ing whom there is no doubt or hesitation as
to their appropriate classification as mer-

chants one is ]\Ir. Nathan Speier, part
owner and general manager of the Pair
Department Store, the largest business of
its kind at Anderson.

Mr. Speier has the qualifications and the
training that make the real merchant. He
is .still a comparatively young man, having
been bom in Bavaria, Germanj% in 1876,
a son of Barnard and Fann.y (Strauss)
Speier. In his native country he attended
the country schools and also had two years
of instruction in what would correspond to
a college in this country. At the age of
eighteen he set out for America, and soon
went to M'ork for his uncle, Mr. Strauss,
in a dry goods store at Columbus, Indiana.
He was not merely a routine worker but
showed an active intelligence that enabled
him to grasp and master all the details and
technicalities of the retail trade. He learned
the business thoroughly and spent long
hours working at it. It was an apprentice-
ship that has had much to do with his sub-
sequent success.

During 1898-99 Mr. Speier spent a year
in a completely new and strange field of
enterprise in Nicaragua, Central America,
at Cape Gracios. His partner there was
Richard Lehman. They conducted a trad-
ing station and had a good business out-
look, but the climate was detrimental to
Mr. Speier "s health and at the end of a
year he returned to Columbus, Indiana,
and vp-cnteved the service of his former
employer, this time as assistant manager.
i\Ir. Strauss had in the meantime estab-
lished several branch stores and Mr. Speier
traveled about supei'vising their manage-
ment. This work, continued until 1903,
brought him a broader outlook in mercan-
tile affairs, and having in the meantime ac-
quired an interest in a business at Sey-
mour, Indiana, he located there in 1903
and took active management of what was
known as the Gold ]\Iine Dry Goods Com-
pany. He built up a large and prosper-
ous concern, and still retains his interest,
though since March, 1915, he has lived at
Anderson. He came to Anderson to take
charge of the new store known as the Lion
Store, but soon changed the name to the
Fair and when the business was incorpo-
rated he became secretary and treasurer
and general manager. This is a real de-
partment store, and carries a magnificent
stock of goods of all kinds and its custom-
ers are by no means confined to the city

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of Anderson. Many of the daily patrons of
the store come from distances ranging from
ten to twenty-five miles.

On January 17, 1912, Mr. Speier mar-
ried Margaret Alpern, a daughter of Cas-
per and IMinnie Alpern, her father a whole-
sale merchant of Alpena, Michigan. They
have one child, Frances, born September
14, 1914. Mr. Speier in politics is an inde-
pendent democrat. He is a member of the
Jewish Temple of Anderson and has social
connections with his community as a mem-
ber of the Country Club, the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and also be-
longs to the Knights of Pythias at Sey-
mour.

Frank Rosey is one of the popular
business men of Newcastle, has been iden-
tified with that city since 1915, and at the
corner of Twelfth and Broad streets fur-
nishes a double service through his harness
shop and also his tire repairing facilities.
A large part of his work is the repairing
and making of new tires for automobiles,
and he has installed the only machine in
the city for the stitching and making of
double-tread tires from old ones.

Mr. Rosey was born near Archbold, Ful-
ton County, Ohio, on a farm, a son of
Joseph and Josephine (Bernard) Rosey.
His father was of French ancestry and
came from Berne, Switzerland, when a boy
to Ohio. At one time he had a farm near
Toledo, and later moved to the vicinity of
Archbold, where he died in 1912 and his
wife in 1911.

Frank Rosey attended the public schools
of Archbold, but at the age of fifteen began
learning the trade of harness maker with
F. Stotzer at Archbold. He served an
apprenticeship of three years and then
worked as a .iourne:sTnan harness maker in
different towns of Ohio. In 1897 he and a
partner opened a harness shop at Arch-
bold, but two years later he sold out and
resumed his .iourneyman experience. Mr.
Rosey has been a resident of Indiana since
1911, and he came to Newcastle from Rush-
ville in 191.5. At that time he established
his present shop at the corner of Twelfth
and Broad streets.

In 1913 Mr. Rosey married Grace "Willi-
ver, of College Corners, Butler County,
Ohio. ]\Ir. Rosey is a republican, a mem-
ber of the Friends Church, and is affiliated

with the Moose and Owls fraternal organi-
zations at South Bend, Indiana.

Daniel Franklin Mustard. A man who
did his bit for the imperilled nation in the
time of the Civil war, a hard working
mechanic, a trusted public officer, and for
many years a banker and leader in the in-
dustrial and civic life of Anderson, Daniel
F. Mustard has played a role that suf-
ficiently identified him with the representa-
tive ludianans whose names and careei's
are honored in the present publication.

Mr. Mustard comes of an old family of
]\Iadison County and was born in Lafayette
Township of that county, 3i,4 miles north
of Andei-son, October 20, 1844. He is a
son of William and Elizabeth (Darlington)
Mustard, and his ancestry combines the
various stocks of Scotch-Irish and German.
His great-great-grandfather, "William Miis-
tard, came with two brothers, George and
James, from the north of Ireland to Dela-
ware in colonial times. James afterwards
located in Berkshire County, Massachu-
setts, George remained in Delaware, while
William was a pioneer in Pike County,
Ohio. ]\Iost of the members of the family
so far as the record goes have followed
some mechanical pursuit or profession.
Grandfather George Mustard was a soldier
in the War of 1812.

When Daniel was six years of age, in
1850, his father moved to Anderson and
established a shoe shop and also worked at
the trade of carpenter. It was in his
father's shoe shop that Daniel acquired a
practical knowledge of shoe making and he
also went with his father in working at the
carpenter's trade. In the meantime he at-
tended schools about three months each
winter.

Before he was seventeen years of age the
storm of Civil war had broken over the
country, and like thousands of other youths
of the time he found it difficult to keep his
attention upon his home duties and soon
grew restless under the call of patriotism.
On April 6, 1863, he enlisted as a private
in Company I of the Thirty-fourth Indiana
Infantry. Not long afterward he was with
the great armies under Grant during the
siege of Vieksburg, and subsequently he
participated in some of the southwestern
campaigns under Banks and ^McClelland.
After about fifteen months as a private

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soldier he was assigned to duty as a mu-
sician in the regimental band. ]\Ir. Mustard
has the distinction of having participated
in the last passage of arms in the war of
the rebellion. This occurred May 1.3, 1865,
lietween the Thirty-fourth Indiana Infan-
try, known as [Morton's Kifles, and a body
of Confederates, who met in the extreme
southern end of Texas, close to the old
battleground of Palo Alto, where the first
engagement of the ilexican war was fought.
This brief engagement occurred on May
13, 1865, more than a month after Lee had
surrendered his sword to Grant at Appo-
mattox. In this skirmish Mr. Mustard
was a personal witness to the death of the
last man killed in arms during the Civil
war. This man was Jefferson Williams, of
Company B of the 34th Indiana. Mr.
[Mustard was given his muster out at
Brownsville, Texas. February 3, 1866, and
granted his honorable discharge on Febru-
ary 11th of the same year.

Returning to Anderson, he went to work
in his father's shoe shop, but was soon
called to larger responsibilities and duties.
[March 3, 1868, he was appointed deputy
auditor of Madison County under James
M. Dixon. He filled the duties of that
office 21/2 years, and then was successively
employed as clerk in the county treasurer'*
office under Dr. Joseph Pugh, six months
in the recorder's office and finally as deputy
clerk under Thomas J. Fleming.

In 1871 Mr. ]\Iustard entered the First
National Bank of Anderson as bookkeeper,
and was with that institution until August,
1873. He then resumed his public duties
as deputy treasurer under Weems Heagy
and was his deputy throughout his term.
All of this experience made him thorough
master of the technicalities of administra-
tion of various county offices, and there
was no question of his fitness when Mr.
[Mustard came before the people of iladison
County as candidate for county treasurer
in 1876. He was elected on the same ticket
with "Blue Jeans" 'Williams, who that
year became governor of Indiana, and [Mr.
Mustard received a decisive personal com-
pliment in having two hundred votes more
than the rest of his ticket. In 1878 he
was reelected and he continued in office
until August 15, 1881.

On retiring from office Mr. Mustard
became one of the managers of the Citizens '
Bank, the oldest banking institution in

Madison County. It had been founded in
1855 by Neal C. MeCullough and other
associates. [Mr. Mustard was a member of
the firm from 1881 to 1884, and soon after-
ward he headed a combination which
bought the Madison County Bank, a state
institution, and in 1886 the two were con-
solidated as the Citizens Bank. Mr.
Mustard thereafter gave most of his time
to the executive responsibilities of the bank
and in 1905 was made president. On Janu-
ary 1, 1917, he retired from the office of
president, but has since been chairman of
the board of directors. The Citizens Bank
has enjoyed a long period of prosperity.
It has capital of a hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars, surplus of fifty thousand
dollars, and its deposits aggregate nearly a
million and a half dollars.

[Mr. [Mustard has been the recipient of
many honors of both business and politics.
On [March 23, 1909, Thomas R. Marshall,
then governor of Indiana, appointed him a
trustee of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors
Home, and he has had a place on the board
ever since. Since 1903 he has been treas-
urer of the Central Indiana Railway Com-
pany.

Mr. Mustard has been for fifty years a
member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, has held all the chairs and all the
honors which the local lodge can bestow
and for about thirty years was treasurer of
Anderson Lodge No. 131, and of Star En-
campment No. 84. He also belongs to
Grand Army Post No. 131, and attends the
Christian Science Church.

October 2, 1871, he married Miss Adda
Ethell, daughter of William G. and Eliz-
abeth (Williams) Ethell, of Anderson.
Her family were early residents of Dela-
ware and [Jladison counties, and her father
was a civil engineer. Mr. and [\Irs. [Mus-
tard have two children, Fred E., elsewhere
referred to in this publication, and Ethel
Mary. The daughter is now the wife of
Frank C. Cline, proprietor of the F. C.
Cline Lumber Company of Anderson. Mrs.
and [Mrs. Cline have two children. Adelaide
Joanna, born in 1908, and Frances, born in
1914.

What an old time political and business
associate wrote of Mr. [Mustard several
years ago is an upt characterization whirh
needs no revision at the present time. "In-
dustrious to a fault, temperate at all times
r.nd under all circumstances, frugal and

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cautious in the disposition of his means,
Daniel F. Mustard has for a number of
years been honorably aeeumulatiug for
himself and family a handsome compe-
tence. In his public as well as private
relations with fellow citizens it can be
truthfully said that his houesty has never
been questioned or brought into question.
Strong in his attachments and (luick to
appreciate the generous act, he can appeal
confidently to his generation and to those
who have known him from childhood, in
sunshine and shade, to say that he has not
been ungrateful."

James A. Houser, M. D. One of the
most widely known men of Indianapolis is
Dr. James A. Houser, physician, scholar,
original thinker, lecturer, who has doubt-
less rendered his best service to humanity
and inspiration through his independence
and fearlessness in expressing himself and
his ideals without fear of the convention-
alities of existence which so often thwart
and deaden the best in men or women.

Doctor Houser was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, March 22, 1847. His grand-
father, Peter Houser, of German ancestry,
was a native of Rockingham County, Vir-
ginia, was a farmer and also owner of a
small mill. In pioneer times he blazed his
way across the mountains and thrfiugh the
wilderness into Ohio, and paid I'l^-j cents
an acre foi' a tract of Government land.

It was on this pioneer farm that George
H. Houser, father of Doctor Houser, was
born in 1S19. He grew up in that environ-
ment, and followed farming and milling.
He was also a Free Will Baptist preacher,
was a .justice of the peace, and for a num-
ber of years was postmaster of the village
of Tiviton. He married Roanna Stanton
who was a native of Maryland. Her grand-
father in that state wa.s once a large slave
owner, but from the pressure of his con-
science emancipated his slaves, dividing
his property M'ith them, and leaving his
children almost destitute. For this reason
Doctor Houser 's maternal grandfather
came to Ohio and learned the blacksmith's
trade, which he followed during his life.
In 1863 George H. Houser removed to In-
diana and he died at Scipio. There were
ten children in the family, five now living,
and Doctor Houser was third in order of
birth.

His boyhood daj-s were spent in hard

work and his advantages were confined t»
the common schools. Between the ages of
twelve and fourteen he was a boat driver
on the Miami and Erie canal from Cincin-
nati to Toledo. When recalling this inci-
dent of his early experience Doctor Houser
went on to say: "As I did not dream of
such a position being a stepping stone ta
the presidency of this gi-eat country, I
thoughtlessly let Garfield get the prize,,
he being largely helped in the campaign
because he was a boat boy."

Whatever his early environment it was.
not sufficient to stifle his talents or obstruct
for long a steadfast ambition. For several
yeare of his young manhood he alternated
between one calling and another. For a
time he preached the gospel. During the
wave of phrenology which spread over the
country he gave that subject thorough,
study, and did a good deal of lecturing.
It was this work that gave him the oppor-
tunity to study medicine and means for
attending medical school. He attended
the ^Icdical College of Indiana at Indian-
apolis, and in 1886 graduated from the To-
ledo Medical College of Toledo, Ohio. Al-
ready for some eight years a,s an under
graduate he had practiced medicine, and in.
1891 he located permanently at Indianap-
olis, which has since been his home, though
his work and interests have often taken
him far afield. For the most part Doctor
Houser has specialized on diseases of the
brain and derangements of the nervous
system. He owned a beautiful home and
ample grounds at Indianapolis, which he
called "The Island of Dreams," and he
planned the realization of some of the
most cherished ideals of his life in convert-
ing this home into a great Phrenopathic
Sanitarium, where he would have taught
his system of religious thought and also
educated and trained a stafi' of competent
men to carry on the work after him.

Doctor Houser has delivered more than
6,000 lectures on various subjects through-
out the middle west, and it is through his
work as a lecturer that he has perhaps be-
come most widely known. In later years
the demands of his practice have inter-
fered .seriously with his lecturing tours.

Doctor Houser is not the only man in
the medical profession who has become
deeply and vitally interested in those rela-
tionships which undoubtedl}' exist between
mind and matter, and out of his original

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study and long observation he has evolved
a unique system of religious thought, which
can best be expressed in Ms own words.

"I teach that life is an ethereal, sub-
limated, intelligent energy in atomic form,
and has the wisdom and power to create
animated forms to body forth the ideal of
life such as we see. Each atom builds a
cell in which it performs its share of the
functions of life of the organ of which
it is a part. The atoms of life belong to a
world of life just as the atoms of earthly
matter belong to a world, as ours of mat-
ter.

"Life is infinite in duration, immortal,
indestructible, and is the Divine Essence
working out the destiny of creation,
through all time, giving higher, and still
higher, expressions of life till its work
reaches the eternal harmony of the In-
finite All.

"The union of life with earthy matter,
giving animation to an organic body, cre-
ates a new being, the personified identity
of the life of the created, material being.
This is the after life, the soul. I mean the
soul is the oiifspring of human life on earth.
The death of the person is the birth of the
soul.

"The soul is a personality, an individ-
ualized being, with the faculties spiritual-
ized, and passes to the spirit world the
fourth dimensional space. Here to con-
tinue the advancement of life to the higher
stages.

"I capitalize Life and its attributes, as
I claim Life is God and God is Life. ' '

More than most men Doctor Houser is
well fitted for that leadership which de-
pends upon fearless independent thinking
and action. His ability to eliminate other
persons and the conventionalities and con-
ditions so as not to interfere with the
expression of himself and his ideas is illus-
trated in an incident which he relates
briefly as follows: "In 1896 I went to
Europe and made a Fourth of July speech
on the battlefield of Waterloo. I was,
when this oration was made, alone, beside
the British monument on top of the earth
mound. It satisfied my longing, though I
had no one to listen, except the Belgians
down in the field below hoeing potatoes."

The mention of this battlefield around
which the armies of the world are. now
surging in conflict brings up a fact that

should not be allowed to pass, and that is
that Doctor Houser regarded as one of the
chief events of his life his subscription of
$40,000 to the First Liberty Loan. He has
always enjoyed most congenial relation-
ships with his fellow men, and is a lover
of humanity and good society. He is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
and a member of the Columbia Club.

On Decoration Day, 1873, Doctor Houser
married Julia Louise Pettijohn. She was
born at Westfield, Indiana, daughter of
Dr. Amos Pettijohn, a pioneer of that
town. Doctor Pettijohn was well known in
the ante bellum daj^s as an agent of the
"underground railway." Doctor and Mrs.
Houser have five children, all living and
all married: Lulu Gunita, Mi"s. Herbert E.
Hess, of Plymouth, Indiana ; Fred Amos,
a minister of the gospel living at IVIilwau-
kee; Anna Love, wife of George B. Wei-
gand of Indianapolis; Bertrand A., now
a lieutenant in the regular army ; and Ben-
jamin J., of Indianapolis. ]Mrs. Houser
died in January, 1916.

Willis Stanley Bl.\tchlet, author,
and state geologist of Indiana 1894-1910,
was born at North Madison, Connecticut,
October 6, 1859. He was attracted to the
natural sciences, and after removing to
Indiana he became a teacher of science in
the Terre Haute High School. He also
attended Indiana University, where he spe-
cialized under David Starr Jordan and
John C. Branner, graduating in 1887. He
was an assistant in the Arkansas Geolog-
ical Survey, 1889-90, and a member of Sco-
vell's scientific expedition to Old ^lexico
in 1891.

Jlr. Blatcliley is an all-round scientist,
having published more than fifty books and
treatises, covering a wide range of subjects
from his first publication on the "Orthop-
tera of Indiana," in 1892, to his "Indiana
Weed Book" in 1912. His most formida-
ble scientific work is his "Coleoptera of
Indiana," published in 1910. On this sub-
ject he is the ultimate authority.

The poetical side of science appeals to
Mr. Blatchley, and he has published sev-
eral volumes in popular vein that have
been widely read, such as "Gleaninss From
Nature" "(1899), "A Nature Wooing"
(1902), "Boulder Reveries" (1906), and
"Woodland Idvls" (1912). Included in

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these are studies of Indiana natural science
topics as to which little information is else-
where available.

Mr. Blatehlev was married on jMay 2.
1882, to Clara A. Fordiee, of Russellville,
Indiana. He is at present engaged in sci-
entific research in Florida.

Arch Davis. It is always a matter of
general interest to follow the successive
stages by which a successful business man
rises to his present position. When Arch
Davis of Newcastle was sixteen .vears of age
he accepted an opportunity to work as de-
livery boy for Horace Johnson, a local
groceryman. One year at that, and he took
inside work iu the clothing house of R. D.
Goodwin. He was not assigned a definite
task, but was told to make himself generally
useful, and his name was put on the pay-
roll at four dollars a week. That experience
lasted also a .year. Then followed a period
of three months which was more fruitful
of experience than wages, but gave him a
good knowledge of western life. He spent
those months chiefly at Chej'enne, Wyom-
ing. On returning to Newcastle he worked
in a garage, drove an express wagon, and
was also night clerk in the Bundy Hotel.
For one year he was emploj-ed as time-
keeper by the contractor who built the Max-
well Automobile Faetory. There were
other minor forms of employment, but they
may perhaps go without special mention.

At present IMr. Davis is junior partner
and president of the corporation knowni as
Clift & Davis, the leading firm of New-
castle shoe merchants. He got his first
experience in the shoe business with his
father under the name Davis & Sons, with
a store on Broad Street. He spent two
years there, learned the business, later sold
his interest and went to work for Gaddis
& Gotfried, another firm of shoe mer-
chants. He was also manager for three
months of the Lawson Shoe Store on Broad
Street, until that business was sold. He
was again in the employ of the firm of
Smith & Gotfried for a short time, and
was then employed by the firm of Clift
& Hayes. When that business was in-
corporated ^Ir. Davis acciuired a thou-
sand dollars worth of the stock, and in
February, 1916, he and Mr. Clift bought
out the Hayes interests, leaving the present
firm of Clift & Davis.

Mr. Davis was born at Newcastle in Sep-

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tember, 1888, a son of Mark and Jennie
(AUeuder) Davis. He grew up in this
city and attended the public schools, in-
cluding two years of high school work be-
fore he began his career as a delivery boy.

Mr. Davis represents one of the oldest
families of Henry County. His great-
grandfather Aquila Davis, a native of Vir-
ginia, who married Lucretia Hatfield, came
to Henry County, Indiana, in 1826 and
settled at Richwood in Fall Creek Town-
ship. He died there in 1850. Among their
nine children was Aciuila Davis, Jr., grand-
father of Arch Davis. Aquila, Jr., was
born in Ohio December 6. 1813, and was
about thirteen years old when the family
came to Henry County. He cleared up a
farm in the midst of the woods three miles
north of Newcastle, and it is said that he
paid for eighty acres of land with money
he received from two years w-ages at .i^laO
a year. Later he acquired another farm of
160 acres, and prospered and reared his
family there. In the fall of 1879 he moved
to Newcastle, and lived retired. He married
Linne Harvey, who died in August, 1879,
the mother of six children, the youngest
of whom was ]\Iark Davis, father of the
Newcastle merchant.

Mr. Arch Davis married in May, 1912,
Miss Mabel Van Camp, daughter of Charles
Pinckney Van Camp. They have two
children, March C, born in 1913, and Ellen
Jane, born in 1915. j\Ir. Davis is a re-
publican, as was his father and grand-
father before him, and is affiliated with
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and the Christian Church.

Charles Daniel Ratcliffe is president
and treasurer of the Ratcliffe Realty Com-
pany, Incorporated, of Newea.stle. He and
Mrs. Ratcliffe are the corporation, and
their prosperity dates from their marriage.
They have worked hard, have kept widen-
ing and extending their interests, and now
have one of the best and largst concerns of
its kind in Henry County.

Mr. Ratcliffe was bom at Broad Ripple
in Marion County, Indiana, in 1886, son
of Thomas and Cora (Culbertson) Rat-
cliffe. His paternal ancestors were Eng-
lish and Welsh. His father came from
Wales in 1876, at the age of twenty-eight,
locating at Indianapolis among friends and
fellow countrymen. He had learned the
trade of pattern maker in Wales, and at

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Indianapolis he opened a shop on the site
of the present Biyee bakery. He was in
business for many years, retiring in 1908.
His wife is still living.

Chai'les D. Ratcliffe attended the public
schools of Indianapolis, and in his father's
shop learned the trade of pattern maker.
After that he worked as a journeyman two
years and in 1907 came to Newcastle and
secured employment as a pattern maker
with the Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Com-
pany at $12 a week wages. He was
with that concern seven years and the
savings he and his wife were able to ac-
cumulate from that experience became the
basis and the capital for the Ratcliffe
Realtv Company.

In 1909 :Mr. Ratclitife married :\Iiss Ella
]\litten, daughter of James and Barbara
(Calenbaugh) Mitten of Newcastle. They
have one daughter, Catherine, born in 1910.

After his marriage 3Ir. Ratcliffe bought
a house on time, having not even enough to
make a pai'tial payment. Then in 1915 he
and his wife incorporated the present com-
pany, and they now own all the stock. This
business is an efficient organization for the
handling of all classes of real estate prop-
erty and loans, and they do a large volume
of fire insurance, representing the well
known Globe, Rutgers, Buffalo, New Bruns-
wick and American Companies. Mr. Rat-
cliffe has considerable city property in
Newcastle.

He is affiliated with the IMasonic Order
and the Knights of Pythias, and Mrs. Rat-
cliffe is an officer in the Eastern Star. He
is a republican, and both are members of
St. James Episcopal Church.

William Tyre Whittington was born
on a farm in Bro\^ni To^mship. Montgom-
ery County, Indiana, on the 21st day of
December, 1861. and died in his fiftieth
year on March 28, 1912,

He was one of those unusual men who
live a long life in a brief period of years.

He attended the local public schools near
his father's home in Brown Township,
ilontgomery County, Indiana, until he was
eighteen years of age, after which he
finished his education in the Ladoga Nor-
mal and \Yabash College. He took a special
law course in the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated
in 1887, doing two years work in one.

When he returned home he began the

practice of law in Crawfordsville, Indiana,
where he was in active practice continu-
ously until the time of his death.

He was first associated in the practice of
law with John H. Burford, who later
moved to Oklahoma and became dis-
tinguished as the chief justice of that state.
He was then associated in the practice of
law with Judge A. D. Thomas for several
years, and up until about 1901. He then
took his brother, Walter A. Whittington,
into the firm under the name of Whitting-
ton & Whittington, which continued until
about 190-4, when his brother's failing
health required him to withdraw from the
finn and go to a different climate.

During the last seven years of his life
he was associated in the practice of law
with Robert H. Williams under the firm
name of Whittington & Williams.

William Tyre Whittington 's career
brought him well deserved fame in the
State of Indiana as a law.yer, and as a
public spirited citizen ever ready to take
a firm and active stand for the better
things in civil, political and religious life.
Few men have accomplished so much in
so short a time.

The members of the ilontgomery County
Bar with whom he had practiced law for
more than a c|uarter of a century paid this
tribute to him in a memorial adopted by
the Bar at the time of his death:

"His fine mental equipment and great
energy could always be enlisted in causes
that went to the uplifting and betterment
of social conditions. He loved men and
the things that make for tnie manhood.
And while he was a lover of his fellowmen,
yet he was always ready to battle against
conditions and forces that he thought had
a tendency to thwart and hinder the
growth of the best and noblest in men. He
placed a high estimate on the worth of men,
and had an unshaken faith in God.

"As an attorney William T. Whittington
was enveloped with a consuming purpose
to wear the laurels of clean and dignified
professional success. He has left to us the
legacy of his accomplishment of this high
purpose. Few men have done so much in
so short a time. His zeal in this work we
can not portray with words ; it may not bd
too much to say that it contributed to his
untimely death. His striking character-
istics as a lawyer were his versatility, his
energy and his courage.

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' ' But the life of this man was not limited
to his profession. He was a vital force in
the affairs of his community and state. He
gave time, counsel and money to aid the
church and the best tilings in civic life. He
loved books and education, read history
and romance, and when absent from the
contest he delighted to rest near the gentle
heart of nature. In his home he gave a
joyous glow of warmth to every comer,
about his fireside he was wisdom, strength,
gentleness and mirth."

To William and Rebecca Whittington
were born twelve children, nine sons and
three daughtei's, of which family' of chil-
dren William Tyre Whittington was the
sixth.

His father, William Whittington, was
born in Shelby County, Kentucky, Novem-
ber 17, 1825, and died November 11, 1915.
He was a farmer by occupation — a man of
sterling qualities and Christian character.
His mother, Rebecca Whittington, was
born in Montgomery County, Indiana, No-
vember 17. 1833, and was a daughter of
the Rev. Reese L.. Davis, one of the pioneer
Baptist ministers of ^lontgomery County,
Indiana, and Elizabeth Rice Davis, a
woman of fine qualities and Christian
character. ]\Ir. Whittington 's mother
naturally followed the traits of her pioneer
father and mother, and was a fine Christian
spirited, motherly, home-loving woman.

William Tyre Wliittington was united
in marriage with Miss Elva Jane Deere,
October 26, 1887. From this union two
daughters were born : [Mildred Davis Whit-
tington, born April 11. 1899, and ilary
Joel Whitt.'ugton. born February 21, 1901.
The older daughter, [Mildred, died June 1,
1903, in her fourth year. The wife, Elva
D. A\liittington. and the younger daughter,
[Mary Joel Whittington, have continued to
live in the Whittington homestead at 209
South Grant Avenue, Crawfonlsville, In-
diai^a, since the death of Mr. Whittington.
His widow, Elva D. Whittington. was
the sixth of ten children, seven sons and
three daughters, of the union of Joel Gar-
nett Deere and Mary E. McGriag. who
were united in marriage April 19, 1849.

Joel G. Deere, was one of the early
pioneei-s. having been born in Shelby
County, Kentucky, March 29, 1828. and
brought to [Montoromerv County. Indiana,
when nine months old. His father, the
grandfather of [Mrs. Whittington, built the

first flour mill in [\Iontgomery Comity, In-
diana, and Joel G. Deere practically grew
up in that mill and afterwards became its
ownier. The site of this mill is on Sugar
Creek, about fifteen miles below Crawfords-
ville. The mill still stands and is known as
Deere 's Mill. Joel G. Deere died on the 9th
day of February, 1903, but the mother,
Mary E. Deere, and widow of Joel 6.
Deere, still survives and is living with her
daughter, Mrs. Elva D. Whittington, at the
Whittington home on Grant Avenue.

William Tyre Whittington loved his
home, and was very devoted to his wife and
children, and never fully recovered from
the blow he received because of the death
of his daughter Mildred. He was very ap-
preciative of the help his wife gave him in
his successful career.

His wife, Elva D. Whittington, always
took an active part in all forms of com-
munity, church and club affairs, and at the
same "time, keeping her home as the main
shrine about which herself and family wor-
shipped. This home gave a joyous glow of
warmth to every comer, and [Mr. Whitting-
ton delighted iii his home, and the home
ties between himself, his wife and family.

William Tyre Whittington was a man
of great eloquence and his services as an
orator were in demand not only for politi-
cal but for other occasions. One of the
many public addresses which he made in
the state was the address at the dedication
of the Soldiers Monument on the Court
House corner in Crawfordsville. He was
a republican in politics, an active [Mason,
a member of the Eastern Star and Knights
of Pvthias. At the age of seventeen he
united with the Baptist Church at Free-
dom and later and up until the time of his
death was an active member of the Baptist
Church at Crawfordsville.

His practice in law was wide. As a
lawyer he represented a large number of
legitimate and important interests, and his
services were given to many of the leading
cases tried over the state. About his last
important work as a lawyer and business
man was in connection with the receiver-
ship of the Ben Hur Traction Company in
the Federal courts of Indianapolis.

He accumulated a comfortable compe-
tency and made a number of profitable in-
vestments, both in and outside of the state.
He used his means intelligently, and
traveled extensivelv over his home country,

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and was very fond of outdoor life and
athletic sports, being an entliusiastic golf
plaj-er and member of the Crawfordsville
Country Club at the time of his death.

His surviving law partner, Robert H.
Williams, paid him this much deserved
tribute :

"William Tyre Whittington was one of
the ablest lawyers in Indiana. Most
lawyers are fitted for a few special phases
of their work; he was capable and skillful
in every phase of it. He was unexcelled as
a trial lawyer, and yet equally as good as
an office lawyer — a combination that is
rare. He never lacked for energy, and he
never shrank from work, but had to be
driven away from it. His client's cause
was a part of his life. During the seven
years I was closely associated with him in
his large business, I never knew him to
make a statement to a client about any
matter that was different from what had
been gone over and worked out in consulta-
tion out of the client's presence. In other
words, he always put himself in his client's
position and worked out his client's cause
as carefully and sincerely as if it was a
matter pertaining to his own personal af-
fairs.

"He was one of the most sincere, lovable,
loyal, upright men that I have ever known.
He approached all questions in a well-bal-
anced, conservative, broadminded manner,
and when he finally arrived at a conclusion,
was ever ready to enter into negotiations
to secure his client's rights without litiga-
tion, but if this could not be accomplished,
he never lacked energy and courage to
champion the cause at the bar of justice.
No client represented by him ever had
feeble or faint-hearted support, and he
never lost because he came to court un-
prepared.

"For years he walked in the shadow of
death, and a warning voice constantly
called him away from those activities he
loved so well, yet with iron will he daily
faced it with a smile.

"His social instinct was strong. To him
Nature was bounteous in her gifts. His
was a splendid intellect, a warm and gener-
ous heart, a character upright and un-
sullied. His integi-ity was like granite. He
loved liberty and believed in equality of
opportunity before the law.

"He lived nobly his part. His life and
character, his career, his ideals, his con-

duct and his achievements may well chal-
lenge the admiration of those who knew
him best, and stand as a fitting example
to the young men of the coming genera-
tion. ' '

JiRAH Alson Kitchell is a contractor
and builder of long and successful ex-
perience and has done much as an investor
and in a professional way to develop the
improvement of Michigan City, where he
has had his home and business headquar-
ters for a number of years.

Mr. Kitchell was born at Whitehall, now
Lincoln, in Morris County, New Jersey, in
1862. His grandfather was a native of
New York State and of early colonial and
Revolutionary ancestry. He was a shoe-
maker by trade, and made shoes long be-
fore shoemakers came into competition with
machinery for the making of their product.
From New York State he moved to New
Jersey and spent his last days in ]\Iorris
County. Isaac M. Kitchell, father of Jirah
A., was born in Rockland County, New
York, October 11, 1838. He learned his
father's trade but after attaining pro-
ficiency found that the business was seri-
ously interfered with by the increasing
number of shoe factories, and he turned to
another occupation, becoming a mason in
brick, stone and plaster. In 1868 he went
to Illinois and located at Cerro Gordo for
several years. After the great Chicago fire
of 1871 he turned his trade to good account
in the rebuilding of that city, but in 1873
removed to Lakeside, Michigan, and con-
tinued his business as a contractor and
builder until his death on July 2, 1883.
He enlisted September 2, 1862, in Com-
pany D of the Twenty-second New Jersey
Volunteer Infantry, for a term of nine
months. He was in the South with his
conmiand and saw active service in a num-
ber of battles before receiving his honor-
able discharge in June, 1863. He married
Elizabeth DeMouth. She was born in
Taylortown, New Jersey, October 2, 1838.
The De^Iouth family was likewise of colo-
nial and Revolutionary ancestry. Jirah De-
Mouth at one time owned a considerable
tract of land in Taylortown, New Jersey,
and besides farming was a charcoal burner,
burning charcoal for a number of local
industries. ]\Irs. Isaac ]M. Kitchell died
February 20, 1890, the mother of seven
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Elmer, Herbert Melvin, Isaac Irving,
Frank DeMouth and Grace Elizabeth.

J. A. Kitehell was schooled in New Jer-
sey, at Cerro Gordo, Illinois, and in Chi-
cago, and also attended school after his
father removed to Lakeside, Michigan. He
acquired the rudiments of his trade under
his father and at the age of eighteen went
to Chicago and completed a thorough
apprenticeship. He also worked as a jour-
neyman, and finally began his independent
career as a contractor and builder at Chi-
cago. After a brief period in that city he
returned to Lakeside, Michigan, and was
in business there for a number of years.
He has always had great faith and .judg-
ment in investing in and improving real
estate, and became an extensive property
owner while at Lakeside. He continued his
business there until 1901, when he removed
to ]\Iichigan City. As a contractor and
builder he has handled many contracts for
others and also for himself, and has im-
proved some parcels of real estate and still
owns some of the finest apartment build-
ings in Michigan City.

November 3, 1887, Mr. Kitehell married
Alice M. Wire. She was born near Card-
ington in Morrow County, Ohio, a daughter
of Seneca and Nanc.y A. (Beckley) Wire.
Her father wa.s a native of Portage County,
Ohio, and served as a Union soldier during
the Civil war. He enlisted for one year,
a member of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment,
Company F, at Camp Chase, near Colum-
bus, Ohio. He took a trip to New Orleans
with prisoners on exchange, was then taken
ill and discharged after eleven months serv-
ice. From Ohio he went to Michigan and
after two years in Berrien County moved
to a farm near Lakeside and was prosper-
ously and continuously engaged in agri-
culture for many years. His wife died in
June, 1912, and since then he has made
his home among his children, and is now
eighty-eight years, of age. Mrs. Kitchell's
maternal grandparents were Theodore and
Eliza Beckley. 'Sirs. Kitehell was one of
five children: Bertha, Marian, Alice M.,
Verna E. and Ralph Leroy.

Mr. Kitehell is affiliated with Three Oaks
Lodge No. 239, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, Michigan City Chapter No. 25,
Royal Arch Masons, Michigan City Com-
mandery No. 30, Knights Templar, the
Scottish Rite Consistory at Fort Wayne,
and is also a member of Washington Lodge

No. 94, Knights of Pythias, and a member
of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. Mrs. Kiteh-
ell is a member of Martha Washington
Temple No. 275 of the Pythian Sisters and
also a member of the Eastern Star. He is
a member of Michigan City Lodge No. 229
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and belongs to the Grand Lodge of the
state. Mr. and Mrs. Kitehell have two
daughters, Gertrude ilay and Edna Pearl,
born at Lakeside, Michigan.

George P. Rogers is one of Michigan
City's most influential citizens, and is con-
nected with the great industry of Haskell
& Barker Car Company, Inc.

He was born in Michigan City May 20,
1875, and is a son of the late Nathaniel
Peabody Rogers, distinguished by a long
and useful association with the Haskell and
Barker Company. He comes of a family
of cultured New England men and women.
His great-grandfather was Rev. John
Rogers, who graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1732. The grandfather of Nathaniel
P. Rogers was Dr. John Rogers, a graduate
of Harvard College in 1776. In the next
generation was Dr. Samuel Rogers, also a
man of education and of high professional
standing.

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers was born at
Plymouth, New Hampshire, November 22,
1838. He had an academic education and
at the breaking out of the Civil war en-
listed in the army as a musician. He was
in General Sherman's command until he
was discharged on account of disability.
He soon afterwards came west, and after
a brief stay in Chicago located in IVIichi-
gan City. He was one of the early em-
ployes of the Haskell and Barker Car
Works, and continued his active association
with that industry untilhis death Decem-
ber 1, 1906. It will suffice to indicate his
success as a business man and citizen to
quote a few sentences from a tribute paid
him by John H. Barker at the time of his
death: "Mr. Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
had a wide acquaintance in the country
and thousands of men and firms having
business with him felt that by his match-
less tact in conducting correspondence they
had come in close touch with him. His
counsel was of great value, his judgment
was of the best, and he was a potent factor
in bringing the Haskell and Barker Car
Company into its present position. He

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saw the car works grow from infancy to
strong manhood and he gave a fostering
care to the interests of Michigan City also.
He was always foremost in inaugurating
and carrying forward any beneficial object.
In public enterprises he was one of the
first to be called and without his continuing
energy the city would have lacked many of
its attractions and adornments today."
He married Mary E. Sammons, a native of
New York State.

George P. Kogers was educated in the
public schools of ilichigan City, also at-
tended a private school known as Barker
Hall, and had his early business training as
a clerk in the First National Bank of
Michigan City. After two years he re-
signed to prepare for college and for three
years was a student in Cornell University.
Keturning home, Mr. Kogers in 1900 be-
came associated with the Haskell and
Barker Car Company and has been one of
the active men in that industry ever since.
He is also vice president of the First
National Bank of Michigan City and is
president of the Tecumseh Facing Mills.
He is a member of the board of trustees of
the local Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion and has served three years on the City
School Board.

In 1904 Mr. Rogers married Miss Fanny
N. Culbert. She was born in J\Iaskegon,
Michigan. Her father, Uriah Culbert, was
a man of more than ordinary achievements.
He was born in Nunda Valley, Allegany
County, New York, January 5, 1835.
When he was a child his parents moved to
Michigan. He was early trained to habits
of industry, and became a man of inde-
pendent thought and action. In 18.59 he
went west to California and spent four
years in that state. On returning east he
located at iluskegon, Michigan, and again
engaged in steamboating and in the lumber
industry. Several years later he moved to
Michigan City, and from that time gave his
energies to the development of a large
marine contracting business. He built the
breakwater and cribs in the outer harbor
and the docks and piers in the inner harbor
at Michigan City. At Jackson Park, Chi-
cago, his firm had some of the contracts in
laying out the World's Fair grounds and
constructed the lagoon, also the naval pier
and the foundation for the Ferris wheel.
He was likewise interested in public affairs,
and while in Muskegon served as a mem-

ber of the board of aldermen and as city
treasurer, and in Michigan City was for
two years a representative in the Legisla-
ture and four years a state senator. He
married Mary Noble, a native of New York.
Mr. and IMrs. Rogers have two children:
Nathaniel Peabody and Charlotte M.

Marion E. Clark, D. 0. In a score of
years the science of osteopathy has over-
come obstacles and prejudices and won its
way to a front rank in the field of American
medicine, and the character and services of
its followers enjoy an impregnable position
in the confidence and esteem of popular
opinion and patronage.

As an exponent of the science and as an
ideal follower of the profession, undoubted-
ly one of the foremost osteopathic physi-
cians in the State of Indiana today is Dr.
Marion E. Clark of Indianapolis. Doctor
Clark was born on a farm at Petersburg
in Menard County. Illinois, August 1, 1874.
He is one of five children, all of whom are
still living. His parents were Wilson C.
and Chloe (Goodall) Clark. This branch
of the Clark family is of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry, and on coming to America first
settled in Virginia and then with successive
tides of migration westward located in
Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.

Doctor Clark as a boy attended district
schools in his native county and also the
public schools at Petersburg. He com-
pleted his literary training in Shurtleff
College at Alton; For two years he read
medicine with Dr. J. B. Whitley of Peters-
burg. It was his plan at that time to finish
his course in Rush Medical College at
Chicago. About that time he was induced
to investigate the subject of osteopathy,
and the result was that he entered in 1897
the American School of Osteopathy at
Kirksville, Missouri. He made a brilliant
record in the school while a student, and
after his graduation in 1899 was assigned
a professorship. At first he occupied the
chairs of obstetrics and gynecologist and
later founded and was professor of applied
anatomy. These three subjects occupied
the greater part of his attention for eight
years, and during that time he instructed
many men and women who have subse-
quently gained prominence. Doctor Clark
also assisted in arranging the necessary
courses of study for the eolletre and in
addition found time to compile two im-

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portant text books, "Diseases of Women."
published in 1904, which enjoyed the popu-
larity of a second edition, and "Applied
Anatomy," published in 1906.

In 1967 Doctor Clark resigning from the
faculty of the American College, came to
Indianapolis in January of that year, and
was soon, by reason of his abilities, in
possession of a large and profitable prac-
tice, which has continued to the present
time.

Doctor Clark has also fitted himself into
the public affairs of his city and state. He
was elected president of the Rotary Club
of Indianapolis in 1917. He is a well
known member of the American Osteo-
pathic Association, the Indiana Osteopathic
Association, and the Indianapolis Osteo-
pathic Society. In Masonry he has attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish
Eite, is also a Knight Templar and mem-
ber of the Mystic Shrine. In local circles
he is a member of the Marion, Columbia
and Canoe clubs, the Turnverein, and in
religion is a Unitarian.

August 3, 1899, he married Miss Lina
Fox. They have three children, Marion
Eugene, Charlotte and Slildred.

WiLiJAM F. KuHN is with his brother,
John A. Kuhn, associated in the firm
Kuhn Brothers, wholesale and retail deal-
ers in meats at Indianapolis. It is one of
the oldest lines of business in the city and
has continuously been in one location for
upwards of half a century.

Both the Kuhn brothers were born at
407 West ^Michigan, the house where they
still have their headquarters as business
men. Their parents were Charles and
Fredericka (Reinert) Kuhn. Charles
Kuhn. who died in 1896 at the age of sev-
enty-seven, was born in Wurtemberg, Ger-
many, learned the trade of butcher and
followed it in Hamburg, Germany, and in
1857 came to America and located in
Indianapolis. For a time he was connected
with the firm of GuUick & Tweet. Gullick
was afterwards market master for many
years. He was master of the market when
the location of that institution was where
the Claypool Hotel now stands. For a
brief time Charles Kuhn was in Iowa, but
returned to Indianapolis to commence
business for himself as a meat merchant,
and about that time he erected the old home
wliere his sons now have their business

headquarters. Charles Kuhn had as one
of his early partners Peter Siudlinger, his
son-in-law. After the death of Charles
Kuhn Mr. Sindlinger continued the busi-
ness until he passed away, and that left the
firm in its present form as Kuhn Brothers.
The Kuhn Brothers are thus at the head of
a business wliieh was established at an early
day in Indianapolis history, and many of
tlieir patrons today are children and grand-
children of those who as heads of families
patronized their father. In the early days
the Kiihn .slaughter house M-as on what is
now Walnut Street but was then simply
known as Patterson's field.

Charles Kuhn married in Indianapolis,
his wife having come from Germany with
her brother Frederick, and lived in Phila-
delphia for a time before moving to Indian-
apolis. She died June 12, 1909, at the age
of seventy-nine. Both were active mem-
bers of the Zion Evangelical Church and
were admirers and friends of the beloved
Pastor Quiuius of that denomination.
Charles Kuhn and wife had seven children,
all of whom were born in the old home
on West Michigan Street. Three of them,
Herman, Minnie and Charles, died quite
young. Emma F., the oldest of the sur-
viving children, is the widow of Peter F.
Sindlinger, who died in 1903. William F.
Kuhn, the second in age, was born I\Iarch
7, 1866. Bertha married Albert Depriez,
a hardware merchant at Shelbyville. Indi-
ana. John A., the youngest of the children,
was born September 19, 1876.

William F. Kuhn was educated in Mil-
ler's School on East Ohio Street and also
attended the German-English School on
Maryland Street, where the Tribune office
now stands. He also had a .short course
in the Koeruer & Goodyear Business
School. Hisi brother John acquired his
education chiefly from the Fourth Ward
School and from the Shortridge High
School. Both families are m'embers of the
Zion Evangelical Church.

William Kuhn married April 25, 1894,
]\[iss Asmes L. Zismer, of Indianapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn have one son, Frederick
W., now twent.v-two years of age and a
graduate of the Manual High School of
Indianapolis and a .student at Purdue Uni-
versit.v.

Cii.\RLES HoLMAK Bi.ACK, opera singer,
is a son of Prof. J. S. Black, a native of

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Vermont, who located at Indianapolis in
1867, and was one of the most prominent
musical instructors of the state thereafter.
The early training of Charles was by his
father. As he attained adolescence his
voice developed into a rich baritone, and
he attracted the interest of Signor Sever-
ini, who took him as a pupil to Germany,
Denmark and Norway.

On his return he went into opera for
two seasons, and then went to Paris, where
he was for four years a pupil of the dis-
tinguished Maestro Faure, following also
the course of M. Duvernoi at the Conserva-
toiy. He was the first American invited to
sing in the concerts of "La Trompette,"
and soon became known in other continen-
tal countries, as also at London, where he
appeared in the Promenade concerts, Cry-
stal Palace, St. James Hall, and the Peo-
ple's Palace.

By his long residence in France, at the
beginning of the great war, in 1914, his
sympathies w-ere warmly with the French.
He entered the auxiliary war work with
enthusiasm, giving his house for hospital
purposes, and raising funds for the French
soldiers, and himself distributing the re-
lief in the trenches. His labors won the
hearty commendation of the French press,
and on July 4, 1917, the French President
conferred on him the medaille d'honneur
for his notable services. For details, see
Indianapolis Times, January 16, 1917;
News, Julv 27, 1917; and Star, May 7,
1918.

John S. Berryhill is one of the older
and ablest members of the Indiana bar.
Jlore than forty years have passed since
his admission to practice, and in all that
time he has steadfastly concentrated his
energies and ability upon the law with few
interruptions or interests outside the pro-
fession. Either individually or as member
of a firm he has ranked among the foremost
lawyers of Indianapolis, and few of his eon-
temporaries have enjoyed more of esteem
from his fellows and of richly earned suc-
cess.

Mr. Berryhill was born at Lafayette,
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, December 27",
1849. He was one of the two children, and
the only surviving member of the family,
of John S. and Irene (Fry) Berry-hill, both
of whom were natives of Ohio and both
were married at Lafayette, Indiana. John

S. Berrj-hill, Sr., was a superintendent of
construction on the old Wabash and Erie
Canal, and after the waterway was com-
pleted he remained superintendent of its
operation for a number of years. Later he
engaged in the marble business, and as a
business man and citizen became widely
known over that section of the state. At
the time of his death, which occurred in
1849, he was democratic candidate for state
senator. He and his wife were both Meth-
odists. His widow survived him more than
half a century.

John S. Berryhill attended the common
schools of Lafayette and finished his liter-
ary education in Asbury, now DePanw,
University at Greencastle, where he gradu-
ated A. B. in 1873. In 1879 he received
the degree Master of Arts. After leaving
Asbury he taught as principal of the public
schools of Frankfort, Indiana, and then re-
turning to Lafayette began the study of
law with James R. Carnahan. In April,
1876, he transferred his studious activities
to Indianapolis, where he found a position
as student and clerk in the law ofSce of
Hanna & Knefler. Mr. Berryhill was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1876. " In 1879 his
hard and earnest work had gained him pro-
motion as a partner in the firm of Hanna,
Knefler & BeiTyhill. After the death of
Mr. Hanna in 1882 the finn continued as
Knefler & Berryhill until the death of Mr.
Knefler in 1899. Since then Mr. Berryhill
has continued his practice alone. Much of
his business has been in the trial courts,
and he has frequently appeared in behalf
of important litigation both in the state
and federal tribunals. He is a member of
the Indianapolis Bar Association, is a re-
publican in polities, and with his wife has
membership in the JRoberts Park Methodist
Episcopal Church.

October 2, 1877, he married Jliss Mary L.
Hanna. She was born at Greencastle, In-
diana, daughter of John and Mahala
(Sherfey) Hanna, also natives of Indiana.
John Hanna was one of the prominent
lawyers of Indiana for many years, senior
member of the firm Hanna, Knefler &
Berryhill, above mentioned. For one terra
he represented the Indianapolis district in
Congress. Both he and his wife died at
Greencastle. Mrs. Berryhill was a student
in Asbury University at the same time as
her husband, graduating with the class of
1874. They are the parents of two chil-

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1301

dren : John H., superintendent of the Vul-
can Plow Works at Evansville and Irene, a
graduate of DePauw University and wife
of Earl E. Young, of Anderson, Indiana.

Charles W. Jewett was called from the
ranks of private citizenship and from his
engrossing duties as a lawyer to the of-
fice of mayor of Indianapolis in the fall
election of 1917. He entered upon the
duties of that office on January 7, 1918, on
his thirty-fourth birthday. He is one of
the youngest mayors Indianapolis has ever
had."^

At the same time it is doubtful if any
man of his years has had a more varied
experience and brings to his official duties
a more thorough familiarity with all the
walks and classes of life. He was born at
Franklin, Indiana, January 7, 1884. Dur-
ing his youth he lived on intimate terms
with hard and honest toil and even today
he would feel at home in the company of
working men of any class as well as with
professional and business executives. He
has learned human problems not from
books and theories biit from the experience
of actual contact with practical life as a
working man.

His parents are Edward P. and Alma
JIary (Aten) Jewett. In 1886 the family
moved to Shelbyville, where the father was
engaged in business for some years. In
1891 he was admitted to the conference
of the ]Methodist Episcopal Church, and
has for more than a quarter of a century
been active in the ministry. The family
came to Indianapolis in 1902, the father
becoming pastor of the Blackboard Street
Methodist Episcopal Church. Later he was
pastor of Howard Place Church and now
occupies the pulpit at Hall Place Church.

Charles W. Jewett was reared in the
various communities where his father was
engaged in business or in the ministry.
Since 1902 his home has been in Indianap-
olis except the years he spent in college.
He attended public schools, the Franklin
Preparatory School, and in 1904 entered
DePauw University and completed the reg-
ular four years course in three years, re-
ceiving his A. B. degree in 1907. Though he
worked on the farm, in stores, shops, fac-
tories and on the railroads to earn money
to help pay his way through college, he
was always active in the various student
affairs. He was an enthusia-stic athlete

and a leader in all branches of athletics in
high school and college. For seven years
in high school and college he was a mem-
ber of foot-ball, base-ball and track teams.
His favorite branch of athletics was foot-
ball. During his entire college course he
played in every game and was never re-
tired from a game, with one exception, and
that was the last fifteen minutes of a con-
test in which he was injured. He was a
member of the university base-ball and
track teams. He was pitcher on the ba.se-
baU team and in his senior year was
captain of the university foot-ball team.
In his junior year he was president of his
cla.ss and a member of the university de-
bating team. He is a member of the
National College Fraternity of Phi Delta
Theta. He is also a member of four other
honorary college fraternities.

Since the age of thirteen years Mayor
Jewett has contributed greatly to his own
support. When he was thirteen years old
he hired out as a farm hand for his board
and keep and one dollar a week. He was
a strong, husky lad and took his place with
the other hands, making a full hand at
farm work. Later when in high school
and college during summer vacations he
filled various positions in and around In-
dianapolis, spending two summers in the
packing plant of Kingan & Company.
Other summers he was employed as sec-
tion hand, switchman, fireman and train
engineer during the double tracking of the
Big Four Railroad between Indianapolis
and St. Louis. Of his man.y and varied
experiences, Mr. Jewett is extremely proud
of the fact that during the circuit riding
days of his father's early ministry he lived
in Southern Indiana and enjoyed the sim-
ple pleasures and shared the rustic life of
pioneer days. His father was stationed on
a five point circuit, miles from any rail-
road and with all of the inconveniences
that attended the lives of pioneers in other
sections of Indiana in a very much earlier
period. He lived in Southern Indiana dur-
rng his boyhood from the time he was seven
years old until he was thirteen. In that
section of the .state, even at that time, ox-
teams were common, and almost every fam-
ily dipped its own candles for lighting the
home. Men and boys wore high leather
boots which were greased with t-allow every
Saturday night. Farmers harvested their
wheat with the old fashioned cradle, wood'

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choppings, Ijarn i-aisings, etc., and such
similar customs were as common as they
were fifty years prior to that time in the
northern and central parts of Indiana.
Mr. Jewett's father traveled from church
to church on his large circuit on horse-
back with the old fashioned saddle bags
of the same kind and variety that old
Peter Cartwright used in the pioneer days
of Indiana history.

All kinds of outdoor sport had a strong
place in the boyhood of :Mr. Jewett. He
was an expert swimmer at a very early age
and prided himself upon his horsemanship
when he was still a very young boy.

In 1907 Mr. Jewett entered Harvard
Law School, completing his law course in
1910. While in law school he took an active
interest in politics, and was frequently em-
ployed as a speaker and organizer with
the republican party. After his return
from the east he took up active practice at
Indianapolis, and in the course of seven
years had gained a secure position at the
Indianapolis bar. He was before taking
office a member of the law fii-m of "Weyl
and Jewett.

In politics Mr. Jewett has shown great
ability as an organizer and harmonizer.
In 1913 he was one of the organizers of
the Republican Union, a movement having
for its essential object the promotion of
harmony between the republicans and pro-
gressives. Because of the success of this
union he was made chairman in 1914 of the
Marion County Republican Central Com-
mittee. In that year the republican county
nominees were elected by pluralities of
more than 4,000. In 1916, while he was
still chairman, the republican county ticket
was elected by a plurality of more than
9,000. It was on this record and on ac-
count of many other qualifications as a
leader that Mr. Jewett's name was put at
the head of the municipal ticket of 1917.

In ;\Iasonry he is a Royal Arch and a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and
Shriner. He belongs to the Marion and
Columbia clubs, and he and his wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. October 25, 1911, Mr. Jewett
married Jliss Elizabeth Dougherty. Her
father Hugh Dougherty is a vice president
of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Com-
pany.

George P. H.vywood. The record of
George Price Haywood of Lafayette —
thirty-five yeai-s as a practicing lawyer,
several important positions in public life,
and numerous activities as a citizen and
business man — requires no apology for its
insertion in this history of Indiana and
ludianans.

His early years were of rustic associa-
tion with an Indiana farm in the southern
part of Tippecanoe County, where he was
born December 15. 1852, one of the eleven
children of Hemy and ]\£artha (Sherwood)
Haywood. Beginning in the common
schools he afterwards attended Green Hill
Academy and in 1876 graduated from Val-
paraiso University. In the meantime, in
his nineteenth year, he had taken up
teaching, and this occupation, continued
for about six years, furnished a source of
livelihood while he was studying law.

;Mr. Haywood was admitted to the bar
at Lafayette in 1880. For two years he
was in the la^t office of Behm & Behm of
Lafavette, but in 1882 formed a partner-
ship "with W. F. Beehtel. Then from 1884
to 1896 he again practiced alone, and from
the latter year until the first of January,
1915, was a partner with Charles A. Bur-
nett, constituting the prominent law firm
of Haj-^vood & Burnett. For the last three
years Mr. Haywood has resumed individ-
ual practice.

In the meantime he has filled many posi-
tions of trust and responsibility with
credit to him.self. In 1886 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of the Twenty-third
Judicial Circuit, embracing Tippecanoe
County, and was re-elected in 1888. Those
two terms furnished him some of the most
valuable experience be has ever had as a
la-nyer. In the spring of 1892 ilr. Hay-
wood was given the republican nomination
for reporter of the Supreme Court. This
honor was conferred upon him in the re-
publican state convention at Fort Wayne.
Those familiar with the political historj"
of that year will hardly need to be in-
formed that Mr. Haywood, along with the
rest of the republican ticket of the state,
went down in defeat. In 1900 I\Ir. Hay-
wood was a delegate from the Tenth Dis-
trict of Indiana to the republican national
convention held at Philadelphia, where
President ]\IcKinley was renominated and
Theodore Roosevelt was put on the ticket

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1303

for the vice presidency. ^Mr. Ha\-\vood
has ahvaj's been looked upon as a leader
in republican party aflfairs in his home
county. In 1894 he was elected republi-
can county chairman and filled that office
two years.

Among other services he was city attor-
ney of Lafayette twelve years, being first
appointed to that office in 1894. For four
years from the spring of 1910 he was
owner and publisher of the Lafayette
Journal, a morning daity newspaper. He
is now president and principal owner of
the Haywood Publishing Company of La-
fayette. Mr. Haywood is a Knight Tem-
plar Mason. He has also taken the Scot-
tish Rite degrees, is a member of the Mys-
tic Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
In 1879 he married Miss ]\Iary ^Marshall,
of ]Montmorenei, Indiana. They are the
parents of three children : Leona, ^Marshall
and George P., Jr.

Marvin Truman Case, ^I. D. An in-
dividual life when directed b.y a high pur-
pose through a long period of years may
attain a maximum of service greater than
that performed by many better known
characters in history under the stress of
abnormal conditions. One such life that
calls for special honor in this publication
is that of Dr. ]\Iarvin Truman Case of
Attica. Doctor Case was for nearly three
years a hard fighting soldier of the Union
during the Civil war. But the maximum
of his service has been given not as a sol-
dier but as a fighter in the interests of
humanity at Attica, where he has prac-
ticed medicine steadily for over forty-
five years, and though one of the oldest
physicians in that part of the state is still
on duty, and doing all he can to alleviate
the ills that beset his fellow beings. It is
not eas.v in a brief sketch to indicate all the
good that flows from such a life and char-
' acter.

Doctor Case was born in Walworth
County, Wisconsin, June 18, 1843, second
.son of William Henry and Sybil (Howe)
Case, whose family consisted of three sons
and three daughters. His early life was
■spent in several different states. He was
with his parents four years in Wisconsin,
nine years in Cattaraugus County, New
York, four years in St. Joseph County,
^lichigan. and a vear and a half in St. Clair

County, Illinois. During that time he at-
tended the public scliools in these different
localities and also shared in the labors of
the home faiin.

While living in Illinois his oldest brother,
Henry Harlan, enlisted in August, 1861, in
Company D of the Ninth Illinois Infantry,
and died of typhus fever at Paducah,
Kentucky, in September of the same year.
In March, 1862, the family moved "to a
farm in Warren County, Indiana, and
there Dr. Case helped cultivate a crop of
corn. Then in the late summer of that
year, feeling that his turn had come to
serve the country, he enlisted August 15,
1862. in Company D of the Eighty-sixth
Indiana Infantry. With that company he
served until the close of the war. He was
a private in the ranks until May. 1864,
when he was detailed as color guard. In
July of the same year, while in the trenches
before Atlanta, he was made first sergeant
of his compan.v, and enjoyed that non-com-
missioned rank until mustered out at the
close of the war in June, 1865. His record
shows him to have been a quiet, efficient
and faithful soldier in every relationship
of his service. He was present every day
with his regiment from muster in to muster
out. During his first days in camp he con-
tracted pneumonia, from which his com-
plete recovery was slow, but he has no hos-
pital record, never having been a patient
in hospital all the time he was in the army.
Furthermore, he participated in every en-
gagement in which his regiment took part.

On being mustered out in June. 1865,
Doctor Case returned to Warren County,
and tried to resume farming. Finding
himself unable and without sufficient
strength to do farm work, he engaged in
teaching in the public schools, and was a
teacher from 1865 to 1868 inclusive. Dur-
ing the years 1867-68 he was county super-
intendent of schools. In the fall "of 1868
he entered the University of ^lichigan as
a student in the pharmacy, chemistry and
medical departments. He graduated with
the degree P. C. in 1869 and tausht in that
department during 1869-70. In ]\Iarch, 1870
he was awarded his medical degree, and
with the ink still fresh on that document'
he arrived at Attica April 1, 1870, and be-
gan the practice of medicine and surgery,
wliich he has continued with unabated in-
terest for over forty-five years. He was
at first associated with Doctor Jones for

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two j'ears, until Doctor Jones removed to
Indianapolis. Since that time he has had
as professional associate Thomas J. Leech
from 1875 to 1878, Aquilla Washburne
from 1881 to 1883, John E. :\Iorris in 1897-
98, and Louis A. Boiling from 1900 to
1907. In addition to looking after a large
private practice he was for several years
local United States examining surgeon for
pensions, and a member of the Fountain
County Board of Pension Examining Sur-
geons. For a busy practitioner he has
filled many offices of trust that require
much time without corresponding compen-
sation. During 1875-76 he was county
superintendent of schools. For six years
he was a trustee of the Attica public
schools, and has been a trustee of the Car-
negie Public Library since its establish-
ment at Attica. He has served as city
health officer for more than thirty years,
and has been a member of the Logan Town-
ship Advisory Board since establishment.

Doctor Case has been a director of the
Building and Loan Association at Attica
during its growth from assets of nothing
until they now amount to nearly $1,000,-
000. He is still active in professional and
other affairs, and it is his ardent hope that
he may continue to be spared many years
and continue an active participant in the
work of bettering conditions in his home
locality. His fellow citizens look upon him
as one of the most dependable men in the
community, always ready to do their bit
for the suppression of Prussianism. Doctor
Case is at present a trustee of the Metho-
dist Church and was for several years
superintendent of its Sabbath School and
for five years has taught the adult Bible
Class as alternate with John Travis.

Doctor Case has had an ideally happy
home life and with three living children
he and his wife also renew their youth
and the memories of their own children
in four grandchildren. November 16,
1870, Doctor Case, soon after he entered
upon active practice as a physician, married
Miss Elizabeth DeMotte. ]\Irs. Case was
formerly a teacher of music, choir leader
and Sabbath School and church worker,
the latter interests still continuing. Five
children were born to them, death claim-
ing three. Those living are Miss Jessie
and Clarence DeJIotte. Miss Jessie has
been a teacher of piano in Tudor Hall at
Indianapolis for several years and is a

musician of great technical ability and most
.successful as a teacher. The son, Clarence
Deilotte, holds a responsible position in
the proof reading rooms of Sears, Roebuck
& Company at Chicago, where he has been
employed for five and a half years. Lauren
Wilber, a younger son, was an invalid in
New Mexico, his ill health being the result
of exposure during the Spanish-American
war, and his death occurred on the 7th of
December, 1918. Both sons were married.
Clarence D. is the father of three bright
boys and a beautiful daughter. The
youngest of these grandchildren is a four
year old boy with overflowing vitality and
a tremendous bump of inquisitiveness.

Lincoln Hesler had a career as a law-
yer and citizen such as all thinking people
must admire. He was best known in the
counties of Fountain and ]Montgomery,
where for over a quarter of a century he
practiced law. For twelve years before
his death his home was in CrawfordsviUe.

A well rounded and sincere tribute to his
life is found in the words of a memorial
resolution drawn up and presented by a
committee of the Montgomery County Bar
in the following language:

"Lincoln Hesler, son of William and
Matilda Hesler, was born in Fountain
County, Indiana, August 21, 1862, and de-
parted this life at CrawfordsviUe Novem-
ber 3, 1918. He was married to Jennie
Sumner December 6, 1883. His widow and
two sons, Russell L. and Herbert S., who
at the time of his death were both in the
United States military service, survive him.

"Mr. Hesler was graduated from De-
Pauw University at Greencastle in 1884,
being while there a member of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity, and in January of
that year was admitted to practice law and
became a member of the Fountain County
bar. He was engaged in the active practice
of his chosen profession for a period of
twenty-seven years and then ver>' reluct- ■
antly closed his office after his health had
failed and his physician had advised that
he would have to give up the practice. For
twenty-one years he practiced in Fountain
County and for six years in Montgomery
County. He never sought political prefer-
ment biit during the greater portion of
the period of his practice he was attorney
for the City of Veedersburg. He did not
enter the practice for the purpose of mak-

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1305

ing money, or with a view to gaining a
reputation as a great lawyer, but because
of his fondness for the science of law. Tt
was fascinating to him and he enjoyed it.
He regarded law as a science — a human
method of dealing out justice between men.
He w^s ethical in his practice, fair to his
colleagues and loyal to his clients. In his
death the IMontgomery County Bar has
lost one of its most loyal and conscientious
members, the community an honest and
patriotic citizen."

Mr. Hesler's parents, William and Ma-
tilda (Furr) Hesler, were both natives of
Kentucky, and they and their four chil-
dren, two sons and two daughters, Jacob,
Ida, Serina and Lincoln, are all now de-
ceased.

Mrs. Lincoln Hesler was born at Coving-
ton, Indiana, April 27, 1865, a daughter of
Alvah and Emily (Booe) Sumner. Her
father was a native of Ohio, born ]\larch
26, 1828, and came to Indiana with his
parents at the age of nineteen. He spent
his active life as a cabinet maker and he
made all the furniture with which he and
his bride began housekeeping. He died in
1916. Mrs. Hesler's mother was born De-
cember 26, 1830, in New Liberty, Indiana,
and died November 28, 1908. In the Sum-
ner family were four children, three sons
and one daughter: Alfonso, now a mer-
chant at Waynetown, Indiana: Will H., a
merchant-tailor at Peru, Indiana ; Frank,
deceased ; Jennie May.

The older of two sons, Russell Lowell
was born at Veedersburg, Indiana, June 5,
1893. He graduated from the Crawfords-
ville High School in 1912 and from Wa-
bash College with the class of 1917. He was
a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Immediately after leaving Wabash he
entered the First Officers Training Camp
at Fort Benjamin Harrison, and received
his coveted position as a second lieutenant.
He was first assigned to depot brigade duty
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, and
was transferred to the school of arms for
special instruction at Camp Perry, Ohio,
where he was awarded a medal as a sliarp
shooter. Then came his later a-ssignment
as instructor of arms at Camp Cody, New
Mexico, where he remained at his post of
duty until the close of the war.

Herbert Sumner Hesler, the younger son,
wa.s born at Veedersburg, November 24,
1897. He graduated from the Crawfords-

ville High School in 1915 and then entered
Wabash College. He was also a member of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity. During 1918
he took special intensive military training
for three months at Harvard Universjty,
and was then assigned as a sergeant and in-
structor in the Students Army Training
Corps at Wabash College. November 13th,
two days after the signing of the armistice,
he was selected to enter Camp Grant to
train for a commission.

The Hesler home is at 222 West Main
Street in Crawfordsville, and it was there
that Mr. Hesler after retiring from law
practice spent his time in delightful com-
panionship with his family, his books and
his friends. He was a member of the
Christian Church, the Masonic Order and
the Tribe of Ben-Hur.

DuMONT Kennedy. For more than half
a century the Crawfordsville bar has been
honored by the services and talents of the
Kennedy 'family. Dumont Kennedy has
practiced law there for thirty years or more
and is a son of the late Peter S. Kennedy,
one of Indiana's stalwart lawyers and
citizens during the middle years of the
last century.

Dumont Kennedy was born in a log
house at Danville, Indiana, July 12, 1861,
son of Peter S. and Emily (Talbot) Ken-
nedy. Peter S. Kennedy was born in Bour-
lion County, Kentucky, July 10, 1829, son
of Joseph Kennedy. His early life was
spent in a pioneer time and environment,
and his attainments w^ere largely a measure
of his individual exertions as a youth. At
the age of twenty he was teaching school
after a hard earned education, and he
utilized all his leisure time to study law.
He became not only a successful attorney
but was a prolific writer on legal subjects.
He was frequently called upon to serve as
a special judge of the district. From 1856
to 1858 he was prosecuting attorney of the
Indianapolis Circuit, having been elected
on the republican ticket. For many years
he enjoyed a large private practice in
Crawfordsville, where he died September
7, 1903. Masonry and Odd Fellowship
constituted his religion. During the Civil
war he organized a company for the Sev-
enth Indiana Regiment, and was with his
command as a lieutenant. In 1874 he rep-
resented Montgomery County in the In-
diana State Legislature. Peter S. Kennedy

INDIANA AND INDIAXANS

and wife were married near Lexington,
Kentucky, October 6, 1853. They had
three sons and three daughters : Bettie Tal-
bot, deceased ; Joseph Courtney, now of
Lewiston, Idaho ; Schuj'ler Colfax, de-
ceased : Dumont ; Katie, wife of C. A.
Foresman, of North Yakima, Washington ;
and Ora Leigh, matron of the State Nor-
mal School at Lewiston, Idaho.

Diimont Kennedy was three years old
when his parents came to Montgomery
County, and he has been a resident of that
County ever since. He graduated from the
Crawfordsville High School with the class
of 1882 and studied law in his father's
office. He also had some early experience
as a teacher. After admission to the bar
he took up active practice, and in 1894
wa.s elected prosecuting attorney of Mont-
gomery County, being reelected in 1806.
In 1900 he was elected clerk of the Mont-
gomery Circuit Court and by reelection in
1904 served eight years. An unsolicited
honor and a tribute to his citizenship came '
to him in 1917 when he was elected mavor
of Crawfordsville, an office he still holds.
Mr. Kennedy is a republican. His success
and achievements as a lawyer are the re-
sult of long concentration and work, but
through it all he has kept many livelv in-
terests in varied affairs outside his legal
profession. ]Mr. Kennedy owns a beautiful
suburban home near Crawfordsville, com-
prising sixteen acres. There he has the
land and opportunity to allow him full
bent in the culture of flowers, fruits and
stock and the enjoyment of outdoor life.
He has always had a keen interest in his-
tory-, both general and local, has been
president of the Montgomery County His-
torical Society since 1910, and in his home
has a rare collection of historic relics of
various kinds. He is a member of the
ilasonic Order and the Knights of Pythias.

June 23, 1897, Mr. Kennedy married
Miss ]\Iary E. Wilhite, a talented daughter
of Eleazer A. and Mary (HoUoway) Wil-
hite. ]Mrs. Kennedy was born in Crawfords-
ville, June 6, 1867, graduated from high
school and later from the Boston School of
Oratory, and for seven years was a teacher
until her marriage. i\Ir. and IMrs. Kennedy
have one daughter, Emilv Elizabetli, born
September 5, 1906.

Hon. James Atwell ]Mount was a gov-
ernor of Indiana whose administration

had the lireadth and vigor derived from
long intimate associations with the lives
and processes of an agricultural commu-
nity, and also that sea.soned judgment ac-
quired b\' long experience in dealing with
• all sorts of people. He served Indiana
well as chief executive in a period" when
the economic affairs of the state and its
people were beset by many complex prob-
lems.

He came of pioneer .stock. His father,
Atwell Mount, was born in Virginia in
1806. was taken to Kentucky in 1813, and
in 1826 married Lucinda Fullenwider of
that state. In 1828 they moved to :Mont-
gomery County, Indiana, and were among
the industrious God-fearing, and high-
minded early settlers of that locality, ac-
cepting bravely all the responsibilities laid
upon them by destiny, including the rear-
ing of twelve children, one of whom, James
Atwell, was born on the home fanu in
Montgomery County in 1843. The sources
of his early inspiration were the familiar
scenes and experiences of an average
farmer boy. He had to do work requiring
muscular skill and keen intelligence, be-
came self-reliant, prompt, obedient and
trustful. From the qu'et life of the farm
he was suddenly transferred to scenes of
violence and warfare at the age of nineteen,
when he enlisted in 1862 in the Seventy-
Second Indiana Infantry. This was part
of the famous Wilder 's Brigade. General
Wilder himself subsequently testified to the
bravery of young Mount in volunteering
twice for the skirmish line at Chickamauga,
when to do so was almost certain death.
The regimental hi.story says that James A.
Mount was the first skirmisher of Sher-
man's army to cross the Chattahoochee
River at Rosw^ll, Georgia, at daylight,
July 9, 1864. Even when ill from measles
he marched through da.vs of incessant rain
and for three years missed not a single
march, skirmish or battle.

After the war he used his limited means
for a year of study at the Presb>-terian
Academy at Lebanon, Indiana. He made
that year count two years so far as progress
in his studies was concerned.

In 1867 he married, and with no capital
beyond a well trained mind and ability to
work hard he started farming. The story
of what he experienced and accomplished
as a farmer is perhaps most significant of
any that throws light on his character, and

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1307

may be told in detail. The young husband
and wife determined at once upon farm
life. The heavy rental imposed upon them
was enough to discourage them, since they
had to pay half of all the grain sold and
half of ail the money realized from the
sale of livestock. He also did much work
in improving the land, for which of course
he had no remuneration from his land-
lord. His neighbors urged him to go west,
where he could obtain cheap land and thus
avoid the toll laid by landlordism in In-
diana. While this would have been a per-
fectly honorable way out, he chose to re-
main in his native state. Gradually a
change came over the farm ; unremitting
work, coupled with excellent managerial
ability, made themselves felt in the way of
heavier crops, larger sales of livestock, well
drained tields and cultivated meadows. The
young farmer seemed to have the touch of
Midas, and all things prospered. At the
end of seven years the stock and imple-
ments were bought and the rent paid in
cash. Three years later he became owner
of the farm, though its purchase involved
a debt of about $12,000. At the end of
five years the debt was paid. In 1895,
twentj'-eight years after he began as a
lessee, he was proprietor of 500 acres of
land and had erected a home of modern
style and beauty costing over $8,000. He
and h's wife were valuable examples of
what farm life mav become. Thev were
both imbued with the idea of elevating the
standard of country life in point of con-
venience and beauty. ]Mr. ]Mount always
regarded agriculture as the ideal life, and
his success led him to offer his experience
as a guide and help to others. He became
widely known as a lecturer before Farmers
Institutes, and long before his name was
considered in connection with high pub-
lie office he had done much to mold and
influence the destiny of the state as an
agricultural center.

In politics he was a republican and in
1888 was nominated by that party for the
office of state senator. He was elected
in a district normally democratic and
served four years with distinction. In 1896
he was brought forward as a candidate
for governor. There were twelve aspirants
for the nomination. It was a historic con-
vention, and James A. Blount was nomi-
nated for srovernor on the seventh ballot.
His candidacv aroused great enthu-^iasm

and brought him a support probably never
before nor never since accorded a repub-
lican candidate. He was elected by a larger
plurality than had ever been given to either
a presidential or gubernatorial candidate.
This is not the place to enter upon an ex-
tended account of his official administra-
tion. However, it should be noted that he
came into the governor's chair following a
period of hard times, and his cour.se was
marked by complete fidelity to the prin-
ciples which have so often been urged in
political campaigns but less frequently car-
ried out after elections — a course of econ-
omy consistent with efficient administra-
tion. Governor- Mount stood bravely
against all interests in insisting upon Ut-
most economy in every department of his
administration. It was his faithfulness to
duty and his broad sympathies that more
than anything else distinguished his four
years as governor.

He entered upon his administration in
January, 1897, and he retired from the
office in January, 1901. Just a day or so
later, and on the eve of his departure for
his country home, he died suddenly Janu-
ary 16, 1901. He was fifty-eight years old.
From farm boy to governor represented
a gradation of experience and achievement
that is a most perfect measure of a com-
plete and adequate life.

In 1898 Hanover College honored him
with the degree Doctor of Laws. He wa.s
one of the most prominent Presbyterian
laymen in the state. For several years he
was officially identified with Winona As.so-
ciation, and after his death the Mount
Memorial School Building was erected
there. He was vice-moderator of the Pres-
byterian General Assembly in 1898, and
for a number of years was an elder in his
home church at Shannondale, and also a
teacher in the Sunday school. Even after
going to Indianapolis and with all his du-
ties and cares as governor, he found time
to teach a young men's class in Sunday
school.

Governor Mount met and married Kate
A. Boyd at Lebanon in 1867. She was born
in Boone Coiinty, Indiana, in 1849, and
had graduated from the Lebanon Academy
in 1866. She survived her honored hus-
band only a few years, passing away July
6, 1905. She was of Revolutionary ances-
try.

Governor Z^Iount and wife had tliree

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children, all of whom were reared in the
atmosphere of a wholesome home and with
every influence and advantage that could
prepare them for life's larger responsi-
bilities. The oldest child, Hallie Lee, is
the wife of Mr. Charles E. Butler, of Craw-
fordsville. The second daughter. Helen
Nesbit. a graduate of Coats CollcQ-e at Terre
Haute, is the wife of Dr. John W. Nicely,
a prominent Presbyterian divine. The
only son, Harry N. ]Mount, graduated from
Wabash College in ISQ-i, also from the
Theological Seminary at Princeton, New
Jersey, and for many years has been in the
Presbyterian ministry, part, of the time in
Indiana, but in later years in the far west.

Charles E. Butler. It has been a. mat-
ter of frequent congratulation that the
American farmer when called upon to do
double dutv in relieving the strain and
want caused by war time conditions was
able to make response both quickly and
abundantly. A response was made not
only by bringing increa.sed areas into pro-
duction and by redoubling the amount of
labor, but also by the exercise of that fund
of skill and intelligence that ha.s been
slowly accumulating during recent decades
and was ready when needed by the body of
American farmers in general.

Of that new era of agriculture, and the
steady climb towards better methods of
agriculture, one nf the choicest representa-
tives in Indiana for a number of years has
been Charles E. Butler of Montgomery
County. Mr. Butler spent all his life in
that countv and was born in Franklin
Township March 7, 1866, son of Mahlon
and Eunice (Lacy) Butler. His father,
born in Virginia January 27, 1821, was
brought to Indiana when six months old.
Thus the Butlers have been in Indiana
almost as long as the state itself. In 1834
the family settled in Montgomery County
in a Quaker community. Mahlon Butler
brouEcht his wife from Rush County. In-
diana, and for over half a century- thev
lived on the same farm. She died June 27,
1902, and he passed awav March 5, 1904.
His was a fine tyne of citizenship, distin-
guished not by official acti\nty but by the
performance of commonplace duties of life
and a steady growth in wisdom. He was
a republican and was always a steady going
Quaker. There were five children, Eme-
line, Emil.v, Jennie, Lindley M. and

Charles E., all deceased except the latter.
Charles E. Butler grew up on the home
farm, was educated in the common schools
and high school and in Wabash College.
October 10. 1888, at the age of twenty-two,
he married Hallie Lee Mount. She was
born on a neighboring farm in Franklin
Township of Montgomery County, August
18, 1868. Her father at the time of her
marriage was known simply as James At-
well Mount, a farmer of conspicuous suc-
cess, who eight years later was elected gov-
ernor of Indiana. The career of Governor
Mount is described on other pages of this
publication. ^Irs. Butler finished her edu-
cation in a college in Kentucky. She and
Mr. Butler have three children : Everett,
born August 18, 1891, since graduating
from the Crawfordsville High School has
been a farmer. He is married and resides
at the Governor Mount home; Lois was
born July 6, 1897, and Gladys was born
February 4. 1900.

Many a fine old family homestead in
Indiana has lost its identity by division
and sale after the original owners passed
away. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have taken
great pride in preserving the two home-
steads with which their own lives have
been identified from birth. Mr. Butler
owns the farm where he was born and grew
up and to which his father gave so much
labor and care in development. They also
have the original Jlount farm, upon which
the late Governor IVIount lavished his en-
ersies and judgment. These two farms
together constitute nearly five hundred
acres in Franklin Township, and for years
it has been the home of blooded livestock
and all the methods of efficiency which
have been accepted as standard in the
management of good farms. Mr. Butler
has been a student of fanning and stock
husbandry since early youth, has been of-
ficially identified with the Farmers Insti-
tutes, has served as president of the Better
Farming Association of Montgomery Coun-
ty, was at one time president of the Agri-
cultural Society of the county and has been
secretary of the State Farmers Congress
of Indiana. He is at present chairman of
the Montgomer.y County republican party
and chairman and a member of the state
committee from the Ninth district. All
these official associations together with his
own noteworthy record as a production ex-
pert in farm management give him a rep-

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1309

utation that is more significant today than
at any time in history. Mr. Butler is a
republican, a member of the Knights of
Pythias, and he and his wife are com-
municants of the Center Presbyterian
Church at Crawfordsville.

Edward Egglkston, author, was born at
Vevay, Indiana, December 10, 1837. His
father, Joseph Cary Eggleston, was a Vir-
ginian, a graduate of William and Mary
College, and of the Winchester Law School,
who located at Vevay in 1832, and began
the practice of law. He held a leading
.place at the bar; was elected to the State
Senate in 1840, and was defeated as the
whig candidate for Congress in 1844. He
died in 1846, at the age of thirty-four. He
married, at Vevaj-, Mary J. Craig, daugh-
ter of Capt. George Craig, one of the ear-
liest settlers of Switzerland County. She
was born in the block-house which stood
on the bank of the Ohio, four miles below
Vevay. She died June 15, 1857.

Edward inherited a frail constitution,
and he had little schooling outside of his
home, except a brief stay at Amelia Acad-
emy, Virginia, when he was seventeen. His
stay in Virginia, as well as brief residences
in Decatur County, Indiana, and in Min-
nesota, were in search of health. His was
a case of early piety. He joined the
Methodist Church at the age of eleven, and
at nineteen entered its ministry. After six
months as a circuit rider in Indiana, he
again went to Minnesota as a Methodist
minister, and had charges at St. Paul,
Stillwater, Winona, and St. Peter. While
at St. Peter he married Elizabeth Snider,
,.nd to them were born three daughters.

In I\Iinnesota his health was so bad that
in 1866 he was compelled to abandon the
ministr\\ He located at Evanston, Illi-
nois, and became editor of "The Little
Corporal," and a few months later, of
the "National Sunday-School Teacher."
Here he began writing stories, and in 1870
published a collection of these in book form
under the title, "The Book of Queer Sto-
ries." This was followed by "Stories
Told on a Cellar Door." For several years
he corresponded for the New York Inde-
pendent, under the name of "Pen
Holder;" and in May, 1870, was called to
the position of literary editor of that paper,
becoming chief editor a few months later,
on the death of Theodore Tilton.
Vol. ra— 7

In July, 1871, he resigned to take edi-
torial charge of "Hearth and Home," in
which he published his "Hoosier School-
master." The original design of this was
three or four sketches, but it proved so
popular that he extended it to its full
form, and i.ssued it in book form on its
completion. It had a circulation of over
20,000 the first year and is still in demand ;
and has been translated into French and
Danish. In 1872 he resigned his position
of editor for book work ; but also accepted
the pastorate of the "Church of Christian
Endeavor," an independent organization
in Brooklyn, devoted chiefly to social
service.

In 1879 bad health forced the abandon-
ment of this position. He built a beautiful
home on Lake George, known as "Owl's
Nest," to which he retired, and where most
of his subsequent works were written —
among them "The End of the World,"
"The Mystery of Metropolisville," "The
Faith Doctor," "The Hoosier School
Boy," "Dutfels," "The Circuit Rider,"
"Christ in Literature," "Christ in Art,"
"Roxy," "The Graysons," "History of
the United States." In conjunction with
his daughter, Mrs. Lillie Seelye, he pub-
lished "Famous American Indians" in five
volumes. He died at Lake George, Sep-
tember 2, 1902.

Mr. Eggleston 's portraiture of Hoosier
character and dialect has attracted much
comment and criticism, which he answered
in prefaces of the later editions of his
books. Perhaps the best statement of the
original sources of his characters and in-
cidents is in the "History of Dearborn,
Ohio and Switzerland Counties" (1885)
at page 1061. See also "The Indianian,"
Vol. 7, p. 37, and George Cary Eggleston 's
"The First Hoosier," and "Recollections
of a Varied Life."

George C.\rt Eggleston, brother of Ed-
ward Eggleston (q. v. as to parentage),
was born at Vevay, Indiana, Novemlier 26,
1839. He attended college at Asbury, In-
diana, and Richmond, Virginia; read law
at Richmond, and was beginning to prac-
tice when the Civil war began. He enlisted
in Stuart's "Black Horse Cavalry," but
was transferred to Longstreet's corps of
artillery, and remained in that service,
commanding a mortar fort at the siege of
Petersburg. After the war he practiced

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law at Cairo, Illinois, until 1870, when he
began new'spaper work on the Brooklyn
Union.

In 1871 he joined the staff of "Hearth
and Home," then edited by Edward Eg-
gleston, and here wrote his first book,
"How to Educate Yourself," for Put-
nam's Handy Book Series. This was soon
followed by his first novel, "A Man of
Honor," and his "Eecolleetions of a
R^bel, " written at the request of Howells
for the "Atlantic. " He continued in news-
paper work, as literary editor of the New
York Evening Post, Commercial Adver-
tiser, and AVorld; but also found time to
write for numerous magazines, and to pub-
lish some thirty books.

Among his publications are "How to
Make a Living," "How to Make a Li-
brary," "The Big Brother," "Captain
Sam," "The Signal Boys," "The Red
Eagle," "The Wreck of the Red Bird,"
"Bale Marked Circle X," "American Im-
mortals," "Blind Alleys," "Camp Ven-
ture," "A Carolina Cavalier," "Dorothy
South," "History of the Confederate
War," "Jack Shelby," "Last of the Flat-
boats," "Long Knives," "Life in the
Eighteenth Century," "Southern Soldier
Stories," "Strange Stories from History."
"Juggernaut" (in collaboration with Do-
lores Marbourg), and "Recollections of a
Varied Life." He edited "American War
Ballads," and the American edition of
"Haydn's Dictionary of Dates."

Mr. Eggleston was married at Cairo,
September 9, 1868, to Miss Marion Craggs.
He died at New York, April 14, 1911. His
"The First Hoosier," and his "Recollec-
tions" are especially interesting in connec-
tion w-ith Indiana history and the literai-j'
life of his time.

Capt. Henry H. Talbot. It has been
the gracious privilege of Capt. Henry H.
Talbot of Crawfordsville to review the emo-
tions and experiences of the great Ameri-
can Civil war through which he passed as a
gallant soldier and officer when he lent his
energies to the forces of the World war
when America joined the allies in overcom-
ing the menace of Prussianism in the world.
Captain Talbot is now one of the scattered
remnants of that great army that fought
against slaveiy more than half a century
ago, and the honors he achieved as a soldier
have been repeated again and again as a

substantial citizen and for many years as
a practical farmer in Montgomery County.

He comes of a family of soldiers, pion-
eers and patriots. He was born at Lexing-
ton, Fayette County, Kentucky, September
6, 1841, son of Courtney and Elizabeth
(Harp) Talbot. His gre^t- grandfather,
John Kennedy, born October 16, 1742, was
a soldier in the struggle for independence.
A grant to nearly 3,000 acres of land on
Kennedy's Creek in Bourbon County, Ken-
tucky, was issued to John Kennedy and his
brother Joseph Kennedy. The record of
that transaction, a copy of which is in the
possession of Cajitain Talbot, shows that
the land was located and surveyed by Maj.
Daniel Boone, October 16, 1779.

The paternal grandfather of Captain
Talbot was Nicholas Talbot, born in Vir-
ginia November 10, 1781. He was an early
settler in Kentucky, where his son Court-
ney was born September 3, 1804. Elizabeth
Harp was born in Favette Countv, Ken-
tucky, July 14, 1813.

The Tal'bots of Kentucky were planters
and slave owners, and Captain Talbot was
the only one of the family to espouse the
cause of the Union in the Civil war, a num-
ber of his relatives having fought on the
other side. Captain Talbot was twenty
years old when the war broke out. His
earlier life had been spent on the farm,
with a practical education in the common
schools. At the very outbreak of the war
he enlisted in a three months' regiment,
and later became a member of Company C,
Seventh Kentucky Cavalry. , His first
battle was at Richmond, Kentucky, August
30, 1862. Upon the cavalry arm of the
Federal forces devolved some of the most
hazardous and responsible duties in con-
nection with waging the war in the Miss-
issippi Valley. Thus Captain Talbot was
exposed to many more dangers than those
encountered by the average soldier in in-
fantry commands, and for nearly three
years was riding about over many states
of the Central South, scouting, raiding,
guarding lines of communication. Some
• of his hardest service was against Long-
street around Kuoxville, Tennessee, in the
winter of 1863-64. He was in the Wilson
cavalry raid, which started from Eastport,
Mississippi, and ended with Captain Tal-
bot's regiment in Florida. He was also in
the Atlanta campaign, and fought in the
last battle of the war at Westpoint,

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Georgia, April 16, 1865. He was mustered
out at Nashville July 17, 1865. Captain
Talbot was twice wounded, once through
the right breast and once through the right
leg. Soldierlj^ conduct, bravery and ef-
ficiency won him several promotions, be-
ing advanced to the rank of second lieuten-
ant and later to captain of his company.

When the war was over Captain Talbot,
a veteran soldier, returned to his Kentucky
home and resumed farming, but a few years
later moved to Montgomery County, In-
diana, where he acquired a large farm near
Crawfordsville. He has been one of the
leading stock raisers in that community
and all branches of farming have appealed
to him and he has long been recognized as
a master of those arts concerned in making
the soil produce abundantly. For many
years he has enjoyed one of the best coun-
try homes of the county.

During this time he has allied himself
constantly with the elements of progress.
In politics he has been a steadfast republi-
can, though in 1912 he supported the pro-
gressive ticket. He served one terra as a
member of the County Council. For two
terms he was commander of McPherson
Post No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic
at Crawfordsville. He has been a Mason
in good standing for more than half a cen-
tury, being affiliated with Montgomery
Lodge No. 50, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons.

On June 6, 1872, Captain Talbot married
Miss Hettie A. Evans, daughter of Rev.
Samuel and Mary (Woodruff) Evans, of
Waveland, Indiana. They became the par-
ents of two daughters. May Wood and
Ethel. Ethel is the widow of Wallace
Sparks, a former clerk of Montgomery
County.

James Bernard Wallace, in the opinion
of his fellow citizens at Newcastle, is one
of the most successful business men of the
city, and his success as a merchant has
been accompanied by a corresponding
prominence in local politics. He is a for-
mer city treasurer and county treasurer
and an acknowledged leader in the demo-
cratic party of Henry County.

Mr. Wallace's chief business is as a
wholesale and retail dealer in bakery goods,
confectionery and ice cream. He was born
at Union City, Indiana, July 25. 1872, a
son of Patrick and Catheri""-? (O'Learj')

Wallace. His father was born in Ireland
and at the age of fifteen came to America,
settling in Jersey City, New Jersey. Later
he moved to Union City, Indiana, and
spent the rest of his life there. He died
in 1916 and his wife passed away in 1889.

James B. Wallace attended the parochial
schools at Union City and for two years
was a student in St. iMary's Institute at
Dayton, Ohio. He began his career as a
railroad man, working in different capaci-
ties for the Big Four Railway Company,
and eventually being made yardmaster at
Union City, one of the important junction
points of the railroad. He held that
position nine years, but in 1901, when he
came to Newcastle, he opened a confec-
tionery store at 1309 :Main Street. He
.sold his own products of confectionery and
ice cream, and his rapid success in the busi-
ness encouraged him to open a branch store
at 1217 Race Street. He continued both
establishments until 1908.

When Mr. Wallace entered politics he
gave up his business. He was elected in
1908 city treasurer over a republican can-
didate in a normally republican city, and
filled that office capably four years. In
1912, as candidate for county treasurer on
the democratic ticket, he was elected for a
term of two years, but in 1914 the republi-
can tide was too strong and he was defeated
by a small margin. Soon after leaving
office, on December 20, 1915, Mr. Wallace
resumed business, establishing a new
bakery, confectionery and ice cream store
at 1407-9 Broad Street. He has developed
not only a large local retail trade, but sells
his goods wholesale to manj^ groceries
throughout Henry County.

In 1905 ilr. Wallace married Eleanor
Walsh, daughter of John Walsh of ^Marion,
Ohio. She died in 1906, and in 1914 he
married Margaret New, daughter of John
New of Greenfield, Indiana. ]\Ir. Wallace
has served as a delegate to various demo-
cratic state conventions. He is affiliated
with the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, Improved Order of Red Men and
Fraternal Order of Eagles at Newcastle,
and is a member of St. Ann's Catholic
Cliurch.

John D. Govgar. In the space allotted
for that purpose it is difficult to estimate
at all adequately the character and services
of John D. Gougar, dean of the Lafayette

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bar, and one of the few men still active in
his profession who took his first case before
the Civil war. From whatever standpoint
it may be viewed his lias been nothing less
than a remarkable life, an encouragement
and inspiration to all who may read this
record.

He was born near Cireleville, Ohio, De-
cember 10, 1836, son of Daniel and Hannah
(Dunkle) Gougar. When he was five years
of age in 1841 the parents moved to Tippe-
canoe County, Indiana. More than thirty
years had passed since the Indians made
their notable stand here in the night attack
upon General Harrison's army, and yet a
large part of the county's area was un-
cleared and unsettled, and the first night
the Gougar family passed in a log cabin
on what is now the campus of Purdue Uni-
versity. This log cabin and the laud it
occupied was then owned by George Gou-
gar, a brother of Daniel Gougar. Daniel
Gougar bought a farm for himself on the
Wea plains, and lived there until 1850,
when he died. His widow and her two chil-
dren then returned to Ohio.

John D. Gougar spent only the j'ears
from 184:1 to 1850 in Tippecanoe county,
and while here was a pupil in the district
schools. His further education was com-
pleted in Ohio, and in 1859 he graduated
from Heidelberg University at TifSn, Ohio.

Late in 1859 he returned to some of the
scenes of his youthful years at Lafayette,
and took up the study of law with the well
known fiimi of Chase & Wilstach. On May
24, 1860, lie was admitted to the bar, and
while most of his contemporaries long since
laid down their briefs he is at this writing,
at the age of eighty-one, still in active prac-
tice, the oldest member of the Lafayette
bar and possessed of the profound respect
and warm friendship of the entire com-
munity of that city.

Apart from the high position he has en-
joyed in the legal profession and the mate-
rial success that has come to him, one of the
most stimulating and encouraging features
of his life history is the fact that he was
able to overcome the handicap of an ex-
ceedingly frail constitution during his
childhood and early youth and live to ad-
vanced years filled with worthy achieve-
ments. The primary reason for this un-
doubtedly has been that he has lived on
the high plane of absolute temperance, and

has never in any form used intoxicating
liquors nor tobacco.

While it is difficult to do justice to the
life and attainments of Mr. Gougar in such
brief space, that difficulty is increased
when reference is made to his honored and
greatly beloved wife, the late Helen Mar
(Jackson) Gougar, although there are so
many permanent associations with her
name and work in Indiana that the brevity
of this paragraph will be excused. Mr.
Gougar and Miss Helen Mar Jackson were
united in mai-riage December 10, 1863.
She was a member of a remarkable famil.y,
and herself one of the most brilliant women
who can be claimed by Indiana. She was
a native of Michigan, born near Hillsdale,
educated at Hillsdale College. Her life
was one long, incessant battle in behalf of
temperance and against the forces and
iniquities of the liquor traffic. She was an
equally able advocate of woman suffrage.
She possessed abundant powers as an
original writer, contributed frequently to
prominent periodicals, but her great forte
was as a speaker. Among the women of her
day she had no equal as an orator and few
men could keep an audience so completely
within the spell of their words and logic as
did she. She went about all over the coun-
try, pleading the cause of temperance and
of many reforms, and frequently addressed
legislatures of different states on some re-
form measure. While she believed in and
worked for political equality, the value of
her services were chiefly felt by women in
what she did to relieve woman of the
economic burdens long borne by her. When
Mrs. Gougar began her work a married
woman in man>- of our states was practi-
cally the undisputed chattel of her hus-
band, who could exercise his will with her
children and her property, and it was in
securing something like justice and a fair
recognition of woman 's responsibilities and
privileges over her own property in the
eyes of tlie law that Mrs. Gougar accom-
plished a work for which womankind must
always be grateful.

Because of her prominence she was asso-
ciated in the same class with and was a
valued friend and adviser of such great
women leaders as Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony and others of her gen-
eration.

Mr. and Mrs. Gougar during her life

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wei-e veritable globe trotters, and visited
almost every country of the world. They
knew America thoroughly from the far
north to ]\Iexieo and acquired extensive
knowledge of European countries and
fspci-ially the countries around the Medi-
terranean. In 1900 they visited Honolulu,
Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and Tas-
mania, and in 1902 circled the globe, tak-
ing ten months for the journey. During
this tour they saw the best of everything
from North Cape to the East Indies. Ou
their return Mrs. Gougar wrote "Forty
Thousand Miles of World Wandering." a
record of her own experiences and observa-
tion as a traveler. This is still one of the
popular books of travel, and is profusely
illustrated by pictures made by herself.

ilrs. Gougar died suddenly on the morn-
ing of June 6, 1907, at the age of nearly
sixty-four. Since her death Mr. Gougar
has continued his travels. His longest jour-
ney was in 1910-11 in South America. He
traveled over seventeen thousand miles,
crossing the crest of the Andes Mountains
five times, and traveling the wonderful
Oroyo railway to a height of 15,66.5 feet.
He saw the capitals, principal cities and
most points of interest both in the Mid
Continent and along the coast of South
America.

Joseph Shannon Nave. There has prob-
ably not been a session of Circuit Court in
Fountain County during the last forty
years at which Joseph Shannon Nave has
not appeared as counsellor for some of the
cases tried. He is at once one of the oldest
as well as the ablest lawyers of the Foun-
tain county bar, and he is one of the digni-
fied representatives of the profession in the
state.

His people have been identified with this
county since pioneer days. Jlr. Nave was
born on a farm in Shawnee Township of
Fountain County September 17, 1851, a
son of John and Hannah J. (ShaTinon)
Nave. His mother was of Irish stock, and
a daughter of Thomas Shannon, who bore
arms in the War of 1812 and grand-
daughter of Samuel Shannon, who helped
the colonies establish independence in the
Revolution. Both served as officers in
tho.se wars.

John Nave was born in Butler County,
Ohio, in 1826, son of John and Margaret
(Umbarger) Nave, both of whom were

natives of Virginia. The Nave family is
of Swiss ancestry. John Nave, Sr., brought
his family to Fountain County in 1828, and
acquired a tract of the uncleared Govern-
ment land then so plentiful in this state.
(~)n that farm John Nave, Jr., was reared,
and he lived the life of a farmer until 1867,
when he removed to Attica and handled
his property from that point. He died
April 17, 1872. He and his wife were mar-
ried in 1850, in Virginia, where she was
born in 1831. She died at Attica January
17, 1910. There were two sons, Joseph
Shannon and Raymond M. The latter, who
was born August 17, 1853, graduated from
Indiana University with the class of 1875,
and is now manager of a large amount of
property in Fountain County, his home be-
ing at Attica. He married in 1881 Minnie
Ray, a native of Attica, and they have two
children, Robert and John Kirk.

Joseph Shannon Nave lived on the old
farm until 1867. and while there attended
rural schools. He fini.shed his literary edu-
cation in Indiana University, graduating
in the scientific course in 1872. Later he
attended the law school of the University
of Michigan, and was admitted to practice
in 1874. From that year he has been iden-
tified with the bar of Fountain County and
besides carrying heav.y burdens a.s a lawyer
has been active in public affairs and has
directed some large business interests. In
politics he has always been a democrat.
From 1879 to 1883 he represented Foun-
tain County in the State Legislature and
made a most creditable record in that body,
being member of several important com-
mittees.

ilr. Nave has large propert.v interests in
Fountain County and also at Wichita, Kan-
sas. He is a director of the Farmers and
Merchants State Bank of Attica. Frater-
nally he is affiliated with the Masonic Or-
der and is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

September 30, 1879, Mr. Nave married
Miss Jennie Isabel Rice, who was born at
Rockvillc, Indiana, daughter of Thomas N.
and ilargaret (Digby) Rice. Thomas N.
Rice, her father, was a prominent lawyer
of Parke County, Indiana, and died at
Rockville in 1904. He represented his
county both in the Lower House and in
the State Senate, ilr. and Mrs. Nave have
two daughters, Margaret Isabel and Bea-
trice Shannon. The older is the wife of

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Louis L. Johnson, who was born in Morgan
County, Indiana. They have two children,
Isabel Nave and Shannon Meredith. Bea-
trice S. is the wife of Clement B. Isly, of
Attica, Indiana.

Judge Edwin P. Hammond, former jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, an
honored soldier and officer of the Union
army, lawyer of over half a century's ex-
perience, has been characterized as one of
the broadest, strongest and most honored
representatives of either bench or bar who
ever graced the profession in Jasper
County, where for over thirty years he
practiced as a resident of Rensselaer. Since
1894 Judge Hammond has been a resident
of Lafayette.

He was born at Brookville, Indiana, No-
vember 26, 1835, a son of Nathaniel and
Hannah (Sering) Hammond. The Ham-
monds are an old New England family.
Nathaniel Hammond came to Indiana from
Vermont, and wai3 married at Brookville.
When Judge Hammond was fourteen years
old his parents moved to Columbus, In-
diana, where he was educated in the com-
mon schools and in a seminary. The year
1854 found him emploj'ed as clerk in a
wholesale dry goods store at Indianapolis.
He was soon attracted from a business
■career to the law and began study at Terre
Haute in the office of Abram A. Hammond
and Thomas H. Nelson. Abram A. Ham-
mond, a half-brother of Judge Hammond,
was elected lieutenant governor of Indiana
in 1856, and on the death of Governor
Willard in 1859 became virtual governor.
In 1856 Judge Hammond, after examina-
tion, was admitted to the senior law class
of Asbury, now DePauw, University at
Greencastle, where he was graduated LL. B.
in 1857. The next year he was admitted to
the bar and in search for a location chose
the isolated and prairie settlement of Rens-
selaer in Jasper County. There he con-
tinued to live and labor for more than
thirty years and in that time built up a
reputation which extended all over the
state, both as a sound and able lawyer and
as one of the foremost jurists of Indiana.

His practice at Kensselaer was inter-
rupted by his prompt enlistment for the
three months' service at the outbreak of
the Civil war. In April, 1861, he went to
the front as second lieutenant of Company
G, Ninth Indiana Infantry, and was after-

wards commissioned first lieutenant, serv-
ing under that great and brilliant soldier
of Indiana, Robert H. Milroy, who rose to
the rank of brigadier general. At the close
of his military service in West Virginia,
ninety days later, Mr. Hammond resumed
his law practice at Rensselaer, and in
October, 1861, was elected without oppo-
sition to the Lower House of the Legisla-
ture as a representative for the counties of
Newton, Jasper and Pulaski. In August,
1862, he assisted in recruiting Company A
of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Infantry,
was elected and commissioned its captain,
March 22, 1863, rose to the rank of major,
and November 21st of the same year to
lieutenant colonel. Except for a short time
in 1863-64, when at home recruiting volun-
teers, he was at the front continuously, and
when the colonel of the regiment was placed
at the head of the brigade Mr. Hammond
was advanced to command of the Eighty-
seventh, and so continued in the campaigns
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, in the march
to the sea and up through the Carolinas to
Washington. At the battle of Chiekamauga
September 19 and 20, 1863, his regiment
went into the engagement witli 363 men,
and lost in killed and wounded 199 men,
more than half the number. At the close
of the war, on the recommendation of his
brigade, division and corps commanders, he
was brevetted colonel in the LTnited States
Volunteers, "for gallant and meritorious
service during the war."

Colonel Hammond resumed his practice
at Rensselaer and in a few years had earned
a high and substantial professional stand-
ing and a large practice. In March, 1873,
Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks appointed him
to the position of judge of the Thirtieth Ju-
dicial District, to which office he was elected
in the fall of the same j'ear. Again in 1878
he was elected without opposition for a
term of six years. On May 14, 1883,
Judge Hammond was appointed by Gov. A.
G. Porter as a justice of the Supreme
Court of the state to fill a vacancj' caused
by the elevation of Hon. William A. Woods
to the United States District Bench. Judge
Hammond in the fall of 1884 was the nomi-
nee of the republican party for judge of
the Supreme Court from the Fifth District,
but was defeated along with the rest of the
ticket. Judge Hammond retired from the
Supreme Court Bench in January, 1885,
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larity which few have equalled. A high
testimonial to his individual attainments
and popularity was in the fact that in 1884
he received 5,000 more votes than did the
head of the ticket in Indiana. During the
next five years he practiced law at Rens-
selaer, and then served again as circuit
judge from 1890 to 1892. Resigning from
the bench in August, 1892, Judge Ham-
mond formed a partnership with Charles
B. and William V. Stuart of Lafayette
under the firm name of Stuart Brothers &
Hammond, with offices at Lafayette and
with Judge Hammond in charge of the
firm's business at Rensselaer. In 1894
Judge Hammond removed to Lafayette and
as a member of the firm Stuart, Hammond
& Stuart continued to sustain his well
earned reputation as one of the foremost
lawyers of Indiana. In 1892 Waba.sh Col-
lege conferred upon Judge Hammond the
degree LL. D.

Prior to the war he was a democrat, but
afterward supported the principles of the
republican party and in 1872 was a dele-
gate to the Republican National Conven-
tion when Cleneral Grant was renominated
for the second term. Judge Hammond be-
came affiliated with the Masonic Order, the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Grand Army of the Republic, the LTnion
Veteran Legion and the Loyal Legion, and
for many years served as a member of the
board of managers of tlie National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He also
has membershii) in the Lafayette and Lin-
coln clubs at Lafayette.

March 1, 1864, Judge Hammond married
Mary V. Spitler of Rensselaer. The sur-
viving children of their marriage are:
Lonie, wife of William B. Austin; Eugenia
and Nina V. R. Hammond. Judge Ham-
mond has a grandchild, Virgie, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Austin. He also
has a grandson, Nathaniel Hammond Hov-
ner, son of his deceased daughter, Mrs. Ed-
ward A. Hovner. He served in the avia-
tion corps of the I'nited States of America
in the world's conflict.

Frank Gilmer, a prominent young law-
.yer, now serving as city judge of South
Bend, came to Indiana from Virginia,
where his people for several generations
have been prominent as soldiers, profession-
al men, planters and as private citizens.

His great-grandfather, George Gilmer,

was born in Albemarle County, Virginia,
a son of Scotch parents who were colonial
settlers. George Gilmer was a physician, a
contemporary and friend of Thomas Jeffer-
son and served as a soldier in the Revolu-
tionarj' war.

George Gilmer, Jr., also a native of Al-
bemarle County, became a planter, and
conducted a large estate on the James
River, about ten miles from Charlottesville.
Though in advanced years he served the
Confederate cause during the war. He
died in Virginia when about seventy-nine
years of age. His wife was a member of
the prominent Walker family of Virginia.
Her death occurred when about seventy.

Judge Gilmer's father was also named
Frank Gilmer and was born in Albemarle
County, Virginia, in 1853. He graduated
from the law department of the University
of Virginia, and on being admitted to the
bar began practice at Charlottesville and
attained prominence in his profession. For
twenty-two years he was prosecuting at-
torney for Albemarle Count.y. He died lu
October, 1917. The maiden name of his
wife was Rebecca Haskell. She was born
at Columbia, South Carolina, daughter of
Major Alexander Haskell, who served with
the rank of major in the Confederate army
and later became prominent in business
affairs at Columbia, being a banker and
railroad president. Frank and Rebecca
Gilmer had two sons, George and Frank.
George is a graduate of the University of
Virginia Law School and is now a soldier
in the National Army.

Judge Frank Gilmer, who was born at
Charlottesville, Virginia, received his early
education in private schools at Charlottes-
ville and also attended the University of
Virginia. He determined to make his ca-
reer in the Middle West, and on coming to
Indiana he entered the law department of
Valparaiso University, where he graduated
in 1912. He has since carried increasing
burdens and responsibilities as a lawyer at
South Bend, and was elected judge of the
Citv Court for the term beginning in Janu-
ary, 1918.

In 1915 Judge Gilmer married Rachel
Seabrook, a native of Greensboro, North
Carolina, and daughter of Josiah Seabrook.
Mr. Gilmer is a member of South Bend
Lodge No. 294, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, South Bend Chapter No. 29 Royal
Arch Masons, South Bend Council No. 82

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Royal and Select Masters, South Bend
Lodge No. 235, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows No. 29, and South Bend Lodge
No. 14, Knights of P.^-thias. Both he and
his wife are members of the First Presby-
terian Church.

William T. Cannon, former secretary
and treasurer of the Indianapolis Union
Railroad Company, is a veteran railroad
man, having been identified with the busi-
ness through the successive grades of em-
ployment and executive position for more
than forty years.

While he has been with the Union Com-
pany more than thirty yeai-s and has grown
gray in its service, Mr. Cannon doubtless
takes his chief pride and satisfaction in
his long and active connection with the
Railroad Men's Building and Saving-s As-
sociation, of which he was one of the lead-
ing promoters and organizers and with
which he has been identified in executive
capacity throughout the thirty-two years
of its existence. He was its secretary and
manager until he became the president five
years ago.

The Railroad Men's Building and Sav-
ings Association was organized in August,
1887. Its fundamental purpose wa-s to en-
courage thrift and saving among a class
of men who have always been noted as
free spenders. Through the thirty years
since this association was organized the
seed contained in the original idea and
purpose has borne repeated fruit, and has
not only brought some share of prosperity
to the hundreds of railroad men who have
been patrons of the organization but has
also given the association itself high stand-
ing among the financial institutions of Indi-
ana. The best proof of this is doubtless
found in the progress in the financial pow-
er and resources of the association. At
the end of the first year its assets were less
than $16,000. Five years later they had
increased to nearly $200,000 and in the
year 1903 the assets climbed to the million
dollar mark. Since then there has been a
steady climb in the matter of assets, but
the srreatest period of growth has been
within the last nine years. It was in 1910
that' the assets passed the two million dol-
lar mark, while in Januarv, 1919, the.v were
little short of $12,000,000. In the thirty-
two years of its existence the association

has loaned over $20,000,000, and has de-
clared dividends of more than $3,500,000.
In the early years the service of the asso-
ciation was confined to railway men only,
but eventually its privileges were extended
to others. In July, 1916, the association
acquired a ninety-nine year lease of prop-
erty at 21-23 Virginia Avenue, and here
they erected a structure admirably adapted
to their needs and requirements. The as-
sociation's headquarters have been in this
new building since April 9, 1917.

Mr. Cannon was the first secretary of
this association, but now for a number of
years has been its president.

Mr. Cannon was born at Logansport,
Indiana, April 23, 1856. son of Dr. George
and Martha (Taylor) Cannon. His father,
a native of Connecticut and of New Eng-
land ancestry, was a graduate of Belle^iie
Hospital Medical College of New York
City, and on coming to Indiana located at
Logansport, but later moved to Wisconsin
and practiced in the City of Jane-sville
and later at Boscobel, where he died at
the age of sixty-two. His widow survived
him and spent her last years at Indianapo-
lis, where her death occurred at the age of
eighty-three. Both were members of the
Episcopal Church and Doctor Cannon was
a republican. They had eight children, Wil-
liam T. being the youngest.

William T. Cannon was reared in Wis-
consin from the age of two years, acquired
his education in that state, and in 1873,
at seventeen, returned to Indiana. He be-
gan his railroad career in the offices of the
old Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad
Company. Later he was with the Wabash
Railroad Company and was promoted to
private secretary to the resident vice presi-
dent. He left the Wabash in 1884 to join
the Indianapolis LTnion Railroad Company,
which owns and controls the Indianapolis
passenger station and all the equipment
and service utilized by the various lines
which use this as their terminal facilities
in Indianapolis. Ability and hard work
put Mr. Cannon in the office of treasurer
of the company in 1889, also purchasing
a?ent, and in January, 1901, he .succeeded
William JI. Jackson as secretary and treas-
urer.

Mr. Cannon is well known in Indian-
apolis business circles, belongs to the In-
dianapolis Board of Trade, and in polities
is a republican. He is a Quaker by adop-

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1317

tion and attends worship in the First
Friends Church of Indianapolis. On
April 24, 1877, he married Miss Anna W.
Adams. She was born at Baltimore, Mary-
land, but grew up in Indianapolis, where
her parents, David M. and Hannah Adams,
spent their last years. Her father was for
some years president of the Adams Pack-
ing Company of that city. Mr. and ^Irs.
Cannon have three children: Fermor S.,
Margai-et and Isabel. The son is a grad-
uate of the University of Illinois.

Grace Julian Cl.uike was born at Cen-
terville, Indiana, September 11, 1865. She
is of peculiarly abolition ancestry, her
father being Hon. George "W. Julian and
her mother, Laura (Giddings) Julian, a
daughter of Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, of
Ohio. In 1872 her parents removed to
Ir'sington, Indiana, and in 1878 Grace
Giddings Julian entered the preparatory
department of Butler Univei'sity, from
which she gTaduated, after a full course,
in 1884, continuing for a time in post-
graduate work. She received the degree
Ph. M. in 1885.

She was married at Irvington, in 1887,
to Charles B. Clarke, an Indianapolis at-
torney, who had been associated with her
father's work in the land department in
New Mexico, and who represented Clarion
County in the State Senate in 1913-15.
Mrs. Clarke has always taken an active p ir.
in social, literary and club work, and her
talent has made her prominent in woman 's
work. She was president of the Indiana
Federation of Clubs 1909-11, and is now
president nf the Legislative Council of
Indiana Women, and of the Indianapolis
Local Council of "Women, and a director of
the General Federation of Women's Clubs,
as well as a member of the more notable
women's organizations, and of the ]\Iarion
County Board of Charities.

Mrs. Clarke is widely known as a writer
and a platform speaker. For eight years
she edited the Club Notes and the Woman's
Page of the Indianapolis Star. In 1902
she published a sketch of her father, under
the title "Some Impressions." She is a
suffragist, an Unitarian, and a member of
the Peace Society and the American His-
torical Association. She has one son,
Charles Burns Clarke.

Nelson L. Ault is a man of special and
well earned distinction in the field of pro-
fessional photography, an art with which
he became allied with as an amateur and
has since followed it as the medium through
which he could render the highest degree
of service to the world.

Mr. Ault, who has spent most of his life
in his present home City of South Bend,
was born in Northern Wisconsin, at Antigo,
Langlade County, in 1883. His father,
William Ault, a native of Pennsylvania and
of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, left home
when a boy, going to Ohio, where he
learned the trade of plaster mason, then
coming to Indiana and living at South
Bend awhile, and next taking his family
to Antigo, Wisconsin. After a few years
he returned to Indiana and located per-
manently at Mishawaka, where he con-
tinued busy with his trade until his recent
death on January 4, 1919. He married
Lillie Hobart, daughter of William and
Eliza Ann (Walton) Hobart, both of whom
were of early American colonial ancestry.
The Hobarts were a pioneer family in
ilichigan, and the Wialtons in Indiana.
Lillie Hobart Ault is still living in Mis-
hawaka.

The schools of that city afforded Nelson
Ault his early advantages, after which for
several years he was an employe of the
Roper Furniture Compan3^ In the mean-
time, at the age of sixteen, he had taken up
photography as a pastime. It was a sub-
ject that led him on and on, and his in-
creasing proficiency caused him to realize
that here his talents would find their best
expression. In 1909 he opened a gallery
at 303 South Michigan street, and has done
a thriving business ever since. In order to
afford larger facilities for handling his
custom, he established another studio at 122
South :\Iain Street in March, 1919, and he
carries a complete line of photographic
supplies at each studio. ^Mr. Ault out of
his business and profession has acquired
several pieces of residential property.

In 1905 he married Miss Clarissa Dill-
ing. She was born at Ishpeming, Michigan,
daughter of Henry A. and Eveline (De-
vine) Dilling. To their marriage were
born two children, Mary Elizabeth and
Nelson Lafayette, Jr. Mrs. Ault is a mem-
ber of the First Christian Church, and he
is popular in the South Bend Lodge No. 294

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Free and Accepted Masons, South Bend
Lodge No. 29, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men
and the HajTnakers, while both he and his
wife are members of the Rebekahs.

Walter A. Funk. Admitted to the bar
over thirty years ago. Judge Funk by long
and continuous service has well earned the
numerous honors paid him in his profes-
sion and as a private citizen.

He was born on a fann in Harrison
Township, Elkhart County. His paternal
ancestors settled in Pennsylvania about
1725. His grandfather, Rudolph Funk, a
native of Pennsylvania, after his marriage
moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and for the
rest of his life was owner and operator of
a saw and grist mill. Both he and his wife,
who was a Miss Kauffman, lived to ad-
vanced age.

William Funk, father of Judge Funk,
was born in Northampton County, Pennsyl-
vania, came to manhood in Ohio, and in
1854 brought his wife and two children in
a wagon to Indiana, settling in Harrison
Township of Elkhart County. The land he
bought was only partly cleared of the
dense timber, and for a number of years
he operated a steam sawmill in connection
with farming. In 1863 he moved to an-
other farm in Olive Township of the same
county, and lived there a respected and
useful citizen until 1894, when he retired
to the city of Elkhart and died in 1906, at
the age of eighty-two. He married Cath-
erine Myers, a native of Columbiana
County, Ohio, and descended from one of
two brothers who settled in Pennsvlvania
in 1730. Catherine Funk died in 1884, the
mother of nine children.

Judge Funk fitted himself for his pro-
fession by the exercise of much ingenuity
in overcoming obstacles. After the district
schools he was a student in the Goshen
Normal, taught a term in Harrison Town-
ship, and in 1881 graduated with the S. B.
degree from what is now Valparaiso Uni-
versity. For a brief period he studied law
with Judge Harsen Smith at Cassopolis,
Michigan, following which he was superin-
tendent of schools at Benton and Bristol,
one year in each place. His legal education
was continued in the office of Andrew An-
derson at South Bend and by graduation
from the law department of the University
of Michigan in 1885.

Judge Funk has been a member of the
South Bend bar since 1886, and handled a
large volume of private practice until he
went on the bench as circuit judge in 1900.
By re-election he has been kept on the
bench, with credit to himself and his ofSee,
for nearly twenty years. He is a member
of the Chamber of Commerce, the Country
Club and the Knife and Fork Club. In
May, 1892, he married Miss j\Iary E. Har-
ris, who was born in South Bend, daughter
of Frederick and Mary (Anderson) Harris.
Judge and Mrs. Funk have one son, Wil-
liam Harris, now a student in the Johns
Hopkins University Medical School.

Thad M. Talcott, Jr. A descendant in
direct line from one of the earliest fam-
ilies that settled in the Connecticut Valley,
Thad M. Talcott, Jr., has been practicing
law at South Bend for nearly twenty years,
and his professional work and civic attain-
ments make his individual career distinctly
creditable to his ancestry.

His American lineage begins with John
and Dorothy (Mott) Talcott, who were
born in England and came to America in
1632. They settled in the Hartford Col-
ony in the Connecticut Valley. The second
generation of the family in direct line to
the South Bend lawyer was represented by
Captain Samuel and Hannah (Holyoke)
Talcott ; the third generation by Joseph
and Sarah (Demmiug) Talcott: the fourth
by Josiah and Dina H. (Wyatt) Talcott;
the fifth by Hezekiali and Mary (Myers)
Talcott; the sixth by Asa Gaylord Tal-
cott ; the seventh by Asa Talcott ; the eighth
by Thaddeus ilead Talcott, Sr.; and the
ninth by the South Bend attorney.

Hezekiah Talcott removed from Con-
necticut to Herkimer County, New York,
and was one of the pioneer settlers there.
His son, Asa Gaylord Talcott, was bom in
Herkimer County June 24, 1796, and mar-
ried Ascneth Caswell.

Jlr. Talcott 's grandfather, Asa Talcott,
was born in Herkimer Countv December
2, 1822, and married Martha Mead. He
was a jeweler by trade and conducted a
business in that line at Oswego and later
at Cleveland, Ohio. His last years were
spent retired at Buffalo, New York. His
wife survived him and lived to be nearly
ninety years of age.

Thaddeus ]\Iead Talcott, Sr.. was born at
Oswego, New York, March 28, 1847, and

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1319

during his youth attended school in Cleve-
land and Buffalo. He became a manufac-
turer of boiler compound in Cleveland and
later transferred his business to Chicago,
where he is now living retired. He married
Nellie Rodney, a native of Buffalo, New
York, and daughter of John and Lemira
(Spalding) Rodney, both natives of Penn-
sylvania. Lemira Spalding was the
daughter of Obediah Gore and Clotilda
(Hoyt) Spalding, a granddaughter of
John and Wealthy Ann (Gore) Spalding,
and great-granddaughter of General Simon
Spalding, who served with the rank of
commissioned officer in the Revolutionary
army. General Simon Spalding married
Ruth Shepard, and their son, John Spald-
ing, was also in the Revolutionaiy war,
both becoming pensioners in their later
years. It is through the Spalding branch
that Thad M. Talcott. Jr., has his qualifi-
cations for membership in the Illinois So-
ciety of the Sons of tlie American Revolu-
tion.

Thaddeus M. Talcott and wife had four
sons: Charles M., Thad M., Jr., Harrison
W. and Rodney D.

Thad M. Talcott, Jr., received his early
education in the public schools of Chicago
and in 1897 graduated LL. B. from the law
department of Northwestern University.
However, he did not take up active practice
until he had taken advantage of the best
schools and institutions of learning in
America. He entered Yale University for
post-graduate work, receiving the degree
LL. M. in 1898. and after special work at
Cornell University was awarded a similar
degree in 1899. For one year Mr. Talcott
practiced in Chicago but since 1900 has
been a resident of South Bend, where he
has gained the reputation of an able and
learned lawyer and has become very in-
fluential in public affairs. In 1903 he was
elected to the Lower House of the State
Legislature and in 1912 was in the State
Senate. He was a member of many com-
mittees and secretary of the joint caucus.
He voted for both Mr. Fairbanks and Mr.
Beveridge for the United States Senate and
had the honor of nominating Mr. Beveridge
for the office while a member of the State
Senate. Governor Hanley appointed him a
delegate to the National Divorce Conven-
tion in Washington and Philadelphia. Mr.
Talcott is now serving as United States

commissioner for several north Indiana
counties.

He is a member of the South Bend Young
Men 's Christian Association, the Knife and
Fork Club, University Club, Country Club
at South Bend, the Indiana Society of
Chieago, Yale Club of Chicago, and frater-
nally is affiliated with South Bend Lodge
29-1:, Free and Accepted ilasons, Chicago
Chapter No. 508, Royal Arch Masons,
South Bend Council No. 13, Royal and
Select Masons, South Bend Commandery
No. 13, Knights Templar, and Orak
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Hammond.
He and his wife are active members of the
First Presbyterian Church.

February 17, 1909, Mr. Talcott married
JIaude Rodney. Mrs. Talcott was born in
Buffalo, New York, daughter of Frank and
Etta (Irish) Rodney.

I

Adam Orth Behm. When Adam Orth
Behm did his first work as a lawyer at
Lafayette the United States wa.s torn with
the strife of the Civil war, in which he him-
self bore an honorable part as a private
soldier and a captain in an Indiana regi-
ment. He has grown old in the practice of
the law and is still on the roll of active
membership of the Lafayette bar when
America is again fighting for freedom, but
this time on the other side of the Atlantic
ocean.

]Mr. Behm was born on a farm in Leba-
non Countv, Pennsylvajiia. August 22,
1839, son of Christian and Rosana (Orth)
Behm. His father was born in Pennsyl-
vania June 13, 1817. spent his life as a
farmer, and died in his native state Octo-
ber 2. 1853. His wife, Rosana Orth, was
born in Lebanon County in 1821 and died
in Pennsylvania ]March 13, 1863. Her
brother, Godlove S. Orth, was a prominent
Indiana lawyer and at one time a member
of Congress from this ,st.ate. Christian
Behm and wife had thirteen children, nine
sons and four daughters, the only one now
living being Adam Ortli. "

Adam Orth Behm was educated in the
public schools of Pennsylvania. He was
just fourteen years old when his father
died, and after that he had to seek some
gainful occupation for his own support
and as a means of securing a higher educa-
tion. For two years he worked in a store
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in a grrist mill, saving his money all tlie
time in order to get a better edncation.
One year he spent in college, and in 1859
came west to Lafayette, Indiana, and
entered the law office of liis older brother,
Godlove 0. Behm. He remained there in
the diligent prosecution of his studies two
years.

On April 18, 1861, less than a week after
Fort Sumter was fired upon, Mr. Behm
was mustered in as a private in Company
E, Tenth Indiana Infantry. Upon the
organization of the regiment lie was made
sergeant of his eompanj' and was with it
throughout the period of its three months
service. On getting his honorable dis-
charge he returned to Lafayette and re-
sumed his law studies and also practiced
until January, 1864. He then recruited
Company A of the One Hundred and
Fiftieth Indiana Regiment and was elected
captain of the company. This company
saw active service until the close of the war.
Captain Behm was only in one important
battle, that of Rich Mountain, but had vari-
ous important assignments of duty, at one
time being judge advocate at Harpers
Ferry, and many important military cases
came before him for decision. He was also
a brigade inspector.

After the war he returned to LaPayette
and entered practice, which has been con-
tinued uninten-uptedly to the present time.
He has always enjoyed a large practice but
never mixed the law with politics, though
his steady allegiance as a republican has
known no wavering from the time he east
his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Behm is a member of the military
organization of the Loyal Legion and of
the Grand Army of the Republic. Decem-
ber 26, 1867, atLafayette, he married Miss
Charlotte E. Rhodes. She was born in
what was then the far Northwest, the terri-
tory of Minnesota, on March 18, 1849. An
event which lately attracted much attention
in the social affairs of Lafayette was the
celebration of the golden wedding anni-
versary of ]Mr. and ]Mrs. Behm on December
26, 1917.

The Tribe op Ben-Hur. In practically
every state of the Union are found courts
and individual members of the tribe of
Ben-Hur. This fraternal beneficiary or-
ganization is a typically Indiana institu-
tion and was founded a quarter of a cen-
tury ago at Crawfordsville, where its su-

preme headquarters are still located and
where its supreme chief. Dr. R. H. Gerard,
resides.

One of the notable events in the history
of the order was the celebration at Craw-
fordsville April 5-6, 1911, of the seven-
teenth anniversai'y of the issuance of the
first certificate. At that date representa-
tives from nearly all the states in which
the order was represented gathered to wit-
ness the laying of the corner stone of the
new Fraternal Temple. This beautiful
building is a "promise fulfilled," as for
years the officers of the society dreamed
of a building of that character which would
lie a credit to the society and a place of
gathering for the pilgrims who from time
to time travel to Crawfordsville, the Jeru-
salem of the Tribe of Ben-Hur.

For years the plan of the Tribe of Ben-
Hur had existed in the mind and heart of
one man until it became to him a Hving
reality. His dream was realized twenty-
five years ago, and every succeeding meet-
ing of the order at Crawfordsville has
served to refresh the memoiy of the
founder, counselor and protector — David
W. Gerard.

About 1893 ]\Ir. Gerard associated him-
self with a number of friends of experience
in the insurance and business world, and
plans were formulated to start a fraternal
order along new and novel lines. The
choice of a name for a long time was a
mooted point. "Ben-Hur — a Tale of the
Christ," appeared in book form in 1880
and its widespread fame as a masterpiece
of literature was adding fresh laurels to
the name of the already famous author,
General Lew Wallace. The beautiful story
appealed to Mr. Gerard and his associates
as being rich in material for a ritual of
surpassing excellence for their order, and
a conference was held with General "Wal-
lace, who readily gave his consent to the
use of the story, even suggesting the form
of name, which has never been changed —
"Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur."

Actively associated with Mr. Gerard in
the formation of the order were ex-Gov-
ernor Ira J. Chase of Indianapolis ; Col.
L. T. Dickason, capitalist, of Chicago; W.
T. Ro.vse, a practical- insurance man of
Indianapolis ; J. F. Davidson, M. D. ; John
W. Stroh, F. L. Snyder and S. E. Voris,
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A special law coiumittee was appointed
consisting of Walter A. Royse of Indian-
apolis ; Peter T. Luther of Brazil, Indiana ;
and S. E. Voi-is, John C. Snyder and Jil.
W. Bruner of Crawfordsville, to draft
articles of incorporation. These articles
of incorporation were filed in the office of
the secretary of the state of Indiana on
January 8, 1894, and a charter was granted
under the "Voluntary Assessment Act of
1852," as there was at that time no law in
the State of Indiana governing fraternal
beneficiarj' societies.

The first supreme officers selected were :
ex-Governor Ira J. Chase, supreme chief:
F. L. Snyder, supreme scribe; J. F. David-
son, M. D., supreme medical examiner; and
S. E. Voris, supreme keeper nf tribute ; and
an executive committee consisting of D. W.
Gerard, F. L. Snyder and W. T. Royse.
The election of ex-Governor Chase as su-
preme chief was made at the request of
Mr. Gerard, who desired to devote all his
time to the organization work. Upon the
death of Ira J. Chase, which occurred at
Luebec, Maine. May 11, 1895, Col. L. T.
Dickason was chosen by the executive com-
mittee to fill out the unexpired term as
supreme chief.

:\Iarch 1. 1894, the first Court of the
order was formed in Crawfordsville, known
as Simonides Court No. 1, starting with a
charter roll of over 500. The plan and
name of the order were popular from the
beginning. The beneficial feature was en-
tirely new and novel: the amount of pro-
tection granted each member depended
upon the age at admission, but a uniform
amount of contribution was charged each
member. The plan was simple, equitable
and easily understood. No assessments
were levied upon the death of a member,
but a regular monthly payment was col-
lected each month. An emergency fund
was created from the beginning, and
women were admitted on an absolutelj
equal basis with men. New courts were
rapidly formed in Indiana and adjoining
states and at the time of the supreme ses-
.sion held in Crawfordsville April 14, 1896,
the order had a membership of 7.198 and a
surplus and reserve fund of .$41,829. At
that time Indiana had 80 courts, Nebraska
21, Ohio 28, Iowa 2, Kansas 1, California
2, Missouri .3, Illinois 16, New York 14,
New Jersey 1, Pennsylvania 4, and Ken-
tucky 2. The record of this young order

was indeed marvelous and the name of Ben-
Hur was already famous throughout the
fraternal insurance world. At this session
D. W. Gerard was elected supreme chief,
and F. L. Snyder, S. E. Voris and Dr. J.
F. Davidson were re-elected to their re-
spective positions. To these four men
really belongs the credit of the growth and
development of the order.

February 21, 1900, articles of re-incorpo-
ration were filed with the secretary of state
in compliance with the provisioiis of an
act regulating fraternal beneficiary a.sso-
eiations, approved March 1, 1899.

Actively associated with the above men-
tioned supreme officers in the prudential
affairs of the order were John C. Snvder,
who organized many of the first courts and
occupied the position of supreme organizer
until the death of his brother, F. L. Sny-
der, on December 29, 1905, when he wks
appointed by the executive committee to fill
out his brother's unexpired term, and was
unannnously elected at the next regular
supreme session held May 15, 1906. No
other change was made in the personnel
of the supreme officers until Januarv 3
1910, when on the death of D. W. Gerard^
the executive board appointed Dr. R. H.'
Gerard to fill out his father's unexpired
term, which action was approved at the
next supreme session of the Supreme Tribe
held :\ray 15, 1910. Doctor Gerard was se-
lected by the executive board as a man
well fitted to fill such an important office
on account of his experience in the field
and his service of ten years in the medical
department, where he became acquainted
with the details of the business, both in
the office and in the field.

During the first seventeen vears of the
order's history preceding the" building of
the temple at Crawfordsville it had en-
rolled over a quarter of a million men and
women from thirty-two states, and had
never shown a loss of membei-ship or funds
in any year of its existence. Its unique
distinction is that it was the first society
that from the date of its inception ad-
mitted women on an equal rank with men
both as to social and beneficial privileges'
and at an equal rate of contribution It
was the pioneer order also in ehargino- all
of its members, regardless of age, the same
rate, which consisted of one dollar per
month on a whole certificate, the amount
ot the certificate being graded according-

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to the age of the insured member. This
system was in vogue from the start until
1908, when the society adopted an adequate
rate for all new members, which was based
on the actual combined mortality experi-
ence of fraternal societies of America over
an experience of forty years. This mor-
tality table is known as the National Fra-
ternal Congress Table, with 4 per cent
interest assumption.

Marvin Campbell. Perhaps no man is
better known at South Bend, Indiana, than
]\Iarvin Campbell, banker, manufacturer,
public citizeu. This city has been his
home since 1870, almost half a century,
and few, indeed, have impressed them-
selves more certainly upon its business and
political life, or have done more to further
religious, charitable and humane move-
ments. Indefatigable in business, he is a
broad-gauged man of sound judgment and
sterling principles, and the great industries
and enterprises with which his name is
honorably linked have had much in their
development and expansion to do with the
progress that has brought comparative
prosperity to this section of the state. His
people were among the sturdy pioneers of
1833 in Indiana, and although eighty-four
years have rolled away and not only the
state but the nation has been almost re-
made, their names are not forgotten, nor
have the lands that they ventured so much
to secure passed out of the possession of
their descendants.

;\Iarviu Campbell, ex-state senator, pres-
ident of the South Bend National Bank,
and an extensive manufacturer, was born
at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana,
March 13, 1849. His parents were Samuel
A. and Harriet (Cornell) Campbell. His
great-great-grandfather was born in Scot-
land, a member of the same clan as the
present noble Argyle family, and came to
the American colonies and settled in New
Hampshire before the Revolutionary war.
His son, Hugh Campbell, the great-grand-
father, was born in New Hampshire and
was a young soldier in the Revolution and
afterward was a resident of the State of
New York, where he died.

Samuel A. Campbell, father of Mar\'in
Campbell, was born in 1821, at Westfield
in Chautauqua County, New York. He
was a son of Adam S. Campbell, who was
born in New York and died at Valparaiso,

Indiana, in 1852. He had seen military
service before coming to Indiana, being a
member of the state militia. In 1833, with
family and household possessions, he drove
his wagon and team along the uncharted
pioneer roads to Porter County, Indiana,
where he secured land from the govern-
ment, and here he passed the rest of his
life. His son Samuel A. inherited the
homestead of 160 acres and lived on it for
seventy-seven years. He often recalled
early days in Porter County, when many
Indians were yet living in the woodland,
and, although his educational opportunities
were too little to be considered, he devel-
oped into a man of wide knowledge and
became a leader in public matters in Wash-
ington Township, frequently serving in
public capacities. He always gave his po-
litical support to the democratic party and
was one of the early and steadfast Ma-
sons in this section, and reached the
Knight Templar degree, belonging to the
Commandery at Valparaiso. He married
Harriet Cornell, who was born in Ohio in
1827, and died at Valparaiso in 1865, a
noble woman in every relation of life.
There were six children born to them, as
follows: Marvin and ilyron, twins; Da-
rius, who died in 1865, when aged thirteen
years; Otto S., who is a retired farmer
living at Valparaiso: Helen Minerva, who
was the wife of D. B. Eastbume, a farmer
living near Judson in Parke County, Indi-
ana, died at South Bend, in 1877 ; and Ida
IMay, who died at the age of four months.

Marvin Campbell went from the local
schools to Valparaiso College, where he
continued as a student until 1869, develop-
ing a marked talent in mathematics, which
science he taught for one year in the Val-
paraiso High School, and in 1870, 1871 and
1872 he was instructor in mathematics in
the high school of So\ith Bend. He then
left the educational field and in 1872 em-
barked in a hardware business at South
Bend, in which he remained interested
until 1888 and since then has been largely
identified with manufacturing enterprises
and banking.

The South Bend National Bank, of
which Marvin Campbell is president, is the
oldest bank in South Bend and was estab-
lished as a state bank in 1838. For over
thirty years the late Myron Campbell, twin
brother of IMarvin Campbell, was cashier
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was generally conceded at the time of his
death, in 1916, that the state had lost one
of its finest citizens as well as ablest finan-
ciers. In 1870 the bank was nationalized
and is considered one of the soundest banks
in the state, its working capital being
$100,000, and its surplus $135,000. The
careful, conser\-ative policy that has been
a feature ever since the bank was founded
continues, and the Campbell name is a
sjnionym for stability.
' One of the largest industries of South
Bend and in its line in the state is the
Campbell Paper Box Company, which
plant is situated on the corner of Main
and Sample streets. ]\Ir. Campbell estab-
lished this factory in 1893 and is the prin-
cipal owner and president of the com-
pany. Employment is given to 100
workmen and the product is paper boxes
and shipping tags, with a market that
covers the eountn,\ Another extensive
enterprise that gives employment and high
wages to many workmen is the Campbell
Wire Specialty Works, located at No. 1108
High Street, where aU kinds of wire shapes
used in many trades are manufactured.
]\Ir. Campbell owns the works and is presi-
dent of the operating company. Many
smaller concerns owe much to Mr. Camp-
bell's friendly encouragement and his
financial advice has been the means of
saving more than one struggling small
business man from disaster.

In politics ilr. Campbell has always
been a straight republican and in earlier
years was active in the political field. He
has served efficiently in many public of-
fices and in 1882 was elected a member
of the State Senate, and served with faith-
ful attention to the best interests of the
public through the sessions of 1883-5. For
a number of years he was a member of
the board of trustees of the South Bend
schools, and for the last fifteen years has
been a trustee of De Pauw University,
Greencastle, Indiana.

ilr. Campbell was married at South
Bend in 1874 to Miss Lydia A. Brown-
field, a native of South Bend and a daugh-
ter of John and Lydia A. (Beason) Brown-
field, the former of whom was a pioneer
merchant and banker of this city. Mr.
and ;\rrs. Campbell have three children:
John Brownfield, who is secretary of the
Campbell Paper Box Company : Harriet
B., who is the wife of Dr. W. A. Hazen,

an eminent physician and surgeon of
South Bend and widely known in the state ;
and Marvin Rudolph, who resides with his
parents, is treasurer of the Campbell Pa-
per Box Company.

While Mr. Campbell has been an ag-
gressive and successful business man, he
by no means has ignored the claims of
tiiose agencies that make for something
more than material prosperity. From his
youth up he has been a faithful member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a
trustee of the same for jnany years, and
has considered it a privilege as well as a
distinction to serve as a delegate to the
JMethodist Episcopal General Confer-
ence on so many occasions, probably be-
ing the only lay member in the state who
served in four consecutive sessions, 1904,
1908, 1912 and 1916. He has always taken
front rank in all benevolent movements.
He has served many years as a trustee of
the Young Men's Christian Association,
and accepted the chairmanship of the dis-
trict board of four counties that raised
$73,000 for the association 's proposed fund
of $35,000,000. In times of national calam-
ity no one has been readier or more gen-
erous in helpfulness.

]Mr. Campbell is one of the older mem-
bers of the [Masonic body in South Bend,
belonging to St. Joseph Lodge No. 45,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and
no one has been truer to Masonic brother-
hood. While ~S[r. Campbell passes the
larger part of the year in South Bend,
where he owns a handsome residence on
Colfax Avenue, during the warm sea.sons
he occupies his beautiful country home,
Oakdale Farm, situated in Clay Township,
Saint Joseph County, four miles northeast
of South Bend, where he has 130 acres of
improved land.

The Anthony Family. For nearly
ninety years the name Anthony has been
one of the most familiar in association
M'ith the property development and busi-
ness interests of Muneie. Four genera-
tions of the family have spent at least a
jiortion of their lives in the city.

The founder of the family wa.s the rev-
ered Dr. Samuel P. Anthony, who was
born at Lynchburg, Virginia, December
2, 1792. Lynchbiirg was in the heart of
the great Virginia tobacco industry, and
doubtless the tobacco crop had supple-

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mented the family's yearly income ever
since it located in the state. In 1812, when
he was twenty years old. Samuel P. An-
thony and his father moved to Ohio. Dur-
ing the second war with Great Britain he
served as a teamster in the United States
army. In 1814 the family located at Cin-
cinnati, and there established the tirst to-
bacco manufactory west of the Allegheny
Mountains. The availability of the Ohio
Valley for tobacco culture drew not a few
tobacco planters from Virginia, and thus
it was the Anthonys first became located
on the west side of the Alleghenies. While
in Cincinnati Samuel P. Anthony applied
himself to the study of medicine and later
removed to Clinton County, Ohio, where
he practiced for three years, and for an
equal length of time at Cedarville in the
same state.

Doctor Anthony came to Muncie in 1831,
and here he practiced for twenty-five years,
retiring about fifteen years before his
death. Doctor Anthony was very success-
ful in his financial career, was a merchant
and bought great quantities of land in
Delaware County. By close attention to
business he amassed a fortune, and at the
time of his death was variously estimated
at from $2.50,000 to $.500,000. 'He was ac-
tive in all public enterprises which seemed
to him calculated to promote the interests
of his city and county. He was among
the most liberal contributors and active
promoters in the building of the first rail-
road through the county. He was one of
the directors from Delaware County of the
Bellefontaine & Indianapolis, now the Big
Foiir Railway, was for a year its presi-
dent and verv active in soliciting stock sub-
scriptions. He was also president of the
Fort "Wayne & Southern Railway, and a
director of the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloom-
ington Railway.

Doctor Anthony continued active in busi-
ness at Muncie to the verv last. He died
July 22. 1876. In 1817 he married for his
first wife Miss Narcissa Haines. She died
in Mav, 1858, leaving one son, Edwin C.
In 1859 he married Miss Emily V. Vanna-
man, who survived him many years.

The onlv son of Doctor Anthony was
the late Capt. Edwin C. Anthony. He
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 29, 1818,
and was thirteen years old when his father
moved to Muncie. He completed his edu-
cation in Richmond, Indiana, and enter-

ing his father's store at Muncie was made
a partner and was active as a merchant
until the outbreak of the war. In 1861
he raised a company of cavalry, which
became Company D of the Second Cavalry,
Forty-first Indiana Regiment. He was
commissioned a captain, and was with
the army of the Cumberland. During the
winter of 1861-62 he had an arm broken,
and with health greatly impaired he was
obliged to resign his commission on March
15, 1862. After returning to Muncie and
recovering his health he entered the dry
goods business, which he continued luitil
his father's death. Largely as a matter
of health he spent many winters in the
South, and while at Florida acquired ex-
tensive land and phosphate mining inter-
ests in Marion County of that state. He
also developed a splendid livestock ranch,
and for the past ten years of life most of
his interests were centered in Floi-ida. At
his farm in that state, known as Anthony,
he died June 7, 1884, at the age of sixty-
six.

September 30, 1849, Captain Anthony
married Miss Rebecca G. Vannaman,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Camp-
bell) Vannaman, who at that time lived at
Centerville, Wa.vne County, Indiana. Her
parents came originally from Philadelphia,
but Rebecca Anthony was born in Ohio.
Captain Anthony and wife had six chil-
dren : Florence Virginia, wife of Hender-
son Swain : Samuel P. : Edwin C, Jr., who
died at the age of twenty-eight; Ella, who
died at the age of twenty-five, the wife of
George Gamble: Charles H. ; and Addie
Anthony, deceased wife of Frank Robin-
son.

Charles H. Anthony, representing the
third generation of the family in Delaware
County, was born in that count.v May 10,
1858. He was educated in the public
schools of Muncie and for two years at-
tended thd Military College at Chester,
Pennsylvania. In 1877 he became inter-
ested with his father in land and other
business interests in Florida. In 1880 he
planted a fifty-acre orange grove, and five
years later sold it to an English sAmdicate.
He continued to increase his investments
in Florida, and his capital was largely re-
sponsible for the development of immense
phosphate beds.

However, it is with his business inter-
ests in and around Muncie that this ar-

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1325

tide is especially concerned. He took the
lead in organizing and was president of
the Economy Co-operative Gas Company
of Muncie, one of the big organizations in
the industrial field of the city; was a mem-
ber of the Citizens Enterprise Company;
a stockholder in the Delaware County Na-
tional Bank; and at different times owned
some of the largest and most valuable
tracts of real estate in and around Muncie.
In 1880 he and his mother sold over 420
acres of land included in the Muncie Land
Company's Addition, the Gray Addition
and the Anthony Park Addition. One of
the notable business blocks of Anthony ha.s
long been known as the Anthony Block,
erected in 1887 by Mr. Anthony at the
northwest corner of Walnut and Jackson
streets. At the time of its erection this
was the finest business block in any city
of the state. Mr. Anthony was foremost
in utilizing the opportunities presented to
Muncie during the natural gas era. He
was among the first to become financially
interested in drilling in the Muncie field.
Mr. Anthony is a republican in politics.

February 'lO, 1886, he married Miss Har-
riet B. Mitchell, daughter of Dr. Harvev
Mitchell.

TI.\RVEy Mitchell ANxnoNY. Indiana
has good reason to cherish its military an-
nals. The state has poured forth gener-
ously her resources and her men in every
national crisis demanding them. It wa.s
with a proper sense of pride that the state
authorities recently proposed to undertake
a monumental war history of Indiana, to
give a permanent record of the war ac-
tivities of all the counties of the state. The
individual records that will comprise a
portion of that history will be imposing
indeed, and among them that of Ilarvey
Mitchell Anthony will have a place of pe-
culiar and unrivalled distinction.

Harvev Mitchell Anthony was born Feb-
ruary 10. 1890. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles H. Anthony of Muncie. He was
a student of the ^luncie High School, and
from 1908 to IHIl attended Miami ITni-
versity at Oxford. Ohio, specializinsr in
mathematics and languages. In 1911 he
entered Harvard University, and while at-
tentive to the prescribed collegiate cur-
riculum he specially favored the sciences,
including advanced physics and chemi.stry,
geology and astronomy, and also doing a

large amount of work in philosophy. While
at Harvard, being a young man of means
and able to indulge some special hobbies,
ho installed a large private laboratory and
supplemented his regular work by experi-
mental study in biology and research in
radio-telegraphy and radio- telephony. He
graduated in 1914 with the degree Asso-
ciate in Arts of Harvard University.

Young Anthony's career is an impres-
sive illustration of the value of thorough
preparedness for any great i-esponsibilities,
whether of a private or public nature. Af-
ter leaving Harvard ho continued the study
of Electrical Ensrineering and Steam Engi-
neering at the Hawley Institute of Steam
and Electrical Engineering in Boston,
finally gi-aduating from that institute with
honors. Then came other advanced post-
graduate courses in Columbia University
in Education, and at the same time he was
working in the New York Electrical In-
.stitute, of which he is also an honor grad-
uate.

Even during these years of training and
preparation several flattering offers were
tendered him. However, his ambition took
a very unusual and a most laudable direc-
tion. His interest in and love for his
home community prompted him to return
to Muncie and give the benefit of his knowl-
edge and ex-erience to the broadening of
the opportunities offered bv the new Mun-
cie High School, which had just been com-
pleted. In that school he introduced a de-
partment of electrical engineering which
surpassed many departments in that field
in the majority of colleges. He was made
head of the department of Electrical Engi-
neering. Ensrineering Drafting and Design,
and Radio-Telegraphy. Probably no school
in Indiana has anvthinsr to compare with
the equipment and facilities which he in-
trndnced at Muncie, and under his per-
sonal direction these facilities were used
to the highest advantage. In 1916 he was
made_ Director of Vocational Education of
the city schools of IMuncie.

From this happy and congenial work
he was called at the outbreak of hostilities
to sterner re.sponsibilities. He orsranized
the first department of Army Signal Corps
training in the state and conducted large
classes in Radio-Telegraphy at the Muncie
High School. His services being imme-
diately recosrnized by the navy, he was in-
vited to take charge of the advanced work

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in radio training for the navy at Great
Lakes, the largest naval training station
in the world. From there a few months
later he was called to Washington, to or-
ganize the entire radio training system for
both ofiSeers and enlisted men in the Avia-
tion Department of the Navy. Thereafter
from his headquarters at Washington he
directed this training in all sections of
the United States and Canada. His of-
ficial title was Director of United States
Naval Aeronautical Radio-Training. In
that capacity he organized schools at Pen-
saeola, Florida, Harvard University and
other division schools at the plants where
naval air craft was being manufactured.
Although his work in that field lasted but
a few months it achieved distinctive results,
and he was looked upon as one of the most
useful men for his years in the Navy De-
partment.

At the secession of hostilities many of-
fers came to him in both industrial enter-
prises and professorship in universities, of-
fers that of themselves were a practical
recognition of his wide experience and
thorough training. He has been honored
by membership in many American and
European scientific societies, but, surpris-
ing as it may seem, he put aside all these
remunerative offers and again exhibited
his loyalty to his birthplace and his zeal
for higher educational development, re-
turning to his home and friends, and re-
suming his work in the Muncie schools as
Director of Vocational Education and Pro-
fessor of Engineering Sciences.

Angeline Teal (Mrs. Norman Teal),
author, whose maiden name was Gruey,
was born on a farm in Southern Ohio,
August 28, 1842. When she was three
years old her parents removed to a farm
in Noble County, Indiana, where she grew
up, receiving her education in the common
schools and at iliss Griggs' Seminary, at
Wolcottville, Indiana.

On January 1, 1866. she married Dr.
Norman Teal, a prominent physician of
Kendallville, who had served through the
Civil war as a surgeon in the Union Army,
and who represented his countv in the
state legislatures of 1891 and 1893. She
lived at Kendallville until her death, on
September 3, 1913, and left one surviving
daughter, ;\Irs. James DeWit, of Kendall-
ville.

^Irs. TeaUs writings were diverse. A
number of her poems, children's stories
and short stories were published in various
magazines. She also piiblished four vol-
umes. "John Thorn's Folks," "Muriel
Howe," "The Speaker of the House,"
and "The Rose of Love." She was a
member of the Western Writers' Associa-
tion, and took much interest in the intel-
lectual development of the state.

Thomas J. Griffith, M. D. An old and
honored physician and surgeon of Craw-
fordsville. Doctor Griffith since 1910 has
been secretary of the ^Montgomery County
Historical Society, and in many ways out-
side of his profession has used his influence
and means to preserve that fine commu-
nity spirit which has been one of the best
assets of Crawfordsville.

He belongs to an honored family, and
has had a praiseworthy interest in preserv-
ing the facts and records concerning his
relatives and ancestors. Much of the in-
formation concerning the Griffith family
was obtained by Doctor Griffith from his
father. The Griffith family has a legen-
dary history dating back to Edward, King
of England. 1239, when they were gov-
ernors of provinces in Wales. The name
was honored in Shakespeare's plav of
King Henry VIII (1528), when Griffith
was gentleman usher to Queen Catherine
and when he says: "Noble Madam — Men's
evil mannei's live in brass; their virtues
we write in M-ater. May it please your
highness to hear me speak his good name?"
Katherine: "Yes, good Griffith." Griffith
is a Welsh name and was originally spelled
Gryfyth. Three brothers came to America
some time in the sixteen hundreds, land-
ing at Philadelphia and settled on the
Brandywine River. They became opulent,
but through selling much of their prop-
erty and exchanging it for continental
money during the Revolutionary war be-
came impoverished.

The great-grandfather of Doctor Griffith
was Joseph Griffith. He served as a sol-
dier in the Revolution and was the first
revolutionary soldier buried at Indianapo-
lis— in 1823. A statement to Doctor
Griffith from the War Department shows
that there is eleven pounds of English
money due the heirs of this Revolutionary
patriot. Joseph Griffith married Mary
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were born: Abraham in 1774: Sarah in
1777; John in 1778; Joseph in 1780; Eliza-
beth in 1783; and Amos in 1786. Doctor
Gritifith's great-grandmother was lost in
making a visit across the Allegheny ilonn-
tains and no trace of her could be found.

Abraham Griffith, grandfather of Doc-
tor Griffith, was born in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, November 30, 1774. He
married Joanna John, a grand-aunt of D.
P. John of Depauw University, October
12, 1798. Joanna died August 12, 1815. in
Frederick County, ilaryland. To Abra-
ham and Joanna Griffith were born :
Lydia T., Hannah, Thornton, Townsend,
Bai-ton and Clifford. Abraham Griffith,
with his brother, Amos, and sons Town-
send and Barton, came West after the
death of his wife, accompanied by two
grown daughters, Lydia and Hannah,
about 1822 or 1823. aiid settled in Coving-
ton, Indiana. In 1824 Abraham Griffith
took the contract to build the first jail at
Crawfordsville for $243. He died at Craw-
fordsville, June 19, 1829. His son Barton
died in 1834.

Thornton Griffith, father of Doctor
Griffith, came West later than his father
and brothers. He was born in Chester
County, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1799. He
was on the Island of Porto Rico in the
summer of 1825, superintending the build-
ing of a wharf for a Philadelphia sugar
company. While there a three-masted
schooner came into San Juan with a dou-
ble decked cargo of 500 negroes from
Africa, all in ilother Nature's costume.
The negroes were unloaded on the beach
to clean up, and the third day they de-
parted for some American port. This
exhibition of man's inhumanity to man
made an abolitionist of Thornton Griffith.
In the campaign of Gen. William Har-
ri.son in Indiana in 1836, Thornton
Griffith was honored by a committee of
Crawfordsville citizens "to deliver the ad-
dress, of welcome. February 4, 1836, he
married Mary A. Hall, daughter of
Thomas and Margaret (Herron) Hall.
She was born in Newbury County, South
Carolina, June 18, 1807. Her mother died
in South Carolina, December 10, 1821,
leaving several children. James F. Hall,
brother of ]Mary, was one of the county
commissioners that built the courthouse at
Crawfordsville. Her father and mother
were born in County Monaghan, Ireland,

and landed at Charleston, South Carolina,
in 1765. Two brothers of Thomas Hall
were soldiers in the Revolutionary war in
Gen. Francis Marion's army, one being
an officer.

Thornton Griffith and wife were mar-
ried at "Fruits Corner," in Ripley Town-
ship, Montgomery County, and moved in
the spring of 18.36 to the wilds of Clinton
County, on Wild Cat Creek, four miles
northeast of Frankfort, on a 160-acre tract
that had been entered from the govern-
ment. Here in a log cabin they began the
battle of life, with wolves and wild cats
for nocturnal serenaders. Thornton
Griffith taught school one year in a log
schoolhouse with gi-ea.sed paper for win-
dow lights and slabs with wooden legs for
seats and slabs for flooring. About that
time he was a candidate for the Legisla-
ture on the whig ticket from the counties
of Clinton and ilontgomery, which coun-
ties were largely democratic. It was be-
coming apparent that he would be elected
when the democrats started a falsehood
and defeated him. This so disgusted him
that he would never again consent to be
a candidate for office. He was a man of
pleasing address, an ea.sy and fluent speak-
er, invincible in argument, a great reader
and possessed of a splendid memory. He
wa.s a member of the Friends Church, but
had a broad catholicity characteristic of
his benevolent spirit. In his later years
when "moved" he frequently preached to
the Friends. He died at his home in Dar-
lington, June 23. 1869. The three chil-
dren born into the Clinton County home
were: Thomas J., born April 2, 1837;
Joanna 'SI., born November 25, 1839;
Nancy E., born August 1, 1842. Joanna
died February 13, 1865, from cerebro-
spinal meningitis; Nancy E. was married
December 19, 1861, to Joseph Binford, and
now resides at Crawfordville.

The mother of these children has been
described as a noble, thoughtful woman,
devoted to her home and family, and was
a devout Presbyterian. She died Novem-
ber 3, 1886. Her father deserves men-
tion. Being convinced that slavery wa.s
wrong and being unable to free his "slaves
in South Carolina, as there was a statute
against such action, he told his negroes to
look around and choose their masters with-
out breaking families. This they did. He
then removed to Butler County, Ohio, and

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remained there about two years, when with
liis cliildren, Thomas. John A., Mary A.,
Elizabeth, Nancy and Henry L., he came
to Ripley Township, ^Montgomery County,
locating- at what is now Fruits Corner in
1829. He bought a large farm and died
there in 1848. For fifty years he was a
ruling elder in the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church.

Townsend Griffith, one of the brothers
of Thornton Griffith, wa.s born in Chester
County, Penns.vlvania, April 4, 1801, and
came to Crawfordsville in 1822. Novem-
ber 1, 1827, he married ]\Iahala Catter-
lin. She was the daughter of Ephraim
Catterlin, a pioneer settler near Craw-
fordsville. Townsend Griffith was promi-
nent in the early development of the
county, both in politics and civic afifairs.
In the summer of 1852 he made a busi-
ness trip to Minnesota and died of cholera
June 2, 1852. at Galena. Illinois. After a
time his remains were brought home aJid
laid to rest in the Masonic Cemetery. Of
the children of To^^^lsend Griffith and wife
a brief record is as follows: Matilda, one
of the first children born in Crawfordsville,
married Ben.jamin Galey, who died many
years ago and she passed away in her
eighty-fifth year. Sarah A. was married
to George Worbington, of a prominent
family of Montgomery County, and died
many years ago. Ephraim C. and Amanda
were twins, born January 5, 1833 ; Amanda
became the wife of Morgan Snook, a son
of Dr. Henry Snook, a prominent pioneer
physician of :\Iontgomei-y County;
Ephraim married February 14, 1855,
Mary J. Brassfield, who was born Ausrust
5, 1837, Ephraim died February 11, 1901,
and was noted for his hustling business
ability. His widow is now living with
her son Howard. Ephraim and wife had
the following children : George, well
known as an architect; Frank E., who
died young ; William Douglas, who married
December 14, 1910, Agnes A. Walsh; How-
ard E. and Birdie, all of whom live in
Crawfordsville. ]\Iary Griffith, the next
child of Townsend Griffith and wife, mar-
ried Charles Bowen and both are now de-
ceased, their two surviving children being
Arthur and Clara, the latter married and
living in Kansas. Rebecca Griffith died
in infancy. Abraham Griffith lived to
manhood and was thrown from a horse
and killed. John Warner Griffith was an

express messenger from Indianapolis to
St. Louis and wa.s killed iu a railroad
wreck.

George, a son of Ephraim and ^lav\'
Griffith, married ilarch 10, 1880, Ida :\i.
Coster. He was bom in Crawfordsville,
Jlarch 12, 1856. William Douglas, another
son of Ephraim, was born June 22, 1861 ;
Frank E. was born June 2, 1858; and
Howard E. was bom December 30, 1876.
George and Ida Griffith have two .sons,
Claude and Kai-1. Claude married Helen
Nolan and has one son, and Karl is mar-
ried and lives at ITrbana, Illinois, and has
four daughters.

Rev. Thoma.s Griffith, a cousin of Thorn-
ton Griffith, was the first ]\Iethodist minis-
ter in Crawfordsville. He preached in a
small frame church where the present
Methodist church now stands. He married
Lucy Daniels, and was a brother-in-law
of John Crawford, a pioneer merchant.
Their .sons were John and Thomas B.
John was a druggist and died many years
ago, Thomas was a soldier in the famous
Eighty-sixth Indiana Infantry in the Civil
war, and after the war married, October
15, 1864, Amanda Wilhite, by whom he
had a son, William Griffith. Thomas
Griffith died thirt.v-five ,veai-s ago and his
remains lie in the ]\Iasonie Cemetery. Rev.
Thomas Griffith is buried in the old Town
cemetery.

Amos Griffith, a brother of Abraham
Griffith, the grandfather of Doctor Griffith,
went to Warren County, Indiana, in 1830,
and mari'ied an Indian woman with a large
land inheritance. Doctor Griffith's father
visited th«m in 1832, and their home was
a model of cleanliness. No children were
born to them.

Dr. Thomas J. Griffith is a charter mem-
ber of the Montgomery County Medical
Society, organized forty-six .vears ago. and
is the last living charter member. He is
not only the oldest physician in the county
in active practice, but the oldest in years
of practice, his services covering fifty-one
years. He is an ardent areheologist" and
has a valuable collection of Indian relics
which he ha.s been fift.v yeai*s in collecting.
One rare relic is a mound builders copper
axe found forty yeare ago in the eastern
part of Madison Township in digging the
state ditch. He has been offered $50 for
it. The doctor is a member of McPher-
son Post, Grand Army of the Republic,

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and is a past post commander. Of this he
is quite proud. He is secretary of the
^Montgomery County Historical Society
and is enthusiastic in its promotion. He
is a charter member of the prohibition
])arty in ^Montgomery County and cast the
first'prohibition vote in Darlington for his
favorite, John P. St. John, in 1884. For
twelve years he was the party's county
chairman. In religion he is a Unitarian.

William V. Stot. More than forty
years the business and social community
of Lafayette knew and honored William
V. Sto.v, merchant, public-spirited citizen,
and a "man of many kindly and deep in-
terests in thQ welfare of the community.
Though he was seventy-three years old
wlien the final summons came his death
was regarded as a sad bereavement to that
community when it came on November 3,
1917.

Mr. Stoy was bom at New Albany, In-
diana, November 24, 1844, son of Peter
and ]Mary (Wicks) Stoy. He was the last
surviving member of a family of twelve
children and he was the yoiingest. He grew
up with the average opportunities and en-
vironment of an Indiana boy, but acquired
a liberal education, tinishing at De Pauw
ITiiiversity. Coming to Lafayette, in 1874,
Mr. Stoy established a carpet and furni-
ture business in the same building which
he occupied at the time of his death. In
more than forty years this business had
been built up to large proportions until it
was considered one of the largest stores
of its kind in this part of the state. Pros-
perity came to him in generous measure,
and while it was completely earned by
ability and industry it was used not alone
for the profit and advantage of ^Ir. Stoy.
He was liberal in his attitude and in his
support of all worthy public measures. As
the editor of one of Lafayette's papers
said: "He was a man who took an active
interest in public affairs, was a liberal con-
tributor to all public enterprises and a
good citizen."

For many years he was prominent in
republican politics and came to be well
known by the prominent republicans
throughout the state. In former years he
was a member of the Lincoln Club. He
was a Knight Templar and thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member
of the Mystic Shrine. He took a verv

active part in the Trinity Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Mr. Stoy attributed much
of his health and .strength to an active
outdoor life. He owned a summer home
at Ottawa Beach in ilichigan and spent
every summer with his family there.

On May 9, 1871, at New Albany, Mr.
Stoy married Miss ilaiy Catherine
Kendle, who survives him. Six children
were born to their marriage, two of whom
died in infancy. The other four are : ilrs.
William M. Riach, of Chicago, who has
one child, ilarjorie S. Riach ; Ray W.,
Mary V. and Katie J., all of Lafayette.

Rev. John F. DeGroote, C. S. C.
Among the members of the Catholic priest-
hood there are found men of broad educa-
tion, enlightened views and great religious
enthusiasm, whose precept and teachings
exercise a recognized influence for morality
that must be adjudged one of the supreme
factors in advancing any community. The
Catholic priest is called upon to not only
be a spiritual guide to his people, but he
must also be possessed of an appreciable
share of the kind of practicability that will
enable him to advise and teach in the ordi-
nary events of life, and to protect the in-
terests of his flock while also promoting
the temporal affairs of his parish. Much,
in fact, is demanded of those wlio choose
the unselfish life of the Catholic priest.
Not all, as in other walks of life, are titled
by nature for the same sum of responsi-
bility, and perhaps few, under the same
conditions, would have advanced to the
important position now occupied by Rev.
John F. DeGroote, pastor of Saiiit Pat-
rick's Catholic Church of South Bend.

Father DeGroote was born at ilisha-
waka. Saint Joseph County, Indiana, Au-
gust 27. 1866, his parents being Benja-
min and Catherine (Woods) DeGroote.
His father was born at Ghent, Belgium,
in 1827, and as a young man emigrated
to the United States, becoming an early
settler and pioneer farmer of the vicin-
ity of Mishawaka, where he passed the
remainder of his life in agricultural pur-
suits and died in 1912, at the age of eighty-
five years. He was a democrat in poli-
tics, but was content to pass his life in
the peaceful pursuits of husbandry, and
never sought any honors save tho.se to be
gained from honorable transactions with
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them in good and l)enefifial work. Mrs.
DeGroote, who was born in County Monag-
han, Ireland, in 1833, was a young woman
when she came to the United States, and
died at Mishawaka, Indiana, in 1885. She
was first married to Francis McCabe, a car-
penter and general mechanic, who died at
Mishawaka, and they had one child : Sarah,
who is the wife of I. V. Roy, a retired
citizen of Mishawaka. Mr. and Mrs. De-
Groote had two children: Charles, who is
superintendent of the paint department
of the Dodge factory at ^Mishawaka ; and
Rev. John F.

Rev. John F. DeGroote was educated in
the parochial schools of ]\Iishawaka for his
preliminary training, following which he
enrolled as a student at Notre Dame Uni-
versity. There he took classical and theo-
logical courses, philosophy and theology,
spending seven years iii study, and was
ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic
Church, July 19, 1893. He said his first
mass at Saint Joseph's Church, Misha-
waka, two days later, and was shortly
thereafter appointed prefector of disci-
pline of Saint Edward's College, Austin,
Texas, where he remained for one year.
Following this he filled a similar position
at Holy Cross College for three years at
New Orleans, Louisiana, and was next
made assistant pastor of Sacred Heart
Church in that citv, and remained as such
two years. On ]\Iarch 29, 1899, Father
DeGroote was appointed pastor of Saint
Patrick's Church at South Bend, Indiana,
and here has remained to the present time.
This church was established in 1858 by the
Rev. Father Thomas Carroll. At that time
it was a small but earnest parish, being
noted more for its zeal and religious en-
thusiasm than for its numbers. It has
steadily grown in size imtil it now has 400
families in its congregation, and its fervor
and spirit have lost nothing in the passing
of the years. The old church was located
on Division Street, but in 1886 it was
found necessarj- to have a larger edifice
for the worshipers, and a brick structure
was accordingly erected on Taylor Street,
where there is a seating capacity of 800
people. In addition, to the church there
are the buildings of Saint Joseph's
Academy, Saint Patrick's Parochial School
for the boj's of the parish, and the rec-
tory. Father DeGroote has been tireless in
working in the interests of his parishion-

ers, among whom he is greatly beloved.
He is entitled to write the initials C. S. C.
after his name, being a member of the
Congregation of the Holy Cross. He
holds membership in South Bend Coun-
cil No. 553, Knights of Columbus. He is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce and
of the Country Club. He has taken an ac-
tive and useful part in various civic move-
ments calculated to benefit the community,
and can always be found associated with
other leading citizens of South Bend in
the advancement of enterprises making
for higher morals, educational advance-
ment and better citizenship.

Elmer and Ch.\rles Elmer Crockett.
For eighty-five years the Crockett family
has been well and favorabh' known in
Saint Jaseph County, and during all this
period its members have been prominently
identified with this community's material
progress and financial interests. The
Crockett family of this notice traces its
ancestry back along the same line as that
of Davy Crockett, the great American
pioneer hunter, politician and humorist,
member of Congi-ess from Tennessee, and
soldier during the Texan war, who lost
his life at Fort Alamo with a number of
other patriots. The family is also con-
nected with Anthony Crockett, who served
for two years, from 1776, in Colonel Jlor-
gan's regiment during the Revolutionary
war. He was born in the County of Prince
Edward, Virginia, and when a boy moved
with his parents to Bothloust County in
the same state, where he enlisted in the
patriot army for two years, joining
Thomas Po.sey's company. Seventh Vir-
ginia Regiment. This regiment was com-
manded by Col. Alexander MeConahan.
The company marched to Old Point Com-
fort and after the battle of Princeton went
to Philadelphia, where it joined Colonel
Morgan's regiment, and its members were
discharged in February, 1778 : Crockett
then joined Capt. Jesse Evans' company
as first lieutenant and left home with this
company ilarch 16, 1779. for Long Island,
the trip being made down the Tennessee
River by boat, during which journey there
were several skirmishes with the Indians.
In the winter of 1779 Captain Evans'
company was ordered back to Virginia to
recruit more men, and in 1781 Lieutenant
Crockett returned to Kentucky and was

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1331

stationed at Gordon's Station, in Lincoln
County, being frequently in pursuit of the
Indiaiis during 1782. With Captain Ray
he marched to Pi(iua, Ohio, and remained
there until the close of the war. One of
the executors of his will, William R. Crock-
ett, was secured for the executors for
$30,000.

Shellim Crockett, the grandfather of
Charles E. Crockett and father of Elmer
Crockett, was born in Kentucky in 1818, a
son of Robert Crockett, who was engaged
in farming for some years in the vicinity
of Lexington, Kentucky, later moved to
Ohio, and died at South Bend. Shellim
Crockett was still a lad when taken by his
parents to Ohio and was there reared until
he reached the age of fourteen years, the
family's arrival in Saint Joseph County,
Indiana, being in the year 1832. One
of the pioneer residents of the county, he
also became one of the first merchants of
South Bend, and is still well remembered
by man.y of the older residents of the city
as a man of sterling and sturdy traits of
character, upright and straightforward in
his dealings and true to his engagements.
He was a republican in politics after that
party was organized, and a member of the
Christian Church, ilr. Crockett married
Louise Ireland, who was born in 1824 in
Saint Joseph County, and died in 1848 in
Elkhart County, Indiana, and they became
the parents of the following children :
Garrett, who died while holding the seat
of county .judge of Josephine County,
Oregon; John C, who died as a young
man at South Bend; Elmer; and Wallace,
who died at South Bend at the age of twen-
ty-three .years.

Elmer Crockett received his education
in the public schools of South Bend and
Mishawaka, Indiana, and when he was fif-
teen years of age began to learn the prin-
ter's trade at the latter place. He was
born September 1, 1844, in Saint Joseph
County, Indiana, and therefore had not
yet reached his ma.iority when he enlisted,
in 1865, in the One" Hundred Thirty-
Eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry, with which organization he served
six months in the Union Army during the
Civil war. Returning to his home, he be-
gan to divide his time between securing
an education and learning the printer's
trade, but when he was twenty-two years
of age left school, and in 1867 came to
South Bend, to become foreman in the

plant of the Saint Joseph Vallej^ Register.
In 1872, in companv with his brother-in-
law, Alfred B. Miller, Mr. Crockett
founded the South Bend Tribune, with
which he has been connected ever since.
This paper proved a success from the start,
and as the years passed the partners grad-
ually enlarged their plant and equipment
and finally organized the Tribune Print-
ing Company, of which at the time of Mr.
ililler's death in 1892 ilr. Crockett was
elected president, a position which he still
retains. The offices and plant of this con-
cern are located at No. 128 North Main
Street, and the entire establishment is
modern in every particular and conducted
in a manner that serves as a model for
others to follow.

Aside from the Tribune Printing Com-
pany Mr. Crockett's interests are numer-
ous, important and varied. He is presi-
dent of the Building and Loan Association
of South Bend, an association with a capi-
tal of $2,000,000, and for years he has
been one of the trustees of the Saint Joseph
Countj" Savings Bank. As a citizen he
has been prominent in movements which
have aided South Bend to better things,
and during the building of the new court-
house was a member of the citizen's ad-
visory committee. He is now treasurer of
the Riverview Cemetery Association, and
was fonnerly president of the Young
Men's Christian Association of South
Bend. During the past forty years he has
been a member of the Presbyterian Church
and an elder thereof, and for twenty years
served as superintendent of the Sunday
school, while in many other ways he has
helped to encourage religion, morality and
good citizenship. Politically a republican,
in 1888 he was honored by the appoint-
ment as postmaster of South Bend, under
the administration of President Harrison,
and served with distinction in that office
for five years. During the campaigns of
1898 and 1900 Mr. Crockett was a mem-
ber of the Republican State Central Com-
mittee in addition to serving as chairman
of the State Newspaper Bureau at that
time. As a fraternalist ]\Ir. Crockett has
been equally prominent. He belongs to
Portage Lodge No. 675, Ancient Free and
Accepted ^lasons: South Bend Chapter
No. 29, Royal Arch Mason ; was grand
high priest of the gi-and chapter of Indi-
ana in 1889 and 1890; belongs to South
Bend Council No. 82, Royal and Select

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Masters ; South Bend Commandery No. 13,
Knight Templars; and to Port Wayne
Consistory, thirty-second degree of Ma-
sonry, being also a member of Murat Tem-
ple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, Indianapolis. He has never
forgotten his experiences while in the army
of his coimtry, and now belongs to Nor-
man Eddy Post No. 579, Grand Army of
the Republic. He was senior vice com-
mander of the Department of Indiana in
1896 ; and has been commander of Nor-
man Eddy Post No. 579, as well as of Au-
ten Post No. 8, South Bend, to which he
formerly belonged.

In 1868, at South Bend, Mr. Crockett
was married to Miss Anna Miller, daugh-
ter of ex-Sheriff B. F. and Eliza (Baird)
Miller, both of whom are now deceased,
and to this union there have been born
children as follows: Addie, who died at
the age of two years; Frank, who also
died at that age ; Charles Elmer ; .Ethel,
who is the wife of MZL Fuller, a manu-
facturer of wagons at Chattanooga, Tennes-
see; and Donuell, who died at the age of
seven j^ears.

Charles Elmer Crockett was bom at
South Bend, Indiana, August 8, 1876, and
was given excellent educational advan-
tages in his youth, first attending the pub-
lic schools of South Bend and being grad-
uated from the high school with the class
of 1894, subsequently entering Wabash
College and graduating with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1898, and later re-
ceiving the honorary' degi'ee of Master of
Arts from the same institution in 1908.
He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta
and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and when
his course was completed entered at once
the office of the Tribune Printing Com-
pany, of which he is now secretarv^ and
treasurer. Mr. Crockett is a director in
the South Bend Building and Loan Asso-
ciation and in the Riverview Cemetery
Association. He is a Republican in his po-
litical views and a member and trustee of
the First Presbyterian Church. Mr.
Crockett is, like his father, interested in
Masonry and belongs to Portage Lodge No.
675, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
of which he is a past master by service;
South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch
Masons, of which he is past high priest;
South Bend Commandery No. 13, Knights
Templar; South Bend Council No. 82,
Royal and Select Masters, and Indianapolis

Consistory, thirty-second degree of Ma-
sonry; and is also a member of Murat
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of Indianapolis. He
also holds membership in the Country
Club of South Bend and in the South Bend
Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Crockett was married in April,
1906, at South Bend, to Miss Edna Sum-
mers, daughter of Wilson and Helen
(Powell) Summei-s, the latter deceased and
the former a retired resident of Charlotte,
Michigan. To this union there have come
two children : Elizabeth Ann, born Janu-
ar\' 24, 1907 ; and Helen Jane, born April
4, 1914.

John Chess Ellsworth. To success-
fully carry on any large business enter-
prise in these modern days of strenuous
competition and changing markets, re-
quires optimism, covirage and other stable
qualities not possessed by everv one. In
the commercial field merchandising occu-
pies so large a place that it may well be
named one of a community's first and last
necessities. For almost a half century the
Ellsworth name has been connected with
a mercantile business at South Bend, and
during the long passage of years the busi-
ness has been quietly developed and ex-
panded, through honest methods and able
management, until now it stands among
the foremost in this section of Indiana.
Founded by the father of its present own-
er, John Chess Ellsworth, it kept pace
with the rapid development of the city,
and since his death the same business
ethics have been preserved as its activities
and accommodations have been increased to
meet wider demands.

John Chess Ellsworth was born at South
Bend, Indiana, December 20, 1877. His
parents were Frederick D. and Nellie
(Chess) Ellsworth. Frederick D. Ells-
worth was horn in 1848, at Mishawaka,
Indiana, and died at South Bend in 1897.
He was reared in his native place and edu-
cated there but in early manhood came
to South Bend. His father, James Ells-
worth, was born in the State of New York
in 1817, where his English ancestors had
been early settlers. James Ellsworth was
a civil engineer by profession and made his
first visit to Indiana in that line of work.
He located permanently at ilishawaka and
died there in 1852.

In 1872 Frederick D. Ellsworth em-

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1333

barked in a mercantile business at South
Bend, in a modest way, having some knowl-
edge of dry goods, and a keen, practical
business sense, and from the start was
prosperous and through his sagacity safely
guided his enterprise through subsequent
various depressed business periods and
panics. He continued active in the man-
agement of his affairs until his death. He
was a republican in his political views but
never desired any public office, although
he was an interested citizen and favored
all measures that promised to benefit the
city. He was a faithful member of the
Episcopal Church, which was largely his
agent in the distribution of his charities.
He was married in this city to Miss Nellie
Chess, who was born at South Bend in 1850
and died here in 1900. They had but one
child born to them, John Chess.

Johu Chess Ellsworth attended the pub-
lic schools at South Bend and remained
in the high school through his sophomore
year and then became a student in Phillips
Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, from
where he was graduated in 1896. Upon
his return home he entered his father's
business and has continued interested here
ever since and is sole owner. Mr. Ells-
worth owns the handsome store building
at Nos. 111-117 North Michigan Street,
where he has a large amount of floor space
and carries a .stock second to none in
Nortliern Indiana. He has other property
at South Bend, including his comfortable
and attractive residence at No. 310 Wash-
ington Street, South Bend.

Mr. Ellsworth was married at Lowell,
Massachusetts, in 1903, to Miss Alice
Chalifaux, who is a daugliter of J. L. and
Helene Chalifaux, the latter of whom still
resides at Lowell. The father of :\Ii-s. Ells-
worth was formerly a prominent merchant
in that city and his death occurred there.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth have four chil-
dren, three daughters and one .son, namely
Helene, Frederick, Phyllis and Alice.

Wliile not particularly active politically,
Mr. Ellsworth is a loyal republican and "a
patriotic citizen. He is a Knight Templar
Mason, belonging to St. Joseph Lodge No.
45, Ancient Free ajid Accepted Ma.sons;
South Bend Chapter No. 29, Roval Arch
Masons: and South Bend Couimandei-v
No. 13, Knights Templar. He is identified
also with South Bend Lodge No. 235
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks!
Organizations of a social nature in which

3Ir. Ellsworth finds congenial companion-
ship are the Indiana Society and the In-
diana and the Country clubs. He is a
director in the First "National Bank of
South Bend.

JuLitJS G. SiEGEET is One of the most
interesting men of Northern Indiana, not
only because of his long record as a teacher,
but especially for the fact that for over
half a century he has been connected with
St. John's parochial school in the City of
LaPorte. A year or so ago he celebrated
his fiftieth anniversary as a teacher in
those schools. In rec«nt years it has been
his privilege to supervise the education
of some young people who are grandchil-
dren of some of his first pupils in St.
John 's.

Mr. Siegert was born in the City of
Breslau, Prussia, but has lived in America
since early boyhood. His father, Samuel
G. Siegert, was bom in the same city
and was liberally educated and became an
educator. He began teaching in young
manhood, and taught in Germany" until
1854. He then brought his family to Amer-
ica and was on the ocean thirteen weeks
battling with the waves before landing at
New York City. Prom tliere he went to
Buffalo and was a teacher in the parochial
schools several years. Later he moved to
Des Peres, Missouri, and was connected
with the parochial schools of that commu-
nity until his death at the advanced age
of seventy-eight. He married Susanna
Schultz, who died in Germany. She was
the mother of three children: Julius G. ;
Charles, a resident of Chicago ; and Mary,
who married A. Levine, of Chicago.

Julius G. Siegert attended parochial
.schools taught by his father, and later took
the normal course in Concordia College at
Fort Wayne. While he was an attendant
there the college was moved to Addison,
Illinois. He gi-aduated in 1867, and his
first assignment of duty was as a teacher
in St. John's parochial school at LaPorte.
There has been no important interruption
to the steady flow of his service and his
duty, and in 1917, this school, its patrons
and hundreds of its former students
celebrated his fiftieth anniversarv as a
teacher. Seldom does such di.stinguished
honor come to a man wlio has grown old
in a service that represents the highest
toi-m of usefulness.

Mr. Siegert married in 1869 Miss

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Louisa Fenker. She was born in Cin-
cinnati, daughter of Henry and Sophie
Fenker, both natives of Germany. Mrs.
Siegert died in August, 1910. Mr. Sie-
gert besides six children who grew iip
in his home also has a number of grand-
children. His own children are named
Julia, Emma, Matilda, Lydia, Anna and
Paul. Julia is the wife of Charles Mid-
dledorf, and her four children are Hul-
dah, Julius, Carl and Ruth. Emma was
married to Christopher Borman. Matilda
married George Ulrich and has nine chil-
dren, Marie, Louis, Carl, Elsie, Margaret
and Eloise, twins, Pauline and Louise,
twins, and Adelle. Lydia Siegert be-
came the wife of Henry Paul and has
four children, Mai'garet, Louis, Otto and
Harriet. Anna was married to Fred Zim-
merman and has three sons, Ralph, Edgar
and Frederick. Paul, the only son of
'Sir. Siegert has a son named Julius.

Professor Siegert is a member of the
^\"alther League and is chairman of Branch
No. 50 of the Concordia Society.

ilARTiN LuECKE has for fifteen years
directed the administration and the educa-
tional ideals of one of Indiana's oldest
and most important institutions of higher
learning, Concordia College at Fort
Wayne. There are men all over the world
who gratefully recognize their debt to Con-
cordia College. It has been a training
ground not only for ministers and teachers
of the Lutheran Church but for men in all
the walks and professions.

Concordia College was founded in 1839
in Perry County, Missouri, by some Luth-
eran refugees from Saxony. It was first
taught in a log cabin. Later it was re-
moved to the City of St. Louis, and when
St. Louis became almost a battleground
of the Civil war the institution was re-
moved in 1861 to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Here it was reorganized and in a measure
replaced the Lutheran Seminary. For over
fifty years it has continued its usefulness
and growth and is now one of the largest
and most influential Lutheran schools in
America. It has always emphasized the
training of young men for the Lutheran
ministry, though from time to time other
departments have been created until the
college provides" practicall.y all the facilities
of a university. For several years the col-
lege has offered instruction and training in

military work. The campus now contains
eighteen substantial buildings, including
six residences, lecture hall, dormitory, din-
ing hall, gymnasium, heating plant, hos-
pital and armory.

Much of the physical growth and up-
building of the institution has been accom-
plished during the presidency of Dr.
Martin Luecke. A native American, he
was born at Sheboygan County, Wisconsin,
June 22, 1859, son of Christian and Emily
(Von Henning) Luecke. He was not a
stranger to Fort Wayne and Concoi'dia
College when he entered upon the presi-
dency, since he had taken his preparatory
work here, graduating from the prepara-
tory department in 1878. In 1881 he
graduated from Concordia Theological
Seminary at St. Louis, and began his duties
as a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church at Bethaltho. Illinois. He was sta-
tioned there from 1881 to 1884 and at
Troy. Illinois, from 1884 to 1892, in both
of which places he performed some highly
effective work. From 1892 until 1903 he
was pastor of a large church at Springfield,
Illinois, and during that time held several
positions in the Synods of ^Missouri, Ohio,
and other states. While at Springfield he
founded the Springfield Hospital and
Training School in 1897.

Doctor Luecke became president and pro-
fessor of New Testament Greek and Re-
ligion at Concordia College in 1903. Along
with his work as a pastor and school ad-
ministrator he has done much research
and is a thorough scholar. He is aiithor of
a History of the Civil war of the United
States, published in 1892; a History of
Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Illi-
nois, published in 1896 : Svnopsis of the
Holy History of the Old aiid New Testa-
ment, published in 1906 : and of a Short
Life of Christ, published in 1911. Doctor
Luecke married in 1882 Sina ^Fansholt of
Dorsey, Illinois. Their son, Martin H.
Luecke, is one of the prominent lawyers
of Fort Wayne.

Lrci.vN Barbour was born at Canton,
Connecticut, ]\Iarch 4, 1811. He gradu-
ated at Amherst in 1837, working his wav
thi'ough college, and then removed to Mad-
ison, Indiana, where he read law with
Stephen C. Stephens, one of the judges of
the Supreme Court of the state. In 1839
he located at Indianapolis, and formed a

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partnership with Jiidgre Wm. W. Wicks.
During this partnership he wrote a work
on justices of the peace, which was pub-
lished as "Wicks & Barbour's Treatise."
He was subsequently associated at various
times in partnerships with Albert G. Por-
ter, John D. Rowland, Charles P. Jacobs,
Charles W. Smith and James Laird.

Mr. Barbour was originally a democrat,
and served as United States District At-
torney for Indiana under President Polk.
He was also one of the three commission-
ei*s who prepared the Civil and Criminal
Codes of Practice under the Constitution
of 1851. He left the party on the slavery
issue, and in 1854 was elected to Congress
from the Indianapolis district as a fusion-
ist, defeating Thomas A. Hendricks. He
served for one term, 1855-7, and then re-
sumed the practice of law, which he con-
tinued until his death, at Indianapolis,
July 19, 1880.

Benjamin F. Dunn. An experienced,
honest, upright realty dealer would be the
first to agree to the statement that in few
lines of bu.siness is there more urgent call
for careful study than in real estate trans-
actions. The papers that enter into vari-
ous agreements whether the investor is
buying a cottage, a palace, a farm or a
gold mine, are apt to be complex and a
little beyond the ordinary understanding,
hence a wise man will select his real estate
dealer with as much caution as any other
valuable possession in life. Should he
come to South Bend the difficulty would
be as nothing for every representative citi-
zen would name Benjamin F. Dunn, who
is one of the oldest, largest and thoroughly
responsible realty men of this city, with an
experience covering thirty-six years.

Benjamin F. Dunn was born June 14,
1833, in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
His parents were Reynolds and Phoebe
(Tatman) Dunn. Reynolds Dunn was born
in 1793, in New Jersey, and was a son
of Reuben Dunn, who was of Engli.sh an-
cestry. Reynolds Dunn remained in his
native state until manhood and then went
to Green County. Ohio, and from there
in 1831 to Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
There he became a man of political im-
portance, a staunch democrat, and was
elected a.s.soeiate judge. He owned a farm
in Saint Joseph County that was retained
in the family until recent vears. In 1854

Reynolds Dunn retired and removed to
South Bend, where his death occurred in
1860. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity and was an attendant on the
services of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and a generous supporter of this
religious body.

In Greene County, Ohio, Reynolds Dunn
was married to Phoebe Tatman, who was
born there in 1800. She died at South
Bend in 1863, a woman of noble character
and innumerable virtues. To them the
following children were born : Mary Jane,
who died in Saint Joseph County, was
the wife of Reuben Dunn, who is also de-
ceased; Simeon, who died in youth; Eliza-
beth, who died in Saint Joseph County,
was the wife of Asher Egbert, who is also
deceased; Martha, who was the wife of
Andrew Kinney, a farmer in Saint Joseph
County, died there as did her husband;
James, who died on his farm in Saint Jo-
seph County; Jeanette, who died in child-
hood ; Benjamin F. ; Phoebe Aim. who mar-
ried Robert ilyler and they lived on their
farm in Saint Joseph County until they
retired to South Bend, where both died'-;
Harriet, who married Theodore Witherell,
a jeweler in South Bend, and both died
here; and John H.. who is a retired mer-
chant of South Bend.

During boyhood Benjamin F. Dunn at-
tended the country schools and later had
excellent training in the public schools of
South Bend, leaving school when twenty
years old to accept a clerkship in a South
Bend Store. He continued in this capacity
until 1860, when he took a trip to the west-
ern country, and during a year of travel
saw many wonders, visiting Pike's Peak
and Rocky Mountain regions in Colorado.
He was loyal to Indiana, however, and re-
turned and for two years followed a
marble and stone cutting business. This,
however, was largely an experiment, and
finding himself not particularly well satis-
fied, turned his attention to mercantile pur-
suits and continued until 1867, when he
sold out, on account of failing health. In
1868 Jlr. Dunn embarked in the manufac-
ture of furniture and prospered until the
panic of 1873, when his business, like hun-
dreds of others, was swept away in the
catacly.sm of that business depression pe-
riod.

From the standpoint of a young man
seeing a business opening every line is apt

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to seem crowded, but Mr. Dunn did not
lose courage, and after a temporaiy return
to a clerkship the path in 1881 opened to
the business in which he has amassed a com-
fortable fortune and additionally has built
up a reputation for trustworthiness and
public spirit. In this year he went into
the real estate and loan business, a line of
endeavor for which he has been particu-
larly well fitted. Through his efforts a
large amount of outside capital has been
brought to South Bend, and many of the
finest residence sections have come into be-
ing. He owns a large amount of property,
including his residence at No. 203 South
Lafayette Street, where he has lived for
over sixty years. In addition to his in-
terests mentioned he is vice-president of
the Saint Joseph County Savings Bank.

Mr. Dunn was married at South Bend
in October, 1864, to Miss Mary Hamilton,
who was born in Pennsylvania and died
at South Bend in 1905, the mother of three
children and one grandchild, as follows:
Grace, who is the wife of John G. Schurz,
a traveling agent in the matter of sj-ste-
matizing business methods, an expert and
they have one son, Franklin Dunn
Schurz ; Flora, who is the wife of F. A.
Miller, the able editor of the South Bend
Tribune; and Blanche, who resides with
her father.

ilr. Dunn identifies himself politically
as an independent democrat. He has
never desired public office but has served
for eleven years as a member of the school
board. From youth he has been a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for
forty years has been a trustee of the First
Methodist Church here. Many years ago
he assisted in building the old church and
later gave equal help when the new edifice
took the place of the old one. He has en-
couraged many worthy enterprises here and
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Y. M. C. A. and the Country Club.

Desiderius D. Nemeth, secretary of the
St. Jo.seph County Bar Association, came
to South, Bend ten years ago and has
achieved a high reputation in his profes-
sion and is well known in local civic and so-
cial affairs.

He was born in the town of Nagy-Sza-
lonta, in the county of Bihar, Hungary.
His father, William Nemeth, was bom at
Belenyes in the same county, served an

apprenticeship as a blacksmith, but on ac-
count of failing health became a tailor and
followed his trade at Nagy-Szalonta and
later at Arad. He died at the age of thirty-
two. His wife, Amelia Sonnenfeld, was
born at Arad, and she came to America
in 1893 and is now living at South Bend.

D. D. Nemeth attended school steadily
in his native land from the age of six to
twenty -two, receiving the A. B. and il. S.
degrees. In 1892 he went to Paris, study-
ing one year in that city, and in 1893 came
to the United States, where he entered
the University of the City of New York.
He was graduated in law from that insti-
tution in 1897. After that he had to wait
two years before he could secure his natur-
alization papers, and immediately then
was admitted to practice. In the mean-
time he had been in the government service
as an interpreter at the immigrant station
on Ellis Island. Leaving the east he spent
two years in Arizona, also acting as a
United States Immigration Inspector on
the Mexican border for two years.

Mr. Nemeth located at South Bend in
1907 and has enjoyed a good law practice
and is also in the insurance business. He
has been honored for three consecutive
terms as secretary of the Bar Association.
He is a member of several fraternities and
also the Country Club.

James B. Elmore. A minor distinction
attaching to the Indiana school of authors
is that even the more successful in the
financial sense have chosen to remain at
home, close to the original source of their
inspiration. They are known as casual
visitors, not as resident members of the
metropolitan literary centers. James B.
Elmore, the "bard of Alamo," whose verse
has been read "round the world," is still
at Alamo, where his genius was forged in
a peaceful Indiana landscape, some consid-
erable portion of which he has acquired
"in fee" as he long ago acquired it by
poetic license, and is busy with livestock
and crops as well as the implements of
literature.

Mr. Elmore was born January 25, 1857,
at the little town of Alamo in Ripley town-
ship of Montgomery County. Alamo is his
home toda.v, and while at different times in
the passing years he has made excureions
to distant scenes he has always returned,
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that Alamo will be his home the rest of his
life. He is a son of Matthias and :Mary
(Willis) Elmore, ilatthias Elmore, who
was born in Ohio in 1809 and died in 1892,
had a meager education during his youth,
going no further than "the rule of three"
in mathematics. Being a gi'eat reader and
a man of keen perceptions he practically
acquired an education and a good one at
that by his own efforts. He took a keen
interest in politics and in early days was a
whig. He was a carpenter by trade and
helped construct the first Methodist Epis-
copal Church at Crawfordsville. His chief
life work, however, was farming. Matthias
Elmore was three times married. By his
first marriage he had seven children and
six by his second wife, but none by the last
union. His first wife was a coiisin of
"William English, a well kno\vn political
leader and capitalist in Indianapolis. His
third wife was Virginia Kyle. Of the
thirteen children only five are now living.
James B. Elmore's father was of Scotch
descent and his mother of Dutch lineage,
and a native of Ohio.

James B. Elmore grew up on a farm,
working in the summer and going to school
in the winter until he reached the age of
fifteen. He then entered the Alamo
Academy, where he graduated in a large
class. Among his classmates were N. J.
Clodfelter, poet and noveli.st: William
Humphrey, member of Congress from the
state of Washington : Oswald Humphrey,
president of Cornell University; Eva Clod-
felter Ballard, a novelist ; William Den-
man, a former public official of Putnam
County; and Albert Gilkey, a large hard-
ware merchant of Oklahoma.

ilr. Elmore's ambitions to obtain a col-
legiate training were never realized. But
schools and colleges do not make poets,
great doctors, professional men of any
kind, they merely afford a more convenient
opportunitiy for young men of talents to
acquire their preliminary training. Thus
it was with Mr. Elmore. The practical
experiences of day by day living, and a
vast amount of miscellaneous reading have
supplied him with those materials out of
which character and success are molded.

For twenty years Mr. Elmore taught
school, chiefly in winter terms, farming
during the summer. On February 14. 1880,
he married Miss Mary Ann Murray, of
Nevada City, Missouri. She was born in

Missouri :\Iay 23, 1863, daughter of James
and ^lary Ann (Templin) Murray, her
father a native of Kentuelry'. Mr. and Mrs.
Elmore had five children : Maude L. and
Nora now deceased ; Roscoe M., born Oc-
tober 1, 1882, married ^lyrtle Lattimore
and became a successful teacher; Grace,
born January 17, 1885, wife of Nathan
Drolinger ; and Albert Murray, born Sep-
tember 20, 1889, who married Lula M. Seits
and has two children, James Byron, Jr.,
named in honor of his gi-andfather, and
^Margaret Angeline.

ilr. Elmore has always acknowledged a
great debt to his wife. He paid her a
delicate tribute in a little autobiographical
sketch he wrote at one time in the following
words: "Unlike the bachelor poets of his
time, ilr. Elmore sings of nature, romance
and love, such as they can never do. Their
dreams, as of 'Sweethearts of Long Ago,'
never materialized except through the
my.stic smoke of tobacco fumes and nepen-
the of varied mysterious spirits of the low-
er regions. Elmore loves the pure and un-
detiled idyls that roam about the woods and
pastures, whose visions and inspirations
come by breathing the sweet aroma of the
beautiful flowers which charm the gods of
the universe and harmonize every element
of human nature in a beautiful paragon
of love, where man ever rests in that
beautiful and blissful abode of everlast-
ing happines.s."

Through the various years of his work
as a teacher Mr. Elmore wrote occasional
poems for the newspapers. It was at the
request of his wife in 1898 that he published
his first volume of poems, a volume that
had a wide run of popularity and served to
make his name more widely appreciated.
It was comparatively early in his career
that Mr. Jes.se Greene of Crawfordsville
christened him the Bard of Alamo, and
it is by that title he is doubtless most
widely known. Some of his best verse
was written while he was in school, two
poems of gi-eat merit dating from that
period of his life being "The Belle of
Alamo," and the "Red Bird." The first
book title was "Love Among the ilistletoe
and other Poems." Two years later this
was followed by "A Lover in Cuba and
Other Poems." A few years later came his
third volume of verse "Twenty-five years
in Jaekville" and a romance in the "Days
of the Golden Circle." His last volume

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bears the title "Autumn Roses." He is
just completing a work which goes to press
shortly tinder title of "Nature Poems."
Mr. Elmore has also appeared before many
cultured audiences as a lecturer, his serv-
ices being in demand by many colleges and
institutions. His writings are to a large
degree a transcript of his experience and
reflect largely that elevation of feeling
which pervades the simple and common-
place life. If he were not so well known
as a poet he might easily be classed as one
of Indiana's most prosperous and pro-
gressive farmers.

At the time of his marriage and after
some years as a rural school teacher he in-
vested the sum of four hundi'ed dollars,
all that he had been able to save, in thirty
acres of land. That thirty acres is in-
cluded in his present farm. There he lived
for some time in a log cabin. Besides
farming he taught school. He purchased
eighty acres more, going in debt for that,
and traded the eighty for a hundred sixty
acres near home, and this quarter section
he still owns. Later he bought eighty acres
from his father and also inherited another
fortj'-seven acres. He also bought sixty
acres south of the home place and a hun-
dred sixty acres north of the home farm.
That makes him proprietor of a fine domain
of five hundred forty acres, nearly all til-
lable, and moreover well tilled, well fenced
and perfectly improved into practically a
modern Indiana farm and homestead. Mr.
Elmore for a number of years has made a
specialty of raising Poland China hogs
and Polled cattle. While he undoubtedly
has the literary temperament, he has in
the management of his farm the genius of
the business man, seen everywhere in the
system and efficiency which characterize
the farm.

Mr. Elmore is affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, is
a member of the Christian Church, and
beginning to vote for the democrats he
later became a republican. He has deserved
well of his fellow men, has profited because
he has served well, and to a large degree
his life has been its owni reward.

Edg.\r ]\I. Baldwin. The conventional
hero from the time of Ulj'sses to the present
is one who has played many parts, has
seen much of strange lands and strange

peoples, and has an altogether tempes-
tuous and stormy career until he rests
more or less content in old age in his
beloved Ithaca. But many adventures and
experiences worth while may befall the
man who spends his life in quiet places,
almost altogether in the community that
knew him as a boy, and that knew his
parents and gi'andparents and even more
remote ancestors before him.

That has been the lot and destiny of
Edgar M. Baldwin, editor and proprietor
of The Fairraount News, and well and
favorably known as a journalist and man
of affairs in many other parts of Indiana
than Grant County.

The Baldwins are an old and numerous
lineage both in America and in Wales.
From three colonial settlers of the name
are descended many well known people,
including Governor Simeon Baldwin of
Connecticut; Judge Daniel P. Baldwin, at
one time attorney general of Indiana, and
the Baldwins who established and con-
ducted the great Baldwin Locomotive
Works.

The Baldwins in Grant County are de-
scended from one of three brothers who
settled in North Carolina. They were all
Quakers, chiefly farmers by occupation.
The great-grandfather of the Fairmount
editor was Daniel Baldwin, Sr., who was
born in North Carolina and married Maiy
Benbow.

Of their children Daniel Baldwin, Jr.,
was bom in Guilford County, North Caro-
lina, December 10, 1789, and married in
1812 Christian Wilcuts, who was born No-
vember 11, 1793. After their marriage they
put their simple household equipment in
a wagon and with ox teams set out for the
Northwest, joining the old Quaker settle-
ment near Richmond, in Wayne County,
Indiana. In 1833 Daniel Baldwin brought
his family to Grant County and moved
into a partly finished log cabin on the
southwest corner of ]\Iain and Eighth
Streets in Fairmount, at that time an un-
broken wilderness. His was the first house
in the present corporation limits of Fair-
mount. A considerable part of the north
side of that village is built on land that he
owned. Daniel Baldwin, Jr., died at Fair-
mount October 9. 1845, and his wife Oc-
tober 28, 1848. They were active in estab-
lishing the first Quaker church at Back
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1339

children, and by their marriages and de-
scendants they comprise a very numerous
interrelationship, many still found in Grant
County, while many others went to other
counties and states.

Micah Baldwin, father of Edgar M., was
born in Wayne County, May 26, 1828. As
he grew up he worked on his father's
farm, but later in life he learned the trade
of tanner and followed that occupation
for a number of years. In 1877 he gave
up the tanning trade and became a dealer
in meats. AVhile conducting a tannery he
had also handled and made custom shoes
and harness, and his last years were spent
as a custom maker of shoes and as a re-
pairer. He worked in that line to within
six weeks of his death. He died ^larch 13,
1893. He wa,s a birthright Quaker and kept
utmost fidelity to that faith. April 24,
1850, he married Miss Sarah Morris, who
was born in Wayne County, Indiana, De-
cember 3, 1830, daughter of Nathan and
Miriam (Ben bow) ^Morris. Her people
were also early settlers of Grant County,
and her father was very prominent as a
member and minister of the Quaker
Church.

Edgar M. Baldwin was the seventh in
age among his parents' nine children, and
was born at Fairmount, April 2, 1866. He
attended the local public schools and at
the age of eleven, in 1877, started to learn
the printing trade. He worked in The
Fairmount News office and as a journey-
man traveled over the country, develop-
ing his skill in the composing rooms of
some 'of the largest dailies and printing
establishments in the country. This em-
ployment lirought him to the cities of Cin-
cinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago, where
he was employed on the old Chicago
Herald, was for two years in a law print-
ing house in New York City, did work at
AVashington and other eastern cities, so-
journed briefly again at Cincinnati, In-
dianapolis and Chicago, and in 1885 re-
turned to Fairmount. For three years he
was proprietor of The Fairmount News.
This was followed by an experience in
journalism on what was then the frontier
of Western Kansas, where for a few
months he conducted The Ellis Headlight.
In 1890 he was appointed to a position in
the Government printing oiBee at Wash-
ington, and during the next four and a

half years was employed on many of the
large jobs in what is the greatest printing
establishment in America.

Mr. Baldwin was living in Fairmount
when the Spanish-American war broke
out in 1898. On April 26th, four days
after the declaration of war, he joined
Company A, One Hundred and Sixtieth
Indiana Infantry. He was with the regi-
ment in training at Chickamauga but was
ill in the hospital when his regiment left
for the invasion of Porto Rico. A few
days later he went with the Fifth Illinois
Regiment, rejoining his own command at
Newport News, Virginia, which, after the
peace protocol had been signed, was trans-
ferred to the Army of Occupation and
sent to ]\Iatanzas Province in Cuba. Mr.
Baldwin was honorably discharged at
Savannah, Georgia, April 26, 1899, being
mustered out of the service with his- regi-
ment just a year after his enlistment.

Four years of experience as a traveling
salesman and Mr. Baldwin became proprie-
tor of The Fairmount News, in 1903, and
that paper has been under his continuous
management and control for fifteen years.
He has brought The News to a position of
great influence and popularity in Grant
and adjoining counties, and has made his
printing plant a very profitable business.

^Ir. Baldwin is a man of unusual range
of interests, and he and his paper are
squarely behind every movement that may
properly be described as progressive and
patriotic. He served a.s Endorsing Clerk
in the Indiana State Senate in 1908-09,
was the nominee in the Republican caucus
for assistant clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives during the following session,
was Treasurer of the Republican Editorial
Association of Indiana, and Treasurer of
the Grant County Central Committee. In
1912 he joined the Progressive party and
was nominated for Congre.s.s in the
Eleventh Congressional District. j\Ir.
Baldwin is regarded as the chief local his-
torian of his town and township in Grant
County. Through his paper and his in-
dividual writings he has kept alive many
of the interesting facts regarding that old
settlement, and in a History of Grant
County published in 1914 he was author
of a chapter pertaining to Fairmount and
in 1917 he published "The Making of a
Township," which is an interesting en-

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largement upon his original thesis. He
and his family are members of the Friends
Church at Fairmount.

August 23, 1887, he married Miss Myra
Rush, daughter of Reverend Nixon and
Louisa Rush of Grant County. Mrs. Bald-
wan was born near Fairmount, July 4,
1865, and was the first graduate of
Fairmount Academy with the class of 1887.
She has been closely associated with her
husband in newspaper work, serving as
city editor of Tlie Fairmount News. Their
only son, Mark, born June 8, 1889, gradu-
ated from Fairmount Academy in 1909,
and from Earlham College at Richmond
with the class of 1912. He served one
year during the war with German}^ in the
air service. United States Army. He is
now a scientist in the employ of the Bureau
of Soils, Department of Agriculture.

A. Jones. Here and there through
these pages Avill be found note of not a
few successful men, and women too, who
have attributed one early source of their
inspiration and good training to the Ma-
rion Normal College. Among institutions
that were founded and have been con-
ducted by private enterprise this college
has no superior in the state in the way of
efficiency and thorough work, and it has
served to train a large body of men and
women, not only for educational tasks, but
for an adequate fulfillment of all the serv-
ice demanded of a complete and harmoni-
ous life.

The college was organized in 1891 by
Mr. A. Jones with a corps of four instruc-
tors. The first quarters were in a building
at the corner of Thirtieth and Washing-
ton streets. During the first year coui-ses
were offered in business, arts and music
and some academic work. Later there was
offered a four years' course embracing
both theoretical and academic work, in
every sense equal to the courses offered by
state normal schools. There is also a four-
year com-se for g-eneral student's, offering
courses in science, mathematics and litera-
ture. In 1894 the college was moved to
an attractive building between Washing-
ton and Harmon streets. This college
home was erected specifically for the use
of the school. It is a three-story and base-
ment building of brick, occupying ground
dimensions of 90 by 80 feet.

The founder of this school was born in

Shelby County, Indiana, in 1855, only
child of Elijah and Sarah (Wagner)
Jones, who were also natives of this state.
The paternal ancestors came from Scot-
land and were early settlers of Pennsyl-
vania. The Wagners were of German ori-
gin. Both the Wagner and Jones fami-
lies were pioneers in Shelby and Rush
counties. Professor Jones' paternal grand-
father and his maternal great-grandfather
were well-known ministers of the Methodist
Church.

Professor Jones was reared in Shelby
County, acquiring much of his education
at Danville. He is a graduate civil engi-
neer. Nearly all his life has been spent
in school work and school administration.
For two years he was a teacher in the
grade schools at Glenwood and for years
had charge of the Schools at Zionsville.
Just before he came to IMarion to establish
the normal college he was superintendent
of schools at Danville. Mr. Jones is a man
of scholarly tastes, and has attained some
recognition in scholarship circles for his
work and investigations with the micro-
scope.

In 1901 he established the Teachers'
Journal, and has been editor of this .iour-
nal from the time it was established. From
the very beginning the Teachers' Journal
has been recognized as one of the strongest
educational periodicals in the West.

In 1884 he married Jes.sie M. Davis. She
was born in Fayette County, Indiana,
daughter of William and Emily (Wil-
liams) Davis. j\Ir. and ]\Irs. Jones are
members of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church at Marion.

HoMEB Hayes Scott has been a figure
in the educational life and affairs of Grant
County for a number of years. He is a
young man of gi-cat natural ability, and
this ability has found expression in activi-
ties that constitute an important sei-vice
and an instrument of good in the advance-
ment and progress of his community.

He was born on a farm in Grant Countv,
:\Iarch 13, 1879, son of Elihu and Sarah
(Grindle) Scott. Largely through his own
efforts he acquired a liberal education, and
in 1913 was granted the degree A. B. by
the Muncie National Institute. He began
his work as a teacher in 1899, and for five
years was principal of the Van Buren
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1341

was superintendent of that school. For
three summer terms he was a teacher in
the Marion Normal Colleg:e, and one sum-
mer in the Muneie National Institute.
Mr. Scott is now a member and secretary
of the Library Board, is a member of the
Indiana Teachers' Association, is a mem-
ber of the Executive Board of the Boy
Scouts of Grant County, and is a steward
of the Jlethodist Episcopal Church and
teacher of the Men's Bible Class. He is
an active prohibitionist.

April 25. 1914, he married Miss Cora
Zonetta Compton, of Wayne County. In-
diana, daughter of Samuel and Eliza
(Johnson) Compton. Her father was a
contractor and builder.

George Armentrottt Elliott is present
mayor of the City of Newcastle. That is
only one of a long line of dignities and
honors that have been bestowed upon the
Elliott family in Eastern Indiana, where
four generations of the Elliotts have been
prominent in public and professional life.
It is the purpose of the following para-
graph to tell briefly the outstanding facts
in the careers of several of these distin-
guished men.

The Elliotts came from Guilford County,
North Carolina, and were a family of co-
lonial settlers in the vicinity of the Revo-
lutionary battleground of Guilford Court
House. Abraham Elliott, who is distin-
guished as having been the first lawyer
to locate at the county seat of Newcastle,
was born in Guilford County, North Caro-
lina. About the beginning of the nine-
teenth century he migi-ated to the North-
•west Territory, and for a number of years
lived in "Wayne County. The first official
recognition of his residence there was his
appointment in 1809 as one of the .iustices
of the peace of Dearborn County, Wayne
Countv not having yet been organized. In
1822 his name appears on the court rec-
ords as one of the lawyers admitted to the
bar of Henry County, and in 182-3 he lo-
cated on what has long been known as the
Elliott farm near Newcastle, and began
practice in the towm. He was a man of
good ability and for several yefirs trans-
acted a considerable share of the legal busi-
ness of the county. He also served as a
justice of the peace and an a.ssociate .iudge.
Poor health eventually obliged him to re-
tire entirely from practice.

It was his son, Judge Jehu T. Elliott,
who gained most distinction a.s a lawyer,
and for a number of years was one of the
greatest jurists of Indiana. He was born
near Richmond, Wayne County, Februai-y
7. 1813, and was about ten years of age
when his parents moved to the Elliott farm
1 Vo miles from Newcastle. He was one of
a large family of children and every one
had to contribute some labor to the sup-
port of the household. He had limited
school privileges, but at the age of eighteen
qiialified as a teacher and followed that
calling two years. His father had already
planned a legal career for the son, who at
the age of twenty entered the office of
Martin M. Ray, one of the prominent law-
yers of Wayne County. Later he wa.s ad-
mitted to the bar and soon opened his of-
fice in Newca.stle, where his talents gained
him a large practice.

His first office was that of a.ssistant sec-
retarv of the House of Representatives of
the State Legislature, a position to which
he was re-elected. In 1837 he became sec-
retary of the House. In 1838 he was elected
prosecuting attorney for his judicial cir-
cuit and in August, 1839, was elected state
senator for a term of three years. At the
early age of thirty-one, in 1844, he was
chosen by the Legislature a.s circuit jiidge.
His judicial circuit embraced eight coun-
ties, including Henrv. Following the cus-
tom of the time and in the lack of better
facilities, he usually journeyed from county
seat to county seat on horseback in com-
pany with the traveling members of the
bar. In 1851 he was re-elected for a term
of seven years, but the following year re-
signed to become president of the railroad
which was then being built from Rich-
mond to Chicago, He resigned this posi-
tion in 1854 and in the following year was
again elected circuit judge. He continued
on the circuit bench until 1864. when he
was cjiosen one of the justices of the Su-
preme Court of Indiana. His character as
a jurist has been thus described: "His
ability was of the highest order, and it is
certain that no judge ever gave greater
satisfaction than he. His popularity was
such that no one ever successfullv opposed
him for the place of circuit judge, and
when it was known that he was a candi-
date his election followed of course. The
opinions he delivered durinsr the six years
he occupied a seat on the Supreme Bench

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bear evidence of a great industry and a
thorough knowledge of the law and stand
deservedly high with the profession." On
leaving the supreme bench he resumed
practice and continued it until his death.
He was a valued friend and counsellor to
many young men entering the legal pro-
fession, and the fact that he served eight-
een years as circuit judge and six years_ as
a supreme justice, gives his career a high
place among the leading' Indiana men of
the past century. He was in fact in pub-
lic service almost continuously from 1835
until 1871.

Judge Elliott died at his home m New-
castle February 12, 1876. October 24,
1833. he married Miss Hannah Branson.

William Henry Elliott, a son of Judge
Elliott, was also a lawyer, but conferred
distinction on the family name and his
home community chiefly through other ac-
tivities. He was born at Newcastle July
4, 1844, and saw some active service in the
Civil war. He graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1865, and was
commissioned ensign in November, 1866,
master in 1868, and lieutenant in October,
1869. He resigned from the navy April
20, 1870, because of ill health. While in
the navy he was a member of the crew of
the old" Powhatan, Admiral Perry's flag-
ship in the fleet that visited Japan on its
epoch making cruise. While serving as
an ensign on a United States war craft at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, it became his unpleas-
ant duty to shoot a deserter, and as this
act occurred within the jurisdiction of
Brazil it involved questions which, when
finally settled, established the status of
United States navy men when on foreign
soil. Until the matter was adjusted Ensign
Elliott was nominally detained as a pris-
oner, though in fact was a personal guest
in the home of President Dom Pedro of
Brazil for six months. Mr. Elliott was a
member of the same class of the Naval
Academy as the late Admiral Bigsbee,
commander of the ]\Iaine when she was
sunk in Havana harbor.

After leaving the navy he studied and
practiced law at Newcastle, and in 1877
became owner and publisher of the New-
castle Courier, a venerable journal that
was established in 1841. It was as a news-
paper man that he was best known in In-
diana. He continued as owner and pub-
lisher of the Courier until 1899, and again

took active charge in 1904. Many calls
were made upon his time and ability for
public service. He was a member of the
original Grand Army of the Republic Com-
mi.ssion that planned and secured the erec-
tion of the famous Soldiers and Sailors
Monument at Indiajiapolis. When the war
with Spain broke out he volunteered, and
wa,s appointed a lieutenant in the navy
and served as execTitive officer of the Leon-
idas, a vessel that won a well remembered
fame during the war a.s the "fire ship"
on account of a fire in the coal stored in
the forehold. and which was extinguished
after thirty days of hard fighting and the
consumption of 730 tons of coal without
material damage to the ship. In Janu-
ary, 1899. President IMcKinley appointed
Mr. Elliott director-general of posts of
Porto Rico, and the duty of reorganizing
the postal system of Porto Rico. He had
the postal and telegraph system completely
established and in efficient operation before
he resigned June 6, 1900. At the latter
date, by President McKinley's appoint-
ment he entered upon his duties as Com-
"lissioner of Interior for the Island of
Porto Rico, and served in that capacity
until December 1, 1904, when he resigned,
refusing a continued appointment from
President Roosevelt, and returned to New-
castle. Here he resumed his work as a
publisher, and lived quietly in that city
until his death December 10, 1914. Oc-
tober 20. 1876. William H. Elliott married
Emma Conner of Newcastle.

George Armentrout Elliott was born at
Newcastle March 25. 1878. He attended
the grammar and high schools of his native
city, graduatinsr from the latter in 1897
as president of his ela.ss. For one year
he was employed as a cub reporter on the
Courier, his father's paper, and from Sep-
tember, 1898, until February, 1899, pur-
sued a general course in the Indiana Uni-
versity. He left university to take a com-
mercial course in the Richmond Business
College in preparation for his duties a-s
private secretary to his father on the Is-
land of Porto Rico. He was on that island
from May. 1899, to August. 1902. and as-
sisted his father in the establishment of
the postal and telegraph system and the
administrative work of the Interior De-
partment. ITpon returning to the states he
acquired an interest in the Newcastle Cour-
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In 1900 Mr. Elliott married Lillian
Smith, daughter of J. E. Smith of New-
castle. They have an interesting family
of children: William Henry, born May
4, 1901, died July 6, 1902; Prances B.,
born Jnly 27, 1903; George Willis, born
May 21, 1905, and died July 31, 1906;
Martha Lea, born June 25, 1911 ; and John
Smith, born March 3, 1915.

Mr. Elliott has always been an active
republican. In 1906 he wa.s defeated for
the nomination for state representative by
the sitting incumbent. In 1917 he was
elected mayor of Newcastle after winning
the nomination in a field of seven candi-
dates, and entered upon his duties Jan-
uary 7, 1917, for a term of four years. He
is trea.surer of the Henry County War
Chest Fund, has served as chairman of
the Henry County Liberty Loan Commit-
tee, and his name is identified with every
progressive movement in his home city,
whether for local benefits or for the broader
service of the war. Mr. Elliott is a Knight
Templar Mason and Shriner, is afifiliated
with the Improved Order of Red Men, the
Junior Order United American Mechan-
ics, the Woodmen of the World, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, is president of
the Boy Scouts Couwil, the Newcastle
Country Club, and the Columbia Club and
Marion Club of Indianapolis.

As mayor of Newcastle Mr. Elliott de-
votes his entire time to its duties, having
turned over the management of the Cour-
rier to his capable and efifieient sister, Jean
Elliott, the only woman in Indiana in ac-
tual and active charge of a newspaper
jilant the size of the Courier. Mr. Elliott's
slogan when a candidate for mayor was "A
business man for the city's business," and
ho is living up to it by giving the city all
of his time and thought, with the idea and
hope that his example will make it forever
impossible for any man to become mayor
of Newcastle for pui-ely political reasons,
believing as he does that his four years in
the office will cause the people of his city
to hereafter prefer and demand business
methods in the administration of munici-
pal affairs.

JiTDGE William Z. Stuart was born
at Dedham, Massachusetts, December 25,
1811. the son of Dr. James and Nancy
(Allison) Stuart, of Aberdeen, Scotland.

When nine years old his parents returned
to Scotland, but the boy preferred Amer-
ica, and at fourteen ran away from home
and returned to Massachusetts. He found
employment at New Bradford as a durg
clerk for two yeai-s, and then at Boston
in the same occupation. He took up the
study of medicine and worked his way
through Amher.st College, graduating in
1833.

He was principal of the Hadley High
School for a year, and then, for two years,
principal of the Mayville Academy at
Westfield, New York, meanwhile reading
law. In 1836 he removed to Logansport,
Indiana, and engaged in practice with suc-
cess. He was elected prosecuting attor-
ney of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in 1845,
state representative in 1851, and Supreme
judge in 1852. In 1856 he was the demo-
cratic candidate for Congi-ess against
Schuyler Colfax, but was defeated. In
1857 he resigned as judge, and became
attorney for the Toledo & Wabash Rail-
way Company.

Judge Stuart received the degree of
LL. D. from Amherst in 1868. He died
at Clifton Springs, New York, May 7,
1876. For detailed sketch, see "Repre-
sentative Men of Indiana," Tenth District,
page 37.

Julius A. Lemcke was one of the best
citizens Indiana ever had. While he
gained distinction by election for two
terms as state treasurer, and was conspicu-
ously successful as a business man, both
at Evansville and Indianapolis, it was not
until after his death that his services were
properly appreciated and estimated. The
brief story of his life as here given is only
a modest estimate of his activities and in-
fluences.

Captain Lemcke was born in Hamburg,
Germany, September 11, 1832, and died
m Indianapolis at the advanced age of
seventy-nine. When he was a .small boy
his father died, and in the spring of 1846,
as a youth, he emigrated to the United
States. An ocean voyage of three months
on a sailing ve.ssel brought him, then four-
teen years of age, to New Orleans, and a
trip of several days up the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers carried him to the farm of his
maternal uncle, William L. Dubler, ten
miles from Evansville, on the New Har-
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household and the four yeai-s which the
hardy German boy spent on this home-
stead were busy ones indeed, valuable to
him chiefly as a season of good discipline.
His wages' were nothing the first year and
four dollars monthly the last year. He
then entered a dry goods store in Evans-
ville. In his quaint "Book of Reminis-
cences," published not long before his
death, the Captain gives a graphic sketch
of the duties which had fallen to him. ' ' It
was not unnatural," he says "that the
childless couple I left behind should be
loth to part with a handy boy, who, never
idle, began at daybreak with milking the
cows, before breakfast had fed the stock and
chopped an armful of wood, and who dur-
ing the day when not at work in the field or
the clearing, kept up repairs on the barn
and the farming implements of the place,
patched the harness of the horses, half-
soled the shoes of the family, did the hog
killing at Christmas, pickled the hams and
smoked them, made the sausage and souse,
watched the ash hopper, boiled the soap,
and who on Saturday nights helped Aunt
Hannah darn the stockings of the family. ' '
Not to mention assisting the old uncle in
his prasperous country store both in sell-
ing his goods and in hauling country
produce to Evansville for shipment to New
Orleans.

After working in the dry goods store,
studying bookkeeping at night and clerk-
ing in a grain and grocery store for about
a year, young Lemcke went to New Or-
leans as receiving clerk on a passenger
steamer. On his return he was sent up
Green River in Kentucky to take charge
of a country store and in the winter of
1852 he took charge of the railroad sta-
tion of Kings Station, then the northern
terminus of the Evansville and Terre
Haute line. The station was in the forest,
and the agent, who was soon dispensed
with, returned to Evansville and com-
menced to make cigare. Soon afterward
he was back on the river as a steamboat
clerk, and then for some time operated a
country store, auctioneered and did va-
rious other things a dozen miles from
IMount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana.

Another return to Evansville followed,
with some experience in connection with
the "wild cat" banks of the place. Alto-
gether about twenty-seven years of his
earlier life were spent in Evansville as

merchant, banker, in the promotion of the
boat interests of the Ohio River, and as a
leader in the republican party.

In the autumn of 1856 he appeared as
a vigorous campaigner for Fremont and
the republican party. He was elected city
clerk of Evansville in 1858. He then be-
came a member of the wholesale grocery
firm of Sorenson, Lemcke & Company,
from which he emerged financially broken
but in fair spirit. He built a first-class
hotel, of which the city was much in need,
and before the outbreak of the war had
become largely interested in several well
equipped steamboats, having by general
consent fairly earned the title of captain.
It was as a boat owner and operator that
Captain Lemcke acquired his modest early
fortune and his high standing as a busi-
ness man. In 1861 the United States Gov-
ernment detailed him to patrol the lower
Ohio River, and before the regular posts
were established in the valley he did good
service in preventing the transportation
of supplies across the lines to the Con-
federacy. He also served with one of his
boats under Generals Grant and Sheridan
at Cairo and Paducah, and carried away
the fir.st load of wounded soldiere from Fort
Donelson. Still later he was in the mili-
tary service on the Ohio, Tennessee and
Cumberland rivers, and in 1862 with Cap-
tain Dexter he organized the fii-st Evans-
ville and Cairo line.

After the restoration of peace he served
for ten years as a member of the Ohio
River Commission, and during his day no
man was more closely identified with the
transportation interests of the Ohio Valley.
In 1876 he was elected city treasurer of
Evansville and in 1880 became sheriff of
the county, serving two terms, and was
also a member of the city police board.
For a number of years he was cashier of
the Merchants National Bank of Evans-
ville and was alsa interested in a local
woolen factory.

Julius A. Lemcke was elected state
treasurer of Indiana in 1886, and re-elected
in 1888. On beginning his first term in
1887 he removed to Indianapolis, and re-
tired from office in 1891. Subsequently
he declined the post of United States treas-
urer offered by General Harrison. Cap-
tain Lemcke had lived in the United States
twenty years before he revisited the Fath-
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after he returned to Germany for the sec-
ond time. While in the old country he
formed a warai attachment to the poet
Bodenstedt, who died while Captain
Lemcke was iu Germany, and the latter
was honored by appointment as one of his
famous friend's pallbearers. During a
residence of over twenty years in In-
dianapolis Captain Lemcke was identified
with business affairs in different lines, and
iu 1895 began the erection of the Lemcke
Building, which has long stood as one. of
the prominent office structur&s in the busi-
ness districts. Since his death his busi-
ness has been continued by his .son, Ralph
A. Lemcke.

During the later years of his life Cap-
tain Lemcke devoted much time to writ-
ing an account of his European travels
in his "Reminiscences of an Indianan,"
the latter being a book which represents
a distinct contribution to Indiana history
and literature. He had a great gift for
humorous and graphic narrative. He was
one of the older members of the Columbia
Club, the ]Maennerchor, the German House,
the Indianapolis Literary Club, and the
Indianapolis Art Association. It is said
that no one was ever more welcome to any
circle which he chose to enter than Cap-
tain Lemcke.

He died of pneumonia at his home on
North Penn.sylvania Street and was buried
in Evansville beside his oldest son, George,
who had died ten years before. Januar.y
1, 1874, Captain Lemcke married Emma
0 'Riley. He was survived by his widow,
two daughters, ^Mrs. Harry Sloan Hicks ;
Eleanor, wife of Russell Fortune; and one
.son, Ralph A. Lemcke.

In the words of one who knew and had
followed his career, "Captain Lemcke was
a man who drew people to him because
they admired him for what he had reall.y
accomplished and because of the attractive
power which always abides with those who
themselves have an honest affection for
their fellows. Such lovable characters
avoid much of the wear and tear of life
which fall upon those who plow through
the world by sheer strength and uncom-
promising force."

Charles E. B.vtciieler has done much
in the cause of commercial education in
Indiana, and for fully fifteen years has
been identified with some of the leading

business schools of the state either as in-
structor or as executive head. He is now
manager of the well-equipped Anderson
Business College at Anderson. He has
done his part in the essential task of prop-
erly preparing and equipping a host of
young men and women for the responsi-
bilities and opportunities of the commer-
cial world.

]\Ir. Batcheler was born in "West River
To\vnship, Randolph County, Indiana,
June 11, 1882. His early environment was
that of a farm. His parents were W. G.
and Alice (Hutchens) Batcheler. Mr.
Batcheler is of English ancestry. As a
boy he lived at home on the farm and at-
tended school at Bloomingsport through
the eighth grade. For two years he was
a student in the high .school at Winches-
ter, graduating in 1901, and soon after-
ward went to work as a teacher in a coun-
try school. He spent four years in the
schools of White River Township of his
native county, one year in Washington
Tow^lship, and with a view to preparinff
himself for larger opportunities he then
entered Richmond Business College. His
proficiency was such that the management
of the school prevailed upon him to remain
and teach .shorthand and bookkeeping.
That started him in the field where his
greatest success has since been. When the
Indiana Business College bought the
Richmond .school Mr. Batcheler was put
on the staff of instructors of the larger
institution, was made bookkeeping instruc-
tor at JIuncie for six months, filled a simi-
lar position in the school at Marion, and
then for a year and a half was principal
of a local business college at Ander.son.
Fro>n here he removed to Lafayette, In-
diana, and for five years was manager of
the Lafayette Business College and for
three year.s of that time had the manage-
ment of the Crawfordsville Business Col-
lege. From Indiana Mr. Batcheler then
went East, and for three years was head
of the bookkeeping department of the
Salem Commercial School at Salem, Massa-
chusetts. He returned to Anderson, June
1, 1917, to assume his present duties as
manager of the Anderson Business College.

In 1917 ]\Ir. Batcheler married Grace
Siler of Lafayette, Indiana, daughter of
W. H. and Ella (McKee) Siler. :\rr.
Batcheler is a republican, has filled all the
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is
senior deacon of Winchester Lodge No. 56,
Free and Accepted Masons, and a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. His church is the Methodist.

V. H. Osborne has been a business man
of Anderson for over twenty years, and
has built up extended and prosperous busi-
ness connections as a heating engineer, hav-
ing one of the best equipped establish-
ments and one of the most complete serv-
ices in that line in Eastern Indiana.

Vandercook Hiram Osborne was born on
a farm near Clyde, New York, in 1871, of
English ancestrj^ and a son of Robert B.
and Mary E. (Vandercook) Osborne. His
people have been in America for many gen-
erations. Mr. Osborne grew up on his
father's farm, and had most of his educa-
tion in the country schools of Shelldrake.
in Seneca County, New York. Wlien he
was sixteen years of age, in 1887, the fam-
ily removed to Indiana, locating at Union
City. Here he went to work in his uncle's
factory, J. H. Osborne & Company, but
a year later apprenticed himself to learn
the plumbing and heating trade at Muncie,
and for eight years was with the Hyland
& Kirby Company, both as an apprentice
and as a journeyman. Returning to Union
City, he worked at gas fitting when the
firet gas was piped into that city. Again
at Muncie, he was a journeyman for one
year for Davis & Retherford, and he also
spent a .year in the far West at Cripple
Creek, Colorado, where along with work at
his trade he did some gold prospecting.

In May, following the fii-st inauguration
of President McKinley, in 1897, Mr. Os-
borne returned to Indiana and located at
Anderson. For three years he remained
steadily at work as a journejonan with
Popell & Darte. Having saved his money,
and with abundant experience as addi-
tional equipment and capital, he went into
business for himself at his present loca-
tion, 115 East 8th Street, and while there
his bu.siness has grown and increased and
prospered and his establishment for gen-
eral plumbing and heating is known all
over Madison County and even adjoining
counties.

In 1910 Mr. Osborne married Stella
Gwinnup, daughter of William K. and
Amy (Baldwin) Gwinnup of Anderson.
Thev have two children : Bruce Wayne,

born in 1911 ; and Beverly Jean, born Oc-
tober 30, 1915.

Mr. Osborne supports the republican
ticket in national affairs, but is usually in-
dependent in local election.s. He is a mem-
ber of the First Christian Church and is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks at Anderson.

Alpha L. Holad.\.y, real estate and in-
surance in the Johnson Building at Mun-
cie, is one of the younger men of affairs
whose substantial work and broadening
energies give promise and assurance of a
career of most substantial effectiveness.

Mr. Holaday was born on his father's
farm in Delaware County, Indiana, Febru-
ary 19, 1893, a son of Otto and Maggie
(McCormiek) Holaday. At least three
generations of the famity have lived in
Indiana. His grandfather, David Hola-
day, who died in Henrjr County in 1877,
was a highly-respected citizen and farmer
near Newcastle, was a republican in poli-
tics, and was one of the early temperance
men of that section.

Otto Holaday who was born in Henry
County, September 7, 1873, was only four
years old when his father died, and in 1884
removed with his widowed mother to Ham-
ilton Township in Delaware County, where
he grew to manhood. He had a common
school education and at the age of nine-
teen married Maggie McCormiek. After
their marriage he continued to look after
the interests of the home farm until he
was of age, and later inherited a portion
of his mother's land, and has been one of
the good, substantial general farmers in
this community ever since. Outside of
home and farm his big interest in life is
his church. He has been an active mem-
ber of the Garrard Christian Church ever
since it was organized, and his faithful at-
tendance, liberal support, and participa-
tion in every department has been a sus-
taining factor in the growth and develop-
ment of that organization. He is a regu-
lar attendant at Sabbath school work and
weekly prayer meetings and also the Sun-
day school. Politically he is a republican
and, like his father, has been a zealous ad-
vocate of the temperance cause.

Alpha L. Holaday, second in a family
of four children, all of whom are living,
is a graduate of the Hamilton Township
common schools, of the Gaston High

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School in Washin^on Township of Dela-
ware County, and attended the Muneie
Normal Institute. With this preparation
he engaged in teaching for one year in
JMonroe Township of his native county,
and from teaching he transferred his ener-
gies and abilities to the buying and selling
of real estate. He has built up a good
clientele at Muneie and over the surround-
ing territory, and also handles insurance,
stocks and bonds. His good judgment and
enterprise in pushing sales have caused to
be entrusted to him the handling of much
valuable city property and farms. It has
been Mr. Holaday's experience that values
of city real estate at Muneie have in-
creased as rapidly as farms surrounding
that city, and this increase he credits to
tlie progress made in the new building
operations of local real estate men and
the building and loan association and,
furthermore, to the fact that Muneie is
steadily gi-owing as an industrial center.
IMr. Holaday is also secretary and treas-
urer of the American Oil Land Associa-
tion, Limited.

Since early youth he has taken much in-
terest in the republican party, of which
he is a loyal member, and he retains his
membership in the home church in which
he was reared, the Garrard Christian
Church in Hamilton Township. Mr. Hola-
day is affiliated with the Loyal Order of
Moose.

June 3, 1916, he married Miss Verneva
Bernice MeCreery, a daughter of Orva
McCreery, a farmer in Harrison Township
of Delaware County. ]\Irs. Holaday was
educated in the Gaston common and high
schools. They have one son. James Alpha,
born August 1, 1917.

Hon. John T. Str.\.nge. Both the hon-
ors and responsibilities of citizenship have
fallen in generous measure to this well
known Marion lawyer, who was admitted
to the bar forty years ago and is now one
of the oldest professional men in his na-
tive county. Mr. Strange is now serving
as government appeal agent, with jurisdic-
tion over many questions and affairs that
have to do with the present war.

He was born in Monroe Townsliip of
Grant County, April 7, 1850, a son of
Gciirgo and Lydia (Duekwall) Strange.
The cxjipriences of his early youth were
lai'gely bounded by the horizon of the

home farm, and the school where he gained
most of his early learning was kept in a
pioneer log building. He absorbed more
knowledge by private study than through
the lessons of the schoolroom. At the age
of eigliteen he (jnalified as a teacher, and
teaching largely paid his course through
college. Mr. Strange entered Wabash Col-
lege in Crawfordsville in 1872 and gradu-
ated in 1877.

Having in the meantime taken up the
study of law he was admitted to the bar
of Grant County in the fall of 1877, and
has been engaged in a general law prac-
tice ever since. Mr. Strange is now a re-
publican, and has been since 1900. He
served two years as a member of the City
Council of Marion, and in 1896 was a dele-
gate to the National Democratic Conven-
tion at Chicago, when William J. Bryan
was first nominated. From 1906 to 1914
he was a member of the State Senate of
Indiana, as a republican, and among other
services was chairman of the committee on
corporations. He is a former trustee of
the Masonic Temple at Marion, and is one
of the men who took an active part in the
campaign for the building of that Masonic
institution.

July 3, 1879, he married Miss Emma
Bobbs, daughter of Dr. A. J. and Mary
(Cook) Bobbs. Of their two children,
Esther and John, the latter died in in-
fancy. Esther is the wife of Dr. Godlove
G. Eekhart of Marion.

WiLLi.vM Doyle has lived all his life in
the County of Grant, where he was born,
has been and is primarily a farmer and
stockman, taking just pride in the maxi-
mum production of food from his acreage,
and, as is often the case, is one of those
exceedingly busy men who nevertheless
find time to engage most heartily and ef-
fectively in matters of public welfare.

The Doyles have a splendid American
record. His grandfather, Matthew Doyle,
who married Mary McMahon, was a native
of Ireland and in 1814 he and his wife set-
tled in Ohio, after a residence in Pennsyl-
vania and their marriage at Philadelphia.
Samuel Doyle, father of William Doyle,
was born at Philadelphia, January 10,
1805, grew up in Guernsey County, Ohio
and in 1838 married Miss Mary McCIus-
key. She was born at Harper's Perr^-,
Jlaryland, September 2, 1811. The first

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member of the Doyle family to come to
Grant County, Indiana, was Michael
Doyle, who located in Van Buren Town-
ship in June, 1838. His younger brother,
Samuel Doyle, followed him to Indiana
in 1840, and acquired a tract of compara-
tively raw land in Van Buren To-miship.
Beginning with a quarter section, his en-
ergy enabled him to accumulate 600 acres,
which he subsequently divided among his
children. He did much to pi-omote the
breeding and raising of first-class live-
stock in the county, and during the war
sold many horses to the government. He
was also a county official. He died in
Grant County, September 4, 1870. He and
his wife had four children, Mary Ann
Lease, Thomas B., William and Michael.

William Doyle was born in Van Buren
Township, ilarch 15, 1847, and that lo-
cality ha.s been his home for over seventy
years. His early education was acquired
in District No. 8, near his home. At the
age of twenty-one his father gave him a
share of the crops and he was identified
with the management of the home farm
until his father's death. He and his
brother, Jlichael, then bought the intere.sts
of some of the other heirs, and were joint
owners of 320 acres for five years. Wil-
liam Doyle then took his individual share
of tlie property, and gradually increased
his holdings until he had 2S0" acres, con-
stituting a farm which ha.s few equals in
Grant County. No matter what the season
Mr. Doyle always has some crops, whether
grain, fruit or livestock. He has been one
of the successful orchardists of Grant
County for a number of years, though
fruit growing is always subordinate to the
larger operations of field crops and stock.

Besides the high-class building and gen-
eral equipment found on his farm, Mr.
Doyle owns a modern town home in the
Village of Van Buren, where he has re-
sided since 1900. Since 1913 he has been
vice president of the Farmers Trust Com-
pany of Van Buren.

Van Buren Township takes a great deal
of pride in its splendid school sj'stem, the
central feature of which is the' township
high school, one of the finest buildings in
a rural community in Northern Indiana.
It was erected some years ago at a cost of
$50,000. and now, of course, could hardly
be duplicated for twice that amount. This
school is particularly a monument to the

official service of ilr. Doyle as township
trustee. His first term as trustee was from
1900 to 1904, and in 1908 he wa.s elected
for a second term and served until 1914.
It was during his second term that the
high school building was constructed. Mr.
Doyle took as much pride and pains in
insuring the adequacy of this building as
if it had been a matter of his exclusively
individual concern. He visited several
cities and perfected the plans only after
a long and careful examination of the best
types of public school architecture in the
country. Mr. Doyle is also president of
the Library Association of Van Buren, and
has done much to promote that worthy
local institution. He is a democrat, and
his first public office was township assessor,
to which he was elected in 1894 and served
six years. For over thirty years he has
been identified with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the
Christian Church.

In 1870 he married Miss Sarah J. Hayes,
daughter of William Hayes of Grant Coun-
ty. Six children were bom to them :
(Mary, who married Henry C. Ferguson;
Alfred N., a former member of the State
Board of Accounts; Adam M., and Deb-
orah Wcimer, both deceased; Violet Y.
Easton ; and Lavanner C.

Frank B. Shields. Few people appre-
ciate how much importance and sig-
nificance in industrial aflFairs are repre-
sented by Frank B. Shields as the treiis-
urer and mana^ring official in Indianapolis
of the Napco Corporation and the Inter-
national Process Company. These corpora-
tions have as their essential purpose and
product of manufacture the rather common-
place commodity of glue. But it is not
the glue of ordinary commerce, made from
animal products, but a vegetable glue and
also a waterproof glue.

Without exaggeration it can be said that
the development and maniifacture of glue
from vegetable sources marked a big ad-
vance and comprises a notable event among
the marvelous improvements brought out
by American genius. The International
Process Company were the pioneers in that
field and their products have especial value
for the many wood and veneer making
industries, some of the greatest of which
have their home in Indiana. Until the ad-
vent of the International Process Company

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practically the only kind of glue was that
made from animal products. This glue is
not only made from vegetable matter, but
has no odor, and can be used cold merely
by the admixture of water, whereas animal
giue requires a heat of 120 degrees. Veg-
etable glue has now entirely supplanted
the animal glue in the larger industrial
plants of the country. In Indiana alone
it is used exclusively by such large con-
cerns as the Hoosier Cabinet Company,
Showers Brothers Company, Bloomington,
Indiana, the largest furniture factory
in the world, the New Albany Veneer-
ing Company, Globe-Wernecke Company,
Globe-Bosse-World Furniture Company
and others. Millions of pounds find their
way into ordinary commercial channels,
•and also for export to foreign countries.
The company have a factory in Singapore
to manufacture for the eastern trade, and
also maintain an office in New York.

The waterproof glue manufactured by
the Napco Corporation is a still further
improvement over the vegetable glue.
While it has many other uses it is exten-
sively employed in th^ manufacture of
aeroplanes. Toward the close of the war
all the aeroplanes of United States manu-
facture used this company's waterproof
glue. Waterproof glue has greater tensile
strength than either the animal or veg-
etable glue, and is both water proof and
heat proof, and nothing to excel it ha.i
ever been produced for the wood-working
industries. It is prepared for use by sim-
ply mixing with cold water, and lia.s no
odor.

- The Indianapolis official of this corpora-
tion is an Indiana man, born at Seymour
in 1884, son of Dr. J. M. and Emma
(Brown) Shields, both of whom are still
living in Seymour. His father is a native
Indianan, a graduate of the Louisville
Medical College and for many years has
been a successful practitioner at Seymour.

Frank B. Shields is a trained chemist
and chemical engineer. He received his
early schooling at Se^onour and later spent
four years in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, from which he graduated
with the degree Bachelor of Science in the
class of 1907. He specialized in chemistry
and after leaving the Institute of Technol-
ogy he worked in the research department
of the General Electric Company at Lynn.
]\Iassachusetts. Mr. Shields ha.s been a

resident of Indianapolis since 1911 and
is well known in business and social cir-
cles, being a member of the University
Cluij, Country Club, Independent Athletic
Club and the Athenaeum. He married
Miss Mary Mather, who was born in In-
diana. They have a daughter, Madeline.

Mrs. George C. Hitt is a native of An-
dover, Massachusetts. Her father, Wil-
liam Barnett, was a native of Scotland,
and her mother, Charlotte (Busfield) Bar-
nett, a native of England. She came to
Indianapolis in 1877 as the bride _ of
George C. Hitt, who later served as vice-
consul general to London under President
Harrison.

l\Irs. Hitt has taken an active part in
charitable work and in the club life of
the city and state. An account of her
work by Grace Julian Clarke will be found
in the Indianapolis Star for April 15,
1912. Her latest work has been in the
Mothers' Club, to which she is accredited
by the services of her three sons.
* Parker Hitt, the oldest of these, went out
with General Pershing's command as cap-
tain and now ranks as colonel, and is chief
signal officer of the First American Army.
Rodney Hitt has served through the war
in the Department of Purchases, Stores
and Transportation, with the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel. Laurence Wilbur Hitt
went out a.s first lieutenant in the Camou-
flage Section of the Fortieth Engineers
and now ranks as captain.

NoEMAN Joseph L.\sher. An Indiana
educator of proved usefulness and expe-
rience, Norman Joseph Lasher is now
superintendent of the public school sys-
tem of Gas City.

He was born in Perry County, Indiana,
July 13, 1884. son of James Buchanan and
Julia Ann (Cassidy) Lasher. His father
was a farmer. While a boy on the farm
Norman J. Lasher attended the local
schools, but as soon as old enough, quali-
fied for work a.s a teacher, through which
vocation he paid his college expenses, and
for two years also gave a large part of his
salary to lift a mortgage of .$600 on the
old homestead. Thus he has not lived unto
himself alone, but has made both his in-
come and his services of effective benefit
to others.

While teaching in winter Mr. Lasher

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attended summer sessions of the Marion
Normal School, and in 1915 graduated
from the State Normal School. When he
entered college he borrowed $35 to meet
his preliminary expenses, and he knows
all the ins and outs of the experience of
making both ends meet.

As a teacher Mr. Lasher was superin-
tendent of the schools at Williamsport five
years, spent two years at Waveland, one
year at Otterbein, and in 1918 came to his
present position at Gas City. He is a mem-
ber of the Indiana State Teachers' Asso-
ciation and is affiliated with the Ma-sonic
Order and Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.

July 26, 1908, he married Miss Maud
Newlin Borum, of Wingate, Indiana,
daughter of Edward and Viola Caroline
(Tague) Borum. They have two children,
Frances ]\larian and Elbert Eugene.

Henry Meyer is one of the esteemed
citizens of Anderson, where he is known
as a public-spirited helper in every line
of community^ progress and as a success-
ful business man. He has been in the
tailor business here for twenty years, and
for the past ten years has conducted one
of the exclusive custom tailoring shops.

Mr. Meyer was born in Bremen, Ger-
many, April 10, 1865. He had the advan-
tages of the common schools of his native
land, and at the age of fifteen came to
America and at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
learned the tailoring trade with the old
firm of Tooman & Company. After com-
pleting his apprenticeship he was a .iour-
uejTuan tailor for three years, and re-
mained at Fort Wayne for eight years.
Then for three years he traveled at his
trade, covering most of the points in the
Middle West. Returning to Fort Wa\Tie,
he became a cutter with one of the large
tailoring houses, but in 1897 removed to
Anderson, and for ten years was a cutter
for Daniel Goehler, a prominent merchant
tailor of the city. Mr. Meyer finally en-
gaged in business for himself, opening his
shop at his present location, 1023 ]\Iain
Street. He has developed a large clientele.
and has some of the best knowm citizens of
Anderson and surrounding towns as his
regular customers.

In 1893 he married Miss Elsie Tegeder,
who was also born in Germany. Mr. Meyer
is an independent republican, and is affili-

ated with Anderson Lodge No. 209, Benev-
olent and Protective Oi'der of Elks, and is
very active in St. John Evangelical
Lutheran Church. For many years he
served as treasurer of the church and is
also an active member and supporter of the
Young Men's Christian Association.

Clarence L. Kirk, vice president and
general manager of the Indianapolis Water
Company, has lived a strenuous life since
early boyhood.

He was born in Burlington, Boone
County, Kentucky, May 6, 1866. His
mother, whose maiden name was Augusta
Calvert, member of one of the oldest and
most prominent families of Baltimore, died
when he was ten years of age. This was
a severe loss to the boy, and her continued
presence would undoubtedly have softened
some of the rougher experiences that fol-
lowed. Jlr. Kirk went to a country school
at a time when the benches were arranged
along the sides of the room, the pupils thus
being more accessible to the teacher who
seemed to believe that "liekin' " and
"larnin' " were synonymous.

John Wesley Kirk, his father, was a mas-
ter carpenter, and at the age of thirteen
Clarence L. began helping in such work
as he could do. It was not long before he
was doing a man 's work in full. His father
was old-fashioned in his views and appro-
priated all the boy earned.

It was for this reason that he left home
at the age of nineteen and a half, and go-
ing to Northern Indiana, learned teleg-
rapliy at Rose Lawn. Two years later he
located at Broad Ripple, Indiana, as agent
of the ]\Ionon Railroad. He had his home
at Broad Ripple for thirteen years. Be-
sides his duties as station agent he was a
notary public, real estate agent, had a half
interest in a store, operated a coal yard,
sold all kinds of building material, and in
fact was a strenuous participant in almost
every phase of the commercial life of that
to-mi and working constantly to earn an
honest dollar. It was not long before he
realized the impossibility of further ad-
vancement as a railroader and that contin-
uance on his ,iob would mean an uncertain
and precarious existence to the end of his
days.

He therefore became representative of
the Southern Products Company. When
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1351

receiver of the East Chicago Water and
Light Plants Mr. Kirk was chosen as the
receiver's special representative. He had
no previous knowledge of such a public
utility and was appointed because he was
generally recognized as an unusually capa-
ble business man, thoroughly honest and
reliable. He continued successfully in
charge of the work until reorganization,
then remained active in the management
of the plant until 1913. At that date Mr.
Kirk returned to Indianapolis to become
vice president and general manager of the
Indianapolis Water Company.

He is one of the progi-essive, capable
business men of the state. With all his
many responsibilities he has found time to
join the Masons, Odd Fellows, the Colum-
bian and Marion clubs, the Highland Golf
Club, the Maennerehor, the Chamber of
Commerce and sevei'al other civic and so-
cial organizations. ]\Ir. Kirk is married
and has a familj- of four children.

Harry Y. Cook. To found and build
up an industry that sends its products
throughout the United States, employ a
number of skilled workmen, and is a per-
manent and valuable asset to even such a
large city as Indianapolis, is an achieve-
ment highly creditable in any case and par-
ticularly so with a man only in his thir-
tieth year.

Such is in brief the business record of
Harry V. Cook, general manager of the
H. V. Cook Company, manufacturers of
and dealers in hardwood floors at 854
Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. Mr.
Cook was born at Indianapolis in 1888,
son of Andrew and Anna (Frey) Cook.
Andrew Cook was born in Germany, was
brought when an infant to Indianapolis,
grew up here and was educated in the city
schools. When little more than a boy he
began working for the Big Four Railway
Company, and for a number of years was
a locomotive engineer. On account of fail-
ing eyesight, which unqualified him for the
active responsibilities of an engineer's post,
he resigned from the railroad and followed
clerical occupations for a time and later
for a number of years as in the grocery
and meat market business at Davidson and
Vermont streets in Indianapolis. His wife
was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, and they
were the parents of six children, the three
now living as follows: Albert F., in the

automoblile business in Indianapolis;
Blanche, wife of C. W. Duhemin; and
Harry V.

Harry V. Cook while a boy gained his
education in public schools Nos. 10 and 33,
Indianapolis. His first regular employ-
ment fortunately directed his energies into
the line which he has always followed, and
thus, though a young man, he is a veteran
in experience in woodworking plants. He
was first employed when a boy by Adams
and Raymond in their veneer plant at
Indianapolis. Later for a time he was with
the Indianapolis Stove Company but soon
went with Albert Gall Company, sayers
of hardwood floors, and was also with
Adam Berger Company, sayers of similar
materials. He profited by his experience
and accepted of every opportunity to im-
prove his knowledge and skill in this special
line of woodworking industry and was
little more than a boy in .years when he
started in business for himself.

ilr. Cook has now been manufacturing
and dealing in hardwood floors for ten
years. At first he did all the work him-
self, and by saving and utilizing his credit
he was able to install machinery and secure
others to help him in manufacturing. At
the present time he fills contracts for hard-
wood floors over a radius of a hundred
miles around Indianapolis and some con-
tracts even at a greater distance, and sells
flooring in all parts of the country. He
employs about thirty-two skilled workmen
in his plant.

In 1912 Mr. Cook married Miss Tommie
E. Deknoblough. She was born in Bow-
ling Green, Kentucky. ]\Ir. Cook is afiSli-
ated with Monument Lodge No. 657, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons, with In-
dianapolis Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
and Council No. 2, Royal and Select Mas-
ters.

Charles H. Terrell. The distinctive
usefulness of Charles H. Terrell in Indi-
ana life and afi'airs is as an educator. He
is serving his second term as superintend-
ent of public schools of Grant County, and
has been a teacher and school administra-
tor continuously since he attained his ma-
jority.

Born at Kokomo, Indiana, November 3,
1879, he has lived in Grant County since
he was thirteen years of age. He was
tlie only child of George and Elizabeth

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(Myers) Terrell, both natives of Decatur
County. His father was a mechanic and
died in 1881. The mother passed away in
1891.

Soon after the death of his mother,
which left him an orphan, Charles H. Ter-
rell came to Grant County and continued
his education, which was begun in the com-
mon schools of Decatur County. He grad-
uated from the Gas City High School in
1899, and later, in the intervals of his
work as teacher, attended Taylor Univer-
sity at Upland and the University of In-
diana at Bloomington.

He taught his first term of school in the
fall of 1900. After four years in coun-
try schools he became an instructor in the
town schools of Jonesboro in Grant Coun-
ty, where he remained from 1905 to 1909,
and two years of that time was principal
of the high school. In 1910-11 he was at
the head of the department of history in
the high school at ilarion. In the mean-
time he had completed his classical course
at the University and was graduated A. B.
in 1910.

June 5, 1911, Mr. Terrell was elected
eounty stuperintendent of schools for a
term of four years and was re-elected in
1915. In this position his liabilities have
had manifold benefits to the public system
of education. Mr. Terrell is a man of
idealism, has a broad experience in practi-
cal school work, and also the breadth of
mind which enables him to adapt himself
to the rapidly increasing demands upon
public education. He has done much to
improve the courses of agricultural train-
ing in the local schools, has worked for
school consolidation and general efficiency
of personnel and management, and enjoys
much of the credit for the high stand Grant
County has among Indiana counties for its
school sj'stem. Grant County for several
years has been the leading county in the
state in the matter of commissioned high
schools.

Mr. Terrell holds a life certificate as a
teacher granted him in 1910, and in the ex-
amination received a high grade among a
class of thirty men who were applicants for
such certificates. He is a member of the
college educational fraternity Phi Delta.
Kappa of the University of Indiana. In
politics he is a democrat, has served as a
member of the Democratic Executive Com-
mittee of Grant County, and fraternallv is

affiliated with Jonesboro Lodge No. 109,
Ancient Free and Accepted ilasous, Jones-
boro Lodge No. 102, Knights of Pj-thias,
and with Lodge No. 195, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.

James E. Riley has during a period of
forty years been merchant, farmer, banker,
representative in the Legislature and a
factor in all the good works and movements
affecting his home community of Van
Buren in Grant County.

He was born in Tipton County, Indiana,
December 28, 1851. His grandfather, Ed-
ward Riley, came to Indiana from Ken-
tucky about 1840. James E. Riley is a son
of Noble S. and ilary (Hinton) Riley,
both natives of Kentucky. His father was
born in 1823 and died in 1856, at the early
age of thirty-three. At one time in his
life he was a merchant in Rush County,
but in Tipton County was a farmer, and his
local prominence is indicated bj' the fact
that at the time of his death he was a county
commissioner. His death, due to typhoid
fever, left his widow with three young
children, Lewis Cass, James E. and Martha
J. The widowed mother made a noble
struggle to rear her family, and succeeded
in giving them substantial comforts and
advantages, and earned all the affection
and esteem paid her. She died at the age
of eighty-seven July 29, 1911.

With only a common school education
James E. Riley began life as a farmer,
married at the age of twenty-two, and for
four years rented land and exercised such
industry and economy that he made a living
and secured a modest capital toward his
next step in the world. Mr. Riley began
merchandising in Van Buren in 1879 with
a stock of groceries that did not exceed
in value more than $150. The store grew
and prospered, the patronage continually
enlarged and he found himself able to pro-
vide his children with a good home and
most substantial and liberal opportuni-
ties for education.

After m'^e than thirty-two years as a
merchant Mr. Riley retired in September,
1911, and has since divided his attention
between his farm of eighty acres near Van
Buren, which he bought in 1907, and his
business interests in town. For many years
he was a business associate of W. L. Duck-
wall in the ownership of land and im-
proved property in Van Buren. "\Mien in

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1913 the Farmers Trust Company of Van
Buren was organized Mr. Rilej' was elected
president, and continues that oflfice.

During all these years he has been one
of the prominent leaders of the democratic
party in Grant County. He was assessor
of Van Buren Township nine years, was
postmaster of the village from 1892 to 1896,
and in November, 1912, was elected to rep-
resent Grant County in the 60th Indiana
Assembly. He was one of the most active
workers in the following session of the
legislature. He also served on the Con-
scription Board of District No. 2. Mr
Riley has been a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows for nearly
forty years, and he and his familj- are
members of the Christian Church.

March 19, 1874, he married Sarah E.
Black, daughter of Dr. Daniel T. Black
of Marion. Eight children were born to
their marriage : Blanch, who married
Henry D. Nicewanger ; Grace, wife of John
R. Brown; Pearl Allen; Roxey Haines;
Mrs. Maude Hutton ; Jlartha Howe : Noble
T. ; and one that is deceased.

Leopold Levy, who was state treasm-er
of Indiana from 1899 to 1903, was in many
ways one of the remarkable men of his
time. As an old newspaper friend wrote
of him in referring to his death: "Leo-
pold Levy, the poor emigrant boy from Ba-
varia, had made good and had honored his
race. From poverty to affluence, from ob-
scurity to a high place in citizen-ship un-
aided, his career is an example of what
our free institutions enable resourceful
men to achieve regardless of the handicaps
placed upon them in early life." If proof
were needed of the wealth of public es-
teem he en.ioj-ed it could be found in the
oft repeated sentence that was in the
mouths of so many of his political friends
and associates years ago: "Leopold Levy
is the only Jew who was ever elected to a
state office in Indiana.'"

He was born in "Wuertemberg. Germany,
in 1838, and died at his home in Indian-
apolis April 8, 1905. His father, Heneley
Levy, wa.s at one time mayor of the little
village in which Leopold was born.
Reared and educated in his native land,
Leopold at the age of sixteen started for
America. He had a small sum represent-
ing his savings, and that he generously

divided with a boy friend who accom-
panied him. He landed in New York in
1854, and had enough money to carry him
half way across the continent to Indiana.
Here he began his business career as a pack
peddler for H. E. and C. F. Sterne, and
later he visited the farmhouses of Miami
and adjoining counties as the owner of a
substantial wagon outfit, carrying a good
stock of dry goods and notions but ready
to deal in anything that afforded an hon-
est profit. An old friend once recalled that
he accepted a calf in pajinent for some
goods, and had an exciting experience with
the boisterous young animal, which re-
fused to lead or drive and finally precipi-
tated itself over an embankment into the
river, with its owner desperately hanging
upon the other end of the rope." When a
little more than twenty-one years of age
Mr. Levy became associated in business
with Charles Herff, a pioneer gi-ocer at
Wabash. A few years later he was a
partner in the firm of Sterne & Levy, cloth-
ing and general merchants. In 1861 he
removed to Kokonio. where he was in busi-
ness four years, and tlien established him-
self at Huntington, which might be consid-
ered his permanent home, since he was
there thirty-two years, developed a cloth-
ing business second to none in volume of
trade in that part of the state, and from
the proceeds of_ which he became one of
the wealthy men of the city and county.
He sold his store at Huntington in 1899,
and during and after his terai as state
treasurer he lived at Indianapolis, where
he became president of the Capital Rattan
.Company, a business to which his son
Henry Levy succeeded him, as mentioned
in tlie sketch of the latter.

Leopold Levv' was always an active re-
publican, and his fir.st political position was
election in a democratic ward in Hunting-
ton to the city council. He filled that of-
fice three terms. By appointment from
the Legislature he was for one term direc-
tor of the Northern State Prison at Michi-
gan City. He was appointed to that office
in 1888, and took the keenest interest in
tlie welfare of the institution, and was re-
sponsible for establishing a prison school.
He was nominated for state treasurer on
the republican ticket in 1898, and had been
a candidate for the nomination in 1894
and 1896. He was elected in 1898 and re-

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nominated and re-elected in 1900. After
the expiration of his second term in office
he lived quietly and in failing health.

One of the "many sincere tributes paid
him at the time of his death came from the
clerk of the Supreme Court, who had gone
into office at the same time as Mr. Levy.
His tribute was: "Leopold Levy was a
good, true man and one of the best types
of his race. The fact that he was an inde-
fatigable worker was what brought about
success, both in business and polities. He
succeeded where hundreds of other men
would have failed. His disposition and
nature were such that every acquaintance
became a warm friend. T have heard many
men comment on his intense loyalty to
friends. It seemed as if he never forgot
a favor, however small it might be. ' '

Mr. Levy's generosity had few restrict
tions to its expression.' He helped build
churches regardless of denomination, and it
is noteworthy that while an ardent politi-
cal partisan he had many warm and stanch
friends and admirers among the democrats.
He was an honored member of the Marion
Club, the Columbia Club at Indianapolis,
was affiliated with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and was also a Mason. His
old Masonic lodge at Huntington had
charge of his funeral at Fort Wayne.

In 1867 Leopold Levy married Theresa
Redelshermer, daughter of Sigraund and
I^ena Redelshermer. She had the distinc-
tion of being the first child of Jewish par-
ents born at Fort Wayne. Her birth oc-
curred in that city September 24, 1846.
Leopold Levj' and wife had two children:
Henry, elsewhere referred to in this pub-
lication; and Daisy, wife of Joseph Liv-
ingston of Indianapolis.

In a recently published history of Hunt-
ington County are found the following
paragraphs: "Leopold Levy, the first
president of the Huntington Board of
Trade, was for many years closely identi-
fied with the business interests of that
city. He was an unswerving republican
in his political views and in the summer of
1898 was nominated by the State Conven-
tion of that party for the office of state
treasurer. Ho was elected in November
and entered upon the duties of the office
on February 10, 1899. In 1900 he was
a^-ain elected for a term of three years,
which expired on Februarv 10, 1903. Mr.
Levy was a successful business man, a pub-

lic spirited citizen and made a competent
state official. While a resident of Hunt-
ington he was always ready to aid any and
every movement for the promotion of the
general welfare."

A few years ago Chad Butler, one of the
old time newspaper men of Indiana, wrote
an interesting sketcli of Leopold Levy, cov-
ering his political and business career and
many incidents of tlieir personal acquaint-
ance. A few sentences may be introduced
here from Mr. Butler's sketch: "Leopold
was genial and jovial under all cireum-
.stances. He wa.s a pasti master in the
clothing trade and he had the confidence
of his patrons. His store was popular, he
sold goods on the square, and never failed
to make satisfactory adjustment with a dis-
satisfied customer. ]\Ir. Levy was a sales-
man in his palmy days who could give
cards and spades to many gentlemen in the
trade today.

"Leopold was a man of tenacity of pur-
pose and made three races for state treas-
urer before he secured the nomination. He
was twice beaten, but his smile never came
ofi' and he cheerfully accepted the result.
Nothing interfered with his political en-
thusiasm. He just came back to Hunting-
ton, buckled on his armor and worked in-
cessantly for republican success. He was.
always careful to see that his successful
opponent secured the full republican vote
of the county, and so a.s time went by the
republicans of the state learned to recog-
nize him as a stanch and loyal partisan de-
serving of recognition. His third race was
successful. He was elected by a good ma-
jority, his co-religionists throughout the
state voting largely for* him, and more
than compensated for the loss of votes of
narrow, hide-bound haters of the Jewish
religion. He was re-elected and he gave
good satisfaction during his four years'
term of office."

Henry Levy was an Indianapolis man-
ufacturer who gave vitality to one of the
most considerable industries of the city.
For years he was president and manager
of the Capital Rattan Company.

When Mr. Levy died at his home in In-
dianapolis July 1, 1917, at the age of forty-
eight, there was general regret felt
throuffhout the city and the sentiment fre-
quently expressed that one of the strong
iind reliable men of the community had

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passed away. Mr. Levy had been educated
in public schools at Huntinglou, Indiana,
and also in the University of Michigan.
He made a special study of chemistry and
pharmacy and in 1892 went to Chicago
where he was engaged in the drug business
and also in medicine manufacture. Wlien
liis father, Leopold Levy, became state treas-
urer of Indiana Henry returned to the
state and occupied a position in his fa-
ther's office at Indianapolis.

On leaving the state office he took charge
of the Capital Rattan Works, then a small
concern belonging to Stuckey, Moreland &
North. It was located where the "Wheeler
Schepler plant is now. Under Mr. Levy's
able management the business grew and
prospered, and in 1902 the present site of
the plant was built and a new, model and
modern factory was constructed. At the
beginning the output was go-carts and
cei-tain types of reed furniture, but since
1910 they have manufactured primarily a
general line of mission furniture, and the
product now is distributed over a wide
territory. The late Mr. Levy was an ac-
tive member of the Knights of Pythias.
For the past ten years the secretary of
the Rattan Company has been Mrs. Henry
LeNT. Her maiden name was Marie C.
Clark, daughter of Thomas F. Clark of
Galesburg, Illinois. Mr. and ^Mrs. Levy
were married February 17, 1907.

WASHrNTGTON Cn.\BLES DeP.vuw, capi-
talist and philanthropist, was born at
Salem, Indiana, January 4, 1822. His
grandfather, Charles DePauw, was a
Frenchman who came over with Lafayette
and fought for America in the Revolu-
tion. He married in Virginia and emi-
grated to Kentucky, where his son John
was born. On arriving at manhood John,
who held a militia title of general, removed
to Indiana and located at Salem. He was
not successful in business, and when he
died Washington was left, at sixteen, years
of age, on his own resources.

He was bright and industrious. At nine-
teen he was employed in the county clerk's
office, and after becoming of age was
elected clerk. His natural business ability
was phenomenal. His investments were
all advantageous, and by the time of the
Civil war he was a wealthy man. During
the war he added largely to his wealth and
pi-omoted the manufacturing interests of

New Albany by the establishment of roll-
ing mills, foundries and plate glass works.

Mr. DePauw refused to take part in pub-
lic life, declining the democratic nomina-
tion for lieutenant-governor in 1872, but
was a great friend of education and served
for a number of years as trustee of the
State University and of Asbiiry. He
founded and for j'cars maintained De-
Pauw College, for girls, at New Albany.
In 1883 Asbury was in financial stress
and he came to its relief on condition of
cooperation by the Methodist Church.
The gifts of himself and family to the in-
stitution amounted to about $600,000.

In gratitude for his aid, and over his
protest, the name of Asbury was changed
to DePauw University in 1884, which was
duly legalized, and the institution entered
on a new era of prosperity. He did not
live to see the fruition of his work, as
death came to him suddenly, on ]Mav 6,
1887.

Harlky Franklin Hardin. Much of the
same fortitude and courage that enabled
his pioneer, ancestors in Indiana to meet
and solve the tremendous problems of exist-
ence involved in life on the frontier have
been summoned to the aid of Harley F.
Hardin in his career as a lawyer. Mr.
Hardin has been an active member of the
bar for seventeen years, and all of his
practice has been done in Grant County,
where he is looked upon as one of the lead-
ers of the bar.

He was born near Livonia in Washington
County, Indiana, June 29, 1876, and rep-
resents the fourth generation of the Har-
din family in Indiana. Many generations
precede him in American residence. The
first colonist of the Hardin clan came
from Scotland and established a home in
North Carolina. That was long before the
Revolutionary war. His son, Elisha Har-
din was born in South Carolina and mi-
grated from that colony to Tennessee.
John Hardin, a grandson of the original
innnigrant and great-grandfather of the
^Marion lawyer, wa.s born at Raleigh, North
Carolina, June 12, 1799, spent his early
life in Tennessee, and in 1816 arrived in
the wilderness of Indiana, which in the
same year was admitted to the Union. He
was for many years one of the most influ-
ential citizens of Wa.shington County. He
regularly did duty as clerk of publi"c sales

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in the county, and was called upon to draft
the greater portion of the deeds and mort-
gages of that time. These facts indicate
that he was a man of superior education.
He did much to found and maintain good
schools in a time when all education was
dependent upon local and private enter-
prise rather than as an integral part of
the public policy. John Hardin had three
sons who served in the Union anuy in
the Civil war, one of them being Capt.
John J. Hardin, and another met death
on a battlefield in Kentucky.

The paternal grandparents of Harley
P. Hardin were Andrew Jackson and Mary
A. (Jones) Hardin, both of whom spent
all their lives in this state. Isaac A. Har-
din was born in Washington County and
spent his active career as a farmer there
until his death in 1896, at the age of forty-
four. Isaac A. Hardin married Susan F.
Thomerson, who survived her husband.
She was a daughter of Isaac and Caroline
(Patton) Thomerson, and William Thomer-
son, grandfather of Isaac, was a native of
Ireland. Isaac A. Hardin and wife had
four children : Harley F. ; Eva L., who
married Emmerson H. Hall ; "Edgar K. ;
and Heber C.

Harley Franklin Hardin has always been
grateful that his early life was spent in
the environment of an Indiana farm. He
remembers pleasantly his boyhood days on
the farm, and he also made the best use of
the advantages of the public schools. From
high school he entered the University of
Indiana in January, 1898, but before com-
pleting his literary course entered the law
department, from which he was graduated
LL. B. in 1901. In the same year he was
admitted to the bar in Grant County, and
was also admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court and the United States Dis-
trict Court. Mr. Hardin began practice at
Mathews in Grant County August 1, 1901,
two years later moved to Fairmount, and
in May, 1908, established his home and
practice at Marion. He has had a generous
share of the legal business of that city, and
has made his professional interests first
and foremost, though he has not neglected
his duties as a good citizen. He is a re-
publican voter, is affiliated with the Masonic
Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, Knights of Pythias, and Benevolent
Crew of Neptune. He and his wife are

members of the Christian Church of Ma-
rion.

SciJtember 15, 1901, he married Miss
Mary Emeline Burgess who was born and
reared in Wa.shington Count.y, daughter
of Henry Burgess. Mrs. Hardin gradu-
ated from the Orleans High School in
1901. Tliey are the parents of five chil-
dren, named Belva Lorraine, Esther Ma-
linda, Forrest Franklin, Frances Elzora
and Carl Henry Hardin.

Egbert A. Morris is cashier of the Fair-
mount State Bank, of which his brother,
William F. Morris, is president. The Fair-
mount State Bank was established in 1902,
with a capital stock of twent.y-five thou-
sand dollars, and is one of a number of
financial institutions that liave been pro-
moted and founded by members of the
Morris family, long prominent in Wayne,
Grant and Madison counties.

The Morris family was established in the
Carolinas before the Revolutionary war.
They were originally of the Hicksite
Quakers and of Welsh ancestry. The found-
er of this particular branch of the family
in Indiana was Aaron IMorris, who was
born in North Carolina September 6, 1776.
July 19, 1798, he married Lydia Davis.
They lived in North Carolina" until 1815,
when they came to Indiana Territory, being
six weeks in making the journey by wagon.
In 1821 Aaron Morris bought his first
land, adjoining the twelve-mile purchase,
and in 1822 moved his family to it. This
land was in Wayne County, and he lived
there until his death September 20, 18-45.
He was a miller by trade and had one of
the first mills in Wayne County.

One of his children was George Morris,
grandfather of the Fairmount banker. He
was born in North Carolina and was a
child when the family came to Indiana.
He was a merchant and also a farmer at
Richmond, and in that city he married
Rhoda Frampton. She was a member of
an old Maryland family of Friends. George
Morris died at Richmond at the early age
of thirty-six and his widow survived him
to the age of ninety.

Aaron ilorris, father of Robert A., was
born near Richmond, November 21, 1834.
He died February 15, 1907, his being the
first death among five children. He learned
the trade of wagon maker in his youth,

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1357

and in 1865 became identified with the
Hoosier Drill Company of Richmond, and
was manager and director of that institu-
tion until 1876. Later he was interested
in the manufacture of reapers and mowers,
but in 1888 removed to Pendleton in Madi-
son County, and founded the Pendleton
Banking Company. He was president of
that institution for a number of years, and
after his death it was continued with his
son William P. as manager. In 1902 Aaron
Morris extended his interests to Fairmount,
Indiana, and established the Fairmount
State Bank. Thus for nearly twenty years
before his death he was widely known as
a banker over the eastern counties of the
state. He was a lifelong Quaker and a
stanch republican, though never a candi-
date for office. In 1865 he married ^liss
Martha Thomas, who was born and educat-
ed in Madison County, daughter of Louis
and Priseilla (Moore) Thomas. Her parents
were natives of Pennsylvania and were
early settlers in jMadison Countj'. They
were farming people and active members
of the Friends church. Aaron Morris was
survived by his widow and four children:
William F., president of the State Bank
of Fairmount ; Luella, wnfe of Elwood Bur-
chell, a nut and bolt manufacturer; Robert
A., and Elizabeth, wife of Frederick Lantz.
Mr. Robert A. Morris was born near
Richmond in Wayne County May 16, 1877.
He attended the public schools of his native
city and Earlham College, and gained his
first experience in banking with his father
at Pendleton. He was connected with the
Pendleton Bank from 1895 until 1902, then
took active charge of the Fairmount State
Bank at the time of its organization. He
is president of the Pendleton Banking Com-
pany, Pendleton, Indiana, and cashier of
the Fairmount State Bank, Fairmount,
Indiana. He is also president of the Iiuli-
ana Bankers Association, being elected to
that position at Indianapolis in September,
1918. Mr. Morris is a republican and a
member of the Quaker church. In 1908 he
married at Fairmount Miss Artie Suman.
Her family lived for many years at Fair-
mount, where she was born. Mr. and Mrs.
Morris have one son, William S., born
January 2, 1913.

IVIeade S. H.\ys has been a successful
member of the Marion bar since 1903, and
has been in practice in his native state

for over twenty years. He handles a gen-
eral law practice, and has been retained
as an attorney on one side or another with
some of the most important litigation in the
local and state courts. His offices are in
the Marion Block at Marion.

Jlr. Hays was born in White County,
Indiana, July 1, 1866, youngest child of
Cormacan and Harriet (Bowen) Hays.
His father was born in Ross County, Ohio,
in 1818, and went to Lafayette, Indiana, in
1831. He married in 1847 Harriet F.
Bowen, who was born in Pike County,
Ohio, in 1827. Cormacan Hays was for a
number of years a farmer and extensive
dealer in cattle in ^^^lite County, but died
at Lafayette in 1886. His widow is also
deceased.

]\Ieade S. Hays completed one stage of
his education in the I5rookston Academy
at the age of fourteen, and subsequently
was a student for three years in Purdue
LTniversity. Among early experiences he
did work in the county auditor's office at
Lafayette, was also with an insurance com-
pany at Springfield, Illinois, as secretary,
and for three years lived on the Pacific
Coast. At one time he was correspondent
of a San Francisco daily paper. Return-
ing to Indiana in 1893 after visiting the
World's Fair at Chicago, he devoted him-
self to the study of law at Fowler, and
was admitted to the bar in the spring of
1896. He at once began practice in Fowler,
and in the same year was democratic can-
didate for prosecuting attorney. He con-
tinued practice at Fowler until he removed
to Marion in 1903.

Mr. Hays has a son and daughter. His
first wife died September 20, 1914, and
he married Mrs. Zella Baker on I\Iarch
1, 1918.

Ch.vrles Thomas Parker has been as
.successful in business as he has in the law,
and for a number of years has enjoyed a
position of recognizee! leadership in his
home cit.y of Fairmount.
■ Mr. Parker was born at Fairmount Oc-
tober 1, 1864, son of Thomas Jasper and
Rebecca (Johnson) Parker. The Parkers
were an old family of southern Grant Coun-
ty, coming in pioneer times from North
Carolina and driving across country in
wagons. Thomas J. Parker was a farmer
and shoemaker, making shoes when that
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hand and for the custom trade. His later
j-ears were spent on a farm.

Charles Thomas Parker was educated in
the public schools, attended normal school
at Marion, Adrian College at Adrian, Mich-
igan, and in 1900 graduated from the law
department of Valparaiso University. For
the past eighteen years he has been in
practice at Fairmount, and for twelve years
served as Grant County attorney.

Mr. Parker was one of the principal
organizers, is a large stockholder and di-
rector, and former president of the Citi-
zens Telephone Company, which he also
serves as attorney. He is attorney for a
number of corporations and banks, and is
one of the organizers and is a director of
the Fairmount Commercial Club. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, is a
charter member and past chancellor of
Paragon Lodge No. 219, Ancient Free and
Accepted ilasons, at Fairmount, and is
a past noble grand of the Odd Fellows.

July 27, 1887, Mr. Parker married Miss
Rosia Cleeland, of Jonesboro, Indiana.
They have three children : Myron Arthur,
an expert electrician, Ralph Emerson, a
student, and Chauncey Thomas, a student
in the law department of Indiana Uni-
versit}-.

Samuel S. Rhodes. "With a business
experience covering a period of half a cen-
tur.y, the life and services of Samuel S.
Rhodes have been identified with several of
the larger cities of the central west. Now
retired from active affairs, he enjoj's the
honor and dignity of one of the older
business men of Indianapolis, and has al-
ways sustained the ideals and principles
of business integrity whether measured by
the old or modern standards.

He was born in Pennsylvania, but moved
to Ohio in early life, and for a time was
engaged in farming near Springfield. Later
he took the position of overseer of a plan-
tation in ]\Iissouri. That Avas about the
beginning of the Civil war, and owing to"
the unsettled conditions of the country he
returned to Ohio. In that state he offered
his services in the defense of the Union.
He served one term of enlistment and vol-
unteered for a second term, and had a
creditable part in the great tragedy of war
until ]ieaee was declared, when he was
honorably discharged. For a time he was

a prisoner in the notorious Libby prison
at Richmond.

After the war ilr. Rhodes engaged in
the retail hardware business at Galesburg,
Illinois. While a resident of that city he
married iliss Mary Conklin, and was asso-
ciated with Col. "T. T. Snell and others
in the building of the old Lake Erie and
Western Railroad, with headquarters at
Tipton, Indiana. Just after the great fire
in Chicago in 1871 he moved to that city,
and in association with others was engaged
in the wholesale liardware trade on State
Street in what is now the loop district.

Mr. Rhodes came to Indianapolis in 1873.
For several years he had a retail hardware
store on the site of the present Grand
Hotel. Later he opened another store at
Martinsville, Indiana, and while giving
that some of his attention he also traveled
extensively, representing the Oliver Chilled
Plow Company of South Bend. He then
resumed his active connections with Indi-
anapolis as a hardware merchant, and by
progressive efforts built up large and im-
portant connections with the hardware
trade and amassed a comfortable fortune.
When he retired from active affairs he
was succeeded by his son, who still con-
tinues the business founded so many years
ago.

Clarence R. Rhodes, only son of his
parents, was born at Clinton, Illinois, in
1873 but was reared and educated in Indi-
anapolis. He had a thorough business
training under the eye of his father and in
1895 was made a partner in the business.
He is now its sole owner. Clarence R.
Rhodes married Miss Gertrude L. Henry.
They liave one daughter, ]\Iary Adelaide.

Charles A. Wood has for many years
been identified with the lumber business at
iluncie which was established by his father,
and is now active head of tlie Kirby-Wood
Lumber Company.

He was born in Randolph County. Indi-
ana, October 25, 1870, son of Julius C. and
Clara (Morgan) Wood. His father, who
was born in Wayne Count.v, Indiana, in
1846, was a carpenter and farmer in his
native county. He was a boy when the
war broke out and in 1863 at the age of
seventeen, enlisted in Company I of the
124th Indiana Infantry and saw active
service to the end. His regiment was with
Sherman at Atlanta, and also on the march

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to the sea. An uncle of Julius C. Wood
was Valentine Wood, who for many years
conducted and published the Richmond
Palladum. J. C. Wood after retm-ning
from the army assisted in the newspaper
office for several years. In 1880 he re-
moved to ^Muncie and engaged in the saw
mill and lumber business under the name
J. C. Wood and Company. A few j'ears
later the firm was changed to the Kirb.y-
Wood Lumber Company. J. C. Wood was
one of the eminent Masons of Indiana, at-
taining the supreme honorary thirty-third
degi-ee in the Scottish Rite. He was a
republican and member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

Charles A. Wood was educated in the
high school at Muncie and for three years
was a .student in De Pauw University at
Greencastle. For seven years he was in
the city engineer's office at Muncie, and
then became associated with his father in
the sawmill and lumber business, a con-
nection which continued until his father's
death, and since then he has been active
head of the Kirliy-Wood Lumber Company,
also a director in the Union National Bank.
;\Ir. Wood is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason, and both he and his wife are
prominent membei-s of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church.

November 24, 1892, at Muncie, he mar-
ried Jliss Clara Strawn. She was educated
in the public schools of that city and in
the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute,
and prior to her marriage was a successful
teacher in the Washington School at
Muncie. She is a member of the Woman's
Club, and gives much of her time to church
work. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have two chil-
dren, Emily, born October 20, 1898, and
Ruth, born December 28, 190.5.

Alfred O. Meloy is street commission-
er in the municipal government of Indi-
anapolis. He is a man of wide range of
private and public business experience, and
has been a prominent tigure in the public
affairs of Indianapolis many years.

Jlr. Meloy was born in Neosho County.
Kansas, in 1870, and has lived in Indian-
apolis since 1891. Mr. Meloy filled the
position of superintendent of streets under
a former administration, and for three
years before assuming his present duties
was chief bailiff of the Circuit Court of
JIarion County. January 7, 1918, he wa.s

appointed street commissioner, arid is giv-
ing to his duties aU his accustomed energy
and efficiency. He has large forces under
his direction in this department, which
spends almost -$350,000 a year, and is
the type of man who gets work done and
brings credit to himself and the entire ad-
ministration.

Mr. Meloy is a member of the Marion
Club and of various civic and social organ-
izations, and is one of the active, progres-
sive spirits of Indianapolis. Politically he
is a republican.

Mr. Meloy is married and has a happy
family. He is one of the fathers of Indian-
apolis whose thoughts are very much with
the war and with the forces overseas, since
he has three sons now wearing the uni-
forms with the colors. His son Clifton A.
is a member of the Sixtieth Engineer Corps
serving in France, Glen M. is a member
of the Thirty-fourth Balloon Corps, and
Eugene J. is in the Marine Service.
He is an expert rifleman and expert pis-
tolman, which is the highest honors for
marksmanship in the marine service. These
sons were all born and educated in Indian-

WiLLiAM Lowe Bryan, president of In-
diana State University, was born near
Bloomington, Indiana, November 11, 1860,
a younger son of Rev. John and Eliza Jane
(Philips) Brj'^an. After primary education
in the common schools, he entered Indiana
University, from which he graduated in
course in 1884, and was employed the next
year by the University as instructor in
Greek. He pursued his studies at Berlin
in 1886-7, and at Paris and Wnrzburg in
1900-1.

His services were wanted by the uni-
versity continuously after his graduation
and he was professor of philosophy there
from 1885 to 1902; vice president, 1893-
1902, and president from 1902 to date. It
is under his management that the uni-
versity has reached its present high stand-
ing. President Brvan received the degree
of Ph. D. from Clark University in 1892,
the degree of LL, D. from Illinois Col-
lege in 1904, and a second LL. D. from
Hanover in 1908.

On June 13, 1889, President Bryan mar-
ried Charlotte A. Lowe, of Indianapolis,
who collaborated with him in his first pub-
lication, "Plato, the Teacher" (1897). He

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is also the author of "The Republic of
Plato" (1898), aud of numerous articles
in encyclopedias and journals. He has
served as a trustee of the Carnegie Foun-
dation for the Advancement of Teaching
since 1910.

R. M. HuBB.vRD is one of the leading
dentists in practice at Indianapolis and
located there immediately after his gradu-
ation from the Indianapolis Dental College
in 1909. His abilities have won aud re-
tained liim a large patronage, and he oc-
cupies well eciuipped offices in the Odd Fel-
low building. Mr. Hubbard is a member
of the Indianapolis, State and National
Dental associations. He is also connected
with the Dental Protective Association and
the Preparative League of American Den-
tists, and as such has offered his profes-
sional services free in the examination and
treatment of enlisted men for the army.

Doctor Hubbard was born in Putman
County, Indiana, November 12, 1879, a son
of Harrison and Mattie H. (Coffman)
Hubbard. His father, who was born in
Owen County, Indiana, in 1845, had a
strenuous record as a soldier in the Union
army. He enlisted in 1862, with the 17th
Indiana Infantry, and participated in fifty-
two battles and skirmishes. He was at
Chickamauga and. Lookout Mountain. In
one battle he received a shell wound in the
head that caused permanent injury. On
receiving his honorable discharge in 1865
he returned to his old home in Owen
County, then removed to Putnam County,
and became a farmer, and spent his last
years in Morgan County. He died there
in 1910. He was a Quaker or Friend in
religious belief and a republican. In the
family were four sons and two daughters,
five of whom are still living.

Next to the youngest in age, R. M. Hub-
bard grew up on a farm and received most
of his early education in the public schools
of ^Morgan County. He entered the Indi-
anapolis Dental College in 1906. Mr. Hub-
bard is a republican voter. December 24,
1912, he married Miss Jessie [Marshall, of
Marion County.

Gr.\nt L. Hudson. For many sound
business reasons Anderson, Indiana, has
become the home of many important and
successful commercial enterprises, many of
them having been built up entirely by local

capital, while outside interests have con-
tributed to the enormous development of
others. One of the city's most prosperous
industries at the present time is that oper-
ated under the title of the Laurel ilotors
Corporation, of which Grant L. Hudson is
secretary and treasurer.

Grant L. Hudson was born November
13, 1862, on his father's farm near Clyde,
Ohio. His parents were John and Lydia
(Jones) Hudson, the latter of whom was
born in New England and the former in
Worcestershire, England. John Hudson
in boyhood accompanied a brother across
the sea to Canada. That he was indus-
trious aud prudent may be inferred from
the fact that before he was twenty-five
years old he was the owner of a flour mill.
From Brantford, Canada, he came to the
Fnited States and bought a farm near
Clyde. Ohio, on which place his son Grant
L. was born, and remained there until 1865
and then removed to Hudson, ilichigan.
He was a man of much entei^prise and was
ever on the alert for opportunities to better
his fortunes. In 1876 he sold his Michigan
interests and moved to Chillicothe, Mis-
souri, where he conducted a large stock
farm for the next seven years and then sold
it to retire to his fruit farm in San Diego
County, California, on which place his
death occurred in 1887.

Grant L. Hudson was given many edu-
cational advantages, for his father was
liberal and open-minded and anxious that
his son should have advantages that had
been denied him in youth. First in the
public schools of Michigan and later in Mis-
souri, Grant L. Hudson proved a diligent
student and in 1880 was creditably gradu-
ated from the high school at Chillicothe.
From there he entered the Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois, and com-
pleted his sophomore year in that institu-
tion, and then began the study of law in the
office of his brother, Arthur W. Hudson,
at Durango, Colorado. This choice of pro-
fession subsequently brought him into in-
timac3' with several of the notable men of
Kansas. After one year of study with his
brother he became a student and office
assistant for ex-Governor John P. St. John
at Olathe, Kansas, and during that period
was admitted to the bar in that city.

Circumstances and inclination both oper-
ated to bring ;Mr. Hudson forward in poli-
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Olathe on the republican ticket, and con-
tinued in office until he removed to Denver
in 1886, in which city he became an assist-
ant in the law oifice of United States Sen-
ator Edward 0. Woleott. Mr. Hudson re-
mained in that connection for six years and
then retired in order to open an office of his
own. In the meanwhile he had become
active in politices at Denver and became
county attorney of Denver County, his
jurisdiction extending over the City of
Denver as well as the county, and in 1908
he was appointed probate judge of the
city and county and served one year on the
probate bench. He resumed private prac-
tice after his judicial term expired and
became one of the leaders of the Denver
bar.

The Laurel Motors Corporation, with
which air. Hudson is so prominently identi-
.fied, was founded at Anderson in 1917.
The plant, an extensive one, has recently
been enlarged through the erection of an-
other factory and its fviture looks very en-
couraging. Mr. Hudson has been secretary
and treasurer of the corporation since Oc-
tober, 1917.

Mr. Hudson was married in 1912 to
Miss Lura ]Moore, who is a daughter of
Henry Moore, a prominent citizen of Jeffer-
son City, Jlissouri. They have one daugh-
ter, Katharjni, who was born in December,
1913. ;Mr. Hudson is a member of the
Christian Science Church. Outside of his old
college fraternities he belong to no secret
organizations. While not active in politics
at present, he still is a staunch republican,
but far beyond, any partisan tie he is a
loj-al and patriotic citizen, and is one who
has found a ready welcome in Anderson's
business, professional and social circles. He
still maintains a beautiful summer home
at Denver, amid old and familiar surround-
ings and where his personal friends are
many, but his citizenship now belongs to
Anderson.

Charles A. Bates, a resident of Indian-
apolis since infancy, is a young man still
Tinder forty, but has attained those posi-
tions which are undeniably associated with
real achievement and success in commercial
affairs.

He was born at Logansport, Indiana,
April 22, 1879. His paternal grandpar-
ents were natives of England. His father,
William Bates, was born in New York

State, left home when a boy and sought
fortune and adventure in the IMiddle West.
When tlie war broke out between the
North and South he enlisted in Company
B of the Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry, and served until honorably dis-
charged at the conclusion of his term of
enlistment. This company had a notable
record of fighting on some of the most fa-
miliar battle grounds of the war. He was
at Kich Mountain, West Virginia. Cheat
^Mountain Pass, Greenbrier, Winchester
Heights, and the Thirteenth was the first
regiment to enter the fort during the at-
tack on Fort Warier. It was also in ac-
tion at Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred,
Petersburg, Strawberry Plain, and in
many other engagements. While William
Bates returned home after the war and
put in a number of years of useful serv-
ice, his death was eventually due to hard-
ships and rigors of military' life. On re-
turning to Indiana he went into railroad
work and rose to the position of conductor.
He was thus employed by both the Penn-
sylvania and the Big Four Kailways. He
moved to Indianapolis in 1881 and died in
this city, February 11, 1888, at the age
of forty-six. William Bates married Katie
Syers in 1877. Of their four children the
only one now living is Charles A.

Charles A. Bates was educated in the
Indianapolis public schools, and at the age
of eighteen graduated from the old In-
dustrial Manual Training School. He was
practically earning his own way while at
his books. His first real business experi-
ence was as a newspaper carrier, distribut-
ing the News in the evening and the Jour-
nal and Sentinel in the morning. He is
one of the old-time newsboys of Indianapo-
lis who have since achieved the best honors
of business life. He was a newsboy seven
years. His next work was with the G. and
J. Tire Company (now the Indianapolis
Rubber Company) and later went into the
local offices of the Standard Oil Company.
He was with the Standard Oil seven years
and rose from office boy to head of the
stock department. Leaving that for in-
dependent business activities, he became
a.ssociated with an uncle in the laundry
business and later for a time conducted
a laundrs' of his own. Selling out, about
a year later he became secretary and treas-
urer of the Duckwall Belting & Hose
Company, a large Indianapolis corpora-

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tion with which he is still identified. Since
1911 he has also been secretarj^ and treas-
urer of the Zenite Metal Compan}\ The
Zenite Metal Company has in recent
months become a very important indus-
try of Indianapolis and is filling some big
war orders for munitions. Mr. Bates has
been associated with other allied organiza-
tions originated by Mr. Duckwall, who was
founder of the Duckwall Belting & Hose
Company and the Zenite Metal Companj-
and other local concerns.

Mr. Bates is a Protestant in religion and
a democrat in politics. Fratei'nally he has
attained the thirty-second degi'ee in Scot-
tish Rite Masonry, and is also a member
of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He married February 16, 1918, Miss Edna
May Lakin.

Edward W. Bruns has been identified
with merchandising in Indianapolis for a
number of years, and is especially promi-
nent among the grocers of the city both
as an individual merchant, proprietor of
a high-class establishment at 1501 Hoyt
Avenue, and also as a leader in the local
grocers association. Mr. Bruns was born
at Sunman, Ripley County, Indiana, Oc-
tober 1, 1878, oldest son in the family of
eight children born to Herman and Re-
becca (Kammeyer) Bruns. His father
was a child when the grandparents left
Bremen, Germany, and came to the United
States. He grew to manhood in Ripley
County, Indiana, and as a mere youth en-
listed "in Company G of the Eighty-Third
Indiana Infantry for service in the Civil
war. He gave a .splendid account of him-
self as a private soldier, and was with the
armies of the Union until the rebellion was
put down and peace declared. He was
in the Vicksburg campaign and in the fa-
mous march from Atlanta to the sea.
After the war he took up farming in Rip-
ley County, Indiana, and he lived a life
of industry and honor in that community
until his death, on June 20, 1917, at the
age of seventy-six. His wife was born in
America and died at the age of sixty-seven
in 1912. They were members of the Chris-
tian Union Church at Sunman. Herman
Bruns was active in the Grand Army of
the Repulilic and in earlier years supported
the democratic party and finally became
a republican.

Edwai'd W. Bruns grew up at his fath-

er's home in Ripley Countj- and attended
school at Sunman. At the age of sixteen
he left school to help his father on the
farm. He also gained a good knowledge
of business a.s an employe of his brother-
in-law, a butcher and merchant, and at
the age of twenty-oue took service with
a general merchant at Weisberg, Indiana.
Three years later he returned to Sunman
and in 1900 came to Indianapolis and
formed a partnership with Charles Stein-
fort. For seven years they were in the
grocery business at Shelby Street and
Fletcher Avenue, and then Mr. Brims
bought out his partner and became sole
proprietor and has since conducted a flour-
ishing enterprise at his present location.
In 1907 Mr. Bruns married Ida Stein-
fort. They are members of the Edmond
Ray Methodist Church, and Mr. Bruns is
one of the trustees. In a business way he
is a director in the Sanitary Milk Products
Company and in the International Grocers
Company. Politically he votes as an inde-
pendent.

Charles H. Stuckmeter has been a
resident of Indianapolis sixty-seven years.
These have been j-ears fruitful in the ma-
terial rewards that accompany honest and
upright endeavor and have also brought
him substantial position in community es- .
teem.

Mr. Stuekmeyer was born in Cincinnati.
Ohio, August 10, 1850, and a few weeks
after his birth his parents, John Henry
and ;\Iary Elizabeth (Nordman) Stuek-
meyer, moved to Indianapolis, so that in
all essential particulars he has been a life-
long resident of this city. John Henry
Stuekmeyer wa.s born in the Kingdom of
Hanover, Germany, of very poor but in-
dustrious parents. To add to the diffi-
culties of his early childhood his father
died when the son was small and the wid-
owed mother was left with the care and
superintendence of a considerable family.
When John Henry was about twelve years
of age she brought her household to- the
United States and settled in Cincinnati,
where after finishing his education in the
parochial schools he went to work as a
cabinet maker. He developed great pro-
ficiency at that trade, and it was as a cabi-
net maker and carpenter that he developed
a business which enabled him to provide
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brought his family to Indianapolis, and
here he paid $250 for a lot at the corner
of Alabama and Maryland streets, on
which the family had their first home.
This lot is now occupied by the county
jail. About the beginning of the Civil
war he sold this property and bought some
lots on Virginia Avenue, between Cedar
and Norwood streets, and there put up a
home and also a business building. A few
years before his death the family moved
to 810 Buchanan Street. For a long pe-
riod of .years John Henry Stuckmeyer was
a carpenter and contractor and built many
of the better homes of the city and also
taught and trained three of his sons to be-
come expert house builders. The wife of
John Henry Stuckmeyer was a small child
when her parents came from German.y
and located in Cincinnati, and a number
of her relatives in the Nordman family
afterward settled in and around Jones-
ville, Indiana. John H. Stuckmeyer and
wife were members of the Lutheran
Church and in politics he was a demo-
crat. They had six children : John H.,
who died at the age of "thirtv-five ; August
G., who died in 1913: William H., a
farmer living at Moulton, Alabama; Ed-
ward and Mrs. William Sirp, both resi-
dents of Indianapolis; and Charles H.

Charles H. Stuckmeyer was reared and
educated in Indianapolis, attending both
parochial and public schools. As a boy
he gained a thorough knowledge of the
carpenter's trade in his father's shop, and
followed that vocation almost entirely until
he was about nineteen, when he went to
St. Louis, Missouri, and found employ-
ment as clerk in a grocery store. Eighteen
months later he returned to Indianapolis
and with his brother August formed a
partnership and embarked in the butcher
business at McCarty Street and Virginia
Avenue. This firm did a flourishing trade
there for many years and gradually their
enterprise developed into a small chain of
stores, including one at Georgia and Noble
streets and another at Pine and English
streets. The basis of their success as mer-
chants was due to hard work, cordial treat-
ment of Itu'ii- ciisldiiiers, and fair and prac-
tical dealiii;:s ihi'nughout.

In 19U2 Mr. Stuckmeyer, associated witli
his .son-in-law, P^red A. Behrent, engaged
in the coal business at Lexington Avenue
and the Big Four tracks. Among various

other interests which he now controls he is
vice president of the Fountain Square
Bank.

He has always been interested in the
success of the democratic party and served
two terms as a member of the city council,
and during the Taggart administration
was city clerk of Indianapolis two terms.
He and his family are members of St.
Paul's' Evangelical Lutheran Church, and'
jMr. Stuckmeyer has always been devoted
to the interests of his family and his home.

October 26, 1871, he married Mary E.
Enners, daughter of Philip and Wilhel-
niina Enners. She was born on Massachu-
setts Avenue in Indianapolis. Harry, sec-
ond child of their marriage, died in
childhood; Clara is the wife of Fred A.
Behrent, a native of Indianapolis and now
associated with ]\Ir. Stuckmeyer in the coal
business ; Albert is a resident of Indianapo-
lis ; Dr. W. E. Stuckmeyer, of Indianapo-
lis : and Arthur G., who is employed in the
coal business.

WiLLi.\.\i N.VCKENHORST is president of
the Fountain Square State Bank of In-
dianapolis. This institution was organ-
ized in March, 1908, and its doors opened
for business July 8th of that year, George
G. Robinson was the first president, and
Mr. White the first cashier. The bank
began with a capital of $25,000, all
paid up, and the capital has remained
fixed at that figure, though now a surplus
of $25,000 has been accumulated, and the
institution has steadily grown in patron-
age and service and its deposits now ag-
gregate about $500,000. In 1910 Mr. Rob-
inson was succeeded as president by Wil-
liam Nackenhorst, and the present cashier
is H. J. Budens.

All his adult life Mr. William Nacken-
horst has spent in the Fountain Square
section of Indianapolis. His has been a
busy and successful career, and as presi-
dent of the bank he enjoys a high place
in the financial commimity of Indianapo-
lis.

His father was John Frederick Nacken-
horst, who was born at Osnabrueck, Ger-
many. August 2, 1827. While a youth he
sei-ved three years in the German army.
In 1850 he emigrated to America, landing
in New York City, and from there went
to Pittsburg, where he found em]ilo\nnent
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he married Lizzie Otte. In 1873 John F.
Nackenhorst came to Indianapolis and
spent his active years in labor. He was
an honest, industrious, thrifty citizen and
reared his children to lives of usefulness
and honor, giving them all the education
within his means and leaving a name to
be respected by them and by all who knew
him during his lifetime. He was a mem-
ber of the Lutheran Church and in poli-
tics a republican. He died in October,
1911, and his wife in February, 1901.
Their three children were: John Fred-
erick; IMary, ilrs. Valentine Schneider,
and William.

Jlr. William Nackenhorst was born at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1863,
began his education in that city, and froni
the age of ten attended the pulilic schools
of Indianapolis. When a boy he found
employment as clerk in a grocery store,
and for eleven years applied himself
steadily to his duties, to learning the busi-
ness, and to providing his own support.
Finally he had the modest capital which
enabled him to engage in the grocery busi-
ness himself, and for many years he con-
ducted the leading store of that kind in
the Fountain Square neighborhood. Since
1911 he has been in the retail coal bi;si-
ness, and is president of the William
Nackenhorst Coal and Coke Company.
He took stock in the Fountain Square
State Bank when it was organized, and
gradually assumed closer connections with
the institution until he was elected its
president in 1910.

Mr. Nackenhorst is a democrat in poli-
tics, is a Royal Arch Mason, has served as
jury commissioner, but otherwise has never
wanted nor has he been willing to accept
political office. In 1903 he married Trede
Leonard, of Wabash, Indiana. Their one
daughter is Helen Nackenhorst.

Theodore Weinsh.\nk is senior member
of Weinshank & Fenstermaker, mechanical,
heating and ventilating engineers, with of-
fices in the Hume-Mansur Building at In-
dianapolis. Long years of service and ex-
perience have brought Mr. Weinshank an
enviable reputation in engineering circles,
particularly as an authority on subjects
connected with heating and ventilating.

Aside from his prominence in his profes-
sion his career has been of more than or-
dinary interest because of his experience

and achievements in promoting himself in
the face of many difficulties. A more thor-
ough American it would be difficult to find.
He was born and reared in Ruissia, and
from the standpoint of his early life he
probably appreciates more of the real i^irit
of American democracy than many native
born. He was born in the City of Bo-
bruisk, Province of Minsk, Russia, August
15, 1865. His birth occurred at an inter-
esting time in Russian history. Several
days previously the Czar Alexander II had
ended a revolutionary struggle in RiLssia
and had abolished serfdom or slavery
throughout the empire.

Mr. Weinshank is a son of Benedict and
Liebe Weinshank. Both parents were of
Holland ancestry. Their gi-eat-gi-andpar-
ems had moved from Holland to Rassia
about 1750. The name Weinshank as orig-
inally spelled in Holland was* Vonshank,
but as the result of changes which fre-
quently occurred in the pronunciation and
spelling of names the present form was
acquired.

At an early age Theodore Weinshank 's
studies were directed toward a career in the
ministry. He had considerable technical
education in religious subjects. At the age
of fourteen he was entered at the Gymna-
sium, where his chief subjects were in med-
icine.

All his own plans and those of his par-
ents wei-e changed by a great national
event in 1882, the assassination of Czar Al-
exander II. Mr. Weinshank was then sev-
enteen years of age. There soon followed
the persecution of everyone connected with
any school or university, and on the advice
of his parents Theodore left for America.
He arrived in New York in April, 1882.
Almost his first experience was being
fleeced of all his money by bvinko men.
This put him on his own resources, and
there were many hard experiences during
the years following before he became es-
tablished in his profession.

With a number of Russian immigrants
he left for South Dakota, then part of the
Territory of Dakota. After attaining his
majority he took up a homestead and tried
farming there for five years. The hard-
ships of life on the frontier and the Da-
kotas have been frequently described. Mr.
Weinshank hardly missed any of these
hardships. One time he had a piece of land
where water could not be obtained. There

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occurred three successive failures of crops
on account of hailstorms. While he lost
none of the real courage and determina-
tion of life by these circumstances, he did
become convinced that his fortune was not
to be made in the West, and therefore
sought means of returning east to finish
his education.

While in Dakota Mr. Weinshank married
his step-niece, Sophia Shapiro, or as she
was then called Sophia Weinshank, being
the step-daughter of his older brother. Mr.
Weinshank was not able to realize enough
from his experiences in the Dakotas to re-
turn east and therefore worked in the
northern pineries of Wisconsin as a lumber
jack, for a time in a coal mine at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, and eventually reached Chi-
cago. There he went to work as a con-
ductor on a street car. During the follow-
ing eighteen months he saved enough from
his earnings to study evenings and pass
the examination for admission to the IJni-
versity of Illinois in 1892. He was not
only a man of experience but a man of
family when hei entered the univereity,
having two children, Anna, then two years
old, and Will, aged six months. Entering
the University of Illinois with limited
funds, Mr. Weinshank worked his way
through by many shifts and economies.
Friday nights he substituted the fireman
at the water works. All day Saturday he
was employed at upholstering in a furni-
ture store. Saturday night he hauled ice
from cans at the ice plant. Sunday was
then devoted to study and sleep. This
work, together with what he managed to
save during the summer by working at
steam-fitting, enabled him to graduate from
the university in 1S96 with the degree
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engi-
neering. While writing his thesis he ob-
tained some data on heating which had nor
been previously published, and this re-
search enabled him to procure a position
the day after he graduated and helped
build the foundation for his later success.

In the twenty years since then Mr. Wein-
shank's reputation has steadily grown, and
during his many years at Indianapolis he
has ranked first and foremost in all the
technical problems involved in heating,
ventilation and air conditioning. His pro-
fessional work as consulting engineer on
these subjects has called him into many
.states. Earlv in his career as a mechani-

cal engineer he jiaid special attention to
the ventilation of public buildings. He
read a number of papers before engineer-
ing societies on the subject. The papers
were the foundation for the appointment
of committees on research to bring out for-
cibly the practical methods of cooling
buildings in the summer time as well as
thorough ventilation of theaters and pub-
lic buildings at all times.

For the past seventeen years :\Ir. Wein-
shank has paid special attention to the
utilization of exhaust steam from engines
for heating purposes. The installations
that have been made under his supervision
and from his plans have been ijivariably
successful.

As this brief record indicates ilr. Wein-
sliank is thoroughly a man of the people,
a democrat in the essential meaning of
that terra. In fact it was the root meaning
of the word democrat that resulted in his
first formal partisan atfiliations in polities
in America. He cast his first vote in 1892
for Grover Cleveland for president. In
those years he was not familiar with Amer-
ican politics. He knew no difference be-
tween the republican and democratic par-
ties, and made his choice of one of them
from the origin of the two words. Demo-
crat is made up of the Greek word "De-
mos" meaning people, and "Crates" mean-
ing rule. The word republican on the
other hand is a Latin combination, "Res"
meaning business, and "publicum" mean-
ing public. His sympathy with any gov-
ernment that seemed to be based on the
rule of the people caused his choice of party
affiliations. In later years, however, he
studirnl and learned the differences in po-
litical principles and practices and has vot-
ed accordingly'.

Since gi-aduation from university Mr.
Weinshank has become a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Masons, the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers, American Society of Heat-
ing and Ventilating Engineers, National
Association of Stationary Engineers, Na-
tional District Heating Association, the
Travelers Protective Association and the
United Commercial Travelers. Being busi-
ly engaged at all times with his profes-
sional work, he never held an office, prefer-
ring to remain in the rank and file. He
has also been a member of the Athenaeum
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Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the
Alumni Association of the University of
Illinois.

For all this worthy record Mr. Wein-
shank probably has more pride in his three
children than any other one fact of his life.
His oldest daughter, Anna, is now Mrs. S.
P. Pearson of Chicago, the son William
Theodore is now in the United States army
fighting for the principles with which his
father is so much in sympathy. The son
Harry Theodore is in an officers training
school at Fortress Monroe, Virginia.

Charles Major, author, was born at In-
dianapolis, July 25, 1856. His father,
Judge Stephen Major, who was Circuit
judge of the IMarion County Circuit at
the time, was born at Granard, County
Longford, Ireland, :\Iarch 25, 1811. He
attended the local schools at Granard and
Edgeworthstown and in 1829 emigrated to
America. He located in Shelby County,
Indiana, read law with Philip Switzer,
and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He
was well known as a lawyer and judge in
Indiana. On April 9, 1840, he married
Phoebe Gaskill, a woman of superior in-
tellect, daughter of Dr. George Gaskill.
She was a native of Dearborn County, In-
diana.

In 1869 Judge Major removed to Shel-
byville, where Charles completed his com-
mon school education, graduating in 1872.
He then attended Michigan University
until 1875, after which he read law with
his father. He was admitted to the bar
in 1877, was a partner of H. S. Downey,
1881-4; elected city clerk of Shelbyville
in 1885; elected state representative in
1886. In 1883 he married Miss Alice
Shaw, of Shelby County.

In 1898 Indiana, and soon the whole
country, was taken by storm by a new
romance, "When Knighthood Was in
Flower," over the name "Edwin Casko-
den," who was soon identified as Charles
]\Iajor. The book attracted the attention of
Julia Marlowe, then at the height of her
popularity, and at her solicitation it was
dramatized for her, and presented on the
stage with great success. It was followed
bv other books of Mr. Major. "Bears of
Blue River," (1900) ; "Dorothy Vernon of
Haddon Hall," (1902); "A Forest
Hearth," (1903) ; "Yolanda, Maid of Bur-
gundy," (1905) ; "Uncle Tom Andy Bill,"

(1908); "A Gentle Knight of Old Bran-
denburg," (1909); and ■'The Little
King," (1910).

Mr. Major also contributed to various
magazines. He died at his home at Shel-
byville, February 13, 1913.

Ben.jamin F. Hetherington was one
of the sterling characters of the older In-
dianapolis who had much to do with the
present prosperity of the city. He was
a man of many strong and lovable charac-
teristics of mind and heart, and impressed
his character upon the spirit of the mate-
rial business prosperity of Indianapolis.

He was born October 30, 1828, at Car-
lisle, England, a son of John and Ann
(Wilson) Hethering-ton, being the young-
est of twelve children. His father dying
when he was twelve years of age, he came
with his widowed mother to the United
States a year later, and his first employ-
ment was in a cotton factory at Webster,
JIassachusetts. He possessed a natural
aptitude for mechanics. It was this apti-
tude, subsecpiently highly developed,
which made him a successful business
builder.

At nineteen he was appi'enticed to the
machinist's trade. In the earl.v '50s he
came We.st, to Cincinnati, aud in 1852 to
Indianapolis. Here he worked several
years at his trade for Deloss Root and
Hassellman & Vinton. For ten years he
was an employe of the old Indianapolis,
Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad.

He left the railroad shops to open in a
small way a machine shop. This business
expanded and prospered and later Fred-
erick Berner, Sr., of Cincinnati, and
Joseph Kindel were admitted as partners.
With the influx of additional capital and
assistance new shops were built on South
Pennsylvania Street, now known as the
Ewalci Over Plant. Six years later Mr.
Hetherington disposed of his interests and
for a number of years thereafter was a
stockholder and assistant manager for the
Sinker & Davis Company.

He had been with this concern about
two years when he rejoined his former
partner, Frederick Berner, Sr., and they
bought property and erected a shop on
South Street over Pogue's Run, immedi-
ately south of the present LTnion Station.
This business grew until it ranked as one
of the principal industries of Indianapolis.

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AVitli the passing of time Frederick A.
Iletheriiigtoii and Frederick Berner, Jr.,
sons of the proprietors, were admitted as
members of the firm, now changed to an
incorporated company, and of these
Frederick A. Hetherington is the only
survivor at present. Eventually the busi-
ness outgrew its environment, and in 1910
four acres were purchased at Kentucky
Avenue and White River, large and eom-
modioias buildings were erected, and mod-
em facilities installed. It is now one of the
large manufacturing houses of Indianapo-
lis, gives employment to many hands, and
has capital and surplus of approximately
$400,000. The original owners are long
since deceased, but the second and third
generations of the Hetheringtons and
Berners conduct the business founded by
their forbears at a time when Indianapolis
was little more than a village. The pres-
ent officers are: Frederick A. Hethering-
ton, son of Benjamin F., president ; Lewis
Berner, nephew of Frederick Berner, sec-
retary ; Robert Berner, vice president :
Carl F. Hetherington, son of Frederick A.,
treasurer and chief mechanical engineer.

The above facts are such as are often
found in the history of a typically Ameri-
can business brought up from small be-
ginnings to succe.ss and prosperity. But
of the personality and character' of the
late Benjamin F. Hetherington much re-
mains to be said. In the broad accep-
tance of the term he was not a superior
business man. His real forte was in me-
chanics, and in that he was a genius. He
came to Indianapolis when the town was
a prospective city rather than an accom-
plished fact, and was contemporaneous
with Hasselman, Sinker, Vajen and others
prominent at that period. It is claimed
that ilr. Hetherington built and helped
devise the first machine gun ever con-
structed. This gun was constructed for
Doctor Gatling, whose name it has ever
since borne. Benjamin F. Hetherington
was a remarkable character, possessed
many admirable qualities that endeared
him to his friends, and his impress for
good is indelibly left on the face of In-
dianapolis history.'

At Webster, Massachusetts, he married
Miss Jane Stephen, daughter of William
and Diana Stephen. Of the six cliildren
born to their union but one is still living.

Frederick A. Hetherington was born

October 1, 1S59, at Indianapolis, and was
educated in the public schools. At an
early age he began working in his father's
shop and by self-application learned engi-
neering. He undoubtedly inherited some
of his mechanical genius from his father.
For some ten years he was superintendent
of the Campbell Printing Press and ilanu-
facturing Company of New York City.
At the solicitation of his father he re-
turned to his native city in time to in-
corpoi'ate and reorganize the business.
^Ir. Hetherington has always manifested
a keen interest in the field of applied
science. At one time he invented a port-
able hand camera for taking pictures.
This was at the beginning of the "kodak"
busuiess made famous later by the East-
num firm of Rochester'. Probably the
greatest of all his inventions was the rail-
way asphalt paving plant — manufactur-
ing all the different types of asphalt or
bituminous pavement, established upon a
steel car especially built for the purpose.
It revolutionized asphalt paving in the
I'nited States, and because it destroyed
a gigantic monopoly theretofore enjoved
the validity of the patent was bitterlv eon-
tested in the courts. Jlr. Hetherinston
was finally sustained.

He is a man of versatile talents. For
three years, in addition to his regular shop
work, he attended the original Indiana
School of Art. Pie produced illustrations
and cartoons for the old Indianapolis pe-
riodicals. Herald, People, and Scissors,.
and also illustrated for Indiana's great-
est poet, James Whiteomb Riley, before
Riley had become so famous.

November 3, 1880, Mr. Hetherington
married Miss Emma Boardman. She died
December 11, 1911, leaving three children-
Carl F.: Rosalind, Mrs. Willard B. Bot-
tone of New York City: and :\Iarian, Mrs.
Harvey .Marsh of Geneva. Illinois.

P.\RRY F.VMJLY. In tlu> Parry Manu-
facturuig Company of Indianapolis is
found the chief business expression of the
abilities and activities of a prominent and
notable family of Indiana.

The founders of this business were Da-
vid M. and Thomas II. Parr>-. brothers.
It was estalilished about 1886. These
brothers were the sons of Thomas J. and
Lydia (IMacLean) Parry. Thomas J.
Pari'y was a son of Henry Parry. Tlie

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latter, a native of Wales, learned the pro-
fession of civil engineer in that country
and came to the. United States during the
latter part of the eighteenth century. He
saw active service in the War of 1812, and
afterward became a millwright and car-
penter. Henry Parry married Sarah
Cadwalader, daughter of General John
Cadwalader, who gained distinction in the
Kevolutionary war and had an active part
in laying out and founding the original
Pittsburg. Through his wife. Henry
Parry became owner of considerable prop-
erty "at Pittsburg, and both of them spent
the' rest of their days there. They were
the parents of twelve children.

Thomas J. Parry, youngest of these chil-
dren, was born September 24, 1822. He
became a farmer and followed that occu-
pation through most of his life. In 1853
he came West, to Indiana, locating on a
farm near Laurel in Franklin County. He
was distinguished by the depth and sin-
cerity of his convictions, and from his fore-
bears he inherited sterling honesty and up-
righteousness of conduct. At first he was
an ardent whig and later a republican,
and he embraced the doctrines of this
party with such enthusiasm that it was
impossible for him to countenance any
other political faith. In religious matters
he was equally single minded and gave
complete adherence to the Presbyterian
Church. He never held any political of-
iice, his time being entirely required by
insuring a livelihood for himself and fam-
ily. His death occurred September 21,
1899. He and his wife had five children :
Edward R., David M., Jennie, Mrs. 0. P.
Griffith, Thomas H. and St. Clair. The
two oldest were born in Pennsylvania and
the rest in Indiana.

David M. and Thomas H. Parry engaged
in the manufacture of buggies at Rush-
ville about 1883. In order to get addi-
tional facilities and capital they moved
to Indianapolis in 1886, thus founding the
present busines.s of the Parry ilaniafac-
turing Company. In 1888 St. "Clair Parry
and in 1890 Edward R. Parry became
partners in the business. It was an in-
dustry started on a small scale but grew
rapidly and was incorporated in 1888 as
the Parry Manufacturing Company. The
original capital was $35,000, but in 1891
this was increased to $500,000 common
stock and $700,000 preferred. At present

all the stock has been retired except the
half a million of common.

St. Clair Parry was born on a farm in
Franklin County, Indiana, February 19,
1861, and was educated in the public
schools of Connersville. He clerked in
that town several years in a hardware
store, and then became clerk in the Citi-
zens Bank, owned by J. N. Huston, a dis-
tinguished Indiana financier who was
treasurer of the United States under Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison.

From the bank St. Clair Parry engaged
in the hardware business for himself, but
in 1888 joined his brothers as a vehicle
manufacturer at Indianapolis. The capi-
tal city has been his home for the past
thirty years. He was secretary and treas-
urer of the company until 1909, at which
date he was elected president, a position he
still occupies.

Mr. Parry is a republican, is a Royal
Arch and thirty-second degree Mason and
Shriner, belongs to the Columbia Club, the
Country Club, the Woodstock Club, the
Chamber of Commerce and is a member
of the Second Presbyterian Church.

June 5, 1895, he married Margaret Guf-
fin, of Rushville, daughter of George
Guffin. They have one son, George
Thomas.

Arthur E. Bradshaw, of Indianapolis,
is one of that large army of citizens who
in an unostentatious way are carrying the
real and heavy burdens of commercial and
civic life and are satisfied with perform-
ance of duty even if they do not win the
shoulder straps of conspicuous activity.

His grandfather, Rev. Samuel Brad-
shaw, was a native of England and a min-
ister of the Episcopal Church. He came
to America, thus establishing the family
in the United States. William Brad-
shaw, father of the Indianapolis business
man, was born in the State of Michigan,
and in 1838 moved to Delphi, Indiana,
where he engaged in the watchmaking and
jewelry business. At Delphi he married
Georgiana Sampson, and they spent the
greater part of their lives in that city.

Arthur E. Bradshaw was born at Delphi,
the oldest of a family of three children.
His boyhood days were spent in the pub-
lie schools and in such other pursuits as
were customary for the youth of his time
and locality. He early learned the watch-

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13G9

maker's trade from his father, and fol-
lowed that as a means of earning his liv-
ing for about fifteen years. In the mean-
time with other parties he organized the
Indianapolis Jlortar and Fuel Company.
The gi-owth of this business necessitated
his removal to Indianapolis in 1902, and
since that year he has been president and
directing head of the corporation. The
concern, established in a modest way, has
expanded until it is now one of the larg-
est businesses of its kind in Indiana.
While its principal work is the handling
of a general line of building material and
of coal, it is known in several states for
its special line of manufacture, the
"Hoosier" brand of plaster.

jMr. Bradshaw belongs to that class of
men who live their lives in a well-ordered
manner, always support movements affect-
ing the community welfare, and possesses
that quiet efficiency which gets things done
in any undertaking with which he is con-
nected. Mr. Bradshaw is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia,
Marion, Rotary and Canoe clubs, the Turn-
verein and is a Knight Templar and thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a
member of the Mystic Shrine.

In 1885 he married Mi.ss Jennie Jack-
son. Three daughters were born to their
marriage. One of them died at the age of
thirteen, and the two living are Jessie and
MarJ^

Frank M. Hay. With a record as a
Union soldier that merits all the distinctive
honor now paid the survivors of the Civil
war, Frank M. Hay is one of the older
members of the Indianapolis bar, and has
practiced his profession in that city thirty
years or more.

He represents a notable ancestry con-
nected with the earliest territorial period
of Indiana. The Hay family originated
in Scotland. His great-gi-andfather,
James Hay, participated in the expedition
which captured Vincennes in the
eighteenth century, and he was the first
sheriff of the territory of Indiana. Later
he joined General Clark's expedition to
the Pacific Coast. Mr. Hay's grandfather,
James, Jr., was born in Indiana and
served as a soldier with General Harrison
at the Battle of Tippecanoe, where he wii-s
wounded. He .spent his last days in Clark
County, Indiana.

P'rank i\I. Hay was born in Clark Coun-
ty, October 17,' 1844, a son of John Mil-
ton and Sarah J. (Boggis) Hay. His
father was born in Clark County, this
state, in 1816, the year Indiana was ad-
mitted to the Union, and died in 1877. He
was a man of many brilliant parts, though
self educated. For over ten years he was
a draftsman in the shipyards at Jefferson-
ville, Indiana, and was skilled in every de-
tail of steamboat construction and ec[uip-
ment. In his early life he taught school.
In 1872, he removed to Windfall, Tipton
County, Indiana, and was a carpenter and
farmer there the rest of his life. He be-
gan voting as a whig, took up republican
principles in the '50s, but in 1864 devi-
ated from that allegiance to support
George B. McClellan for the presidency.
He had served as a lieutenant-colonel of
the state militia. He and his wife had
nine children, five of whom are still liv-
ing.

Frank il. Hay, fourth in age among his
father's children, began his active career
at the age of sixteen as a laborer on a
farm and as a carpenter's apprentice.
This occupation he did not follow long. On
August 19, 1861, he enlisted in the Seventh
Indiana Infantry, in Company F, as a
private. His active military service was
included in a period of four years, three
months and twenty-three days. He re-
ceived his honorable discharge in 1864,
but in the meantime had fought in thirty-
six battles, including Gettysburg, Wilder-
ness, Antietam and many others. Toward
the close of his ser\-ice and while on the
skirmish line he was captured by the Con-
federates, August 19, 1864, and was sent
as a prisoner to Libby Prison, but made
his escape. After his honorable discharge
]\Ir. Hay returned to Johnson County,
Indiana, and took up the study of law,
and also lived a short time in Illinois.
After following several different vocations
he resumed the study of law and began
the practice of the profession in Illinois.
He later removed to Indianapolis, and
combined the law with the brokerage busi-
ness. In 1886 he was elected a justice of
tlie i)eace and filled that office four years.
Since the close of his term he has steadily
]iracticed law, aiul has also specialized in
selective work. ]\Ir. Hay is a strong re-
l)ublican, is a member of the Knights of
I'ytliias and of George H. Chapin Post

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No. 209, Grand Army of the Republic. He
is a member of the Marion Club' of In-
dianapolis.

August 8, 1869, at.Mattoon, Illinois, Mr.
Hay married Miss Martha S. Payne. Of
their two children the only one now liv-
ing is Thomas J. Ha.y, who to thovisands
of Indianans as well a.s in his home city
of Chicago represents the culminating suc-
cess and ability of automobile salesman-
ship.

Thomas J. Hay was educated in the
common schools and in a business college
at Indianapolis, and for three years also
studied law in his father's office. A few
years ago an automobile trade journal re-
ferred to Thomas J. Hay as occupying "a
peculiar and commanding position in the
national automobile field. During the past
eight years fifteen thousand automobiles
have been purchased in Chicago and vi-
cinity through this one man. Tom J. Hay "
knows automobiles as do few other men in
the field. Prior to engaging in the auto-
mobile trade in Chicago he spent six years
in an automobile factory helping to per-
fect and design one of America's leading
gas cars. No man in the retail automo-
bile business has earned such a high repu-
tation for honest service, square dealing
and authoritative knowledge."

John P. V.\n Kirk is one of the veteran
building contractors of LaPorte, where he
has been in business over forty-five years.
He has put a tremendous amount of en-
ergy into all his undertakings, and for
that reason early overcame certain handi-
caps due to lack of educational opportuni-
ties as a boy and the necessity of earn-
ing his own living when most youths of
his age were in school.

He was born in Logansport, Indiana.
His father, John Van Kirk, was a native
of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
The grandfather, also John Van Kirk, was
a distiller at Pittsburg and spent all his
life in Pennsylvania. He was lineally
descended from a John Van Kirk, who
was born in America, about 1661, and a
resident of New Amsterdam. Tradition
says that he was associated with the Van
Dike brothers who were banished fi-om
Holland. John Van Kirk, father of the
LaPorte contractor, was reared and mar-
ried in Pennsylvania, and in 1846 moved
to Indiana, living for a time in Logans-

port, later at Pulaski, and finally taking
up a farm in Marshall County, where he
lived until his death at the age of sixty-
four. He married Mary Coalter. She
was born in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, daughter of Philip Coalter,
a native of Prussia, and on coming to
America, lived in Pennsylvania some years
and later in Ohio. Mrs. John Van Kirk
died at the age of eighty-three, having
reared four sons and four daughters.

John P. Van Kirk made the best of his
opportunities to obtain an education, but
at the age of thirteen he left home and
from that time forward was self-support-
ing. He earned his living at any legiti-
mate work that ofi'ered and in 1864 came
to LaPorte and w-as apprenticed to learn
the trade of brick making. At the end of
a year his employer died and after that
he worked as a journeyman. ' Having ac-
quired a thorough skill and having
thriftily saved his earnings he used his in-
dependent ability to set up a business of
Lis own as a contractor in 1871, and from
that time forward has been one of the
leading men in his line in LaPorte. Much
of his present prosperity is represented
in real estate investments, both in the city
and in suburban property. Much of this
has been improved by him. In 1871 he
built the home where he and his wife have
since resided, at 1006 Monroe Street.

In 1869, at the age of twenty, Mr. Van
Kirk married Miss Mahala E. Wise. She
was born on a farm in Suffield Township
of Portage County, Ohio, a daughter of
Jacob S. and Mary (Harsh) Wise. Her
grandfather, Siebold Wise, was a life long
resident of Pennsylvania. Jacob Wise on
leaving Pennsylvania lived for several
years in Ohio and later in Indiana in
Starke County and finally in Marshall
County, where he died. Mr. and Mrs.
Van Kirk have two children, James and
ilinnie. James married Agnes ^Murray.
They have one son, Royal Van Kirk, who
during the war was a sergeant in the
American Army stationed at Camp
Beauregard, Louisiana. Minnie Van Kirk
was first married to Charles Wright, and
had two sons, Charles and Howard
Wright. Charles Wright married and his
three children are Evelyn May, Helen and
Orland (decea.sed). Minnie Van Kirk's .sec-
ond husband was Fred Shoaf.

Mr. Van Kirk is affiliated with LaPorte

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1371

Lodge No. 36, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Encampment No. 23 and Can-
ton No. 12 of that order. He and his wife
are both members of Rose Rebekah Lodge
No. 40;"). Mrs. Van Kirk is a member of
the :Methodist Episcopal Church.

Hon. Norman P. Wolfe, a former mem-
ber of the Legislature, has been a success-
ful lawyer in the City of LaPorte for over
twenty years, and has also been prominent
in the democratic party in that section of
the state.

Mr. Wolfe had a log cabin as his birth-
place, where he was born December 16,
1875. This log cabin stood in LaGrauge
County, close to the line of Noble County.
His grandfather, George Wolfe, was a na-
tive of Pennsylvania and of early English
ancestry. From Pennsylvania he went to
Ohio, to Shelby County, where he was a
farmer, and lived there until his death.
He married a woman of German ances-
try. Frederick Wolfe, father of the La-
Porte lawyer, was born near Reading,
Pennsylvania, about 1844. He grew up
on a farm and in 1861, at the age of seven-
teen, enlisted in Company I of the Ninety-
Ninth Ohio Infantry. He was with that
regiment in its various battles and cam-
paigns until the close of the war, and re-
ceived an honorable discharge. A few
.years after the war he came from Ohio to
Indiana and located in LaGrange County.
He began as a renter, and continued
farming in that locality until his death,
December 23, 1875. He" married Sarah E.
Emmitt. She was born near Washington,
Illinois, a daughter of George and Sarah
(Lee) Emmitt. They both came from
Hampshire County, Virginia, and Sarah
Lee was a cousin of Gen. Robert E.
Lee. From Virginia the Emmitt family
moved to Illinois, but spent their last years
near Ligonier, Indiana. ^Irs. Fi'cderick
Wolfe married, for her second husband,
William Galbreath, and in 1882 they
moved to LaPorte County, where she and
her husband spent their last years. They
had a son, Harry Galbreath.

Norman F. Wolfe was one of his father's
three children. He attended the common
schools of La Porte County, was a student
in high school at LaPorte and had a busi-
ness college training. In 1894 he took up
the study of law in the office of John II.
Bradley, and continued his studies until

admitted to the bar in 1897. He practiced
in association with Mr. Bradley until the
latter 's death in 1900, and has since com-
manded a large individual practice. He
was city attorney of LaPorte from 1906
to 1910, and in 1912 was elected on the
democratic ticket to represent the county
in the State Legislature. He has also
served as a member of the County Execu-
tive Committee and Central Committee.
He cast his first presidential vote for Wil-
liam J. Bryan in 1896. Mr. Wolfe is affili-
ated with Excelsior Lodge of Masons at
Laporte, with the Royal Arch Chapter, the
Council and also the LaPorte Lodge of
Odd Fellows. He and his wife are mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1907 Mr. Wolfe married Miss Jlinnie
Bosserman, a native of LaPorte County
and a daughter of S. S. and ilargaret
Bosserman. Mrs. Wolfe is now a member
of the LaPorte City School Board.

Robert F. ]\Iillf.r. Considering the re-
sponsibilities involved one of the most im-
portant public offices in the state is that
of sheriff of IMarion County, and a man
was elected to that office on November 5,
1917, who had all the qualifications to
measure up to the responsibilities of his
job. Robert F. Miller, better known in
Indianapolis and among a host of associ-
ates outside of the city as "Bob" Miller,
was never before a candidate for public
office. However, he ha.s been doing some
quiet and effective work and has been one
of the influential leaders in the republican
party of the county and state, and people
generally have accepted his election as a
most encouraging sign of a new spirit ac-
tuating government affairs when he took
the office of sheriff January 1, 1918.

Mr. Miller was born at Greenca.stle, Put-
nam County, Indiana, September 16, 1868,
son of Robert and Sarah E. (Bratton)
Miller. His father had a long and very
interesting career that brought him into
touch with events and affairs outside the
range of an ordinary man's life. Robert
Miller, Sr., who died in 1902. was born in
Montgomery County, Indiana, and moved
to Greenca'stle in "the '50s. For several
vears he was connected with the Van Am-
burg Circus, one of the famous organiza-
tions of its kind of early years, as many
of the old timers will remember. With this
circu.s he was in the East when the Civil

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war broke out. At Philadelphia in 1861
he volunteered iu the Seventy-second
Zouaves, a Pennsylvania organization, and
was soon in active service iu the South.
After eleven months and ten days he was
captured, and was sent to Andersonville
prison, where he was confined until near
the close of the war. Stories of that stock-
ade have been told for half a century, and
there were practically none of the hor-
rors of the prison which Robert Miller did
not experience. After the war he returned
to Putnam County and in 1888 moved with
his family to Indianapolis. He was the
father of thirteen children, eleven sons and
two daughters. The younge.st of the sons
is now a captain in the United States arrav,
Capt. Han-y B. Miller. Captain Miller was
bom in Greencastle, was educated in the
Manual Training School in Indianapolis,
and in 1911 enlisted as a private in the
regular United States army. He was at
first attached to the Twenty-third Regi-
ment under Colonel Glenn in Texas. In
1914 he was a.ssigned to duty at the Pan-
ama Canal, and has remained in service
there to the present time. By meritoriou.s
work and application he has risen through
the various grades nf non-commissioned
and commissioned officer to captain.

Robert P. Miller attended school at
Greencastle, and early in life started out
to make his own way in the world without
special influence or capital. For twenty-
seven years, until the latter part of 1918,
he was connected with the Indianapolis
Gas Company. During the la.st few years
he served as superintendent of the Majestic
Building owned by the gas company.

While he was thus immersed in his du-
ties as a quiet and effective business man
Mr. Miller was gaining increased prestige
and influence as a leader in the republi-
can party in Indianapolis and Marion
County. Through his own personal popu-
larity and leadership he has been the means
of putting many prominent men in office.
The success of his eft'orts in politics is due
to the fact that he has always been a stick-
ler for clean politics, for absolute honesty
in his dealings with the public, so that his
word is recognized as good as his bond. He
can always be depended upon to do exact-
ly as he promises to do. Moreover Bob
Miller is a man of genial nature, has the
gift of making friends among high and
low, rich and poor, and it is therefore not

difficult to understand the power he now
exercises in Indiana politics. He has been
through some of the hardest fought bat-
tles of recent campaigns.

His record in connection with office
seeking, however, is as brief as it is suc-
cessful. Not until 1917 did he become
a candidate. He then received the repub-
lican nomination for sheriff and in the
election was chosen over his opponent by
an overwhelming majority, being one of
the leaders on the ticket. Particularly in
the south section of Indianapolis, where
his home is, he ran far ahead of his ticket.

Mr. Miller is affiliated with Lodge No.
465 of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows and with Star Lodge No. 7, Knights
of Pythias. He married Miss Ida M. Kof-
fel, a native of Ohio.

David Demaree Banta, lawyer, was
born May 23, 1833, iu the western part of
Johnson County, Indiana, in what is
known as "the Shiloh neighborhood." It
is so called because a number of the early
settlers, who were zealous Presbyterians,
built a church there and named it Shiloh.
On his father's side he was descended from
a Frisian family that emigrated from Hol-
land in 1659, and settled at Harlem, New
York. On his mother's side he was de-
scended from a French Huguenot fam-
ily, which fled from Picardy into Holland
during the French persecutions, and emi-
grated to America in 1674, settling near
Hackensaek, New Jersey. Their original
name was Des Marests, which is now made
Demarest by one branch of the family in
America, and Demaree by the other.
Shortly before the Revolutionary War, a
number of New York and New Jersey
Dutch and French families started west
to establish a colony in the wilderness of
Kentucky, but stopped in the vicinity of
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, until the close
of the war, when they resumed their jour-
ney, reaching Harrod's Station in the win-
ter of 1779-80, and establishing their col-
ony near that place. Jacob Banta, the
grandson of one of these colonists, and
Sarah (Demaree) Banta, his wife, grand-
daughter of another, the parents of Judge
Banta, moved from Henry County, Ken-
tucky, to Johnson County, Indiana, in the
fall of 1832, and began life in that wilder-
ness. The father died a few years later,
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mother and a maiden sister, remained on
the farm, and here David grew to man-
hood. The settlers established a school as
well as a church, and young Banta was one
of its first and most constant attendants
until he reached the age of seventeen. He
was also an eager reader of all the books
he could find, but these were not numerous.
He taught school for a few terms, and then,
having an impulse to see something of the
world, he went with a young friend to the
new state of Iowa, where he spent several
months, cutting wood, working in a saw-
mill, and tramping through the country.
In the fall of 1852, he entered a
law office in the Town of Fairfield, and
began reading Blackstone. He sa.ys : ' ' The
time spent in this office was not wholly
wasted. It fixed me in my determination
to make the study of law a serious business,
and it opened m.y eyes to the fact that I
needed further preparation for it."

Early in the spring of the following
year he returned to Indiana and became a
student at Franklin College, where he re-
mained until fall, of the same year, when
he went to Bloomington and entered the
State University. Here he completed the
coui-se in letters, and entered the law
school, which was then presided over by
Judge James Hughes. He took his de-
gree in law in the spring of 1857 ; and
graduated from the single life a year
earlier, marrying a widow, Mrs. M. E. Per-
rin, the daughter of James Riddle, of Cov-
ington, Kentucky. In the fall of 1857 he
began the practice at Franklin, or at least
opened an office, for getting practice .iust
before, and in the earlier years of the Civil
war, was a rather .slow process in Indiana.
Fortunately the law did not then forbid
an attorney to engage in other occupa-
tions. He obtained a position as deputy in
the office of the county recorder, and served
in that capacity for two years. He served
a term as district attorney of the Common
Pleas Court, an office which was not very
remunerative, but afforded a large amount
of experience. He served for two years
as a division asses.sor of the United States
Internal Revenue Department, which was
more profitable. In connection with his
service in these capacities he was also for
a time county school examiner, and tru.stee
of the city schools. These occupations left
him an abundance of time for reading, of
which he availed himself to the fullest ex-

tent. But, more than all, he devoted him-
self to the collection and record of local
history. He had seen the region develop
from an unbroken forest to a region of
civilization, with well-cultivated farms,
good roads, and the conveniences of life.
It was a matter of intense interest to him,
and he had the faculty of putting it in in-
teresting form for others. He interviewed
old settlers and took down the stories of
their experiences. He formed the habit of
writing of these things for the newspapers ;
and in later years he wrote a "HLstory of
Johnson Count.y, " which presents the best
pictures of the manners and customs of
the early settlers of Indiana that is ac-
cessible. In the course of all this he was
making friends, and that is the making
of the young lawyer.

As the war progressed his business in-
creased rapidly, and he was notably suc-
cessful in getting verdicts. He used, in ex-
planation of this, to tell of a member of
the regnlar panel of jurors, who met him
one day on the courthouse steps, and,
after glancing around to see that no one
was in heai'ing, confidentially said : ' ' Stand
up to them old lawyers Davy; stand up to
"em. The jury is standing up to you."
His life was now that of the prosperous
lawyer until 1870, when he was nominated
on the democratic ticket for judge of the
Twenty-Eighth Judicial Circuit, then com-
posed of Johnson, Shelby, Bartholomew
and Brown counties, and was elected with-
out opposition. He held this position un-
til 1876, but his service was interrupted
in 1871 by a virulent attack of fever which
brought him almost to death's door, and
left him with a shattered nervous sys-
tem. Under the advice of physicians he
went to the pine woods of ilichigan, and
camped for several weeks, which restored
his health. It also opened a new world to
him, and he returned to it thereafter for
his yearly outing, both for the benefit of
his health and for the joy of the touch with
nature. On retiring from the bench.
Judge Banta formed a partnership with
Thomas W. Woollen, later attorney gen-
eral of the state, which continued for thir-
teen years, and was prosperous financially.
In 1877 Judge Banta was appointed a
member of the board of trustees of the
State University, and held this position for
eleven years, in seven of which he was pres-
ident of the board. The law school of the

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university had been discontinued in 1877,
and years passed before it seemed advis-
able to revive it. In 1889 the attempt was
made, and Judge Banta was made pro-
fessor of law and dean of the law school.
No better man could have been found, for
he had a talent for teaching, and enjoyed
it more than the practice. Under his care
the department grew steadily in strength
and repute, and he remained at its head
until his death, on April 9, 1896. The de-
gree of LL. D. which was held by Judge
Banta, was conferred by Franklin Col-
lege, in 1888.

Capt. Abr.mi Piatt Andrew, the vet-
eran LaPorte banker, is a member of that
family than whom none has been more
prominently and closely identified with
the history of Northern Indiana and par-
ticularly of LaPorte County in the City
of LaPorte from the earliest pioneer days
to the present. Two of the men most con-
spicuous in founding the City of LaPorte
were Capt. A. P. Andrew and James An-
drew. The family has ever since been
numerously represented there, and some
of the members have become prominent
in other cities and states.

Tha ancestry of the LaPorte banker be-
gins with James Andrew, probably a na-
tive of Scotland, who for a niimber of
years lived on the north branch of the
Raritan River in New Jersey. In 1744 he
married Catherine Livingston, a member
of the well-known family of that name
in New Jersey and New York.

Among their children was Dr. John
Andrew, who was born at Trenton, New
Jensey, received a classical education, and
practiced medicine for many years. Dur-
ing the Revolutionary war' he served as
assistant surgeon in the army under
Washington, and was with that gi-eat
leader at Valley Forge and continued in
service until he witnessed the surrender
of Cornwallis at Yorktown. After the
war he returned home to New Jersey. He
had married, for his first wife, Rachel
Chamberlain, daughter of Lewis Chamber-
lain of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. While
her husband was in the army this wife
died and the children had become scat-
tered. Doctor Andrew then removed to
Penn Valley in Center County, Pennsyl-
vania, where for many years he practiced
medicine. He was a man about six feet

tall and of very commanding presence
and addres.s. For his second wife he mar-
ried Elizabeth McConnell, daughter of
John and Sarah McConnell.

James Andrew, grandfather of Abram
Piatt Andrew, the LaPorte banker, was a
son of Dr. John Andrew and his first wife.
James was born in New Jersey, ilay 21,
1774. In 1795 he married Catherine
Piatt, daughter of Captain Abram and
Annabelle (Andrew) Piatt. Capt. Abram
Piatt's father, John Piatt, lived in Somer-
set County, New Jersey, and was sheriff
of the county in 1732, holding that office
by a commission from the English Crown.
His five sons, John, Abram, William,
Daniel and Jacob, wei-e all soldiers in the
Colonial Army in the fight for inde-
pendence, three of them being captains
and one a major. Capt. Abram Piatt made
his home in Center County, Pennsylvania,
and died there November 13, 1791, leav-
ing ten children.

Soon after his marriage James Andrew,
with his brother-in-law, moved to the
Northwest Territory to seek a home. They
went down the Ohio to Fort Washington,
at the present site of Cincinnati. James
Andrew selected a tract of timber land a
few miles north in what is now Hamilton
County, and at once undertook to clear a
space and erect a log cabin for the shel-
ter of his family. The next spring Mrs.
Piatt and her youngest son and Mrs. An-
drew made the journey down the Ohio in
a flatboat, ^Ir. Andrew being at the land-
ing at Fort Washington to receive them.
Lender his guidance they arrived at the
pioneer log cabin home. James Andrew
subsequently devoted his time to further
clearing the land and establishing himself
as a pioneer agriculturist. Late in life
he removed to LaPorte, where he spent
his final years. He and his wife had seven
children: John, who died in early man-
hood; James, Abraham, Jacob, Rachel,
Lewis, and William.

Abraham Piatt Andrew, Jr., father of
Capt. A. P. Andrew, and called junior to
distinguish him from his father's half-
brother, spent his early youth on the home
farm in Southern Ohio and made the best
of his opportunities to secure an educa-
tion. When a youth he went to Cincinnati,
clerking in his maternal uncle 's bank. Go-
ing to Brookville, Indiana, at the age of
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ier ill the branch of the Indiana State
Bank there. Later the state required the
services of a surveyor to survey some
wild lands. He had no knowledge of sur-
veying, but being attracted by the op-
portunity he secured some books and after
nine days of application took the examina-
tion and was appointed to the responsi-
bility. Later he took charge of the steamer
Tecumseh, plying between Cincinnati and
New Orleans, and was commander of that
steamboat five years. His title of captain
was derived from this service.

In 1829 Captain Andrew with his brother
James engaged in the mercantile business
at Hartford, Indiana. On the first of
April, 1830, the brothers took a contract to
build fifteen miles of the Michigan road.
This was a famous highway in the early
history of Indiana, being planned to ex-
tend from iladison on the Ohio to Lake
Michigan, and passing through what is
now LaPorte County to Michigan City.
The road was planned a hundred feet in
width, the trees to be cleared for that width
and the stumps taken out and the surface
smoothed and graded thirty feet wide.
Nearly two years later when the brothers
had completed their contract they went
to Indianapolis to secure their pay, and
learned the state was without funds and
they must accept land script. Taking this
script, and with a half breed Indian, Joe
Truckee, as a guide, they started on horse-
back for Northern Indiana. After three
weeks of prospecting the brothers selected
a tract of four square miles, part of which
is included in the Citj' of LaPorte. The
Andrew brothers also bought several other
land claims in that vicinity, and got their
purchases approved in the land office at
Logansport.

In April, 1832, Abraham Piatt Andrew,
Jr., returned to this land and began im-
provements. In May of the same year
his wife and niece .ioined him. and "they
had as their habitation a log cabin in an
oak grove in that part of LaPorte known
as Camp Colfax. Three weeks later a
messenger arrived from Fort Dearborn,
Chicago, having covered the intervening
distance in five hours, to warn the settlers
that Blackhawk and his Indian followers
were on the war path in Illinois. It was
feared that the Pottawatomies of North-
ern Indiaiia would .ioin in this uprising,
and consequently there was much fear

among all the scattered settlements. Cap-
tain Andrew, Jr., sent his wife east to Cin-
cinnati at once, accompanied by Daniel
Andrew, and the following day twenty-
nine pioneers gathered and under the
leadership of Captain Andrew and Peter
LaBlanc undertook the building of a block-
house and stockade. The Indian scare soon
blew over and Captain Andrew, Jr., went
to Cincinnati and brought back his wife.

Thenceforward he was one of the con-
spicuous citizens of LaPorte County. In
1836 he was a Harrison elector for his
district. When in 1839 the thirteenth
branch of the Indiana State Bank wa-s
organized at Michigan City he was elected
one of its directors, and in the same year
became cashier. He finally removed his
residence to Michigan City and gave all
his time to the affairs of the bank. In
1847 he retui-ned to LaPorte. He had built
some of the first county offices at LaPorte.
He was also editor of the LaPorte Whig,
which supported the election of Harrison
in 1840. He and his brother William were
also California gold hunters following the
days of "49. He dealt extensively in land,
and in 1869 became a banker at LaPorte
under the firm name of A. P. Andrew, Jr.,
and Son. He died at LaPorte in 1887.
He and his wife had five children : Marion
and James, who died in Michigan City,
Indiana; Viola, who married Warren Coch-
ran and lived at S.yracuse, New York;
Abram Piatt; and Caradora, who married
Dr. S. B. Collins.

Capt. Abram Piatt Andrew was born
while his father lived at Michigan City. He
attended private schools and also public
schools and was a student at Wabash Col-
lege. He left that old Indiana institution
in 1862 to enlist in the Twenty-First In-
diana Battery. A month after" his enlist-
ment he was commissioned a second lieu-
tenant, later was promoted to first lieu-
tenant and finally to captain. He was with
liis battery in all of its service until the
close of the war.

In 1865 he returned home and in 1866
went south to Louisiana and spent one
year as a cotton planter. In 1869 he was
associated with his father in the establish-
ment of A. P. Andrew, Jr.. and Son, Bank-
ers, and of that institution he has been
manager now for half a century.

April 16, 1872, Captain Andrew mar-
ried ]\Iiss Helen Merrell. She was born

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in Geauga County, Ohio, a daughter of
Nathan and Maria (Reynolds) Merrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew reared two chil-
dren. Tlie daugliter, Helen, became the
wife of Hon. Isaac Patch, of Gloucester,
Ma.ssaehusetts. Her three children are,
Helen, Paula and Isaac, Jr. Captain An-
drew is a member of Patten Camp, Grand
Army of the Republic, a member of the
Loyal Legion, and attends worship in the
Presbyterian Church, of which his wife is
a devout member.

The only son of Captain Andrew is A.
Piatt Andrew, Jr., who for a number of
years has been one of the distinguished
financial authorities of America, and is now
a lieutenant-colonel with the United
states Army. His career deserves particu-
lar notice. He was born at LaPorte,
February 12, 1873. He graduated A. B.
from Princeton University in 1893, and
during 1897-99 was abroad as a student
in the universities of Halle, Berlin and
Paris. He received his Master of Arts
and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from
Harvard in 1900. From 1900 to 1909
he was instructor and assistant professor
of economics in Harvard University. Dur-
ing 1908-11 he was expert assistant and edi-
tor of publications of the National Mone-
tary Commission. In August, 1909, Pres-
ident Taft appointed him director of the
United States Mint, an office he held from
November until June, 1910. During 1910-
12 he was assistant secretary of the trea-
sury, in charge of the fiscal bureau.

For years he has been a recognized au-
thority and writer on money, banking and
other financial subjects. In 1906 he was
elected Officier d 'Academic at Paris.
Among his better known articles published
in magazines and as special studies were
"The Treasury and the Banks imder Sec-
retary Shaw" and "The United States
Treasury and the Money ^Market," these
being critical examinations of Mr. Shaw's
method of relieving financial tension by
the use of Government funds, both of which
were published in 1907, at the time Mr.
Shaw retired from the office of secretary of
the treasury. He published several studies
of the currency question in Oriental
countries, including "Currency Problems
of the Last Decade in British India,"
which appeared in the Quarterly Journal
of the Economics in August, 1901 ; and
"The End of the Mexican Dollar," in

the same periodical in May, 1904. His
several articles on the sub.iect of Financial
Crises include "The Influence of the Crops
upon Business," published in 1906:
"Hoarding in the Panic of 1907," pub-
lished in 1908; "Substitutes for Cash in
the Crisis of 1907," published in 1908.
He is the author of many addresses
upon the need of plans for cur-
rency legislation, among whicli, may be
mentioned an address upon "What Amer-
ica can Learn from European Banking,"
delivered before the American Academy
of Political and Social Science in De-
cember, 1910; an address upon the "Re-
lation of Banking Reform to the Treasury,"
delivered before the American Bankers'
Association in 1911; and "The Crux of
the Currency Question" delivered at Yale
University in ]\Iay, 1913. Several of his
articles concern monetary theory, notably
"The Influence of Credit on the Value
of Money," published in the proceedings
of the American Economic Association in
1904.

From 1910 to 1912 Mr. Andrew was
treasurer of the American Red Cross, and
in the latter year was a delegate to the
International Conference of the Red Cross.
For a number of years his home has been
in Massachusetts. Since December, 1914,
he held the office of inspector general of
the American Field Service witli the army
in France. With the entrance of the
United States into the war against Ger-
many in 1917 he was appointed to organ-
ize the American Volunteer Ambulance and
Transport Field Service, and in September
of that year was commissioned a major
in the United States Army. He was award-
ed a Croix de Guerre and named Chevalier
de la Legion d'Honneur by the French
Government in 1917. Lieutenant Colonel
Andrew is a member of the Harvard clubs
of New York and Boston, and the Metro-
politan and Chevy Chase clubs of Wash-
ington.

John Line is present county treasurer
of LaPorte County. For many years he
has been in business at the City of La-
Porte as a wholesale fruit dealer, and his
election as county treasurer was but one
of the many tributes paid him as a citizen
and business man.

He was born at LaPorte, a son of John
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was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
and his mother was a native of Virginia.
John Line acquired his education in the
public schools of LaPorte and began his
business career as clerk in a fruit store.
After two years, having mastered the busi-
ness in every detail, he entered the whole-
sale fruit business on his own account,
and conducted it with an unusual amount
of success. He has always been an active
republican and was chosen county treas-
urer in 1918.

In 1908 he married iliss Nettie Stroble,
also a native of LaPorte and a daughter of
Michael Stroble. They have two children :
Marjorie and Bernice. Mr. Line is a mem-
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
his wife is a Lutheran.

Carl F. Petering, a LaPorte business
man, has spent all his life in that city and
has been identified with several of its im-
portant activities.

His father Frederick Petering, was born
in Hanover, Germany, and was the only
member of his famil.y to come to America.
After getting his education in Germany
and leai-ning the trade of cabinet maker
he set out for the new world in 1868.
Soon afterwards he located in LaPorte,
and almost from the first was employed
by the sash and door factory now operated
as the LaPorte Sash and Door Company.
He has been a resident of LaPorte half a
century. He married Frederica ilutert,
also a native of Germany and likewise
the only member of her father's family to
come to America. She died at the age
of .seventy-three years. Their six children
were Lena, Louise, Fred, Carl F., George
and Ella.

Carl F. Petering wa.s born at LaPorte
and attended the parochial schools to the
age of fourteen. He then sought employ-
ment which would enable him to support
himself and also contribute to the wel-
fare of the family. For a year and a half
he did some of the hardest manual labor.
He then went with tlie LaPorte Journal
and learned the printing trade. However,
that did not furnish enough activity for
a young man of his enterprise, and after a
year and a lialf he secured work as a
driver of a grocery wagon. That kept him
busy for four years and in the meantime
he had managed to accumulate from his

earnings about $280. He used this
modest capital to set up in business for
himself as a grocery merchant at 1212
Lincoln Way. He soon built up a profit-
able trade, and continued until three
years later his store was burned and prac-
tically all his investment swept away. He
had good credit, however, and soon start-
ed again. After three years he sold out
and engaged in the livery business. Six
years later he added an undertaking de-
partment, and continued both for four
years. In August, 1915, Mr. Petering
bouglit a lot on Lincoln Way and there
erected the Palace Garage, 82 by 115 feet,
one of the most modern equipped establish-
ments of its kind in Northern Indiana.
In May, 1903, he married Miss Louise
A. Dettman. She was born at LaPorte,
daughter of John and Mary (Gransow)
Dettman. Mr. and Mrs. Petering have
three children, Ruth, Donald and Lawrence.
]\lr. Petering is independent in politics,
and he and his wife are members of the
St. John's Evangelical Church.

John W. LeRoy is a miller of long and
active experience, and for many years has
been identified with the J. Street Milling
Company at LaPorte. He is treasurer
and manager of the company.

Mr. LeRoy is a native of the City of
Rochester, New York. His father, Wil-
liam LeRoy, was born in Montreal, Canada,
of French ancestry. When a young man
he moved to the United States and located
at Rochester, where for many years he
was a tru.sted employe of the New York
Central Railway. He lived at Rochester
until his death. His wife, whose maiden
luime was Ann Peek, is still living in
Rochester. Her fatlier, Richard Peck, was
a farmer near Swanton, Pennsylvania.

John W. LeRoy, only child of his par-
ents, was educated in the public schools of
Rochester. As a youth he began learning
the trade of miller and served a complete
apprenticeship which gave him a mastery
of all the technical processes as well as
the general business details of milling. Mr.
LeRoy came to LaPorte in 1889, and for
thirty years has been identified with the
J. Street Milling Company, at first as an
employe and now as the chief owner and
treasurer and manager. This is one of the
leading mills for the manufacture of flour

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and other food stuffs in Northern Indiana,
and possesses a complete modern equip-
ment.

Mr. LeRoy married Hehna Lindgren.
She was born in LaPorte. Her father,
Charles Lindgi-en, was a native of Sweden,
where he learned the trade of cooper, and
coming to America as a young man located
at LaPorte and was in the cooperage busi-
ness for a number of years. He spent his
last years retired and died at the age of
sixty-seven. He married Christina Lonn,
also a native of Sweden and who is now
living in LaPorte. There were four chil-
dren in the Lindgi-en family. Helma,
Charles W., Herman A. and Jolui 0.

Mrs. LeRoy is a member of the Swedish
Lutheran Church. Mr. LeRoy takes an
active part in Masonry, being affiliated
with Excelsior Lodge No. 41, Free and
Accepted Masons, LaPorte Council No. 32,
Roj-al and Select Masters, LaPorte Chap-
ter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons, LaPorte
Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar,
and Murat temple of the :\Iystic Shrine at
Indianapolis.

James Moneoe Hannum, who was born
in La Porte County seventy years ago, has
been a contributing factor in that section
of Indiana for many years, as a farmer,
land owner and latterly as a successful
business man and banker at the City of
LaPorte.

He was born at LaPorte in 1848. His
grandfather, John Hannum, was accord-
ing to the best information available, born
in England, and on coming to America set-
tled in Chester County, Pennsylvania,
where he bought a farm and spent the rest
of his days. James Hannum, his son, was
born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was
reared and educated in the East, and in
1834 came West to join in the pioneer and
frontier activities of Indiana. He made
the journey by canal and lakes, and landed
at Buffalo, Michigan, then probably the
most important port on Lake ^Michigan.
From there he traveled with wagon and
team to the Town of LaPorte. He had
learned the trade of cabinet maker and
was one of the early mechanics in La-
Porte city. He also worked as a carpenter
and helped build some of the first private
homes at LaPorte. Subsequently he bought
land in Scipio Township and became a
farmer. In 1849 he went West to Cali-

fornia, making the journej' overland in a
party that had forty-one wagons, most of
them drawn by ox teams. They were
ninety days in crossing the plains, which
were covered by buffalo, and many hostile
Indians beset the route. James Hannum
was a gold miner and remained in Cali-
fornia until 18.51. On coming back to
the States he made the trip around Cape
Horn, being ninety days from San Fran-
cisco to New York. He invested his means
in a farm in Scipio Township, but seven
years later sold that place and bought a
farm on the Kingsbury Road in Scipio
Township, LaPorte County, where he lived
until his death at the advanced age of
eighty-four. James Hannum married
Louisa Bartlett, who was born in Tucker-
ton, New Jersey, daughter of Nathan Bart-
lett, also a native of New Jersey and of
English parentage. Nathan Bartlett was
another pioneer in Northern Indiana, com-
ing here in 1832, accompanied by his fami-
ly. He also in the absence of other means
of transportation traveled by canal and
lakes and was several weeks en route. All
of Northern Indiana was then practically
a wilderness, and LaPorte and other sur-
rounding counties had scarcely been organ-
ized. Nathan Bartlett located along what
has since been called the Kingsbury Road
in Pleasant Township, buying a tract of
partially improved land at twelve dollars
an acre. He was a general farmer a few
years and then removing to LaPorte en-
gaged in the mercantile business at what
is now Lincoln Way and Linwood Street.
He carried a stock of general merchandise
for many years and lived in LaPorte until
his death. Nathan Bartlett married Han-
nah Willitts. Mrs. James Hannum died
at the age of seventy-four, being the mother
of eight children: Hannah Sarah, James
]\Ionroe, Alice, Nellie, Nathan Bartlett,
ilary Louisa, Johnanna and Edmund B.

James Monroe Hannum was six years
of age when his parents removed to Scipio
Township and he grew up on a farm there,
having a training which brought out his
habits of industry. He attended school
and at the age of twentj--one commenced
life with all his capital in his willingness
and industry. He then took charge of his
grandfather Bartlett 's farm and managed
it seven years. Ill health compelled him
to retire, but after two years he bought
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ship and was successfully identified with
its management until 1891. In that year
ilr. Hannum removed to LaPorte and the
next two j-ears were spent in settling up
an estate. He then for eight years was in
the farm implement business and since
then has dealt on a large scale in real
estate and has been a factor in business
affairs generally. ]\Ir. Hannum is a trustee
of the LaPorte Savings Bank, of the La-
Porte Loan and Trust Company, is a di-
rector in the LaPorte Improvement So-
ciety, and the LaPorte Building and Loan
Association.

In 1877 he married Phebe A. Parker.
She was born in New Jersey, a daughter
of Willis and Phebe (Willits) Parker.
Sirs. Hannum died February 20, 1914.
In June, 1917, I\Ir. Hannum married Ada
Mitchell. She was born in Albany, New
York, daughter of AVilliam and Louisa M.
(Taylor) ^Mitchell. She received most of
her early education in Albany and was
also a student in a private school and the
Albany Female College. Mr. Haniuim was
reared a Quaker, but now worships in the
Presbyterian Church.

William Fosdick has earned that en-
viable professional position due to forty
years of labor and experience, and bears
his honors gracefully as one of the oldest
and most widely known members of the
dental profession in Indiana. His father
wa.s a pioneer dentist, one of the first to
follow dentistry as a separate profession.

Doctor Fosdick has an ancestry traced
in unbroken generations back to the Eng-
land of Queen Elizabeth's time. The first
American ancestor was Stephen Fosdick,
who wa,s born in England in 1583. On
coming to America he lived for a time at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, but .soon re-
moved to Nantucket, where he was one of
the first settlers. He married Sarah With-
erell. Their son, John Fosdick, was born
in 1626. He married Elizabeth Norton. The
third generation was represented by Jona-
than Fosdick, who was born in Nantucket
in 1669 and married Catherine Phillips,
The head of the fourth generation was
Jonathan Fosdick, born at Nantucket in
1708. John Fosdick, of the fifth genera-
tion, was born at Nantucket, June 2, 1732.

Capt. William Fosdick, of the sixth gen-
eration, great-grandfather of Doctor Fos-
dick, was born on the Island of Nantucket,

Massachusetts, July 25, 1760. He eerly
went to sea at the age of twelve years and
subsequently was impressed into the Eng-
lish navy. He was taken aboard a man-of-
war, but some time later when the vessel
was along American shores he made his
escape by swimming, and soon resumed his
occupation as an American sailor. He
finally became captain of a vessel named
Industry and commanded it twenty yeai-s.
Capt. William Fosdick married Mary
Folger, daughter of Benjamin and Judith
Folger, and a cousin of Benjamin Frank-
lin. Several of their children removed to
Campbell County, Virginia, one of them
being George Washington Fosdick.

George Washington Fosdick, of the
seventh generation, was born May 18, 1788,
and on removing to Virginia settled near
L>nichburg. He married there Mary
Strong, daughter of a planter and slave
holder. George W. Fosdick was a New
Englander who could not adapt himself
to southern institutions, and in 1830 he
emigrated west and settled near Niles in
the Territory of ^Michigan. On reaching
free soil he liberated the slaves which his
wife had inherited. Later he moved to
Liberty, Union County, Indiana, and in
1836 became a pioneer in LaPorte County.
He purchased land in Cool Springs Town-
.ship, in the locality known as Hollenbeck
Corners. Besides fai-ming he also followed
his trade as a blacksmith there, having a
.shop on his farm. About 1850 he retired
and went to live in LaPorte, where his
death occurred in 1867. His wife died in
1874.

Capt. John S. Fosdick. father of Doc-
tor William, was born on a plantation near
Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia,
December 27, 1811. He was about twenty
years of age when his parents moved west,
and in the meantime he had acquired his
education in the .schools of Virginia. He
learned the trade of blacksmith under his
father and being a natural mechanic was
soon expert. He went to California in
1848, following the Isthmus route and walk-
ing aci'o.ss the Isthmus. He landed at
San Francisco without a cent. A mill was
in process of construction and a machinist
was wanted for certain parts of the iron
work. He secured the job, but having no
tools had to make some. After that was
finished he went to the mines, but had
practically no success as a gold miner.

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Not long afterward he returned to LaPorte
and took up the practice of dentistin'.
He had attended a college of medicine but
did not become a doctor, preferring den-
tistry as a new art only then acquiring
the standing of a profession. Captain Fos-
dick became known in dental circles all
through the United States.

In 1861, though fifty years of age, he
raised a company for service in the Union
army. It was known as Company G of
the Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, and he
was commissioned captain by Governor
Morton. He went south and commanded
this company for eleven months, then re-
signing and returning home to resume his
practice. Captain Fosdick invented a
rapid fire gim that would fire a hundred
shots in six seconds. However, it was not
a self-loader. He intended to make im-
provements, but before he completed them
the gatling gun was patented and thus he
never earned fame to which his invention
was entitled. He remained in active prac-
tice at LaPorte until his death in Febru-
ary, 1882, at the age of seventy-one.

In 1834 Captain Fosdick married Miss
Rosetta S. Bailey, a native of Litchfield
County, Connecticut, who died in 1841.
She was the mother of four children. For
his second wife Captain Fosdick married
Miss Emily S. Smith of New York State.
She died March 28, 1894. Her father was
Capt. John Smith and her maternal grand-
father was Capt. Joshua Buel. Captain
Fosdick by his second wife had five chil-
dren, William, Samuel J., John S., Gil-
bert (deceased) and Albert K. Captain
Fosdick was affiliated with the Quaker
church and in politics was a republican.

Dr. William Fosdick was born at La-
Porte June 6, 1849. He received a liberal
education, attending a private school
taught by Professor F. P. Cummings. He
was in that school seven years and in the
public school two years. He also learned
the printer's trade and work at it three
years, but in 1867 entered his father's
office and for ten years studied and gained
that experience which fitted him for the
practice of dentistry. He was granted his
license by the Indiana State Board in
1879. In" the meantime, in 1877, Doctor
Fosdick located at Michigan City and prac-
ticed there for thirteen years. In 1890 he
returned to LaPorte, and has been a leader

of his profession in that city over a quar-
ter of a century.

October 29, 1872, Doctor Fosdick mar-
ried Miss Louisa Vennette Brewer, who
was born in New York State in 1854. She
became the mother of three children, IMaude
Vennette, Eleanor Genevieve and William
Yale. In 1916 Doctor Fosdick married
Julia Elizabeth Zeigler.

Thomas B. Millikan. It is not so much
his long standing as a banker and cashier
of the Citizens State Bank of Newcastle
that gives Mr. Millikan his unique distinc-
tion in Henry County, but rather the ex-
traordinary enterprise and public spirit
which have brought him into movements
and undertakings not directly in the line
of his private bu.siness, or even indirectly
a source of profit or advantage to him per-
sonally. In fact he has been well satis-
fied to see his efforts count chiefly and his
measure of usefulness estimated by what
he has been able to do to promote the gen-
eral growth and prosperity of the city.
His fellow jcitizens give him the larger
share of personal credit for bringing some
of the most monumental industries to New-
castle.

Mr. Millikan was a member of the com-
mittee which went east and after prolonged
conferences with President Brisco conclud-
ed the negotiations whereby the Maxwell
Automobile Company established its plant
at Newcastle. Another business which Mr.
Mill'ikan was instrumental in getting for
Newcastle is the Chard Lathe Company.
When the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Com-
pany moved its plant from Albany, Indi-
ana, to Newcastle there arose a serious
hitch in the plans whereby the company
was to buy out an old plant at Newcastle.
The important difference between the nego-
tiating parties was a matter of consider-
able money asked by the old owner of the
new company. As the easiest means out
of the difficulty Mr. Millikan went out and
in a few hours raised the sum from local
business men. Newcastle also owes Mr.
i\Iillikan much credit for the fact that the
Krell-French Piano Company established
its large and prosperous plant at New-
castle.

Thomas B. Millikan, the fourth son of
John R. and Martha (Koons) Millikan,
was born on his father's farm in Liberty

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Township, Henrj- County, Indiana, IMarch
28, 1854. He obtained his early education
in district school, and afterwards attended
the public schools of Newca-stle while they
were under the efficient direction of Profes-
sor George W. Hufford. He also attended
the Holbrook Normal School at Lebanon,
Ohio.

His second days ended in 1874, and in
September of the same year he entered the
service of the Citizens State Bank of New-
castle as assistant cashier. At this writing
he has the honor of being the oldest active
l)anker in Henry County in point of con-
tinuous service.

In 1891, when James N. Huston of Con-
nersville, Indiana, resigned the treasurer-
ship of the United States and Enos H. Ne-
beeker, of Covington, Indiana, was ap-
pointed to succeed him, the latter selected
Thomas B. Millikan as a representative
with othei-s to count the cash in the United
States Treasury. This selection was high-
ly complimentary to Mr. Millikan, who
accepted the trust and spent the time from
March 20 to July 1. 1891. in Washington,
ascertaining the balance in the treasury.
During that period he handled funds or
their equivalent amounting to over $614,-
000.000.

Prom 1894 to 1902, inclusive, Mr. Milli-
kan served as state bank examiner of In-
diana, the duties of this office, both onerous
and responsible, involving a complete ex-
amination into the condition of each of the
numerous state banks. Mr. Millikan dis-
charged the duties of his office with such
signal ability that during his eight years'
incumbency only one or two institutions
of the state failed in business.

It wa.s his long familiarity and experi-
ence as a banker that gave him so much
efficiency as a state bank examiner and en-
abled him to render the sen-ice above noted
as personal representative of Mr. Nebecker
in the counting of the funds of the United
States Treasurv. For all these other out-
side responsibilities ^Ir. Millikan retained
his position with the Citizens State Bank,
and counts forty-five years of continuous
service with that institution. It means a
great deal to be thus identified for so
many years with a sinsrle business, espe-
ciallv when that business is a bank. The
continued trust of the stockholders and de-
positors and the esteem of the sreneral pub-
lie have been uniformly extended to him

during that long period of time, and his
best yeai-s have been given freel.y to the
growth 'and pro.sperity of the institution.
Mr. Millikan as a banker has achieved what
he considers his life's monument, since
manv vears ago he boasted that he would
make the Citizens State Bank a $2,000,000
institution, and his efforts have been fully
rewarded and his ambitions realized. The
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago appoint-
ed Mr. Jlillikan as director of sales for
United States Treasury Anticipation Cer-
tificates for Henry County. The certifi-
cates are issued by the Government in an-
ticipation of succeeding Liberty Loans.
The banks throughout the county respond-
ed liberally and have taken care of several
hundred thousand dollars' worth of these
certificates.

Throughout his banking experience Mr.
Millikan has always advi.sed against the so-
called "investment" offered to so many
citizens bj^ strangers, and has undoubtedly
saved many people from loss by this con-
servative advice.

Ever since reaching his ma.iority Mr. Mil-
likan has been a stanch republican, active
in support of the party, its principles and
policies. In the Republican State Conven-
tion of 1902 he was a prominent candidate
for the nomination for state treasurer.
There were four candidates, and while he
was unsuccessful he felt gi-atified to know
that he stood next to the winner. He has
been for twentv-nine years continuouslv a
member of the Henry County Republican
Central Committee. He was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention in Chi-
cac-o in 1916, and was one of the enthusi-
astic members of the Ind'ana delegation
supporting Charles W. Fairbanks for presi-
dent. He firmly believes that had the
choice of the republican pai'ty fallen upon
that Indiana stRtesman the results of the
election would have been completely dif-
ferent.

;Mr. Millikan attends the Christian
Church, and is affiliated with Cresceus
Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias, of which
he served several years a.s trustee; of Iro-
ouois Tribe No. 97, Improved Order of Red
Men ; Newcastle Ijodge No. 484, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks ; and the Fra-
ternal Order of Eagles.

October 26. 1877, Mr. :Millikan married
^fiss .Mice Peed, daughter of James C. and
Martha Jane (Boyd) Peed. Thev were

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married by Elder William J. Howe of the
Christian Chiirch. To this happy union
were born three children : John R., bom
September 8, 1884, now assistant cashier of
the Citizens State Bank of Newcastle;
Louise, born April 5, 1892 ; Martha Janet,
born March 10, 1897. The son, John, mar-
ried June 26, 1907, Irene Wilson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wilson. Louise
was married August 23, 1913, to Claude
Stanley, a sou of Frank Stanley of New-
castle. Both the daughters are accom-
plished young women, and after the death
of their mother Mr. Millikan gave them
redoubled care in supervising their educa-
tion and providing for their welfare. Mr.
Millikan lost his first wife July 25, 1902.
She had joined the Flat Rock Christian
Church in 1870 and was educated in the
country schools of Liberty Township,
Henrv' County, and in the Newcastle High
School. During 1874-75 she taught in the
Boj'd schoolhouse in Liberty Township.
She was a woman of high character, very
domestic in disposition, and throughout her
married life was devoted to her home and
family. In 1908 Mr. Millikan married Mrs.
Maud (Bond) WoodruiT. She is a daugh-
ter of Abner Bond of Greensfork, Wayne
County, Indiana.

Newton Booth, eleventh governor of
California, (1872-4), and United States
Senator from California (1875-81), was
bom at Salem, Indiana, December 25, 1825.
After attending the common schools, he
entered Asbury University from which he
graduated in 1846. He studied law at
Terre Haute, and was admitted to the bar
in 1850; but went to California in the
same year. He located at Sacramento, and
engaged in the wholesale grocery business
until 1857, when he returned to Terre
Haute, and resumed the practice of law.
In 1860 he again retui'ued to California,
and opened a law office; soon becoming
interested in politics. In 1863 he was
elected to the state senate, as a republican.
In 1871 he joined with Eugene Casserlv
in the fight against the railroads, and tjiey
two became the leaders of the triumphant
anti-monopolists. Casserly was elected
United States senator, and Booth gov-
ernor. In 1874, Casserly having resigned
from the Senate on account of failing
health, and his term having been filled ont
by John S. Hager, Booth was elected to

the vacant senatorship. His service both
as governor and as senator was marked by
intelligence, ability and integrity. He died
at Sacramento July 14, 1892 Senator
Booth's sister Elizabeth married Judge
John S. Tarkington, and was the UKjthcr
of Booth Tarkington.

Ellsworth EljieiI Weir has been a
prominent member of the LaPorte bar for
over thirty years, formerly commanded a
large general clientage, but in recent years
has given all his time to service as coun-
sel for one of the large manufacturing con-
cerns in Northern Indiana.

]\Ir. Weir was born in the City of La-
Porte in 1861, and his family has fur-
nished some of the oldest and best known
names in the history of that county. His
grandfather, John Weir, was reared and
married in New York State, and in 1836
started for the West. Putting his pos-
sessions in a wagon, he drove to Buffalo.
There he and his family embarked on a
steamer. This boat was wrecked and the
passengers landed on the shores of Ohio.
Thence the Weir family chose to proceed
by wagon and team, and continued until
they arrived at Washtenaw County, Michi-
gan. John Weir bought land eighteen
miles soiTthwest of Ann Arbor and was a
pioneer farmer there until his death in
August, 1855. He married Anna Beck-
with, a native of Elmira, New York. She
survived her husband and spent her last
years in LaPorte, where she died at the
advanced age of eighty-three. She was the
mother of ten children.

One of these was the late Hon. Morgan
H. Weir, who was long a practicing attor-
ney at LaPorte and who it is said im-
pressed his personality on the county to
a remarkable degree. He was born at El-
mira, New York, March 31, 1829. Much
of his education came as a result of his in-
dividual efforts. He attended school in
Washtenaw County, Michigan, in the
River Raisin Academy in Lenawee County,
■Michigan, went back to Elmira, New York,
to attend Barber's Academy, and in the
intervals of teaching winter terms of school
studied law in the office of Colonel Hatha-
way at Elmira. He was admitted to the
bar in September, 1852, and in November
of the same year located in Michigan City,
Indiana. He practiced there two years,
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was one of the honored lawyers of that
city until his death, July 6, 1902, at the
age of seveuty-three. His activity as a
lawyer covered a period of practically half
a century. He was one of the original re-
publicans of LaPorte County, and in 1854-
was elected on that ticket to the office of
prosecuting attorney. The LaPorte Cir-
cuit then comprised ten counties. He held
that office two years and in 1856 was
elected a member of the State Senate and
served four years. In 1877 the democratic
pai-ty elected him mayor of LaPorte, and
he was re-elected in 1879. At one time he
was also a candidate for Congress. Frater-_
nally he was affiliated with the Benevolent
and' Protective Order of Elks and the
Knights of Pythias. A local historian has
referred to him as "a man of great per-
sonal force, an easy and fluent speaker,
kind to the poor and possessing many esti-
mable traits."

July 12, 1854, at LaPorte, Morgan H.
"Weir married Henrietta E. Teeple. She
was born on the island which is now in-
cluded in the City of LaPorte, April 3,
1836, daughter of John and Hannah
Teeple, who were among the pioneers of
LaPorte County, settling there in 1834.
John P. Teeple, her father, was born in
Kentucky in 1805, and in early life re-
moved to the southern part of Indiana.
Later he came into Northern Indiana when
it was a wilderness, and was the third or
fourth permanent settler in what is now
LaPorte County. He built a log cabin on
a tract of land on the island above men-
tioned. This log cabin also had an under-
ground cellar which was constructed pri-
marily with a view to hiding in case of
Indian uprising. John Teeple at one time
kept an inn three and a half miles ea.st of
LaPorte, on what is now the James Ander-
son homestead on the Lincoln Highway.
Later he moved into the town and was
Cjuite active in business, operating a gi'ist
mill, and store, and remained a resident
of LaPorte until his death, in 1906, at the
advanced age of one hundred one years.
Late in life he fell from a hoi;se, break-
ing a leg, and was somewhat infirm physi-
cally, though strong mentally to the end.
He married Hannah "Weir, a native of Vir-
ginia, whose parents were early settlers
in Southern Indiana. Hannah Teeple
died at the age of eighty-seven. ]\Irs.
Morgan H. Weir died in 1912, aged sev-

enty-six. She was the mother of two chil-
dren: Ellsworth Elmer and Frederick
Hamilton.

Ellsworth Elmer Weir grew up in La-
Porte, attended the public schools and re-
ceived much of his early training under
his father. He entered the law depart-
ment of the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated LL. B., in 1882,
and in June of the same year was admitted
to the bar and began practice at La Porte.
For a number of years Mr. Weir has been
general counsel for the Great Western
Manufacturing Company.

October 22, 1884, "he married_ Miss
Nellie K. Rogers. She was born in La-
Porte County and also represents two of
the pioneer families of that section. Her
parents were Andrew J. and Louisa (Hall)
Rogers. Her father was a son of Aquilla
aud Nancy (Arnold) Rogers, and her
mother was a daughter of Jacob R. Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth have one daugh-
ter, Harriet Louise. This daughter is now
the wife of William j\I. Warren. By a
former marriage she has a daughter, JMary
Jane Burns. Mr. Weir is affiliated with
LaPorte Lodge No. 396, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and LaPorte
Lodge No. 112, Knights of Pythias.

William Niler. Originally the Niles
family were Welsh. The first American
ancestor of whom there is record was John
Niles, who came to America in 1630 and
settled at Dedham, Massachusetts. In a
later generation was Samuel Niles, also
a native of Massachusetts, great-gi-eat-
grandfather of William Niles. Samuel
Niles graduated from Harvard College, in
1731, and gained distinction as a lawyer,
serving as judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
He was also one of the twenty-eight coun-
sellors who exercised the functions of local
government before the Constitution of the
LTnited States was framed.

In the next generation was Nathaniel
Niles, who graduated from Princeton Col-
lege and located at West Fairlee, Ver-
mont, where he was lawyer, preacher and
farmer. He was a member of the Board
of Trustees of Dartmouth College, and la-
ter was a representative in the Continental
Congress. His descendants have preserved
an invitation which he received to dine
with General Washington.

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His son, 'William Niles, who was born
at Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont,
graduated fi'oni Dartmouth College and
was an exception to most of the family
in that he did not adopt a profession. He
was a farmer and stock raiser at West
Fairlee, Vermont. He married Relief Bar-
ron.

John B. Niles, father of William Niles,
was one of the distinguished pioneers of
the Northern Indiana bar and also one of
the early settlers of the City of LaPorte.
He was born at West Fairlee, Vermont,
in September, 1808, and graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1830. After study-
ing law and being admitted to the bar he
came West on horseback in 1833. He
afterward told that his purpose was to
acquire a ten-acre lot in Chicago. On his
way he stopped at LaPorte, and was so
pleased with the country that his journey
was never continued. He was one of the
early lawyers of the city and became other-
wise prominent in business and local af-
fairs. In 1864 be helped organize the First
National Bank of LaPorte, and he was a
member of the Constitutional Convention
of the state in 1850. In many other ways
his name is associated with the early his-
tory of that city. He died at LaPorte,
July 6, 1879.

John B. Niles married Mary Polke. She
was born at the historic City of Vin-
cennes, Indiana, June 13, 18li, and her
ancestry and family histox'y are fully as
noteworthy as that of the Niles family,
the genealogy of the Polke family goes
back to the middle ages of old England.
There were a number of titled men named
De Pollok, as the name was spelled for
many generations. There is record of a
Sir Robert De Pollok who joined the
Scotch Covenanters in 1640. Robert
Bruce Pollok, a son of Sir Robert, was
born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1630,
and in 1672 he and his wife, Magdalene,
came to America and settled in Somerset
County, Maryland, where he assumed the
named of Robert Bruce Polke. In Mary-
land he secured patents to land from Lord
Baltimore.

His son, William Polke, Sr., was born
in County Donegal. Ireland, and was
brought to America by his parents. He
also bought land, and after his father's
death had charge of the Polke estate in
ilaryland. Charles Polke, a son of William,

Sr., was a native of Somerset County, Mary-
land, and was father of Capt. Chaxles
Polke. Capt. Charles Polke was bom in
Frederick County, Maryland, February 2,
1745. His father, who had been an Indian
trader on the Maryland frontier, died in
1753. Charles Polke moved to West Vir-
ginia, in the Panhandle along the Ohio
River, settling on Cross Creek near the
present site of Wellsville, north of Wheel-
ing. In 1780, with his wife and two chil-
dren, he formed a colony, including his
brothers, William, Edmond and Thomas
and a sister. Piety, and removed to Ken-
^tueky on flatboats. They located in what
'is now Nelson County. The family for
protection was established at Kincheloe's
Station. Not long afterward Indians at-
tacked and ma.ssacred the greater part of
the garrison. Mrs. Charles Polke and four
children were made captives, and were
taken by the Indians to the British Garri-
son at Detroit. Mrs. Polke walked from
the station to the Ohio River and from
that point rode a horse to Detroit.
Through the influence of a British trader
she was ransomed, and allowed to write
to her husband. Upon receipt of the let-
ter he went to Detroit, and returned with
the family to Kentucky. All these and
many other interesting facts of the early
generations of the Polke family in Ken-
tucky are recounted in Collins' History of
Kentucky.

The maiden name of this pioneer fron-
tierswoman and wife of Capt. Charles
Polke was Delilah Tyler. She was born in
Virginia, February 10, 1755, daughter of
Edward and Nancy (Langley) Tyler. She
died in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1797,
at the age of forty-two. She was the
mother of twelve children, one of whom
was William Polke, maternal grandfather
of ]\Ir. William Niles.

William Polke was born in Brooke
County, Virginia, now West Virginia,
September 19, 1775. He was seven years
of age when made a prisoner by the In-
dians, and often recounted many of the
incidents of that tragedy. He acquired a
fair education, studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar, and removed to what
is now Knox County, Indana, in 1806. A
few years later he enlisted and served in
the volunteer army of frontiei-smen under
General Harrison, and was wounded at
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Indiana was admitted to the Union, he
represented Knox County as a delegate
to tlie P^'irst Constitutional Convention. In
1829, and for a number of years afterward,
he was commissioner for the sale of the
Michigan Road lands. In 1832 he estab-
lished a farm where the Michigan Road
crossed the Tippecanoe River, in Fulton
County, his being the first frame house
on that road north of the Wabash River,
and widely known for many years to pio-
neers as the White House. In 18.36 he
had charge of the removal of the Potta-
watomie Indians to the Indian Territory.
He served as a member of the Firet State
Senate, and was one of the commissioners
in locating the state capitol at Coridon.
His name was prominent in the early his-
tory of LaPorte County, since as an asso-
ciate judge he opened the first court in
that county. In 1841 he removed to Fort
Wayne to accept the position from Presi-
dent Harrison as register of the land office.
He died at Fort Wayne while fulfilling
those duties April 26, 1843.

Such is a brief account of the ancestry
of William Niles, who was bom at La-
Porte, September 25, 183.5. As a boy he
attended private schools in his native town,
for one year was in Notre Dame Univer-
sity, and was also a student at the college
at Urbana, Ohio. In 1857 he entered the
junior class of Dartmouth College, where
he was graduated in 1859. After return-
ing home he took up the study of law un-
der his father, and was admitted to the
bar in 1861. He practiced law for some
years with his father, but gradually gave
over that profession to devote his time to
other aff'airs. He was one of the first stock-
holders in the First National Bank of La-
Porte when it was organized in 1864, his
father being one of the first directors. He
has been identified with tliat institution
continuously for over fifty years, and for
many years has been its president. Mr.
Niles was also one of the organizers of
the LaPorte Wheel Company, which was
subsequently reorganized as the Niles-
Scott Company, with him as president for
several years. Mr. Niles is one of the ex-
tensive land owners of Northern Indiana,
having farms both in LaPorte and Lake
counties, including some land which his
father originally acquired from the state.
Mr. Niles has always been a republican,
and is one of the leading members of the

New Church (Swedenborgian) of LaPorte,
and is president of its board of trustees.

Mr. Niles has two daughters, Mary N.
and Sarah Isabelle. Mary is the wife of
Harry M. Baum. The mother of these
children was Judith King Anderson. She
and Mr. Niles were married December 16,
1885. She was born in LaPorte County
and died December 13, 1902. Her father,
Robert Anderson, was a farmer in Scipio
Township of LaPorte County, where Mrs.
Niles was born February 28, 1849. She
was a woman of liberal education, having
attended the common schools, the Hanover
High School and Monmouth College in
Illinois, and spent two years in Europe
in travel and study. Mrs. Niles was a
much beloved woman of LaPorte. She
used her culture and abundant means to
sustain many interests in arti-stic afi'airs
and in practical charity. She kept a very
hospitable home, entertained many friends,
and was a leader in musical circles. She
was always faithful to the Presbyterian
Church in which she was reared, but after
her marriage she attended quite regularly
with her husband the New or Sweden-
borgian Church.

Ernest G. Dunn, Jr., is a civil engi-
neer by profession, is the present county
surveyor af LaPorte County, and member
of a family that has been identified with
tlie hnnber industry in Michigan and
Northern Indiana for many years.

He was born at IMuskegon, ilichigan,
which was then at the heart of the gi-eat
lumber manufacturing industry of that
state. His grandfather was James Dunn,
born in or near Plymouth, England. One
of hi.s brothers came to the United States,
but his subsequent experiences are not now
known. At the age of nine years James
Dunn ran away from home and went to
sea. He became an able seaman and la-
ter was first mate of different ve.ssels in
the English merchant marine. He re-
mained in that service until 1871, when
he came to the United States and located
at Chicago, was in several lines of work
in tliat city, and in 1888 moved to Muske-
gon, Michigan, and from there, in 1896,
transferred his home to Michigan City, In-
diana, where he died in 1897, at the age
of sixty-three. He tnarried Emma Hocka-
day, a native of England. She died at
Michigan City in 1917.

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Ernest G. Dunn, Sr., was the only child
of his parents. He was bom at Torquay,
England, and was eleven years old when
brought to the United States. He attended
school in England and also in Chicago,
and his first business experience was as
bookkeeper with the Hickson store, the
largest retail grocery store in the West.
In 1888 he became a stockholder in the
Maxwell Lumber Company of iluskegon,
removing to that city, and for a number
of years was secretary of the company.
In 1896 he removed his home to Michigan
City, and in 1909 he and Mr. Maxwell
bought the interests of the other stock-
holders and have since conducted one of
the large retail lumber firms of ]Michigan
City. E. G. Dunn, Sr., married Leonora
Gray, a native of Brown County, Indi-
ana. Her father, Ambrose Gray, was born
in Connecticut of ilayflower ancestry, and
was an early settler in Brown County, Indi-
ana. He married Sallie R. Gray, a native
of Brown County, her parents having come
from North Carolina, first settling in Ken-
tucky and later moving to Brown County,
Indiana. Ambrose Gray served an appren-
ticeship at the spectacle making trade, and
came to Indiana with his employer, who
established a spectacle factory in Brown
County. This was the first industry of its
kind in the West, and it did not long con-
tinue. E. G. Dunn and wife had eight
children: Emma, who died at the age of
twenty-four. Eunice, Ernest G., Chester,
Mabel, Howard, and Marion and Dorothy,
twins.

Ernest G. Dunn, Jr., graduated from
the [Michigan City High School and then
entered the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. He took the course of civil
engineering, and on leaving the univer-
sity went West, to Poi'tland, Oregon, and
put in a year as a teacher. He returned
to Indiana to become identified with the
new City of Gary, and for three years
was connected with the engineering de-
partment of that municipality, and helped
in laying out and building some of the
improvements which made that town not-
able among the cities of the Middle West.
From Gary Mr. Dunn returned to Michi-
gan Cit.v, and for four years served as
city civil engineer. In October, 1918, he
was appointed county surveyor to fill an
unexpired term, and his appointment was

confirmed by popular election in Novem-
ber of the same year.

In 1911 he married iliss Clarriet Wil-
helm, a native of LaPorte, and daughter
of Frederick and Mary Wilhelm. Mr.
and Mrs. Dunn have one daughter,
Leonora. Mr. Dunn is a member of the
Episcopal Church, and member and past
chancellor of Gaiy Lodge, Knights of
Pythias.

William Adams ]\Iartin during a long
and active career has identified himself
with many of the leading enterprises of
LaPorte. He is a manufacturer and bank-
er and an official in several public utility
plants in the northern part of the state.

His early youth connected him with pio-
neer times in this part of the ^liddle West.
An indication of this is that he was born
in a log cabin in Three Oaks Township
of Berrien Count.v, ^Michigan. Nearly all
the homes in that community at the time
were log cabins, and a log house was by
no means an indication of poverty.

His ]\Iartiu ancestors were numbered
among the first settlers of New Jersey. His
grandfather, Isaac Webb Martin, was born
near Woodbridge, Middlesex County,
New Jersey, January 14, 1781, and be-
came a shoemaker. That was a very im-
portant trade at the time, since all shoes
were made by hand and to order, and he
also combined with skill at this art the
weaving of fine linen. His account book
dating from 1812 to 1837 is still carefully
preserved by a granddaughter. From
Middlesex County he moved to Succa-
sunna, in Morris County, New Jersey,
where he bought a farm, part of which
is now included in the village. He lived
there and raised a family of eleven chil-
dren, eight sons and three daughters, and
then went out to .ioin some of his chil-
dren at Oxford, Ohio, where he died. The
maiden name of his wife was Alice Adams.
She was of the same family that gave this
country two of its most distinguished presi-
dents. Her father, ilatthew Adams,
fought as an American soldier in the Revo-
lution. Isaac Webb Martin and wife had as
stated eight sons and three daughters. Mi-s.
^lartin moved witli her son, Sherwood, to
Berrien County, Michigan, where she died
at the ripe age of ninety-one .years.

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Hunterdon County, New Jersey, January
11, 1816. He was reared and educated
in his native state and served an appren-
ticeship to the mason's trade. In 1838,
after his marriage, he moved out to Ox-
ford, Ohio, and in 1846 made a further
progn-ess westward with his wife and three
children, embarking his goods on a wagon
and directing his team overland on the
journey to Berrien County in the extreme
southwest corner of Michigan. He made
the journey with wagon and team in the
absence of any other means of transpor-
tation, since no railroad was completed
through this part of the iliddle West for
several years. He bought a tract of land
in Three Oaks Township, near the IndiaJia
state line. The only improvements on that
land were a log cabin and a few acres of
cleared ground and a small orchard. Here
he resumed his trade and at the same time
superintended the further improvement of
his land. In 1896 he retired from his
^Michigan farm and came to LaPorte, where
he died in 1903. On January 19, 1836, he
married Miss Rachel Harland. She was
born at Elizabethtown, New Jei;sey, Sep-
tember 7, 1815, daughter of Captain
Stephen and Elizabeth (Heden) Harland.
t'or many years her father commanded
a boat engaged in the traffic up and down
the Hudson River. This venerable river
captain died at the age of ninety-six. E.
Sherwood Martin and wife had the follow-
ing children : Elizabeth, Alice, Isaac W.,
Stephen H., William Adams, Abram F.
and John E.

William Adams Martin attended the
rural schools near his father's farm in
Southwestern ilichigan and also had the
benefit of attendance at Carlisle College.
His training in early youth was sufficient
to inculcate in him habits of industry and
integrity and gave him the good constitu-
tion which has enabled him to maintain
heavy business responsibilities for half a
century or more.

Mr. ]\Iartin came to LaPorte in 1866.
His first employment was as clerk in a
clothing store. He continued that rou-
tine occupation for ten years. In 1876
he was made deputy county treasurer and
held that office for eight years. In 1884
he was elected county treasurer, and served
for two years. Since leaving public office
Mr. Martin has been primarily identified
with public utilities, particularly gas in-

dustries. He is now president of the La-
Porte Gas and Electric Company, presi-
dent of the Rochester Gas and Coke Com-
pany, president of the Greencastle Gas and
Electric Company, president of the John
Hilt Ice Company, and a director of the
First National and the State Bank of La-
Porte. In various ways his influence and
means li^ve been a contribution to the
general welfare of his community. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of the
Old Ladies' Home at LaPorte, and he and
his wife are active members of the Chris-
tian Church and he has served that church
for several years as elder.

June 7. i886, Mr. Martin married Re-
becca Elizabeth Drummond. She was
born at Rolling Prairie in LaPorte County,
daughter of John and Orilda (Bowell)
Drummond. Mr. and ]\Irs. Martin have an
interesting family of children, John Gor-
don, Thomas Foster, Rachel Orilda and
Ruth Drummond.

John Gordon, the oldest, was born
November 25, 1887, graduated from the
LaPorte High School and Cornell Univer-
sity, and is a practical engineer now super-
intendent of his father's gas plant and
lives at Rochester. He married Mildred
Pheift'er, and has a son, John Gordon, Jr.

Thomas Foster ilartin, born November
6. 1889. is a graduate of the LaPorte High
School and of ]\Iichigan University, and
is now secretary and treasurer of the John
Hilt Ice Company. He married Aldyth
Frederickson and has a daughter, Ada
Elizabeth.

Rachel Martin, born February 20, 1891."
after completing the course of tlie LaPorte
High School, entered Wells College at
Aurora, New York, of which she is a gradu-
ate. She is the wife of Kenneth Osborne
of LaPorte.

Ruth :\rartin, born February 20. 1892.
graduated from the LaPorte High School
and from Barnard College, the woman's
department of Columbia University, and
is now using her talents and education in
the service of the government.

Charles E. Weller. Several of the
most interesting as well a.s the most use-
ful men identified with the citizenship of
LaPorte has borne the name Weller. One
of them was Rev. Henry Weller. who was
a i)ioneor minister of the Swedenborgian
faith in the Middle West and founded the

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New Church at LaPorte. He was the
father of four sons, all of w-hom have been
eminent in some special line. One of them
is Charles E. Weller, who learned teleg-
raphy as a boy, and later was one of the
first men in the Middle West to become
an expert in the new art of phonography,
better known now as stenography, and for
many years was a successful court report-
er in St. Louis. He is now living at La-
Porte and is secretary of the National
Shorthand Reporters' Association.

Rev. Henrv Weller, his father, was -born
at Battle Abbey, England, in 1801. He
had a good literary education and early
became attracted to religious thought. He
joined a society known as "Free Think-
ing Christians" and at the age of fifteen
delivered his first religious discourse at
Hastings, England. His brother, John,
came to America and settled at New York
City, and for some years operated a cafe
on Broadwaj^ which was patronized by
many of the wealthy people of that cit}^
His brother, Thomas, was a pioneer set-
tler in Calhoun County, Michigan, improv-
ing a farm there and spending his last
years retired at Marshall. A sister mar-
ried Rev. Thomas Brieher, a Unitarian
preacher, and lived at Newburyport,
Massachusetts.

Rev. Henry Weller brought his family
to America in 1837, and after two years
in New York City removed to Marshall,
Michigan, in 1839. That was still a pio-
neer community and he entered actively
upon the task of making a home in the
wilderness. He also preached at various
localities. In 1840 he became attracted to
the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg,
and from that time until his death was an
earnest expounder of the faith of the
Church of the New Jerusalem. In 1850
he made his first visit to LaPorte, and be-
gan the formation of the New Church,
being its fir.st minister. He also built up
a society of the same church at Grand
Rapids, Michigan. From that city he
brought his family to LaPorte in 1853.
He also founded in that year a periodi-
cal called The Crisis, which was an ably
edited magazine, published in the interests
of the New Church. Later its name was
changed to The New Church Independent,
and it was moved to Chicago, where it en-
joyed a prosperous existencie for many
years. Besides the gi-eat work he did as

a minister Rev. Henry Weller served dur-
ing 1863-64 as chaplain of the Eighty-
Seventh Indiana Infantry, and all the sur-
vivors of that regiment spoke kindly and
had a grateful memory of the chaplain. Rev.
Mr. Weller died June 7, 1868, from dis-
ease contracted in the army. His home
for a number of years was on Stone Lake,
about a mile north of LaPorte, a place
since known as Weller 's Grove. Rev.
Henry Weller married at Hastings, Eng-
land," September 20, 1826, IMiss Caroline
Stevens. She was born in Brighton, Eng-
land, and was the only member of her
father's family to come to America. Her
two brothers were named David and AVil-
liam. She had a sister, Harriet, who mar-
ried Charles Cade. Mrs. Caroline Weller
died at Chicago. She was the mother of
four sons: John S., William H., Alfred
and Charles E. John S. became a promi-
nent newspaper man at LaPorte and later
was in business at Chicago until his death.
William H. also learned the printer's
trade, later became a telegi'apher, and for
a number of years served as chief train
dispatcher on the western division of the
Lake Shore Railroad. He died at LaPorte
in 1900. Alfred also learned telegraphy,
and had many responsible positions in that
work, having been manager of the Western
Union telegraph office for over forty years
at ililwaukee, Wisconsin.

Charles E. Weller, youngest son of Rev.
Henry Weller, was born in a log house
near Marshall, Michigan, in 1840. He at-
tended the rural schools of Calhoun Coun-
ty, and at the age of twelve years began
working in his father's printing office. A
year later he became a telegi-aph messen-
ger, and while thus employed at LaPorte
learned the art of telegraphy. Subse-
quently he was assigned to open the rail-
road station of the ^Michigan Southern
Railway at Coldwater, Michigan, and for
three years had assignments in the rail-
way service at Coldwater, South Bend,
White Pigeon and Toledo. His last posi-
tion in the railway service was in the office
of Charles ]\Iinot, resident manager of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-
way Company at Chicago. In 1858, and
following that, he was in the Western
Union office at jMilwaukee, of which his
brother, Alfred, was manager. During the
Civil war he had charge of the telegraph
office at Madison, Wisconsin.

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111 the meantime, as early as 1862. ^Ir.
Weller had begun to learn the Pitman
system of phonography or shorthand, and
studied and practiced constantly with a
view to becoming a law reporter. In 1867,
resigning his work with the Western Union
Company, he went to St. Louis and took
with him what is claimed to be the tirst
practical typewriter ever constructed. He
WPS ;in intimate friend of its inventor,.
Christopher Sholes of Milwaukee. At St.
Louis he became a court reporter, and
afterwards with his son established the
firm of Weller & Weller, law stenogra-
phers, and continued his professional work
there until 1914. In that year Mr. Weller
was elected secretary of the National Short-
hand Reporters' Association, and at once
selected LaPorte as his headquarters.

In 1866 ilr. Weller married IMiss Mar-
garet A. Watkins, a native of Philadelphia
and a daughter of William Watkins, a
native of Wales. Mrs. Weller died in
1911. She was the mother of two sons,
William Edward and Frank.

William Edward Weller was educated
in St. Louis, graduated in dentistry from
Washington University, and is now prac-
ticing at Bonne Terre, Jlissouri. He mar-
ried ;\Iiss Kate Walsh, and his five chil-
dren are named Mona, Charles, Dorothy,
Samuel and Frank.

Mr. Prank Weller was also educated at
St. Louis, and early perfected himself in
shorthand and became associated with his
father as a court reporter. He still con-
tinues the business as official court repor-
ter in Division No. 1 of the Circuit Court
at Clayton, St. Louis County. He married
Mary Bricter and has one daughter, Elsie.
Charles E. Weller is an active member
of the New Church. He is a thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Mason.

Emit. D.\nielson, secretary and treas-
urer of the Larsou-Danielson Construction
Company of LaPorte, has been a contrac-
tor and builder all his active career, learn-
ing the business from his father, and his
pi,ish and enterprise have extended the
scope of his company's undertakings over
many states, where substantial monuments
to this organization are found in the shape
of many private and public buildings.

Mr. Danielson is a native of LaPorte.
His father, John Danielson, was born in
Sweden, attended school there as a boy,

also began an apprenticeship at the ma-
son's trade, and when still a young man
started for America. He was the first and
only member of his father's family to come
to this country. In LaPorte he was em-
ployed at his trade as a journeyman and
later became a contractor and builder and
continued it until he retired a few years
ago. He married ^liss Swanson, also a
native of Sweden. She was brought to
America by her parents, who settled near
Genoa, Illinois. She is now deceased.
There were seven children, named Anna,
Emil, Nathan, Theodore, Celius, Annetta
and Elizabeth.

Emil Danielson was educated in the pub-
lic schools of LaPorte. He was only four-
teen when he began learning his trade
with his father, and acquired a thorough
knowledge of it both as a technical voca-
tion and as a business. In 1908 Mr.
Danielson organized the Larson-Danielson
Company, of which he is secretary and
treasurer. This company has handled
large and important contracts not alone in
Indiana, but in many other states in all
directions.

In 1899 Mr. Danielson married Miss
Edwina Schweder, a native of LaPorte,
daughter of August and Fredericka
Schweder, who were natives of Germany.
Mr. Danielson had one son, ilarvin, now
in the last year of his high school course.
Mr. Danielson attends the Presbyterian
Church and his wife the German Lutheran.
Fraternally he is affiliated with Excelsior
Lodge No. 41, Ancient Free and Accepted
ilasons.

Rev. M.\tthias Lorixg H.\ixe.s. D. D.
Doctor Haines is one of the comparatively
few natives of Indiana of his years whose
parents were both natives of the state. The
service that particularly distinguishes him
among the native sons of Indiana has been
rendered as pastor of the Fir.st Presby-
terian Church of Indianapolis for more
than thirty years.

His American ancestry runs back to the
period when Indiana was an uninhabited
wilderness, for Deacon Samuel Haines, the
founder of the American family,, came over
from England in 1635 — fifteen years after
the Iroquois claim to have expelled all the
native tribes from Indiana. Deacon Samuel
was born at Shrewsbury. England, in 1611.
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fifteen he was apprenticed for ten years to
John Cogswell, a cloth maker of Westbury,
Wiltshire, and served with him until June
4, 1635, when Cogswell, with his family and
apprentices, sailed for New England in the
Angel Gabriel. This vessel, which Rev.
Richard ilather says was "a strong ship
and well furnished with fourteen or sixteen
pieces of ordnance," was originally built
for Sir Walter Raleigh's fleet, and this was
her last voyage, for on August 14th, having
crossed the ocean, she was anchored in the
outer harbor of Pemaquid, and was struck
by the "Great Hurricane" and dashed to
pieces on the shore. Luckily most of the
crew and passengers, including the Cogs-
wells and Samuel Haines, escaped to the
shore and also saved the greater part of
their effects from the wreck. After a brief
experience as castaways they were picked
up by "Goodman Gallup 's bark from Bos-
ton" and taken to Ipswich, Massachusetts,
where Cogswell located, and Haines finished
his apprenticeship. In 1638 he returned to
England, and on April 1st of that year
married Ellener Neate at Dilton, Wiltshire.
The young couple returned to America the
next year and located at Northam, New
Hampshire, now known as Dover Point.

In 1650 they removed to what wa.s then
called Strawberry Bank, and three years
later, the settlers having put themselves
under the protection of Massachusetts,
Samuel Haines joined in a petition to the
General Court at Boston to change the
name of the town to Portsmouth, which
was done. The same year he was chosen
one of the selectmen of Portsmouth, in
which office he was continued for ten years.
He was public spirited and sagacious — be-
came a large land owner, interested in a
sawmill and other enterprises. He was one
of the founders of the old North Church in
Portsmouth, and as soon as they had a
settled pastor he was ordained deacon of
the church by ' ' the imposition of hands and
prayer. ' '

From him the Haines line spread through
large families. His sixth son, Samuel, bom
in Dover in 1646, was married on January
9, 1673, to :\rary Fifield, daughter of Giles
and Mary (Perkins) Fifield of Hampton.
Their fourth son. William, bom January 7,
1679, married Mary Lewis of Casco Bay,
Januai-y 4, 1705. Their eldest son, Mat-
thias, bom in Greenland. New Hampshire,
]\Iareh 17, 1713, married Abigail Sher-

burne. Their third son, Matthias, was bom
in Greenland, New Hampshire, October 11,
1744, married Sarah Hall of Chester, now
Raymond, New Hampshire, in 1781. He
served as a private in Capt. Josiah Dear-
born's Company in 1776. Their son Mat-
thias, born December 30, 1785, was the
grandfather of Doctor Haines. He at-
tended the common schools of Raymond,
Vermont, and the Academy at Peacham,
after which he read medicine with Dr.
Shedd Peacham and took the medical course
at Dartmouth College and began practicing
his profession. In 1816 he and his twin
brother Joshua came west and located at
Rising Sun, Indiana. On October 22, 1822,
he married Elizabeth Brouwer, daughter of
Dr. Abram Brouwer, a New Yorker, who
had located at Lawrenceburg in 1818. He
had a large practice at Rising Sun and in
the vicinity, and took an active interest in
public matters, especially in education. He
was an elder in the Presbyterian Church
and an active lav member. He died at
Rising Sun Januan^ 21, 1863.

Of his eleven children the eldest was
Abram Brouwer Haines, who was born
November 29, 1823, at Rising Sun. His
early education was obtained at Rising
Sun Academy, where he had as teaehei's
among others Daniel D. Pratt, later United
States senator, and Prof. Thomas Thomas.
At sixteen he went to iliami University for
two years and then read medicine with his
father. In 1843-44 he attended lectures at
Oh'o ^ledical College, and then went to the
Medical School at Western Reserve College
at Cleveland, from which he graduated in
the spring of 1846, and in the same year
opened an office at Aurora, Indiana. On
October 21, 1847, he married Julia P. Lor-
ing, daughter of Ezekiel Howe Loring. one
of the early settlers of Ohio County, who
came there from Sudbury, ^Massachusetts,
near Boston. Julia P. Loring was born at
Rising Sun November 25, 1824. Dr. Abram
Brouwer Haines left a brilliant record as
a skillful and devoted physician, notable
especially for his self sacrifice during the
cholera epidemic of 1848. In July. 1862,
he was commissioned by Governor 'Morton
assistant surEreon of the Nineteenth Indiana
and was with this regiment, which was
part of the First Division ("the Iron
Brigade") of the First Corps of the Army
of the Potomac until Lee's surrender. He
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of Bull Run, because he refused to leave
the wounded on the field, and was captured
a second time at Gettysburg. After Ap-
pomattox he was commissioned surgeon of
the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Indiana,
and as mustered out with the regiment in
September, 1865. Twenty years later he
wa-s appointed president of the Board of
Examining Surgeons of the Pension De-
partment for Southeastern Indiana, which
office he held until his death July 20, 1887.
He was one of the organizers of the Dear-
liorn County Medical Society, and became a
member of the State Medical Society in
1S51. He was a devoted Presbyterian and
an elder in that church. Of his seven chil-
dren, the oldest son was ^Matthias Loring
Haines.

IMatthias Loring Haines was born at
Aurora, Indiana, May 4, 1850. After pri-
mary education in the common schools of
Rising Sun and the high school of Aurora,
Indiana, he entered in 1867 Wabash Col-
lesre, from which he graduated in 1871.
He then went to the I^nion Theological
Seminary of New York City and graduated
there in 1874. He was at once called to
the pa.storate of the Dutch Reformed
Church at Astoria New York, then a
suburb of Brookl\m. now included in
Greater New York, where he served most
acceptably for eleven years. In the spring
of 1885 he was unanimously called to the
First Presbvterian Church at Indianapolis,
and began his woj'k there on April 1st of
that year. It was a position that put him
to the te.st. The nulpit had iust been va-
cated by the brilliant ^lyron B. Reed, and
there were manv who predicted that it
would be "hard to fill his shoes." It was
not long, however, until it was observed
that the new nastor had shoes of his ovm
that were to the satisfaction of his congre-
gation and of the Dublic.

He apparentlv felt a need for heln at
the outset, for he posted off to New York
and on Mav 7. 1885. wedded IMiss Sarah
L. Kouwenboven of Astoria, whose charm
and tflct added materiallv to his nopularitv
in his new charge. She is one of the oldest
of the Knickerbocker families, a daughter
of Francis T). and Han-iet Koiiwenhoven.
The Kouwenboven aneestrv came to Amer-
ica from Holland in 16.30."

Tho First Presbyterian Church is one of
the oldest in Indianapolis, being oraranized
July 5, 1823, and though preceded in or-

ganization by the Methodists and the Bap-
tists, had the first church building in the
city — a one-stoiy frame building that stood
on the west side of Pennsylvania Street
above Market, where the Vajen Block is
now located. In 1843 the congregation re-
moved to a more pretentious building at
Monument Place and Market, the present
site of the American Central Life Building.
In 1866 they occupied a new building at
the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and
New York streets, and in 1903 came to the
present church at Sixteenth and Delaware
streets. Naturally it included many nota-
bles in its membership in its history, and
during the pastorate of Doctor Haines there
were Governors Baker and Blount, Presi-
dent Ben.iamin Harrison and Attorney
General Miller, as well as many others of
prominence and influence. Doctor Haines
was tl>e pastor of the humblest member of
his flock as fully as to these. At one of
the church socials President Harrison said :
"I thank God for a pastor who preaches
Christ crucified, and never says a foolish
thing"; and John H. Holliday added to
this, "and never does a foolish thing."

While Doctor Haines has given satisfac-
tion as a preacher, it is his personality that
has given him his hold on men. for his
kindly and sympathetic nature attract all
who come in contact with him. In the
natural and spontaneous expression of
these qualities he is an interesting example
of the effect of Hoosier life on New Eng-
land character. On Christmas Day, 1816.
his grandfather and grand-uncle wrote
from Risinsr Sun to their parents advising
them of their safe arrival in their new
home. They began the letter, "Honored
Parents" and closed it "Your Obedient
Sons." It is simply impossible to imagine
Doctor Haines so wording a letter to any-
one dear to him. Of course it is a matter
of form, but it illustrates the contrast be-
tween the repression of New England and
the vent to the emotions of the West, which
are set forth as the distinguishing charac-
teristics of the two in the chapter on
Hoosier Character elsewhere in this pub-
lication. While holding closely to the
proprieties in the pulpit. Doctor Haines
gives rein to his genial humor on appro-
priate occasions : and is noted as a felicitous
after-dinner speaker. He has reached the
highest degree in amiability — the children
love him.

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During his pastorate of a third of a een-
turj-, the longest in the history of the
church, Doctor Haines has been called to
broad service. He was for ten years a
member of the Presbyterian Board of Aid
for Colleges and Academies; a director of
Lane Theological Seminary ; a trustee of
Wabash College ; a member of the executive
committee of Winona Technical Institute;
a director of Winona Assembly. In the
public activities of the city he succeeded
Rev. Oscar C. ]\IcCulloch as president of
the Indianapolis Benevolent Society and
continued in that office for more than
twenty-five years. He was the first presi-
dent of the Indianapolis Summer Mission
for Sick Children, and a member of the
Board of the Free Kindergarten Society.
He served as president of the Indianapolis
Literary Society, and was a member of the
committee of five from the Commercial
Club that drafted the Park Law of 1899.
His degree of D. D. was conferred upon
him by Wabash College in 1886.

Doctor and 'Sirs. Haines have two chil-
dren : Lydia Rapelye, born September 9,
1886, and married on April 26, 1911, to
William Pierson Biggs, of Tumansburg,
New York ; and Julia Loring, born January
24, 1889, and married on October 24, 1916,
to Dr. John Alexander McDonald, of
Indianapolis.

Ebenezer Dumont, soldier and congre.ss-
man, was born at Vevay, Indiana, Novem-
ber 23, 1814. His education was chiefly
by his mother, the talented Julia L. Du-
mont; and he read law with his father,
Gen. John Dumont. He engaged in prac-
tice in Dearborn County, but with some in-
terruptions. He was the first principal of
the old Marion County Seminary, in 183.5-
6 ; state representative in 1838 ; treasurer
of Vevay 1839-45 ; lieutenant-colonel of
volunteers in the Mexican war; state rep-
resentative in 1850 and 1853 ; presidential
elector on the Pierce ticket in 1852 ; presi-
dent of the State Bank of Indiana, 1853-7.
He volunteered at the outbreak of the Civil
war, and was made colonel of the Seventh
Indiana Regiment ; promoted brigadier-
general September 3, 1861 ; resigned Feb-
ruary 28, 1863 ; elected as a unionist to
the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Con-
gresses (1863-7). He died at Indianapolis,
April 16, 1871. Shoi'tly before his death

he was appointed governor of Idaho, but
did not serve.

General Dumont was a talented speaker,
and a successful lawyer, especially effective
before a jury. He was regarded as some-
what eccentric. On arriving at his ma-
jority, he publicly announced himself a
democrat, much to the disgust of his
father, who was a prominent whig. He
maintained his party allegiance until the
beginning of the Civil war. As a soldier
he showed admirable qualities, but was
forced to retire from active service on ac-
count of poor health.

Enrique C. ^Lllee is president of the
Miller-Baldwin Company, wholesale jew-
elers of Indianapolis. Mr. ililler has been
a prominent business man of that city for
over thirty years and is largely responsible
for the extensive and honored connection
of his firm with this and other states.

Mr. Miller has a very interesting lineage
and family history. He was born in old
ilexico, in Chihuahua, June 18, 1849. His
father, Samuel ililler, who was born and
reared in Pennsylvania, was one of those
hardy, adventurous spirits who found the
best satisfactions of life in enduring the
perils and roughness of the far west. When
scarcely more than a boy he left comfort,
home and friends and started west over
the trackless wilds. In the ^Mississippi
valley he joined a caravan bound for Santa
Fe. He reached there after many troubles
with the Indians and from there went to
Chihuahua, where he became a merchant.
In ilexico he married a lady of Spanish
ancestry, Martina Avila. They lived in
Chihuahua some years, but in 1859, owing
to the lawless conditions which existed
thoughout the country largely as a result
of the war between the United States and
]\Iexlco, Samuel Miller brought his family
east and for some years lived in Logan and
Champaign counties, Ohio. He had by
no means satiated himself with the life
of the West. It was in fact an intimate
part of his character and after a few years
he left the quiet and rather tame scenes of
Ohio and returned to old ilexico in 1883.
After that he was engaged in banking
at Parral until his death in 1902.
. Enrique C. Miller is one of the two sur-
viving children of a family of six. He was
reared in Ohio from the age of ten years
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Carabrier in 1871. He was not of robust
constitution, and therefore did not engage
actively in business until 1876, when he
came to Indianapolis. Here he worked a.s
clerk in a bank until failing health caused
his return to Ohio. "While there he sought
the employment o* a farm and gradually
gained that strength and constitution
which has fortified him through more than
thirty years of continuous activity in busi-
ness affairs at Indianapolis.

In 1881 Mr. Miller married Miss Sallie
M. Baldwin, daughter of Sila.s Baldwin
of Toledo, Ohio. . Two years later, with
his father-in-law, Mr. Miller founded the
firm of Baldwin, Miller & Company, out
of which has been developed the present
wholesale jewelry house of the Baldwin-
Miller Company. Mr. jMiller is now and
for a number of years has been active head
of this business.

He is a vestryman of St. Paul's Episco-
pal Church, is a republican in politics,
and is a member of the Masonic fraternity
and of various civic and social oi'ganiza-
tions. Mrs. ]\Iiller is a woman of superior
mental and artistic talent and is well
known in select circles as a vocalist. Mr.
and ilrs. Miller have two children, Mar-
rian and LeRoy Baldwin Miller. The
daughter man-ied Randall Felix Geddes.
They have two children, Randall Felix,
Jr., and Marrian.

Ch.vrles M. Cross, a resident of Indian-
apolis for thirty-five years, has had grow-
ing business relations with the city and
for over twenty years has been a factor
in real estate circles. He is head of the
Charles j\I. Cross and Company, with
offices on North Meridian Street.

Mr. Cross was born at Alexandria in
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, March
1, 1857, son of Benjamin and Mary (Saner)
Cross. His parents were both natives of
Pennsylvania, his father being a carpenter
and building contractor. He was a highly
respected man in the community where he
lived, and closely attached to friends and
home. He was a member of the German
Reformed Church, of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and a democratic
voter. Of five children four are still liv-
ing.

Charles M. Cross, next to the youngest
among the children, was educated in the
public schools of his native village, but

from the age of fifteen has depended upon
his own resources and asked for nothing
which he could not earn and which he did
not deserve. While selling goods on the
road he earned the money sufficient to
study for two years at Mercer.sburg Acad-
emy, in Penn.sylvania, and for another
two years at Heidelberg College at Tiffin,
Ohio. Mr. Cross was a traveling sales-
man for a number of years and in 1882
moved his headquarters to Indianapolis.
He represented a large wholesale cigar
house and for several years had charge
of the cigar department of Sehnull and
Company. He subsequently bought that
business and conducted it successfully for
three years.

In the meantime he had become associ-
ated with his old friend Alexander R.
Shroyer in subdividing and selling a tract
of thirty-four acres known as Charles M.
Cross Trustee's Clifford Avenue Addition
to the City of Indianapolis, and that was
his first experience in real estate. Since
that initial success Mr. Cross has been
handling many parcels of valuable prop-
erty in and around Indianapolis both for
himself and others, and has perfected an
organization that is one of the best in
Indianapolis real estate circles.

ilr. Cross is a Knight Templar and
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason,
a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is an
independent democrat. He met his wife
at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, of
which institution she is a graduate. They
were married at Tiffin April 24, 1883. Mrs.
Cross before her marriage was Miss Laura
Lott. To their union were born five chil-
dren: Harry E., born in February, 1884,
has attained the rank of major in the army
in France; Jessie M., who became Mrs.
Townsend and died in October, 1918;
Charles M., who died while a young busi-
ness man at Indianapolis ; Helen Ida ; and
Donald Frederick, deceased.

Arthur T. Wells. For about half a
century the name Wells has had a signifi-
cant place in the business history of Mun-
cie, and its many honorable associations
are the result of the enterprise of two
generations.

It was in Muncie that Arthur T. Wells
was born January 7, 1875. His birthplace
was the site now occupied by his model
and flourishing laundry business, the plant

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of the American Laundry having: been
built where the old Wells homestead form-
erly stood. He is a son of Andrew Thomas
and Eliza J. (Brunson) Wells, the former
a native of Allen County, Indiana. Andrew
T. Wells was a pioneer manufacturer of
tinware at Muncie. He was in that busi-
ness for over thirty-five years. From a
small beginning he developed a very preten-
tious establishment, and after his death it
was continued by his son. When he began
manufacturing tinware it was customary
for his goods to be placed in wagons and
peddled over the country, the tinware be-
ing exchanged along the road for produce,
poultry and other merchandise of all kinds.
In this way the output of a shop contained
in a single room was increased until the
business became an important industrial
establishment at Muneie. The late Mr.
Wells was thus a factor in the growth of
Muncie from a small village to a city of
over 30,000. He was successful, and a
man who enjoyed and well merited the
esteem paid him. His prosperity enabled
him to leave a small fortune to his chil-
dren, two in number, a son and daughter,
both now living in iluncie.

Arthur T. Wells attended the public
schools to the age of sixteen and lived
at home with his parents until he was
nineteen. For several years he was associ-
ated with his father in the tinware busi-
ness, and he is still operating that in con-
nection with other interests. In 1900 he
engaged in the laundry business, and that
expanded so rapidly that he was compelled
to remove to larger quarters. In 1905,
therefore, he erected a large concrete build-
ing 45 by 120 feet on the site of the old
homestead, and ecjuipped it with the most
modern and perfect machinery and facili-
ties for laundry work. The American
Laundry is no longer a merely local enter-
prise, and in connection with its dry clean-
ing and renovating department it has
agencies all over the towns and communi-
ties tributary to Muncie both in Ohio and
Indiana, and on the basis of a thoroughly
reliable and appreciative service the busi-
ness is growing every year.

Mr. Wells is a man of eminent public
spirit, and has been identified with many
of those movements which reflect the pros-
perity and progress of Muneie. Like his
father he is an ardent democrat, and has
helped his party whenever possible. He

served as a member of the City Council
four years. He is a director of the West-
ern Reserve Life Insurance Company, and
fraternally is affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias and the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. May 4, 1904, Mr.
Wells married Miss Minnie Adair, who is
of Scotch-Irish ancestry.

James Clay Burton is an Indiana busi-
ness man, and recently became manager
of the Fear-Campbell Company's plant at
Elwood.

ilr. Burton was born at Ekin. Tipton
County, Indiana, October 25, 1885, a son
of Henry JI. and Margaret (Scott) Burton.
He is of Irish ancestry, his great-grand-
father Burton having come from Ireland
to this country in the early days.

James C. Burton attended school in the
country and had one year in the Tipton
High School. He filled in all the intervals
not in school with work on the home farm,
and for a time he followed agriculture
as a regular vocation. His tendencies were
toward a commercial line, and he found
his early opportunities at Ekin, where he
was employed with the firm of Joyce and
Burton and later with A. L. Joyce. He
was in business at Ekin for nine or ten
years, and on October 22, 1917, came to El-
wood as manager of the local business of
the Fear-Campbell Company.

Mr. Burton is an energetic business man
and has many warm friends in business and
social circles. He is affiliated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Im-
proved Order of Red Men, also the Daugh-
ters of Rebekah at Ekin, is a member of the
First Christian Church and in politics is
a democrat In 1912 he married Miss
Hazel D. Fox, daughter of Lewis and
Frances (Scott) Fox of Ekin. They have
one son, Edwin EUesworth.

0. N. McCoRMiCK. One of the interest-
ing industries of Indiana and a business
that means much to the material welfare
of the Town of Albany is the kitchen
cabinet and household ware factory of the
McCormick Brothers at that town.

The MeCormicks as a family have long
been identified with wood working and
other lines of manufacture, and their en-
terprise has meajit as much if not more
than anything else to give Albany its in-
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was liorn at Fairbury, Illinois, January
21, 1865, a son of Robert B. and Aniamla
W. (Dixon) MeCormiek. Robert MrCor-
niick was born in Adams County, Ohio,
and when two years of age accompanied his
jiarents, James McCormiek and wife, to
I llinois. He grew up in that state and after
his marriage bought a farm in ilcLean
Ctounty, near Fairbury. That was the
family home for seven years, and another
seven years were spent on a farm five
miles south of Bloomington. The family
then moved to Champaign, Illinois, later
to Kansas, but after a brief experience
in the Sunflower state returned east and
Robert MeCormick was for fifteen years
a farmer in Brown County, Ohio.

About that time Robert McCormiek and
other members of the family engaged in
the manufacture of wa.shboards under the
name of the Standard Manufacturing Com-
pany. After about six years, attracted
by clieap fuel furnished by the natural
gas wells in Delaware County, Indiana,
they moved all their equipment and ma-
chinery to Eaton, the pioneer gas town
of the state. Under the same name they
continued the business there until the ex-
haustion of natural gas, when the concern
moved to Albany. Here ilcCormick &
Sons continued manufacturing, and with
the I'ctirement of the father the name of
the business was changed to MeCormick
Brothers Company. They have carried on
an extensive manufacturing enterprise,
especially in making kitchen cabinets. They
also have in their present output ten nov-
elty lines of manufacture for household
iise. Every month the firm ships several
carloads of goods, and the distribution of
their cabinets and other commodities have
a wide range. How important the factory
is to the Town of Albany is indicated by
the fact that the weekly payroll is about
$2,100. The plant occupies an entire
si|uare of land, some of the buildings orig-
inally having been purchased by the edm-
])any and moved to this location. By the
installation of modern machinery and other
up-to-date equipment the plant is now
one of the most complete and best of its
kind in the state.

Mr. 0. N. MeCormick is not only a good
business man and manufacturer but a pub-
lic spirited citizen of his home locality.
He is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No.
171, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,

is a member of the Christian Church, is
an active temperance worker and a re-
liulilican. October 2, 1902, in Elk County,
Kansas, he married Miss Delia Young,
daughter of Dr. B. F. Young of Kansas.
Three children were born to their mar-
riage, the two now living being Marsh
D., born November 26, 1903, and Florence
Alerie, born September 17, 1906.

Arthur Fletcher H.\ll. Fort Wayne
is the home of several industries and or-
ganizations of prominence, and not least
among these is the Lincoln National Life
Insurance Company, of which Arthur Hall
is vice president and general manager.
Founded at Fort Wayne in 1905, the power
of the organization represented in a great
volume of assets, insurance in force, and
modern liberal policies consistent with all
the standards that have guaranteed the
success and security of the best old line
companies, all reflect the energy and pro-
gressiveness of Mr. Hall, who has been
general manager of the company from the
beginning and is also its first vice president.
Mr. Hall belongs to a well known old Indi-
anapolis family, though he was born at
Baxter Springs, Kansas, May 11, 1872. His
parents were Truman and Harriet (Beeler)
Hall, the latter a native of Indiana and
the former of New York State. Truman
Hall was head of a wholesale millinery
business in Indianapolis when the Cixnl
war broke out, and he enlisted and served
throughout that struggle. After the war
he resumed his residence in Indiana, also
lived a time in Wisconsin, and was one of
the pioneers to enter the old Indian Res-
ervation in Southeastern Kansas where
Baxter Springs is located. He conducted
a livery and storage coach business at
Baxter Springs and died there when his
.son Arthur was ten months old.

The mother then returned to Indian-
apolis and Arthur Fletcher Hall grew up
in that city. He attended the connnon and
high schools, and at the age of seventeen
went to work on the old Indianapolis
Journal as a type setter. He filled all
the places in the business office of that
publication and in 1904, when the Journal
suspended, he was the paper's business
manager. For a short time he had a
place on the business staff of the Chicago
Tribune, and was also connected with the
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Much of the success he has won in the in-
surance business has been due to the
vigorous discipline and training he received
as a newspaper man. Mr. Hall entered
in.surance work as an agent and became
field supervisor in Indiana for the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society of New York.
In 1905 he located at Fort Wayne and
organized the Lincoln National Life In-
surance Company. He is also a director
of the Lincoln National Bank, a director
in the Fort Wayne Morris Plan Bank, and
many of his friends and associates have
commented upon his energy and the en-
thusiasm which he takes into evei*y enter-
prise with which he is connected. He is
treasurer of the Young Men's Christian
Association, vice chairman of the building
committee and was also captain of one of
the two sections that raised the $300,000
fund for the erection of the new build-
ing for the Young ]Men's Christian Asso-
ciation. He was also vice chairman of
the Third Liberty Loan Organization and
chairman of the Fourth Liberty Loan Or-
ganization. Mr. Hall is a York and Scot-
tish Rite Mason, and is past potentate of
]\Iizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at
Fort Wayne. He is vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce and also member of
the Rotary Club, the Quest Club, a member
and past president of the Fort Wayne
Country Club, belongs to the Columbia
Club of Indianapolis, and has served as a
vestryman of the Trinity Episcopal
Church. Politically he is a republican.

His home is known as Beechwood, one
of the most attractive on the south side
of Fort Wayne. June 5, 1897, Mr. Hall
married Miss Una Fletcher, daughter of
Dr. William B. and Agnes (O'Brien)
Fletcher of Indianapolis. Doctor Fletcher
was one of the most eminent physicians
and surgeons that have distinguished the
profession in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Hall
have three children : Arthur Fletcher, Jr.,
born in 1902 ; William B. F. Hall, born in
1905 ; and Aileen, bom in 1913.

Virgil Homer Lockwood has been a
member of the Indianapolis bar for over
a quarter of a century, and is one of the
oldest and easily one of the first patent and
trade mark attorneys of Indiana. He is a
native Indianan, and outside of his pro-
fession has done a great deal to promote
charitable organizations and work, particu-

larly those movements looking toward the
amelioration of conditions affecting the
children of his home eit.y and state.

Mr. Lockwood was bom at Fort Branch
in Gibson County, Indiana, May 6, 1860,
a son of James T. and Juliett (Adams)
Lockwood. The Lockwood ancestry goes
back to England, and the Adams family is
also of English lineage. James T. Lock-
wood was born in Westchester County, near
New York City, and was an industrious
farmer, an occupation he followed for many
years at Fort Branch. Indiana, where he
died in 1899. He was a Methodist, a re-
publican and active in temperance move-
ments. His wife died in 1873. They had
seven children, six of whom are .still living.

The oldest: of the children is Virgil
Homer Lockwood. As a boy he attended
the little red schoolhouse of his native
locality, graduated from the Fort, Branch
High School in 1876. and acquired a very
liberal education and thorough training for
his profession. In 1878 he attended As-
bury, now DePauw, University of Green-
ca.stle, and the University of Virginia from
1882 to 1885, where he graduated in law.
From 1886 to 1891 Mr. Lockwood wa.s a
general law practitioner at Detroit, Michi-
gan. In 1891 he located at Indianapolis,
and has since made a specialty of patents,
trade marks and corporation law. He has
never held a public office and has sought no
honors outside his profession. He is a re-
publican voter. Mr. Lockwood is a memlier
of the Indianapolis, the Indiana and Amer-
ican Bar associations, and the Chicago
Patent Law Association. He is also affili-
ated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra-
ternity, is a Scottish Rite Mason and a
member of the First Presbyterian Church.

The interest that has engaged him chiefly
outside his profession and home has been
that of public organized charity. He
helped establish the Juvenile Court of
^Marion County and guide it during its first
years. He also assisted in establishing the
Children's Aid Association as an auxiliary
of the Juvenile Court and was a director
for a number of years. He also spent much
time in alleviating the conditions affecting
child labor and in promoting legislation
to that end. For several years ]Mr. Lock-
wood has been a member of the committee
on relief and charities of the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce, and for five year*
has been a member of the executive com-

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mittee of the Church Federation of Indi-
anapolis.

On July 2, 1889, 'Sir. Lockwood married
Miss Bertha Greene, daughter of Charles
P. and Naney Greene of Indianapolis. Mrs.
Loekwood, who died July 5, 191-4, won a
high place among Indiana's progressive
and public spirited women. She was sec-
retary of the Indiana Child Labor Com-
mittee for several years, and in that ca-
pacity exercised an influence that extended
throughout the state. She assisted in ob-
taining better legislation for child labor
and the enforcement of child labor laws;
she was one of the founders of the Woman's
Department Club and served as chairman
of the Social Service Committee of that
club and also of the Indiana Federation
of Clubs for several years. She also helped
organize the Public Health Nursing Asso-
ciation in Indianapolis. Governor Ralston
appointed her a member of the Indiana
Commission for Working Women, and
through that medium she undertook a
broad and important service which was only
interriipted by her death. She wa.s secre-
taiy of the commission, and largely through
her instrumentality the Federal authori-
ties furnished several expert investigators
of labor conditions among women in
Indiana, and their investigations were car-
ried on under her supervision. Her broad
interests were not confined alone to the
sociological field. For many years she
made a close study of Japanese, art, gath-
ered a fine collection of the work of
Japanese artists and did much to popu-
larize and increase the appreciation of this
art by talks in different parts of the state.
For several years she was a book reviewer
for the Indianapolis Sentinel, and in 1893
represented the Indianapolis News during
the World's Fair at Chicago. She was also
author of many club papers, and wrote
many articles that were published in the
general press.

She was the mother of three children, all
living, namely: Capt. Ralph G. Lockwood,
born July 24, 1890; Ruth Greene Lock-
wood, bom March 7, 1894; and Grace
Greene Lockwood, born June 5, 190L

On April 2, 1918, at Indianapolis, Mr.
Lockwood married Mrs. Letitia B. Latham.
Mrs. Loekwood was educated at Columbus,
Ohio, and wa.s a teacher in the Indiana
School for the Deaf until her marriage to
Charles Latham, now deceased. She has

for years Ijeen very prominent in the man-
agement of the Indiajiapolis Home for
Aged Women, of the Woman's Department
Club, the women's work of the First Pres-
byterian Church, assisted in starting the
Public Health Nui-sing Association of
Indianapolis, and the Indiana Women's
Auxiliary of the World War Veterans.

Ralph G. Lockwood graduated from
Princeton University and the Indiana Law
School and entered the practice of law with
his father in 191.5. Ruth G. Lockwood
graduated from Vassar College in 1915,
and during the war was in the War Camp
Community service of the L^nited States.
Capt. R. G. Loekwood served nearly two
years in the World war, and was in France
more than a year and at the front for
more than six months with the One Hun-
dred and Third Regiment of Field Artil-
lery, Twenty-sixth Division. He was on
the Chemin des Dames front, the St.
Mihiel sector, where he was iu several en-
gagements, including the battle of Seicks-
prey, and wa.s in the second battle of the
iVIarne, starting at Chateau Thierry and
continuing to the end for about three
weeks.

M.vRY Louis.v CriiTwooD. poetess, was
born near Mount Carmel, Franklin County,
Indiana, October 29, 1832. Her literary
art was natural, developed by her own
study. Her education was wholly in the
common schools, but she had for a time
the advantage of an unusually good teacher
in George A. Chase, an easterner who
opened a school at Connersville. He rec-
ognized the girl's talent, and encouraged
her efforts. Her first poem, published in a
Connersville paper, attracted favorable
comment : and in a comparatively short
time she became familiar to literary Amer-
ica through the columns of the Louisville
Journal, the Ladies Repo.sitory, the Tem-
perance Wreath — of which she was one of
the editor.s — and other papers.

The wide appreciation of her verse is
evidenced by the tributes paid after her
early death, December 19, 1855. In one
from Coates Kinney, are the lines:
"Why dead?
Truth never dies.
And love lives long;
And the two were wed
In her life of song."

George D. Prentice wrote: "It seems a

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mysterious dispensation of Providence,
that the little amount of breath necessary
to the life of a glorious young girl is with-
drawn, while enough of wind for a blus-
tering day is vouchsafed to the lungs and
nostrils of the tens of thousands of the
worthless and vile.

The best available sketch of Miss Chit-
wood is by Mrs. Sarah C. Harrell, in the
Indianapolis Star of April 1, 1912.

H.vRRisoN Burns. It is safe to say that
the works of Judge Burns are quoted more
often than those of any other Indiana
author, for the reason that for a quarter
of a century his Annotated Statutes of
Indiana have been in use almost exclusive-
Iv — successive editions appearing in 1894,
1901, 1908, 1914 and 1918,— and without
them it is impossible to transact legal busi-
ness.

Judge Burns was born in Jefferson
County, Indiana, December 11, 1836, of
a union of two early Indiana families.
His father, Maxa Moncrief Burns, was a
son of James Burns, a Virginian, who lo-
cated in Jefferson County, on the site of
the present village of Wirt, in 1814. His
mother, ]\Iaria (Vawter) Burns, was the
oldest daughter of William Vawter, who
came to Indiana in 1806, with the first
settlers of Jefferson County, and a niece
of Colonel John Vawter, the Baptist elder
who was the first United States marshal
for Indiana. These early settlers were
all Baptists, and were influential factors
in the molding of Southern Indiana. In-
teresting details of their wide family con-
nections and personal histories will be
found in "The Vawter Family in
America," by Grace Vawter Bicknell
(Mrs. Eniest P. Bicknell).

Judge Burns lost hi.s mother when he
was ten years of age. The familj^ was brok-
en up for a time, and he lived with his
Grandfather Vawter, near North Vernon,
until his father married again in 1850,
when he returned to the paternal home at
Dupont, Indiana. He remained here until
December, 18.51, when, desiring to see
something of the world, he ran away from
home and went to Louisville. For the
next eighteen months he had a varied ex-
perience with odd jobs, most of the time
on steamboats, and in the spring of 1853
returned home and went to work with
his father as a carpenter.

They built four houses at Dupont in
1853, and in 1854 went to Louisiana and
built a house for a planter, dressing all
the lumber by hand. On returning to In-
diana they removed to Tipton County,
where Judge Bui-ns contracted a persis-
tent case of ague, and finally left in dis-
gust for a less malai-ial climate. He went
back to the Ohio, and put in another year
and a half steamboating. In 1857 he be-
gan reading law at [Martinsville in the of-
fice of his elder brother, William V.
Burns — later judge advocate and captain
in the Seventy-ninth Indiana Regiment —
continuing with him until 1859, when he
was made a partner.

In Januai-y, 1860, he removed to Bloom-
field, Indiana, where he soon made influ-
ential friends, and that year was nomi-
nated for prosecutor of the Common Pleas
Court, without being a candidate, on the
democratic ticket. The republicans car-
ried the state, but Judge Burns was
elected and entered on his legal eai'eer at
Bloomfield, which continued for thirteen
years, except for a detour to the gold
mines of Virginia City in 1864-5. In 1868
he was elected judge of the Common Pleas
Court for the Ninth District (Greene,
Clay, Putnam and Owen counties), and
was re-elected in 1872, continuing in office
until the Common Pleas Courts were abol-
ished in 1873.

In May, 1874, he removed to Indianapo-
lis, where he was connected with the prose-
cutor's office in 1874-6, and in 1876 was
nominated on the democratic ticket for
judge of the Superior Court. In Septem-
ber of that year he was appointed to the
Superior Court bench by Governor Hen-
dricks to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge Horatio Newcomb,
and served out the term, but was defeated
in the election by Judge Daniel Wait
Howe, as was the remainder of the demo-
cratic ticket. In 1877 he removed to Vin-
cennes, Indiana, for a stay of five years,
and then for two years was at Winamac.
In 1885 he went to New Llexico as an as-
sistant to George W. Julian, who had been
appointed surveyor general, and aided in
working out the land grant frauds in that
region.

On his return from New Mexico Judge
Burns located at Indianapolis, and soon
engaged in the work that has since occu-
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1399

jirepareil an Index of Indiana Reports
which was published iu 1878, with a sec-
ond edition in 1882. In 1879 he had fol-
lowed this with a Digest of Indiana Rail-
road Law and Decisions, and an Index-Di-
gest of Indiana Reports, which proved very
popular with the legal profession. The
Bobbs-Merrill Company secured his serv-
ices for editing the Statutes of Indiana,
and he has since had exclusive charge of
this work, beginning with the edition of
1894, as above stated.

In 1896 Judge Burns published his An-
notated Code of ^Missouri ; and this recalls
that his first work as a legal author was
in the preparation of the civil and crim-
inal codes of Montana, which were adopted
on the creation of the territory in 1865.
His two law partners had been elected to
the Legislature., During the session it was
realized that they must have a code, and
nobody had prepared one. A hurry-up call
was made on Judge Burns, who made an
adaptation of the Jlissouri code for them.
As the session was far advanced it was
adopted without amendment, and, with few
changes, is still in force. In 1905 Judge
Burns published his Digest of Supreme
and Appellate Court Reports in two vol-
umes, to which a third volume was added
in 1915. In 1910 he published his Indiana
Corporations.

On :\Iareh 22, 1870, Judge Burns mar-
ried ilary Constance Smydth, daughter of
William C. and Lavinia (Carson) Smydth.
She was born at Bloomfield, Indiana, Julv
18, 1847, and died September 24, 1882. To
them was born one daughter, who died in
infancy, and one son, Lee Burns (q. v.),
who was born at Bloomfield April 19, 1872.
Judge Burns ha.s never lost his taste for
travel, and usually takes a vacation from
his quiet and confining labors by a trip to
some of the southern states, where he
studies history, geography and life at first
hand.

Lee Burns, president of the Burns
Realty Company, was born at Bloomfield,
Indiana, April 19, 1872, the son of Judge
Harrison Burns (q. v.) and Mary Con-
stance (Smydth) Burns. His education
was in the common schools and as a spe-
cial student at Butler College with the class
of 1893. Before his stay at Butler he had
entered the employ of Bowen, Stewart &
Company, the historic book store of In-

dianapolis, and in his varied relations with
that e.stablishment and its ad.juncts, no-
tably The Hollenbeck Press, there was
ample field for the development of his ar-
tistic and literary tastes.

He developed in particular a knowledge
of theoretical and practical architecture,
which led him, in 1910, to organize^ the
Burns Realty Company and launch in the
business of erecting artistic and livable
homes. In this he ha.s had notable suc-
cess, a.s is evidenced by many of the most
attractive homes in Indianapolis.

Politically Jlr. Burns is an independent
democrat. He served as a private in Com-
pany D of the One Hundred and Fifty-
eighth Indiana Infantry in the Spanish-
American war, and as accounting officer
of the United States Fuel Administration
for Indiana during the late European war.
He is a member of the University Club,
Rotary Club, Dramatic Club, Contempo-
rary Club and Indianapolis Literary Club.

On June 5, 1907, Mr. Burns married
Anna Ray Herzsch. They have two chil-
dren, Betty, born June 6, 1909, and David,
born May 10, 1911. :\Ir. Burns is the au-
thor of '^The National Road in Indiana,"
which is published in Volume 7 of the In-
diana Historical Society Publications.

Julia Henderson Levering. This popu-
lar writer was born at Covington, Indiana,
J\Iay 5, 1851. Her father, Albert Hender-
son, was also a native of Indiana, horn at
Connei-sville January 10, 1815. He was
of Carolina Quaker "stock, a son of John
Henderson, who had been dropped "from
meeting" for serving in the War of 1812.
His mother was a descendant of Col. Rob-
ert Orr, of the Revolutionary army, her
parents having moved to Indiana in" 1811.

Albert Plenderson was one of the active
and earnest builders of the civic life of
Indiana, and he was also a builder by
trade, beginning his apprenticeship at the
age of sixteen and following the occupa-
tion throughout his busy life. He had in
his blood the lust of the frontier, and in
early manhood removed to the newly
founded Town of Covington and later to
Lafayette. Wherever located his influence
was thrown for the moral uplift of the
community. He was an active member of
the Baptist Church, and an active worker
in the causes of education, temperance, op-
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Union in tlie dark days of the Civil war.
An eloquent appreciation of his life will be
found in his daughter's "Historic Indi-
ana," chapter 16.

In 1844 Albert Henderson married Lo-
rana Richmond, daughter of Dr. John
Lambert Richmond, one of the most notable
medical men of Central Indiana, and also
a Baptist minister, of whom further men-
tion is made in the medical chapter herein.
He is reputed to have made the first Cae-
sarian section in the United States. Both
he and his wife were of old Revolutionary
stock of New England and New York.
Reared in a home of culture and education,
Mrs. Lorana Henderson was. a woman of
superior social and intellectual character,
and the fine traits of both her and her hus-
band are shown in their children.

Notable among these was Charles Rich-
mond Henderson, Mrs. Levering 's older
brother. He was born at Covington De-
cember 17, 1848; graduated at the Uni-
versity of Chicago in 1870, and the Bap-
tist ttnion Theological Seminary in 1873.
He received the degree of D. D. from this
seminary in 1885, and the degree of Ph. D.
from Leipzig in 1901. He entered the
Baptist ministry with pastorates at Terre
Haute, 1873-82, and Detroit, 1882-92, re-
turning to the University of Chicago in
1892 as chaplain, recorder and professor
of sociology, continuing until his death on
March 29, 1915. He was editor of the
American Journal of TheologA% and the
American Journal of Sociology, and took
a prominent part in the work of American
and foreign sociological organizations,
serving as president of the National Con-
ference of Charities in 1888-9, and commis-
sioner on the International Prison Com-
mission in 1909. He published a dozen
works on sociological and religious sub-
jects, the most notable being his "Social
Elements," (1898), which was used as a
text book in Great Britain, and was trans-
lated into Japanese.

Julia Hcnder.son's school education
stopped with graduation at the Lafayette
High School, but her home education was
practically unlimited, and it was only nat-
ural that she became known as a magazine
writer on educational, philanthropic and
sociological subjects. Her most popular
work, however, is her "Historic Indiana,"
in which she escapes " dry-as-dust " his-
tory, and brings the romance and human

interest of the state's story into full light,
without sacrificing the accuracy that is es-
sential to all real history.

On October 2, 1872, Julia Henderson
was married to ilortimer Levering, son of
William H. Levering, a wealthy descend-
ant of one of the oldest Philadelphia fam-
ilies, who removed to Lafayette in 1853.
]\Iortimer was born at Philadelphia April
25, 1849, and was educated at Bedford
and Molier's academies and Allen's Clas-
sical Institute. In 1873 his father retired
from active business, putting ilortimer in
charge of his interests, and devoted him-
self to religious and philanthropic work,
among other services being president of
the Indiana Sunday School Union for fif-
teen years. The large responsibilities
thrown on young Mortimer Levering stim-
ulated his business capacity, and he be-
came well known through his active inter-
est in the State Bankers Association, and
in the financial problems of the nation.
He also' took great interest in stock-breed-
ing, and served as an officer in half a dozen
of the national organizations connected
with that industry, his prominence in this
connection causing him to be made a mem-
ber of the Indiana State Board of Agri-
culture. He also found time to serve as
president of the Commercial Club, the Hu-
mane Society, the Good Roads Club and
the Home Hospital Association of Lafay-
ette. A detailed account of his activities
will be found in "Men of Progress," (In-
dianapolis, 1899). He died December 1,
1909.

After the death of her husband Mrs.
Levering removed to the East and now re-
sides at Pelham, New York, when not at
her summer home of "Devon," at Ama-
gansett. Long Island. Her interest in her
native .state, however, remains as strong
and unselfish as in former years.

Edwaed G. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne,
was born in Springfield Township of Al-
len County October 1, 1878. It is hardly
possible therefore to say that he has
rounded out his career. Yet his experi-
ence and achievements before reaching his
fortieth birthday would do credit to a life-
time.

Most of his boyhood was spent on a farm
or in the environment of a country vil-
lage. He attended public schools in his
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1401

School, also studied at Valparaiso Univer-
sity, graduating in 1900 with the degrees
Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts,
and from there entered the law depart-
ment of the University of Michigan. He
received his degree LL. B. in 1903.

Mr. Hoffman began practice at Port
Wayne tifteen years ago in the firm of
Baliou, Hoffman & Romberg. In Febru-
ary, 1914, he became a member of the firm
Barrett. ;\Iorris & Hoffman, which in vol-
ume and importance of practice is one of
the ablest general law firms of Indiana.
Mr. Iloft'man h:is .iIsd served as county at-
torney of Allen Cduniy since 1906, and is
one of the succ'cssfii! liusiness men as well
as an able lawyer of Fort Wayne. He is
secretary and treasurer of the Deister IVIa-
chine Company, secretary and treasurer
of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Com-
pany, and a director of the Tri-State Loan
and Trust Company and its vice president.

With all the substantial rewards that
these relations in the law and business
would indicate, Mr. Hoffman has had no
incentive to enter polities beyond seeking
an opportunity to sei've and benefit his
community and state. While he has not
been a candidate for public office, his name
is now associated with the leaders of the
democratic party in the state and nation.
From 1908 to 1916 he served as a member
of the Democratic State Central Commit-
tee, and in the latter year succeeded Sena-
tor Thomas Taggart as the Indiana repre-
sentative on the Democratic National Com-
mittee. He is one of the youngest men ever
so honored.

Mr. Hotl'man is a son of George W. and
Anna (Stabler) Hoffman. His father
was born in Germany in 1844, and was
seven years of age when his parents came
to America. He was educated in Ameri-
can schools and spent his boyhood days on
a farm. Later he was one of the first to
develop the hardwood industry of North-
eastern Indiana for the production of ship
timbers, and for many years carried on a
large sawmilling industry in Allen county.
Later he was a farmer, and he died in
1906, having lived retired for the previous
five years. His home was at Maysville,
where his widow is still living. By his
first wife he had one son, Dr. Gideon Ploff-
man. His second wife, whose maiden name
was Ainia Stabler, luid also been previously
married, and was the mother of one son.

Henry Weicker, an Allen County farmer.
George W. Hoffman by his second wife
had two children, Edward G. and John C,
the latter also a Fort Wavne lawyer.

:\Iay 7, 1912, Edward G. Hoffman mar-
ried Emily R. Hoffman, who was born and
reared in Fort Wayne, a daughter of Wil-
liam Henrj' and Maizie (Evans) Hoffman,
both now deceased. i\Irs. Hoffman is a
niece of Admiral Reynolds of the United
States Navy and of General Reynolds who
was killed while commanding a regiment
in the Battle of Gettysburg, ilr. and
;\Ifs. Hoffman have two children, Anne
Katlierine, born December 26, 1914, and
Edward G., Jr., born August 30. 1916.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are members of
the Presbyterian Church, of which he is
a trustee. He has attained the thirty-third
supreme honorary degree of Scottish Rite
Masonry and is also affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias and Elks. He is a
Sigma Nu College fraternity man, a mem-
ber of the Indiana Society of Chicago, LTni-
vei-sity Club of Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne
Country Club, Quest Club and Fort Wayne
Commercial Club. Mr. Hoffman has the
bearing of the successful American busi-
ness man, and it is evidenced that down-
right ability has been the chief factor in
his advancement, though supplemented by
a very winning personality and the quali-
cations of a true leader of men.

James W. Lilly at the age of twenty-
three, in 1885, became associated with
Frank D. Stalnaker, another young man
of Indianapolis, and as the firm of Lilly
& Stalnaker they bought out the old-estab-
li.shed retail hardware store of Va.ien &
New. That was the beginning of a busi-
ness record of which the Indianapolis com-
munity is justly proud. Lilly & Stalnaker
are still in business, though under widely
different and increased conditions from
those of thirty years ago. It is one of the
largest Indiana houses of wholesale and re-
tail dealers in hardware, and the reputa-
tion and fortunes of their house have
grown and prospered in all the years of
its history. Their place of business has
always been in the same location, 114-116-
118 East Washington Street, but from a
few thousand scpiare feet their business
has gi'own and expanded to occupy an en-
tiro building, and the annual total" of busi-

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ness lias increased from a few thousands
to more than $500,000 annually.

ilr. Lilly is a native of Indiana, born at
Lafayette, November 10, 1862. He is of
English ancestry. His great-gi'andfather,
Rev. William Lillj', was a man of high
intellectual attainments, was an ordained
clergyman of the Church of England, and
after coming to America, in 1794, was an
active minister of the Episcopal Church,
at tirst in Albany; New York, and later at
Elizabeth, New Jersey. Rlr. Lilly's grand-
father, also named William, was born in
England in 1789. William Lilly man-ied
Catherine Day, and they became the par-
ents of fourteen children, the following
growing to maturity: Samuel, Benjamin,
Phoebe Ann, Jane, Charlotte, William,
John 0. D. and James W. Of these chil-
dren John 0. D. Lilly became a prominent
business man of Indianapolis.

The father of James W. Lilly was also
named James W. and was bom at Geneva,
New York, November 10, 1832, just thirty
yeai-s to a day before the birth of his son.
When he was a child his parents removed
to Perryville, Pennsylvania, where he grew
up and received a common school educa-
tion. At Reading, Pennsylvania, he
learned the machinist's trade. In the
meantime his brother, John 0. D., had come
to Indiana, in 1849, and became master
mechanic of the Madison & Indianapolis
Railroad, with home at Madison. James
W. Lilly, Sr., joined his brother a few
years later, was employed as a locomotive
engineer, and in 1856 moved to Lafayette
and became an engineer with the old La-
fayette & Indianapolis Railroad, of which
his brother John was then superintendent.
In 1865 James W. Lilly, Sr., engaged in
the railway supply business at Memphis,
Tennessee. It was his intention to remove
his family from Indianapolis to Memphis,
but while he was in that southern city he
contracted malaria fever and died at In-
dianapolis, January 19, 1866, in his thirty-
fourth year. At Reading, Pennsylvania,
he married Mai-y Kerper, who was born in
that city July 17, 1835. She remained loyal
to the memory of her husband for forty
years, and died January 18, 1908, at the
age of seventy-two. Both she and her
husband were active members of the
^Methodist Episcopal Church. Their chil-
dren comprised two sons and one daugh-
ter, the latter dying in infancy.

James W. Lilly was four years of age
when his father died and he grew up in
the home of his widowed mother at Iti-
dianapolis. Besides the public schools he
attended Butler College one year, and his
first work was as a clerk in the Indianapo-
lis offices of the Indianapolis & St. Louis
Railroad, and the six years he remained
with the company furnished him his busi-
ness training and some of the modest capi-
tal with which, in 1885, he engaged in a
business career of his own.

While the building up and executive
direction of such a house as that of Lilly
& Stalnaker have absorbed the most of his
time and the best of his energies, Mr.
Lilly is widel.v known in Indianapolis, not
only as a business man, but as a public-
spirited citizen. He has long been identi-
tied with the Indianapolis Board of Trade,
is a member of the Commercial and Co-
lumbia clubs and the Country' Club, is a
republican, and without political aspira-
tions has sought to make his presence and
activities a means of betterment to his com-
munity. He is both a York and Scottish
Rite Mason, is affiliated with Raper Com-
mandery No. 1 Knights Templar, with
Indianapolis Consistory, and in 1907-09
was thrice potent master of Adoniram
Lodge of Perfection. He also belongs to
Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He
and his wife are members of the First Pres-
byterian Church.
■ October 15, 1889, ]\Ir. Lilly married ]\Iiss
Blanche Dollens. She is a native of In-
diana, daughter of Robert W. and Nettie
W. Dollens of Indianapolis. 'Sir. and Mrs.
Lilly have two daughters: Julia M., born
August 6. 1904; and Marv J., born Octo-
ber 8, 1906.

Lex J. KiEKPATRicK. Within the strict
lines of his profession, and with no impor-
tant public office except that of circuit
judge. Lex J. Kirkpatrick has won many
of the usual distinctions of the successful
lawyer, and as such he is known far be-
yond the limits of his home community of
Kokomo.

Judge Kirkpatrick was born in Rush
County, Indiana, September 6, 1853. His
remote forefathers were Scotch-Irish, but
the Kirkpatricks have been domiciled in
America so long as to retain few of their
Scotch characteristics beyond the name it-
.self. His great-grandfather, William Kirk-

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INDIANA AND INDIANANS

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patrit-k, was lioni June 8, 1776, and died
July 13, 1860. John Kirkpatriek, gi-and-
father of Lex J., was born in Kentucky,
October 23, 1802. He was a pioneer set-
tler of Rush County, Indiana, where
Steplien Kirkpatriek, the Judge's father,
was born February 10, 1832. Stephen
Kirkpatriek was a farmer and horticultur-
ist, and took up his residence in Howard
County in 1854, and in 1871 retired to
Kokomo. He married Rebecca J. Jackson
September 9, 1852, who was born in Rush
County Februai'y 14, 1834, daughter of
Joseph Jackson, who was born in North
Carolina [March 1, 1794, and was another
early farmer in Rush County. The
Judge's father died December 20, 1911,
and his mother died April 19, 1914.

Judge Kirkpatriek was the only son of
three children, the other two having died
in infancy. He attended the district
schools near his father's farm in Taylor
Township, Howard County, Indiana, and
received his higher education by one year
of study in Oskaloosa College in Iowa, in
Howard College at Kokomo, dmnng
1872-73, took up the study of law with
Hendry & Elliott, at Kokomo, and gradu-
ated from the Central Law College of In-
dianapolis June 18, 1875. Ilis work as
an Indiana lawyer covers a period of over
forty years. He was associated in prac-
tice with Judge J. F. Elliott, under the
name of Elliott & Kirkpatriek, at Kokomo,
until November, 1890. Judge Kirkpatriek
is a democrat. Such was his personal
popularity and his high standing in the
legal profession that in 1890 he wa.s elected
judge of the Thirty-Sixth Judicial Circuit,
overcoming heav.v normal republican ma-
jorities in the counties of Howard and
Tipton, then comprising that circuit.
Judge Kirkpatriek presided with impar-
tial dignity over his own court and as spe-
cial judge in many trials outside his own
circuit until November, 1896.

On retiring from the bench he became
a member of the finn of Kirkpatriek, Mor-
rison & McReynolds in December, 1896.
This firm came to rank as one of the fore-
most in the state in volume of practice
and the importance of its interests and
clients. Judge Kirkpatriek was again
called from the private walks of the pro-
fession in March, 1909, when, the Legis-
lature having constituted Howard County
the Sixty-Second Judicial Circuit, Gov-

ernor Thomas R. :Marshall, now vice presi-
dent of the United States, appointed
Judge Kirkpatriek to preside over the new
circuit. He filled the term until the regu-
lar election and retired from the bench
and took up private practice again Janu-
ary 1, 1911, with ;\Iilton Bell, under the
name of Bell & Kirkpatriek. Later Hon.
W. R. Voorhis, now of New York City, and
Judge W. C. Purdum became a.ssociated
with the firm. The firm is now Bell, Kirk-
patriek & Purdum.

Judge Kirkpatriek has long been promi-
nent as a member and worker in the Chris-
tian Church, in the Young ilen 's Christian
Association, and as an officer in the Chris-
tian Endeavor. He was president of the
Indiana State Union of that organization
from November, 1893, to November 1896,
and also a vice president of the World's
Christian Endeavor Union. For twenty-
five years he was superintendent of the
Kokomo Sundav School of his church, from
July 1, 1883, to July 1, 1908, this school
then ranking second in attendance of all
the schools of such church in the United
States.

September 22, 1881, he married Miss
Emma Palmer, daughter of Stephen and
Letitia (Saville) Palmer, of Adrian, Michi-
gan, who has been a most valuable help-
mate in his work. Her father was born
in New York State January 29, 1824, and
her mother in Wiayne County, Indiana, in
September, 1826. Judge and Mrs. Kirk-
patriek in addition to their Kokomo home
have a pleasant winter home near Braden-
town, Florida, on the ]\Ianatee River, near
the Gulf of Mexico.

Judge Kirkpatriek has for many years
been vice president and general counsel
of the Indiana Railways & Light Com-
pany, and is associated with and legal
counsel for a number of public utilities
and manufacturing industries of Kokomo.
He contributed liberally of his time and
means to advance the best interests of the
community where he resides. He is a mem-
ber of the Indiana State Bar Association
and also of the American Bar Association.
He takes an active interest in the Cham-
ber of Commerce and other industrial or-
ganizations of his city.

C. H. Bk \LEY. an honored veteran of the
Civil war, is an old resident of Indian-
apolis, and for nearly thirty years has

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beeu the pioueer chiropodist and foot
specialist of that city, rendering services
that have beeu appreciated in correspond-
ing degree to the length of his practice.

He was born in Chester, Warren County,
New York, June 18, 1847, a son of Josepli
and Melvina (Ellis) Braley. The Braley
family is of colonial American descent, and
traces its origin in this country back to
Roger liralej', who was in Massachusetts as
early as 1696. Joseph Braley was born at
Chester, New York, September 23, 1822,
and his wife was born August 9, 1822.
They married October 4, 1846. Joseph
Braley died May 2, 1849, when his son was
only two years old.

The widowed mother afterward married
again and took her only child by her fii-st
marriage to Prophetstown, Illinois, where
her second husband became a farmer. C.
H. Braley ac(juired part of his education
in the common schools of Troy, New Y^ork,
and later attended school at Prophetstown,
Illinois. As a boy he began work a.s a farm
laborer, and one time worked six months
at wages of $6 a month. In 1861, at the
age of fourteen. Doctor Braley enlisted in
Battery F of the Pii-st Illinois* Light Artil-
lery-, and saw active service until the close
of the war. He was in many battles, in-
cluding Shiloh, Corinth, Lookout Moun-
tain and the siege and operations around
Vicksburg. At the conclusion of this serv-
ice, a veteran soldier though still under
age, he returned to his old home in Illinois.
A few years later he and a great English
traveler made a world's tour, visiting all
the cities of Europe, and after his return to
America Doctor Braley took up his resi-
dence at Indianapolis.

He has had almost a lifelong experience
in the treatment of foot troubles, and was
one of the men to give dignity and stand-
ing to the art of ehii-opody, and \vas one
of its first practitioners in Indianapolis.
People have come from far and near to
secure his services. He maintains a high
class establishment in the Saks Building.

Doctor Braley is a democrat, a member
of the Indianapolis Democratic Club, and
has done much to support his party. In
LS92 he married Miss Mary Yess, of
Indianapolis.

Jonathan W. Gordon, lawyer, was born
in 1820, in Washinsrton County, Pennsyl-
vania, and was of Scotch-Irish parentage.

The family removed to Ripley County, In-
diana, when he was a lad of fourteen. Pie
went through the common schools, attended
Hanover College for one term, studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1844. At
the beginning of the Mexican war he vol-
unteered, but was taken .sick at the mouth
of the Rio Grande, and sent home without
seeing any service. He read medicine, at-
tended lectures at the Rush Medical Col-
lege, Chicago, in 1847-8, and began the
practice of medicine which he continued
for two years. Dissatisfied with this, he
came to Indianapolis in 1852 and opened
a law office. Not being overburdened with
business, he indulged in newspaper work,
and was engaged as editor of The Tem-
perance Chart, which was under the pat-
ronage of the Sons of Temperance, at that
time a very strong organization in Indiana.
In 1853 he was elected prosecuting at-
torney for Marion County, but soon re-
signed to give attention to his growing
practice. In 1856 and 1858 he was elected
to the House of Representatives of the
state, and in the latter year waa speaker
at both the regular and special sessions.
In this period he wrote some fair poetry,
good enough at least to be admitted to
Coggeshall's Poets and Poetry of the West.
He was an omnivorous reader, and thereby
attained quite a broad education. In later
years, when troubled by insomnia, he used
to keep a Greek Testament by his bedside,
and pass his wakeful hours reading it.

In 1861 he was elected clerk of the
House of Representatives, but when the
news came of the firing on Fort Sumter he
resigned, and at a great public meeting was
the first to volunteer. After a short serv-
ice in West Virginia, in the Ninth In-
diana Volunteer Infantry, he was ap-
pointed by the President major in the
Eleventh United States Infantry, and as-
signed to duties in Massachusetts and In-
diana until September, 1863, when he was
sent to the front with the Army of the
Poto'nac. In the spring of the following
year he resigned, on the ground that his
salary was not sufficient for the support of
his family. He resumed the practice of
law, and was soon engaged in the most
spectacular case of the period, commonly
known as "the Treason Trials." A secret
society known as the Knights of the Gol-
den Circle had been formed in Indiana and
other western states, and had developed

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an ■' inner circle" with treasonable de-
signs. Governor Morton had detectives in
the organization from the start, who kept
him informed of every move. In 1864 he
had several of the leaders arrested and
brought before a military commission for
trial. Gordon was retained for the defense,
and at once raised the point of no juris-
diction. The courts of the state were open
and unobstructed, and if any oft'ence had
been committed the prosecution should be
in the courts. This had no weight with
the commission, which convicted the de-
fendants, and sentenced part of them to
death. An appeal was made to the Su-
preme Court of the United States, but
there was not time for it to be heard be-
fore the day set for the execution. Gor-
don ijrepared a brief. The question was
one that went to the very foundation of
constitutional rights, and he went to the
bottom of the English and American prec-
edents. He went to IMortou with his brief,
and sought his aid in securing a postpone-
ment of the execution. Morton examined
it and said: "By God, Gordon, you are
right. It would be murder to execute
these men." He assisted in getting a re-
prieve, and the case was heard by the Su-
preme Court, which ordered the release of
the defendants. (Ex parte Milligan, 4
Wallace, p. 2.) Gordon's brief was the
one used hy General Garfield in his argu-
ment of the case in the Supreme Court.
From that time on Gordon had employ-
ment in abundance. He was easily the
foremost criminal lawyer of his day in
Indiana. He was also strong before a jury
in any case, skillful in examination, and
a forcible speaker. He made money, but
had no faculty for keeping it. He was gen-
erous to a fault, and very indulgent with
his family. In consequence he was u.sually
in debt and out of money. In his later
years when broken in health, and too old
to practice his profession he was offered
the position of clerk of the Supreme Court
by Governor Albert G. Porter (q. v.) who
had been his class-mate at Hanover, and
his life-long friend and accepted the posi-
tion.

Gordon was an influential factor in the
republican party, from an early date. He
advocated the nomination of Lincoln in
1860, and was instrumental in securing the
vote of the Indiana delegation for him.
In 1872 he was a presidential elector on

the republican ticket, and a member of
the electoral college that elected General
Grant. In 1876 he was the republican can-
didate for attorney general, and was de-
feated with his party. In this campaign
he attracted wide notice by publicly refus-
ing to pay the campaign asses.smeut made
on him by the Republican State Central
Committee. This was only an example of
the resolute independence that he showed
in everything. In his criminal practice he
defended more than sixty persons charged
with murder in the first degree, and only
one of them was hanged. His success was
in part due to his personal convictions con-
cerning crime and punishment, which were
not altogether in touch with ordinary
American ideas. In 1856 he introduced a
bill in the Legislature for "a system of
criminal jurisprudence founded on the
principle of compensation," but did not
succeed in getting adopted. In 1882 he
incurred much criticism by writing a pub-
lic letter to the attorney general of the
United States, urging, on purely legal
grounds, that Guiteau was insane, and
should not be executed for the assassina-
tion of President Garfield. Gordon died at
Indianapolis on April 27, 1887.

William G. Smith has spent his active
career at LaPorte, where the family was
established nearly seventy years ago. For
many years he has been in the ice business
and is now an executive official in the lead-
ing industry of that kind at LaPorte.

Mr. Smith was bom at LaPorte, son of
Louis Smith. Louis Smith was born in
]\Iecklenburg, Germany, in 1825. His par-
ents spent all their lives in Germany,
where his father died at the advanced age
of a hundred four and his mother still
older, being a hundred five when death
called her. Louis Smith and a brother
who when last heard from was living in
New York State were the only members
of the family to come to America. He
had a common school education in Ger-
many and served an apprenticeship to the
tailor's trade. In 1852 he came to the
United States, where he was one of the
early merchant tailore and conducted a
successful business in that line for many
years. He is still living at the venerable
age of ninety-three, well preserved both
mentally and physically. He married
Sophie Iledder. who was born in Mecklen-

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hurg, Germany. Her father, Fred Hed-
der, was a native of the same locality,
came to the United States in the early '50s
and for a time was a farmer near LaPorte
and later moved to the city and there be-
came a carpenter. He died at LaPorte at
the age of eighty-six and his wife w-hen
eighty-five. They had one daughter and
two sons, the sons being Fred and John
Hedder. ]\Irs. Louis Smith died at the
age of forty-nine years, the mother of eight
children, five of whom are living. Her
son, Fred, is a resident of Wliiting, In-
diana, where he has been very successful
iu business, being one of the organizers of
the First National Bank of Whiting, and
on the official board ever since. He is
also a director in several other banks and
industrial institutions. Charles, another
brother of William G., went to Mexico at
the age of seventeen in order to restore
his health. As soon as he was able to do
anything he was given a position in the
offices of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company.
In a few years he was promoted to assis-
tant superintendent, later to superintend-
ent of the company 's extensive interests in
Mexico, and has been a prominent factor
in the Mexican oil industry ever since.

William G. Smith attended public
school at LaPorte and at the age of four-
teen started to make his own living as a
farmer. Two years later he entered the
employ of John Hilt, the well known La-
Porte "ice man." He made himself gen-
erally useful in Mr. Hilt's employ in the
ice business, and has shown a great ca-
pacity to conduct his affairs along success-
ful lines. In 1902 with William Vogt he
bought the plant, which had been incor-
porated as the John Hilt Ice Company,
and has since been its superintendent and
general manager.

In 1884 Mr. Smith married Jane Ver-
nette Gage, a native of Salem, Michigan.
She is a daughter of Joseph and Caroline
Elizabeth (Holredge) Gage, both families
being pioneers in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith have four children, named Norman
Leroy, Zelma L., Marjorie and Florence.
j\Ir. and Mrs. Smith are members of the
Presbyterian Church.

Hon. Ele Stansbury. From his old
home at Williamsport, where he had lived
for over thirty years, had practiced law,
and from which town his services had

radiated practically over the entire state
as a campaign leacler in republican ranks,
and as a local and state ofificial Mr. Stans-
bury was called to Indianapolis to the du-
ties and responsibilities of tlie office of
attorney-general after election on the state
ticket in 1916.

General Stansbury is a fiue type of the
Indiana lawyer and public leader. He was
born in ]\IcLean County, Illinois, Febru-
ary 8, 1861, his parents were people of
moderate means, .and after the death of
his mother, when he was fifteen years of
age, he went to work and took care of him-
self. Few men have won a harder fight
for success and none by more honorable
means, his career from beginning to pres-
ent bearing inspection and investigation
at every point. Out of his own earnings
he paid for most of his education, which
was finished in a literary sense in the Say-
brook Academy.

^Ir. Stansbury removed to Williamsport,
Indiana, iu 1883. He studied law in the
office of John G. Pearson, and in 1890 be-
gan practice as a partner of J. Frank
Hanly. He was admitted to the bar in
1887, and in the same year was appointed
deputy prosecuting attorney under Will B.
Reed of Attica, and subsequently filled a
similar position under James Bingham,
who later became attorne.y-general of In-
diana. As deputy prosecutor he gained
at an early stage in his career an experi-
ence that has proved invaluable to him
in every^ successive stage of his advance-
ment, "in 1892 and 1894 he was elected
prosecuting attorney for Fountain and
Warren counties, and this was the first
time that the prosecuting officer had been
chosen from Warren County in a period
of twenty-six yeai-s. The able and mas-
terly manner in which he filled the office
gave him the reputation of being one of
the best prosecuting attorneys the circuit
ever had.

During these and every subsequent year
ilr. Stansbury- has been going over his
home county, his district, and latterly over
the state at large, preaching the gospel
of the republican party and working for
its success and the election of his friends.
Politics is a hard and difficult game. It
reciuires unceasing loyalty not only to
principle but to party associates and or-
ganization, and even then its devotees
frequently fall by the wayside in defeat.

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To tliese (Hialities Mr. Stanslmr.v has added
so'.nething more, the ability of the able
lawyer and a willingness to work consci-
entiously and without regard to personal
sacrifice for advantages and benefits that
concern not so much himself as his party
and the welfare of the people in general.
That has constituted his strength, and it
was such disinterested sei-^'ice that brought
him to his present high honor.

In 1900 Mr. Stansbun- was presidential
elector for the Tenth District of Indiana
and voted for McKinley and Roosevelt.
In 1902 and 1904 he was elected a mem-
ber of the General Assembly. During the
1903 session he was chairman of the fee
and salary committee. That was during
the famous raid for the increa.se of sala-
ries. In 1903 he took a firm stand for
right and a square deal for the taxpayers
of Indiana. In 1905 he was chairman of
the judiciary committee of the House, and
that put him in the position of floor mana-
ger. He became author of several well-
conceived acts of legislation.

In 1907 Mr. Stansbury was appointed
by Governor Hanly as one of the trustees
for the State School for the Deaf, and by
reappointment from the democratic gov-
ernor, ^Marshall, he served eight years,
being president of the board for the last
two years. He was also a member of the
building commission to consti'uct the
Buildings for the State School for the Deaf
at Indianapolis, and with his fellow as-
sociates gave five years to that work, which
involved the expenditure of nearly .$800,-
000.

For eleven years ^Ir. Stansbury was
employed by the Board of Commissioners
of Warren County as county attorney, and
in that capacity he prepared all the con-
tracts and bonds and looked after the
legal affairs connected with the building of
the fine new courthouse and jail and
equipment at Williamsport. The old
courthouse was burned in 1907, and the
new buildings were constructed and
equipped at a cost to the taxpavers of less
than $105,000. It was a notalile case of
efficiency and economy in the expenditure
of public funds.

In 1914 ]\Ir. Stansbuiy was nominated
on the republican ticket for the office of
attorney-general, and was one of the lead-
ers of a forlorn hope. As he had done
for twenty-five years, he went into all

parts of the state, working and campaign-
ing primarily for the party organization
which he represented, and his personality
and efforts were credited with a mea.sure
of the comparative success which gave the
republican state ticket that year 100,000
more votes than in 1912. Then, in 1916,
on the basis of real fitness and also a de-
served political honor, he wa.s nominated
at the republican primaries and was
elected attorney-general with an abundance
of votes to spare. The first term of his
administration has abundantly justified
the confidence of the voters. In 1918 he
was re-elected, with the largest majority
of any candidate on the ticket. Mr. Stans-
bury is first and last a thorough lawyer,
has for many years enjoj-ed a large prac-
tice and has handled important and in-
volved cases in which his abilities have
been pitted against those of many of the
best known figures of the Indiana laar. He
has practiced in many counties outside his
home county of Warren, and has been
entrusted with much litigation in Federal
Courts, so that he brought to his office a
mature experience that could not but be
reflected in the best of service to the state
i.nd its people.

Mr. Stansbury is affiliated with the Ma-
sonic Order, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, is a
member of the Columbia Club of In-
dianapolis and is a man of gi-eat social
charm and a wide range of interests. He
possesses the gift of oratory, but his elo-
quence has only adorned solid personal
convictions and an exceptional flow of
ideas that have made him a popular and
insti'uctive speaker on many occasions out-
side of political meetings and the court-
room.

Mr. Stansbury nuirried, in 1S88. ;\Iiss
Ella Fisher. She was liefdro her marriage
a teacher in tlic Williamspoi-t schools.
They have two children, a s(m and a daugh-
ter, both now married. His son is in the
office with his father and the daughter is
the wife of Frank T. Stockton, Dean of the
Cniversity of South Dakota.

Lewis E. Fadely. For about forty
years the name Fadely has been a weil
known and honored one in the business
district of Anderson, its chief associations
being with the shoe busines.s. A son of
the founder of the business, Lewis E.

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Fadely is now head of the firm Fadely &
Ulmer, who have one of the eligible loca-
tions on the Public Square.

'Sir. Fadely was born a few miles north
of Anderson, at Alexandria, in 1879, son
of J. F. and Sarah (Young) Fadely. He
is of German and English ancestry, and
the family first settled in Virginia. J. F.
Fadely was born at ]\Iiddletown, Indiana,
on a farm and came to Anderson forty-
two years ago. He worked in the shoe
store of Levi Thomas for several years,
then for a couple of years with R. H. Wil-
liams, and finally joined his modest capi-
tal and experience with that pioneer An-
derson business man, Major Doxey, mak-
ing the firm Fadely & Doxey, shoe
merchants, at 832 Main Street on the Pub-
lic Square. He continued in business with
Major Doxey for six or seven years and
then bought out his partner and was alone
until his son Lewis reached his majority,
when the firm became Fadely & Son.

Lewis E. Fadely grew up at Anderson
and attended the grammar and high
schools, graduating from the latter in
1896. He then entered Notre Dame L"ni-
versity and was graduated in 1901, special-
izing in commercial law and general busi-
ness courses. On returning to Anderson
he entered his father's store, and the firm
of Fadely & Son continued until February,
1917, when J. F. Fadely retired from
business and was succeeded in the firm
by Mr. Ulmer. Mr. Fadely has various
other business interests at Anderson, is
active in the Chamber of Commerce, the
Rotary Club, the First Presbyterian
Church and is affiliated with Anderson
Lodge No. 209, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In politics he is inde-
pendent.

In 1902 Mr. Fadely married Louella
Payton, who died in 1913, leaving one
child, Sarah Jane, born in 1903. In 1915
Mr. Fadelv married Gladvs Hughes, daugh-
ter of J. M. Hughes.

Alvin Thomas Kirk, of Anderson, is
probablj- known to every farm owner in
Madison County as proprietor of one of
the largest farm implement agencies in that
part of the state. Mr. Kirk grew up on a
farm in Madison County, and has always
followed some mechanical line of occupa-
tion both in the countrj- and in the citv.

He was born on a fann in Lafayette

Township of iladison County, May 31,
187-4, son of Sylvester and Mary A.
(Thompson) Kirk. He is of English an-
cestry. The first American Kirks located
in Virginia and Kentucky in pioneer
times. William Kirk, grandfather of A. T.
Kirk, was a soldier in the American Revo-
lution. Sylvester Kirk was well known in
iladison County as a successful breeder
and raiser of horses, farmer and proprie-
tor of a saw mill and fence factoiy at
Florida Station in Lafavette Township.
He died in 1912. Alvin T. Kirk, during
the winter seasons up to the time he was
thirteen, attended the old Free School near
Florida Station. For six years he found
ample employment during the summer as-
sisting his father in running the engine
for the sawmill and fence factory. Some-
think like a genius in the handling of mA-
chinery opened up an important and use-
ful service to him and for fourteen years
he operated a threshing machine, clover
huller and fodder shredder all over that
section of Madison County. Coming to
Anderson, Mr. Kirk was for two years en-
gineer under Charles Urban in the plant
of the American Tin Plate Company. He
had active charge of two immense' 1,200-
horse power Corliss engines. In the course
of his work he met with an accident, one
of' his legs being broken. After recover-
ing he joined the Ames Shovel & Tool Com-
pany at North Anderson, and was engi-
neer for that plant seven years.

At the time of his father's death he left
Anderson, returned to the country and
for two years operated a poi-table sawmiU,
taking it from place to place about the
country and sawing barn patterns and
house patterns. He finally sold this outfit
and in September, 1914, returning to An-
derson, rented the site at 204 East Ninth
Street, where he is today and opened up
a stock of farming implements. He has
done much to improve that location and
from time to time has added new facilities
and service. His main warehouse is 240
by 80 feet. Mr. Kirk handles the famous
John Deere farm machinery, is local agent
for the United Engine Company of Lan-
sing, Michigan, and is agent for "farm trac-
tors manufactured by the Case & Water-
loo Tractor Company. He also sells the
^ladison automobiles. His territory of
Inisiness extends all over Madison County.
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and is a stockholder in the ]Madison Motor
Works and ilentha Peps Company.

In 1895 he married Miss Florence 0.
Dunham, daughter of James and Eliza-
beth Dunham. Her people came originally
from England to Virginia, and from there
moved to Lafayette Town.ship of ]\Iadi-
.son County in early days. Mr. Kirk is a
democrat in polities. In 1917 he was can-
didate for the city council from the Third
Ward, being defeated by fifty-four votes.
He is affiliated with Anderson Lodge No.
131, Independent order of Odd Fellows,
and is a member of the ITnited Brethren
Church.

Teacy W. Prophet, ilany of the
brightest young business men of Amei'ica
have been attracted into some branch of
the automobile industry, and nowhere is
the competition keener and nowhere does
success indicate better all around qualifi-
cations.

One of Anderson's representatives in
this business is Tracy W. Prophet, pro-
prietor of the Anderson Garage, operating
day and night service for accessories and
general repairs. Mr. Prophet was born
at Mattoon, Illinois, May 20, 1887, son of
John and Martha (Foster) Prophet.
When he was seven years of age his moth-
er died, and two years later his father
removed to the vicinity of Kokomo, In-
diana, establishing a home on a farm. On
this farm Tracy W. Prophet spent his
years working in proportion to his
strength in the fields and in the house and
attending county schools until he had fin-
ished the seventh grade. After that he
began earning his own living. At Kokomo
he found enployment in a glass factory,
starting as roustabout and finally was run-
ning the "la.vers, tempering glass." In
1906 he left the glass factory to become
a general helper with the Haynes Automo-
bile Company at Kokomo, and in order to
learn the automobile trade he was will-
ing to accept for a time wages of only fifty
cents a day. He kept increasing his pro-
ficiency and for two years was assigned
to the delicate and responsilili' imsiiidn nf
repairing motors. Leaving Kukdiim. he
spent eight months with tlie automobile
firm of the Rider Lewis Company at ]Mun-
cie, and in 1909 came to Anderson and for
two years was with the Buckeye Manu-
facturing Co.npany, in charge of its mo-

tor department. After that for three
years he was repair man for the Auto Inn
C4arage. All this time 'Sir. Prophet was
laboring with a view to the future, had
exercised the greatest thrift in handling
his wages, and his capital finally enabled
him to purchase the Anderson Garag-e, at
124 East Ninth Street. He bought this prop-
erty on March 17, 1915, and in April, 1918,
bought a home at 1224 West Ninth Street.
He has been keeping the service of his
garage up to the highest standard and im-
proving the business in every department
for the past three years. He now has seven
men in his employ, and does the largest
automobile repair business in the city. He
also has the agenc.v for the Hudson and
Dort cars. Mr. Prophet is a stockholder
in the Anderson Corporation, the ^Mentha
Peps Company and the ;\Iadison Remedial
Loan Association.

In 1908 he married Cecile ilcDaniel,
daughter of Joseph and Hattie McDaniel
of Kokomo. They have two children
Mildred Rowena, born in 1912, and Wil-
liam Russell, born in 1915. Mr. Prophet
is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with
Kokomo Lodge No. 309, Improved Order
of Red Men, and with the Masonic order,
and is a man of genial social nature and
everywhere recognized for his unusual
push and ability in business.

Frank R. Brown has won a creditable
position in business affairs at Anderson,
where for many years he was one of the
genial and capable officers in a local bank
and where he is now sole proprietor of
Brown's shoe store, a business which he
has developed to large and important pro-
portions as one of the principal supply
centers for footwear in iladison County.

Mr. Brown was born at Anderson, De-
cember 11, 1865, a son of Henry C. and
]\Iinerva (Guisinger) Brown. He is of Eng-
lish and French ancestiw. The Brown
family has been in America for genera-
tions, and from' their original settlement
in Virginia they gradually came westward
until they found permanent lodgment in
Indiana. Henry C. Brown, who is now liv-
ing retired at Anderson, was a dry goods
merchant there for many years, served
on the City Council and is now a member
of the City Health Board. Politically he
is a democrat.

Fi'ank R. Brown was educated in the

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public schools of Anderson, graduating
from high school in 1885, and then after a
course in Eastmans Business College at
Poughkeepsie, New York, returned home
to take employment with the Citizens Bank
at Anderson. He went into that institution
as bookkeeper and remained there between
sixteen and seventeen years, being pro-
moted to paying teller and finally to
cashier. In 1901 ]\Ir. Brown left the bank
to take up the shoe business with G. W.
Hewitt, under the firm name of Brown &
Hewitt. At that time they established their
store at 21 East Ninth Street, and some of
his first patrons still find Mr. Brown at that
establishment, where he has been continu-
ously in business for over fifteen years.
In December, 1917, J\lr. Brown acquired
the interest of his partner and is now sole
owner of a store which is largely patronized
both by city and countrv' trade.

In 1892 Mr. Brown married ^larguerite
Clark, daughter of Alexander and Eliza-
beth (Berry) Clark, of Anderson. They
have one son, Robert R., born in 1897, and
now a bookkeeper in the Farmers Trust
Company of Ander.son.

Mr. Brown has made a successful career
for himself, and altogether by hard and
earnest work and relying upon his own
resources and good .judgment. He is one
of the public spirited citizens of Anderson,
is a democratic voter, is a Knight Templar
Mason and a member of the Knights of
Pythias and of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.

Edwin D. Logsdon. of Indianapolis, is
one of the largest individual coal operators
in the state. The concerns of which he is
the head produce an averasre of 7,000 tons
daily. Twenty years ago Mr. Logsdon was
operating a small retail coal yard in
Indianapolis.

His father, Lawrence Logsdon. who was
for many years prominent in the life and
aflFair.s of the capital city of Indiana, was
born in Kentucky March 15, 1832, and died
on his eighty-fifth birthday in the spring of
1917. He was a great-grandson of William
Logsdon, who came from Ireland in colo-
nial times and settled in Virginia. Not long
afterwards the family established a home
in Kentuckv', near the old haunts of Daniel
Boone. There for generations the Logsdons
lived and flourished, and many of them are
still found in that section.

The late Lawrence Logsdon was one of
the seventeen children of William Logsdon.
He grew up in Kentucky, but came to
Indiana in 1851 on account of family dif-
ferences over politics, he being for the
Union while the others were in active sym-
pathy with the ideas of secession and state
rights. On coming to Indiana he located
in what is now a part of the City of Indian-
.apolis. He split poplar rails and made
fences at Beech Grove. When the old
Madison and Indianapolis Railroad was
built he became a sub-contractor in its
construction and also helped build the
Indianapolis division of what is now the
Big Four Railroad. The means acquired
by contracting enabled him to embark in
brick manufacturing, ilany public build-
ings and dwellings of Indianapolis contain
material made in his brick yard. He was
a very congenial spirit, and was every-
where known subsequently as "Larry"
Logsdon. When a boy he had only limited
educational advantages, but this defect he
partly remedied in later j-ears by extensive
reading and close observation. Honest,
sympathetic and thoroughlj^ just, he became
the adviser of many and the court of ar-
bitrament in settling neighborhood difl'er-
ences. As is often the case his sympathetic
disposition sometimes led to too much self
sacrifice for his own good. He was a Bap-
tist in religion and a republican in polities.
Lawrence Logsdon married Catherine
Denny at Indianapolis. Of their seven
children two died in infancy and four are
still living.

Edwin D. Logsdon was born at Indian-
apolis July 9, 1866, and acouired his educa-
tion in the public schools of his native city.
The first chapter in his business career was
his work in aiding, in the eonstmction of
the Belt Railroad. In 1894 he took up the
manufacture of brooms, but ten years later
started his retail coal business. ' This was
the nucleus around which he concentrated
his abilities, and with growing experience
has risen frojn a small retailer to one of
the chief producers of coal in Indiana.

Mr. Logsdon at the present time is presi-
dent of the following corporations: Peo-
ple's Coal arid Cement Company, Indian
Creek Coal and Minin? Company, S. W.
Little Coal Company, Knox County Four-
Yein Coal Companv. ]Minshall Coal Com-
pany, and the Indianapolis Sand and
Gravel Company.

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1411

Mr. Logsdon has rendered much valuable
service in republican politics and in city
affairs. In 1899, 1901 and 1903 he was
chosen chairman of the republican com-
mittee for the City of Indianapolis. From
1901 to 1903 as a'member of the Board of
Public Works the city was indebted to him
for the foresight and judgment he afforded
in framing the present interarbau railway
franchises, ilr. Logsdon is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity and the Columbia
Club and the Maennerehor.

October 10, 18SS, he married Miss Lillie
B. Lynch. They have four daughters :
Helen Lucile, ^Irs. Ray ]\Iacy; Marie Vir-
ginia, Mrs. Earl W. Kurtze; Elizabeth,
Mrs. James Hamlin ; and Catherine.

Carolixe Scott Harrison, wife of
President Benjamin Harrison, and first
president-general of the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, was boni at Oxford, Ohio. October 1,
1832. and was baptized Caroline Lavinia
Scott. Her father, John Witherspoon
Scott, was descended from John Scott,
Laird of Arras, who came to America in the
seventeen century, and located in Penn-
sylvania, founding a family of Presby-
terians and scholars. Dr. John Wither-
spoon Scott taught for fifty-seven years, at
Washington College, Miami University,
Belmont College. Oxford Female Semi-
nary, Hanover College, etc. He married
Miss Mary Neal, whose father, an English-
man, was connected with the old Moymen-
sing Bank at Philadelphia.

Caroline was the second child of this
marriage. She received an unusually good
education for a girl of that period, and
gi-aduated at Oxford Seminary in 1852 —
the same year that Benjamin Harrison
graduated at the university there. She
taught music for a year at Carrollton. Ken-
tucky, and. on October 20, 1853. they two
were married. They removed to Indian-
apolis, where Mr. Harrison entered the
practice of law, and IMi*s. Harrison entered
on the duties of home, church and char-
itable work of the city. She was for thirty-
two years a member of the board of man-
agers of the Indianapolis Orphan's Home.

Mrs. Harrison had an unostentatious but
influential part in the social and literary
life of the city, and throughout her hus-
band's official life showed herself compe-
tent for the emergencies of all social posi-

tions : but never lost her interest in re-
ligious and charitable work. She died at
Wa.shington, October 25, 1892, worthy of
James Whitcomb Riley's tribute to her:
"Yet with the faith she knew
We see her still,
Even as here she stood —
All that was pure and good
And sweet in womanhood —
God's will her will."

A memorial sketch of Mrs. Harrison was
published in 1908, by Harriet Mclntire
Foster. See also sketch in National Cy-
clopedia of Biography, Vol. 1, p. 135.

Charles T. Sansberry. A foremost
member of the Anderson bar is Charles T.
Sansberry. \\ho was born in this city in
1874. His parents were James W. and
^Margaret (Moore) Sansberry, old names
in the United States. The Sansberrys were
of French Huguenot ancestry and they took
part in the Revolutionary war from North
Carolina and Virginia, and later pioiieer
bearers of this honorable name carried it
• to the Northwest Territory.

James W. Sansberry, who became of
great prominence in professional and pub-
lic life in Indiana, came to Anderson in
1851. He was born in Ripley County,
Ohio, in 1830, and died at Anderson in
1901. Possessing gi-eat legal talent, he
soon became known in his profession and
was elected prosecuting attorney of iladi-
son County, and, an ardent democrat, was
many times honored by his part.y and in
an important political campaign was elect-
ed to the State Senate. He was a man
of force and character, and his memory is
preserved in the county and state with
others whose life achievements have been
notable.

Cliarles T. Sansberry attended the
Anderson public schools, and later the
iliehigan Military Academy at Orchard
Lake. Michigan, and in 1893 matriculated
at Waba.sh College, Crawfordsville. Indi-
ana. For some time aftenvard he was in-
terested in newspaper work and then
entered the Indiana Law School at Indian-
ajiolis, from which he was graduated in
1898.

Mr. Sansberry immediately entered into
practice at Anderson and has remained
here, and with the exception of assistance
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alone in the profession. He has met with
much success and has satisfactorily handled
some of the most important cases before
the courts in recent years.

In 1895 ]\Ir. Sansben-y was married to
IMiss ^Maud V. IMahorney, who is a daug'h-
ter of Alexander C. and Elizabeth (Ep-
person) Mahorney, the former of whom is
a merchant at Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Sansberry have one sou,
James C, who was born in 1897. He was
a student of the Massacluisetts College of
Technology at Cambridge, and at the en-
trance of "the United States into wai was
commissioned and remained in service until
peace was declared. In 1905 he graduated
from a Virginia military school.

]\Ir. Sansberry has but little political
ambition. He served as city attorney of
Anderson from 1910 to 1914, but othenvise
has devoted himself pretty closely to his
professional and other important interests,
one of which is his magnificent farm of
400 acres, on which he raises blooded stock,
making a specialty of Black Angus cattle.
Many men of wide reading and intellectual
pursuits take special interest along certain
lines, and the fortunate visitor who is
permitted to see Mr. Sansberry 's libraries
and old records and look over his choice
collection of relics and curiosities could
easily be convinced that the pioneer his-
tory of this state gives him pleasant hours
of study.

Jesse Hickman Mellett. "Within the
last ten years the City of Anderson has
enjoyed a remarkable period of growth
and development. It will be recalled that
Anderson's first great strides toward a
front rank among Indiana cities were made
closely following the natural gas boom of
the 'SOs. After that subsided there was a
period of more or less depression, but
about the beginning of the present century
there occurred not so much a revival as a
permanent development so that in every
successive year new industries have been
added, and some of the best known in-
dustrial institutions of the middle west
- have their home at Anderson.

It has been regarded as a matter of
peculiarly good fortune that the head of
the municipal government during the past
four years has been a man capable of
utilizing and directing the resources and
influences at work toward a municipal and

civic reconstruction of Andereon, corre-
sponding in this department to the great
industrial prosperity.

Mr. J. H. Mellett was nominated for
mayor of Andei-son in February, 1913.
"With a substantial majorit.y he went into
ofifice for the four-year term, and while
it would not be possible to enumerate in
detail all the achievements of the munici-
pality during these four years, a few should
be mentioned as an appropriate mark of
credit to :\Ir. Mellett pei^onally. During
his administration the municipal light
plant and water plant were rebuilt at a
cost of $250,000. The capacity of these
public utilities was doubled, and by the in-
stallation of a complete duplicate set of
machinery the services practically guaran-
teed continuity and its adequacy for all
needs and demands. The Anderson of
today is not the Anderson of four or five
years ago, as occa.sional visitors to the
city at once recognize. One of the con-
spicuous improvements has been the crea-
tion of a general civic plan, many of
the items of which have already been car-
ried out. Seventy-five thousand dollars
have been expended in developing the
civic center idea, the remodeling and ex-
tension of city buildings, the lighting
of the public streets with cluster light
system, the establishment of tennis courts,
gymnasium, playgrounds, and today the
children of the city have four playgrounds
in different parts of the city at their dis-
posal. Mayor ^Mellett was directly re-
sponsible for creating the new city boule-
vard system, whereby Anderson now has
ten miles of boulevard, connecting the busi-
ness district with the outlying factory
centers. During his administration the
water system has been extended to the
outskirts of the city. Besides the material
achievements Mayor ilelletfs administra-
tion has been distinguished by thorough
though not radical or fanatical law en-
forcement program. He has cleaned up
the city and kept it clean, though he has
not and does not pose as a reformer, and
his policy has not always satisfied the theo-
retical people who are committed to the
carrying out of the present moral programs
without regard to consistency or reason.
On the whole his administration gave gen-
eral satisfaction, and the best proof of
this was that in 1917 he was renominated
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1413

given to his opponent in the rival party.
Mayor Mellett is a practical business man,
and he took the mayor's office at a personal
sacrifice, and was by no means personally
eager to accept a renomination, taking it
from a sense of responsibility.

Mr. Mellett is a native of ^Madison
County, Indiana, born in Pipe Creek Town-
ship in 1882, a son of Jesse and ^Margaret
(Ring) Mellett. The Mellett family is of
French ancestry, the first of the name set-
tling in the Virginia colony. In the ma-
ternal line the Rings were of Revolutionary
stock. Jesse Mellett, Sr., was for many
years a successful school teacher, and was
one of the early newspaper men of Elwood,
where he acquired an interest in the Free
Press and Leader and in 1892 issued the
first daily edition of that paper. J. H.
Mellett is one of seven brothers, and all
except him have followed the newspaper
profession and some have attained high
places in journalism.

]Mr. J. H. ]\Iellett attended the common
schools of Elwood. also the high school,
and as a boy found a place in a bake shop
at Elwood, where he served a thorough
apprenticeship at the business. For several
years he traveled about the country work-
ing as a journeyman, but at the age of
twenty-one started a bakery of his own
at Anderson. This business has steadily
grown and prospered and today the J. H.
Mellett wholesale bakery is the largest in
the city and its goods and products are
shipped all over the surrounding territory.
]\Ir. ^lellett is also a stockholder in various
other local enterprises.

Politically he has always been identified
with the democratic party. His first im-
portant office was as representative from
the first ward in the City Council, to
which he was elected in 1909 and served
four years, going from that office into the
chair of mayor.

Mr. Mellett has filled all the chairs and
received the honors of the Anderson
branches of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias
and the Improved Order of Red 'Slen. He
is a member of the .\nderson Club, the
Anderson Country Club, the Rotary Club
and Jovians Club. His popularity as a
citizen has brought many honors within
his reach, and recently he might have had
tlie nomination for congressman from the

Eighth District, but he was emphatic in
declining the opportunity.

In 1902 he married Miss ]\Iary Wallace,
daughter of ]\Iorris and Honoria Wallace of
Anderson. They have one daughter, Mar-
garet, born in 1903.

Frank II. Brock is sole proprietor of
the Larrimore Furniture Company,, one of
the largest concerns of its kind in the City
of Andei-son. ilr. Brock began his busi-
ness career in early life as a clerk, and by
dint of much industry, careful study of
business details and thrifty management
of his own resources ha.s achieved inde-
pendence and a high place in the civic
regard of this community though he is still
a man under forty.

;\Ir. Brock was born on a farm near
Springfield, Ohio, in 1879. He is of Scotch-
Enalish ancestry. His great-grandfather,
William Brock, came from Lincolnshire,
England, in 1830, and settled in North
Carolina. ^Ir. Brock's grandparents
drove from North Carolina to Greene
County, Ohio, in the early days. ^Ir.
Brock is a son of Joseph H. and Rachel E.
(Hutslar) Brock, both of whom are now
living retired in Fayette County, Ohio.
His mother was born while her parents
were on the road from their old home in
Virginia to Greene County, Ohio. His an-
cestors acquired government land in Ohio,
and the old homestead is still owned by
the descendants. They were people of
much enterprise and from clay on their
own land made brick which entered into
fb.e construction of a home of colonial
architecture.

Frank H. Brock was educated in local
schools and in the high school at Jeft'er-
sonville, Ohio, from which he graduated
in 1898. The next six months he spent
working in a general store at Jefferson-
ville, and in 1899 came to Indiana and
located at Warren, in Huntington County.
Here for four years he was a salesman in
the general store of W. B. Larrimore. In
1903 he came to Anderson and. bought a
half interest in the furniture house of
W. B. Larrimore. He had made in the
meantime good u.se of his opportunities to
ac(|uire a thoroTigh knowledge of business
and had also saved some capital. In 1911
he bought the interest of his partner and
is now sole jn-oprietdr. but continues the
liusiness under the (ild title. He lias a gen-

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eral furniture liouse at 21-23 West
Eleventh Street, his stock and display
rooms using three floors of the building.
Mr. Brock has also acquired some real
estate interests in the city.

In 1902 he married Miss Helen Larri-
more, daughter of his old partner. They
have two children, Esther Ann, aged four-
teen, and Joseph Hid3- aged nine. Mr.
Brock is a democrat in politics, is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church, and is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
and a member of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.

John Sherman Fbazier. One of In-
diana's important industries now com-
pletely turned over to the service of the
Government in the preparation of food
stuffs for the armies in the field is the Fra-
zier Packing Company of Elwood. This
is a large and profitable business, built up
from small beginnings, and at first was
exclusively a tomato preserving plant, but
has gradually been expanded in the course
of twenty years to include various prod-
ucts.

The secretary and treasurer of the com-
pany is John Sherman Frazier, whose
father, Oliver B. Frazier, was the founder
of the business and now president of the
company. Oliver B. Frazier married Jose-
phine McMahon. The Fraziers are Scotch
people who settled in Massachusetts, while
the McMahons were early settlers in North
Carolina.

John Sherman Frazier was bora at El-
wood in 1887, was educated in the public
schools, and graduated from high school in
1906. In 1901 he had begun working for
his father and learning the business of
tomato canning and packing. The Frazier
Packing Company was established in 1899.
In 1907 John S. Frazier was elected sec-
retary and treasurer of the company. Un-
til 1907 the plant continued to can toma-
toes, but .since that year the production
has been expanded and several well-known
brands of foods have been made by the
company, including the Frazier tomato
catsup, ehili sauce, soups and pork and
beans. Since the plant was turned over
to the Government facilities have been em-
ployed primarily for the canning of pork
and beans. About 500 persons are em-
ployed during the busy season and the

plant extends over ground including some
five or six acres.

In 1911 John S. Frazier married Ruin-
Morris, daughter of John H. and Rhoda
(\YeIlman) Morris, of Rushville, Indiana.
Thev have two children, Lydia, born in
1912, and John Oliver, born in 1914. :\Ir.
Frazier is a republican in polities and is
affiliated with the ilasonie Order at El-
wood, the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks and is a member of the First
ilethodist Episcopal Church.

The company has membership in the
National Canuers' Association, and Mr.
John S. Frazier was elected chairman of
the catsup section of the as.sociation, an
office he fills at the present time.

William A. Faust is a merchant and
business man of substantial connections
and interests at Elwood, and for fourteen
years has been junior partner in the well-
known firm of Recorcls & Faust of that
city.

Mr. Faust was liorn on a farm August
21, 1879, at Shively Corners in Rush
County. Indiana, a son of William Perry
and Lucinda (Lee) Faust. He is of Ger-
man Pennsylvania stock. He was reared
on a farm, had a country school educa-
tion, and developed both mind and muscle'
by the duties of the homestead until he
was seventeen. He then started out to
earn his own way in the world and with-
out friends or money to back him has made
steady progress until he might properly
be said to have fulfilled those early ambi-
tions. His first employment away from
the farm was as a "gather boy" in glass
factories, spending two years at Frank-
ton and two years at Loogootee. He ac-
quired mercantile experience by working
as a clerk for two years in the house of
R. L. Leeson & Son. About that time he
sufl:"ered loss of health, and had to spend
seven months recuperating at Los Angeles
and vicinity. Returning to Elwood, he
went to work for the clothing house of
Beitman & Greathouse. He was with them
three years, and then started in business
for himself in 1904 as member of the firm
Records & Faust at 119 South Andei-son
Street. These men have been successfully
associated in business now for fourteen
years and have the highest class men's
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1415

wood, and liave a trade from that city
aud surrounding country and even from
adjoining counties.

Mr. Faust in the meantime has acquired
other interests and is a stockholder and
director of the First National Bank of El-
wood and owns a farm of 150 acres three
miles from that town.

December 25, 1901. he married Julia
Cline, daughter of William B. and Ivy
(Ferine) Cline of Lebanon, Ohio. They
have three children : William Byron, born
in 1903 : Mary Louise, born in 1907 ; and
Evelyn, born in 1917.

Mr. Faust has long been a leader in the
local democratic party in iladison County.
He served as township trustee four yeai's
from 1908 to 1912. He was also candidate
for county treasurer on the democratic
ticket and came within ninety-seven votes
of being elected. In fraternal matters he
is prominent, especially in the Fraternal
Order of Eagles. He served as president
of Aerie No. 201 at Elwood in 1917 and
in 1918 was delegate to the National Con-
vention of the order at Pittsburgh. He is
also affiliated with Lodge No. 368, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, Elwood
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is past con-
sul of the Woodmen of the World. Mr.
Faust is a member of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church.

William Fortune. It was twenty years
ago in 1898 when a hundred citizens of
Indianapolis, headed by the late Benja-
min Harrison, presented William Fortune
with a loving cup inscribed: "To William
Fortune from citizens of Indianajinlis in
recognition of his services in promoting the
general welfare of the city."
. Considering the important services on
which the presentation was based it is
easy to understand the reason for such a
public testimonial. The fact becomes the
more noteworthy when it is recalled that
William Fortune was at the time only
thirty-five years of age. The young man
who thus early was signally honored b.^-
his fellow citizens has continued during
the subseqiicnt twenty years to give the
best of his energies and influence to the
city and its in.stitntions, and in the prime
of his years William Fortune has a power
and usefulness that without disparage-
ment of others makes him one of the fore-
most Indianans of the present generation.

He is a native of Southern Indiana,
born at Boonville, Warrick County, In-
diana, May 27, 1863, son of William H.
and Mary (St. Clair) Fortune. Thi-ough
his mother he is of French and Scotch de-
scent from the St. Clairs of Kentucky and
Virginia. His great-grandfather was
Raymond St. Clair and his grandfather
Isaac St. Clair. In the paternal line the
principal names are Shoemaker and For-
tune of English and German origin.
IMany of the St. Clairs were slave owners,
but the Kentucky branch of the family
took the L^nion side. William H. Fortune
was one of the first to enlist in Company
A of the First Indiana Cavalry, and
served throughout the war. In the sum-
mer of 1865 he located at ]\Iurfreesboro,
Tennessee, but soon met business reverses
which caused him to return North. The
boyhood of William Fortune was spent at
Paxton, Illinois, and Seymour, Shoals,
^Mitchell and Evansville in Indiana, and
from the age of nine to eighteen at his
native town of Boonville.

It was through the avenue of a print-
ing ofSce and newspaper work that Wil-
liam Fortune came into the larger arena of
life's affairs. In 1876, at the age of thir-
teen he was apprenticed in the printing
office of the Boonville Standard. M. B.
Crawford, the editor, took much interest
in training the boy as a writer. Before
he was sixteen he was doing much of the
editorial work of the paper. At the age
of seventeen he wrote and publislied a his-
tory of his native county. From the profits
of this he was able to provide for the fam-
ily, which had Itecome dependent upon
him.

The capital city has known him since
January, 1882, when he began work on
the reporting staff of the Indianapolis
Journal. Old time newspaper men say
there was nothing perfunctory or routine
like in William Fortune's i-eporting.
There are many facts to substantiate this
reputation. His reports of the sessions of
the Indiana General As.sembly in 1883-84
were the cause of several rather dramatic
incidents, resulting finally in an attempt
by the democratic majority to exjjel him
on the last day of the session. Enough
of the democratic senators voted on his
side to make -a tie, and the deciding vote
of Lieutenant-Governor Manson was cast
in his favor. A little later he succeeded

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Harry S. New as eity editor of the Journal,
but resigned in the spring of 1888 on ac-
count of ill health. He then founded the
Sunday Press, with Mrs. Emma Carleton
as associate editor. The Press had a high
literaiy quality with some of the best peo-
ple of the state among its contributors,
but the publication was discontinued at
the end of three months.

The nomination of Harrison for presi-
dent made Indiana the battle center of the
campaign of 1888. As special representa-
tive of several leading newspapers, includ-
ing the New York Tribune, Philadelphia
Press and Chicago Tribune, Mv. Fortune
did some notable work as political corre-
spondent. A little later he declined an
offer of the position of Washington cor-
respondent for the Chicago Tribune. From
1888 to 1890 he was editorial writer of the
Indianapolis News, then under the manage-
ment of John H. Holliday.

The modern era of Indianapolis began
about 1890. There is something of a di-
rect relationship of cause and effect be-
tween this era and the activities of
William Fortune. It was his destiny to
become the leader in that new movement.
With a keen and wide vision he saw what
the city needed at the time, had the abil-
ity to express it through the columns of
the paper he was serving, and after the
proper enthusiasm and determination were
aroused he was well equipped to marshal
and lead the forces to ultimate victory.
While so much of what followed is a vital
part of Indianapolis history for that very
reason it is worth while to recall it and
also to indicate the reasons which c'lused
the prominent citizens of Indianapolis to
honor 'Mr. Fortune as mentioned in the
first paragraph of this article.

Through several articles written for the
News ]\Ir. Fortune directed attention to
the extreme conservatism which then hin-
dered the physical improvement and com-
mercial development of the eity, urging
incidentally the organization of the pro-
gressive citizens to overcome this obstacle.
The writing came at an opportune mo-
ment, and elicited hearty response from a
large ciixle of readers. Mr. Fortune had
suggested that the proper organization to
undertake the work was the Board of
Trade. But when a resolution was
brought before the board it was defeated.
Colonel Eli Lilly was one of the few mem-

bers of the Board of Governors who sup-
ported the resolution.

The board having declined the splendid
opportunity, Mr. Fortune hastily sum-
moned a meeting of business men at the
Bates House for the following day. The
twenty-seven men who attended this meet-
ing became the nucleus of the Commer-
cial Club of Indianapolis. It was or-
ganized two days later with eighty charter
members, and with Colonel Lilly as presi-
dent and ilr. Fortune as secretary the
membership within a month was a thou-
sand. The important undertakings which
marked the beginning of the new era for
Indianapolis were projected while Colonel
Lilly and William Fortune were officials
of the club. Of course a description of
those undertakings is outside the province
of this article. Mr. Fortune was secretary
of the club from 1890 to 189.5, tilled the
office of vice president from 1895 to 1897,
and was president in 1897-98.

From his active connection with the
Commercial Club there resulted a number
of other issues through which Mr. Fortune
has been a factor in the upbuilding of
Indianapolis and the state. In 1890 he
had charge of the National Paving Ex-
position, the first exposition of the kind
ever held. It convened in Indianapolis. It
had been planned originally to interest the
people of this city in gootl street pave-
ments and to aiford them the opportunity
of complete information as to materials
and methods. However, the enterprise at-
tracted such wide attention throughout
the country that delefj'ates were present
from many municipalities all over the
United States. This exposition marked
the beginning of modern paving in In-
dianapolis, not to mention any of its more
extended benefits elsewhere.

Following this successful convention Mr.
Fortune proposed, in 1891, that a system-
atic effort be made to bring large conven-
tions and meetings to Indianapolis. The
plan was adopted, a fund raised for the
work, and since then Indianapolis has fig-
ured as one of the leading convention cities
of the nation. He started a state-wide
movement for good roads in 1892, as a re-
sult of which a Good Roads Congress as-
sembled in Indianapolis with delesates
from nearly everj' county, and out of this
came the formation of the Indiana High-
way Association, ilr. Fortune declined

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the presidency of the congress, Init his
work in behalf of good roads was made
the subject of a testimonial of the meet-
ing. He took a prominent part in the
Good Roads Congress at tlie "World's Fair
of 1893.

His executive ability was never more
severely te.sted than in 1893, when he was
elected executive director of the Grand
Army National Encampment at Indianapo-
lis. It was the year of the panic, and it
was a difficult problem to raise money.
The previous year the expenses of the En-
campment at "Washington had been nearly
$160,000. Of the .tl20,000 raised in In-
dianapolis .'|!75,000 was appropriated by the
city council. The Indianapolis Encamp-
ment was conducted on fully as large a
scale as at Washington, while the accom-
modations for veterans were the best ever
provided anywhere. At the close of the
convention the total expenses footed up to
only $63,000, and more than $42,000 of the
city appropriation was returned and about
$12,000 of the amount raised by the Com-
mercial Club was left in the treasury.

Mr. Fortune was a member of the com-
mittee of three that had charge of relief
for more than 5,000 unemployed in In-
dianapolis during the winter of scarcity
and hard times of 1894. Other members
of the committee were H. H. Hanna and
Colonel Eli Lilly. The "Indianapolis
Plan," as adopted and successfully car-
ried out bj- this committee, attracted wide
attention among charity workers and be-
came the subject of several magazine ar-
ticles. It is described at length in a
pamphlet entitled "Relief for the Un-
employed." Food, fuel and- clothing
were provided for unemployed people in
need under conditions which eliminated as
far as practicable the pauperizing influ-
ences of charity. After worthiness had
been established, credit was given at a store
or market where supplies were obtained in
proportion to the size of the family on
credits earned by labor provided by the
committee. A significant testimony to the
value of the plan is that in the spring of
1894 there were fewer people than usual
dependent upon the Charity Organization
Society.

Another important distinction that be-
longs to Mr. P'oi'tune is as originator of
the Indiana State Board' of Cnnnnerce,
which lie served as president in 1897,

1898 and 1899. He proposed and brought
about this organization in 1894. The State
Board was composed of commercial or-
ganizations of the various cities of Indiana,
brought together for united action in ad-
\-anciiig the public and commercial inter-
ests of the state. The State Board, under
the leadership of Mr. Fortune, inaugu-
rated a movement for reforms in county
and township government by separating
legislative and administrative functions
and establishing county councils and town-
shij) advisory boards to levy taxes and
make appropriations. Those reforms were
enacted by the Legislature, and official sta-
tistics showed that the first year of their
operation saved the people of the state over
$3,000,000.

\iy appointment in 1894 :\Ir. Fortune be-
came one of the original members of the
Commercial Club Elevated Railroad Com-
mission. Together with Colonel Lilly he
spent many years in agitating the aboli-
tion of grade crossings, and became chair-
man of the commission in June, 1898. at
the death of Colonel Lilly. It was in that
year that the City of Indianapolis passed
its first ordinance requiring track eleva-
tion. Then followed a long period of liti-
gation, application of legislative measures
and the arousing of public opinion in local
campaigns before the railroad corporations
finally yielded this improvement. Even-
tually the eity charter was so amended as
to provide for continued progress in the
elevation of tracks. Mr. Fortune was
chairman of the commission from 1898 to
1916.

In 1911 ;Mr. Fortune represented the
State of Indiana and the City of In-
dianapolis in a tour of European cities for
the purpose of studying municipal and
commercial conditions.

He was chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee in charge of the celebration of
James "Whitcomb Riley's anniversary in
1916, an event which brought many' dis-
tinguished persons from all over the
country to do homage to the great Hoosier
poet on his last birthday preceding his
death. Mr. Fortune was one of Mr.
Riley's close friends, and they made a trip
through Jlexico together in 1906.

For many years :\Ir. Fortune found
these varied public enterprises sufficient to
absorl) all his time and energy to the ex-
rlusinn of newspaper work, which he aban-

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doned many years ago. However his con-
nection with the National Paving Exposi-
tion in 1890 suggested to him the need of
a publication devoted especially to
municipal improvements. With William
C. Bobbs as business manager he soon
afterward founded "Paving and Munici-
pal Engineering," as a sixteen page maga-
zine. This afterward became the
j\Iunicipal Engineering ilagazine, the
pioneer and recognized authority in that
tield in America. He was president of
the company which owned the publication
and for a number of years was its editor,
but sold his interest in the publishing com-
pany in 1912.

During the past ten years his business
interests have been chiefly in the telephone
business. He is president of the In-
dianapolis Telephone Company, of the
New Long Distance Telephone Company,
and a number of other telephone compa-
nies, is a director and chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Eli Lilly &
Company, and in 1908-09 was president of
the Inter-State Life Assurance Company.

In 1905 Mr. Fortune was decorated with
the order of the Double Dragon by the
Emperor of China, and at the same time
the Mandarin rank was conferred upon
him by the Chinese Emperor. With all
his varied interests and activities it seems
a far cry from Indianapolis to China, but
this distinction was due to Mr. Fortune's
personal relations with Won Kai Kah, the
Chinese diplomat who established his
home in Indianapolis while in America.
Through this distinguished character of
the Orient Prince Pu Lun was invited to
become the giiest of Indiana and In-
dianapolis for a week in 1904. Mr. For-
tune was chairman of the general com-
mittee in charge of the entertainment of
the Prince and his party, which was one
of the most elaborate and interesting un-
dertakings of the kind in the history of
Indianapolis.

Through tlie Commercial Club, in 1902,
Mr. Fortune offered a gold medal to the
pupil of the public schools writing the
best essay on the topic "Why we take
pride in Indianapolis." This prize was
afterwards awarded annually by the Com-
mercial Club for a number of years. ^Ir.
Fortune was the first president of the
Indianapolis Press Club, organized in
1891, was one of the organizers of the
Century Club and its president in 1892,

was for two years president of the Indiana
Automobile Club from 190-4 to 1906, and
is a member of the LTniversity, Columbia,
Contemporary, Country, Woodstock, Athe-
naeum and Economic clubs, and was presi-
dent of the latter in 1917.

Mr. Fortune has been at the head of the
Indianapolis Chapter of the American Red
Cross since its organization in 1916, and
had charge of the raising and expenditure
of over .1*600,000 in 1917 for war activities
and relief purposes. In 1916 he was
awarded the medal of merit by the
National Council of the American Red
Cross.

When the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce was reorganized in 1917 ]\Ir.
Fortune was by unanimous vote chosen as
president. His acceptance was made condi-
tional on the raising of a special fund of
.'^SO.OOO for new and constructive work.
Nearly double the amount was raised. He
continued a.s president throughout the war
period, during which the chamber en-
gaged largely in special war activities, em-
liracing industrial training schools for
soldiers and a war contract bureau that
brought to Indiana a vast amount of war
business amounting to many millions of
dollars.

At a public meeting of officers and di-
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce,
Board of Trade, Merchants' Association,
Clearing House, Rotary, Optimist and
Kiwanis clubs in April, 1917, 'Slv. Fortune
was by unanimous vote chosen to take the
leadership in an organization to raise a
great fund for war relief and local char-
itable and philanthropic purposes, and to
have charge of the expenditures. This or-
ganization took the name of the War Chest
Board of Indianapolis. In a campaign of
a week in the following month, partici-
pated in by committees of nearly 4.000
citizens, subscriptions were secured for
approximately .1*3,000.000 from over
10:3,000 persons. Jlr. Fortune has contin-
ued at the head of the War Chest Board.
He is also a member of the Executive-
Committee of the national organization of
war chests, cities representing about
$70,000,000 of war relief funds.

He has been at the head of organized
movements which have raised more money
by donation for public purposes than any
other citizen of Indianapolis. Under his
leadership over $4,000,000 was raised in
Indianapolis for war relief and other pub-

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lie purposes during the last three years
of the great war. Among the notable
events in the money-raising campaigns led
by him he presided over the dinner at the
Indianapolis Club in June, 1917, addressed
by Stephen S. Wise of New York, where
$200,000 was subscribed for the Red Cross
— the record event of this kind in In-
dianapolis.

One of the important undertakings in-
itiated by ilr. Fortune as president of the
Chamber of Commerce came in December,
1918, when he explained to the Board of
Directors plans which had long been de-
veloping in his mind for stimulating
greater community spirit. He was asked
by the Board to take the lead in cariying
out his ideas, and this resulted in the en-
actment by the Indiana Legislature of a
law creating in Indianapolis the Commu-
nity Welfare Board as an executive depart-
ment of the city. This Board is composed
of sixteen members who serve without pay
and is vested with broad powers for doing
anything for the health, education, safety,
convenience, pleasure, welfare or benefit of
the community, whenever the money there-
for is provided by donation. Much in-
terest has been evinced in other cities
throughout the country in the develop-
ment of the plans. The Board w^as organ-
ized in May, 1919, and Mr. Fortune was
unanimously elected the first chairman.

November 25, 1884, Mr. Fortune mar-
ried Miss May Knubbe, daughter of
Frederick and Jerusha A. Knubbe, of
Michigan City. Mrs. Fortune died Sep-
tember 28, 1898, leaving three children :
Russell, Evelyn and ^Madeline. Evelyn is
the wife of Eli Lilly, a grandson of
Colonel Eli Lilly of Indianapolis, and
Madeline is the wife of Captain Bowman
Elder.

Oren S. H.\ck is one of the prominent
members of the Indianapolis liar. With
not more than the average opportunity,
with qualifications that are the result of
downright hard work and earnest purpose,
Mr. Hack has acquired not only an enviable
reputation in his profession but in the so-
cial and civic life of the chief city of In-
diana.

He was born on a farm in ]\Ioral Town-
ship, Shelby County, Indiana, April 1.
1876. His grandfather and grandmother
were natives of Germany and came to the
LTnited States about 1840, settling in But-

ler County, Ohio, soon after arriving. The
father, John A. Hack, was born in Butler
County, Ohio, and came to Indiana with his
parents when about twelve years of age. He
became a substantial farmer in Shelby
County, and in that county he married
Jane Smith, who was born there of an
English family that came to Indiana from
North Carolina.

It was in one of the almost backwoods
districts of the state that Oren S. Hack
spent his boyhood and early youth. The
bread he ate when a boy was sweetened
with the toil of the fields, and the meager
opportunities he had in the district schools
merely whetted his ambition for more
learning. In order to complete his higher
education he had to pay his own way. At
the age of seventeen he was teaching a tenn
in a district school and for four years he
was a teacher in the high school of Boggs-
town, Shelby County. In intervals of his
teaching he attended the Indiana Central
Normal College at Danville, where he grad-
uated Bachelor of Science in 1896. Two
years were spent in the law department of
the same institution, and he completed the
course and received the degree LL. B. in
1898. In that year he was admitted to the
bar and in March, 1899, came to Indian-
apolis, where he had the good fortune to
become associated with Judge Leonard J.
Hackney, a former associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Indiana and now vice
president of the New York Central Rail-
road.

While at Danville ilr. Hack maintained
and provided for a club of students, and
that enabled him to support himself and
pay his college expenses. After coming to
Indianapolis he continued the study of law,
and in 1901 received his legal degree from
the University of Indianapolis. He was
associated with Judge Hackney until 1903.
On January 1, 1903, he formed a partner-
ship with Elliott R. Hoot en. The firm of
Hooten & Hack for many yeai-s has repre-
sented some of the best ability and sound-
est learning of the Indianapolis bar and
has enjoyed a generous share of the im-
portant legal business of the city.

Mr. Hack has also been active in public
affairs, having served as deputy city attor-
ney two years under the administration of
]\Iayor Holtzman, and was deputy prose-
cuting attorney of Jlarion Countv from
January 1, 1907, to January 17. 1910. Po-
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president of the Indiana Democratic Club,
and has become one of the recognized state
leaders of the city. Mr. Hack is a Knight
Templar ilason, is also identified with the
Scottish Rite and with Murat Temple of
the ilystic Shrine. He and his wife are ac-
tive Presbyterians, and he has membership
in the Contemporary Club and the Athe-
naeum.

June 16, 1908. ilr. Hack married .Miss
Elizabeth Miller, a pi-ominent Indiana au-
thor whose career is told in a separate ar-
ticle. Mr. and Mrs. Hack have three chil-
dren : Elizabeth Virginia, born in 1909, and
died in 1916 ; John, bom in 1910 ; and Elea-
nor'Miller, born in 1913.

Elizabeth Miller Hack, of Indian-
apolis, better' known to an ever widening
circle of the readers and admirers of her
literary productions mider the pen name
of '■ Elizabeth Miller," has a reputation al-
ready secured that places her high among
Indiana authors, though hardly yet in the
prime of her years, so that perhaps the best
works from her pen are still to appear.

Mrs. Hack was born on a farm in ilont-
gomery County, Indiana, near the little
town of New Ross, August 17, 1878.
Through her father she has a commingling
of English, French and Dutch blood, while
through her mother her ancestry is Scotch-
Irish and Welsh. She might well lay claim
to being of Indiana ancestry, since no non-
Hoosier blood has been added to the fam-
ily line in 100 years. Her first Hoosier
ancestor wa.s Henry Miller, who came to
Indiana in 1S03. Following him came in
1806 Dr. John George Pfrimmer. Doctor
Pfrimmer was born in France and was a
surgeon of De Grasse's flagship while that
French officer was assisting the cause of the.
revolting colonies in the struggle for in-
dependence. Doctor Pfrimmer was a sol-
dier, minister of the Gospel, doctor of laws
and n jihysician. He was the first associ-
ate jiisti.c of Indiana and founded the first
I'liitrd r,i-.'tlii'en Church and built the first
chapel of that denomination in Indiana.

Mrs. Hack's parents were Timothy and
Samantha (West) Miller. Her father was
for thirty years connected with the railway
mail service, and was a man noted for his
kindly heart and generous hand. Her
mothicr was one of the early newspaper
women of Indiana. During her girlhood
her parents farmed through the summer

and taught school during the winter. They
cherished the old time reverence for pro-
fessions and in 1883 they brought their
young family to Indianapolis to give them
the benefit of higher education.

Elizabeth Miller was then five years of
age and was placed in St. Patrick's Pa-
rochial School until she was of school age.
In 1897, after leaving the Manual Training
High School, now the Emmerich School,
she entered Butler College. It was while in
Butler that she began writing. Her pro-
ductions brought encouragement from
editors and from more than one author of
international reputation living at the time.

Although her work was mainly verse, she
ventured upon a novel in 1901. This was
published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company
in 1904 under the title "The Yoke." The
story proved popular and was followed in
1905 by "Saul of Tarsus." In 1907 she
produced "The City of Delight." These
three books established her as a writer of
Biblical novels. These books have besides
their merit of entertaining tales and of fin-
ished literary style a value as commen-
taries.

It was soon after the publication of the
last w'ork that she married in 1908 ilr.
Oren S. Hack, one of the prominent mem-
bers of the Indianapolis bar. Mrs. Hack is
the mother of three children. She is do-
mestic in tastes, lives simply, and has none
of the traditional marks of the feminine
blue stocking. She has been a devoted
mother and outside of her books her fa-
vorite pastime is the cultivation of flowers.
Her home is at 2239 Broadway, but she
spends her summers in her typical Hoosier
farmhouse on her husband's farm of sev-
eral hundred acres in Shelby County.

In 1915 ]\Irs. Hack brought out another
novel "Daybreak," issued from the house
of Scribner. This is a story of the age of
discovery, dealing with the voyage of Co-
lumbus. It, has found especially high fa-
vor among educational circles, and "Da.y-
break" has already been incoi'porated in
school supplementary reading in many
parts of the United States.

Mrs. Hack is a member of the Contem-
porary Club, the Woman's Press Club of
Indiana, Inter Nos, of which she is presi-
dent : and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
She is a member of the First Pi-esbyterian
Church of Indianapolis and in polities, a
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Ojier ilADisoN Kem, Congressman from
Nebraska, was born in Wayne County, In-
diana. November 13, 1855, and received his
education in the common schools. In 1882
lie removed to Custer County, Nebraska,
where he engaj;ced in farming. He joined
the Independent Republican movement of
that state in support of the free coinage of
silver, and entered politics in 1890 as dep-
uty treasurer of Custer County. In the
same year he was elected to Congress, as
a colleague of William Jennings Bryan,
and was re-elected in 1892 and 189-1:. He
was a forcible speaker, and frequently
spoke in Congress on economic topics.
After the free coinage defeat of 1896. he
removed to a farm near Montrose, Colo-
rado, and engaged in fruit-growing.

Edward Alvador DeMent has been
through all the branches and grades of
responsibility in the clothing business, has
held some important offices, and is now
general manager of the Anderson branch
of the Greenwald corporation, one of the
largest houses specializing in men's and
boys' clothing, hats and furnishing goods
in the country. The Anderson store is lo-
cated on the Public Square and has been
one of the reliable establishments in this
city for a number of years.

ilr. DeAIent was born on a farm at West
Union in Brown County. Ohio, in 1885, a
son of Isaac and Anna (Liggett) DeMent.
He is of English and French stock. His
grandfather, Isaac De^Ient. came to
America from Marseilles, France, being ac-
companied by his brother Jacob. Isaac set-
tled in Brown County, Ohio, where his pio-
neer industry cleared up a farm out of the
woods.

Edward A. De]\Ient had his early train-
ing in a log cabin country scliool in
Brown Count.v, and only during a few
months each winter. When he was nine
years of age his parents moved to Cincin-
nati, and there he had the superior ad-
vantages of the city public schools. At the
age of sixteen he got his first job in a drug
store, helping around in different services
for five years. He then went to clerk in
the clothing store of Samuel Sinnnons Com-
pany at Cincinnati, and while there sold
goods, trimmed windows, wrote cards and
made himself generally useful for a year.
His next location was at Dayton, Ohio,
where he did similar work for ]\Ioses Cohen
Company. With the Willners Brothers of

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Dayton he was put in charge of the hat
department, and after three weeks was pro-
moted to window trimmer and floor mana-
ger, at the end of three months became
assistant manager of the business, and was
with that large firm for two years. He
next became a.ssistant manager for Elder,
Johnson & Company, with whom he re-
mained three years. Returning to Cin-
cinnati, ilr. De^Ient was manager and
Iniyer for the men and boys' clothing and
furnishings store in that cit.v owned and
operated by the H. B. Claflin syndicate of
New York. A year and a half later he
left Cincinnati and on December 1, 1917,
became local manager of the Anderson
branch of the Greenwald Outfitting Com-
pany.

;\Ir. DeMent married Florence Dankel,
daughter of Fred and Mary (Eberhardt)
Dankel, of Cincinnati. Her father was at
one time a successful merchant in that city
and was also prominent as a public offi-
cial. He i-esided at Norwood, a suburban
town of Cincinnati, and for eleven years
was in the postal service and at the' time
of his death was superintendent of streets
of Norwood. Mr. and Mrs. De^Ient have
two children: Russell William, liorn No-
vendser 26, 1909, and Vera Jane, born
April 29, 1912.

Mr. DeMent is independent in politics.
He is affiliated with the JIasonic Lodge at
Cincinnati, is also a Scottish Rite Mason
and a member of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles at Dayton, Ohio. He is a member
of the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. John R. Quixla.v has been an or-
.ganizing factor in the history of the Catho-
lic Church in Northern Indiana for more
than a cpiarter of a century, most of his
activities centering around" Fort Wayne,
where he is now and for a number of years
has been rector of the Cathedral.

He was born at Valparaiso, Indiana,
April 19, 1858, son of Jlichael and Hannah
(Shanahan) Quinlan. His parents were
Iwth born in Ireland and were brought to
this country when children. They married
in Valparaiso, and Michael Quinlan was
for a number of years a foreman in the
construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad. In 1861 he enlLsted
in the United States regular army at
Chicago, and as a soldier saw and partici-
pated in some of the hardest fighting of
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Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain and many
others. At the close of the war he re-
ceived an honorable discharge, and soon
returned to Valparaiso, where he married
a second wife. He spent his last years
as a farmer in Kansas, and died in that
state in 1905, at the age of seventy-eight.

Father Quinlan was only two "years of
age when his mother died. He attended
the parochial schools of Valparaiso, took
his classical course in St. Francis Semi-
nary near ililwaukee and graduated in
1890. He was ordained a priest June 22,
1890, said his first mass on the 29th of
June, and on July 4th arrived at Fort
Wayne, where he was appointed by Bishop
Dwenger as assistant pastor of the Cathe-
dral. He was busied with the duties of
that office for eight years. In 1898 he was
transferred to Huntington, Indiana, and
there estalilished St. Mary's Parish. His
work at Huntington was thoroughlv con-
structive. He built a brick church, school-
house, a pastoral residence and Sisters'
home, and did all this and kept the parish
growing for a period of 3i,4 vears.
March 10, 1901, he was recalled' to" Fort
Wayne and made rector of the Cathedral.
But strenuous devotion to his duties had
seriously undermined his health and after
six months he suffered a complete break-
down and was given a temporary relief
from duty. Later he returned to Hunt-
ington and remained in that citv until
July 6, 1910. At that date he resumed
his duties as rector of the Cathedral at
Fort Wayne, and is now in the ninth con-
secutive year of his service in that position.

John Morris, who began practice at
Fort Wayne thirty years ago, has helped
further to honor the profession which in
the person of his father, the late Judge
John Morris, had one of its most distin-
guished members in Indiana.

Three years after Judge Morris located
at Fort Wayne his son John was born,
March 24, 1860. :\Ir. Morris spent his
early years in the Fort Wayne public
schools, and was a member of the class of
1883 of the University of Michigan. His
law studies were largely directed by his
father and Judge William H. Coombs for
three years. In June, 1886, after his ad-
mission to the bar, he formed a partner-
ship with Charles H. Worden and they
were associated until May 22, 1893, when
Mr. Morris and William P. Breen estab-

lished the firm of Breen & Morris, now
one of the oldest as well as one of the
strongest professional alliances in Fort
Wayne. From 1889 to 1893 Mr. IMorris
was also deputy clerk of the United States
Court. In 1904 ]\Ir. Morris was chosen
as delegate from Indiana to the Interna-
tional Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at
St. Louis. He is a director of the People's
Trust & Savings Association and has man.v
other interests that identify him with his
home city and state.

^Ir. ]\Iorris is a stanch republican. He
is a member of the Allen County and In-
diana Bar associations and the American
Law Association. He is a Scottish Rite
Mason, an Elk and a member of the Colum-
bia Club of Indianapolis, the Fort Wayne
Commercial Club and the Fort Wayne
Country Club.

Judge John Morris. Of Indiana law-
yers who exemplified the rule that the law
is a profession and not a trade, the late
Judge John [Morris so distinguished his
practice and embodiment of the rule that
his example might well be studied and
emulated by every lawj-er in the state.

Sixty years ago he located at Fort
Wayne, and from that city his skill and
abilities as an attorney and his lofty and
high minded character spread its influence
over all of Xorthern Indiana. His life
was as long as it was noble. He was born
in Columbiana County, Ohio, December
6, 1816, and died at Fort Wayne in 1905,
at the age of eighty-eight. His life proved
among other things the value of good in-
heritance. His ancestors were long lived,
sturdy, upright stock, and most of them
of the Quaker faith. His gi-eat-grand-
father, Jenkins Morris, was a naval en-
gineer, and during the latter part of the
eighteenth century came from Wales and
settled in Loudoun County, Virginia. He
acquired large tracts of land, and lived
by selling portions of it as his necessities
required. His son John ilorris accom-
plished one of those stages so familiar in
the progress of the American people west-
ward, and in 1801 moved to Columbiana
County, Ohio, and became a farmer. Some
of his original land is still owned by the
family, and on the old farm were born
his children and the children of his sou
Jonathan. Jonathan Morris was the father
of Judge ]Morris. Jonathan Morris' moth-
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of long life the most notalile of Judge
Morris' ancestors. She was born ]\Iay 9,
1744, and died April 15, 1846, when nearly
102 years of age. Judge Morris' maternal
grandmother died in her ninety-sixth
year. Jonathan ]\Iorris married Sarah
Snider, who was of German descent, though
the Sniders had come in 1799 to Colum-
biana County, Ohio.

John Jlorris, fourth in the family of
twelve children, lived on his father's farm
to the age of fifteen. During the winter
months he attended the Quaker schools in
the neighborhood and then went to Rich-
mond, Indiana, and spent three years study-
ing history, natural philosophy and mathe-
matics at the Quaker Academy. The next
three years were passed at New Lisbon in
Columbiana County, where he worked at
the trade of millwright with his friend.
Dr. J. E. Hendricks, afterward a well
known mathematician and author of the
"Annalist," a mathematical work in ten
volumes, "\^^^ile working he and his friend
studied literature and mathematics under
Abijah ilcClain and Jesse Underwood.

While teaching school in the winter
months John ^lorris at the age of twenty-
one began to study law under William D.
Ewing, then one of the prominent members
of the Ohio Bar. At twenty-four he was
examined for admission to the bar by two
.iudges of the Ohio Supreme Court and
in the presence of many local and visiting
lawyers at New Lisbon. One of those who
assisted in conducting the examination was
Edwin i\I. Stanton, afterward a member
of Lincoln's cabinet, and still another was
David Tod, afterward governor of Ohio.
That his (|ualifications were above the ordi-
nary is evident in the fact that inuuediately
after his admission to the bar he was oiitered
a partnership by Hiram Griswold, one of
the defenders of John Brown. But he
accepted this partnership for only a brief
time, and in 1844 sought the superior op-
portunities of the new towns in Indiana
aiul with his friend Hendricks began prac-
tice at Auburn, Indiana. Judge Jlorris
in 1852 was candidate for .judge of the
Common Pleas Court for DeKalb and Steu-
ben counties, and was elected over his
democratic opponent in a strongly demo-
cratic district.

Judge ]\Iorris came to Fort Wayne in
1857, at the invitation of Charles Case,
and entered the firm of Case, ^Morris &
Withers. While at Auliurn he had become

aciiuainted with James L. Worden, and
theirs was a beautiful friendship lasting
in singular purity and strength until the
death of 'Sir. Worden. A few years later
Charles Case was elected a member of
Congress. In 1864, after Judge Worden
had been defeated as democratic candidate
for the Supreme Court, he and Judge
Morris entered into the partnership of Wor-
den & ^Morris, which continued until Wor-
den was elected to the Supreme Bench
in 1870. After that Judge Morris con-
tinued practice with 'Sir. Withers until
1873, and then entered the firm of Coomlis,
Morris & Bell.

In 1881 the Legislature provided for a
commission for the relief of the Supreme
Court. It was provided that the members
of the Supreme Court should appoint five
persons to serve as commissioners, each
.judge to select one commissioner from his
judicial district. Judge Worden, though
a democrat, selected Judge ]\Iorris, a re-
publican, as member of this commission.
His service as commissioner continued from
April 27, 1881, to September 1. 1883.
While on the commission he decided 175
cases, which are reported in Volumes 73
to 91 of the "Reports of the Supreme
Court." His decisions are characterized
by lucid style, sound logic and a strong
sense of justice of erjuity, and they served
to supplement the estimate that Judge
Morris possessed the highest qualifications
for judicial work.

On resigning from the commission Judge
Morris began practice at Fort Wayne with
Charles H. Aldrich and James 'SI. Barrett
under the name of Morris, Aldrich & Bar-
rett. He was head of this firm until Mr.
Aldrich removed to Chicago in 1886, after
whicli he and ^Ir. Barrett were associated
as Morris & Barrett until 1891. At that
date they united with the firm of Bell &
Morris under the same name ]\lorris. Bell,
Barrett & Morris. January 1, 1898, :\Ir.
Bell retired, and the firm was then Morris,
Barrett & ^Morris until Judge Morris ac-
cepted the position of referee in bank-
ruptcy for the Fourteenth District, to
which he had been appointed by Judge
Baker. The clerical duties of this position
proved uncongenial and he promptly re-
signed. He then resumed practice with
his grandson, Edward J. Woodworth, and
that association continued until he practi-
cally retired a short time liefore his death.

Concerning his character both as lawver

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and man it is fortunate that access can
be had to an article written by a member
of the bar published in the Indiana Law
Journal in 1899, when Judge Morris was
past fourscore and had practically per-
fected his record of usefulness, though still
in active practice.

His contemporaries twenty yeai|s ago
knew him as a man "of medium height,
singularly erect in form, spry in movement,
with handsome, regular features, indicative
of strength, tirmness and intelligence, and
with hair and whiskers white as the purest
snow. He is always affable, polite and
genial. His manner is of the quiet, digni-
fied type, not wanting in cordiality, but
never drifting into extremes. With a keen
sense of propriety and great regard for the
feelings of others, his manners are always
gentle and his demeanor towards all is
kindness itself. His uniform courtesy and
consideration for the rights and feelings
of others are distinctive featiires of his
character, and have won for him the warm
friendship of all who know him. He is
generous to a fault. His purse is always
open to the unfortunate, even to those
whose afflictions are self-imposed. His life
has been an exemplification of the virtues
and graces of a quiet, dignified, courteous
gentleman. ' '

Judge Morris was fond of the country,
of domestic animals, and of all the varied
life of the outdoors, and took the keenest
pleasure always in his home garden and
grounds. But all this was subsidiary to
his life as a student. He was a lover of
books, his mind was fashioned to study,
industry and research, and the fact that he
was a keen student of mathematics and de-
lightetl in complicated problems furnishes
a strong hint as to the faculty which made
him such a master of court and trial tech-
nic. Upon the law he concentrated all the
resources of a good mind, a good character,
and lifelong study and industry. He so
eompletel.y mastered the formal teehnic of
the law, including the definition of legal
terms, and memorizing the volume and
page containing leading cases, that it all
became incorporated into his very being
and left his mind and judgment free for
the larger and broader issues. The law
was in fact his one passion. It is said
that no one could suggest to him a difficult
legal proposition that he would not in-
stantly begin a search of the books to find
its solution. The writer already quoted

describes his methods and manners as a
lawyer :

"He is indefatigable in the preparation
of every case intrusted to him. Never eon-
tent with the investigation of his client's
side of the cause, he studied with almost
equal care the side of his adversary. He
learned the facts and decisions that would
be used against him and was prepared to
parry them. The lawyers who met him
soon learned that they could not safely
rely upon the slips of their adversary. He
has always enjoyed the confidence of the
courts and juries, and the respect, esteem
and love of his professional associates. He
usually addresses the court or jury in> a
quiet, common sense manner, in low and
gentle tones, but when aroused by opposi-
tion the calm demeanor vanishes and his
whole nature seems changed, with power-
ful voice, flashing eye, earnest mien and
forceful argument. Always courteous to
an opponent, he never wastes words in
effusive or insincere compliments.

"He is a shrewd and skillful cross ex-
aminer, and possesses the rare faculty of
knowing what questions not to ask. He
never browbeats a witness, but treats him
with respect and deference, thereby secur-
ing his good opinion and confidence. Al-
though his examination of a reluctant or
untruthful witness is always thorough and
often severe, his methods are so suave that
the witness does not seem to realize the
fact.

"By hard labor, close attention to busi-
ness, an indomitable will, an unimpeach-
able integrity and unswerving fidelity to
his clients he soon reached the front rank
of his profession and for fifty years he has
enjoyed the distinction of being the rec-
ognized leader of the bar of northern
Indiana, The members of the bar look
to him for guidance, and his influence
among them has been unmeasured. His
time and knowledge were always freely
at the disposal of other lawyers, and many
have not hesitated to take advantage of his
good nature beyond the limits of profes-
sional courtesy.

"His well merited reputation for ex-
tensive knowledge of the law, for untiring
zeal in the cause of his client, and for
absolute honesty, secured for him a large
and extensive practice. For neai'ly half
a century he has been interested in most of
the important litigation of northeastern
Indiana, Had he measured the value of his

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services as highly as many lawyers of less
ability and reputation he could have been
rich. But his one fault, if fault it can
be called, is his underestimate of the value
of his own services. His charges were
always far below those usually prevail-
ing for like services. To the poor his advice
and counsel were always free."

The inheritance of wealth would have
meant little to such a man beside the in-
heritance of strong and virile qualities
of manhood. He achieved success on his
merit, and as a result of many years of
hard and conscientious labor, and through
his entire career there was never a breath
of suspicion or any action that compro-
mised his personal honor and integrity.
He was in fact as he has been described
"a man of spotless integrity, of earnest
convictions upon all great questions, frank
and outspoken, but as tender hearted as a
woman. A better or 'more conscientious
man has rarel.v lived. His ruling passion
has been a noble ambition to leave as a her-
itage the recoi'd of. an honest, well spent
life."

Judge Morris was an ardent republican
and one who thoroughly believed in the
principles and policy of his party. But
as this record shows, he was not a seeker
for otfice and seldom accepted even ap-
pointment. The two great interests of his
life were his profession and his home. On
April 27, 1841, soon after his admission
to the bar, he married Miss Theresa Jane
Farr, and their companionship continued
unbroken for fifty years.

"To all who knew him Judge Morris
will be remembered as a plain, unassuming,
honest man, an able lawyer, self reliant and
self made, pure in public life and private
conduct, of lofty ideals and high honor —
the noblest type of American citizenship."

Calvin Fletcher was liorn in Ludlow,
Vermont, February 4, 1798. Tlic Town of
Ludlow is in the County of Windsor, and
is situated on the eastern slope of the
Green :\Iountain range, midway between
Rutland and Bellows Falls. A ridge of
highlands separates the counties of Windsor
and Rutland and forms the boundary be-
tween the towns of Ludlow and Mount
Holly, the latter being in the County of
Rutland. Mr. Fletcher was a descendant
of Robert Fletcher, who was a native of
one of the northern counties of England,
probably Yorkshire, and settled in Con-

cord, Ma.ssachusetts, in 1630, where he died
at the age of eighty-five April 3, 1677,
leaving four sons, Francis, Luke, William
and Samuel. Calvin 's father, Jesse Fletch-
er, a son of Timothy Fletcher, of West-
ford, Massachusetts, was born in that town
November 9, 1763, and was preparing for
college under his elder brother, the Rev.
Eli,iah Fletcher of Ilopkinton, New Hamp-
shire, when the troubles of the Revolution
arrested his progress. He joined the pa-
triotic army at the age of sixteen and
served in two campaigns of six or eight
months each toward the close of the war.
Jesse's brother Elijah was the pastor of
the church in Hopkinton from January
23, 1773, until his death April 8, 1786.
The second daughter of Rev. Elijah
Fletcher was Grace, a most accomplished
and attractive person, who became the first
wife of the great American statesman and
orator, Daniel Webster. Col. Fletcher
Webster (who fell at the head of his regi-
ment in the second battle of Bull Run,
August 30, 1862) received at his christen-
ing the family name of his mother. Calvin
Fletclier and his oldest son. Rev. J. C.
Fletcher, more than once talked with Daniel
Webster concerning this cherished first
wife, Grace. The daughter of Grace's
brother (Timothy Fletcher) became the
wife of Doctor Brown-Sequard, the famous
specialist of Paris, France. Jesse married
in 1781, when about eighteen years old,
Lucy Keyes of Wcstford, who was born
November 15, 1765, being therefore hardly
sixteen when she became the bride of Jesse.
The young couple migrated from West-
ford to Ludlow, Vermont, about the year
1783, and were among the first settlers of
the place. From that time until the day of
liis death, in February, 1831, Jesse Fletcher
lived on the same fann, a farm still in
the possession of his descendants. He
was the first town clerk of Ludlow, was
a justice of the peace, and the second rep-
resentative to the General Court from
Ludlow. In that town all his fifteen chil-
dren, except the eldest, were born. His
widow, Lucy Keyes Fletcher died in 1846.
Calvin was the eleventh of these fifteen
children, most of whom lived to maturitv.
Under the teachings of an excellent fa-
ther and mother of more than ordinary
ability, Calvin early learned those habits
of industry and self-reliance and those
principles of uprightness w^hieh uniformly
characterized him in after life. AVhile

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performing: all the duties exacted from a
boy on a New England farm in those days
he" soon manifested a strong desire for
classical education, which was stimulated
both by his mother's advice and the suc-
cess of his brother Elijah, who had a few
years before completed his college course
at Dartmouth College. In accordance with
the prevailing custom of the early New
England families, his parents had selected
Elijah as the one best titted by natural
endowments and bent of mind to receive
a college education. Such selection of but
one member of a large family was indeed
a matter of necessity in those days, when
all were obliged to labor hard for the stern
necessities of life. Through his own ex-
ertions Calvin earned money enough to pay
the expenses of a brief course of instruc-
tion at the academies of Randolph and
Royalton in Vermont, and afterwards at
the rather famous classical academy of
Westford, Massachusetts. His cla.ssical
studies were interrupted by pecuniary dif-
ficulties at home. His father became fi-
nancially embarrassed; the older sons and
daughters had already gone out into the
world, and Calvin obtained permission from
his father to go also. His classical studies
had proceeded as far as Virgil, and he had
probably taken delight in reading of the
wanderings of the pious ^Eneas. He deter-
mined to be a sailor, and in April, 1817,
ill his nineteenth year, he went to Boston
and tried to obtain a berth on board an
East Indiaman. He failed to get an en-
gagement as a sailor before the mast, and
thereupon turned his face toward the coun-
try west of the Alleghenies. He worked
his way, mostly on foot, to Pennsylvania,
where "he engaged himself for a short time
as a laborer in a brickyard. He had left
home in a spirit of adventure, and had
by no means laid aside his literary tastes.
While working as a laborer he always car-
ried with him a small edition of Pope's
poems, which he read (particularly the
translation of Homer's Iliad and the Odys-
sey) at each moment of leisure. But his
brick-making came speedily to an end.
His intelligence attracted the attention of
a gentleman named Foote, by whom he
was encouraged to travel further westward,
to the State of Ohio. Mr. Fletcher has
himself described this period of his life in a
letter to ]\Ir. John Ward Dean, correspond-
ing secretary of the New England Historic

Genealogical Society, dated March 25, 1861,
in which he says :

"In two months I worked my way,
mostly on foot, to the western pai-t of
Ohio, and stopped at Urbana, then the
frontier settlement of the state, and had
no letters of introduction. I obtained la-
bor as a hired-hand for a short time, and
then a school. In the fall of 1817 I ob-
tained a position in the law office of Hon.
James Cooley, a gentleman of talents and
fine education, one of a large class which
graduated at Yale under Dr. Dwight. He
was sent to Peru (a.s U. S. charge d'af-
faires) under John Quincy Adams' ad-
ministration, and died there."

During the interval between his school
teaching and entering upon the study of
law at Mr. Cooley "s office, he was for a
time private tutor in the family of a Mr.
Gwin, whose fine library gave him an ex-
cellent opportunity for reading. In 1819
he went to Richmond, Virginia, and was
licensed to practice by the Supreme Court
of the Old Dominion. At one time he
thought of settling in Virginia, but even
then his strong love of freedom and respect
for the right of man made him renounce his
intention. He was an anti-slaverv- man
from principle, and was one when it cost
something to be one. No person who was
not living thirty or forty years ago in the
southern part of Ohio or Indiana can re-
alize the bitter prejudice that then existed
against the old-time abolitionists; he was
considered an enemy of his country, and
was subjected to both social and political
ostracism. But this did not deter :\Ir.
Fletcher nor cause him to alter his course.
He once said to one of his sons, long after
he had become celebrated as a lawyer in
the new capital of the State of Indiana:
''When I am in the court house, engaged
in an important case, if the governor of
the state should send in word that he wished
to speak to me, I would reply that I could
not go ; but if a Quaker should touch me on
the shoulder and say 'a colored man is
out here in distress and fear,' I would
leave the court house in a minute to see
the man, for I feel that I would have to
account at that last day when He shall
ask me if I have visited the sick and those
in prison or bondage, and fed the poor.
The great of this world can take care of
themselves, but God has made us stewards
of the downtrodden, and we must account
to Him." A man of this stamp could, of

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course, find no abiding place at that time
in Virginia, and Mr. Fletcher, renouncing
his intention of settling there, returned to
Urbana, where he became the law partner
of Mr. Cooley in 1820. Quoting again
from the autobiogi-aphical .sketch embodied
in his letter to ]\Ir. Dean, we use Mr.
Fletcher's own words in describing this
period of his career:

'■In the fall of 1820 I was admitted to
the bar, and became the law partner of
my worthy friend and patron, Mr. Cooley.
In the summer of 1821 the Delaware In-
dians left the central part of Indiana, then
a total wilderness, and the new state se-
lected and laid oif Indianapolis as its fu-
ture capital, but did not make it such until
by removal of the state archives and the
transfer of all state offices thither in No-
vember, 1824. and by the meeting of the
Legislature there on the 10th of January,
182.5. I had married, and on my request, my
worthy partner permitted me to leave him
to take up my residence at the place desig-
nated as the seat of government of Indiana.
In September of that year I left Urbana
with a wagon, entered the wilderness, and
after traveling fourteen days and camping
out the same number of nights, reached
Indianapolis, where there were a few newly
erected cabins. No counties had been laid
off in the newly acquired ten-itory, but
in a few years civil divisions were made.
I commended the practice of law, and
traveled twice annually over nearly one-
third of the northwestern part of the state,
at first without roads, bridges or ferries.
In 1825 I was appointed state's attorney
for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, embracing
some twelve of fifteen counties. This ofSce
I held about one year, when I was elected
to the State Senate, served seven years,
resigned, and gave up official po.sitions.
as I then supposed, for life. But in 1834
I was apix)inted by the Legislature one
of four to organize a state bank, and to
act as sinking-fund commissioner. I held
this place also for seven .vears. From 1843
to 1859 I acted as president of the branch
of the .state bank at Indianapolis, until
the charter expired."

The simple and unostentatious words in
which Mr. Fletcher alludes to his connec-
tion with the state do not convey any idea
of the struggle he had to go through in
reference to its organization. As senator
of the State of Indiana he gave great of-
fense to some of his constituents by oppos-

ing the first charter proposed for the or-
ganization of a state bank. He resigned
the senatorship, and the next j'ear another
charter was prepared which obviated the
objections. This charter passed through
the Legislature, and on the organization
of the bank he became a director on the
part of the state, and thenceforward gave
banking and finance a large portion of his
time and attention. Mr. Fletcher was the
first prosecuting attorney as well as the first
lawyer who practiced his profession in
Indianapolis. His sterling honesty and
strict attention to business soon gained for
him a large and lucrative practice. Hon.
Daniel D. Pratt, at one time LTnited States
senator from Indiana, was a student in
his office, and has contributed his recol-
lections of Mr. Fletcher in a letter written
after his old law preceptor's death, in
which he says:

' ' lu the fall of 1833 I entered his office.
He was then about thirty-five years of
age, possessed of a large practice, in the
Circuit and in the Supreme Court, standing
bj- common consent at the head of the pro-
fession in central Indiana and commanding
the un(iualified confidence of the commu-
nity. He fully deserved that confidence.
Scrupulously honest, fair in his dealings
with his clients, untiring in their interests,
I do not think I have ever met a man in
the legal profession of greater activity,
energy, earnestness and application to busi-
ness. He forgot nothing, neglected nothing
necessary to be done. This was the great
secret of his professional success. 'Sir.
Fletcher wa.s a strong man. physicalh',
morally and intellectually. In the early
.stages of his pioneer life he had to meet
men face to face, and at times with bodily
force he had to resist those who attempted
to deprive him of his rights. There were
no courts at first in the infant settlement
of Indiana to take cognizance of breaches
of the peace, but each man had to be, as
it were, 'a law unto himself.' "

He was equal to the emergency, and
could defend himself. In the same spirit
he stood ready also to befriend those who
otherwise might have been injured. He had
when young felt the pressure of poverty,
and had learned life from actual contact
with its difficulties, and while this gave
additional force and edge to his good sense
and acquainted him with the details of
hum])le life, it also aroused his disposition
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and the oppressed. To them his services
were often gratuitous or for meager com-
pensation. His sympathies were always
active, and he had the faculty of confer-
ring great benefits, not so much by direct
aid as by teaching them how to help them-
selves. Among those whom he thus befriend-
ed were many of the colored race, who in his
early years were still in bondage and who
were "only admitted to citizenship in the
closing years of his life. Several elements
contributed to Mr. Fletcher's eminent suc-
cess as a lawyer. One of his most service-
able powers was his remarkable memory,
which seemed to hold all that was com-
mitted to it. In his law office it was he
who kept in mind all the details and who
watched all the points of danger. He was
a shrewd and sagacious judge of men, and
had the faculty of inferring character from
circumstances generally overlooked. A
local chronicler says: "When introduced
to a stranger, he would for some minutes
give him his exclusive attention. He would
notice every remark and movement, every
expression of feature, and even the mi-
nutiae of dress, yet he did all this without
giving offense. He seemed to be ever under
some controlling influence which led him
to study character." He reviewed his cases
dramatically, and realized them in actual
life, then "the legal aspects of the case
were examined, authorities consulted, and
the question involved settled after cautious
deliberation. He was not oratorical in ad-
dressing juries, but was a clear and effective
speaker. His mo.st prominent talent was
his insight into the motives of parties and
witnesses, and he was especially strong
in cross-examination. In one case a wit-
ness who was compelled by him on cross-
examination to disclose facts which con-
tradicted his evidence in chief, fainted,
and his evidence was disregarded by the
jury. During the process of making up
his decisions on questions of law or policy
he preserved entire inpartiality, and was
ready at any moment to abandon an un-
tenable theory or opinion. He discouraged
all unnecessary litigation, and had great
success in adjusting cases by agreement of
the parties. To this point in his character
many well-to-do residents of Indianapolis
have feelingly testified in recent years, and
have said that to the good advice of Calvin
Fletcher they owed all they possessed. His
calm, just and effective method of rea.son-
ing with clients who came to him in the

flush of heated controversy and thirsting
for revenge for real or fancied wrongs was
like pouring oil on the troubled waters.
"Settle out of court and save costs," was
a favorite maxim of his that will be remem-
bered until all who knew him have passed
away.

Notwithstanding that his fees were mod-
erate, his business was so extensive and his
industry achieved so much that his income
was large. His judicious investments and
his plain and unostentatious mode of liv-
ing led to the rapid accumulation of
wealth. He was an example of temper-
ance, avoiding the use of either liquor or
tobacco, and never played cards, although
that was a great pastime among the law-
yers in his early days. The bar, judge and
people were then thrown much together at
country inns, and social and conversational
talents were of great advantage to a law-
yer. Here ^h\ Fletcher was remarkably
well endowed, hospitable to his friends,
amiable to those in his office, and popular
with all. Mr. Fletcher during his long
career as a lawyer had several partners and
the.v were friends to whom he was deeply
attached, and the attachment was recip-
rocal ; the prosperity of one was the pros-
perity of all. The two partners with
whom he was the longest associated were
Ovid Butler and Simon Yandes. Mr. But-
ler, after a prosperous career, founded
what is now known as "Butler Univer-
sity," at Irvingtou, Indiana, which is one
of the most flourishing educational insti
tutions of the Christian denomination.
Simon Yandes was a student with Messrs.
Fletcher and Butler in 1837-38, after
which he took a course at the law school
of Harvard University, and became the
partner of his old instructors — the firm of
Fletcher, Butler & Yandes continuing until
the senior partner retired in 1843.

In his autobiographical sketch from
which we have already quoted, Mr. Fletch-
er says: "During the forty years I have
resided in Indiana I have devoted much of
my time to agriculture and societies for
its promotion, and served seven years as
trustee of our city schools. I have been
favored with a large family, nine sons and
two daughters. Three of "the former have
taken a regular course and graduated at
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Is-
land, and two a partial course at the same
institution. I have written no books, but
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In 1860 he became a corresponding member
of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, to the secretary of which this let-
ter was written. He was a great lover of
nature, taking much interest in the study
of ornithology, and making himself famil-
iar with the habits, instincts and character-
istics of birds. The domestic animal found
in him a sympathizing friend. The works
of Audubon had a prominent place in his
library, which included a well selected col-
lection of general literature, and an ac-
cumulatio2i of local newspapers (which he
had neatly bound), books, and magazines
of inestimable value to the student of west-
ern history, which at his death was depos-
ited in one of the institutions of the city
of Indianapolis. Simon Yandes, Esq., his
former partner, in testifying to the charac-
ter of Mr. Fletcher, states that what Alli-
bone in his "Dictionary of Authors" says
of Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, is
eminently true of Calvin Fletcher, viz. :
"His habits were simple, temperate, ab-
stemious; his labors incessant." There was
much in common between the two men.
Allihone's further description of Drake is
that of Calvin Fletcher: "A philanthro-
pist in the largest sense, he devoted him-
self freely and habitually to works of
benevolence and measures for the ameliora-
tion of distress, the extension of religion
and intelligence, the good of his fellow
creatures, the honor and prosperity of his
country." The fine tribute of Senator
Pratt, from which we have already made
a brief extract, concludes as follow-s :

' ' He was a very simple man in his tastes.
Though possesseci of ample means, no one
could have inferred it from his manner of
life. His family lived and dressed plainly.
He was himself without a particle of osten-
tation ; republican simplicity characterized
every phase of his life, at home and abroad,
in his dress, furniture, table and associa-
tions. He was fond of the society of plain,
unpretentious people. The humblest man
entered his house unabashed. He took
plea.sure in the society of aspiring young
men and in aiding them by his eounsel.
He never tired in advising them ; in setting
before them motives for diligence and good
conduct, and examples of excellence. He
was fond of pointing to eminent men in
the different walks of life, of tracing their
hi.story, and pointing out that the secret
of their success lay in the virtues of dili-
gence, continuous application to a spe-

cialty, strict integrity and temperance.
Many young men of that period owe their
formation of character to these teachings
of Mr. Fletcher. He taught them to be
honest and honorable, to be just, exact,
prompt, diligent and temperate. He was
himself a shining example of all these vir-
tues. They formed the granite base of his
character. Others will speak of the relig-
ious phase of his life. It was not common
in those days to find men of the legal pro-
fession of deep religious convictions and
illustrating those convictions in their
every-day life and conversation. Mr.
Fletcher belonged to this exceptional class.
Religious exercises in his family were
habitual. He was a constant attendant at
church, and gave liberally to the support
of the ministry. The success of his blas-
ter's Kingdom upon the earth lay very
near his heart. He regarded religion as
forming the only reliable basis for success-
ful private and national life. In his
death the world has lost a good man, who
contributed largely in laying the founda-
tions, not only of the city where he dwelt,
but of the state itself. He was one of its
pioneers and leading men. His voice and
example were ever on the side of virtue,
and he contributed largely in molding the
public character."

No interest of Calvin Fletcher's life was
greater than that which he showed towards
the public school of Indianapolis. He was
one of three who constituted the first
board of school trustees. In recognition
of this fact and because he labored for
years in the interest of a system excelled
by none in this country, the'school on Vir-
ginia Avenue, No. 8, near his old home
was named "The Calvin Fletcher School."

The code of rules and regulations pre-
pared by Mr. Fletcher when free schools
were opened in Indianapolis in 1853 con-
stitutes the basis of the code in force in
the public schools todaj-.

Jlr. Fletcher's death, which occurred on
the 26th of May, 1866, the result of a f^ll
from his horse a few weeks previous,
caused much public sorrow. He had long
made for himself an honorable record as
a banker after his retirement from the
practice of law, and the bankers of In-
dianapolis pa.ssed resolutions on the day
after his death, in which they said:

"His devotion to every patriotic im-
pulse: his vigilant and generous attention
to every eall of benevolence; his patient

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care of all wholesome means of public im-
provement; his interest in the imperial
claims of religion, morale and education,
and his admirable success in securing the
happiness and promoting the culture of a
large famil.y, show conclusively that what-
ever importance he attached to the acquisi-
tion of wealth he never lost sight of the
responsibility to that Great Being who
smiled so generously on his life and whose
approbation made his closing hours serene
and hopeful."

Among those who attended his funeral
were a large number of colored people,
whose friend he had always been, and who
now testified their deep affection and ven-
eration for him. His remains were in-
terred in the cemetery at Crown Hill, In-
dianapolis.

ilr. Fletcher was twice married. His
first wife, Sarah Hill, a descendant of the
Randolphs of Virginia, was born near
]\Iaysville, Kentucky, in 1801, but her
father, Joseph Hill, moved to Urbana,
Ohio, when she was very young. This
marriage, which took place in May, 1821,
was a happy one in every respect. ]\Irs.
Fletcher was a quiet, refined pei-son, and
one would judge from her delicate appear-
ance that she would be unable to endure
the rigors of a pioneer life, but she proved
equal to the situation and not only made
a happy home for her husband and eleven
children, but her industry, economy and
general good management aided her hus-
band very greatly in laying the founda-
tion for his fortune. He cherished her
memory, and her children all held her in
most gi'ateful remembrance. The names
of the children of Calvin and Sarah Hill
Fletcher are here noted in the order of
their birth : James Cooley, Elijah Timothy,
Calvin, Miles Johnson, Stoughton Al-
phonso, IMaria Antoinette Crawford. In-
gram, William Baldwin, Stephen Keyes,'
Lucy Keyes and Albert Elliot. For his
second wife Mr. Fletcher married Mrs.
Keziah Price Lister. No children were
born of this union.

Stoughton A. Fletcher, Junior, was
one of the eleven children and the fifth of
nine sons born to Calvin and Sarah (Hill^
Fletcher. He was born at Indianapolis
Octolier 25, 1831, lived in the city contin-
uously more than sixty-three years, and
died in his beautiful home on Clifford

Avenue ]\Iarch 28, 1895. The simple rec-
ord of his noble, unostentatious life is the
most fitting eulogy that could be pro-
nounced. In youth he enjo.yed the benefit
of wholesome discipline instituted by a
broad-minded, practical Christian father
to qualify his sons for self-support and
useful citizenship. He had the educa-
tional advantage afforded by the best
schools of Indiana, and a partial course
in Brown LTniversity at Providence. He
was trained on his father's farm in the
actual work of husbandry, and manifested
unusual aptitude for agricultural pursuits
in boyhood. He .studied telegraphy and
became a practical operator at the age of
nineteen. This was supplemented by a
study of the operating department of rail-
roads at an early day, and he was placed
in charge as conductor of the first train
that ran out of the Union Station at In-
dianapolis, on the old Bellefontaine Rail-
road, in June, 1853. He applied himself
with such assiduity as to become conver-
sant with the machinery employed and the
methods of conducting railroad business.
He could run a locomotive and under-
stand its parts as well as the process of
construction. His thoroughness naturally
led to promotion and in two years he was
superintendent of the road. After a valu-
able and successful experience of five years
in railroad service he resigned in order
to assume the duties of clerk and teller
in the bank of his uncle, Stoughton A.
Fletcher. With characteristic energj- he
applied himself to the task of learning all
the details of banking. It was a matter
of principle with him to know all that
could be known of any business with which
he was connected, whether it was farming,
railroading, telegraphy, banking or manu-
facturing. Lltimately he became a partner
in the bank, associated with F. M. Church-
man. In 1868 he was elected president of
the Indianapolis Gas Company, and held
the position for a period of more than ten
years. He acquired a thorough, practical
knowledge of the process and the cost of
making illuminating gas, managing the
company's business with rare executive
ability. L^pon the reorganization of the
Atlas Engine Works, in 1878, he was
chosen president of the company and re-
tained the position until his death. His
name, his energy and varied experience
combined to build up and establish a man-

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iifuctory of engines and boilei-s unequaled
in extent and equipment by any similav
concern west of the Alleghenies. A visi-
tor at the works would readily discern that
the eye of a master was upon every de-
partment and a trained financier of strong
mental grasp was managing the business.
It is creditable to his humanity that dur-
ing the long season of depression he kept
the works running at a loss in order to
support the men who had served him long
and faithfully. When impossible to em-
ploy the whole force at the same time it
was the custom to divide the men, giving
employment to some of them one week and
others the week following. By this plan
all the families dependent upon the works
were maintained. He assisted in organiz-
ing the Indianapolis National Bank and
served as one of its directors for many
years. At various times he was connected
with other institutions and enterprises of
importance, always in such a manner as
to preserve a high character for honor and
integrit.y.

It was not alone in the domain of pri-
vate business or commercial affairs that
Stoughton A. Fletcher was conspicuously
successful. He is entitled to higher honor
for his spirit and unselfish devotion to
the community interests and welfare. He
was one of the earliest promoters of the
project to establish a new cemetery, se-
lected the site of Crown Hill himself, as-
sisted in the organization of the company,
and was chosen treasurer of the Cemetery
Association upon its incorporation in 1863.
From 1875 to 1877 he served as president
of the association, and continued a mem-
ber of the board for the remainder of his
life. The beauty of that silent city is due
very largely to his taste, enterprise and
liberality. Under his superintendence the
loveliness of a natural site, impossible to
duplicate in all the surrounding country,
was enhanced by skillful landscape-gar-
dening. Mr. Fletcher was identified
either actively or in sympathy with every
enterprise of popular concern in the city.
His counsel was sought and his support
enlisted. He was at all times relieving
want with open-handed liberality. Init his.
benevolence was not exhausted by per-
sonal contributions to aid the suffering.
He quietly assisted many a worthy young
man in defraying expenses incident to ae-
iiuiring an education. He also united

with others to form charitable associations
whose beneficence extends to all deserving
poor in the city. He was from the begin-
ning a member of the Indiana State Board
of Charities, giving much time and thought
to its work. His philanthropy was com-
prehensive in scope and purpose, assum-
ing other forms than contributions to re-
lieve the destitute. He offered to the city
the site of a magnificent park, as a gift
conditioned only upon its improvement and
maintenance for the public use stipulated
in the conveyance. He endeavored to pro-
mote the welfare and reformation of the
unfortunate and the criminal. He was
president of the first board of trustees of
the Indiana Reformatory for Women and
Girls. As this was among the first institu-
tions of its class established iu the United
States, its management afforded scope for
the practical applications of his broad and
wholesome views.

He was married first in 1856. to iliss
Ruth Elizabeth Barrows, daughter of
Elisha Barrows, Esq., of Augusta, ilaine.
whose life, treasured in the memory of
her ehildi'en, was one characterizecl by
admirable wisdom in the management of
affairs, by rare unselfishness and tender
devotion to her husband and family. ]\Irs.
Fletcher died in 1889. Two sons and two
daughters were born of this marriage :
Charles B. and Jesse, now deceased, were
associated with their father in the busi-
ness of manufacturing, and continued the
management of the Atlas Engine Works
after bis death ; Mrs. Edward F. Hodares,
of Indianapolis; and ^Irs. James R. Mac-
farlane, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In
December, 1891, he was married to ^liss
Marie Louise Bright, daughter of the late
Dr. John W. Bright of Lexington, Ken-
tucky.

Even while most actively engaged in
business ]Mr. Fletcher found time for travel
and study. He had visited the countries
of Europe and extended his journey
leisurely into Egypt and Palestine, study-
ing the physical condition of foreign coun-
tries and peoples sufficiently to make in-
telligent comparison and appreciate the
institutions of his own country. During
the last few years of his life he traveled
nuich in the L'nited States. His health
was renewed and his life prolonged by
travel. In many respects he was a remark-
able man — remarkable for the equability

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of his temper and the kindliness of his
disposition ; for the huoyancy of his na-
ture and the adaptability of" his powers;
for his success in business and his clean,
honorable methods; for his perennial
courtesy and unfailino: generosity. He was
a lover of nature, a lover of art and a lover
of books. His humanity wa.s large. He
had sympathy for his fellow-men and re-
gard for the welfare of his neighbors.- He
admired the poems of Whittier, expressive
of human sympathy and kindness. To a
gentleness of manner, which invitfed social
intercourse, was united a sturdy determi-
nation which never faltered and seldom
failed .of accomplishment. He lived in a
pure atmosphere, above petty annoyances
and contentions, patiently enduring mis-
fortune and suffering, quieth' enjoying
prosperity and the better things of life.
His home was filled with beautiful things,
evidences of culture and refinement, which
friends enjoyed with him and his family.
His character was strong in its integi'ity,
his friendships were sincere and constant.
He attested the dignity of labor and ex-
emplified the nobility of a Christian life.
The following, quoted from an editorial
article in one of the daily newspapers,
fittingly closes this biographical sketch:

"By the death of Stoughton A. Fletcher,
Indianapolis loses one of its oldest native-
born citizens and one of its purest and
best of any nativity. There are very few
men living in the city who were born here
as early as 1831, and none born here or
elsewhere who better bore without abuse
the grand old name of gentleman than
Stoughton A. Fletcher. Some of the older
citizens who knew his parents can easily
understand from whence he derived the
qualities that made him so manly and so
true, so gentle and so tender, so admirable
in all that goes to round out character.
It is a great thing for a man to live in
the same community sixty-three years, to
die in the town where he was born and
to leave behind him a record as conspicu-
ously clean as that which marks the sum-
ming up of Mr. Fletcher '.s life. He would
not have had his friends claim that he was
a great man. He did not seek notoriety
or power, he never held office and was not
ambitious for distinction of any kind, ex-
cept the love of his friends, the respect of
his neighbors and the willing tribute of
all to his absolute integrity and high sense

of commercial honor. A worthy son of a
most worthy sire, he was true to his an-
cestry, true to his family and friends, true
to all the demands of good citizenship and
true to his own high standard of thinking
and acting."

Joseph Kinne Sharpe. The relations
of Joseph K. Sharpe with the business and
industrial affairs of Indianapolis have been
most prominent as one of the organizers
and for many years an active executive of-
ficial of the Indiana Manufacturing Com-
pany, under whose patents are manufac-
tured practically all the wind stacking ap-
pliances used in threshing machinery
around the globe.

ilr. Sharpe. who was born at Indian
apolis, September 21, 1855, represents an
old family of the capital. His parents were
Joseph Kinne and Mary Ellen (Graydon)
Sharpe. His paternal ancestor, Robert
Sharpe, came to America from England in
1635, settling in ilassachusetts, at Brook-
line. A bronze tablet today marks the
site of his early home there. He was a man
of force and played an important part in
the early history of our country. He has
always been called "Robert Sharpe of
Brookline. " He came from England in the
ship Abigail. Mr. Sharpe 's maternal
grandfather, Alexander Graydon, was
born and lived most of his life in HaiTis-
burg, Pennsylvania, where his father also
lived before him. He was known as a man
of learning and as a patriot and for his ac
tivities in the cause for the abolition of
slavery. His own home ou the Susque-
hanna became the meeting place for the
leaders in this movement. John G. Whit-
tier, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell
Phillips. William and Charles Burleigh,
Lewis Tappan, Jonathan Blanehard — and
others — and it was also one of the points
of the celebrated "Underground Rail-
way. ' ' The first of the Graydon line in this-
country was Alexander Graydon I, who
was born in Longford, Ireland, in 1708 and
in 1730 came to this countn- and settled ii*
Philadelphia. He was a graduate of Dub-
lin University, and was noted as a scholar
and lawyer. He wrote several books on law
— and was in nomination for judge of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at the time
of his death in 1761.

Joseph Kinne Sharpe, Sr., was born in
Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut,.

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the village that w -s the lionie of many of
the families of his connection, including
the Sharpe, Trowbridge, Kinne, Grosvenor
antl Putnam families. The celebrated wolf
den, where Gen. Israel Putnam killed the
wolf, was on the old Sharpe farm. Joseph
w;is the .«on of Abishai and Hannah Trow-
bridge Sharpe and the youngest of seven
brothers.

At an early age he came west, settling
first ;il Dayton, Ohio, in 1840, where he
t:iu'_:lii school. In 1844 he removed to In-
(liaiuipolis. Various business undertakings
engaged his attention in his early career,
from which developed the wholesale leather
industry and the operation of tanneries.
Later he dealt largely in real estate in
Indianapolis, and laid out part of North
Indianapolis and Woodside Addition. He
was married in 1847 to Miss Mary Ellen
Graydon by Henry Ward Bcecher, then
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church.
Of their nine children the third in age is
Joseph K. Sharpe. Four of the children
are still living. Mr. Sharpe 's parents were
prominent 'in the religious and social af-
fairs of Indianapolis, and were known for
their activity and generosity in all church
and philanthropic works. ' IMrs. Mary El-
len Sluirpc was a woman of great culture.
Her education was completed at Mount Joy
Seminary near Philadelphia, where she was
proficient in the languages and music, and
at an early age became known as a writer
of verse and prose. For many years she
was a contributor to leading magazines, at
one time writing much for children's peri-
odicals. She published: two books — f A
Family Retro.spect" (1912) and "As The
Years Go By" (1913).

Joseph K. Sharpe, Jr., was educated in
the public and private schools of Indian-
apolis and also at Wabash College. His ed-
ucation completed, he became assistant to
his father and they were together in busi-
m Rs until about 1885.

In 1891 Joseph Sharpe, Jr., became one
of the oi-ganizers of the Indiana IManufac-
turing Company, and has been president
of it since 1907. As above mentioned, this
company was organized for tlie purpose of
developing and selling what is known as a
pneumatic or wind stacker, an attachment
for threshing machines. The wind stacker
has long been recognized as one of the
r-vea^est labor saving devices. The inven-
tion was owned and developed by the In-

diana ;Manufartui'ing Company, and from
the fir.st crude type it has been improved
by many other inventions and the acquire-
ment of other improvements until today
there is not a threshing machine in use in
the United States, Canada, and other for-
eign countries that does not employ the
pneumatic stacker. Of late years the com-
jiany has confined its business to the issu-
ing of license contracts to manufacturers
of threshing machinery in this and other
countries on a royalty basis. The latest
development of machinery by the Indiana
^lanufacturing Company is a grain sav-
ing device. ]Mr. Sharpe himself is the in-
ventor of this grain saving device. It was
perfected after some seven years of ex-
perimentation, and the basic patents were
issued to him in May. 1916. The patent
is now the property of the Indiana [Manu-
facturing Company. This is a part of the
wind stacker, and saves the waste of grain
which heretofore has always been a fea-
ture of threshing on account of adverse
conditions of material and weather and
carelessness ami ignorance of operators in
handliii'j- tin ''-li im-!' machinery. The stack-
er is uiii\i'i-sally used in the United States
and Canada and «as largely used before
the war in the Argentine, South Africa,
the Balkan countries and in Eastern Rus-
sia. The head offices of the comjiany are at
Indianapolis.

Mr. Sharpe has been interested in vari-
ous other business institutions. As a citi-
zen he is public spirited and generous. He
is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Ma-
son, a Knight Templar, being a member of
Oriental Lodge at Indianapolis. He be-
longs to the University and Country clubs
of Indianapolis and is a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He has
always been interested in athletics and is a
golf enthusiast.

January' 7, 1891, at Indianapolis, he
married Miss Alberta S. Johnson, daughter
of Dr. W. P. Johnson. iMrs. Sharpe died
December 8, 1910, the mother of their one
daughter, Joseph Parker Sharpe. She was
married in 1915 to ^Ir. Charles Latham.
Thev have one son, Charles Latham. Jr.,
borii :May 6, 1917.

S.VR.VH HfTnnxs Kii.i.iKEt.i.v. In every
well managed luiblie library in tlie United
States will be found a series of volumes en-
titled "Cui-ious Questions in History,

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Literature, Art and Social Life," by Sarah
Hutehiiis Killikelly, who, for years con-
ducted ehisses at Pittsburg, chiefly of
women, in literature, history, foreign
travel, Bible study, etc.; and who pre-
served in these volumes the information
concerning unusual siabjects of inquiry that
was brought out in these classes. The re-
sult is a mine of information of a char-
acter not easil.v accessible elsewhere ; and
very frequently the.y furnish the best in-
formation to be had on the topics dis-
cussed.

jMiss Killikelly was born at Vinceunes,
Indiana, January 1, 1840. Her father,
Rev. B. B. Killikelly, D. D., was a mis-
sionary clergyman of the Episcopalian
Church, who found at Vincennes a num-
ber of Episcopalian communicants with no
church building, and undertook to provide
one. William Henry Harrison donated a
lot for the building, but raisius funds for
the building proved difficult, and ilr. Killi-
kelly finally went to England for aid,
where he met with more success. Queen
Adelaide, widow of "William IV, headed
his subscription paper, followed by the
Duke of Northumberland, the Archbishops
of Armagh, Canterbury, and London, and
many of the nobilitv and notables of
England, including W. E. Gladstone. M.
P., Rev. E. B. Pusey, and Rev. J. H. New-
man. St. James Church was duly built,
and is a source of pride to St. James par-
ish.

The fortunes of a clerervman's family
brought Miss Killikelly to Pittsburs, where
her home became the center of the intel-
lectual life of the city, through her classes;
and her fame reached far beyond its
bounds. She prepared the Nineteenth Cen-
tury Book of Pittsburg and Allegheny, and
wrote manv masazine and other articles.
She received the high honor of being made
a Foundation Fellow of the Society of
Science. Letters and Art, of London : and
this society gave her its gold crown prize
for an ai'tiele on "The Victorian Era."
She also received badsres of the American
Pen Women and the Pittsburg Press Club
of Women. The recoamition of her merit
grew steadilv until her death. ^lav 14,
1912.

I\lips Jexnie B. Jessi'p. who since Janu-
ary 1. 1902. has been librarian of the La-
Port Public Library, represents one of the

first families to establish permanent homes
in LaPorte County.

She is a granddaughter of Daniel Jessup,
who in 1830 reached LaPorte County and
established a home in Scipio Township.
This branch of the Jessup family has been
in America nearly two centuries. The first
of the name was Stephen Jessup, concern-
ing whom there is a definite record in this
country from 1725 to 1728. Stephen
Jessup was a native of England, and as a
boy was apprenticed to learn the trade of
weaver. He ran away from a hard mas-
ter, and coming to America settled on
Long Island and later moved to Deerfield
Township, Cumberland County, New Jer-
sey. He followed his trade as weaver and
acquired considerable propert.y. His son,
John Jessup, moved from New Jersey to
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania,
and about 1793 went to the Northwest
Territorj', settling in what is now Ham-
ilton County, Ohio. He spent the rest of
his life there.

Daniel Jessup, a son of John, was born
in Pennsylvania, and served as a soldier
in the War of 1812. During one battle a
bullet struck him in the knee, and he car-
ried that bullet the rest of his days. He
was in the vicinity of Detroit when Gen-
eral Hull surrendered. He owned and
operated a farm in Hamilton County,
Ohio, near :\Iount Healthy. In 1830 he
came to Indiana on horseback prospecting,
and the same year came to LaPorte
County with his sons Irwin and Abiezer,
selecting government land in what is New
Durham Township. In 1832 he brousht
his family to LaPorte County, traveling
with horses and ox teams. He built a log
house on his land and after a few years
reconstructed it on a larger scale. Daniel
Jessup was a county commissioner for one
term and was in office when LaPorte 's first
courthouse was erected. Daniel Jessup
started a nursery soon after coming to
LaPorte County, which was the first busi-
ness of the kind and supplied the stock
for most of the early orchards in that sec-
tion. He continued the nursery business
and farming the rest of his life.

Irwin Seward Jessup, one of the sons
of Daniel Jessup, was born on a farm in
Hamilton County, Ohio, :\Iarch 7, 1818,
and was about fourteen years old when
brought to LaPorte County. Later he es-
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present site of Washington Park, and oon-
dueted that business successfully until his
death in 187-t. He was a prominent horti-
culturist, and among other achievements
originated the Prolific Beauty, a choice
apple which had a wide vogue through-
out "this part of the ^Middle West. Irwin
S. Jessup married Elizalieth Taylor, also
a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and
daughter of William Taylor. She died at
the age of thirty-four, leaving two chil-
dren, Alice M., now the wife of Ransom
P. Goit and living at St. Paul, and Jennie
Belle.

Jennie Belle Jessup has been a lifelong
resident of LaPorte County. She went
into library work in 1894, becoming li-
brarian of the old LaPorte Library and
Natural History Association. It was at
her suggestion that the association donated
its collection of books to the Public Li-
brary. In 1897 when the library was for-
mally opened as a free library, ]\iiss Jessup
was one of those given credit for this im-
portant event in the city's cultural his-
tory. In 1898 Miss Jessup went to Idaho
and organized the city library at Boise.
Later she organized the public library at
Greenfield, Indiana, and then in 190"2 en-
tered upon her present duties as librarian
at LaPorte.

Ma.j. Isaac C. Elston, who was the
founder of ilichigan City and was hardly
less prominent as a financier and business
man and citizen in other sections of the
state, was born in New Jersey in 1794.
The family moved soon afterwards to
Ono)idaga County, New York, where he
lived until 1818. "

He then came to the new State of In-
diana, locating at Vincennes, where he
was a merchant for several years. In 1823
he moved to Terre Haute, and in the same
year established the first store at Craw-
fordsville. then the northernmost white
settlement in the state. At that time there
were less than a dozen families in a radius
of fifty miles. He was also the first post-
master of Crawfordsville, having been ap-
pointed by President Jackson.

In 182.5 he and two other men bought
the site of Lafayette for !f!240. He founded
the Rock River Mills at Crawfordsville,
and was also the first president of the
Crawfordsville and Wabash Railroad,

afterwards merged with the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railroad.

In 1831 Ma.ior Elston bought the land
for the original site of Michigan City at
the sale of the ^Michigan road lands at
Lafayette, paying $1.25 an acre. In Oc-
tober, 1832, he had the land platted, and
the plat was filed in October, 1835. He
laid out the city wisely and made gener-
ous provisions for schools and churches,
and he lived to see and realize all his antic-
ipations for the city's prosperity. Major
Elston never became a resident of [Michi-
gan City, and lived at Crnwlonlsvillc until
his death in 1867. In IS.-.:; li,. established
the banking house of Eistoii c^ Company
at Crawfordsville, and was its manager
until his death. One of his daughters be-
came the wife of Gen. Lew Wallace.

John H. Ball. The first permanent
settlers arrived at LaPorte about 1830 and
the county was formally organized in
1832. These statements give significance
to the fact that the oldest living native son
of LaPorte is John H. Ball, who was born
there eighty-four years ago, December 14,
1834. His life has been as interesting and
varied as it has been lon^'. and there are
many facts which coiinert him pci-inanent-
ly with the history of his native town.

His parents were Willard Newell and
Nancy (Thomas) Ball. His maternal
grandfather was George Thomas, a promi-
nent figure in the early history of LaPorte
County. He was born at Ncwsoms Mills,
Virginia, a son of Reinyer and Elizabeth
(Newsom) Thomas. George Thomas came
to Indiana in 1828, and soon afterward
settled in LaPorte County. He was a man
of education and of good clerical ability,
and when the county was organized in 1832
he helped run some of the survey lines
and was elected the first clerk and re-
corder, and was also the first i)ostmaster
of LaPorte. He died while still filling
these official duties in 1835. The first
house in LaPorte was built for him, it be-
ing a double log house located upon the
site now occupied by the Lake Shore Rail-
road Station. In that house the first court
was held. His widow survived him until
1863, and they reared a family of five
daughters and two sons.

Willard Newell Ball was born in New
York State, son of .-Miraiiam Ball, who

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was proliably a native of Boylston, Massa-
chusetts, and descended from one of five
brothers who came from Ireland in
colonial times. Abraham Ball moved from
Massachusetts to New York State, later to
Kentucky and from there to Liberty, In-
diana, and was also numbered among the
very early settlers of LaPorte County. He
was a brickmaker b.y trade and probably
established the brick yard just north of
LaPorte in which was made the first brick
in LaPorte County. Later he removed to
Paw Paw, Michigan, and continued brick
manufacture there until his death. Wil-
lard Newell Ball when a young man went
to Cincinnati, and learned the trade of
cabinet maker. Later he went to Liberty,
Indiana, and thence to LaPorte, and was
the first cabinet maker to ply his trade
in that locality. He was also an under-
taker, and in his shop made the coffins
iised in that service. He continued an
honored resident of LaPorte until his
death at the age of seventy-two. His wife,
Nancy Thomas, was born in Virginia in
1814 'and died at LaPorte in 1907. They
had four children, Thomas, John H., Theo-
dore and Mary.

John H. Ball has some interesting remi-
niscences of LaPorte when it was a pio-
neer village. He attended school in La-
Porte, his principal teacher being Rev.
Abner Dwelly. In 1852 he took up the
trade of bricklayer, and two years later he
started on a journey which brought him
into touch with the most romantic scenes
and incidents of American life in that
decade. He hired out as a driver to Jerry
Ridgeway and James Lemon, who were
taking a herd of 400 cattle across the
plains to California. There was much
hard work, danger, excitement and mo-
notonous toil connected with the trip, and
Mr. Ball is one of the few men still liv-
ing who had that rare experience. The
drive began in March, and they took their
cattle across the Mis.sissippi River at Bur-
lington, Iowa, crossed the Missouri at St.
Joseph, and reached California in Novem-
ber, after nearly eight months of travel.
On the way they encountered many In-
dians, but none who were disposed to be
very hostile, and they saw vast herds of
buffalo, deer and antelope. Arriving in
California, Mr. Ball found employment at
his trade in Sacramento, and he also spent
some time among the mines.

At San Francisco on October 10, 1861,
he volunteered his services to the Union
as a member of Company H of the Sec-
ond California Cavalry. This regiment
was employed chiefly on the plains in
guarding the highways of travel and scat-
tered settlements against Indian hostili-
ties. The first winter was spent in Ne-
vada, and in the spring of 1862 he and
his comrades were sent to Salt Lake City.
He remained in Utah until October 20,
1864. He was discharged from the service
on October 9th of that year, on account
of the expiration of his term, and a few
days later he stai'ted east, again making
the overland journey and arriving at La-
Porte just before Christmas.

After this ten years of absence he re-
sumed civil life in LaPorte as a business
associate with his father and his brother,
Thomas, and later he succeeded to the un-
dertaking business and conducted it for
man.y years. He is now living retired.

In 1865 Mr. Ball married for his first
wife ]\Iiss Martin, a native of LaPorte,
who died in 1872. For his second wife he
married Elizabeth Fitzgerald. She was
born in England, a daughter of Edmond
Fitzgerald. Mr. and ilrs. Ball had the
following children: ;\Iary, Edmond, John,
William, Timothy, Inez, James, Elizabeth
and ]\Iargaret. The sons Edmond and
Timothy were both soldiers in the Span-
ish-American war. Edmond N. enlisted in
Company F, First Illinois Infantry, and
while in the South contracted yellow fever
and died soon after his return home. Mr.
J. H. Ball is an honored member of Pat-
ton Post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public.

Robert P. Kizer. The business of
handling real estate, loans and insurance
in a large city with rich surrounding ter-
ritory and advantages that attract capital
is apt to be of much importance, and espe-
cially so when it is honorably conducted
by men of solid reputation and ripened
experience. A firm so engaged at South
Bend that was held to be trustworthy in
every particular, was that of Kizer &
Woolverton, of which Robert P. Kizer was
manager until 1918 and ^t that time he
and his son, Lloyd T., Kizer took over the
business.

Robert P. Kizer was born in German
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1437

May 19, 1852. His parents were Ebenezer
F. and Susanna (Ward) Kizer, both of
whom died at South Bend, the father in
1879 and the mother five j^eai's earlier.
Ebenezer F. Kizer was born in 1815, and
before coming to Indiana married and re-
sided in Ohio, where three children were
born. After locating on a farm in Ger-
man Township, St. Joseph Count.y, he im-
proved his place and in 1856 built a house
that yet remains on the farm. When no
longer active he retired to South Bend,
and he was a devout member and a gen-
erous supporter of the Methodist Episco-
!pal Church in his neighborhood. He was
a democrat in polities but accepted no po-
litical office. He married Susanna Ward,
who was bom in 1813, and they had eight
children, as follows : George, who died at
South Bend in 1914, was a retired farmer;
Peter, who died on his farm in German
Township, St. Joseph County, in 1913;
William L., who died in South Bend in
1917; Ebenezer F., who died in Niles,
Michigan in 1918 ; James, who is a farmer
in German Township, St. JosejDh County,
Indiana; Jacob B., who is a farmer in St.
Joseph County, Indiana ; Robert P. ; and
Sarah M., who died at Detroit, Michigan,
in 1875, was the wife of the late Orlando
J. Ryan, a farmer, who died in Clay Town-
ship, St. Joseph County, Indiana.

William L. Kizer, the third in order of
birth in the above family, was born in
Ohio in 1844. He was reared on his
father's farm in German Township, St.
Joseph County, and completed his educa-
tion in an academy at Soutli Bend. He
was one of the founders of the real estate,
loan and insurance firm of Kizer & Wool-
verton, of which his brother, Robert P.
Kizer, was manager. William L. Kizer
was president of the Malleable Steel Range
Company at South Bend, was a director in
the St. Joseph Loan & Trust Company, and
was secretary of the New Jersey, Indiana
& Illinois Railroad Company. In politics
he was a republican, and he was a mem-
ber of the First Presbyterian Church.

William L. Kizer married ]\Iiss Elizabeth
Brick, who was born in Warren Township,
St. Josepli County, Indiana, and they have
one daughter, Mrs. Willomine Kizer IMorri-
son.

Robert P. Kizer attended the country
schools in German township and then
spent two years in the high school at South

Bend. In 1876 he became connected with
the real estate and insurance firm of Kizer
& Woolverton, and was so identified until
1918, being manager of the same. Sin?e
that date the business has been conducted
under the name of Robert P. Kizer and
Son. A large business is done and the
firm has high commercial rating. Tlie of-
fices are in the J. M. Studebaker Building.

Robert P. Kizer was married in 1884, at
South Bend, to Miss Ada M. Fellows, who
is a daughter of the late William and
Anna (Tliurston) Fellows, and they have
had four children : Ralph W., who died at
the age of twelve years; Hazel A., whom
they lost in early womanhood; Verna M.,
who is the wife of Foster W. Riddick,
owner and publisher of the Wiiiamac Re-
publican at W^inamac, Indiana ; and Lloyd
T., who is in partnership with his father.
He was graduated from the South Bend
High School in 1910, and then took a
course in the Montana State School of
Mines covering two years.

Mr. Kizer owns his residence at No. 718
Cushing Street, which was built by his
father, and several other dwellings at
South Bend, and also has a very fine farm
in German Township of 180 acres. In poli-
tics he is a republican, but in matters that
concern the general welfare he permits no
partisan feeling to govern his actions. He
is a member of and an elder in the West-
minster Presbyterian Church at South
Bend.

Linton A. Cox has been a member of
the Indianapolis bar since 1890, and his
experience and abilities have brought him
many varied and prominent relationships
with his profession and with the life of his
home city and state.

He was born at Azalia, Indiana, Septem-
ber 2, 1868, completed his literarj' educa-
tion at Earlham College at Richmond in
1888, and in 1890 graduated from the law
school of the University of Michigan with
the degree LL. B. He soon afterward
came to Indianapolis and engaged in a
practice that has been steadily growing in
subsequent years.

_ The part of his record which is of spe-
cial interest to the state was his service
during tlie Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth
General Assemblies as state senator from
jMarinn County. He was identified as the
leader in all pliases of tlie passage of the

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measure through both Houses of the Legis-
lature which fixed the price of gas at In-
dianapolis at sixty cents per thousand. He
was also a factor in establishing the sj-stem
of depositories for public funds, under
which all public funds are held in official
depositories under ample security and yield
interest to the public.

Mv. Cox married Elizabeth Harvey,
daughter of Dr. Thomas Harvey of In-
dianapolis.

Olivee J. Gronendyke, M. D. It is not
merely for his individual services as a suc-
cessful physician and surgeon at Newcastle
that the name of Doctor Gronendyke com-
mands some space in this publication. The
Gronendyke family has been identified
with Henry County for a century. Two
generations have been represented by cap-
able physicians. The Gronendykes are of
Holland Dutch ancestry, and the first of
the name in America were identified with
the founding of Manhattan. There have
been Gronendykes engaged in every im-
portant war of our nation's histoi-y, and
Doctor Gronendyke 's own children are not
unrepresented in the present gi-eat war
struggle.

For several generations the home of this
branch of the family was in New Jersey.
Thomas H. Gronendyke, grandfather of
Doctor Gronendyke, was born in that state,
and his wife, Nancy, was a native of Ten-
nessee. Both of them came to Indiana
about 1818, when young people and here
they married and lived in Henry, Dela-
ware and other counties.

In Delaware County, Indiana, Thomas
W. Gronendyke, father of Dr. 0. J. Gro-
nendyke, was born October 2, 1839. At
the age of twenty he began teaching in the
public schools of Delaware County, and
in the spring of 1861 took up the study
of medicine with Dr. William R. Swain of
Delaware County. Later he pursued his
.studies under Dr. J. Weeks of Mechanics-
burg, Henry County, but in July, 1862,
abandoned his professional preparations to
enlist as a private in Company H of the
Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry. At the end
of eight months' service he was discharged
on account of physical disability. He
then resumed' the study of medicine under
Doctor Weeks, and completed his course
in the Physio-Medieal College of Cincin-
nati. He began practice in Randolph

County, Indiana, but becoming dissatisfied
with the Physio-Medical system he took up
the regular school, and after three years
in Randolph County moved to Mount Sum-
mit, Henry County, where he had his home
eight years, and in November, 1879, moved
to Newcastle, where for many years he was
not only a successful physician but a mem-
ber of the County Board of Health, of the
Board of Town Trustees, and was identi-
fied with various fraternal organizations,
including the Grand Army.

In August, 1863, Thomas W. Gronendyke
married Miss Jennie Swain, daughter of
Dr. William R. Swain, under whom he
had begun the study of medicine.

Thus Oliver J. Gronendyke, only child
of his parents, had the example of his
honored father and of his maternal grand-
father to guide him into his present pro-
fession. Dr. 0. J. Gronendyke was born in
Delaware County, Indiana, May 30, 1864,
and during his bo.yhood lived in the various
localities where his father practiced. He
graduated from the Newcastle High School
in 1881, and for two years taught at the
Elliott School House in Henry township.
During that time he was also studying
medicine under his father, and subsequently
entered the Ohio Medical College, now the
medical department of the University of
Cincinnati. He was student there from
1883 to 1885, when he was graduated honor
and medal man of his class. He was only
twenty-one when he returned to Newcastle
prepared for practice, and has been steadily
identified with his profession in this city
for over thirty years. He has taken num-
erous post-graduate courses in New York
hospitals and clinics, spending several
months there in 1889, 1892 and 1899. His
is a general practice in both medicine and
surgery, and he has served as surgeon for
all the railroads through Newcastle and
for many of the local industries. He is
prominent in the County and State Medical
Societies, in the Union District Medical
Association, has filled all the offices in the
Rose City Medical Society, and for six
years was medical counsellor of the Sixth
District of the State ]\Iedical Association.
For seventeen consecutive years Doctor
Gronendyke has been a member of the New-
castle School Board, and has held every
office, being elected as president in 1918.
He is a republican, and in Masonry is
affiliated with the various bodies of New-

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1439

castle, inchiding the Commandery of
Knights Templar, and for ten years was
one of the officials of that body. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

In 1886 Doctor Gronendyke married Miss
]\Iarj' Catherine Chambers, daughter of
David and Emma (Bundy) Chambers. Her
mother is a sister of Major General Omar
Bundy, who wa.s born at Newcastle, and
whose brilliant military record is familiar
to Indianans. General Bundy graduated
from West Point Military Acadamy in
1883 and has been in the active service of
the regular army ever since. He was in
some of the Indian campaigns of the west,
was in the Cuban war, was in the Philip-
pine campaign and an officer of the mili-
tary provisional government of those
Islands, and since June, 1917, has been
major general commanding the second divi-
sion of the American Expeditionary Forces
in France.

Doctor and Mrs. Gronendyke have had
six children. Walter Thomas, born in De-
cember, 1888, now holds the rank of ser-
geant and is identified witli the signal
corps of the American army. Helen Mary
married Max Hutzeld, of Muncie, Indiana.
Edith Frances is the wife of Clarence Jack-
son, a lieutenant in the American army.
Marian C. is now in training as an army
nurse at Indianapolis, ilorris Chambers
is a member of the Boy Scouts organiza-
tion. Harold died in 1893, when only one
year old.

Fe.ustk Maus Fauvre is a son of Casper
Maus, one of the honored pioneers of South-
eastern Indiana and long a business man
of Indianapolis. Mr. Fauvre by permis-
sion fi'om the Cii'cuit Court of Marion
County took the additional family name
of Fauvre in 1900. This was the name of
his paternal gi-andmother Favre, pro-
nounced Fauvre. Both the Favre and
Maus families are of French ancestry, and
are identified with the oft disputed coun-
try of Alsace-Lorraine.

Recent history both in Europe and
America lends additional interest to many
of the facts connected with the life and
experience of Casper Maus. He was bom
near Eberbach, near the former stronghold
of Metz in Lorraine. One of his ances-
tors built a mill on a stream known as Eb-
erbach as early as 1650, and that property
was in the family possession for about two

centuries. Jacob ]\Iaus, father of Casper,
fought as a soldier under the great Na-
poleon. He was wounded in battle and
died in the early '20s. His widow subse-
quently came to America and .spent her
last days in Indiana.

Casper ]\Iaus was a miller by trade and
came to America in 1835. He married at
Cincinnati ^lagdalena Dietrich, who was
born at Jlolsheim in the Province of Alsace
and came with her parents to America two
years after Casper Maus. Her father was
Jacob Dietrich.

In 1842 Casper Maus erected the first
steam grist mill in Dearborn County, In-
diana. He became a man of prominence
in that section of Southern Indiana, and
served many years as a ju.stice of the peace.
During the Civil war he rendered service
for the L'nion as an enrolling officer. It
will be recalled that the northern states
first put into effect the draft laws in 1863.
As one of the men charged with the enforc-
ing of that act, Casper Maus incurred the
hostility of those who were inclined to re-
sist its provisions. His mill was destroyed
by fire while he was serving as enrolling of-
ficer, no doubt the act of an incendiary,
and the crime has been generally charged
to the Knights of the Golden Circle. In
1864 Casper Maus moved to Indianapolis
and established the Maus brewery. He died
at Indianapolis in 1876, and in 1889 his
family sold the brewery. Casper Maus was
a man of much busine.ss ability, of tremen-
dous energy, and had the equally notable
traits of kindness, generosity and a broad
tolerance. His widow sui-vived him many
years and passed away in 1900, aged eighty-
two. They had a family of six sons and
three daughters. Two of the sons, Albert
and Joseph, were soldiers with the Thirty-
second Indiana Volunteer Regiment in the
Civil war.

Frank Maus Fauvre was born at New Al-
sace, Dearborn County, Indiana, January
24. 1851, and came to Indianapolis at the
age of thirteen. He graduated f I'om a com-
mercial school in 1867, and for the next
twenty years was in the brewery business,
at first under his father and later as gen-
eral manager of the establishment until it
was sold in 1889. In 1877 he served on the
City Council of Indianapolis, this being the
only ]iolitii'al office he ever held.

For the iiast thirty years his name has
lieen itlcntiticd with a number of large busi-

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ness undertakings, especially ice manufac-
ture and coal mining. In 1881 he built and
put in operation the fii'st artificial ice plant
in Indianapolis. He helped found a num-
ber of similar plants in different cities of
the middle west. In 1902 he was associ-
ated with other capitalists in the purchase
of the electric interurban line between In-
dianapolis and Greenfield, these lines being
ext<>nded into the .system including New-
castle and Dublin. ' He was president of
the company, but sold his interests in 1905.
Later he became president of the Vigo lee
& Cold Storage Company of Terre Haute,
and a director in the People's Light and
Heat Company of Indianapolis. He is a
member of the Indianapolis Board of
Trade, the Commerc-ial and University
clubs, the Masonic Order, and he and his
wife were fonnerly identified with the
Plymouth Congregational Church, but sub-
sequently became membei-s of the Christian
Science Church.

In 1880 Mr. Fauvre married Miss Lilian
Seholl, of Indianapolis. They are the par-
ents of six children : Lilian M., Madeleine
il., Fi-ancis J\T., Julian M., Irving M. and
Elizabeth M. The daughter Lilian is the
wife of Arthur Vonnegut, a first lieuten-
ant in the Quartermaster's Department
now in the overseas service. Madeleine
married Thomas Ij. Wiles, an attorney of
Boston, Massachusetts. Francis, who is as-
sociated in business with his father, mar-
ried Miss Bertha Sehnull. Julian, a grad-
uate of Cornell University, enlisted in
Company M of the Three Hundred and
Thirty-fourth Infantry, later was trans-
ferred to the First Army Headquarters
and went overseas in March, 1918, and is
still abroad in service. The son Irving was
in the senior class of the University of
Pennsylvania when he enlisted in May,
1917, going to the officers' training school
at Fort Ben.iamin Harrison and being com-
missioned second lieutenant. He was a.s-
signed to duty in the One Hundred and
Fifty-second Infantry, stationed at Camp
Shelby, Mississippi, but later was trans-
ferred to the air service, the school of
Aerial Observers at Fort Sill, Oklaho-
ma. After receiving his certificate as an
observer he was made instructor at the
school, which position he held until Jan-
uary, 1919. at the close of the war, when
he returned to complete his course at the
University of Pennsylvania.

C.vTHARiNE AIeerlll, cducator and
author, was born at Corydon, then capital
of Indiana, January 24, 1824. Her father,
Samuel Merrill, then Treasurer of State,
was from Vermont, a graduate of Dart-
mouth, and a class-mate and friend of
Thaddeus Stevens. He was a gi-eat reader
and student, and Catharine was his fav-
orite pupil and a comrade in his studies.
Hence, in her home, she laid the founda-
tions of an unusually thorough and broad
education. She was a natural teacher, and
early took up the work with a primary
school at the familj- home — later removed
to the basement of the old Fourth Presby-
terian Church, and to other localities. For
a time she was called to the Female Semi-
nary, at Cleveland, Ohio, where, among
others, Constance Fennimore Woolson was
one of her pupils.

In 1859 Miss Jlerrill went to Germany
to pursue her studies, but was called back
in 1861 by interest in the war, and went
into the hospital service of the United
States as a nurse, gaining a practical
knowledge of the great conflict which en-
abled her to publish in 1866 "The Soldier
of Indiana in the War for the Union,"
which still ranks as the most comprehen-
sive historj' of the state's part in the Civil
war.

In 1869, Miss Merrill was called to the
Demia Butler chair of English Literature,
in Northwestern Christian University
(now Butler) in which position she re-
mained until 1885, resigning to take up
private class work, which she continued
until her death. May 30, 1900. It is cer-
tain that no other woman has had so great
influence on literary culture in Indiana
as she had. Her memory is preserved in
the Catharine Merrill Club, of Indianap-
olis; the Catharine Merrill School, on the
site of the old Merrill home ; and in a
memorial volume, "The ]\Ian Shakespeare,
and Other Essays," published in 1902
through the agencj' of friends and ad-
mirers.

Lieut. Robert E. Kennington. The
community of Indianapolis had taken meas-
ure of him as a young lawyer of many
talents and with sound achievement to his
credit. Many loyal friends attached them-
selves to his following. Wlien America
entered the war against Germany he was
one of the first to volunteer for an officers

INDIANA AND INDIANANS

1441

training: camp and was early assigned
to overseas duty. When in action a few
weeks before the close of the war death
came to him, bringing him a crown of im-
perishable glory.

Such is in brief the record of Lieut.
Robert E. Kennington, which, however,
deserves more of the detail which will be
sought with interest by the present and
coming generations in all those who gave
their lives in the great war just finished.
Robert E. Kennington was born in Indi-
anapolis ilay 25, 1893. He grew up in
his native city, attended the grammar
schools and the Shortridge High School,
from which he graduated, was a student
in Butler College in Indianapolis, and
studied law in the University of Michigan.
He finished his law course at the Indian-
apolis Law School, and after graduating
was admitted to the bar in 1916. He prac-
ticed a little more than a year.

Early in 1917 he was one of the first
to enter the officers training camp at Fort
Benjamin Harrison. He was in the camp
in fact before the training school was fonn-
ally opened. After his period of training
he was commissioned as second lieutenant
and passed the winter in 1917-18 in train-
ing at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Caro-
lina. He went to Prance with the Amer-
ican Expeditionary Forces early in the
spring of 1918, arriving overseas April 28,
1918. For a time he was assigned to a
signal school near Paris and while there
was commissioned first lieutenant and as-
signed to the Fifty-eighth Infantry Regi- .
ment, which in the fighting at the front was
part of the First Brigade Fourth Division.
Incidentally it may be stated that the
Fourth Division bore the brunt of most of
tJie fighting of the American forces in
France, and is credited with having lost
more men and carried on its operations
more heroically than any other organiza-
tion of the American army.

Lieutenant Kennington was in active
service at the beginning of the great allied
ofi^ensive during the summer of 1918. A
brief account of his service is found in a
letter written by his chaplain to his parents
after his death, which reads as follows:
"Lieutenant Kennington was killed in bat-
tle near Chery Chartreuve October 4, 1918,
this place being northeast of Chateau
Thierry and this battle being one of the
advance operations of the American army

following tlie battle of Chateau Thierry.
He had just taken up a position on the
crest of a hill overlooking a ravine, and
had with him a squad of automatic rifle-
men. They were barely in position when
an explosive shell of large calibre made
a direct hit on their position, killing seven
of them instantly. Lieutenant Kennington
was stnick in the forehead by a small
fragment which pierced his brain, causing
instant death. He was buried on a little
improvised cemetery on the Le Pres farm
near Cheiy Chartreuve. Lieutenant Ken-
nington was an excellent officer, faithful
and conscientious in the discharge of his
duties. He was most popular with his
brother officers and loved by his men. As
a leader he was able and efficient, and
accjuitted himself noblj^ in our first fight,
in which he took part, at the beginning of
the allied offensive on July 18th. It was
stern work for all of us, but the credit for
all of our success is due to the platoon
leaders like Lieutenant Kennington, who
were shining examples for all military vir-
tues. In every place of danger Lieutenant
Kennington stood the supreme test un-
flinchingl.y and gave an exemplification of
fine, manlj' heroic virtues. You may rest
as.sured that his memory will long be treas-
ured by all who knew him here."

At a meeting of the Indianapolis Bar
Association held soon after the receipt of
the news of Lieutenant Kennington 's death,
in honor of his memory the following re-
solution was adopted:

"Lieutenant Kennington is the first Ind-
ianapolis lawyer to pay the costly sacrifice
of his life, with all its joys and promise,
upon the altar of freedom. We of the
profession, whose ideals and whose duties
were dear to him, adopt this memorial to
a brave young soldier who left his chosen
profession to answer the call to the colors,
and who gave his life that civilization
might be made secure and that happiness
might become possible for all hiunanity.
Robert Kennington was a thorough student
of the law, on the threshold of a profes-
sional career that gave promise of great
achievement. Unusual personal charm
endeared him to those with whom he came
in contact and won for him a host of
friends. His ambition to succeed did not
tempt him selfishly to crowd ahead of
others. Straightfoi'ward, manly way.s,
kindliness toward others, a winning smile

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that made one glad for even the most
casual meeting, are qualities that we re-
call. To these should be added the high
ideals that took him so quickly into his
country's service, enabled him to face
death, and 'give the last full measure of
devotion ' to the pause to which his life was
pledged.

"Most bar memorials tell the story of
men who after long years of professional
activity have been called to die, and it has
been our lot at such meetings to recount
the successes of our elders who have been
faithful to the ideals of a great profession.
Tonight our task is heavy with an unwont-
ed sorrow. Robert Kennington's career at
the bar was like his career in arms — all
too brief. At the bar it was full of promise ;
in arms a single month brought immortal-
ity. The torch that he so bravely held
aloft he has thrown to us that in his spirit
we, too, may hold it high. His is the
happy lot to be remembered always as
one who by the way of splendid death has
entered into eternal youth."

From his early youth Lieutenant Ken-
nington was a leader among his fellows — in
school and college affairs, in fraternities,
and in all forms of clean athletics. He had
versatile training and talents. Among
other accomplishments he was a trained
musician, having been a student under
Professor Peck in the Indianapolis College
of Music and Fine Arts. He had an un-
usually wide circle of friends and acquaint-
ances, and after the official report of his
death his grief stricken parents were over-
whelmed with floral tributes and a great
mass of letters of sympathj% many of them
from persons whom the parents had never
met or known. He was a member of the
Columbia Club, Marion Club, Phi Delta
fraternity, an active republican in politics,
and for several years was a member of the
Young Men's Bible Class of the Central
Christian church. Of the ninety-seven
young men of this class in the service Lieu-
tenant Kennington was the first to die.

Lieutenant Kennington was the onlv son
and child of Ralph E. and Effie B. (Keal-
ing) Kennington, a well known Indian-
apolis family. Ralph E. Kennington is a
son of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Ken-
nington, both now deceased. John Ken-
nington of Scotch-Irish parentage, was
born at Belfast, Ireland, came to America
when a young man during the latter '50s,

and settled in ^Massachusetts. In Christ
Church at Indianapolis he married Miss
Elizabeth Brown, a native of Indiana.
John Kennington became a farm owner,
carried on extensive farm operations in
Marion County, and was also a contractor
at Indianapolis. He was identified with,
a number of business enterprises, and at
one time had charge of the by-products
of the old gas company in Indianapolis.
His last years were spent near Portland,
Oregon, where he died at the age of ninety-
three.

Ralph E. Kennington attended the pub-
lic schools of Indianapolis and has been in
the railroad business in that city practical-
ly ever since reaching his majority. For
nineteen years he was with the Big Four
Railway, and in January, 1901, was made
general yardmaster of the Indianapolis ter-
minals of the Monon Railway, and has
filled that position for eighteen consecu-
tive years. He is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.

The mother of Lieutenant Kennington,
]\Irs. Effie B. (Kealing) Kennington, was
born in Indianapolis, a sister of Joseph B.
Kealing, a well known lawyer of that city
and daughter of the late Peter Kealing.
The Kealings are of the old and prom-
inent families of the city, Kealing Avenue
having been named for ]\Irs. Kennington's
father. Mrs. Kennington after receiving
a high school and college education be-
came a teacher and for some time taught
in Washington township and also in the
public schools of Indianapolis. She has
for a number of years been a leader in the
woman's progressive movements in Indian-
apolis and the state. She served as chair-
man of the Seventh District of the Indiana
Federation of Women's Clubs and used
her influence to bring about much modern
legislation through the Indiana Legislature.
Many reform measures were championed
by her. All the enthusiasm of a war mother
and of her American womanhood was
aroused in behalf of the movement under-
taken to provide encouragement and enter-
tainment for American soldiers. She was
tlie leader in charge of the War Camp Com-
munity service in Indianapolis for the ben-
efit of soldiers at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Her many acts of service in this capacity
and the success with which she carried out
various entertainments, particularly that
on the Fourth of July of 1918 at the

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Prophyleum in Indianapolis, greatly en-
deared her to the hearts of the soldiers,
and she has received numerous letters from
the boys who later went to France assuring
her their gi-atitude for all that had been
done in their behalf through her and her
organization.

It was a tremendous sorrow which fell
upon Mr. and Mrs. Keunington when they
lost their only son through the war. Upon
him they had lavished their love and de-
votion and their life's hopes were wrapped
up in him. At the same time it is a con-
solation that they share in their bereave-
ment not merely the sympathy of all who
had known their son personally, but that
sympathy and deep feeling which pervade
an entire nation as a memory to all its
heroes who fell in the great war.

W. Harrison. The position of
W. Harrison of Attica calls at-
tention to one of Indiana's largest manu-
facturing establishments, of which he is
president and general manager.

This is the Harrison Steel Castings Com-
pany, formerly the National Car Coupler
Company, a corporation of Chicago, Illi-
nois, which in normal times is a general
foundry business and manufacturers of
steel castings, but at the present time is
specializing in big contracts for war pur-
poses. The industry was located at Attica
in 1907, and has been one of the bulwarks
of prosperity in that citj'.

At present the Attica plant comprises
four large buildings. The first is the open
hearth steel foundry 600 by 200 feet, the
second is the finishing and grinding build-
ing, 300 by 150 feet, the third is the pat-
tern shop and pattern storage, a three storv
structure 60 by 260 feet, the fourth is the
power plant, 40 by 200 feet, where all
the electric current used in the dififerent
departments is made. The furnaces are
three in number, each with twenty tons
cap;icity. The normal annual capacity of
this business is 24,000 tons of castings.
These open hearth .steel castings range in
size from 1,000 to 60,000 pounds, and the
equipment is available for practically every
type of castings within that range of
weights. The output is used for agri-
cultural, mining and transportation ma-
chinery, and practically all the product is
now under contract for the United States
government and allied nations. The ma-

terial made here at Attica goes as parts and
equipment for the Caterpillar traetoi"s, the
Liberty motors and other machinery.
About 1,000 men are working night and
day in the big plant.

In 1917 the same corporation began
the building and operation of a similar
plant at Murphysboro, Illinois, where their
foundry and shops have a capacity of
12,000 tons per year.

The founder of this business at Attica,
Joseph W. Harrison, is a native of Eng-
land, born in the city of London October
4, 1860, oldest son of Joseph William and
Fannie (Kirby) Harrison, both natives of
England. ]Mr. Harrison when twelve years
old entered a foundry and served a seven
years apprenticeship as a moldcr. In 1888
he came to the United States, arriving here
without capital and with only his knowl-
edge of the foundry business as equip-
ment. For a time he was located at Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania, and was variously
employed as a molder, foreman, superin-
tendent and in other capacities in several
steel foundries. In 1899 he became super-
intendent of the Hurson & Hurford Steel
Casting Company, Converse, Indiana, this
company being purchased by the National
Car Coupler Company and was located
there seven years.

Mr. Harrison came to Attica in 1906 to
supervise the erection of the plant and the
installation of its machinery, and in 1907
was elected president and general manager
of the company. The prosperity of the
business is largely due to the range of
ideas and the energy he had infused into
every department. He brought about the
modern equipment of the business and
kept it up to the high standard of etfi-
cicncy so as to attract the attention of the
government with the present enormous
demand for steel castings of evei'y descrip-
tion.

In 1887 Mr. Harrison married Miss Clara
Belle Coffee. They were married at Al-
liance, Ohio. She is a native of West
Unity. Ohio. The.y have three sons, Roy J.,
Glen W. and Wade Coffee. Roy J. is now
nianager of the Attica plant, and vice presi-
dent of the company, while Glen is secre-
tary and treasurer and connected with the
plant at Murphysboro, Illinois. Roy mar-
ried in 1916 Miss Glad.vs Greenman. In
1917 Glen married ]\riss Lcnnna Thompson.
Mv. Harrison is affiliated with the Knights

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of Pythias, and takes a good deal of in-
terest in political affairs. He and his fam-
ily are members of the ^Methodist Episco-
pal Church.

John H. Bass. If there is one institu-
tion that deserves to be called the corner-
stone of, Fort Wayne's industrial prosper-
ity it is the Bass Foundry & ^Machine
Company. This position is due not only to
the vast aggregate of resources combined
under the corporate title, but also to the
fact that for over fifty years its operation
has furnished employment and its produc-
tion has served to make the city of Fort
Wayne known throughout the country.

The veteran head of this industry, John
H. Bass, was born at Salem. Livingston
County, Kentucky, November 9, 1835. He
is of old Virginia and Carolina ancestry.
His grandfather, Jordan Bass, was born in
Virginia in 1764, and in 1805 moved to
Christian County, Kentucky. He was one
of Kentucky's prominent pioneers. He
died in 1853, at the age of eighty-nine.
Sion Bass, father of John H., was born in
Virginia November 7, 1802, was reared in
Kentucky, and distinguished himself by
ability in the commercial field and also
as owner of extensive areas of farm land.
He married Isliss Jane Todd, who was born
at Charleston, South Carolina, June 19,
1802. Her father, John Todd, was also a
Kentucky pioneer. Sion Bass and wife
came from Kentucky to Fort Wayne in
1866 and spent the rest of their days
with their son John. Mrs. Jane Bass died
August 26, 1874, and Sion Bass passed
away August 7, 1888. Four of their six
children grew to maturity. One of these
was Sion S. Bass, who was the first of the
family to locate in Fort Wayne. He came
to Fort Wayne in 1848, and gave the city
some of its pioneer impulses as an indus-
trial center. ' He was a member of the
firm Stone, Bass & Company, which was
established in 1853 and was the original
nucleus of the present Bass Foundiy and
Machine Company. In 1861 Sion S! Bass
resigned his business responsibilities at
Fort Wayne to help organize the Thirtieth
Indiana Infantry. As colonel of that reg-
iment he led his command in one of the
charges on the second day of the battle of
Shiloh and was stricken with a mortal
wound. One of the local posts of the Grand

Army of the republic was afterward named
in his honor.

John H. Bass was educated in Kentucky,
both in the public schools and under priv-
ate tutors. At the age of seventeen, in
1852, he came to Fort Wayne, and for a
year or so worked in a grocery stoi'e and as
bookkeeper for a contracting firm. He
then joined his brother Sion S. as
an employee of Jones, Bass & Company,
and was its bookkeeper from 1854 to 1857.
He gained a knowledge of bookkeeping
largely by close application to the subject
at night after business hours. In 1857
:\Ir. Bass went to Iowa and invested $3,700
in the choicest farm lands he could find.
He was away two years, and operated so
expertly in the real estate field that he
returned with $15,000 in cash and deeds
worth $50,000. It was this capital large-
l.v that enabled him to lay the founda-
tion of the great industry that now bears
his name. In 1859. with Edward L. Force,
he established the firm of Bass & Force, a
foundry and machine industry, which pro-
duced $20,000 worth of goods the first year.
Between 1860 and 1863 the business was
owned and conducted by ilr. Bass and
Judge Samuel Hauna. Judge Hanna in
the latter year transferred his interests
to his son Horace, who died six years later.
At that time ^Iv. Bass bought the stock
owned by the Hanua family, and has since
been sole owner of the business. He not
only created a great individual industry,
but his example helped to concentrate the
attention of other manufacturing interests
upon Fort Wayne as a location. The
foundry and machine works have been in
operation more than half a century, and
during all the years have furnished em-
ployment to hundreds of skilled workmen.
In 1898 the company was incorporated
with a capital of $1,500,000, and this com-
pany ha.s since been raised to over $2,000,-
000. For the year 1917 the annual pay-
roll was $1,500,000, and about 2,500 men
were employed.

The corporation owns and operates a
branch plant at Rock Run, Alabama, where
much of the ore used at the Fort WajTie
plant is mined and smelted. The tonnage
of manufactured material shipped from
the two plants aggregate 200,000 tons an-
nually. The chief products of the Fort
Wayne plant are car wheels, axles, iron

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and steel forgings, corliss engines, boilers,
complete power plants, and gray iron east-
ings. The product of the Rock Run plant
is high grade furnace pig iron. This in-
dustry at Fort Wayne occupies nearly five
city squares of twenty acres, while in Ala-
bama 25,000 acres are included in the dis-
tricts of the company's operations.

The operations of Mr. Bass have made
him a power in many districts outside of
Fort Wayne. In 1869 he founded the St.
Louis Car "WHieel Company, and held a
controlling interest and was president of
the company for a number of years. An
instance of his foresight and courage is
found in the fact that in 1873, when the
countrj' wa.s in the throes of an industrial
panic, he established an extensive iron
works at Chicago, which two years before
had all but been destroyed by fire. This
Chicago plant became one of a number of
successful ventures credited to his achieve-
ment. Mr. Bass is also heavily interested
in a large foundry at Lenoir, Tennessee.

Mr. Bass has supplied much of the capi-
tal and business energy to Fort Wayne's
public utilities and financial institutions.
He was one of the owners of the original
street railway system, operating with horse
drawn cars. The Citizens Street Railway
Company was incorporated in 1871 to op-
erate the system. When this company was
foreclosed in August, 1887, the property
rights and franchise were sold tQ Mr. Bass
and Stephen B. Bond, representing the
Fort Wayne Street Railway Company. The
system at that time consisted of about two
miles of single track on Calhoun Street
from Main Street to Creighton Avenue, on
Cre-ghton Avenue from Calhoun Street to
Fairfield Avenue, and on Wallace Street
from Calhoun to Hauna Street. Mr. Bass
and his associates immediately undertook
the extension of the street railway to out-
lying districts, and owned the lines of the
city until August, 1892, when a reorgan-
ized company converted the property to
an electrically propelled s.vstem.

For many years Jlr. Bass has been one
of the chief stockholders of the First Na-
tional Bank of Foi-t Wayne, and resigned
January 9, 1917, from the presidency after
thirty years in office. He is also a member
of the Board of Directors of the old Na-
tional Bank and the Hamilton National
Bank. The latter was merged with the
First National on April 7, 1917, and the

reorganized institution is now the Fii-st
Hamilton National Bank.

One of the most beautiful and highly
developed private estates in Indiana is
Mr. Bass ' suburban home, known as Brook-
side. The house itself is a veritable man-
sion, and is situated in the midst of a
broad and spacious park and woodland of
300 acres. A portion of this park is fenced
off for some deer and buffalo, and another
part of the farm is devoted to fine stock
and dairy cattle. Mr. Bass has been an
importer and breeder of Clydesdale horses
and Galloway cattle for a quarter of a
century. Some of his stock were blue
riblion winners at the World's Fair of
Chicago in 1893 and that of St. Louis in
1904. Mr. Bass is said to own about 15.000
acres of land in Allen County, besides
extensive investments in other counties
and other states, including some 18,000
acres of mineral land in Alabama.

No man was ever more worthy of the
responsibilities conferred by great posses-
sions. These possessions are the cumulative
results of sixty-five years of hard work.
Early in life John H. Bass showed a wil-
lingness to identify himself with all his en-
thusiasm and powers with an.y task how-
ever humble, provided it was useful, and
he made it an opportunity for further
advancement. He also early indicated a
judgment, foresight and ability that from
a later standpoint might be regarded as
a geuious in finance. He has been a wise
and efdcient administrator of large affairs,
a leader of men, and in the past half cen-
tury has probably supervised tlie labors of
more men than any other Indiana manu-
facturer. For all the breadth and extent
of his interests the City of Fort Wayne has
been the chief beneficiarj' of his work and
influence.

Jlr. Bass has been honored with the
thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite in
^lasonry, and is a member of the First
Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne. In
1865 he retui-ned to Kentucky to marry
I\Iiss Laura H. Lightfoot, daughter of
Judge George C. and jMelinda (Holton)
Lightfoot. BIrs. Bass was born at Fal-
mouth, Kentucky, and lived there until her
marriage. Two children were born to their
union, Laura Grace, wife of Dr. Gaylord
M. Leslie, of Fort Wayne: and John H..
wlio died August 7. 1891.

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Nathan Watelsky, who is proprietor
of the largest furniture and household fur-
nishing goods business in Henry County,
is a striking example of the man who was
denied complete opportunities in the old
established order of Em'ope and seeking
better things in America has made good
and prospered, and is one of the generous,
public spirited and capable men of affairs
in this country today.

He was born in Russian Poland, and
came to America in 1884, first locating
at Indianapolis. He had learned the trade
of bricklayer in Poland, and followed that
work at Indianapolis a short time. Later,
using a verj- limited capital, he opened
a second hand furniture store at Indian-
apolis. Selling that he engaged in the
scrap iron and metal business, and soon
established headquarters at Cincinnati.
He still owns large interests in that line
at Cincinnati. In 1896, coming to New-
castle, he opened a second hand furniture
store and scrap iron business on Fifteenth
and Race streets. When his building was
torn down he moved to the corner of Fif-
teenth and Broad streets, and was there
five years. He then returned to Cincinnati
and established a scrap iron and metal busi-
ness, and looked after it personally for two
years. Mr. Watelsky retuimed to New-
castle in 1905, opened a furniture store and
scrap metal business on the site of the
old Grand Opera House. When that build-
ing was torn down he moved to the Blue
Front on Broad Street, and in May, 1912,
came to his present location at the corner
of Fifteenth and Broad streets. This is
now the home of the largest furniture store
in Henry County. He uses an entire block
25 by 130 feet, and handles both new and
second-hand household furnishing goods,
supplying the demands of a large country
and town trade. He still conducts a scrap
metal business at 1023-41 West Sixth
Street in Cincinnati, having a building of
four stories and basement in complete use.

Mr. Nathan Watelsky married Jennie
Baron, daughter of Jacob and Leah Baron
of Poland. To their marriage were born
twelve children, five of whom are deceased.
Alexander Ben.jamin Watelsky, the oldest
son, was born March 1, 1885, in Russian
Poland and when a year and a half old
was brought to this country by his mother.
He has always been with his father and
since early youth has been his active as-

sociate in business. He now maintains
general supervision of the business both
at Cincinnati and Newcastle. He received
his early education in Indianapolis and
Newcastle, and on November 1, 1914, mar-
ried Miss Sarah Barnett. They have one
daughter, Berniee Anita, born in 1916.
Alexander Benjamin Watelsky is a re-
publican, is affiliated with the Eagles,
Moose, and B'nai B'rith of Muncie, Indi-
ana, and attends the Orthodox Jewish
Church.

Charles Marsh.\ll Crawford. An old
cultured community like Crawfordsville is
said to possess a better sense of the reali-
ties and essential values of life than young-
er and more distinctively commercial com-
munities. Therefore it is a judgment
that is not likely to be reversed when the
community set its seal of approval upon
the late Charles Marshall Crawford not
only in his practical career as a merchant
and banker but even more as a man true
to all the varied relationships of life.

His life was as useful as it was long. He
was born at Crawfordsville September 22,
1845, and died there August 30, 1917, aged
seventy-two. His parents were Henry and
Lydia M. (Marshall) Crawford. Henry
Crawford was born at Charleston, Vir-
ginia, December 15, 1802, son of Alexan-
der and Catherine Crawford, the former a
native of Ireland and the latter of Penn-
sylvania, and they spent their last days
in Montgomery County, Indiana. Henry
Crawford was a pioneer at Crawfordsville,
establishing a general store there about
1827. That was long before railroads were
built over the Middle West, and when he
went to New York to buy goods it was a
six weeks' journey. He was hard work-
ing, honest and methodical, and was
greatly prospered in his business affairs.
He was also one of the men who contrib-
uted to the making of Crawfordsville an
educational center, being an active friend
of Wabash College from the time of its
founding. He was a member of the Pres-
byterian Church. Henry Crawford died
April 2, 1878. His first wife was IMary
Cochran. He married Lydia M. Marshall
in 1841. She was born at Dumbarton,
New Hampshire, and was a daughter of
Benjamin and Elizabeth Marshall. She
was one of the select company from New
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ville by the presence of Wabash College.
Her brother-in-law, Caleb Mills, was the
first teacher in Wabash College. Mrs.
Henry Crawford died in 1888, the mother
of two children, Charles M. and Clara R.

Charles M. Crawford attended the com-
mon schools and in 1860 entered Wabash
College. He was a stndent there three
years, but during much of the time his
thoughts and ambitions were with the boys
in blue fighting the war of freedom. In
April, 1864, he found his desire gratified
to become a soldier and enlisted in Com-
pany D of the One Hundred and Thirty-
fifth Indiana Volunteers. He was appoint-
ed orderly to the colonel of the regiment
and performed all the soldierly duties with
credit. After the war he attended East-
man's Business College at Poughkeepsie,
New York, and then returned to Craw-
fordsville to join his father in business.
He gave new strength and prestige to that
old-established store, which for many years
was located where the Citizens National
Bank now stands, and continued as a mer-
chant there for several years after his
father's death, until 1884. In that year
he became president of the Indiana Wire
Fence Company, and directed that local
industry until it was sold. Upon the or-
ganization of the Elston National Bank he
became its vice president and continued
in that office until his death. In 1900 he
also gave Crawfordsville a commodious
and moderate hotel, the Crawford House.

The late Mr. Crawford was an earnest
republican, and was always sincerely in-
terested in his comrades of the war, being
a meniber and at one time commander of
]\IcPherson Post, Grand Army of the Re-
public. For many years and until his
death he was a director of the Oak Hill
Cemetery Company and at one time its
president. He expended much effort in
caring for and beautifying this city of the
dead, and always without expectation of
any reward for his service. He was a de-
voted member of the same church whicli
his father and mother had attended, the
Center Presbvterian Church.

In 1878 ilr. Crawford married :\liss
Anna Milligan. She was born at Pitts-
burgh, Pennsylvania, and was reared and
educated there. Mrs. Crawford and her
two children, Alexander 'M. and Lydia ^I..
survive.

A well-chosen tribute to this veteran

business man and citizen of Crawfords-
ville was written by a friend who had
known him from boyhood in the follow-
ing words: "Mr. Crawford was a man of
varied achievements. A good soldier when
a boy in his teens, he later became a suc-
cessful merchant, manufacturer, banker,
farmer, man of general affairs. He had
a natural aptitude for business of any
kind and was quick to detect the quality
of any proposed procedure. His business
shrewdness was tempered by a very genu-
ine human quality. The writer recalls
an instance when two women came to him
with business troubles of very real con-
cern to them. His sympathy- was awak-
ened in an instant. He said to them : ' Go
liome and give yourselves no further con-
cern. Leave it to me and I will see that
it shall be done as you desire.' Then he
called together a number of persons con-
cerned in the premises, told them the story,
insisted on a reversal of an order which
had been made and so kept his promise
to the letter.

"No one ever heard of a case in which
he had dealt unjustly with any man, rich
or poor. His name seldom appeared in
the courts and never in a questionable con-
nection. Though he had abundant means
he was economical in its use; a generous
donor to a worthy cause, but liimself an
example of one who practiced the simple
life, and, plain in all his tastes, he was
modest and a worthy example to his fel-
low townsmen, and esteemed b.v all classes
of the community in which he lived."

Joseph Harrison St.vley. Though only
twentj'-eight years of age Joseph Harri-
son Staley, of Knightstown, has done some
things that make him one of the interest-
ing men of the nation. He is an inventive
genius and in the field of automobile me-
chanics has few rivals. Jlr. Staley 's great
work has been done through his Knights-
town compan.y, known as the Continen-
tal Auto Parts Company, whicli he prac-
tically owns, and of whicli he is a direc-
tor and the president.

'Sir. Staley wa.s born at Charlottesville,
Hancock County, Indiana, April 11, 1891,
son of S. C. and Gallic (Evans) Staley.
He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His
grandfather, Harrison Staley, came to
America when seven yeai"s of age with his
jiarents, who .settled in Virginia. Later

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he drove an ox team out to Hancock
County, Indiana, and spent the rest of his
days in that locality. S. C. Staley. second
child of his parents, was born in Hancock
County and for twenty-six years was a suc-
cessful school teacher. He was principal
of the schools at Greenfield in 1898-99. He
is now president of the Farmers National
Bank at Wilkinson in Hancock County.

Joseph HaiTison Staley was the only
child of his parents. He attended the
grammar and high school at Charlottes-
ville, graduated in 1908, then spent an-
other year in the Greenfield High School,
and for two years was a student of But-
ler University at Indianapolis, where he
made his major study chemistry. The
year following he spent on his father's
320-acre farm near Charlottesville. An-
other year he was working at difl'erent lines
in California and the states of the North-
west, and also in Old Mexico. Returning
home to "Wilkinson, he was assistant cash-
ier of the Farmers National Bank a year.

In 1913 Mr. Staley married Miss Minnie
L. Simmons, daughter of William H. and
Charity (Williams) Simmons, farmers
near Wilkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Staley have
two children, Phyllis Maxine, born in 1915,
and Joseph H. Staley, Jr., born in 1918.

Following his marriage Mr. Staley lived
on a farm a short time and then became
superintendent of the ilartindale & Milli-
gan automobile factory at Franklin, In-
diana. Five months later he bought the
good will and assets of the company and
conducted it for himself. In the spring
of 1916 he moved the entire plant to
Knightstown, and gave a new title to the
business. The Continental Auto Parts
Company. He manufactured some auto-
mobile parts, and also had a shop for gen-
eral repair work. In the fall of 1916 he
began manufacturing automobile acces-
sories. In the spring of 1917 he added
garage and general factor}- equipment.
Mr. Staley manufactures only his own pat-
ented devices. Every one of his patents
has proved its worth and value.

Especially noteworthy is his motor
stand used for assembling all types of mo-
tors. In 1917 this stand was adopted by
the United States Government, and Mr.
Staley M-as called to Washington and given
the supervision of a little department of
his own for manufacturing the special as-
sembling and repair stand for the Liberty

Motor. The Government has taken the
entire output of these stands ever since.
It was adopted by the Ordnance Depart-
ment, the Quartermaster's Department,
the Bureau of Aircraft Production, Motor
Transport Corps, and the navy. Mr. Staley
also invented and patented the Continen-
tal Auto Creeper, another device adopted
by the Government, a Continental Eadiator
Stand, a Continental Combination Jack and
Industrial Truck, a Continental Axle
Stand, a Continental Battery Stand, and a
Continental Assembly and Welding Table.
Thus the Continental Auto Parts Com-
pany has in a very short time leaped into
national prominence as an industry sup-
plying vital essentials through the great
task of war material production.

Mr. Staley is also interested in farm-
ing and banking. He is a progressive re-
publican, is afSliated with Franklin Lodge
of ilasons and with the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity of Butler College. He is also
a member of the Society of Automotive
Engineers. Diaring the latter months of
the war he was commissioned a major by
the Government in the Ordnance Depart-
ment.

Bryant Welsh Gillespie is senior part-
ner in the firm of Gillespie, Clark & Beck,
livestock commission merchants at Indian-
apolis. This fiiTQ has been in continuous
existence for nearly thirty years and is one
of the oldest commission houses in the state.
Mr. Gillespie has long been a veteran fig-
ure in the livestock markets of that city
and is so known and esteemed not only lo-
cally but among the thousands who have
pati'onized those markets from all over the
state.

Mr. Gillespie represents one of the old-
est and most patriotic American families.
He was born in Crawford County, Ohio,
Jannarv 26, 1863, son of Thomas and Han-
nah (Welsh) Gillespie. In the fall of
1863, when he wa.s about a year old, his
parents moved to Illinois, first locating at
Ridge Farm near Danville, later at Paris,
and still later at Newman. Thomas Gil-
lespie and wife spent the rest of their days
in Newman, where the fonner died Novem-
ber 22, 1917, and the latter on March 31,
1875.

Thomas Gillespie was a stock buyer and
dealer, and his example was no doubt the
chief influence in causing his son Bryant

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to follow the same vocation. The son in
fact as early as thirteen entered the stock
business with his father, and on his six-
teenth birthday was accorded the unusual
honor of being taken into partnership by
the elder Gillespie. They were associated
together until November 11, 1882, when
Bryant W. Gillespie came to Indianapolis
to enter the service of a firm at the stock
yards. Thus his home has been at Indian-
apolis for over thirty-tive years, and during
most of that time his name has been identi-
iied with the firm Gillespie, Clark & Beck.
Mr. Gillespie was for twenty-two years sec-
retary and is now president of the AVest
Indianapolis Savings & Loan Association
No. 2.

He was one of the organizers of the In-
dianapolis Livestock Exchange in 1887, and
has been a member of the exchange con-
tinuously. For thirteen .years he was on
the executive board, as he is today, and was
also vice president for six years and presi-
dent one year. Mr. Gillespie is a past mas-
ter in his Masonic Lodge, also a Scottish
Rite thirty -second degree Mason, and a
member of ^Murat Temple of the iljstic
Shrine. In polities he is an ardent republi-
can. Soon after he came to Indianapolis
he became affiliated with the Roberts Park
Methodist Church and for many years has
been a leader in its affairs. He is ex-presi-
dent of its board of stewards and now a
member of the board of trustees and since
1890 has served a.s superintendent of Sun-
day schools, four years at Hyde Park, eight
years at Roberts Park, and serving Blain
Avenue six years. His attitude and inter-
ests as a citizen have run true to his an-
cestry. Civic movements of different kinds
have enlisted his co-operation, and besides
giving two sons to the overseas service he
has participated personally in many of the
local movements for the prosecution of the
war. He was luiited in marriage October
20, 1884, to Laura Ann Milam of Ellette-
ville, Indiana. Mr. Gillespie is vice presi-
dent of the Indiana Society of the Sons of
the Revolution.

His Revolutionary ancestry is through
his mother. Hannah "Welsh's mother was
Jane Bryant, a daughter of David Bryant,
being the fifteenth child in David Br^-ant's
family. David Bryant, wlio was thus the
great-grandfather of B. W. Gillespie, was
born at Springfield, New Jersey, in 1756,
and was nineteen years of age when he en-

tered the Continental army. lie saw serv-
ice with that army for five years. In 1790
he moved to Washington County in South-
western Pennsylvania, and in 1816 became
a pioneer of Knox County, Ohio, owning
three farms near Frederiektown. In the
summer of 1835, then an old man, he
moved to the vicinity of Fort Wayne, In-
diana. David Bryant 's youngest daughter,
Jane, married JIadison Washington Welsh,
and their daughter Hannah in 1862 became
the wife of Thomas Gillespie. One of the
most distinguished members of tliis Bryant
family was William Cullen Bryant" the
poet".

Mrs. B. W. Gillespie. One of the well
known Indianapolis women for a number
of years has been Mrs. B. W. Gillespie,
whose Americanism goes further back into
the interesting past than that of her hus-
band. In 1884 at Ellettsville ni Monroe
County, Indiana, B. W. Gillespie married
Jliss Laura Ann Milam, daughter of Rev.
Francis Marion and Susannah (McNeely)
^lilam.

Through several branches Mrs. Gillespie
is eligible to and has membership in the
Societ.v of Mayflower Descendants, and is
state historian for the Indiana Chapter of
that organizatiou. Her gi-andfather,
George Milam, married itary Baird Chip-
man. Mary Baird C!hipman was a daugh-
ter of Paris and Nancy (Baird) Chipman,
the former serving in the Revolutionary
war from Pennsylvania. The Chipmaus
were an Engli.sh family. Several towns in
England bear the name in one of its forais,
Chippenham, Buckingham County and oth-
ers. Mrs. Gillespie is in the ninth genera-
tion in direct descent from John Howland,
one of the most famous colonial Americans.
John Howland was a grandson of Bishop
Howland of England. John came to Amer-
ica in the ilayflower. and was one of its
passengers who gathered in the cabin of
that vessel and signed the "Compact."
John Howland 's wife was Elizabeth Tilley,
who also was on the Mayflower. There "is
a tradition that she was the daughter of
Governor Carver. Through various other
liranches Mrs. Gillespie traces her ancestry
to at least six if not eight of the Mayflower
passengers. Hope Howland, dauglitcr of
John Howland, married John Chipman,
whose home was at Barnstable, I\Iassachu-
setts.

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The Milam family is of Virginian origin,
and from that state its members spread
over the west during the pioneer epoch in
Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and other
states. Several of the name have become
fixed in history, particularly Ben Milam,
one of the most conspicuous of the heroes
of the Texas war for independence in 1836.
Milam County, Texas, was named in his
honor. Mrs. Gillespie's grandfather,
George Milam, and his wife, Mary Baird
(Chipman) Milam, came to Indiana in
1819 and were pioneer settlers at Blooming-
ton in Monroe County. Mrs. Gillespie was
J>orn at Ellettsville, a short distance north
of Bloomington. Her father. Rev. Francis
Marion Jlilam, was a minister of the Gos-
pel, but in early manhood entered the Civil
war in Company B of the Sixty-seventh
Indiana Infantry, and was killed in the
battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas, Janu-
ary 11, 1863.

Mrs. Gillespie is a member of Caroline
Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of
American Revolution. Since the late war
began she has proved indefatigable in as-
sisting and in directing the various war
activities committed to the women of In-
dianapolis. She organized one of the fii*st
units in hygiene and home nursing under
the Red Cross, and was its president, hold-
ing the meetings at her home. She is a
member of the executive board of the Rain-
bow Cheer Association and has the honor
and title of the office of Official War
Mother of the War Mothers of Amer-
ica Organization of Marion County. The
honor was paid her of being elected presi-
dent September 4, 1918, of the Indiana
Division of the War Mothers of America.
Mrs. Gillespie is a charter member of the
Woman's Department Club of Indianapo-
lis. She is also prominently identified
with the Chautauqua Circle, named for
Bishop John H. Vincent, and is a Chau-
tauqua graduate of the class of 1917. For
nine years she was president of the Thurs-
day Afternoon Club.

Mrs. Gillespie was a member of the
board of directors of the Young Women's
Christian Association for a number of
years and was chairman of the membership
committee and later of the girls' depart-
ment, and is also a member of the Roberts
Park Methodist Episcopal Church, where
she has been a teacher in the Sunday school
for many years.

While man J- Indianapolis families have
had representatives in the military forces
abroad, few have been longer represented
there than Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, whose
two sons, Boyd il. and Bryant W., Jr.,
were both members of Battery A of the
One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery,
Rainbow Division. Boyd was born May
21, 1895, and Bryant on November 17,
1897. Both were university men when
they enlisted and both had previous expe-
rience in the artillery branch of the Na-
tional Guard. These young men saw serv-
ice with the Indiana Unit on the Mexican
border. Boyd left DePauw University to
enter the army, while Bryant, Jr., was in
the jvinior class of Indiana University
when he joined the Battery and was made
a sergeant. Boyd Gillespie was made a
corporal in the spring of 1917. He was
one of the Americans disabled by a gas
attack from the Germans May 1, 1918, and
spent several months in a base hospital.
Both sons are college fraternity men, Boyd
a Phi Delta Theta and Bryant, Jr., a Phi
Gamma Delta.

JoTiN jM. Butlee, lawyer, was born at
Evansville, Indiana, September 17, 1834.
His parents, Calvin and Malvina (French)
Butler, were both natives of Vermont his
mother being a descendant of Governor
Bradford the colonial Governor of Massa-
chusetts. Calvin Butler was one of the early
Presbyterian missionaries in Indiana and
founded the church at Evansville, as well
as organizing churches at other points in
Snutliern Indiana. He was a graduate of
Middlcbury College and Andover Theolog-
ical Seminary, but, like many of his fellow-
laborers, he had a large family and very
small remuneration for his labors. The
children were made bread-winners as soon
as possible, and at the age of eleven John-
M. became a clerk in a store. He had good
liDiiir instruction, and was impressed with
tltr iiii|iin'laiice of education. By persistent
cl'foi't he jircpared himself to enter Wabasli
College, and graduated there in 1856.
After his graduation, Mr. Butler M'as
elected President of the Female Seminary
of Crawfordsville and after serving for two
years in that capacity, was elected princi-
pal of the High School of that city, the city
having purchased the building and grounds
of the Seminary. While teaching all of
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and iu 1859 he felt ready to practice. After
an extended trip in search for a hieation,
he opened an office at Crawfordsville iu
November of that year. He was successful
from the start, winning his first important
case in both the lower and the Supreme
courts. In 1871 he was invited to a part-
nership at Indianapolis by Joseph E. Mc-
Donald (q. v.), and this lasted until the
latter 's death iu June, 1891. Mr. McDon-
ald's son Frauk, and Mr. B. Butler's
j-ounger brother. George C. were added to
the firm, and it so continued until the
death of George C. Butler, a young man of
great ability, in 1883. He was i*eplaced
by Augustus Lynch Mason, who withdrew
in the latter part of 1887 on account of ill
health. His place was taken by Alpheus
H. Snow, Mr. Butler's son-in-law. The
business of the firm was extensive and
profitable, and was largely in the Federal
courts, and the Supreme courts of the
State and the United States.

'WHiile Mr. Butler was engaged in many
important cases, there was one which in
importance to the public exceeded all the
rest combined, and indeed it seldom falls
to the lot of any man to effect such a far-
reaching reform as ilr. Butler achieved by
establishing what is known as "the Six
Months Rule." It had become a rather
common practice for the managers of rail-
roads to create a large amount of debt for
supplies and labor, and then have a re-
ceiver appointed, foreclose, and bar these
debts. A case of this character was the
foreclosure of the mortgage on the Indian-
apolis, Bloomington & Western Railway, in
the IL S. Circuit Court for Indiana and
Illinois. Mr. Butler represented the Rogers
Locomotive Works, which had sold a num-
ber of locomotives to the railroad company,
and these, before they were paid for, had
been reduced almost to junk by heavy use,
and not even ordinary care. There were
numerous other bills outstanding, and the
wages of the employees were largely in de-
fault. In presenting the case, basing his
argument on the broad proposition that "he
who seeks equity must do equity," ]\Ir.
Butler insisted "that the mortgage bond-
holders ought not to receive the benefit of
labor and material furnished for the main-
tenance of the property within six mnnths
preceding the action for foreclosure, with-
out paying for them. Judge Drummond
sustained this position, then without a

precedent, and also entered similar rulings
in a number of other cases covered by the
])rinciple, one of which was at once ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court. It was not
.Mr. Butler's case, but at the request of
Judge Drummond, he volunteered in it
(Fosdick vs. Schall, 99 U. S. p. 235) and
both briefed it and argued it orally before
the Supreme Court, his work, however pass-
ing in the printed report to the credit of
R. Biddle Roberts, who was attorney of
record for SchiiU. The Supreme Court sus-
tained Judge Drummond, and so this rule,
wliich Mr. Butler originated and estab-
lished, became a permanent rule of Ameri-
c;in law; and it is a rule which has been of
enormous benefit to employees and credi-
tors of railroad companies. Mr. Butler
invoked the power of the courts in an-
other matter of even greater importance.
Roused by the ruin of a young man by
speculation in futures, he made an earnest
effort to have the court recognize all such
speculation as gambling, and refuse to en-
force any contracts in connection with it.
The soundness of his argument was so ap-
parent that nobody has ever attempted to
answer it, but the court was not prepared
to risk a ruling so far-reaching in its con-
sequences.

Mr. Butler never sought office, but he was
a very earnest republican, and was gener-
ally called on for one or more campaign
speeches by his party. There were always
formidable arguments which were printed
and circulated as campaign documents, but
they v,-ere not u.sually attractive to the
ordinary campaign audience. In conse-
t|uence a political friend was sent to him
to suggest that he "liven up" his speeches
by introducing a few anecdotes and jokes
to cheer the common herd. Mr. Butler ad-
mitted the reasonableness of the suggestion,
and promised compliance. At his next ap-
pearance as a campaign orator, he began
by telling three stories that appealed to
liim, and then settled down to an argument
tlint would have suited the dignity of a
Supreme Court. There were no further
attempts to refonn his style of speech-mak-
ing.

Mr. Butler died at New York City, on
September 15, 1895, while East on business.
He left a considerable estate to his wife, bis
son and his daughter. The son, John
Maurice Butler, died about six months
later. The widow. Sue W. ( Jennison) But-

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ler, died on April 1, 1899, at Nice, France.
By her will, after paying cei'tain legacies,
the property was left to the daughter, Mar-
garet Butler Snow, for life, and after her
death the estate was to be divided into six
parts, one of which is to go to The Indian-
apolis Law Library and Bar Association,
to erect a memorial building, bearing her
husband's name, for the association's use;
and another sixth to the City of Indian-
apolis to found The John Maurice Butler
Dispensary. Additional remainders go to
these two objects, after certain other life

estates.

!

Henry C. Yauky is secretary and treas-
urer of the Pan-American Bridge Com-
pany of Newcastle. He has been a manu-
facturer and business man for many years,
and formerly was chiefly identified with
lumbering as a manufacturer.

He was born on a farm in Henry County
in 1856, son of John and Nancy (Crull)
Yauky. His grandfather, Frederick
Yauky, came from Pennsylvania and set-
tled in Ohio, near Miamisburg. Of his
nine children John was the oldest. John
Yauky became a Henry County farmer.
He had three children, one son and two
daughters.

Henry C. Yauky attended the public
schools to the age of sixteen, and after
that worked as a farm hand to the age of
twenty-three. For eight years he oper-
ated a threshing outfit, and the money he
made in this business he used to invest in
a sawmill at Messick Station in Henry
County. After seven years there he moved
to Arkansas, and was a lumber manufac-
turer on a more extensive scale in the tim-
ber regions of that state for two years.
Selling out, he returned to Newcastle in
1892, and then formed a partnership with
Wilbur Cox. They operated a saw mill
and also a spoke and rim factory. After
three years Mr. Yauky bought his part-
ner's interest and continued the indiistry
for seven years, finallj' selling out to Frank
Reynolds.

Mr. Yauky has been interested from the
first in the Pan-American Bridge Com-
pany. He was elected a director of the
first meeting of that company, and is now
also one of the large stockholders and sec-
retary of the company. Mr. Yauky owns
120 acres of land near Newcastle, is a
stockholder and director in the Quality

Tire & Rubber Company of Anderson, and
has a number of other business interests.

In 1879 he married Miss Ruth Allinder,
daughter of Joseph and Annie (Mower)
Allinder. They lost both their children
when young and have reared a boy since
infancy, Jesse Edward Derringer. This
foster son is now an American patriot, be-
ing with the Two Hundred and Sixty-Fifth
Aero Squadron in France. Mr. Yauky is
a democrat and is treasurer of the Church
of Christ at Newcastle.

Felix J. Trainor. At the age of eleven
years Felix J. Trainor went to work in a
.spring factory at Cincinnati, Ohio. His
success in life is due not only to his early
start, but to the concentration of his mind
and energies along one line. Mr. Trainor
is a prominent Indiana manufacturer at
Newcastle, being president and general
manager of the National Spring Company
of that city.

He was born in Cincinnati, July 24,
1879, son of Patrick and Dora Maria (Gib-
son) Trainor. His parents came from
County Down, Ireland, in 1862, and after
one year in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
moved to Cincinnati, where they spent
their last years. The father was a car-
penter by trade and died in 1893. The
mother is still living at Cincinnati.

Felix J. Trainor was next to the young-
est in a family of nine children. He at-
tended the public schools of Cincinnati
and at the age of eleven became a boy
helper in the Columbian Spring Works.
All his wages he contributed toward help-
ing out the family. He was with the
Columbian Spring Works until 1911. At
the age of thirteen he was promoted to the
responsibility of operating a machine in
the factory. At twentj'-one he was fore-
man of the forging department, and after
four years was made superintendent of
the entire factory. For ten years he had
the supervision of a working force of 150
men. During that time he became a mas-
ter of everything connected with the man-
ufacture of springs. In 1911 he resigned
his place at Cincinnati to come to New-
castle, and in December of that year be-
came superintendent of the National
Spring Company. Two years later he was
made manager and vice president and
two years after that, having acquired the
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president and general manager. This
company manufactures springs of a great
variety and type, especially those used in
automobiles and other types of vehicles.
The springs are shipped to practically all
the markets of the world, even as far
away as South Africa, and much of the
work at present is done for the Govern-
ment. Upwards of eighty men are em-
ployed in the factory. During the past
five years Mr. Trainor has increased the
volume of business a thousand per cent,
and the outlook now is for practically a
doubling of the business in 1919. Mr.
Trainor is well known in Newcastle and
has a number of real estate and other in-
terests.

In 1905 he married Miss Cecelia Sulli-
van, daughter of Jeremiah and Catherine
(McDonald) Sullivan of Cincinnati. Their
children are Elizabeth Marcella, Catherine
Eudora, Felix Raymond and Cecelia. ]\Ir.
Trainor and family are members of St.
Anne's Catholic Church. He is affiliated
with the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks.

Frederick Heney Erb, Jr. To this
Lafa.yette citizen, now retired and living
in comfort at his home in West Lafayette,
has come unique distinctions in the field
of sports. As a crack shot and as a trainer
of hunting dogs he became known to a
sporting fraternity national if not inter-
national, and he numbers among his per-
sonal friends many distinguished celebri-
ties.

Mr. Erb was born on Oregon Street in
Lafayette, August 16, 1854, son of Fred-
erick Henry and ilary Sophia (Roily)
Erb. His mother was a native of France.
His father was a native of Switzerland,
and came to America at the age of six-
teen. He was a wine grower in the old
country but in America took up and de-
veloped remarkable skill and ability as a
race horse trainer and owner. He owned
some of the noted fast horses of his time
and was also an expert in other branches
of outdoor sports. He was a successful
trainer and promoter, and during his ca-
reer built the first race track at Lafayette.
He was a remarkable man in many ways,
and his great vitality is attested by the
fact that when he died in 1910 he was a
hundred six 3'ears old.

Fred Erb. Jr., inherited all tlie quali-

ties of his father in respect to sportsman-
ship. In early life he was a jockey, and
later took up trap and live bird shooting,
and after defeating Captain Bogardus was
hailed as the champion of the world.

Some of his .striking achievements are
told in a brief sketch, published in the La-
fayette Herald in 1895, when Mr. Erb
was at the height of his powers. Portions
of this sketch are herewith quoted: "He
was given a fair education in the public
schools of this city. Young Erb was a
born shot, having inherited his talent from
his father, who also in his day was a king
at the traps, and was the first man to ever
shoot a live pigeon match in this country,
defeating William King of London, Eng-
land, for the world's championship ajid
*1,000 on the side. Fred Erb, Sr., also
shot a great match with Jack Taylor of
New Jersey, for $2,500 a side, and was
defeated in this match. This great event
was shot off at the old Opp homestead
many years ago. Old timers will still re-
member this event.

"Fred Erb, Jr., at the age of eight was
sent to Lexington, Kentucky, by his father
as a rider of running horses, Fred keep-
ing this up until the age of eighteen. Dur-
ing his career as a jockey he rode the great
winners of those days, known to turf fame
as Ram'bler, Prairie Boy, Silver Tail, Bull
of the Woods, Gypsie and other celebrated
blue grass stock.

"At the age of twelve years his shoot-
ing qualities first came into publicity, and
while riding the circuit of running horses
he was often backed by his father in live
pigeon matches, in which he scored sig-
nal victories at the trap. Erb's great
achievement that brought him into national
fame was his challenge to Captain Bogar-
dus, who was then the all around cham-
pion of the world. This match came off
in ilarch, 1880, at St. Joseph, Missouri.
Erb killing ninety-three to Bogardus'
eighty-three birds. At St. Louis in Janu-
ary, 1881, Erb in a contest with a num-
ber of celebrated shots killed twenty-five
straight birds, winning eight hundred dol-
lars.

"Several years ago Erb retired from the
professional arena to engage in dog train-
ing, having been solicited to do so by many
of the dog fanciers of the country. How-
ever, the old fever returiunl and last win-
ter ilr. Erb again took up tlie trusty and

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will prepare to go for the championship
of the world again. In connection with
his work at the trap the same interest will
be given his kennel, which now contains
some of the most blooded stock in the
country. Erb has a national reputation
as a successful trainer. He has trained
dogs for all the celebrated sports in the
country.

"Erb's training methods are ideas
strictly his own. The dogs are first taught
to retrieve, and then after becoming used
to the call of the whistle are given actual
experience in the field * * * Mr.
Erb has made some wonderful scores
and we doubt if there is a man living who
can equal him with shotgun and rifle, or
handling a dog for field shooting and re-
trieving. ' '

As this indicates, Mr. Erb has won
many friends and admirers during his ac-
tive career, and one of his personal friends
was a no less distinguished personage than
Theodore Roosevelt, for whom he trained
bird dogs. Though now living retired Mr.
Erb still keeps up the keenest interest in
all kinds of field sports.

In recent years Mr. Erb has built up a
considerable business in manufacturiug
and selling food and tonics for animal
pets.

There are three special points in his
record which deserve quoting in the techni-
cal phraseologj' of sport: "He was the
first man to be handicapped from 26 yards
to 31 yards, one barrel gun, below elbow,
kill bird on the wing in 1870 at St. Louis,
Missouri. In 1873 Mr. Erb imported the
first complete set of ground traps and Har-
lingham Rules from England, which were
used at many places and at all big shoots.

' ' Erb was the first shooter, as a kid then,
to be barred as a professional shot in the
world at the big shoot at Peoria, Illinois,
June 10 to 13, 1875. To the world he is
only a kid yet, and the oldest one in the
game today, and every day of his life is
spent with dogs and guns, and the only
handler that will take big contracts to go
anywhere in the world to do the retriev-
ing with a big bunch of dogs at the big
live bird shoots and wealthy club grounds
and private matches.

"Fred Erb, Jr., has made the best scores
on record in the world on live birds and
targets, under trying conditions, and he is
still in the game. There is no doubt that

he is the ciuickest shot that ever faces the
traps, or anywhere else, with a shotgun."

Thomas S. Meeker is an Indianapolis
hotel owner, has been prominent in local
and state democratic politics for a num-
ber of years, and through his family re-
lationship has a number of interesting as-
sociations with the prominent people of the
state.

For a long jjeriod of years the Meeker
shipyard at New Albany, conducted by
his paternal grandfather and the latter 's
two sons, including Stephen, was famous
as a center of steamboat constniction.
The Meekers built most of the noted craft
that plied the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
before the war, when the river trade was
the great artery of traffic between the
North and the South. Among the boats they
built was the Robert E. Lee and also the
Natchez, famous for the boat races they
engaged in from New Orleans to St. Louis.

Mr. Thomas S. Meeker was born at New
Albany, Indiana, in 1881, a son of Stephen
and Mary (Rice) Meeker. A number of
his uncles and other kinsmen have been
noted figures in state politics and business
affairs. His uncle, the late James B.
Ryan, was treasurer of Indiana in the
early '70s, also a large property owner
and one of the wealthiest citizens of In-
dianapolis in his day. James Rice, another
uncle, was auditor of the State of Indiana
and a man of wealth. Thomas Hanlon,
who was also an uncle, now fills a public
position in Washington, and for sixteen
years was county auditor of Floyd County.
His mother's brother, Joseph Rice, held a
Federal position at Jeffersonville for
twenty-one years, and his father. Palmer
Rice, of New Albany, was one of the most
conspicuous men of that city prior to and
during the Civil war, and took care of and
furnished the supplies for many thousands
of soldiers coming and going between the
North and South.

ilr. Stephen Meeker, who is now living
in Indianapolis at the age of eighty-two,
was, as already noted, identified with the
i]\Ieeker shipbuilding industry at New Al-
bany, and has had a long and interesting
experience in affairs. It was in New Al-
bany that Thomas S. Aleeker spent his
bo.yhood ;,nd school days. His first business
experience was in the train service on the
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years. For a time he was traveling sales-
man for the Indianapolis Cigar Company.
In 1904 he engaged in the hotel business
at Indianapolis. He and his brother, Ham-
ilton Meeker, under the firm name of Meek-
er Brothers, are proprietors of the Oneida
Hotel at 214-220 South Illinois Street, near
the Union Station aiid in the heart of the
best hotel district. This is one of the popu-
lar hotels of the Indiana capital and en-
joys a large and continuous patronage.

Mr. Meeker had hardly emerged into
manhood when he took an interesting part
in politics, and has been an exceedingly
influential figure, considering his age and
experience. He has served as a delegate
to every national convention of the demo-
cratic party since and including 1904. He
was the organizer of the Old Hickory
Club of Indianapolis, and is a prominent
member of the Elks, Indiana Athletic
Club, Canoe Club and other organizations.
He married Miss Dorothy Jordan, daugh-
ter of Patrick Jordan of Washington, In-
diana. They have one son, Thomas Hamil-
ton Meeker, born in 1911.

Hon. James R. Fleming, of Portland
and Indianapolis, is one of the younger
men of affairs of Indiana, is a lawyer, state
senator from Jay County and a democratic
leader.

Senator Fleming was born in Henry
County, Indiana, in 1881, son of George R.
and Sarah (Cummins) Fleming, the latter
now deceased. His father is a farmer and
still lives on the farm at Sulphur Springs
in Henry County, where his son was born.
The Flemings are of Scotch and English
origin, and first came to America in the
seventeenth century, settling in Maryland.
Senator Fleming's grandfather came from
Fairmount, West Virginia, to Indiana in
pioneer times, and was an early settler in
Henry County.

James R. Fleming was educated in the
local public schools and the high school at
Elwood, Indiana. He entered the Uni-
versity of Michigan, graduating from the
law department with the class of 1904.
In the same year he began practice at
Portland, county seat of Jay County,
where his home has since been. Along
with the exacting routine of the legal pro-
fession he has always taken an active in-
terest in aiifairs and local polities. He was
elected and served two terms as prosecut-

ing attorney of Jay County. In 1913 he
was elected a member of the Lower House
of the State Legislature, and in 1914 was
chosen to the State Senate for the term of
four years. In the Senate he has been a
member of many important committees.
In the session of 1915 he was chairman of
the judiciary committee, and in 1917 was
caucas chainnan of the Senate. He is a
man of ability, of much experience, has
high ideals, and his home county and state
have every reason to take pride in his work
and his influence.

Senator Fleming is affiliated with the
Masonic Order, the Elks and other organi-
zations. He married Miss Jennie Adair,
of Portland. They have a daughter,
Marian.

Floyd W. Stout, a Newcastle merchant
for over twenty years, is widely and fav-
orably known in Henry County, where he
has spent all his life and where his ances-
tors were pioneers. He is a member of the
firm of Stout & Williams, grocery and
clothing mereliants.

'Sir. Stout was born on a farm near New-
castle, on the Brown Road in Henry Town-
ship, July 18, 1868. His parents were
William W. and Rebecca (Livesey) Stout.
He is of English ancestry. His grand-
father, Elijah Stout, on coming to Henry
County secured government land two
miles east of Newcastle. His deed was
signed by Andrew Jackson. He cleared
up and developed 600 acres. The old
farm continued in the possession of the
Stout family from 1839 until it was sold
in 1902. Elijah Stout had five daughters
and one son.

Floyd W. Stout was educated in coun-
try schools, also the Newcastle High
School, and at the age of seventeen began
teacliing. One school in which he taught
in Henry Township was built on an acre
of land which had been donated for that
purpose bj' his grandfather. After four
years of teaching he entered the grocery
business at Newcastle. The firm of Stout
& Williams was in business for twenty-
one years at 1549 Broad Street, all the
time in the same room. They then bought
land and built their present building in
1911. They have a large stock of general
gi'oceries and men's clothing, with a town
and country trade for fifteen miles around
Newcastle. ^Mr. Stout is a stockholder in

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local banks and is also a director in the
Henry County Building and Loan Associa-
tion, having filled that office for fifteen
years.

December 31, 1890, he married Mary E.
Pickering, daughter of Irvin and Sarah
Jane (Block) Pickering, of Henry Town-
ship. They have two children: Horace
E., born in 1894, and George W., born
in 1903. Horace graduated from Wabash
College with the A. B. degree in 1917. On
December 26th of the same year he en-
listed. After a six weeks' course of train-
ing at the University of Chicago he was
appointed to the Ordnance Department,
and is now a sergeant with the American
Expeditionary Forces in Prance.

Mr. Stout is a democrat and served four
years on the city council, from 1902 to
1906. From 1906 to 1910 he was a mem-
ber of the school board. Since 1891 he
has taken an active part in the Christian
Church, and was president of the church
board in 1902. He has also attended some
state conventions of his church. Mr.
Stout has held all the chairs in the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, and is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias and the Ma-
sonic Order.

Alonzo Philip Green, of Attica, is one
of the largest land owners of the state, his
property possessions embracing large
amouuts of farm land both in Indiana and
in other localities. He was left an orphan
in early life and has made his way through
the world with a great deal of energy and
enterprise, and his success is a matter of
constant alertness to opportunity and a
faculty of doing things himself and get-
ting things done. Mr. Green is now en-
gaged in the real estate and loan business
at Attica under the name A. P. Green &
Sons.

He was born at Myersville, Illinois, Au-
gust 12, 1853, but represents a very early
family in Fountain County, Indiana. His
ancestry goes back to Sir Henry Green, a
member of the nobility in England. An-
other ancestor was General Nathanael
Greene, the great leader of Revolutionarj'
Forces in the southern colonies in the War
for Independence. Mr. Green and his sis-
ter Alice are both eligible to membership
in the Sons and Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.

His parents wei'e Conant C. and Chris-

tine (Rudy) Green. His father was born
at Terre Haute, Indiana, February 14,
1821, a date that indicates the early estab-
lishment of the Green family in the west-
ern part of the state. The parents of Co-
nant C. Green were Ormsby and Rebecca
(Prescott) Green, both of whom were na-
tives of England. Conant C. Green was a
saw mill man in early life and lived in
several different localities. He is remem-
bered as having built and operated the
first ferry over the Wabash River at At-
tica. That was during the '40s, and his
home was at Attica from 1830 to 1848. He
then removed to Myersville, Illinois, where
he was one of the early settlers and was a
merchant and farmer. He died April 20,
1862. On September 27, 1851, Conant C.
Green married Christine Rudy, who was
born in Penns.ylvania March 25, 1826, a
daughter of Jacob Rudy, a native of Swit-
zerland. She died January 12, 1874, at
Bismarck, Illinois. She was the mother of
five children, two sons and three daugh-
ters, two of whom, twins, died in infancy,
and Thomas also died in infancy. Those
to grow up were: Alonzo P. and Alice A.,
the latter being principal of the Attica
schools.

Alonzo P. Green was only nine years old
when his father died and a few years later
he had to take up the business of life as a
matter of serious responsibility and neces-
sity. While attending public school he also
clerked in the store of an uncle at Attica
and did similar service at Bismarck, Illi-
nois. In 1877 Mr. Green entered the gro-
cery business on his own account, and for
eighteen years was one of the successful
merchants at Attica. The surplus of liis
business he invested in land, and it is the
shrewdness and good management he has
shown in handling such investments that
have brought him the bulk of his fortune.
In 1901 he bought an island in Alexander
County, Illinois, comprising 1.136 acres.
This he has done much to improve and de-
velop, and it is now a highly productive
farm. He also owns valuable farm lands
in Indiana, Illinois and North Dakota.
While interested in the welfare of his com-
munity, a stanch republican voter, Mr.
Green has never sought any official honors.
He is affiliated with the Knights of Pvthias.

June 28, 1883, at Rossville, Illinois, he
married Miss Esther Thompson, who was
born at Rossville August 20, 1863, daugh-

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ter of Lewis M. and Judith A. (Bur-
roughs) Thompson. Her father was born
in Indiana in 1828 and died in 1913 and
her mother was born in Kentucky in 1828
and died at Rossville, Illinois, in 1890. In
the Thompson family were eight children,
six daughters and two sons, and six are
still living, Viola, Mary, John G., Esther,
Lena and Harriet. Mrs. Green is very
prominent musically at Attica and is well
known in other parts of the state. She is
a trained and talented vocalist and in-
strumentalist has taught both branches of
music, and was a student under Frederick
W. Root at Chicago. She is now president
of the Musical Art Society of Attica, and
as a club and literary woman is doing
much to promote the relief and other causes
of the war.

Mr. and I\Irs. Green have five children,
three sons and two daughters. Conant
Lewis, the oldest, was born May 16, 1884,
gi-aduated from the Attica High School
in 1902 and received his degrees A. B. and
LL. B. from the literary and law depart-
ments of the University of Michigan in
1907. He is now a successful lawyer at
Attica. He married June 26, 1909, Miss
Edna Glen Simison, who was born at Rom-
ney, Indiana. Their children are Esther
Glen and Enid Gwendolin, twins, Addi
Miriam, Doris Elizabeth and Edward Simi-
son.

Edward Alonzo, the second child, was
bom January 1, 1887, and lost his life by
drowning September 3, 1904, having
graduated from the Attica High School
the preceding spring. Lena Christine, the
third child, was born April 21, 1891, and
died the following day. The two younger
children are Philip Thompson, born No-
vember 8, 1901, and Esther Alice, born
July 23, 1904.

Virginia Cl.wpool Meredith (j\Irs.
Henry Clay Meredith) was born in Fay-
ette County, Indiana, November 5, 1848,
a daughter of Austin B. and Hannah
(Petty") Claypool. She graduated at Glen-
dale College in 1866, with the degree A. B. ;
and in 1870 was married to Ileni-y Clay
Meredith — a son of Gen. Sol. Meredith —
who died in 1882. After the death of her
husband, Mrs. Meredith took personal
charge of his stock fann, in Wayne County,
and devoted her attention to breeding

Shorthoni cattle and Southdown sheep, in
which she has been notably successful.

Mrs. ileredith is widely known as a
writer and lecturer on farm and home top-
ics. She was professor of home economics
at the University of ilinnesota from 1897
to 1902; has engaged largely in Indiana
Farm Institute work ; and has contributed
extensively to agricultural and stock jour-
nals. She was a member of the Board of
l.a(l.\- .Maiiii-ciN (if ihe World's Columbian
l-:x|M>siii<,ii at Cliira-ao, in 1893; and in the
same year was I'l-csident of the Indiana
I'nion of Literary Clubs. She has been
president of the Indiana Home Economies
Association since 1913.

Major Henry W. Johnson, who for
many yeai's was actively identified with
those interests which made ^Michigan City
an important center of furniture manu-
facturing enterprise, was born in 1834 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was
reared on a farm in Middlefield Township,
Geauga County, Ohio, son of James E.
and Emily B. (Burke) Johnson. His
grandfather, Hugh Johnson, was a native
of Virginia and moved to Ohio about 1802,
being one of the first settlers in Geauga
County, where he bought 600 acres of tim-
bered land. He volunteered his service at
the time of the War of 1812, and con-
tracted fever and died soon after its close.
His wife bore the maiden name of Jane
Erskine. James E. Johnson, who was bom
on a farm near Charleston, West Virginia,
in 1800, was one of six children, and in
early life learned tlie trade of carpenter.
For several years he was in the contract-
ing and building business at Philadelphia,
until his partner absconded with all the
capital of the firm. He then returned to
Ohio and took the management of the farm
which he inherited, and later continued in
business as a contractor and builder. He
(lied at Cleveland at the age of seventy-
four. His wife was a native of Phila-
delphia and died at the age of eighty-four.
On her mother's side she was of Holland
Dutch ancestry.

Henry W. Johnson was one of a family
of eight children, and all the six sons ex-
cept one served as Union soldiers. He was
well educated and spent four years in what
is now known as Hiram College in Ohio,
of wliich James A. Garfield was at that

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time president. He also taught school
some six years, and on August 20, 1861,
was commissioned second lieutenant of
Company B, Forty-First Ohio Infantry,
which was attached to the Nineteenth
Brigade in the Army of Ohio, and later the
Army of the Cumberland. In December,
1861, he was made regimental quartermas-
ter with the rank of first lieutenant. In
January, 1862, he was promoted to brigade
quartermaster with the rank of captain
of Company B, Forty-First Ohio Infan-
try. He took part in every battle of the
Army of the Cumberland and was in all
the Atlanta campaign with his brigade, 119
daj's under fire. He was brevetted major
of volunteers by the United States War
Department "for meritorious services in
the Union Army," and was commissioned
captain and assistant quartermaster United
States Volunteers by the War Department
and assigned to duty as chief quartermas-
ter of the Third Division of the Fourth
Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland,
with the full rank of major and depiity
quartermaster United States Volunteers,
having been mustered out of his regiment
as captain of Company B. Toward the
close of the war he was sent to Texas with
his command, and in 1865 he was ordered
to report to General Sheridan at New Or-
leans, who ordered him to report to Gen-
eral Wood at Vieksburg, Mis.sissippi. He
was then made custodian of the Federal
and Confederate property in all the dis-
trict of Northern Mississippi, and sold it
at auction, having his headquarters at
Jackson, the capital of the state. After
making settlement of his accounts with the
Government, he was mustered out of serv-
ice in June, 1866, at Vicksburg. He was
immediately commissioned as a lieutenant
in the Eighth United States Regular In-
fantry and ordered to report to General
Hooker, at Detroit, Michigan, where one
battalion of his regiment was stationed.
Across this commission as lieutenant was
written by the secretary of war this state-
ment: "This officer is to be commissioned
with the rank of captain and assistant
quartermaster in the Regular Army, at the
first vacancy in that department."

After the war Major Johnson engaged
in the business of manufacturing furni-
ture at Columbus, Ohio, but in 1868 moved
to Michigan City as a member of the firm
of Ford & Johnson, out of which later de-

veloped the monumental enterprise known
as the J. S. Ford-Johnson Company, chair
manufacturers, of which Mr. Johnson for
many years was vice president. He was
also identified with several other local in-
dustries and banks.

January 1, 1867, at Columbus, Ohio,
Major Johnson married Miss Annetta
Ford, who was born in Geauga County,
Ohio, daughter of Colonel Stephen A. and
Eunice (Brooks) Ford. Major Johnson
and wife reared six children : Emma, Wil-
liam, Edward, Helen, Margaret and Alice.
All these children have the middle name
of Ford. Major Johnson is an elder in
the Presbyterian Church from the year
1871 to tlie present time, 1919. He was
made a Master Mason in 1857, and has
long been active in the Grand Army Post
at Michigan City. At one time he was
president of the Michigan City School
Board.

)

Joseph E. Neff. One of South Bend's
able business men and public-spirited citi-
zens, who has long been a prominent fac-
tor in the financial field, is Joseph E. Neff,
secretary and treasurer of the Union Trust
Company of this city. Mr. Neff is a na-
tive of Indiana and was born in Grant
County, December 25, 1864. His parents
were John and Mary Catherine (Bloomer)
Neff.

It is interesting to trace the history of
old American families which through
sturdy qualities have become foundation
stones in the citizenship of the country in
which the forefathers sought an early
liome, and particularly is this the case
when the line reaches, as does the Neffs,
to ancient, freedom-loving Switzerland.
It was from that country that the first
Neff emigrant came to Virginia, and it
was in Roanoke County. Virginia, that
Samuel Neff, the grandfather of Joseph E.
Neff, was born in 1792, his father in all
probability having seen something of the
Revolutionary war. Samuel Neff in early
manhood moved to Champaign County.
Ohio, where he engaged in farming, and
died there about 1864, having always en-
joyed the respect of his fellow citizens.
His wife was a member of the Striekler
family of Virginia.

Jolin Neff, father of Joseph E. Neff. who
is a well-known and much-esteemed resi-
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was born on his father's farm in Cham-
paign County, Ohio, in 1833. Following
the discovery of gold iu California, John
Neff in 1849 accompanied the army of
gold-seekers that crossed the plains to the
Pacific, and spent six years with varying
success in the far West. In 1861 he came
to Grant County, Indiana, and here fol-
lowed an agricultural life until his retire-
ment some years ago. He was married
iu this county to ]Mary Catherine Bloomer,
who was born in 1841, near Washington
Courthouse, Fayette County, Ohio, and
died on the home farm in Grant County,
Indiana, in 1895. The following children
were born to them: Joseph E., Frank B.,
who resides on the homestead in Grant
County ; Isaac E., who represents the pub-
lishing firm of Longmans, Green & Com-
pany, is a resident of Chicago; Elizabeth,
who is the wife of Edward Ford, a manu-
facturer at Wabash, Indiana; Laura, who
is the wife of Oren Simmons, a contractor,
resides at Marion, Indiana, and the father
of Mrs. Simmons makes his home with
her; John P., who is a resident of New
York City, is vice president of a large
manufacturing plant making locomotive
equipment ; Clarence, who lives on the
home farm, as also does his twin brother
Lawrence.

Joseph E. Neff was primarily educated
in the local schools in Grant County and
later entered De Pauw University, from
which institution he was graduated in
1891, with the degree of A. B., returning
later to complete his course in law and
receive the degrees of A. M. and LL. B.
He has many happy memories of old col-
lege days and still preserves his member-
ship in the Phi Delta Theta Greek letter
fraternity. Mr. Neff came then to South
Bend and for two years engaged in the
practice of law in association with the late
Hon. A. L. Brick, formerly member of
Congress. Later he became interested in
the insurance and loan business, and \vas
thus identified until 1900, when in part-
ner.ship with Charles Lindsay he assisted
in the organization of the Citizens' Loan
& Trust Companj^ and until 1902 was man-
ager of the insurance and real estate de-
partment of this corporation.

Mr. Neff then organized the American
Trust Company and served as its secre-
tary until 1907, when he was instrumen-
tal in the organization of the Union Trust
Company, which opened for business

July 8, 1908, its resources at that time be-
ing .$70,848.90, and the growth of the
business may be estimated by quoting from
the bank statement issued November 20,
1917, when the resources had grown to
$1,241,759.90. The officers and directors
of this banking company are as follows:
Samuel M. Adler, president; Alonzo J.
Hammond, vice president; B. A. Wills,
vice president; J. E. Neff, secretary and
treasurer; and E. L. Kelsey, assi-stant sec-
retary. The directing board is made up
of the herein named capitalists: L. J.
Smith, E. A. Wills, J. E. Neff, P. K. Goetz,
Samuel il. Adler, Alonzo J. Hammond, G.
A. Parabaugh, Gus H. Grieger. The bank
is housed in a fine structure on the corner
of [Michigan and Jefferson streets, which
magnificent building was erected for the
company between July, 1915, and July,
191(). It is till' finest equipped structure
in the (.-ity. iMiiistructed of gi'anite, steel
and iiiarlile, four stories in height, with
permission to add eight more stories when
deemed necessai-y.

Mr. Neff' was married in 1896, at Rem-
ington, Indiana, to Miss Daisy Jlikels, who
died in 1899, survived by one son, Ray-
mond Mikels, who is a senior in the G»eat
Bend High School. In 1901 Mr. Neff was
married to Miss Florence Young, who died
in 1905.

In politics 'Sir. Neff is a democrat. He
has always been a very active citizen, and
during the three years that he served on
the Board of Education lie demonstrated
not only his public spirit but the desir-
ability of business and educated men being
prevailed upon to accept such responsi-
bility. During that time the present hand-
some high school building was erected and
it does credit not only to the city but the
state. Mr. Neff selected the appropriate
classical quotations that ser\'e as a part
of the decorative scheme of the walls. In
addition to his important business interests
mentioned above, he is secretary and treas-
urer of tlie I'liidii Trust Company, is a
direetdi- in ilie Xnvarre Place Corporation,
and is virc president of the Chapiii State
Bank, which he organized in 1912.

While Mr. Neft' is essentially a business
man, he possesses qualities that make him
valued in public movements and on civic
commissions, and welcome in the member-
.ship of fraternal and social organizations,
lie belongs to South Bend Lodge No. 294,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; South

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Bend Lodge No. 235, Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks; and to Crusade Lodge No.
li, Knight of Pythias. He was president
of the somewhat celebrated Knife & Pork
Club in 1916, and is one of the governors
of the Indiana Club. Additionally he is
a member of the Country, the University
and the Rotary clubs. He belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Edw^\rd Daniels. It is probable that
there was never another member of the
Indianapolis bar whose death caused wider
and more sincere regret than that of Ed-
ward Daniels. Although the necessary an-
tagonisms of the legal profession very fre-
quently produced bitter personal feelings,
he was so kindly and so considerate of the
rights of others that even his opponents
recognized his fairness and gave him their
respect.

He was born November 11, 1854, in
Greene County, Ohio, of English Dutch
and Welsh ancestry. Both his father and
grandfather were bridge builders and
skilled in the allied branches of engineer-
ing. In 1855 his father came to Indiana as
general superintendent of the Evansville
and Crawfordsville Railroad, and contin-
ued in this position for three years. Early
in 1861 his father, Joseph J. Daniels, was
called to Parke County, Indiana, to build
a bridge, and later in the year he brought
his family to live in Rockville, where Ed-
ward Daniels received his early education
in the common schools, thence entering
Wabash College, from which he graduated
with honors in 1875. At Wabash he formed
a life-long friendship with Albert Baker
of the class of 1874, a fellow Beta Theta
Pi and a son of Governor Conrad Baker.
Mr. Daniels remained at Wabash as an
instructor in 1875-6, and in 1876-7 attend-
ed Columbia University Law School. Ke
came to Indianapolis in the fall of 1877
and was admitted to the bar.

In October, 1877, Mr. Daniels became
a clerk in the office of Baker, Hord &
Hendricks. In 1881, he and Albert Baker
formed a partnership and in 1883 they both
hecame junior partners in the firm of
Baker, Hord & Hendricks. After the death
of the senior partners the firm became, in
1889, Baker and Daniels, and this partner-
ship lasted throughout his life. He was ap-
pointed by the Hon. William A. Woods
and John IT. Baker, judges of the Circuit
and District Courts, as a standing master

in chancery on the death of Mr. William
P. Fishback in 1901, and held the office
from that time until his death. He was a
member of the American, Indiana and In-
dianapolis Bar Associations, the Columbia
and University clubs, the Indianapolis
Literary Club and the First Presbyterian
Church of Indianapolis.

On Jlay 25, 1887, he was married to Miss
Virginia Johnston, daughter of William
Wylie Johnston, one of the pioneer whole-
sale merchants of Indianapolis, and the
descendant of a New Jersey Revolutionary
soldier. Her mother, Mary Dulaney (Fitz-
hugh) Johnston, was a daughter of George
Fitzhugh, who came to Madison, Indiana,
in 1835, from Baltimore, but both he and
his wife were of old Virginia families.
Mr. Daniels left two sons, Wylie J. Daniels,
secretary and treasurer of the Indianapo-
lis Union Railway Company, and Joseph J.
Daniels, of the law firm of IBaker & Daniels,
who served as a captain of the 327th Field
Artillery in the American Expeditionary
Forces.

Mr. Daniels always took a warm interest
in Wabash College, of which he was made
a trustee in 1896, serving continuously
thereafter. He wa.s also auditor of the
Board, and was serving in this office at the
time of his death, on June 11, 1918.

A man of fine literary taste and with a
keen sense of humor, a discriminating read-
er, the owner of an exceptional private li-
brary, ilr. Daniels was a valued member
and constant attendant of the Indianapolis
Literary Club. He also served a.s its pres-
ident in 1902-3. When he read a paper
there was always a full attendance. In
this connection it may be noted that his
last literary work was aiding in the com-
position of the bar memorial to Vice Pres-
ident Fairbanks, whose death occurred on
June 4, 1918.

In politics he was a Republican, and the
first president of the Columbia Club. One
of the early presidents of the Indianapolis
Bar Association, he always upheld the
standards of the profession, both ethical
and legal. At the memorial meeting held
after his sudden death, these words were
spoken, "His investigation of the details
of a case was careful and minute, but
he never lost in the study of them his
ability to see the ca.se as a whole and
comprehensively, or to make a proper ap-
plication of the principles which should
govern it. He stated the facts of a case

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with such clearness and relevancy to the
issues joined in it as to make his conclu-
sions inevitable. His knowledge of the law
was accompanied in the administration of
it by a trained and educated conscience
which never sacrificed the spirit of the law
to the letter of it. Law was not for Ed-
ward Daniels merely an affair of statutes
and reports. There was for him an inward
compulsion to know more than was fur-
nished by them, — not even principles alone,
but the derivation of them and the rea.son
for them, were necessar.y for his mental
sustenance. The history and philosophy
of the law beckoned him not in vain."

Richard V. Sipe. Early in his legal ca-
reer and experience it was the good fortune
of Mr. Sipe to become associated with some
of the eminent members of the Indiana
bar. But while he acknowledges a great
debt of gratitude to his many friends, Mr.
Sipe is a successful lawyer on the basis of
his individual qualifications and achieve-
ments, and has done much creditable work
to earn his present enviable position in the
Indianapolis legal fratemit.y.

Mr. Sipe was born February 25, 1883, in
Favette County Indiana, son of Richard
W.' and Sarah (Phillips) Sipe. His father,
who was born in Jefferson County, Indiana,
had a long and distinguished career. He
was educated in public schools, in Hanover
College, gi'aduated from the Ohio Medical
College of Cincinnati, and from the Indian-
apolis Medical College, and in 1864 took
up the work of his profession in Fayette
County, Indiana. He was always satis-
fied to render his service in a comparative-
ly country community. But there was no
more skillful physician and no one more
successful in treating many obscure and
difficult cases than Doctor Sipe. And his
reputation extended over a much wider
territory than is usual with a country doe-
tor. He also had many fine social traits
of cliaracter, enjoyed a host of friends, and
they all gave him the respectful admira-
tion due his many noble and generous
characteristics. Pi-ofessionally he would
never discriminate between the rich and
the poor, and in fact he did much work
among poor people without a cent of com-
pensation. He was a member of the re-
publican party and was honored witli a
number of minor offices, sucli as townshiji
trustee and membership in tlie county

council. His long and laborious life full of
good deeds came to a close in 1915. Of
his seven children four are still living,
Richard V. being the youngest of the
family.

After attending public schools Richard
V. Sipe entered Hanover College and
graduated A. B. in the class of 1905. His
early studies and experience in the law
came largely through his work as secre-
tary to Judge Monks, then one of the jus-
tices of the Indiana Supreme Court. He
was Judge Monks' secretary two years,
and for a period of two years was also
law editor for the Bobbs-Merrill Com-
pany at Indianapolis. For another two
years he served as an insurance adjuster.
Mr. Sipe represented ^Marion County in the
Indiana Legislature from 1916 to 1918, in
May, 1918, was nominated a-s republican
candidate for clerk of Marion County, and
was elected to the latter office November
5, 1918. He has always been a stanch re-
publican.

May 5, 1910, Mr. Sipe married Miss
Grace Frazee. They have one daughter,
Ruth, born May 6, 1913. Mrs. Sipe was
educated in Earlham College at Richmond,
Indiana. She is of old and patriotic Amer-
ican stock. Both her maternal and pater-
nal ancestors fought in the struggle for
independence.

Charles Washington Moores. As a
representative of an old and honored In-
diana family, and of Revolutionary an-
cestry, Mr. ^Moores has shown an interest
in state and national history which ha.s
made him widely known in those lines. He
is first vice president of the Indiana His-
torical Society, and its representative on
the Indiana Historical Commission, in
which he serves as a member of the publi-
cation committee. His historical writings
have been of material service in making
the study of history popular in the public
schools of the state.

His paternal great-grandfather, Henry
Moores, of South Carolina, enlisted in the
artillery of the Continental army, and
served through the war, gaining the rank
of first lieutenant. For his service as a
Revolutionary soldier he was granted 1.000
acres of land in Madison County, Ken-
tucky, and located on it, but after several
y<^ars found tlic soil so poor that he re-
turned to South Carolina. His son, Isaac

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R. Moores, was born iu Kentucky, and grew
up on the frontier, removing about 1825 to
Vermilion Count}-, Illinois.

In the Black Hawk war in 1832 Isaac
R. Moores was commissioned colonel in the
Fourth Illinois Regiment, which was in the
brigade in which Abraham Lincoln served
as captain. Colonel Moores was postmaster
at Danville, Illinois. In 1852 he crossed
the plains to Oregon, where his qualities
were recognized by his election to the First
Constitutional Convention and later to the
State Senate.

Charles Washington Moores, Sr., son of
Col. Isaac Moores, was born in Vermilion
County, Illinois, November 2, 1828. He
graduated from Wabash College in 1852,
and came to Indianapolis to teach in the
State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Latier he associated with his brother-in-
law. Col. Samuel ]\Ierrill, in a book store
and publishing business, which has since
developed- into the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
His health kept him out of the service in
the Civil war until 1864, when he enlisted
in the 132nd Indiana Infantry as a private.
He soon fell a victim to the hardships of
war, and died in the service a few weeks
later at Stevenson, Alabama.

His wife, Julia Dumont Merrill, was
a daughter of Samuel ]\Ierrill, known to
all students of Indiana history. He was
treasurer of state from 1824 to 1837, leav-
ing that position to become president of the
State Bank of Indiana, of which Hugh
McCuUoch was cashier. He was also pres-
ident of the ]Madison & Indianapolis Rail-
road, the first railroad in the state. As
treasurer of state he supei'vised the re-
moval of the State Treasury, State Library
and the state archives from Corydon to
• Indianapolis, spending ten days in this
progress of 125 miles through an almost
trackless wilderness.

The present Charles Washington Moores
was born at Indianapolis February 15,
1862. He graduated from Wabash College
in 1882, and received from his alma mater
his Master's degi-ee in 1885, and the degree
of Litt. D. in 1912. He graduated from
Central Law School, Indianapolis, in 1883,
and entered on the practice of his profes-
sion. He has lectured continuously in the
Indiana Law School since 1896 on Con-
tracts, Sales and Constitutional Law. Since
1888 he has served as United States com-
missioner. At present he is a member of

the firm of Pickens, Moores, Davidson &
Pickens. On October 5, 1896, he married
Miss Elizabeth Nichols, of Philadelphia.

A family trait of Mr. Moores is his in-
terest in education. He served as a mem-
ber of the Indianapolis School Board from
1900 to 1909, being vice-president 1903-8,
and president 1908-9. He was a director
of Butler College from 1903 to 1909, a di-
rector of the Indianapolis Art Institute in
1909 and in 1918 ; and in 1914 was presi-
dent of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
He is a member of the Indiana and Ameri-
can Bar Associations, the Phi Beta Kappa
and Sigma Chi fraternities, and the In-
dianapolis University Club, Indianapolis
Literary Club and other local organiza-
tions.

The first venture of ilr. Moores in legal
litei-ature was as joint author, with Wil-
liam F. Elliott, of a work on Indiana
Criminal Law, published in 1893. He has
contributed to the first and second editions
of the American and English Encyclopedia
of Law, and to various law journals and
other magazines. His historical publica-
tions include "Caleb Mills and the Indiana
School System," published in 1905, in Vol.
three of the Indiana Histoi-ical Society's
Publications; the Year Book of the Sons
of the American Revolution of 1897 and
1908 ; a Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys
and Girls, published in 1909; a Story of
Christopher Columbus, piiblished iu 1912;
a book of Lincoln Selections, published in
1913 ; and a Historv of Indiana, published
in 1916.

William il. White, who served with
credit two terms iu the State Senate from
^Montgomery County, has a record both as
a public official and as a private citizen
which distinguishes him as one of the broad
and thoughtful public men iu the state
today.

He was born at Kokomo, Indiana, Jan-
uary 31, 1863. His father. Henry A.
White, was for three years a hard fighting
soldier in the LTnion army during the Civil
war, and at all times the family has been
distinguished for its patriotism and high
moral convictions. Senator Wliite was a
small boy when his parents moved to Mont-
gomery County, and he gi-ew up there
on a farm. His early education in the
countiy schools was supplemented by
further training when he himself became

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a teacher. From 1889 to 1893 he was a
court reporter under Judge E. C. Snyder.
In 1894 he was nominated on the repub-
lican ticket for county auditor, and by
reelection in 1898 served two terms, those
eight years being significant of thorough
efficiency in the management of this highly
important county office. During the sec-
ond term he had brought the office to
such a point of systematic management
that he was able to leave the routine to
competent deputies and he utilized the
time thus made available by attending
Waibash College, from which he graduated
in 1903.

Mr. White was nominated for State Sen-
ator on the republican ticket in 1910, and
was elected to represent the counties of
Montgomery and Parke. He was reelected
in 1914, and when the state was redistricted
in 1915 his district came to be the counties
of Montgomery and Putnam. Senator
White was always aligned with the pro-
gressive thought and action of the Legis-
lature during his membership. He gave
stalwart support to the three most signifi-
cant pieces of legislation in recent years,
those concerned with the problems of pro-
hibition, woman suffrage, and the consti-
tutional convention. The act prox-iding
for a constitutional convention it will be re-
called was declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. For many years Mr.
White has had extensive business interests
at Crawfordsville. He is a member of all
the Masonic bodies in that city, is a thirty-
second degree Scottish Rite IMason and
Shriner, and is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. In 1892 he married
Miss Mattie Detchon. Mr. and Mrs. White
have one son, Russell D., born at Craw-
fordsville February 22, 1899. In this
son Mr. White has concentrated his af-
fection and pride. Russell graduated from
the Crawfordsville High Scliool in the class
of 1916 and soon afterwards entered Wa-
bash College. On :\Iareh 30, 1917, as soon
as he was eighteen years of age, and before
America had formally declared war against
Germany, he enlisted in the nation's serv-
ice. He served as supply sergeant in the
Headquarters Company, one hundred and
fifty second Infantry, and as such sailed
for France in October, 1918.

William G. Gilmore, of Michigan City,
is one of the oldest engineers in the serv-

ice of the Michigan Central Railway Com-
pany, has been a railroad man forty years,
and his record has been as efficient and
honorable as it has been long.

Mr. Gilmore was born at London, On-
tario, Canada. His father, William Gil-
more, a native of Newcastle on the Tyne,
England, learned tlie trade of cabinet
maker as a youth, and after coming to
America engaged in the furniture business
at London, Ontario. During his last years
he had as active associates in the business
his sons John and Thomas. He spent his
last days with a daughter at Ingersoll,
Canada, where he died at the age of eighty-
five. By his first marriage he had three
sons and two daughters, the sons being
named John, Thomas and Robert. He mar-
ried for his second wife Elizabeth Car-
michael, a native of Scotland. Her first
husband was Mr. Adams, and by that mar-
riage she had a son and daughter, the son
being named John. William Gilmore and
his second wife had one son.

William G. Gilmore was only seven years
old when his mother died, and he soon
afterward went to Detroit to live with his
half-brother, John Adams. There he at-
tended public schools, and later tlie fam-
ily moved from Detroit to Marshall, ]\lich-
igan, where Mr. Adams became prominent
in business and public affairs, serving at
one time as mayor of Marshall. He oper-
ated a foundry, and it was in that foundry
that William Gilmore served his first ap-
prenticeship. At the age of twenty years
he went to work for the Michigan Central
Railroad Company as a fireman, with head-
qnarters at Kalamazoo. In 1876 he moved
his home to. Jackson, and in 1879 was pro-
moted to engineer. Since then his service
has been continuous in that capacity. In
1880 he established a home in Michigan
City and at the present time has a pas-
senger train run between Kalamazoo and
Chicago. He is one of the most highly
respected members of Lake Michigan No.
300 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers.

In 18S3 Mr. Gilmore married Mary J.
Dawson, a native of ^lichigan City and
daughter of William J. and iMary (Mc-
Kee~l Dawson. Mr, and Mrs. Gilmore have
four children : Carrie Frances, Wallace
Lewis, Russell Adams and Allan Edward.
Carrie is the wife of Lyman Ohming and
lias a daughter, Marjorie Gilmore. The son

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Wallace Lewis is a private in the National
Army stationed at Waco, Texas. Russell
A. has a rank of lieutenant in the Medical
Corps and at this writing is still with his
command in France. Allen E. was mem-
ber of an officers' training school at Chi-
cago when the armistice was signed. Mr.
and Mrs. Gilmore are active members of
Trinity Episcopal Church, of which he is
a vestryman.

Alexis Coqi'Illard. To Alexis Coquil-
lard belongs the distinction of establishing
the first American home within the limits
of St. Joseph County, and he is regarded
as the founder of South Bend. He was
born in Detroit, September 28, 1795. Dur-
ing the war of 1812 he served the American
cause, and after the war he became a fur
trader, later becoming associated with the
John Jacob Astor's American Fur Com-
pany, and in 1823 established a trading
post on the St. Joseph River. Subse-
quently he built a log store and residence
near what is now North Michigan Street.

In 1824 Mr. Coquillard mai-ried Prances
C. Comparet, and he brought his wife to
this home from Fort Wayne. His nephew
and namesake established the Coquillard
Wagon Works in 1865 and directed it
through its prosperous gi'owth. During his
life he was numbered among South Bend's
most prominent men.

Ira M. Holmes. The twenty years since
he was admitted to the bar have furnished
ample time and opportunity in which Ira
M. Holmes has definitely gained a prestige
that ranks him as one of the leading law-
yers of Indianapolis. Some who have had
an opportunity of observing and judging
his legal clientage say that he has the
largest law practice and is the busiest law-
yer in the state.

Mr. Holmes comes of a family of lawyers,
two of his brothers being prominent mem-
bers of the Indianapolis bar, and their
father had climbed to a successful position
in the same profession before his early
death.

This branch of the Holmes family was
established in Massachusetts from England
in colonial days. Later they moved to
New York. From that portion of the east
Squire W. Holmes, great-grandfather of
Ira Holmes, came out and founded the
family in western Indiana, in Vigo County.

The grandfather, Arba W. Holmes, a na-
tive of New York State, was for many years
a substantial farmer in Vigo County.

It was on the Vigo County homestead
that Squire W. Holmes father of the three
Indianapolis lawyers, was born. He never
possessed rugged physical health and his
hard service as a soldier in the Seventh
Indiana Volunteer Infantry made further
inroads upon his strength. He acquired
a good education, and after the war estab-
lished himself in law practice at Pendle-
ton in Madison County, Indiana. He was
engaged in practice there until his death
on November 29, 1878, at the age of thirty-
five. He married Olive M. Parsons, who
in 1880 brought her three sons, William
A., Harry W. and Ira M., to Indianapolis.

Ira M. Holmes was born at Pendleton,
Indiana, December 20, 1876, and was only
two years of age when his father died.
He grew up at Indianapolis, attended pub-
lic schools, graduated from high school in
1895, and in 1898 received his degree
LL. B. from the Indiana Law School. Ad-
mitted to the bar the same year, he at once
launched into a practice which has been
growing every successive year. One im-
portant stage of his experience was his
service as deputy prosecuting attorney of
Marion County in 1903. The law has been
his .iealous mistress at all times, and his
devotion to its interests has kept him out
of politics and has brought him his pres-
ent success and high standing in the pro-
fession.

]Mr. Holmes is a republican, is a Royal
Arch Mason, a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order
of Red Men, Knights of Pythias and the
Dramatic Order of the Knights of Kho-
rassan. He and his wife are members of
the Third Christian church of Indianapolis.
In 1902 he married Miss Josephine Sat-
terthwaite, daughter of Mertillis Satterth-
waitc, of Medicine Hat, Canada.

Will H. Wade was appointed chairman
of the Liberty Loan Committee for the
State of Indiana for the First, Second and
Tliird Liberty Loan issues, and in the
Fourth and Victory issues wa.s Federal
Reserve Director of sales for Indiana.

The State of Indiana has made a wonder-
ful record in all Liberty Loan drives, due
to a thorough organization which was per-
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INDIANA AND INDEANANS

1465

under the direction of Mr. Wade, who
devoted over three-fourths of his time, with-
out pay, to Liberty Loan work during the
duration of the war. The success of Lib-
erty Loan was only possible by the splen-
did co-operation of .the patriotic and loyal
Liberty Loan Chairmen and their workers
in inspiring the people to save and pur-
chase Liberty Loan Bonds.

Another honor that came to Mr. Wade
was his appointment as a member of the
Board of Governors of the Investment
Bankers Association, regarded as one of
the highest distinctions that can be paid
to an Investment Banker. Mr. Wade has re-
cently been elected First Vice-president of
the Fletcher American Company, which
Company takes over the Bond Department
and Foreign Department of the Fletcher
American National Bank. This Company
has the largest capital of any company in
the Middle West engaged in Investment
Bonds. These facts may be left to speak
for themselves as an introduction to Mr.
Wade's career. He is one of the younger
men of Indiana who has attained distinc-
tive position in the State.

He was born at LaGrange, Indiana, April
19, 1878. His father. Rev. Cyrus U. Wade,
also a native of LaGrange, has exemplified
much of the financial ability which has been
inherited by his son. However, his chief
work as financier is in the raising of money
for the Methodist church, and in that field
he has no superior in the Middle West.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been added to the endowment funds of the
church and DePauw University through
his efforts.

Will H. Wade graduated from high
school in 1897 at Bluffton, Indiana. He at
once entered DePauw University at Green-
castle, gi-aduating Bachelor of Science in
1901. From college he entered the employ
of E. M. Campbell & Company, Municipal
Bond House, as a bond salesman. His
ability in that field leaves nothing to be
desired. In 1909 he was invited to become
Manager of the Bond Department of the
Fletcher National Bank at Indianapolis,
and when that bank was reorganized as the
Fletcher American National Bank he was
put in charge of the Bond Department, and
in the spring of 1919 associated himself as
First Vice-president of the Fletcher Ameri-
can Companj^

Mr. Wade is a member of all the lead-

ing clubs of Indianapolis. He is a Blue
Lodge ilason and a member of the Mystic
Shrine. In 1903 he man-ied Elma L. Pat-
ton, of Rush County, Indiana, daughter
of Samuel R. and Mary E. (Humes) Pat-
ton, of that county. Mrs. Wade graduated
from DePauw University with the class of
1902. They have three children, Robert
Cyrus, Will H. Jr., and Ruth E.

Mr. Wade is a member of the Broadway
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Cl,.\rence Vance Shields, a successful
LaPorte attorney, came to Indiana to study
law at Valparaiso, and his early life and
experience were spent in the far north-
west, where his father and grandfather
were pioneers of Oregon.

Mr. Shields himself is a native of Oregon,
born at Creswell in Lane County. His
father, Zaehariah Walter Shields, was born
at Cottage Grove in the same county No-
vember 28, 1854. The grandfather, Wil-
liam Shields, was born in Kentucky in
1799. The great-grandfather was of Irish
ancestry, a native of Virginia, and early
took the name and fortunes of his famil.y
across the mountains into Kentucky. Wil-
liam Shields had much of the spirit and
enterprise of his ancestors. As a young
man he made several removals, living in
Tennessee, for a time in Putnam County,
Indiana later went to Illinois, from there
to the territory of Iowa, and in 1851 set
out for Oregon, which was then the meeca
for many settlers from the middle west.
All of these journeys were made in pioneer
style. From Kentucky he went to Illinois
liy team and wagon, and set oiit for Oregon
with a party that journeyed up the ^lis-
souri River as far as the junction of the
Mis.souri and Platte rivers. Thence they
followed a wagon train crossing the plains
and mountains and journeying through an
unchartered wilderness filled with Indians,
buffalo, deer and other wild denizens.
After several months of travel he reached
Oregon and settled near the present site
of Cottage Grove, near Lane County. He
secured land there, and was a stock raiser
until his death August 19, 1895, at the
advanced age of ninety-six. His third wife
was Juda Barbee, a native of Tennessee.
Thej^ were married in Putnam County, In-
diana. She was the grandmother of the
LaPorte lawyer.

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the trade of carpenter. He followed it
at Cottage Grove, and in 1876 went to
California, where he married Lydia Ludy.
Her father, Adam Lndy, was a native of
Marj-land of Holland ancestry. In 1882
Zachariah W. Shields returned to Oregon,
but in the following year went to the ter-
ritory of Washington, buying a tract of
land near what is now Harrington in Lin-
coln County. He was a farmer and stock
raiser there until 1892, when on account of
poor health he returned to Cottage Grove
and died there December 9, 1893. His
widow survived him until 1898. They were
the parents of -five children: Darius D.,
Clarence Vance, Robert Currin, Eoy Frank-
lin and Alice.

Clarence Vance Shields spent his early
life in the localities above named, partly
in Oregon, partly in California and partly
in Washington. As his father was an in-
valid for several years all the children had
to take their .share of responsibility in
keeping the home, and his early training
was therefore pne of strict industry and
good habits. He made the best of his
opportunity to acquire an education. He
attended some of the pioneer schools of
Washington territory, and among them the
Davenport High School. He also attended
school at Cottage Grove, Oregon. At the
age of eighteen he began clerking in the
ofSce of the county auditor at Davenport,
Washington. A year later he went into the
treasurer's office, and in 1903 he became
a prospector and miner, a vocation he
followed six years, and a very interesting
occupation which took him into all the well
known mining localities of Montana, Ore-
gon, Idaho, Arizona and Mexico.

Mr. Shields came east in 1909 to enter
the law department of Valparaiso Uni-
versity. He graduated LL. B. June 26,
1911, and was at that time admitted to
practice in the Federal Courts and in the
Circuit Courts of the LaPorte and Porter
Circuit and the Supreme and Appellate
Courts of Indiana. A few days after grad-
uating he opened bis law office at LaPorte,
and has since built up a very satisfactory
general practice. He is also "deputy prose-
cutor for his district.

At Chicago, November 3, 1913, Mr.
Shields married Miss Harriet Swanson.
She was born in Royalton, Minnesota, and
her father. Albert W. Swanson, was a

native of the same state and of Norwegian
ancestry. Some years ago he moved to
El Centro, California, where for several
years he published a new.spaper and was
mayor of the city and is still living there
and serving as probation officer. Albert
W. Swanson married Effie Harriet Burk,
a native of Wisconsin and of Holland an-
cestry. Mv. and Mrs. Shields have two
children : Marian and Currin Herbert.
Mr. Shields is a Baptist and his wife a
member of the Episcopal church. He is
one of the directors of the Young Men's
Christian Association at LaPorte and is
also active in Red Cross work.

Orlo H. Gable started his business career
ten or twelve years ago in a minor capa-
city, and has made such progress that
he is now the responsible man at Rich-
mond with the W. H. Hood Company,
one of the larger wholesale grocery houses
of the state. Mr. Gable is manager and
buyer, also a stockholder and director of
the company. There is another branch of
the company at Portland, Indiana, and
the house does a business all over the east-
ern part of the state.

ilr. Gable was born January 4, 1886,
son of Nathaniel H. and Serilda Jane
(Clyne) Gable. His father was born in
Ashland County, Ohio, and the grand-
father was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock
and moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania.
Nathaniel Gable came to Indiana and lo-
cated in Randolph County and later was a
merchant at Portland.

Orlo H. Gable attended the public schools
at Portland, being in high school for a
short time and finished his education in
commercial college at Huntington, Muncie
and ;\Iarion. He graduated from the Ma-
rion Normal College in 1908, and in July
of that year went to work as a bill clerk
and stenographer for the W. H. Hood Com-
pany at Portland. In 1911 he had ad-
vanced so far in experience as to do a little
buying for the company, and was gradually
given increasing responsibilities in that
line until in May, 1914, he was sent to
Union City, Indiana, as manager and buyer
of the branch house. Wlien the Richmond
branch was started in July, 1916. he was
put in charge, and has kept the business
growing rapidly even in the face of war
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and a half story building at Richmond, 240
by 100 feet, and has from forty-five to fifty
employes.

Mr. Gable, who is unmarried, is affiliated
with the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Knights of Pythias at Port-
land, is a member of the Richmond Rotary
Club, attends the Methodist Episcopal
church, and in politics is a republican.

H.\RRT Land has for thirty years or more
been identified with one of the largest
industrial establishments of Richmond,
Wayne Works, a foundry and machinery
manufacturing concern. Mr. Land is treas-
urer and superintendent of this large con-
cern, which in normal times employs about
five hundred men.

Mr. Land was born in Richmond March
10, 1867, son of Horatio N. and Emeline
(Gaar) Land. He is of English ancestry.
His grandfather, John Land, wa.s born in
Nottingham, England, and coming to
America in early life located at Coopers-
town, New York, where he conducted a cot-
ton factory. Horatio N. Land was the old-
est of eight children. He was born in
Cooperstown, New York, June 14, 1832,
and in 1852 came to Richmond, Indiana,
and entered the service of A. Gaar & Com- .
pany. That is one of the oldest establish-
ments in eastern Indiana for the manu-
facture of machinery, especially agricul-
tural implements. Horatio N. Land later
became a stockholder in the concern, and
for many years served as superintendent
and a director. In June, 1854 he mar-
ried Emeline Gaar, daughter of Jonas
Gaar. There were four children : Alma,
Frank, Harry and Charles. Horatio N.
Land died in 1893.

Harry Land acquired his early education
in the public schools of Richmond, attend-
ed high school, and in 1888 received his
degree Bachelor of Mechanical Engineer-
ing from Purdue University. Immediately
on his return to Richmond he entered the
Wayne Works as assistant superintendent,
and after four years was appointed super-
intendent. When the business was incorpo-
rated he was made treasurer of the com-
pany and is also a stockholder and direc-
tor.

In 1891 he married Miss Almyra Whelan.
daughter of John and Almyra Whelan, of
Richmond. Their one son is Robert N.

Land, who graduated Bachelor of Me-
chanical Engineering from Purdue Univer-
sity in 1913, and is now associated with
his father in the Wayne Works. He mar-
ried Mary Iliff, of Richmond, and they
have one child, Robert Johnson, born in
1918.

Mr. Harry Land is a member of the
Kappa Sigma college fraternity and is a
IMason and Knight Templar and also a
member of the Elks.

Benjamin Bates Johnson of Richmond,
has been a figure in state politics for many
years. He is a veteran newspaper man
and publisher and has been a resident of
Richmond for over a quarter of a century.
He is now president and manager of the
Independent Ice and Fuel Company, which
was incorporated Januaiy 3, 1918.

Air. Johnson was born in Stark County,
Ohio. September 2, 1852, son of Jesse and
]\Iartlia (Butler) Johnson. He is of Eng-
lish and Welsh ancestry. Two Johnson
l)rothers came from England and were
early settlers in southeastern Virginia.
Air. Johnson's grandfather ser\'ed as a sol-
dier in the War of 1812. Benjamin B.
Johnson is the fifth in a family of nine
children. His brother James D. established
the Kokomo Trust Company, and died as
its president seven years later. Another
brother, John B., was Dean of the En-
gineering Department of the University
of Wisconsin, and his text books on engi-
neering are standard, especially "Frame
Structures" and "Materials of Construc-
tion." Another brother, Joseph D., was a
prominent lawyer of Kokomo, and still an-
other, Albert L., is a civil engineer in Buf-
falo, and was the patentee of the Johnson
Corrugated Bar for concrete re-enforce-
ment.

Benjamin Bates Johnson secured a pub-
lic school education at Kokomo, Indiana,
and when only fifteen years of age was in
charge of a news stand in front of the post-
office. In 1871 Postmaster Freeman ap-
l)ointed him deputy postmaster, and he
filled tliat office three and a half years. For
six years he was bookkeeper in the First
National Bank of Kokomo. In 1877 he was
ajipointed journal clerk of the House of
Representatives at Indianapolis. The first
important interview he had as a newspaper
man was in behalf of tlie Kokomo
Trilnnic, which he afterward owned, ob-

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taining a story from Governor J. S. Wil-
liams on some special legislation. For a
time Mr. Johnson was in the mortgage
loan business and later bought the busi-
ness and let his brother run it. From
1878 to 1882 he was deputy treasurer of
Howard county, and in 1882 was elected
county treasurer and filled the ofSce two
years.

In 1884 he bought a half interest in the
Kokomo Tribune, one of the oldest repub-
lican papers in that section of the state.
Fourteen months later he acquired the
entire ownership, publishing it three years
in all. He sold out to Kauts & McMoni-
gal. After a brief retirement to recuper-
ate his health Mr. Johnson moved to Rich-
mond, in 1891, and with Charles F.
Crowder acquired the Evening Item. He
was its editor and responsible manager
for eight years. In the meantime, in 1893,
he acquired Mr. Crowder 's interest, and
in 1895 sold that interest to John W.
Barnes. In 1898 he sold out his remain-
ing interest in the paper to J. Bennett
Gordon, and then for one year was retired
on account of ill health. During this time
he did editorial work on the Indianapolis
Press.

Mr. Johnson in 1899 established the In-
dependent Ice and Fuel Company at Rich-
mond, and conducted the business as its
sole proprietor until 1918, when he incor-
porated it and has since been president and
manager. His plant has a capacity for
thirty-five tons of ice daily, and the com-
pany also does a large retail business in
coal.

In 1875 Mr. Johnson married Clara C.
Albaugh, daughter of Aaron Albaugh, of
Kokomo. They have two children living.
Tlieir daughter Edna was a teacher of
Latin in Earlham College for several years.
The son Fred Bates Johnson is an In-
dianapolis lawyer and when he resigned
in December, 1918, was a major in the
judge advocate general's office in Wash-
ington. He married Priseilla Wagner,
daughter of Professor Frank C. Wagner,
of the Rose Polytechnic Institute of Terre
Haute. They have one child, Priseilla
Bates.

Mr. B. B. Johnson was from 1913 to
1917 secretary to Governor Ralston. He
was formerly a republican, but has acted
with the democratic party since 1900.
From 1906 to 1910 he served as a member

of the' Board of Public Works of Rich-
mond. He is perhaps best known through-
out Indiana as a vigorous writer and
thinker on public affairs.

Nannie E. Greene Mc Williams, one of
the most prominent Indiana women among
the Daughters of the American Revolution,
and was regent of the Indiana Society of
that order in 1914-15. She is directly de-
scended from two notable figures of Revo-
lutionary days, the illustrious Gen. Na-
thanael Greene, whose fighting record as a
leader of colonial forces is given on the
pages of everj" American history text book,
and also of Judge Philip Greene^ a less
well known but very prominent figure of
the same period.

Mrs. MeWilliams is prominent in wom-
an's club life of Anderson and the state,
and is a member of the Anderson Fran-
chise League. She has always interested
herself quietly and influentially in behalf
of woman suffrage, though she has never
be^'n a militant of that movement.

She was born on a farm in Washing-
ton County near Marietta, Ohio, a daugh-
ter of William E. and ]\Iartha Brooks
(Greene) Decker, her Revolutionary an-
cestry coming tlu'ough her mother's fam-
ily. Her father was born in Ohio in 1828
and spent an active life both as a farmer
and in the operations of the oil fields. He
drilled one of the first wells in Washing-
ton County, Ohio, and brought in some of
the most productive wells both of oil and
gas in Southeastern Ohio. In 1890 he
moved to Indiana and was one of the men
early engaged in the oil industry in Madi-
son County. He died at Anderson in 1903.
His wife, who died in 1898, was a daugh-
ter of Rev. Philip Greene.

Mrs. MeWilliams was two years of age
wlien her parents moved from the farm to
the City of Marietta, Ohio, and most of her
education was acquired in the public
schools there. Later she studied under
.some of the best masters of painting and
music in the City of Chicago, and is a
woman of many cultured tastes and of
great proficiency not only in the arts but
in practical business affaii-s. In 1903 she
married Dr. Oscar E. MeWilliams of An-
derson. Their one child, Samuel W., was
born in 1905.

Mrs. JlcWilliams possesses what is prob-
ably one of the most complete private li-

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braries iu Andersou. She has siirrouuded
herself with books and other objects of
artistic interest, and has not onlj' asso-
ciated with the best minds of all the ages
but has acquired a deep knowledge of lit-
erature and of many branches of learning,
ilany of her fine lines of poetry have been
published in the newspapers of Andersou
and Indianapolis, and some of them also
find a permanent place in the Indiana
Book of the Poets. The practical side of
her nature is exemplified in the success
she has made iu running a drug business
at Anderson. On August 29, 1912, she
bought a store at jMeridian and 13th streets,
and has made this a thoroughly profitable
business and has proved her resourceful-
ness in running a store in which there is
the greatest competition. She is interested
in everything of a patriotic nature, and she
was one of the leaders in selling Liberty
Bonds in Anderson. Mrs. McWilliams is a
member of the Methodist Church but is
now an interested student of Christian
Science.

John Harris Baker for a number of
years a United States district judge, was
born in Parma Township, Monroe County,
New York, in 1832. He was admitted to
the bar in 1857, and from that year until
1892 was in practice ^t Goshen. Judge
Harris was a member of the Indiana Senate
in 1862, a member of the Forty-fourth
to Forty-sixth Congresses, 1875-1881, and
in 1892 was m.-'de a Tnited States district
jnduc, district of Indiana.

Judge Harris married Harriet Defrees.

Lewis Edwin Stanley is active head
of one of the largest plumbing and elec-
trical contracting firms in Eastern Indiana,
the Stanley Plumbing & Electric Company,
of which he is president, treasurer, man-
ager and majority stockholder. This busi-
ness has its headquarters at 910 Main
Street in Richmond.

Mr. Stanley has made vigorous use of
his time and opportunities during a com-
paratively brief career. He was bora on
a farm in Union County, Indiana, De-
cember 19, 1885, son of Lewis and Anna
(McFatridge) Stanley. He is of English
and Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father
had a 160-acre farm in Union County, and
died there in 1887. His mother is now liv-
ing at Brownsville, in Union County.
Vol. rn— IT

Lewis E. Stanley was one of eight chil-
dren, seven of whom are living. He at-
tended country schools near the old farm
during winter and also had two years in
the public schools of Dunlapville in his
native county. For two seasons he was a
student in the Vories Business College.
Aside from work he did on the farm his
first practical business experience was as
bookkeeper, cashier and stenographer with
the Indiana Bottle Company at Shirley
in Hancock County. He remained there
two years and was then elected secretary
of the companj', but soon afterward went
with the Woodbury Glass Company at
Winchester, Indiana. On account of ill
health he left this concern, and spent a
period recuperating on the home farm. He
also had the selling agency for the Stude-
baker car in Liberty, Union County.

In 1911 the Craighead Plumbing and
Ii^lectric Company of Richmond employed
Mr. Stanley to audit and take general
charge of the finances of the business. He
installed an entirely new system of book-
keeping, cut out all the dead wood in
the business management, and did much
to reorganize the entire concern. After
two years, in July, 1913, he bought the
interests of "Sir. Craighead and later in-
corporated the business under its present
title. He has an organization of expert
men, employing in normal seasons thirty-
five workmen, and liandles many of the
largest contracts for electrical, heating
and plumbing installations. Some of the
larger contracts have been for installation
work in the courthouse at Newcastle, the
high school at Liberty, the Carrington
Hotel at Liberty, the Dickinson Trust
Company Building at Richmond, the
Richmond County Club, the Eagles Build-
ing and others.

In 1905 ilr. Stanley married ]\Iiss Eliza-
beth A. Templeton of LTnion County,
daughter of Thomas J.' and Mary Temple-
ton. Her father is now serving his second
term as county clerk of Union County.
Mr. Stanley is a member of the ilasonic
Lodge of Liberty, the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at Richmond, and
also belongs to the Travelers' Protective
Association.

W. Clifford Pieiil is proprietor of the
Piehl Auto-Electric Company of Rich-
mond. Jlr. Piejd is a concert violinist bv

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profession, but has been as much inter-
ested in electricity as in music, and found
both a congenial and profitable field in his
present organization.

He was born at Richmond July 16, 1881,
son of William F. and Anna (Temme)
Piehl. He is of Alsatian French ancestry.
His grandfather, Frederick Piehl, came
from Alsace to America when young and
settled in Richmond.

W. Clifford Piehl, whose father is sec-
retary of the Richmond Loan and Sav-
ings Association, acquired a grammar and
high school education at Richmond, and
studied violin under Hugh McGibbeny at
Indianapolis. As a concert violinist he
did work in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chi-
cago, but after six years gave up that pro-
fession and returning to Richmond became
treasurer and one of the organizers of the
E. A. Feltman Company, wholesale and
retail tobacco merchants. He was with
that concern three years. As an amateur
he had experimented in practical elec-
tricity whenever the opportunity pre-
sented, and in July, 1918, he turned his
experience and knowledge to good account
by establishing a battery service and sales
station and has made a great success of his
business. He also has the agency for the
Johnstone automobile tires and has an un-
limited territory for the Vesta Storage Bat-
terv of Chicago.

In 1912 :\Ir. Piehl married I\Iiss Myrtle
C. E. Grott, daughter of Miles E. and
Emily (Hewitt) Grott, of St. Charles,
Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Piehl have an
adopted child. ^Ir. W. C. Piehl is a re-
publican, and in 1917 was candidate on the
independent ticket for city clerk. He is
affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the
Royal Arch Chapter and is a member of
St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

Edward LeRoy Cooper, a Richmond
merchant, has gone through a long and
varied experience in mercantile lines, and
by hard work and reliance upon his own
resources has achieved a commendable suc-
cess. He is sole proprietor of the Cooper
Grocery at 1027 Main Street, and for the
past eight years that establishment has
purveyed provisions not only to many of
the first families in Richmond but to a
large country trade.

Mr. Cooper was born at Ogden in Henry
County, Indiana, in 1860, son of Silas f .

and Sarah (Barrett) Cooper. He is of
English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. The
Coopers were early settlers in Washing-
ton County, Pennsylvania, and furnished
many merchants and professional men.
The Barrett family have been chiefly agri-
culturists. Edward LeRoy Cooper was
educated in the public schools of Rich-
mond and at Centerville Academy. In
1876, when he was sixteen years old, he
was taken into the employ of William B.
Hinshaw, a local grocery merchant, and
for three years did the work of errand boy
at two dollars and a half a week. His
services were then secured by another
gi'ocery firm for $3 a week. For sixteen
years he was a sales clerk with W. F. Hiatt
and Brothers, one of the old-established
grocery houses of Henry County. He was
next city salesman for Zeller & Company,
cracker bakers at Richmond. After that
he was salesman for the Van D. Brown gro-
cery house, and for eight years was in
partnership with F. A. Brown under the
name of the Beehive Grocery Company.
When this firm lost its lease and was tem-
porarily out of business for thirty days
^Ir. Cooper started an establishment of his
own at his present location in 1911. He
has various other interests in the business
field at Richmond.

Mr. Cooper married in 1884 Miss Lou
Emma DeGroot, daughter of Amzi and
Mary (Mikesell) DeGroot, of Eaton, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper adopted one child,
Lou DeGroot, who died in 1901. Mr.
Cooper is a republican, a member of the
National Union and belongs to the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.

John P. Emslie is a native of Scotland,
learned the marble and granite cutter's
trade as a youth, and for many years has
been identified with the stone business in
this countiy. He is proprietor of the
oldest and largest establishment of its kind
at Richmond, manufacturing monuments,
mausoleums and artistic cemeteiy me-
morials.

He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland,
February 2, 1868, son of Alexander and
Eliza (Patterson) Emslie. He attended
the public schools and then learned the
trade of stonecutter at Aberdeen, Scot-
land. Leaving there at the age of twenty,
lie came to America and located at the
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He was there for seventeen years, most
of the time as a granite cutter, and later
was an independent operator in the
granite biisiness. He sold out and went
to Pleasantville, New Jersey, and for eight
years was superintendent of the 0. J. Ham-
mell Company, granite manufacturers.
Then with a partner he conducted a
granite monumental business at St.
John's, Michigan, for four years, and
from there came to Richmond, buying the
oldest established monument business in
Wayne County, that conducted for so
many years by A. H. Marlatt on South
Tenth Street. Mr. Emslie has used his
practical experience to build up this busi-
ness in many ways. He manufactures and
has the organization for the installation
of mausoleums and monuments of all kinds
and does a business over a territory twenty-
five or thirty miles in a radius around
Richmond.

Mr. Emslie married in 1899 Miss Minnie
B. Riley, daughter of Thomas S. and Anna
(Catlin) Riley, of Barre, Vermont. They
have one sou, William R., born in 1901.
Mr. Emslie acquired American citizenship
at Montpelier, Vermont, in 1897. He votes
as a republican, is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, is a Mason, belongs
to Mount Sinai Shrine at Montpelier, Ver-
mont, and is also a member of the Order
of Scottish Clans.

Ralph Palmer Whisler is a prominent
business man and contractor at Richmond,
his business being locally known as "Whis-
ler, the Roof ]\Ian. " He is a contractor
for composition roofing and has the local
agency for asphalt roofings.

Mr. Whisler was born at Marion, Grant
County, Indiana, September 14, 1873.
The Whislers are one of tlie oldest and
most prominent families of Grant County.
There have been five successive generations
of the family there. The "Wliislers origi-
nated in Holland and came to Indiana from
Pennsylvania. Jacob Wliisler kept what
was known as the Whisler House at Cham-
bersliurg, Pennsylvania, a noted hotel and
landmark on one of the principal thor-
nuglifares of the Keystone state. In 18.38
he came to Grant County with his family,
making the .iourney with wagon and team.
This Jacob Whisler was born in 1776 and
died in 1863. His son, Jacoli, Jr., was

born in 1817 and for many years was a
cabinet maker. He was the first democi-at
elected to any office in Grant County, be-
ing chosen county treasurer in 1854. He
died in 1873.

The next generation was represented by
Leroy M. Whi.sler, who was born at Marion,
October 23, 1844. He married Matilda
M. ]\IcKinney. Leroy M. Whisler con-
ducted a successful hardware and tin busi-
ness and was a leading merchant of Marion
until he retired in 1900.

Ralph Palmer Whisler is a son of Le-
roy M. Whisler. He attended the gram-
mar and high school at Marion, and took
a commercial course in the i\Iarion Normal
College. He then went with his father and
learned the sheet metal trade, and re-
mained at Marion until 1907, when he sold
his interests and moved to Richmond, open-
ing a store on ilain Street. Here he made
a specialty of selling and installing com-
position roofing. Five years later he
moved to his present location at 1029 Main
Street.

Mr. Whisler married in 1895 Miss Mir-
iam Hiatt, daughter of Dr. John A. and
Fanny (Goldthwaite) Hiatt, of one of the
oldest and most prominent families of
ilarion. They have two children : Ralph
Leroj-, born in 1897, and Fannie, who was
bom in December, 1900, and died in July,
1913. The son Ralph is a dentist by pro-
fession, and on May 8, 1917. was enrolled
in the dental corps of the American Army
and was stationed at Fort Crook, Nebraska,
ilr. AMiisler is an independent voter and
is affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at Richmond.

Harry Wesley Chenoweth. It is dif-
ficult to conceive of more enterprise eman-
ating from the brain and energy of one
man than is credited to Harry Wesley
Chenoweth, a young man of phenomenal
vigor and ambition, who is one of the
prominent citizens of Richmond.

Mr. Chenoweth is proprietor of tlie
Chenoweth Auto Company of Richmond.
For a number of the years he has done
an extensive business in automobiles and
accessories. He is agent in Wayne County
for the Buiek car, and ha.s a territory com-
prising seven counties as sales agent for
the G. M. C. trucks. lie also represents
the Tnt(>rnational Harvester Company.

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He has two of the largest garages in Rich-
mond and a complete repair plant and
service station.

He was born at Glen Karn in Darke
County, Ohio, in 1887, son of W. A. and
Rosa (Thomas) Chenoweth. He is of
Welsh ancestry. His gi-eat-great-grand-
father John Wesley Chenoweth came from
Wales and settled in Maryland. The
grandfather, John Wesley Chenoweth, lo-
cated in Darke County, Ohio, eighty years
ago and is still living there.

Mr. Chenoweth secured a grammar
school and high school education. His first
business experience was with the Diamond
Fire Brick Company at Canyon City,
Colorado. After that he worked for his
father in the general store at Glen Karn,
known as the W. A. Chenoweth & Sons.
He drove a grocery wagon for the store
through the country.

In 1910 :Mr. Chenoweth married Mary
Smith, daughter of Thomas A. and Jennie
(Reid) Smith, of \\liitewater, Wayne
County. They have two children, Harriet
Le Jeune, born July 9, 1917, and Harry
Wesley, born October 20, 1918.

For the last eight or ten years Mr.
Chenoweth has been identified with a va-
riety of enterprises at his old home town
of Glen Karn and at Richmond. He first
engaged in the automobile industry by es-
tablishing a used-car business. His suc-
cess the first year enabled him to branch
out. During the second year he had the
agency for the Marathon car, also for the
Wayne car and the Westcott and Crescent
cars. Moving from Glen Karn to New
Paris, Ohio, he took the Hudson car agency
for Preble County and also the Ford
•agency. He made a remarkable success
while at New Paris, and received the prize
for selling the largest number of Hudson
cars. In 1915 he was assigned the Buick
agency for Preble County. About that
time he moved his business to Richmond
and became agent in Wayne County for
the Milburn Electric Company. He con-
tinued these agencies until 1917. In that
year he built at his present location, 1107
Main Street, a large plant and service
station, a fire-proof brick and steel build-
ing, and has since been largely specializ-
ing in the sale of the Buick ears. The
first year he sold 100 Buick cars, and the
second 200 Buicks. The largest rebate
check from the Buick Company ever issued

in the State of Indiana was given to Mr.
Chenoweth. As an addition to their
present business they are equipping a
two-story annex, 50 by 175 feet, for the
purpose of conducting a modern electric
garage, also a truck garage 40 by 175. All
three garages will be in the square. Mr.
Chenoweth has numerous interests in dif-
ferent corporations throughout this state
and Ohio.

j\Ir. Chenoweth is also a successful
farmer. In 1910 he bought 100 acres, and
took in his brother as a partner. They
later bought 110 acres near Richmond.
The first farm was sold at $150 an acre
and recently they sold the second farm.
They have bought a third farm of 150
acres. They have also acquired the .$25,000
stock of goods at Glen Karn, Ohio, for-
merly conducted as the W. A. Chenoweth
& Sons. For several years Mr. Chenoweth
was also a dealer in livestock at Glen Karn.
Recently he has promoted a measure to
bring Glen Karn and Richmond, separated
by a distance of fifteen miles, into close
touch. He is a republican in polities, is a
member of the Masonic Order and of the
•Methodist Episcopal Church.

John William Johnson. It is not
necessary to go back even thirty or forty
years to find plenty of men in Kokomo
who knew John William Johnson as a
plain, hard working and capable mechanic.
J\lr. Johnson still remains a plain, unpre-
tentious, democratic citizen, but out of his
sheer force of character and energj' he has
created business interests that give him a
position among the leading industrial exec-
utives of Indiana. Having worked hap-
pily among the lowliest this "magnetic
wonder" as he has been termed, mingles
with as great an ease among the highest.
His geniality and his eloquent oratory have
won for him many friends from all classes.
His good-wnll and kindness show that his
predominating characteristic is making
others happy.

His father, John Johnson, was born in
County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to
America in the late '50s. He was a farmer
in Ireland. For several years he lived in
New York City, and in 1864, at Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, he married Anna Egan.
She was bom in King's County, Ireland, in
1840. Her death occurred at Kokomo
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Memphis, Teunessee, August 19, 1910, at
the age of eighty. He had lived in Kokomo
from 1867 until a few years previous to
his death. The seven children born to
them were Sarah, Matilda, John William,
Theresa, Walter, Albert and Carrie.

John William Johnson was the third of
the children born at Kokomo, his birth oc-
curring December 22, 1869. He attended
the parochial and public schools of the
town, including high school, and at an
early age went to work to learn the mach-
inist and moulding trade. When only
nineteen years old he was foreman in the
foundry department of Ford and Don-
nelly, and continued in the employ of that
Kokomo firm for twenty j^ears. Later he
became superintendent and manager, and
spent the greater part of his wage working
career with those people. Fifteen years
ago he left their employ and engaged in
the manufacture of automobile accessories
and plumber's specialties, also brass and
aluminum castings. With scarcely any-
capital, few workmen, and less machinery,
it is little short of miraculous the way Mr.
Johnson built up the great Kokomo Brass
Works, founders and finishers, with an
annual business output of $3,000,000. Per-
haps, because it was spontaneous and sin-
cere, the most heartfelt praise Mr. John-
son appreciates was the song of thanks-
giving sung by his contented employes after
one of his heart-to-heart talks with them.

Mr. Johnson is treasurer and manager
of the company and business, Mr. Charles
T. Byrne is president and secretary, and
James F. Eyan is vice president.

While this is his chief business concern,
it is only one of many large enterprises
in which he is a stockholder and director.
These enterprises at Kokomo which have
felt the influence of his energy and direc-
tion are the Kokomo Brass Works, Byrne
Kingston & Company, Kokomo Electric
Company, Hoosier Iron Works, Kokomo
Steel & Wire Works, Haynes Auto Com-
pany, Kokomo Rubber Works, Globe Stove
& Range Company, Conran & McNeal
Company, Liberty Press Metal Company,
Kokomo Lithographing Company and the
Sedan Body Company.

Mr. Johnson is a loyal democrat, is a
Catholic and is affiliated with the Knights
of Columbus and the Elks at Kokomo.
August 13, 1894, he married Nellie C.
Krebser, of Huron, Ohio. To their mar-

riage were born four children : Agatha, de-
ceased, Lenore, Paul and Karl. Lenore
is now a student in St. Mary's College at
South Bend, Indiana, Paul is a student
of Notre Dame University and Karl at-
tends the St. Francis Academy at Kokomo.

J.\MEs Oliver was born in Liddisdale,
Scotland, August 28, 1823, and was twelve
>-ears of age when he came with his parents
to America. After one year in New York
tlie family located in Jlishawaka, Indiana,
und in 1855 James Oliver established his
home in South Bend. lu 1855 he also
engaged in the foundry business, and it was
ill that foundry that he laid the founda-
tion of his future greatness. In 1861, with
others, he incorporated the South Bend
Iron Works, which afterward developed
into the famous Oliver Chilled Plow
Works.

The name of James Oliver stands out
preeminently as an inventor and the dis-
coverer of the chilled plow process.

0. D-\LE Bowers is a young man of wide
experience in the field of applied electri-
city, and is now one of the independent
business men of Richmond, being vice
president and manager of the Central Auto
Station, Incorporated.

He was born in Darke County, Ohio,
on a farm, in 1890, son of Charles and
Susan (Shields) Bowers. He is of Ger-
man and English ancestrj^ He acquired
his early education in the public schools
of Darke County and spent one year in
the Arcanum High School. For six years
he was working for his father as a build-
ing contractor at Arcanum. Having a
s]iecial liking for mechanics, and particu-
larly electricity, he went into a local gar-
age at Arcanum and worked four years
learning the business. He M-as for a time
manager of the Arcanum Garage. Mr.
Bowers came to Richmond in 1908. and
was repair man in the garage of S. W.
Bricker two years. He then leased a build-
ing and conducted the City Garage and
a general repair shop for one year, hav-
ing Robert Smith as a partner. Selling
out, Mr. Bowers became electric service
man for the Bartola ^lusical Instrument
Company, a pipe organ concern. He was
with them eight months, and then with
S. W. Bricker began selling automobile
accessories and doing electrical work.

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After this business was sold Mr. Bowers
became shop foreman for Spangler and
Jones, and in October, 1917, became a
stockholder and manager of the new cor-
poration.

He is a democrat in politics and a mem-
ber of the United Bi-ethren Church. In
1912 he married Miss Mary Elizabeth
Schell, of Greenville, Ohio. They have one
son, Richard, born in 1913.

Petek Husson ranks as the oldest and
veteran baker of Richmond, having iirst
established a business of that kind in that
city in 1877. He is now in the general
wholesale and retail grocery and baking
business, and for all his long and varied
experience is still active.

He was born Febi-uary 29, 1852, in
Alsace, son of Nicholas and Katherine
(Mugher) Husson. His early life was
spent in scenes that have become especially
familiar to Americans in the last year or
two on account of the gi'eat war. He was
three years old when his mother died. His
father was an Alsatian farmer. He re-
mained at home to the age of fifteen, and
then went to live with his maternal grand-
father and for two years served an ap-
prenticeship without wages to a French
baker. As a journeyman baker he trav-
eled and worked at many points in East-
ern France, including Luneville, Nancy,
Bar le Due, and was in that general re-
gion when the Franco-Prussian war was
fought in 1870-71. He was employed at
a place only two miles from the scene of
the great battle of Gravelotte and was a
witness to that decisive battle of the war.
When the war closed and Germany took
Alsace he had to spend some time in a
Gennan camp. Not long afterward his
grandfather gave him and his brother
Philip money enough to pay their pas-
sage to America. He left Alsace and went
through Belgium to Hull, England,
thence to Liverpool, and reached America
at Quebec. He spent one year in Montreal,
where his brother Philip lived the rest of
his life. For three months he worked at
his trade in Cincinnati, spent one winter
in New Orleans, one year at Memphis, then
for six months was back in Cincinnati,
and for three years was in Montreal.

Coming to Richmond, Indiana, in 1877
he went to work at his trade for Frank
McClelland, whose store was on Main

Street between Eighth and Ninth. He re-
mained with this establishment when it
was sold to Dr. Henry Davis, and he was
in partnership with the Doctor's son,
Everett, under the name Davis & Husson.
After one year he bought out his partner
and conducted a prosperous business there
for eight years. He then sold out to Smith
& Wittaker, after which he traveled for
a time in Colorado. On returning to
Richmond Mr. Husson bought a grocery
store on Ninth and Main sti'eets, and
added a bakery. He gave up that busi-
ness to become supply contractor for the
Pennsylvania Company dining car service
and was engaged in that business for sev-
enteen years, finding it very profitable.
He then bought his present location at
Thirteenth Street and built the $25,000
Husson Block, where he is in business to-
day as a general gi-ocer and baker. He
owns several other parcels of property in
Richmond.

In 1880 Mr. Husson married Mary Anna
Landwehr, daughter of Frederick and
ilary Landwehr, of Richmoiid. They
have two chikh'en. Ralph is married and
lives in Boston. Opal Catherine is the
wife of Russell Gaar and has two children.
Mr. Husson is a republican in politics, a
member of the Knights of Pythias and is
aiSliated with the First Presbvterian
Church.

H.\RRY H. TuBEsiNG is a printer by trade
and for many years was connected with
printing and publishing houses in Indiana,
but is now in business for himself as pro-
prietor of the Gates Half Sole Tire Com-
pany at Richmond.

He was born in Richmond, September
21, 1888, son of William H. and Ellen
(Erk) Tubesing. His parents came from
Osnabruek, Hanover, Germany, located in
Richmond, and were tlie parents of six
children, Harry being the youngest.

The latter was educated in parochial
schools and took a night couree in the
Richmond Business College. He learned
the printing trade with the Nicholson
Printing Company and by means of a
three months' general course in the
Winona Technical School at Indianapolis.
He was an apprentice with the Nicholson
Company and later a journeyman one
year, and became an expert linotype op-
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the Ballinger Press, and put in six months
as makeup man with the Richmond Palla-
dium.

On :\Iareh 15, 1918, Mr. Tubesing se-
cured the agency for all of "Wayne County
for the Gates Half Sole Tire Company,
and has developed a large business in re-
pairing and vulcanizing work and the ap-
plying of half sole tires.

In 1912 Mr. Tubesing married Clara M.
Duning, daughter of William H. Duning,
of Richmond. They have two children:
Robert William, born in 1913, and Wilma
Ellen, born in 1916. Mr. Tubesing is an
independent voter and a member of St.
John's Lutheran Church.

Edmund F. Iserm.\n, sales manager of
the McConaha Company, dealers in auto-
mobiles, pianos and farming implements
at Richmond, is one of the most resource-
ful of the younger business men of that
city, and few men of liis yi>ars liave had
a wider range of successlnl cxpiTiiMice.

He was born at Rielininii,! in lSS.j. son
of Henry F. and Albina (Schumacher)
Iserman. His father was born in Han-
over, Germany, and came to America at
the age of eighteen. Since then he has
been a resident of Richmond, and for
many years a successful merchant. Ed-
mund F. Iserman attended the grammar
and high schools of Richmond and also
took a six months' course in the Richmond
Business College. His first regular posi-
tion was in the collection department of
the Star Piano Company. Later he went
into the Star factory and learned all the
mechanical details of piano manufacture.
From 1909 to 1913 he was manager of the
Connersville and Muncie piano stores of
this house. Following that for a year and
a half he was floor salesman with Stein-
wa.y & Son at Dayton. Ohio, and then
joined his father at Richmond and estab-
lished the Iserman Veneered Door Com-
pany, of which he was vice president and
general manager. After a year the busi-
ness was sold and in 1915 Mr. Iserman
joined the McConaha Company as sales-
man and manager of the sales department.
This firm has local agencies for the Hud-
son, Studebaker, Ezzex, Dort and Elgin
cars. Federal trucks and the Hyder farm
tractors. Mr. Iserman is a stockholder in
the Simplex Tool Company, and also owns
fifty acres of farming land in Wayne

County. He is unmarried, is a republican,
and is affiliated witli the Masonic Lodge.

DwiGHT Smith is a native Indianan,
but spent a large part of his earlier ca-
reer in Ohio, until he was made manager
of the Richmond branch of the C. D.
Kenny Company, wholesale tea, coffee
and sugar merchants of Baltimore, with
numerous branches throughout the ^Middle
West.

Mr. Smith was born at Marion, Indiana,
June 19, 1892. He received his early edu-
cation in the schools of Dayton, Ohio, and
first went to work there in the invention
department of the National Cash Register
Company. After six months he took em-
ployment with the R. Marsh Company of
Daj'ton, and for three years clerked in
grocery stores of that city. He first joined
the C. D. Kenny Company at Dayton in
1914, having an inside position for two
years. On resigning he Itecame a sales-
man with the Dayton Friction Toy Works
of Dayton, in New York City, later going
to Philadelphia for the same company.
Then, in 1915, he returned to the Kenny
Company at Dayton, and was given a posi-
tion on the road selling their goods in Ohio
three years. In November, 1918, he was
placed as manager of the Richmond
branch. This is one of the larger whole-
sale houses of the Middle West, and has
an immense ti-adc in both Ohio and In-
diana.

In 1913 Mr. Smith married Alice May
Morgenroth, daughter of Henry Morgen-
roth, of Dayton. They have one daugh-
ter, Dortha,"born in 1914. :\Ir. Smith is a
republican in politics and a member of the
Quaker Church.

Phillip Battist.v Mercuric. From the
standpoint of his personal experience
Phillip Mercurio believes that the surest
route to commercial success is through
continuous application of liard work, with
constant study of opportunities and cir-
cumstances, and with a constant effort to
take advantage of accumulating experi-
ence. Mr. ;\Iercurio is active head of B.
]\Iercurio & Company, wholesale fruits and
vegetables at Richmond, a large and suc-
cessful enterprise of thirty years' stand-
ing.

:Mr. ]\Iercurio was liorn at Termine in
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of Battista and Catherine (Colatta) Mer-
ciirio. When Phillip was eight years old
he came alone to America, joining his
father wl^o had already located in St.
Louis. While in St. Louis he attended
the parochial schools until he was ten
years of age, at which time, in 1888, the
family moved to Richmond, Indiana. He
had only six months of schooling after
moving to Richmond, and since the
age of twelve has been hard at work
and more than making his own way. He
was employed by his father in selling
fruits and vegetables at the store on South
Fifth Street, and in 1902 went into part-
nership under the name B. Mercurio &
Son. His father retired from business in
1912, and sinc« then Mv. Mercurio and his
brother-in-law, Anthony ]\Iercurio, have
comprised the firm. They are wholesale
dealers in fruits and vegetables, and have
a trade territorj^ covering a radius of
twenty-five miles around Richmond, and
maintain an auto truck delivery' service
for the benefit of their town and out-
lying customers. Mr. Mercurio is also a
stockholder in the Automobile League and
in the Burdick Tire Company of Nobles-
ville.

In 1902 Mr. Mercurio mai-ried Ida Pu-
pura, daughter of Vincent and Dora
D'Blasi, of Cincinnati. They have three
children : Baptist John, born in 1903 ; Vin-
cent Joseph, born in 1905, and Chai'les
Salvador, born in 1907.

Mr. ]\Iercurio is a republican, a member
of the Knights of Columbus, and is affil-
iated with St. Mary's Catholic Church.
For all the close attention he has given
to his business he has always been one of
the public spirited citizens of Richmond
and keenly interested in local affairs.

Mary Conner Haimbaugh is a member
of one of the historical families of America
and of Indiana. Her great-grandfather,
Richard Conner, was a native of Ireland,
who came to Maryland at an early day,
and at the close of Lord Dunmore's war
located at Pittsburgh. He joined the Mora-
vian Church, and come in touch with the
Indians with whom the IMoravian mission-
aries were working, marrying Margaret
Boyer, who had been held in captivity by
the Shawnees since childhood. Their eld-
est son, Henry, was born in Pennsylvania.

Prior to 1770 he located on the extreme

frontier, in what is now Coshocton County,
Ohio, at a place known as C. M. Comers-
town, where his sons John William and
James were born. While here he served
under Colonel Daniel Morgan, with the
Virginia Volunteers, in 1777 and 1778.
At the massacre of the Moravian Indians
in 1781 the Conner family and a part of
the Indians escaped, and these with the
missionaries Zeisberger, Jungman, Fjd-
wards and Jung, were summoned to Detroit
b,y Colonel DePeyster, and were established
in a colony on the Clinton river near
Mount Clemens.

In the flight the children became sep-
arated from their parents and from each
other, except that William, who was some
six years old, kept his baby brother John
with him, and these two were captured by
the Indians and held for more than ten
years, when they were found, through the
efforts of their father and the IMoravian
missionaries, and reunited with the fam-
ily.

When about twenty-five years of age
William entered the employment at Sagi-
naw of a French trader whom he had met
while with the Indians. In 1800 he made
an exploring trip through Central Indiana,
and in 1802 he established a trading post
at Conner's Prairie, about four miles below
Noblesville, on White river. He married
IMekino'es. the daughter of a Delaware chief,
and became very influential with the
tribe. He was in charge of the friendly
Delawares who accompanied General Har-
rison in the Tippecanoe campaign, and
served as interpreter and aid to General
Harrison, while nominall.y a member of
Colonel Paul's regiment. He and his
brother John, who had located on the
Whitewater, and who is commemorated by
the Town of Connersville, acted as guides
for Colonel Campbell in his expedition
against the Mississinewa towns. He was
also at the battle of the Thames, and was
sent with several Indians to identify the
body of Tecumseh. and he lived and died
in the faith that Tecumseh was not killed
bv Colonel Richard "SI. Johnson.
■ At the treaty of St. Clary's in 1818, the
Delawares reserved a section of land for
William Conner at Conner's Prairie,
which was afterwards patented to him.
When the Delawares moved west, his wife
insisted on going with her people to Indian
Territory, where she died soon afterward.

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1477

Their lialf-breed eliiklren, and their de-
st-eiidants — the Conners and members of
the Bullet and Adams families with whom
they intermarried — have been among the
most prominent and influential of the
Delaware tribe.

When central Indiana was opened for
settlement William Conner became a citizen
of much prominence. In 1823 he and
Josiah Polk laid out the Town of Nobles-
ville, dedicating to the new town every
other lot, the public square, and $10,000
in money. He engaged in biisiness at In-
dianapolis soon after its settlement with
Alfred Harrison, the firm erecting the first
business house built at the northeast cor-
ner of Pennsylvania and Washington
streets. Later he was associated in busi-
ness at Indianapolis with A. W. Russell.
At the legislative session of 1829-30 he rep-
resented the counties of Henry, Madison,
Hancock and Hamilton. In 1831-2 he rep-
resented the counties of Boone and Ham-
ilton, together with the territory north of
the iliami Reservation. He died in 1855
and was buried near the site of his old
trading house at Conner's Prairie.

After the death of his Indian wife Wil-
liam Conner married Elizabeth Chapman,
a stepdaughter of John Finch, one of the
early settlers of Hamilton County. To
them, on April 10, 1825, was born a son
Richard J.' Conner, the father of Mrs.
Haimbaugh. Richard attended school at
Noblesville and the County Seminary at
Indianapolis. He engaged in mercantile
business at Noblesville, later at Indiana-
polis, Cincinnati and New York City, and
again at Indianapolis. From 1883 to 1887
he served as deputy state treasurer \mder
John J. Cooper, and from 1887 to 1889 as
clerk of the southern prison at Jofferson-
ville. He then acquired an interest in the
Miami County Sentinel, of which he was
one of the editors at the time of his death
July 24, 1895.

Richard J. Conner was married three
times. His second wife, Louise (Vande-
grift) Finch, was the widow of Hamden
Green Finch, and came from an old Phila-
delphia family. Her parents were among
the early settlers of Indianapolis, where
she grew up, attending IMiss Axtell's school,
and was baptized by Henry Ward
Beecher. She married Mr. Conner in 1858,
and a year later their daughter Mary, the
subject of this sketch was born. She had

one sister, who died young, but her step-
brother, Theodore Julian Finch, was as a
brother to her. Theodore J. Finch was
for forty years with the Valvoline Oil
Company, for which he made six trips
around the world. He organized its busi-
ness on the Pacific .slope and was manager
of the coast headquarters of the company
at the time of Ms death in 1916.

In 1889 Mary Conner married Frank
Haimbaugh. editor of the IMiami Count.y
Sentinel at Peru, Indiana. He was born
near Columbus, Ohio, January 1, 1861.
They resided at Peru until 1899, when they
removed to Colorado on account of ]\Ir.
Haimbaugh 's death. Mr. Haimbaugh was
engaged in the newspaper business at Den-
ver until 1906, after which he became su-
pervising engineer of the French Irriga-
tion Company, of French, New Mexico.
He died February 26, 1909. To Mr. and
Mrs. Haimbaugh were born three children :
Louise v., who married Walter L.
Cuffs : Richard C. : and Ruth, who mar-
ried George P. Willey. After Mr. Haim-
baugh's death ^Irs. Haimbaugh remained
at Denver until 1914, when she removed
to Los Angeles and now resides at Long
Beach.

As to her family connections it remains
to be added that her father's first wife
was Marj' Alexander, whom he married
in 1849. They had one daughter, Cora,
who married Terrell Pattison, and to them
were born four daughters; Gertrude, who
married Clarence Miller, congressman
from Minnesota ; George, who married Doc-
tor Knefler; Florence, who married to E.
D. Vincent; and Louise, unmarried.
Richard J. Conner "s third wife, whom he
married in 1875, was Livinia Conner, to
whom was born one son, Charles Eichler
Conner. He married Osa Beck in 1897,
and they have two daughfei-s — Elizabeth,
married to Bruce Burgess, and Catherine,
unmarried.

Wallace H. Dodge more than a quarter
of a century ago founded at ^Mishawaka,
Indiana, what has since become the Dodge
^lanufacfuring Company, and he was long
])romincntly identified with the business
interests of ^Mishawaka and St. Joseph
County.

iMr Dodge was also one of Mishawaka's
native sons, born July 10, 1S4S. In 1881
he established what is now the Dodge

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JManufaeturing Company, and to that cor-
poration gave his time and abilities until
his useful life was ended.

He married Hattie E. Yesev, who was
born and reared in Michigan.

William H. Duning is a business man
of over thirty years standing in Richmond,
and during all that time has furnished an
expert service in varied mechanical lines.
He is a locksmith, a dealer and expert
repair man of adding machines, tj-pe-
writers, bicycles, and general line of sun-
dries.

He was born at Osnabrack, Hanover,
Germany, in 1860, a son of Herman and
Marie (Myer) Duning. He had the custo-
mary common school education and learned
his trade at Osuabi-uck. At the age of
twenty-two, after having served his reg-
ular time in the army, he came to America,
landing at Baltimore and reached Rich-
mond, Indiana, in 1883. His first work
here was with a street scraping gang, but
the opportunity soon presented itself for
him to go work in a local machine shop,
where he remained until 1888. During
that time he was constantly learning and
studying American methods, and he then
exei'ted his initiative and used his expe-
rience to establish a little business for
himself. He put in his first stock in a
side room on South Ninth Street, and was
in that location five .years. He then moved
across the street to 17 South Ninth Street,
and was there nine years. His next loca-
tion was at 1027 Main Street, where he re-
mained ten years, and he has been in his
present headquarters, No. 43 North Eight
Street for nine years, making thirty-one
years altogether. Jlr. Duning "s normal
trade territory covers a radius of sixteen
miles around Richmond.

In 1887 he married iliss Louisa Hase-
meier, daughter of Eberhardt and Johanna
(Placke) Hasemeier, of Richmond. They
have four children: Walter Eberhardt,
born in 1888 ; Ravmond Henrv, born in
1890 ; Willard Christian, born iii 1893 : and
Marie Johanna, bom in 1895. The son
Willard enlisted in the army March 7,
1918, and after a brief period of prepara-
tion at Columbus BaiTacks spent the
greater part of the year until December
20, 1918, as a member of the First Artil-
lery at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

Mr. Duning is a republican in polities

and a member of the German Lutheran
Church, and served that church as deacon.

Ch.vrles E\'erett Zuttermeistee be-
gan his independent business career as a
retail fruit dealer at Richmond, and has
since developed an extensive wholesale fruit
and vegetable concern, with connections all
over eastern Indiana.

He was born at Richmond, Indiana, De-
cember 25, 1884, son of James M. and Ida
May (Ogborn) Zuttermeister. His grand-
parents on his father's side came from
Germany, first locating in ^Maryland. His
mother's parents are of English extraction
and settled in Ohio on their arrival in the
country. Charles E. Zuttermeister attended
the public schools of Richmond, taking one
term in high school. For a short time he
was employed in a grocery store, and not
long afterward, at the age of fifteen, estab-
lished a small retail fruit and produce
business at 724 North Tenth Street. He was
there several years with his business grow-
ing and prospering, and was located at 156
Fort Wayne Avenue five years, and for the
past seven yeai's has been at his present
location, 191 Fort Wayne Avenue. He now
handles goods only wholesale, and supplies
fruits, vegetables and cheese to local
dealers over a country fifty miles in a
radius around Richmond.

Mr. Zuttermeister married at Richmond
July 10, 1910, Miss Cliloe Wagner, daugh-
ter "of George Henry and Alice M. (Allen)
Wagner. They have two adopted children,
a son twelve years old and a daughter
seventeen. ]Mr. Zuttermeister is a repub-
lican, a member of the Presbyterian church,
and is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order
of Moose, the Travelei's Protective Asso-
ciation and the Illinois Commercial :\lcn's
Association.

Charles Hexrv Sudhoff is one of the
veteran merchants and bvisiness men of
Richmond, and for a quarter of a centuiy
has been in business for himself as a retail
grocerv merchant. The firm is now Sud-
hoff &"Son.

He was bom in Richmond Januaiy 19,
1857, son of Gari-ett and Elizabeth (Weber)
Sudhoff. His father came from Osnabruck,
Hanover, Germany, and settled at Rich-
mond, where he reared his family. Charles
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had the advantages of the loual parochial
schools to the age of fifteen. He spent one
3'eai' on a farm, and gained his early knowl-
edge of the grocery business in the employ
of I. R. Howard & Company, wholesale
grocery merchants. He was with that firm
thirteen years, beginning as a porter, and
.subsequently filling the position of shipping
clerk and finall}' city salesman. Then for
five yeai-s he was salesman for the whole-
sale firm of Shroyer & Gaar.

In the meantime, having accumulated
a little capital and having a thorough
knowledge of the business in all details,
he established in 1890 his first store, at
187 Fort Wayne Avenue. The next year
he moved to his present location No. 183
on the same thoroughfai-e, and has been
in business there ever since his being
looked upon as an old and reliable store,
patronized both b.y the city and country
trade. He owns the building and consider-
able other real estate interests.

In 1883 j\lr. Sudhoff married Caroline
Kluter, daughter of Henry Kluter, of Rich-
mond. Their only son is Howard H., now
in business with his father. Howard mar-
ried in 1906 Edna Nieman, daughter of
Richard and Louise (Ransick) Nieman.
Tlicy have two children: Robert Richard,
bofu in 1907, and Edna Jane, born in 1916.

Mr.Sudhoff, the elder, is a member of
the P'irst English Lutheran Church.

Ora ;\Ionger left the farm on which he
was reared about twenty years ago, had
a varied commercial training and expe-
rience, wa.s a merchant at Richmond for
several j^eai-s, and later turned all his cap-
ital and enterprise to the development of
a transfer and storage business, which has
been developed to a point where its slogan
"Across the State" is exceediuglj^ appro-
priate.

Mr. Monger was born at Sharonville,
Ohio, in 1870, son of William C. and Eliza
(Munday) Monger. He is of German and
Irish ancestry. When he was three years
old the family moved to a farm in Fayette
County, Indiana, and Mr. Monger received
his early education in the Jackson school
house near Centerv'ille. At the age of
fifteen he began regular farm labor at
home, and had many other responsibilities
of the farm until 1896, when his father
died. He and his brother Forrest then
bought a groeers' and general store at Web-

ster, Indiana, and tliey were successfully'
in business there for twelve j'ears. Mr. Mon-
ger came to Richmond in 1907, and for
two years was bookkeeper for a firm of
coal merchants, and spent one 3'ear in a
similar capacity with a plumbing firm. He
then engaged in business for himself for
two years as proprietor of a grocery and
meat market, but left that in 1912 to de-
velop his transfer business. This is now
the largest concern of its kind in Wayne
County and he has a large fleet of trucks
and other facilities, so that it is literally
true that his service extends across the
state.

In 1899 he married Miss ^Martha B.
Smith, daughter of Yates Smith of Still-
water, Oklahoma. They have three children :
Howard Smith, born in 1900; Omer J.,
born in 1902 ; and Helen Vivian, bora in
1908. Mr. Monger is a democrat in poli-
tics, is a member of the Christian Church
and is affiliated with the ila.sonic and Odd
Fellows lodges at Richmond, and also the
Modern Woodmen of America. His success
has been well earned, and he has depended
upon himself and the work that he could
do as a means of advancement.

Everett Richard McConaha is one of
tlic younger business men of Richmond,
and is a stockholder and director and gen-
eral manager of The Garage Department
the ilcConaha Company, one of the leading
local dealers in automobile and automo-
bile accessories.

He was born near Ccnterville in Wayne
County, Indiana, in 1887, son of Walter
and Elizabeth (Smelser) JlcConaha. He
is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The family has
long been prominent in Wayne County.
Everett R. ]\IcConaha received his early
education in the country schools and also
the Centei-\'ille High School, from which
he graduated in 1905. lie spent one term
in the Richmond Business College and for
five years was bookkeeper in his father's
business. In August, 1914, he became gen-
eral manager of his present business, which
oilers a widely appreciative service all over
Wayne County.

In 1915 Mr. McConaha married Miss
Maude Becher, daughter of P. V. and
:\Iyrta (Spitler) Becher, of Richmond.
They have one daugliter, Joan Elizabeth,
borii in 1917. ^Ir. "McConaha is a repub-
lican, is affiliated with the Benevolent and

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Protective Order of Elks and a member
of the Rotary Club and the Travelers Pro-
tective Association.

Eugene Kramer Quigg had sixteen
months of service with the American Red
Cross in France, and immediately on his
return to his old home town of Richmond
resumed touch with civilian business af-
fairs, and is general manager, stockholder
and director in the Richmond Baking Com-
pany.

He was born at Richmond and is a son
of William H. and Laura (Kramer) Quigg.
The Richmond Baking Company was
established by his father in 1902, and is
now the largest wholesale biscuit and crack-
er bakery in eastern Indiana. The com-
pany is incorporated for -$75,000 and has
a hundred employes. William H. Quigg
died November 9, 1918.

The Quigg family is of English Quaker
stock and has been in America since 1740.
They first settled in South Carolina, and
came to the vicinity of Richmond in 1850.
Eugene K. Quigg is one of the eighth gen-
eration of the family in this country.

He was educated at Richmond, gradu-
ating from the high school in 1914. The
following two years he spent in Earlham
College, specializing in economics, and in
1916 entered the University of Wisconsin.
He left the university in Jiuie, 1917, as
a volunteer under the auspices of the
Friends Service Committee. On reaching
France he was assigned to the American
Red Cross Relief Department. He was on
duty for sixteen months at hospitals and
other points close to the front, and had the
experience of several German bombard-
ments. One of his special duties was to
establish a factorv for the manufacture
of certain hospital supplies. He also had
charge of the administration of a hospital
for two months.

Mr. Quigg is an independent in politics,
is a member of the Rotary Club, the Com-
mercial Club and the Travelers Protective
Association and is active in the Friends
Church. He returned to America on De-
cember 9, 1918, on the French Liner,
Chicago.

J.\MES W. Noel has practiced law at
Indianapolis over twenty years. He has
always commanded his share of profes-
sional business, but the work which makes

his name of more than ordinarj- signiti-
canee has been rather a "public practice"
than "private practice." Mr. Noel would
probably repudiate the title of "reformer"
though his fearless and vigorous work at
different times has made him a useful in-
strument in effecting many important re-
forms, especially in connection with the
public business of the state. He has been
a factor in a number of movements by
which the efficiency, competence and hon-
esty of democratic institutions have been
improved.

His first public service outside the prac-
tice of law was in 1898, when he was
elected a representative from IMarion
County in the Legislature. He served one
term. One of the purposes for which he
sought election to the Legislature was to
assist in the election of Albert J. Beveridge
to the United States Senate. During the
time he was identified with several bills
for the reorganization of different institu-
tions of Indianapolis, among them being
author of a measure under which the fran-
chise was granted to the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company. He has been
given credit especially for those features
of the bill which safeguard and protect the
rights of the city in the franchise.

In 1903 he was employed to conduct a
public investigation of the affairs of the
City of Indianapolis. The result of this
investigation was the overthrow of the ad-
ministration at the subsequent election.
In 1905 Indiana's governor appointed ^him
one of the three members of a commission
to investigate state affairs and particularly
the condition of Indiana insurance com-
panies. That was a time when the insur-
ance business all over the nation was under
fire, and Mr. Noel's work in Indiana sup-
plemented and followed closely along the
lines of the investigation undertaken under
the leadership of Charles E. Hughes in
New York. Mr. Noel gave the greater part
of one year to this investigation, as a result
of which the auditor of state, the secretary
of state and the adjutant general were re-
moved from office and hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars were recovered to the state
treasury. Mv. Noel wrote for the commit-
tee a report on insurance conditions in
Indiana, which was regarded as one of the
most complete and searching in its an-
alysis among the many similar reports that
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its piiblioatioii IMr. Noel was employed by
the auditor of state to make a public in-
vestigation of the State Life Insurance
Company of Indianapolis. All of this is
a matter of public history, but it may be
recalled that the president and vice presi-
dent of the company resigned, and the
governing board was completely reorgan-
ized.

Under the direction of the' Merchants
Association of Indianapolis Mr. Noel di-
rected in 1908 an investigation of the
affairs of ]\Iarion County. This was also
followed by the indictment and trial of
several officials and the recovery of a large
sum of public money. An even more im-
portant result was effected when at the
suggestion of Mr. Noel the Merchants As-
sociation and other commercial bodies in
the state united in a demand for the pas-
sage of a law providing for imiform ac-
counting and an annual audit of all public
offices in Indiana. The Legislature passed
such a bill in 1909, largely as formulated
and revised by Mr. Noel.

Work of this kind requires more than a
keen insight into human motives and highly
trained knowledge of business technique.
It demands determination which cannot
be swayed by general clamor and a com-
plete personal fearlessness. It was the pos-
session of these qualities and the enviable
record which he had made in Indiana
■which doubtless influenced the United
States Attorney General in 1912 to select
]Mr. Noel as assistant United States district
attorney to prosecute the famous "Dyna-
miters Case" in Indianapolis. The details
of that trial, growing out of the blowing up
of the Los Angeles Times Building and
more than one hundred dynamite explo-
sions throughout the countrj', are still fresh
in tlie public memory. It was not an or-
dinary criminal case involving spectacular
personal features, but its issues involved
some of the fundamental elements in law
and order, and as a trial of that kind per-
haps none ever excelled it in point of gen-
eral interest. A ease that belonged in the
same general category and perhaps more
dramatic was the prosecution in Los
Angeles in 1915 of M. A. Schmidt for mur-
der in connection with the Times explo-
sion. In that year ]\Ir. Noel was employed
by the State of California to take charge
of the prosecution, which resulted in con-
viction and life sentence.

James W. Noel was born at Melmore,
Seneca County, Ohio, November 24, 1867,
son of William P. and Caroline (Graves)
Noel. Well authenticated records trace the
Noel ancestry back to the time of William
the Conqueror of England. The family
came to Virginia along with the Cavaliers.
Mr. Noel's great-grandfather Loftus Noel,
moved from Virginia to Lexington Ken-
tucky, being one of the pioneers of the
middle west. Albert Noel, the grandfather
of the Indianapolis lawyer, moved from
Kentucky to Ohio, and was a pioneer at
Alexandria in that state. He married a
descendant of the De Vilbiss family of
French Hugenot stock resident in America
from the time of the seventeenth century.
William P. Noel, a son of their union, was
born in Ohio and married there Miss Caro-
line Graves of Puritan ancestry. William
P. Noel was a soldier in the Forty -ninth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry from the first
call for troops to the end of the war. In
1.880 he moved to Indiana, locating on a
farm in Pulaski County, near Star City.
He was a republican and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

James W. Noel, the oldest of eight chil-
dren, grew up in the environment of a
farm and completed his early education in
the schools of Star City. At the age of
sixteen he began teaching in Pulaski
County, and altogether was a teacher for
about six years, the earnings from this
profession enabling him to reach the real
goal of his ambition, tlie law. In 1889 he
entered Purdue University at Lafayette,
and completed the reg-ular four years
course in two and a half years, graduating
Bachelor of Science in 1892. While in uni-
versity he was manager of the football and
baseball teams, editor of the college paper
and biennials and also class orator and
active in the literary societies and in the
Sigma Nu fraternity. For two years after
graduating he was secretary of Purdue
University.

Mr. Noel entered the law office of Byron
K. Elliott at Indianapolis in 1894, and at
the same time carried on his studies in the
Indiana Law School, graduating LL. B. in
1895. Since that year he has been active
in practice at Indianapolis and early gained
a reputation as a keen and resourceful trial
lawyer and one who went to the bottom
of every case he undertook. Mr. Noel has
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within the repertoire of a lawyer, and is
esteemed as one of the most versatile intel-
lects of the Indianapolis bar. In 1909 Mr.
Noel was on the progi-am of the Interna-
tional Tax Association, of which he is a
member, reading before that body at Louis-
ville a paper on "Taxation of Insurance."

Politically he is a republican, member
of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal
Church and of numerous civic and social
organizations.

In 1895 he married Miss Cornelia Hor-
ton Humphrey of Patriot, Indiana. She
was a graduate of Wiesleyan College. Their
happy companionship was terminated by
her death, of typhoid fever, eleven weeks
after their marriage. June 29, 1899, Mr.
Noel married Miss Anne Madison Sloan, of
Indianapolis. She was born and reared in
Cincinnati, where her father, John 0.
Sloan was a business man. Through her
mother she is a collateral connection of
President James Madison and of Chief Jus-
tice John :\Iarshall. Mrs. Noel is a grad-
uate of the Wesleyan Female College of
Cincinnati.

John Comly Birdsell, president of the
Birdsell Manufacturing Company of
South Bend until his death July 13, 1894,
was born in AVestchester County, New
York, March 31, 1815. He was descended
from a Quaker family, and began lifes
activities as a farmer. In 1864 he came
from New York to Indiana and established
his factory in South Bend. The company
was incorporated in 1870, with his sons as
officers and stockholders. Mr. Birdsell was
one of South Bend's public spirited and in-
fluential citizens. He was a republican and
later a prohibitionist, was a regular attend-
ant of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and for many years affiliated with the Ma-
sonic order.

Mr. Birdsell married Miss Harriet Lunt,
and they were the parents of five children.

John M. Bowen is one of the younger
men engaged in business affairs at Rich-
mond and is manager of the Sample Shoe
Store at 610 Main Street.

He was bom at Carlos in Randolph
Countv, Indiana, July 1, 1895, son of
Charles E. and Josie (Nelson) Bowen. The
Bowens are an old English family, and
on October 14, 1914, as a family they
celebrated the centennial anniversary of

their residence in America. They first
established homes in Maryland, and ]\Ir.
Bowen 's great-great-grand father was a
pioneer in Randolph Coimty, Indiana,
^lany of the family have been merchants
and professional men. Charles E. Bowen
is now proprietor of a general store at
Carlos, Indiana.

John M. Bowen attended public schools
at Spartan.sburg, Indiana, high school at
Lynn, and took the banking and com-
mercial course at Valparaiso University.
In the meantime he had a thoroughly prac-
tical business training, being manager of a
slioe store for D. M. Anderson, also em-
ployed at his uncle's store at Lynn, and
in 1916 he spent a tenu in the Koester
Decorating School at Chicago. He then
spent another six months at Lynn, was
located at Kokomo a short time, and in
1917 came to Richmond, where he went
to work for the Sample Shoe Store. He was
made manager in November, 1917, and has
rapidly developed the trade and other in-
terests of business. Mr. Bowen is also in-
terested in a 160-acre farm at Crete in
Randolph County.

In 1916 he married ]Miss Anna Marie
Ritz, daughter of :Michael and Gretta
(Bailey) Ritz, of Fountain City, Indiana.
They have one son, William Freemont,
born November 9, 1918. Mr. Bowen is
a republican in his political affiliations
and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
and the Masons at Lynn, and is a member
of the First Christian Church. .

Henry H. Farwig by long experience
and hard work has become an independ-
ently sviceessful business man at Richmond,
and" conducts one of the leading bakery
plants in eastern Indiana, supplying both
the wholesale and retail trade.

He was born in Richmond November 18,
1872, son of Hemian and Caroline (Bloe-
meyer) Farwig. The house where Mr.
Fai-wig now lives was built by his grand-
father, Frederick Farwig, in 1844, and is
one of the oldest residential landmarks in
the city. His grandfather also helped
build the first railroad bridge over White-
water River. He had come directly from
Cincinnati in a wagon, before the era of
railroads. Frederick Farwig died sixty-
three years ago, and his wife ilarie Lotten,
has been dead about fifty years. Hennan
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forty-seveu years iu the employ of S. R.
Wiggins & Sou, tanuers.

Henry S. Farwig was the second among
four children. He attended St. John's
parochial schools to the age of fourteen
and then spent six years learning carriage
blacksmithing. His employer was Philip
Snyder. From blacksmithing he took up
his present line of business as an employe
of Seefloth & Bayer at 622 Main Street.
He was with that firm consecutively for
twenty-two yeai's, as a wagon driver and in
other capacities and mastered every branch
of the business. Mr. Seefloth died in 1902,
at which time the business was acquired
by ilr. Bayer, the other partner, and when
he passed away in August, 1916, Mr.
Farwig bought the plant and has continued
the old established business with every ac-
<^ompaniment of prosperity. He manu-
factures every class of bakery goods.

In 1900 Mr. Fanvig married Bertha J.
Fulgham, daughter of Zeri and ]\Iollie
(Lambert) Fulgham. To their marriage
have been Ijorn two children, Roland Wil-
liam, born in 1902, and Elizabeth Hen-
rietta.

Mr. Farwig has been an active factor in
the democratic party of Richmond for
manj^ years. He was candidate for mayor
in 1912 and again in 1916. In 1910 Gover-
nor Marshall, now vice president, appointed
him deputy oil inspector of Indiana. He
has also served as a member of the City
Council. I\Ir. Farwig is aiSliated with the
Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, and is a member of St.
John's Lutheran Church.

James Andrew Quigley is one of the
younger rather than older business men
of Richmond, but in a brief period of
years has succeeded in establishing a very
large and prosperous business known as
Quigley Brothers, in which he is junior
partner. This firm has five completely
stocked and equipped retail drug stores
in Richmond, and in aggregate volume the
business done by these stores is among the
largest in the city.

Mr. Quigley was born in Richmond in
1884, son of James and Julia (Horigan)
Quigley. His parents were both natives
of County ilayo, Ireland, came to the
I'uited States when young, were married
in Richmond, and of their five children
James A. is the youngest. He acuuircd

a public school education to the age of
fifteen and then spent two years in the
drug store of Dr. T. C. Teague and three
years with Curme & Company, druggists.
His practical experience and his study
gave him an expert knowledge of phar-
macy, enabling him to pass the State Board
of Pharmacy examination at Indianapolis
in 1904. He and Roy Babylon then bought
the business of the Moore Drug Company
on North Eighth Street, and for two years
the finn of Quigley & Babylon was in
existence. Mr. Quigley then sold his in-
terests in that store and started for him-
self at 821 North E Street. Two years
later he acquired another store at 1820
North E Street. He then joined his brother
M. J. Quigley, who already had two well
equipped stores in operation, and they have
since comprised the finn of Quigley Broth-
ers and have opened a fifth store at 806
Main Street. The firm does a business
reaching out over a radius of twenty-five
miles around Richmond. Mr. Quigley is a
member of the National Association of Re-
tail Druggists.

In 1904 he married May Rogers, daugh-
ter of George and Ella Rogers, of Indian-
apolis. Their one son, James, Jr., was
born in 1906. Mr. Quigley is a democrat,
a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church,
is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights
of Columbus and is a member of the South
Side Improvement Association, the Ontre
Nous Club and the Commerce Club.

Frederick Hackman has been a resident
of Richmond nearly forty years, was first
identified with the community as a cabinet
maker, but for over thirty years has been
in the coal business. He is now president
of Hackman, Klehfoth & Company, dealers
in coal and building supplies.

Mr. Hackman was born in the Province
of Hanover, Germany, ;\Iay 1, 1857, son
of Frank and Elizabeth (Schnatmeyer)
Hackman. He attended the common
schools at Melle, Hanover, to the age of
fourteen, then spent a three years appren-
ticeship at cabinet making, and after that
was employed as a journeyman. At the
age of twenty he entered the German army
and served two years. Mr. Hackman came
to America in 1881, and after landing in
Baltimore came direct to Richmond. He
worked here five years at the cabinet mak-
ing trade.

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In 188-1 lie married Anna Welp, daughter
of George and Anna Welp, of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Haekman died in 1885, leaving one
daughter, Amelia, who died five months
later. In 1886 Mr. Haekman married
Ellen Klehfoth, daughter of Eberhardt and
Eliza (Gergins) Klehfoth, of Richmond.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Haekman
was Frank, who was born in 1892 and died
in 1894.

In 1886 Mr. Haekman became associated
with IMr. Klehfoth in the coal business at
112 South Seventh Street under the name
Haekman & Klehfoth. This firm in the
past thirty years has supplied a large
share of the volume of coal used both for
domestic and business purposes in Rich-
mond. In 1894, the business having grown
greatly, was incorporated with Mr. Hack-
man as president and Mr. Klehfoth as vice
president. The company now has two ex-
tensive yards, one on North Tenth and
F streets, and the other on South G Street
between Sixth and Seventh. The company
has also dealt in buildei-s supplies since
1912.

Mr. Haekman is a director and stock-
holder in the South Side Improvement As-
sociation, a director and stockholder in the
Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
and is owner of considerable local real
estate. He is a republican in politics, a
member of St. John's Lutheran Church,
and while he never speaks of that subject
he is well known for his generous heart
and practical charity.

C. A. Wright, general manager and
agent at Richmond for the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, has been with the
company a number of years, his first serv-
ice being as wagon driver at Terre Haute.

He wa.s born at Ashmore in Coles County,
Illinois, in 1887, son of J. A. and Lydia
(Wicker) Wright. He is of Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Mr. Wright attended public
schools at Ashmore and Hindsboro, Illinois,
and when not in school was employed on
his father's farm to the age of twenty-
one. On leaving home he was employed
four years by an ice cream company, three
years as cream maker and one year a-s a
driver. On leaving that concern he went
to work in Terre Haute as a tank wagon
driver for the Standard Oil Company.
Thirteen months later he was transferred
to the Terre Haute office of the company

as cashier, remaining there two years, and
then for two years was oil salesman at
Winchester, Indiana. Mr. W^right has been
a resident of Richmond since 1917, and
is agent for the company's interests and
manager of its sub-storage plant in that
city.

in 1909 Mr. Wright married Miss Grace
Caldwell, daughter of Robert and Laura
(Clapp) Caldwell, of Hillsboro, Illinois.
They have one daughter, Ethel ilaxine,
born in 1914. Mr. Wright is affiliated with
the Masonic Lodge at Winchester, Indiana,
is a republican voter and a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

Bernard .J. Maag, Jr., is one of the
younger business men of Richmond and has
made a success through a long and practi-
cally uninterrupted experience in one line,
groceries.

He was born at Richmond September
21, 1879, son of Bernard and Caroline
(Torbeck) Maag. He attended public
schools and St. Andrew's parochial schools
to the age of thirteen and then for six
months was employed by Joseph A. Knabe,
grocer. He began as errand boy with J.
ivi. Eggemeyer, and remained three years
as clerk. Then for one year he clerked
in the Princess department store, after
which he returned to Eggemeyer for four
years. In the meantime he had acquired a
comprehensive knowledge of the grocery
business and with a modest capital he
formed a partnei'ship with Thomas J.
Reilley under the name IMaag & Reilley,
and opened a stock of fancy groceries at
506 ]\Iain Street. The partnership con-
tinued successfully until -lanuain'. 1917,
Mr. Reilley dying January 26. of that year,
since which time Mr. ilaag has been sole
proprietor of the business, which is now
located at 501-503 Main Street.

l\Ir. Maag has never married. He is a
member of St. Andrew's Catholic Church
and the Knights of Columbus.

George L. Cole. In an old prosperous
and somewhat conservative community
like Marion a man is not usually rated as
successful unless he possesses more than
the quality of business skill. Grant
County people have had their eyes on the
progress of George L. Cole for a great
many years. They have known him as a
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Jaimary 8, 1918, ]Mr. Cole was elected pres-
ident of the First National Bank of Marion.
One of the Marion papers took occasion
editorially to refer to Mr. Cole's advance-
ment at that time, and in addition to credit-
ing him with nnusual natural ability as a
banker, gave expression to a general com-
munity esteem calling him a public spirited
citizen, active in all public moves, a Chris-
tian gentleman, and a most valuable man
for this or any other community.

Mr. Cole was born at Harlem in Dela-
ware County, Ohio, January 16, 1873, a
son of Levi SI. and Alice (Landess) Cole.
His people were substantial farmers. On
April 1, 1881, the family removed to Grant
County, Indiana, where they bought a farm
of eighty acres. It was on this farm that
George L. Cole spent his youthful days
from the time he was eight years old. He
attended the public schools and at the age
of eighteen qualified and began his work
as a teacher. He was in school work for
six years and during several summers at-
tended the Marion Normal College. His
work as teacher was so satisfactory that
eventually he w^as made principal of one
of the leading schools of the county.

His banking experience began as col-
lector with Jason, Willson & Company,
bankers. He was with that firm six years,
and in that time mastered many of the
details and fundamentals of banking. He
held the post of assistant cashier when he
resigned to become connected with the
Grant County Trust & Savings Bank as tel-
ler. Later he was secretary and treasurer
of that company and was with it five and
a half years before .ioining the First Na-
tional Bank as assistant cashier. After
three months he was promoted to cashier,
and was then elevated to the office of presi-
dent, as above noted.

Banking is not Mr. Cole's sole interest
at IMarion. He is director and treasurer
of the Economy Box & Tie Plate Company,
director and treasurer of the Marion Mat-
tress Company, director of the Union Glove
Company, is a director of the Chamber of
Commerce, is treasurer of the Grant
County Red Cross, and for ten years has
been director and later was also made
treasurer of the local Y. M. C. A. He is an
active church worker and a steward in the
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Marion. Politically he is a republican but
takes no active part in partisan politics.

Mr. Cole is a member of the Country Club,
and is affiliated with the Masonic Order
and the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows.

September 28, 1904, he married Miss
Sarah Millicent Hays, of Grant County,
daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Freeze)
Hays. Her father is a farmer. Mr. and
Mrs. Cole have two children, Dorothy and
Helen Susanna.

Chauncey Rose, the philanthropist, was
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1794.
He first became identified with Indiana at
Terre Haute, but soon afterward moved to
Parke County, where for six years he was
engaged in milling. In 1825" he returned
to Terre Haute and became one of the most
successful merchants of that region. But it
is as a philanthropist that his name is most
honored. His chief benefaction was the
building and equipping of Rose Polytechnic
Institute, to which he left the greater part
of his vast estate. Mr. Rose died in Terre
Haute in August, 1877.

W. Newell Todd. The commercial out-
put by which the City of Richmond is
known over the world includes underwear,
and among the city 's industries that of the
Atlas Underwear Company is ea.sily one
of the most important and in some respects
occupies a very advanced position as an
example of modern economic undertaking
and management.

The assistant manager, Mr. Todd, was
born at Piqua, Ohio, Februai-y 18, 1890.
Piqua, Ohio, has long been a center of
knitting mill industry. W. Newell Todd
is a son of Edgar F. and Ida M. (McCabe)
Todd, and is of English stock and old
American ancestrs'. His people first lo-
cated in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and his grandfather was born at Sidnev,
Ohio.

W. Newell Todd received an education
in the local schools of Piqua through the
junior year of high school, was a student
of the Phillips-Exeter Academy at Exeter,
New Hampshire, from 1907 to 1909, and
from that famous preparatory school en-
tered Princeton University, from which he
wa.s graduated with the degree Lift. B. in
1913. While in Princeton he was a member
of the Dial Society.

Immediately on leaving university 'Mr.
Todd entered the Richmond plant of the

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Atlas Underwear Company, employing
400 people and manufacturing the well
known brands of men "s underwear ' ' Atlas ' '
and "Richmond." The factory building
is three stories and basement, constructed
of pressed brick and stone, 80 by 155 feet.
Aside from its practical efficiency as a
business institution the policy of the com-
pany has anticipated some of the most
advanced lines of thought regarding the
comfort and well being of the employes.
The company has in practice a bonus sys-
tem, and maintains for the comfort of the
employes rest rooms, dining room, and
many features of entertainment.

ilr. Todd married at Piqua in 1914 Ruth
Rayner daughter of John F. and Eleanor
(Philips) Rayner. They have one son,
William Newell, Jr., bom in 1915. Mr.
Todd is a republican in politics, a member
of the Rotary Club, the ilasonic Lodge and
Elks, the Country Club, and is a member
and deacon of the Firet Presbyterian
Church.

Anton Stolle is head of Anton Stolle
& Son, meat packers at Richmond, oper-
ating the largest industry of the kind in
eastern Indiana, an enterprise which de-
veloped from a small back yard plant oper-
ated entirely by Mr. Stolle until today
it is an extensive business, employing many
hands and furnishes fresh and cured meats
to nearly everj' town and community
around Richmond for fifty miles.

Mr. Stolle was born at Cincinnati Nov-
ember 24, 1856, son of Frank and Christina
Stolle. His father came from Saxony, Ger-
many, to the United States in 1848 and was
a tailor at Cincinnati. Anton Stolle re-
ceived a parochial school education at
White Oak, Ohio, and at the age of thirteen
went to work for his father in the latter "s
tailor shop. He was there to the age of
nineteen, and since then has followed other
lines.

In 1878 he married Katrine Kampf,
daughter of Joseph and Katrine Kampf.
Mr. and Mrs. Stolle have six children,
three of the sons being now associated with
their father in the business.

Mr. Stolle came to Richmond in 1892,
and two or three years later, in the small
yard of his home, began the manufacture
of sausage. The first season he killed only
twenty-six hogs. He insisted more on
quality and purity than quantity, and the

result was that his business grew with
commendable rapidity and in 1900 he
moved to his present location, where his
plant and facilities have been rapidly ex-
panding. He is now doing a general pack-
ing business, killing and marketing hogs,
beef and mutton and requiring the services
of sixteen employes. Some idea of the ex-
tent of the business is found in the fact that
]\Ir. Stolle in an average year kills 10,000
hogs, 1,200 cattle and 500 or 600 calve-s and
manufactures 250,000 pounds of sausage.
He is a member of the American Meat
Packers Association.

Besides his own children 'Sh: Stolle has
fourteen grand-children. He is a democrat
in politics, and a lew years ago was candi-
date for the City Council from the First
Ward. He held the office of treasurer in
the South Side Impi-ovement Association
sixteen years, and is an active and pro-
gressive member of the Commercial Club.

Walker Edwin Land is president of the
Land-Dilks Company, one of the new in-
dustries of Richmond, and one of which in
spite of restrictions and other adverse con-
ditions placed upon manufacturing during
the war has attained rapid maturity and
has developed a business of large propor-
tions and of great promise. The special
output of this company is the "Quaker
Maid" kitchen cabinet.

Mr. Land was born at Richmond in 1888,
son of Frank and Nellie B. (Walker) Land.
He is of English ancestry, the family first
settling in New York. His grand-father,
Horatio Land, and his brother William
came to Riclmiond in early days. Frank
Land was for many years connected with
the well known Richmond industrial con-
cern of Gaar, Scott & Company, and
worked his wa.y up to the position of vice
president of the concern. He died in
April, 1919, and his widow is still living
in Richmond.

Walker Edwin Land graduated from
the Richmond High School in 1907 and in
September of the same year entered Pur-
due University, where he took the me-
chanical engineering course for two years.
On returning to Richmond he entered the
service of his uncle in the Wayne Works,
and the nine years spent there gave him
an opportunity to learn eveiy branch of
the manufacturing biisiness, and even-
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the farm implement division. He left tliat
organization and in 1917, with George
Dilks, began the mauufaeture of the
Quaker ^Maid kitchen cabinet. The com-
pany is incorporated for .$100,000, has a
modern and thoroughly equipped plant and
at the present time employs about fifty
persons. The kitchen cabinets are even
now used all over the United States.

Mr. Land married in 191.5 Miss ilary
Smith, daughter of Edward and Eliza-
beth (Bouslog) Smith, of Newcastle, In-
diana. They have one daughter, Janet
Elizabeth, born in 1916. Mr. Land is an
independent in politics, is a thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner
and an Elk. In February, 1917, he started
the local chapter of Rotarians, and the
chapter now ha.s eighty-five members. Mr.
Land is identified with the Commercial
Club and is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

Roy Noreis, of the firm of Edgar Norris
& Son, groceries and notions at Richmond,
has been active in. business affairs in his
home city and elsewhere for a number of
years, is a veteran of the Spanish-American
war and now has a son with the Army of
Occupation in France.

ilr. Norris was born at Richmond 'Slay
20, 1879, son of Edgar and Catherine
(Bowen) Non-is. His English ancestry
runs back in an unbroken line to the time
of Queen Elizabeth. The Non-is family
on coming to America first settled in New
Jersey and afterward moved to Indiana,
settling in Clinton County, ilr. Norris'
grandfather, William Norris, was a Cali-
fornia forty-niner, driving overland witli
wagons, accompanied by his two brothers
and their families. Several of the party
remained in California the rest of their
days. William Norris had some success
as a miner and finall.y returned to Indiana
by the Isthmus of Panama. Edgar Norris
was born in California, but lived in Rich-
mond from 1862. In 1891 he engaged in
the grocery business on Ninth Street and
in 1895 moved to the present location of
the firm.

Roy Norris was the oldest of his father's
children. He attended the grade schools
of Richmond, spent two years in high
school, and in May. 1898, ran away from
home to join the Regular Army at Fort
Thomas, Kentucky, as a member of Com-

pany A of the Sixth Infantry. He saw
some actual service in the hard campaign-
ing in Cuba, being among the American
troops that landed at Siboney and later
participated in the San Juan and San-
tiago campaigns. After the war he was
i-eturned to Camp Wyckoff on Long Island,
and later was sent to Fort Sam Houston
at San Antonio, Texas, where he was mus-
tered out January 19, 1899.

On returning home he engaged in the
grocery business with his father and in
1909 was given an equal shai-e in the pai-t-
ncrship. Mr. Norris had all his fighting
spirit again aroused when America entered
the war with Germany and on ^May 14.
1917, joined the officers training camp at
Fort Benjamin Harri-son. He spent nine
weeks there, but was finally released be-
cause of physical disqualifications. He took
the opportunity to break away from his
Richmond business connections for a time,
and going to Portland, Oregon, worked as
clerk for Wells Fargo & Company seven
months, then went to Klickitat County,
Washington, in the lumber woods, spent
six months getting out ties for the gov-
ernment railroad administration, and with
three other partners leased a snmll mill
and took a contract from the railroad ad-
ministration. It was an enjoyable and
healthful experience, and was the more
satisfactory because he made some money.
Mr. Norris returned to Richmond on peace
day. or November 11, 1918, and has since
been a hard working member of the firm
Edgar Norris & Son. Mr. Non-is is a mem-
ber of the Spanish-American War Veterans
Association, the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
but his chief hobby outside of home and
business is ornithology. He probably has
as thorough a knowledge of birds in their
native haunts of Indiana and elsewhere
as any other Richmond citizen, and has a
wonderful collection of bird eggs, number-
ing about 5,000. He is a member of the
American Ornithological ITnion, the Cooper
Ornithological Club of California, and the
Wilson Ornithological Club.

]\rr. Norris has been twice married. His
present wife was Cecile Motto, daughter
of Sam and Plattie (McCall) Motto, of
Hagerstown, Indiana. They were man-ied
April 7. 1912. ilr. Norris has a son, Har-
old F.. by his first wife. This son is now
in France as corporal of Headquarters

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Company of the Thirteenth Field Artillery,
has been twice wounded, and is now in the
Rhine country with the Army of Occupa-
tion.

Wesley Webster Dafler is president
and general manager of the Datler-Moser
Company, machinery and supplies at Rich-
mond. This company handles as its
specialty threshing machinery, and as an
expert in that line of machinery there is
hardly a man of superior qualifications
anywhere than Mr. Dafler. He has oper-
ated in the field pi-actically every type of
threshing machine that has been in use
during the last thirty or thirty-five years,
and he also knows the selling and manu-
facturing side of the business as well.

He was born in Carroll County, Mary-
land, August 24, 1863, son of John W.
and Catherine (Rumler) Dafler. His
parents came from Germany when young
people and settled in Can-oil County,
Maryland. His father was a farmer and
shoemaker. Wesley W. Dafler acquired
his early education in the schools of Mont-
gomery County, Ohio, having limited op-
portunities to attend school but getting
in a term occasionally up to the age of
sixteen. When only nine yeare old he
went to work on a farm, the first two years
getting only clothes and board. In 1875,
when he was twelve years old, his wages
were $6 a month. In 1878-79-80 he was
paid .$8 a month.

Mr. Dafler started out with his first
threshing outfit in 1881. He ran a machine
■ two seasons in Ohio and in 1883 went to
the wheatfields of Kansas, where he oper-
ated one of the old fashioned portable
steam outfits for three years. He then re-
turned to Ohio and for six months sold
some of the threshing machines manufac-
tured by Gaar, Scott & Company at Rich-
mond. After that he resumed the prac-
tical operation of threshing machinery in
Ohio during the seasons from 1886 to
1890. February 8, 1891, he resumed em-
ployment with Gaar, Scott & Company,
assisting in building traction engines for
threshing outfits. He left that concern in
May, 1893, on account of an accident which
resulted in the loss of his left eye, and
took lip an entirel.y new line, that of fire
insurance, in partnership with I. C. Doan,
under the firm name I. C. Doan & Com-
pany. For three years they did a large

business, representing the Westchester, the
New Hampshire, the Delaware, and the
Northwestern National Fire Insurance and
other companies. But Mr. Dafler did not
regard this as his permanent line of busi-
ness. For five years he again served Gaar,
Scott & Company as special collector r-nd
adjuster, traveling over fifteen different
states. He was then appointed factory
salesman in charge of seventeen counties
in Indiana and Ohio, and held that office
for six years. From December, 1906, to
December, 1911, he was manager of the In-
dianapolis branch house, and when that
was acquired by the Rumely Company he
remained until Januaiy 1, 1914, after
which he spent a year selling the Nichols
and Shepherd threshing machines, with
headquarters at Richmond. February 2,
1915, Mr. Dafler and Newton A. Mo.ser,
with a capital of $5,000, incorpoi'ated the
Dafler-Moser Company. Both the princi-
pals are highly expert and widely experi-
enced men in their line, and they have
perfected an organization that has been
very successful in the selling of threshing
machinery and machinery supplies of all
kinds. They do a large business over twen-
ty counties in Ohio and Indiana.

' In 1895 Mr. Dafler married Aletha May
Booker, daughter of Edward and Anna

(Hunter) Booker, of Richmond. They
have seven children, all still at home. ilr.
Dafler is a democrat and a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
of the United Presbyterian Church.

Newton Americus ]\Iosek, secretary and
treasurer of the Dafler-Moser Company,
machinery and supplies, is one of the ex-
pert men of that organization, and was an
operator of threshing maehineiy many
years before he became connected with the
business as a salesman.

He was born in Frederick County, Mary-
land, December 12, 1860, of Scotch-Irish
ancestry and of an old American family.
His parents were John H. and Amanda
(Weddle) Closer. He received a country
school education to the age of seventeen
and then, going to the vicinity of Dayton,
Ohio, was on a farm a year, the following
winter continiied his schooling in Freder-
ick County, ]\Iaryland, and again resumed
farm employment in Ohio for three years.
During that time he married Miss Mahala
Weaver, daughter of Amos and Margaret

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(Shell) Weaver, of Montgomery County,
Ohio. To their marriage were born nine
children, eight daughters and one son, and
all but one are still living.

Mr. Moser rented a farm for two years
and for twenty-eight years altogether had
his home in Montgoraei-y County, Ohio.
During that time he bought a small place
of twenty acres, and farmed it in connec-
tion with his other enterprises. In the
meantime he was operating a threshing
outfit over a wide section of territoi-y, at
first with a partner but finally as sole
owner. He continued that business and
wore out several machines until he re-
moved to Richmond and began selling ma-
chinery for Gaar, Scott & Company under
the superintendence of Mr. Dafler, his
present partner. In 1906 he was doing
collection work for the company, and in
December of that year succeeded Mr. Daf-
ler as manager of local territory and the
factory. In December, 1911, he went with
the Rumely Company, well known manu-
facturers of threshing machines of La-
Porte, Indiana, and there was again asso-
ciated with Mr. Dafler. On January 1,
1913, they made a partnership arrange-
ment and in 1915 incorporated their pres-
ent business for the handling of thresh-
ing machines and machinery supplies of
all kinds.

Mr. Moser is affiliated with a Masonic
Lodge in Ohio, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and is a member of the First
English Liitheran Church.

Arthur Jordan. Few men in a period of
forty years have achieved so many substan-
tial and creative results in the commercial
and industrial field as are found in the
record of Arthur Jordan of Indianapolis.
His career acquires a special significance
today because of the attention bestowed
upon the conservation of those products
that are vital to the life and welfare of the
nation and the world. Mr. Jordan was a
pioneer in the cold storage industry and
also in changing the methods of transporta-
tion of perislinlilc |irii(lii('ts from ice cooling
to mechanic:il nlViijrrjii ion. It was largely
under his Icailci'shij) also that the manu-
facture of butter in large plants supplied
by numerous outlj'ing creameries was ef-
fected in Indiana.

;\lr. Jordan was born at ^fadison, JcfPcr-
sDH ('(lunty, Indiana, September 1, 1S')o.

and represents a pioneer name in Indian-
apolis. His grandfather, Ephraim Jordan,
was a native of Pennsylvania and came to
Indianapolis in 1836. He was a pioneer
hotel man of the city and also one of the
founders of the Presbyterian Church.
Largely through his instrumentality it is
said Henry Ward Beeeher was called to
the pastorate of the Indianapolis church.
He was a successful business man and did
much to make Indianapolis a center of in-
dustry, religion and culture.

Gilinore Jordan, father of Arthur Jor-
dan, was born at Greensburg, Westmore-
land County, Pennsylvania, November 16,
1824, and was twelve .years of age when he
came to Indianapolis. He had a common
school education, and also studied under
Professor Kemper, a well known classical
educator of the early days in Indianapolis.
At the age of twenty-one Gilmore Jordan
enli.sted for service in the Mexican war
and was fife major of his regiment. He
then returned to Indianapolis, and at the
outbreak of the Civil war was in public
office in Washington, District of Columbia,
and at once tendered his services to the
Union, enlisting in the Army of the Poto-
mac. He has a distinguished record as a
soldier and he received the rank of captain,
was division quartermaster during the later
years and was brevetted ma.jor at the close
of the war. For several years after the war
he was in the government service at Wash-
ington, but spent his last years in Indian-
apolis, where he died in February, 1897.
He began political action as a whig, but
supported John C. Fremont, the first re-
publican candidate for president, in 1856.
He was a member of the Grand Anny of
the Republic. He married at Indianapolis
Harriet McLaughlin, of Scotch ancestry.
She was born in 1830 and died in August,
1907.

Artliur Jordan, their only son, was edu-
cated in the public schools of Indianapolis
and at Washington, District of Columbia,
and his first business experience was in
the subscription book business as an em-
ploye of Col. Samuel C. Vance of Indian-
apolis. Later he was admitted to part-
nership and finally bought the business
from Colonel Vance and continued it until
1877.

A number of years ago 'Mr. Jordan re-
sponded to the request that he write for a
produce paper something concerning the

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growth of his business at Indianapolis.
From what he wrote at the time is taken
the following:

"It was in the fall of 1876 that I made
my start in a very small way as a boy of
twenty years in Indianapolis, where I
bought out a small jobbing concern han-
dling butter and eggs. At first I gave
special attention to the. local trade, but
soon found the eastern markets both at-
tractive and profitable, and within a few'
years the shipping end of the business re-
quired the greater part of my attention.
The methods of handling and marketing
perishable produce in those daj's were
very different from those of the present
day. Eggs were shipped in barrels and
butter was usually forwarded from this sec-
tion in rolls. The i-efrigerator car facili-
ties were very meager, and altogether
everyone connected with the trade had
much to learn.

"In addition to five creameries which I
built and operated prior to 1882, I took
on poultry as a side line, not dreaming then
that it would eclipse all my other inter-
ests. A few experimental shipments of
iced poultry had been made by others from
this section, but no success had been made
of it up to that time. To me it proved a
wanner from the start. I made a careful
study of the shipping facilities from this
section to the seaboard and gave much time
and attention to obtaining a thorough un-
derstanding of the market requirements
and extending my acquaintance with the
leading men in the trade, while also giv-
ing close studj' to their methods. To this
and to the connections I early succeeded
in making with the best houses in our line
in New York and Boston I attribute the
success I have had in developing the egg,
poultry and butter trade of Indiana and
Illinois. As a pioneer in this line in the
central west I am proud of the high rank
to which the quality and grading of the
poultry and eggs of this section has been
raised.

"I have always considered that success
as a shipper does not depend so much upon
the quantity handled as upon the quality
of the goods and the reputation of the
'mark' or brand. I have, however, suc-
ceeded in handling a good volume as well.
Over ten thousand cases of eggs (three
hundred thousand dozen) bought in one
week from farmers and hucksters, twenty-

eight hundred barrels (six hundred thou-
sand pounds) of iced poultry fresh dressed
for a single week's shipment, a complete
line of twenty-two refrigerator cars loaded
with our shipment for one day's output
only, the sale of twenty-four thousand dol-
lars worth of plmnage and other feathers
picked from the poultry handled at our
houses in one season, are some of the ban-
ner events in the histoi-y of the business
of the Arthur Jordan Company."

By 1894 Mr. Jordan owned more than
fifty packing and cold storage plants in
Indiana and Illinois, devoted entirely to
the packing and shipping of poultry and
eggs. The great business developed by him
was sold in 1903 to the Nelson ^lorris
Company of Chicago.

In the meantime he had become identified
with a number of other business interests
at Indianapolis. In 1892 he organized the
Keyless Lock Company, of which he has
been the active head for more than twenty-
five years. The output of this company
has added much to the prestige of Indian-
apolis as a manufacturing center. It has
long been the leading manufacturer of
equipment for United States postofSces and
United States mail cars, being the owner
of the originar patents for keyless or com-
bination locks for post office use. In 1894
Mr. Jordan organized the City Ice Com-
pany of Indianapolis, which has developed
into one of the largest ice making and dis-
tributing plants in the State of Indiana.
It is now the City Ice and Coal Company,
with Mr. Jordan as the principal owner.
In 1898 he organized the Capital Gas En-
gine Company, and became its president.
Mr. Jordan was for some years a factor
in the insurance field, organizing and be-
coming president of the Meridian Life and
Trust Company of Indianapolis in 1899,
and reincorporated in 1909 as the Meri-
dian Life Insurance Company. "When this
company was consolidated with another or-
ganization Mr. Jordan retired from active
participation in its affairs and has since
confined his attention to his numerous other
enterprises. He is one of the owners of the
International Machine Tool Company,
which he organized in 1906, and is also the
controlling factor in the Printing Arts
Company, of Indianapolis and the Disco
Electric Manufacturing Company of De-
troit, Michigan.

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Jordan "s business acliievenients know hiui
as a public spirited citizen and philan-
thropist. Ill 1869 he became a member of
the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis,
with w'hich he has since been actively asso-
ciated and for many years has been a mem-
ber of its board of trustees. He is also a
trustee of the Indianapolis Young Women's
Christian Association and of the Young
Men's Christian Association. Among Mr.
Jordan's recent contributions to these or-
ganizations is a large and beautiful new Y.
M. C. A. Building at Rangoon, the capital
city of Burmah, India, and a beautiful
tract of ground on North Penna Street
opposite St. Clair Park in Indianapolis for
a Y. W. C. A. home for young women.
He is connected with manj- of the city
charities, is a director of Franklin College,
member of the Board of Corporators of
Crown Hill Cemetery, and is connected
with the Commercial, Columbia and Marion
clubs. Through his father's record as a
soldier and officer he is a member of the
ililitary Order of the Loyal Legion. Mr.
Jordan is a staunch republican and has
always been loyal to his party since he cast
his first vote in 1876, although he never
has souuht iiulilic .iffire. lie is affiliated
with .Mvsiir Ti,. Lod-r N,.. :;:iS, Free and
Accfptcd MaMiiis. Ki'ystonc Cliapter, No.
6, Koyal Arch Masons, and Kaper Com-
mandery No. 1, Knights Templar.

December 15, 1875, he married iliss
Rose-All)a Burke. She was born at In-
dianapolis November 12, 1856, daughter of
Henry and Amanda (Moore) Burke, both
natives df Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan had three children.
Esther, wife of Orlando B. lies; Robert
Gilmore Jordan, who died in 1886, at the
age of six years; and Alma, wife of John
S. Kittle, of Indianapolis.

John- Clark Ridpath, the Indiana his-
torian and educator, was born in Putnam
County, Indiana, April 26, 1840. Although
without earl.y educational advantages he
was a lover of books and at the age of sev-
enteen was a teacher. Two years later he
entered Asbury, now DePauw University,
whcT'e he was graduated with the highest
honors of his class. After various connec-
tions with several well known Indiana edu-
cational institutions he was elected vice
president of Asbury University, and he
was largely the originator of the measures
by which that institution was placed under

the patronage of Washington C. DePauw
and took his name. In 1880 Mr. Ridpath
received the degree LL. D. from the Uni-
versity of Syracuse, New York.

Charles Edgar Webb, president of the
Webb-Coleman Company, dealers in Ford
automobiles and accessories at Richmond,
was for over a third of a century a mem-
ber and trader on the Chicago Board of
Trade, and is therefore a business man of
wide experience.

He was born in Chicago in 1868, son -of
Emiiior H. and Emeril (Crockett) Webb.
His people have b«en Quakers for a num-
ber of generations. IMr. Webb at the age
of fifteen went to work as a messenger
with the Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany at Chicago. Six months later he be-
came settlement clerk for C. E. Gitt'ord
and Company on th« Chicago Board of
Trade, and at the age of twenty acquired
a membership, being one of the youngest
members of the Board. He held that mem-
bership continuously for thirty-four years,
and was one of the best known traders and
had all the vicissitudes of a Board of Trade
operator. At one time he had accumu-
lated a modest fortune of $64,000, but lost
it in a single night.

On leaving the Board he went to Detroit
and was in the Cost Department of the
Ford JMotor Company from 1913 untH
1917. In the fall of the latter year he
moved to Richmond and became the Ford
representative for the sale of Ford cars in
nine townships of Wayne County. These
townships are Wayne, New Garden, Cen-
ter, Greene, Clay, Boston, Abington, Web-
ster and Franklin.

In 1905 Mr. Webb married Margaret
Yerex, of London, Canada. She died as
a result of an automobile accident in 1916.
April 13, 1918, Jlr. Webb married Adah
Reese Hill, of Winchester, Indiana. Mr.
Webb is a republican in politics and is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.

Henry Riesenberg has for tw-ent}- years
been prominent in business and civic affairs
at Indianapolis. He is also well known
for these relations in his home city and in
other parts of the state, but the greatest
number of people now doubtless know him
best for the work which he has taken up
as a result of the promptings of American

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patriotism. He is one of the prominent
national leaders in the Friends of German
Democracy, and to that and other causes
associated' with the successful prosecution
of the war he is now giving practically all
his time.

]\Ir. Riesenberg is president of the In-
dianapolis branch of the Friends of Ger-
man Democracy. He is also engaged as a
speaker for this organization, at his own
expense, and is acting under the auspices
of the Council of National Defense and the
Committee on Public Information at Wash-
ington. In that capacity he has been and
is now engaged on lecturing tours through-
out the United States, talking on the prin-
ciples of the organization to the Americans
of German birth or ancestry. He has also
written many articles for publication along
the same line and for the same purpose.

The Friends of German Democracy, it
may be explained, was organized in New
York City in November, 1917. One of its
prominent leaders and now president of
the national organization is Franz Sigel of
New York, son of General Franz Sigel, a
compatriot and fellow exile from Germany
with Carl Schurz and whose name is fam-
iliar to every American schoolboy as one of
the most gallant Union leaders and gen-
erals of the American Civil war. The
prime purpose of the organization is to
bring to the people of Germany through
literature and other forms of propaganda
disseminated to them from this country an
understanding of the fundamental demo-
cratic ideas for which America stands. An
equally important woi-k is to educate
Americans of German origin or ancestry
in this country to a better realization of
the privileges and benefits all enjoy under
American institutions. Both state and city
branches of the Friends of German De-
mocracy have been organized in almost
every section of the United States, and
these local organizations have been active
in spreading the principles of the society
and in giving Germans everywhere oppor-
tunity to show their allegiance and loyalty
to America. It is one of those forces of
unity now operating so effectively and
which in the aggregate have more com-
pletely constituted the American people an
indissoluble union than ever before. As
regards the foreign propaganda of the or-
ganization, it has furnished pamphlets and
other literature and the means of distri-

bution of such pamphlets, thousands of
which have been dropped inside the lines
of the German armies from aeroplanes. An
order from the German authorities for-
bidding German soldiers from picking up
or reading literature resulted in the or-
ganization adopting the plan of printing
posters on both sides, so that they could
be easily read without being touched or
picked up.

Though an American since childhood,
"Sir. Riesenberg was bom in the Town of
Zempelburg, West Prussia, in 1866, son of
Zander Riesenberg. In 1878, when he was
twelve years of age, his parents came to
this country and located at Overton in
Rusk County in East Texas. His father
conducted a grocery store there, and it was
in this store that Henry Riesenberg grew
up and acquired his first business training.
In 1898 Mr. Riesenberg came to Indian-
apolis, and this city has since been his
home. For several years he was a travel-
ing salesman out of this city, and from
the first has been an active factor in the
business and social life of Indianapolis,
associated with those enterprising and pub-
lic spirited citizens who have made In-
dianapolis one of the greatest modern in-
dustrial and commercial centers of the
iliddle West. His associations have al-
wa.ys been with the leaders of the city. He
was one of the first to take an active part
in the conservation movement in this sec-
tion of the country, and for eight years
he was chairman of the Indiana Conserva-
tion Commission. He was also one of the
pioneers of the waterways improveii'ent,
and fathered the Tariff Commission move-
ment which originated in Indianapolis. In
politics he is an independent republican.

Obviously these various interests and
activities require a man of more than c^r-
dinary business capacity and intelligence.
It is a natural inquiry, therefore, ho-sv a
man who spent his boyhood years chiefly
in a backwoods rural town of Eastern
Texas trained his sound native talents for
such a career as Mr. Riesenberg has had.
Before coming to this countiy he had a
knowledge only of the Gemian languag?
and never attended scliool in America. He
could not speak a word of English when
he came here. For all that Mr. Riensen-
lierg has educated himself so thoroughly
that he now speaks and writes four lan-
guages fluently. Few native Americans

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have a better command over their vernac-
ular than Mr. Riesenberg, who has all
the resources of the effective speaker as
well as the graceful orator, and this com-
mand and facility in the English language
is of course an invaluable asset in liis
present line of public work.

While Mr. Riesenberg represents the
Teutonic element in American cosmopoli-
tan life, Mrs. Riesenberg is American Isack
almost to the dawn of civilized history in
this country. Her maiden name was Lucy
E. Gordon, of New York. She is descend-
ed from the Gordon Highlanders of Scot-
land. Her ancestors number some of the
most notable American patriots, beginning
with the landing of the Mayflower and con-
tinuing through the Colonial and Revolu-
tionary wars and subsequent wars. By vir-
tue of these direct ancestors Mrs. Riesen-
berg is a member of the Society of
Descendants of the Mayflower, Colonial
Dames and Daughters of the American
Revolution. They are the parents of two
children, a daughter and son : Ernestine
Frances, wife of ^Major George Baker of
the United States Army, now at the front
in France; and Herbert Gordon Riesen-
berg, who entered Yale University in 1918.

Harold George Coleman is secretary
and treasurer of the Webb-Coleman Com-
pany, dealers in Ford automoHiiles and
accessories at Richmond. He has been
connected with the Ford Company in the
home offices and plant at Detroit, and is in
a position therefore to render a splendid
service to those who have dealings with this
well known Richmond concern.

Mr. Coleman was born at Marshall, Mich-
igan, December 27, 1890, son of George
W. and Minnie (Hewitt) Coleman. His
grandfather, Lincoln Coleman, was a na-
tive of England and on coming to America
located at Marshall, Michigan, where he
was a farmer and merchant and also a
local preacher. George W. ' Coleman was
tlie second in family of a number of chil-
dren, and was also a merchant, but spent
the greater part of his life running a farm
of 300 acres.

Harold George Coleman, third of four
children, received his education in the
grammar and high schools at ]\[arshall,
^Michigan, and in 1908 entered the
^lichigan Agricultural College, spending
one year there and one rear in an

engineering course in the University of
Michigan. For one season he * was
employed in mapping timber limits for
the Laui-entside Pulp and Paper Com-
pany at Grandmere in the Province of
Quebec. He wa.s taken ill while on duty
and had to return home. After that he
had a brief experience recuperating in the
western grain fields, and went on as far
as Los Angeles, California. Returning to
Detroit, he entered the Ford Motor Com-
pany as cost clerk in 1912. He also served
as guide, information clerk a year and a
half, and was connected with the Ford
Company until August 1, 1917. At that
date he and Mr. C. G. Webb organized the
present Webb-Coleman Company and n..w
have the exclusive agency for Ford cars in
nine townships of Wayne County.

In April, 1915, Mr. Coleman married
Miss Gertrude Hruby, daughter of Joseph
Hruby, of Detroit. They have one son,
Hewitt Harold Coleman, born in 1917. Mr.
Coleman is a republican, is affiliated with
the Masonic Lodge at Richmond, and also
with the Knights of Pythias and is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian Church.

O.SCAB Ellsworth Ellison has been a
factor in business affairs in Henry County
for the past ten years, is owner of a
large and completely equipped stock fami
near Newcastle, and is also proprietor of
the Star wholesale and retail grocery and
meat market on Broad Street. ]Mr. Ellison
was born in Ohio in December, 1884, son
of Mason and Alice (Williams) Ellison.
He is of English family. As a boy he at-
tended countiy school, and at the age of
fourteen went to work for a farmer at
$7 a month and Iward. After one summer
he found employment at $2.50 a week in
Hillsboro; Ohio, his duties being delivering
meat over town. He worked there two
years, then was employed by J. W. An-
dereon, a meat merchant at Washington
Court House, at $10 a week for three
years, and continued his experience in Co-
lumbus. Ohio, at the Central ]Meat ^Market
at $17 a week. At the age of twenty-one he
located at Indianapolis, and for a short
time was with C. J. Gardner, and then for
two years with Lewis Yarger. About that
time he suffered an injury which incapaci-
tated him for labor for a time.

In 1908 ]Mr. Ellison married ^Miss Kas-
sandra Faerlier, daughter of Adam and

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Anna (SL-hreibei-) Faerber of Indianap-
olis. In the same year lie came to New-
castle with only $8 in capital. For six
months he worked with Bells & Boutcher,
and during that time saved $90. It was
this capital which he used to start in busi-
ness for himself in shop on South Eight-
eenth Street. He was there two years,
then for a year was located on Broad
Street, then for two years was on South
Eighteenth Street, and for 21/0 years had
a market and grocery at 1502 Broad Street.
He then bought another market at 1222
Broad Street, conducted it for a year and
a half, and traded his prosperous business
for 245 acres five miles west of Newcastle.
He still owns that large farm, but in 1918
resumed business as a wholesale and re-
tail meat dealer at 1549 Broad Street.

]\Ir. Ellison is an independent democrat,
is afifiliated with the Moose and Eagles,
and, as this record shows, is a very suc-
cessful and progressive business man.

Paul Preston Haynes, born June 2,
1887, at Kirklin, Clinton County, Indiana,
is a son of George E. and Eva L. (Gipson)
Haynes and is of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
His father was a teacher and insurance
man. The family moved to Elwoad, In-
diana, in 1891, attended the Paul Pres-
ton Haynes common and high school at
Elwood, also the law department of In-
diana University in 1905-6, and Washing-
ton University in 1907-8. In 1908 he as-
sociated with his father in the tire insur-
ance business at Gary, Indiana, as the firm
of Haynes & Haynes. Later he was em-
ployed in the office of the American Sheet
& Tinplate Company at Elwood. In
1909, with George M. Cobb, he established
a general insurance agency at Indianapolis.
Later, in 1909, he was appointed by A. E.
Harlan, county clerk, as clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Madison County at An-
derson, Indiana. He continued the study
of law and was admitted to the bar, en-
tered the office of Judge H. C. Ryan, of
Anderson, and on the death of his father
returned to Elwood and practiced law
there. In 1912 he was the progressive
party candidate for prosecuting attorney
of Madison County, Indiana. In Decem-
ber, 1912, he formed a law partnership
with A. H. Vestal, now a member of Con-
gress. The firm of Vestal & Haynes con-
tinued until the spring of 1914, at which

time air. Haynes was elected secretary of
the Progressive State Central Committee
of Indiana and served in such capacity
during the campaign of that year. He
returned to Madison County in December,
1914, and resumed the practice of law,
having associated with him Oswald Ryan.
He continued in practice of law at An-
derson until January 1, 1918, when he was
appointed by Governor Goodrich as a mem-
ber of the Public Service Commission of
Indiana, on which he has since served.
In July, 1918, he was made a member of
the Special War Committee of the National
Association of Railways and Utilities Com-
missioners and was active in many nego-
tiations between Federal and State gov-
ernments in matters pertaining to Federal
control and state regulation of the rail-
roads, telephones and other utilities. In
October, 1918, he was appointed by Post-
master General Burleson as a member of
the committee on standardized telephone
rates throughout the country, but declined
to accept such appointment.

Mr. Haynes is a member of the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity, grand president.
Beta Phi Sigma fraternity, 1910 ; member
of the Masonic and Elk's lodges, and of
the Columbia Club and Marion Club, In-
dianapolis. He organized the Red Cross
in Madison County at the beginning of
the war and assisted in the state organiza-
tion, also organized Battery D, Second
Regiment, Indiana Field Artillery, and
commanded same until rejected for mili-
tary service on account of defective eye-
sight.

aiRS. Edwin H. Peck. In every state of
the union there are some families that have
a notable prominence in connection vrith
the history of the commonwealth, and this
is true of the Elliott family in Indiana.
There is nobody who is at all familiar with
Indiana histoiy, either from reading or
from life in the state, who does not kiow
something of Gen. William J. Elliott
and his sons Judge Byron K. Elliott of t he
Supreme Court and Joseph Taylor Elliott,
whose name is linked with the Sultana
disaster. The daughters of a family are
frequently lost sight of through the
change of name at marriage, and many
people to whom the name of ]\Irs. Edwin
H. Peck would sound unfamiliar will at
once recall the subject of this sketch as

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Julia Elliott, .youngest daughter of Gen.
William J. Elliott. She was born at
Indianapolis September 6, 1861. Her
mother, Charlotte Tuttle Elliott, who was
born at Watertown, New York, was also
of a prominent Indiana family.

Julia Elliott was educated in the public
.schools of Indianapolis and at the Kappes
Seminary, then the leading scliool for
young ladies in the city. She was promi-
nent in social circles and well known as a
musicar amateur — being one of the cast in
"Fra Diavolo" as produced by Professor
Pearson's Indianapolis Opera Company in
May, 1883, with William Castle of the
Abbott Opera Company in the title role.

October 3, 1883, she was married to
Edwin H. Peck, of an old New York family,
his father and grandfather being both na-
tives of New Yorji City. His father, Wil-
liam J. Peck, toolj an active part in the
civic affairs of the >.''"7 and served as presi-
dent of the board of aldermen and as tax
commissioner of the city. He is remem-
bered historically as the man who approved
the first fire engine ever used in the City
of New York, at a time when the poli-
tical power of the hand fire engine com-
panies made such an innovation risky for
a man in public life.

At seventeen, after receiving a grammar
school education, Edwin H. Peck entered
the employ of George S. Hart and Howell,
butter ancl cheese merchants, and five years
later went into the same business on his
own account. After four years of suc-
cessful operation in this he vinited with his
brother, Walter J. Peck, in establishing
a coffee jobbing and importing firm. It
was successful from the start and has
grown until the house of E. H. and W. J.
Peck, which since the death of Walter J.
Peck in 1909 has been conducted by Ed-
win H., is now w-ell and favorably known
to the coffee trade throughout the country.
'Sir. Peck was for twelve years one of the
Board of Governors of the New York
Coffee Exchange and is now a member of
the Arbitration Committee of the Ex-
change.

He is also extensively interested in bank-
ing, being vice president of the jNIount
Vernon Trust Company and the Rye Na-
tional Bank, and a director of the Coal and
Iron National Bank, the Mutual Trust
Company of Port Chester and the West-
chester and Bronx Mortgage Company. Re-

siding at ilount Vernon, he takes part in
the social and political activities of New
York City as a member of the Downtown
Association, the New York Athletic Club,
the Union League and the Republican Club.
Mrs. Peck is a member of the McKinley
Chapter of the National Special Aid As-
sociation and of the American Red Cross.
They have two children: :\Iary Whyland,
wife of Daniel Webster Whitmore, Jr., a
young New York banker and merchant ;
and Vivian Marguerite, wife of Walter
H. McNeill, Jr., a young physician and
.specialist at Mount Vernon and New York.

William B. Burford. Of the business
men of Indianapolis few if any are better
known personally to the business men of
the State of Indiana than is William B.
Burford. It has been largely through his
untiring efforts and wise management that
there has grown up in Indianapolis the
largest and best equipped combined print-
ing, lithographing, blank book, engraving,
stationery and office outfitting establish-
ment in the middle west. This establish-
ment in addition to its large business with
hanks, commercial houses and individuals
throughout Indiana and neighboring states
has for many years supplied the state gov-
ernment and many of the counties and
public institutions of Indiana with their
printing, blank books and stationery. Mr.
Burford as the sole head of this establish-
ment and in his capacity as contractor for
the state printing has not only become per-
sonally acquainted with many persons but
has also had occasion to visit from time
to time everv county of the state, so that
he knows Indiana as well as he is known
to its citizens.

While he has been a resident of Indiana
for more than half a century Mr. Burford
was born at Independence, Jackson County,
Missouri, in 1846, when Jackson Count.v
was far out on the western frontier and
when the present metropolis, Kansas City,
existed only as a river landing. His par-
ents had moved from Harrodsburg, Ken-
tucky, to Independence in 1839, and his
father, ililes W. Burford, soon became well
known there as a banker, general merchant
and overland freighter of goods to Old
Mexico.

William B. Burford came to Indianajiolis
at the age of fourteen on a visit, but came
back to Indianapolis in 1863 and tuok

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employment in the job printing shop
conducted by his brother-in-law, William
Braden, little thinking that he would one
day become the head of that establishment
or "that it would grow to its present propor-
tions.

Having returned to Missouri, young
Burford in 1864 joined a military company
known as the Home Guard, and in the fall
of 1864 became a member of the regularly
organized body of IMissouri Cavalry troops,
which later actively resisted General Price
and his 30,000 men in their raids through
Missouri. But most of his active service as
a Union soldier consisted in fighting guer-
rillas along the border.

At the close of the war Mr. Burford
again attended college for two years and
then in the fall of 1867 returned to Indian-
apolis and resumed employment with Wil-
liam Braden in the printing and stationery
business. In 1870 he became a partner
under the firm name of Braden & Burford.
In 1875 ilr. Braden sold his interest in
the firm to Mr. Burford, who has since
that date conducted the business alone.

The business when Mr. Burford first ac-
quired an interest in it and even when he
first became sole owner was small com-
pared to its present proportions, but its
gi-owth through the years has been steady
and constant. New departments have been
added from time to time, and at all times
the equipment has been kept up-to-date
and efficient. In fact, one of Mr. Burford 's
pronounced characteristics is his interest in
any and all forms of new or improved ma-
chinery connected with the printing and
(ithographic trades. Not only has he en-
deavored to have quality and service char-
acterize the work of his establishment, but
has also taken pride in supplying as far
as possible all the office requirements of
any ordinary business and to that end he
has adopted as his slogan "If Used in an
Office Burford Has It."

In addition to his constant, evers^-day
attention to his business Mr. Burford has
at all times been gi-eatly interested in the
growth and welfare of his city and state.
When he first saw Indianapolis its most
boastful claim as to population was 18,000
and he has seen its steady increase until it
has neared the 300,000 mark.

Both as an individual and as a member
of tlie various civic organizations of the
past fifty years he has had a part in many

of the movements which have promoted the
growth and prosperity of the city, and
today any wisely planned effort for the
city's welfare will find no more active or
persistent worker than William B. Burford.

Daniel D. Pratt was born in Palermo,
Maine, in 1813. He became identified with
Indiana as a teacher in 1832, and in 1834
went to Indianapolis and studied law, and
in 1836 located in Logansport, where he
began the practice of law. He served in
the Indiana Legislature from 1851 to 1853,
was elected to Congress from Indiana, in
1868, but before taking his seat was chosen
a United States senator and served until
1875. In that year he was appointed com-
missioner of internal revenue, which ofiice
he resigned in 1876. Senator Pratt died
at Logansport in June, 1877.

C. P. Doney. The exigencies of our
national economy and revenue administra-
tion have produced practically a new pro-
fession, that of specialist and counsel and
adviser to private individuals and business
firms in settling the complex and innumer-
able questions connected with the filing of
schedules and other matters to satisfy the
laws and regulations regarding the income
and other fedei'al taxes.

For this work as an income tax specialist
C. P. Doney, of Indianapolis, has some un-
usual qualifications. He formerly served
as deputy collector in charge of the in-
come tax department of the Sixth Indiana
Revenue Distinct, and his wide experience
lias enabled him to furnish an expert and
highly appreciated service to many patrons
in settling the intricate questions that arise
under the administration of the Income
Tax Law.

Jlr. Doney was born August 15, 1884, in
Wayne County, Indiana, a son of George
and Sarah A. (Hain) Doney. His grand-
father, William Doney, was born in Penn-
sylvania and in an early day went west
to Seven Mile, Ohio. He was a cigar maker
by trade and that business he followed
until 1900, when he retired. His death oc-
curred December 15, 1908. He was a demo-
crat and a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. Of his five sons
only two are now living. George Doney,
father of C. P. Doney. was educated in the
common schools at Seven ^lile, Ohio, and
in earlv life followed the trade of his

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1497

father. He later engaged in the real estate
and insurance business and is now living
retired at Cambridge City, Indiana, at the
age of sixty-six.

ilr. C. P. Douey is third of his father's
six children. He was educated iu the com-
mon and high schools of Cambridge City,
Indiana, and at the age of nineteen took up
railroad work as clerk in the Pennsylvania
Railway offices. In 1906 he went into the
real estate and insurance business with his
father, and remained at Cambridge City
in that line for eight years. In 1914 he
came to Indianapolis as deputj' collector
of internal revenue, and was put in special
charge of the Income Tax Department at
the outset of the administration of that
new law. Since retiring from this office
he has developed a practice as income tax
specialist, and his services have been
availed by a number of firms and individ-
uals on yearly contracts. He is secretary
of the Federal Income Tax Bureau, and
iu his offices in the Hume-JIansur Build-
ing has developed an organization capable
of attending to all matters involving cor-
poration income, individual income, war
excess profits, and emergency taxes.

Mr. Doney is a Knight of Pythias and a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a
member of the Indianapolis Democratic
Club, and in 1912-14 was chairman of the
Wayne County Democratic Central Com-
mittee. He is a member of the ^Methodist
Church. August 7, 1915, he married JMiss
Grayce Cartwright. Mrs. Doney was edu-
cated in the public schools of Lewisville,
Indiana.

W. B. Pai'l is a lawyer by profession,
and he and his father together have rep-
resented the law in this state for half a
century. W. B. Paul in recent years,
however, has become best known as a
banker and financier, and is president of
the Federal Finance Company of India-
napolis, one of the strongest financial or-
ganizations of the city.

He was born in ilontgomery County,
Indiana, ]\Iarch 2.5, 1877, son of George \V.
and Lizabeth (Carr) Paul. His father, a
native of Ohio, grew i;p at Vevay, Indiana,
and began the practice of law there. After
ten years he moved to Crawfordsville, and
was active in the work of his profession
until 1905. During his active years he
was a member of the Crawfordsville bar

and an associate of many of the famous
lawyers of that city, including Peter Ken-
nedy and Tom Patterson, later governor
of Colorado, and James McCabe. George
W. Paul was successful both as a civil and
criminal lawyer, and had a practice and
reputation by no means confined to his
home county. He is still living at the
ripe age of eighty-two. He ha.s always
been a stanch democrat. In the family
were three sons and one daughter, all of
whom are living.

W. B. Paul was reared in Crawfordsville,
attended the public schools there and
Wabash College, and read law under his
father. He practiced law at Crawfords-
ville from 1898 to 1906, and after removing
to Indianapolis kept in touch with the pro-
fession until about three years ago. He
has found his time more and more taken
up with banking, and is one of the or-
ganizers of the Federal Finance Company,
which is now doing a business of a $1,-
500,000 a year. The other officials of the
company are some of the best known and
most responsible business men and bankers
of Marion County.

!Mr. Paul is a democrat, and a Royal
Arch Masou. He was the first president
of the Fountain Square Bank of Indianap-
olis, and his name has been associated with
a number of local business enterprises.
November 12, 1897, he married iliss Daisy
il. Curry, who w-as reared and educated
at Crawfordsville. Thev have one daugh-
ter, Lydia S., born February 3, 1912.

David F. Swaix is one of the prominent
figures in life insurance circles in Indiana.
Since 1909 he has been special loan agent
in the State of Indiana for the North-
western ^Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Milwaukee. He succeeded Mr. Frank
;\I. Millikan in that office. His manage-
ment has had much to do with the increas-
ing investments of this large insurance
company in Indiana. Through his office
loans have been placed in the state until
the.v now approximate over $10,000,000,
but the most gratifying feature of the rec-
ord is not the volume but the quality of
the business. Since Mr. Swain became
special loan agent in 1909 there has not
been a foreclosure of any loan.

'Sir. Swain w-as born at Indianapolis
April 29, 1884, a son of David and Hattie
(Gordon"! Swain. His father was also

INDIANA AND INDIANANS

prominent in insurance circles in Indiana
for many years. He was born in ]\Iuskin-
gum County, Ohio, September 24, 1845, lie
grew up on a farm witli a district school
education, and in 1864 volunteered in the
Eighth Ohio Cavalry and saw some active
service before the end of the war. He
came to Indianapolis in 1866 and for a
time was bookkeeper with the John C. Bur-
ton Shoe Company. On February 14, 1881,
he engaged in the life insurance business,
and was one of the large producers in that
field. He continued at his work for nearly
thirty years. He died September 10,
1910!^ He had a family of four children,
all of whom are still living, David F. being
the youngest.

Mr. David F. Swain was educated in the
grammar and high schools of Indianapolis,
and gained his first experience in the in-
surance field as assistant general agent
under his father. December 22, 1902, he
married Miss Pauline Hagen. Her father
was the late Andrew Hagen, who was at
one time trea.surer of Hancock County and
for many years was secretary and treas-
urer of the Home Brewing Company of
Indianapolis, and was intimately con-
nected with a number of other business
enterprises here and elsewhere. Mr. and
Mrs. Swain have four children, David F.,
Jr., Mary E., Harriett G. and Barbara H.

Joseph C. Gardner. The present India-
napolis Board of Trade has been a prac-
tically continuous organization since 1870,
and is at once the oldest and largest com-
mercial organization in the state and one
which has played an important part not
only at Indianapolis but throughout the
state. In its time it has had the member-
ship and co-operation of the ablest and
most successful business men of the city,
and membership alone is deemed a valuable
honor. Therefore, when in June, 1918, the
organization unanimously elected as presi-
dent for the succeeding year Joseph C.
Gardner, it was a significant testimony to
his long and honorable standing in business
circles and the esteem he had gained by
his individual success and his whole-
hearted co-operation with the best interests
of the city.

Mr. Gardner has been an Indianapolis
busine-ss man for over thirty-five years and
is head of the Joseph Gardner Company.
The Gardner family was established in In-

dianapolis in 1859, when his father, Joseph
Gardner, came from Germany and settled
in this city. Joseph Gardner married
Louise Rohr. Their son, Joseph C, was
born at Indianapolis in 1866. He received
his education in the local public schools,
attending the old school No. 3 and the
new school No. 3, following that with a
high school course. The business at which
he is now the head is the result of a long
and progressive development of his indi-
vidual skill and service, rising from an ap-
prentice as a slieet iron workman until
today the Joseph Gardner Company is
one of the successful and prominent in-
dustries of the city. The shops and busi-
ness headquarters are at 37-41 Kentucky
Avenue. The company does a large busi-
ness in tin, copper and sheet iron work,
manufacturing and installing all kinds of
roofing, cornices and sky-lights, metal ceil-
ings, furnaces, milk cans and dairy sup-
plies, and practically every other type of
special work included within the general
scope of the company's facilities and or-
ganization.

Mr. Gardner has for many years been
actively identified with the Board of Trade
and the Chamber of Commerce, and his
name has appeared on the roll of other
civic organizations and improvements. He
is a republican in politics, and is a mem-
ber of the Ma.sonic bodies, including the
Knights Templar and Council, and
has attained the thirty-second degi-ee in
Scottish Rite Masonry, and is a member
of ilurat Temple of" the Mystic Shrine.
He is also a member of the Elks, belongs to
the Kiwannis Clul), Canoe Club and the
Independent Athletic Club. He is presi-
dent of the General Protestant Orphans'
Home and financial secretar^^ of the Prot-
estant Deaconess' Hospital. He is an
active member of the First Church of
the Evangelical Association.

Mr. Gardner married iliss IMinnie Riech-
enneyer. Mrs. Gardner, who is now de-
ceased, was born in Indianapolis. They
have three children: Raymond and Ed-
ward A. Gardner and Pearl, wife of J.
Albert Schumacher.

Pierce J. Landers, superintendent of
the Indianapolis Union Railway Company
and Belt Railroad, is a veteran railroader,
though not yet fifty years old. More than
thirty years ago he went to work for the

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Pennsylvauia lines as a rod man on the
engineering corps, and has won promotion
through many grades of service and from
one responsibility to another until he
would now readily be named among the
first dozen of prominent railway officials in
Indiana.

He was born at Indianapolis in 1870, son
of James and Anna C. (White) Landers.
His mother is still living. Both parents
were born in New York State. His father
after coming to Indiana was a locomotive
engineer, and later for some years was
trainmaster for the Pennsj'lvania lines west
of Pittsburg at Indianapolis.

Thus Pierce J. Landers gi'ew up in the
atmosphere of railroading, but restrained
his youthful ambition to get into the work
as soon as possible until he had attended
the public schools at Indianapolis and St.
John's Academy, acquiring the equivalent
of a high school education. In 1886 he
was appointed a rodman on the engineer-
ing corps, and remained in the employ of
the Pennsylvania system luitil 1898, ad-
vancing to the position of assistant en-
gineer. In that year Mr. Landers went
to the Wisconsin Central Railroad (now
the Soo line) as roadmaster and later as
division engineer, with headquarters at
Fond du Lac. He resigned in 1902 and re-
turned to Indianapolis, becoming assistant
engineer with the Indianapolis Union Rail-
way Company. In 1907 he was promoted
engineer of maintenance of way, and from
that office was promoted in 1916 to become
operating official of the company with title
of superintendent. The Indianapolis
Union Railway Company, it may be ex-
plained, owns and operates the Belt Rail-
road, the Union Station, and the terminal
lines of all the railroads entering Indian-
apolis.

An item of local history that will have
much interest in future years is contained
in the following brief paragraph from an
Indianapolis paper published in the sum-
mer of 1918: "W^ith Mayor Jewett and
officials of the railroads present, the first
passenger train backed on to the south sec-
tion of elevated tracks at the Union Station
yesterday morning. There were no ded-
icatory ceremonies connected with the
event which marked the completion of the
the first section of the elevation. On the
platform with Mayor Jewett were Pierce
J. Landers, superintendent of the Indian-

apolis Union Railway Company ; W. C.
Smith, station ma.ster; J. J. Liddy, train-
master; F. C. Lingenfelter, track elevation
engineer for the city; E. L. Kratft, chief
dispatcher; and T. R. Ratclitf, engineer of
maintenance of way."

This is an important improvement for the
city, which has been under the direct
supervision of Mr. Landers as engineer
of maintenance of ways since early in
1912, when he began drawing plans for
the elevation of the terminal tracks. He
has been in close touch with every detail
of the work since that time. The necessary
legislation under which the work has gone
forward was enacted in 1911. Then in
August, 1918, the first section of track ele-
vation was completed and celebrated as
above noted. Eventually, as other sections
are completed, all the tracks entering the
LTnion Station will be elevated.

Mr. Landers married Miss Flora B.
Austin, a daughter of Edward A. and
Manda Austin, of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Christian F. Schrader, who died at In-
dianapolis December 28, 1891, was a man
whose life meant much to the capital city.
He was German born, fought hardship
and poverty in the old country, and could
never revert to the memories of his early
environment with plea.sure. He came to
America with the tide of Germans who
arrived after the revolutionary struggles
of 1848, and perhaps none of the Germans
who came at that time were better able to
appreciate the advantages of the new world
and embrace sincerely and completely the
ideals and customs of the western republic
and its civilization. In his case the trans-
formation from a German to an American
was prompt and complete, and in spirit he
was practically born anew after setting
his foot upon "the land of freedom.

He was born near ]\Iinden in Pi-ussia.
His parents were poor, and when he was
eight years of age his father died. From
that time forward he was the main source
of reliance to his widowed mother, and his
labors were depended upon to support not
only her but a younger brother and sister.
Those years of unremitting toil and priva-
tion, while never pleasant to look back up-
on, undoubtedly produced in him habits of
industry and economy which were always
prominent characteristics.

In 1849, when a])Out twenty-six years of

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age, he left his native country and came
over the ocean in a sailing vessel to Balti-
more. From there he came on direct to
Indianapolis, which had already become
the center of a considerable German popu-
lation. Here he found work as a section
hand on what is now the J. ]\I. & I. Rail-
road. Soon after he was advanced to sec-
tion boss, and for that work received 85
cents a day, 10 cents more than the laborers
under him. While engaged in this work
he lived at Franklin.

Finally he returned to Indianapolis, and
from his savings bought a horse and dray.
For four years he was on constant duty
transporting goods back and forth through
the streets of Indianapolis. He gained a
more promising hold in the business life
of Indianapolis when in 1864 he engaged
in the retail grocery business. For the
next fifteen years he managed and devel-
oped a fine store and in 1879 was able to
sell out and retire, two of his sons taking
over the business.

'NATien he came to America his name was
spelled Schroeder, but after becoming na-
turalized he spelled it Schrader. In In-
dianapolis he married Christina Moeller.
Four of their sons grew up. Christian A.,
Charles H., Henry F. and Edward H.

After he had been in the United States
a few years and had saved sufScient means
from his earnings Mr. Schrader sent for
his mother and brother and sister, and it
M'as one of the gi'eatest pleasures of his
life that he saw them all established com-
fortably in the new world. His own recol-
lection of Germany was filled with gi'ief
and hardships, and he always regarded it
as an honor as well as a privilege that he
was a naturalized American citizen, and
he loved the land of his adoption, its in-
stitutions, with all the fervor of his soul.
After he had retired from business he told
his oldest son that he intended to spend
$2,000 in travel. He invited the son to
go along. The son suggested that he re-
turn to Germany and revisit the scenes
of his boyhood. "Da hab' ich niehts ver-
loren," replied the father promptly, mean-
. ing that no claim to his interests or affec-
tions remained in that direction. The father
and son started on their trip, and after
reaching Detroit the father asked the son
""Where will we go tomorrow?" The son
answered, "Let's go to Windsor." The
older man said, "Windsor? Is that not in

Canada?" The son answered, "Yes," and
then the elder Schrader said, "No, Chris,
when I landed in America I made a solemn
promise that I would never put my foot on
foreign soil," and he never did. He ex-
ercised his preference for travel by seeing
the land of his adoption. He reared his
sons in the same strict Americanism, and
also to honorable and upright lives, so that
they have become men creditable to Amer-
ica.

Christian F. Schrader was a member of
the German Lutheran Church and a demo-
crat in politics. He became a democrat
at a time when the tide of nationalism was
riuining strong in American politics, and
when the know nothing party was at its
strongest. JMr. Schrader desired to ally
himself with this party, but as it required
ten years of residence in America for mem-
bership he contented himself with one of
the older established parties.

The oldest son of the late Christian F.
Schrader is Christian A. Schrader, who for
many years has been prominent as a whole-
sale merchant in Indianapolis. He was bom
in that city September 12, 1854, and has
spent practically his entire life there. He
was educated in the common schools, and
as a boy learned the gi-ocery business in
his father's store. When his father retired
he became associated with his brother
Charles H. as joint owner of the business,
and in 1884 expanded into the wholesale
grocery trade. In 1886 he admitted his
brother Henry F. to a partner.ship. Henry
died in 1896, after which the business was
conducted simply as C. A. Schrader until
in 1908 it was incorporated as the C. A.
Schrader Company. This is one of the
largest prosperous firms making up the
wholesale interests of Indianapolis.

Mr. Schrader was a good and loyal demo-
crat until the free silver issue of 1896,
since which time he has been a republican.
He served four years as chairman of the
Board of Public Works during Mayor
Shank's administration, and during that
time the new city hall was completed and
portions of the city hospital were built at
a cost of more than $300,000.

Mr. Schrader married May 13, 1883, Em-
ma Zobbe. Mrs. Schrader died July 20,
1917, leaving four children : Florence, wife
of Logan C. Shaw; Arthur C. : Ruth and
Wavne C.

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William H. H. ]\Iiller. Aside from the
national reputation that came to him as
United States Attorney General in the
cabinet of President Harrison, William
Henry Harrison Miller was one of the
ablest advocates and most profound law-
yers of his generation. He was one of the
last sui'vivors of a brilliant coterie of legal
minds that adorned the Indiana bar during
the latter half of the nineteenth century
and he stood on the same plane with such
eminent contemporaries as Thomas A.
Hendricks, General Benjamin Harrison,
Joseph E. McDonald and others whose
memory will alwaj's be cherished in the an-
nals of the Indiana bar.

William Henry Harrison Miller, who
ivas named in honor of the grandfather of
General Harrison, with whom Mr. Miller
was long associated in practice, was born
at Augusta, Oneida County, New York,
September 6, 1840, and died, in the fullness
of years and honors, May 25, 1917. His
Miller ancestors, Scotch and English, came
to America in the seventeenth century. His
branch of the family located in Oneida
County, New York, in 1795. He was next
to the youngest in the family of ten chil-
dren of Curtis and Lucy (Duncan) Miller,
.the former a native of New York and the
latter of Massachusetts. His father was a
New York State farmer.

It was the hard and invigorating dis-
cipline of a fann that brought out and de-
veloped many of the talents of Mr. Miller,
and his character was formed by opposing
obstacles rather than avoiding them. He
attended district schools in his native
county, and at the early age of fifteen was
qualified as a teacher. He also attended
an academy at Whitestown, New York, and
from there entered Hamilton College, where
he graduated with the degree of A. B. in
1861. Hamilton College, in view of his later
distinctions and attainments, conferred
upon him the honorary degree LL. D. in
1889. He was a member of the Delta Up-
silon fraternity.

For a time he taught a village school at
Maumee City, Ohio, and in "Slay, 1862, en-
listed as a private in the Eighty-fourth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was elected
lieutenant, and served throughout the three
months term of enlistment, until his hon-
orable discharge in September of the same
3'ear. Leaving the army he took up the
studv of law at Toledo under tlie eminent
Vol. in— 19

Morrison R. Waitc, later chief .justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
but the necessity of earning a living com-
pelled him to forego those associations. For
a time he clerked in a law office and after-
wards continued his law studies privately
while serving as superintendent of public
schools at Peru, Indiana. He was admitted
to the bar in 1865 at Peru and handled
his first minor cases as a lawyer in that
city. While there he was elected county
school examiner. Among other facts that
distinguished the career of the late Wil-
liam H. H. Miller is that his reputation
was based almost entirely upon his attain-
ments and brilliant qualifications as a
lawyer. In his entire career he never
sought the honors of public office. Thus his
record is adorned with only two public po-
sitions, that of county school examiner in
Miami County, and many years later as
attorney general for the Ignited States.

In 1866 he removed to Port Wayne, and
formed a partnership with William H.
Coombs. ]\Ir. Coombs was an old lawyer
of great ability but had a limited practice.
It was left to the junior partner to give
the push and energy which brought a rap-
idly growang clientage to the firm. Mr.
Miller soon had more than a local prestige
as a lawyer. In the course of his practice
he handled several cases before the federal
courts in Indianapolis. There he became
acquainted with Gen. Benjamin Harrison,
who at that time was one of the foremost
members of the Indiana bar. General Har-
rison was then practicing as a member of
the law firm of Porter, Harrison & Hines.
In 1874 Albert G. Porter, the senior mem-
ber, and who served as governor of Indiana
from 1881 to 1885, withdrew, and General
Harrison at once offered the partnership
to his esteemed young friend at Fort
Wayne. This resulted in the establishment
of the firm Harrison, Hines & IVIiller, and
from 1874 to 1889 :\lr. Miller was the active
Icu'al associate of General Harrison.

Mr. Miller, while never a politician, was
always deeply concerned in politics as a
science, and some of his notable services
as a lawyer were rendered in handling
problems of a political-legal nature. He
was the leading counsel in a ease before
the courts as a result of the adoption of an
amendment to the State Constitution in
1878. He also appeared in the contest con-
cerning the office of lieutenant governor in

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1886. For many years he was a trusted
adviser of many of the leaders of the re-
publican party, and thus had become not
only the professional associate but the con-
fidential adviser of General Harrison prior
to the latter 's campaign for the presidency
in 1888. It was in recognition of these
services and also on the basis of a fitness
which none better understood than Gen-
eral Harrison that ilr. Miller was called
into the cabinet of that statesman in 1889
as attorney general.

While he went to Washington practically
unknown so far as a national reputation
was concerned, there has never been found
a good reason for revising or modifying
the high estimate of his services and acts
as head of the legal department of the Fed-
eral Government. An estimate of these
services is found in the following language :
"In the administrative functions of his
ofifice he inaugurated a vigorous policy and
endeavored effectively in many instances to
correct the abuses in the enforcement of
the law and to secure their impartial ad-
ministration. He exercised particular care
in recommendations to the president for the
appointment of United States judges, an
unusual number of whom were appointed
under President Harrison's administra-
tion, and the result was that the selections
were generalh- commended by members of
all parties. ' ' Many other important matters
of the Harrison administration were
handled personally by Mr. Miller as head
of the law department, including the
Behring Sea litigation, the constitutional
validity of the McKinley Tariff Law, the
Interstate Commerce and Anti Lottery
Laws, the International Copyright Act, and
the admission of some half dozen territories
to the union.

The case which brought him his chief
reputation and received most attention
from the public press occurred early in his
official career. The knowledge came to his
office that a notorious California lawyer
named David S. Terry was planning per-
sonal violence upon Justice Field of the
LTnited States Supreme Court when the
latter should appear on the California cir-
cuit. Attorney General ililler promptly
and without hesitation directed the United
States marshal of that state to afford the
justice the most careful protection. Deputy
Marshal Neagle was detailed as a personal
attendant upon Justice Field. Terry was

killed by Neagle in the very act of making
a deadly assault upon the venerable jurist.
As a result of the killing the authority
of the deputy marshal was questioned. An
attempt was made by the state authorities
of California to prosecute him for the mur-
der of Terry. Mr. Miller directed the de-
fense of the deputy marshal on the high
ground "that independently of all statutes,
it was a constitutional duty of the execu-
tive branch of the Federal Government to
protect the judiciary." Though in laying
down that principle he was unsupported
by precedent or statutory authority, the
attorney general was sustained by decisions
in both the United States Circuit"Court and
in the Supreme Court. He presented the
caase in person before the Supreme Court
and with such mastery of argument as to
add materially to his already high profes-
sional reputation.

On retiring from the cabinet of Presi-
dent Harrison in ilarch, 1893, Mr. Miller
returned to Indianapolis, and from that
time forward until almost the date of his
death was engaged in private practice. He
became head of the firm Miller, Winter &
Elam, and subsequently of Miller, Shirley
& ^filler, the junior partner being his son
Samuel D. Miller.

While he possessed exceptional natural
talents the position which Mr. Miller at-
tained in his profession was largely due
to his thorough preparation and his habits
ot thoroughness and industry. He never
ceased to be a student, and he earlj- trained
himself in that rare ability to absorb, as-
similate and retain knowledge, and his field
of intellectual interest was broadened be-
yond the law to history and the best in
literature. It was from the resources thus
stored up in his mind that caused a justice
of the Supreme Court of the LTnited States
once to say of him: "The gi-eat power of
his arguments is largely due to the mar-
velous aptness of his illustrations." And
he was doubtless referring to his own ex-
perience when, in answer to a question as
to what special trait was most essential to
the success of a lawyer, he replied: "The
mental trait most essential to the success
of a lawyer is the ability to see resem-
blances amid differences and differences
amid resemblances."

Mr. Miller served as a trustee of his
alma mater, Hamilton College, from 1893
to 1898. For many years he was an elder

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of the First Presbyterian Church of Indi-
anapolis, was a corporator of the Crown
Hill Cemetery Association, a director of
the Marion Trust Company, was once hon-
ored with the presidency of the Indian-
apolis Bar Association, and was a member
of the Columbia Club and the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion. On December
23, 1863, he married Miss Gertrude A.
Bunce, who was born in Ohio but was
reared in Vernon, Oneida County, New
York. Her father was Sidney A. Bunce.
Of the seven children born of their mar-
riage there survive, a son and two daugh-
ters. Concerning the son more is said on
other pages. The two daughters are Flo-
rence, wife of Clifford Arrick, of Chicago,
and Jessie, wife of A. IM. Hopper, of Eng-
lewood. New Jersey.

Only a short time before his death Mr.
Miller, in the course of an intimate conver-
sation, remarked : " I am not conscious that
during my public life in Washington I
ever did a single official act from a selfish
motive." And to those who knew and
honored him and had followed his career
from the time he came to Indianapolis that
sentence would receive a broader applica-
tion to his entire career as a lawyer and
man.

Samuel D. Miller was in Washington
while his father was United States Attorney
General, acquired part of his legal educa-
tion there and gained experience and asso-
ciation with leading men and affairs that
proved invaluable to him as a lawyer. He
has been a member of the Indianapolis bar
since 1893, and for many years was aetivel.v
fssociated with his honored father, Wil-
liam H. H. Miller.

He was born at Fort Wayne. Indiana.
September 25, 1869, and was five years of
pge when his father came to Indianapolis.
From early childhood he had liberal ad-
vantages and grew up in an environment
calculated to bring out the best of his
native qualities. He attended the public
schools of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis
Classical School, and in 1886 entered his
father's alma mater. Hamilton College of
New York. He pursued the classical
course and received the Bachelor of Arts
degree with the class of 1890. The next
year he spent in the law department of
Columbia University at New York, and
then entered the law school of the National

University at Washington, where he grad-
nateil LL. B. in 1892. While at Wa.sh-
nigtou, from March, 1891, to March, 1893,
he was private secretary to Redfield Proc-
tor and Stephen B. Elkins, secretaries of
war under President Harrison.

Mr. Miller was admitted to the bar in
^larch, 1893, and for two years practiced
as .iunior member of the firm of Hord, Per-
kins & Miller at Indianapolis. From the
fall of 1895 to 1899 he had his home and
business as a lawyer at New York City. On
returning to Indianapolis he became a
member of the firm of Miller, Elam, Fe.sler
& Miller. Later the firm became Miller,
Shirley, Miller & Thompson. Subse-
quently, upon the retirement of ilr. C. C.
Shirley from the firm, it became IMiller,
Dailey & Thompson and still continues ac-
tive in the practice. The other members
are Mr. Frank C. Dailey, Mr. William H.
Thompson. Jlr. Sidney S. Miller and Mr.
Albert L. Rabb.

]Mr. Miller is an active member of the
United States, Indiana and Indianapolis
Bar associations. In 1910 he was elected a
member of the board of trustees of Ham-
ilton College and continued as such for
about seven years. Other members of the
board at the time were the late James S.
Sherman, vice president of the LTnited
States, and Senator Elihu Root. :\Ir. Mil-
ler is a member of the Indiana Command-
ery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion and belongs to the Hamilton Col-
lege Chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity, and
the Columbia, the Universit.v, the Country
and the Dramatic clubs of Indianapolis.
Politically he has rendered allegiance and
much service to the cause of the republican
party, though, like his father, he has never
put himself in the way of official prefer-
ment.

During the war of 1917 Mr. Miller gave
a laro-e part of his time to the patriotic
activities of his community. He was a
niember of Selective Service Board No. 5.
chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Indianapolis Branch of the American
Protective League and actively engaged in
many other of the undertakings brought
about by the war.

On October 23, 1907, he married Miss
Amelia Owen. She was born and reared in
Evansville. Her father, Dr. A. ^I. Owen.
was long prominent in the profession of
medicine in that citv. Three children were

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born of this marriage, two sons and one
daughter, of whom the daughter, Laura
Owen Miller, bom April 22, 1914, alone
survives. By a former marriage Mr. Miller
has one son, Sidne.v Stanhope, born Sep-
tember 27, 1893, who is a lawyer by pro-
fession and during the war was a major
in the One Hundred and Fiftieth United
^.tates Field Artillery in France.

>Iahlon D. ]Manson was born in Piqua,
Onio, February 20, 1820, but in early life
became a resident of Crawfordsville, In-
diana. He served as a captain dixring the
Mexican war, was a member of the Legis-
lature in 1851-2, and then entered the Civil
^^•ar, in which he rose to the rank of briga-
dier general. After the close of the war
and his return to civil life Mr. ilanson was
nominated as lieutenant governor and sec-
retary of state, and was elected to Con-
gress as a democrat, sei-ving from 1871
until 1873.

Charles Phillips Emeeson, M. D. Be-
cause of his position as dean and professor
of medicine in the Indiana University
School of Medicine, Bloomington and In-
dianapolis, Doctor Emerson's career is a
matter of general interest to the entire
medical profession of the state. His work
is known not only here but among medical
men generally throughout the country. He
has been a successful teacher of medicine,
an author, and is regarded as one of the
first authorities in his field.

Doctor Emerson was born at Metheun,
Massachusetts, September 4, 1872, a son of
Jacob and Josephine (Davis) Emei*son.
His associations from early youth have
brought him in contact with prominent
scholars and the fruits of scholarship and
culture. He graduated from Amheret
College in 1894, A. B., and soon afterward
entered Johns Hopkins University at Bal-
timore, from which he received liis Doctor
of Medicine degi-ee in 1899. Doctor Emer-
son has spent much time abroad, espeeially
in earlier years. He was in the LTniver-
sity of Strassburg in 1900, the University
of Basel in 1901, and spent a considerable
part of the year 1903 at Paris.

For several years Doctor Emerson was
as.sociate in medicine at Johns Hopkins
University and resident physician of the
University Hospital. In 1908-11 he was
superintendent of the Clifton Spi'ings Sani-

tarium in New York, and in 1909 was as-
sistant professor of medicine in Cornell
University. He took up his present work
as professor of medicine and dean of the
University School at Indianapolis in 1911.
While not in general practice Doctor Emer-
son aside from his college and literary
duties is a consulting physician, and his
services have often been called in by the
leading practitioners of the capital city.

As an author Doctor Emerson is widely
known through the following woi-ks:
"Pneumothorax," published in 1904;
"Clinical Diag-nosis," published in 1906;
•'A Hospital for Children," 1905, and
"E.ssentials of Medicine," published in
1908. He is a member of the Association
of American Physicians, the American
]\Iedical Association and of various other
medical organizations. He is a Chi Psi
college fraternity man, a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and a republican.
His office is in the Hume-Mansur Build-
ing at Indianapolis. Doctor Emerson mar-
ried April 14, 1909, Miss Effie Gilmour
Perry, of Toronto, Canada.

The Francis Family. The ancestors of
the Francis families of America so far as
evidence can be obtained were residents
of the northern countries of France, and
are described by histoi'ians as ' ' hardy cour-
ageous, energetic and industrious." Many
of these residents found their way in the
course of time to Germany, Austria and
Great Britain, as several of the kings, prel-
ates and other dignitaries bore the name
of "Francis."

The first mentioned was William Fran-
cis, one of the leading promoters of the
Virginia Company, formed in London in
the year 1606.

The direct lineage of the Francis families
who settled in Indiana and Illinois is
traced from the settlement of Wethersfield,
Connecticut. The Town of Wethersfield,
about four miles south of Hartford, was
organized as a colony January 7, 1633.
Among its residents will be found the
names of Robert and Eichard Francis.
Richard joined one of the companies of
colonists who were called upon to defend
themselves from the hostile Indians and
was killed in a battle with the savages.

fl) Robert Francis, born in 1629, prob-
ably in England, died January 2, 1712.
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in Wethersfield and became a prominent
member of the First Congregational
Church of that place. About 1650 he mar-
ried Joan , who died January

29, 1705, aged seventy-six. Their children,
the oldest born in 1651 and the youngest in
1664, were named Susanna. Robert, Mary,
Jolm, Abigal, James and Sarah.

(2) John Francis, born at Wethersfield,
Connecticut, September 4, 1658, died De-
cember 28, 1711. He was a farmer and
served as a sergeant in the Colonial army.
February 10, 1680, he married Sarah Dix,
who was born in 1658 and died April 3,
1682. January 16, 1683, he married Mercy
Chittenden, who died October 13, 1745.
His children, all by the second wife, were
John, James, Siberance, ilary, Thomas,
Robert, Abigal and Prudence.

(3) John Francis, born at Wethersfield,
Connecticut, October 13, 1684, died Sep-
tember 19, 1749. He was a man of great
muscular strength and many stories have
been related of his extraordinan,- athletic
feats. He was the owner and landlord of
the old Weathersfield Inn. He was three
times married. His first ^^nfe, ilarA" Hatch,
whom he married December 30, 1708, died
July 15, 1718, mother of one child. John.
In 1725 he married Lvdia Deming, who
died October 18, 1733, and on October 16,
1735, he married Eunice Dickinson, who
died May 21. 1770. The one child of his
second marriage was Elisha. The children
of his third wife wei-e Mary, Lydia, Eunice,
John and IMercy.

(4) John Francis, son of John and
l\Iarv, was bora September 28, 1710, at
Wethersfield, and died ]\Iay 15, 1738. In
1730 he married Mary Dodd, who died in
1778. Their children were John. Josiah,
Charles and Mary.

(5) Charles Francis was born at
Wethersfield in 1736. and the date of his
death is unknown. He was a \ery sv;e-
cessful farmer. He was married and had
children named Charles, Hulda. Simeon,
Millicent and George.

(6) Simeon Francis, born at Wethers-
field in 1770, was a prosperoiis and much
respected farmer, deacon of the First Con-
gregational Church, and died September
7, 1823. May 26, 1793. he married :\Iarv
Ann Adams, who died September 18, 1822.
Their children were Charles, Simeon, ^Mary
Ann, Calvin, Josiah, Edwin, TTuldah,
Allen and John.

(7) Five of the Francis brothers and
their two sisters, children of Simeon and
ilary Ann, decided after the death of
their parents to leave their old home in
Wethersfield and seek a new home in the
west. Charles and Simeon left home some-
time previously. The others embarked on
the sloop Falcon at Hartford September
17, 1829, their journey being down the
Connecticut River and through Long
Island Sound to New York, thence up the
Hudson River to Albany and across the
state by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, where
they were joined by their brother Simeon.
A sailing vessel took them over Lake Erie
to Sandusky, and thence they procured
wagons to cross the State of Ohio to Cin-
cinnati. After a journey fraught with
much exposure and lack of proper nourish-
ment the.v reached Cincinnati, and were
thence borne by a small steamboat down
the Ohio and up the ^Mississippi to St.
Louis, barely escaping with their lives
through the wrecking of one of the boats.
They were seventy-seven days in making
the journey which can now be made with
comfort in less than one-third as many
hours.

In 1831 Simeon, Josiah and John went
to Springfield, Illinois, taking with them
a little old printing press which they
brought from Connecticut. On November
10, 1831, the first issue of the Sangamon
Journal, now the Illinois State Journal,
was brought out by these brothers. Simeon
and Allen Francis fostered the youthful
ambitions of Abraham Lincoln by loaning
him a copy of Blackstone and all the other
books possible. They also introduced Mr.
Lincoln to the leading social and profes-
sional figures of Springfield. It was at the
home of Allen Francis that ilr. Lincoln
met ]\riss Todd, whom he subsequently mar-
ried. Mr. Lincoln reciprocated in 1861
by appointing Simeon Francis paymaster
of all the troops in the Northwest, with the
rank of colonel, and stationed at Van-
couver, Washington. In 1870 he was re-
tired on half pay and returned to Portland,
where he established the Portland Ore-
gonia'i, still a power in the newspaper
field. He was president of the Oregon
State Agricultural Society. In 1861 Presi-
dent Lincoln appointed Hon. Allen Francis
first con.sul to Victoria, Vancouver's
Island. He resigned in 1864. With his
sons he engaged in the fur trade with the

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Indians on the Alaska Coast. It was
through Hon. Allen Francis that Secretary
Seward gained the information concerning
the varied resources of Alaska which de-
termined him to enter into negotiations
with Kussia for its purchase.

Simeon Francis, the first of the brothers
to leave home, served an apprenticeship
in a printing office in New Haven, Con-
necticut. Later forming a partnership un-
der the name of Clapp and Francis, he
published the Republican Advocate, the
fii'st number of which appeared in 1817.
Volumes for the years 1821, 1822 and 1823
of this publication are now in the posses-
sion of Mr. Charles W. Francis of La-
Porte, Indiana.

Charles Francis, also of the seventh
generation, was the pioneer of the family
in the wilds of Northern Indiana. He was
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, March
19, 1794. December 14, 1820, he married
Elizabeth Haskell, who died August 9,
1856. They left their old home in 1829
and settled in Cherry Valley, New York.
Two years later they determined to seek
a home further west. With their scanty
belongings they were towed down the Erie
Canal to Buffalo, and a sailing vessel took
them to Cleveland, where they lived nearly
a year. Still afflicted with the western
fever, in the early autumn of 1834 they
started for Chicago. At that time emi-
gi'ants traveled in wagons, camping where-
ever night overtook them. As a family
of eight, their furniture and necessities
were easily stored in one wagon, and a
man was hired to drive them through.
Many hardships were experienced with
poor accommodations, bad roads and often-
times want of provisions. In about six
weeks they reached LaPorte, at which time
winter had set in with great severity. After
leaving LaPorte they met a party return-
ing from Chicago, reporting there were no
provisions in that settlement or work of
any kind. This news, together with the
sickness of the youngest child, turned them
back, and they settled for the winter in a
log cabin near the present site of Fail's
sehoolhouse in LaPorte County. During
the winter Charles Francis took up land
and built a cabin in Galena Township. In
the spring he moved his family to that
location in the dense forest. Five families
had located in the same township in the
preceding year. A short distance east

was an Indian settlement, hence the In-
dians were as numerous as the whites, but
were friendly and often visited the settlers,
bringing maple sugar and trinkets to trade
for something to eat. It was here that the
Francis family endured those privations
and hardships common to the lot of pio-
neers. Charles Francis long survived this
era of pioneer things and died in 1870.

A brief record of his seven children is
as follows: Marv Ann, born in 1821, died
August 19, 1826. Joseph Haskell born
September 23, 1823, and died Januarv 12,
1900, married :\Iarch 4, 1849, Catherine A.
JIartin, who died November 15, 1892, aiid
their two children were Maiy E. and
George H. George H., Jr., married Blanche
Nobel and lives on the old homestead near
LaPorte. Luke, the third child, was born
ilay 16, 1825, and died in December 1882.
June 5, 1848, he married Betsey ;Marshall,
who died in 1909. They had lio chddren.
The next in age is Simeon, the record of
whom is given below. William Wallace,
born December 17, 1828, and died in 1912,
married March 29, 1851, Ann Mariah
Martin. Their six children were Sarah
B., Fred, M'kry A., Charles W., Alice M.
and Frank J. Charles, Jr., born April 4,
1831, died in February, 1887. November
9, 1856, he married ilinerva Weed, who
died childless April 11, 1865. June 1,
1869, he married Rebecca B. Hollingsworth,
who died in 1917, the mother of two chil-
dren, Mary E. and ]\Iilton. Edwin, the
voungest of the familv, was born in August
1833, and died in 1839.

(8) Simeon Francis, born April 22,
1827, at Weathersfield, Connecticut, was
about seven years of age when his parents
arrived in LaPorte County, and as a boy
he had some part in the labors by which
the family was established in the log cabin
home in the woods of Galena To^^^lship.
In that same community he spent prac-
tically all his long and eventful life. Until
the land was cleared and crops grown it
was difficult to get plenty to eat. The
Francis family home was twelve miles from
LaPorte. Such groceries as could be ob-
tained in the market of that day had to
be carried home, as there was no other
means of conveyance. Game was plenti-
fvd, therefore meat was abundant. The
educational advantages were limited to
those of the log sehoolhouse. The first
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a two-room log eabiu, one room occupied hy
the John Morrow family. That was in
1835. As the Indians were quite numerous,
Simeon spent many pleasant hours playing
with Indian boys. The principal sport
in winter was sliding down hill on impro-
vised sleds of bark with one end turned
up, forming a sled. As he grew to man-
hood he learned the carpenter's trade,
•which he followed in connection with farm-
ing.

IMareh 12, 1859, Simeon Francis married
IVIary Elizabeth ^lartin. She was born
near Dover, New Jersey, November 12,
1835, and came with her parents to LaPorte
County in the spring of 1839. Her an-
cestry dates back to the arrival of Isaac
^lartin in the Massachusetts Colony in
1664. The heads of the eight generations
preceding her were Isaac, John, Thomas,
Isaac, Isaac, Isaac, Isaac, and William
Adams. The last was often called the
"father" of the Martins, as he was the first
of the family to settle in the western
country. William Adams Martin married
in 1828 ]\lary Apgar, and their seven chil-
dren were Abram, Catherina A., Ann Ma-
riah, ilary E., Ellen S., Isaac F., and Hi-
ram B. Of these Isaac F. is still living at
LaPorte. As the brothers of William
IMartin came west they were welcomed to
the hospitality of his cabin until they could
provide homes for themselves. At one time
there were thirteen persons in the log cabin
about 18 by 20 feet and no way to prepare
the meals except over the fireplace, Mary
Elizabeth Martin was the third one of the
IMartin sisters to marry one of the three
Francis brothers.

Simeon Francis and wife lived on a farm
until 1871. wlien they moved to Three
Oaks, ^liehigan, where for six years he
was a merchant. He then returned to the
farm and resumed his trade also. He and
his wife were membei-s of the ^Methodist
Church. October 5, 1899, he moved to La-
Porte and resided with his son at 216
Lincolnway, West. The last six years of
Simeon's life were lived in retirement
from all active duties, as he was nearly
blind, not being able to read a word at
tliat time. He died jMarch 23, 1914, and
bis wife passed away February 4, 1918.
Botli are at rest at Pine Lake Cemetery
near LaPorte. Simeon Francis and wife
bad two children, Charles William and
Jessie Gertrude.

(9) Charles William Francis one of the
two living representatives l)earing the name
Francis and descendants of these families
who reside in the State of Indiana at pres-
ent. The other is George Haskell Francis.
He was born October 8, 1860, in LaPorte
County, grew up on a farm, and while there
attended the common schools. Later he
attended the high school at Three Oaks,
Michigan, and the Central University at
Polla, Iowa. Jlr. Francis has given prac-
tically all his active life to some form of
public service. For ten years he was a
teacher and on November 1, 1897, entered
the postal service and since then has been
connected with the LaPorte post office.
He is a man of wide and varied interests.
He recentl.v published a History and Gene-
alogy of the Martin family. In the fall
of 1912, in company with Dr. H. H. Martin,
he made a trip through Germany, Switzer-
land, Holland, England and Scotland. On
the return trip the news of President Wil-
son's election was received by wireless while
sailing through the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
March 12. 1884, ^Mr. Francis married Eva
Holcorab, who was born in LaPorte County
July 12, 1864. They are the parents of two
children, Ethel Gertrude and Marce Hol-
comb, who represent the tenth generation
of the familv. Ethel Gertrude Francis was
born July 8," 1886, in Berrien County, :\lich-
igan. She was married June 27, 1906, to
Frederick W. Steigely, who is engaged in
the wholesale and retail meat business at
LaPorte. "Sir. and Sirs. Steigely had five
children representing the eleventh genera-
tion, Frederick W., Catherine Evelyn,
Francis H., Rose Ethel and Ethel Evelyn,
^laree Francis, the second daughter, was
born :May 15, 1894, at LaPorte, and was
married June 30, 1917, to Clyde G. Chaney,
formerly city editor of the LaPorte Argus,
who saw active service in France as cap-
tain of Company B of the 151st Infantry.
Captain and Mrs. Chaney have one child,
Robert Galen Chaney.

Jessie Gertrude Francis, sister of Charles
William Francis, was born November 12,
1866, in LaPorte County, and finished her
education in the Tlirce Oaks High School.
December 24, 1895, at LaPorte, she was
married to Wendall Paddock. Mr. Pad-
dock was born in Berrien County, ]\Iich-
igan, July 12, 1866, a graduate of the
Michigan Agricultural College, for several
years was professor of Horticulture

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in the Colorado University and for the
last nine years he has held the same posi-
tion with the Ohio State University. He
and his family reside at 1077 Westwood
avenue in Columbus, Ohio.

The three children of Professor and ]\Ii-s.
Paddock belong in the tenth generation of
the Francis family. Francis W. Paddock,
born at Geneva, New York, September 18,
1899, enlisted April 12, 1918, in the Reg-
ular Army, Coa.st Artilleiy Service, and
wa.s stationed in France when the war
closed. The two younger children still
at home with their parents, are Elizabeth
Gertrude Paddock, born at Fort Collins,
Colorado, January 22, 1906, and Jessie
Evelyn Paddock, born April 16, 1908, also
at Fort Collins.

As the preceding records indicate the
Francis family, while seldom producing
men of gi*eat distinction in the ordinarj-
sense of that word, has in fact been con-
spicuous for those virtues which are funda-
mental in the welfare and security of the
human race. Charles Francis of the sev-
enth generation was a carpenter and three
of his sons learned the trade. They helped
to build the first railroad stations in La-
Porte and Michigan City, and many res-
idences of the county still stand as monu-
ments to their handiwork. At an early
date they built and owned three sawmills
and two flour mills, in addition to the
management of their farms. The five sons
of Charles Francis all grew to manhood,
married and raised families, and their de-
scendants are now widely scattered from
coast to coast. The five brothers though
going their separate ways always managed
to work together and maintained for years
the intimate ties of family relation-
ships that made them in all essential re-
spects one family. The three brothers who
were carpenters followed that trade when
the carpenter made and fitted every part
of the house. Many of the tools used at
that time even as far back- as 1790, are care-
fully preserved by Mr. Charles W. Francis
of LaPorte. In matters of religion these
families were Methodists, Baptists and
Christians, but in politics they were al-
most without exception ardent republicans.

Carl J. Ahlgeen was elected sheriff of
LaPorte County in 1914, and at that time
was the youngest sheriff of Indiana. He

was then twenty-seven years of age, and
has lived all his life in LaPorte County.

He was born in Springfield Township
of that county. His gi-andfather. Chris-
tian Ahlgi-en, was a native of Germany
and brought his family to America in 1857,
coming on a sailing vessel which was six
weeks in making the vo.vage. He soon
located at LaPorte, and was a resident of
that city twelve years. After that he
bought a farm in Springfield Township
on the road that is the dividing line be-
tween the states of Indiana and Michigan.
He was a general farmer there until 1888,
when he retired to Michigan City, and died
when about seventy years of age. He mar-
ried Hannah Steffenhagen, who survived
her husband and died at the age of ninety-
two' Their children were Fred, Minnie,
Charles, Carriee and Fredericka.

Charles Ahlgren was born in Germany
October 23, 1856, just a year before the
familj- came to America. He first attended
school in the city of LaPorte, and when the
family removed to Springfield Township he
employed his strength in doing all manner
of faiTu labor. His independent career
began on a rented farm, and soon after-
ward he bought forty acres a mile and a
half from his father's homestead. In 1893
Charles Ahlgren left the farm and re-
moved to Michigan City, and for the past
twenty-five years has been one of the lead-
ing contractors of brick and stone masonry
work in the county. He married Catherine
McAllister. She was bom at Buffalo, New
York. Her father, Charles ;\IcAlli.ster, was
a native of Scotland, and had a most in-
teresting career. When only a boy he went
to sea, and his adventurous life as a sailor
took him to all the principal seaports of
the world and three times around Cape
Horn. Queen Victoria pei-sonally pre-
sented him with a medal for bravery in
saving the lives of a party of sailors. After
leaving the sea and coming to America he
lived a time in Canada, afterwards in Buf-
falo, New York, then at Lakeside, Mich-
igan, and finally located at New Buffalo.
Charles IMcAllister married Janet McAl-
lister, a second cousin. ]\lr. and ]\Ii"s.
Charles Ahlgren had three children, Fred
IL. Carl J. and Janet.

Carl J. Ahlgren attended school in Mich-
igan City, including two years at high
school. At the age of sixteen he liegan

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learning the trade of brick laj-^r under
his father, and followed that occupation
steadily until he was elected sheriff in 1914.
So satisfactory was his first term that he
was reelected in 1916. and throughout
these foiu- j'ears he has been a most capable
servant of the courts and also a strong
factor in upholding the forces of law and
order in the county.

In 1909 Sheriti"' Ahlgi-en married Lucy
Eleanor Raikes. She was born at Boulder,
Colorado. Her father, Walter Raikes, was
a native of England and was brought to
America at the age of sixteen. He learned
the stone mason's trade and for several
years followed that occupation at Boulder,
Colorado, but is now living in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Walter Raikes married Elea-
nor Hathaway. She wa.s born in Fall
River, ^Massachusetts, a daughter of Charles
and Eleanor Hathaway. The Hathaway
ancestors came to America at the time of
the Mayflower pilgi-ims. Mrs. Ahlgren was
one of five children, named Walter. George,
Grace, Horace and Lucy Eleanor. ^Ir. and
Mrs. Ahlgren are members of the ]\Ietho-
dist Church. Fraternally he is affiliated
with Acme Lodge of ilasons and with La-
Porte Lodge of Elks.

Cl.\rence Eugene Osborne has for many
years been one of the useful public-spirited
citizens of the Wanatah Community in
LaPorte County. The family is an old
and honored one in northern Indiana,
especially in Porter and LaPorte Counties.

His grandfather Jonathan Osborne, Sr.
was a native of North Carolina, and mar-
ried Rachel Small, a native of South Caro-
lina. Jonathan was a small boy when his
family moved to Ohio and settled near
Chillicothe. From there after his marriage
he moved to Wayne County, Indiana, and
in 1834 bought at a government land sale
120 acres in Clinton Township of La-
Porte County. He improved this property
and spent the rest of his days there. He
and his wife had a large family of chil-
dren, including David, Nathan, John, Wil-
liam, Jason, Jouathan, Jr., and Eli.

Jason OsW-ne, father of Clarence E.,
was born in West Virginia, but grew up
in LaPorte County and was trained to
the life of a farmer. He bought farms in
Clinton Township and also acquired other
land across the county line in Essex Town-
ship of Porter County. He wa.s a general

farmer and stock raiser there until about
fifty yeai-s of age, and passed the last
three years of his life in Wanatah. He
married Eliza Graham, a native of
West Virginia. She is still living in Wa-
natah, mother of six children : Frank E., of
LaPorte; Charles S., of Chicago; Clarence
E., Carlton R., of Oklahoma; William G.,
of Gary, Indiana ; and George, who died at
the age of eighteen years.

Clarence Eugene Osborne was born on
a farm in what was then Essex but is now
Morgan Township in Porter County. He
attended the rural schools during his
youth, also the LaPorte Business College,
and was a pupil in Valparaiso University.
For two years after his marriage he farmed
a part, of the old homestead and then re-
moved to Wanatah and engaged in the
livery business for ten years. Since then
he has conducted a well established real
estate and insuraaice bufriness.

At the age of twenty-two Mi\ Osborne
married Dee N. Iliggins. Her father,
James H. Higgins, was born near Danville,
Indiana, and for many yeai-s was a mer-
chant at New Winchester, Indiana, later at
Francisville, and then removed to Wana-
tah and was agent of the jMonon Railroad
for twenty-five years, until he was retired
on a pension from the railroad company.
He died a few weeks after giving up his
duties. He married Clara J. Dodge, who
was born near Coatsville, Indiana.

]\Ir. and Mrs. Osborne have one daugh-
ter, Mabel Florence, the wife of Oliver
M. Bailey. Mr. and ilrs. Bailey have a
son named Stephen Eugene. ^Ir. and Mrs.
Osborne are members of the Christian
Church. 'Sir. Osborne served several years
as assessor of Cass Township and has been
chairman of the Wanatah Town Board and
for two terms deputy sheriff. He has used
all his influence and resources to keep his
locality in line with the strictest standards
of patriotism during the war. He has
given liis assistance to many "war activities.
;iii(l (iM'iii'i 1918 was assistant deputy food
(■(,iniinssi,iiirr of LaPorte County.

Herman J. Barx.vkp. There can be no
doubt t-hat the character and environment
of man's ancestors exert an influence upon
the manner in which he meets the issues
of life, and it is curious to note how sterl-
ing r|ualities of grit and perseverance, ac-
(luired in a strenuous battle with the forces-

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of nature, adapt themselves, though still
easily recognized, to the problems of an
easier civilization.

William Barnard was one of those early
Quaker settlers in North Carolina, where
Ills son, Barzillia G. Barnard was born in
1817. When the lad was two years old
his father became one of that army of
hard.y pioneers who gathered together their
few household possessions and assisted in
spreading the white man's empire west-
ward. Braving the dangers of the un-
broken and practically unexplored prime-
val forests, he made his way with his fam-
ily into the wilderness and founded a
home in the then thinly settled district
■of Fayette County, Indiana.

Inheriting the adventurous spirit of his
father, Barzillia, when he reached man's
•estate, sought a new location on the banks
of Blue River, in the western part of
Rush County, Indiana. Here he settled,
cleared the ground and created a thrifty
farm where dense forests had stood. He
married Rachael Roberts, daughter of a
neighbor, and they raised to maturity ten
out of eleven children born to them.

There could be no idlers in this large
family. With a dozen mouths to feed, a
dozen babies to clothe and shelter, it was
necessary that each individual assume la-
bors suited to his years. The consecpience
was a group of diligent, hardy, self-reliant
young Hoosiers, possessing quiet, serious
manners of their Quaker ancestors, also
their sterling honesty.

It was among such surroundings that
Herman J. Barnard grew to manhood, liv-
ing the industrious life of the Indiana
farmer boy, innured to the heavy labor of
those days and toiling from daylight till
■dark with the characteristic vigor and cheer-
fulness of the country-raised boy. He at-
tended the district school during the winter
months and afterward spent a few terms in
the old Spiceland Acadamy, a Quaker in-
stitution.

After reaching maturity the children
scattered, as is the manner of large fa-
milies. One brother, David E., served for
four years in tlie Union Army during the
civil war, and is still alive. Upon reaching
his majority Herman J. Barnard joined
liis brother Granville S. in the retail lumber
business in, Franklin, Indiana, later ac-
quiring a share in a saw mill at Arlington.
About 1893 he sold his interest and moved

to Indianapolis. In 1889 he married Miss
Mary Elizabeth Hyder, who was reared in
Franklin.

At that time Indiana was recognized as
a lumber center of importance, the state
producing great quantities of timber of
uuequaled quality. Having had consider-
able experience in buying timber, manu-
facturing it into lumber and selling the
stock, and with a ke«n view of the future,
Mr. Barnard perceived the possibilities of
veneer manufacturing and in 1907 organ-
ized the Central Veneer Company of In-
dianapolis.

Owing to his careful management and
the quality of its product the little com-
pany prospered and became known as one
of the leaders in a territory where there
were many veneer mills. Starting with
one slicer and establishing an enviable
reputation on quartered oak veneer, the
company later installed both lathe and saw
and manufactured veneers of all kinds,
cutting large quantities of imported ma-
hogany logs.

It was but natural that a man of ^Ir.
Barnard's integi-ity and business ability
should feel the call and devote some of
his energies to civic development. Though
of a retiring and modest disposition, a
direct heritage from his Quaker ancestry,
Hei-man J. Barnard exercises a strong
and recognized influence on the affairs of
his city and state, and he is an honored
member of such organizations as the Indi-
anapolis Chamber of Commerce and the
Marion and Transportation Clubs ; endowed
with the confidence and respect of his
friends, business associates and community.

HiLLis F. H.vcKEDORN, of Indianapolis,
is one of the men credited with pioneer
achievement in the field of concrete con-
struction. Through his company he has
erected some of the largest and finest all-
concrete bridges in the Middle West. Men
not yet in middle life have no difficulty in
recalling a time less than twenty years
ago when concrete street bridges and
other structures that had to endure great
stress and strain were regarded as ex-
perimental and as worthy of justifiable
suspicion as to permanence and useful-
ness. It was in overcoming this preju-
dice and in really establishing the merits
of concrete as a bridge building material
that Mr. Haekedorn has done his best

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work. He was one of tlic first in the line,
and with years of accumulating experi-
ence has become one of the foremost men
in the country in the application of ce-
ment and concrete as applied to bridge
construction.

Mr. Hackedorn was born at Cardington,
Morrow County, Ohio, September 4, 1861.
His father, George G. Hackedorn, was for
many years in the banking business at
Lima, Ohio, where he died in 1874. His
mother's maiden name was Lucinda Shur,
who was of Scotch-Irish family and whose
people were pioneers in and around Car-
dington. The Hackedorn ancestry is of
Holland descent.

Hillis F. Hackedorn lived in Cardington
until he was five years of age, when his
parents moved to Lima. He secured his
primary education there, and in 1878 was
graduated from the Lima High School.
For the next six years he worked in the
bank founded by his father and its suc-
cessor. Mr. Hackedoni has always mani-
fested the enterprise and spirit that take
men out in the wide fields of endeavor
and accomplishment. In l';884 he went
west to the Pacific Coast and ber'arae as-
sistant superintendent of the City ^nd
Suburban Railway Company of Portland,
Oregon. In 1893 he returned east, locat-
ing at Indianapolis in the claim depart-
ment of the Lake Erie & Western Rail-
way Company. A year later Ije organized
the State House Building Association, and
for about five years was its manager.

Mr. Hackedorn became interested in con-
crete bridge construction in 1897. Peo-
ple who have reliable memories extending
Ijack to that year would have difficulty in
recalling any extended use of concrete be-
yond sidewalks and a limited use of con-
crete block. It was with the block form
of construction that ilr. Hackedorn had
"his early experience. He organized the
Block Bridge & Culvert Company for the
purpose of exploiting a patented segmen-
tal vitrified block for the construction of
culverts. As a modern and most familiar
application of concrete through pouring
into forms was probably not even consid-
ered by Mr. Hackedorn and associates at
that time. Even the use of concrete blocks
for culverts was found to be a limited
field, and later the company engaeed in
general concrete construction, ]\Ir. Hacke-
dorn buving the interests of his iiartners

and changing the name of the business to
Hillis F. Hackedorn & Company. In 1907
this business was succeeded by the Hacke-
dorn Contracting Company, of which Mr.
Hackedorn has since been president.

For several years the business was con-
fined to the construction of small concrete
bridges and culverts in Marion and ad-
jacent counties. Even with the knowl-
edge and facilities of that time it was
practicable to construct larger concrete
bridges, but the rliicf obstacle was the
prejudice of eilizcns and public officials
having such work in cliarge. It was to
combat this prejudice and educate the
public in general to the superiority of per-
manent concrete structures over the ugly
and unsafe wooden and steel bridges that
Mr. Hackedorn used up nuich of his time
and energy in earlier years. The Hacke-
dorn Contracting Company confined itself
entirely to concrete bridge building. It
has had no connection with either timber
or steel bridge construction and with the
pa.ssing of years the concern has grown and
prospered and expanded and they have
had a large share of the contracts whicli
Mr. Hackedorn 's individual etiforts ron-
tributed toward educating the public to
demand.

The work of the Hackedorn Contracting
Company can now lie found in half a
dozen states and includes some of the finest
structures of the kind anywhere. A few
of the more notable bridges are: The
Shawnee bridge at Piqua, Ohio, one of
the most beautiful in the west ; the iliddle-
town bridge at i\Iiddletown, Ohio, 2,000
feet long, the longest concrete bridge in
Ohio; the Washington Avenue bridge at
Elyria, Ohio, which contains the longest
single span (150 feet) in Ohio-, the Brook-
side Park bridsre in Cleveland, which is the
flattest simi-elliptical bridge in the world,
with a span of 92 feet and an actual rise
of only five feet: the Leonard Street
liridge at Grand Rapids, ^Michigan : the
Broad Street and Second Avenue bridges
at Rome, Georgia ; the Bay St. Louis
bridge and Causeway at Bay St. Louis,
Mississippi, 10,200 feet long; the Fifth
Street bridge at Dayton, Ohio ; the JIox-
ham bridge at Johnstown, Pennsylvania ;
the Summit and South Main Street bridges
at Warren. Ohio : the Adams Street bridge
at Troy, Ohio; the Music Court Bridge in
Jackson Park, Chicago. The bridires of

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the Hackedorn Company have been built
not only with the finest available material
now known to the world but also with the
brains and character of a company whose
reliability is beyond every question and
doubt.

Mr. Hackedorn is a charter member and
in 1915 was president of the American
Society of Engineering Contractors. He
has done much to extend the educational
work of concrete contractors, and has read
man.y papers before organizations of con-
tracting engineers and other public bodies.

ilr. Hackedorn has had his home in In-
dianapolis for twenty-five years and is
well known in social and public affairs..
He is a republican, a member of the Co-
lumbia and Rotary clubs, the Chamber
of Commei-ce, the Marion Club, the Canoe
Club, the Independent Tumverein, the
Hoosier Motor Club, the Macatawa Yacht
Club at ilacatawa, Michigan, and is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason
and Shriner. He and his family are Uni-
tarians in religion and he is president of
the board of trustees of All Souls Church
at Indianapolis.

In 1888 he married Frances Fee, of
Lima, Ohio, who died in Indianapolis in
1897. She was the mother of two children,
George G., who died at the age of five
years, and Hillis F., Jr., who graduated
from Purdue University in 1917 as a civil
engineer. In 1908 Mr. Hackedorn married
Marion ilorrison, of Brooklyn, New York.

Soon after the United States entered
the war in 1916 Mr. Hackedorn tendered
his services to the government and was
commissioned a major in the construction
division of the United States Army. He
was assigned to duty as officer in charge
of construction at Frankford Arsenal,
Philadelphia, where he had charge for
eight months of the entire construction and
disbursement of funds on improvements
costing about $5,000,000. He was then
transferred to the Ordnance Department
and detailed as commanding officer of the
United States Picric Acid Plant, a $12,-
000,000 project, at Brunswick. Georgia,
where he had charge of the salvaging of
the big project. Hillis F. Hackedorn, Jr.,
also enlisted early, in the Aviation Corps,
where he soon qualified as a military
aviator in the combat section and was sent
to France, wliere he rose to be tlie com-

manding officer of the Three Hundred and
Sixty-Ninth Aero Sciuadron.

WiLMER Frederick Christian, Sr. A
life of most uncommon service and experi-
ence has been that of Wilmer Frederick
Christian, Sr., who came to Indianapolis
about the close of the war of the rebellion,
and began his career here without friends,
without prestige, without money, and with
only a knowledge of skillful use of car-
penter tools. He has been successively a
contractor and builder, farmer, stock man,
and has attained that good fortune which
is not alone measured bA^ material circum-
stances but by the esteem of communities.

Mr. Christian was born at Stockton in
Worcester County, ]Marvland, January 4,
1838, a son of Job and Rachel (Hill) Chris-
tian. His grandfather fought as a soldier
in the Revolutionary war. Job Christian,
who was born at Morristown, New Jersey,
was for many years a merchant tailor, and
died in 1847. He and his wife were mar-
ried in Philadelphia, and she died in Mary-
land in 1851.

Wilmer Frederick Christian was only
nine years old when his father died, and
his opportunities to secure schooling and
other adequate preparation for life were
^ery meager. At the age of sixteen he
bound himself out as an apprentice car-
penter. In 1863 he went to Philadelphia
to study building and contracting, and was
there until 1865, when he came to Indian-
apolis. Some time previously he had joined
the Odd Fellows. His association with
that order brought him an introduction
and friendship with Doctor Barry of In-
dianapolis, who was the means of bringing
Mr. Christian and J. E. Shover together.
Mr. Shover was also a newcomer to Indian-
apolis, having recently arrived from Rich
mond, Indiana. IMr. Shover soon employed
Mr. Christian to do some cai-penter work.
In 1865, soon after peace was established
between the North and South, Mr. Chris-
tian went to Memphis, Tennessee, for the
purjaose of securing for himself as contrac-
tor some of the opportunities opened up by
the restoration of peace and the beginning
of material reconstniction in the South.
He had been there but a short while before
he was given a contract to rebuild a home,
but left the cit.v due to an outbreak of yel-
low fever. Returning to Indianapolis, he

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1513

drew up articles of partnersliip with ilr.
Shover iii the fall of 1865, and the linn of
Shover and Christian began buisness Jan-
uary 1, 1866. The partnership was con-
tinued successfully until 1891, at which
time ilr. Christian sold his interests to Mr.
Shover and retired. This was one of the
longest continued partnerships and one of
the principal building tirms in Indianapolis
during that period. ^Ir. Christian was con-
sidered an expert in the valuation of fire
and property losses, he w:is ;i|)p(iiiitc(l ad-
juster for the Home InsuraiK-i' ('()iii|i:iiiy of
New York, to adjust the losses in tlu' Chi-
cago fire of 1871 in policies held by that
and other companies.

Almost from the time he came to Indian-
apolis Mr. Christian has been interested in
the ownership and operation of a farm.
At one time he owned ninety-six acres
where Wonderland now is, which property
was inherited by Mrs. Christian. He owns
161 acres at Irviugton, known as "The
Pleasant Run Stock Farm," which was also
the property of his wife. On this farm
was one of the finest herds of Shorthorns
in the state. The breeding and raising of
Shorthorns was a hobby and enthusiasm
of I\rr. Christian, but it was pursued not
merely as a recreation but was highly
profitable and it helped to improve and
raise the standards of cattle in the state.

Mr. Christian is a democrat of long and
influential standing. He has served as
delegate or alternate to several state con-
ventions, and has probably attended every
national convention of the body for fifty
years. He is a member of the Democratic
Club of Indianapolis and is a charter mem-
ber of Capital City Lodge of Masons, which
he joined in 1866.

On his farm near Indianapolis Mr. Chris-
tian married in 1867 iliss ilargaret ]\Ioore.
Their long companionship of thirty-seven
years was broken by her death in 1904.
Mrs. Christian was the daughter of Thomas
and Catherine (Moore) Moore. Her
father, a native of Ireland, settled first
at Zanesville. Ohio, on coming to this coun-
try, and while there was employed on the
National Road with his father and brother
John Moore. Later he came to Indiana
and homesteaded the farm now owned by
Mr. Christian.

Mr. Christian has much reason to be
proud of his children, six of whom were
born and three are still living. Their

names in order of birtli are Thomas J.,
Wilmer F., Henry E., Clai-a, who died in
infancy, Frank, who died in 1895, at the
age of twenty-two, and Grace. Thomas
J. is in the lumber business at New Albany,
Indiana, and married Catherine Bird
Holmes, has a son Wilmer, who is now a
lieutenant in the Commissary Department
in France, and a daughter, Catherine.
Wilmer F. Christian, who is a graduate of
Wabash College, and the Medical College
of Indianapolis, is a trustee of the Indiana
Epileptic Farm, an office to which he was
appointed successively by Governors Mar-
shall, Ralston and Goodrich, and is now
also serving on the State Fuel Administra-
tion with Doctor Jameson. He is a trus-
tee of Wabash College. Wilmer F. Chris-
tian married Edna McGuilard. Henry E.
Christian, wiio died in 1912, married Mary
Jeffery, and their son, Henry Prentice
Christian, is now a student of Williams Col-
lege. The daughter Grace is a graduate
of Smith College and in 1910 became tlK
wife of William Wharton. Mr. Wharton
is a graduate of Harvaj-d University, was
formerly in the Federal service under
Doctor Wiley, and is now on the Food Com-
mission, head of the Departnniet of West-
ern Division. His home is at University
City. Mr. and Mrs. Wharton have two
children, Margaret, horn January 6, 1912,
and Lucy, born in December, 1915.

George W. Jones was horn in Vincennes,
Indiana, April 12, 1804. Removing to
Missouri, he became clerk of the United
States District Court, later served in the
Black Hawk war, and afterward became a
resident of Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin,
wliere he was judge of the County Court
and general of militia. He was a demo-
cratic member of Congress, was a United
States senator from Iowa, and later min-
ister to New Grenada. After his i-etum to
the United States Senator Jones resided at
Dubuque, Iowa.

Charles B. iloRRisox, now deceased,
was for many years actively identified with
LaPorte business affairs. The Jlorrisons
as a family settled in LaPorte County
more than eighty years ago. and wci'c dis-
tinguished primarily as business men. with
a special genius for banking.

Ezekiel :\Iorrison, father of Cliarles P..,
was born in Windsor, Vermont. December

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28, 1801, sou of Robert and Hannah ;\Iorri-
son, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Ezekiel
Morrison lirst came to LaForte in 1834
After some investigation lie went back east
and in 1836 established his family in the
county. He brought them here by wagon
and lake boat. He invested heavily in
real estate, and later took a contract to
build a section of the Lake Shore Railway.
Upon its completion he rode to Chicago
upon the first engine to go over that road,
the engine itself being named the Morri-
son. He was promiueut in business affairs,
and in 186-1 organized and established the
First National Bank of LaPorte and was
its president for many years. He died at
LaPorte December 28, 1884. He married
Almira Bridge, who died in 1880. For his
second wife he married ]Mary Carson. One
of the sons of Ezekiel Morrison especially
prominent in LaPorte banking history was
R. S. Morrison.

Charles B. ilorrisou grew up iu La-
Porte and finished his education at "Wil-
liams College in Massachusetts. Instead
of adopting a profession he took up farm-
ing and became manager of a 1,000 acre
farm owned bj- his father seventeen miles
south of Valparaiso. He gave his atten-
tion to that large property until 1884,
when he traded it for farms in LaPorte
Comity, and in the spring of 1884 retired
to LaPorte, where he died in October,
1885.

In 1875 Charles B. Morrison married
Mary Billings. She was born in Val-
paraiso, a daughter of Enoch Billings, who
was born at Greensburg, Indiana, in 1808.
Enoch Billings acquired a very good edu-
cation, considering the handicaps of the
time in which he lived, and after reaching
his majority located near Valparaiso, In-
diana, where he bought and improved a
large farm. He finally moved to Val-
paraiso and died there in 1888, at the age
of eighty years. His wife was Maria
Bundy, who was born in Elkhart County,
Indiana, February 2, 1830, of Pennsyl-
vania Dutch ancestry. Her father, Jacob
Bundy, a native of Northumberland
County, Pennsylvania, was a pioneer in
Elkhart County, Indiana, establishing his
home there long before railroads were
built. He made a farm which he sold
later, and they then bought a farm near
Valparaiso, selling that and living on an-
other place near Valparaiso until his

death. Mr. Bundy married Maria Kauff-
man, a native of Northumberland County,
Pennsylvania. She was the mother of
eleven children. Mrs. Enoch Billings died
July 9, 1912. Her children were: George
W., Mary A., Sarah Louise, HoUis P.,
Schuyler Colfax, Terry E. and Frank N.

Mrs. Charles B. Morrison received her
education in the Valparaiso High School,
and lived with her parents until her mar-
riage. By her marriage to ilr. Morrison
she had two sons : Harry Ezekiel and
Thomas Enoch. In 1895 Mrs. Morrison
became the wife of William Andrew, of
whom a brief sketch appears elsewhere.
Mrs. Andrew is still living at LaPorte.

Her son, Harry E., was educated iu the
public schools of LaPorte and had ad-
vanced literary studies in Hartford, Con-
necticut. He took up the study of medi-
cine in Rush Medical College but was
obliged to abandon it on account of ill
health. Later, in 1900, he graduated from
the medical department of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity at Nashville, Tennessee, and prac-
ticed for a time at LaPorte with Doctor
Wilcox. Then after a special course in the
diseases of the eye, ear and throat he lo-
cated at ilichigan City, but in 1904, on
account of ill health, removed to ]\Iedford,
Oregon, where he enjoyed a large general
practice until his death June 20, 1913. He
married in 1900 and left a wife at the
time of his death.

Thomas E. ilorrison also attended pub-
lic school at LaPorte and prepared for
college at St. John's Military Academy in
Delatield, Wisconsin. He entered the Uni-
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but did
not remain to graduate. For two years
he was a traveling salesman and later did
office work in South Bend, and is now
making his home with his mother at La-
Porte. Mrs. Andrew is a member of the
Presbytei'ian Church.

WiLLi.vM L. Andrew, who died at La-
Porte November 13, 1915, was one of the
last survivors of the older generation of
Andrews whose activities entered into the
very groundwork of LaPorte and has con-
tinued uninterrupted to the present time.

The late William L. Andrew was born
at LaPorte August 28. 1842. son of James
and Abigail (Lane) Andrew, a grandson
of James Andrew and a great-grandson of
Dr. John Andrew, wlio sei-ved as a surgeon

INDIANA AND INDIANANS

15K

with the American forces during the Rev-
olutiouary war. James Andrew's grand-
father was one of the pioneers of Hamilton
County, Ohio.

James Andrew, father of William L.,
wa.s born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in
1799, and died at LaPorte in 1895, having
been one of the founders of that city,
which he lived to se« grow and develop
into one of the leading industrial and civic
centers of Northern Indiana. He was asso-
ciated with his brother Capt. A. P. An-
drew in building a section of the old Michi-
gan Road, and these brothers took their
pay for that work in government land in
Northern Indiana. Thus they acquired
large holdings, upon which much of the
present City of LaPorte has since been
built. James Andrew brought his family
to LaPorte in 1832. In 1823 James An-
drew married Abigail Lane, who died in
1842, at the old home near LaPorte. She
was the mother of three children : Cath-
erine, who married Dr. George L. An-
drew, a grandson of the Revolutionary sur-
geon above noted in the ancestry of Wil-
liam L. Andrew ; James, who died in child-
hood; and William L. Andrew.

James Andrew improved a farm near
LaPorte which later his granddaughter,
Sara Andrew Shafer, widely known as an
author and living at Baltimore, Maryland,
called Oak Farm. ]\Irs. Shafer is author
of a book entitled "Day Before Yester-
day." Several years ago she wrote a poem
commemorative of the old Andrew home-
stead near LaPorte. It describes so many
of the associations that linger around that
old place that it may be appropriately
quoted herewith:

"Was it always Spring in the long ago

At Grandfather's?
Was the orchard hid always by rosy snow ?
In the long grass did violets always grow.
While blackbirds paced, their necks aglow,
Under the pines — where softest winds
Rocked the cradle of baby bird,
To tunes the sweetest ever heard ?
Tunes that come to my longing ears
Over the silence of many years.
Was it always Summer, there, of old,

At Grandfather's?
Were wheat fields ever a sea of gold ?
Were meadows but carpets gay, unrolled
For the frolic winds to toss and fold ?

did brown (juails
shadow went and
was twice the

'ilid oat sheafs rijje

pipe,
While sunshine and

came,
With a glory that never

same ?
On grateful leaves where the warm rains

wept.
While over the prairies the dim dusk

crept

To Grandfather's .'
Was it always Autumn in those fair days,

At Grandfather's?
Were the old woods always one glorious

blaze
Of light half hidden by the amber haze
Through which we trod enchanted ways
Over grasses green — over golden sheen
Of fallen leaves, where the cup-moss grew,
And the crisp rime lay in the place of dew f
Were there always scent of ripened stores
Of corns and fruits from the granary doors

At Grandfather's?
W^as it always Winter, cold and white

At Grandfather's?
Did the sun set always in crimson light,
And the stars come, silent, and far, and

bright
To make more fair the cloudless night?
Where pine trees bold fenced out the cold,
W^as ever a light like the light that glowed
From the ruddy pane down the snowy

road,
Where the warm fire touched a welcoming

face
That gave old winter its tenderest grace

At Grandfather's?
Are those all past or all before

Us — grandfather ?
Where are you now — on the blessed

shore —
Do they wait with you — those days of

yore —
For the children.— to vanish never more .^
Shall we find them stored. — that golden

hoard, —
Summers and Winters, Falls and Springs,.
Snowfalls, harvests, blossomings,
Babyhood, childhood, buddinsr youth,
Innocence, happiness, love and truth.
And you. Grandfather.'"

The late William L. Andrew was edu-
cated at Antioch College at Yellow-
Springs, Ohio. Instead of adopting a pro-
fession he went to farming, and succeeded

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to the ownership of the Oak Fainn, now
called "Roseland Garden." He was very
successful as a farmer and at one time
owned upwards of 1,000 acres. In the
early '80s he removed to LaPorte and in
that city spent his last yeai-s.

His first wife was j\Iary Orr. She was
born in LaPorte County, daughter of
Henry Oit. At her death she left oiie
son Henry James. William L. Andrew
married for his second wife Mrs. Mary
Billings Morrison, widow of Charles B.
Morrison, whose career is told on other

Robert G. McClure, secretary of the
engineering department of the City of In-
dianapolis, is one of the leading men of
affairs in Indiana. His experience and ac-
tivities have never been provincial or local
in character. He has promoted and di-
rected the management of several large and
important industries and corporations, and
has long lived elose to those central influ-
ences which are most potent in the world
of business.

Like many of the leading men of Indian-
apolis. Mr. MeClure is of southern an-
cestry. He was born at Lewisburg, Mar-
shall County, Tennessee, May 29, 1862, sou
of Dr. Robert G. and Mary Elizabeth
(Ewing) McClure. His father, a native of
Greeneville, Tennessee, was both a farmer
and physician, served as an officer in the
Mexican war, was a Union man in senti-
ments but joined his state when it went in-
to the Confederacy, and saw active sem'ice
as lieutenant colonel in the Forty-Fii-st
Tennessee Regiment. He died at Lewis-
burg at the age of fifty-seven. He was one
of the promoters and the first president
of the Duck River Valley Railroad, now
part of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad from Columbia to Decherd, Ten-
nessee. For a quarter of a century he
served as an elder in the Presbyterian
Church. His wife was born in Marshall
Coiuity, Tennessee, October 2, 1828, and
died at Anniston, Alabama, November 20,
1906. Her father, Lyle A. Ewing, was of
old Virginia s'tock and became an extensive
land owner in Marshall County, Tennes-
see. A brother of ilrs. Robert G. McClure
and one of her sons became Presbyterian
ministers.

Robert G. ^McClure began life with a
good education, attained in the public

schools of his native town, also in the
Universitj' of Mississippi, and two years
in the Southwestern Presbyterian Univer-
sity at Clarksville, Tennessee. Ill health
compelled him to leave college before grad-
uating. His early enterprise brought him
a knowledge of printing. He worked as a
railroad newsboy between St. Louis and In-
dianapolis, and showed from the fir.st un-
usual business cjualifications. In 1882-8-1
he was bookkeeper for the Jesse French
Music Company of Nashville, Tennessee,
spent two years as a piano salesman for
R. Dorman & Company of Nashville, and
in 1886 located at Kansas City, where for
two years he was bookkeeper for the Bank
of Commerce. In the summer of 1889 he
entered the serv'ice of the Standard Oil
Company as salesman for Northern ]\Iis-
souri, with headquarters at Kansas City.
His ability as a salesman brodght him three
successive prizes offered by the company
for the best percentage of increased sales.
In 1891 he became special salesman for
^Missouri and Kansas, and in 1893 auditor
for the same territory. In 1894 the Stand-
ard Oil Company transferred him to New
Orleans as assistant manager. He re-
signed a year later, and well earned the
hearty appreciation and best wishes that
were accorded him.

His active mind had in the meantime
led him to the law, aud in 1895 he was
admitted by the Supreme Court of Ten-
nessee. He practiced in his native town
until the summer of 1897. During 1896-
97 he was also owner and publisher of a
newspaper at Nashville, and was senior
partner of the firm IMcClure and Fei'gu-
son, insurance and loan agents. In 1896
he was vice president of the Tennessee
State Sunday School Association.

Mr. IMcClure removed to Indianapolis in
1897, as secretary and treasurer of the
Indiana branch of the National Refining
Company of Cleveland. Between that year
and 1904 the business of the company in
liis territory increased seventy per cent.
In 1902-04 he was also president and a
fourth owner of the American Oil and Re-
fining Company, pi-oducers of oil, coal and
gas in Kentucky fields. Since then Mr.
McClure has owned many commercial in-
terests in copper and lead mines in Ari-
zona, and has been connected with a num-
ber of industrial operations in Indianap-
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lu 1902 Mr. McClure became a ineiuber
of the Indianapolis Commereial Club and
in 1904 was elected its secretary. Being a
big business man himself, his official con-
nection with the club brought it increased
prestige and power and the membership
of the club more than doubled while he was
secretary. This is now the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce. After resigning
as secretary Mr. McClure took up the work
of organization and promotion of civic
organizations in different cities of the
country, especially in Cincinnati and Phil-
adelphia. After returning to Indianapolis
he was engaged in local business, but fol-
lowing the election of ilayor Jewett he
was appointed secretary of the City En-
gineering Department.

Mr. McClure is one of the prominent In-
diana Masons. He took his tirst dcgr^'cs
in that order in 1903 and has attained all
the York and Scottish Rite degrees and
orders, including the thirty-second of the
Scottish Rite. He is a past ma.ster of
Ancient Landmai'ks Lodge at Indianapolis,
member of the Mystic Shrine, and now
Thrice Potent IMaster of Adoniram Lodge
of Perfection. Mr. McClure 's first frater-
nal affiliation was with the Good Templars,
which he joined at the age of sixteen.
Since 1887 he has been an Odd Fellow and
was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias
for many years. He is a member of the
Marion Club, the Indianapolis Board of
Trade, and in many campaigns has wielded
a great influence on behalf of the re-
publican party.

In 1917 an enterprising reporter of the
Indianapolis Star published statistics and
data for an article published under the
title "Who Has the Widest Hand-Shaking
Acquaintance in Indianapolis?" The re-
porter reviewed the claims of a number
of local citizens to this distinction, but
wound up with undubitable evidence that
Mr. McClure was entitled to the palm. Mr.
McClure is also a whist enthusiast and is
one of the original members of the Indian-
apolis Whist Club.

January 2, 1884, he married ^liss Locke
J. Bradford. They were married at the
^ladison Presbyterian Church near Nash-
ville. Mrs. McClure is a daughter of
George and Narcissa (Bi-own) Bradford
of Nashville. Her father was of a Massa-
chusetts family, was a lawyer, and Jlrs.
IMcClure's mother was a daughter nf
Vol. ni— 20

Colonel Lucien Brown, who was a soldier
in both the ilexican and Confederate wars.
j\Ir. and Mre. McClure had two children,
one of whom died in infancy. The son,
Robert Locke McClure, born April 10,
1894, is now successfully engaged in prac-
tice as a physician and surgeon.

Louis Hollweg, one of the foremost
citizens of Indiana, of German birth, has
had a career that reflects vast credit upon
his initiative and industry, and also upon
the state of his adoption, to whch he has
shown a loyalty that any native born citi-
zen might envy. His is an inspiring life,
lie came to this country with no capital,
and under adverse conditions made a suc-
cess such as only few men can expect to
attain. Two factors made this possibl(\
natural ability and industry. When the
land of his nativity and the land of his
adoption became involved in war Mr. Holl-
weg did not hesitate, but cast his influence
with the United States, where his children
were born, where he made his fortune and
where he has his home, his altars and his
flag.

He was born at Herdringer, Westphalia,
Germany, where his father, Paul Hollweg,
held a responsible position as Obberfoerster
in the government forestry service. The
son was born July 27, 1840, one of the
three children of Paul and Alwine (Kenz-
ler) Hollweg. When he was .seven years
of age his father died and a year later
he was completely orphaned bv the death
of his mother. He and his brother and
sister were reared by an uncle who had
been a captain in the artillery service and
at the time held a government position.
This period of his boyhood wa.s spent at
Soest, and there he attended public school
two years and also the collegiate institu-
tion known in Germany as a Gymnasium.
He was in school until past sixteen, then
for four years was in the family and busi-
ness of I. Z. Koch, a dry goods merchant
at Detmold.

Tlis uncle having died Louis Hollweg
determined to cast his fortune with the
United States. In 1860 he crossed the
ocean on one of the old slow-going
steamei-s, and was seventeen days in mak-
ing the passage. In the meantime, per-
haps in preparation for his coming to
America, he liad acquired a knowledge of
the English lanunage. and was thus re-

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lieved of one of the embarrassing handi-
caps that foreigners usually have to bear
in a new country. For about three mouths
he lived with a relative, A. Hausmaun, at
Cleveland, and while there worked part of
the time in a dry goods store. This re-
lative in 1861 came to Indianapolis to
settle the estate of a deceased brother, and
young Hollweg came along. That was the
begiuning of his long and influential con-
nection with the capital City of Indiana,
M-here he has been a resident for over fifty-
five years.

Until January, 1868, he employed him-
self as a clerk in various establishments.
He had arrived in ludiauapolis on the
seventh of January and was filling his
first job three days later. In January,
1868, he engaged iu a very small way
in wholesale china and glassware business.
In June, 1869, he took in as a partner
Charles E. Reese, a brother-in-law. This
partnership was dissolved in 1888 by the
death of Mr. Reese, and after that Mr.
Hollweg continued alone.

In connection with this business, and fol-
lowing the discovery of natural gas, Mr.
Hollweg began the manufacture of fruit
jars at Greenfield, Indiana. At first these
jars were made entirely by the manual
blowing process, later an improvement was
added by compressing the jars in moulds
as a finishing process, and in time the en-
tire process was effected by automatic ma-
chinery. Mr. Hollweg obtained control of
the rights of the Owens automatic gla.ss
blowing machines for use in connection
with the manufacture of fruit jars. That
small industry was the nucleus of what is
now one of the most important industries
of America. In 1909 :\Ir. Hollweg sold
his large factory and patent rights to the
Ball Brothers of Muncie. In the meantime
he continued his china and glassware busi-
ness at Indianapolis, but in January, 1915,
tiirned over the establishment to some of
his old employees, the plan being that he
be reimbursed out of the earnings of the
business. Later on, being requested by
some of the men to return, Mr. Hollweg
resumed a half interest, and of his portion
he has since given a half interest to his
son, Ferd L. Hollweg, who is president and
has active charge of the business at pres-
ent.

In 1891 ]\Ir. Hollweg became a partner
with H. B. Hibben, John W. :\Iurpliy,

John H. Holliday and others in the whole-
sale dry goods business under the firm
name of Murphy, Hibben & Company. In
1894 Mr. Holliday retired from the enter-
prise, the three others continuing until
1901, when Mr. Murphy retired. A third
partner was then introduced in Mr. T. E.
Hibben, who died July 5, 1915. H. B.
Hibben and Mr. Hollweg continued the
business until the death of the former on
ilarch 23, 1916. Thus Mr. Hollweg is the
surviving partner and successor of this
great and flourishing business of Indianap-
olis. On July 1, 1916, the firm was incor-
porated as Hibben-HoUweg & Company,
with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Mr.
Hollweg is its president. Other important
.stockholdei-s are H. J. Hibben, A. M.
Wiles, Louis Weisenberger and Hubert
Heine. Mr. Hollweg still continues as the
controlling and directing head of the cor-
poration. He is also one of the charter
stockholders and is vice president of the
Indianapolis Telephone Company. Be-
sides this he is interested in a number of
other enterprises. He is also vice presi-
dent of the Indianapolis Charity Organiza-
tion, the interest of which society he has
very much at heart.

In 187-4 ilr. Hollweg married Louisa
Karrmann, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her death
occurred in 1878. She was the mother of
three children : Ferdinand, Norma and
Julia. Norma is the wife of George C.
Haerle, son of William Haerle, one of the
old and prominent business men of Indian-
apolis. Julia married Niles Chapman,
whose maternal grandfather was the
founder of the Niles Tool Works at Ham-
ilton, Ohio. In 1884 Mr. Hollweg mar-
ried Louisa Kuhlmann. The only daugh-
ter of this marriage, Ina, is the wife of An-
ton Vonnegut, of one of the best known
families of Indianapolis.

LoCTs G. Deschlee has been one of In-
dianapolis' successful business men for the
past thirty-six years, has developed one of
the largest wholesale and retail cigar busi-
nesses in the state, and in many ways has
helped promote the material and civic pros-
perity of the capital city.

He was bom at Indianapolis January-
24, 1865, son of Frederick Joseph and
Louise (Lease") Deschler. His parents were
both born in Germany. His father came to
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was active in biisiuess and social life. He
was a democrat. He and his wife wei'e
members of the Catholic Church. Fred-
erick J. Deschler died October 6, 1S97.

Louis G. Deschler as a boy attended
private schools and the Catholic parochial
schools, and at the age of thirteen went to
work a.s clerk in a cigar stand. He is a
past master of every phase of the tobacco
business. Later he became manager of the
cigar stand in the old Bates House, oc-
cupying the present site of the Claypool
Hotel. In June, 1883, at the age of eight-
een, he borrowed money to buy the cigar
business in the Bates House, aud it was his
alert business methods aud genial char-
acter that enabled him to make a success
of that venture and acquire the nucleus of
his present prosperity. He graelually ex-
panded his enterprise into both the whole-
sale aud retail cigar business, and in 1907
he erected the Deschler Building at 135
South Illinois 'Street, a large structure
which has since been the home of his whole-
sale busines.s. He also conducts ten retail
stores throughout Indianapolis and La-
Fayette, Indiana, and Bloomington, Illi-
nois. For the past three years he has
operated a cigar factory, employing 100
hands, and there ^Ir. Deschler manufac-
tures his leading brands. He is also giving
employment to seven traveling salesmen.
He is president of two zinc mine corpora-
tions and a director of two others, besides
being interested in several other corpora-
tions.

]Mr. Deschler is a stockholder and di-
rector of the Indiana Hotel Company,
which built and owned the noted Claypool
Hotel, one of the finest hotels in the middle
West. He is a republicau in polities, and is
affiliated with the ^Marion, Columbia and
Commercial clubs, the Board of Trade and
is a member of the other local societies and
organizations.

RiCH.\RD Otto Johnson, JI. A. If "he
is most worthy who serves best," a crown
of honor might fitly be bestowed by In-
diana upon Richard Otto Johnson. Gover-
nors and other conspicuous men of affairs
have come and gone since he began to
serve the people and the welfare of the
state in connection with the Indiana State
School for the Deaf in 1883. and in all the
consecutive thirty-six years his work and
devotion to that institution have been un-

abating and of increasing value. As this
publication is issued ^Ir. Johnson com-
pletes thirty-one consecutive years as su-
perintendent of the institution after having
served five years as secretary. His has
been a special field of service, devoted to
one afflicted class of humanity ; but it has
been a type of service whicli has untold
and multiplied benefits for the present and
all future generations, and aft'ects deeply
aud vitally the very sources of human effi-
ciency and welfare.

ilr. Johnson, among other distinctions,
is the first native son of Indiana to fill the
position of superintendent of the Indiana
State School for the Deaf. He was born
January 17, 1858, at Lewisville in Henry
County, Indiana, a town that was founded
by and named in honor of one of his ma-
ternal ancestors. His paternal ancestors
were of splendid old Virginia and Ken-
tucky families of English origin, first com-
ing to Vii-ginia in the early 1600 's; while
through his mother he is related to some
of those pioneer English families that es-
tablished homes in ilassachusetts and New
Jersey about the same time his paternal
ancestors settled in Virginia. He is an
American of three centuries standing, and
glories in the fact.

His parents were Dr. Thornton Aurelius
and Mary (Freeman) Johnson. His
grandfather, Lawson William Johnson,
was born in Virginia and married Mar-
garet Anne Winslow Stubblefield, also a
native of that state and of Scotch ancestry.
Her maternal great-grandfather was
Thomas Noble, of Glasgow, Scotland, who
came to ^Maryland in 1738, and had an
estate on the Potomac, opposite that of
Lawrence Washington (Blount Vernon).
Through him she was a first cousin of James
and Noah Nolile. the fonner a I'nitcd States
senator (1816-1831), and the latter gover-
nor (1831-1837) of Indiana. Lawson W.
Johnson and wife were pioneer settlei-s in
Johnson County, Indiana, and his wife
was a highly educated woman of literary
attainments and at one time conducted a
private school in Indianapolis. Dr. Thorn-
ton A. Johnson was born at Hopkinsville,
Kentucky. February 22, 1823. He was a
nephew of Edward Johnson, a well-known
and prominent jurist of Virginia, and a
cousin of General ]Marniaduke Johnson of
Missouri. With such family connections
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youth and had a successful though brief
career as a physician and surgeon. In
1862 he moved to Indianapolis, where he
died July 17, 1865, at the age of forty-
two. He was twice married, his wives
being sisters, the first, Emeline Freeman,
who died in 1851, the mother of Charles,
Marcella and Lucien, all of whom are now
deceased, and the second, Mary Freeman,
the mother of Richard 0. Johnson, and of
a daughter Nellie, the wife of Charles M.
Cooper, a prominent Indianapolis manu-
facturer and capitalist.

Mary Freeman Johnson was born Janu-
ary 7, 1832, and passed beyond August 25,
1910. She was highly educated, well-read
on all questions of the times, and, pos-
sessing rare literary ability, found fre-
quent expression in verse. Her father,
Lewis Crowell Freeman, was bom in New
Jersey April 13, 1794. His ancestor, Ste-
phen Freeman, was a native of Oxford,
England, and came to America in 1635,
first locating at Saugus (Lynn), Massa-
chusetts, but later migrating to Connecti-
cut and in 1666 becoming one of the leaders
of the colony which founded the Town of
Newark in New Jersey, where he died in
1675. Lewis Crowell Freeman, born in
Morristown of that state, was in the battle
of New Orleans during the War of 1812,
and soon aftei^ward located near Cincin-
nati, where he acquired extensive land
holdings. April 25, 1822, he married
Susan Harris, one of a family of twelve
children, who was born in Trenton, New
Jersey, September 28, 1796, the daughter
of Joseph Harris and Jemima (Drake)
Harris, Joseph being a younger son of
Sir Robert Harris of Belfast, Ireland, and
his wife, Jemima, a descendant of a brother
of Sir Francis Drake, coming to Boston in
1630, and a cousin of Andrew Johnson,
president of the LTnited States. Joseph's
first wife was Rachel, a sister of Jemima,
by whom he also had two children. Not
long after his man-iage Lewis C. Freeman
moved to the wilds of Ea-stern Indiana,
and in 1829 founded the Village of Lewis-
ville in Henry County. He also did much
in connection with the building of the
Whitewater Canal, and of that pioneer
railway between Indianapolis and Colum-
bus, Ohio, which is now part of the Penn-
sylvania system. Lewis C. Freeman died
October 3, 1851, seventeen days after the
death of his wife, and theirs are names that

have a proper place among the prominent
early Indianans.

Such in brief is the ancestry from which
Richard 0. Johnson has inherited some
of his special characteristics. He was four
years old wheu his parents moved to In-
dianapolis, and he attended public schools
there to the age of twelve. He wa,s also a
student for one year at Wittenberg Col-
lege at Springfield, Ohio, and at Earlham
College at Richmond, Indiana, another
. j'ear, while from 1872 to 1876 he was a
cadet-student in the historic Virginia Mili-
tary Institute at Lexington, the "West
Point of the South," where he had a
thorough classical scientific and military
training, serving as non-commissioned and
commissioned officer. He was graduated
at the age of eighteen, on July 4, 1876, the
centennial anniversary of the Republic,
and was the youngest boy in class of thirty-
five. In later years, because of his success-
ful educational experience, the institute
conferred upon him the master's degree,
the required thesis, in addition to his past
work, being upon "The Ps.vchic Develop-
ment of The Hearing and The Deaf." In
the spring of 1877 he took up the study of
law under former Supreme Justice Samuel
H. Buskirk at Indianapolis, with whom he
remained two years, and on his twenty-first
birthday was admitted to the bar. Among
his close and helpful friends of those days
were Thomas A. Hendricks, Joseph E.
McDonald, David Turpie, and Daniel W.
Voorhees, high in the councils of the na-
tion and United States Senators from In-
diana. Mr. Johnson had the training and
the talents which undoubtedl.y would have
brought him a high place in "the legal pro-
fession, but from the present point of view
it seems extremelj" fortunate that circum-
stances and destiny directed him into edu-
cational work, a profession for which he
had distinctive qualifications and inclina-
tions, as his successful career has demon-
strated. However, he practiced law at
Indianapolis for two yeara, and then was
on the road representing a law-publishing
house for a year.

When in 1883 he was induced to become
secretary of the Indiana State School for
the Deaf, he regarded the position as only
temporary and intended to resume the prac-
tice of law aft^er a j'ear. Instead of this,
however, he remained as secretarj- of the
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1521

was appointed acting superintendent, and
iu March, 1890, entered upon the duties of
the office iu which by reappoiutmeiit he
has served now nearly thirty-oue years.

Indiana takes a great deal of pride in
its school for the deaf at Indianapolis, and
what that school is and has been for a
number of years in the way of buildings
and grounds, equipment, and, above all,
in the system and efficiency of instruction
and training is largely the result of his
creative genius. It is not only local pride
but a deliberate judgment of competent
authorities that would claim for Indiana
one of the most successful schools for the
deaf in the entire eounti-y.

During his incumbency as superintend-
ent Mr. Johnson among other things has
established oral and kindergarten depart-
ments, and a normal class for teachers,
outlined a curriculum which meets the ap-
proval of educators of the deaf evei7where,
developed the industrial department and
placed it upon an educational basis,
created a department of atUetics, built up
a museum for educational purposes, and
established a physical and athletic system
which has received high commendation.

Mr. Johnson has long insisted that the
education of the deaf by the state is done
as a matter of right to them, not of charity,
and in this contention he has the endorse-
ment of the three great professional or-
ganizations having to do with the educa-
tion of the deaf, and of the various state
and national bodies of the deaf themselves,
who resent their association and compari-
son with mental and moral defectives. It
was through his personal efforts that the
General Assembly enacted a law in 1907
specifically stating that the State School
for the Deaf, and that for the blind, should
not be considered nor classed as benevolent
or charitable institutions, biit as educa-
tional institutions of the state. In 1909,
and again iu 1913, he also procured amend-
ments whereby the deaf and blind are now
included in the provisions of the general
compulsory education law of the state.

Another feature of his long siiperintend-
ency has been his own non-partisaiiship and
a rigid extension of freedom from politics
to all administrative branches of the insti-
tution. His record on that score stands
as an illuminating example of what can
be accomplished by a man who resolutely
sets out to conduct an institution withoni

regard to the many varied and insidious
influences of politics. When the affairs
of the institution are not concerned, Mr.
Johnson is generally regarded as an inde-
pendent democrat of southern inclination,
and once, while he was a young practicing
lawyer of Indianapolis, was a candidate
for nomination to the State Senate. He
was also connected in an official capacity
with city, county, and state party com-
mittees at different times before entering
upon his present duties, since which he
has carefully abstained from active polit-
ical participation and requiring those un-
der him to do the same regardless of party
affiliations, believing that the efficiency and
good of the institution will be better con-
served thereby.

It is in the educational profession, espe-
cially that branch devoted to the education
of the deaf, that Mr. Johnson is most
widely known, in fact is a national and
international authority. He has served
nine yeai-s as president of the Conference
of Superintendents and Principals of
American Schools for the Deaf, twenty-
three years as member of its executive com-
mittee and eighteen years as its chairman.
For twenty years he was a member of the
Board of Directors of the American As-
sociation to Promote the Teaching of
Speech to the Deaf, and has also served
as a member of the executive committee
and as chairman of various sections of
the Convention of American Instructors of
the Deaf. He has served on various pro-
fessional committees and has been for years
an active member of the National Educa-
tional Association as well as connected
with various other educational botlies of
state and national scope. In 1904 he was
selected as one of a committee of three
having in charge the "Helen Keller Day"
celebration at the St. Louis Exposition,
and served the Exposition as a member
of the International Jurj^ on Awards for
the Department of Education. At the
hands of the General Committee of
Awards himself was honored by two gold
medals and diplomas for research work
and publications concerning deafness and
the education of the deaf. Three times
he has been called upon by the State of
Illinois to conduct civil sei-vice examina-
tions for the educational department of its
State Schon] for the Deaf: and on several
occasions has been called into consultation

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bj' officials of other states upon matters
pertaining to institution management and
tlie education of the deaf. At present he
is chairman of a national committee ap-
pointed by his professional brethren to
investigate and report upon the need of
standardization of methods in schools for
the deaf and of measurement of efficieuey
therein, etc.

His wide and varied influence has not
been confined to the institution over whieli
he stands and his membership in various
bodies. He has sought to reach the ears
of the masses of people by a general educa-
tional campaign conducted through talks
and addresses and a number of buUetius
and pamphlets which have had a wide
circulation. Some of these are of eoui-se
technical, and are transcripts of addresses
made before professional bodies. Others
are of a more popular nature, and Mr.
Johnson has found an effective means of
reaching thousands of people who should
be interested in the distribution of small
printed cards that serve to drive home
obvious truths known and recognized by
the medical profession but not generally
appreciated by the public at large. Among
the titles of the various pamphlets and
addresses pi'epared and issued by ilr. John-
son, are the following: Educational Ev-
olution, Psychic Development of the Hear-
ing and the Deaf, The Evils of Adenoid
Growth, Defects of Childliood, Industrial
Training, Kindergarten Development, Pho-
nographic and IMechanical Massage of the
Ear, Fiscal Affairs in Public Institutions,
Grade Development, Moral Training, The
Education of the Deaf. etc. In treating
of the subject of kindergarten develop-
ment Mr. Johnson antedated several feat-
ures of the famous program more recently
given such extensive publicity to the world
by Doctor ilontessori.
" The United States government taking
over the School for the Deaf during the
summer and fall of 1918 for the training
of soldiers for over-sea service, the regular
school for the deaf could not be operated,
and the deaf children of the state could not
return after their usual summer vacation
period. ]\Ir. Johnson at once organized a
correspondence course through his staff of
teachers a.ssembled at the school, and suc-
cessfully carried on the work, the first at-
tempt of the kind ever made anywhere
with deaf children.

^Ir. Johnson is a member of high stand-
ing in the Masonic Order, being a Knight
Templar, a thirty-third degree Scotti.sh
Eite Mason, and a Noble of the ilystic
Shrine. He is a member of the college
fraternity Phi Delta Theta, and he and
his family are communicants of the Epis-
copal Church.

His wife, whom he married September
26, 1889, was Miss Clara Ethel :MeBride,
daughter of James William and Sarah
(Mock) ]McBride of Kokomo, Indiana. She
also is of Kentucky ancestry, and her ma-
ternal grandmother was a cousin of Henry
Clay. Mr. and ^Mrs. Johnson have two
children, Mary Virginia, now wife of T.
Harrison Grant, a young banker of Fulton,
ilissouri, and Richard Kanelm, who is a
thirtj'-second degree Scottish Rite ]\Iason
and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and
who, as a lad of twenty-one, volunteered
and served his country for nearly two
years with the American Expeditionary
Forces in France during the gi'eat World

Henry E. Schortemeier is president of
the Indianapolis Casket Company and
general manager and treasurer of the
Grocers Baking Companj-. He has numer-
ous other financial and executive connec-
tions with business in Indianapolis, where
he enjoys a position of special esteem and
where he has been a resident for about
a quarter of a century.

For any young man who has nothing'
else beyond ambition and abilty to work
hard there is much encouragement and
inspiration in the life of Henry E. Schorte-
meier. He was born in the Province of
Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, August 30,
1847. Thanks to the compulson' educa-
tional system of his native land he at-
tended common schools six months a year
for a period of seven yeai-s. When he was
only nine years of age his parents put
him out to work in the neighborhood, and
he thus earned his own keep and living
and his wages were regularly turned back
into the family treasury. From that time
forward in fact he ■ never knew a home
except such as he could make for himself.

In the meantime some relatives and
friends had come to America. In 1866, at
the age of nineteen, he decided to follow
them. He made the voyage in the steer-
age of a sailing vessel, and was ten weeks

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1523

and four days en route. Landiug at Bal-
timore, he proceeded westward to Ciueiii-
nati, and reached that city practically
peuuiless. In the meantime he had learned
and become thoroughly practiced in the
cardinal virtues of industry and thrift,
and it was these principles upon which he
has chiefly relied throughout his business
career. The first two years he spent at
Cincinnati were made up of the hardest
kind of toil. During the summer months
he worked as a common laborer in brick
yards. During the winter he obtained
work in harvesting ice, in storing coal in
cellars, and he seldom allowed any day to
pass in which he did not do something to
earn an honest dollar. The next four years
he spent as a hard working porter for
a wholesale house. The scale of wages paid
for such work fifty years ago was much
lower than at present, and for that rea-
son it is all tlie more remarkable that ^Ir.
Schortemeier by 1872 managed to save the
sum of .$550.

With this capital, together wtli an asso-
ciate, he embarked in the retail grocery
business in Cincinnati. The partnership
continued until 1877, and by that time
i\Ir. Schortemeier had a working capital of
about $1,700. Selling out his Cincinnati
business he came to Indiana, locating at
Shelbyville, w^iere he continued in the gro-
cery bi;siness for eight yeai-s. In the mean-
time he had made some investments in
California, and on selling his interests at
Shelbyville went w-est to give them his
personal supei*vision. By that time his
prosperity w-as such that he might have
properly been accounted a successful man.
The lands and other properties accnmu-
lated by him represented a value of about
$17,000. His domestic fortune was also
considerable; since he had a good wife and
seven young children. In California he
came face to face with material disaster,
his investments going wrong and wiping
out all his saviiiijN ,"xr..,,i about .$2,000. A
man of such stcinlf.isi .ourage and deter-
mination as -Ml-. SclKuiciiieier never loses
heart even when contending with such
obstacles. He returned to Shelbyville and
once more engaged in the grocery busi-
ness, which he continued until 1893 and
then sold out at a profit.

In the spring of 1894 Jlr. Schortemeier
came to Indianapolis, and this city has
since been his home. Here he resumed the

Ijusiness in which his experience had made
him proficient, the retail grocery trade,
and he was one of the pioneers in building
up a chain of stores and at one time was
owner of five retail establishments in dif-
ferent parts of the city. He also became a
stockholder in the Grocers Baking Com-
pany, and his int^erests rapidly multiplied.
With few exceptions his undertakings
since coming to Indianapolis have proved
profitable. He is now the leading man in
the Grocers Baking Company, as general
manager and treasurer, also president of
the Indianapolis Casket Company, which
he assisted in organizing, of the Sanitary
^lilk Products Company, which he also
helped organize, and is a stockholder and
director of the Merchants Ice Company.
Mr. Schortemeier is a member of the
hoard of directors of the Woodland Ceme-
tery Company, the name of which has re-
cently been changed to ilemorial Park,
lie is an active member and an officer of
the Reformed Church and is an independ-
ent republican in politics. Mr. Schorte-
meier married in 1868 Sophia Schroer, and
on August 27. 1918, they celebrated their
golden wedding, in the presence of 200 rela-
tives and friends. Eight children were
born to their union : Elizabeth. Anna,
Henry. Sophia, Emma, William, who mai--
ried Hattie Windhorst, Carl, who married
Nettie Vert, and Frederick, who mari'ied
Margaret Boyd. Henry died at the age of
two years. Emma is now ]Mrs. Frederick
Bloemaker.

Edward A. H.\xneg.\n is numbered
among the Indianans who have achieved
fame in public life. He was born in Ohio,
was educated and spent his boyhood in
Kentucky, and began the practice of law
in Covington. Indiana. He was frequently
a member of the Legislature, was a repre-
sentative in Congress as a democrat, was a
I'nited States senator from Indiana in
1843-9. and from 1849 until 18.50 was min-
ister to Prussia. Senator Hannegan died
at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1859.

Catherixe Armstkoxc Stkketer. of
Terre Haute, is an Indiana woman whose
life record jiossesses elciiients and factors
out of the ordinarv.

She was bom at Terre Haute July 14.
1874. of a family of substantial bu.siness
and social jjosition. She attended the com-

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mon and high schools of her native city
and in 1891 graduated from Knickerbocker
Hall, a girls school at Indianapolis. In
1896, when she was twenty-two years of
age, she became the wife of Hari*y Winton
Streeter, of Muncie, Indiana. Mr. Streeter
was connected with the business of glass
manufacture at Muncie. His atfaii-s were
highly prosperous and his future was one
of much promise at the time of his early
death in 1903. In the meantime three
children had been born into the home, and
Mrs. Streeter was left with these as prac-
tically her only asset.

Mrs. Streeter refused to acc4?pt the com-
mon lot of widowhood. She determined to
make herself independent and make that
provision for her children which the death
of her husband had interrupted. She had
no special business training, only determi-
nation and resourcefulness. She at once
came to Terre Haute, aud here started in
the insurance business. Mrs. Streeter con-
fesses that she had never seen a policy and
and had absolutely no experience or knowl-
edge of the insurance business. But she
applied herself to mastering its principles,
and despite early discom-agemeuts she was
soon turing in a large monthly report of
business, and once started that business
has grown and accumulated until today
she is at the head of one of the best agencies
in Terre Haute and represents some of
the largest and best known companies. It
would be only natural that she took much
pride in her record as a business builder,
but it means most to her because it has
been the means by which she has reared
and educated her three children. These
children are : Winton, a student in the Rose
Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, was
in "the United States service, stationed at
Camp Taylor, in the Field Artillery,
Thirty-Seventh Training Battery, with the
rank "of second lieutenant ; William Arm-
strong, a graduate of the State Normal
School at Terre Haute, was in training for
army service with the S. A. T. C, and is
now a student in the Rose Polytechnic
Institute; and Virginia, still at home and
in school. Besides keping up her home and
providing for the education of her chil-
dren Mrs. Streeter has always contributed
generously to all good causes.

Her father was the late William II. Arm-
strong, who was born in England and was
three years of age when his parents came

to the United States. He had only a com-
mon school education and as a boy he
enlisted as a soldier in the Union army.
He was all through the war and rose to the
rank of lieutenant. After his militaiy
service he located at Terre Haute, where
he ciigaged in the drug business. He be-
came prominent in city affairs, served
as mayor and for thirty yeare was pres-
ident of the board of tnistees of the State
Normal School. He was also one of the
prominent members of the Grand Army of
the Republic and the Loyal Legion, and he
organized the Sons of Veterans in Indiana.
In 1890 William H. Armstrong removed to
Indianapolis, where he engaged in the
manufacture of surgical instriunents, a
business that is still carried on by members
of the family. He died at Indianapolis in
October, 1914. William H. Armstrong
married May Eldred, who was born at
Joliet, Illinois, and finished her education
in St. Xavier Convent in Chicago. She
is still a resident of Indianapolis. They
became the parents of six children, three
.sons and three daughters: May A., wife
of Prank Cleland, of Indianapolis; Mrs.
Catherine Armstrong Streeter; Richard F.,
who died at the age of thirty ycai-s ; Helen
A., wife of Moses H. Malone, of Indian-
apolis; Wiliam C, of Indianapolis; Eldred
B., who is a commander in the United
States Navy.

William Oscar Bates, journalist and
playwright, is a native of Indiana, for
many j'cars active as a newspaper man.

He was bora at Harrisburg, Fayette
County, Indiana, September 19, 18.52, son
of John and Angeline W. (Thomas) Bates.
His maternal grandfather. Elder Minor
Thomas, was a pioneer Baptist evangelist
of Central New York and Eastern Indiana.
The Bates family is of English descent,
and first established a home in the colony
of Virginia. His grandparents were John
and Polly (Pelly) Bates. Grandfather
John Bates was Ijorn in 1801 in southern
Virginia, and when a boy of twelve years
ran away from home and had a rather
eventful experience traveling through
Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky as a
teamster and as horse trader. In 1822,
at Paris, Kentucky, he married Polly Pel-
ly, who was born Jiuie 16, 1801. Soon
after their marriage they came to Indiana,
locating in Fayette County, where John

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Bates became a pioneer farmer. He also
used his early experienee in the horse busi-
ness to produce some fine blooded Norman
horses and pedigreed cattle, and thus
helped to raise the standards of livestock
in his county. He died in 1871 and his
wife in 1882. Their eight children are
all now deceased. Grandfather Bates was
a democrat but took no active part in
politics.

John Bates, Jr., father of William 0.,
was born April 7, 1828, in Fayette County,
grew up and received his early education
in the district schools, and about 1S73
removed to Indianapolis. Soon afterward
he located on a farm in Illinois, came
back to Indianapolis in 1888, but finally
retired and removed to Fort AVorth, Texas,
where he died March 11, 1910. He mar-
ried December 4, 1851, Angeline Thomas,
who died February 28, 1900. Their two
children were "William 0. and Emma Lo-
rena, the latter the wife of James A. Buch-
anan. John Bates while a resident of
Indianapolis became interested in the de-
velopment of Woodi-uff Place. He was a
democrat, a member of the Christian
Church, and though of quiet and unas-
siuning nature was always ready to do
his part when called upon.

William 0. Bates spent his early life
largely in Fayette County, where he at-
tended the public schools. For a time he
wa.s a student in Northwestern Christian
University, now Butler College, at Indian-
apolis, and in 1875 was graduated. Ph. B.,
from Cornell University. While at Cornell
he gained some degree of distinction
because of his literary ta.stes and activi-
ties, and was class poet of his class. While
there he also became one of the founders of
the New York Chapter of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity. He also established the
fraternity publication known as The Scroll,
which is still published.

After leaving Cornell Mr. Bates re-
turned to Indianapolis and became a stu-
dent in the Gookins-Love Art School. His
ambition then was to become an illustrator.
He was diverted from this by work on the
old Indianapolis Sentinel. In 1876 he was
a participant in a rather novel event for
that time, in what was known as a "bal-
loon wedding." Two player folk had been
married and immediately after their mar-
riage the small wedding party, including
Mr. Bates, went aloft in a ballnon.

For over twenty years ^Ir. Bates was
engaged in regulation newspaper work. He
was on the staff of the Indianapolis Jour-
nal from 1877 to 1881, with the Cincinnati
News-Journal from 1882-1884, the St. Paul
Pioneer Press from 1884 to 1886, with the
New York World from 1889 to 1894, and
with the New York Commercial Advertiser
from 1897 to 1899. He went to Europe in
1880 and 1889.

Perhaps it was his experience at the
balloon wedding which developed in ilr.
Bates great interest in aeronautics, and in
the course of subsequent years he made
many balloon ascensions in different parts
of the country. These he supplemented
by an aeroplane trip in 1919 with Capt.
J. J. Hammond of the British Air Force.

In later years he has divided his time
among his real estate interests, trade jour-
nalism and playwriting. He is author of
"Recitations and How to Recite," pub-
lished in 1896; "Our Foreign Cor-
respondent," a four-act comedy produced
in St. Paul in 1888; "Uncle Rodney."
a one-act comedy produced in the Em-
pire Theater at New York in 1896; "The
Black Bokhara," a one-act comedy pro-
duced in Indianapolis in 1907; "Jacob
Leisler," a five-act play published in 1913.
and "Polly of Pogue's Run," "A.saph"
and "Tea," a .satire on the prohibition cru-
sade, all produced by the Little Theater,
ilr. Bates was instramental in establish-
ing the Little Theater Society of Indiana,
and was its first secretaiy. IMany of his
interests run to the collection of the rare
and antique, and in his home at Indian-
apolis he has assembled about him almo.st
an arsenal of old giuis and swords and a
veritable mu.seum of furniture of different
periods, glass and metal ware, potteiy,
Indian relics, so that his home seems to
radiate the .spirit of antiquity.

In 1903 Mr. Bates took the leading part
in establishing in Indiana the Society of
Colonial Wars. The requirements for
membership in this order is the possession
of an ancestor who bore an active part
in the wars of the American colonics jirior
to the Revolution. Mr. Bites traces back
to John Hawks, of Deerfield, Massachusetts,
a soldier in King Philip's W;ir, 1676. :\Ir.
Bates is retiring governor of the Indiana
Society. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and a
meml)er of tlie Shakespeare Society of New
York. Politically he is a Wilson democrat

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and has ardently espoused the program
and ideals of Mr. Wilson both in the han-
dling of domestic and foreign affairs. In
religious belief he is a Swedeuborgian.

October 23, 1893, he married Clara A.
Nixon. Mrs. Bates was born in County
Fermanagh, Ireland, a daughter of George
Nixon and a descendant of the Nixous who
played prominent parts in the making of
history in the north of Ireland. ]Mr. and
]\Irs. Bates had three children : John Nixon,
deceased, Angeline Nixon and Lydia Cres-
weU.

Carl Leo Mees has successfully directed
as president of the Eose Polytechnic In-
stitute at Terre Haute one of the best
scientific and technical schools in Indiana
for over thirty years. Eose Polytechnic
Institute was established a little more than
thirty-five years ago, and Doctor Mees went
with it as professor of physics in 1887.

He is a man of the highest scientific and
educational attainments himself, and comes
of a family noted for scholarship and
artistic achievements. Doctor Mees was
born at Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 1853, a
son of Conrad and Elise (Adam) ilees.
His father was born in Germam-, came to
America in 1842, was naturalized in 1853,
and as a German Lutheran minister had
charge of one congregation in Columbus,
Ohio, for fifty consecutive years. He was
a man of broad scholarship, possessed a
beautiful and well rounded character, and
lived a long life of service to his fellow
men. His character and deeds are con-
tinued in the world through his eminent
sons. The oldest of these sons is T. ^l. K.
]\Iees, who has been a Lutheran minister
and educator for over forty years, since
1903 has been a professor in the Capital
Universitj- and Theological Seminary at
Columbus, and also editor of the Theo-
logical Magazine. The second son, Arthur
Mees, has probably achieved the largest
share of distinction among the three broth-
ers. He was at one time associated with
Theodore Thomas and has been one of the
constiiictive factors in musical culture and
the upbuilding of musical organizations of
high character in America. As a musical
director he formerly conducted the Cin-
cinnati May Festival Chorus, was an as-
sistant conductor of the Chicago Orchestra
under Theodore Thomas, and has directed
several of the musical associations and

organizations of New York City, and Al-
bany, New York, Worcester, Massachusetts,
Litchfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He is a well known author of much music
for choirs and choruses.

"\Miile one of his older brother's tastes
ran to theology and sacred science and the
other to musical art, Carl Leo ^Mees has
always been a devotee of the practical
sciences. He finished his high school course
at Columbus in 1869, was graduate student
of the Ohio State University in 1874-75,
and during 1873-74 studied medicine in
Starling Medical College at Columbus,
where he graduated il. D. in 1874. He
did post-graduate work at the University
of Berlin and South Kensington, England,
at the former in 1880-81, and at the latter
in 1881. His degree Ph. D. was conferred
upon him in 1892.

Doctor Mees was professor of Physics
and Chemistry in the Male High School of
Louisville, Kentucky, from 1876 to 1880,
and after his return from Europe was
professor of Physics and Chemistry in Ohio
University at Athens from 1882 to 1887.
In 1887 he accepted a call to Eose Poly-
technic Institute at Terre Haute as Pro-
fessor of Physics, and in 1895 became pres-
ident and directing head of the Institute.

From 1874 to 1876 Doctor Mees was lec-
turer in Starling Medical College and was
lecturer on Analytical Chemistry before
the Ohio iledical College. He is author
of many scientific papers and addresses
and has enjoyed many distinctive honors
in scientific societies. He was general se-
cretary in 1889 and vice president in 1896
and is a Fellow of the American As.socia-
tion for the Advancement of Science, is
a member of the American Physical Society,
the Society for the Promotion of Engineer-
ing Education, the American Geogi-aphic
Society, the Indiana Academy of Science,
the American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers, the Association of Science and
IMathematic Teachers, the American As-
sociation of Colleges, and of numerous
other scientific and educational organiza-
tions. Doctor Mees is a republican, a mem-
ber of the Lutheran Church and is \\n-
married.

]\Ieredith Nicholson. Anything that
mig-ht be said here concerning the current
reputation of ^leredith Nicholson as an
American author would be superfluous —

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and inept. He is the author of an imposing
list of titles, including several "best sel-
lers" and one or two lx)oks that have had
a rare value in iuHueneing political and
social opinion. Many of the most discrimi-
nating of ]\Ir. Nicholson's admirers base
their hopes for his permanent recognition
in American literature not so much upon
the popularity of his novels as upon the
spirit of fundamental democi'acy which is
manifest in his more serious novels and
in his essays.

Appreciative of the whims and weak-
nesses of democracy as practically applied
to our institutions and society, he is yet
confident of its vitality in molding the
processes and destiny of the nation. Be-
yond this brief reference, which will prob-
ably be sustained in after views, this brief
sketch offers no literary estimate or judg-
ment of ]\Ir. Nicholson and his works;
merely sets forth the facts of formal bio-
graphy.

He was born at Crawfordsville, ilont-
gomery County, Indiana, December 9,
1866. His ancestors were Celtic-Scotch.
Irish and Welsh, and both the paternal
and maternal ancestors came to the Ameri-
can colonies prior to the Revolution. The
Nicholsons first located in North Carolina,
moving thence to Kentuckj-, Indiana and
Illinois. His grandfather, James Nichol-
son, and his father, Edward "Willis Nichol-
son, were born in Kentucky. As a young
man Edward settled in ilontgomery
County. Indiana. He was a farmer there,
and before the Civil war was a member
of the Montgomery Guards, which became
the nucleus of the Eleventh Indiana In-
fantiy, eommand<^d by Lew Wallace.
Three months later he enlisted in the ar-
tillery, and rose from private to captain
of the Twenty-Second Indiana Battery. It
is said that he sighted and fired the gun
that opened the battle of Shiloh. He was
with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign
and the march to the sea. Part of the
time he did duties corresponding to those
of instructor in a modern training camp,
drilling batteries at Indianapolis. lie en-
gaged in business in Crawfordsville after
the war, but in 1872 removed to Indian-
apolis, and in 1888 went to Washington
and was employed in a clerical capacity
at the Treasury Department. He died at
Washington August 19, 1894. He was a
member of the Grand Armv of the Re-

pul)lic and the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion.

Edward Willis Nicholson married IMiss
Emily ^Meredith. She was born at Cen-
terville, Wayne County, Indiana. Her
grandfather, John Wheeler ileredith, a
native of the West Indies and of Welsh
parentage, was an American soldier in the
war of the Revolution, and spent his last
years in Penn.sylvania and Ohio. Samuel
Caldwell ilercditli, father of Emily, was
editor and publisher of one of the' early
papers at Centerville, Indiana. He was "a
California forty-niner, and on returning to
Indiana in 1852 established his home at
Indianapolis. A In-other of Emily :Merc-
dith was William :XIoiton Meredith, who
served in the Seventieth Indiana Infantry
under General Benjamin Harrison, and
later was chief of the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving at Washington under
Presidents Harrison and ilcKinley. Emily
Meredith Nicholson during part of the
Civil war was a nurse among the wounded
soldiers in Southern hospitals, ileredith
Nicholson has one sister, :\Iargaret, wife
of Robert Peelle Noble, of Indianapolis.

^leredith Nicholson was five years of
age when the family moved to Indianap-
olis. He attended public schools through
tlie flr.st year of high school, then worked
in drug stores and printing offices, took
up stenography, and at the age of nine-
teen began the study of law. His law
studies were in the offices of Dye & Fish-
back and William Wallace of Indianapolis.
A diverging interest soon appeared, and
he was giving more time to verse and stor\-
writing than to law liooks. For a year he
was on the staff of the Indianapolis Sen-
tinel, and from 1885 to 1897 was a member
of the editorial staff of the Indianapolis
News. He is one of many American
writers who received their training in
writing and in knowledge of character in
the difficult school of a newspaper office.
Some of his books betray a more than
second-hand knowledge of practical busi-
ness. After he left the Indianapolis News
he was a stock broker at lndianai)olis for
a year, and for three years following was
auditor and treasurer of a coal mining cor-
poration in Colorado.

During the last twenty years Mr. Nichol-
son has devoted practicallv all his time
to literature. His first publislied wo>'k
was "Short Flights." a l)ook of jio-^nis,

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issued in 1891. The list of his better
known works is as follows: "The
Hoosiers," (historical) ; "The Main
Chance," 1903; "Zelda Dameron," 1904;
"The House of a Thousand Candles,"
1905; "Poems," 1906; "The Port of Miss-
ing Men," 1907: "Rosalind at Red Gate,"
1907; "The Little Brown Jug at Kildare,"
1908; "The Lords of High Decision,"
1909; "Siege of the Seven Suitors," 1910;
"A Hoosier Chronicle," 1912; "The Pro-
vincial American," (essays), 1913;
"Otherwise Phvllis," 1913; "The Poet,"
1914; "The Proof of the Pudding," 1916;
"The Madness of Mav," 1917; "A Revers-
ible Santa Claus," 1917; "The Valley of
Democracy," a recently published and
widely commented upon volume of essays,
1918; "Lady Larkspur," 1919.

Mr. Nicholson is a member of the Na-
tional Institute of Arts aud Letters, of the
Phi Gamma Delta and Wabash Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member by
inheritance of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion and the Society of the Sons
of the Revolution. He is an Episcopalian.
Wabash College conferred upon him the
degree Master "of Arts in 1897 and in 1901
made him a Doctor of Letters.

Mr. Nicholson has participated in poli-
tics as an independent democrat, and he
has spoken and written on many phases of
American political life. He was offered
but declined the post of minister to Portu-
gal in the first Wilson administration.

June 16, 1896, he married Miss Eugenie
C. Kountze, of Omaha, Nel)raska. Her ma-
ternal grandfather was Thomas Davis, long
a prominent business man of Indianapolis.
They have three children: Elizabeth
Kountze, Meredith, Jr., and Lionel.

David B. Scogg.vn. A business that has
been built up quietly and has prospered
through many years under the able man-
agement of one man is the Newcastle
Marble Works, the sole proprietor of which
is David B. Scoggan. Mr. Scoggan as a
boy learned the trade of marble cutter, and
has mastered everj- branch of the busi-
ness.

He was born at Marietta, Ohio, in Janu-
ary, 1851, son of James and ]\Iary A.
(Gregg) Scoggan. He is of Scotch an-
cestry. Two brothers. William W. and
James Scogoran. came from the highlands
of Scotland to America before the Revolu-
tionary war. They left home on account

of political troubles and soon identified
themselves with the American cause of in-
dependence, one serving as a private and
the other with the rank of a major in the
American Continental Army. Both settled
in Pennsylvania and reared families there.

John Scoggan, gi-andfather of David B.,
moved from Pennsylvania to Noble
County, Ohio, and reared his family in
that locality. James Scoggan was born in
Ohio, and acquired forty acres of land as
an inheritance from his father.

David B. Scoggan .spent the first twenty
years of his life in Beverley in "Washing-
ton County, Ohio. In 1868 he began learn-
ing the monument business with William
C. Townsend at Beverley, and also had a
three years' apprenticeship at Zanesville,
Ohio. For four years he worked as a
journeyman at Dayton and for ten years
was foreman in a large shop at Lima, Ohio.

Mr. Scoggan came to Newcastle in 1893,
buying the shop of Hipes & Kinsey, lo-
cated behind the Citizens State Bank
Building. Six months later he and two
partners opened the Newcastle Marble
ComjDany. with Sol IMyer and Neve Bous-
log. Their business is located on Broad
Street. Mr. Myer and jMr. Scoggan bought
out the Bouslog interests and seven j'ears
later ilr. Myer died, since which time Mr.
Scoggan has been sole proprietor.

September 14, 1875, ilr. Scoggan mar-
ried Miss Coloma E. Johnston, of Cam-
bridge, Ohio, daughter of Elijah and Mary
C. Gillet Johnston. Mrs. Scoggan died in
1879, the mother of one son, William R.,
who is now married and living in Cincin-
nati. In 1881, at Dayton, 'Sir. Scoggan
married Mrs. Laura V. Sollis. To this
union have been born two children : Ben-
jamin Harrison Scoggan, married and
living in Dayton, with two children; and
Victoria A., who lives at home. Mr. Scog-
gan is a republican and is affiliated with
the Knights of the ]\Iaccabees at New-
castle.

Oliver L. C.\rithers is a Newcastle
druggist. He has been a pharmacist for
many years, and his experience also has
extended to many other lines of industry.

He was born on a farm near Princeton
in Gibson County, Indiana, in 1868. son of
James and Eliza E. (Townsend) Carithers.
He is of Scotch-Irish and English stock.
His grandfather, Alexander Carithers,
came to this country from Londonderry,

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Ireland, locating as a pioneer farmer in
Gibson County, Indiana. James Carithers,
who also spent his life in Southei'n In-
diana, was a volunteer in Company A of
the Eightieth Indiana Infantry in 1861,
and was in active service until wounded
at the battle of Perryville in 1862. After
the war he resumed farming. He died in
June, 1913, and his widow is stUl living.
They had eight children, four sons and
four daughters, and all are still living ex-
cept one brother and one sister.

Oliver L. Carithers attended the country
schools in winter and worked on the farm
in summer. During 1895-96-97 he was a
student in the general preparatoi-j' course
in Valparaiso University, and then entered
the Pharmacy School and graduated in
1897. His first business location was at
Swayzee in Grant County, where he bought
and conducted a small store for two j-ears.
On selling out he worked as a registered
pharmacist in several Indiana towns, and
later went into the oil fields, bein^: em-
ployed as a pumper at Marion two years
and in other localities. On June IS, 1906,
Mr. Carithers came to Newcastle and en-
tered the service of George F. ilowrer at
the corner of Race and ilain Streets. He
was in that store seven years and there his
savings brought him the modest capital
with which he entered business for himself
in partnei-ship with J. R, Coudcn. He has
recently sold his interest in the firm of
Couden & Carithers to J. R. Couden and
bought the Kinsey Drug Store. The store
is the largest and best known establishment
of its kind in Henry County. It was es-
tablished by David Kinsey in 1874. It is
located at 1304 Broad Street and will be
continued as the Carithers Drug Store.
Mr. Carithers is now well established in
business and is a man of influence and
high standing in the Rose city.

He married iliss Cora Iv. Coomler,
daughter of John Coomler of Kokomo, In-
diana. Mr. and Mrs. Carithers have le-
gally adopted twin daughters, IMartha and
Mary, who have been at their home since
1912. Mr. Carithers is a republican, affil-
iated with the Modern Woodmen of Amer-
ica, the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and the Masons, anrl is an ai'tivc mem-
ber in the Grace Methodist Ejjiscopal
Church.

Fb.\nk Hilgemeier. Important as many
business lines must be considered, none

perhaps take pi-ecedence of one that is de-
pended upon to feed the world, and prac-
tically that is the place occupied today
by the pork packing industry. The prod-
ucts of the packing plants have become
almost necessary elements in the normal
dietarj' of many countries. When unusual
conditions arise and great demands are
made upon the capacities of both large and
small business houses in all lines, a notice-
able shortage in this special one brings
about vigorous protest from the people,
who find no other food quite equal to the
]iackevs' gooils. A business firm that was
foiiiKlcil lure and has done a safe and pros-
piTniis liii^iiicss at Indianapolis for many
y.ars is I hat of Frank Hilgemeier & Broth-
ers, pork packers, of which Prank Hilge-
meier, a substantial and respected citizen
and representative business man of this
section, is the head.

Frank Hilgemeier was born in January,
1867, on Wyoming Street, Indianapolis,
near where the Schmidt Brewery now
stands. His parents were Christian and
Maria (Sudbrock) Hilgemeier, both of
whom were born in Germany and came
young to the United States. They_ were
married at Indianapolis, and lx)th died in
this city, the father in 1893 and the mother
in 1916, when aged seventy-five years.
Their children were: Maria, who became
the wife of George Stumph, of Indian-
apolis; Matilda, who is the wife of Louis
D. Schreiber, of Julietta, Indiana; Frank
and George, pork packers, as noted above;
and Harry, who is associated with his
brothers in this business.

In his native land, Christian Hilgemeier
was designed for the milling business, but
he showed no liking for the same and while
vet a young man emigrated to the United
States and came to Indianapolis because a
relative. Fred Sanders, was already estab-
lislied here. It was some time before he
could definite^' settle himself in a profit-
able business but in the meanwhile he was
not idle, always finding something self sup-
jiorting to do, on one occasion this being
driving a city sprinkling cart. It was
through such "ii'^i'-'^istent industry that he
became a man of large means and much in-
tlnence, and at one time was the owner of
half a city block on McCarty and Delaware
streets. For some ycai-s he was in partner-
ship in the irroccry business with Dick
:\hicgge. It was about forty years ago tliat
lie started in the packing business, in a

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small way, ou the corner of Prospect Street
and Keystone Avenue, and finding his ven-
ture prospering in 1885 he moved to Ray-
mond Street, opposite Garfield Park, and
still later south of the J. M. & I. Raihroad
tracks, the business growiug all the time.
After thirteen years at the last location the
plant was moved to its present situation,
West Raymond Street and the Illinois Cen-
tral tracks by the present firm. Christian
Hilgemeier and wife were members of St.
Paul's Lutheran congregation. He was
a sensible, practical business man and pre-
dicted when his sons were prepared to suc-
ceed him that as long as they kept their
interests together as one business they
would succeed, and that fatherly sugges-
tion has been followed by the sons and the
business was never more prosperous than
at present.

Frank Hilgemeier obtained his education
in the Lutheran School conducted in his
boyhood at McCarty and New Jersey
streets, but as early as his thirteenth year
he began to help his father and has been
continuously identified with the business,
when his father died taking over the man-
agement and in partnership with his
brother George successfully conducting it.
As general superintendent Frank Hilge-
meier looks after the operation of the plant,
and George Hilgemeier attends to the sales
and collections. Their plant is as complete
as science and understanding of the busi-
ness can make it and absolutely sanitary.
Their products are noted for their high
quality and up to the present time have
been confined to the city trade.

Mr. Hilgemeier is a sound democrat in
his political faith and a leading member of
the democratic club of this city. He is
held in high regard as an honorable busi-
ness man and in every way is an enterpris-
ing and public spirited citizen.

John Hay, author, was born at Salem,
Indiana, October 8, 183^. After his
graduation at Brown in 1858 he studied
law at Springfield, Illinois, and was admit-
ted to practice in that state in 1861, but
immediately afterward went to Washington
as assistant secretary to President Lincoln.
He was first secretary of legation at Paris,
was also connected with foreign affairs at
Vienna, was secretary of legation at
Madrid, and returning to New York he-
came connected with editorial work. Mr.

Hay afterward served his country in high
official positions and attained fame as an
author.

N. L. Arbuckl'e is a prominent railway
man of Indiana, being maintenance of way
engineer for the Big Four Railway Com-
pany, with headquarters at Indianapolis.

He was born at Indianapolis April 20,
1883, son of A. H. and Florence (Hoover)
Arbuckle. His father is still living at the
age of sixty-four, and for over forty-two
years has been one of the faithful em-
plo.yees of the Indianapolis postoffice. N.
L. Arbuckle was third in a family of six
children, being one of twins, and five are
still living. He was educated in the
graded and high schools of Indianapolis,
graduating from high school with the class
of 1903. Soon afterward he entered Pur-
due University, from which he gradiiated
in 1906 with the degree of B. S. C. E.
Three .years later he received his advanced
degi'ee of C. E. in civil engineering. ^Ir.
Arbuckle on leaving Purdue University
had some valuable experience with the
United States Goedetic and Coa.st Sur-
vey, his principal work being in the Chesa-
peake Bay district. Since leaving the gov-
ernment service he has been a railroad man
with the Big Four Company. In 1909 he
was employed on the Engineering Corps^
by this company, later wa.s promoted to as-
sistant engineer, and is now engineer of
maintenance of way at the Indianapolis-
terminal division of the company. His
offices occupy the fourth floor of the ila-
jestic Building at Indianapolis.

'Sir. Arbuckle is an independent in poli-
tics and a member of the Young Glen's
Christian Association. January 20, 1907,
he married at Louisville, Kentucky. ^liss
Emilv B. Helmus. Thev have one son,
Russell L., born June 3, 1908.

WiLLi.vM L. Hamu^tox, who until he en-
tered the war, was manager of the Marion
County Liunber Company of Indianapolis,
a business that was established by his
father, William A. Hamilton. The name
Hamilton has been identified with the lum-
ber interests of this eitj^ throiigh a long
period of years.

William A. Hamilton was born at Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, in 1860 and married Anna
Shine, a native of the same city. During
his vonth William A. Hamilton attended

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the common and high schools of Chilli-
eothe, and his business career began as an
employe of the Reed planing mill at Chilli-
cothe. After considerable experience he
moved from there to Indianapolis, where
he was superintendent of the McGinuis
Lumber Company of Fountain Square.
This company had succeeded Frazier
Brothers and Van Huff, who were among
the pioneer lumber dealers of Indiana.
"When the McGinnis Company failed the
late M. S. Huey was appointed receiver or
ti'ustee and sold the stock to William A.
Hamilton on credit. Mr. Hamilton handled
the business very effectively and finally
sold the remnants of the stock to Barnet &
Lewis in 1895. Immediately after closing
up that transaction he started in the lum-
ber business for himself on Southeast
Street under the name Hamilton Lumber
Company. In 1910 the plant was moved
to its present location, on ^linnesota and
Kentucky avenues, adjoining the Vandalia
Railroad tracks. Here in addition to the
large amount of space taken up by the
lumber and mill supplies the company op-
erates a planing mill, and also a coal yard.
They manufacture all kinds of liuilding
material and interior finish, and their coal
business has been developed to a very im-
portant part of the aggregate. This firm
handles almost the entire output of
Powers coal mine. From Indianapolis the
business has been extended to include the
yards at Darlington, Delphi and IMonti-
cello.

W. A. Hamilton is not connected with
the company. The Hamilton Lumber
Company sold its business to the ]\Iarion
County Lumber Company, but the Hamil-
ton Lumber Company still owns the plant,
but not the business.

The Hamilton family traces its ancestry
back to Scotland. "William A. Hamilton,
who stands veiy high both as a business
man and citizen, is a member of the Colum-
bia Club and in politics a republican.

"\A^illiam L. Hamilton, only child of his
parents, was liberally educated in the local
schools, and after gTaduating from high
school in 1909 became connected with his
father, learned the business in all details,
and became highly qualified for his posi-
tion as manager, in which ofitice ho con-
tinued until he was called to war in April,
1918. and went to St. Louis. :Missouri. He
is a member of the ilasonic Lodge and is

also a Scottish Rite ]\Iason and Shriner.
Politically he votes as a republican.

Ch.vrles W. ^loucH. It would add
nothing to the appreciation in which
Charles W. Moucli is held by his fellow
citizens in Henry County to note the par-
ticulars of his birth and ancestry. The
outstanding facts of his life and story of
achievement is the work he does and the
influences that radiates from his person-
ality today.

He has been called the wealthiest citizen
of Newcastle, is president of the Farmers
National Bank, owns 1,500 acres of farm
lands, and has been connected with every
large forward movement and patriotic un-
dertaking in Henry County in recent
years. He formerly owned extensive in-
terests in the Indiana Rolling Mills and
the Indiana Shovel Company, and is now
a principal stockholder in the National
Spring Company and is a director in the
Bankers Tnist Company of Indianapolis,
the American ^Mortgage Guarantee Com-
pany of Indianapolis, the ilorlaud
Farmers Bank, the Sulphur Springs Bank,
and has other interests too numerous to
mention. ]\Ir. ilouch is a member of the
Indiana State and the American Bankers
Associations.

For four years he represented the Fifth
"Ward in the City Council of Newcastle,
and was especially active in the finance and
industrial committees. He is a member of
the "Westwood Country Club of Newcastle,
and belongs to the Democratic State Com-
mittee and has been active in democratic
politics, though never a candidate for im-
portant office. Mr. ]\Iouch has been a
sterling admirer and supporter of Presi-
dent Wilson and his policies both domestic
and international. ]\Ir. ]\Iouch is a thirty-
second degree Scottsh Rite Mason and
Shriner and Knight Templar, and for
eight years was treasurer of Newcastle
Lodge of Elks. He served as county fuel
administrator during 1918. and was chair-
man of the Henn- County War Chest Com-
mittee which raised sfsl 75,000 in the county
for all war and charitable purposes. He
was also chairman of the Henry County
War Savings Stamps Conunittee.

Alfred Hogstox has made a conunend-
able record in two jirofcssions, education
and the law. Vov the past two years lie

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has been building up an influential con-
nection as a lawyer at Marion, and prior
to that for ten years gave mast of his time
to school work. At the general election in
1918 he was elected a state senator from
Grant County on the republican ticket.

He is a son of one of the old and sub-
stantial farmer citizens of Grant County,
James I. Hogston. James I. Hogston was
born in Randolph County, Indiana, Feb-
ruary 10, 1850, only son of his father's
second marriage to Mary Lacy. James'
father was Alfred Hogston, a native of
Iredell County, North Carolina. AVhen he
was three years old his parents settled in
Wayne County, Indiana, being a part of
that migi-ation which came in lai*ge num-
bers from some of the Quaker colonies
of "Western North Carolina to the old
Quaker settlement in Wayne Countj^, In-
diana. Alfred Hogston spent most of his
active career as a farmer in Randolph
County. James I. Hogston grew to man-
hood on his father 's farm, attended district
schools during the winter and by attend-
ance at summer normal schools qualified
for teaching, though he never followed
that profession. He has been a successful
farmer for forty years, beginning with
practically only the labor of his own hands.
November 30, 1878, he married Rebecca
A. Mann, a native of Randolph County.
They started fanning as renters, lived for
a time in both Randolph and Adams coun-
ties, but in 1882 moved to Franklin Town-
ship of Grant County. James I. Hogston
has developed one of the large farms of
that township. He and his wife had six
children, including : Alfred ; Anderson, de-
ceased; Adaline, wife of John A. Patter-
son ; Myrtle, who married Earl Cabe ; and
Richard, who married Bertha Babb.

Alfred Hogston was born while his
parents were living in Adams County, In-
diana, February 29, 1880. His early life
was that of a typical Indiana farm boy,
and while he hacl a good home and was en-
couraged to make the most of his oppor-
tunities, the means at hand did not allow
him to secure a better education than was
furnished by the local schools. He ac-
quired a liberal education, but paid for
most of it by his own work either as a
farm bo.y or as teacher. He attended the
Marion Normal College, and during his ten
years of school work was at one time prin-
cipal of the Jonesboro public schools. He

completed his higher education in the In-
diana State University, from which he re-
ceived his A. B. degree in 1914 and his
degree in law in 1916. Since his admis-
sion to the bar he has acquired a good gen-
eral practice at Marion.

April 11, 1903, he married Miss Verna
Jacqua, of Grant County, daughter of
Caleb F. and Emma (Small) Jacqua. Her
father has been a farmer and machinist.
Mr. and Mrs. Hogston have two children,
Frederick Landis and Lyndall Lenore.

Mr. Hogston is a republican voter, is
affiliated with the Masonic Order and the
Elks, and while in university was a mem-
ber of the Gamma Eta Gamma fraternity.

John D. Oakes, founder and proprietor
of the LaPorte County Abstract Company,
spent many years in the active service of
railways prior to becoming a resident of
LaPorte, where he is one of the most widely
known business men and most esteemed
citizens.

He was bom at ]\Iagnolia in Putnam
Countj^ Illinois, and comes of old New
England and Colonial American stock.
His first ancestor, named John Oakes, was
one of four brothers who came to America
in colonial times. The line of descent from
him is through David Oakes, whose son,
John Oakes, was the grandfather of John
D. Oakes. Grandfather John Oakes, born
at Bennington, Vennont, in 17.71, spent his
early years close to the famous battlefield
of the American Revolution, and later mov-
ing to Cambridge, Vermont, he became one
of its founders and first citizens. Horatio
J. Oakes, father of the LaPorte business
man, was born at Cambridge, Vermont,
January 1, 1830. He served a three years'
apprenticeship at the carpenter and cab-
inetmaker's trade, and then moved to Illi-
nois and followed his trade in that state
for a number of years. In 1867 he moved
to a farm near Blackstone in Livingston
County, Illinois. In 1876 he went to Ing-
ham County, Michigan, and lived there
three years, when he returned to Black-
stone, Illinois, where he remained until
his death in 1893. He married Ann M.
Calloway in 1856. She was born in Prince-
ton. Kentueln^, a daughter of William D.
and Lucy (Barnard) Calloway and a
great-granddaughter of Corporal Ephraim
Warren, who was with Putnam in the
American Revolution. The Galloways

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1533

were origiuallj' from Virginia and North
Carolina, and some of them went over the
Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky
with Daniel Boone. Two of the Calloway
girls were stolen by Indians during the
frontier times of Kentucky. Mi-s. Horatio
Oakes died in Blackstone, Illinois in 1914,
at the age of eighty-four. Their children
were Ross D. Gregg, Byron J., John D.,
Etta L., James H., Mary Almeda and
Fannie Oakes.

John D. Oakes as a boy attended the
country schools in Livingston County,
Illinois and later the high school at Pon-
tiac. Illinois, and had a practical experi-
ence on the farm to the age of twenty-one.
He learned telegraphy at the railway sta-
tion at Blackstone. His first regular ap-
pointment in the railway service was as
the station agent at Missal, Illinois, on
what is now known as the C. I. & S. divi-
sion of the New York Centi-al lines. He
was afterwards station agent at various
other points, and in 1887 resigned from
that railroad to become an employee of the
Nickel Plate at Knox, Indiana. In 1889
he entered the service of the joint rate in-
spection bureau, and became a well posted
and expert man in many of the details of
railway traffic and transportation.

Mr. Oakes left the railway service in
1904 and coming to LaPorte founded the
LaPorte County Abstract Company, and
lias made this one of the best equipped
organizations of the kind in the northern
part of the state. He was one of the or-
ganizers and charter membei*s of the
"American Association of Title Men," and
was also the promoter of the "Indiana As-
sociation of Title Men," and its first presi-
dent. Until these associations were or-
ganized the title business in Indiana was
largelj^ conducted by clerks in the law
offices and deputy officials in the court
house. The work was crude and unre-
liable, but since the organization of said
associations the business has risen to the
dignity of a profession and is usually con-
duetecl by some of the most respected men
in each county. Mr. Oakes was always an
ardent temperance worker and can claim
the distinction of being the one man who
put Indiana in the dry column. It was he
who furnished the votes that elected the
man who made the constitutional majority,
and when that man wavered it was he who
obtained a statement from him that he
Vol. in— 21

would vote for prohibition. In July, 1917,
Mr. Oakes was appointed a member of the
local exemption board, acting as its sec-
retary until the close of the war. He is
affiliated with the iloderu Woodmen of
America and the lUiights of the Macca-
bees, and he is a member of the Presby-
terian Church. On June 25, 1890, he was
married to Miss Attie E. Bender, daughter
of Robert H. and Elvira J. Bender, of
Knox, Indiana. They have one daughter,
Elvira M. Oakes.

Ira Grover. Several generations of the
Grover family have played successful roles
in manufacturing, mercantile and other
business lines in Indiana, chiefly in the
cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis.
Arthur B. Grover, of the third generation
of the family in Indiana, is a well known
real estate operator at the capital city.

His grandfather, Ira Grover, was born
in Vermont in 1799. The neighbors saw
much promise in the boy because of his
unusual energy and ambition. He was al-
ways busy, and from his earnings outside
the work recjuired of him at home he ac-
cumulated a sum which enabled him to
"buy his time" of his father. It was cus-
tomary for the wages of boys to go to their
parents until they were twenty-one, and he
secured release from this moral obligation
by paying a stated sum in advance.

Having accumulated a few commodities,
when about seventeen he set out on hoi-se-
back peddling his wares along the road as
he .journeyed south, getting as far as Vir-
ginia. He thus proved his ability to sup-
port himslf and make a living. Later, in
Massachusetts, he married ]\Iiss Lydia
Hersey, who was in the eleventh genera-
tion of the direct descendants of Governor
William Bradford.

On leaving New England Ira Grover
and family came west by stage and canal
boat, and after two weeks of travel reached
Columbus, Ohio, where he became pro-
prietor of a hotel. Removing to Cincin-
nati, he conducted a store for several years.
In the meantime two of his older brothers,
Joseph and Edmund, had located at Terre
Haute, where they were instrumental in
establi-sliing one of the first iron foundries
in the Wabash Valley. This foundry, it
may be mentioned, is still in operation,
and until recently was known as the Par-
ker fouiidrv.

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About 1848, upon representations and
inducements made by his Terre Haute
brothers, Ira Grover removed to that city,
going by boat on the Ohio and Wabash
rivers. For a time he was associated with
his brothers in their enterprise, but later
entered the agricultural implement busi-
ness, which he continued for a long period
of years, in fact until three or four years
before his death, which occurred in 1881.
He was a man of unbounded energy, was
brusk in manner but kindly at heart, and
his industry and character put him among
the men whom a community chooses to re-
spect and esteem. He was a Baptist. Five
children gi'ew to maturity, three sons and
two daughters: Timothy Cressy; Ira;
Abbie, who married Dr. John Irons; Jen-
nie, who became 'Mrs. Henry Rickard ; and
George. Timothy was a soldier in an In-
diana regiment during the Civil war.

Ira Grover, Jr., who was born in Colum-
bus, Ohio, in 1840, was reared at Terre
Haute, and when a young man went to
Boston, where he clerked in a book store
and formed some very congenial connec-
tions. While there he married Ellen Davis,
of Hingham, Massachusetts. The Civil
war had not yet closed. One brother was
in the army, and another had just died.
Responding" to the plea of his parents,
young Ira and his wife went back to Terre
Haute, where he engaged in the drug busi-
ness. This business he continued after his
removal to Indianapolis in 1883, and it was
indeed his life occupation. He was sixty-
four when death took him in 1904. He
was unobtrusive, and while successful from
a business standpoint had the interests and
manners of a scholar. He was in fact a
student of philosophical and religious sub-
jects. He was generous to a fault, and
extremely kind and courteous to those with
whom he was associated. His wife, who
.survived him, was the mother of two chil-
dren, Arthur B. and Edith.

Arthur B. Grover was born at Terre
Haute in 1867, and was about sixteen when
the family removed to Indianapolis. His
public schooling was supplemented with a
brief course at Harv-ard University. His
active career has been chiefly occupied with
the real estate busines.s, and he is rated as
a specialist in subdivision work, which he
has handled in various cities of the United
States. He is a member of the firm Grover

and Layman. Mr. Grover married Zerelda
Wallace Leathers.

Burton E. Parrott. One of the most
honored names in IndianapolisI business
circles was that of Burton E. Parrott, who
became widely known throughout the Mid-
dle West as one of the active heads of a
great baking business.

He was a native of Indianapolis, where
he was born March 13, 1861. He was a son
of Horace Parrott, a noted business man
of Indianapolis at an early day, a member
of the firm of Parrott & Nickum. His sou.
Burton E. Parrott, attended the pubUe
schools and later entered the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he
graduated. After his graduation he en-
tered the offices of Parrott & Nickum, where
he remained until Horace Parrott retired,
and also the other member, Mr. Nickum,
when the firm of Parrott & Taggart was
formed. The bakery products of this firm
were widely distributed all over the State
of Indiana, and it is one of the best remem-
bered of the older combinations of industry
and business affairs at Indianapolis. The
firm continued in existence for eighteen
j-ears, when the business was taken over by
the National Biscuit Company.

Mr. Parrott was also interested in the
Miller-Parrott & Company of Terre Haute,
and was financially identified with various
other concerns.

He achieved a high prominence in busi-
ness affairs when he was still a compara-
tively young man, and his death occurred
at the age of fifty-one on August 10, 1912.
He left a widow and three children : ilary
is the Avife of Robert B. Failey and they
are the parents of two sons, Robert B., Jr.,
and James F., 2nd; Josephine is the wife
of Capt. Lew Wallace, 2nd now in France,
and they have one child. Lew W^allace,
3rd; and Robert. Mrs. Parrott bore the
maiden name of Lusa Comingore and was
born in Indianapolis. She still lives in In-
dianapolis, at 2900 North Meridian Street.

Michael Crawford Kerr became iden-
tified with Indiana in 1852, at the age of
twenty-five years, and began the practice
of law at New Albany. He afterward be-
came prominent in the public life of this
state as a legislator and congressman, and
supported democratic principles. Mr. Kerr

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1535

was an earnest publie worker, and he per-
haps owed his ehief distinetioii to his ef-
forts for a revision of the tariff in the direc-
tion of free trade and his opposition to the
inflation theorj-. His death occurred iu
1876.

Alfred R. Hovey has practiced law as
a memlier of the Indianapolis bar nearly
forty years, and his work and attainments
have brought him some of the finest asso-
ciations with the profession and with pub-
lic and business affairs of the capital city.
He is now senior member of the firm Hovey
li- Hovey, his partner being his son. Their
offices are in the Law Building.

His Americanism is a produet of nearly
three centuries of residence and more than
normal prominence in business and local
affairs. He is a direct descendant of Daniel
Hove3' who located in ilassachusetts about
1638 and married in 1640. Some genera-
tions later the family pioneered into Wy-
oming County, New York, where Mr.
Hovey 's great-grandfather, Josiah Hovey,
established a home and became a large land
o\\iier. He was also prominent in military
affairs of the state and served as adjutant
general of New York. He reared a family
of fifteen children.

Alfred Hovey, grandfather of the In-
dianapolis lawyer of the same name, gradu-
ated from the University of Rocliester, and
for a mimber of years was a successful
educator. From Rochester he removed to
Binghampton and for fourteen years was
principal of the historic Binghampton
Academy. In the meantime he had quali-
"'.ed as civil and construction engineer, and
Ji that profession he won some distinctive
honors. He was one of the engineers who
built the Saginaw Canal in ^lichigan. He
was at other times connected with different
waterways and their improvements. He
was also connected with the engineering
department during the construction of a
portion of the Erie Railroad and with the
road linking Binghampton to Buffalo. His
death was the result of an accident in his
fortieth year.

He was survived by a family of five chil-
dren, the oldest beiucr Goodwin S. Hovey,
who was liorn at Wyoming, New York,
March 26, 1826. His "early activities were
as a lumberman. He became head sawyer
of a large mill which he established at

Dalton, New York, and was the leading
lumber manufacturer there for nineteen
years. Later he retired to a farm, and was
engaged in agriculture until three years
before his death. His success iu business
affairs was accompanied by all the activi-
ties and influences of great personal in-
tegrity and a thoroughly Christian char-
acter. One of his chief interests was tlie
welfare of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He was a class leader for many years and
also superintendent of the Sunday School.
In public affairs he served six years as a
township supervisor iu Allegany County,
New York. Goodwin S. Hovey married
Salina Weed. The mother of Goodwin S.
Hovey was a member of the Cleveland fam-
ily, being second cousin to Grover Cleve-
land, and while Goodwin Hovey was a re-
publican, he held his kinsman in such es-
teem that a personal correspondence was
maintained between them until the death
of Mr. Hovey.

Alfred R. Hovey. who was the second of
his father's children, was born at Portage
in Livingston County, New York, Novem-
ber 6, 1853. He attended the common
schools, also the Denominational College at
Alfred Center, New York, and at the age
of nineteen began teaching, a profession
he followed three years, ilr. Hovey came
to Indianapolis November 10, 1877. In
preparing for the law he had the good
fortune of having his studies directed by
Lucian Barbour, who was at one time dean
of the Indiana State Univereity Law
School. Under his preceptorship he
rapidly qualified and was admitted to the
bar October 20, 1879. He began practice
in partnership with William N. Harding,
and the firm of Hardinsr & Hovey existeil
from September 15. 1880, until September,
1915, a period of thirty-five years. It was
one of the longest partnerships in the
aunals of the Indianapolis bar. After that
]\Ir. Hovey practiced alone until 1917,
when he took into partnership his son
Harding Weed Hovey.

]\Ir. Hovey has not only handled a large
legal business in Indianajtolis. but has
also been identified with the organization
and promotion of many business enter-
prises. He held the office of county at-
torney for Clarion County from 1896 to
1898, was first the president of the Clarion
Club of Indiarapolis; he was the nominee

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of his party for presidential elector for
the Seventh Indiana District in 1892, when
Benjamin Harrison was a candidate for
the presidency for a second term, and he
has, with the exceptions of the campaigns
of 1912 and 1914, always taken an active
interest in the success of the republican
party. November 15, 1882, he married
Miss Sylvia M. Wade, and has a family of
six children.

Alfred Harrison was one of the earliest
merchants of Indianapolis, and as his life
was prolonged until 1891 many present
day citizens recall the achievements and
characteristics which made him notable.

He was born in Sparta, Tennessee, in
1801, of Virginia parentage. Little is
known of his boyhood days, but evidently
they were an index to his subsequent
career. He possessed a rather superior
education for men who grew up in that
time and under such circumstances. Apart
from the business position which he long
enjoyed he moved as a man of distinction
in society because of his precise and
methodical habits, his immaculate dress,
his Chesterfieldean deportment.

Coming to Indiana when a boy, he
worked as a clerk for a Mr. Gallion at
Brookville. In 1821 he came to Indianap-
olis, practically at the foundation of the
city, and was clerk in the store of John
Conner. Later he engaged in merchandis-
ing for himself, his store being at what is
now the noi-thwest corner of Washington
and Meridian streets. Still later he was in
the banking business.

He was a true picture of the gentleman
of the old school, courteous, and clung
tenaciously to all old traditions and cus-
toms. The only office he ever held was
that of city forester. This was an office
in name only, and was probably bestowed
iipon him because of his great love of trees
and the outdoors. He contributed much
to the early landscape gardening of In-
dianapolis. A man who plants a tree and
makes it grow is entitled to the lasting
gratitude of mankind, and Alfred Harri-
son on his own initiative and through the
temporarv- vitality he gave to his office
planted trees everywhere about the small
town of Indianapolis. In a short time the
small fund allotted for the purpose was
exhausted, and it is said that he was re-
moved from office because of this extrava-

gance. Many of the trees planted by his
hands are still standing and have fui*-
nished shade for two generations of Indian-
apolis citizens.

Alfred Harrison has been described as
almost painful in his neatness. He was a
handsome man, his physical attractiveness
being enhanced by an immaculate dress.
It is related how a lady once appeared at
his door, rang the bell, and when answered
by the owner said "]\Ir. Harrison, in pass-
ing I saw a leaf upon your lawn." This
may be an exaggeration but it was one of
many such stories that grew up around
this quaint and interesting personality.
The fact to remember is that these eccen-
tricities were only the minor features of
a really big, strong and kindly character.

Alfred Harrison married Caroline Han-
sou. They had a large family of children.
His son James Henry Harrison is now sur-
vived by two sons, Edward H. and Hugh
H. Harrison. There are also numerous
other grandchildren.

Mrs. Sarah Hanson, a widow with five
daughters, came to Indianapolis in the
winter of 1826, establishing a home on
what is now "The Circle," at the present
site of the English Block. The Hanson
family were from Bourbon County, Ken-
tucky. Both mother and daughters were
noted for their physical beauty, strength,
of character and many accomplishments.
These daughters played a notable role in
the social life of Indianapolis. One of
them. Caroline, married Alfred Harrison
on April 1. 1827, and died in 1862 from
overwork while aiding the cause of the
ITnion in the Civil war. The oldest daugh-
ter, Pamela, never married, ilahala mar-
ried Edward R. Ames. Bishop of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church. Maria married
first Dr. Kenneth Scudder and second Dr.
Charles McDougall. one of the noted fam-
ilies of America. Julia became the wife
of John Finley, an early Indiana poet,
author of the "Hoosier's Nest," whose
biography is found on other pages of this
publication.

Carl Gutzwiller is one of the promi-
nent representatives of the Republic of
Switzerland living in Indianapolis. He
came here more than thirty-five years ago,
is a progressive and successful business
man, and is senior member of Carl Gutz-

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wilier & Sons, operating the last depart-
ment store at 1048 South East Street,
handling bakery goods, hardware, grouer-
ies, grain, flour and feed.

ilr. Gutzwiller was born in Switzerland
October 18, 1863, son of Frederick and
Anna Mary (Dannacher) Gutzwiller. His
parents spent all their lives in the land
of their birth, their home being near Ba.sel,
not far from the border of Alsace Lor-
raine, from which an earlier generation
of the Gutzwiller family had migrated.
Frederick Gutzwiller was a land owner
and farmer, was a man above the ordinary
in intelligence and was devoted to his
home and family and could never be in-
duced to accept responsibilities that would
take him away from those primary inter-
ests. He refused membership in the local
council of his province. His wife was also
a highly educated and intelligent woman,
was member of a family of educators, and
her special forte in the field of knowledge
was astronomy. They had a family of
seven sons and one daughter. Three of
the sons came to America. Theo was a
teacher in Switzerland, also interested in
agriculture, and came to the United States
with the expectation of becoming an Amer-
ican farmer. He worked as a farm hand
and was directing all his energies to ac-
quiring a knowledge of American condi-
tions preparatory to purchasing a farm
of his own, but died before achieving that
ambition. The other brother who came to
America is Paul Gutzwiller, who is con-
nected with The Outlet of Indianapolis.

Carl Gutzwiller attended the common
schools of his native land, gi-aduated from
high school, and prepared for a business
career as an apprentice in a local business
house. He rapidly acquired proficiency
and gained a knowledge of languages that
would be valuable to him in a business
career. He learned French and Italian
as well a| German. Finally he went to
Paris and for a year worked in the Paris
branch of a Russian fur company, until a
business panic put his employers out of
business. His brother Paul had already
come to Indianapolis, and advised Carl to
follow him. Carl Gutzwiller landed in
America October 1, 1883. and at once pro-
ceeded to Indianapolis, where his first em-
ployer was Charles JFayer. He was with
various other firms, and for fifteen years
managed the store of Robei't Kelln-. until

he and his sons bought that establishment.
They have made this one of the growing
and prospering business establishments in
that part of this city.

In 1886 ;Mr. Gutzwiller married Lena
Miller, daughter of Matthew :\Iiller of
Celestine, Indiana. Mrs. Gutzwiller died
May 1, 1913, leaving two sons, Carl and
Leo. These are able young business men
and are now carrying most of the active
re^|H)llsibiliti(■>^ (if the firm.

.Ml-. < liiizw illcr is a man of many aecom-
jilisliiiiciits. genial, whole-hearted and has
friendship with hundreds of the best In-
dianapolis people. He is a member of the
North American Gymnastic Union and a
member of the executive board and for
ten years was president of the South Side
Turners Society. He is also president of
the Swiss Society of Indianapolis, a branch
of the national organization.

Loris; G. BfDDEXBArii is president of
the Buddenbaum Lumber Company of In-
dianapolis. He and other members of the
family, including his father, have been
connected with the lumber and manufac-
turing interests of the capital city for a
Ion or period of years.

He is a son of Henry C. and Mary E.
Buddenbaum and was born at Indianap-
olis. His father was formerly secretary
and treasurer of the Indianapolis ^lanu-
facturers and Carpenters Union, a well
known planing mill and lumber corpora-
tion.

The Buddenbaum Lumber Company as
a firm was established :\Iarch 31, 1893. and
was incorporated July 1, 1913. Louis G.
Buddenbaum, who has been connected with
the business from the beginning, is presi-
dent of the company. The company oper-
ates a planing mill and does a general
lumber business, with plant and offices at
the corner of Pine and New York streets.

May 6, 1908, in St. Paul's Episcopal
Church at Indianapolis. ]\Ir. Buddenbaum
married iliss Helen C. Cross, daughter of
Charles I\I. and Laura (Lott) Cro.ss.

.Ti-Lirs Ei.woon Hiatt. :\r. D. There are
a niniiber of vital services in every com-
munity in which the physician is the best
qualified leader, and their actual value is
always proportionate to the enterprise and
progi'cssiveness of the local medical fra-
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helped supply some of the necessary facil-
ities at Newcastle in addition to the serv-
ice he has rendered privately as an able
physician and surgeon is Dr. Julius Elwood
Hiatt, who has been identitied with New-
castle and Henry County for over fifteen
years.

Doctor Hiatt was born at Westfield in
Hamilton County, Indiana, June 5, 1869,
and is of English Quaiser stock, son of
Isom and Asenath (Tomlinson) Hiatt.
The Hiatts first settled in Ohio, and repre-
sented some of the first colonies of Quaker
people in that state. Doctor Hiatt 's grand-
father moved from the vicinity of Colum-
bus, Ohio, to Hamilton County, Indiana,
making this removal in pioneer times,
when there were no railroads and when all
goods and passenger traffic was by wagon
road. Doctor Hiatt 's father lived the life
of a farmer in Hamilton County.

When Doctor Hiatt was eighteen months
old his parents moved to the vicinity of
Sheridan in Hamilton County, and in that
locality he grew up. He had only ordinary
opportunities and had to help himself to
an education. He worked on a farm, at-
tended district schools, then the Sheridan
High School, taught in the district school
at Union Grove and in other localities, and
finally finished two more years of high
school work.

In 1891 he married I\Iiss Agnes Havens,
of Sheridan. Indiana, daughter of David
and Mary (High) Havens. After his mar-
riage he lived on his father's farm three
years, and in the fall of 1893 bought an
interest in a furniture and undertaking
interest from Clayton E. Cox. This busi-
ness was continued three years under the
name of Scott & Hiatt. and was succeeded
by the firm Hiatt and Cottrill for two
years. Doctor Hiatt then bought out his
partner and continued the business under
his personal supervision until 1898. At
that date he sold a half interest to J. G.
Antrim, who took the personal manage-
ment,' while Doctor Hiatt entered the
^Medical College of Indiana, now the In-
diana University School of ^Medicine, and
continued his work there until graduating
in 1902. Immediately after getting his
degree Doctor Hiatt located in Newcastle
and has been hard at work in his profession
here ever since. He has done extensive
post-graduate work, including five months
in the German Hospital at Chicago, work

in the Chicago Polyclinic, the New York
City X-Ray Institute, the New York Post-
Graduate Hospital and many clinics in
other cities.

It was Doctor Hiatt who originated the
idea of establishing a local clinic at New-
castle as a means of more complete co-
operation and better .standards among the
local medical fraternity. In 1916 this in-
stitution was incorporated as the New-
castle Clinic. The co-operating ph^'sieians
and members of that clinic are Drs.
G. H. Smith, E. K. Westhaven, D. S. Wig-
gins, H. W. McDonald, Clyde C. Bittler,
G. A. Hiatt and J. E. Hiatt. The clinic
has erected a building costing $35,000,
while its complete modern equipment cost
fully $50,000. It is now one of the most
complete institutions of its kind in the
state. Doctor Hiatt has also worked for
a number of years to secure a public hos-
pital for Newcastle, though so far without
success.

He served three years as president of
the Henry County Medical Society and is
a member of the State and American Medi-
cal Associations. For six years, from 1905
to 1911, he was coroner of Henry County.
Doctor Hiatt is a republican, is affiliated
with the Newcastle Lodges of Masons. In-,
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights
of Pythias, Improved Order of Red Men,
Elks Lodge at Newcastle, and is a member
of the ilethodist Episcopal Church.

Doctor and Mrs. Hiatt had three chil-
dren. Their son Orville Lester died at
the age of twenty-one months. Gerald A.,
a dentist by profession, served with the
rank of first lieutenant at Camp Sherman
at Chillicothe, Ohio, and is now with the
American Expeditionary Forces in France,
stationed at Base Hospital No. 45 at Aix-
les-Bains. Russell Lowell is a junior
medical student in the Indiana University
and is also enrolled in the ^Medical Reserve
Corps.

Albert E. Metzgee. His life of pur-
poseful endeavor Mr. Metzger has ex-
pressed in his native City of Indianapolis
through many active connections with busi-
ness and banking affairs and with several
of the institutional organizations which
have had most to do with the city's ad-
vancement in civic and educational affairs.
His family have been residents of Indian-
apolis nearly seventy yeare, and represent

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tliat worthy people who seekinp: a land in
which they might better express their
demoeratie ideals left the fatherland about
the time of the German revolution of 1848.
Indianapolis owes much to its German set-
tlers of that period, and no name has been
more prominent in this class than Metzger.

Alexander ]\Ietzger was born and reared
in Germany, and married there Wilhelmina
Elbracht, who was born August 3, 1829.
In 1847 they left Germany in a sailing
vessel, were carried to New Orleans, and
from there went by boat up the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati. Three years
later Alexander Metzger came to Indian-
apolis, then a comparatively small village.
He was a resident of Indianapolis and one
of its splendid business men and citizens
nearly forty years, until his death August
4, 1890. He had learned the baker's
trade, and worked as a journeyman
baker at Cincinnati. On coming to In-
dianapolis he established the first steam
bakery within the borders of the state.
This old business was on North Pennsyl-
vania Street, where the Aetna Building
was afterwards constructed. Alexander
IMetzger laid the foundation of his fortune
in this business, conduftod it with increas-
ing patronage for a numlicr df years, luitil
1863, and the plant was ,M,iitiiiiic,l by the
old firm of Parrott-Nickuiu & Cumpany and
eventually was absorbed by the National
Biscuit Company. After leaving the
bakery business Alexander Metzger found-
ed a general financial agency, and in his
later years was best known as a banker. In
1865 iie was one of the men, including also
August and Henry Schnull. Volney T. Ma-
lott, David Macy and Ferdinand Beck, who
comprised the first board of directors of
the ^Merchants National Bank of Indian-
apolis.

It was about the time Alexander 'Sletz-
ger entered upon his career as a banker
at Indianapolis that his son Albert E. was
born in that city March 20, 1865. The son
of a prosperous father, Albert E. -Metzger
grew up in a home of substantial comfort
a! id was given a liberal education well
mixed with a practical experience and the
application of those time honored prin-
ciples which have brought success to many
men who never entered college halls. He
graduated from the Indianapolis High
School and then took the full course of
Cornell University, where he was graduated

in 1888. Jlr. iletzger became very much
interested in military affairs both in high
school and in Universitj-, and pui-sued the
militai-j- training at Cornell the full four
years he was there, though the course was
compulsory only for two years. He was
promoted to major of the university bat-
talion. Mr. iletzger has always been re-
garded in high honor at Cornell Univer-
sity, and a few years ago was elected a
member of the Cornell Council, the gov-
erning body of the alumni, and was the
fii"st president of the Indiana Cornell
Alumni Association.

The thirty years since he left university
Mr. Metzger has employed with varied and
increasing responsibilities in the financial
life of Indianapolis. He became associated
with his father in the old business known
as the A. ]Metzger Agency, and his thor-
ough experience in handling financial af-
fairs and in executive work has brought
him several of the prominent positions
in Indianapolis banking afi:'aii*s. The A.
Metzger Agency was the chief nucleus
around which was built up the German-
American Trust Company, which was or-
ganized in 1906, with Mr. Metzger as the
first president. He had in the meantime
been identified with two other financial in-
stitutions of Indianapolis. In 1896 he and
Herman Lieber, Charles N. Thompson, Al-
lan Fletcher, Frank JI. Fauvre and others
organized and incorporated the JIarion
Trust Company, ilr. Metzger was a di-
rector and on the executive committee of
this company for several years. The
American National Bank of Indianapolis
later merged with the Fletcher National
Bank and became the Fletcher American
National Bank, was founded in 1900 bj-
^Ir. Metzger, John Perrin. Herman Lieber
and others, and he was one of its directors
for five years. The directors of the Ameri-
can National Bank in accepting Mr. iletz-
ger's resignation in 1906, preliminary to
his taking executive control of the German-
American Trust Company, made record in
their minutes of their "personal regret
of the discontinuance of this association
with him and of gratitude on behalf of
the bank for the zealous and efficient serv-
ice which he has freely rendered from the
day of its organization to the present."

indianaiiolis as a community feels its
spcc'al debt to IMr. Metzger for the valuable
work he has done through established agen-

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cies in promoting the public welfare. He
helped promote and finance the corporation
by which natural gas was furnished to In-
dianapolis. When natural gas failed he
became treasurer of the Gas Consumers'
League, which was subsequently reor-
ganized as the Citizens Gas Company and
through which the people of Indianapolis
eeeured artificial gas at reasonable rates.
Mr. Jletzger was one of the organizers of
the Citizens Company and a member of
its first directory.

For a number of years Mr. Metzger was
a director of the "Maryland Street Manual
Training School," until that was formally
taken over by the city board of education
and made the nucleus of the Manual Train-
ing High School. The introduction of
manual training as an educational feature
in Indianapolis is credited to several of the
high minded citizens of that school, and
for twelve yeai-s this training school was a
department of the old "Maryland Street
School."

One of the first public movements to en-
list the sympathies and support of Mr.
Metzger was the Indianapolis Boys Club
Association, which was established "in 1892
by him and a number of other public spir-
ited gentlemen. The object of this associa-
tion was to furnish recreation and educa-
tional facilities for boys of limited oppor-
tunities and resulted in the construction
of a club house at the corner of Soiith Me-
ridian and Madison Avenue. Mr. Metzger
was for many years chairman of the Pi-
nance Committee. He is president of the
Metropolitan Realty and Investment Com-
pany, which owns as its chief investment
the Stewart Block at the southeast corner
of Illinois and Ohio streets and is treas-
urer of the newly erected Lincoln Hotel at
"Washington and Illinois streets.

Mr. Metzger is a charter member of the
Indianapolis Commercial Club, one of its
first directors, afterwards vice president,
and has been chairman of some of its uiost
important committees. He wa.s also a mem-
ber of the board of governors of the board
of trade. He is active in the Columbia
Club, and both he and Mrs. Metzger have
long been prominent in Indianapolis social
affaire. Mrs. Metzger was associated with
many charities and is a director of Mrs.
Blakers Free Kindergarten and Teachers
College. February 6, 1892, Mr. Metzger
married Miss Frances Jlueller, of New Ulm,

Minnesota. She was born in ^Minnesota,
daughter of Jacob and Frances Mueller.
For some years before her marriage I\Irs.
Metzger was a resident of Indianapolis and
has the distinction of being the first super-
visor of physical training in the public
schools of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger
have four children : Margaret, Alexander,
Norman and Louise. Margaret is the wife
of George A. Kuhn, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
August M. Kuhn. Alexander married
Edna, the youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mre. William F. Piel.

Joseph Lane, a North Carolinian by
birth, came to Warwick Countv, Indiana,
in 1816, at the age of fifteen. In 1822 he
was elected to the Legislature, continuing
in office until 1846, when he enlisted in the
Second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers,
and was soon commissioned its colonel and
in June following was appointed brigadier
general, later was made a major general
for gallantry and became known as the
' ' Marion of the Mexican War. ' ' Mr. Lane
afterward moved to Oregon, and continued
active in the political life of that state and
in 1860 was nominated for vice president
on the John C. Breckinridge ticket.

GmEON Huffman, manager of the Rose
City Pharmacy at Newcastle, is one of
the yoimger business men of that city,
but represents an old and well known
family of Indiana, particularly in Wells
County, where his people settled in early
times.

Mr. Hufi'man was born at Poneto in
Wells County in 1890, son of Dr. D. C. and
Anna (Landakre) Huffman. Mr. Huff-
man is descended from German ancestry
in the person of a Hessian soldier who was
hired to fight against the revolting colonies
by King George III, but after his seiwice
remained in America and settled in Penn-
sylvania. His name was Jacob Huffman.
The grandfather of Gideon Huffman came
from Pennsylvania to Clark County, Ohio,
was a farmer and miller, and settled there
fully 100 years ago, taking i;p Gov-
ernment land and rearing a large family.
Dr. D. C. Huffman was born in Clark
County, graduated in medicine from the
Miami Medical College, practiced at
Springfield, Ohio, and in the early days
moved to Wells County, Indiana, where
he commanded a large country practice

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1541

and rendei-ed a service of inestimable value
to the community for forty-three years.

Gideon Huffman, the youngest of three
children, attended country schools and in
1909 graduated from the Bluffton High
School. For two terms in 1909-10 he
taught a country school in Union Town-
ship of Wells County. He had taken a
teachers' training course for four months
in the Tri-Normal College. It was at Blutt'-
ton that he began learning the drug busi-
ness as a clerk with Davenport and Ehle.
He was there six years, and for a short
time was at Muncie, Indiana, with Galliher
and Prutzman. About that time, being
imable to get into business for himself, he
borrowed money and attended Professor
Green's Keview School of Pharmacy at
Irvingtou, Indiana, four months. Follow-
ing that he passed a creditable examination
in 1916 before the State Board of Phar-
macy, and after five months at Kokomo
with the Gearhard Pharmacy came to New-
castle in March, 1917, and entered the serv-
ice of Mr. Fred AV. Diederiek, proprietor
of the Rose City Pharmacy. On October
1, 1917, Mr. Diederiek enlisted and is now
manager of the Post Exchange at the Wal-
ter E. Reed General Hospital in Washing-
ton. Jlr. Huffman became general man-
ager of the pharmacy and has more than
made good in that position and is doing
much to build up the business of this well
kjiown store.

In Febrnaiy, 1917, he married Miss
Pauline Huffman, daughter of J. G. and
Ada (Perry) Huffman, of Jlontpelier, In-
diana. 'Sir. Huffman is well known fra-
ternally, being a Knight Templar Mason,
a member of the Bluft'ton Lodge of Elks,
belongs to the Phi Delta Kappa college
fraternit.v, is a democrat and a member of
the Christian Church.

Amalia Aicher is librarian of the ilich-
igan City Public Library, and for many
years has been connected with that in-
stitution, at first as assistant librarian when
it was opened.

She was bom in ^Michigan City. Her
father, Simon Aicher, was a native of
Frankenburg, Upper Austria, was well
educated and at Vienna learned the trade
of cabinet maker. He came to America in
1856 and soon afterward settled at ]Mich-
igan City, where he worked at his trade
and later engaged in the furniture business

until his death. His wife was ]\Iagdelena
Hagler, also a native of Frankenburg, of
Austria. Both were active membei-s of
the German Lutheran Church and Simon
was affiliated with the ]\Iichigan City
Lodge of Odd Fellows. Miss Amalia is
one of six children.

Harry L. Stanton, of LaPorte, who
probably as much as any individual has
influenced the development of Northern
Indiana as a great fruit growing section,
is prominently known in horticultural cir-
cles throughout the Middle West, a member
of one of the very first white families to
establish homes in the vicinity of the
present City of LaPorte.

His own birth occurred on a fanu near
New Buffalo in LaPorte County on Sep-
tember 25, 1864. He is of English an-
cestry, and the first Stantons probably set-
tled on the Island of Nantucket in ^lassa-
chusetts. and from there went to Virginia.
]\Ir. Stanton's great-grandfather, Aaron
Stanton, was a native of Virginia and son
of William and Phoebe Stanton. Aaron
Stanton married Lydia Fosdick, daughter
of Capt. William and Marv (Folger) Fos-
dick.

A son of Aaron and Lydia Stanton w^as
Benajah Stanton, who was born near
Liberty in Union County, Indiana, in 1816.
He was fourteen yeare of age when the
family came to LaPorte County. His first
home was a log cabin, furnished with the
simplest conveniences, all the cooking being
done by a fireplace. He became a farmer
on government land, and in later years
was prominent in business affairs, serving
as one of the first directors and later as
president of the LaPorte Savings Bank.
He saw the county develop from a wilder-
ness to one of the wealthiest sections of the
state. He served as a county commis-
sioner , and was always faithful to the
Church of the Friends, in which he was
reared, although his wife was a member
of the Methodist Church. In 1837 he mar-
ried Cynthia Clark, who was born in
Wayne County, Indiana, daughter of Wil-
liam Clark. Bena.iah Stanton and wife
had six children.

Elwood Clark Stanton, father of Harry
L.. was born on a farm in Center Town-
ship in LaPorte County, and continued to
live in that county until 1869. when he
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a number of years was actively identified
witli the interesting affairs of a pioneer.
At that time Omaha was but a small city,
and there were no bridges over the Mis-
souri River, all goods and traffic being
transported by feriy. He first located at
Fort Calhoun, but soon took a homestead
in the vicinity of "West Point, Nebraska.
His nearest neighbor was a half mile away,
and the nest nearest was two miles away.
His near neighbor lived in a dugout, and
the other neighbor in a sod house. The
latter had a spring on his land, aud it was
to this spring that the Stanton family
resorted for their supply of fresh water.
Elwood C. Stanton made the improvements
necessary to secure title from the govern-
ment, and then returned to Fort Calhoun,
and was soon apj^ointed instractor in agri-
culture at the Winnebago Indian Agency,
Dakota County, Nebraska. The Indian
agent at that time was Taylor Bradley,
also from LaPorte. Elwood Stanton con-
tinued his work at the Indian agency un-
til 1881, when, returning to LaPorte, he
engaged in the livery business for some
years, and then moved to Rochester, In-
diana, where he died at the age of sixty-
nine. He married Mary Jane Seffens.
' She was born in Center Township, La-
Porte County in 1833, and was a daughter
of George and Mary (Belshaw) Seffens
(of English birth), who were early
pioneers of the county. George Seffens, a
sou of William and ilarv- Seffens, arrived
in LaPorte County in 1833. He was a
plasterer by trade, having served his four
years' apprenticeship in England, and
worked for a time in Chicago when that
city was but a village. He plastered some
of the first houses in Slichigan City. He
married in 1833 Mary- Belshaw, a native
of Nottingham.shire, England. His daugh-
ter, Mrs. Elwood Stanton, is still a resident
of Rochester, Indiana. She has four chil-
dren, Addie Clark, Harrv L., Elizabeth
E., and Mary E.

Harry L. Stanton attended his first
school at Fort Calhoun, Nebra.ska, and later
was a student at the Indian agency. After
lie was eight years old his playmates were
chiefly Indians, and he acquired a fluent
knowledge of the Indian tongue. At the
age of twelve he began working as a clerk
in the reservation store or trading post
during vacation and for several years was
thus employed in other near by stores.

Later at the age of fifteen he rode an In-
dian pony back to LaPorte County, In-
diana, a distance of about 600 miles, and
led another pony, being fourteen days en
route. He remained here only a year, wheu
he returned to Omaha, Nebraska. Here he
was employed in the wholesale and retail
hardware store of ^Milton Rogers & Sous.
Once more he came back to LaPorte Coun-
ty, biit soon afterwards was solicited to re-
turn to the Winnebago Indian agency in
Nebraska, and take charge of the store
there in which he had formerly been em-
ployed. He accepted that responsibility
for a year, and then for two years was in
the grocery business at Omaha, and after
that was engaged in general merchandising
at Valparaiso, Nebraska, in both of which
places he was associated with his brother-
in-law, George W. Logan, under the firm
name of Logan & Stanton, general mer-
chants and bankers.

In 1892 Mr. Stanton having sold his
Nebraska interests retuimed to LaPorte and
became associated with his father-in-law,
William H. Weller, in the management of
the Weller estate. Two years later he
went to Chicago and entered the great
mercantile house of Carson, Pirie, Scott
& Company, being employed as manager
and biiyer of the retail kid glove depart-
ment. He Avas with that house for nine
years, when he resigned and returned to
LaPorte to take up his horticultural pur-
suits.

In the meantime ~Slr. Stanton had suc-
ceeded by purchase to the ownership of
the Weller liomestead, and at about that
time started the orchard which is now in
full bearing. He has ten acres devoted
to apples, pears and plums. The place
is widely known as " Weller 's Grove,"
which contains several acres of natural oak
and shellbark hickory, located on the shores
of Stone Lake, one mile north of the coiirt
house. It was the original homestead of
Rev. Henry Weller, the pioneer minister
of the New Chiirch or Swedenborgian
Church of LaPorte, whose history is else-
where related.

]\Ir. Stanton and William ]\I. Walton
are sole owners of a fifty acre orchard
at Rochester, Indiana. This was started
by the Orchard Developing Company, of
which Mr. Walton is president and Mr.
Stanton secretary and manager. Messrs.

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Stanton and Walton were the prime movers
in organizing the LaPorte County Fruit
Oro\vei\s Association, of which Mr. Stanton
was the first secretary.

^Ir. Stanton married Zayda Belle Weller,
daughter of William H. and Ella (Thomp-
son) Weller, and granddaughter of Rev.
Henry Weller, previously referred to. Her
father, William H. Weller, was born in
England in 1832. He came to America with
his parents at the age of five years, and
in early life learned the printer's trade
and took charge of the ineclianical depart-
ment of his father's printinu' nfiiro at La-
Porte. He learned telegraphs in ls,')6. and
for more than twenty years was cliief train
dispatrlier on the western division of the
Lake Sluire & Michigan Southern Railway.
In 1872 he bought the interests of his
Iirothers in the homestead known as
Weller 's Grove and for some years operated
it as a summer resort. He lived there un-
til his death in 1900.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stanton are both
active members of the New Church at La-
Porte.

J. F. NuxER. The educational prob-
lems that always must be among the im-
])ortant subjects to be considered at all
times and in every community are engag-
ing the serious and conscientious attention
of experienced educators in Indiana, which
state, consequently, stands high among the
others in its average of general scholar-
ship. One of these educators is found in
John Franklin Xuner, who is superintend-
ent of the city schools of South Bend, In-
diana. He is a native of Indiana, born in
Howard County, April 27, 1873. His
parents were William H. and [Margaret
Eleanor (McClellan) Nuner.

The Nuner family came originally from
Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, and
for generations has been American. Wil-
liam H. Nuner, father of Professor Nuner,
wa.s born in Franklin County, Pennsyl-
vania, in October, 1823, and died in How-
ard County, Indiana, in 1892. His father,
-James Nuner, was born in Franklin Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, spent his life there as a
general farmer and died in that county in
1836. During his earlier business life Wil-
liam H. Nuner was a cai-penter and con-
tractor in Franklin County, and from
there came to Madison County, Indiana,
iu 1855, and ten years later settled pov-

nianently on a farm in Howard County.
He became a man of importance in his
neighborhood and naturally so because of
his sterling character, practical ideas and
good citizenship. A staunch republican,
he was chosen for public office on numer-
ous occasions and served as township trus-
tee and as a .justice of the peace, in which
latter office he was highly regarded be-
cause of his common sense understanding
of the cases brought into his court and his
impartial rulings on the same. He was
a member of the Christian Church and a
liberal contributor to its support.

William H. Nuner was married twice,
his wives being sisters. Of his first mar-
riage but one child survives, Sarah, the
widow of Benjamin F. Rogers, who died
on his farm in ilichigan. situated in 3Iid-
land County, where she lives. Mr. Nuner
was married, second, to Miss ^Margaret
Eleanor :\IcClellan. who was born in
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1833,
and died in Howard County, Indiana, in
1912. To this marriage seven children
were born, three of whom died young. The
others were: Anna Mary, who married
A. E. Julow, who is a farmer in Howard
County. Indiana, where she died in 1897:
Robert, who was a farmer, died in Howard
County in 1892 ; James :\I., who owns and
resides on the home farm in Howard Coun-
ty: and John Franklin, of South Bend.

John F. Nuner passed his early school
period in the country .schools near his
father's farm but later attended the Green-
town schools and in 1892 was graduated
from the Gi-eentown High School. One
year of study in the Indiana State Nor-
mal School at Terre Haute followed, and
then came a year of teaching in Howard
County and subse(iuently two years more
of study in the niii-iiial si-liool, from which
he was creditaMx gi-a>Inatcd in 1896.

It was no aciideiit or matter of expedi-
ency that turned JMr. Nuner into the edu-
cational field, but a deliberate choice of
profession, for which he thoroughly pre-
pared himself. He became an instructor
in the Montpelier High School and con-
tinued to teach there through four school-
year terms, in the meanwhile, however,
during the summers taking work iu the
Indiana Univer.sity. Later he spent a year
in the University of Chicago and some
years later took additional summer-term

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work in this great miiversity, from which
he was graduated iu 1912, with the degree
of B. S. He continues post-graduate work
along various lines during his summer va-
cations, acquiring kncrwledge easily be-
cause of his love of it and broadening his
vision so that he may be more helpful to
those who look to him for guidance in in-
tellectual things.

In 1902 Mr. Nuner became assistant
principal of the ]\Iishawaka High School
in Saint Joseph County, and in 1903 was
elected superintendent of schools in tha.t
city and remained in that relation imtil

1916, when he became superintendent at
South Bend, where his useful services con-
tinue. He has a large field here, which
includes nineteen schools, 360 teachers and
9,500 pupils, and the supervision of these
occupy his time fully during working
hours. He is identified with many edu-
cational organizations and is a valued
member of the State Teachers', the North-
ern Indiana Teachers' and the National
Educational Associations.

Mr. Nuner was married at Mishawaka in
1902 to Miss Kate Rebecca Bingham, who
died in that city December 1, 1910. She
was a daughter of E. V. and Harriet
(Grimes) Bingham, the former of whom
is an attorney. She was the devoted
mother of three children: William, who
died when aged four months: John Frank-
lin, who was born :May 27, 1906: and
James Bingham, who was born July 19,
1908. Mr. Nuner was married, second, on
August 7, 1916, at ]\Iacatawa Park, Michi-
gan to Miss Ann DuShane, who is a daueh-
ter of James and Emma (Chapin) Du-
Shane. The father of Mrs. Nuner. who
died in the spring of 1916, was a lawyer
by profession and a former superintend-
ent of the South Bend schools. The
mother of Jlrs. Nuner resides at South
Bend. Jlr. and Mrs. Nuner have one child,
Robert DuShane, who was boi-n July 17,

1917. Their handsome residence anci hos-
pitable home is situated on Riverside
Drive, South Bend.

In his political views Professor Nuner is
an independent republican. He is a Council
Mason, his membership being in ^Misha-
waka Lodge No. 130, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons ; Mishawaka Chapter No.
83, Royal Arch ilasons; Mishawaka Com-
mandery Knights Templar: and :Misha-
waka Council, Royal and Select Masters.

He has membership also in various social
bodies at South Bend, finding pleasant
companionship and relaxation in such or-
ganizations as the Round Table, the Knife
and Fork Club and the Rotary Club.
Public affairs and local improvements of
importance all claim his interest, and as
far as his means permit he gives freely in
the cause of charity, benevolence and
patriotism. He is a member of the Presby-
terian Church.

David Kahx. Through a long period of
years no name has been more honored iu
commercial affairs and citizenship at Indi-
anapolis than that of Kahn. It is a no-
table family, has been identified with In-
diana for more than three quarters of a
century, and in every generation has com-
prised men noteworthy for their personal
integrity and the energies which in a busi-
ness way have emanated from them and
gone to the upbuilding of commercial con-
cerns that are mentioned with respect
wherever known.

The founder of the family in Indiana
was Samuel Kahn, whose early years in
this countrv were identified with Bloom-
ington, Indiana. Samuel Kahn was born
in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and came to
the United States on board a sailing ves-
sel in 1840. Bloomington, Indiana, when
he located there was little more than a
frontier village. He went into business as
a retail clothins merchant, and his strict
application to business and his personal
honestv soon brought him success. He mar-
ried Gertrude Kahn. who though of the
same name was not related. She was born
at Frowenber? in Alsace-Lorraine. About
the close of the Civil war Samuel Kahn
and family removed to Indianapolis, estab-
lishing their home at 532 East ^Market
Street, a property which is still owned by
the family. From that time forward Sam-
uel Kahn lived retired until his death in
1879.

Among the six children of this pioneer
Indiana merchant was the late David Kahn,
who died at Indianapolis I\Iarch 21. 1903,
after a career that was notable in point of
business success and as a worker and con-
tributor to the practical charities of his
home city. He received his primary edu-
cation in the piiblic schools of Bloominston,
and also attended Asbury, now DePauw
L'^niversitv, at Greencastle. After two years

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1545

in university he came to Indianapolis and
engaged in trmik manufaeturiug at the
corner of Washington and Meridian
streets. His business affairs prospered and
about 1887 he foimded the Capital Paper
Company, of which he was the active head
until 1897, when he turned over the man-
agement of the business to others, though
still retaining his stock. He also founded
the firm David Kahn & Company, bankers
and investment bankers, in 1897. In 1900
this business was enlarged to Kahn, Fisher
& Company, and he remained a factor in
its management until his death. David
Kahn was a splendid type of business man.
But he did not gain success at the sacrifice
of the virtues which made him equally
notable as a leader in charitj'. He was
a man kindly in actions, liberal in his views
to both Jew and Gentile, and for many
years was at the head of the Jewish Chari-
ties of Indianapolis, and president of the
Indianapolis Hebrew Congi-egation. It was
largely through his instrumentality that
the Temple at Tenth and Delaware streets
was erected. He was also a member of the
Commercial Club, and many civic and so-
cial organizations were honored to have his
name on the membership roles.

David Kahn married Hannah Fisher, of
Fort Wayne, Indiana, who survives him.
There are three children, sons who uphold
the high standards left them by grand-
father and father. These three sons are
I. Ferdinand, S. Carroll and Charles F.,
all of them connected with the Capital
Paper Company. Ferdinand is president,
Carroll is secretary and treasurer, and
Charles F. is vice president. They have
proved themselves progressive Indianapolis
citizens, active and successful in basiness,
and willing workers in every movement that
expresses the best in American life. The
only one of the sons now married is Fer-
dinand. He married Miss Ann Berman,
of San Antonio, Texas. They have one
daughter, Betti Louise.

I\l0E A. CusHMAN represents a family
that for many years developed and main-
tained probably the largest establishment
in the Middle West for the manufai-ture of
all implements and appliances used in the
butter and creamery factory. For the past
eight or nine years Mr. Cushman has been
identified with IMiehigan City as a real
■estate man. His wife is a member of the

prominent Leeds family of Michigan City.

ilr. Cushman was born in Waterloo,
Iowa. His father Andrew Jackson Cush-
man, was born at Wilmot, Wisconsin, in
1845, was a direct descendant of Robert
Cushman, who came to this country with
his son Thomas Cushman in 1621. Thomas
was born in England in 1608. In the year
1635 he married ]\Iary Allerton, the daugh-
ter of Isaac Allerton, who came over in
the Mayflower in 1620.

From Thomas Cushman and his wife,
Mary Allerton, and their descendants have
come all the Cushmans in the United States.
They are therefore of full blood Puritan
stock, both their paternal and maternal
ancestors having been among the Pilgrims
who settled at Plymouth. The grandfather,
Joseph Pierce Cushman, was born in Wal-
doboro, ;\Iaine, JMarch 2, 1811.

Joseph Pierce Cushman, grandfather of
iloe A., was born on a farm, and early
learned the trade of cooper. With that
trade as his chief capital he sought a home
in the West during early manhood, lived at
Wilmot. Wisconsin, for several years, and
then went to Kansas and settled in Colum-
bus. He conducted a cooperage business
there until his death. He married Emeline
iloe, who was a young girl when her par-
ents were killed by the Indians.

Andrew Jackson Cushman was a lioy
when his parents removed to Kansas,
learned the cooper's trade from his father,
and followed that business at LaPorte,
Iowa, and later at Waterloo. He estab-
lished a cooperage shop at Waterloo, mak-
ing a specialty of barrels and butter tulis.
He gradually developed an industry for
supplying the creamery business with im-
plements and packing goods, and manu-
factured and sold practically everything
used in that business. The outgrowth of
this was the National Creamery Supply
Company, which he established and of
which he was head until 1911. His busi-
ness headquarters were in Chicago, but he
always lived in Waterloo, where liis deatli
occurred in 1913. He married Cassandra
IMcIlroy. She was born near Columbus,
Ohio, a daughter of James and Cassandra
(Baker) Mcllroy. The Mcllroy family
were of Scotch ancestry and the leakers of
Pennsylvania Dutcli ancestry.

^loe A. Cushman graduated from the
Waterloo. Iowa, High School with tlie class
of 1902 and later attended the Iowa State

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University. From school he went to Chi-
cago to assist in his father's business, and
upon the death of his elder brother be-
came manager. He continued with the
business until 1910, when he closed out the
National Creamery Company, and in 1911
came to Michigan City, where he has con-
ducted a large real estate and insurance
business and is also an investment banker.

January 15, 1908, ^Ir. Cushman mar-
ried iliss Caroline A. Leeds, a native of
Michigan City.

Her grandfather was Ofifley Leeds, whose
name has been given a first place among
the pioneer founders of Michigan City in
all local histories. He was born in New
Jersey in 1798, son of a farmer in moderate
circumstances, one of a family of twelve
children. He was of Quaker ancestry.
Out of the proceeds of his work as a
teacher and as a farmer he entered the
mercantile business at Egg Harbor, New
Jersey, and in spite of several misfortunes
he prospered and finally sold his business
for a large valuation. He married Char-
lotte Ridgeway, whose relatives were among
the honored families forming the first set-
tlement in LaPorte County. Her father,
Jeremiah Ridgeway was a native of Eng-
land and after coming to America was a
merchant in New Jersey. During the '30s
OfSey Leeds came west and after a brief
stay at Chicago sought as a better location
for his business enterprise ilichigan City.
He invested in thousands of acres of land
in that vicinity, buying at .$1.25 an acre
and established a general store at ilich-
igau City, which was gi-eatly prospered and
which he continued until 1852. It is said
that his enterprise inaugurated and com-
pleted many of the most valuable improve-
ments in Jlichigan City in the early days.
He became intensely interested in flour
mills and other businesses, and was one
of the directors of the old State Bank of
Indiana. He died in 1877, and his wife
in 1857.

Walter Offley Leeds was born at Egg
Harbor, New Jersey, February 21, 183.3,
and died at Michigan City December 13,
1896. He was reared and educated in
^Michigan City and followed in the foot-
steps of his father and handled the im-
mense Leeds estate with consummate ability
and success. In 1864 he enlisted in the
Twenty-eight Indiana Infantry and served
as a private for 100 days. He" was reared

as a Quaker and in polities was in the
main independent. The only office he ever
cared to hold was that of city councilman.
January 31, 1870, Walter 6. Leeds mar-
ried Harriet Amelia Dysart, daughter of
John and Esther (Turner) Dysart, and
granddaughter of John and Jane (Swan)
Dysart. John Dysart, Sr., spent his life
in Ireland and was of Scotch ancestry.
His widow came to America and spent her
last days in Michigan City. The father
of Mrs. W. 0. Leeds, John Dysart, was
born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1808 and came
to America in 1833. He was an early
surveyor with the Erie Railroad, and in
1837 located at ^liehigan City and some
years later was with a corps of engineers
locating the line of the Lake Shore Rail-
road. He was also prominent in politics
and one of the notable men of LaPorte
County, where he died in 1899, at the age
of ninety-one. He married Esther Turner,
who was born in 1814, daughter of James
Turner, a native of the North of Ireland.
She died in 1882, at the age of sixty-eight.

Mr. and Mrs. Cushman have five chil-
dren: Charlotte A., Frances J., Caroline
Leeds, Andrew Leeds and Walter Moe.

Mr. Cushman is a director of the Citi-
zens Bank of Michigan City and vice pres-
ident of the Michigan City Building and
Loan Association. He is a member of the
Potawattomie Country Club and of Wash-
ington Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias.

JoHx Edward Stephexsox. No family
in Indiana is more representatively Ameri-
can than that of John Edward Stephenson
— thi'ough his forefatliers and later his
three sons, all of whom enlisted in the late
World war at the beginning.

Indiana had been a state only fourteen
years when his father, William Henry Har-
rison Stephenson, a son of John E. and
Jane (Stallcup) Stephenson, was born in
Fountain County October 6, 18^0 — the
birthplace also of his mother, Marzilla
Hughes, daughter of John Edward and
ilary Dutro Hughes.

The life of William Henry Harrison
Stephenson brings the real pioneer epoch
of Indiana into close and living touch witlv
the present. His grandfatlier, after whom
he was named, was a Scotchman and
founded the Stephenson family in America.
His father was born in Greenbrier County,
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the first battles of the Revolutionary war
were being fought. He married his first
wife in Sulphur Springs, Virginia, and
about 1820 they went to Kentucky and
lived at La Grange for ten years. Prom
there they came to Indiana in 1827, driving
overland with ox teams and settling on a
tract of laud in Fountain County, for
which he obtained a patent from the United
States Government, with President Andrew
Jackson's name to the document. For
ninety years the Stephenson family have
lived in that locality.

Here John Edward Stcpht'iisdii of In-
dianapolis was born AnL;u.-t 11. 1 s.')9. He

was educated in the district scl Is and

the high school of Attica, following which
he studied medicine for three years. Find-
ing this profession distasteful he aban-
doned it for a commercial life. His earlier
experience in this work was in Wabash,
Wabash County, and later he was con-
nected with firms in Chicago and Phila-
delphia. ^Ir. Stephenson came to In-
dianapolis to reside in 1888. All this time
he was a student of opportunities, and in
1898, with small capital but unlimited en-
ergy- and courage, he founded the Century
Garment Company of Indianapolis. In
1906 this company was reorganized as the
American Garment Company, now a na-
tionally known industry with head(iuar-
tei's in Indianapolis and branch offices in
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and
New York.

On June 28, 1883, at Wabash. Indiana,
Mr. Stephenson married Edith Douner
ilaeCrea, daughter of James and Susan
Cissna MacCrea. The three sons of ilr.
and Mrs. Stephenson are MacCrca, Robert
Houston and Edward Edgerly.

MacCrea 'Stephenson enlisted in the
United States Army in ^lay. 1917. He
chose the aviation branch of the service
and received his training in ground work
at the University of Ohio, where he was
graduated in July. From there he went
to Dayton, Ohio, for his work in flying and
received his commission as first lieutenant
in September with the first class sent from
that field. Early in Octnlier he was de-
tailed to Mineola, Long Island, for over-
seas duty and sailed from France in com-
mand of the One Hundred and Third Aero
Snuadron on November 22d. Landing in
Liverpool, he went from there to France
in January, 1918. After a course in ad-

vanced flying, bombing and gunning in the
various schools of instruction, he was at-
tached to the Seventh and later to the
Eleventh Aero Squadron. It was with the
latter squadron he made his last flight
on September 18th. A bombing raid of
five machines set out from the field at
Amanty, IVIeuse, France, near Goudrecourt,
with La Chausse as its objective. The for-
mation was attacked by the famous Rich-
thoven Circus of very superior numbers.
The five planes were all shot down.

A Hun plane dropped a note near Toul
stating MacCrea Stephenson had died in
Germany. Confirmation of his death fi-
nally re:iched his parents at Indianapolis
only in February, 1919, when his brother,
Corp. Edward Stephenson, who by special
order had been detailed to establish the
facts of his brother's fate, sent a brief
cablegram saying: "Located grave at
Jarny Meurthe Et Mosell. Have erected
.stone." The Eleventh Aero Squadron re-
ceived a "citation" for bravery and heroic
work under grave difficulties.

Robert Houston Stephenson entered the
first Officers Training Camp at Fort Ben-
jamin Harrison in ilay, 1917, and was grad-
uated a second lieutenant in August. He
was assigned to duty at Camp Zacharj-
Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, where he
went in September. He was attached to
the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Depot
Brigade, serving in various branches, and
was recommissioned- first lieutenant in
'May. 1918. In October of that year he was
assigned to Lakehnrst, New Jerse.v, for in-
struction in chemical warfare, from which
station he had immediate overseas orders
when the armistice was signed on Novem-
ber 11th. On May 4, 1918, he married
Elizabeth Bodine Hogan, of Louisville,
Kentucky.

Edward Edgerly Stephenson enlisted in
the aviation branch at the age of nineteen.
He was detailed for service at the Speed-
wa.v, Indianapolis, whence he was trans-
ferred in July to Camp ^Meade. ^Maryland,
for immediate overseas duty with the
Sevent.v-ninth Division Three Hundred
and Twelfth Field Artillery, Battery B.
They sailed for France from Philadelphia
July 14, 1918, landing at Liverpool, Eng-
land and were moved at once by easy stages
to the South of England and across to
Fi'ancf. .-Xt this time he n'ceived his cor-
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS

last week of the fighting and with the Sec-
ond Army of Occupation in Luxemburg.

James Henry Lane was born in Law-
renceburg, Indiana, June 22, 181-1, and
after a prominent public life died near
Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1866. He was
admitted to the bar in 1840, and in 1846
enlisted as a private in an Indiana regi-
ment organized for the Mexican war. He
subsequently rose to the rank of colonel,
and in 1848 was chosen lieutenant governor
of Indiana. From 1853 until 1855 James
H. Lane was a representative in Congress,
chosen as a democrat. In the latter year
he removed to Kansas, and was afterward
prominent in the political life of that state
and of the nation until his death.

WiLiJAM A. Guthrie, whose home is at
Dupont, Indiana, but whose prominent
business and civic interests require much
of his time at Indianapolis, has been more
than a representative Indianap for many
years and is a worthy descendant of a
long line of patriotic and substantial an-
cestry. The Guthries have resided iu the
United States for many generations and
have taken high rank ■ in education, in-
dustry, material wealth and citizenship.

The original home of this family was
in Scotland. Thomas Guthrie, of Scot-
land, was one of the more noted of the
name. He founded the famous "Raggedy
Schools" of Edinburgh, and was widely
known as a scholar, orator and philan-
thropist. Lord Charles Guthrie, present
ownier of the Robert Louis Stevenson home
at Edinburgh and a son of Thomas Guthrie
.iust mentioned, is probably the most widely
kuown member of the family in Europe.

The Americans of the name are probably
all descended from William Guthrie. He
■was a planter and slave owner in South
Carolina, being one of the first settlers
in the Waxhaw district. One of his de-
scendants was James Guthrie of Louis-
ville, Kentucky, who served his state in
the United States Senate and was also a
cabinet officer. Another direct descend-
ant of the William Guthrie of South Car-
olina was James Guthrie, who served the
colonies in the Revolutionary- war. He
married Jane Carnes, daughter of Alex-
ander Carnes.

William Brown Guthrie, son of James
and Jane (Carnes) Guthrie, was born in

South Carolina' and moved to Kentucky
during the time of Daniel Boone. He
there married Polly Crawford, daughter
of James and Rebecca (Anderson) Craw-
ford. The Andersons were also from Scot-
land, but on coming to America settled
in old Augusta County, Virginia, where
their names occur frequently among the
old records and deeds. Rev. James Ander-
son, a Presbyterian minister, was the pro-
genitor of the family in America. He, too,
served iu the Revolution.

William Brown Guthrie had an interest-
ing career. While serving the colonies in
their second struggle with Great Britain,
his wife, then living in Jefferson County,
Indiana, was compelled to fle« from home
to escape an Indian raid. She carried one
small child in her arms and led another
by the hand, and after many miles of travel
finally reached the safety of the block-
house. William Brown Guthrie died and
is buried at Hanover, Indiana.

Anderson Crawford Guthrie is next in
direct line. He was the child carried in
arms by his mother to escape the Indians.
He was born April 22, 1811, in Jefferson
County, Indiana. A farmer by occupa-
tion, he also taught school, and while in
that occupation met and married Anne
Wilson. She was born in Nottingham,
England, in 1815, and came with her par-
ents, Capt. Samuel and Anne (Orme) Wil-
son, to the United States in 1820. Captain
Wilson was ti-ained to arms in England,
and because of that experience drilled a
company of Americans and was thus in-
variably called captain.

Anderson Crawford Guthrie was a man
of superior mental attainments. Politic-
ally he was identified with the republican
party from the time of its organization,
and was a man of highest esteem. He died
in 1866, his widow surviving him until
1901. They had six children: ilary Ann,
Elizabeth Jane, Sarah Lucinda, Samuel
Wilson, who was a soldier in the Civil
war, Ruhamah and William Anderson,

William Anderson Guthrie, whose an-
cestry has thus been briefly traced, was
born in Jefferson County, Indiana, ]May 13,
1851, He grew up on a farm and has al-
ways kept in touch with the agricultural
interests in the southern section of the
state. He attended schools at College Hill
and Moore's Hill, On Oeober 28, 1875, he
married Miss Sarah Lewis, daughter of

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Dr. George Brown Lewis, at Dupoiit, In-
diana.

Despite his large business interests, cen-
tered at Indianapolis, William A. Guthrie
still maintains his home at Dupont in Jef-
ferson County. In politics he is a repub-
lican. In 1898 he was elected to the State
Senate from Jefferson, Ripley and Switz-
erland counties, being one of the ablest
members of that bodv during the sessions
of 1899 and 1901. A distinction that will
long attach to his name was the credit for
introducing and bringing about the passage
of the first and present pure food law. This
law corresponds in all important essen-
tials to the national food law, and both
measui-es were written by the eminent Dr.
Harvey Wiley. ]Mr. Guthrie was delegate
to the Republican National Convention
from his home district in 1908 and in 1916
was presidential elector. He was appointed
by Governor Ralston and reappointed by
Governor Goodrich a member of the state
forestry commission, and has been its
president all the time since a member.

Governor Goodrich appointed him on the
Food Production and Conservation Com-
mittee. He is a thirty-second degree Scot-
tish Rite Mason, a koble of the Mystic
Shrine and a member of the Columbia
Club of Indianapolis.

Mr. and ilrs. Guthrie are the parents of
two children. Dr. George Lewis Guthrie
and Lucy Anne Guthrie. Dr. George L.
Guthrie is a graduate of the Indiana ^NFed-
ical College, was third vice president of
the Indiana State iledical Association, and
now holds a majoi'S commission in the
LTnited States ^ledical Reserve Corps. On
his return from the war zone in France
he was assigned post surgeon at Fort
Ethan Allen, Vermont. He married Jessie
Freemont Bowman, a graduate of Short-
ridge High School and before her mar-
riage a teacher in the Indianapolis schools.
Doctor and Mrs. Guthrie have one son,
William Bowman. Lucy Anne Guthrie is
a graduate of the Shortridge High School
and of Franklin College, and received her
musical education in the Cincinnati Col-
lege of ]Music and in New York. She mar-
ried Dr. E. W. Crecraft, and their three
children are named Lucy Anne, Jane Willis
and Richard Guthrie. Doctor Crecraft is
a graduate of Franklin College and of
Columbia L^'niversity, attaining his Doc-
tor of Philosophv degree from the latter

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institution. He is now a lecturer on in-
ternational law and politics in New York
University.

Among the prominent Indiana women
of the present generation ilrs. William
A. Guthrie is widely known. She is the
Indiana State Regent of the Daughters of
the Union, is state secretary of the In-
diana Daughters of the War of 1812. and
is honoraiy state regent of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, having served
as state regent three years and is now one
of the vice president generals. National
Society, Daughters of the American Rev-
olution.

George B. Lewis M. D. Tributes and
memorials to many of the hard working
and self sacrificing physicians of both the
older and present generations are found in
these pages. The best work of the pains-
taking and careful physician does not flaunt
itself to public recognition, and it is not
strange that many of the noblest char-
acters who have adorned the profession in
the past are almost buried in obscurity.

It is to redeem one of the splendid men
who practiced medicine for long years in
Southern Indiana that this brief article
is written. Throughout the length and
breadth of Jef¥erson County the name of
Dr. George B. Lewis was spoken with es-
teem and veneration not only during his
active life but ever since. Doctor Lewis
was born in Rush Countv. Indiana, Julv
18, 1826, a son of Ezekiel and Charity
(Archer) Lewis. His paternal grandfather
was a native of France, and coming to the
United States at the age of sixteen set-
tled near Hartford, Connecticut.

The early boyhood of Doctor Lewis was
one of privation and hardship. He ac-
quired his primary schooling in such
schools as were maintained in his country
district, and until manhood was engaged
in various occupations. As a boy he drove
a horse on the old canal running into
Cincinnati. He also frequently appeared
in the streets of that city peddling paw
paws and buying and selling other prod-
ucts. As a peddler he saved enough money
to buy his mother the first cook stove she
ever had and the first one in that vicinity.
This was only one instance of an unselfish-
ness and family affection that were endur-
ing traits of his character. He was also
noted for his industry. When he was

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about fifteen his mother died, and thence-
forth he contributed much to the care and
education of the younger children. At
sixteen he taught his first term of district
school. When about eighteen Doctor Lewis
entered the State University at Blooming-
ton, but did not graduate. After two
years he entered the Evansville Medical
College, from which he received his degree
in 1850.

Doctor Lewis at once located at Dupont
and spent the rest of his life in Jefferson
County. As a physician he rode horse-
back in discomforts thi'ough mud, sleet,
snow, winds, storms, bitter cold and in-
tense heat to relieve suffering humanity
whenever he was called upon, and though
he enjoyed a comfortable degree of ma-
terial pi'osperity it was hardly to be
reckoned as any adecjuate or proper re-
numeration for the unselfish services he
rendered in the profession.

His skill as a physician was equalled
by the rectitude of his character, and he
became widely known all over that part of
the state. He never ceased to be a student,
and came to be regarded as one of the
best educated men of Indiana. He pos-
sessed extreme modesty and a retii'ing dis-
position, and while this did not interfere
with the prosecution of his regular work
it did prevent him from receiving the rec-
ognition that was his due from a wider
appreciation of men. He was a personal
friend and advisor to scores of families in
his section of the state, and his practical
wisdom was often sought by men high in
office and statecraft. He was the soul of
honesty, and there is every reason why
his name should be remembered gratefully
by future generations in Indiana.

Doctor Lewis was peculiarly fortunate in
the choice of a life companion. His wife
has been described as in many ways an
exact complement to his own nature and
disposition, and her influence was one of
the important factors in the achievement
of his success. She was distinguished for
her gentleness, her kindness, was acclaimed
as the best of mothers and in an unosten-
tatious way she was noted for her many
benefactions. Doctor and IMrs. Lewis were
members of no church, but in their daily
lives they practiced the true Christianity.

The maiden name of Mrs. Lewis was
Patience McGaiinon, of direct Scotch-Irish
ancestry. She died March 19, 1894, while

Doctor Lewis passed away November 5,
1899, at the age of seventy-three. They
had six children : Byf ord, Sarah ( ilrs. Wil-
liam A. Guthrie), Dr. J. Frank, Mary,
George B., and Zachary Morton.

ScHLossER Brothers. The attention of
the world is now as never before directed
upon the men and activities involved in
the production and distribution of food
supplies. Indiana is such a completely
diversified state in its many procluctive
activities that the individual factors en-
tering into the whole are often underesti-
mated and slighted. It is a well known fact
that in the production of dairy goods In-
diana ranks as one of the leading states
in the Middle West. It is with dairying
and general produce business that the firm
of Schlosser Brothers has earned its en-
viable distinction, and for a ni;mber of
years has been regarded as transacting the
largest business of any one firm in the
entire state.

The business had its point of origin in
Marshall County, where the Schlosser
brothers grew up as sturdy young farmers.
Their father was Jacob Schlosser, a native
of Germany, who came to the LTnited States
when nineteen years of age. The principal
reason that brought him to the New World
was to avoid compulsory military service
and also to take advantage of the better
opportunities to accjuire independence and
a home of his own. For some years he
lived in New York City, where he learned
the trade of baker, and about nine years
later, in 1855, came to Indiana, where one
of his uncles was living at the time. Jacob
Schlosser bought 160 acres of raw timber
land in German Township of Marshall
County, near Bremen, and there under-
took the heavy task awaiting a pioneer. In
New York City he had married Eva ilar-
garet Karror, also a native of Germany.
They began housekeeping in an old log
cabin that stood on the land, surrounding
which about one acre had been cleared.
Jacob Schlosser had the typical German
virtues of diligence and thrift, was always
superior to the obstacles that stood in his
way, and in the course of time he became
one of the leading farmers of Marshall
County. He never took any part in poli-
tics, though he was well known and respec-
ed for his manv good qualities. He died
in 1906, and h'is wife in 1892. In their

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fa mil J' were eight sons aud one daughter,
all now living except two sons.

All the Schlosser brothers grew up on
the homestead farm in Marshall County,
and eharaeteristically enough they re-
mained at home until reaching their ma-
jority and had in addition to the training
of the local schools a thorough practice in
working and cultivating the land. The
beginning of their creamery and prodxice
interests was made when Philip and Henry
Schlosser began the business on a small
scale near Bremen in 1884, at one corner
of their father's farm. The creamery
which they set in operation there con-
tinued doing business at the old stand until
Januaiy 1919, when they moved in to their
new building in Bremen. As other sons
came to maturity they also entered into
partnership, so that eventually there were
the following brothers in the business,
Philip, Henry, Jacob, Gustav Frederick,
Samuel and William. About 1890 their
early success enabled them to expand, and
they established a factory at Wanatah, and
about 1891 bought a plant at Hanna.
Both these creameries have since been dis-
continued. In 1893, in order to get an
outlet for their three plants, they opened
a wholesale produce house at South Chi-
cago, Illinois. In the spring of 1901 they
bought property at Plymouth, Indiana, and
established a plant large enough to con-
solidate the Wanatah, Hanna, and North
Liberty plants. In 1909 the brothers estab-
lished their plant at Indianapolis, at Sen-
nate and South streets, but in 1915 built a
fine modern plant at 705-11 East ^Market
Street. The largest plant of all was erected
in 1912 at Frankfort, where their general
office is located. In 1916 the brothers
bought the Maumee Dairy Company at
Fort Wayne. Thus they have established
in the course of thirty -five yeai's connec-
tions with the sources of supply and have
developed facilities for distribution and
handling of daily products at many points
in the state of Indiana, and have made good
their ambition to build up a business second
to none of its kind within the state. Every
advanced method of pasteurization, sterili-
zation and sanitary precautions have been
introduced, and the business furnishes em-
ployment altogether to about 5-50 persons.
Some idea of the extent of the business can
be had from the statement that every year
they manufacture and distribute approxi-

mately 10,000,000 pounds of butter, to say
nothing of the great (luantities of eggs and
other produce gathered in through their
various plants. In perfecting modern fa-
cilities for the handling of dairy and pro-
duce business the Schlosser Brothers have
done much for Indiana and adjacent
states.

The Schlosser Brothers are not only ex-
cellent business men, but are thorough
Americans, public spirited and loyal, and
the business that has grown up under their
care and management of itself constitutes
a big public service at this time of national
and international demand.

]\Ir. Henry Schlossei-, wlm is the active
man at Indianapolis for ihc tina, was born
on the farm in ^Marshall ( tiuiity, March 28,
1863, the fourth child and fourth son of
his parents. He attended' district school
until the age of fifteen, and after that
lived at home on the farm and also worked
at the carpenter's trade, but a,s was the
family custom, turned over all his wages
to his father. Besides being identified with
the creamery and produce business at its
beginning in 1884 he has given more or
less active superintendence to farming, and
has also interested himself in public af-
fairs. He was elected as a republican in a
democratic township to the office of trustee
in ^Marshall County. He is a member of
the Evangelical association and has served
his church as steward. His first wife Mary
A. Dugan, died soon after their marriage.
In 1893 he married ilrs. Emma Martin,
of I\Iarshall County. She had one daugh-
ter, Lottie D. JIartin, by her first marriage.
]\Ir. and ]\Irs. Schlosser have one daughter,
Lulu E.

Fraxk C. Hustox, of Indianapolis, is
a native Indianan and has become widely
known throughout the nation as an Evan-
gelist and a minister of the Church of
Christ. In recent years he has also es-
tablished and built up a large business
as a music publisher.

He was born September 12, 1871, at
Orange, Fayette County. Indiana, son of
Thomas M. and ^lary E. (Harris) Hus-
ton. His grandfather, William Huston,
came from County Antrim, Ireland, and
after a brief sojourn in Pennsylvania
moved to Fayette County, Indiana, where
he was an early settler and a farmer the
re.st of his life. He located twelve miles

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southeast of Coiinersville. He was a very
strict Presbyterian, exueediugiy loyal to
his religion, and an exemplar of all the
good moral and substantial virtues. He
mai-ried Jane Ramsey, of Scotch Presby-
terian parentage, who was the first white
child born in Preble County, Ohio. She
was a woman of splendid character, and
in her community enjoj-ed an affectionate
regard based upon a constant service and
influence for good continued through
many years, not only in behalf of her
own family but all her neighbors.

Thomas M. Huston was one of a family
of eleven children, and is still living at
Kuightstown in Henry County, Indiana,
at the age of seventy-nine. He served
as a Union soldier in Company L of the
Third Indiana Cavalry, and he had two
brothers and four brothers-in-law who
were in the same war. His wife, Mary E.
Harris, was of English ancestry, her
father, William Harris, being of the fam-
ily who founded Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania. He became one of the early set-
tlers in Fayette County, Indiana, and
died at the age of seventy-four years,
after a long and honored life in the
county.

Mr. Frank C. Huston is the younger
of two children. He attended the dis-
trict and high schools of Fayette County,
and later was a student of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago. For one year
he taught common schools, and then be-
came an evangelistic singer, a vocation
he followed for nineteen years in many
states. He is also a regularly ordained
minister of the Church of Christ, and for
a number of years has served as local
minister in towns and districts around
Indianapolis. He is now pastor of a
congregation near Indianapolis. While
still in the ministry he founded the music
publishing business, and especially in re-
cent war times his house has published
and circulated some of the most popular
patriotic songs. He is himself the author
of the words and music of many of these
stirring compositions. Among these are:
"When Our Boys Come Home Again,"
"I Tried to Raise My Boy to Be a Man,"
"America, the Land of Liberty." "My
Indiana Home," and scores of others
written even before a state of war was
declared against Germany. Mr. Huston
offered his services to his country and he

was recommended and appointed by Gov-
ernor Goodrich as chaplain of the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery,
Rainbow Division, but through some mis-
take somehow he was never called upon to
join the regiment before the signing of
the armistice. His services, however,
were in great demand in his home state
and city, and he became widely known as
"The Singing Chaplain."

Mr. Huston is a republican in politics.
He is commander of the Ben Harrison
Camp No. 356 of the Sons of Veterans.
May 13, 1894, he married Miss Bertha E.
Martin. They have seven children: An-
nie Jane (Mrs. H. B. Henderson), Ruth
LoReign, Mary Rebecca, Nelle Katheryn,
Thomas Weldon, Frank Albert and Eliza-
beth Jean.

W. W. Pool, wholesale tobacconist at
Anderson, is sole proprietor of the An-
derson Tobacco Company. He has had a
large experience in the tobacco business
and is one of the best known men to the
trade in the state as a result of his many
years of travel over Indiana representing
the American Tobacco Company.

ifr. Pool, who is rated as one of the
successful business men of Anderson, was
born at Degraff, Logan County, Ohio, in
December, 1886. His parents, Isaac A.
and Rebecca L. (Dailey) Pool, were Ohio
farmers. They were of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry. W. W. Pool attended district
schools, the high school at Degraff for two
years, and had one term of instruction in
business college at Poughkeepsie, New
York. At the conclusion of his education
he went to Decatur, Indiana, and for two
years worked as a motorman and con-
ductor on the interurbau line between
Fort Wayne and Springfield. Seeking
something that promised a bigger future,
Mr. Pool next became connected with the
American Tobacco Company at Indianap-
olis as a traveling salesman. He proved so
valuable as a business getter that in a
few years he had the general sales super-
vision of half of the entire state, and di-
rected the operations of seven men. He
was a tobacco salesman and sales manager
for eight years, and then, on June 7, 1917,
established a strictly wholesale tobacco
business of his own at 18 West Eighth
Street in Anderson. He handles a general
line of tobacco, cigars, chewing gum and

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other commodities and has already built up
proiitable trade eonueetions throughout the
territory surrounding Anderson. Mr. Pool
is a sucees^ul young business man and the
future ahead of him is one of greatest
promise.

February 18, 1913, he married Margaret
C. Clarke, daughter of Dr. D. D. Clarke,
of Decatur, Indiana. Politically Mr. Pool
is independent. He is a member of St.
IMary's Catholic Church at Anderson and
of the Knights of Columbus.

John 0. Spahe. The record of John 0.
Spahr is the record of a successful lawyer
of high standing at Indianapolis, where he
has been a member of the bar for over
a quarter of a century.

Some of his people have lived in Indiana
nearh- a hundred years. He was himself
born in Marion County, January 19, 1866,
son of John H. and Sarah (Newhouse)
Spahr. The Spahr family in earlier gen-
erations lived in Pennsylvania. John H.
Spahr after the death of his father in that
state came as a youth to ilarion County,
Indiana, at the invitation of an uncle who
had settled there many years before. This
imcle was a farmer and miller and founded
the Town of [Millersville in Marion County.
John H. Spahr located at the home of his
uncle and was soon engaged in farming
and later in the milling business. In 1860
he married Sarah A. Newhouse, who rep-
resented a prominent Virginia family.
The Newhouses had come from Virginia to
Indiana as early as 1823, establishing
homes in Marion County. The father of
Sarah was one of the prosperous farmers
of that locality. John H. Spahr after his
marriage lived for several years at the old
Newhouse homestead, and that residence
is still owned by a member of the family.
In 1866 he transferred his home to Boone
County. Indiana, and there became ex-
tensively engaged in farming and stock
buying. At one time he was the chief
buyer of hogs all over Boone County and
part of Hamilton County. He served as
sheriff of Boone County from 1878 to 1880.
He also bought up large numbers of horses
and mules. He finally returned to Indian-
apolis and from 1886 to 1894 was manager
and owner of the Grand Opera Livery
Stable. He then went back to the old New-
house homestead and spent the rest of his
days in the quiet vocation of farming. He

was the father of five children, all of whom
are still living, John 0. being the fourth in
age.

John 0. Spahr received most of his edu-
cation in the public schools of Boone
County. Later he attended Purdue Uni-
versity at Lafayette, and after an extensive
course of reading law entered upon the
formal practice of that profession at In-
dianapolis in 1890. He has had a large
general practice, and undoubtedly more
than his individual share of litigation in
Clarion County. Besides the handling of
many civil eases he has conducted the de-
fense in many leading criminal ca.ses, and
some of these have brought him a repu-
tation far beyond the boundaries of his
native state. Mr. Spahr is a republican,
and was one of the plannei-s and leaders
in the campaign, which brought a second
term to Mayor Bookwalter of Indianap-
olis.

Mr. Spahr married October 18, 1886,
:Miss Emma Sangston, daughter of Hamil-
ton Sangston of Boone County. Mrs.
Spahr was well educated, and had oppor-
tunity and by much practice developed her
talents as an artist. She was a painter of
landscapes and portraits, and did a great
deal of splendid work. Most of her paint-
ings were destroyed by fire after her mar-
riage.

Thomas B. Harvey. M. D. One of the
most familiar pictures in Indiana is the
engraving from Lord Frederick Leighton's
painting known as ' ' The Doctor. ' ' It por-
trays the family doctor sitting at the bed-
side of a sick child, chin in hand, gazing
with anxious face at the young patient.
In it the artist idealized the type of the
kindly family physician. In some remark-
able manner he presented almost a perfect
likeness of the late Dr. T. B. Harvey.
Hundreds of friends and associates of that
eminent Indiana physician have admired
and commented on the identity of the ideal
pi-esentment and the well remembered fea-
tures of Doctor Harvey. Doctor Harvey
was loved by huiulreds of families, in whose
homes he was ever a welcome figure in both
health and sickness.

Thomas B. Harvey was born in Clinton
County, Ohio, November 29, 1827. and
died at Indianapolis, in which city he had
practiced for many years, on December 5,
1889. Many tributes have been published,

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and estimates of liis work and influences,
and the material for this sketch, which
finds an appropriate place in the new His-
ton- of Indiana, is largely taken from an
article written by Dr. A. W. Brayton, one
of his old friends and associates.

Doctor Harvey was of English descent.
His family wei-e members of the Society
of Friends, and Doctor Harvey's wife was
of the same faith. His father. Dr. Jesse
Harvey was a noted abolitionist, philan-
thropist and educator. He taught the first
school in Ohio in which colored children
were admitted. He gave liberally of all
he had and much of his time to establish-
ing and keeping up the academy at Har-
veysburg, Ohio. Later he went as a mis-
sionary among the Indians of Kansas, and
died there in 1848, leaving his wife and
children practically without income. Doe-
tor Harvey's grandmother, Mi's. Burgess,
was a Virginian who took her share of her
father's estate in slaves and brought them
to Ohio and gave them liberty on free soil.
Dr. T. B. Harvey was twenty-one years
of age when his father died, and was com-
pelled to practice strict economy and to
acquire his education largeh' through his
own efforts. Through the influence of his
mother he had acquired the habit early in
life of evening reading, and that practice
he persisted in to the end of his life. The
uight before his death he had devoted to
revising and arranging the notes of a lec-
ture to be delivered the following day.
From his father he inherited a bent toward
science, particularly natural science and
medicine.

Doctor Harvey began the study of med-
icine in 1846, at the age of nineteen. He
was graduated from the Ohio Medical Col-
lege in the spring of 1851. He then lo-
cated at Plainfield, Indiana, where he and
Dr. Levi Ritter were for eight years the
only physicians in the locality. Of Doe-
tor Harvey his associate, Doctor Ritter,
said: "A more perfect gentleman profes-
sionally I have never met in either law
or medicine. An ardent student himself,
he demanded of his compeers what he gave
himself — his time, his thought and his
labor of his professional duties. In the
sick I'oom he was the model physician; he
studied to gain the confidence of patients,
nurses and friends, and his presence was
a healing balm in those many cases where
the mind and disposition requli-ed treat-

ment as much as the body. Doctor Harvey
was one of the founders of the Hendricks
County Medical Society; he was its first
president, and did much to make the society
harmonious, studious and progressive. He
established a winter course of lectures, one
each week, for the benefit of our students
and neighboring physicians * * * Dr.
Harvey excelled in sympathy, and this was
one of his strong holds on his patients.
* * * In politics, like his father be-
fore him, he was a Free Soiler; when he
allied himself to the republican party it
was not as a partisan, and even less so af-
ter this party was in control of the gov-
ernment. Dr. Harvey was a part of the
■ social and educational life of Plainfield,
organizing a literary society, which was
maintained with weekly meetings during
his ten years of residence there."

There is one feature of Doctor Harvey's
life at Plainfield that has never been writ-
ten, and can never be written. The '"op-
erators of the L'nderground Railway"
listed for Hendricks County, Indiana, are
"Dr. T. B. Harvey, Harlan Harvey. Dr.
"William F. Harvey and Elisha Hobbs. "
(Note, Siebert's Underground Railway, p.
407.) Dr. William F. Harvey was a
brother, and Harlan Harvey a distant
cousin of Dr. T. B. Harvey, and Elisha
Hobbs was a brother of Barnabas C. Hobbs.
Elisha lived on a farm just south of Plain-
field, on White Lick Creek. Doctor Har-
vey had been initiated in "railroad" work
by his father, and occasionally conducted
"night coaches" in the vicinity of Har-
veysburg, Ohio. The activities of the "op-
erators" at Plainfield have been left un-
recorded, but they may be imagined, for
Plainfield was on the main line.

Doctor Harvey's ten years in Plainfield
were not without fruit. In the long rides
over Hendricks County his mind was ripen-
ing and those mental qualities, self reliance,
simplicity, presence of mind and ready
resource, that can only grow where a man
must be self centered, his own counsel in
extreme cases, were fully developed. Here
was Doctor Harvey's apprenticeship
served. The city, at least in the United
States, is, as Emerson says, always re-
cruited from the country. "The men in
cities, who are the centers of energy, the
driving wheels of trade, politics or prac-
tical arts, and the women of beauty and
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faraiors. and are spending the energies
wliich their fathers' hardy, silent life ac-
cumulates in frosty furrows, in poverty,
necessity and darkness."

Doctor Harvey had inherited and devel-
oped those sterling qualities of body, mind
and heart which come with the exigencies
and rough experiences of country medical
practice. The crisis came with the Civil
war. The pity and sentiment which had
led his grandmother to fi'ee her slaves and
his father to spend his strength and sub-
stance for the poor and downtrodden of
all races, was alive and c^uickened in Doc-
tor Harvey. His tirst call was to the cap-
ital city of his state, where he was ap-
pointed examining surgeon for the In-
dianapolis district, a position he held to
the cliise of the war, and which led him to
bring his family to the city, where he re-
sided without intermission to the time of
his death.

Doctor Harvey performed another war
service that has never been recorded to
his credit, although the .following is a
matter of history: "It was after this bat-
tle at Shiloh that Governor Morton ap-
pealed to the Secretary of "War for per-
mission to appoint two additional surgeons
for each Indiana regiment. As usual this
appeal was at first refused, but the Gov-
ernor persisted until his efforts were
crowned with success. At this point may
be recorded his 'battle royal' with Sec-
retary Stanton, which took place just after
tlie surrender of Vicksburg. His agents
had reported to him that the hospitals were
insufficient, and that the sick and woundecl
soldiers could not receive the care they
ueeded. He went to Washington and
asked the Secretary to have all the sick
and wounded that could be moved sent
North for care and treatment. The medi-
cal authorities objected, declaring the
scheme impracticable, and that the hos-
pitals were able to properly care for them.
"Governor ^Morton denied the reports of
the medical authorities, and insisted on
his request, saying it would be best for
the soldiers, and for the government, as
it would save hundreds of lives and re-
store thousands of soldiei"s more speedily
to serviceable duty. But the Secretary
was obstinate. The Governor appealed to
the President, who could not, or would not,
interfere with Stanton. Finally the Gov-
ernor declared he would publish the whole

matter to the world, that the people might
know who stood in the way of relieving the
sick and wounded. This threat brought
the Secretary to terms, and the order was
at once issued." (Smith's History of In-
diana, Vol. 2, p. 57; see also Foulke's Life
of Morton, Vol. 1, pp. 162-6.)

Doctor Harvey was one of the agents
that ]Morton sent to look after the wounded,
and it was his recommendation that they
be sent home as speedily as possible. Col
W. R. Holloway, Morton's private secre-
tary, said that Morton always declared that
Doctor Harvey was the means of saving
the lives of hundreds of soldiers by his
advice. A part of this advice was tliat as
convalescents about the hospitals had
nothing to interest or occupy their minds
they became homesick and were unable to
overcome its depressing effect, whereas if
permitted to be at their homes they might
speedily recover. On the same principle
is the work of the Red Cro.ss and Young
Men's Christian Association in this latter
day.

The war swept by, but before its close
none of the hundreds who had been called
to the military center were better known
than Doctor Harvey. His was a com-
manding presence, his personal appearance
an exponent of the man within, as perfect
physically and as handsome as the typical
Greek, his frame was large, his face ex-
pressed kindness, strength and intelligence.
He attracted attention in any audience
without speaking, and when he spoke all
ears were strained to hear the cadence that
fell as music on the air. And with all
these natural gifts he was always a modest
man. wholly without ostentation, and with-
out the least admixture of pride or profes-
sional jealousy.

Following the war came the revival in
literary and professional education. The
American people had developed uncon-
scious powers during the war, and all
these awakened energies were now to be
expended in the pursuits of peace. Doc-
tor Harvey was by nature and inheritance
a teacher. When in 1869 the Indiana Med-
ical College was organized Doctor Harvey
was elected to the chair of -\Iedical and
Surgical Diseases of Women, which he held
to the day of his death. For twenty years
he lectured in his chosen specialty. His
work for twelve years included also that
of a clinical teaciier of general medicine.

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In the palmy days of the old Indiana Med-
ical College it was no uncommon thing for
Doctor Harvey to hold a clinic for hours,
comprising the whole range of medical dis-
eases. His clinics at the City Dispensary
for "Women were never neglected nor at
the City Hospital, where ever^- Wednesday
for twenty-five years he was in attendance,
attracting always a large concourse of
students from all the medical schools of
the city as well as many practitioners.

Doctor Harvey was an all around prac-
titioner. He was frequently called as a
consultant in general practice, which con-
tinued to the time of his death. It was
his custom to see his worst cases between
bedtime and midnight. His office hours for
chronic cases were only twice a week. His
patients on these days would come as early
as 11 o'clock and would frequently bring
lunch and light fancy work to beguile the
time until 1 o 'clock, and so be first for his
treatment. Except these days there was
no certainty of finding him in his office.
He would frequently make midnight calls
to remote suburbs, return and take a lunch
of milk and crackers, read the headings of
the morning papers and go to bed at five,
M'hile his devoted wife and daughter kept
guard until midday lest his slumbers be
disturbed.

And so his life ran on : Tuesday at St.
Vincent's and the City Dispensary; Wed-
nesday at the City Hospital for a two
hour's clinic before the medical class;
Thursday his didactic lecture, followed by
an hour's clinic at the college; Tuesday
night at the Marion County ]\Iedical So-
ciety, which he called his church and which
he always attended regardless of the topic
or the author of the paper, even insisting
that the society would take no summer va-
cation. He would never allow a faculty
meeting to be held on Society night, nor
consultation at those sacred hours. This,
with the exigencies of a general practice,
consultations and operations in his special
field, involving long drives and railroad
journeys, filled his time. And yet he al-
ways liad time to talk to his professional
brethren. Did he see a doctor waiting with
the patients in the ante-room, business was
stopped at once, for his constant rule of
practice was in receiving "doctors first and
patients afterwards." So, the honor in
which ho held the profession was impressed
upon his patients and attached physicians

to him. While he had no formal partner,
his invaluable assistant and student was
Dr. L. M. Rowe, who relieved Doctor Har-
vey of an infinite amount of drudgery and •
gave anaesthetics for his patients in nearly
a thousand cases and never with an acci-
dent.

It was Doctor Harvey's ambition to fin-
ish his twentieth year with the college. He
realized that his time was short and he
made joking comment upon it just before
entering the lecture room. Then a brief
half hour later he lay unconscious in the
arms of his loved son and fellow students,
and a few hours later on the same day he
died. Thus he passed away doing the very
work in which he took the greatest delight
and pride.

A brief statement of his professional ac-
tivities appeared in the Indiana Medical
Journal after his death. It is as follows:
"Dr. Plarvey was the chief spirit in the
organization of the Hendricks County Med-
ical Society, read the first paper 'before
that body, and was subsequently its presi-
dent. He also aided in the organization
and was the first president of the Indian-
apolis Academy of Medicine, which was
afterwards merged into the Marion County
Medical Society. He was a member of the
Indiana State Medical Society, the Ameri-
can iledical Association, and the Missis-
sippi Valley Medical Society. In 1880 he
was elected president of the Indiana State
Medical .Society. In 1886 the degree of
LL. D. was conferred upon him by the In-
diana State University. In 1888 he was
a delegate from the Indiana State Medical
Society to the International Medical Con-
gress, held at Washington, D. C. He was
permanent dean of the faculty of the In-
diana Medical College.

"Dr. Harvey made many contributions
to the ilarion County ]\Iedical Society, but
few of them have been published. Among
the papers contributed to the Indiana State
]\Iedical Society and published in its Trans-
actions are the following : In 1861 he made
a report on New Remedies. In 1863 he
read a paper on Puerperal Eclampsia. In
1871, a paper on the Prevention of Lacera-
tion of the Perineum. In 18S1 the sub-
ject of his presidential address was The
Advance in Medicine. In 1883 he read a
paper on Lacerations of the Cervix Uteri ;
and in 1887 one on Ovarian Disease Com-
plicated with Pregnancy. The last paper

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he read before that body was in 1888, the
subject, Conditions Rendering Diagnosis
Difficult in Pelvic and Abdominal Diseases.
Dr. Harvey rarely read his paper, he held
it as a text and discussed the topic off-
hand. A shorthand report of his d\^eus-
sion.s would be a valuable addition to our
medical literature."

While practicing at Plainfield, Indiana,
Doctor Harvey married Miss Delitha But-
ler. He was survived by his wife, two sons
and a daughter, Lawson, Jesse and Eliza-
beth. His son Frank was drowned while
skating on Fresh Pond during his sopho-
more year at Harvard College. This was
a terrible blow to Doctor Harvey, since
this son had determined on a medical ca-
reer, and his life promised much in that
field, since he possessed the temperament
and physique of his father.

In conclusion there should be quoted
an editorial tribute to Doctor Harvey by
John H. Holliday, which appeared in the
Indianapolis News. This was quoted by
Doctor Brayton in the article above re-
ferred to, and. which M'as indorsed as the
sentiments of a meeting of the Marion
County Medical Society called after Doc-
tor Harvey's death. "The death of Dr.
Thomas B. Harvey removes the acknowl-
edged head of the medical profession in
Indiana, and one of the foremost phy-
sicians of the land. He was a prince among
them. His professional attainments and
skill gave him a wide and honored repu-
tation in his beloved calling, and his many
noble and lovely qualities won him the sin-
cere affection of hundreds of households.
Death in striking this shining mark has
left a void, which with those who knew him
can never be filled. He was the ideal phy-
sician. In any walk of life he would have
been conspicuous; his ability compelled
that. But as a physician he combined all
the qualities that go to make up the high-
est professional type that we can conceive
of. No man ever rated his profession more
highly. He loved his work with an un-
sparing and unceasing devotion, and more
than forty years of labor in it found him
as full of enthusiasm and anxiety to im-
prove as when he began it. He loved his
work for itself and not for any pecuniary
reward or honor it might bring him. He
regarded it as a sacred trust, ennobled it
in his own mind and gave the utmost pow-
ers of his heart and brain to it. He was

filled with the spirit of the Divine Healer,
and to relieve pain and disease was to him
a holy calling.

"To uphold the dignity of the profes-
sion, to enhance its character and to widen
its scope and grasp, was a burden always
borne upon his heart. He was an en-
thusiast in all that pertained to its ad-
vancement. In the cau.se of education he
was tireless. Ever since the foundation
of the Indiana Medical College he has been
one of the teachers, and the training of
young men was a delight to him. Nothing
could induce him to forego his lectures and
clinics, though often he was worn out with
overwork and should have been in bed
or recreating away from business. To
produce educated physicians with noble as-
pirations and broad culture, to raise the
standard of professional requirement, was
• an object that appealed to his whole na-
ture and he counted no personal cost too
dear that aided it. His ardor seems phe-
nomenal now. The deep interest he took
in the progress of medicine and surger.y,
his alertness to all new theories and dis-
coveries, his keeping up with the day when
age and health almost dictated a slacken-
ing, was in marked contrast with the habit
of most men who, with a weakening of
the powers or a passing of necessity, are
ready enough to diminish activity.

"He was the beloved physician. Rarely
gifted in personal attractiveness, a kindly
man in form and feature, everj' attribute
of heart and mind comported with the
noble presence nature gave him. To see
him inspired confidence ; to know him cre-
ated love. His politeness, his gentleness,
his tenderness of word and touch, his sin-
cere and earnest sympathy, his considerate-
ness and iNii-cfuIiifss made him the friend
and cDiitiJc'iii m' his patients, and he never
betraycil ihcir tiiists nor disappointed their
expectations. His self sacrifice knew no
bounds, no effort was too gi-eat for him,
and no inconvenience or discomfort ever
weighed for a moment in conflict with scr\--
ice to others. Naturally such a man in-
spired his students, and doubtless the best
of his life work was done in the influence
exerted upon a generation of physicians
now scattered all over the land. To them
he must always be a hero and an example,
and his influence communicated to others
will go on for centuries. He has done a
wreat work and done it nobly. It is his

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enduring monument that will defy the rav-
ages of time. Very happy has been In-
dianapolis in the possession of such a well-
rounded, complete and noble man, and
while mourning his loss, into the bitterness
of grief comes the great thankfulness that
such a life was possible and for the inspira-
tion it should be to all."

Lawson M. Hakvet, who in 1916 was
elected to the Supreme Bench of the State
of Indiana and is now chief .justice thereof,
began the practice of law at Indianapolis
thirty-seven years ago and has eujoj'ed
most of the honors and dignity that go
with the career of the able and successful
lawyer. The people of Indiana appreciate
the experience and the mature wisdom
which Judge Harvey brings to the Supreme
Bench, and he himself has doubtless ac-
cepted the position as an opportunity to
round out and crown a long and worthy
period of activity.

Judge Harvey was born at Plaiufield iu
Hendricks County, Indiana, December 5,
1S56. a son of the" late Dr. Thomas B. Har-
vey.

He was brought to Indianapolis by his
parents at the age of eight years. He at-
tended the public schools, the Indianapolis
Classical School, was a student in Butler
College and also in Harverford College near
Philadelphia. He graduated LL. B. from
the Central Law School of Indianapolis iu
1882 and at once began general practice at
Indianapolis. Judge Harvey during the
greater part of his career as an attorney
gave his chief attention to civil practice,
and in that field he was easily a leader.
In 1884 he became a partner of Edgar A.
Brown, when the firm of Avers & Brown
was dissolved owing to the elevation of
Judge Ayers to the bench. Three years
later the" judge retired from the judicial
office and the firm became A.yers, Brown &
Harvey. 'Sir. Brown of this firm was
elected to tlie bench of the same circuit in
1890, and after that Judge Harvey prac-
ticed alone until 1894.

In that year he was elected judge of the
Superior Court of IMarion County. At the
end of four years he declined renomina-
tion and formed a professional partnership
with William A. Pickens, Linton A. Cos
E)id Sylvan W. Kahn. The firm of Har-
vey, Pickens, Cox & Kahn was continued
until 1907, when Judge Harvey was ap-

pointed one of the judges of the Superior
Court of ilariou County, where he served
until November, 1908. "Before his election
to the Supreme Court Judge Harvey was
counsel for a number of large industrial
and commercial corporations in Indian-
apolis and for a number of years he was
and is a stockholder and dii-ector of the
Sinker-Davis Company, one of the large
Indianapolis manufacturing concerns, and
was also one of the trustees holding the vot-
ing power of the stockholders iu the Con-
sumers Gas Company.

He has been for many years a member
of the board of directors of the Bertha
Esther Ballard Home Association, an In-
dianapolis institution for working girls and
of the Home for Friendless Colored Chil-
dren, both institutions being maintained
under the general supervision of the So-
ciety of Friends in Indiana. Judge Har-
vey is a republican, a member of the
Marion Club, the Chamber of Commerce
and the Columbia Club, and served four
years as secretary, from 1888, and in 1907
was president of the Indianapolis Bar As-
sociation. For several years he was a lec-
turer in the Medical College of Indiana on
the subject of medical jurisprudence.

In October, 1882, Judge Harvey married
Miss Kate M. Parrott. Her father, Horace
Parrott, was for many years an Indian-
apolis merchant. ]Mi's. Harvey was bom
and reared in Indianapolis. Their children
are Thomas P., Horace F. and Jeanette P.

Henry Dodge who was born in Vin-
cennes. Indiana, October 12, 1782, and died
at Burlington, Iowa, in 1867, attained fame
as a soldier. He became the first colonel
of the First Dragoons on the 4th of :\Iarch,
1833, and in the following year was suc-
cessful in making peace with the frontier
Indians. General Dodge was unsurpassed
as an Indian fighter, and a sword was voted
him by Congress. He resigned from the
army to accept the appointment as gover-
nor of Wisconsin territory and superin-
tendent of Indian afl:'aii-s, later serving two
terms as a democratic congressman. Gen-
eral Dodge was again made governor of
Wisconsin, and after the admission of the
state to the I'nion was one of its first
United States senators.

Benjamin B. Minor, of Indianapolis, is
a veteran grain merchant, undoubtedly one

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of the oldest iu the business and for twenty
years has been one of the governors of the
Board of Trade of Indianapolis. It is
doubtful if any grain man or any other
citizen of Indiana could tell offhand and
from personal recollection and experience
more of the pertinent facts regarding the
history of the grain business in the Central
West than Mr. Minor. He did his first
work around the grain elevator and local
market during Civil war times. He is
therefore personally familiar with two eras
of war time prices and conditions iu this
•country.

Mr. Minor was born on a farm at Lodi,
Seneca Comity, New York, October 20,
1840. His parents were Stephen Voorhees
and Eliza Anne (Mundy) Minor, the for-
mer a native of New Jersey. His father
was taken when a small boy to New York
State in 1812, grew up on a farm, learned
the trade of blacksmith, and followed farm-
ing and blacksmithing all his life. There
is one sj^ecial distinction associated with
his work as a blacksmith. It is said that
lie was the first man to fasten a wheel on
an axle by means of a nut. "Up to that
time wheels were secured to the axles by
means of linchpins. He was one of the
liighly esteemed men of his community,
and for years a deacon in the Dutch Re-
formed Church. Stephen Minor was born
February 8, 1806, and died in February,
1888. at the age of eighty-two. February
22, 1832. he married Eliza Anne Mundy,
who died October 29, 1843. Of their four
children two are still living.

Benjamin B. Minor was only three years
of age when his mother died. For several
years he had nothing of a mother's care
.and interest, but when about nine years
of age his father married again and he
remained with his father and stepmother
until he was about twenty-three. The rou-
tine of these years was working on a farm
during the summer and attending country
schools imtil at the age of seventeen he
■qualified as a teacher. Altogether he put
in six years as a teacher, most of it in the
country schools of New York State.

In 1863, when the Civil war was at its
lieight, and at the age of twenty-three. ^Ir.
Minor came west, and at Champaign, Illi-
nois, found work in a grain elevator. From
that time forward his experience in the
■grain business has been practically con-
tinuous. But when the grain liuying sea-

son was over he was employed during the
winter of 1863 as principal of the East
Side public school iu Champaign. Early
the next spring he went south to Vicks-
burg, ilississippi, which had fallen before
the Union armies in the previous year, and
for a time was employed in a sutler's store.
He then returned to Champaign, and as an
employee of Jonathan Bacon bought grain
on the streets. The winter of 1864 he
worked out in the country sewing corn
sacks, much of the time being exposed to
zero temperature. At that time a large
proportion of the corn raised in the Middle
West went south, and it had to be shipped
in sacks.

^^^lile at Champaign on July 10, 1866,
Ml-. IMinor married Alice J. Page. Her
parents were Dr. S. K. and Mary (Waldo)
Page. Her father was a native of Massa-
chusetts and her mother of Connecticut,
and they were married in Kentucky, in
which state, at Port Royal. Mrs. Minor was
born December 3, 1846.

Mr. Minor continued to make his home
at Champaign until 1867, in which year he
took charge of the branch grain house at
Effingham, Illinois, for E. and I. Jennings,
a grain firm of Mattoou, Illinois. i\Ir.
Minor's home was at Effingham until 1885.
After two years he acquired a half in-
terest in the Jennings business in Southern
Illinois, beginning operations under the
fii'm name of Jennings & Minor. With the
extension of the Vandalia railroad this firm
established new stations until they were
operating eight on four different lines.
Mr. Minor recalls the fact that in those
days most of the grain was handled with
scoop shovels, which not only took a great
deal of time but entailed back-lireaking
labor, in which Mr. ]\linor had his full
share of experience. His interests rapidly
extended and he became one of the best
known grain buyers in Southern Illinois,
and in 1883 he acquired the Jennings in-
terests in that section of the state.

Mr. I\Iinor removed to Indianapolis in
1885. and has since continued in the grain
business, still having some interests in Illi-
nois. At one time he operated six diftVr-
ent stations in that state, but now operates
only two, one at Oakwood and one at Mun-
cie. On coming to Indianapolis he fonned
a partnership under the name of ]Minor &
Cooper. This firm was in existence until
April. 1891. and did a general grain and

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commission business. At that date ^Ir.
Minor bought a half interest in the Union
Flour and Linseed Oil ^lills at Detroit.
That business did not prove congenial,
however, and at the end of three months
he sold out and reopened his grain office
in Indianapolis.

Naturally Mr. Minor has had experience
with all "the vicissitudes and ups and
downs of the grain dealer. A few years
ago, in 1911, The Grain Dealers Journal
in recounting some of Mr. ^Minor's fifty
years' experience in the gi-ain trade re-
corded some special incidents which may
properly be woven into this sketch. "In
1893 he built an elevator at Muncie, Illi-
nois, which soon mysteriously went up in
flames at a considerable loss to its builder.
This wa.s soon replaced with another, and
things ran along smoothly until 1899. when
another fire burned the elevator and some
20,000 bushels of oats. Nothing daunted,
he again went to work and built a still
better house, which he is stiU running.
In the meantime he built an elevator at
Oakwood, Illinois, on the same railroad.
He has been operating country stations for
half a century and has maintained an
office in the Board of Trade Building in
Indianapolis for over thirty years. He
has managed to make a living but has not
gotten rich and never expects to in the
grain business. He has made it a practice
not to hedge anything to cover purchases
in the country, and in this way has saved
a gTeat deal of worry and trouble."

The Grain Dealers Journal also quoted
him as saying: "I do not know of any
merchant who works on as small a margin
as the average country grain shipper has
been working on for the past few years.
In former years when we bought a farmer's
crop of corn it was a very rare thing to
have a car that would fail to grade con-
tract; now it is ciuite as rare to have one
that will grade even No. 3, and in most
cases it is not the fault of the farmer. In
the past five years we have had good crops
of corn, but not one crop of good corn."

Jlr. and Mrs. Minor are the parents of
seven children. George Page, born August
5. 1868, died November 5, 1885. Eugene
Voorhees, born September 5, 1872. lives at
]\Iuncie. Illinois, and bv his marriasre on
January 21, 1897. to Laura S. Willard
has one son. Willard. Gertrude Emeline,
the third child, was born December 5, 1874.

Mary Josephine, born March 27, 1878, mar-
ried' April 28, 1908, Dr. George Lincoln
Chapman, and has three living children.
Benjamin B.,' Jr., born October 10, 1880,
married May 24, 1906, Grace 'Pendleton
and has one son, Gray Pendleton. Ben-
jamin, Jr., and wife live in San Francisco,
California. Samuel Earl, born December
26, 1882, is now a first lieutenant in the
Engineers "somewhere in France." He
married September 27, 1909, Margaret
Wishard, and has one son. Freddie, the
seventh child, was born December 22, 1888,
and died in December, 1889.

Olna Hutchins Bradv^'ay. While his
business headquarters now and for several
years past have been at Newcastle, where
"he directs the sales of several well known
motor cars and motor accessories over
Henry County, ilr. Bradway has been
known as a commercial figure in a number
of Indiana towns. The facts of his career
speak for themselves and indicate his won-
derful energy and enterprise in the han-
dling of business situations. He started
life with no special fortune or capital, and
has always shown a willingness and an
ability to meet emergencies as they came
up.

Mr. Bradway was born in Henry Countv
May 31, 1870, a son of William L. and
Angelina (Cartwright) Bradway. His
father was a farmer, had eighty acres of
land in Henry County, and was also a
Civil war veteran, having served with the
Thirty-Sixth Indiana Infantry.

0. H. Bradway attended" the Black
Swamp country school and later the Dub-
lin public school in Wayne County. His
commercial experience began when he was
only fourteen years of age as clerk in a
dry goods store, selling merchandise at
Dublin. He was paid $7 a month and
board, and managed to save half of his
salary for two years. In 1886, going to
Indianapolis, he secured a position that
offered him larger experience but hardly
more actual money. As a worker in the
New York store he was paid $5 a week,
but out of that sum had to pay .$4.50
board. He was there two years in the-
prints department and then went as a
salesman in the prints department of the-
Boston Dry Goods Company, now the Tay-
lor Carpet Company, at $10 a week. He
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vaneed to $15 a week. Besides selling silks
and black dress goods he was also em-
ployed as a window trimmer. Mr. Brad-
way on leaving this establishment went on
the road as a traveling salesman represent-
ing the Price & Lucas Cider and Vinegar
Company of Louisville, Kentucky, distri-
buting their goods over Indiana and Illi-
nois. He was on the road thirteen years.
His starting salary was $20 a month and
expenses. Sixty da.ys later the firm, with-
out consulting him, advanced his salary to
$50 a month, and he was finally made gen-
eral managing salesman with seventeen
men under his direction, and liad a salary
of $3,000 a year, while a side line netted
him $75 a month. In 1905, on leaving the
road, Mr. Bradway bought out the furni-
ture store of John F. Yates on West Broad
Street in Newcastle, borrowing the money
to l)uy the stock valued at $3,000. At the
end of three years he sold out for $6,500,
and also sold his home for $6,500 in cash.
With these accumulations he went w'est
and remained six months in Los Angeles.
After this brief period of recuperation and
rest he returned to Indiana and for six
months was a salesman for the Badger
Furniture Company. Resigning, he went
to Rushville, Indiana, and paid $2,700 for
the furniture stock of C. F. Edgerton &
Son. Four years later he sold that store
to take larger quarters, and installed a
stock valued at $15,000 in a building con-
taining three floors and 40 by 165 feet.
After four years Mr. Bradway closed out
the business at auction, on account of the
building being sold, selling $13,000 worth
of stock in six weeks, and netting a profit
of about $1,200 from the transaction.

His next field of work was at Newcastle,
■where he engaged in the real estate busi-
ness under the firm name of Bradway &
Wilson. The firm handles both real estate
and insurance. Mr. Bradway began selling
automobiles in 1912 in Rush County,
handling the Marion car for two years.
In 1915 he opened a salesroom at 1217
Race Street, selling the Lexington and In-
terstate cars for two years. For a short
time he had a partner in the .same location,
and after dissolution of the partnership
moved to his present headquarters on Cen-
tral Avenue and Main Street in 1917. and
now has the exclusive selling affencies in
Henry County for the Oldsmohile and
Chevrolet cars, also represents the Jliller

and Brunswick tires, and has a large stock
of general motor accessories. Jlr. Brad-
way has various interests, including much
local real estate.

In 1895 Mr. Bradway married ]\Iiss
Bertha Brookshire, daughter of Eli and
Edith (Draper) Brookshire, a well known
family of farmers in Henry County. Mr.
and ]\Irs. Bradway have two children:
Pauline, the daughter, is the wife of Carl
ilcQuinn, who is advertising manager of
the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Company of
Newcastle. The son, Otis Brooks.hire Brad-
way, was born in 1903 and is a schoolboy.
Mr. Bradway is a republican, a member
of the ;\Iethodist Episcopal Church, and
has always be^n too Imsy to affiliate with
fraternal organizations.

John C. Livezey has been a distin-
guished citizen of Henry County through-
out a long and useful life. He was one of
the brave soldiers and officers of a regi-
ment of Union troops partly raised and
recruited in Henry County, and for nearly
half a century since the war has been in
business at Newcastle as a hardware mer-
chant. He is now head of the hardware
house of Livezey & Son.

He was born at Newcastle in August,
1842, a son of Nathan and Abi (Piast)
Livezey. His English Quaker ancestors
came to Pennsylvania at the same time as
William Penn. His grandfather, Nathan
Livezey was born in Philadelphia April
5, 1775, and married Rebecca Jones, who
was born in ^Maryland June 11, 1780. John
C. Livezey 's father, Nathan, Jr.. was born
September 4, 1813, and came to Henry
County from Pennsylvania in 1839.

John C. Livezey attended the public
schools of Newcastle until the age of six-
teen, and then learned the carpenter's
trade with his father, who was a well
known contractor and builder. He was
not yet nineteen when Indiana and the
entire North plunged into th? struggle of
the Civil war, and he was one of the most
ardent among the youths of Newcastle in
serving tlie cause of freedom botli by in-
fluence and individual service. He took
such a lively interest in the recruiting of
what became Corapanv C. Thirtv-Sixth In-
diana Infantry, and showed such practical
ability in military technique that he was
mustered in as sergeant of the company
September 16, 1861. He was st(>adily pro-

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moted, becoming seooud lientenaut, later
captain, and on March 2, 1864, was made
captain and commissary of subsistence. In
that capacity he was attached to the staff
of General William Grose, commanding a
brigade in the First Division, Fourth
Corps, Army of the Cumberland. Later
he was transferred to the staff of General
Joseph G. Knipe, commanding a brigade
in the First Division, Twentieth Army
Corps, then operating in front of Atlanta.
After the fall of Atlanta he was made
division commissary of subsistence and
placed on the staff' of General Alpheus C.
Williams, commanding a division of the
Twentieth Corps under General Henry W.
Sloeum. In this position he went through
with , Sherman to the sea, and continued
the victorious march north from Savannah
through the Carolinas and Virginia to
Washington, where he took part in the
Grand Review of the Federal Army. His
was a most varied and useful service, and
in the three and a half years from the date
of his enlistment until the Confederate
armies under Johnston surrendered April
26, 1865, he performed every duty with
credit and on March 13, 1865, was made a
brevet major, United States Volunteers, for
"gallant and meritorious service." He
resigned from the army July 7, 1865, and
of the veterans of that war still living in

Indiana more than fifty years later ]\Iajor
Livezey has one of the most distinguished
records. The honors of the soldier have
been accompanied by useful work and val-
ued dignities in times of peace. After the
war he entered the hardware business at
Newca.stle, and for many years had his
store in one location on Main Street. In
1900 the business was moved to Main and
Center streets, and the active details of the-
management are largely in the hands of
his son.

August 27, 1866, Major Livezey married
Mary McCall, of Newcastle. She died
March 22, 1900, the mother of two chil-
dren. The daughter, Gertrude, is the wife
of Charles H. Johnson, of Newcastle.
Frank, his father's business partner, mar-
ried Mary Pickering, of Anderson, In-
diana, and they have one daughter, Mary
Alice. In 1902 Major Livezey married
Mary P. Waldron, daughter of Holman W.
Waldron, a ilaine soldier. Major Livezey
is a republican, an active member of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, and for
a number of years served as trustee of
South ]\Iound Cemetery. He is a grand
lodge member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of Indiana, and a member
of George AV. Lennard Post, Grand Armj^
of the Republic, of Newcastle, Indiana.